Well it seems that another young talent died . Sunday August 26, R&B singer Aaliyah died in a plane crash leaving the Bahamas. It's just a shame because she was very talent both as a singer and her acting career(See Romeo Must die with Jet Li). It just seems all the talent people die before their time and the ones you just want to go away live forever (i.e. Celine Dion. Britney Spears).
Second what's with rock stars or musicans in general and small planes? If I were a famous singer there is now way in h$ll I'd get on a small plane. I don't have a death wish. I just seems you don't have a chance. You get on one and you die! It's that bloody simple! I mean who all died in plane crashed. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valence, the Big Booper, half of Lynard Skynard, John Denver(i didn't like him), Aaliyah, and Payne Stewart( i know he was a golfer but he was famous and in a small plane and something happened to the air pressure.
Take the bus or a train. Amtrak has a bad record but at least you have a better chance at surviving on the ground!
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Even if you don't watch VH1 a lot, you can't seem to help (despite how much you may try not to) getting sucked into the world of Behind the Music.
As BTM tells it all rock stars have miserable, suffering lives. It seems if you haven't (A).had a drug problem (B) alcohol problem (C) both a and b (D) almost died (E) someone you knew died from drug overdose, suicide, plane crash, a disease, murdered. (F) many trouble relationships (G) many failed marriages that you are trying to top Liz Taylor or (H) you lost all you're money, you aren't really a star..
You get the picture. Yes we all know the consequences of being on the road and making very stupid choices. Everytime you turn around the annoying host guy is telling you up next more death, up next failure, heart break, diease, death, death and even MORE death!
Eventually it plays like an old record that I could write my OWN BTM and make it tragic enough!
They seem so involved in drama that they lost track of the facts. This happened a little too often in Keith Moon's episode. We all know how hard it is to know about what about him is fact and what is mythology. Those of you who read Tony Fletcher's biography of Keith (Dear Boy in the UK and Life and Death of a Legend in the States) will not be able to sit though the show without succoming to the cries of THAT'S NOT TRUE!
I thought I'd bring to light these errors. No wonder Roger doesn't want anyone else to do the movie of Keith's life!
1. The most obvious mistake that shows BTM doesn't care. Keith was born in 1946 NOT 1947!!! He wanted to make himself younger to justify his crazy youthful antics
2. So naturally they got his age of death wrong. He was 32.
3. They didn't make his relationship with Kim sound as important as it was to him!. My dear boys and girls she was VERY imporant. She was the love of his life and he was pretty much obessed with her. Kim loved him very dearly as well but not as intense. That's what caused a lot of their problems
4. There was no mention of the domestic abuse in the relationship.
5. Kim finally left him and they eventually divorced after broken noses, being chases by a shotgun, forbidden to go very far from their apartment and insanity in general..
6. Pamela (not matter what bullshit she says or what her delued mind thinks) SHE WAS NOT KEITH'S GIRLFRIEND AND SHE "DATED" HIM WHILE HE WAS STILL MARRIED TO KIM. And she knew it. She was just a groupie who wrote a book.
7. They took whatever they heard about the Holiday Inn 21st Birthday Party as fact. YOU CAN'T DO THAT! People at the party have no idea what happened!
I've heard the following (A) Keith sprayed cars in the parking lot with the fire extinguisher then drove a car into a full swimming pool (B) he drove the car into an empty swimming pool and broke his tooth (C) he jumped into an empty swimming pool and broke his tooth (D) it was full when he jumped in (E) he broke his tooth slipping on pie (F) the Hermans Hermits did all the damaged. No one will ever know. They have to treat that as part of the mythology and maybe mentioned a few may or may not have happened. But he did break a tooth.
8. They didn't really talk about who he hung out with in California:Ringo Starr, John Lennon and Alice Cooper.
9. Never mentioned is obvious and very apparent psychological problems masked and fuled by his drug intake.
10. The Beachcomers weren't a surf band
11. Pete's hearing was not affected by Keith's exploding drums on The Smothers Brothers show. Pete even said that!
There is probably more because it was that painful to watch. It got me thinking are all the other BTM's laced with wrong facts and poor research? It's sad that that had to happen. The scary part is BTM got an EMMY!!
If you have to watch a rock biography watch Legends. It's much better and they hardly show it because it's not as dramatic and tragic. If I want to see that crap I'll watch daytime soaps with bad acting! BTM should take a tip from A&E who made wonderful bios already on Mick Jagger, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix.
There's quality somewhere just not hanging around VH1 lately.
I caught the MTV birthday bash thing. Their slogan was "MTV 20 and almost Legal" or something like that. It was more like. MTV: We're very, very drunk. We don't who we are. What we are doing. What we are talking about.
I didn't finish watching. I got bored, took and shower and went to bed forgetting that tv was still on!
Yet again I watched another award show not knowing if it would live up to anything they talked about or have anyone I might have wanted to win.
Three hours ahead of time VH1 and E! Online began their red carpet crap followed for the last hour by MTV. I have to say that was the worst coverage I think I've ever seen in my live. Everyone one of the hosts acted so stupid and idiotic. Shawnee (who ever the hell she is and I frankly don't care) didn't seem to be able to come up with an inteligent thought let alone question. Rebecca was either trying too hard to cover Shawnee's ass or suffering from utter humiliation of something that couldn't be saved. Leah Ramai and Tony Danza, what the hell was that. I know a lot of friends including myself (being shy and all) who could have done 10 TIMES BETTER!
E! had Joan Rivers. The woman has had so much plastic surgery she looks ridicolus. SOMEONE PLEASE STOP GIVING HER THOSE PURPLE HEARTS (I.E. SPEED)!!!! She needs to CHILL OUT! And her jokes are very lame. Melissa was more mellow but nevertheless still annoying.
MTV had Chris Connely and Kurt Loder and you'd THINK they'd fair better being seaoned reporters. Nope. It was only just better than the others.
The show started with a performance by Madonna (and seemed to end there too.)
But not for me as Macy Gray knocked the best Pop Female Vocal Grammy from Christia Agulia and Britiney Spears (ugg!) AND Madonna. Hell yeah! Go Girl!
After that U2 won three well deserved awards. There were some performances. There were blue men with Jill Scott (who is really good and deserved something!)and Moby in a performance that seemed better fit for the scifi channel. An over hyped Eminmen and Elton John performance. Steely Dan won best album of the year.
Wait there was something else. My mind's a fog. Could it be that the Grammys were so bad I blocked out the painfull experience? It wasn't me. There was something. I think I was called the LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD.
Maybe it's just me but I thought such a award was a great honor to have, some day people want to have it, the people who give it hold those receiving it in high esteem. It's a big event with never ending speeches (see Warren Beaty and Frank Sinatra).
Apparently the Grammy Academy didn't think so. They seemed or at least Michael Green (the President) felt it was a time filler before the more important acts and awards of the night!
So am I to understand that people who wouldn't be around in five, ten years are more important than people who have spent their lives giving something to the fans and (sorry about the cheese) to the music world?
Does anyone even know who got the award? Well I'll tell you. Sammy Davis , Jr, Bob Marley (both dead), two producers (might be dead I don't know), Tony Bennett, The Beach Boys and The Who.
This is how we honor people we admire. We clump their bios into one 30 second film. THEN we tell the audience that they are in the crowd (though not which ones) Tony Bennet got more visual air time than the rest. I saw Brian Wilson for a split second!! Then say just stand up and everyone will applaude you. BUT as you are doing this EVERYONE ELSE stands as well so NOBODY knows what is going on! Then don't let the millons of viewers watching not see the people they waited through the show to see give some sort of thanks!
Apparently the awards were given the NIGHT BEFORE! What is going on on here? Other award shows (Oscars) give SHORT FILMS to their winners. We suddenly are interested in their movies because we remember having seen them! One of your friends gives you a long introduction (Shirley Mclaine) about you.
The grammys see fit not just push their winners aside but act like they are nothing. I admit I'm ranting because I waited to see The Beach Boys and The Who get awards they DEFIENTLY deserved! It makes me wonder has this always been going on? I never knew anyone else who won the award until I checked the web site.
Did you know Billie Holiday, Frank Zappa, Buddy Holly and Wille Nelson all won?
So much for the hype.
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Not to fear it's only Michael Palin and Eric Idle (the head) in a tiger suit with a lot of explaning to do. : )
WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT PERFORMANCE AT THE SUPERBOWL ALL ABOUT???? N' Sync and Aerosmith?! I mean i like Aerosmith and everything but I can't stomach boy bands. MTV must be smoking some heavy duty CRACK! Oh not wait it gets better Britney Spears of all bloody people appears. and WHAT may I ask was she WEARING?! She looked like shit! Not that she normally looks good with the lack of clothes. Mary J. Blige was there too but you didn't get to hear her at all because she was in the group song at the end. SHE has a good voice. Damn shame.
The Who were on of course and of course they were in the last five minutes. It was a disappointment because they needed to be there longer. It was cool to see them. I can always hope for another return.
Here are some things i did enjoy.
* John wore his skeleton suit
*Roger hit Marge in the head with the mic
* bart and homer trying to trash the hotel
* the who behaving so they cam keep their "pool" priviledges ; )
I have another paralell. Nobody's probably thought of this one.
THE WHO and THE YOUNG ONES
THE YOUNG ONES was a British comedy series in the early 80s. I love it. It's so perfectly random and violent. They are four university students living together, they no money, no clue really and i still can't figure out how they even got to university.
Anyway, I have each member relate to them though it's not enterily accurate b/c they are very extreme.
VYVYAN likes wiring bombs to the front door so they can hear the doorbell better. Like's beating people up and smashing things to pieces so he's of course KEITH MOON
RIK is very anti goverment. He is obessed with Cliff Richard. He's "the people's poet" I wasn't sure about his relating to PETE TOWNSHEND until after he smashed that rat with the guitar he got out of the fridge (the guitar was in the fridge not the rat).
NEIL is the hippie who everone picks on and is upset about living but they all act like they don't care if he leaves. It was NEIL'S guitar RIK smashed. Even though JOHN ENTWISTLE is hardly a hippie just that sole mention of flares and that nobody seems to care about him (invisible)makes him NEIL like.
MIKE THE COOL PERSON is basically a con artist. He leads the group though he's just as wacky was the rest of them. He also thinks he gets all these girls. Since ROGER DALTREY is the only one left. It fits pretty well.
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