Ron G.

When I was going to to Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas, I got a job as photographer for Herald Photo in Lubbock. We did all sorts of photography, but the bread an butter of the place was college frat party pictures. Every Friday and Saturday night of the world, I was shooting a frat or sorority party.

That was back in the days before DJs and every party had a local live band. One night at a particularly raucus frat party, the guys in the frat told the band to play one song over and over and over and not to play any other songs. That song was "Light My fire".

After the party, I was gathering up my equipment and the band was doing likewise and one of the band members and I got into a conversation.

I asked how he could stand playing the same tune over and over like that and he asked me how I could put up with the drunks and all that went with frat parties in the mid 60's while taking care of all my photo equpment. We had a good conversation and later went for some coffee. He and I became sorta friends as he was very likeable and we always went for coffee and food after a party that we ended up at together.

He was an Air Force brat college boy named John Deutschendorff.

I never saw him again after that year and since I paid little attention to pop music at that time, I had no idea until years later when I saw one of his albums at a store somewhere. He had left Tech and joined up with the Chad Mitchell Trio and later began recording as John Denver.

Another musician I ran into who did a lot of frat parties at Tech was David Allen Coe. He did sorta Elvis impersonations before that sort of thing became popular.

A few years later, I was hired by Chardon in Dallas to do some promotional photography. Chardon was Charley Prides company that handled other acts. I only met him once, tho and mostly dealt with his wife, Donna. I shot promo stuff for Dave (Rowland) and Sugar and Janie Fricke, a couple of country folks who never really made it big as far as I know. I've never heard of them again since 1977 or 78 or ao, but then I don't keep up with that sort of thing.

Dave and Sugar around 1977

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Ron G.

I missed most of the music of the 60's. I was in a cult before TWI that eschewed rock and roll even more than religious zealots.

We were the MUSICAL SNOBS who listened to REAL music done with REAL instruments. Some say RnR is of the DEVIL!! Well, I'm here to tell ya it's much worse than that. They just play guitars which isn't a real instrument, unless, of course Les Paul or Wes "God Bless Wes" Montgomery was playing it...then it was okay. All RnR saxophone players play with split reeds and have very bad form.

When I hit Jr. Hi way back in '60 or so, I was lost in the lost world of Fabian, Elvis, Frankie Avalon and all the rest, but in Jr. Hi, I was introduced to SCREAMERS, and I saw the light!

What is a SCREAMER, you may ask.

Screamers are the ultimate form of musical entertainment. The messiah of screamers is the multi talented, super musician, role model and super hero Maynard Ferguson.

I got my first album back in '61

After countless moves, life changes, Uncle Harry Days etc. I still have it along with 83 others I've managed to accumulate over the years.

When I was in High School, Maynard came and conducted a clinic for our HS lab band and perfomed "Watermelon Man" with us in concert.

As a true believer, I busted my chops thru high school and college to emulate that style, but preferred playing the tuba. To my joy, Maynard was a master tuba player as well and recorded a version of "Take the A Train" playing tuba as lead. What a guy!!

It wasn't unti '72 that it became okay to listen to rock music. That was when Maynard recorded his version of "Hey Jude" and other screamers (and Maynard protoges and fellow Stan Kenton alumni) like Bill Chase left his job as lead trumpet with Woody Hermans band and formed his band called "Chase" and released his screamin' rock album called "Chase" and Bud Brisbois recorded with several rock bands of the era.

Bill Chase and his band were killed in a tragic plane crash in '74 and Bud Brisbois took his own life in '78, but Maynard, at age 74 is still going strong and has just realeased a new CD...his 142nd album.

Click here to hear Maynards intro to his arrangement of Elton Johns "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" which Maynard has never recorded...this was taken from a live performance.

Maynard 1972

Maynard today with some of the instruments he plays

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Ron G.

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It seems the older I get, the better I WAS.

Now that I have my new Official Hillbilly Belly Button Scrubber, I don't care about much else. Special thanks to Shellon for my and Andrews sqeaky clean belly buttons....and it leaves NO soap ring!

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Ron G.

I thought y'all might enjoy this...

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Ron G.

What was the story on the Way orchestra? I thought they had some pretty decent musicianship, tho the charts were vapid, vapid, vapid.

Anyway, you spose Aaron Copeland is any kin to Kenneth Copeland?

Naaaaahhhhhhhh

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Ron G.

I remember reading about a riot caused at the opening performance of Ravel's "Bolero". It's a rather earthy thing that is just a theme repeated over and over and over by different instruments and a kind of heavy rhythm. I think it, too, occurred in Paris.

Teds posts are especially interesting to me as I'm a big fan of all kinds of American popular music dating all the way back to the early 1800's.

My personal favorites that I enjoy are classical, dixieland jazz, Celtic folk and some other more esoteric stuff.

I guess I'm probably the ONLY person in America, quite possibly the world, who equally enjoys driving while listening to my tapes of Karl King circus marches, Louis Armstrong, The Firehouse 5, Charlotte Church, The Altans or Maynard Ferguson.

I personally can't see any reason to think any particular kind of music, in and of itself, has any "spiritual" effect on an individual outside of whatever that individual makes of it themselves. In other words, I thought those teachings from TWI were just plain silly.

The Beatles with their curvaceous melodies and their unique chord changes had no more effect on any listener than the tunes of Cab Calloway, and their lyrics were far more "innocent" (remember "Minnie the Moocher"?)

I remember as a kid seeing the wildly gyrating Elvis Presley (billed as "Elvis the Pelvis"....he toned it down quite a bit shortly after) at the Texas State Fair in 1956. The music he performed was no more "wild" than that of Hank Williams Sr. just a few years earlier.

One interesting thing is, for all the hoopla at the time, ragtime (which I enjoy immensely) is quite possibly the most highly structured and tedious genre of music to perform.

Okay....enough of my rambling.

Back to our regularly scheduled thread.

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Ron G.

To one of my alltime favorite GSers I wanna welcome and say Happy Birthday!!

I looked at her profile and noticed she was born in 1858!! That just may make her the oldest exwayfer here...except maybe for me, and I aint tellin.

Love ya, T!

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he was LC over the golden state of Californey tryin to fornicate with the cute girl believers and impress everyone with his guitar playin abilities.

He seemed like a pretty nice feller....nosey, but weren't they all...but Eric Clapton, he ain't.

I heard here he was put on the BOD and haven't heard anything about him since.

I haven't seen or heard from him since early '95 and the funniest thing is I haven't missed him a bit.

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Ron G.

Who was Emiliano Zapata?

Mexican revolutionary; Contemporary with Pancho Villa

What does he have to do with all this?

Namesake of one of the worlds largest offshore drilling companies, Zapata Oil

Why was an oil company named for him?

Geo Bush liked his style.

Who was founder, pres and CEO of this oil company?

George Herbert Walker Bush

What Federal agency did this CEO later take charge of?

CIA

Did he have any previous experience in this agency before taking charge?

???

What country did this oil company open up to oil development?

Kuwait

In what time frame did all this occur?

1953 to present

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Ron G.

PUBLIC SCHOOL GRADS IN SERVICE

This week, our phones went dead and I had to call the telephone repair people. They promised to be out between 8:00 a.m. and 7:00p.m. When I asked if they could give me a smaller time window the pleasant

gentleman asked, "Would you like us to call you before we come?" I replied that I didn't see how he would be able to do that since our phones weren't working. He also requested that we report future outages by email (Does YOUR email , work without a telephone line?).

PUBLIC SCHOOL GRADS AT WORK

I was signing the receipt for my credit card purchase when the clerk noticed I had never signed my name on the back of the credit card. She informed me that she could not complete the transaction unless the card was signed. When I asked why, she explained that it was necessary to compare the signature I had just signed on

the receipt. So I signed the credit card in front of her. She carefully compared the signature to the one I had just signed on the receipt. As luck would have it, they matched.

PUBLIC SCHOOL GRADS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

I live in a semi-rural area. We recently had a new neighbor call the local township administrative office to request the removal of the Deer Crossing sign on our road. The reason: too many deer were being hit by cars and she didn't want them to cross there anymore.

PUBLIC SCHOOL GRADS IN FOOD SERVICE

My daughter went to a local Taco Bell and ordered a taco. She asked the person behind the counter for "minimal lettuce." He said he was sorry, but they only had iceberg lettuce.

PUBLIC SCHOOL GRAD SIGHTING #1

I was at the airport, checking in at the gate when an airport employee asked, "Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?"

To which I replied, "If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?"

She smiled knowingly and nodded, "That's why we ask."

PUBLIC SCHOOL GRAD SIGHTING #2

I work with an individual who plugged her power strip back into itself and for the life of her, couldn't understand why her system would not turn on.

PUBLIC SCHOOL GRAD SIGHTING #3

When my husband and I arrived at an automobile dealership to pick up our car, we were told the keys had been locked in it. We went to the service department and found a mechanic working feverishly

to unlock the driver's side door. As I watched from the passenger side, I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered that it was unlocked. "Hey," I announced to the technician, "it's open!"

To which he replied, "I know - I already got that side."

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Ron G.

Tom is staying the same. Please pray for his family.

Our local State Trooper who lives in Leslie was married a couple of months ago and last Friday, his new bride was killed in a head on collision.

The town needs prayer, also, as much is happening.

Ron G.

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Ron G.

It's obvious the sand sculpture is for real...regardless of background, it's definirely creepy.

"The beauty of the 2nd Amendment is that it will never be needed until they try to take it away." - Thomas Jefferson

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Ron G.

Where ever you go...where ever life takes you...regardless of whatever happens.

Always remember one thing.

There's no basement in the Alamo

Ron G.

Several have claimed it to be a fake so I tried to check and all I could learn is it was supposedly taken in Pakistan by a UK news photographer. It was published in the London Telegraph and later removed.

Of the 20 men pictured, three are Sikh, not Hindu.

Ron G.

I was thinking of doing this as a "Caption Contest" with a caption like "Will the Knob Creek targets please line up", but decided it was just too disgusting to be humorous.

Anyway, how about them peace loving Hindus?

Ron G.

Posted By: ChrisK

Date: 7/9/02 00:21

http://msn.espn.go.com/mlb/news/2002/0706/1402734.html

HERNANDO, Fla. -- Ted Williams' estate will ask a judge to decide if the baseball great's body should be cremated or frozen, a move to try to resolve a family feud over the remains.

Al Cassidy, the executor of the estate, will file Williams' will in state court on Tuesday or Wednesday and ask the judge to rule on the issue, John Heer, a lawyer for Williams' oldest daughter, said Monday. Heer contends Williams wanted to be cremated.

The daughter, Bobby-Jo Ferrell, has accused her half brother, John Henry Williams, of moving their father's body from a Florida funeral home to Alcor Life Extension Foundation, where bodies are frozen.

She says John Henry Williams wants to preserve their father's DNA, perhaps to sell it in the future. The brother has not returned repeated calls seeking comment.

Ferrell plans to ''rescue'' her father's body from the cryonics company in Scottsdale, Ariz. She says the body already is frozen. Both the Boston Globe and Boston Herald are reporting that the body is frozen as well.

''My dad's in a metal tube, on his head, so frozen that if I touched him it would crack him because of the warmth from my fingertips,'' Ferrell told Boston's WBZ-TV. ''It makes me so sick.''

The Herald, citing an unnamed source, said Williams may have agreed to being frozen. "It wouldn't surprise me if Ted was deep into this. Ted loved science. Ted Williams was not a stupid man. If he made up his mind about something he did it and (expletive) everyone else," The Herald quoted the unnamed source as saying. "To blame it all on John Henry is not fair. Ted loved John Henry.''

Karla Steen, a spokeswoman for Alcor, would not confirm Monday that Williams' body is at the facility. Ferrell has said she was told by the funeral home that the body was taken to Arizona.

Ferrell did not return several phone messages Monday and no one answered the door at her house. Bill Boyles and Pam Price, attorneys for the estate's executor, also did not return a phone message.

Ted Williams, the last major league hitter to bat better than .400 in a season, died Friday at age 83.

No funeral will be held, according to the wishes of the former Boston Red Sox slugger. Two memorial services are planned on July 22 at Fenway Park.

George Hommell, a fishing buddy of Ted Williams, said it was a shame family members are fighting over the body.

''Something like this makes you sick to your stomach,'' he said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Ron G.

We love yas anyway.

Ron G.

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No dang, Satori??

Ron G.

I did that about 3 or 4 years ago. Still feel the same as I did when I was 18...cept for the aching back and joints, shortness of breath, smokers hack, cane, wheelchair, removable tooth, memory loss etc.etc.

It's interesting that the older we get, the more dull our senses become...like my sense of decency is almost null and void, now.

Ron G.