Rest in peace, Phil Ochs. Left us this day in 1976.

Larry, Thanks for remembering Phil. I had the urge to listen to some of Phil's albums Tuesday and did, but never made the connection that it was THE day until I saw your post.

Papa John does 'the' best version of 'Some Day over the Rainbow' on the Electric violynn than anybody I've ever heard!!! Instrumental of course. I never knew if the guy was still kicking....//thinking of you John with that All-star band!!! George and John, now you and Gerry!!! If I had 1/2 the woman that that man had in his life-time, I'd be one happy camper!!! I hear he had great taste in women!!!......<img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/pimp.gif" width=22 height=23>.......

Phil Ochs is one of my favorites.
He's so honest and brave and stirring. I don't think my mere words do justice...

Will Geer
Died April 22, 1978
He was everybody's grandpa and Woody Guthrie's close friend.
Helen Hayes described him as "The world's oldest hippie".
The ashes of Will Geer are buried by a bust of the actor that sits near the theater's entrance and these days Guthrie's son, Arlo, sometimes drops by to sing and play the guitar for audiences. So does Ellen Geer's husband, Peter Aslop, a noted folksinger himself.
Will Geer, with his passion for Shakespeare, theater and botany, founded the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. Mission and History
Other links: http://hdlighthouse.org/see/families/will.htm
http://www.the-waltons.com/willsty.html
<FONT size="1">(Speaking of Shakespeare, this happens to be his birthdate today - April 23, 1564)</FONT s>
<FONT size="1">(Speaking of Shakespeare, this happens to be the date he died - April 23, 1616)</FONT s>

<B>June Carter Cash
1929 - 2003</B>

June Carter Cash, the Grammy-winning scion of one of country music's pioneering families and the wife of country music giant Johnny Cash, died Thursday of complications from heart surgery. She was 73 years old.
http://tennessean.com/entertainment/news/archives/03/05/32812679.shtml?Element_ID=32812679

A legendary farewell to June Carter Cash
http://www.tennessean.com/entertainment/news/archives/03/05/32915155.shtml?Element_ID=32915155

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So sorry to hear about her. The autoharp world has lost another player. Peace & God Bless... <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/peace.gif" width=16 height=16>

Thank you June. We love you.

Sadly, we've been losing some great bass players here lately:
Leon Wilkeson of Lynyrd Skynyrd, died July 27, 2001.
John Entwistle of The Who, died June 27, 2002.
And now I just learned that Noel Redding of The Jimi Hendrix Experience died a week ago Sunday, May 11-03.
Leave it to me to see that Noel spelled backwards is Leon.
Also, when I see the presence of the W's, X's, and Y's above, this doesn't mean that Zeppelin..... naaahhhh.
Stay well and safe John Paul Jones!

So long, David Brinkley and Gregory Peck. <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/frown.gif" width=15 height=15>

So sorry to hear about them. In the 60's I used to watch Huntley and Brinkley...

I just found out that Jed Clampett of the Beverly Hillbillies tv shows has passed on. We enjoyed that show. Peace & God Bless...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030707/ap_on_en_tv/obit_ebsen_14

From today's NY Times:
The Last Beetle

The Curtain Comes Down for Herbie
By SERGE SCHMEMANN

Adiós, bug.

You may have called it a Beetle — or even KdF-Wagen, if you owned one in Germany right after the war. My family knew it as the "bug." Whatever it was called, the last one is due to roll off the Volkswagen line today in Puebla, Mexico. Its successor is basically a front-engine Golf with a faux-Beetle bod. It's a nifty car, but it's also a different story.

The authentic bug was a defining automotive phenomenon of our time — a cramped, weak, noisy two-door car designed on Hitler's orders before World War II as a "people's car," which went on to become the best-selling automobile in history. (Hitler decreed the shape, but Ferdinand Porsche, of Porsche fame, created the car.) The last one off the line is No. 21,529,464 worldwide. The runner-up in numbers built, Ford's Model T, sold about 15 million.

In the 60's, all the teenagers, including me, knew the sound of the VW's air-cooled flat-four engine, tucked away back where the trunk should be: a sort of loud cough interrupted by burps, rising to a desperate rasp when it approached 60 m.p.h. I had one for a while, like everybody else I know; a green '68 bug I bought from a guy in Brooklyn. When the engine blew, the garage told me that the motor, at least, " 'wasn't no '68.' " I didn't hold that against my bug — the fact that parts were so interchangeable and plentiful was what made it so economical.

It was the perfect automotive statement for the 60's, a car that proclaimed disdain for the fins, planned obsolescence and, in general, all the conspicuous consumption of middle-class America. But in a very shrill era, the bug made its comment with irony. This was a car with a sense of humor.

Still, every cult must come to an end. I replaced my bug in 1971 with a Toyota, falling in line with the times. The production of Beetles in Europe ended in 1975; production for the United States stopped in 1979. Brazil continued to make bugs for several more years, and then there was only Mexico.

The last 3,000 bugs to roll off the line in Puebla were a special farewell edition in retro colors like Aquarius blue. The last one was to be shipped to Volkswagen's headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany, to be put on display, a certified classic.

Bye-bye, Beetle. "Punch buggy Aquarius blue!"
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End of production maybe...
...but thank goodness for eBay Motors.

Just learned this morning (since I generally try to avoid the news) that Bob Hope died. 100 years!
Thanks for the memories, Mr. Hope, and providing so much <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/laugh.gif" width=15 height=15> to so many people, including our U.S. troops, for so many years. This world will never forget you.

On the 'Road to Utopia' Bob

Say Hi to Todd for me <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/smile.gif" width=15 height=15>