Posted on 02/22/2005 9:53:02 PM PST by freedom44
Richey Edwards, who disappeared mysteriously in 1995, played guitar for the Manic Street Preachers.
Lucan is probably a reference to Lord Lucan, an English Earl who is supposed to have murdered his children's nanny and also disappeared.
Robert Johnson was certainly before rock 'n' roll, but many of his songs were covered by some of the biggest acts in rock 'n' roll, e.g. Crossroads by Cream.
And, yes, anyone who puts vinegar instead of ketchup on "chips" can be legitimately called weird.
I lived in England right after that happened. They found Richey Edwards' car at a service station near a bridge over the Bristol Channel. He and his band were Welsh. The band went on to have it's greatest success immediately after that. He kept "being sighted" in Goa, India by those who thought he was still alive.
Looks like you beat me to it. Sorry for the double post.
Boy that Eddie Haskell, he was a busy guy - being both Alice Cooper AND Johnny "Wad" Holmes.
Two superstar rock bands messing with fish on the beaches? I don't know what the astronomical odds against that are...
"I went to both jr. high and high school with her."
I am very impressed. I love her. Is she as sweet and nice as she still seems to be?
I saw her on Robert Schuller's show recently (my mom in law never misses that) and she said her greatest show biz moment was when she was able to "buy her parents a house".
You want to check out the early Manics stuff. 'Holy Bible' is one of the nastiest, teenage-tantrum rock albums of all time. They were actually very good for a short period of time.
Mind you, songs like ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforjustonedayitsworldwouldfallapart, probably won't go down so well on Free Republic!
Any of us who have been slinging an electric six strng for years that listens to his work on that album is compelled to say "OOOOOOHHHHH........ok ok...........I see it now. Damn!!!"
"Close to the Edge" is still one of my all-time favorite albums. Pick some dreary, cloudy, lazy afternoon......turn off the lights, lay back on your sofa, and give that album a listen from start to finish. You'll "get it" then.
Four words: "Tales of Topographic Oceans"
When I was about 12, there was a major rumor that Jon Bon Jovi went on MTV and announced that he was Gay.
'...turn me on, dead man...turn me on, dead man...'
Eldorado!
Basically, yes. But she was emotionally unprepared to handle fame and the pressures of show business, and that's why she took to drinking for awhile, IMO. She's still sweet and innocent on the inside, but she seems brittle and shell-shocked on the outside (to me, anyway). It makes me sad.
In the procession across the street, John represents the Preacher (or God), Ringo represents a Pall Bearer (or undertaker), Paul is the Deceased, and George is the Grave Digger.
Paul's eyes are closed and he is in his barefeet, both representative of a corpse.
Paul is out of step with the other Beatles - his right foot is forward, the others are leading with their left foot.
Paul is smoking with his right hand. Paul played the bass as a lefty. This shows that an imposter was brought in for the photograph.
An ambulance, or a morgue wagon, is parked on the right side of the street.
Those are from one of the sites. They also mention that Paul is in the trunk on the Yesterday and Today album, all the stuff from Sgt. Pepper, etc.
And of course there's the one about Frank Zappa winning a "gross out contest" with a fan onstage. I won't tell the tale but some here must have heard it.
For a particular style and time, he was.
That one's obviously false (or the number has been exaggerated over time). Twenty quarts is 640 ounces, or the equivalent of 53 bottles of beer. No stomach can hold that much.
Siberian Khatru!
But Jimi was the original, the others are copycats. Could they play better than Hendrix, maybe. But are they as original as Hendrix, hell no.
LOL......yeah......that album sucked. Still, "Close to the Edge" was an awesome piece of work. WAY ahead of its time.
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