![]() And the stranger wrote, "Please tone down your language. "I have underage nieces and nephews who read this stuff!" she wrote. So I posted, "FUCK the courts - I want JUSTICE." My friend (and also someone I didn't even KNOW) were both horrified that I'd use that kind of language in a public forum. The sorry excuse for a human being got a slap on the wrist and a small fine. Someone else heard the puppy's whimpers and took it to the vet, and eventually, the authorities found the person who'd dumped it. It was about someone who had tossed a crippled puppy in a dumpster and left it to die. (Quick censorship story: I once posted on a friend's comment at Facebook. ![]() Unless one is a member of the Moral Majority. George Carlin was right - if one uses a word often enough, pretty soon one gets used to hearing it and it loses its power to offend. At worst, it's a horrible sign of the loss of freedom of speech. ![]() They can't say the words "drugs" or "assholes." But they can still sing the line about popping pills from a Pez dispenser (I guess the censors figure that it's a convenient way to take aspirin or vitamins.) "The girls come easy and the bleeep comes cheap." It's completely arbitrary censorship, and is ludicrous at best. Today, January 24th, marks what would have been Zevon’s 75th birthday, and in celebration of his career I bring you one of his many insightful, yet oddly danceable rock classics below – join me in dancing a little jig (or at least bob your head) to the wonderful ‘Lawyers, Guns and Money’.That Nickelback song "Rock Star" is censored when it plays on the radio in our town. When he died of cancer in September 2003 aged just 53, many of his close friends, including the likes of Jackson Browne and Bruce Springsteen, would pay tribute to the talented musician’s life. It is clear that Zevon was a troubled soul as he battled his mental illness and alcoholism, and for that, his family and many friends were forgiving of his occasional ill-temper. His ex-wife Crystal Zevon remembered: “He had tonnes of charisma, but when he didn’t want people coming up to him, he had charisma in reverse.” He had two children with Crystal who have said they still have a great deal of love for their father despite his absence through much of their childhood, and as his daughter, Ariel put it “when he was drinking he was erratic, violent, emotionally absent, impossible”. Throughout his life, Zevon battled addiction and a bad temper which was likely a symptom of depression resulting from his alcoholism. Over the years that followed, he would struggle to maintain the commercial success of the late 1970s aside from a few highlight returns to form in albums such as The Envoy released in 1982 and Mr. The early release that boosted him to global stardom and would remain his lifetime magnum opus, was his 1978 album Excitable Boy, which housed some of his greatest hits including the famed ‘Werewolves of London’, which was recorded with the help of his friends from Fleetwood Mac, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie. Zevon was a peculiar man with undeniable talent that seemed to bring with it some problems as he made his way through a rollercoaster career of variable commercial success. This would become a constant throughout the rest of Dylan’s career and served to add a touch more conviction when he did, on rare occasions, express his admiration. ![]() As he became more successful in his own right, he became less liberal when naming artists he admired, seemingly unwilling to feed the egos of his peers until they reached a certain high standard in his eyes. Dylan even managed to become acquainted with Guthrie in the final years of his life, he would play to him in his bed where he was tragically dying from Huntington’s disease.Īs the years wore on though, Dylan became the biggest name in folk music and the spearhead of an unsettled population with the political themes expressed throughout much of his work. Later, he would become enamoured with folk music and Woody Guthrie in particular. From the tender days of his youth, Bobby would play the piano stood up and sing in his school band in an attempt to emulate his hero Little Richard. In his early days, Bob Dylan would make it very clear which musicians he idolised. Even the best songwriter of all time learned his trade somewhere. ![]()
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