Yep, I would offer up the infamous Stephen Drew on a Aztec/Mayan Altar for a Sacrificial Lamb to the Gods......! Montezuma where are you when we need to spill blood of infidels....?
Classic Bolan at His Best. There would of been No Ziggy Stardust, and The Spiders From Mars without Bolan. Sad also to see the legendary Mick Ronson, platinum hair and all, tour with Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, only to die of Liver Cancer at 46, I believe he was....... Glam Rock Historical Review- Courtesy of: http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-r...ardust-and-the-spiders-from-mars-mw0000626129 Bowie reached back to the heavy rock of The Man Who Sold the World for The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Constructed as a loose concept album about an androgynous alien rock star named Ziggy Stardust, the story falls apart quickly, yet Bowie's fractured, paranoid lyrics are evocative of a decadent, decaying future, and the music echoes an apocalyptic, nuclear dread. Fleshing out the off-kilter metallic mix with fatter guitars, genuine pop songs, string sections, keyboards, and a cinematic flourish, Ziggy Stardust is a glitzy array of riffs, hooks, melodrama, and style and the logical culmination of glam. Mick Ronson plays with a maverick flair that invigorates rockers like "Suffragette City," "Moonage Daydream," and "Hang Onto Yourself," while "Lady Stardust," "Five Years," and "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" have a grand sense of staged drama previously unheard of in rock & roll. And that self-conscious sense of theater is part of the reason why Ziggy Stardust sounds so foreign. Bowie succeeds not in spite of his pretensions but because of them, and Ziggy Stardust -- familiar in structure, but alien in performance -- is the first time his vision and execution met in such a grand, sweeping fashion. Ronson had the sweetest new Les Paul Sound of a prominent front man, for Bowie; who had the Glam Rock moves, and Crazy PR approach, which drove parents nuts, but gave young guys like us, a voice of not rebellion, but a platform for change in Music Culture, and the rest is all History. With Bolan leading the charges by 1970-76, Bolan, Bowie, Mott The Hoople, and many other Brit Bands, gave our voices a clear resounding: "time for a change", those Andy Williams, Perry Como records, as well as Art Linkletter Sunday Night TV shows, as boring and stale as they were....... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Ronson
A rather long BBC Documentary, yet worth the watch. This Docu- shows how Music was rapidly finding its own voice, apart from Woodstock, with a 2nd Brit Invasion..... Of course Bolan was the Field General, and Bowie his Colonel, but what did this all make Ronson? The 2nd best Guitarist ranking behind Jimmy Page, and one ahead of Eric Clapton: aka "God".....~~ "In 1974, Ronson secured the No. 2 spot from a reader's poll in Creem magazine as the best guitarist that year (with Jimmy Page taking first place), and Eric Clapton in third place after Ronson."
Wait, when did Hamels..................................................................................................................................bang a gong?
Excuse me....once again you're playing your little word games....I have said I think the Yanks will win APPROX 90 games- you said 90+ wins. Stop putting words in my mouth.....and YES, sometimes people have THEIR reasons to waive "pom poms".
No disrespect for the Crooners, my Mom so loved, including Englebert fknn Humperdink, (what a fkd up name), please don't make me say Tom "Panty's in the Face" Jones.....
Hamels did bang a gong, once he was noted in 08 as the young phenom southpaw, upon being spoken of, as one of the leading young new phenoms, replacing those "20st Century Boys" At least that's what Tom told me......
Yeah why the hell he went from his birth name (Arnold Dorsey) To Engelbert Humperdinck is beyond me. Anyway, about this Hamels kid. I 'd like to see him in pinstripes.
You bet, Hamels IMO, has bounced back from strains, was a top prospect before he joined Philly. I remember anxiously awaiting to see Hamels pitch, after reading a ton of great things the news rags, said to expect out of Cole.... and yep, why the hell would anyone change their name from Dorsey, to Humperdinck? What the F was Arnold thinking? (perhaps anything to usurp his rival Tom Jones)......
I meant to say, Yes, I'd love to see Hamels in Yankx Pinstripes...... He'd be an extremely welcome addition to the Southpaw Corps the Yanx are short on, IMO. tho' I was reading a bit ago, in the L.A. Times, the Bums want Hamels pretty bad, which would allow them to dominate the NL with SP's IMO. I'm stunned the Bums paid McCarthy the big bucks, he proved he was NOT worth with the Bums rivalry with the D'Backs, tho' a change of pace, sight, and I'd of Kept McCarthy in NY, but NOT by giving him the BIG $$$ contract money the Bums may of thrown away...... Can you imagine if the Bums won the Hamels sweepstakes? Kershaw Greinke Ryu Hamels McCarthy
Especially if Cain comes back healthy. The 3 headed monster of Bumgarner, Cain & Hamels. I could live with that.
It honestly wouldn't surprise me if Tim Hudson has another good year, a vet with an agendae. Same with both Lincecum and Jake Peavy. Either one of the 3, Cain, Lincecum, Peavy could break out in either direction at any time in the year. Or as we used to say: "We reserve the right to get smart at any time in the program".....! B/T both L.A. and S.F., I really don't see the Padres as being serious contenders in the NL West, not this year anyway....all that money for what a distant double digit record of losses, out from the 1st and 2nd place NL West Teams....pretenders to the throne...... the Friars will need more than a Miracle, to say the least. The Pads, will have to first learn how to gel as a Unit/Team, which will take them all of 2015, and Can Kemp stay healthy? Without being in a non-contract year, where he has nothing to lose by sucking wind....!
