When I was working as a body guard in Mexico, I got drunk on whiskey while listening to Linda and placed a 9mm glock to my head and pulled the trigger. It was a good primer hit but didn’t go off. I used the same round on a bad guy and it did fire. Boy, I was like a Man on Fire.
Life is a trip, right ?
Why would you put the same cartridge back in the gun when there was potential for serious use? Was ammunition that difficult to obtain?
When I was working as a body guard in Mexico, I got drunk on whiskey while listening to Linda and placed a 9mm glock to my head and pulled the trigger. It was a good primer hit but didn’t go off. I used the same round on a bad guy and it did fire. Boy, I was like a Man on Fire.
Life is a trip, right ?
I'm at a loss for words. Miracles come at strange times!!!
I like her, definitely my favorite cover band. I don't recall her singing an original song after Different Drum with the Stone Ponies.
She recorded her cover of Warren Zevon's "Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me" so soon after it's release there was no sheet music available. So, it was copied by ear off a record giving its difference from the original. Zevon has remarked he preferred her version over his because of it.
I did see her in an outdoor open air concert, in October when I was in college at Tanglewood in Western Massachusetts. Back when Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops use to play. her big hit at the time was " Like a Heat Wave". After three songs they started to play that big hit for her.
She had come out on stage with a short pair of cut off jeans, a bikini top and an open cardigan sweater on. She threw her cardigan off as she started the song, and was on stage when it was about 30 degrees outside. At the end of the song, when she sang the last line " Just Like a Heat Wave", she reached behind herself and it looked like she took off her bikini top. When she finished the last line, the lights on stage go dark, and it looked like her yellow bikini top goes flying out into the crowd, highlighted by a single spot light.
The guys in the audience goes wild, and the top lands in the audience and some guy has a souvenir. Just as that happen, the lights go back on the stage, and she was standing there with her top still on, and she is twirling another bikini top just like the one she is wearing, around on her index finger.
She smiles at the audience and says in the microphone.. " Fooled them, didn't we girls!" She instantly had the entire audience in the palm of her hand. It was a 2 hour plus concert, but she had the audience pumped the entire time after her big hit at the time, " Heat Wave".
When I was in High School, my senior year over in Virginia ( 1969-70 ) the drinking age over in DC was 17 yrs and 6 months. We use to go over to a club in Georgetown, where her and the Stone Ponys where the nightly band. Was one of our most popular places to go partying over in DC, because of her. She was only about 5 ft to 5 ft 2inches tall. Kinda short.
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
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Simple Dreams is the title of her autobiography. She lived them purely and passionately, gave it all. Sexiest thing alive when she hit her stride, blowing the top of what female vocalists were thought capable of. An incomparable voice. A powerful, expressive soul to propel it. She wasn’t political at all then. Remarkable person of rare talent.
She was also quite diverse in her singing. One of her last efforts was making Canciones de mi Padre. The culture she grew up in Tucson incorporates this music to this day. The album released in 1987 became a global smash hit. At 2½ million US sales, it stands as the biggest selling non-English language album in American record history.
Incredible talent, cute as a button. Big Lefty of course, but that’s almost a given in the industry.
She had a “good run” as she says, before her health problems began, much longer than most. There’s a lot of her material on YT. I binge it occasionally.
Simple Dreams is the title of her autobiography. She lived them purely and passionately, gave it all. Sexiest thing alive when she hit her stride, blowing the top of what female vocalists were thought capable of. An incomparable voice. A powerful, expressive soul to propel it. She wasn’t political at all then. Remarkable person of rare talent.
Alla that and she was hot too 😎
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
She was also quite diverse in her singing. One of her last efforts was making Canciones de mi Padre. The culture she grew up in Tucson incorporates this music to this day.
Mariachi music always grates on my ears, even makes a set of pipes like Linda Ronstadt’s sound harsh and strident IMHO.
They’re better in Catholic masses or at funerals when they are more subdued.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
