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The folks over at The Ringer have no sports, are apparently writing about anything and everything.
Including this old sketch from SNL. I had forgotten about it, but once I saw the (poor quality) video, it jogged my memory, and I remembered watching this particular episode.
Anyway, the story is mildly amusing, the video is hilarious. No video embedded but there's a link in the article.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
Follow Ups:
ever front a rock band... Sexy thing in her Holly's Harp dress!
NT
She's back on a t-shirt.
Stand back!
rocks the house!
There's a recording studio in Santa Monica where Fleetwood Mac had a private space for relaxing. I sat in the exact place where SN sat earlier, and it was still hot.
;)
As the saying goes -- but before it completely goes -- let me say it for the record:
I would drag my balls over a mile of broken glass just to kiss the tires on the truck that takes her skivvies to the laundry.
NT
NT
when? what's stopping you?
can we get pix?
be well,
To err is human, to learn, divine
without thinking of her unmentionables. :)
all the best,
mrh
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To err is human, to learn, divine
...sexy as all get out (in that sort of androgenous way), but a set of pipes with such range of scale and emotion--Annie Lennox. Her entire evolving sort of talent and "persona" just reminds me of her being the female equivalent of David Bowie.
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously--HST
their next endeavor.... Seal is another...though they both have resigned themselves recently to doing the "standards" CD's...I say they both have at LEAST one more original material CD in them....and I wait in anticipation...
Yessir! Annie Lennox hooked me too!
I did see her live back in the late 80's at the Greek Theatre here in Los Angeles... and I was pretty close to the stage. Let me just say that sexuality OOOOZES out of every pore that woman has! I don't think I have ever before been aware of a celebity giving off that vibe on stage before... other than of course the usual suspects like Madonna etc, etc... where it is part of their gig... AND she is even MORE beautiful in person! She is an AMAZING talent in person! Unfortunately, she is NOT in the best of health any longer and I fear will not be long for this world....
Edits: 05/27/20
She could rock, she could swing, she could scat... but most of all, the most beguiling thing about her is... she was a poet.
Did you see her with Jaco? It was one of my favorite eras of Joni. Living in south Florida, I was using Jaco's instrument tech for my stuff too.
Joni tells her story about Jaco in the link below...
That was a good read.
I'm a fan of Jaco's time playing with Joni. Don Juan's Reckless Daughter is one of my favorite records.
Thanks again.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Your welcome! I have loved Joni what seems like forever.
Her telling her story about Jaco, actually made my eyes leak.
I was so upset when Jaco died needlessly. He was such a fabulous talent, a unique bass player, an innovator... and a bouncer killed him. So tragic.
There was a poster of Pat Benatar, bent over at a ballet rail, by the door at a local record store.
Tradition was to give her a pat on the bottom for good luck on the way out.
Stevie Nicks never did much for me.
Tina Turner rocked pretty hard
The Wilson sisters rocked
Nancy Sinatra's 'one-off' inspired many a puberty
Grace Slick was ... well, slick I guess
and at least Janis J. put out
Nicks however, sounds like Natalie Merchant doing yacht rock
I'm locking that in as my final answer.
be well,
To err is human, to learn, divine
nt
"Trying is the first step towards failure."
Homer Simpson
I will never forget Linda Ronstadt ...
how in the hell did Gerry Brown ever ... ah, never mind
be well,
To err is human, to learn, divine
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reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
the Queen of Rock and Roll that took a Piece Of My Heart with her when she left this earth....
Nasty. The kids in her school, not Janis. I love Janis.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
no eye for potential I reckon
I'll give up my Janis Rolling Stone cover when it can be pried from .. etc.
well, I for one was glad I saw it
be well,
To err is human, to learn, divine
and you'll know that to be true!
Full Tilt Boogie ... !!
be well,
To err is human, to learn, divine
Heroin is a VERY nasty drug... Someone that I was very close to is an addict, so I have first hand knowledge of what it is about... I tried in my own way to help, but at long last had to remove myself from having anything further to do with them....That addiction is a path to nowhere and ruination...
she didn't live long enough to embarrass herself by recording a disco album, or bopping along to synthesizers a decade later.
No big hair or shoulder pads, no Vegas gig, and she avoided the ultimate sell-out of covering standards, like damned near every other over-the-hill performer with nothing left in the tank.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
I would love Lady Gaga to record the American Songbook.
I think she's the most talented singer since Julie Andrews.
When she did that commercial with Tony Bennett I watched it every time, with the volume turned up a bit. What a talent.
beautiful and elegant Ms. Andrews! Julie CAN act AND sing (though sadly not any longer) AND she is one of the NICEST people that I have ever met in my life! Twice! AND she remembered me after the first time! I have / had a crush on her since I was a young boy and had an opportunity to meet her in person at a showing of Mary Poppins at a local theater for a British Festival that was sponsored by Orange County in Southern California. I can assure you that she IS the real deal!!! Years later in LA I met her again at a book festival where she was sigining copies of her children's book which she co-wrote with her daughter... The biggest tragedy in motion pictures, is that she was unable to play Eliza Doolittle in the filmed version of My Fair Lady.... and I say that as a fan of the late Ms. Hepburn's...BUT Warner's IMO owed the public the opportunity to see onscreen Harrison and Andrews...
Lady Gaga certainly isn't as gifted at acting, but she's done OK.
Both are HUGELY talented, from a musical perspective.
wear a MEAT dress?!?!?!? Gaga has exactly ONE film to her name! Are you going to compare the legacy of Julie to a (excuse me) half-assed remake of a film that has been done (and better) FOUR times! I don't think so...Gaga has done things which have thrown her credibility to the wind... sorry IMO she does not even warrant being compared remotely to the talent of Ms. Andrews.. Madonna in another 10 years... possibly.
Gaga can really sing, if you hear her without autotune. Madonna's voice is always multi-tracked to make it sound like she has one.
Gaga can play actual musical instruments.
Julie Andrews didn't wear a meat dress but she did take her top off in a really lousy picture her husband directed.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
Edits: 05/28/20
I don't think you can compare these three artists. Different generations and "tolerance" levels to what is acceptable. When I was a kid if you said the F bomb in class - man you were in serious trouble. Today - kids are throwing out F-bombs like paper towels to hurricane survivors.
Julie Andrews is from a different generation possibly one where studios were still trying to create a narrative for their stars like knowing Rock Hudson was gay but creating a kind of shield to the world and a fake narrative that he was a ladies man. Anything anyone does today is "seen" by the world.
Madonna was considered shocking in the 1980s but those "shocking" music videos today are laughably "quaint" to any modern viewer. And hardly anything she did was shocking to a European - in the States Janet Jackson showed a nipple and the entire country has a meltdown - SERIOUS - how childish - it's a boob - who cares? Why are people so repressed?
To be fair to Madonna - she was around a long time before autotune was invented and she can sing - she can't Julie Andrews or Lady Gaga sing but she can sing.
Madonna made up for her average voice by putting on a great show (or so I am told as I have never seen her live). She, like most pop singers, cover for being "average vocalists" with spectacle and sex appeal. Madonna was and still is toned - she has a killer fit body - she was pretty in a Marilyn Monroe kind of pretty and she made a lot of catchy pop songs - I prefer listening to Madonna over a lot of better singers who sing boring songs. I defend Madonna in the sense that I think she is better than she is given credit for and I actually like her ballad album (Something to Remember) more than most of her other albums - but she doesn't have that Andrews power house classically trained hold a note for 30 seconds kind of voice.
I'm a bit surprised that an Andrews Streisand fan would like Madonna and not Gaga. Gaga has a vastly better singing voice that Madonna and while Gaga did some attention getting things - so did Madonna in the 1980s. Madonna put out a porn book for heaven sake.
I like consistency. If you like an artist because of their voice then you should like Gaga. If you don't like Gaga because of her "antics" then you should not like Madonna because she has been far worse.
And generations - to get attention today you have to go further - society is desensitized.
Take the meat dress - she claims "the meat dress was tied to her protest against the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy and was a statement against the governmental restrictions placed on the rights of gay soldiers."
So I don't really get the symbolism of her message there but that's ok - it wasn't really egregious to me - people suck down tons of meat at buffets every year so slapping some of it on your back didn't even make me lift an eyebrow.
Her whole Identity basically changed when she met Tony Bennett and, as a father figure, put her head on straight.
Gaga won a Golden Globe for best actress in American Horror Story her first time out and was nominated for best actress in A Star is Born and she was chosen AND approved of by Julie Andrews to sing Julie Andrews at the Academy awards.
First time TV actress wins golden globe - first time movie actress gets nominated for best actress - and chosen by Julie "freaking" Andrews to cover her work! Oh and she's always been great to her fans and as a philanthropist - Sorry but Lady Gaga is very tough not to like - just ignore the first 3-4 years as being an early 20s kid trying to figure things out.
In the end - everything is argumentative and everyone dumps on everything - the ARTS is the area I really wish this wouldn't happen. Singers have different vocal ranges and different abilities.
Julie Andrews talking about Gaga and their preparation for the Oscars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7uj8flByqs
Gaga covering Julie Andrews
Ms. Streisand.... funny that they both did it in shitty films.. I will say in both their defense though that they BOTH have / had a great pair...
Yer kidding, right?
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
it never made it to the finished film...She had workd with Herb Ross the director on Funny Girl, he choreographed all the musical numbers for the film and was chosen by Barbra to direct OATP... He told her since she played a hooker in the film, it was essential to the plot and after much coaxing and an ultimately closed set she did it reluctantly.... Ross in the end didn't use the footage and someone of course snapped some pics on set and ultimately they were sold to High Society magazine and actually got printed. Streisand stopped the process in the 11th hour and was able with a judges approval to have the magazine pulled from circulation... but... NOT before I got MY copy!!! LOL!!! You can search the photos... they've resurfaced over the years...I absolutely as you can imagine HATE her politics, but I will ALWAYS love her...I saw her in 1994 twice when she finally did her first tour in 20+ years. The local CBS news interviewed me in my Streisand T-shirt outside while people waited in line to buy tickets to the concert. .. I was in the audience for her concert at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim when they filmed it for Pay-For-View. There was a little break as they set-up for another segment and I yelled out to her and we had a little back and forth there for a few... It was one night I will NEVER forget and I will always have this to remember it and drink my daily cup of coffee from....
I'll pass, thanks.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
I had the CD she did with Tony Bennett. Great at the beginning, wears on you after a while.
Gaga is terrific, so is Bennett. The CD is just too long.
I have no problem with standards sung by Sinatra, or Bennett, or Ella Fitzgerald, or even Lady Gaga, but please not Rod Stewart or Carly Simon.
And I don't want to hear Chrissie Hynde scat singing either.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
that at least Paul, Ringo and Mick have never done the "standards" album... at least not YET! I do have to admit that I liked SOME disco... BeeGees come to mind.. and THIS is my wife's and my personal song!
Could it get more pathetic?People were bummed when the Beatles broke up but they never did a disco album either. They aren't still out there shaking their asses to "I Wanna Hold Your Hand," they never did a Super Bowl half time show, etc. John Lennon never lived long enough to hear his music used to hawk beer and cookies.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
Edits: 05/28/20
YOKO....The NO talent hack! What ever he saw in her is BEYOND me! AND she was / is FUGLY!
The Beatles catalog has been licensed by many. At one point Michael Jackson owned it.
Lennon and McCartney songs (which Macca changed to "McCartney-Lennon) are owned by Sony/ATV Music Publishing. Neither Yoko Ono or Paul McCartney own the rights to the music. McCartney gets royalties, don't know about Yoko, but Macca had to sue Sony/ATV to recover the rights to his own music, thanks to the US's ridiculous copyright laws.
He won't own the rights to all of the Lennon-McCartney music until 2026 if he lives that long.
Yoko might have the rights to Lennon's post-Beatles stuff but who cares? It's the stuff he did with the Beatles that matters, nothing he did afterward was all that good.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
NT
The Beatles broke themselves.
I'm no Yoko fan, but her husband was gunned down by a crazed fan. I'll cut her some slack in that department. If their marriage was one of the typical celeb things, it never would have lasted 10 years.
Lennon had a nasty drinking problem at one point, she got him cleaned up.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
Edits: 05/28/20
Lennon was not a very nice person in reality... matter of fact kind of a D**K... and NOT my favorite Beatle... however talented he may have been.... His whole "peace" thing should be taken in perspective considering IMO he was NOT a nice human being....even my son who is a musician and LOVES Lennon... says he was an a**hole...
Stories about Lou Reed and Jim Morrison that are unreal.
My theory is, if you have a talent that great in anything, art, books, music, sports, politics, you sacrifice something else in your personality.
Lennon was one of the Hollywood Vampires, along with Harry Nilsson, Mickey Dolenz, Alice Cooper, and a few others. They drank like fish.
Dolenz, Lennon, and Nilsson wrecked the Smothers Brothers comeback appearance at some LA night club. They were all shitfaced and they were heckling Tom and Dick.
They were tossed out, but not before the Brothers had to leave the stage.
But the Beatles were doomed before Yoko Ono entered the picture.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
Edits: 05/28/20
My friend's husband promoted concerts in Vancouver - which is how I managed to get first 3 row seats fairly often.
And yes some of the artists were truly horrible - not really in a drug way but a Primadonna way. They would ask for M&Ms but you you had to take out all the green ones or they'd have a crap.
Others were great - he made the point to talk about how great the band Roxette was to everyone
Some of his worst Mariah Carey and Richard Marx.
To be fair - a lot of these people are like anyone and have their bad days - you have to be constantly UP whenever you meet anyone. You can be nice 999 times but it's the 1 time that will get you splattered all over the press.
Actors can at least "ACT" the part of being a good person - Musicians may not have that ability in their toolkit.
deserved in the end... he had EVERY opportunity and pissed it away with excesses... I don't feel sorry for him in the least.. as opposed to Janis who was searching for something and sadly never found someone to truly love her and take care of her... Morrison was a train wreck waiting to happen...as was Hendrix... TOO much of a good thing is NEVER good! Doesn't surprise me in the least about that group and The Smothers Brothers (who I always liked). The only ones out of that bunch whose music I liked was Dolenz and Lennon... the rest are non-existent in my music collection.... Though I do like a couple of Nilsson songs.
He described a night out with Jim Morrison going something like this: Morrison and Fields walk into a bar. The bartender lines up shots, Morrison (who's already 'faced) uses them to wash down a couple of Qaaludes.
Teenybopper recognizes Mr. Mojo Rison, offers to give him a blow job right there at the bar. Without a word, Morrison unzips, gets his. The 'ludes kick in. Morrison pisses his pants, has to be helped out.
Typical night out.
The Lou Reed story is even worse.
Netflix was streaming the document on Danny Fields but I missed it. Fields worked with the Stooges, MC5, and a host of other punk bands (true punk, not Sex Pistols posers).
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
NT
Please Kill Me: An Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil. By turns hilarious and tragic.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
WITHOUT... mention of her panties.
CLASSIC LWR.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
nt
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
Do you remember the picture he posted?
Link below.
"Trying is the first step towards failure."
Homer Simpson
I read a few of his posts on the Rock forum but I'm a natural skeptic. Thought he was blowing smoke out of his ass.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
when LWR could see all the way to heaven?
I always flash to the South Park episode where the US military mounts a rescue operation for Ms. Nicks ... turns out it was a goat.
with regards,
To err is human, to learn, divine
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