Rock and Roll History (ROCK)

[excel]

KS. My parents bought me the San Quientin alblum when I was a boy. Loved him ever since. That was the first time he ever did A Boy Named Sue!
He's a great story teller. One of the best.
He can sing a song a million times and on the million and oneth time put the same passion into it the first time he ever sang it. Few performers out there have ever sang country and rock. Few if not any country performers have ever played in hard rock bands or been on MTV.

There will never be another like him.
He truly was for the working man.
A humble man.

[ksquared]

Excellent, excel.

Thanks.

I watched his bio on AandE last night. So much I was not aware of as I only followed his hits and not his career.

When I was a freshman at Michigan, my first roommate was a senior who was waiting for a single. She had two friends a couple of rooms down the hall. Three very straight-laced chicks who would actually get up for breakfast on Saturday and Sunday mornings while the rest of us were trying to sleep until noon.

After they'd eaten, they would gather in the duo's room and listen to their favorite singer at volumes not conducive to quiet slumber... yep... Johnny Cash. <g>

I wonder how they are doing right now.

ksquared

[excel]

My Tribute To The Man In Black



MAN IN BLACK
(Johnny Cash)
© '71 House Of Cash


Well you wonder why I always dress in black
Why you never see bright colors on my back
And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone
Well there's a reason for the things that I have on
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down
Livin' in the hopeless hungry side of town
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime
But is there because he's a victim of the times
I wear the black for those who've never read
Or listened to the words that Jesus said
About the road to happiness through love and charity
Why you'd think he's talking straight to you and me
Well we're doin' mighty fine I do suppose
In our streak of lightning cars and fancy clothes
But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back
Up front there oughta be a man in black
I wear it for the sick and lonely old
For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold
I wear the black in morning for the lives that could have been
Each week we lose a hundred fine young men
And I wear it for the thousands who have died
Believin' that the Lord was on their side
I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died
Believin' that we all were on their side
Well there's things that never will be right I know
And things need changin' everywhere you go
But till we start to make a move to make a few things right
You'll never see me wear a suit of white
Oh I'd love to wear a rainbow every day and tell the world that everything's okay
But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back
Till things're brighter I'm the man in black

[KastelCo]

Some Johnny and Some Warren..

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[ksquared]

Wow... Thanks NLionGuy...

I think he is about to start again a million miles away.

Welcome to the Rock and Roll board.

ksquared

[NLionGuy]

Hi ksquared,

I finally saw his moving video "Hurt" just the other night. Interesting that it was his last:

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stain of time
The feeling disappears
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

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[ksquared]

John Ritter, Prolific Television Actor, Dies at 54
By REUTERS
Filed at 6:30 a.m. ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Emmy award-winning actor John Ritter, who gained fame playing bumbling and lovable characters in a pair of television comedies decades apart, has died suddenly due to a previously undetected arterial problem, his representatives said on Friday.

Ritter, who was 54, collapsed on Thursday evening while filming ``8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter,'' the ABC television comedy which had reinvigorated his career and was a centerpiece of the network's upcoming fall season.

The former star of ``Three's Company'' was taken to Providence St. Joseph hospital in Burbank, California, across from the studio where he had been working.

Surgeons at the hospital were unable to save him, and he died from a ``dissection of the aorta,'' which results from an unrecognized flaw in a main artery from the heart, his publicists, Wolf-Kasteler & Associates Public Relations, said.

Ritter was best known for his portrayal of Jack Tripper in the 1970s situation comedy ``Three's Company,'' which won him Emmy, Golden Globe and People's Choice awards.

A prolific actor, Ritter recently reconnected with television audiences as the star of ``8 Simple Rules.''

Ritter played Paul Hennessy in the family comedy about a father dealing with his precocious daughters which was one of the Walt Disney Co.-owned network's hits in the 2002 season.

``All of us at ABC, Touchstone Television and The Walt Disney Company are shocked and heartbroken at the terrible news of John's passing. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife and children at this very difficult time,'' ABC said in a statement.

Born into a Hollywood family, John Ritter was the son of country singer and actor Tex Ritter and graduated from Hollywood High School, where he was student body president.

He graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in drama and went on to act in film, television and on the stage.

He is survived by his wife, Amy Yasbeck and their daughter, Stella and three children, Carly, Tyler and Jason, from his first marriage to Nancy Morgan.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/obituaries/entertainment-people-ritter.html?hp

[ksquared]

Johnny Cash, Singer Known as 'The Man in Black,' Dies at 71
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Johnny Cash, a towering figure in American music spanning country, rock and folk and known worldwide as "The Man in Black," died Friday. He was 71.

"Johnny died due to complications from diabetes, which resulted in respiratory failure," Cash's manager, Lou Robin, said in a statement issued by Baptist Hospital in Nashville.

He said Cash died at the hospital at 1 a.m. EDT.

"I hope that friends and fans of Johnny will pray for the Cash family to find comfort during this very difficult time," Robin said.

Cash had been released from the hospital Wednesday after a two-week stay for treatment of an unspecified stomach ailment. The illness caused him to miss last month's MTV Music awards, where he had been nominated in seven categories.

Cash had battled a disease of the nervous system, autonomic neuropathy, and pneumonia in recent years.

Dozens of hit records like "Folsom Prison Blues," "I Walk the Line," and "Sunday Morning Coming Down" defined Cash's persona: a haunted, dignified, resilient spokesman for the working man and downtrodden.

Cash's deeply lined face fit well with his unsteady voice, which was limited in range but used to great effect to sing about prisoners, heartaches, and tales of everyday life. He wrote much of his own material, and was among the first to record the songs of Bob Dylan and Kris Kristofferson.

"One Piece at a Time" was about an assembly line worker who built a car out of parts stolen from his factory. "A Boy Named Sue" was a comical story of a father who gives his son a girl's name to make him tough. "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" told of the drunken death of an American Indian soldier who helped raised the American flag at Iwo Jima during World War II, but returned to harsh racism in America.

Cash said in his 1997 autobiography "Cash" that he tried to speak for "voices that were ignored or even suppressed in the entertainment media, not to mention the political and educational establishments."

Cash's career spanned generations, with each finding something of value in his simple records, many of which used his trademark rockabilly rhythm.

Cash was a peer of Elvis Presley when rock 'n' roll was born in Memphis in the 1950s, and he scored hits like "Cry! Cry! Cry!" during that era. He had a longtime friendship and recorded with Dylan, who has cited Cash as a major influence.

He won 11 Grammys -- most recently in 2003, when "Give My Love To Rose" earned him honors as best male country vocal performance -- and numerous Country Music Association awards. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980 and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.

His second wife, June Carter Cash, and daughter Roseanne Cash also were successful singers. June Carter Cash, who co-wrote Cash's hit "Ring of Fire" and partnered with her husband in hits such as "Jackson," died in May.

The late 1960s and '70s were Cash's peak commercial years, and he was host of his own ABC variety show from 1969-71. In later years, he was part of the Highwayman supergroup with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kristofferson.

In the 1990s, he found a new artistic life recording with rap and hard rock producer Rick Rubin on the label American Recordings. And he was back on the charts in with the 2002 album "American IV: the Man Comes Around."

Most recently, Cash was recognized for his cover of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt" with seven nominations at last month's MTV Video Music Awards. He had hoped to attend the event but couldn't because of his hospital stay. The video won for best cinematography.

He also wrote books including two autobiographies, and acted in films and television shows.

In his 1971 hit "Man in Black," Cash said his black clothing symbolized the downtrodden people in the world. Cash had been "The Man in Black" since he joined the Grand Ole Opry at age 25.

"Everybody was wearing rhinestones, all those sparkle clothes and cowboy boots," he said in 1986. "I decided to wear a black shirt and pants and see if I could get by with it. I did and I've worn black clothes ever since."

John R. Cash was born Feb. 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Ark., one of seven children. When he was 12, his 14-year-old brother and hero, Jack, died after an accident while sawing oak trees into fence posts. The tragedy had a lasting impact on Cash, and he later pointed to it as a possible reason his music was frequently melancholy.

He worked as a custodian and enlisted in the Air Force, learning guitar while stationed in Germany, before launching his music career after his 1954 discharge.

"All through the Air Force, I was so lonely for those three years," Cash told The Associated Press during a 1996 interview. "If I couldn't have sung all those old country songs, I don't think I could have made it."

Cash launched his career in Memphis, performing on radio station KWEM. He auditioned with Sun Records, ultimately recording the single "Hey Porter," which became a hit.

Sun Records also launched the careers of Presley, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and others.

"Folsom Prison Blues," went to No. 4 on the country charts in 1956, and featured Cash's most famous couplet: "I shot a man in Reno/ just to watch him die."

Cash recorded theme albums celebrating the railroads and the Old West, and decrying the mistreatment of American Indians. Two of his most popular albums were recorded live at prisons. Along the way he notched 14 No. 1 country music hits.

Because of Cash's frequent performances in prisons and his rowdy lifestyle early in his career, many people wrongly thought he had served prison time. He never did, though he battled addictions to pills on and off throughout his life.

He blamed fame for his vulnerability to drug addiction.

"When I was a kid, I always knew I'd sing on the radio someday. I never thought about fame until it started happening to me," he said in 1988. "Then it was hard to handle. That's why I turned to pills."

He credited June Carter Cash, whom he married in 1968, with helping him stay off drugs, though he had several relapses over the years and was treated at the Betty Ford Center in California in 1984.

June Carter Cash was the daughter of country music great Mother Maybelle Carter, and the mother of singer Carlene Carter, whose father was country singer Carl Smith. Together, June Carter and Cash had one child, John Carter Cash. He is a musician and producer.

Singer Rosanne Cash is Johnny Cash's daughter from his first marriage, to Vivian Liberto. Their other three children were Kathleen, Cindy and Tara. They divorced in 1966.

In March 1998, Cash made headlines when his California-based record company, American Recordings, took out an advertisement in the music trade magazine Billboard. The full-page ad celebrated Cash's 1998 Grammy award for best country album for "Unchained." The ad showed an enraged-looking Cash in his younger years making an obscene gesture to sarcastically illustrate his thanks to country radio stations and "the country music establishment in Nashville," which he felt had unfairly cast him aside.

Jennings, a close friend, once said of Cash: "He's been like a brother to me. He's one of the greatest people in the world."

Cash once credited his mother, Carrie Rivers Cash, with encouraging him to pursue a singing career.

"My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/12/obituaries/12WIRE-Cash.html?hp

[ksquared]

I agree...

Rest in peace, Gentlemen.

Interesting combination of souls... Warren Zevon, John Ritter, and Johnny Cash.

[Churak]

Crap...Johnny Cash & John Ritter died..RIP...

[ksquared]

Thanks Colt...

I agree that too many kids are smoking but I doubt that anyone else's tale of early demise will stop them. They are immortal you know... plus which to them, 56 is ancient anyway. I also doubt that any of them have a clue as to who he was and how great his music and lyrics were. They wouldn't care.

So it goes.

I for one am sad. I've adored his work for years. Have most of it in vinyl and CD as well as a couple on tape... Duplicate and triplicate copies. When I like an artist, I have no problem adding to his/her royalties.

Rest in peace, Warren.

ksquared

[Colt1861Navy]

Warren Zevon Photos



Warren Zevon (news), the singer known for such hits as 'Werewolves of London,' died Sept. 7 at his home in West Hollywood after a battle with cancer, his record company said September 8, 2003. Zevon, 56, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer a year ago and was only expected to live about three months, completed his last recording 'The Wind' and lived to see it debut at No. 16 on the Billboard album charts -- his best record launch in years. (undated file photos, Artemis Records via Reuters)

[Colt1861Navy]

Led Zeppelin Allows Song To Be Used In 'School Of Rock'



(9/8/03, 6 p.m. ET) -- Led Zeppelin has agreed to let one of their songs be used in the soundtrack for the upcoming film School Of Rock--but only because its star, Jack Black, asked personally. According to the studio, Black--who makes music with the comical rock act Tenacious D--stepped in after School Of Rock director Richard Linklater was unable to get permission to use "Immigrant Song." Black reportedly sent a humorous videotaped request for the song to the three surviving members of Led Zeppelin, who subsequently gave their approval. The School Of Rock soundtrack comes out September 30, while the film opens October 3.

Led Zeppelin is not the only classic band on the School Of Rock soundtrack. The 17-track set also features songs from the Who, the Doors, Cream, Stevie Nicks, the Ramones, and T. Rex. The album also features a rendition of AC/DC's "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock & Roll)" performed by Black and the film's child actors.

The soundtrack also resurrects a cover of the Stooges' "T.V. Eye" which was recorded for the 1998 Velvet Goldmine soundtrack by Wylde Rattz. The lineup of that all-star band included Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton, Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth, Mudhoney's Mark Arm, Gumball's Don Fleming, and ex-Minutemen/fIREHOSE bassist Mike Watt, who's currently working with the Stooges.

School Of Rock stars Black as a musician who becomes a substitute school teacher after being kicked out of his group and winds up teaching his students how to be a band.

The full School Of Rock soundtrack includes: "School Of Rock," Jack Black and students; "Your Head, Your Mind, Your Brain..." (film dialogue excerpt); "Substitute," the Who; "Fight," No Vacancy; "Touch Me," the Doors; "I Pledge Allegiance To The Band..." (film dialogue excerpt); "Sunshine Of Your Love," Cream; "Immigrant Song," Led Zeppelin; "Set You Free," the Black Keys; "Edge Of Seventeen," Stevie Nicks; "Heal Me, I'm Heartsick," No Vacancy; "Growing On Me," the Darkness; "Ballroom Of Mars," T. Rex; "Those Who Can't Do..." (film dialogue excerpt); "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes To Bitburg)," the Ramones; "T.V. Eye," Wylde Rattz; and "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock & Roll)," Jack Black and students.

[Colt1861Navy]

Well you sure got my attention with that lead-in. That's too bad about Warren Zevon. A good lesson about NOT smoking. I need to give up my occasional Cuban Stogie. This is a story that should be told to school age kids. So many of them seem to be smoking these days. If they could only get it through their head, just how bad it is.

Colt

[ksquared]

Damn, damn, damn...

Rest in peace, Warren. I will miss you.

ksquared

Warren Zevon, Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 56
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Warren Zevon, who wrote and sang the rock hit "Werewolves of London" and was among the wittiest and most original of a broad circle of singer-songwriters to emerge from Los Angeles in the 1970s, died Sunday. He was 56.

A lifelong smoker until quitting several years ago, Zevon announced in September 2002 that he had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and had only months to live. He spent much of that time visiting with his two grown children and working on a final album.

Zevon died Sunday of lung cancer at his home, his manager Irving Azoff told the Los Angeles Times. Azoff did not return calls from The Associated Press early Monday.

Phone messages also were not returned from Zevon's publicist, Dianna Baron; Baron's assistant, Cathy Williams; and Zevon's record company manager, John Baruck.

Zevon faced death with the same dark sense of humor found in much of his music, including songs like "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead," "Life'll Kill Ya" and "Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead."

Zevon said he "chose a certain path and lived like Jim Morrison and lived 30 more years. You make choices and you have to live with the consequences."

He released his first album, "Wanted -- Dead or Alive," to little notice in 1969, but gained attention in the '70s by writing a string of popular songs for Linda Ronstadt, including "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me," "Carmelita" and "Hasten Down the Wind."

His next two albums, 1976's "Warren Zevon" and 1978's "Excitable Boy," followed those songs with darkly humorous tales of prom-date rapists; headless, gun-toting soldiers of fortune; and werewolves who drank pina coladas at singles bars and were particular about their hair.

They cemented Zevon's reputation as one of rock music's most politically incorrect lyricists, giving him a lifelong cult following that included gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura and "Late Show" host David Letterman, who provided backing vocals on "Hit Somebody," Zevon's 2001 elegy to a professional hockey goon who longs to be a goal-scoring hero.

"I always like to have violent lyrics and violent music," Zevon told The Associated Press in 1990. "The knowledge of death and fear of death informs my existence. It's a safe, kind of cheerful way of dealing with that issue."

Other admirers included Bob Dylan, whom Zevon cited as one of his principal songwriting influences and who performed on his 1987 album "Sentimental Hygiene." Still another was Bruce Springsteen, who co-wrote "Jeannie Needs a Shooter," Zevon's tale of a lover shot to death by a woman's jealous father.

Not that all of his music was dark and violent. His oveure contained some straight-out comedy as well, including "Mr. Bad Example," "The Hula Hula Boys" and "Gorilla You're a Desperado." The latter told the tale of a Los Angeles Zoo ape who escapes by locking a yuppie in his place and going off to live in the man's apartment, only to end up depressed and divorced.

His compositional style reflected a number of genres, from hard-driving rock to folk, as well as classical, polka and other influences. In his final months, he summoned the energy to complete a last album, "The Wind," released in August. It includes the poignant "Keep Me in Your Heart," a cranky "Disorder in the House" and a remake of Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door."

Zevon, born in Chicago to Russian immigrant parents, moved to Los Angeles in the 1960s, making a living writing jingles for television commercials. He also composed the song "She Quit Me Man" for the movie "Midnight Cowboy." He was just out of his teens when he went to work for the Everly Brothers, first as a pianist and later as their band leader.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/08/obituaries/08CND-Zevon.html?hp

[ksquared]

"Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School
I'm down on my knees in pain."
Warren Zevon

Read some incredibly bad news in the Newark Star Ledger this morning. Warren Zevon one of my all time favorite! musicians is terminally ill with lung cancer. After the diagnosis, he put together one last album... The Wind. It will be out this Tuesday on the Artemis Label. I just ordered a copy from Tower Records.

The making of the album was filmed throughout the process. It will air tonight on VH1 at 10:00 p.m. ESD. I will record it.

He is an amazing lyricist... heavily sardonic. This one breaks my heart.

The article is not available on line but I found this in the Times.

Rock on Warren... rock on.

Warren Zevon Finally Finds Tenderness on the Block
By ANTHONY DeCURTIS

SOME days I feel like my shadow's casting me," sings Warren Zevon in the opening line of "My Dirty Life and Times," the first track on his new album, "The Wind." Previously, a sentiment like that would have been just another wry treat from the singer's bottomless bag of rhetorical tricks: take a cliché and invert it, so that it's transformed into a blackly humorous punch line. Since Mr. Zevon was found to have terminal lung cancer last March, however, that declaration sounds far more literal — and more poignant.

Mr. Zevon, of course, is well aware that his illness has brought his music more notice than it's received at any point since the late 70's, when his album "Excitable Boy," propelled by the offbeat hit "Werewolves of London," sold a million copies. (To cite just one example, a VH1 documentary about the making of "The Wind" will be shown this evening.) Rather than bitter, he seems grateful for the attention. And, on "The Wind," he's used an occasion that might have proven ponderous or sentimental to say goodbye to his audience in a way that is at once dignified, high-spirited and touching.

Death has played a frequent role in Mr. Zevon's work over the years, mostly as an adversary against which the defiant singer could prove his emotional mettle. Violent characters litter his songs with corpses, and Mr. Zevon himself boasts in one typical title, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead." Now that mortality has edged out of the realm of metaphor, however, Mr. Zevon has softened his tone. He sings Bob Dylan's prayerful "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" with a kind of resigned intensity, demanding "Open up for me!" as a chorus of friends, including Jackson Browne and Billy Bob Thornton, chant the song's title. Don Henley, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Emmylou Harris and Ry Cooder join him elsewhere on the album.

"Disorder in the House" and "The Rest of the Night" are muscular rockers of the sort that earned Mr. Zevon his reputation. Their power chords and indelible riffs never compromise the singer's fondness for irony, surprising details and deft lyrical twists. "Even the Lhasa apso seems to be ashamed," he laments in "Disorder in the House," before concluding, "It's the home of the brave/ And the land of the free/ Where the less you know/ The better off you'll be." On the bruising blues number "Rub Me Raw," which features torrid slide guitar by Joe Walsh of the Eagles, Mr. Zevon sends a pre-emptive message to his potential eulogists: "I don't want your pity/ Or your $50 words/ I don't share your need/ To discuss the absurd."

Mr. Zevon has always balanced such tough-minded material with ballads that display his vulnerability. On "The Wind," songs like "She's Too Good for Me," "El Amor De Mi Vida" and "Please Stay" take on an especially personal cast. "Will you stay with me to the end?/ When there's nothing left/ But you and me and the wind," he asks, shedding any pretense of aesthetic detachment.

Mr. Zevon had to stop working on "The Wind" for several months earlier this year as his health worsened. Then, in the spring, he recovered sufficiently to complete two final songs at his home, including "Keep Me in Your Heart," the ballad that closes the album. It's a wish that is both honest and modest: "Shadows are falling and I'm running out of breath," he sings. "Keep me in your heart for a while." Few artists get to write their own farewell as Mr. Zevon has here. It is high praise to say that "The Wind" would stand honorably beside his best work even if he were not dying when he made it.

Anthony DeDurtis is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/24/arts/music/24DECU.html

[Colt1861Navy]

Thanks, Greg...will be on the lookout. e/

[greg s]

Heads Up!

Pink Floyd

If you have access to DirecTV this month, they are airing a FREE pay-for-view. Roger Water's "The Wall" concert from Berlin in 1990. It was performed in a no-man's-land area of the city where there was a wall in the east, one on the west, and a large area between the walls. Once they had admitted the 250,000 ticketed attendees, they tore down the fences and made it a free concert (worrying about people getting crushed against the fences ... shades of Woodstock!) They're not sure, but there were at least 350,000 people there. Cyndi Lauper, Thomas Dolby, Van Morrison. The staging and theatrics are absolutely breathtaking. "The Wall" was clearly intended to be performed live as a "rock-opera". Just awesome!

[The Original dpb5!]

Acidpro,

Nope, I've never heard of the band Charlie, but I am glad that you located it!

Good luck to you also!

[ksquared]

Truly obscure.

When did this/these album/s come out?

Glad you found what you were looking for.

ksquared

[acidpro]

The Original dpb5...
hi! i found the album i was looking for. the group is named charlie and the album came out with two different titles...good morning america and fifth flight. i already bought a copy on ebay! have you ever heard of them?
thanks anyway and good luck!
acidpro
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=CASS70307211559&sql=B23220r5ac48i

[Carolyn]

Happy Birthday!!!!!

[ksquared]

Now there's a bizarre concept...

Keith Richards living long enough to see 60... Who'd a thunk it with the life he led...

Let's hear it for sex and drugs and rock 'n roll!

impressed.ksquared

[Colt1861Navy]

Jumping Jack Flash: Jagger at 60

Fri Jul 25, 8:00 PM ET
E! Online

By Joal Ryan

If you were uncertain of the definition of "sexagenarian," you may have thought Mick Jagger's been one for ages.

But, no, the legendary rock 'n' roll Lothario doesn't join the group's ranks until Saturday. When he turns 60.

Let the International House of Pancakes discounts begin...

Jagger and his Rolling Stones mates, including fellow sexagenarian Charlie Watts, will mark the occasion with a private, if paparazzi-stalked birthday bash somewhere in the capital of the Czech Republic. (The band's on a layover there, scheduled to play to 60,000 Sunday night at Letna Park.)

Details of the Prague party are under wraps. An aide to former Czech president Vaclav Havel told the Associated Press that even V.I.P. invitees, like Havel, won't be told the location of the celebration until the last minute.

Speculation in Prague reportedly has the shindig going down at either the local British Embassy, or the local Four Seasons.

Apparently the local Shoney's is booked.

Which is too bad because as a newly minted 60-year-old, Jagger will be eligible (at participating locations) for $1 in savings at the salad bar, as well as a 50-cent markdown on entrees.

According to SeniorDiscounts.com, age is definitely on the rocker's side now.

Once he crosses the sexagenarian threshold, the much-traveled Rolling Stone can get 10 percent off cookies at Mrs. Fields, 10 percent off monthly fees at Bally Total Fitness, and two dollars off trims at Supercuts. (He's been eligible to request the senior discount at IHOP since age 55.)

Is Jagger really worthy of all these considerations?

"I definitely think so," says David Smidt of SeniorDiscounts.com. "He's contributed a lot to the community. It's about time he starts getting his discounts."

Jagger has paid his dues for than 40 years as frontman of the Stones.

Born July 26, 1943, in Dartford, England, the future jet-setter was a middle-class lad at the London School of Economics when he correctly surmised he could get more money and way more girls by becoming a rock star, instead of, say, an economist.

The Stones were formed in 1962, and broke in 1964 with "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." The money, girls, wives, ex-wives, children and grandchildren followed, as did the hits: "Paint It Black," "Let's Spend the Night Together" and "Gimme Shelter" to name just three, because if we named all of them we'd be eligible for the Shoney's discount by the time we finished.

Jagger and crew are currently working the European leg of the "Forty Licks" world tour, a relentless schedule that'll keep them checking into fancy hotels across the old continent through September. Next week, they'll take a brief break--for another show--a benefit concert aimed to boost spirits, and tourism, in SARS (news - web sites)-tainted Toronto.

While he's occasionally freelanced as a solo act, Jagger remains the band's biggest booster.

"You have to perform good shows, look good and have good songs, no matter how old you are. And we do all that," he was quoted as telling London's Sun last month.

Letting his codgerdom show a bit, Jagger complained in the same article that whippersnapper Justin Timberlake (news) was a retread. "Every single move he does is stolen," Jagger said.

Jagger need not be defensive about Timberlake's age, or lack thereof. Timberlake may have fewer wrinkles, but Jagger can score free coffee at McDonald's.

And once Glimmer Twin Keith Richards (news) hits the Big 6-0 in December? Watch out.

[ksquared]

Yeppers Coltie...

Mick... my Mick-ee Mick Jagger.

What a Leo... perfect sign for this showman extraordinaire!

May he live a long and happy life.

Stones.fan.ksquared

[Colt1861Navy]

Ksquared, Mick??? As in Jagger? If so Happy B-Day, Mick.

[ksquared]

Happy Birthday, Mick!

Rock on.
Rock on.

ksquared

[acidpro]

rollin' the dice.. take two...

hi! the album i'm looking for is rock. i would guess the group consists of 4 or 5 guys (probably english). it was mostly up tempo with a couple of ballads. it sounds a little like mr roboto only different. it's not styx but there may be some connection.

thanks...acidpro

[KastelCo]

Got Silver ?
http://members.rogers.com/mimi_lover/m/Silver-Train.mp3

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acidpro...

More info would help me narrow down the possibilities because so many songs or recorded by different artists.

Male, Female or a group? Rock or Country?

[KastelCo]

http://members.rogers.com/kastelco/m/LED_ZEP-STH.mp3
For a limited engagement.

[acidpro]

rollin' the dice....

i've got a cassette tape of an album that i recorded off the radio around 1981. i don't know the artist or name of the album.
the names of the songs are probably something like this...

good morning america
i can't get over you
rollin' the dice
heading for home
saturday night
all nite long
fool for your love
perfect lover
angry with you
one more chance

if this rings a bell with anybody, please help.
thanks, acidpro

[KastelCo]

Warren is here:
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=19104773

[ksquared]

Interesting post, ergo...

I may have to buy the book.

[ergo sum]

Dylan Lyrics: They Ain't His, Babe?

by Joal Ryan
Jul 9, 2003, 5:45 PM PT



Exactly how freewheelin' is Bob Dylan?

Just maybe freewheelin' enough to liberally lift at least a dozen phrases from a Japanese oral history book for his Grammy-winning album Love and Theft.

a d v e r t i s e m e n t

Where Dylan and Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld are concerned, none of the concerned parties has used the "P" word (for plagiarism). Perhaps that's because the most concerned party--the book's author--is thrilled to think the living music legend may be a devoted reader.

"Please say hello to Bob Dylan for me because I am very flattered and very happy to hear this news," Junichi Saga, a 62-year-old Japanese physician who has authored several non-fiction titles, told Tuesday's Wall Street Journal.

Saga's book, based on his conversations with a dying patient who had lived as a yakuza, or gangster, was published in English in 1991. Released in 2001, Dylan's Love and Theft took its very title, as the Los Angeles Times points out, from Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class, a book published in the U.S. in 1995.

The similarities between Confessions of a Yakuza and Love and Theft were first noted on the Web site Bob Dylan: Chords and Lyrics (www.dylanchords.com), and broken wide in the Journal.

An eagle-eyed English teacher living abroad in Japan gets credit for starting the stone rolling. Minnesota-born Chris Johnson, a Dylan fan who'd stumbled upon Saga's work, noticed a line on the book's very first page ("My old man would sit there like a feudal lord...") was near identical to a line from the Dylan song "Floater" ("My old man, he's like some feudal lord...")

"I've probably listened to that album at least a hundred times, so the matching phrases just jumped right out at me," Johnson said in the Journal. "They may as well have been printed in red ink."

On a mission, Johnson told the paper he went through the book looking for more signs that Dylan's eyes might have been there first. By the time he was done, the newspaper reported, he had a dozen pages dogeared.

Among the passages, as detailed by Johnson in a message sent to the Dylan song site in May:


Confessions of a Yakuza: "My mother...was the daughter of a wealth farmer...[she] died when I was 11...My father was a traveling salesman...I never met him."
Dylan's "Po' Boy": "My mother was a daughter of a wealthy farmer/My father was a travelin' salesman, I never met him."


Confessions of a Yakuza: "I'm not as cool or forgiving as I might have sounded."
Dylan's "Floater": "I'm not quite as cool or forgiving as I sound..."


Confessions of a Yakuza: "There was nothing sentimental about him--it didn't bother him at all that some of his pals had been killed."
Dylan's "Lonesome Day Blues": "He's not sentimental, didn't bother him at all how many of his pals have been killed."

"I guess we should print the next edition with Bob Dylan's picture on the cover," Stephen Shaw, who edited Saga's book, told the Journal.

But, like Saga, Shaw is far from suing mad.

"We're flattered as hell, let's face it," Shaw said in the newspaper.

Saga's publisher, Kodansha International, is also grateful for a bump in sales. Saga told the Journal he'd made a modest $8,500 off the book--through Tuesday, anyway.

When Johnson's report was first posted, the book's Amazon.com sales ranking jumped from 65,000th to 45,000th place, the newspaper said. Since the Journal article was published, Confessions of a Yakuza has zoomed into the Top 100--at 68th place by Wednesday afternoon.

So far, there's been no comment on the Saga saga from Dylan. In the Journal, the mumbling one's manager, Jeff Rosen, said that, as far as he knew, the work was "original."

But as far back as his days as a teenage troubadour in New York's Greenwich Village, Dylan was known as a musician who borrowed early and often. It's a common trick, the difference was Dylan was able to use it to great effect.

"He listened to everybody, and he had an incredible ability to take things in and absorb them and turn around and put them right back out there like they had always been a part of him," folk and blues artist "Spider" John Koerner said in the 2001 book Positively 4th Street, a collective biography of Dylan, Joan Baez, her sister, Mimi, and her brother-in-law, Richard Fariña.

In the Journal, Chris Johnson said he can picture Dylan sitting in a hotel room in Japan, leafing through Confessions of a Yakuza, zeroing in on lines that caught his eye.

"I kind of wondered if he had done a lot of that before on other albums," Johnson said in the paper.

But, as Johnson pointed out, the "P" word hasn't exactly followed Dylan around during his five-decade career.

In a bit of interesting timing, Dylan is the second rock 'n' roll Hall of Famer this week to have his source material questioned.

A British music expert says the Beatles' standard "Yesterday," penned by Paul McCartney, was influenced by the Nat King Cole standard, "Answer Me (My Love)," a tune occasionally covered by Dylan in concert.

The musicologist, Spencer Leigh, stops short of accusing McCartney of the "P" word, telling the BBC that McCartney, who long ago claimed to have awoken with the melody for "Yesterday" in his head, perhaps was led to his song by Cole's hit.

A spokesman for McCartney is having none of that talk. "To me the two songs are about as similar as 'Get Back' and 'God Save the Queen,' " the rep told BBC News Online.

[Churak]

Meat was great in Rocky Horror Picture Show...Eddie got made into a pot roast...lol

[Churak]

Barry White...RIP....http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&a...

[ksquared]

Dang you've been busy!

Thanks, Colt!

[Colt1861Navy]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Ksquared!!! Have a Great day! I'm a day early but, what the heck. I'm going to start the celebration right now by popping a top on a cold one in your honor! :>)

Colt

[DUCKY]

We have a new look!

http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=1654

[DUCKY]

MAY 17TH 8:00 pm will be our first Jam session featuring 80's Music. All are invited to post there songs or just hangout
and enjoy the music see you there!

MAY 17TH
Wantobe DSL board will give away 1 IHUB T-shirt to the poster that names the most song title & artist I play that night! To win you have to be the first poster to correctly guess the artist name and song title. The poster with the most first post correct answers at the end of the show wins the t-shirt



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[DUCKY]

Do you feel like we do!

http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=961988

[Colt1861Navy]

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Coming Friday, April 17th, 2003 at 8PM EST!
....at The Corner Bar!!!
Another Dual DJ Blast from wantoberich and The Original dpb5! Join in on all the fun!
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[excel]

Meat Loaf to Embark on Final World Tour

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK -- You can love Meat Loaf - you can love him forever - but you can't see him in concert for much longer.

The singer-actor is embarking on his final world tour, which will last 15 months. The U.S. portion is scheduled to begin June 22 in Saratoga, Calif., and end Sept. 29 in West Springfield, Mass. Then he'll travel to Europe, Australia and Asia before returning to Europe and the United States.

"He wants to tour and then devote himself to acting," his spokesman, Dan Forman at Susan Blond Inc., said Friday. "He has the acting bug - he's been doing that for a while and he's appeared in some great films."

Meat Loaf's movies include "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," "Fight Club" and "Formula 51."

Born Marvin Lee Aday in Dallas, the 51-year-old singer made his name with theatrical stage productions and operatic songs, including "Paradise by the Dashboard Light," "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" and "Bat Out of Hell." He won a Grammy for his 1993 hit "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)."

[Phil(Hot Rod Chevy)]

TLC,

Long time no see, or hear from.

Glad to know you are still alive and kicking.

How is Cousin Shorty?

Have fun,
Phil

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

I happen to like Barry Manilow. Very good song-writer and a very clear, relatively overtone-free voice similar to Andy Williams.

[excel]

Matt. I think he should have to listen to 10 hours straight of Barry Manilow for this infraction!

[Mattu]

Hmmm...You might be doing some hard time at Club Matt for this one.