Dave Grisman Quintet reimagined as the Sam Grisman Septet!
“Pneumonia!”
(How good is a band if they have Billy Strings on rhythm guitar!?)
Friday, January 23, 2026
Pink Floyd - Set The Controls for The Heart of Sun [Live at Pompeii] | jt1674
. . .again another favourite classic Floyd and amongst those that I learned to play first . . . . . .
Brian Eno -Backwater - [Before and After Science] | jt1674
. . . . again another favourite and probably my top Three Eno albums always features this album
Carlene Carter and Dave Edmunds - Baby Ride Easy |Twilightzone
What’s the story here I wonder?! . . . . .Carlene Carter (Mrs Nick Lowe) with archenemy and rival after falling out (they played in Rockpile . . . .together) Dave ‘Sabre Dance’ Edmunds (from the dreadful Love Sculpture) Lowe sacked their manager of the time without consulting Dave allegedly and being a mate Edmiunds was reportedly furious and they never really played together again . . . . . .
Carlene Carter and Dave Edmunds - Baby Ride Easy
Does the ghost of Claude Monet haunt a Cleveland art gallery? | WILL HOWARD | DANGEROUS MINDS
Well no! As there’s no such thing but this is an interesting read from our Will Howard poverties at Dangerous Minds
Dangerous Minds on Monet’s ghost
Love this shot and the story allegedly taken before the show opened and was therefore not open to the public!
Portrait photograph of the French impressionist painter Claude Monet by the early master Nadar (Credit: Nadar)
John Phillips - Oh Virginia (1976) | Guess I’m Dumb
John Phillips - Oh Virginia (1976)
"The best Rolling Stones song you’ve never heard. Ok, John Phillips wrote and sang it, but the Stones’ imprint is all over this marvelous tune - produced by Mick and Keith, with Mick’s backing vocals and a fantastic solo by Mick Taylor. And John Phillips was actually from Virginia.” Guess says . . . . .
bass: ron wood? electric & acoustic guitars: mick taylor acoustic guitars:keith richards $ chris spedding keyboards: jean rousell percussion: ouie brawn? backing vocals: mick jagger & keith richards
Phillips of the heroin habit that saw him injecting approximately every quarter of an hour (according to him!)and check his familial relationships!? . . . . . . . wot?
Wonder what the common denominator was here . . . . . . . 🤔
Stanley Kubrick’s LOLITA - casting
When Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita officially went into production in early 1960, many young and up-and-coming actresses were considered or offered the title role, but turned it down for various reasons.
Hayley Mills, age 14, was one of the first actresses in discussion, but reportedly had to pass on the project because of her tight contract with Walt Disney Studios. Years later, Hayley revealed her parents also weren’t comfortable with their adolescent daughter being offered a prominent role in a movie involving serious subject matters like pedophilia and statutory rape. Hayley would be forced to turn down J. Lee Thompson’s Cape Fear in 1961 because of its mature content as well.
Joey Heatherton, age 15, also passed on Kubrick’s picture because her father [Broadway star Ray Heatherton] felt she had already played enough ‘sex kitten’ parts on screen, and worried the cinematic portrayal of Lolita would be another provocative characterization and typecasting for Joey.
Sandra Dee, age 18, was supposedly offered the female lead of Lolita, with her mother and manager, Mary Zuck, allegedly telling Kubrick and producer James Harris that she and Sandra would think about it—but never followed up on the offer.
Tuesday Weld, age 16, turned down the feature on her own accord, already into her reputation for passing on big, hyped studio pictures for smaller, modest projects with potential. Tuesday was also once famously quoted as saying, “I didn’t need to play Lolita—I already was her.”
Eventually, teen model Sue Lyon was cast and rocketed to stardom, yet never fully escaped the iconic character for a fully fledged career as a leading lady.
"Check out my longform article on this topic over at my blog/newsletter” really worth a read her as she always is . . . . The Meggie Sue
Never very comfortable with either the book or the film and it is calmed as one of the great books ever written but I don’t see it . . . and I certainly don’t see the film as amongst Kubrick’s best by a long way but hey . . . . . !?
I had a long running (years!) gag on Facebook which borders on the tedious! As Tuesday came around I would post a picture of my hero Dudley Moore’s wife, Tuesday Weld asking what day out was! My pals liked it . . .her comments about Lolita speak volumes as to her upbringing frankly . . .
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