Funeral channel?

[Mike Cohen]

Let us not forget that CNN devoted valuable broadcast time to Larry King investigating Michael Jackson’s ghost appearing at his mansion. It turned out it was a shadow. A SHADOW. Doesn’t CNN remember Three Men and a Baby?

Ridiculous. Now I know why I stopped watching tv news.

Nick – kudos for keeping us grounded.

Mike

[Ron Lindeboom]

:o)

Well, Nick, now I gotta get all serious and stuff. Let me see if I can do it…

[sound of whirring gears here, machine struggles as gears engage]

I gave up on USA news quite some time ago as it was no longer news. It seemed much more interested in Brittney’s latest tryst or her problems with jail or anything else but real news. It became like the grocery store check-out stand tabloids with their endless interest in Brad and Jennifer and Angelina. Oh please…can we have something — anything! — real, please?

When they aren’t slathering all over some star or starlet, they are demonizing some schmuck and vilifying and convicting them long before the verdict is even in.

It has become The Business of Pandering & Villifying. It’s an even dirtier variant of the Show Business underbelly practiced in the movie industry.

The fact that the news didn’t mention an attack on the IT infrastructure of the USA is no surprise. But if they had hacked Brittney’s website, it would be a national calamity.

Even when news “pretends” to be news today, it is little more than one side of the political divide trying to whip up their constituency into a feeding frenzy designed to mock and vilify those on the other side of the political divide. Yawn.

Leonard Cohen said it best: There is a crack in everything, it’s how the light gets in.

But nobody listens to him either.

See? I can be serious, Nick.

😉

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry

[Nick Griffin]

Well by providing the correct spelling for Geoff Emerick Ron Lindeboom has put me once more in his debt this week. Thank you, Ron. I’m not worthy.

What took me by surprise Tuesday morning wasn’t that cable channels would feel it necessary to carry the Jackson funeral it was the corruption of what I considered to be one of the few remaining legit news sources: KCBS, News Radio San Francisco.

Driving back Tuesday morning after a wonderful evening in Paso Robles with a truly gracious and generous host and hostess, I was listening to KCBS for their traffic reports (a necessity in the Bay area). I was stunned that they were providing nearly wall-to-wall coverage of the Jackson funeral. Little news, some weather, traffic (thankfully) and MICHAEL JACKSON’S FUNERAL??? ON KCBS??? Is this how low we’ve sunk?

[Ron Lindeboom]

Yes, but the real question, Nick, is now that you have seen the Mancave Recording Studio in person, am I ever going to convince you to come out and record with me in it when it is all done?

:o)

Geoff Emerick won’t be engineering but I am sure I can track down some other geezer to handle the board and the set-up.

Kathlyn and I thoroughly loved having you guys here for a visit. It truly was an honor, Nick.

Ron Lindeboom

[Dennis Size]

Well Nick….. it appears you have a mission — and definitely an idea that will make you a multi-millionaire. Let’s face it, there’s definitely a market considering all the crap that’s broadcast these days.
Better hurry up and develop/patent this idea before someone else does.
Let’s face it… this month alone — what with Ed McMahon, Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, Farah Fawcett, Karl Malden, and Steve McNair, etc. — your ratings would have been through the roof!!!

DS

[Ron Lindeboom]

So Dennis, when are *you* coming out to Wine Country?

😉

Ron & Kathlyn

[Nick Griffin]

[Ron Lindeboom] “I am sure I can track down some other geezer to handle the board and the set-up.”

Hey, I’m a geezer. I can ride levels and do headphone mixes, etc. In fact, that would get me out of having to play. True story: decades ago when I fancied myself a folkie it was only after some initial attempts at recording that I figured out on which side of the glass I belonged. Then after observing a George Massenberg session (back before he was THE George Massenberg — so responsible for the sound of Earth, Wind & Fire that he was given POINTS in the act — POINTS!) anyway, after watching George Motion in action I decided the control room side was where the real action was.

The Mancave room looks like it will be sweat. I’m looking forward to returning to Paso Robles! Thanks again to you an Kathlyn for a wonderful evening and a great meal!