#mark hudson

[oktoboss8]

kms he looks so stupid

[sweetbrunch]

season 8 is a reboot?

the main characters will pretend charlie never existed?

sarah will pretend she never dated charlie?

charlie hudson and rex are bff, how can rex pretend he never knew charlie and work with mark like nothing?

I hope the people who fired john reardon get fired too.

those ugly people didn't have the decency to give the main male protagonist a proper ending/farewell.

they just treated him like an extra.

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synchronization

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Harry Nilsson, Chris O’Dell, and George, circa 1973 or early 1974.

In later years… “We ended up in Tramp [in London, 1984]. I was with George [Harrison]. Harry [Nilsson] was there and Ringo was there. And it got really quite late. And for some reason we challenged the Italian waiters to a ‘Volare’ sing-off. We all climbed on a table and they all climbed on another table. And we tried to sing ‘Volare’ louder than they could. It was really funny.” - Eric Idle, Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter (2013) “Then there was the time at Harry Nilsson’s funeral. Every songwriter was there – Jimmy Webb, Paul Williams, Van Dyke Parks, George, the list of people was scary and it was the day after the last big L.A. earthquake. So we are all sad and sullen and standing around the grave and George goes. ’[Expletive] You.’ And we are all shocked and we thought he was having some kind of angst. And then he says, ‘That was always my favorite song.’ [Hudson sings a la George] ‘You’re Breaking My Heart, Tearing it Apart, Well [Expletive] you,’ so then we all joined in and sang it.” - Mark Hudson, The Gibson Interview, July 26, 2010 By the way… the Son of Schmilsson album cover features a photo taken at Friar Park. (x)

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Peter Tork at various celebrity charity softball games, circa 1975, 1976, and 1977.

Photo 2 courtesy of David Jolliffe/davidjolliffe dot com; Jolliffe captioned the photo with: “Norm Jacobovitz, David Jolliffe, Jerry Hauser, David Cassidy, Randy Foote, Bill Mumy, (Bottom left) Toni Tennile, Peter Tork, Kay Lenz, Mark Hudson“

Photo 3 was published in Spec, February 1975 (via Pinterest), and shows (per the magazine’s caption) Lamont (Fifth Dimension), David Jolliffe, Keith Allison, Mark Volman, Alice Cooper, Albert Books, Neko and John Cholis, Bob Brown, Peter, Bruce Kirby, Jr.

Continued on from yesterday's post...

The following news blurb seems to refer to the top photo’s event:

“Disc jockey Charlie Tuna will lead the radio station team in a softball game against the celebrity team. Each side will be composed of personalities from radio, television, music and motion picture industries. Three of the celebrities will be Kay Lenz, star of an upcoming movie, ‘Cat House Thursday,’ Judy Norton, actress from ‘The Waltons,’ and Peter Tork, formerly of the Monkees.” - News-Pilot, September 16, 1976

“It turned into an informal softball league that raised a little money. We got good press and everybody loved it. We had a great Hollywood Vampires softball shirt and cap with a big V on it…It was Alice and myself with Peter Tork as our pitcher. He was very good.” - Micky Dolenz, Goldmine, 2020

“[We would go to] schools and camps for underprivileged kids and we’d play softball. That’s how it started. And Alice [Cooper] came up with the name [Hollywood Vampires], of course.’ They even had their own team jerseys with big red V’s. ‘Alice tended to be the pitcher,’ [Micky] Dolenz says. ‘Peter Tork, who was probably the best baseball player on the team, he would play left field. I was not that great. I would play first base, usually.’” - Arizona Republic, September 26, 2021

Another throwback to the ‘60s: “Out in the parking lot [at RCA during a Jefferson Airplane session] Peter Tork was playing baseball with the sound technicians.” - Chris Franz (class of ‘69), Wellesley News, November 9, 1967

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It’s me by Alice Cooper from the album The Last Temptation

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The Guyver (1991)

[krispyweiss]

Album Review: Joey Molland - Be True to Yourself

Thirty-three years after the fact, Joey Molland has made the sequel to George Harrison’s Cloud Nine.

Be True to Yourself is the Badfinger frontman’s first solo LP in nearly a decade and finds him mixing elements of his own band with Beatlesque flourishes and ELO-inspired harmonies while producer Mark Hudson takes his sonic inspiration from Jeff Lynne and adds the horns and strings Harrison so loved. The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz and Chicago’s Jason Scheff, Molland’s bandmates on the White Album-centric It Was 50 Years Ago Today tour, plus Wings’ Steve Holley and Julian Lennon - who shot the cover - make cameos.

The result is 10 inoffensive, if overly simplistic, power-pop tracks that rhyme lightning with frightening, down with around and true with you and borrow heavily from Molland’s past, even inserting an Easter egg from “No Matter What” inside “All I Want to Do” and copping elements of “Eleanor Rigby” on the title track. The only thing that makes Be True to Yourself sound contemporary - it certainly isn’t the 20-something love stories of “Rainy Day Man” or “I Don’t Wanna Be Done with You” - is the rasp that’s developed in Molland’s voice.

“All I Do is Cry,” which lifts a a bit of rhythm from David Bowie’s “Boys Keep Swinging” and the Ringo-inspired rockabilly of “Shine” are the highlights; however, only die-hards - and there are many - are likely to consider Be True to Yourself essential listening.

Grade card: Joey Molland - Be True to Yourself - C+

11/19/20