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Yeah Baby! This is no shame Rock N Roll undiluted and sold under the counter!
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Here's the legend: ABC televised the 1973 California Jam which Emerson Lake and Palmer headlined(!) right after Purple (poor bastards). Supposedly, Purple specifically stated in the contract that they were to perform at or after sundown (presumably for the full effect of their light show). Well unlike most rock festivals, this one was ahead of schedule and Purple were asked to go on before sundown and Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore (known even then to be "temperamental") locked himself in his dressing room and refused to come out. The suits at ABC supposedly threatened to call the cops and have Blackmore arrested and Blackmore finally relented and went onstage but at the end of their set Blackmore took out his anger on an ABC camera and almost blew the whole damn stage up! He impulsively told his roadie to pour some gas into one of his amp heads and light it which he did with the results you see here! Supposedly ABC was livid and had the cops ready to arrest him after the show but the group was already arranged to leave the gig by helicopter, which they did and and made their way back to the hotel and then very quickly flew back overseas via regular airline thus avoiding the strong arm of the law!
Whew!...... Long story but part of Rock n Roll folklore! enjoy!
**First of all, this is a comedy bit! From the comedic genius of Cohen..(Borat) .Don't take it seriously,,,Cohen himself is jewish ...(hence the joke.....)
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I tip my hat to all the "heavy" bloggers in town who dare to cover the political scene....it is a serious and complicated task that they are undertaking and we need those sites. ThoughtCrime is (as if you hadn't noticed) dedicated to the more light-hearted events in our world,which to me, are just as important....having said that..the song "Peace Sells(But Who's Buying?" by Megadeth sums up ThoughtCrime's Political views....
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Man, Oprah Winfrey isn't having much luck with doctors lately, is she? First she had a plastic surgeon named Dr. Jan Adams guest on her show--the same scandal-ridden scalpel-man who later adminstered that fateful, allegedly fatal operation on Kanye West's mother, Donda. (This week's L.A. Coroner's report on Donda was inconclusive, by the way.) And now Oprah's longtime crony Dr. Phil McGraw is getting flak over his own involvement in an almost equally tragic hospital case, that of Britney Spears.
It all started innocently enough, when Spears family matriarch Lynne invited the tough-talking celebrity shrink to visit Britney at Cedars-Sinai last weekend, where the troubled pop star was being sequestered for observation after a bizarre child-custody standoff with police on January 3. Now, Mama Spears could have phoned up any professional in L.A.'s admittedly saturated mental-health market, but of course she just had to choose the one she'd seen on the tee-vee, the one famous for colorful colloquialisms like "you don't need tight-fitting pants to laminate your shirt" and "you don't need a porcupine to tickle a gypsy." (Okay, okay we admit we got those sayings from a funny time-wasting site called the "Dr. Phil Random Quote Generator" and that Dr. Phil never actually uttered those specific words...but you get our point.)
"The family basically extended an invitation of trust for him to come in as a resource to support them, not to go out and make public statements," an irate Lou said Wednesday on The Today Show. "Any statement publicly that he made, because he was brought in under this cloak of trust, [is] just inappropriate...he was not invited to make this part of a public display or part of the media."
Dr. Phil has since cancelled his (seemingly self-serving) plan to shoot a Britney-themed episode of his talk show, though he insists that the episode was originally her family's idea--a claim substantiated by Britney's own manager, Sam Lufti. In the doc's typical outspoken manner, Dr. Phil defended his controversial actions by declaring on Entertainment Tonight, "Somebody needs to step up and get this young woman into some quality care--and I do not apologize one whit, not one second, for trying to make that happen." Allrighty, then... (END)