Aggie87

Is this band sanctioned?

What Valerie said! I vote for changing the color to ORANGE, and I'm sure my good friend Erik (a.k.a. Aggie87) would wholeheartedly agree! Hey!!! Personally, I'd go with this nice little.... ahem.... maroon number. Notice the subtle south park image has been resurrected:

Happy Birthday Randy!

Happy Birthday!!

Happy Birthday my friend!

Valley of Fire, Nevada - 3 July 09 Petroglyphs, that date back to 300 B.C. possibly:

108 degrees between San Antonio and Corpus Christi this afternoon.

Just got back in to town, so I missed this one. Happy Birthday!!

I don't mind board members sharing their discoveries with each other, and in particular sharing music they've created/produced etc. I don't care for spam from people that have no interest in being a part of our community, in any form.

It's clearly indicate "CD" at the beginningt of the post. I think the confusion was because you mention CD at the top, and record at the bottom.

Happy Birthday!

...what he said!

...apple thrower.

Just picked this up in the recent Concord sale, and am enjoying the recording. I didn't realize Swallow had even played with Monk until reading the liner notes today. I think he does a pretty good job for never having rehearsed with Monk prior to this show - or even having met him. Swallow also mentions that he was later invited to join Monk's group in 1970, but it "didn't work out" because he'd already switched to electric bass and sold his acoustic.

Strange claim?! It's obvious that he's not their biological father! It's only (maybe) obvious when you've seen the kids - I had never seen photos of them until the last 3-4 days. Focusing on the music for a moment, here are a couple of pretty cool clips from the 2001 30th Anniversary shows, of all 6 Jackson brothers. Jackson 5 Medley Pt 1 Jackson 5 Medley Pt 2

Welcome to the board - nice playlist.

Well, my g/f bought tickets for the show for us, and I've got my plane tickets already, so this is a go! Looking forward to the show! And looking forward to King's X, actually. Never seen them live.

Here's another strange claim - Debbie Rowe says that Michael Jackson is not the biological father of Prince Michael I and Paris.... if you believe Perez Hilton's website. She also claims that she and Jackson never had sex during their marriage at all.

Happy Birthday Stefan!

Absolutely. No single artist, not even Elvis himself, spanned such extremes as did Michael Jackson. Jackson's highs were brilliant. His lows were abysmal. Listening to "Off the Wall" right now, myself. To me, this album represents one of the great missed opportunities in music history (great as it is): One of the tracks, "I Can't Help It," was written by Stevie Wonder. Can you imagine what a Stevie written and produced Michael Jackson album would have sounded like? Another one of the great missed opportunities also involves Michael: The song "Bad" was originally conceived as a duet for Michael and Prince. They wound up not doing it (Prince claims because they couldn't agree who would sing the line, "Your butt is mine...") and I think it's tragic that they didn't. A Michael Jackson and Prince collaboration...the mind reels. Tragic? WTF? Oh well, they never collaborated. Big fucking deal. Tragic is what that POS did to little boys. And now there's this... http://awkwardstar.wordpress.com/2009/06/2...ichael-jackson/ If true, perhaps there's the real "tragedy." If that is true, it should start showing up on more legitimate websites pretty soon.

Happy Birthday, Phil!

Interesting blog today from Lisa Marie Presley: He Knew. Years ago Michael and I were having a deep conversation about life in general. I can't recall the exact subject matter but he may have been questioning me about the circumstances of my Fathers Death. At some point he paused, he stared at me very intensely and he stated with an almost calm certainty, "I am afraid that I am going to end up like him, the way he did." I promptly tried to deter him from the idea, at which point he just shrugged his shoulders and nodded almost matter of fact as if to let me know, he knew what he knew and that was kind of that. 14 years later I am sitting here watching on the news an ambulance leaves the driveway of his home, the big gates, the crowds outside the gates, the coverage, the crowds outside the hospital, the Cause of death and what may have led up to it and the memory of this conversation hit me, as did the unstoppable tears. A predicted ending by him, by loved ones and by me, but what I didn't predict was how much it was going to hurt when it finally happened. The person I failed to help is being transferred right now to the LA County Coroners office for his Autopsy. All of my indifference and detachment that I worked so hard to achieve over the years has just gone into the bowels of hell and right now I am gutted. I am going to say now what I have never said before because I want the truth out there for once. Our relationship was not "a sham" as is being reported in the press. It was an unusual relationship yes, where two unusual people who did not live or know a "Normal life" found a connection, perhaps with some suspect timing on his part. Nonetheless, I do believe he loved me as much as he could love anyone and I loved him very much. I wanted to "save him" I wanted to save him from the inevitable which is what has just happened. His family and his loved ones also wanted to save him from this as well but didn't know how and this was 14 years ago. We all worried that this would be the outcome then. At that time, In trying to save him, I almost lost myself. He was an incredibly dynamic force and power that was not to be underestimated. When he used it for something good, It was the best and when he used it for something bad, It was really, REALLY bad. Mediocrity was not a concept that would even for a second enter Michael Jackson's being or actions. I became very ill and emotionally/ spiritually exhausted in my quest to save him from certain self-destructive behavior and from the awful vampires and leeches he would always manage to magnetize around him. I was in over my head while trying. I had my children to care for, I had to make a decision. The hardest decision I have ever had to make, which was to walk away and let his fate have him, even though I desperately loved him and tried to stop or reverse it somehow. After the Divorce, I spent a few years obsessing about him and what I could have done different, in regret. Then I spent some angry years at the whole situation. At some point, I truly became Indifferent, until now. As I sit here overwhelmed with sadness, reflection and confusion at what was my biggest failure to date, watching on the news almost play by play The exact Scenario I saw happen on August 16th, 1977 happening again right now with Michael (A sight I never wanted to see again) just as he predicted, I am truly, truly gutted. Any ill experience or words I have felt towards him in the past has just died inside of me along with him. He was an amazing person and I am lucky to have gotten as close to him as I did and to have had the many experiences and years that we had together. I desperately hope that he can be relieved from his pain, pressure and turmoil now. He deserves to be free from all of that and I hope he is in a better place or will be. I also hope that anyone else who feels they have failed to help him can be set free because he hopefully finally is. The World is in shock but somehow he knew exactly how his fate would be played out some day more than anyone else knew, and he was right. I really needed to say this right now, thanks for listening. ~LMP

It's my recollection that he admitted to sleeping with young boys. He just denied molesting them when he was in bed with them. That's enough to make me disregard whatever talent he had, and whatever music he created. That and the fact that he paid millions of dollars to the family of the boy, who then refused to testify in the criminal case. No, we can't claim to know, but the circumstantial evidence sure seems to suggest it pretty clearly.

I saw that the Lakers drafted Chinemelu (Junior) Elonu from Texas A&M in the 2nd round, Noj. Alot of Aggies were disappointed he didn't come back to play for A&M again, but I think he has the potential to develop into a decent role player in the NBA. He's gotten better and better every year so far, and seems to have a tough attitude. Hope he plays well for you!

This could get even more interesting, if that's possible. With the early reports/speculation today of an OD on Demerol, the police are looking for his personal physician (Thome Thome) who's nowhere to be found. They towed his BMW from Jackson's home yesterday. And Liza Minnelli apparently just said "I'm sure when the autopsy comes, all hell's going to break loose. So thank God we're celebrating him now". I'd suspect as close a friend as she was, she knows something.