WRONG DUDE

Lol

Not sure where I was going with this.

https://i.imgur.com/mxW21Fl.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/9-eJ76oxemS43PFr4IVX3TUaxMk=/fit-in/600x605/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6590407-1424119543-3951.jpeg.jpg

I've almost certainly posted this guy before but nonetheless...

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... on Pye too!

Lol he has an album called "Funk in Hell" ... kind of surprised I've never seen that title used before.

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By the way, which flag's pink?

Even better, an article about these dudes:

https://www.pipestonestar.com/articles/wire/

The best way to describe this new band was a multi-talented hippie band.

The band’s set list consisted of original songs, good old time rockin’ covers and a Beatles set that was second to none.

To be fair, I can see Colin Newman doing this.

Wire was especially popular on the college circuit.

Totally them!

Looks like "Curtiss A" has a Wikipedia entry. Local legend?

(They should have stayed Bare Wire, that's a cool name)

He's 5 years younger than Bruce Gilbert.

... that's Wire's Bruce Gilbert, not this dude:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPMYgMFUcAA8Ejl?format=jpg

... or even this dude:

https://direct.rhapsody.com/imageserver/images/alb.168953113/600x600.jpg

Hair's Missing
(...I'll stop that now)

Looks like "Curtiss A" has a Wikipedia entry. Local legend?

yes. he's a marvel, still going strong.

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Well I got me a Chrysler as big as a whale

and I'm headed on down to the

https://www.fredschnidergalleryofart.com/

It wasn't a rock, it was a

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Good setup!

That one reminds me of this photo studio in my neighborhood that is very likely to cause double takes:

https://robertofalck.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Charles_(musician,_born_1918)

As a vocalist, Charles, along with Julia Rinker Miller, sang the theme song to the television series Three's Company.

Now there's a trivia question that you can not only get right, but also piss off the whole rest of the bar at the same time.

Just looked up the other vocalist. She was Mildred Bailey's niece, they shared the same middle name.

Or maiden name, of course.

Ray Charles (b. 1918) is especially unfortunate because according to Wiki he went by his birth name, Chuck Offenberg, until the 1950s when the other Ray Charles was already famous. Not sure why you would invite that confusion upon yourself!

I was 99% sure when I came across his name that it was a typo for Ray Conniff.

To add to themy confusion, there seems to be an overlap between the Ray Conniff Singers and The Ron Hicklin Singers, including Ron Hicklin himself, although the Ray Charles Singers form a disjoint set, at least as far as I know right now.

And of course, Ron Dante functioned as a free agent, more or less.

Back in the late '90s, when I worked in the NYC music television world, a producer was compiling footage for a George Clinton (P-Funk) doc. In those early-ish days of the Internet, it wasn't immediately clear which "George Clinton" credit(s) belonged to whom – so she grabbed everything, including stuff that was actually done by film-score guy George S. Clinton.

As part of this haul, she ended up with a tape of The Apple, the 1980 Menahem Golan film. She watched it, and told me – "You gotta see this." So when I left that job a little while later, and moved across the country, I had a copy of the film dubbed onto a blank VHS (I accidentally taped over the first few minutes with a Chemical Brothers video).

Over the next few years, I forced friends and others to watch The Apple – they loved it (naturally, as it's one of the best things ever!). A roommate of mine became particularly obsessed. At the time, a friend of his worked in the home video division of MGM, and was looking for films to include as part of their 1970s/80s DVD reissue series. My roommate told her – "You guys own this movie, it's amazing, you should release it." (I think it was long since out of print on VHS, and had never been on DVD.)

As I recall, that DVD reissue helped spur a revival of interest in the film (at least here in L.A.) – I think the Nuart in West L.A. began screening it, with cast member Q&A's, a little while after the DVD came out; then it was screened at the Egyptian, etc. This tied in with a growing interest in / reassessment of the Golan-Globus films happening at the time (early/mid-2000s).

Anyway, that's the story of how someone's "WRONG DUDE" moment not only introduced me to one of my favorite movies, but also may have positioned me to play a small role in its revival (...keep in mind, I'm aware it almost certainly would have happened anyway, I'm not claiming unique credit here!).

^A+

some major lols on that film’s wiki including an appearance by an ilxor’s present day review in the “release and reception” section

apologies, it’s a 2004 review I’m mentioning. the 2017 rerelease was the critical re-examination, apparently

i see yr bim marks

Recht recalled one of the sessions having more than 200 people, including several musicians and a choir consisting of 120 vocalists.[53] Recht said recording the film's reggae number "How To Be a Master" was complicated due to actual Jamaican musicians performing on the song and not being able to "read the charts" that were in English.[54] According to Clinton, Grace Kennedy, who played Pandi, had an uncomfortable time singing "Coming," so Clinton had to tell her that it was her character singing the lyrics and not Kennedy herself.[55]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UjMdxhnBhA

that would be Arthur Russell - Level 5 Prisons

irrationally angry at a guy on youtube making shitty maroon 5 yoo-hoo-hoo pop songs under the name "Parris Mitchell"

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https://www.rogertaylorsells.com/agent-profile/roger-taylor-13832732

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That reminds me of this, although it's a band name and not a dude:

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https://pictures.abebooks.com/inventory/763439826_5.jpg

Dud Dudley is a great name for a rock drummer and wiki tells me the Dud Dudley above was one of the first Englishmen to smelt with coke.

he who smelt it dealt it?

I thought he hadn't done much since Whitehouse.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81z+bW1dm2L._AC_SX569_.jpg

https://images.routledge.com/common/jackets/amazon/978041562/9780415628440.jpg

There was also George Michael who had a popular sports highlights show starting in 1980 on Washington DC's NBC affiliate, witch was later syndicated nationally for 23 years. Was probably more famous around here than the musician.

*which

Eerie thing about those George Michaels....

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