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Post by rizzuto on Mar 10, 2022 20:08:33 GMT -5
Valerie Bertinelli on doing drugs in Van Halen days: 'Cocaine was everywhere'.
If it was the 1980s, cocaine was everywhere. Everywhere there was money, that is. A friend of mine gave me $10,000 in cash (Severance pay) to hide from him, so he would not buy cocaine. He had been sacked from his job at a hospital as a medical technologist, after spending a four-day weekend in New Orleans, calling in absent to work on Thursday that he was in a wreck and had no car. On Monday, he called in absent to work and said he was in a wreck and had to car. He forgot that he had used the excuse four days before. Evidently, his employer was not amused and told him, "We believe it would save us both time if we terminated your employment immediately." Anyway, I hid the money inside my J-45 Gibson guitar, taping it inside when I changed the strings. To make a long story short, I ended up giving him the money, as I was tired of his "party goers" searching my belongings when I was gone to try to find the money for cocaine. Once I gave it to him (in $1500 increments), it was gone in four days. We were eventually evicted from his townhouse, and I moved in with other friends. Incidentally, some of the most gorgeous girls I ever saw would pour into the townhouse at around three in the morning (bars closed at 2:00 AM), looking for that white powder. A couple of them ended up modeling in Penthouse and Playboy - Girls of the SEC. Geaux Tigers! |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 10, 2022 20:11:08 GMT -5
Valerie Bertinelli on doing drugs in Van Halen days: 'Cocaine was everywhere'.
If it was the 1980s, cocaine was everywhere. Everywhere there was money, that is. A friend of mine gave me $10,000 in cash (Severance pay) to hide from him, so he would not buy cocaine. He had been sacked from his job at a hospital as a medical technologist, after spending a four-day weekend in New Orleans, calling in absent to work on Thursday that he was in a wreck and had no car. On Monday, he called in absent to work and said he was in a wreck and had to car. He forgot that he had used the excuse four days before. Evidently, his employer was not amused and told him, "We believe it would save us both time if we terminated your employment immediately." Anyway, I hid the money inside my J-45 Gibson guitar, taping it inside when I changed the strings. To make a long story short, I ended up giving him the money, as I was tired of his "party goers" searching my belongings when I was gone to try to find the money for cocaine. Once I gave it to him (in $1500 increments), it was gone in four days. We were eventually evicted from his townhouse, and I moved in with other friends. Incidentally, some of the most gorgeous girls I ever saw would pour into the townhouse at around three in the morning (bars closed at 2:00 AM), looking for that white powder. A couple of them ended up modeling in Penthouse and Playboy - Girls of the SEC. Geaux Tigers!  Great story. Those 80s were wild. |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 10, 2022 20:18:34 GMT -5
If it was the 1980s, cocaine was everywhere. Everywhere there was money, that is. A friend of mine gave me $10,000 in cash (Severance pay) to hide from him, so he would not buy cocaine. He had been sacked from his job at a hospital as a medical technologist, after spending a four-day weekend in New Orleans, calling in absent to work on Thursday that he was in a wreck and had no car. On Monday, he called in absent to work and said he was in a wreck and had to car. He forgot that he had used the excuse four days before. Evidently, his employer was not amused and told him, "We believe it would save us both time if we terminated your employment immediately." Anyway, I hid the money inside my J-45 Gibson guitar, taping it inside when I changed the strings. To make a long story short, I ended up giving him the money, as I was tired of his "party goers" searching my belongings when I was gone to try to find the money for cocaine. Once I gave it to him (in $1500 increments), it was gone in four days. We were eventually evicted from his townhouse, and I moved in with other friends. Incidentally, some of the most gorgeous girls I ever saw would pour into the townhouse at around three in the morning (bars closed at 2:00 AM), looking for that white powder. A couple of them ended up modeling in Penthouse and Playboy - Girls of the SEC. Geaux Tigers!  Great story. Those 80s were wild. All I did at that time was drink a bit. Robert and his cadre referred to me as the Italian Jesus, explaining, "You never do anything wrong; you're, you're like Jesus, man!" |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 10, 2022 20:19:26 GMT -5
Great story. Those 80s were wild. All I did at that time was drink a bit. Robert and his cadre referred to me as the Italian Jesus, explaining, "You never do anything wrong; you're, you're like Jesus, man!"  |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 21, 2022 16:02:17 GMT -5
Rizzuto brought up Del Shannon on another thread recently, and I wanted to revisit the subject even if it's of no interest to anyone. This is a small and exclusive place, there's room for vanity posts, right?
Del is among my handful of favorite vocalists from the 1960s. I always loved that sense of urgency and worry that he brought to his music. Rizz mentioned his first big hit "Runaway" from 1961. That song featured an early synthesizer-style keyboard called a Musitron, invented by Max Crook. It was later used in a song Shannon produced and arranged, a 1970 cover of an Impressions song "Gypsy Woman" done by Brian Hyland (another under-rated talent.)
Shannon had follow-up hits like "Hats Off To Larry," "Little Town Flirt," "Hey Little Girl," energetic, driving covers of "Handy Man" and "Do You Wanna Dance" (superior to the originals IMO) and later songs like "Keep Searchin'" and "Stranger In Town." No matter how big those hits were in the US, they were invariably bigger hits in the UK where Del was practically a cult figure. One of his songs, "I Go To Pieces," was a huge hit for the British duo Peter and Gordon in 1965. Shannon did a cover of The Beatles' "Please Please Me" that was released in the US in the summer of 1963, about four months before The Fab Four hit our shores, but it only charted in the lower rungs of the Billboard Hot 100.
Del put out a wonderful comeback album in the early 80s called "Drop Down and Get Me." It was produced by Tom Petty and featured Petty and the Heartbreakers as backing musicians and vocalists. There is an outstanding cover of the Stones' "Out Of Time" on there that even Mick Jagger thought was better than his own version. In 1982 I saw Del Shannon in a small club in DC, maybe a hundred people in an intimate setting (which is probably the only venue he could have filled at that point.) He blew the audience away with the forcefulness of his performance and sounded even better than his recordings. It made me wonder how a guy with such a reputation was playing such small clubs, but a few years later he was showing up on Letterman and doing great work with Paul Schaefer and the band.
As is well-known, after the death of Roy Orbison in late 1988, The Traveling Wilburys had slated Del to take his place. But suffering from years of depression and concern about financial issues, Del Shannon shot himself in early 1990 in his modest home in Santa Clarita in the canyon country north of LA.
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 21, 2022 19:03:12 GMT -5
Rizzuto brought up Del Shannon on another thread recently, and I wanted to revisit the subject even if it's of no interest to anyone. This is a small and exclusive place, there's room for vanity posts, right? Del is among my handful of favorite vocalists from the 1960s. I always loved that sense of urgency and worry that he brought to his music. Rizz mentioned his first big hit "Runaway" from 1961. That song featured an early synthesizer-style keyboard called a Musitron, invented by Max Crook. It was later used in a song Shannon produced and arranged, a 1970 cover of an Impressions song "Gypsy Woman" done by Brian Hyland (another under-rated talent.) Shannon had follow-up hits like "Hats Off To Larry," "Little Town Flirt," "Hey Little Girl," energetic, driving covers of "Handy Man" and "Do You Wanna Dance" (superior to the originals IMO) and later songs like "Keep Searchin'" and "Stranger In Town." No matter how big those hits were in the US, they were invariably bigger hits in the UK where Del was practically a cult figure. One of his songs, "I Go To Pieces," was a huge hit for the British duo Peter and Gordon in 1965. Shannon did a cover of The Beatles' "Please Please Me" that was released in the US in the summer of 1963, about four months before The Fab Four hit our shores, but it only charted in the lower rungs of the Billboard Hot 100. Del put out a wonderful comeback album in the early 80s called "Drop Down and Get Me." It was produced by Tom Petty and featured Petty and the Heartbreakers as backing musicians and vocalists. There is an outstanding cover of the Stones' "Out Of Time" on there that even Mick Jagger thought was better than his own version. In 1982 I saw Del Shannon in a small club in DC, maybe a hundred people in an intimate setting (which is probably the only venue he could have filled at that point.) He blew the audience away with the forcefulness of his performance and sounded even better than his recordings. It made me wonder how a guy with such a reputation was playing such small clubs, but a few years later he was showing up on Letterman and doing great work with Paul Schaefer and the band. As is well-known, after the death of Roy Orbison in late 1988, The Traveling Wilburys had slated Del to take his place. But suffering from years of depression and concern about financial issues, Del Shannon shot himself in early 1990 in his modest home in Santa Clarita in the canyon country north of LA. Profoundly powerful piece, Pipps! "A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!" - Broadcast News (Albert Brooks - brother of Super Dave Osborn...The Einstein Brothers at birth - before showbiz changed their names). |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 21, 2022 19:15:41 GMT -5
Thanks Rizz. I was a fan of Del Shannon from the get-go when he was on the long-forgotten Big Top label. The third album I ever bought (after "Surfin' Safari" by The Beach Boys and "Gold Vault of Hits" by The Four Seasons) was "Little Town Flirt" by Del. He always seemed relaxed and good-humored on stage, but he fought alcoholism and clinical depression for much of his life.
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Post by kaybli on Mar 23, 2022 22:18:19 GMT -5
I bought some Airpods for listening to music while walking or working out but they keep getting loose in my ears or falling out.
I'm trying over the ear headphones now. Hopefully they work better.
If anyone has a recommendation I'd be all ears. Chi maybe?
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Post by inger on Mar 23, 2022 22:27:58 GMT -5
I bought some Airpods for listening to music while walking or working out but they keep getting loose in my ears or falling out. I'm trying over the ear headphones now. Hopefully they work better. If anyone has a recommendation I'd be all ears. Chi maybe? Ahem! And you don’t even ask me for suggestions? Have you heard of Inger’s Ear Emporium? Sick of ill fitting audio equipment? Well, come on in! Instead of fitting the equipment to your ears, we modify the ear for you. Ears are available from Tom Thumb size all the way up to the Don Mossi and everywhere in between! Just 999.95, and we can make your ears match any headphone you bring in to us… |
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Post by inger on Mar 23, 2022 22:32:27 GMT -5
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Post by kaybli on Mar 23, 2022 22:33:00 GMT -5
I bought some Airpods for listening to music while walking or working out but they keep getting loose in my ears or falling out. I'm trying over the ear headphones now. Hopefully they work better. If anyone has a recommendation I'd be all ears. Chi maybe? Ahem! And you don’t even ask me for suggestions? Have you heard of Inger’s Ear Emporium? Sick of ill fitting audio equipment? Well, come on in! Instead of fitting the equipment to your ears, we modify the ear for you. Ears are available from Tom Thumb size all the way up to the Don Mossi and everywhere in between! Just 999.95, and we can make your ears match any headphone you bring in to us…  |
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Post by inger on Mar 23, 2022 22:46:27 GMT -5
This darned music sometimes makes me laugh just listening to it… |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 23, 2022 22:49:07 GMT -5
This darned music sometimes makes me laugh just listening to it… Damn I can't find the video with Clint Frazier defensive lowlights set to Benny Hill music. |
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Post by inger on Mar 23, 2022 23:04:44 GMT -5
This darned music sometimes makes me laugh just listening to it… Damn I can't find the video with Clint Frazier defensive lowlights set to Benny Hill music. That would be sad. Some led to Yankee losses… I’d rather just see Clint running back and forth between doors with the medical staff chasing him… |
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Post by inger on Mar 31, 2022 10:22:05 GMT -5
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Great story. Those 80s were wild.
Great story. Those 80s were wild.
