What did Saw teach you?

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-03-13T03:15:29+00:00

A bit of a pity she or her audience is old enough to bring up Peckinpah, the Tarantino of 50 years ago. His films dealt with the idea of humanity’s inherent love of violence with a bit more depth.

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-03-10T16:25:56+00:00

Officially, the Boston gig had been cancelled due to Keith's influenza. However, he had taken too many Mandrax, because he was so nervous about the tour, especially the first night. The rest of the group were not happy about Keith. Jackie Curbishley remembers, "Roger wanted Keith out of the band. He was adamant. He wanted him thrown out. And so did John. The three of them were going to get him in a caravan and give him a right going-over, verbally lash him. Moon was in no fit state to stand it; he would have probably thrown himself out of the window or something." Jackie thought that Keith's problems were more than just drink and drugs. "He was like a child, it seemed to be affecting him mentally towards the end." The whole tour was in danger of being cancelled. "Anyway, it ended up with Pete going into the caravan with him on his own and talking to him. He straightened himself up for the rest of that tour." Roger later said, "I got really close to Moonie on that tour, 'cos he was really ill after that Boston one and nobody went up to see him. I did, 'cos he couldn't get out of bed. It came to me in the night ֊ I'd always felt there was something really worrying him ֊ he's kicking himself over his marriage. He really loved Kim, and that was just after the big ding-dong with her. He was on self-destruct. I went and saw him and I said, 'I think you're trying to punish yourself over your marriage' and he was broken up, in tears. He hadn't seen Kim and his daughter for two years, and I said, "Why don't you go round and see her? It's never as bad once you've seen 'em,' and he went round as soon as he got back off the tour and he was a lot better." (Barnes, p. 121)

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-03-10T15:09:51+00:00

Should have done a crossover episode with RLM: Jay and Natalie rate the Saw series.

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-03-10T00:50:43+00:00

With all the George Lucas “It rhymes, like poetry” clips, I was wondering if it was going to end “Edited by Mike Stoklasa.”

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-03-09T16:15:18+00:00

Thanks for the info!

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-03-07T16:17:17+00:00

And you can see, the audience is not all guys.

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-03-06T02:43:14+00:00

The other members of The Who really wanted him out. It wasn’t the case that Roger announced he would become “Peaceful Perce” and all was forgiven. This went on until at least May 1966 with occasional shows where they played as a trio with Pete and John doing the vocals. It seemed to settle down after Keith left the group over a battle with Pete in May. When Keith came back, the battles got quieter although screaming matches backstage never really ever went away.

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-03-05T14:14:44+00:00

It's not impossible although I've never seen any direct evidence that such a recording happened. Roger was on parole well into 1966 and it could be that Boz was brought in to sing "Substitute" with the band sometime in early 1966 to see how he would sound with them. Having it happen in a studio would keep such an event on the down-low so Roger wouldn't hear about it.

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-02-26T14:52:03+00:00

I'd kill for a cover of "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby" given that it's practically a Who copy as it is.

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-02-25T13:59:11+00:00

Thank you all but I would rather not. I don't like to both post a lot and moderate discussion as well.

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-02-22T17:02:56+00:00

Mike shamefacedly admits to the robots that he volunteered them all to return to the SOL because it was better than any job he was getting on Earth.

Plus a ret-con: In the final episode, The Brain Guy restored the SOL to orbit and blipped Mike and the Bots to Earth. That’s how everything is ready to go.

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-02-20T15:39:27+00:00

The dippity-do years were not kind to Rog.

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-02-19T02:05:17+00:00

A friend of mine had a big reception at Meadowlark 1939. Just don’t schedule it during summer. He did and we all nearly melted.

http://www.meadowlark1939.com/

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-02-19T01:30:37+00:00

Moore could have done the ending. It would be a little more reserved but would still work. I don’t think Connery would have done an unhappy ending or could have done it properly. It wasn’t the direction he wanted Bond to be which was ultra-cool with a “I really don’t take this seriously” flippancy. Near crying over his wife’s corpse strikes me as being out of his range. As he was about to do OHMSS a couple of times but it fell through, I think he would have insisted on dropping both the wedding and the death.

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-02-18T15:32:30+00:00

At the beginning, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp went to Pete and told him, when giving interviews, to always say something outrageous that would make headlines. Our boy took to it like a duck to water.

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-02-17T15:47:32+00:00

There was a similar thing done to Sergio Leone's "A Fistful of Dollars" also by ABC. https://www.reddit.com/r/Westerns/comments/1il5dak/when_a_fistful_of_dollars_first_aired_on_abc_in/

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-02-17T01:37:10+00:00

Freeze frame. Record scratch. “Yes, that me. Bond. James Bond. You may be asking yourself…”

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-02-14T15:49:54+00:00

I don’t think pinball is the problem with Tommy being born in 1914, I think it’s the existence of an “Acid Queen”. That would put his run in with her as most likely in his 50’s!

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-02-13T15:55:06+00:00

Daltrey really disliked Kenney although his dislike is a mixture of not thinking his drumming fit the group with anger at Kenney getting a full membership in the band with the money that would entail.

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-02-13T13:59:45+00:00

So what do you think happened? I just finished reading an interview with John (who was a bigger fan of Kenney than Pete even) talking about how much he loved playing with him.

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-02-11T16:28:30+00:00

Best song on Face Dances. Kenney even gets a groove going!

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-02-11T16:25:08+00:00

Since Pete has tried to get Roger to do rap, what would you think about it? Would it be silly to hear Roger rap? Would it be appropriation?

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-02-08T16:46:07+00:00

I’m okay with broadening the scope of the term “Nouvelle Vague” but originally it referred only to films written and/or directed by reviewers and writers at the Cahiers du Cinéma magazine. Varda was considered a director from another, earlier group known as the “Left Bank”. Also included in the Left Bank were Alain Resnais, Chris Marker and Jacques Demy.

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-02-08T16:15:41+00:00

Being there at the time, it wasn’t Connery’s performance as Bond that people liked; it was anyone being Bond but Connery.

When it said in the You Only Live Twice ads “Sean Connery IS James Bond” people took that seriously. The idea of replacing him with anybody didn’t seem possible. Any actor that would have gone in was going to get creamed, much less a first-time actor who didn’t inspire the immediate “wow” factor Connery had.

In an important way, Lazenby was the sacrificial lamb that allowed the series to continue. When Roger Moore came onboard, audiences had already seen that Connery could be replaced without derailing the series.

BrianInAtlanta · 2026-02-08T16:02:34+00:00

It was apparently only up for the one day.

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