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Post by brianf on Dec 6, 2020 14:01:43 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2020 18:24:28 GMT -5
he keeps saying that. . been saying that for years. but it absolutely looks like Criss
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 6, 2020 22:39:19 GMT -5
I also loved David Lander in the early '90s On The Air show set at an early '50s tv station! That should've been a hit but they didn't even air all the episodes made in America. r.i.p. Squig!
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Post by brianf on Dec 7, 2020 5:00:15 GMT -5
he keeps saying that. . been saying that for years. but it absolutely looks like Criss What a silly thing to say. I don't usually like to get into arguments on this site so this will be my last post on this subject but please - just look up Don Poncher - he is a real person, so what if looks a bit like someone else.
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Post by brianf on Dec 7, 2020 5:11:02 GMT -5
If you wanna talk about a funny music factoid about KISS - In 1981 Ace Frehley co-wrote / produced / plays "syn-drum" on the song Eugene by the NYC act Crazy Joe And The Variable Speed Band. When asked about the song Ace claimed it had nothing to do with Gene Simmons, even though the character in the song hit on every woman, didn't do drugs & fit other stereotypes Ace used to describe Gene in his autobiography.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2020 15:23:06 GMT -5
edit: know what. . not worth it.
you believe what you wanna believe, and I honestly don't give a crap.
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 7, 2020 19:04:09 GMT -5
For what it's worth as another west coast '60s-'70s music obsessive I also know of Don Poncher as a real drummer around Hollywood and that he was on the Lenny & The Squigtones recordings. For a long time I thought John Fogerty was half hidden under a hat on the back cover of one of his brother Tom's albums, but I was wrong, it was an off-stage guy connected to the CCR group members who did look a lot like John. And John was credited as a player on one track on the same back cover. This is just how you learn stuff! One of the dopiest on-line arguments I was involved in was how the Byrds' Jim/Roger McGuinn didn't get interested in electric Rickenbacker 12 string guitars because of George Harrison, but from a single released in England covering a Jackie DeShannon record which came out pretty much the exact same time as Mister Tambourine Man was recorded; Jim would've been air-mailing import British records by groups he wouldn't have heard of you see. The arguee never gave a millimeter and seemed extremely serious about it even though not just myself were producing loads of quotes, even in video, of McGuinn saying how he'd seen Hard Day's Night and noticed what George was playing. Sometimes things are actually that straight forward and even mundane. There is a west coast drummer named Don Poncher, definitely known to some, I guess looks similar to Peter Criss from NY/NJ, and he is the guy on the back of that album. Here is a promo photo with him looking like himself in it (at bottom) for The New Buffalo Springfield circa late 1968, Hollywood address. That group morphed into Blue Mountain Eagle. Lots more pics of Mr. Poncher here: garagehangover.com/blue-mountain-eagle-gigs/I love the Kiss pinball bit in that Crazy Joe vid! Great spoof on Mr. Simmons for sure, he shouldn't screw up someone's game like that!
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 8, 2020 0:55:21 GMT -5
Chuck Yeager, legendary pilot, dead at 97.
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Post by Confessor on Dec 8, 2020 3:32:22 GMT -5
Chuck Yeager, legendary pilot, dead at 97. Awww, bummer. I was only thinking about him a couple days ago and thinking it's good that he's still going at such a ripe old age. He's been a bit of a personal hero of mine since I read Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff (I also love the film). A great man and a true pioneer.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 8, 2020 12:29:20 GMT -5
Legend doesn't begin to cover it. Yeager was born in West Virginia and never attended college, when he joined the Army Air Corps. However, he had a natural talent and became a pilot under a special program for enlisted personnel. There, he became an "ace in a day," shooting down 5 enemy aircraft in one encounter and nearly repeated it again, shooting down 4. He found himself shot down over France, but was the rare pilot who escaped and made it back to England. Instead of being sent home, he finagled his way back into the cockpit. As can be seen in the film, The Right Stuff, the Bell X-1, which was designed based on the shape of a .50 cal machine gun bullet (which had supersonic velocity), had killed several pilots. Bell was offering a bounty to fly the aircraft; but, Yeager told them the Air Force was already paying him to fly. And fly he did, faster than the speed of sound. It took years for this to become widely known, as it was considered a military secret. Yeager was a pilot's pilot, arguably the greatest pilot to ever sit in a cockpit, certainly among test pilots. Tom Wolfe relates one event, which the movie depicts, but nowhere near as grisly. Yeager was test flying the NF-104, an interceptor, and ran into a problem, forcing him to eject. Problem was, he was also on fire! The fire spread into his helmet, due to his oxygen mixture. He parachuted safely to the ground, near a highway. A car stopped to help him and he asked for a lift and peeled off his glove, and the skin underneath. His face was black and bloody from his injuries and the good samaritan stared, horrified, then got out and emptied the contents of his stomach onto the ground. He still gave Yeager a lift back to base. For Yeager, it was another day at the office. Yeager was a hero to every aviation enthusiast and I think Darwyn Cooke captured it best, in The New Frontier, as future test pilot Hal Jordan meets the man who inspired him, in a perfect moment...
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Post by berkley on Dec 8, 2020 19:24:12 GMT -5
Rugby fans will be saddened by the unexpected death of ex-French international Cristophe Dominici, aged only 48. He played a big part in France's come-from-behind upset of the heavily favoured All-Blacks in the 1999 World Cup semi-finals - hard to believe that was over 20 years ago.
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Post by tartanphantom on Dec 8, 2020 22:00:55 GMT -5
Chuck Yeager's passing has hit me pretty hard today. Aside from my father, I was never one personal heroes... in fact, I can count them on one hand. I can count one less today. This one hurt in a personal way. Yeager was an inspiration to me since childhood-- growing up and coming of age in the early '70's as an aviation buff, I was in awe of the man's accomplishments and no-nonsense approach to life and read everything about him that I could get my hands on. I was lucky enough to meet him once.
I've posted it here before in a discussion on autographs, but I have an picture of Chuck that I've had so long that the ink has faded severely. You can barely see the signature on the tarmac line to the right. So in honor of Brigadier General Chuck Yeager, I'm posting a throwback tribute-- to the days when TV stations still used a sign-off at the end of the broadcast day. Vaya con Dios, Chuck. No matter where you are, I'm sure that you're still "chasin' that ol' demon."
"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there, I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace. Where never lark, or even eagle flew — And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, – Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 10, 2020 10:52:10 GMT -5
It's been reported on both Facebook and Twitter that Richard Corben passed away on December 2, following heart surgery at the age of 80.
I wasn't the biggest fan of Corben's work but it was always excellent and it was ground-breaking.
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Post by berkley on Dec 10, 2020 11:11:12 GMT -5
That's a tough one, though I had no idea he was 80 years old. But Corben was still producing very good work very recently with his anthology horror series Shadows on the Grave .
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Post by EdoBosnar on Dec 10, 2020 11:40:42 GMT -5
Just saw a few notifications on fb. Sad news.
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