Dropping Like Flies

Norman Bridwell creator of Clifford the big red dog
kosmo wrote:
Norman Bridwell creator of Clifford the big red dog
He's in God's doghouse for being so absolutely unfunny.
I don't think Clifford is supposed to be funny to adults. 
Julian, wrote:
kosmo wrote:
Norman Bridwell creator of Clifford the big red dog
He's in God's doghouse for being so absolutely unfunny.


I think it was more supposed to be entertaining for children rather than funny for adults.
Artisphere
hutch? wrote:
Artisphere


Good riddance. Other than the record fair, that thing was a pitiful money suck.
Not a good couple of weeks for producers

Larry Smith - Run DMC, Whodini and Kuris Blow
Lollapalooze and Austin City Limits

both now owned by Live Nation
ggw wrote:
hutch? wrote:
Artisphere


Good riddance. Other than the record fair, that thing was a pitiful money suck.


as an Arlington resident: agree 100%

just don't know WTF they were thinking in the first place. what a waste of millions!
Rock Scully

Rock Scully learned his mission in life at an Acid Test, one of the drug-drenched, strobe-lit parties the author Ken Kesey staged in the San Francisco area in the mid-1960s.

Owsley Stanley, the notoriously prodigious maker of LSD, introduced Mr. Scully in 1965 to the scraggly, zonked-out members of a band that had just changed its name from the Warlocks to the Grateful Dead. ?Rock?s going to be your manager,? he said.

?Hey, good luck, dude,? said the band?s guitarist and vocalist Bob Weir, according to ?Living With the Dead? (1996), the memoir Mr. Scully wrote with David Dalton.

So began a long, strange trip that saw the Dead go from a makeshift sort-of-bluegrass band that played for nothing in San Francisco parks to one of the biggest, most remarkable acts in rock ?n? roll history. They sold 35 million albums, many to self-described Deadheads committed to following the band from concert to concert, night after night.

Mr. Scully organized tours, negotiated the group?s first record contracts and successfully demanded that promoters of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair pay the group up front. In 1968, he used a bread truck to smuggle the band onto a Columbia University campus that had been shut down by student strikers. The next year, he may have arranged for Hells Angels to provide what turned out to be grossly inadequate security at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival, where a man was stabbed to death as the Rolling Stones played.

Mr. Scully died at a hospital in Monterey, Calif., on Tuesday. He was 73. His brother, Dicken, said the cause was lung cancer.
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Got wrote:
Joe Cocker

http://www.vox.com/2014/12/22/7435069/joe-cocker
I wish he could've stayed just a little bit longer.
Got wrote:
Joe Cocker

http://www.vox.com/2014/12/22/7435069/joe-cocker



From the ONLY woodstock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRzKUVjHkGk
Belushi doing Cocker remains one of my favorite acting pieces ever..too bad you can't watch the entire thing on youtube..maybe i'll dig out the complete SNL DVD sets from my mancave  tonight but meanwhile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZsOyO_lXD8
RatBastard wrote:
From the ONLY woodstock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRzKUVjHkGk
Nope.  Three Woodstock events.  You must have missed hearing about the other two.
killsaly? wrote:
RatBastard wrote:
From the ONLY woodstock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRzKUVjHkGk
So far there has been three Woodstocks.


umm… NO. sorry. try again.