Vale...and thanks! “When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk” ― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
MP decal on the deck and Aragorn on the bottom..
Well there ya go.....my 62 year old grommet memory hasn't let me down....
Another side note......I saw MP quick steppin it across the park next to Cooly clubbies later that arvo, heading towards the groin as Kirra was seriously going off.......
RIP Greg Noll. Big wave legends don’t come much bigger...
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wow another one gone.....RIP legend
Had the pleasure of meeting Greg Noll at a ceremony a few years ago at
Cronulla point he was a huge happy friendly relaxed humble guy and made
you feel special even though he was a pioneering surfing icon. He had a
massive aura about him no doubt he was a bit of a larrikin as a lad because
his stories of what the word legends was designed for. Nothing but admiration
and respect from me. What a life what a man absolute pioneer surfing god.
RIP big fella
RIP Jonathan Coleman...
TV funny man also had sound pop sensibility & sharp wit.
1981 You are what you eat...is new wave special
1984 Wide Boy Youth ~ Busy Bleeding is product of the gear change to Ska / Dub era...
The song is not a put on as Jono was very comfortable with Ska sound...
tbb recalls edgy track had peculiar alt cred back in the day & it stands the test of time...nice one Jono!
Jono signs off!
Well done TBB but to dig up cherished memories- I used to race home from school to catch Simon Townsends WW and hopefully Sheridan Jobbins was doing a segment with her natural beauty, phenomenal rack and if lucuy, on the day, she was smuggling raisins.
Mmmm...
Chest puppies with little pink noses.
PS- God rest Jono's little chubby soul.
The world needs more funny men.
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John Cornell
Thanks for the laughs Strop
R.I.P.
Wow, that's sad news.
RIP indeed and I echo the sentiments above- thanks for the laughs.
The world needs more laughter.
Vale Dusty Hill, ZZ Top bass player now home on the range.
Vale to my trusted companions slash perennial footwear - the things I got in South Sumatra for one dollar. They lasted about 21 months before they shuffled off this mortal coil and went to the big thong covered beach in the sky.
They will be a much missed compliment to my own existence. Our time together worked out to have cost me about 0.16 cents per day , a little over a cent per week. Threw themselves down to protect me from everything between summer bindis through to frosty winter grass.
RIP Indo thongs…..travel well old friends.
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Condolences Blowin.....Ti's this the beach you speak of?
They deserve nothing less.
Cheers udo & zenagain...continues...
Strop mans up to win the Girl & wins over the fans.
Lifesavers..."Nuthin' like it...Carvin' thru the Surf... feelin' the Waves smackin' yer Mo."
Vid is a bit wonky but its Oz gold medal comedy! Strop's 5 mins of fame...nails it!
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Salute to a deadset legend, our beloved Aussie Lifesaver Strop...{RIP}
Strop was also a legend in Byron Bay . One of my best friends wife works for Delvine his wife . I know of many things that they both have done for their local community over decades . Most done without the community knowing .
Thanks for putting that up TB.
A sad loss.
I hit the States in 88.
Crocodile Dundee was my golden ticket across that country!
Thanks Strop.
RIP
"He's done a hamstring. Never mind, mate."
Vale Ernie Sigley. Host during one of Australia's golden tele moments...
Yes Stu, a classic. Up there with Sandy Roberts introducing 'Lorraine Cock.'
Vale Sean Lock
Loved his cameo in the TV series Ideal.
He was a very funny man. 8 out 10 cats is a favourite in our house.
Been watching it for years, one of my favourite shows and Rachel Riley is just such a smoking hottie
and refreshingly free of any PC or wokeness
Joe Wilkinsons poem was a classic.
Bloody ripper, its such a good show
I cried with laughter the first time, now i was like mutley, trying to breath... thanks for that post.
Vale Charlie Watts. The amusing counterpoint to Mick and Keef’s excesses.
Top sendoff blackers that sure is signature Charlie & Stones sound at it's best.
'Under my Thumb' is a supercool infectious off beat .
'19th Nervous Breakdown' is a Hot Mess Mod dance beat.
swellnet Drum Circle Salutes Charlie {RIP}
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Epic song blackers, my favourite stones track
Strange how Stones just sent off mentor Don Everly.
{rip} Don Everly...this track is the Bro's flip Alt Sound.
1983 Bird Dog... Yep! That's how ya reboot yer classic into the Hall of Fame!
Tip: Play this on Full Screen-hit loop...larger than life quality live Vid...
Buzzcock like Bass player / Show tune Keys are off the charts!
Charlie Watts ‘All Down The Line’ from Shine A Light. Expression at the end is priceless.
Good work TBB, 19th Nervous Breakdown and the Everly Brothers.
RIP Lee Scratch Perry
Wow. Not surprised to hear he's passed, very surprised he made it to 85.
LSP...one of a kind. Saw him in the UK a couple of years ago, always marching to the beat of his own drum.
Vale.
In a TV series full of remarkably complex characters, one of the best.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/sep/07/shotgun-briefcase-o...
san Guine wrote:In a TV series full of remarkably complex characters, one of the best.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/sep/07/shotgun-briefcase-o...
Sad but fascinating listening to Michael K Williams being interviewed on 'Fresh Air'. Sounds like a very humble dude who could never quite get past some bad stuff that happened to him when he was young.
Both funny and enlightening listening to him explain how he never at all resembled the street wise gangsters he played - and what he had to put in of himself to make them believable. And the different experiences he had in 'killing' - within himself - the characters of Omar Little and Chalky White.
As Clay Davis would put it - shiiiiiiiiiiiit.
Qldurrz return send off to the Vic immortal.
One of the family ...Bert really knew how to fire up a crowd...
tbb will salute Bert's Police State Punk period ... absolutely riotous!
Bert's TV Comeback Special... "I might be the warm up for the In Memoriams!"
OMG! Classic teaser!
2018 Goldie Logies Punk Presenter Bert goes off script :
"Graham nurtured young talent & enjoyed giving young people a chance on television, he mentored a lot of young people...you knew if you went to his dressing room and it was locked, he'd be inside doing some mentoring!"
"Don Lane was a Mentor too, he did a helluva lot of Mentoring !"
Bert's swansong - wiped the floor & had them begging for more!
Best Review : "Thought this was the end of Television as we know it...Oh please be so!"
Me Too : "Didn't resonate well!"
[ Standard Comedic Goldie Trash ] Crowd were so pissed they laughed their tits off!
Rest of the country died laughing as well...when Oz sobered up...'Hey! How can Bert say shit like that!'
Gromz be like: "Why are all our boomerz so fucked up!"
Parent : "Shh! Just be thankful that we can still laugh at our sad selves before they ban that too!"
Grom : "Too late, think they just did!"
Parent : "Shh! That's not Funny!"
Grom : "Like...durr!"
Household name gets last laugh & awarded a State Funeral then hoisted high as the Face in the Moon.
Lanz Priestly a real legend and a great loss.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/martin-place-mayor-and-homelessness-...
Tom Morey, the original Boog
His job as an aircraft engineer gave him access to cutting-edge lightweight components and aerodynamic design concepts, but Tom Morey was more interested in applying his knowledge at sea level. He quit and opened a surfing shop and equipment company, experimenting with size, shape and materials to produce innovations such as interchangeable fins. A cardboard surfboard — made of corrugated paper waterproofed with resin — did not catch on. Then, while surfing near Los Angeles in 1969, Morey saw a child riding the waves on a short board made with foam logs. The homemade contraption was unrefined but he felt the concept had potential.
Morey moved to Hawaii and continued tinkering while working as a drummer in a jazz band. In 1971 he cut a nine-foot piece of polyethylene packing foam in half and sealed the slab with pages from the Honolulu Advertiser while he shaped it with a hot iron and a carving knife. This imprinted the board with the day’s news. More importantly, it was short, with a square tail and gently-rounded nose, and weighed only about three pounds, making it easy and fun to use for beginners.
“I could actually feel the wave through the board. On a surfboard, you’re not feeling the nuance of the wave, but with my creation, I could feel everything,” he recalled. “It turns, it’s durable, it can be made cheaply, it’s lightweight . . . God, this could be a really big thing.”
It was. Drawing from his love of music, the name Morey Boogie came to him when he was seeking inspiration. He started making Boogie Boards in his back garden and they proved such a hit that he signed a manufacturing deal with a Californian company.
To the horror of surf snobs who preferred the ocean uncrowded, his creation popularised bodyboarding, or surfing while lying prone or kneeling. In the late Seventies, with more than 1,500 purchased each week, he sold the Boogie Board rights to a firm in San Francisco. They were later acquired by Wham-O, a toy company known for Frisbees and hula hoops. The deal did not lead to lifelong wealth and in his last years his family and friends launched a fundraising appeal to pay for treatment to restore his sight after illness robbed him of almost all of his vision.
Morey was not motivated by money. In the early Seventies he joined the Baha’i faith, a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches “oneness”, a theory of unity. “The ocean is an organ of a whole being, and it tells you what’s going on. By surfing on the Boogie Board, you are communing with the rhythms of nature,” he told Sports Illustrated.
Descended from the car-making Dodge brothers, Thomas Hugh Morey was born in Detroit in 1935 and grew up near Los Angeles in Laguna Beach, where his father, Howard, was an estate agent. His mother, Grace (née Matteson), was a housewife.
Morey was a gifted surfer and talented musician who played the ukulele and guitar as well as the drums and once shared a stage with Dizzy Gillespie. He studied music at the University of Southern California but changed his degree subject to mathematics. He graduated in 1957 and worked for the Douglas Aircraft Company before succumbing to the lure of the sea. To promote his boards he organised the first professional surfing contest with cash prizes, the Invitational Nose Riding Championships, in San Diego in 1965.
A marriage to Jolly Givens in the late Fifties ended in divorce in 1970. He remarried, to Marchia Nichols, who survives him along with their sons, Sol, a surfboard shaper, Moon, an electrician and photographer, Sky, a software architect, and Matteson, who works in the film industry, and a daughter from his first marriage, Melinda, an artist and yoga teacher. Another daughter from his first marriage, Michelle, died in 2003.
The California Surf Museum described Morey as the Benjamin Franklin of the surfing world for his creativity and versatility. Ideas churned like swells in his busy mind. Among them were a travel-friendly surfboard that could fit in a suitcase, a “surforium” theme park, a folding paper hat, a superior American football, a new universal language and number system, three-player chess and a circular book.
He returned to aircraft engineering with Boeing in Seattle in 1985, moving back to California to promote a new surfboard named the Swizzle about 15 years later.
His quest to make the perfect board continued. In his mid-sixties, hair as silver as a moonlit wave, he went to the beach almost every day, saying in an interview: “Life’s a waste of time, and surfing’s a great way to waste it.”
Tom Morey, inventor of the Boogie Board, was born on August 15, 1935. He died of complications from a stroke on October 14, 2021, aged 86
Sounds like a good bloke and a sad loss to those who knew him.
I liked his movie reviews.
How good is Blue Velvet. David Lynch perfect working with Hopper and Stockman.
Most days the obituary's are the best read.
By the early 1980s, Dean Stockwell had been acting for almost 40 years and was ready for a career change. Depressed and demoralised, he had left Hollywood and moved to New Mexico, where he applied for a licence to set up as an estate agent.
Then he received a phone call from his fellow actor Harry Dean Stanton. “He said he’s going to do this movie with Sam Shepard and Wim Wenders and thinks I should play his brother in it,” Stockwell recalled.
The film was Paris, Texas (1984), a classic road movie that won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and relaunched Stockwell on what was to become the most successful phase of his stop-start career. Over the next decade or so he went on to appear in some of the defining films of the era, including David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986), Jonathan Demme’s Married to the Mob (for which he was nominated for an Oscar in 1989) and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rainmaker (1997).
In between came his signature performance as the womanising, larger-than-life Admiral “Al” Calavicci in the quirky sci-fi television series Quantum Leap, which ran for five seasons between 1989 and 1993. His portrayal earned him not only a Golden Globe but a rare personal satisfaction. “I’ve been deeply affected by the sincerity, warmth and affection coming back to me from fans of the show. I’ve never experienced that before in my life,” he enthused.
Stockwell called his comeback his “third or fourth career”, for as a seemingly reluctant actor he had walked away at least twice before. As a child actor in the 1940s, he appeared on screen with Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Errol Flynn but had not enjoyed it. “I had no friends, except for my brother, and I never did what I wanted to do. I had one vacation in nine years.”
His childhood mood was perhaps not helped by a practical joke Flynn played on him when he was 13 and was acting the title role in an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s Kim. During a scene shot in a tent on location in India, Flynn was meant to hand Stockwell a bowl of food. Instead, on a bet with the crew, he handed the boy a plate “piled high with fresh camel dung, still steaming”.
When his seven-year contract with MGM expired in 1950, he was delighted. “I did everything, just to get out of it,” he said. After a hiatus, he returned to Hollywood and appeared with Orson Welles in Compulsion (1959) and with Katharine Hepburn in Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962). When Hepburn objected to him turning up on set each day with a bottle of vodka, he told her that it was because he was “cold”. She bought him a coat and left it in his dressing room. He won best actor awards at Cannes for both films.
Moving to Topanga Canyon in the mid-1960s, where fellow residents included Neil Young and Jim Morrison, Stockwell tuned in, turned on and dropped out for a second time. One night while stoned he symbolically threw his Cannes citations into the fireplace. It was as if in the freewheeling hedonism of the hippy subculture he was finally getting to live the carefree childhood that he had been denied.
“I did some drugs and went to some love-ins,” he said. “The experience of those days provided me with a huge, panoramic view of my existence that I didn’t have before.” He later co-directed and appeared in Young’s 1982 film Human Highway. For a time he found work hard to come by but starred in such counter-cultural fringe pictures as Psych-Out, in which he played a long-haired hippy guru alongside Jack Nicholson, and Dennis Hopper’s 1971 cult classic The Last Movie. He retired from the big screen for the final time in 2015, making another career change to exhibit his artworks under his full name, Robert Dean Stockwell. He cited his other interests as golf, chess and cigars.
He was divorced from his second wife Joy Marchenko, a textile designer whom he met in Cannes in 1976 “at one o’clock in the morning, on the beach in front of the Carlton Hotel”. She survives him with their children Austin and Sophia. Stockwell spoke movingly of the pleasures of becoming a father in middle age; mindful of his childhood unhappiness, he did all he could to protect them from the limelight. His first marriage between 1960 and 1962 to the actress Millie Perkins, who starred in the screen version of The Diary Of Anne Frank, ended in divorce.
Robert Dean Stockwell was born in 1936 in Los Angeles into a showbusiness family. His mother, Betty, was a vaudeville actress and his father, Harry, was an actor and singer who appeared in Broadway productions. His parents divorced when he was six and his stepmother, Nina Olivette, was also an actress and singer. At six he made his stage debut alongside his brother, Guy, and his first significant film appearance came in the 1945 musical Anchors Aweigh, alongside Kelly and Sinatra.
“It’s a miserable way to bring up a child, though neither my parents nor I recognised it at the time,” he later said. In one of his films as a child actor he was required to cry and recalled the director telling him to “think of a puppy dying” to get his tear ducts going.
He enrolled at the University of California but dropped out after a few months. He received a “psychological deferment” which helped him to avoid being drafted to serve in Korea. “I took drugs and pretended I was a fag,” he said.
Considering a return to acting, he attended one class at the Actors Studio, but never went back. His hero at the time was James Dean and he spent several years travelling America in a hobo-like existence, working in railroad gangs and picking fruit. When he returned to the screen aged 21, the innocent, curly-haired cherub had turned into a dark, intense and charismatic leading man.
“I’m really not a philosophical guy. I just take it as it comes,” he reflected. “Things happen in a haphazard way without cause and effect. One minute you’re nothing, and the next minute everything’s going for you.”
Dean Stockwell, actor, was born on March 5, 1936. He died of natural causes on November 7, 2021, aged 85
swellnet drum circle sendoff Moody Blues Drummer Graeme Edge
https://www.moodybluestoday.com/graeme-edge-passing/
tbb was spoon fed Moody Blues '60/70's prog rock...happy to share Graeme's sound.
Know for a fact that fellow swellnet drummers will instantly hear the backbeat of 2 drummers.
Stranglers Jet Black + Spiderbait Kram...there's no hiding that fact... All legendary pounders.
Story in your Eyes ...modern slab drums drive this classic thru our time & onward...brilliant!
Graeme's live Drum off ... with some serious Kram Pounding
I'm just a singer in a rock'n'roll band...another all time classic that ages well with Slab sound.
'78 Steppin' in a Time Zone (Listen for Graeme's Mod cross patterns on "Own" Electro Drums?)
Teaser! Graeme actually created & recorded the 1st Electro Drum Track > 1971 Procession.
Iconic prog slab master was long pioneering new wave sounds...long before any noticed.
Weird Rock Anomaly...Drummers are usually ripped off & die broke...not this guy!
Graeme also headed his own band for a while...
Moody Blues Founder / Graeme wrote just enough (18 pieces) to stake a claim from most LP's
Moodys / Floyd fans always bought the LPs...adds up over time > (AUD) $22m Slab works fine too.
Makes one wonder if Graeme locked in any shares in Electro Drum sales? Another Time!
And it's goodnight from him...