The Little Thread Which Grew - the Apollo '73 to Everything But

[hbeer]

Heidrun, any chance of telling us a little bit about this incredible being whom you just visited in the South, was it. Can you not tell because of security or do you just not have the time right now.


Neither one. He asked me not to write anything about him. He is at a point of re-configuring his existence and needs privacy for that. Being very perceptive, thoughts and energies coming to him through me would disturb that. Not what he said but what I concluded.


We miss your frequent postings and appreciate the small posts you are able to send to us while you are travelling.


This is quite a compliment, isn't it

Explanation: I have three major randomity situations to handle at the moment. One is, I want to shift from software development to auditing/training and that requires much work. The second is, I want to leave my current location in a year or two, and exploring options for the future requires additional work. The third is, my employer owes me a ton of money, and I have to keep juggling balls in the air, some of them rather critical (electricity, phone).

Also I used the last weeks to deliver a TR's course and make Facebook pages for the Clearbird materials and the IVy magazine - both projects of my co-auditor in Copenhagen, who needed assistance.

Sorry that I had to take away time from your thread. I am working with LRH's "bean theory", planting my time first where I expect it to bear fruit. But I do miss the pleasure of chatting with you and the other fine beings here!


Things are started to pick up a little in the business, my phone was ringing off the hook today. Heidrun, a good lap top can be had today for about $500.
I'd even be willing to split one with you so you could Skype from Norway.


I get half a laptop? Neat

Right now I would not know how to pay for the other half. My boss is over EUR 5000 behind and while I would really like a laptop, it isn't a priority right now.

BUT: I am glad that your business is getting better again, and your offer is really touching, thank you so much for that!

Oh BTW I might have a second option in the north. We just found out yesterday that I am the closest auditor (geographically) to the Czech scene. I may get some business from them, or even move there when I leave here.

And another BTW: Geir is very OSA aware. He said he is thinking about filming the event, but not publish all of it, just selected pieces.



Just thing an Aboard the Apollo - "73 lap top. Now, that would be a first!! You could attend all of our lunches and brunches which we are starting to hold and we could get to know you better, you know, pick up your emanations and aura, plus some information about you from the tone and inflection of your voice and the aura which you project into the camera. You and I already did that but Sweetness and Purple Haze, Mark and the others would love to experience that as well.


Yes, I would love to "meet" them too! Skype can do a conference. My son just showed me how it is done. I'm just not sure how it works with the web cam - we would have to try!


Hope you can write more soon and that Norway is a big success and you celebrate with a platter of sardines and some Norwegian beer. Prost!!
Lakey

Norway really feels like a historical event. I am so looking forward to it. But before that, Copenhagen. There is a cute non-SCN Dane who will meet me at the airport for coffee, before I go into the work meetings. The horoscope says he won't make me happy, but he is real "eye candy" (yes, I have that button too!) So, I am very much looking forward to Denmark



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[lkwdblds]

Don't forget Tivoli Garden!

Norway really feels like a historical event. I am so looking forward to it. But before that, Copenhagen. There is a cute non-SCN Dane who will meet me at the airport for coffee, before I go into the work meetings. The horoscope says he won't make me happy, but he is real "eye candy" (yes, I have that button too!) So, I am very much looking forward to Denmark



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Don't forget Tivoli Garden in Copenhagen. I went there only one day in my entire life and just by chance I saw a sign in the park, Marlene Dietrich, live tonight, one night only! The price was only 5 Danish Krona, equivalent to $1 U.S.. What a fantastic show that beautiful woman put on! Everything was sung in French or English as she refused to use German since this was 1967, and the memories of WWII still had a big influence on people. She was still quite attractive in her mid 60's and like Elvis, she wore flashy clothes, a slinky dress with lots of sequins with a slit up the side of the dress. Great personal presence and charisma. She had it in the manner of John F. Kennedy or Yvonne Jentzch from CCLA.

The audience, mostly Danes, of course, went nuts for her and there were two encores. For the first encore, she apologized to us all but said she had to sing the song in German because it could not be translated effectively to any other language. the song was "Johnny"! You know, Johnny, wenn du geburstag hast, Johnny, bin ich bei dir ein gast. Then we applauded so much that she did her second and last encore which she said with apologies had to also be sung in German and it was her greatest hit, from the days of the Weimar Republic, around 1930-31, "Lilli Marlene".

One great thing about Ms. Dietrich's performance was that one always had the impression she was looking right at you and she seemed to always be making eye contact with you whenever you looked at her. I saw only one other live performer with that abilitiy and that was the late, the great Nat King Cole. I saw him in Anaheim in 1964, at Melohyland, a theater in the round across the street from Disneyland. The audience surrounded the stage on all sides and yet Nat always seemed to be looking at you as he turned effortlessly as he sang. I think he closed with his greatest standard, "Mona Lisa" I also saw Ray Charles live at a small bar in Houston in 1965 when I was there working at NASA on the Apollo program. He put on a great show and he already had the "Raylets" singing as his back up. It was held in a small intimate club, probably not more than 100 or so in the audience. Marlene, Nat and Ray Charles. Those were the three most memorable performances which I witnessed live. They were all in the 60's, so long ago.
Lakey

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

live performances (in no particular order) that I saw

I saw Paul McCartney sing "Yesterday" accompanied by three of his friends at Candlestick Park plus a number of other tunes. yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

Moby Grape's first appearance at the Fillmore, on the bill with the Airplane, that Skip Spence had just left to form Moby Grape.

Frank (AKA Old Blue Eyes) at the Circle Star Theater, another theater in the round.

Bing at the Concord Pavilion. his last performance. he died on the golf course in Spain a few months later.

Maurice Chevalier

Pete Seeger

The Eagles

Linda Ronstadt

Jackson Browne before he became famous (at the Troubador)

The jackson Five before Michael became white

Don Ho, one of my favorites.

Joel Grey

Janis and Big Brother many a time

The Dead

Cubby O'Brien, Annette, Doreen, Jimmy Dodd, et al Mickey, Donald, and company

Monterey Pop Festival every performance, except one: Ravi , the Mamas and Papas, The Who, Jimi, the Association, Beach Boys etc.

Altamont the entire show including the Flying Burrito Brothers, the Stones, the Airplane, and everybody else

Chuck Berry

Ricky Nelson

The Doors

Dave Clark Five

Taj Mahal

Miles Davis

Incredible String Band

Peter, Paul, and Mary

Arlo Guthrie

BB King

James Brown and his Band of Renown (back when my date and I were the only white people in the audience)

Otis Day and the Knights (2 summers ago)- from Animal House

The Coasters

The Drifters

Bobby Freeman

Joan Baez

Bob Dylan

Joni Mitchell

John Denver prior to a Bay to Breakers

Jimmy Buffett (there is nothing quite so bonding as singing "Why Don't We Get drunk and Screw" with twenty thousand of your close personal friends

Buck Owens and his Buckaroos

Toby Keith

Cream

Mose Allison

Roger Miller "Dang Me"

then there are all the stage plays starting with The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd" with Cyril Richard when I was 14

through My Fair Lady, Cats, Starlight Express (in London) , Miss Saigon (London also), Wicked, Fiddler, Camelot, South Pacific, H.M.S. Pinafore, Music Man, Best little Whorehouse in Texas, Oklahoma, Barnum, Camelot, Annie, Sweeny Todd, Evita, Oliver, Peter Pan, Chorus Line, King and I, etc etc etc

We saw Richard Burton in Camelot. He made a several thousand seat theater feel like an intimate cabaret.

Rex Harrison in "My Fair Lady"

Robert Goulet phoned his performance in something we saw. ughh

Yul Brynner in the King and I was good, but not great.

Our daughter would have performed on stage with him, if he hadn't died. He had been signed. She got the lead child's role. Not bad for a four year old.

Our family likes live performances.

 

[dexter gelfand]

OK, quiz time

I saw Paul McCartney sing "Yesterday" accompanied by three of his friends at Candlestick Park plus a number of other tunes. yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

Moby Grape's first appearance at the Fillmore, on the bill with the Airplane, that Skip Spence had just left to form Moby Grape.

Frank (AKA Old Blue Eyes) at the Circle Star Theater, another theater in the round.

Bing at the Concord Pavilion. his last performance. he died on the golf course in Spain a few months later.

Maurice Chevalier

Don Ho, one of my favorites.

Joel Grey

Janis and Big Brother many a time

The Dead

Cubby O'Brien, Annette, Doreen, Jimmy Dodd, et al Mickey, Donald, and company

Monterey Pop Festival every performance, except one: Ravi , the Mamas and Papas, The Who, Jimi, the Association, Beach Boys etc.

Altamont the entire show including the Flying Burrito Brothers, the Stones, the Airplane, and everybody else

Chuck Berry

Ricky Nelson

The Doors

Dave Clark Five

Taj Mahal

Miles Davis

Incredible String Band

Peter, Paul, and Mary

Arlo Guthrie

BB King

James Brown and his Band of Renown (back when my date and I were the only white people in the audience)

Otis Day and the Knights (2 summers ago)- from Animal House

The Coasters

The Drifters

Joan Baez

Bob Dylan

Joni Mitchell

John Denver prior to a Bay to Breakers

Jimmy Buffett (there is nothing quite so bonding as singing "Why Don't We Get drunk and Screw" with twenty thousand of your close personal friends

Buck Owens and his Buckaroos

Toby Keith

Cream

Mose Allison

Roger Miller "Dang Me"

then there are all the stage plays starting with The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd" with Cyril Richard when I was 14

through My Fair Lady, Cats, Starlight Express (in London) , Miss Saigon (London also), Wicked, Fiddler, Camelot, South Pacific, H.M.S. Pinafore, Music Man, Best little Whorehouse in Texas, Oklahoma, Barnum, Camelot, Annie, Sweeny Todd, Evita, Oliver, Peter Pan, King and I, etc etc etc

We saw Richard Burton in Camelot. He made a several thousand seat theater feel like an intimate cabaret.

Rex Harrison in "My Fair Lady"

Robert Goulet phoned his performance in something we saw. ughh

Yul Brynner in the King and I was good, but not great.

Our daughter would have performed on stage with him, if he hadn't died. He had been signed. She got the lead child's role. Not bad for a four year old.

Our family likes live performances.

Wish I'd been there, Carm-especially Jimi, and Miles Davis. While I never knew Miles, we had some friends in common, and I've got some great stories from them about him.

The only one from that list I've seen live was Arlo Guthrie. Mostly on the east coast, I've seen Edgar Winters, (I met his brother the great Johnny Winter at CCNY), Allman Bros, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Jeff Beck, Leon Russell (3 times), Yes, David Sanborn, Orleans, Brecker Bothers, Gentle Giant, Ten Years After, Al Jarreau, Sonny Rollins, and Pete Seeger, among others.

OK, quiz time: There have been 3 musicians who, between the 1940's and the 1980's, all shared these qualities:

(1) They virtually revolutionized the concept of how their instruments were played, and influenced everyone who followed, and were widely considered to be the best ever at their respective instruments

(2) They all died young, under substance-abuse related conditions

(3) They all had Cherokee bloodlines

You've got 30 minutes to hand in your papers

Best, Dex

 

[hbeer]

Live Performances That I Saw!!

Our family likes live performances.

Hah, what a list!!!

Now if I start to type a list of all the live performances that I saw, I would still be typing tomorrow.

Most of the operas they played in the Vienna State Opera between 1968 and 1973. Several times a week. All of Wagner, Verdi, Puccini, Beethoven, Richard Strauss and and and...

I still can sing some 50 opera parts (maybe more). Such a great love of mine. The fondest of memories.



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[CarmeloOrchards]

Wish I'd been there, Carm-especially Jimi, and Miles Davis. While I never knew Miles, we had some friends in common, and I've got some great stories from them about him.

The only one from that list I've seen live was Arlo Guthrie. Mostly on the east coast, I've seen Edgar Winters, (I met his brother the great Johnny Winter at CCNY), Allman Bros, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Jeff Beck, Leon Russell (3 times), Yes, David Sanborn, Orleans, Brecker Bothers, Gentle Giant, Ten Years After, Al Jarreau, Sonny Rollins, and Pete Seeger, among others.

OK, quiz time: There have been 3 musicians who, between the 1940's and the 1980's, all shared these qualities:

(1) They virtually revolutionized the concept of how their instruments were played, and influenced everyone who followed, and were widely considered to be the best ever at their respective instruments

(2) They all died young, under substance-abuse related conditions

(3) They all had Cherokee bloodlines

You've got 30 minutes to hand in your papers

Best, Dex

only guesses:


Roy Rogers was a Choktaw (spelling?) so that let's him out (joke)

George Burns?

Alfalfa of Our Gang?

Jimi Hendrix comes to mind as a possibility.

Kurt Cobain maybe?

Charlie Parker?


musicians and drugs. What a concept. I'm shocked!

 

[lkwdblds]

and....and...Mozart and Rossini

Hah, what a list!!!

Now if I start to type a list of all the live performances that I saw, I would still be typing tomorrow.

Most of the operas they played in the Vienna State Opera between 1968 and 1973. Several times a week. All of Wagner, Verdi, Puccini, Beethoven, Richard Strauss and and and...

Please don't leave out the most famous citizen ever from your country, except perhaps the evil Hitler. Mozart is one of the great opera composers and also do not forget a really uptone and talented guy named Rossini. I promised Mozart on his death bed that I would do all I can to see his music lives on so I must speak up here.

I still can sing some 50 opera parts (maybe more). Such a great love of mine. The fondest of memories.



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For Dexter's post - I was a big Ricky Nelson fan, we were about the exact same age, maybe I am 3 months older. I liked his stuff from the beginning and liked the song he wrote about being snubbed in New York City in 1969, "Garden Party" I used to go to a club in Hollwood called the Garret and Rick Nelson and his Stone Canyon Band played their often. I really wanted to see his act and try to talk to him. This was around 19657-68. He was no longer a big star. I think I made a date to go once and my date cancelled out at the last minute and I did not go alone. I sure wish I had. Later on, he performed at the big amusement park in Orange Country, Ca called Knott's Berry Farm. This was as late as the early 80's and he still had his Stone Canyon Band. One day around 1984 I went there with my wife and 2 year old Son and Rick was scheduled to be there in the evening. I tried to get my wife to stay, but our boy was only two and it would have been too late for him to stay out and would have upset her schedule and so forth so we did not stay. The next year he died. I still watch him on Youtube, he represents the time period of my youth and represents it well.
Lakey

 

[dexter gelfand]

The power of music

For Dexter's post - I was a big Ricky Nelson fan, we were about the exact same age, maybe I am 3 months older. I liked his stuff from the beginning and liked the song he wrote about being snubbed in New York City in 1969, "Garden Party" I used to go to a club in Hollwood called the Garret and Rick Nelson and his Stone Canyon Band played their often. I really wanted to see his act and try to talk to him. This was around 19657-68. He was no longer a big star. I think I made a date to go once and my date cancelled out at the last minute and I did not go alone. I sure wish I had. Later on, he performed at the big amusement park in Orange Country, Ca called Knott's Berry Farm. This was as late as the early 80's and he still had his Stone Canyon Band. One day around 1984 I went there with my wife and 2 year old Son and Rick was scheduled to be there in the evening. I tried to get my wife to stay, but our boy was only two and it would have been too late for him to stay out and would have upset her schedule and so forth so we did not stay. The next year he died. I still watch him on Youtube, he represents the time period of my youth and represents it well.
Lakey

Great remembrance Lakey, thanks for sharing that. For those of us so attuned, particular pieces of music are connected to pleasure moments, as well as other experiences in a most intimate way.

Aside to Carmelo: In your list you actually did name 2 of the 3 musicians. The 3rd may be a bit obscure for some. I'll allow a little more time for somebody to try to guess

Best Dex

 

[lkwdblds]

Connecting music to incidents in your life...

Great remembrance Lakey, thanks for sharing that. For those of us so attuned, particular pieces of music are connected to pleasure moments, as well as other experiences in a most intimate way.

Aside to Carmelo: In your list you actually did name 2 of the 3 musicians. The 3rd may be a bit obscure for some. I'll allow a little more time for somebody to try to guess

Best Dex

High School Grad Night, Spring of 1957 - The song, a white sport coat and a pink carnation was big then. I rented a white sport coat and put a pink carnation in it. I gave the girl, Barbara Schuman (Bobbi) a corsage. I still have a picture with Bobbi and me and 3 other couples from Grad Night at Frank Sennes Moulin Rouge night club on the Sunset Strip. The picture comes in a Moulin Rouge holder which acts as a frame and is in mint condition. I am not very computer savy but I would like to scan it and post it as my Avatar maybe. My ex wife and Son are very computer literate and could help me get it done but they don't like me spending so much time posting on ESMB so they might not cooperate. Oh yes, OSA would never recognize me from that picture as a 17 year old, 53 years later, there is not much similarity left.

My Mom and Dad had a song back in the late 1930's called, "and the Angel"s sing" It was their song. My Mom had recently come to the City of the Angels from her home town of Dayton, Ohio (a real nice place, BTW) and they told me the song was on the radio the night they met and became their song. They met in 1938 and married in February, 1939.

Christmas of 1948 - Yes, we celebrated both Christmas and Chanukah. My parents bought the record by Gene Autry, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer on 78 rpm and just let it play and replay when my Brother and I woke up on Christmas day.

World War II - We owned the Spike Jones hit, "Der Fuhrer's Face" You know, "Ven da fuhrer says ve ist da master race den we heil, pfffft, heil pfffft, right in the fuhrer's face. Not to love the fuhrer is a big disgrace so we heil, pffft, heil, pfffft right in the fuhrer's face. " Yes, I checked it out and its on Youtube.

Late 1980's my Kids growing up - the "Ghostbuster Song"

Late 196o's "Edelwies" from Sound of Music
Mid 1960's "Puff the Magic Dragon" song by Peter, Paul and Mary.
Late 1960's "Simon and Garfunkel" with the hit song from the movie, The Graduate.
1954-55 Elvis Jail House Rock or any other Elvis hit mid to late 1950's
1964 - "I want to Hold your Hand" or any song by the Beatles.
etc., etc.
!972 - Elton John and "Rocket Man"

A CCLA married couple used to make love in the morning to "Rocket Man" on a regular basis. One was an HQS Course supervisor and the other was in Div 6. Their berthing was in the basement right next to Treasury Division, perhaps 12 feet away from us, separated only by own of those folding partitions behind which women dress in old Western Movies. The partition did not go up to the ceiling and offered no soundproofing whatsoever. We in Treasury would hold our muster and do our Chinese School Drill while about 12 feet away these two love birds were going at it. The sound effects were great. When they were done, they dressed (there was no bathroom down there) and they walked out, first the guy and then the woman. We would say, "Hi guys' hows it going?" They would respond in like kind. This was way before those no 2D type rules were imposed on Sea Org member. Usually, Rocket Man was playing on a tape but they would turn it off just as they were about to leave the area.

Lakey

 

[Terril park]

He said that does not matter at all, a Jew is a Jew and I can spot one a mile away. I thought that was absolutely amazing!!

Would he spot me as one? My grandmother was a russian jew of
possibly dubious and heretical tendancies. She did fortune telling, of possibly a squirrel nature. But she knew when I was born despite being the other side of the atlantic.

Most of the rest of me is finnish with some brit and irish seasoning. Pretty typical for one born in the great melting pot of the US.

I attended a very good grammer school , " Hackney Downs", which had
half of the student body jewish. They were really a smart bunch! Most of my personal friends of that time were jewish, and some still are.

I used to play poker with friends, one was that business supremo Alan
Sugar of TV Apprentice fame. Jewish.

Emma thinks my jewishness is hidden by the pink hat. Lol!

Take it away, and I still have a caucasian nose.

 

[lkwdblds]

Only 1/4 Jewish, nah... not even Leonid would tag you

Would he spot me as one? My grandmother was a russian jew of
possibly dubious and heretical tendancies. She did fortune telling, of possibly a squirrel nature. But she knew when I was born despite being the other side of the atlantic.

Most of the rest of me is finnish with some brit and irish seasoning. Pretty typical for one born in the great melting pot of the US.

I attended a very good grammer school , " Hackney Downs", which had
half of the student body jewish. They were really a smart bunch! Most of my personal friends of that time were jewish, and some still are.

I used to play poker with friends, one was that business supremo Alan
Sugar of TV Apprentice fame. Jewish.

Emma thinks my jewishness is hidden by the pink hat. Lol!

Take it away, and I still have a caucasian nose.

Terril - With only 1/4 or 1/8 Jewish blood, depending on whether your grandmother was married to a Jew or not, I do not think even Leonid would tag you. Don't forget, I am 100% Jewish. One Grandpa and Grandma from the Ukraine and the other Grandpa from Poland and the Grandmother from Lithuania. The Lithuanian branch of the family settled in the Cincinnati area in the 1850's and that grandma was born in the USA, the others were all foreign born.

With the Nazi's, I think a lot of people only 1/4 Jewish escaped detection. With only 1/8 Jewish, they would probably not be rounded up. I don't know the exact percentages and don't even want to know, the whole thing which happened in Germany is disgusting beyond any words one could say. I know, the Nazi's arranged things so that Jesus would not be classified as Jewish. This was accomplished by using the Virgin birth idea so none of Joseph's family counted in the computations. I believe that only Mary was classified as being Jewish and since it was a virgin birth, there were no blood lines from any other person so with all the grandparents, etc. eliminated, the most that good be said was that Jesus was 1/8 Jewish so the lines were drawn that 1/8 was Okay. I am no expert on this so if I am wrong, someone correct me.

If you have lived around Jewish people you get so you can tell at a glance who is Jewish. I am pretty good at it and can probably guess it right about 80 to 85% of the time. Besides the looks, there are mannerisms If a person grew up in New York City, he or she might acquire Jewish mannerisms and know Yiddish expressions and so forth and not even be Jewish. When Leonid tagged me from 100' a way, I knew he was much better at it than me. Some times I am not sure and have to watch for a while, listen to them talk or watch their mannerisms. In most cases it is easy to tell but some are boderline calls. With me, no one has guessed me Jewish for years, mostly Italian or Greek so I came to believe I did not look Jewish but Leonid put a quick end to that myth. It depends who is doing the looking, an expert such as Leonid will score 100% on people fully Jewish but on 1/4 Jewish, even he would not get it.
Lakey
P.,S. A certain auditor who posts here on this thread is also 1/4 Jewish, I am sure you know who I am talking about.

 

[hbeer]

Please don't leave out the most famous citizen ever from your country, except perhaps the evil Hitler. Mozart is one of the great opera composers and also do not forget a really uptone and talented guy named Rossini. I promised Mozart on his death bed that I would do all I can to see his music lives on so I must speak up here.

I didn't forget Mozart, Lakey... but at the time I had a favourite tenor, James King, and his voice wasn't Mozart-able, so I didn't go to many Mozart operas. I saw some, of course. But most Mozart music I only discovered much later.

I have a large Mozart collection on CD, but my own voice is also not very Mozart-able, so I never sang it much. On the other hand, when I heard some dramatic soprano say that she was singing Mozart in order to cultivate her technique, I started to sing some.

This is now long in the past - I wish I could make the time for daily practice, but somehow the day is always over before I have done my 48 hours of chores



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[CarmeloOrchards]

Rick Nelson and his Stone Canyon Band played their often. Later on, he performed at the big amusement park in Orange Country, Ca called Knott's Berry Farm. This was as late as the early 80's and he still had his Stone Canyon Band. One day around 1984 I went there with my wife and 2 year old Son and Rick was scheduled to be there in the evening. I tried to get my wife to stay, but our boy was only two and it would have been too late for him to stay out and would have upset her schedule and so forth so we did not stay.

Do you remember Ricky, Dean, and Walter Brennan in Rio Bravo?

There was some other guy too. Duke somebody.

We schlepped our kids everywhere. I remember our daughter, age almost one falling asleep in a pile of dirty clothes, in our motel across the street from Disneyland. Our 3 year old son, asleep between the two waterfalls on Pirates of the Carribean.

by the time our daughter was 4, she was staying up to ten acting on stage in local musicals.

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

High School Grad Night, Spring of 1957 - The song, a white sport coat and a pink carnation was big then. I rented a white sport coat and put a pink carnation in it. I gave the girl, Barbara Schuman (Bobbi) a corsage. I still have a picture with Bobbi and me and 3 other couples from Grad Night at Frank Sennes Moulin Rouge night club on the Sunset Strip. The picture comes in a Moulin Rouge holder which acts as a frame and is in mint condition.

I remember my junior high promotion dance. We played Dylan, "The Times They are a Changin'" Had a make out party after where we all switched around every so often

I never even thought about going to my high school grad nite. I was so not into that scene.

Late 1980's my Kids growing up - the "Ghostbuster Song"

Late 196o's "Edelwies" from Sound of Music
Mid 1960's "Puff the Magic Dragon" song by Peter, Paul and Mary.
Late 1960's "Simon and Garfunkel" with the hit song from the movie, The Graduate.
1954-55 Elvis Jail House Rock or any other Elvis hit mid to late 1950's
1964 - "I want to Hold your Hand" or any song by the Beatles.
etc., etc.
!972 - Elton John and "Rocket Man"

Our kids all, independently, discovered "The Beatles" "The Rolling Stones" "The Doors"

Going and coming back from skiing, we play our ipods on the SUV's stereo. My youngest daughter's and my playlists are virtually impossible to say which is who's. She has more rap. We both have Beatles, Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Marley, Eagles, showtunes, etc

One night around ten PM, we were driving back from her college in Colorado. She would come home for summer. Just as the sign "Welcome to Winslow, AZ" appeared in our headlights, the radio, that we were tuned to, started playing the Eagles' "Take It Easy." I never have seen a flatbed Ford in Winslow. I have no idea where Jackson got that image.

 

[lkwdblds]

I hope you can spend more time on music and opera

I didn't forget Mozart, Lakey... but at the time I had a favourite tenor, James King, and his voice wasn't Mozart-able, so I didn't go to many Mozart operas. I saw some, of course. But most Mozart music I only discovered much later.

I have a large Mozart collection on CD, but my own voice is also not very Mozart-able, so I never sang it much. On the other hand, when I heard some dramatic soprano say that she was singing Mozart in order to cultivate her technique, I started to sing some.

This is now long in the past - I wish I could make the time for daily practice, but somehow the day is always over before I have done my 48 hours of chores

Heidrun, thanks for your clarifcation. I hope very much that when your life settles out as regards your change of careers and jobs, you will have the money to hire someone to delegate some of your chores to so you can spend some of your time on you love of singing, your opera and your music in general. For me, I know I would not have signed up for the MEST Universe without a guarantee that there would be music here. Same thing for agreeing to be put on Earth in a body. Without music, I don"t come. Before Scientology when I was being battered by people lying to me, not keeping agreements, not keeping dates, etc and had no tech at all at my disposal, I used music as a balm to soothe my tortured nerves. As I got some tech under my belt to handle the lies and such then I used music to arrive in the tone band of aesthetics. I like the tone bands of aesthetics and of games. I have back off from serenity of beingness, just pure static, etc.. The very highest states seem to be an area of no game, just being there serenely. I've been there, done that. Games and aesthetics have more appeal to me at this stage of spiritual development.

Heidrun, the opera I told you about, the prequel to the Magic Flute called "The Philosopher's Stone" or "Der Stein der Weisen" is now on Youtube. Shikaneder's troupe in Vienna who put this opera on had four resident composers, 3 of who were also singers. The Musical Director, J.S. Hennebert wrote the biggest part of the opera then Gerl the bass, Shacht, the tenor and Shikaneder the main writier of the story and also the Producer wrote some arias. For the 1790 season, Mozart had some down time and was not busy and he was close friends with all of these peeople, and they got him to write two arias containing continous meowing lke a cat. For the next season, 1791, Shikaneder talked Mozart into writing a sequel fo the Philosopher's Stone called the Magic Flute which went on to greatness and everlasting fame. After Mozart's untimely death in 1791, Shikaneder's team collaborated on two or three sequels to the Magic Flute. Sometime around 1793, the core nucleous of his group disbanded but Shikaneder stayed on in Vienna, became rich and famous and developed a new team.
Lakey

 

[lkwdblds]

I remember my junior high promotion dance. We played Dylan, "The Times They are a Changin'" Had a make out party after where we all switched around every so often

Yum, that sounds like a lot of fun, young junior high students of both sexes sampling what was available for them, there in the school.

I never even thought about going to my high school grad nite. I was so not into that scene.

Cool!


Our kids all, independently, discovered "The Beatles" "The Rolling Stones" "The Doors"

Funny you mention that, in 2006,my daughter shows up at home with several Simon and Garfunkel CD's. I asked here where she got those. She said that she, then 19 was in a coffee house with her boyfriend and heard Simon and Garfunkle being played. She said that they both said simultaneously that they had to buy those CD's because the music was so beautiful.

Going and coming back from skiing, we play our ipods on the SUV's stereo. My youngest daughter's and my playlists are virtually impossible to say which is who's. She has more rap. We both have Beatles, Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Marley, Eagles, showtunes, etc

One night around ten PM, we were driving back from her college in Colorado. She would come home for summer. Just as the sign "Welcome to Winslow, AZ" appeared in our headlights, the radio, that we were tuned to, started playing the Eagles' "Take It Easy." I never have seen a flatbed Ford in Winslow. I have no idea where Jackson got that image.

Its good to know that "cream rises to the top." Perceptive people of every generation will sample and partake of the great things which the previous generation had to offer. This seems to be more true now than in the past. In the 50's when Elvis was the rage, very few kids were interested in songs of the past with the exception of Boogie Woogie which everyone seemed to like. Probably the huge advancements in recording technology and the broad availabiltiy of music through ipods, etc. have helped to create this desirable phenomena.
Lakey

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

Its good to know that "cream rises to the top." Perceptive people of every generation will sample and partake of the great things which the previous generation had to offer. This seems to be more true now than in the past. In the 50's when Elvis was the rage, very few kids were interested in songs of the past with the exception of Boogie Woogie which everyone seemed to like. Probably the huge advancements in recording technology and the broad availabiltiy of music through ipods, etc. have helped to create this desirable phenomena.
Lakey

I remember in the nineties, my daughter, who was off in Colorado for college, phoning me from a music store (formerly record shop). She wanted my recommendation on some Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra CDs.

 

[SweetnessandLight]

Travel is Sweet!

Wish I'd been there, Carm-especially Jimi, and Miles Davis. While I never knew Miles, we had some friends in common, and I've got some great stories from them about him.

The only one from that list I've seen live was Arlo Guthrie. Mostly on the east coast, I've seen Edgar Winters, (I met his brother the great Johnny Winter at CCNY), Allman Bros, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Jeff Beck, Leon Russell (3 times), Yes, David Sanborn, Orleans, Brecker Bothers, Gentle Giant, Ten Years After, Al Jarreau, Sonny Rollins, and Pete Seeger, among others.

OK, quiz time: There have been 3 musicians who, between the 1940's and the 1980's, all shared these qualities:

(1) They virtually revolutionized the concept of how their instruments were played, and influenced everyone who followed, and were widely considered to be the best ever at their respective instruments

(2) They all died young, under substance-abuse related conditions

(3) They all had Cherokee bloodlines

You've got 30 minutes to hand in your papers

Best, Dex

One is Jimi Hendrix...

I've heard my whole life about the Tivoli Gardens, I would love to go there! Please Heidrun, take a mental snapshot for me!

 

[lkwdblds]

May the spirit of Marlene Dietrich still be there....

One is Jimi Hendrix...

I've heard my whole life about the Tivoli Gardens, I would love to go there! Please Heidrun, take a mental snapshot for me!

May the spirit of Marlene Dietrich be there to greet you, dressed in a svelte tight sequened cocktail dress slit up the side, exposing a glimpse of her famous "insured for $1,000,000 legs. She will be standing by the lampost oufdoors waiting for her lover to arrive, the one, the only Marlene.

Just be careful, she will probably be smoking with the cigarette inserted into one of those long stylish cigarette holders. In fact, make her put out the cigarette, especially true for Sweetness and Light. We don't want her to stimulate her allergies and not be able to attend our next luncheon. I imagine the same is true for Heidrun.
Lakey

 

[lkwdblds]

Wasn't that Rick Nelson in that Western movie role?

Do you remember Ricky, Dean, and Walter Brennan in Rio Bravo?

There was some other guy too. Duke somebody.

Yes, wasn't his name Ricky or Rick Something.... No it sure wasn't Ricky Ricardo. OMG it was Rick Nelson. I just discovered that he played in that movie maybe 6 months ago and went to Youtube and watched the scene. He was a pretty decent actor not surprisingly, co starring on his parents radio and TV shows for many years. I just happened to see on Youtube videos from a concert Rick gave in 1985 just hours before he boarded the plane on which he crashed. He was 45 years old and looked great for his age, easily passable for his late 30's. There is a great video of Rick mixed into a video with his twin Son's and a nephew, I believe, all singing Garden Party, the 3 young men are recorded live and Rick when he was about their age, is mixed right into the concert so it looks as if he is singing right there with them. It brought a tear to me eye (Harry Belafonte).

We schlepped our kids everywhere. I remember our daughter, age almost one falling asleep in a pile of dirty clothes, in our motel across the street from Disneyland. Our 3 year old son, asleep between the two waterfalls on Pirates of the Carribean.

by the time our daughter was 4, she was staying up to ten acting on stage in local musicals.

I think my 2 year Son was up to attending the Rick Nelson concert but try telling that to my wife. I tried to sell her on it but she would have no part of it. You know, 50% Yenta and 50% French. You know how tough the Yenta part is to reason with and even the French part of the family from Normandy is no bed of roses to try and deal with. They were raised old school, very strict about raising kids, very old school. I even thought of driving the two of them home and coming back for the concert alone but my wife lectured me that I was not single anymore and had a family and there was no way she was going to let me come back as if I were a bachelor. This was the Yenta part doing most of the speaking but with an assist from the French part. But in all honesty, I knew she was right, had I come back on my own, it would have been a treasonable act towards my marriage.

Its great how your wife had a different viewpoint and your kids took full advantage of the situation and had some great experiences. I laud you for pulling of that type of parenting.
Lakey