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Jimster

Jimster

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  • I WANT YOU MF's TO SEE SOMETHIN

    JimsterJimster
    I remember Zappa and Phil Collins were in the show too... I thought "I wonder if you could have made a band?" 

    Turns out very probably -

    The musicians who appeared on Miami Vice:
    Glenn Frey
    Gene Simmons
    Leonard Cohen
    Phil Collins
    Ted Nugent
    Little Richard
    Barbra Streisand
    Willie Nelson
    Frank Zappa
    James Brown
    Harry Shearer
    Miles Davis
    The Power Station
    Michael De Barres
    Sheena Easton
    David Johansen
    Isaac Hayes
    Jan Hammer
    DOR

  • Bicycles

    JimsterJimster
    Dukodelic!!!

    Just about warm enough to get out weekend mornings. I did, in olden times, commute in coldest months but got fed up getting throat and sinus infections.  Just not worth it.  

    I do get to ride out to the old monastery ruins as they do those obscene flapjacks and mocha to make the juice worth the squeeze.  I don't have an ebike because they are still ridiculously expensive here and ridiculously desirable to thieves with mobile angle grinders.

    I got some new brakes for the Bontrager Privateer that need fitting and probably need to recommission my moving parts collection bike for #2 son who is now 14(!) and much taller.  


    billbradleydukeofdelridge

  • Soul Strut 25. This is the End.

    JimsterJimster
    THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.  I could see this coming and fully understand the move.  Life, and social media ploughs on and on.

    I'll miss it because it was one of the few places we could talk shit globally and generally agree.  Made a lot of friends here and it's gotten me through a lot of tough times.

    Pleasure to meet you, if you're in town again, holler.

    Duderonomy

  • 2023 R.I.P. Thread

    JimsterJimster
    mini said:
    R.I.P. Amp Fiddler

    Met him maybe 2 or 3 times, says on Wiki he was 65?  I don't know if that's correct but whatever he was on, he looked younger than me and certainly not 65.


    miniketan

  • Claus Ogerman

    JimsterJimster
    My introduction to Brasilian culture was in the late 80s when I was at Uni in Manchester.  On my course was a woman from Brasil, first time meeting anyone from there for me.  Her dad was/had been the mayor of Salvador in Bahia.  She was five or six years older than me and married to a Frenchman.  She had been in Europe for a few years and they had an apartment in Didsbury and were good friends to me, just a poor boy (from a poor family).  She told me what it was really like for her and that she loved living normally in Manchester with no servants etc.  Obviously Brasil has many different vibes and local ways so there is no typical experience.

    She had stuff from Milton Nascimento, Pepeu Gomes, Gilberto Gil, Elis Regina... Her husband was into super-obscure UK indie bands that he'd discovered in France, that I'd never heard of - Eyeless in Gaza, and Duritti Column.  Pre-internet, so parallel worlds.  He was fantastic with languages and had gotten well in with Alan Erasmus and Vini Reilly.  I got to stay with them in their place in Normandy and fixed up his old Alfa Romeo with him.  They had to go back to warmer climes (Cannes IIRC) because she got Lupus.

    We've lost touch since then but yeah, as Jobim himself said, it seems... "Brasil is not for beginners."


    ElectrodeketanDuderonomy