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Pretty woman, walkin down the street, pretty woman
The kind I like to meet, pretty woman
I dont believe you, youre not the truth
No one could look as good as you. mercy!
Mardi 8 Novembre – Il n’a pas l’air commode votre prof ! Arhh les cons ! s'ils savaient. Très bonne répét pour les blue-div’s on bosse on bosse on bosse !!!!
1974
Who is greatest rock'n' roll guitar player in the world?
Can you guess ;-)
70's Sansui stereo receiver in EVH frankenstrat design.
Edit: R.I.P. Eddie
Van Halen at Rainbow Theatre London (29 June 1979 their first headline gig in the UK)
Scanned from a 35mm slide I took at the concert
1974
Who is greatest rock'n' roll guitar player in the world?
Can you guess ;-)
Sansui stereo receiver in EVH guitar frankenstrat design.
Edit: R.I.P. Eddie
...for a little while...
Above Emigrant Gap at 7000’ altitude...
Came home to avoid the massive throngs and keep an eye on the Booty Ranch during fireworks season and off to the mountains in a few days...retirement really sucks...
1974
Who is greatest rock'n' roll guitar player in the world?
Can you guess ;-)
70's Sansui stereo receiver in EVH frankenstrat design.
The balloon/blimp has the Van Halen logo from their first album @ 1978
Taken at The Van Halen Tour featuring David Lee Roth (lead vocals), Eddie Van Halen (guitars), Wolfgang Van Halen (bass) and Alex Van Halen (drums). The concert was held at Bell Center, Montreal on 10th November, 2007.
College days. I moved in to the master bedroom when Mom moved out of the house in 1988. I looked after the place until it sold.
A friend just sent me this awesome story and I will never look at the Iwo Jima statue the same way....
Boys and 13 Hands
Each year I am hired to go to Washington, DC, with the eighth grade class from Clinton, WI where I grew up, to videotape their trip. I greatly enjoy visiting our nation's capitol, and each year I take some special memories back with me. This fall's trip was especially memorable.
On the last night of our trip, we stopped at the Iwo Jima memorial. This memorial is the largest bronze statue in the world and depicts one of the most famous photographs in history -- that of the six brave soldiers raising the American Flag at the top of a rocky hill on the island of Iwo Jima, Japan, during WW II..
Over one hundred students and chaperones piled off the buses and headed towards the memorial. I noticed a solitary figure at the base of the statue, and as I got closer he asked, 'Where are you guys from?'
I told him that we were from Wisconsin. 'Hey, I'm a cheese head, too! Come gather around, Cheese heads, and I will tell you a story.'
(It was James Bradley who just happened to be in Washington, DC, to speak at the memorial the following day. He was there that night to say good night to his dad, who had passed away. He was just about to leave when he saw the buses pull up. I videotaped him as he spoke to us, and received his permission to share what he said from my videotape. It is one thing to tour the incredible monuments filled with history in Washington, DC, but it is quite another to get the kind of insight we received that night.)
When all had gathered around, he reverently began to speak. (Here are his words that night.)
'My name is James Bradley and I'm from Antigo, Wisconsin. My dad is on that statue, and I wrote a book called 'Flags of Our Fathers.' It is the story of the six boys you see behind me.
'Six boys raised the flag.. The first guy putting the pole in the ground is Harlon Block. Harlon was an all-state football player. He enlisted in the Marine Corps with all the senior members of his football team. They were off to play another type of game. A game called 'War.' But it didn't turn out to be a game. Harlon, at the age of 21, died with his intestines in his hands. I don't say that to gross you out, I say that because there are people who stand in front of this statue and talk about the glory of war. You guys need to know that most of the boys in Iwo Jima were 17, 18, and 19 years old - and it was so hard that the ones who did make it home never even would talk to their families about it.
(He pointed to the statue) 'You see this next guy? That's Rene Gagnon from New Hampshire. If you took Rene's helmet off at the moment this photo was taken and looked in the webbing of that helmet, you would find a photograph ... a photograph of his girlfriend. Rene put that in there for protection because he was scared. He was 18 years old. It was just boys who won the battle of Iwo Jima ... Boys ~ Not old men.
'The next guy here, the third guy in this tableau, was Sergeant Mike Strank.. Mike is my hero. He was the hero of all these guys. They called him the 'old man' because he was so old. He was already 24. When Mike would motivate his boys in training camp, he didn't say, 'Let's go kill some Japanese' or 'Let's die for our country.' He knew he was talking to little boys. Instead he would say, 'You do what I say, and I'll get you home to your mothers.'
'The last guy on this side of the statue is Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian from Arizona. Ira Hayes was one of them who lived to walk off Iwo Jima. He went into the White House with my dad. President Truman told him, 'You're a hero.' He told reporters, 'How can I feel like a hero when 250 of my buddies hit the island with me and only 27 of us walked off alive?'
'So you take your class at school, 250 of you spending a year together having fun, doing everything together. Then all 250 of you hit the beach, but only 27 of your classmates walk off alive. That was Ira Hayes. He had images of horror in his mind. Ira Hayes carried the pain home with him and eventually died dead drunk, face down, drowned in a very shallow puddle, at the age of 32 (ten years after this picture was taken).
'The next guy, going around the statue, is Franklin Sousley from Hilltop, Kentucky A fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. His best friend, who is now 70, told me, 'Yeah, you know, we took two cows up on the porch of the Hilltop General Store. Then we strung wire across the stairs so the cows couldn't get down... Then we fed them Epsom salts. Those cows pooped all night.' Yes, he was a fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. Franklin died on Iwo Jima at the age of 19. When the telegram came to tell his mother that he was dead, it went to the Hilltop General Store. A barefoot boy ran that telegram up to his mother's farm. The neighbors could hear her scream all night and into the morning. Those neighbors lived a quarter of a mile away.
'The next guy, as we continue to go around the statue, is my dad, John Bradley, from Antigo, Wisconsin, where I was raised. My dad lived until 1994, but he would never give interviews. When Walter Cronkite's producers or the New York Times would call, we were trained as little kids to say, 'No, I'm sorry, sir, my dad's not here. He is in Canada fishing. No, there is no phone there, sir. No, we don't know when he is coming back.' My dad never fished or even went to Canada. Usually, he was sitting there right at the table eating his Campbell's soup. But we had to tell the press that he was out fishing. He didn't want to talk to the press.
'You see, like Ira Hayes, my dad didn't see himself as a hero. Everyone thinks these guys are heroes, 'Cause they are in a photo and on a monument. My dad knew better. He was a Navy medic. John Bradley from Wisconsin was a combat caregiver. On Iwo Jima he probably held over 200 boys as they died. And when boys died on Iwo Jima, they writhed and screamed, without any medication or help with the pain.
'When I was a little boy, my third grade teacher told me that my dad was a hero.. When I went home and told my dad that, he looked at me and said, 'I want you always to remember that the heroes of Iwo Jima are the guys who did not come back. Did NOT come back.’
'So that's the story about six nice young boys... three died on Iwo Jima , and three came back as national heroes. Overall, 7,000 boys died on Iwo Jima in the worst battle in the history of the Marine Corps. My voice is giving out, so I will end here. Thank you for your time.'
Suddenly, the monument wasn't just a big old piece of metal with a flag sticking out of the top. It came to life before our eyes with the heartfelt words of a son who did indeed have a father who was a hero ... maybe not a hero for the reasons most people would believe, but a hero nonetheless.
One thing I learned while on tour with my 8th grade students in DC that is not mentioned here is ... that if you look at the statue very closely and count the number of 'hands' raising the flag, there are 13. When the man who made the statue was asked why there were 13, he simply said the13th hand was the hand of God.
Great story - worth your time - worth every American's time. Please pass it on.
One of the assignments for my photo training was to create a series of portraits. Most students opted for female models in beautiful dresses. I just wanted to try something else. Two good friends of mine, Roger and Jean-Paul, pretend to be an electropop duo. It's kind of a running gag. They have made up stage names and are already designing record covers. The band’s name is "Voixmala", a corruption of the Finnish word for "Kraftwerk". The only thing missing is music :-) We have used the photo assignment as a promotional shoot for the band. We really had fun in the making.
P.s. Jean-Paul really is an outstanding musician!
Ink and pen on paper
My childhood in a nutshell.
Supposedly Dr. Teeth's band, "The Electric Mayhem" did a 1 night only backup for Van Halen. Rumor has it Diamond Dave and the rest of the band had mild food poisoning. It was a night to remember...a night for the annals of rock and roll history. Janice Eddie and Zoot did an impromptu medley of "Jump" and "Rainbow Connection"...which Dr Teeth opened with a 20 min Synth Symphony. Floyd nearly fell exhausted after dueling on his bass with Eddie...AND then with Animal for a 20 min drum solo. It was a night to remember, one that won't be heard again.
Rock on Eddie.
A FUNNY VIDEO:
Einsteins Trip
WATCH! WATCH! WATCH!
VIDEO of 'EINSTEIN'S TRIP':
Eindhoven | Charlotte van Bourbonhof
I reach across to the other side
To make contact with you
Though in slumber you fill my dreams
And I make contact with you
Don't ask me why I'm crossing over
Van Halen | Crossing Over
Algunos de los pequeños de mi casa, en la bienvenida a Daniel, mi deseado Ciel! En la foto faltan, creo, Damien, Jimmy, Enfer, Yuki y Nobu
No todos fueron niños al mismo tiempo, claro! Aquí estan mezclados sin ton ni son!
A ver, niños, sonreíd y decid "patata" ^ ^
Bliss: Kartofeeen!
Yoshi: patata? eso no es una guarrería?
Cashmire: No pienso sonreír !
Daniel: Yo también? No los conozco de nada!
Ruby: Ji ji que mono estarías con unas coletas, verdad Noa?
Ewan: Ey, yo también me apunto!
Noa: Tonterías!
Vladimir: Y que te pinten las uñas...eh, Ewan?
Shinobu: Patata
QUE ESTAIS DICIENDO? AL QUE NO SONRÍA LO DEJO SIN POSTRE!
Todos: (que le den! será anticuada?)
Another passage of lyrics and music that really spoke out to me in different ways, through different times in my life…
Theme: Upon These Pages
Year Nine Of My 365 Project
this pic has been under wraps for 25+ years. taken with a minolta 110 slr camera. i have more to post of early van halen but this is my favorite.
The Giants Causeway Eruption
A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in a planet's surface or crust, which allows hot magma, ash and gases to escape from below the surface. The word volcano is derived from the name of Vulcano island off Sicily which in turn, was named after Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
Volcanoes are generally found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging. A mid-oceanic ridge, for example the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has examples of volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates pulling apart; the Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates coming together. By contrast, volcanoes are usually not created where two tectonic plates slide past one another. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the Earth's crust (called "non-hotspot intraplate volcanism"), such as in the African Rift Valley, the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field and the Rio Grande Rift in North America and the European Rhine Graben with its Eifel volcanoes.
Volcanoes can be caused by mantle plumes. These so-called hotspots, for example at Hawaii, can occur far from plate boundaries. Hotspot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the solar system, especially on rocky planets and moons.