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Thursday, June 6, 2013
Fafafafafashion
People that know me all agree I'm a fashionisto! Here is what I'm into right now!!!
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Cool Dudes keep dying
I'd be remiss if didn't mention the passing of one of the great drummers! Ed Shaughnessy died two Fridays ago. LA Times did a good job summarizing a grandiose life!
Ed Shaughnessy, whose mutton-chop whiskers and swinging rhythms made him one of the most famous drummers in jazz during his nearly three decades with Doc Severinsen's "Tonight Show" band, has died. He was 84.
Shaughnessy had a heart attack Friday at his Calabasas home, said William Selditz, a close family friend.
While his nightly gig on "The Tonight Show" brought him the kind of drumming fame previously bestowed on giants such as Gene Krupa, Shaughnessy also delved into more far-reaching musical realms. He studied for three years with legendary Indian tabla player Alla Rakha and played with such cutting-edge artists as bassist/composer Charles Mingus and trumpeter-bandleader Don Ellis.
"Ed's one of the only guys I know from his generation who's open-minded enough to try something new," Ellis once told an interviewer.
Buddy Rich called Shaughnessy "one of my all-time favorite drummers" — high praise from a musician whose dynamic, virtuosic style contrasted with Shaughnessy's profound belief in the drummer as a vital member of a band's rhythm section.
Times critic Leonard Feather agreed, writing in 1992 that Shaughnessy "does what jazz drummers were originally called on to do: Keep a firm swinging beat and play a supportive role."
An early advocate of bebop, Shaughnessy performed with Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, John McLaughlin, Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, and George Balanchine and the New York City Ballet.
For decades, he taught privately as well as conducting more than 600 clinics at high schools and universities.
Edwin Thomas Shaughnessy was born Jan. 29, 1929, in Jersey City, N.J. His father was a longshoreman and his mother sewed in a garment factory.
At 12, Shaughnessy started taking piano lessons and continued until his father brought home a drum set two years later.
Still in his teens when he became a regular participant in New York City's thriving jazz scene, he worked with Jack Teagarden and the popular bands led by George Shearing and Charlie Ventura before he turned 20.
He also played in numerous small jazz groups with such big names as Billie Holiday, Horace Silver and Gene Ammons. His big band career began in the 1950s with the Benny Goodman and Count Basie bands. He replaced Buddy Rich in Tommy Dorsey's band.
In the mid-1950s, he was a staff musician at CBS, performing on the Steve Allen and Garry Moore shows.
From 1963 to 1992, Shaughnessy was the drummer with Severinsen's band on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show." In Shaughnessy's 2010 memoir "Lucky Drummer," Severinsen called him "the superb engine that drove our Tonight Show Band for thirty years … with spirit and immense skill."
In the early 1970s, Shaughnessy helped a young singer named Dianne Schuur, who had been blind since birth, arranging for her to appear at the prestigious Monterey Jazz Festival. Her career soon took off.
He was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 2004.
Shaughnessy married Ilene Woods in 1963. A singer, she was the voice of Disney's Cinderella in 1950. She died in 2010.
He is survived by his son Daniel Shaughnessy, his daughter-in-law Nicah Shaughnessy and three grandchildren. Another son, Jimmy, died in a 1984 traffic accident.
news.obits@latimes.com
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Ed Shaughnessy, whose mutton-chop whiskers and swinging rhythms made him one of the most famous drummers in jazz during his nearly three decades with Doc Severinsen's "Tonight Show" band, has died. He was 84.
Shaughnessy had a heart attack Friday at his Calabasas home, said William Selditz, a close family friend.
While his nightly gig on "The Tonight Show" brought him the kind of drumming fame previously bestowed on giants such as Gene Krupa, Shaughnessy also delved into more far-reaching musical realms. He studied for three years with legendary Indian tabla player Alla Rakha and played with such cutting-edge artists as bassist/composer Charles Mingus and trumpeter-bandleader Don Ellis.
"Ed's one of the only guys I know from his generation who's open-minded enough to try something new," Ellis once told an interviewer.
Buddy Rich called Shaughnessy "one of my all-time favorite drummers" — high praise from a musician whose dynamic, virtuosic style contrasted with Shaughnessy's profound belief in the drummer as a vital member of a band's rhythm section.
Times critic Leonard Feather agreed, writing in 1992 that Shaughnessy "does what jazz drummers were originally called on to do: Keep a firm swinging beat and play a supportive role."
An early advocate of bebop, Shaughnessy performed with Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, John McLaughlin, Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, and George Balanchine and the New York City Ballet.
For decades, he taught privately as well as conducting more than 600 clinics at high schools and universities.
Edwin Thomas Shaughnessy was born Jan. 29, 1929, in Jersey City, N.J. His father was a longshoreman and his mother sewed in a garment factory.
At 12, Shaughnessy started taking piano lessons and continued until his father brought home a drum set two years later.
Still in his teens when he became a regular participant in New York City's thriving jazz scene, he worked with Jack Teagarden and the popular bands led by George Shearing and Charlie Ventura before he turned 20.
He also played in numerous small jazz groups with such big names as Billie Holiday, Horace Silver and Gene Ammons. His big band career began in the 1950s with the Benny Goodman and Count Basie bands. He replaced Buddy Rich in Tommy Dorsey's band.
In the mid-1950s, he was a staff musician at CBS, performing on the Steve Allen and Garry Moore shows.
From 1963 to 1992, Shaughnessy was the drummer with Severinsen's band on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show." In Shaughnessy's 2010 memoir "Lucky Drummer," Severinsen called him "the superb engine that drove our Tonight Show Band for thirty years … with spirit and immense skill."
In the early 1970s, Shaughnessy helped a young singer named Dianne Schuur, who had been blind since birth, arranging for her to appear at the prestigious Monterey Jazz Festival. Her career soon took off.
He was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 2004.
Shaughnessy married Ilene Woods in 1963. A singer, she was the voice of Disney's Cinderella in 1950. She died in 2010.
He is survived by his son Daniel Shaughnessy, his daughter-in-law Nicah Shaughnessy and three grandchildren. Another son, Jimmy, died in a 1984 traffic accident.
news.obits@latimes.com
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Friday, May 10, 2013
Death
I work in a place where death roams the halls from time to time and when he's in the house no one is safe! We had a rash of folks not walking out the door the other night...it's weird it kinda works like that...patterns can be seen even after a few weeks on the job, I've been there years! On these nights when death is near you can sense it, i can't explain, but the vibe is so much different....not kick ass but inevitable for us all, what is kick ass is the the countless depictions of death in art through out time!
Tank out...not over!
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Friday, May 3, 2013
Jeff Hanneman R.I.P.
I can get wordy sometimes but not much to say other than another hero of my younger days has passed away. I was able to see Slayer three or four times the last being in Dallas. Jeff will be sorely missed! His music lives on!
Tank, out...
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Monday, April 22, 2013
1+MotoGP=13@free MCShow
So the race track no one wanted just south of town held its second, and by all accounts,very successful event, Moto Gp, this is the F1 for Motorcycles.
I love motorcycles but alas lack a grasp of the racing of them.
GP does involve hot girls holding umbrellas..that I can get a grasp of!
Don't get me wrong had I been given tickets I'd have been there but like all things at the new multi-billion facility it was very expense especially for a stay at home dad! Having said all that, there was a free MC show downtown in it's honor,so I loaded up lil Panzer and went to check it out, did not disappoint world class restorations, tributes, a Bonneville Salt flats time trial knucklehead and virtually all of Evel Knievel's stuff!!!!!
What an awesome surprise! Evel's bikes, capes,helmets, freakin rocket!
Rocket was so much smaller than I imagined the dudes was the ballsiest m.f.er ever!
Indian Chief
Bultaco, check those leather safety straps on the forks!
Impressive collection of Brits
Not the exalted Vincent Black Lighting, but the Black Shadow '52
It should say "please" stop! What a brilliant display of English mechanical prowess..art as function, functional art..
An early knucklehead set up for the salt! Just so badass I walked around this thing for 20 minutes!
Tank...it's free it's me..out!
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I love motorcycles but alas lack a grasp of the racing of them.
GP does involve hot girls holding umbrellas..that I can get a grasp of!
Don't get me wrong had I been given tickets I'd have been there but like all things at the new multi-billion facility it was very expense especially for a stay at home dad! Having said all that, there was a free MC show downtown in it's honor,so I loaded up lil Panzer and went to check it out, did not disappoint world class restorations, tributes, a Bonneville Salt flats time trial knucklehead and virtually all of Evel Knievel's stuff!!!!!
What an awesome surprise! Evel's bikes, capes,helmets, freakin rocket!
Rocket was so much smaller than I imagined the dudes was the ballsiest m.f.er ever!
Indian Chief
Bultaco, check those leather safety straps on the forks!
Impressive collection of Brits
Not the exalted Vincent Black Lighting, but the Black Shadow '52
It should say "please" stop! What a brilliant display of English mechanical prowess..art as function, functional art..
An early knucklehead set up for the salt! Just so badass I walked around this thing for 20 minutes!
Tank...it's free it's me..out!
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
70s Chopper Craze was Crazy
The KISS craze wuz nutso too!
These putos would sell their mom's to make a buck! Endorse anything....
Saturday morning was not immune...I actually remember this it wasn't on long maybe a year or two when I was quite young,"Wheelly and the Chopper Bunch"!
The little dude was "putt-putt" if memory serves I suppose I could look it up but nah...
Easy Rider opened the doors in the 70s,much like Discovery Channel did in the '00s...
Ape hangers have always Kicked Ass!
This dude is just badass! Check them boots!!
TANK....chopped...out!
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These putos would sell their mom's to make a buck! Endorse anything....
Saturday morning was not immune...I actually remember this it wasn't on long maybe a year or two when I was quite young,"Wheelly and the Chopper Bunch"!
The little dude was "putt-putt" if memory serves I suppose I could look it up but nah...
Easy Rider opened the doors in the 70s,much like Discovery Channel did in the '00s...
Ape hangers have always Kicked Ass!
This dude is just badass! Check them boots!!
TANK....chopped...out!
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Sunday, March 31, 2013
Lucky 13: Metal Girls
Metal Kicks Ass...Girls Kick Ass...together they KICK ASS! Pretty easy to get into my Metal Girl category all one needs is a bullet belt,spiked leather,white face,tats,band patch or tat (I can't read).. or any combination there in, so with out further ado ESG's random pics of Metal Chicks mostly all stolen from other sites!
Morticia on steroids! (tats)
Sad girls are easy...its a fact look it up! ( bullet belt)
This chick looks confident perhaps she's in a band ( Venom shirt, Bullet Belt, Spiked Wrists)
hmmm i think she meets all requirements at one time! devil- tongue is bonus!
yep metal girl does she look recently chocked? thats another Blog all together!
So this chick is my fav, despite lacking everything that our criteria calls for she has three very metal things going for her...Slayer shirt ( she appreciates the classics) Correct devil horn position( left handed too) and lastly that Tongue is impossibly long! I mean look at that thing! She can clean out her belly button with that sucker!
Photo Shop is funny this chick is probably a model but that's cool she fits right in...
Frankly I pined over weather this is chick is worthy, but the Morbid Angel patch gets her in!
Again probably a model or in a band Im thinking band she looks sorta familiar anyway she's hot and I can't for the love of Beelzebub read that shirt!
Cute chick patched up with a bunch of bands I can't read....except Ozzy...
Zero hits in the criteria....but how hot is this chick! Look at that hair! And Goats with read crucifixes on their face! That is Metal!
This is commitment to the ultimate degree! Venom "Black Metal" back piece! Are you kidding me!
This chick is more metal than Cronos and Mantas put together!
Tank Out.......
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Morticia on steroids! (tats)
Sad girls are easy...its a fact look it up! ( bullet belt)
This chick looks confident perhaps she's in a band ( Venom shirt, Bullet Belt, Spiked Wrists)
hmmm i think she meets all requirements at one time! devil- tongue is bonus!
yep metal girl does she look recently chocked? thats another Blog all together!
So this chick is my fav, despite lacking everything that our criteria calls for she has three very metal things going for her...Slayer shirt ( she appreciates the classics) Correct devil horn position( left handed too) and lastly that Tongue is impossibly long! I mean look at that thing! She can clean out her belly button with that sucker!
Photo Shop is funny this chick is probably a model but that's cool she fits right in...
Frankly I pined over weather this is chick is worthy, but the Morbid Angel patch gets her in!
Again probably a model or in a band Im thinking band she looks sorta familiar anyway she's hot and I can't for the love of Beelzebub read that shirt!
Cute chick patched up with a bunch of bands I can't read....except Ozzy...
Zero hits in the criteria....but how hot is this chick! Look at that hair! And Goats with read crucifixes on their face! That is Metal!
This is commitment to the ultimate degree! Venom "Black Metal" back piece! Are you kidding me!
This chick is more metal than Cronos and Mantas put together!
Tank Out.......
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