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My eccentric yet brilliant Science teacher told us that there were apparently people using telescopes to watch the space vehicles landing on the moon and that was enough for me, really.
Plus, I've seen Independence Day and when the spaceship passes over the moon, you can clearly see the landing site. That's proof enough for me ;-)
What can I say, sometimes less is more for me, though I do enjoy studying various crazy conspiracy theories.
I love reading and listening to the mad ramblings of conspiracy theorists. It's always entertaining. "9/11 was conducted by the U.S. Government" is a personal favourite. Loony Toons doesn't even come close to describing these people! :-)
Me too. I could get lost in all those Pope is the Antichrist and Illuminati and Reptilian theories to the crack of doom, usually on You Tube!
Well, I'd imagine you were made of sterner stuff than that, Sir Henry, even then!
Wasn't that the gimmick they used for The Exorcist? I remember saying when Regan hurled the projectile vomit "Split pea soup!". I was 12.
Funny, since Mankiewicz basically re-wrote the script for Donner's film... :))
Yes, though after the fact. Loony Tunes get a mention too, of course!
;)
Interesting, though I fail to see the relevance unless it is a reference to the theory that the moon landing was faked?!
I didn't discover Bond until seeing DAF in all its big screen glory in 1972. By then I think the Apollo moon craze had died down and I thus became a proper 12 year old Bond nut, scrounging up the Fleming paperbacks whereever I could find them, generally from friend's parents bookshelves, and traveling all over town watching the Bond double-bills that seemed to regularly turn-up. The "old" Bond movies could pack theatres all through the '70s. Tiffany Case, best Bond-girl ever!! My first Bond girl! The perfect woman really. Smart, sassy, brassy. I guess we tend to look most fondly on our first.
Yes, '70s movie were a lot of fun. Real good teenage popcorn fare. My buds and I would flock to basically any of the action films put out by Eastwood, Charlie Bronson or Burt Reynolds.
Between her and Sherry Jackson (Andrea on the "What Are Little Girls Made Of" episode of Star Trek) I was tres combustible... @-)
Sherry Jackson.
As for seventies guitar gods. No contest. Keith Richards and Jimmy Page.
Eddie Van Halen for me as the guitar god of the 70's. An innovator like Page, but cleaner and faster solos. A huge influence on generations to come. Another innovator who belongs in that group is Brian May. Ritchie Blackmore also comes to mind. I'll have to think about this some more when my brain isn't quite so fried after 3 stressful hours getting a gumbo ready for a dinner and NFL football party.
For me, as a total nonmusician, I can think of these folks as being really influential for guitarists/rock-n-roll:
Hendrix - major innovator, dazzling, astounding what he did with a guitar
Jimmy Page - for sure, innovative, impressive, for me the start of metal and Led Zep's music is still one of my favorites
Clapton - fantastic player (yes, I hear you now, SirHenry ...) Here is a summary of Clapton from Rolling Stone. I rather like what is written here:
It first appeared in 1965, written on the walls of the London subway: "Clapton is God." Eric Patrick Clapton, of Ripley, England — fresh out of his first major band, the Yardbirds, and recently inducted into John Mayall's Bluesbreakers — had just turned twenty and been playing guitar only since he was fifteen. But Clapton was already soloing with the improvisational nerve that has dazzled fans and peers for forty years. In his 1963-65 stint with the Yardbirds, Clapton's nickname was Slowhand, an ironic reference to the velocity of his lead breaks. But Clapton insisted in a 2001 Rolling Stone interview, "I think it's important to say something powerful and keep it economical." Even when he jammed on a tune for more than a quarter-hour with Cream, Clapton soloed with a dagger-like tone and pinpoint attention to melody. The solo albums that followed Layla, his 1970 tour de force with Derek and the Dominos, emphasize his desires as a singer-songwriter. But on the best, like 1974's 46I Ocean Boulevard and 1983's Money and Cigarettes, his solos and flourishes still pack the power that made him "God" in the first place.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-of-all-time-19691231/eric-clapton-20101202#ixzz2isPLkufV
B.B. King - influenced pretty much every guitar player, or at least any that wanted some blues infused into their rock, from what I can tell
Duane Allman - really memorable, in my opinion, a fine guitarist
Van Halen - another innovator, blindingly fast guitar licks and, well, fun!
I can name some others (Les Paul, anyone?) but I am out of time and out of what is within my personal experience pretty much. I just felt like listing these today. Detractors carry on ...
I know nothing about Clapton but I loved his work on Communion.
Ah! I see now. You are an MI6 legend, I believe, so it's very nice to converse with you, @Tracy. I'm also becoming a bit of an Elvis fan.
As for the lead guitar types. Page is God. Others of deity level, Beck. Clapton (before he got real boring) Hendrix of course. Brian May for sure. Ritchie Blackmore of course, and the master of the metal riff, one of the great innovators, Tony Iommi. Short term Stones guitarist Mick Taylor was quite brilliant as well.
I also like Slash and Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols. Jones is a worthy Keith Richards guitarist. He sure pushed along the Pistols songs - the few that they actually recorded.
And Pete Townshend deserves mention. Especially on Who live albums. Powerful stuff.
Of the prog guitarists, Steve Howe and Steve Hackett I think are most impactful.
The guitar work with the Clash is really good too. Even credit I think, to both Joe Strummer and Mick Jones. They had a kind of Stones, Beatles, guitar-weave thing going on.
I focus here on classic-rock era guitarists. Their legacies are established and they are the innovators that made rock music a major mainstream force.
Not to say there aren't many great young guitarists, because surely there has to be.
Guitar work with Metallica and Nirvana I think is exceptional as well, and then there is Angus Young, one of the great heavy rhythm and riff, creators and players.
BTW: Yes, Mick Taylor did some brilliant work during his tenure with the Stones. He's probably my preferred "other" guitarist for that band, leaving aside Keith Richard who is undeniably Godlike.
Damn you beat me to it!
The problem is, SHIELD is a comic book/sci-fi. Bond is neither but I'm sure @SirHenry will be happy to include it as a part of his thesis questions next week ;-)