R.I.P.s

[left]

Rose Mary Wolfe in Lestock, Saskatchewan. Bella Johnson in Whitefish Lake, Alberta. Jacob Grey in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. James Paul in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia.

Just a few of the 2,800 names released today - children who died in Canada's residential schools, victims of Canada's attempted genocide against First Nations peoples. Another 1,600 dead remain unnamed and/or unidentified, and hundreds more are still being uncovered.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/201 ... eased.html

That horror is just the tip of the iceberg:

"Catholic Mass Grave Sites of 350,800 Missing Children Found in Ireland, Spain, Canada"
https://adoptionland.org/3443/catholic- ... in-canada/

I would never want to take the Catholic Church off of the hotseat, of course, but it's worth mentioning that Canada's residential schools were run - on behalf of the government - by a host of denominations, including the Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian, and United churches. All were guilty of Christian supremacist bigotry and the most horrible physical, sexual, and psychological abuses, as well as crimes of neglect, murder, and other acts of genocide, physical & cultural.

Canada gets a pretty easy ride internationally, often i feel in deference to our public perception compared to that of our more aggressive neighbors to the south, but we've been as bad or worse in our time as Leopold in the Belgian Congo, as the Trail of Tears in the USA, as the Australians to their Indigenous peoples and everybody else who has needed to wipe out and/or enslave a native population in order to exploit the natural resources.

Thanks for pointing that out, didn’t know it. If you think about it, from a logical/historical point of view it’s “obvious” that Canada’s behaviour couldn’t have been much different than that of its neighbour, but actually Canada’s image abroad is that of the quiet easy country.

[Ciderman]

Kim Shattuck

Leadsinger The Muffs
Guitarist The Pandoras
Guitarist The Coolies
Guitarist The Pixies for a short period
Co singer on Lori Meyers of NOFX


Only 56 yrs old.....sad....

https://pitchfork.com/news/the-muffs-kim...ead-at-56/

[Mike from Boston]

Diahann Carroll, 84

Groundbreaking actress, first female black lead in Julia. Also starred in Dynasty.

[Low D]

Ginger Baker, 80. Probably older than he had any business being. From the CBC obit:

Baker wielded his blues power and jazz technique to help break open popular music and become one of the world's most admired and feared musicians.

Feared indeed! If you've not seen the film "Beware Mr. Baker", now's a good time.

[Mike from Boston]

Ginger Baker, 80. Probably older than he had any business being. From the CBC obit:

Baker wielded his blues power and jazz technique to help break open popular music and become one of the world's most admired and feared musicians.

Feared indeed! If you've not seen the film "Beware Mr. Baker", now's a good time.

Heard a clip of an old promoter saying that Ginger's rider included "a case of beer, two black hookers and a white limo"

[Low D]

Just learned today that the great Jimmy Johnson, long-time stalwart of the southern soul scene, died last month (Sep 5), aged 76.



As a studio musician in the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, a member of the Swampers, the Del-Rays and others, as an engineer & producer, co-founder of the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, as a songwriter, it's easier to ask who he didn't work with than who he did. One session worth a mention is Aretha Franklin's recording of "Respect" - helped to the top of the charts by Jimmy's undulating swells and bluesy, staccato guitar fills. Another of the greats shuffled off this mortal coil...

[Frances]

the great Jimmy Johnson

Jaysus, he played on Funky Broadway, See Saw/Eleanor Rigby, The Harder They Come, Kodachrome and... I’ll Take You There. Not to mention engineering Wild Horses. Amazing.

[Villajohn]

John Mann,musician,songwriter, actor,best known as a member of Spirit of the West, passed away yesterday.Godspeed John.

[Pogues to Niagara]

Sad news. Really liked Spirit of the West

[Low D]

John Mann,musician,songwriter, actor,best known as a member of Spirit of the West, passed away yesterday.Godspeed John.

So sad! Vancouver is in deep mourning today. To have survived colorectal cancer in his early 50s only to develop early onset alzheimers at the age of 52 seems very unfair, although he continued to perform with SOTW for a bit, laying aside the guitar and using an ipad for lyric assist. As well as acting in TV and theatre, John also released three solo albums, one about his cancer experience was also turned into a play. A life well lived! One thing SOTW did right was realize when it was time to move on. Instead of kicking the shit out of the band trying to make a living, they moved on to other bands & careers, only performing occasionally in their last 10 years. The benefit of this was that they still played like they meant it.

I skipped their final show in 2016 thinking it would be too sad or macabre, only to hear the show was a corker and John was on fire, boo to me!

[Low D]

Just learned that John played satan in a 2004 TV movie adaptation of "Reefer Madness: The Musical", so gonna have to track that down...

[Villajohn]

When Spirit of the West performed at the Bell & Pump Folk Club in Birmingham in 1988,John Mann caused quite a stir with the 'regulars' [av.age 84!]i thought that the small stage would collapse,due to John leaping up and down like a whirling dervish,great!Those regulars had probably never seen anything like that before.....come to think of it i don't think i had.'Spirits' were a great band and i loved John Mann,a great character.

[Frances]

Trayvon Martin










So, that pig Zimmerman has fake dating profiles.

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/arc ... -on-tinder


That scum brags about murdering a teenager to anyone who’ll listen yet is afraid to go through TSA at airports because black people work in that field (as well as every field under the fucking Sun, for Christ’s sake). His equally psycho family runs around Florida “hiding” when not requesting five star hotel stays and charging thousands to any outlet that will stomach them.

His fans and supporters are the kind of racists who end up shooting a family member in their own house because they think they’re getting broken into by the boogie man.


The murder photos are online and are the most awful thing in the world. You see the truth. It’s like the video of the young man being shot point-blank at the Fruitvale bart station. Both cases resonate with the reality of the continued killing of black Americans and a complete lack of social justice, still. An America where the mentally deranged are exalted by morally bankrupt profiteers. It’s never a surprise to learn the same people that support Trump support Zimmerman. Xenophobic abuse of innocents because of the color of their skin. Zimmerman hated Mexicans and posted as much on his social media. His POS Mother may be Peruvian, but that fat fuck identifies as white, just as continuous police reports describe him.

[Mike from Boston]

Give it a rest Frances. Trayvon Martin was a criminal. Zimmerman is a scumbag, too. Both were awful. But the verdict was correct. You can't argue with ballistics.

Based on your rantings, I seriously wonder if you even know any black people. They are not the monolithic, stereotypical victims that you portray them as.
Tons of the people of color I know voted for Trump, some hate him like you. But like any country there are differences of opinion. One black woman I know voted for Trump because of the way Obama and the DNC put out the false stories about Martin and Michael Brown, her brother is a black policeman and she is scared for him.
Many black immigrants, from places like Haiti, Uganda, all voted for Trump and love the America he envisions. One woman, from the Caribbean, says she hates being identified as "black, I just want to be known as a good person and good worker".

Trump is going to win again in 2020 by a landslide. I am a registered Democrat and there isn't one candidate who appeals to mainstream America. Warren? She just lied to a group of black mothers who can't afford Private schools like her. Sanders-HA!. Biden-I always liked him, saw him speak back when he ran years ago (maybe giving a Labor Party Speech by Neil Kinnock?) but between ME Too, Too Old and Hunter he is destroyed. Hillary? Bloomberg?

My final word ( and I am sure you will fire away) You remind me of the Thomas C. Howell character in Red Dawn. "All that hate is going to burn you up". Peace.

[Frances]

Give it a rest Frances. Trayvon Martin was a criminal. Zimmerman is a scumbag, too. Both were awful. But the verdict was correct. You can't argue with ballistics.

Really?

Walking down the street in your parent’s neighborhood is a crime?

Bet you never did anything wrong as a child/teenager, right?

You would feel a lot different if the target was your child.

But you are the same person who joked about a black rapper being murdered in New Orleans.

You give it up, creep.