I'm mildly surprised. After OJ and Robert Blake walked, I thought it might be impossible to convict a celebrity has-been in LA.You left out Michael Jackson.
I used to know a guy who was trying to make it in the music biz and whenever he spoke of Spector it was almost in a reverant tone. The Wall Of Sound was huge, HUGE, back in the 60's. It was the holy grail all would-be producers worshipped and tried to find an equivalent of...with no success.
It was the holy grail all would-be producers worshipped and tried to find an equivalent of...with no success.The fine line between genius and insanity. Plus throw in a good great deal of blind indulgence by fawning sycophants and you end up with a tragedy that might have been averted.
Very sad. Such a waste of lives. Hers, his and probably more than we will ever know.
In the Ramones documentary -- very good, by the way -- they point out that Spector basically held them hostage at his house for a few days when he was producing one of their records.
Spector has been insane for years. The guy apparently made a habbit of taking women back to his home and then threatening them with a gun. It is really too bad one of them didn't have a gun and couldn't have blown his head off. It would have saved poor Lana Clarkson's life and saved the state of California the expense of keeping him in prison.
Spector long since ceased to be eccentric and became dangerously insane. Had he not had money and fame and no doubt large groups of enablers he probably would have been in and out of jail and mental institutions throughout his entire life. What a waste.
Ann Althouse said... I almost blogged Marilyn Chambers.
But I've already blogged a dead porn star this week.
Why did she die? Is it interesting? Not all obits can be blogged. No, your judgment is pretty good on what story you go with as a feature. Certainly better than my efforts to say unfettered loyalty to Israel or Far-Left progressive Jewish lawyer's Front - are a grave menace.
I was just expresing my impression that Marilyn was a bigger icon than the strange Spectot..
Certainly better than my efforts to say unfettered loyalty to Israel or Far-Left progressive Jewish lawyer's Front - are a grave menace.Ok, I give up. Anyone want to take a shot at translating that into English?
The man is crazier than a shithouse rat! I'm not sure what that says for women who dated the schmuck.Not just dated. His current wife married him several years AFTER the murder, when his trial was about to begin.
A song for Titus and some people that have gone missing
Me, I'm a part of your circle of friends And we notice you don't come around Me, I think it all depends on you Touching ground with us but I quit, I give up, nothing's good enough for anybody else, It seems And I quit, I give up, nothing's good enough for anybody else, It seems
Titus MissingI step off the train I'm walking down your street again And pass your door But you don't live there anymore It's years since you've been there Now you've disappeared somewhere Like outer space You've found some better place And I miss you- Like the deserts miss the rain
I was married to Maxine for 20 years you know. It was a marriage made in heaven until, unfortunately, she became romantically involved in a triad with Phil Spector and Crack Emcee.
After she started dealing drugs and murdering people, I had no choice but to seek an annulment.
You understand. I still love her but what else could I do? I had to think about what was best for our three children.
Maxine, you wrote "She went to his house at 1:30 am. Same thing with Robert Blake."
Are you saying Robert Blake was there too? Does the DA know this? So in addition to being an accessory after the fact you are also withholding information?
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Thank you 12 jurors for patience and wisdom not to fall into the manipulations of the Defense attorneys, in Hollywood of all places.
I'm mildly surprised. After OJ and Robert Blake walked, I thought it might be impossible to convict a celebrity has-been in LA.
Observe the tragic consequences of off line dating.
I thought today's discovery of Marilyn Chambers found dead in her trailer park a bigger story.
I almost blogged Marilyn Chambers.
But I've already blogged a dead porn star this week.
Why did she die? Is it interesting? Not all obits can be blogged.
I'm mildly surprised. After OJ and Robert Blake walked, I thought it might be impossible to convict a celebrity has-been in LA.You left out Michael Jackson.
I used to know a guy who was trying to make it in the music biz and whenever he spoke of Spector it was almost in a reverant tone. The Wall Of Sound was huge, HUGE, back in the 60's. It was the holy grail all would-be producers worshipped and tried to find an equivalent of...with no success.
It was the holy grail all would-be producers worshipped and tried to find an equivalent of...with no success.The fine line between genius and insanity. Plus throw in a good great deal of blind indulgence by fawning sycophants and you end up with a tragedy that might have been averted.
Very sad. Such a waste of lives. Hers, his and probably more than we will ever know.
It makes me just feel like cryin'.
Here's Phil during happier times.
Why did she die? Is it interesting? Not all obits can be blogged.Cause of death hasn't been revealed yet, last I heard.
In the Ramones documentary -- very good, by the way -- they point out that Spector basically held them hostage at his house for a few days when he was producing one of their records.
Perhaps the jury compared Let It Be to Let It Be, Naked and voted to convict.
Early '60's wall of sound stuff was great, though. Blue eyed soul.
Didn't follow the trial. He has clearly been bughouse for a long time.
Spector has been insane for years. The guy apparently made a habbit of taking women back to his home and then threatening them with a gun. It is really too bad one of them didn't have a gun and couldn't have blown his head off. It would have saved poor Lana Clarkson's life and saved the state of California the expense of keeping him in prison.
Spector long since ceased to be eccentric and became dangerously insane. Had he not had money and fame and no doubt large groups of enablers he probably would have been in and out of jail and mental institutions throughout his entire life. What a waste.
Is "Let It Be... Naked" any good? I've been skeptical of all the "new" Beatles material that has been coming out lately.
Hold it - you mean Ringo and Paul are still making Beatles records? Groovy! Fab! And by fab I mean - damn, that would suck.
But I've already blogged a dead porn star this week.This is not a dead porn star by dead porn star kind of blog ;)
His hair is looking a lot flatter too.
Spector big mistake may have been that as a white celebrity you are not permitted to kill a white woman.
Still ;)
He got the wrong lesson from the OJ Trial.
Actually.. forget what I said about OJ.
Robert Blake was found not guilty of killing his wife.
I wonder if Chamber's porn sales will shot up ;)
Hey.. anybody heard from Titus lately?
Ann Althouse said...
I almost blogged Marilyn Chambers.
But I've already blogged a dead porn star this week.
Why did she die? Is it interesting? Not all obits can be blogged.
No, your judgment is pretty good on what story you go with as a feature. Certainly better than my efforts to say unfettered loyalty to Israel or Far-Left progressive Jewish lawyer's Front - are a grave menace.
I was just expresing my impression that Marilyn was a bigger icon than the strange Spectot..
No info on what she died of.
Certainly better than my efforts to say unfettered loyalty to Israel or Far-Left progressive Jewish lawyer's Front - are a grave menace.Ok, I give up. Anyone want to take a shot at translating that into English?
Well.. I could still speculate that unlike Baretta and OJ, Spector's "sin" was being not well known to the average LA juror.
I guess we will never know for sure.
I think Cedaford is lamenting that he is not allowed to say whatever he wants on someone else's blog.
I think Blake might have gotten off on the "that bitch needed killin'" defense. The victim was an amazingly unsympathetic figure.
My best friend is the cousin of Phil Spector.
Titus is currently blogging his same old shit over at Trooper York's place.
You mean Titus is too Mead conscious ;)
Good article at the link, but what's with the photo of Nigel Tufnel?
Mead proves Titus achilles ;)
The man is crazier than a shithouse rat! I'm not sure what that says for women who dated the schmuck.
Titus buddy.
Dont fear the Meade ;)
Heterophobia. Time to take it seriously.
Did somebody lean on Titus to retire ;)
Yeah. Meadephobia too.
The man is crazier than a shithouse rat! I'm not sure what that says for women who dated the schmuck.Not just dated. His current wife married him several years AFTER the murder, when his trial was about to begin.
Now there's a lady with some issues.
A song for Titus and some people that have gone missing
Me, I'm a part of your circle of friends
And we notice you don't come around
Me, I think it all depends on you
Touching ground with us but
I quit, I give up, nothing's good enough for anybody else,
It seems
And I quit, I give up, nothing's good enough for anybody else,
It seems
He was a musical genius. He produced three times as many hits as Quincy Jones, yet took less credit.
The greatest artists always have some flamboyant and eccentric qualities about them.
Love,
Maxine
Maxine dear.. what are you saying?
Titus MissingI step off the train
I'm walking down your street again
And pass your door
But you don't live there anymore
It's years since you've been there
Now you've disappeared somewhere
Like outer space
You've found some better place
And I miss you-
Like the deserts miss the rain
Spector could still run for office in Minnesota, so he's got that going for him. They'll elect anyone in Minnesota.
Maybe he could hand the Russian roulette revolver to Garrison Keillor. A grateful nation would demand that his sentence be withdrawn.
The greatest artists always have some flamboyant and eccentric qualities about them.Just a short step from genius to insanity, I always heard.
Cedarford omitted to mention Phil Spector is Jewish -- how anti-Semitic could he be?
Meadephobia too.You just made-that-up ;)
There is something wrong with HTML tonight.
And I'm not doing Henry Lee - I'm really serious.
Phil Spector paved the way for Shadow Morton and the Shangri-Las. And he did "He Hit Me (and It Felt Like a Kiss)." Who was that, the Chiffons?
Bruce Springsteen (as produced by Jon Landau) was aiming for a Neo-Wall of Sound homage on his best album, "Born to Run."
Little gal was in the wrong place at the wrong time. What did she expect ?
If I remember correctly Spector figured in Tina Turners "What's love got to do with it" 1993 also.
But.. what's that got to do with him killing a woman?
I'm shocked Maxine..
Are you blaming the dead victim?
I blame Maxine.
Her best friend is Phil Spector's cousin. Maxine could have intervened but did she?
No.
Maxine as much as pulled the trigger.
Now the truth comes out.
It sounds like Maxine was there.. I see Maxine running out of there like the house was on fire.
Saying to her cab driver, "I think Phil Spector just killed somebody," while casually tossing the smoking pistol into the underbrush.
It was an accident!
Maxine didn't mean to shoot the sonofabitch. The gun went off. She didn't know why.
Phil asked Maxine if she would help him with the body..
She told him you gotta be crazy..
I got a bad disk.
Just like Maxine to second degree murder someone and then not even help dispose of the body.
Blood stain clashes with her mauve sun dress.
Plus her white gloves. Always the lady.
I got a double platinum hip
Oh! You mean Maxine shot you too? Wrong place at the wrong time, Lem.
Better get that looked at.
I'll be fine.. she told me to put some ice on it.
Maxine may be a murderer but no one can accuse her of not having a nurturing maternal side. Gotta love her for it.
We were out of lemons.. so thats why she though of ice... it had nothing to do with that unfortunate Clinton allegation.
Maxine would not hurt a fly.. on purpose.
I know what you mean.
I was married to Maxine for 20 years you know. It was a marriage made in heaven until, unfortunately, she became romantically involved in a triad with Phil Spector and Crack Emcee.
After she started dealing drugs and murdering people, I had no choice but to seek an annulment.
You understand. I still love her but what else could I do? I had to think about what was best for our three children.
She went to his house at 1:30 am.
Same thing with Robert Blake.
These gals know the score. You play with fire....
It's a good lesson, albeit learned the hard way.
Don't go borrowing trouble !
Love,
See what I mean, Lem? Underneath the murdering and adultery -- heart of gold!
LOL. I love you, Meade.
Oh, jeez... Get a room!
Maxine, you wrote "She went to his house at 1:30 am. Same thing with Robert Blake."
Are you saying Robert Blake was there too? Does the DA know this? So in addition to being an accessory after the fact you are also withholding information?
Damn, you are one immoral bitch.
She went to his house at 1:30 am. Sure, kick the housing industry when it's down. Blame the house for the murder, not yourself.
A prison wall of sound?
Standing next to me in this lonely crowd,
Is a man who swears he's not to blame.
All day long I hear him shout so loud,
Crying out that he was framed.
He'll kill himself.
Is that what you would do if you were him, Jeremy?
I suppose an American Idol guest spot is out of the question now.
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