Buddy Ebsen?

On the few extant Best recordings, he is audibly speeding up and slowing down. His snare work sounds like a mouse on a cookie sheet, but that is probably more due to the production style of Bert Kaempfert and whoever rolled tape on their Decca audition.

Yeah, it was filmed. The revised ending at Wally World was shot almost a year after the rest of the film, which is why Rusty is almost a foot taller.

Supposedly that's the main reason he left the band. But as Keith Richards puckishly (and a little meanly) pointed out, now that he's "free," where are all the great Mick Taylor songs that had been stifled by the Stones? Zero.

I think it's that the long, jazzy instrumental section sounds like the background music for TWC's "Update on the Eights" or whatever they call it. I could be missing the reference, too.

He quit drinking over the Christmas holidays of 1976, when "Brian" was still in first-draft mode.

Still alive, and will kick all of our asses. He was a Marine drill instructor in Korea and Vietnam. Bambi became R. Lee Ermey.

Peter Brady got epic grief for playing Benedict Arnold in his school play about the life of George Washington. Evidently, Benedict Arnold got several key scenes in a school play about George Washington (including an old-age death scene.)

I'll see if I can't find some way to enjoy my own ass handed to me on a platter…

Todd Holoubek quit the group right after the TV show ended, and did not participate in any of the the post-State projects of the other members.

The only clear recollection of "Viva Variety" I have is a version of (I think) "Romeo & Juliet" done entirely in CB lingo.

3) Sit back and let Johnny Law drink in the eye-candy.

The blogs
and the reasonable discussions that follow always helped to kill a dull workday. I hope they're back in force soon.

If you disregard the cheesecake photo spreads
in terms of layout and content, Blender seemed to be trying to emulate the British mags like Q and Mojo. It certainly wasn't the best thing out there, but it had an hour's worth of decent reading, and at least it wasn't embarassing itself by giving FIVE STAR REVIEWS to…

Doesn't that pretty much describe every Terry Gilliam commentary?

I lost my virginity during Superbowl XXVI (Redskins 37, Bills 24, Jan. 1992) sometime between the middle of the second quarter and the end of the halftime show

Give the post -'67 Kinks a little credit…Village Green, Arthur, Lola, Muswell Hillbillies, some good singles. The rocking riff retardation didn't really kick in until '74 or so.

No disrespect to George. I was trying for brevity, and failing.

Certainly not an original thought, but the solo output of the former Beatles is a perfect example of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. In the decade or so after the split, it was believed that Lennon/McCartney writing as a team ended in 1963, and from then on there were "John" songs and "Paul" songs.…

There must be a happy medium between vapid piles of clothing playing Rock Band and an NPR snoozefest…