The Medusa Fora

Low D wrote:Who's that on top?

Brian Auger.

It's from a Monkees special 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee or something like that.

Frances wrote:

Low D wrote:Who's that on top?

Brian Auger.

It's from a Monkees special 33 1/2 Revolutions Per Monkee or something like that.

Didn't know the name, but found this nugget about Brian Auger

The Yardbirds recorded "For Your Love" at the IBC Studios in London on 1 February 1965.[1][2] The majority of the song was recorded with singer Keith Relf and drummer Jim McCarty backed by session musician Ron Prentice on bowed bass, Denny Piercy on bongos, and organist Brian Auger on harpsichord.[1] Guitarists Eric Clapton and Chris Dreja only perform during the song's double-time middle break section.[1] Bassist Paul Samwell-Smith assumed the production duties and is listed as musical director on the 45.[10] At the conclusion of the session, Auger wondered, "Who, in their right mind, is going to buy a pop single with harpsichord on it?"[11]

Shortly after its release by Columbia on 5 March 1965, it became a hit in the UK.[1] When it was released a month later by Epic Records in the US, it became the group's first charting single

Only just learned that the great Donegal fiddler Tommy Peoples passed away, back on the 4th August 2018. While his public profile perhaps remained lower than some over the years, he was a huge part of / influence on the Irish folk revival, and if I missed his passing well I'm sure nobody in Ireland did (I see that President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins, among others, noted his passing).

Phil May, singer for The Pretty Things, dead from complications after surgery for a broken hip. He was 75.

Fred Willard, the comedic actor best known to me from Christopher Guest's movies, has died at 86.


"How much do you think I can bench press?"

Low D wrote:"How much do you think I can bench press?"

Also dealt with his Santa Monica Blvd. porn theater arrest with aplomb, "Let me say this: That's the last time I'm gonna listen to my wife when she says, 'Why don't you go see a movie?'"

He played the RV-ing Grandpa divorcing Grandma on Modern Family too. That may be the only episode I’ve ever watched.

Pretty sure we watched Fernwood Tonight back in the day. Have always meant to try and watch the entire series of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

He worked on King of the Hill a lot. Love that show.

Real People too.

Eddie Haskell!

Ken Osmond, 76 Famous for his role in Leave it to Beaver.

Also, Phyllis George, 70 Miss America and NFL Reporter,
Bob Watson, MLB star, primarily with the Houston Astros, GM with the NY Yankees, and MLB Exec.

As a former US Air Force member, would be remiss not to mention Fred Willard's turn as an Air Force Officer (albeit with shaggy hair) talking to Spinal Tap -

We are such fans of your music and of your records, I'm not speaking of yours personally, but the whole genre"

Did you ever run into a musical group out of Kansas City "Four Jacks and a Jill"...

It’s Prince’s birthday.
Here he is at four months old with his Mother.

R.I.P. the Minneapolis Police force, an end to which was agreed by a.veto-proof majority of city council today, citing the "toxic relationship" and the "failure of incremental reform". Good riddance to bad garbage.

R.I.P. also to the terrible classploitation tv show 'cops', which has been dropped by Paramount. Born to John Langley and Malcolm Barbour via their surrogate the Fox Network during the 1988 writers' strike (no writers, actors or narrators on 'Cops'), Cops was 33 years old. Cops leaves behind a huge number of reality tv children & grandchildren, many of which it's never even met.

It was quite a shock to my young-swiss-naive-self to discover that something like that existed. One of those “wow, only in the USA” moments.

left wrote:It was quite a shock to my young-swiss-naive-self to discover that something like that existed. One of those “wow, only in the USA” moments.

Ugh, i am embarrassed to tell you that CBSA (Canadian Border Services Agency) was involved in one: Border Security: Canada's Front Line, which ran for 3 seasons starting in 2012. In our defence, we had a terrible ideological conservative government at the time.

I'm less embarrassed to tell you that it was stopped after a petition with over 20,000 signatures AND a legal complaint from the BC Civil Liberties Association (took another three years to get rid of the wankers in government).

Pedal steel guitarist Bucky Baxter passed away last month, he was only 65.

Best known to me as a member of Steve Earle & The Dukes in their popular, country-hard-rock major-label supported era (from Guitar Town trough to Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator), he was probably better known to the world for his next gig, playing for Bob Dylan's Never Ending Tour 1992-1999. This began with Bob requesting lessons from Bucky, and I think we can all agree the world is much better off that it ended with Bob just hiring Bucky for the band instead.

Vera Lynn, 103.

In related news... Vera Lynn was still alive?! Huh, apparantly she last.topped the charts at age 92, so I guess it's just me didn't know.

Acclaimed British Shakesperean actor Ian Holm, who will always be the android Ash from the first Alien movie to me (but gets an honorable mention for his role as Napoleon in Time Bandits as well). Holm was 88.