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Confessions of a Curehead 23

Posted on December 05, 2010 by Jennib And Friends

Robert Smith turns fifty this month, yes, that’s how old we’re all getting, King Curehead clocks the half century, happy birthday Bobby-boy ya made it. Back in the late 1970s it didn’t look that way, did it? In fact, you wouldn’t have put all your pennies on the whole Gothic Rock genre lasting to blow the fifty candles. Robert Smith is often accused of being Goth’s chief architect, an accusation that he quite rightly debunks as lazy journalism, The Cure were far more in some ways and far less in others, either way it was not simply Gothic. The original members of The Cure met in the rather snooty sounding Notre Dame Middle School in the rather not so snooty sounding Crawley, Sussex. They formed bands named Obelisk and Malice, various members dropping in and out, a habit that would continue through the decades, creating a mind-boggling array of personnel in countless manifestations. Realistically, only the curest of Curehead is going to be very bothered with who was in when, the only thing you really need to know it that Robert Smith was always at the helm. He had assumed vocal duties when the band had settled on the name Easy Cure and had assumed control when he simply chopped off Easy and added The – now they were The Cure. Relative success came early with the German record label Hansa offering them a recording contract, Smith’s unwavering desire for complete creative control also came early when he dissolved the contract after Hansa began pressurizing the band into recording covers.

Working now as just a trio – Smith, Lol Tolhurst and Michael Dempsey recorded sessions at Chesnut Studios in Sussex and sent the demo tapes off to all the major labels. What a first effort it was! containing the tracks Boys Don’t Cry, Fire in Cairo, It’s Not You and 10.15.With what you would assume some confidence they waited and duly Chris Parry signed them to his Fiction label in September 1978. Their debut single, Killing an Arab was released that

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Marc Bolan 14

Posted on December 05, 2010 by Jennib And Friends

Biography

Early life and career

The son of a lorry driver, Bolan grew up in post-war Hackney, East London, amongst a Jewish family, and later lived in Wimbledon, southwest London. He fell in love with the rock and roll of Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Arthur Crudup and Chuck Berry[citation needed] at an early age and became a Mod, hanging around coffee bars such as the 2 I’s in Soho. He appeared in an episode of the television show Orlando as a Mod extra.

At the age of nine, Bolan was given his first guitar and began a skiffle band shortly after, and at fifteen, he left school “by mutual consent.”

Plaque marking Marc Bolan’s childhood home, 25 Stoke Newington Common, Hackney. (November 2005)

He briefly joined a modelling agency and became a “John Temple Boy,” appearing in a clothing catalogue for the menswear store. He was used as a model for their suits in their catalogues as well as a model for cardboard cut-outs to be displayed in shop windows. “TOWN” Magazine featured him as an early example of the Mod movement in a photo spread with a couple of other “faces”.

Marc Feld had changed his name to Toby Tyler when he met and moved in with child actor Allan Warren, who was to become his first manager. Warren saw Toby Tyler’s potential whilst Toby spent hours sitting cross-legged on Warren’s floor playing his acoustic guitar. Warren then took him to the photographer Michael McGrath and commissioned a series of photographs. Warren then hired a recording studio and had Bolan’s first acetates cut. One track being the Bob Dylan song ‘ Blowing in the wind’. Also a version of Betty Everett’s “You’re No Good” which was later submitted to EMI for a test screening but they turned down the then Toby Tyler. Warren later sold Marc’s contract and recordings for 200.00 to his landlord, property mogul David Kirch, in lieu of three months back rent. Kirch was far too busy with his property empire to do anything for him. A year or so later,

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Bryce’s Pet Peeves of the Week 0

Posted on December 03, 2010 by Jennib And Friends

“Never trust a person who doesn’t have at least one known vice (e.g., drinking, smoking, swearing).”
- Bryce’s Law

INTRODUCTION

On August 1st of last year, my “Management Visions” (MV) broadcast premiered on the Internet. MV is a free Internet broadcast (aka “Podcast”) that is updated weekly (on Mondays) and is made available in MP3, WMA, and RealPlayer file formats (the RealPlayer is accompanied by graphics). During the broadcast, I discuss subjects related to Information Resource Management IRM), review upcoming events of interest, and review e-mails from listeners. I also describe my “Pet Peeve of the Week” which represents items irritating me at the moment. This has turned into a popular part of the show and, as such, I am including them herein for those of you who missed the broadcast. Hopefully, you will be able to relate to some of these peeves. They are meant to offer some humorous insight into current topics of interest. I hope you will enjoy them. Please note that these are my own opinions and do not necessarily represent the opinions of my company or any other group.

AUGUST 8, 2005 – BOUNTY COMMERCIAL

My “Pet Peeve of the Week” is a Bounty commercial I recently heard on the radio while driving into work the other day. Now as many of you know, Bounty is Proctor & Gamble’s “Quilted Quicker Picker-Upper” paper towels, which I don’t have a problem with as such. We use Bounty in our house. However, the new radio ad described it as having “a new blue-dot quilting” that results in a “high resolution shine.” Frankly, when I heard this I burst out laughing. People in the cars next to me must have thought I had lost my mind. “High resolution shine”? I guess it seems funny to me to see something as mundane as paper towels go “high tech”. Ah, you gotta love Madison Avenue I guess.

AUGUST 15, 2005 – MICROSOFT WINDOWS

My “Pet Peeve of the Week” is Microsoft’s

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