Lowell George.
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loomis---One thing about living in L.A. is you see artists all over the place. When I lived in Burbank a couple of blocks from both the NBC studio where the Tonight Show is filmed and where the Warner Brothers Records offices are located, there was a now-closed restaurant named Mo's, just over the border in Toluca Lake (right next to the Bob's Big Boy where David Lynch used to sit all night drinking coffee and writing Eraserhead, it is said!). One night I was my way out of Mo's front door just as another guy was on his way in. Our eyes met, and he gave me the "Hey man" nod and a hint of a smile. I nodded and smiled back, and just after we passed realized it was Elliott. He did himself in not long after that. Too bad, he was one of the cool ones of his generation. |
Incoherence is a form of ignorance too, no doubt. My understanding is that during the winter of 1945-46 approximately 2 million Germans under Allied control died of starvation and disease. Additionally, at least 1 million German POWs died while being held in the USSR. Large number of Germans died as a result of WW2 and I believe it is misguided to blame anyone for those deaths except fellow Germans. When a nation starts a massive war its citizen shouldn't complain about the results. We are not all equally guilty. |
I have assumptions based on pattern and questioning myself every time: 1. No doubt, that USA destroyed USSR diplomatically and each Soviet Republic became sovereign country. 2. I guess that going back starting from WW1 Russia was not ready for war and suffered largest death toll among all other countries. Usually it happens with countries that do not want any war at all... So Lenin or Lennon, who really cares? I'd vote George Carlin again to keep the original topic for one of the reasons in this tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeZ3nCXyb_Q 3. WW2 Was certainly one step forward, but Adolph turned out to be extremely enthusiastic and dangerous to ahem... and that's why was destroyed. 4. Post USSR collapse: Constant improvement of strategic positions and development of the army that is larger than all armies combined in the whole world!!! 5. Russia is not ready. |
Onhwy61, Americans were shooting prisoners at a rapid rate at end of WW II , British were not, Russians were sending them to Sibera. In April "45 US Army enclosed 300.OOO German POW's, largely old men and boys in a field with no shelter , no blankets ,little water and less food. In one month 200.000 were dead. I could give you a hundreds of examples from every angle from any time. It is all irrelevant . DEAD IS DEAD WE ARE ALL GUILTY |
All nations have blood on the hands historically, but that does not make their atrocities equal. A few examples, both Great Britain and the U.S. practiced slavery, but the plantation system and the institutionalized racism was far more brutal. The U.S. committed genocide against the native Americans, but they didn't gas and burn them as a matter of policy. Towards the end of WW2, if you were German who would you rather have surrendered to, U.S./Britain or Russian forces? |
Well, Ghosthouse, 12 million Native Americans were exterminated like rats under the guise of "manifest destiny" as the US stole their lands from coast to coast, just for starters. There is NO major country in this world that does not have blood dripping from every pore. USA=Russia=Germany=France=Britian ad infinitum. We are ALL guilty ! And your LEAVE crap is the ready and sure reply of the fool. |
Ghost, I probably forgot to ask you what to do. Thanks for advise. Do you mean ignorant claims on dishonest government violent conducts against its own citizens on its own soil??? Does it REALLY matter if they're compared or not compared to Soviets or Nazi Germany? Ignorant is not to notice and continue saluting "Yes Sir" to Patriot Act, NDAA, Jade Helm 15 and welcome'em all near your home. I don't want to see ANY uniformed "units" with 50-caliber barrels near my home at any time. I'm allergic to'em by developing a nausea symptoms smelling too many dead bodies. |
Ivan, I believe so and really feel like it too! Gettin' tired of all those GeStaPo-like FBI tactics, arrests, murders and tortures. Seems like they've learned from KGB or perhaps visa versa. Lennon was violent manic criminal all his life, but since he was celebrity, those facts were hidden. For money you can purchase freedom no matter how heavy crime you commit and you've seen that it's piece of cake with money involved. Purchase all judges and jury = case dismissed. Wanna send someone to death row? Just purchase judges and jury and there you go. USSR was joke indeed compared to USA. |
I'll respond only for popular music and leave the classical to the more informed than me. The most tragic and biggest loss is John Lennon, hands down. But he had already made his mark before he died, and despite whatever wonderful music we missed out on because of this untimely death at age 40, his best work was surely behind him. So from the standpoint of who we lost at the peak or upswing of their career, I'll go with Buddy Holly overall (though before I was born I'm aware of his impact). And from a musician standpoint, Duane Allman. So much brilliant music never got made... |
John Lennon..hmmm. I was listening to an old interview with his first wife a week or so ago on NPR, and for someone who promoted love and peace, it certainly seems that he didn't practice it in his own life. Yoko was even worse. He didn't support his ex-wife or son even though he was extremely wealthy. I never counted him among my favorite artists, but now even less so. |
What I would like to see was a longer life of what could have been to the one's that left us too early. All those timeless melodies and standards unwritten. To that end I would include Mozart, Chopin and Gershwin as a few good examples. So far as rock artists are concerned I can think of no better candidate than Buddy Holly, song writer, producer, and performer that by the time of his death at 22 was really just warming up to his unlimited potential, a pretty good example of "if only". So far as Bach is concerned how much more could he have packed in his 65 years? Father of 22, composer of upward of 500 cantatas mostly lost, accomplished organist/keyboardist and composer of some of the revered music ever written, a musician's musician at the top of the heap. Imagine what he accomplished relative to today's artists to get a sense of his greatness. Not only that but that family musical legacy continued after his death. Bach lived the fulfilled life in the truest sense. I can think of few other historical figures that accomplished so much. A keyboardist with a progressive rock group? That's funny but it might be fun too! Imagine what he might have contributed to rock, Yes's "Roundabout" for instance? Oh yeah, I sure would have loved to hear the young Louis Armstrong sitting on the Mississippi riverbank as that horn carries over the still darkness of that mighty river, the inspiration of another one that died too young, Bix Beiderbecke. Or maybe the Duke or Count Basie "One more time"! |
Stephane Grappelli. There are countless greats chosen above-and I appreciate virtually all of them- but; Stephane was a very unique genius playing an instrument that's revered for it's wide ranging emotional impact. I saw him live outside London, England, near the end; sat immediately in front of him, was lucky he made the connection, and mine was the only program he signed. The only autographed item I have. Most interesting; his stage manager was a Canadian. |
