Six White Horses

[tronno]

blair, now would be a good time to say my user name out loud a couple of times.

but with no Canadian content you'd be denying the rest of the world
a chance to discover suchCanadian icons as Quebec's very own, Rene Simard.







Has anyone noticed the rapid climb of the Canadian Peso?
It's trading at 1.07 US.

[Some king]

Sounds like what happened with oink last month. The "copyrighted" stuff is getting taken down all over the place.

[cripes]

Don't get me wrong tronno (heh heh-I geddit now), I love Canada. It has to be in my top 5 favorite countries. You guys have given us some great comedy. Norm MacDonald for one. My wife loves that Da Vinci's Inquest TV show.

My only suggestions for Canada is to leave Demonoid alone and stop kissing up to the UK and drop those extra 'u's in your spelling. English people can get away with it, but when you guys do it, it just looks gay.

[manho]

[zilla]

"English people can get away with it, but when you guys do it, it just looks gay."

Hahaha that one had me busting out laughing. I wonder if Blair knows he's that funny sometimes?

[manho]

Daredevil Evel Knievel dies at 69


· Motorcycle stuntman suffered lung disease
· Seventies star collapsed at home in Florida

Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Saturday December 1, 2007
The Guardian

Evel Knievel, who earned worldwide fame for his bone-shattering motorcycle stunts and star-spangled white jumpsuits, collapsed and died yesterday at his home in Florida.

He was 69, and had been in poor health for years, suffering from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable lung condition.

"It's been coming for years, but you just don't expect it. Superman just doesn't die, right," Billy Rundel, a long-time friend and promoter, said yesterday.

The stuntman had his heyday in the 1970s, when his daredevil jumps over Greyhound buses and live sharks, were immortalised in Knievel pinball games and action figures.

But Knievel was as well known for his failures as his successes, which always made compelling television.

Among the most famous was his 1974 attempt to jump across Snake River canyon in Idaho on a rocket-powered cycle. Knievel crashed, but he made $6m that day from television rights and other marketing.

Such accidents, though they contributed to Knievel's glory, exacted a physical toll. He estimated that he broke about 40 bones during his career. He once spent days in a coma. The accumulated accidents nearly proved fatal after Knievel contracted hepatitis C, probably from a blood transfusion. He underwent a liver transplant in 1999 after nearly dying from the disease.

His personal life was just as high risk as his performances. Although ambitious and a natural athlete, playing minor league ice hockey and competing as a ski jumper, Knievel's teenage years and early 20s brought a series of run-ins with the authorities.

A native of Butte, Montana, Knievel was raised by his paternal grandparents after his parents divorced. He spent only two years in high school before dropping out to work in the copper mines and, according to popular lore, eventually lost his job for trying to drive a large earth mover on its rear wheels, and accidentally running it into a major power line. Butte lost power for several hours.

At 16, he was jailed for reckless driving.

As a young father in his 20s, he struggled to earn a living as an insurance salesman and motocross promoter, but found success only in 1966 when he began performing as a stuntman at agricultural fairs in California. After making his start jumping over rattlesnakes and mountain lions, he soon developed his signature act of a motorcycle jump over a line of cars.

By 1967, Knievel was clearing up to 16 cars in one jump, and television was making him an American folk hero - sometimes because of the crushing defeats. He began charging ever more astronomical sums for his feats - $1m for a performance at Wembley Stadium in 1975. He broke his pelvis trying to jump over a row of 13 buses, and announced his retirement - only to emerge a few months later in Ohio, and successfully jump over 14 buses.

In 1977, he was jailed for assaulting a former promoter, and was forced to declare himself bankrupt a few years later. In 1994, he was put on probation after being convicted on weapons charges, and forced to perform community service.

He re-entered the public consciousness only in 2006 when he sued the rapper Kanye West for using footage of the Snake River canyon jump in a music video.

The two reached a settlement only days ago.

Although mainstream America moved on to other fads from his daredevil stunts, Knievel never entirely lost his cult following, and made a good living selling autographs and endorsing products. His yearly festival in his home town continued to attract thousands of fans.

"They started out watching me bust my ass, and I became part of their lives," Knievel once said.

"People wanted to associate with a winner, not a loser. They wanted to associate with someone who kept trying to be a winner."

[tronno]

This guy was a legend in his own right. During the 70's he was just about as popular as Muhammad Ali (in North America anyhow). I remember watching the 70's bio-pic starring George Hamilton. And who can forget the Snake Canyon debacle? I always liked the guy. RIP.

[bart]

Yeah, we all knew him best as Tina's coked-up tormenter, but old Ike was a force to be reckoned with in pioneering electric blues and early rock 'n' roll.

Musician Ike Turner dies at 76

SAN DIEGO - Ike Turner, whose role as one of rock's critical architects was overshadowed by his ogrelike image as the man who brutally abused former wife and icon Tina Turner, died Wednesday at his home in suburban San Diego. He was 76.

"He did pass away this morning" at his home in San Marcos, in northern San Diego County, said Scott M. Hanover of Thrill Entertainment Group, which managed Turner's musical career.

There was no immediate word on the cause of death, which was first reported by celebrity Web site TMZ.com.

Turner managed to rehabilitate his image somewhat in his later years, touring around the globe with his band the Kings of Rhythm and drawing critical acclaim for his work. He won a Grammy in 2007 in the traditional blues album category for "Risin' With the Blues."

But his image is forever identified as the drug-addicted, wife-abusing husband of Tina Turner. He was hauntingly portrayed by Laurence Fishburne in the movie "What's Love Got To Do With It," based on Tina Turner's autobiography.

In a 2001 interview with The Associated Press, Turner denied his ex-wife's claims of abuse and expressed frustration that he had been demonized in the media, adding that his historic role in rock's beginnings had been ignored.

"You can go ask Snoop Dogg or Eminem, you can ask the Rolling Stones or (Eric) Clapton, or you can ask anybody — anybody, they all know my contribution to music, but it hasn't been in print about what I've done or what I've contributed until now," he said.

Turner, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is credited by many rock historians with making the first rock 'n' roll record, "Rocket 88," in 1951. Produced by the legendary Sam Phillips, it was groundbreaking for its use of distorted electric guitar.

But as would be the case for most of his career, Turner, a prolific session guitarist and piano player, was not the star on the record — it was recorded with Turner's band but credited to singer Jackie Brenston.

And it would be another singer — a young woman named Anna Mae Bullock — who would bring Turner his greatest fame, and infamy.

Turner met the 18-year-old Bullock, whom he would later marry, in 1959 and quickly made the husky-voiced singer the lead singer of his group, refashioning her into the sexy Tina Turner. Her stage persona was highlighted by short skirts and stiletto heels that made her legs her most visible asset. But despite the glamorous image, she still sang with the grit and fervor of a rock singer with a twist of soul.

The pair would have two sons. They also produced a string of hits. The first, "A Fool In Love," was a top R&B song in 1959, and others followed, including "I Idolize You" and "It's Gonna Work Out Fine."

But over the years they're genre-defying sound would make them favorites on the rock 'n' roll scene, as they opened for acts like the Rolling Stones.

The densely layered hit "River Deep, Mountain High" was one of producer Phil Spector's proudest creations.** A rousing version of "Proud Mary," a cover of the Creedence Clearwater Revival hit, became their signature song and won them a Grammy for best R&B vocal performance by a group.



** - That was from the AP story, but only Tina was on the track. In fact, Ike had nothing to do with "River Deep" aside from insisting that the song be credited to "Ike and Tina Turner."

[dino]

ike was the real thing - the real bad ass and if there was an inventor for such a thing like rock'n'roll that was him

[manho]

ike & tina turner, it's gonna work out fine:
www.sendspace.com/file/vqntre

[Steve]

Ikes stuff before Tina was the real deal. The Kings Of Rhythm are IT.

[cripes]

Of all the videos I've put up on YouTube, It's Gonna Work Out Fine by Ike & Tina on the TNT show has had the most views.

[dino]

freakin great video, thanx

[dino]

did you see how the the white guitarist play the guitar?? how is that?

and who is the black guy who come on the stage in the end?

god how great... and people today go nuts for a bruce springsteen of my ass

[Cat Stevens]

as dino said

[cripes]

That pesky Scott Miller has sent a link of that much watched Ike & Tina on the TNT Show video to Expecting Rain.

[dino]

i always wondered if scott m. is your brother

[cripes]

I'm guessing that Scott is one of the Atlanta Millers--an odd bunch.

Regarding your questions dino, I found these in the comments section:

THANK YOU~ For posting this...Believe me or not...THe white guitar player in the background is a very good friend of the family...My father and him were the greatest of friends before my dad passed recently...I am always lookin for clips that he may be in...His name is Herb Sadler...

the guy who is singing before Tina starts to dance is Jimmy Thomas. He was part of the Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythmn. He was with the group in the early 60s and often sang solo or lead parts whenever Ike & Tina would perform.

Feel better?

[dino]

yea! thanx!

[bart]

dino said:

did you see how the the white guitarist play the guitar?? how is that?

He's obviously playing in open tuning, and simply barring the chord with one finger when he plays. It's really not too difficult, regardless of how you hold your left hand.

I'd guess the "over the top" technique was merely added for effect.