Music
By Patrick Van Roy On October 24th, 2020Earlier this week was a sad Anniversary
October 20 1977
The band’s chartered plane runs out of fuel due to a faulty engine and crashes in Mississippi. Singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and backup singer Cassie Gaines are killed, along with three crew members. Lynyrd Skynyrd would disband after the accident, with the remaining members reuniting a decade later.
It is a sad anniversary. Skynyrd are my favourite American band and one of America’s greatest. Ronnie Van Zant was such a great singer. I’ll never get tired of listening to his magic voice.
The Ballad of Curtis Loew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSvKkMs2ieo
that has always been one of my favorite cuts, good choice Pete. here’s another
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY8EqZH0R_w&ab_channel=StanimirI.Angelov
I gave up trying to play “Simple Man” thirty years ago. Reading music is too mathematical for me. Then one day someone invented YouTube and someone else showed me how it’s done.
Hint: A good video beats a hundred books if you want to learn an instrument or a song.
Simple Man is a stunning song. Steve Gaines composed and picked the intro so well it’s untrue. It’s one of my great achievements that I can actually not butcher it now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMmTkKz60W8
I just found out the pub tonight, that James Randi has sadly died.
He was a truly brilliant man, who throughout his long and illustrious career, exposed many frauds, such as Peter Popoff, and Uri Geller.
The world is a slightly darker place without him.
Rest in peace James. You were a truly brilliant man.
“The Amazing Randi “ was a frequent guest on local radio and TV Shows.
Sweet, brilliant man, respected by Penn Jillette and others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT1x3grPNEY
Back in the day, the Johnny Carson show was a huge national late night show in the States. Thanks to some tips from Randi, Uri Geller was debunked in front of the whole country on that show
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.5772498/magicians-do-not-lie-about-the-universe-says-performer-penn-jillette-of-the-amazing-randi-1.5772898
Penn Jillette
That’s how good he was
Phantom, I’ve never actually seen that tissue trick video before, thanks so much for posting that.
The nearest thing we ever came to a real Gandaf, was James Randi.
Here is the first part of exposing the fraud, Uri Geller:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnDHPOWXFVI