It begins thusly:
This was a tough one.
It’s not an obit but a memoir. It’s by Tal Bachman. It’s full of unexpected twists and turns. It closes with a stunning gift. It’s absolutely terrific. And yes, you must read it all.
It begins thusly:
This was a tough one.
It’s not an obit but a memoir. It’s by Tal Bachman. It’s full of unexpected twists and turns. It closes with a stunning gift. It’s absolutely terrific. And yes, you must read it all.
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"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." – Claire Wolfe, 101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution
"There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." — Daniel Webster
"It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." - GK Chesterton
"The only way to live free is to live unobserved." - Etienne de la Boiete
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"To put it simply, the Left is the stupid and the insane, led by the evil. You can’t persuade the stupid or the insane and you had damn well better fight the evil." - Skeptic
"There is no better way to stamp your power on people than through the dead hand of bureaucracy. You cannot reason with paperwork." - David Black, from Turn Left For Gibraltar
"The limits of tyranny are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." - Frederick Douglass
"Give me the media and I will make of any nation a herd of swine." - Joseph Goebbels
“I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.” - Ronald Reagan
"Ain't no misunderstanding this war. They want to rule us and aim to do it. We aim not to allow it. All there is to it." - NC Reed, from Parno's Peril
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The whole band was fun.
I think Eddie suddenly found his new found guitar god status made him ‘Better’.
It happens all the time. Eddie thinks he and his brother are the heart of the band. Roth disagrees. They begin fighting. Roth believes he is the heart of the band and can also leave. He has some success. Eddie gets Hagar and also has some success.
Eventually both bands fail and they blame each other.
None of them are relevant again.
Isn’t that a microcosm of The Beatles compressed into 5 years?
Brother, that’s a microcosm of just about every damned band I ever heard of, really. I always counted myself so fortunate to have had my brother, my cousin, and my lifelong best friend in the Playboys all those years. We’d get in the van laughing, and get out of it still laughing. Nothing but good times for almost thirty years, and that’s the honest truth. Road life is certainly a tough row in a lot of ways, and we surely dealt with our share of hassles and heartaches throughout, but relations between the four of us was never one of ’em.
So you weren’t Ray and Dave Davies or those Oasis brothers?
Glad to hear it. It certainly must have been more fun that way.
Amen.
The first time I heard of Van Halen was seeing the VH logo on a piece of art in a high school classroom. It was a year later before I even heard a cassette of their work, and it was my brother’s well-worn copy of Women and Children First.
Wow.
I stole it. This? This is mine now.
Such talent.