Michael Bolton?
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Friday, 3 June 2022 23:11 (one year ago) link
Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker are there.
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Friday, 3 June 2022 23:12 (one year ago) link
https://twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1237083490392440833/photo/1
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 10 June 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
When Officer Big Mac left McDonald’s to join Thin Lizzy, I think we all felt it was the right move. pic.twitter.com/a9Lwup3E8P— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) March 9, 2020
A couple more pix from the night the one in the thread OP was taken:
River Phoenix with Kate Pierson, KD Lang, Chrissie Hynde, Lene Lovich, Liza Minelli and Fred Schneider at a PETA 'Tame Yourself' party at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City on February 28, 1991 pic.twitter.com/ZRy6pRbxvB— The River Phoenix Gallery (@phoenixsgallery) February 16, 2020
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 10 June 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
Romeo and Mr McCheeseThey seemed to hit it off
― calstars, Friday, 10 June 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
Eatin' burgers on his own-ee-o
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 10 June 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
hope he was able to try the Shamrock Shake
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 10 June 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
The burgers back in town
― Nutellanor Roosevelt (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 11 June 2022 05:49 (one year ago) link
Orange Drink will flow and Special Sauce will spill
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 11 June 2022 05:56 (one year ago) link
Lol
― calstars, Saturday, 11 June 2022 13:00 (one year ago) link
You get Kenny Lofton on, Warren G regulates him into scoring position with a base hit, and then you’ve got a couple of ducks on the pond for Clooney. pic.twitter.com/aNJidwWf1A— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) June 16, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 17 June 2022 03:22 (one year ago) link
What the hell did I just witness? If you watch nothing else today, make it this. Just fucking trust me. pic.twitter.com/jhV8WpbHgK— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) June 29, 2022
Patti LaBelle, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Peewee Herman, and Rowdy Roddy Piper.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 30 June 2022 05:39 (one year ago) link
Epidemiologists still blame Jimmy Carter for holding a Night Fever superspreader event at the White House in 1977. pic.twitter.com/CIx1OPmVzH— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) July 3, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 July 2022 03:17 (one year ago) link
― Build My Gallows Hi Hi Hi (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 July 2022 03:30 (one year ago) link
Just realizing that Jimmy Carter has outlived two of the three Bee Gees (and Barry outta watch his back).
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 July 2022 03:30 (one year ago) link
One of the weirdest things about that Patti Labelle clip is that Pee Wee Herman is the only one who can dance at all.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 4 July 2022 03:58 (one year ago) link
https://ronnierocket.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/marx.jpg
Grouch Marx and Diana Ross
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 July 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
O.
Pee Wee Herman is the only one who can dance at all.
You'd also look pretty awkward busting a move, if you were 7' 3".
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 4 July 2022 17:59 (one year ago) link
Jimmy Carter is a goldmine. Here he is with Diana Ross singing "happy birthday" on the occasion of his 54th birthday: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/3b/81/b3/3b81b3a63c739690e50eca300df81b7e.jpg
Which leads me to Jimmy Carter's inaugural ball, from a year earlier, which has Bette Davis, Shirley MacLaine, and some other people:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY4j1uw7YUk
Also in attendance were John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Mohammed Ali! But they didn't perform. What an odd line-up.
I was still a tiny baby when Carter was president so I have no idea what he was like, or how he was received. I learn from the internet that he was into rock and roll music:https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/29/us/gallery/jimmy-carter-rock-and-roll-president-cnn-films/index.html
The article contains pictures of Jimmy Carter with (a) Crosby, Stills, and Nash (b) Greg Allman (c) Bob Dylan (d) Luciano Pavarotti (e) Johnny Cash (f) Dolly Parton (g) Willie Nelson (h) Emmylou Harris (g) Dizzy Gillespie (h) Charles Mingus (i) James Brown nb some of those people are not rock and roll musicians.
And yet baby boomers hate him. Whatever you think about him, he had the funk:https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/w_1600/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.cnn.com%2Fcnnnext%2Fdam%2Fassets%2F201209143616-06-jimmy-carter-rock-and-roll-president-cnn-films.jpg
― Ashley Pomeroy, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
They left out the best one -- Carter with Cecil Taylor:
http://www.fainebooks.com/uploads/4/5/7/3/45736131/editor/nlc-06229-13.jpg
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
Awesome!
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
All of those photos let me to the official Twitter account of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, which is presumably carefully curated to make him look good, but he does come across as an awkward but well-meaning man:https://twitter.com/CarterLibrary/media
I learn that his daughter Amy's pet Siamese cat was called Misty Malarky Ying Yang. That would probably not be acceptable nowadays, partially because of the name and partially because Americans hate cats.
Big late 1970s energy:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FUU5ESZXEAApvyh?format=jpg&name=900x900
There's a photo of him shaking hands with George Lucas! He saw Star Wars three times at the White House. I learn his brother was a drunk who had beer named after him. This is Rosalyn Carter dressed as a monarch butterfly:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSJ1-TxXEAAHsYn?format=jpg&name=medium
Will those image links work? Or is Twitter too weird?
― Ashley Pomeroy, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
Ashley P., I was fully there for Carter circa 1975. He was, and is, a solid human. P
― Nutellanor Roosevelt (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 03:55 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-3TabrzA70
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 13:39 (one year ago) link
Happy Birthday, Captain Trips! Here I am with Jerry Garcia, backstage @remhq in 1989. Jerry was born 80 years ago today, but he seemed apart from time - he just was. And is still, I imagine, somewhere only a dimension away. Bless you, Mr G ♥️🎸♌️ pic.twitter.com/uLbyrVcLgH— Robyn Hitchcock (@RobynHitchcock) August 1, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 1 August 2022 23:19 (one year ago) link
Added value being that it happened backstage at an REM show. Too bad Jerry didn't join them for some sweet noodling on "Harborcoat" or something.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 1 August 2022 23:24 (one year ago) link
holy shit jerry is a year younger than me in that photo and looks 70
― joygoat, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link
Jerry was the American Keith Richards
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
Don’t you ever fucking tell me the United States doesn’t produce the best bowlers. pic.twitter.com/QKOco3bXeG— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) August 3, 2022
Little Steven, PeeWee, and Weird Al
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 4 August 2022 05:51 (one year ago) link
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 4 August 2022 11:50 (one year ago) link
Hitchcock's FB post with that pic had a bit more text. Love what Garcia said to him:
I met Jerry and his junior accomplice Bob Weir only once, in Oakland Colosseum. One of his daughters had drawn my work to his attention, and he appeared to have enjoyed the set that The Egyptians and I played that night. “Yeah, man, I could walk all over your music…” was his comment.
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 4 August 2022 12:08 (one year ago) link
I guess he meant that he would enjoy soloing over Hitchcock's compositions?
― calstars, Thursday, 4 August 2022 12:23 (one year ago) link
Yeah, man
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 4 August 2022 12:24 (one year ago) link
Didn’t they open for the dead a few times, presumably after that?
― tobo73, Thursday, 4 August 2022 13:19 (one year ago) link
Charles-Marie Widor, Ferruccio Busoni, Isidor Philipp
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Charles-Marie_Widor%2C_Ferruccio_Busoni%2C_Isidor_Philipp.jpg
I'm listening to Busoni's piano concerto and there's a bit that sounds very much like the Toccata from Widor's 5th organ symphony, so I googled "busoni widor" - - I got a picture of them together at the Restaurant Foyot, Place de l'Odéon, Paris, ca. 1910 - -
Fascinating, I'm sure, to all that frequent this thread - -
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 20 August 2022 06:36 (one year ago) link
Natty dressers, one and all.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 August 2022 10:28 (one year ago) link
Fur collar bros
― calstars, Saturday, 20 August 2022 13:16 (one year ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OUa-BL-c8oA/VMLYnbjheKI/AAAAAAAAOvc/ukvWHKaA-ng/s1600/tangerine_dream_salvador_dali.jpg
Dali, Tangerine Dream. they used to play his garden parties apparently
― koogs, Saturday, 20 August 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
With bust of Dali scuplted by Edgar Froese.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 August 2022 20:25 (one year ago) link
"holy shit jerry is a year younger than me in that photo and looks 70"
It's off-topic, but this is John Thaw in the first episode of The Sweeney, pointing a gun at Brian Blessed: https://www.anorakzone.com/sweeney/ringer.jpg
That's an example of "famous people together that you would have expected to be together" because Brian Blessed was in everything.
But how old was John Thaw in that episode? How old?
33! People aged faster back then.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Saturday, 20 August 2022 21:04 (one year ago) link
He'd have actually been 32.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 August 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
Picard was 48 in the first series of st:tng
― koogs, Sunday, 21 August 2022 00:25 (one year ago) link
Here's Busoni glowering defiantly from the shadows in another really big coat.
https://www.rodoni.ch/busoni/zurigo/immagini/busoni1.jpg
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 21 August 2022 07:24 (one year ago) link
Busoni and Sibelius
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6SUvuZ5XEIs/WdjtsyFMa4I/AAAAAAAAIDU/UdzvEScBgkwGYX5R-1kDw4mMbhX-QPVYQCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/sibelius%2Band%2Bbusoni.jpg
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 21 August 2022 07:30 (one year ago) link
could probably do with one of those coats this winter
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 21 August 2022 08:34 (one year ago) link
iirc Thaw was a catastrophic alcoholic, which won't have helped matters
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Monday, 22 August 2022 10:08 (one year ago) link
I learn that he was 44 when he started playing Inspector Morse:https://archivetvmusings.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/jericho-03.jpg
That's actually younger than me. As you point out he was a raging alcoholic with depressive tendencies. He died age 60 in 2002, outliving his dad by only five years:https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/morse-more-sad-more-angry-than-you-ever-knew-20041111-gdk382.html
And hey, an actual on-topic picture, from the late 1960s:https://preview.redd.it/x3eo8ykfa1q81.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=12043fb95fcbf3e2a54bb11e595262e6fe64b33b
Apparently Redcap took over the slot vacated by The Avengers, thus the photoshoot. Whichever casting person unearthed Diana Rigg deserved a raise:https://preview.redd.it/hzwc2xkfa1q81.jpg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de2b688ae3a03c842d3383a26f27fbf9973a715f
― Ashley Pomeroy, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
Troy Kennedy Martin wrote 7 of the 26 episodes
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link