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LaylaGordon
First Love
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 Posted - 07/12/2008 : 16:30:22
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Originally posted by LaylaGordon
To the kind messages re: Jim Gordon....thank you from the bottom of my heart for your kind words. The recent petition for his freedom showed that neither one of you are alone in your feelings pertaining to Jim. The petition was not only for his freedom, but if the parole board deemed it appropriate that he should be placed in a hospital with sophisticated treatment. However, from my correspondence with him, he is doing fine. He is completely in the "here and now." He is 63 years old now and he is not a threat to anyone.
I'm going to have to check out his work on Forever Changes....I've been researching his career for years and I learn something new everyday.
Again, thanks for your words of encouragement...
Take care,
LG
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LaylaGordon
First Love
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Posted - 07/12/2008 : 16:34:12
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I would not support Jim being released unless his physicians felt that he was ready to be released into society. Jim knows that he has a place to go, but I feel that if he is not ready, perhaps they can place him in a facility with more sophisticated treatment and a bit more freedom. Baby steps. I thought the story about the man who murdered his parents and then was released only to end more lives in a car accident was indeed tragic and we would not want the same story to happen in Jim's case.
Take care & I hope all of you have a happy and safe holiday season...
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John9
Old Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/12/2008 : 17:46:39
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And to you Layla....I wish you peace and resolution in all this. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9876 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2008 : 19:03:31
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Best wishes for the Holiday to Jim & you, Sue. PM me and let me know how things are going.
Please give my best to Jim, and a Merry Christmas & New Year filled with promise.
lk
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rocker
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 08/12/2008 : 14:48:41
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| layal..the best with Jim's sitaution..I know it is challenging..sometimes life is for some of us and you have to keep plugging away...... |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9876 Posts |
Posted - 14/12/2008 : 15:06:57
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More from Michael......
I was listening to Laughing Stock & had a couple questions for Michael. which he kindly stated I could share with you all......
Michael replied, "Yeah, that's me on "Laughing Stock". I saw right away it was a cooking tune and I was thinking, 'Awright!!, now we're getting somewhere!' Then we broke up."
"I think I might change a few things, if I could. It would have been nice, for instance, to see how things would have turned out if we had worked a little harder at living up to our potential. You know......by playing more during our time together. So I might change that just to see."
"And if I could change things, I might have Arthur win the running battle he had with Bryan over the affections of the lovely Stephanie. Because Bryan wouldn't have cared. No biggie either way, to Bryan. Let's play music."
"It's a timing thing. That window of creative opportunity slams shut in the blink of an eye for just about any old reason, so you gotta make hay while the sun shines."
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TJSAbass
Fourth Love
USA
139 Posts |
Posted - 16/12/2008 : 00:03:35
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"It's a timing thing. That window of creative opportunity slams shut in the blink of an eye for just about any old reason, so you gotta make hay while the sun shines."
Very true! It's a shame more bands don't realize this sooner. I wish I had stayed in the band I was in 15 years ago. I can sympathize with that emotion. You never realize what you have until it's long gone. |
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Joe Morris
Old Love
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Posted - 16/12/2008 : 06:56:10
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| Well, they did pull together again to finish Changes despite having another band called in! |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 16/12/2008 : 08:00:07
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Originally posted by Joe Morris
Well, they did pull together again to finish Changes despite having another band called in!
Thank God & Arthur!! 
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LaylaGordon
First Love
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Posted - 03/01/2009 : 15:48:03
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Hey all,
Someone gave me the Love DVD for Christmas....yeah baby....amazing.....truly amazing....
I hope you all had a wonderful holiday. I did not hear from Jim during Christmas, but I did the night before Thanksgiving and I told him he has some wonderful supporters. He is truly grateful and pleased that music admirers remember him. Then, we went onto discuss food...(one of my favorite topics being from New Orleans)....:)
May 2009 bring you love and peace.......
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9876 Posts |
Posted - 03/01/2009 : 21:17:17
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Originally posted by LaylaGordon
Hey all,
Someone gave me the Love DVD for Christmas....yeah baby....amazing.....truly amazing....
I hope you all had a wonderful holiday. I did not hear from Jim during Christmas, but I did the night before Thanksgiving and I told him he has some wonderful supporters. He is truly grateful and pleased that music admirers remember him. Then, we went onto discuss food...(one of my favorite topics being from New Orleans)....:)
May 2009 bring you love and peace.......
LG
Happy New Year, Layla. Best wishes to Jim & I am always aware of his talents on FC & his many other sessions from his early days with the Everly Brothers when he was only seventeen, to Gene Clark & the Gosdin Brothers, to Mad Dogs and Englishmen, The Notorious Byrd Brothers, Plastic Ono Band (Sometime in NYC), Good Vibrations, All Things Must Pass, Apostrophe (Zappa), Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys, Judee Sill (Heart Food)...to of course....Layla and Assorted Love Songs---that LP always impressed me !!!
The list goes on for a hundred more notable LPs. So yeah, for me, JIM WILL ALWAYS have a place in my musical heart! Best of luck, Jim.
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9876 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2009 : 18:00:46
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more from Michael.....with Michael's kind indulgence
...."Bryan got a bad rap for being a pain in the neck because he liked to mess with people's minds. He was a practical joker. Everybody goes to dinner, he ducks out and leaves you holding the tab. Funny, funny. It's OK though if it really is funny, and he definitely was funny. So was Arthur. Arthur and Bryan in the same room was like David Letterman & Johnny Carson. Early on, that is....before Stephanie."
"Your other question was asking if I was disappointed that we never got to perform FC in concert. Not so much. Johnny and Kenny and Bryan and I were mainly disappointed that we didn't play any songs, from any of the albums, anywhere, hardly at all, ever. Not enough anyway. We were always waiting for the booking agent Arthur to accept job offers ("Monterey POP Festival?.....sorry, not interested"), playing gigs with other groups, biding my time answering the same question over and over, "You guys still together?". "Yeah man. still together. I think."
"Bottom line, I'm proud to have been a part of the making of a landmark album that has met with acceptance from knowledgeable rock music critics and fans. Number 40 on the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums Ever Recorded? In any category?...even jazz?....still blows my mind. It even got me into Bob Cianci's "Great Rock Drummers Of The Sixties", along side Keith Moon, Mitch Mitchell, Charlie Watts and 12 other guys most rock fans have heard of, so I'm not complaining. I got to make great music. All's well that ends well."
I am glad Michael got his due recognition as one of the greatest drummers of the 60's. It doesn't just happen...Michael worked to get there. Congrats Michael.
lk
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Joe Morris
Old Love
3492 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2009 : 04:57:00
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does Mike still play out live?
maybe if Snoopy does a new album he can do drums?
Any Sons of Adam compilations out there? |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9876 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2009 : 13:57:55
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Originally posted by Joe Morris
does Mike still play out live?
maybe if Snoopy does a new album he can do drums?
Any Sons of Adam compilations out there?
Here is a nice write up about Sons of Adam, Joe.
http://mza-garage.blogspot.com/2008/04/sons-of-adam-moxie-ep-compilation-raw.html
There IS an album available at www.randyholden.com of Sons Of Adam/Fender IV...it includes Feathered Fish.......it was remastered in 2007 !!! I haven't checked it out yet! It likely has everything Sons Of Adam ever recorded, which is too bad that's all there is...they were quite good and cutting edge.
Snoopy on keyboards & Michael on drums? Wouldn't Snoopy want to play the drum part as well as all the other instruments? After all, Snoopy was edged out by Michael and doesn't seem too keen on some of the stuff that went down back then. (Though it was Arthur that did the edging, not Michael.) Michael & Snoopy are cool. as far as i know. Just my impression.
Michael is still playing.....live performance sets???......we'll see
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9876 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2009 : 23:37:29
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Originally posted by Joe Morris
does Mike still play out live?
maybe if Snoopy does a new album he can do drums?
Any Sons of Adam compilations out there?
Talked to Michael, Joe, and he said this about Snoopy:
"I heard Snoop had recorded an album as "Snoopy's Love". Good for Him. He's a kickass drummer." MSW
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Edited by - lemonade kid on 09/01/2009 23:38:09 |
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LoVE...with M. Stuart-Ware's kind permission....
