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Offline anniebc

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Imagine.
« on: December 08, 2010, 12:38:44 am »
30 years ago today, 8th of December 1980 John Lennon was murdered.

R.I.P John, a man admired by many.

In sadness
Jan :(
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Offline jkinatl2

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Re: Imagine.
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2010, 12:46:18 am »
Keep waiting for the next rock visionary. Still waiting.

I wrote this on another site, when someone mentioned where they were when the news came:

Hanging out in the Quad at lunch in junior high school. No one knew what to say. We sorta shuffled through our sandwiches and stood around in the cold. A bunch of us wore black armbands the next school day.

But even then it seemed like a lame thing to do, a loss for which no commemoration would be adequate. A cool rocker, a progressive in a world lacking those, sure. But a forward, hopeful way of thinking seemed gone. And then, of course, came the 80s, and Reagan, and AIDS, and we felt lost. Gen X seemed to mark the spot, and that was the spot.

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Re: Imagine.
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2010, 09:51:49 am »
And according to my nephew, a walking encyclopedia regarding music, Darby Crash of The Germs died the same day from an overdose.  He said they were both brilliant.  But could someone tell me who The Germs were???
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Offline Oceanbeach

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Re: Imagine.
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2010, 03:59:09 pm »
Thirty years ago today, I was living with a D.J. from our local R&R radio station, we were having a party with a music dealer and the entertainment editors of two newspapers.  We gathered music, went to the radio station and gave the guy the night off.  In all the music we played and all the phone calls shared with our audience, "The Germs" were never mentioned.

Not 30 years ago, I was living next door to a guitarist from Sublime when he overdosed.  We didn't go to the radio station, we did not have candle light vigils in the park but one day, a friend was surprised to see me still alive because he saw the crime scene tape and thought it was my house, not the neighbor.  Sublime became the Long Beach Dub All Stars, gave up the house and neither band ever touched toughed our lives like John Lennon did   ;D  Have the best day
Michael

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Re: Imagine.
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2010, 04:13:45 pm »
I was living off-campus in a student house at KSU, in my freshman year. I was in the kitchen with some of my housemates, fixing a late night snack and smoking a couple joints. We had the radio on and a news-flash came on to say that John Lennon had been shot. At first there was confusion over whether or not he survived. I don't think anyone in the house got any sleep that night. We were all in shock. I can't believe it's been thirty years already and I sometimes wonder what he would have gone on to achieve if he hadn't been murdered.

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Offline Oceanbeach

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Re: Imagine.
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2010, 06:21:37 pm »
Not one of the radio stations I worked for and with in California or Hawaii would put my favorite John Lennon song on the play list.  They said it was too progressive...  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6wxTkkflqM&feature=related   ;D  Have the best day
Michael
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Offline mecch

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Re: Imagine.
« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2010, 09:14:16 pm »
I don't remember this event as marking my existence.  I was going through a 10 year I don't like the Beatles phase. I always loved Yoko Ono though, go figure.  Abby Road was my first music purchase, and I loved the Beatles as a kid.  Now I love them again.
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Offline David_CA

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Re: Imagine.
« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2010, 11:23:29 am »
I remember it well, actually.  I was in 8th grade, and we heard the news on the radio in the car (carpool) on the way to school.  I never understood how a 'fan' could do that.  D and I were just talking about this the other night, in fact. 
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