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1973 Interview with Paul McCartney - Forming Wings
July 6, 1973, Birmingham England
Steven:
Has it been difficult for you putting together a new band? There would seem to be an extraordinary amount of pressure on you to come up with a group of musicians that could compete with the Beatles. ...
"Beatles for Dummies"
When someone says "The Beatles", what images come to mind? I see a black and white picture of four guys onstage, sporting mop-top haircuts and grey collarless suits. To many people, that's what The Beatles are - a black and white TV image of their...
Bob Marley Remembrance in Meskal Square
Last Sunday saw the 60th anniversary of the birth of the legendary Bob Marley. Appropriately, thousands of Rastafarians, bedecked in red, gold and green, gathered in Meskal square, Addis Abbaba in Ethiopia, to salute their spiritual fellow traveller...
David Gray Concert
This article is more of a review of the last concert I went to. The concert was David Gray, for those that do not know him, he is huge in Ireland and writes songs of love lost and pain. I find him to be the greatest thing since Bob Dylan. Gray's...
Eileina Williams- A Star On The Rise
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PO Box 6724
Altadena, CA 91003
Tel: 626-755-1337
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Website: http://www.eileinawilliams.com
One of The Best Female Jazz Vocalists...
Jessica Simpson and the New Dukes of Hazzard
Before Jessica Simpson became the fun loving pop-teen idol, she was a young member of her church choir in Dallas, TX. Discovered by the music industry while attending a summer church camp, she later became a hit on the Christian Youth Conference...
Mountain and Rick Derringer Rock Ct. Audience
Mountain & Rick Derringer Live! At The Ridgefield Playhouse-January 15, 2005
Ridgefield, CT-I looked forward to seeing the two rock legends Rick Derringer and Mountain for a long time. The trip to get there was long as well, over 3 hours. The...
Music of the 70's
Reliving The Music Of The Seventies
We all associate songs and music with events in our life. Many songs hold special memories for us. We fondly remember the songs that were playing when we went to our first dance, the songs the school band...
The Edinburgh Festival – Why Brits are missing out
The Edinburgh Festival – Why Brits are missing out The annual Edinburgh Festivals are regarded world wide as some of the best Europe has to offer in terms of film, literature and music. Every year it is estimated that the population of Edinburgh...
The Underpinnings of Polychordal Dissonance and Consonance.
In the last article, Polychords and the Jazz Improviser, it was discussed how one can learn and apply polychords to an improvisation. Continuing with the last article, the understanding of polychordal consonance and dissonance will be explored. As...
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The Boss
A very funny journalist that has a blog called http://tiffanyastone.com/ Breaksat At Tiffany's, wrote the other day in her famous blog that she was a starving artist living in a closet. Starving I suppose because her very small apartment doesn't even have a stove. But yet her rent is very high. Yet she's happy. Happy, because she's living close to the Stars that she writes about.
I could relate to her plight. I to once lived in a very high rent neighborhood. After a hitch in the Navy, I just couldn't imagine myself living in Brooklyn anymore. It was where I grew up and there will always be a place in my heart for Brooklyn, but I just can't deal with living there any longer.
After spending so many years out on the West Coast and learning to speak proper English, it scared the hell out of me to think that I might settle back down in Brooklyn and revert to speaking a Brooklyn dilect again. I had no idea that I was speaking a very foreign language until I left Brooklyn. All I had to say were either the words coffee or water and everyone realized I was from Brooklyn.
When I first left the Navy I had a golden tan from all those years in the Pacific and when I talked to someone that didn't know me, they always asked me where I was from. At first I just thought they wondered why I had such a deep tan in the middle of the winter. But, they all said you don't sound Brooklyn. And they were right. I was speaking a foreign language in my native Brooklyn.
So, there was only one thing to do. It was time to move to Manhattan. I found an apartment that I could afford in one of the plushest places in Manhattan. But I had to sacrifice. I could only swing the rent for a studio apartment. But my new neighbors weren't like the ones I were acustomed to in Brooklyn.
Walter Cronkite lived across the street from me. Gloria Vanderbilt was around the corner and Maureen Ohara was down the street. Everywhere I went people smiled and called me The Boss. I just thought it was some kind of Manhattan thing or something. But one day when I took a date to a very exclusive place and asked if I could get a table without a reservation, I was told, Yes, we
always have a table for The Boss.
I asked my date. "Who the hell is this Boss guy."
She said. "You're not serious."
I said. "Just tell me what this Boss thing is."
She laughed and asked. "How may years have you been a cloistered Monk?"
I asked. "Have things changed that much? I've been overseas for a long time. But have I gotten that so far out of touch?"
She said. "Okay, I'll tell you. Bruce Springsteen is The Boss and you look just like him. That's who they think you are."
I said. "Oh, http://www.brucespringsteen.net/
I've heard of him. I just didn't make The Boss connection. Does that mean I don't look like Elvis anymore?"
She laughed and said. "Elvis. Who told you that you looked like Elvis?"
I lauged and said. "I dated a girl in high school that was a big Elvis fan. She always told me I looked like him."
She lauged and said. "Well right now you look like Bruce Springsteen. At least that's why I'm dating you. Here, just look at this picture of Bruce Springsteen at his http://www.brucespringsteen.net/albums/barcelona.html Barcelona concert. He looks like your twin here."
I laughed and said. "Oh, I thought you were going out with me because I had such a spacious studio apartment."
She said. By the way, how did you find that apartment?"
I said. "It helps when you're Uncle is President of the Real Estate Board."
She laughed and said. "I had to read the obituaries for months before the right person passed away in the apartment I was looking for."
I laughed and said. You're not having a fantasy that I'm Bruce Sprinsteen when were making it. Are You?"
She hesitated and said. "No. He doesn't sing deep meaning songs like your favorite http://coachb.net/why.htm song Why. Tell me, are you having a fantasy that I'm someone else when were making love?"
I said. "No, of course not. But did I ever tell you how much you looked like http://www.kmmod.com/ccrawford/ Cindy Crawford?"
About the Author
You can find other stories I've written at this URL. http://www.freewebs.com/timmack/
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