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Man says he ate birds, turtles in 13 months adrift</h1>
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A Mexican castaway who identified himself as Jose Ivan and later told that his full name is Jose Salvador Albarengo walks with the help of a Majuro Hospital nurse in Majuro after a 22-hour boat ride from isolated Ebon Atoll on February 3, 2014. Jose was washed up on Ebon Atoll on January 30, 2014, and told his rescuers he set sail from Mexico for El Salvador in September 2012 and has been floating on the ocean ever since.</div>
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — It's a story that almost defies belief: A man leaves Mexico in December 2012 for a day of shark fishing and ends up surviving 13 months on fish, birds and turtles before washing ashore on the remote Marshall Islands some 5,500 miles (8,800 kilometers) away.</div>
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But that's what a man identifying himself as 37-year-old <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news%2Fworld&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Jose+Salvador+Alvarenga%22" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #08478d; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jose Salvador Alvarenga</a> told the U.S. ambassador in the Marshall Islands and the nation's officials during a 30-minute meeting Monday before he was taken to a local hospital for monitoring. Alvarenga washed ashore on the tiny atoll of Ebon in the Pacific Ocean last week before being taken to the capital, Majuro, on Monday.</div>
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"It's hard for me to imagine someone surviving 13 months at sea," said Ambassador <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news%2Fworld&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Tom+Armbruster%22" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #08478d; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tom Armbruster</a> in Majuro. "But it's also hard to imagine how someone might arrive on Ebon out of the blue. Certainly this guy has had an ordeal, and has been at sea for some time."</div>
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Other officials were reacting cautiously to the Spanish-speaking man's story while they try to piece together more information.</div>
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If true, the man's ordeal would rank among the greatest tales ever of survival at sea.</div>
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Mexico's Foreign Relations Department says the man told Mexico's Ambassador to the Philippines, <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news%2Fworld&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Julio+Camarena%22" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #08478d; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Julio Camarena</a>, that he set out from an area near the coastal town of Tonala in southern Chiapas state, which would mean his journey covered a distance of more than 6,500 miles (10,460 kilometers), if he drifted in a straight line.</div>
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Armbruster said the soft-spoken man complained of joint pain Monday and had a limp but was able to walk. He had long hair and a beard, the ambassador said, and rather than appearing emaciated he looked puffy in places, including around his ankles. Otherwise, he added, Alvarenga seemed in reasonable health.</div>
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Armbruster, who speaks Spanish, said the survivor told the following story:</div>
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He's a native of El Salvador but had lived in Mexico for 15 years and fishes for a man he knows as Willie, catching sharks for 25 pesos ($1.90) per pound.</div>
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On Dec. 21, 2012, Alvarenga left Mexico in his 23-foot (7-meter) fiberglass boat for a day's fishing, accompanied by a teen he knew only as Ezekiel, who was between 15 and 18.</div>
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A storm blew the fishermen off course, and soon they were lost and adrift.</div>
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"He talked about scooping up little fish that swam alongside the boat and eating them raw," Armbruster said. "He also said he ate birds, and drank birds' blood."</div>
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After about a month, Ezekiel died, the survivor told officials.</div>
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Alvarenga also talked about eating turtles. Once near Ebon, he swam ashore.</div>
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"He thanked God, initially, that he had survived," the ambassador said. "He's very anxious to get back in touch with his employer, and also with the family of Ezekiel. That's his driving motivation at the moment."</div>
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Armbruster said the man said he had no family in Mexico but he does have three brothers who live in the U.S., although he could not immediately provide officials with contact details. The Mexican government also quoted the man as saying he had no family in Mexico.</div>
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Gee Bing, the acting secretary of foreign affairs for the Marshall Islands, said he was somewhat skeptical of Alvarenga's account after meeting with him Monday.</div>
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"It does sound like an incredible story, and I'm not sure if I believe his story," Bing said. "When we saw him, he was not really thin compared to other survivors in the past. I may have some doubts. Once we start communicating with where he's from, we'll be able to find out more information."</div>
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Bing said the man had no identification with him, and other details of his story remained sketchy. Camarena said Alvarenga gave his hometown as Garita Palmera, in El Salvador's Ahuachapan province. Mexico said it was coordinating with the Salvadoran government to provide assistance to the man.</div>
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The survivor's vital signs appeared good except that his blood pressure was a bit low, Bing said. After doctors give him the all-clear, Bing said, officials hope to repatriate him to Mexico or whatever country is appropriate.</div>
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"The way that the currents in the Pacific work is that there is a very strong westerly current just north of the equator and that basically drives you directly from Mexico all the way toward Indonesia and in the path, you go right over the Marshall Islands," he said.</div>
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There have been other cases of people surviving for months adrift in the Pacific. In a case with similarities, three Mexican shark fishermen in 2006 said they were lost at sea for nine months before being rescued near the Marshall Islands. In 1989, four men survived nearly four months in the Pacific Ocean near New Zealand after their multi-hulled boat capsized.</div>
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Associated Press writer <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news%2Fworld&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Rod+McGuirk%22" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #08478d; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rod McGuirk</a> in Canberra, Australia, contributed to this report.</div>
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Jack White and Neil Young: collaborate for covers album?</h1>
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Sources claim the musicians have finished work on an LP which includes songs by some of the artist's favourite songwriters<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/14/neil-young-canada-conservative-government-alberta-tar-sands" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">• Neil Young: Canada's Conservative government exploit Alberta tar sands</a><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/dec/09/neil-young-crazy-horse-hyde-park" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">• Neil Young and Crazy Horse headline British Summer Time Hyde Park</a></div>
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Yesterday, journalist Michael Goldberg <a href="http://www.daysofthecrazy-wild.com/exclusive-neil-young-and-jack-white-collaborate-for-new-covers-album/" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">wrote that he had</a> "confirmed" a story on the Neil Young fan-site <a href="http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2013/12/crazy-horse-reschedules-europe-concerts.html" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Thrasher's Wheat</a>, alleging that Young had recorded a full-length at White's Third Man headquarters in Nashville. "It is an album of covers," wrote a correspondent <a href="http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2013/12/crazy-horse-reschedules-europe-concerts.html" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">called Scott</a>. "I anticipate this will be a very big seller ... It should be out sometime in the new year."</div>
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According to Goldberg, Young didn't merely use White's studio: the two men made "[the] entire album together". The prospective tracklist allegedly features music such as Bob Dylan's Blowin' In The Wind, Tim Hardin's Reason To Believe, Phil Ochs' Changes, Gordon Lightfoot's Early Morning Rain and Ivory Joe Hunter's Since I Met You Baby. It's also likely to incorporate a version of Needle Of Death, by the late Bert Jansch, which Young covered <a href="http://www.uncut.co.uk/watch-neil-young-cover-bert-jansch-in-jack-whites-third-man-recording-booth-news" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">last spring</a>.</div>
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Both reports speculate that the album is a co-release by Young's label, Warner Bros, and White's Third Man Records. Third Man are well known for their colourful, collectable vinyl releases; even if Warner is taking charge of CD and digital sales, White's company might press a limited edition series of 7ins, 10ins or 12ins for fans.</div>
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In an <a href="http://imgur.com/s7eIi33" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">online chat</a> earlier this month, Jack White said that he was currently working on two different albums. "I'm producing two [records] this month, and finishing them," he wrote. "One of them is mine." The singer's first solo LP, Blunderbuss, was released in 2012, and White has recently released a new single with <a href="http://www.antimusic.com/news/14/January/16The_Dead_Weather_Go_Crazy_on_New_Song_Rough_Detective.shtml" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">his band Dead Weather</a>.</div>
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Young is currently on tour playing benefit concerts in opposition to the<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/14/neil-young-canada-conservative-government-alberta-tar-sands" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Alberta tar sands</a>.</div>
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If you’re like most readers of the Van Halen News Desk, you grew up listening to Van Halen most of your life, and when you were a kid you wished you were David Lee Roth. (Or was it Eddie? Or Alex? Or Michael? All four? Thought so!). And when scouring through the rock magazines at your local record store, or perhaps when reading Dave’s autobiography, you read that, in between Van Halen’s world tours, David Lee Roth would go off exploring the world with some kindred spirits he called the “Jungle Studs”. But did you ever think you’d actually see <em>video footage</em> of those Jungle Studs adventures? Thanks to the latest episode of The Roth Show, now you can!<br />
In this episode, your host, David Lee Roth, shares some stories and his video footage from his trip to the Highland Jungles of New Guinea in late ’84.<br />
There’s so much more to Dave besides being our favorite rock ‘n’ roll frontman. He’s always been a true adventurer… a traveler, not a tourist. This particular trip involved Dave, his girlfriend Kelly, his buddies Skip and John, and an interpreter. The few things they needed were in backpacks. The objective was to forget every-day life and the modern world for weeks at a time and just experience nature.<br />
All those tales, and then he tells a joke at the end wearing a bunny suit. What more do you want?<br />
Thanks to Dave and his team for putting these together.<br />
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While it would’ve been nice to know <em>before</em> that 28-song benefit tribute album came out, it’s still very heartening to learn that <strong>Bruce Springsteen</strong> is quite a fan of beloved <a href="http://www.startribune.com/topics/places/minneapolis.html" style="color: #0b478d; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Minneapolis</a> rocker <strong>Bob “Slim” Dunlap</strong>.</div>
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The Boss raved about the homebound ex-<strong>Replacements</strong> guitarist in a <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2014/01/14/262485987/a-long-road-to-high-hopes-an-interview-with-bruce-springsteen" style="color: #0b478d; text-decoration: none;">lengthy interview</a> with National Public Radio correspondent and veteran music scribe <strong>Ann Powers</strong>. That lines up with a prior USA Today feature, <a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2008-02-27-springsteen_N.htm" style="color: #0b478d; text-decoration: none;">“What Is the Boss Listening To?,”</a> which shows Springsteen’s personal iPod playlist includes Dunlap’s classic hometown tribute, “Hate This Town.”</div>
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While talking about some of his current favorites in music to Powers (<strong>Jason Isbell, Gaslight Anthem</strong> and <strong>Arcade Fire</strong>came up), Bruce referred back to Dunlap’s two solo albums, “The Old New Me” and “Times Like This,” which came out in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He seemed vaguely aware of the severe stroke that has kept Dunlap out of commission for almost two years now.</div>
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<em><strong>Springsteen:</strong> Slim Dunlap, Slim Dunlap is fantastic. He was a part of the Replacements and he made two fabulous rock records that were just really, deeply soulful and beautiful.</em></div>
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<em><strong>Powers: </strong>I think he had a stroke not long ago.</em></div>
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<em><strong>Springsteen:</strong> Yeah I don’t know what his health condition is at the moment but I know some folks were cutting some things of his. I hope I get a chance to cut one of his songs because he’s, it’s just, this stuff, check out the two Slim Dunlap records because they’re just so beautiful, they’re just beautiful rock ‘n’ roll records. I found them to be deeply touching and emotional.</em></div>
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No doubt, former ‘Mats manager <strong>Peter Jesperson</strong> and the rest of the New West Records staff will resume the <a href="http://www.songsforslim.com/" style="color: #0b478d; text-decoration: none;">“Songs for Slim” singles series</a> should Bruce really cut one of Dunlap’s songs – or Bruce can cover him anyway he chooses. In the meantime, you can take his word for it and still buy those albums via <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=slim%20dunlap&sprefix=slim+d%2Cpopular&rh=i%3Apopular%2Ck%3Aslim%20dunlap" style="color: #0b478d; text-decoration: none;">Amazon</a> and <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/slim-dunlap/id305782099" style="color: #0b478d; text-decoration: none;">iTunes</a>, or in most local indie record stores. The new and previously raved-about “Songs for Slim” tribute compilation is also widely available, with the likes of <strong>Jeff Tweedy, Lucinda Williams, Frank Black, Jakob Dylan, Steve Earle, Patterson Hood</strong> and <strong>Craig Finn</strong> covering songs from those records.</div>
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In other love-for-Slim news, another tribute series has started up locally called <a href="http://slimtownsingles.com/portfolio-item/the-mad-ripple/" style="color: #0b478d; text-decoration: none;">“Slim Town Singles,”</a>which thus far features new original tunes written about Dunlap. The second track, “Sworn Member of the Slim Dunlap,” just posted this week by the <strong>Mad Ripple</strong>, aka local writer <strong>Jim Walsh</strong>(coincidentally an Ann Powers cohort). Here's a stream of that one. You can be sure we'll post Bruce's song as soon as it becomes available.</div>
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<strong style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;">Americans advocate repeal of Third Amendment</strong><br style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;" /><strong style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;">Steve Watson & Paul Watson</strong><br style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;" />Infowars.com<br style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;" />January 13, 2014</div>
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Illustrating once again how many Americans’ knowledge of the Bill of Rights is virtually non-existent, Californians signed a petition to repeal the Third Amendment and allow U.S. troops to commandeer their homes.</div>
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The unbelievable footage was captured recently in California by activist prankster Mark Dice, a regular Infowars contributor.</div>
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Dice managed to persuade several passers by to sign their names up for scrapping the Third Amendment, which states “No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.”</div>
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“We want to repeal the Third Amendment to keep the housing prices down for the military folks… just support Obama and support the troops.” Dice told one passer by who then eagerly signed his name.</div>
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“These military folks are clean and orderly people, so they won’t dirty up your house too much whilst we eliminate the Third Amendment and you can quarter them in your house if they just want to come in.” Dice told another man who was signing up without question.</div>
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“They (soldiers) can choose what house they want to live in, maybe in your house or anybody’s house really.” Dice told another woman who signed her name. “That whole not quartering troops during peacetime, Third Amendment is just kinda unfair, right?” he asked the befuddled woman.</div>
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The Third Amendment, introduced by James Madison as part of the Bill of Rights in 1789, was a direct response to Quartering Acts passed by the British government during the Revolutionary War. The British legislation would have allowed British troops to live in the private residences of Americans. The Amendment was adopted on March 1, 1792.</div>
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“By repealing the Third Amendment we could increase their housing options. Maybe they could do some house sitting and things in a house that they choose.” Dice ludicrously explained to a young couple who signed their names. “We’re just trying to modernise the Bill Of Rights,” Dice added as they laughed and agreed.</div>
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Two other young women simply agreed with everything Dice said even though most of it was nonsense. “They should be able to come into your house and they can quarter there forever if they want to.” Dice stated, as the women both replied “oh yeah definitely” and “I agree”.</div>
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Other people didn’t seem to understand what the term “Third Amendment” even meant.</div>
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Dice has now successfully managed to get Americans to agree to repeal the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpHOaW99ST4" style="color: #0066cc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">First</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2diNojgJF9c" style="color: #0066cc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Second</a>, Third, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrCbHYggdfY" style="color: #0066cc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Fourth </a>,<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py8C51yvAJY" style="color: #0066cc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Fifth</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApskzEmCX9I" style="color: #0066cc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Sixth and Seventh</a> Amendments, as well as the entire<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=k0he0cqHH20" style="color: #0066cc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"> Bill Of Rights</a>.</div>
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"ROWDY" RODDY PIPER TALKS ABOUT HANDING HIS NICKNAME OVER TO RONDA ROUSEY</h1>
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<em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">More than 30 minutes into a conversation I had recently with “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, the legendarily<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IvStbwQSOE" style="color: black; cursor: pointer !important; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bubblegum-deficient</a> <a href="http://youtu.be/OiH4V2AwVo8?t=1m29s" style="color: black; cursor: pointer !important; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pro-wrestling villain</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9rrgJXfLns" style="color: black; cursor: pointer !important; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">actor,</a> and occasional singer said the most ridiculous thing to me:</em></div>
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<em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">“And now I must be boring you.”</em></div>
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<em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">Hot Rod had just regaled me with over half an hour’s worth of stories about his adventures and misadventures as a wrestler, competitive bagpipe player, and human being. He’d talked about recording and performing his new charity single, <a href="http://youtu.be/zedsgI6msb4" style="color: black; cursor: pointer !important; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“Step Off The Top Rope,”</a> with members of The E Street Band, bragged about his children (including his MMA-fighting son <a href="http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Colt-Toombs-44504" style="color: black; cursor: pointer !important; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Colt Toombs</a>), and told me stories that blew my wrestling-loving mind. Like the time “Classy” Freddie Blassie stuffed six feet of toilet paper into the chanter of Piper’s bagpipes and blew the young wrestler’s first gig with Vince McMahon Sr. at Madison Square Garden. And the time Big Boss Man and Mr. Perfect saved his life after he got trapped on the eighth-floor window ledge of a Miami hotel with his friend and fellow wrestler Kerry Von Erich. And the time that he accidentally kicked Cyndi Lauper during a match and scared the bejeezus out of guest ring announcer Dick Clark.</em></div>
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<em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">Never, for one second, did I find Piper boring.</em></div>
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<em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">And, after assuring him that that was the case, I pressed him for one more story. As a fan of his and a fan of MMA, I wanted to know about the time UFC bantamweight women’s champion Ronda Rousey and her coach <a href="http://fightland.vice.com/blog/roots-of-fight-brings-us-the-story-of-judo-gene-lebell--mma-pioneer-and-terrifying-old-man" style="color: black; cursor: pointer !important; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gene Lebell</a> called him and asked for permission to use the nickname “Rowdy.” </em><em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">I’m just going to go ahead and share his answer in its entirety. Far be it from me to attempt to improve on the storytelling prowess of the original Rowdy one.</em></div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Roddy Piper:</strong> I was trained by, at the time, the toughest man in the world. Not according to him, either. His name is “Judo” Gene Lebell and he trained Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris. He’s the godfather of MMA. He’s about 80 years old. He still has a dojo in Burbank. When I was 17, 18 years old [wrestling] in the Olympic Auditorium, I ran into him. I was getting beat up pretty good and he took me under his wing. </div>
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So then maybe a year ago-ish (my timing’s not great), Ronda and Gene called me. She was so, so excited and so beautiful, saying, “Would you mind? I’ll make you proud and I’m giving it everything you got.” And I said, “You go, gal. You go!”</div>
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Somebody asked me, “What would you think if ‘Rowdy’ Ronda Rousey would become the face of the UFC?” I said I think it would be great. I think it would be a really great thing.</div>
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And “Judo” Gene Lebell, I don’t know if you know him. He got me in the very first movie I was in, too. He’s like my dad. I’ve been choked out many times by him.</div>
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If you want a quick story with Muhammad Ali: I’m in the Olympic Auditorium. I’m on the same card where<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE-eFoRU5_s" style="color: black; cursor: pointer !important; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Muhammad Ali fought the wrestler Antonio Inoki</a> and “Judo” Gene was the referee. And there’s a press conference, I think it was for the <em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">Wide World of Sports</em>, I’m not sure. Anyway, there’s all these sporting people, Ali’s in the ring. The announcer kind of does this “Oh, you’re on the card. What’s your name? Rod? Thank you, go sit down.” And being from Canada, I had my best three-piece corduroy suit on and I’m just sitting down there. And Muhammad Ali looks at me and he goes, “I want you.” And, literally, I turned around, because obviously there must be somebody else there! And he wanted me. And I got into the ring.</div>
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Muhammad Ali came straight at me and he locked up with me. And, I swear to God, I heard him say, “Hip toss.” And I hip tossed him. <em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">Womp!</em> And his shoe fell off. </div>
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And “Judo” Gene’s going, “What are you doing?!!”</div>
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Here’s what I think happened: Muhammad Ali was such a great man. He saw this skinny little kid just sitting there that needed a break and, right in the middle of everything, he just ... <em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">boom!--</em>gave me a rub. I’m up. He continued on. That’s a great man.</div>
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And nobody would believe me! I got beat up for this by “Judo” Gene every day for a month. And it’s hard to talk when you’re being choked out, like, “Honest! I swear!”</div>
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“Eh. You were just taking advantage of him.”</div>
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All right. I took my lickings for it.</div>
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And then, the first Wrestlemania, Muhammad Ali was the special referee. I said, “Last time I saw you, I threw you on your bum!” The whole Wrestlemania I saw his hands flying by me. He was just messing with me.</div>
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Silly scientists, Ozzy’s still alive because he’s a werewolf. We’ve known this since the ’80s. Elizabeth Scott writes on<a href="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Showbiz-News/Ozzy-Osbournes-Genes-Mapped-To-Find-Out-How-Hes-Still-Alive-After-Drink-And-Drug-Abuse/Article/201006215648812?lpos=Showbiz_News_Article_Body_Copy_Region_0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #cc0000; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sky News</a>:</div>
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Scientists are to map Ozzy Osbourne’s genetic code in a bid to find out how he is still alive after decades of drug and alcohol abuse.</div>
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The former Black Sabbath frontman is only one of a few people in the world to have his full genome analysed. It is hoped the results from the £27,000 test, which takes three months, will provide information on how drugs are absorbed in the body.</div>
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Ozzy, 61, has lived a life that would presumably kill any ordinary person. Even the singer himself cannot understand how he has survived this long, recently describing himself as a “medical miracle” after going on a “bender” for “40 years.”</div>
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</span>Many happy returns, Paul Westerberg. Somehow, you've been blessed (or cursed) to enter this world on one of the best dates for celebration -- of something else entirely. Today, most well-meaning and dyslexic-hearted folk have their cheeks rosy off 2013's last punch bowls of holiday cheer or just the frigid outdoor air. We'll forgive them for letting it go mostly unremarked that you were born on New Year's Eve in 1959, but here are a few words while the day is still upon us.<br /><br />And since Minnesotans come into this world with modest, steep-sloping shoulders, you shouldn't have any trouble shrugging off this short intrusion.<br /><br /><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">See Also: <a href="http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2013/12/the_replacements_2013_in_review.php" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #b80d12; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Replacements: 2013 in review</a></i><br /><a href="" name="more" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #b80d12; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a><br />As you turn 54, it's worth noting that your 53-year-old self proved a lot of people wrong, but even more folks correct. For all of the nattering about what condition you'd be in after a couple 'Mats-free decades, there were a lot of people quietly believing that the Replacements v. 4.0, or whatever we're on now, would be spectacular.<br /><br />In rock 'n' roll, every night onstage has the potential to become a riotous birthday party. So you got one in <a href="http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2013/08/the_replacements_at_riot_fest_reunion_2013_concert_review.php" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #b80d12; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Toronto</a>, one in <a href="http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2013/09/the_replacements_riot_fest_chicago_2013_concert_review.php" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #b80d12; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chicago</a>, and another in <a href="http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2013/09/the_replacements_riot_fest_denver_concert_review.php" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #b80d12; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Denver</a> already this year. Each featured you, Tommy, David, and Josh with your bells on. The shows even seemed to hit the wrong notes at the right times. Well done.<br /><br />But for the more-private days of this past year, there's the Paul Westerberg who has a lengthy resume line as "Songwriter." For that guy, who got a few column inches in <a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/simple-or-impossible/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #b80d12; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the New York Times</a> to explain how to "drain the 99 pieces of hooey" and got a band together for<i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Songs for Slim</i>, it's not as clear when a big fete should occur.<br /><br />Is it a solo moment when word hits page, or is it when you (or someone like you) records your melody and lyrics? Is it when a whole Frankenstein monster of an album gets stitched and glued together and shocked to life with a bolt of lightning? Or do you have to move 600,000 units in week one before there's cause for a toast?<br /><br />A brief argument for something else that has everything and nothing to do with Paul Westerberg: As long as there are gatherings -- of the swingin' 50,000 variety or just one person and their earbuds -- where even the crudest recordings of your turns of phrase and guitar tricks are enough to ignite the party, <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">that</i> is worth a hootenanny with sparkling trim and presents. 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</span>So, Happy Birthday, Paul Westerberg. Today might not mean much to you, and you might not want to let on if it does. But you can bet that your music will make the rounds, mostly without birthday fanfare, as one year is extinguished and a new one brightly ignites.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="420" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nQBEkzUAPG0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="560"></iframe></div>
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Musicians die young all the time. I mean, not nearly as often as the average Ke$ha song would have you believe, but still, it happens. If we're continuing what I've decided is the "logic" from the previous sentence, it should stand to reason that, if so many musicians have been cut down in their prime, there must have been way more who <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">almost</i> died before they had a chance to shine.</div>
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In fact, that is not only true, but true of some of the biggest names in music history. For example ...</div>
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#5. Aerosmith Almost Rented the Plane That Killed Lynyrd Skynyrd</h2>
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Sometime in early 1977, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">really</i> wanted to rent one particular plane, a Convair CV-300, to use while touring that summer. Despite lots of pressure from Aerosmith's No. 1 and No. 2 in command, cooler (and likely less coke-addled) heads were called in to inspect the plane before any final decision was made. Not only was the plane itself declared unsafe, but the pilot and co-pilot were allegedly spotted passing a bottle of Jack Daniel's back and forth as the craft was being prepped for a flight. Needless to say, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry were finally convinced and passed on the plane.</div>
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As the old saying goes, one man's trash is another man's seemingly reasonable means with which to travel to Baton Rouge. That's exactly where Lynyrd Skynyrd was headed just a few months later on that same plane that Aerosmith had just rejected during a rare 1970s moment of clarity. As most of us know by now, the plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed, killing several band members, including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant.</div>
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In an eerie twist, the band had just released an unfortunately titled album, <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Street Survivors</i>, with an even more unfortunate album cover photo:</div>
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When I set out to write this entry, the premise was simply to point out how dangerously close Aerosmith came to being the band flying on that ill-fated plane. Instead, I'm going to put forth what I assume will be a slightly more controversial thought on the matter. Here goes: I think Aerosmith <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">should</i> have been on that plane. And no, I don't say that because of what they did to the good name of Super Bowl halftime shows a few years ago.</div>
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I say it solely because of what it would have done for their status as a band. At the time of the crash, they were hot on the heels of releasing what are still considered four of the most perfect rock albums ever (<i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aerosmith</i>, <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Get Your Wings</i>, <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Toys in the Attic</i>, and <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rocks</i>). They've had plenty of time to fuck it up in the years since, but with those first four albums, Aerosmith became rock royalty. If that was all we knew of their work, it would be nearly impossible to argue against Aerosmith as the hands down greatest American rock band of all time.</div>
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That said, especially observant fans of the 'Smith (I bet no one calls them that) have probably noted that, in the timeline I'm working with here, there's a fifth, slightly less impressive Aerosmith album to talk about. Yeah, I know there is, and it only makes for an even stronger argument that God or fate or whatever you choose to call it <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wanted</i> Aerosmith on that plane.</div>
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For starters, the album in question is called <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Draw the Line</i>. Let's say, theoretically, that Tyler and Perry (heh!) ignored their crew's anecdote about the pilots pounding pre-flight whiskey and insisted on renting the plane anyway, only to have it crash and kill everyone inside. There would be no end to the hidden meanings people would attach to a title like "Draw the Line" when taken in the context of a hard-living rock band that died too soon. You could pontificate for days about it maybe being a reference to cutting a line of cocaine or an unintentionally prescient prediction that this album was going to be their last.</div>
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It's one of the most perfect career trajectories a band can have: a small body of mostly solid work, and then get out before you get old and start to suck.</div>
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Meanwhile, Lynyrd Skynyrd has been together and touring and making albums this whole time. Not even a plane crash that killed half the band could stop them. Did you know that? Do you think you'd know that if Ronnie Van Zant didn't die? Probably not, because a band like Lynyrd Skynyrd isn't going to even bother with trying to stay mainstream. Eventually, they blend into the background with all of the other "touring bands" of the world and life goes on. Their lineup barely matters, there's some random Van Zant brother on lead vocals, and who cares, you know? They sound good enough for state fair purposes or whatever. Would not taking that plane have changed the Lynyrd Skynyrd story? Probably not. The crash itself barely changed Lynyrd Skynyrd. They were always going to turn out to be the band they were going to be.</div>
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As for Aerosmith, choosing not to rent that plane only cost them the rare chance to be regarded as one of the most perfect rock bands ever.</div>
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If you need any more proof that some sort of <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Final Destination</i> switch got flipped in the wrong order, ultimately saving Aerosmith and killing Lynyrd Skynyrd in error instead, check out that famous Lynyrd Skynyrd cover again, this time side by side with Aerosmith's <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Draw the Line</i>:</div>
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So, having the facts that we do now, which album cover and title implies that one band just narrowly escaped death by plane crash and which one implies that, for some reason, the band wasn't available to be photographed (perhaps because they'd all just met a fiery demise)? Right, Skynyrd is surrounded by fire and debris, but they're also clean as a whistle and unhurt, not to mention standing. This plane did not kill Lynyrd Skynyrd. They survived.</div>
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At least they would have if Aerosmith had just gotten on that plane like death clearly wanted them to.</div>
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#4. Kurt Cobain Almost Died a Few Months After <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nevermind</i> Came Out</h2>
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What? Kurt Cobain almost died young? Get the fuck out of here!</div>
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I know, it's not going to blow anyone's mind to learn that, shortly after Nirvana's first performance on <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Saturday Night Live</i> in January 1992, Kurt Cobain <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavier_Than_Heaven" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0657af; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">nearly died as the result of an overdose of heroin</a>. It's probably the heroin part that takes even more sting out of the surprise. I mean, it would be one thing if he also shot himself in 1992 and just did such a terrible job that he was able to go on performing as if nothing had happened. Now <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">that</i> would be a story, right? Alas, this is just a dude who did lots of heroin accidentally taking too much heroin. It happens all the time.</div>
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That said, what would the Nirvana legacy be if Kurt Cobain had died that night? Take the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, for example. They're being inducted with the 2014 class. They made it in on their first year of eligibility. Would that be the case if all the world knew of Nirvana was <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nevermind</i>? Sure, that was a pretty significant album, so they'd get in eventually. Probably not on the first try, though. The Sex Pistols only released one valid album, and as a result it took at least five or six years of eligibility before the hall finally gave John Lydon another reason to write a snarky letter like some kind of badass.</div>
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That said, who fucking cares about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame anyway? Still, if the Nirvana story had ended that January night in 1992, a lot of the things that helped the band build their legend would be missing. Their last (and arguably best) studio album, <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In Utero</i>, would be no more, taking with it songs like "All Apologies" and "Heart-Shaped Box."</div>
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Also, that legendary <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MTV Unplugged</i> performance never would have happened.</div>
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Oh! And Kurt Cobain never would have gotten around to putting a shotgun in his mouth. Once you take all of those fascinating details out of the Nirvana story, you're left with one album that, while still respected as one of the best ever, has (rightfully) taken a bit of a <a href="http://www.stereogum.com/5643/wayne_coyne_cuts_into_nevermind_with_laserpointer/news/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0657af; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="c">revisionist bashing from critics</a> for sounding way more like an over-produced corporate rock album than the "revolution" it started might have made it seem at the time. That's not a strong argument for Nirvana retaining their status as one of the most important bands of the '90s if all of their other accomplishments are stripped away.</div>
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I'm not saying he'd be the guy from Sublime if he died in early 1992, but <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rolling Stone</i> probably wouldn't have called Kurt Cobain <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/in-utero-19930916" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0657af; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">his generation's John Lennon either</a>.</div>
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#3. Jamaican Authorities Tried to Shoot Down a Plane Carrying Bono in 1996</h2>
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A plane carrying both Jimmy Buffett <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and</i> Bono was nearly shot down by Jamaican authorities who'd mistaken the craft for one used by drug smugglers. Jimmy Buffett covered the incident at length in his song "Jamaica Mistaica" ...</div>
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... which is exactly why I don't know all the details. I'm not learning shit if it means having to listen to an entire Jimmy Buffett song. I did <a href="http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/bono-recalls-terrifying-day-police-shot-at-him-28493741.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0657af; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">round up this quote from Bono</a> about the incident:</div>
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<i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I don't know how we came through it. These boys were shooting all over the place. I felt as if we were in the middle of a James Bond movie -- only this was real. It was absolutely terrifying and I honestly thought we were all going to die. Thank God we were safe and sound. My only concern was for their safety. It was very scary, let me tell you. You can't believe the relief I felt when I saw the kids were OK."</i></div>
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This would have been especially inopportune timing for Bono because, in 1996, U2 was at one of their lowest points creatively and commercially. Their 1997 album <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pop</i> was kind of a shitburger, and the ensuing tour (PopMart) was too, except with a giant silver lemon on top.</div>
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Still, at least both were deemed good enough to bear the U2 name, which is more than can be said for <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Original Soundtracks 1</i>, an album the band recorded prior to <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pop</i> that was so blatantly awful, they decided to release it under the fake band name Passengers so as to prevent fans from ever hearing it.</div>
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They say you're only as good as your last album, and that meant Bono was about to die a critical and commercial failure. Sure, time would have been kind and looked back on the stuff he did fondly, but with the specter of stuff like <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zooropa</i> and <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pop</i> hanging over the final chapter of the U2 legacy, would we have been more likely to mourn what we lost, or be thankful that we never got to see just how sad and desperate a formerly great band can get?</div>
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Instead, Bono lived and U2 mounted one of the most massively successful comebacks in rock history. By wisely shedding all of the electronic bloops and blippity-bleeps of their past two albums and returning to just playing instruments in a recording studio like a normal band, U2 managed to put together one of their greatest albums ever, a late-career gem called<i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All That You Can't Leave Behind</i>. You probably remember it as "that one with the song about having a beautiful day on it."</div>
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Not only did that album restore some much needed credibility to the U2 name, it probably extended the band's career by at least 20 years. Bono may not know how to open his mouth in public without annoying 98 percent of the people around him, but damn if he doesn't know how to capitalize on a second chance.</div>
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Shane MacGowan has insisted classic Christmas track Fairytale Of New York would have flopped without Kirsty MacColl.</div>
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The Pogues frontman also admitted he used to get depressed when he sang the tune after her tragic death.</div>
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But Shane said he sees Fairytale Of New York as a tribute to the 54-year-old English star, who died in a tragic accident in Mexico 13 years ago yesterday.</div>
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He added: “I’m very grateful to Christ and his Holy Mother and Joseph and all the saints, including my family who have passed on, for the success of Fairytale.</div>
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“And I was very grateful to Kirsty MacColl – I don’t think it would have been such a big hit without her contribution.</div>
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“And, of course, I was grateful to the group, it was a very happy time for us when the song came out.</div>
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“It’s a good song – it’s a great song – I’d never get tired of it.</div>
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“But I can’t really get excited about it any more and for a while it used to depress me to sing it after Kirsty died but now I think of it as a tribute to her.”</div>
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But the hellraiser, 55, who will appear on Coronation Street tomorrow, revealed the song was nearly called Christmas Day In The Drunk Tank.</div>
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The Irish icon added: “The title came from the JP Donleavy novel A Fairytale Of New York. Elvis Costello liked the lyrics, particularly the bit about Christmas Eve in the drunk tank.</div>
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“So he said, ‘Why don’t you call it Christmas Day In The Drunk Tank?’</div>
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“I said, ‘What a ridiculous idea’. Everybody just burst out laughing.</div>
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“In the song, the couple go to Broadway because Broadway was where you made it in New York if you were a singer.</div>
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“But the story could apply to any couple with big dreams who found themselves down on their luck.”</div>
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Shane, who will earn more than €500,000 in royalties from the track this year, believes Irish emigrants can still relate to it.</div>
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He added: “I think the story is one that has not really changed for the new generation of Irish people emigrating to New York.</div>
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“It’s still a nasty place to grow old. It’s a novelty at first but in the end it’s a very tough place.”</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WHEN the Pogues perform their classic 1985 album, <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rum, Sodomy & the Lash</i>, in its entirety this week over four gigs, it will be significant in that they will mark the group’s first performances since the sad death of guitarist Philip Chevron last October.</strong></div>
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It’s fitting in a way that, in <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.irishpost.co.uk/entertainment/pogues-guitarist-philip-chevron-passes-away-following-cancer-battle" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-property: color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #004276; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">marking Chevron’s death, the band has retreated into their past</a></strong>and back to the period of that seminal 1985 album.</div>
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<i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rum, Sodomy and the Lash</i> featured a mix of originals and standards such as Ewan MacColl’s<i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dirty Old Town</i>, which the Pogues popularised for a new generation. Their vital original songs also would become standards in their own right. When accordion player James Fearnley first heard <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Pair Of Brown Eyes</i> he realised Shane MacGowan’s songwriting had shifted gear.</div>
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“Musically that song had a timeless eternal vibe,” Fearnley tells me down the line from his home in LA. “I really enjoyed the chords; it felt like there was a circular motion about the chord progression. The vocal melody was sublime and there was this instrumental section which had a real purity about it. I found that very appealing.</div>
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“Against that music you have lyrics which I found difficult to track, they were almost counter to the music and that was very exciting. He (MacGowan) would smash up an image in shards and rearrange it as a way to find the story. I love the way you have Shane as narrator and how he gets through the story of the song. There’s a jaded irony about it where he’s making light out of dismemberment and the horrors of war; I always like that about Shane’s songs-they pack an extra punch because he holds back the punch.”</div>
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The video for <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Pair of Brown Eyes</i>, directed by Alex Cox (<i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sid & Nancy</i>), was said to be comment on a totalitarian government and the politics of Thatcher. While the band were political, they stayed away from writing about the Troubles in the North of Ireland directly, which were rife during the period. At the same time they were unashamedly Irish when there was open racism and a sense of “keeping your head down” because of IRA activity.</div>
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James Fearnley of The Pogues</div>
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“For us in the beginning, I don’t think we were overly careful but what we were doing was just telling stories about people, most of the songs on that album were to do with individuals and how they cope with how difficult or exciting life can be… or how much you can drink,” says Fearnley.</div>
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“As far as I could see we weren’t espousing anything up until <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six</i>(from <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If I should Fall From Grace With God</i>). At that point it became important to espouse something and even then it was about individuals rather than a political statement. But that was one of the most political songs we ever did and I think it helped their situation and brought their ordeal into the public mind in a different way. It was also a gesture of support for people who had been banged up in prison wrongly.”</div>
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<i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rum, Sodomy and the Lash</i> was produced by Elvis Costello. Fearnley’s memoir, <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here Comes Everybody,</i> is awash with absorbing anecdotes of his impact as a producer and, in particular, Shane MacGowan’s fascination with Costello’s guitar which he both coveted and loathed.</div>
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“It became a sort of vocal point for Shane,” remembers Fearnley. “It came across to me that when Elvis gave him the guitar he had Elvis where he wanted him. He (MacGowan) was conflicted about being given it – he didn’t want it to be: ‘my songwriting I bequeath to you in the form of this guitar’; it wasn’t even a great guitar, it was a crap (laughing). They were horrible looking things with plastic backs but there seemed to be some added significance to Shane being given this guitar, there was obviously some inner conflict for him in wanting to break it.</div>
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“It was a big thrill to work with Elvis,” adds Fearnley. “I had been a fan since 1977, I went to see him live around the time of <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My Aim Is True</i>. I loved his stuff around that period so to have one of your heroes in the studio wanting to work with you was fantastic.”</div>
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In the early 1980s, MacGowan would gather his friends around the bars at Euston railway station before boarding the boat train to Holyhead for the ferry to Dun Laoghaire. The legendary drinking sessions served as inspiration for the album’s second single, <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sally MacLennane</i>, said Fearnley.</div>
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Shane MacGowan</div>
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“I was always a little envious of Shane, it was almost this ritualistic thing where he’d get stocious and his friends would put him on the train to Ireland,” says Fearnley. “A lot from that song had also come from being a barman himself at the Great Ormond Street hospital bar. He knew about watering whiskey down from that I’m sure.”</div>
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It was on Rum, Sodomy… tour that Glasgow became a stronghold for the band, recalls Fearnley. “It’s hard to distinguish many of those nights up at Barrowlands,” he says. “The first time we played, it was palpable, the emotion in that place, it was the first really big gig that we did by ourselves playing in front of 2,000 people. I’d certainly never played in front of that many before so it felt big right from the start.</div>
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“Because of the make-up of Glasgow and the sectarian division reflected in the football teams, there was an intensity about it in any case, but for Jock Stein to have died the day before we played, it was even more so. There was often a convergence of elements and vectors in Glasgow.</div>
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“There was another time where Celtic had beaten Rangers, it was also St Patrick’s Day, you can’t ignore those convergences. I used to get a little bit scared by them. I never invested in football or the divide, I’ve always thought myself immune or maybe ignorant, it was not something I spent much time thinking about although there was a demand to think about it playing with The Pogues and getting to know Shane. I got to understanding the history as much as I could.”</div>
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A number of negative elements affected the band on tour. In West Berlin fascist skin-heads marked Hitler’s birthday by giving Nazi salutes during a small club gig. Former bass player Cait O’ Riordan confronted them but inflamed the situation. It was left for Philip Chevron to stop a riot breaking out.</div>
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“Fair play to Cait,” says Fearnley. “On a visceral level she was outraged as one should justifiably be at Nazi salutes on Hitler’s birthday at any gig, never mind ours. But she didn’t have skills that you need to pull on in those situations. Philip was a consummate performer and a people person, he was able to figure the best way of turning attention away from what those guys were up to and brought it back to what we were doing. Both desires came from the same place. I’m not going to knock Cait for what she did but Philip had the right idea to reframe things and say what was important and it worked.”</div>
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Philip Chevron passed away in October</div>
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The forthcoming gigs will significantly be <a href="http://www.irishpost.co.uk/entertainment/pogues-guitarist-philip-chevron-passes-away-following-cancer-battle" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-property: color; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #004276; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the first since the guitarist’s passing</strong></a>. For the band it’s a chance to grieve and say a final farewell.</div>
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“There is going to be a huge void on stage to not have Philip, there’s been void since he died.<i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thousands Are Sailing</i> is an indispensable song for us. To play that would be my way of saying goodbye to Philip. I couldn’t come over for the funeral and I wasn’t able to go to the testimonial gig in August so I’m due some grieving basically. That song was always a way maker for some transitions in my life. I’m so eager to be able to send Philip off by playing his song, that’s what I want to do above anything else because The Pogues has been a family to me for many years.</div>
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“Philip had a great talent, he could write from such an intimate place within him. He made you feel he was writing about you. Just recently I was remixing <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Peace and Love</i> with Steve Lillywhite and when we got to <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lorelei</i> we got to hear Philip’s vocal at the same time as Kirsty’s (MacColl) voice solo, it was tear inducing for both me and Steve to hear those two voices saying we’ll never hear those again, it was a very powerful experience.”</div>
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“I’m not sure that all that many people are aware of the song in the States (where Fearnley now lives),” he says. “In the UK it’s become a national institution but it operates outside the stratagem of regular Christmas songs. We hold our own beloved and contentious place elsewhere, it’s not part of the Wham and Slade type of thing; it’s elbowed its way into its own little compartment as far as Christmas songs go.</div>
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“Fairytale… is one of those indestructible type of songs; it’s weird hearing it in a shopping centre in England because the words get lost a bit and it tends to sound jollier than it is.”</div>
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There can’t be many drinking institutions around the U.K where Shane MacGowan hasn’t enjoyed a beverage while on tour, he’ll visit one of the most famous this Christmas propping up the Rovers Return while performing a restyled version of the song; Fairytale of Weatherfield when appearing in <i style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Coronation Street</i> on December 20.</div>
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“It will be interesting to see what he does in it, I heard he’s going to appear and I’m looking forward to it. It’s weird for me because my dad used to be friends with Doris Speed who played Annie Walker the landlady at the Rovers it feels odd that Shane is in my territory of Manchester; I’m eager to see it.”</div>
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“I think this sounds trite but there’s truth in it that if you know people who you have went through some intense experiences with, it’s like sharing the same territory as members of a family. There are enduring relationships that I couldn’t escape even if I wanted to with some of them. I’ve had a more problematic relationship with Shane than I have with many people, it might not have been the same for Shane but I can’t speak for him (laughing).</div>
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“It’s like the bonkers, f**ked up brother that you have to try and deal with but you can’t let him go. We did in 1991 of course but they (The Pogues) are in my life whether I like it or not. The stuff we have made and invented, the success we’ve had and the things we’ve managed to get done and everything like that, it’s very bonding for better or for worse.”</div>
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<strong>12.10.2013</strong><br />12:49 pm<br /><br /><strong>Topics:</strong><br /><a href="http://dangerousminds.net/categories/category/Art" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Art</a><br /><a href="http://dangerousminds.net/categories/category/music" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Music</a><br /><br /><strong>Tags:</strong><br /><a href="http://dangerousminds.net/tag/Ian-Dury" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Ian Dury</a></div>
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The rock and roll scene in Great Britain in the mid- to late 1970s produced so many indelible and arresting characters, but for my money, not a one of ‘em beats the great, dearly departed Ian Dury. He was always an odd figure in the new wave/punk scene, doggedly doing his own thing while the likes of Elvis Costello and John Lydon received greater acclaim and adulation—and hell, let’s even say deservedly so. I’m can’t come close to classifying his music, it’s pub rock/disco/punk/dancehall with a good dollop of who knows?</div>
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Whatever it was, it was irrevocably Ian Dury and it was irrevocably, irredeemably, unapologetically, unpretentiously, and very specifically <em>British</em>.</div>
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How a squinty little geezer like Dury could create music that was so compellingly, and simultaneously, funky/inert, expressive/stiff, joyous/crabby will always be an impenetrable mystery to me, but heaven knows I do adore it, especially his diverse and thumping first album <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=aps&keywords=ian%20dury%20New%20Boots%20and%20Panties&linkCode=as2&tag=boxoffbof-20" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;">New Boots and Panties!!</a></em>.<br /><br /><img alt="Night Boy, 1966" height="352" src="http://images.dangerousminds.net/uploads/images/ian_dury_night_boy_66a.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="465" /><br /><em>Night Boy, 1966</em><br /><br />If you’ve ever looked carefully at his album covers and other associated imagery, it’s always had a strong visual sense, so it was both a surprise and not a surprise that for several years in the 1960s, Dury studied at the Royal College of Art—and his paintings were <em>damn good.</em> I’m not an art expert by any stretch; it fits comfortably in the Pop Art idiom, which was all the rage at the time.</div>
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You won’t be surprised to hear that while Dury was at the Royal College of Art, he studied under the esteemed British Pop Art practitioner Peter Blake, who among other things collaborated with Jann Haworth to design the Beatles’ <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0025KVLTM/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0025KVLTM&linkCode=as2&tag=boxoffbof-20" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;">Sgt. Pepper</a></em> album cover—<em>eh, pretty good, what else is on your résumé?</em> You can see traces of Blake’s mentorship all over Dury’s work (click <a href="http://www.artrepublic.com/artists/33-peter-blake.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;">here</a> for a comparison); Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns are other obvious influences. (Blake designed the <a href="http://www.vinylrecords.ch/I/IA/Ian-Dury/New-Boots-PT/ian-dury-49.jpg" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;">cover</a> for Dury’s <em>New Boots and Panties!!</em> as well.)</div>
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Perhaps this is why Dury’s comment on his own art career was, “I got good enough to realize I wasn’t going to be very good.” Dury’s probably right, he was probably too derivative to succeed in the art world, but as far as I’m concerned, his paintings are pretty darn impressive anyway. And, as was ever the case with Dury, there’s something enduringly British about his works.</div>
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Just this past summer, his alma mater the Royal College of Art hosted an exhibition of Dury’s works under the title “More Than Fair: Paintings, Drawings and Artworks, 1961–1972.”<br /><br /><img alt="Lee Marvin, 1968" height="645" src="http://images.dangerousminds.net/uploads/images/lee_marvin__0ian_dury68.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="465" /><br /><em>Lee Marvin, 1968</em><br /><br />According to his daughter Jemima (note the use of that name in Dury’s painting above), who helped curate the exhibition last summer, Dury reminisced about his days at art school as follows:<br /> </div>
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I met Betty, my late first wife, at the Royal College of Art. She was at Newport College of Art. Her dad went to the Royal College of Art in the thirties. Getting into the RCA was the only thing I’ve aspired to in my life. I spent two years trying to get in. It’s the only achievement I’ve ever felt, a bit like going to the university of your choice. I’m really pleased I went there, I’m proud of it. I wouldn’t have been able to learn about how to live as a person doing what they want to do if I hadn’t gone there, allowing your determination and output to control the way things go - my nine and my five.</div>
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We’ve got more of Dury’s fine paintings below, but if you haven’t heard Dury’s music and are wondering what all the fuss is about, check out “Wake Up and Make Love with Me,” the opening track of <em>New Boots and Panties!!</em>, which in my view is simply one of the weirdest and greatest disco tracks ever released:<br /> </div>
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<br />But you also have to see Dury in action to appreciate him. Here’s the video for “Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick,” complete with an unforgettable <em>double sax</em> solo!<br /> </div>
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Because freedom means not having to care about anyone but yourself, the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/real-estate/world-floating-city-back-article-1.1531843" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #cc0000; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="New York Daily News">New York Daily News</a>reports that a project called Freedom Ship helmed by Florida businessman Roger Gooch aims to enable the wealthy to offshore their lives:</div>
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An incredible $10 billion floating city, built to house 50,000 people, is edging closer to reality. A mile long and 25 stories high, the Freedom Ship would also have room for another 30,000 daily visitors, 20,000 crew and 10,000 overnight guests.</div>
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With casinos, an airport and shopping centers, this city of the sea could be a permanent home to thousands.The benefits of ocean occupation would involve brand new schools, hospitals, businesses, parks, promenades, landscaping, public art and saltwater aquariums.</div>
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Florida-based company Freedom Ship International have designed the vessel which sails constantly, circling the globe. It says it is hopeful it can raise the $1 billion needed to begin construction.</div>
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A List Of 23 Famous Obama Quotes That Turned Out To Be Broken Promises Or Cold-Hearted Lies By Michael Snyder, on November 18th, 2013</div>
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#1 “If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.”</div>
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#2 “My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.”</div>
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#3 “We agree on reforms that will finally reduce the costs of health care. Families will save on their premiums…”</div>
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#4 “I don’t want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be the president
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#5 “We’ve got shovel-ready projects all across the country that governors and mayors are pleading to fund. And the minute we can get those investments to the state level, jobs are going to be created.”</div>
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#6 “And we will pursue the housing plan I’m outlining today. And through this plan, we will help between 7 and 9 million families restructure or refinance their mortgages so they can afford—avoid foreclosure.”</div>
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#7 “I will sign a universal health-care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family’s premium by up to $2,500 a year.”</div>
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#8 “We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime.”</div>
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#9 “For people with insurance, the only impact of the health-care law is that their insurance is stronger, better, and more secure than it was before. Full stop. That’s it. They don’t have to worry about anything else.”</div>
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#10 “We will close the detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, the location of so many of the worst constitutional abuses in recent years.”</div>
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#11 “Allow Americans to buy their medicines from other developed countries if the drugs are safe and prices are lower outside the U.S.”</div>
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#12 “We will revisit the Patriot Act and overturn unconstitutional executive decisions issued during the past eight years.”</div>
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#13 “Will ensure that federal contracts over $25,000 are competitively bid.”</div>
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#14 “We reject sweeping claims of ‘inherent’ presidential power.”</div>
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#15 “Will eliminate all income taxation of seniors making less than $50,000 per year. This will eliminate taxes for 7 million seniors — saving them an average of $1,400 a year– and will also mean that 27 million seniors will not need to file an income tax return at all.”</div>
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#16 “We support constitutional protections and judicial oversight on any surveillance program involving Americans.”</div>
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#17 “If we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home, we will end this war. You can take that to the bank.”</div>
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#18 “Will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.”</div>
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#19 “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.”</div>
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#20 “We have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division and conflict and cynicism…. That is one option. Or, at this moment, in this election, we can come together and say, ‘Not this time….’”</div>
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#21 “We’ve got to spend some money now to pull us out of this recession. But as soon as we’re out of this recession, we’ve got to get serious about starting to live within our means, instead of leaving debt for our children and our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren.”</div>
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#22 “[T]oday I’m pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office. This will not be easy. It will require us to make difficult decisions and face challenges we’ve long neglected. But I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay – and that means taking responsibility right now, in this administration, for getting our spending under control.”</div>
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#23 “I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear that I will execute the office of president of the United States faithfully, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the United States.”</div>
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About the author: Michael T. Snyder is a former Washington D.C. attorney who now publishes The Truth. His new thriller entitled “The Beginning Of The End” is now available</div>
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The Pogues: 30 Years – review</h1>
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In reality, the Pogues were no more authentic than the artists they were supposed to oppose. Hailing from such far-flung corners of the Emerald Isle as Eastbourne, Stoke-On-Trent and Salford, the band's members nevertheless dressed up, as frontman Shane MacGowan put it, in clothes that were equal parts "Brendan Behan and typical Irish granddad". Furthermore, mention of MacGowan's name virtually guarantees that someone in the comments section will sneeringly mention he was educated at the same prep school as Dan Stevens off Downton Abbey and, briefly, at Westminster. It didn't matter: for one thing, rock and pop music is supposed to be an arena in which anyone can reinvent themselves with impunity. Besides, MacGowan might reasonably argue, he never set himself up as a poet of the working classes so much as an underclass of outcasts – "the junkies, the drunks, the pimps, the whores," as he sang on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2M7snEx1zs" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">The Boys From the County Hell</a> – and people from all backgrounds and walks of life end up there. Actively seeking out that world, as MacGowan seemed to, rather than crash-landing there through dreadful misfortune, is certainly a curious lifestyle choice, but no one else in rock history has depicted its inhabitants so vividly or with such empathy as he did in the Pogues' early days: the battered, dying rent boy of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-45xNr-udU" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">The Old Main Drag</a>; the pub drunk, pitifully spilling out his saga of war and lost love in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=421pZgg-vlY" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">A Pair of Brown Eyes</a>.</div>
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At first, MacGowan's writing seemed to develop at an incredible pace. There were flashes of brilliance on the 1984 debut Red Roses for Me, not least <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaHMG_SvUkw" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Streams of Whiskey</a>, galvanising a paean to alcoholic oblivion as anyone has ever written; but by the time of 1985's Rum Sodomy & the Lash, he was coming up with stuff like the astonishing <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ZAqxg__Rs" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">The Sick Bed of Cúchulainn</a>, a chaotic, gripping phantasmagoria that variously involved pre-Christian Irish mythology, the Viennese tenor Richard Tauber, the disabled 18th-century criminal Billy Davis, Frank Ryan – an Irish republican who ended up entangled with German military intelligence during the second world war – and the Euston Tavern, a London hostelry that's now, a little ironically, an Irish theme pub. Furthermore, he was setting his lyrics to melodies that gave the appearance of having been around forever: there was something remarkably seamless about the way the Pogues' original songs integrated with the traditional material they performed.</div>
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There's a sense in which Rum Sodomy & the Lash and its accompanying EP, Poguetry in Motion, were the Pogues' peak. Their next effort, 1987's If I Should Fall From Grace With God, is their best-known and biggest-selling album, not least because of the presence of the deathless <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/dec/06/fairytale-new-york-pogues-christmas-anthem" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Fairytale of New York</a>, as good an example as any of MacGowan's unerring ability to locate the romance in ruined lives. The band's playing was more assured and expansive – previously required to stand and clobber a snare and floor tom, drummer Andrew Ranken was permitted to sit down and play a full kit – but there was the faintest hint that a certain chaotic edge had been lost, although in fairness, you scarcely notice when the songs were as good as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IooPBuFoJCM" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Thousands Are Sailing</a>or the remarkable medley <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iYqWtIm0zI" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six</a>.</div>
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But things were about to go audibly wrong. The arrival of acid house in Britain made an impression on a number of artists, but its impact on the Pogues may have been the most dramatic of all. It didn't affect their music directly, although you can hear a weird faint echo of its sound in the grinding, hallucinatory <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Na1jUFWuQ" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">USA</a>, from 1989's Peace and Love. But his immersion in the rave scene gave their frontman an excuse – or as much of an excuse as MacGowan needed – to start taking vast quantities of LSD on an apparently daily basis. In addition, references to heroin started to creep into his lyrics. His subsequent mental disintegration is harrowingly captured in accordionist James Fearnley's book <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jun/14/here-comes-everybody-fearnley-review" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Here Comes Everybody</a>, but ou could tell something had gone wrong just by listening to the two subsequent albums, Peace and Love and Hell's Ditch: MacGowan was no longer willing or able to come up with songs of the same quality or in the same profusion that he once had. On Peace and Love, the rest of the band covered it up with a degree of success: if guitarist Philip Chevron's Lorelei and the instrumental Gridlock sound like padding, the best track might be Jem Finer's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejJDFt6Tkk" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Misty Morning, Albert Bridge</a>. By the time Hell's Ditch was released in 1990, MacGowan's disintegration was so total that producer Joe Strummer was forced to edit his vocals together syllable by syllable – so much for that much-vaunted opposition to the electronic embellishments of the MTV age. The results are so incomprehensible, you boggle at what the original vocal must have sounded like. He managed to rouse himself enough to come up with a brace of memorable songs – the melody of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66quTi26YLY" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Summer in Siam</a> is particularly lovely – but they were frequently concerned with how much he hated being in the Pogues: the lyrical sharpness was blunted, the empathy replaced by solipsism.</div>
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Fearnley's book is so detailed in its depiction of the Pogues' rise and fall that it even tells gives the reader information on the appearance of Shane MacGowan's penis. But it doesn't mention the band's post-MacGowan career at all: tacit acknowledgment of how ridiculous the idea of them continuing without him now seems. The remaining members doubtless reasoned at the time that MacGowan had already been absent in spirit for years before they fired him, and in fact, 1993's Waiting for Herb and 1995's Pogue Mahone aren't bad albums. The songwriting has its moments, and in any other band, MacGowan's former sidekick Spider Stacey would have been a natural frontman. Their downfall is simply that they don't establish a unique enough identity to stop the listener longing for the past.</div>
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Perhaps they would have stood a better chance with MacGowan's initial replacement, Joe Strummer, whose brief tenure with the Pogues is commemorated here by a live CD, the only real inducement for someone who already owns the original albums to buy 30 Years. The gig sounds fun, but, equally, you can see why the former Clash frontman was a slightly awkward fit. Strummer was a less ambiguous and troubling figure than MacGowan, whose writing would these days doubtless earn the sobriquet "problematic": you can picture the blog posts trying to square the compassion and identification of The Old Main Drag with the homophobic insults of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPlvwhEtOzM" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Transmetropolitan</a>; or the Twitterstorm that would be provoked by the racial epithets that sprinkled his lyrics. Perhaps the truth was that MacGowan had cast such a long shadow that no one, not even a punk legend, could escape it.</div>
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The Pogues still exist, with MacGowan back in place. They tour annually in December, an excuse for a nostalgic piss-up. The reviews are usually good, although you can't avoid the sense that MacGowan is being applauded for having thus far proved unsuccessful in killing himself. Listening to this box set, you understand why people are willing to still indulge him. But it's hard not to wish it hadn't turned out differently, however inevitable the outcome was, despite the fact that you can't say MacGowan didn't warn you. "I will not be reconstructed," he snarled defiantly, on Hell's Ditch's opening track <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBaKWLoFYmQ" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Sunny Side of the Street</a>: if nothing else, he's remained true to his word.</div>
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<strong>11.15.2013</strong><br />01:38 pm<br /><br /><strong>Topics:</strong><br /><a href="http://dangerousminds.net/categories/category/music" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Music</a><br /><br /><strong>Tags:</strong><br /><a href="http://dangerousminds.net/tag/Ween" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Ween</a><br /><a href="http://dangerousminds.net/tag/Aaron-Freeman" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Aaron Freeman</a></div>
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<img alt="Aaron Freeman, formerly of Ween" height="310" src="http://images.dangerousminds.net/uploads/images/AaronFreeman_3283575.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="465" /><br /><em>Aaron Freeman, formerly of Ween</em><br /><br />In May 2012 it was announced that Ween would be breaking up for good. Anyone who’s been following the progress of the band can plainly see that the breakup was mostly the doing of Aaron Freeman (Gene Ween), whereas Mickey Melchiondo (Dean Ween) seemed perfectly content with the status quo, that is, the intact and occasionally inactive duo they’ve been since the mid-1980s. (For his part, Melchiondo has been spending his time fishing on the South Jersey shore—in fact, you can <a href="http://www.mickeysfishing.com/trips.rates.htm" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;">pay to spend a few hours in his company</a> reeling in a few flounder.)</div>
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It became apparent that Freeman has been battling substance abuse for a good long while: he had a few “problematic concerts” in the last years of Ween and had showed considerable weight gain. He’s since successfully completed a rehab regimen and is looking trim these days. For him, the sad dissolution of one of the most fertile groups of recent years was necessary to his own well-being: “All that matters to me is that I’m getting sober. Becoming an out of control drug addict and alcoholic is my own fault and I take responsibility for it. I HAD to leave the Ween organization to stay sober.”</div>
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Since the breakup of Ween, Freeman has stopped doing solo performances under the name Gene Ween and has started using his own name as a performer. Last year he released <em>Fabulous Clouds</em>, a touching album of covers of songs by Rod McKuen.<br /><br /><img alt="Gener's Gone" height="426" src="http://images.dangerousminds.net/uploads/images/a3529045448_102357266.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="465" /><br /><em>Gener’s Gone: The Final Demo Recordings of Gene Ween (2009-2011)</em><br /><br />Today Freeman quietly dropped an unexpected message to his fans, via email: what is most likely the final nail in the coffin of the persona of Gene Ween. On the<a href="http://aaronfreeman.bandcamp.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;">bandcamp.com website</a>, for a suggested price of $6, you can download <em>Gener’s Gone: The Final Demo Recordings of Gene Ween (2009-2011),</em> which has six tracks. If you are a Ween fan or generally wish Freeman well, I highly recommend laying out the six bucks.</div>
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The last song of the set of songs is called “Gener’s Gone.” For anyone who’s been following the progress of Ween and Freeman over the last few years, the lyrics just could not be more gut-wrenching:<br /> </div>
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Gener’s gone<br />Let’s hold a candle up for Gener<br />He loved you all just like his children<br />And it broke my heart to say goodbye</div>
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Where have you gone?<br />Some say you took off with the Argus<br />Prancing lightly with the Stallion<br />No man should ever be so free</div>
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If everyone had a hit, there’d be a poll to count up the styles in culture<br />If I could sing like the old man, he’da slapped my back and ground me for a week<br />But the kids in City Hall strut along, their beauties by their side<br />I see them and love them with tears of age falling from my eyes</div>
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Gener’s gone<br />Could be there be hope for redemption?<br />Maybe he’s locked up in detention<br />A detention of time<br /><br />Fly Gener<br />Fly Gener fly</div>
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If everyone had a place<br />A place to go with other like-minded people<br />A simple place<br />Where Betty throws the ball to Jimmy<br />The new youth pushes limits of destiny and fate<br />I look to them with love and forgiveness<br />I forgive them</div>
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Gener’s gone<br />Let’s hold a candle up for Gener<br />He loved you all just like his children<br />It broke my heart to say goodbye</div>
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<br /><br />I’m a huge Ween fan, so this new material, along with all it implies—it’s hitting me hard. In my opinion, Ween richly deserve the descriptor “criminally underrated”—their jocular approach to songcraft and their ability to mimic pretty much any form of popular music has won them a devoted following of obsessives but has (IMO) also meant that the pointy-headed critics have tended to forget them in favor of depressing acts like Radiohead (you know it’s true). I deviate from most Ween fans in that I consider Ween’s last four or five albums to be possibly their strongest material. Most Ween fans favor <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=aps&keywords=ween%20pod&linkCode=as2&tag=boxoffbof-20" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;">The Pod</a></em> or <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=aps&keywords=ween%20Chocolate%20and%20Cheese&linkCode=as2&tag=boxoffbof-20" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;">Chocolate and Cheese</a></em>, both of which date from the early 1990s—I love the early stuff too, but I find myself constantly returning to their later work. Some of my very favorite Ween tracks include <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000XFE87S/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000XFE87S&linkCode=as2&tag=boxoffbof-20" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;">“Woman and Man,”</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051QU2WY/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0051QU2WY&linkCode=as2&tag=boxoffbof-20" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;">“Light Me Up,”</a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003UJN0KK/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B003UJN0KK&linkCode=as2&tag=boxoffbof-20" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;">“Your Party,”</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QNT63I/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000QNT63I&linkCode=as2&tag=boxoffbof-20" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;">“Transitions,”</a> all of which were released in 2005 or later. The epic “Woman and Man” in particular pretty much melts my brain every time I hear it.</div>
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On the Bandcamp page, there is a terse note that will tear to pieces the heart of any truly “brown” fan of the Boognish: “After 20+ years of near-fatal drug & alcohol abuse (thankfully culminating with intensive but successful rehab), AARON FREEMAN (aka Gene Ween) was left in a dire financial situation. All proceeds will go directly to Aaron, as he continues down the path toward creative freedom and personal health.”</div>
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For those who want Freeman to release more music in the future, the info section ends with these words: ” On that note, we have received a two word personal statement from Aaron: “stay tuned.”<br /> </div>
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WE ASKED BUZZ OSBORNE OF THE MELVINS WHAT HE THINKS OF DRAKE, MILEY CYRUS, AND MUMFORD & SONS</h1>
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Buzz Osborne finds the title of his new album hilarious. And why not? After all, he did name it. <em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">Tres Cabrones</em>, or “Three Dumbasses,” is something like the 21st or 22nd album from the Melvins. But who’s counting? Buzz certainly isn’t. <em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">Tres Cabrones</em> marks a shift in the Melvins’ lineup, with the band’s original drummer, Mike Dillard, returning for the first time since 1983 and Dale Crover, the band’s drummer of almost three decades moving over to bass. So those are the three dumbasses, for the time being, anyway.</div>
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We talked to King Buzzo about the lineup changes, what he’s been listening to (or actively not listening to), and why <em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">Tres Cabrones </em>is so damned funny. <em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">Tres Cabrones</em> is out November 5 from Ipecac. Stream the album’s opener, “Dr. Mule” below.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Is your voicemail the Alfred Hitchcock theme song?</strong><br />Yeah, that’s my house phone. We’ve had the same answering machine message for 20 years. I think it’s really funny. And my wife sounds like she’s 4 years old.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">She does. I was curious as to whether or not you had a daughter. Has that ever led to any confusion?</strong><br />No. We’re not big socialites, so...</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">OK, so explain the new lineup on this album.</strong><br />It’s actually not a new lineup, it’s more of an extension of the Melvins. Pretty much at this point, anything we do Melvins-wise is a Melvins record. But this was the Melvins in 1983—as close as we’ll get to that line up, which is our original drummer, Mike Dillard playing drums and Dale Crover playing bass. That’s what it is. So I wrote songs with just those guys playing those instruments in mind. My wife says it’s her favorite record of ours because it’s simpler. That’s what she thinks. I dont know if she’s a good judge.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">It’s a cool album and there are two songs that are just wonderfully bizarre on it—”Tie My Pecker to a Tree” and your version of “99 Bottles of Beer.”</strong><br />Ah, I’m glad you liked those.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Where did those come from and why did you decide to put them on the album?</strong><br />I’ve always loved stuff like that. The song “Black Bock” off our <em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">Stag</em> record is a good example of that. We think all that kind of stuff is hilarious but we always thought our album covers were hilarious. <em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">Ozma</em>, <em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">Houdini</em>, no one thinks that stuff’s funnier than us. Especially this album, <em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">Tres Cabrones, </em>which means “Three Dumbasses.” It’s a takeoff of <em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">Tres Hombres</em>. Three Dumbshits.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Who named the album?</strong><br />Me. I’ve been wanting to use <em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">Tres Cabrones</em> for a long time. I thought it was a great name. And iTunes censored it. They won’t put “cabrones.” They put “<em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">Tres dot dot dot</em>” or something.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Oh shitty.</strong><br />Oh well. I guess it’s a curse word in Spanish. But they probably wouldn’t have censored <em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">Three Dumbasses</em>though.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Yeah, it feels like blink-182’s been doing that for the last 15 years.</strong><br />Yeah, I suppose so. Whatever.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">You’ve been around the block a few times. I believe <em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">Tres Cabrones</em> is your millionth album.</strong><br />Who’s counting? I don’t even know how many songs I’ve written. I don’t know what songs are on what records, I don’t know what order the records are in. I have no idea.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">So you’ve been around for a while, what’s the biggest change in the music industry that’s impacted you as a band?</strong><br />Nothing’s changed, really. Honestly, I don’t think there’s really any golden era of music. I like about as much new music now as I ever did, which isn’t much.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">What new bands are you a fan of now?</strong><br />One band I’m a huge fan of is this band Tweak Bird. I really like them, they’re from LA. They did 45 shows on our 51 day tour.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Did you not have them on those 6 extra shows because they then would’ve tied your world record?</strong><br />No, it’s fun to say that but in actuality, the reason is that the first shows were in Alaska and Hawaii. We couldn’t afford to fly them there, you know?</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Are you planning on any wacky world record tours for this album?</strong><br />Nothing I can think of unless you can come up with a good angle. I’m super glad we were able to do this record, that’s almost like a world record right there. Mike Dillard’s never been on a real album and had a real release so that’s really great.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Last year, while you were working on breaking that record, the Flaming Lips broke a record. I think they performed the most cities in a 24-period, with something like 12. Maybe you guys could break that.</strong><br />Eh, that doesn’t sound like very much fun to me. It’s over in one day. I wanna do something bigger. I want it to be six months.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">How many shows do you think you guys could do in six months?</strong><br />Six month tour? We could do every night. If we could do 51 in a row without falling off the face of the Earth, we could do 151, no problem.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">You were talking about new music earlier. At Noisey, we’re constantly dominated by news of Drake and Miley Cyrus. Curious if you had opinions on either.</strong><br />Well, I don’t know who Drake is, first off.</div>
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So Miley Cyrus, me and my wife watched that on YouTube after all this hub bub and I thought I was watching the wrong thing because it didn’t look offensive to me. Maybe I’m just some jaded dumbass but I thought that she was talentless and didn’t really sound any different than Madonna or any of those other Barbie doll-type women singers. Britney Spears-types seem pretty interchangeable to me. And as far as it being outrageous, I’ve seen more outrageous stuff than that on Bourbon Street on a Tuesday during the day. Also, you live in New York, you see weirder shit than that every day in New York. I lived in San Francisco, I lived in Hollywood. Are you kidding? It doesn’t weird me out. I kept waiting for something to happen. Like she was gonna have sex with a Doberman. That’s it? People are upset about this?</div>
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Musically, I mean the music is just nothing. There’s nothing there at all. I might as well be listening to the sink drip. Really, it’d be more entertaining. And as far as the rest of it goes, nobody’s fooled by it. There’s no singing or music going on there. That’s clearly obvious. Even rock bands now, I would say a large percentage don’t even play live. So that’s how far down on the scale we’ve come. Now you have to give credit when people actually play. That’s fucked up.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">I also read that you’re not a big fan of this alt-country trend?</strong><br />No, not at all.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">I’m curious to hear what you think of bands like Mumford and Sons.</strong><br />Never heard it.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">No, huh?</strong><br />Nope. I would. I’ll look and listen. But I mean, most of that alt-country stuff sounds like REO Speedwagon to me. Why would I listen to alt-country? Country’s good enough. I don’t know. I’m not in on the joke. I don’t hear it. But maybe if I listen to them, there might be something. Any band, other than that Miley Cyrus-type stuff, usually has at least one song I can like. I think even the worst band could have a couple of minutes of good music.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">What’s a modern guilty pleasure for you?</strong><br />Nothing comes to mind. I’m not afraid to like stuff. I’m certainly not afraid to say I like it. There’s not enough good music out there to be that picky. So, once in a while, I agree with the masses. Not always. I like Nine Inch Nails. <em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">The Downward Spiral </em>record, I didn’t think I would like that. I thought that was good. I hate Mötley Crüe but I like that song, “Dr. Feelgood.” It sounded like Van Halen. I wouldn’t buy it though. I can’t think of anything new that would be a guilty pleasure. You know what record I like? New music but not by a new artist, Tom Wait’s newest record. I think that was one of the best things he’s ever done. It’s been out a couple years now but that was really good. It was really fucking great. Who would’ve thought? It’s a weird-ass album. He can do that. He’s not afraid. Guys like that give me inspiration. I’m not a Paul McCartney fan but my friend took me to see him about 8 years ago. He was fucking good! I have to admit. He certainly wasn’t playing to no fucking tapes, that’s for sure.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">I’d really love to know what you thought of him playing last year with Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl.</strong><br />I thought the song was good. I thought it kind of sounded like one of our songs. I wouldn’t buy it but I appreciate that. I wonder if he even knew who those guys were. McCartney was probably my least favorite of all the Beatles but Jesus, his worst stuff is better than most stuff.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">You once said when you were younger, you got rejected for jobs at both Burger King and McDonald's.</strong><br />Yes, that’s true.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">If you weren’t playing music, what do you think you’d be doing?</strong><br />Well, I never had a good job in my life so I don’t know. I think eventually the genius of my capabilities would’ve shown through to someone. There’s not much I couldn’t do. I don’t think I would’ve went to college. The people that I know who made the most money never went to college. I would’ve been an entrepreneur of some sort or a manager of some kind. Who knows? But I wouldn’t be working 9 to 5, I’ll tell you that. You cannot make money working 9 to 5. Acquiring real wealth requires a lot more work than that.</div>
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<strong>11.07.2013</strong><br />05:34 pm<br /><br /><strong>Topics:</strong><br /><a href="http://dangerousminds.net/categories/category/drugs" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Drugs</a><br /><a href="http://dangerousminds.net/categories/category/music" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Music</a><br /><a href="http://dangerousminds.net/categories/category/television" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Television</a><br /><br /><strong>Tags:</strong><br /><a href="http://dangerousminds.net/tag/David-Bowie" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">David Bowie</a><br /><a href="http://dangerousminds.net/tag/Alan-Yentob" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Alan Yentob</a></div>
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<img alt="" height="465" src="http://images.dangerousminds.net/uploads/images/crackedactrorierefsdsdfdfdf.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="465" /><br /><br /><em>Cracked Actor</em> is a 1974 BBC television documentary film about David Bowie that first aired in January of 1975. It was kind of a “Holy Grail” for Bowie nuts and over the years I’ve owned a VHS bootleg that was barely watchable, a DVD that was a slight improvement over that, and then I taped it off the air when BBC America aired it about ten years ago. Earlier this year, what with all the Bowie hoopla going on in the UK, the film was re-transferred to HD and trotted out again by the BBC. Now it’s really easy to find. In fact, it’s just a few inches below this very sentence.</div>
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<em>Cracked Actor</em> is a fascinatingly odd film. It was directed by a then 27-year-old Alan Yentob, later the Director of Programmes for all of BBC Television, who was promised extraordinary access to the singer by his manager Tony Defries. We meet a sickly, obviously coked-out David Bowie, being shunted between performances, limousines and hotels. He’s pale, stick thin and clearly mentally fragile. The somewhat<em>uncomfortable</em> manner in which he comports himself in film apparently made a big impression on Nicolas Roeg, who promptly cast him as an alien in <em>The Man Who Fell to Earth</em>.</div>
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“I was so blocked ... so stoned ... It’s quite a casualty case, isn’t it? I’m amazed I came out of that period, honest. When I see that now I cannot believe I survived it. I was so close to really throwing myself away physically, completely.”</div>
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<em>Cracked Actor</em> was mostly shot in Los Angeles and the majority of the concert footage was taken from a show at the Universal Amphitheatre on September 2, 1974. It is one of the sole sources of footage from the Burroughsian dystopia via Busby Berkeley vision of the infamous <em>Diamond Dogs</em> tour. Some of the material comes from D.A. Pennebaker’s <em>Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars</em> film.</div>
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Among the numbers performed in the film are “Space Oddity,” “Cracked Actor,” “Sweet Thing/Candidate,” “Moonage Daydream,” “The Width of a Circle,” “Aladdin Sane,” “Time” and “Diamond Dogs.”<br /> </div>
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'Johnny Cash' explores the life beyond the legend</h1>
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Johnny Cash often liked to say he never let facts get in the way of a good story.</div>
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Robert Hilburn doesn't, either.</div>
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In his excellent biography <i>Johnny Cash: The Life</i>, the longtime <i>Los Angeles Times</i> music critic instead uses the facts about the American cultural icon's life to construct a story that's both larger and more fascinating than the legend.</div>
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Hilburn doesn't seek to sensationalize or scandalize or demolish the image of Cash that people have because of self-mythologizing music like <i>The Man in Black</i> and the <i>Live at Folsom Prison</i> album or the 2005 biopic <i>Walk the Line</i>. Instead, he fills in the gaps between career highlights, giving context and new shape to familiar tales.</div>
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Following Cash's history from his childhood in Dyess, Ark., to the creative victory laps of his final years, Hilburn pulls together the threads of Cash's music, career and personal life. He draws on dozens of interviews with Cash, his friends, family and colleagues, as well as earlier books about Cash and memoirs of those close to him.</div>
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Hilburn details the creation of such landmark recordings as <i>Ring of Fire</i>, <i>A Boy Named Sue</i> and Cash's final recordings with producer Rick Rubin. He re-examines Cash's massive catalog of more than 70 albums, explaining why 1960's <i>Ride This Train</i> was "the first, great concept album" and why so many of the '70s releases failed both commercially and aesthetically.</div>
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Throughout the book, Hilburn shows how Cash's managers and record labels positioned him as a performer who could appeal not only to country fans, but to rock and folk audiences, as well. Those efforts, from '50s crossovers <i>I Walk the Line</i> and<i>Ballad of a Teenage Queen</i> for Memphis' Sun Records to Rubin's <i>American Recordings</i> series, gave Cash widespread credibility that few other country artists have enjoyed.</div>
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Hilburn also unravels the singer's complex identities — the boy, born J.R.; John, the man; Johnny, the entertainer; and Cash, the persona that jeopardized all the others. For instance, June Carter, Cash's wife of 35 years, "called him 'John' from the start," Hilburn writes, "switching later to 'Cash' only in those moments when she wanted to point out to him that he wasn't being himself — when he was high on drugs or on ego."</div>
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Perhaps most impressively, Hilburn reclaims Cash's relationship with Carter from the fairy-tale status it assumed after the two singers died within four months of each other in 2003. He doesn't shy from describing the pain Cash and Carter inflicted on their families when they began their affair while married to other people. He also addresses Carter's prescription-drug abuse, often overshadowed by Cash's gargantuan, life-threatening appetite for pills. At the same time, he conveys the devotion the two had to each other, depicting their marriage for the towering achievement it turned out to be.</div>
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<i>Johnny Cash: The Life</i> ties Cash's triumphs and his famous failures together. Though lesser known, those times make for some of the book's most compelling and humanizing reading.</div>
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Ten years after Cash's death, Hilburn has created the definitive narrative of this "symbol of American honor, compassion and struggle." It's a biography worthy of its subject.</div>
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POGUES legend Shane MacGowan has paid tribute to fellow hellraiser Lou Reed and revealed how the rock star saved him from his drug demons.</h3>
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The hard-partying Fairytale of New York star decided to clean up his act after he was advised to “knock it on the head” by the Velvet Underground hero, who died on Sunday.</div>
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Shane, 55, told the Irish Sun: “I’m very sad at the news, he was a great guy and an amazing man. He helped me through some tough times years ago. It was a privilege to have known him and shared the stage with him.”</div>
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Shane, who has openly battled with drugs, was persuaded to turn over a new leaf following an emotional dinner with Reed.</div>
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His manager Joey Cashman, who was living with him at the time, said: “Lou was a big fan of Shane’s and the feeling was mutual. They were very close friends.</div>
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“When Shane was living in London and messing around with drugs, he had dinner with Reed and he was told, ‘knock all that crap on the head’. Afterwards Shane said to me, ‘you know, he’s one of the only people in the world I would listen to when it comes to all that, because he’s been there and done it himself’.</div>
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“That was one of the big factors that led to him straightening out, I would say.”</div>
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Shane’s partner Victoria Mary Clarke paid tribute to the Walk On The Wild Side singer yesterday, saying “It is not easy to wish for Lou Reed to rest in peace! I imagine he would want to keep moving and making noise!</div>
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