Dropping Like Flies

Starsky wrote:
Did they even draw it? I think they put a picture in some program and out it pops out?


I like it myself…overemphasis on features is very common in caricature

My daughter and I got our caricature done at King's Dominion two years about. Apparently, I look like Dax Shepherd and she looks like Hillary Clinton with braces.

Wilco and the chick from Sleater Kinney who looks like an elementary school teacher doing a lame version of Honkey Tonk Woman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0kq-nL7DMA

Well you had to be there!


I kind of like it


It’s a hard song to pull off… I would have recommended something else

I mean the temp is just boring… it’s the same on the Stones version

What is supposed to sell the song is the charisma of the lead singer

Tweedy does more of a straight reading and doesn’t get in “character” like Mick… that’s the problem here

Justin wrote:
Lee 'Scratch' Perry

Soon we will have no greats

Oh no!!

Justin wrote:
Lee 'Scratch' Perry

Soon we will have no greats

Justin wrote:
Ed Asner

Oh no

Iron Butterfly drummer Ron Bushy, who was behind the kit on the rock classic "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" and appeared on all of the band's albums, has died at 79

https://twitter.com/rollingstone/status/1432056727512485891?s=21

Lots of funnies in this story, but his middle name made me laugh the hardest.

Flashback: Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry Tries to Bust Paul McCartney Out of Prison for Weed Possession
Angie Martoccio
Mon, August 30, 2021, 12:25 PM·2 min read

Reggae legend Lee “Scratch” Perry is best known as the architect of reggae and dub, his mind-bending solo productions and his work with everyone from Bob Marley and the Wailers to the Clash to Beastie Boys. Less known by the general public, though, is the role he played in trying to extract Paul McCartney from a Japanese prison following a marijuana bust.

On January 16th, 1980, McCartney flew into Tokyo’s Narita International Airport with his wife Linda and their four children. He was five days early for Wings’ tour of Japan, an 11-date stint that would wrap up with three nights at the Budokan in early February. But all of that was cancelled when officials found 7.7 ounces of marijuana in his luggage and the Beatle spent nine days in a Tokyo prison.
“I didn’t try to hide it,” McCartney recalled in 2011. “I had just come from America and still had the American attitude that marijuana isn’t that bad. I didn’t realize just how strict the Japanese attitude is …my first night was the worst. I couldn’t sleep. I was frightened about the possibility of not seeing my family for years.”

Perry had previously worked with the McCartneys in 1977, when they cut Linda’s covers of “Sugartime” and “Mister Sandman” at his Kingston studio Black Ark. He sent a letter to Tokyo’s Minister of Justice voicing support for his friend.

“Dear Sirs, I LEE PIPECOCK JACKSON PERRY would LOVE to express my concern over your consideration of one quarter kilo to be an excessive amount of herbs in the case as it pertains to master PAUL McCARTNEY,” he wrote. “…I find the herbal powers of marijuana in its widely recognized abilities to relax, calm, and generate positive feeling a must. Herbs is his Majesty’s. All singers positive directions and liberty Irrations. Please do not consider the amount of herbs involved excessive. Master PAUL McCARTNEY’s intentions are positive.”

McCartney was released from prison after nine days. Perry’s reaction was kinder than McCartney’s former bandmate John Lennon, who reportedly said, “If he really needs weed, surely there’s enough people who can carry it for him. You’re a Beatle, boy, a Beatle. Your face is in every damn corner of the planet. How could you have been so stupid?”

Perry died on Sunday at the age of 85. Tributes have flooded in following the musician’s death, from Max Romeo and Mad Professor to to Beastie Boys’ Mike D.

scratch and Lennon are not wrong…
although  7.7 ounces of marijuana seems a lot for just an 11 date tour, but guess that was for the whole band and crew?

Lennon


For someone who preached about peace and love he sure could be a hater…

Slyhatch wrote:
scratch and Lennon are not wrong…
although  7.7 ounces of marijuana seems a lot for just an 11 date tour, but guess that was for the whole band and crew?

My wife is the biggest pothead I know, but her response to this was "John was right."

Me and Lee “Scratch” Perry 9 years ago outside State Theatre…after show…he is resting hand on roller bag he wheeled  on stage…Nice man!

Fashion critiques welcome

Starsky wrote:



Me and Lee “Scratch” Perry 9 years ago outside State Theatre…after show…he is resting hand on roller bag he wheeled  on stage…Nice man!

Fashion critiques welcome

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Which one are you?

jeffml wrote:
Which one are you?

ROFL

jeffml wrote:
Which one are you?

I needed a laugh