tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86052150008847173962024-02-19T07:11:09.058-08:00TV NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER In Black And White With One Eye ClosedI've seen much of the world in black and white with one eye closed through the lens of my camera; a condition, I'm told, which guarantees near super-human powers as long as you don't stop rolling.
I'm still here. There might be something to it.TV News Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168636429317297540noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8605215000884717396.post-88356486176665542452016-04-11T07:28:00.000-07:002016-04-11T08:06:17.511-07:0022- The Day I Out Raced Billy Kidd<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">The Day I Outraced Billy Kidd<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">In March of 1987 Aspen hosted
the Winternationals, with a World Cup Downhill and Super G, both races won by
Pirmin Zubriggen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">I was working freelance with
Sandy Santucci for ESPN. We were to shoot interviews on Friday and then race
coverage Saturday and Sunday. We drove up from Denver on Thursday and checked
into the Limelite Lodge, ready to start work early the next morning.<br />
The old hotel was a magnet for every ski bum in Aspen. It was the cheapest in
town and always full of party people. It was loud at night but you could deal
with it if you had earplugs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">World Cup means lots of
nightlife, that is, if you can keep up with it. Dinner that evening, at a local
steakhouse, was topped off with a bindle of blow, presented on a tray with the
bill and, purchased with a credit card. I remember an Aspen shoot where one crewmember
was listed in the credits as “Line Producer”, because that was one of the most
important things he did, and by the second day of the shoot he had nearly
everyone’s per diem money to prove it. I remember another time helping an
on-camera person dig for a packet of Peruvian Marching Powder he’d dropped
while doing a standup in new fallen snow. We never did find it. That was Aspen
in its wildest days and we loved it. Party on Garth…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">First thing Friday morning Sandy
and I went over to the press center to pick up our credentials. While there, we
both signed up for the Subaru Press Challenge, a media ski race slated to start
at noon. We had interviews to shoot that morning but thought we’d finish in
time to ski in the race. Sandy, a one time pro mogul skier, was eager to run
the course because the event sponsors sometimes put up pretty nice prizes. It
wasn’t uncommon for 1<sup>st</sup> place to win plane tickets or a few days
lodging at the ski area. Sandy figured he might be good enough to win something.
I could get down the steepest of slopes, even with gear, but I wasn’t much to
look at and speed wasn’t usually a part of the equation. However, I figured
there’d be some free beer at the finish line and that would serve as prize
enough for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Although freelancing had gone
on at channel 9 for years before I started working there, new management didn’t
like the idea of staff photographers taking on outside work and attempted to
stop the practice. A rule requiring prior approval from the news director was
enacted and the first time I asked permission to shoot a freelance job, he said
no. Well, it didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that one out. A growing
part of my income was made up of this outside work and the news director, who
made a lot more money than I did, was the person deciding if I could work or
not. He didn’t respect my marketplace value or my financial situation so I
didn’t pay much attention to his new rule except to try to fly under the radar hoping
the issue wouldn’t come up. Because of this guy and his policy, for a few years,
I had myself listed, in the credits of films and videos projects I worked on,
as Chuck Ikigami, taken from the name of a Japanese TV camera. Working under a
different name didn’t matter to me. The pay was the same and, for the most
part, it kept the station off my back. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">So, trying to stay on the
down low, I signed up for the press race as Lynn Richardson hopping not to
attract attention to my name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">It was a warm spring day, and
a long, hard morning, that ran well into the afternoon, before we wrapped the
ESPN shoot for the day. It was three o’clock, we’d missed the noon media race
and, Sandy and I, both whipped, were still half way up the mountain.<br />
Aspen had installed a new gondola that season which I was eager to take a ride
on. The ski day was nearly over but Sandy was kind enough to schlep all the
gear back to the hotel so I could make a last run by way of the new gondola. I
traversed the face of Aspen Mountain to the racecourse and found only the
starting gates remained. The poles marking the course were long gone and no one
remained from the race.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">I skied on down to the finish
line, located just outside the new gondola building loading area. As I
approached the bottom I saw a small stage and podium with a standing crowd.
Over the PA system I could hear a voice announcing race results:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>…”and the winner in the Men’s National Press
division… Lynn Richardson”… WHAT? Now almost to the lift line, I made a quick
turn to the right, skidding toward the crowd and the stage. The announcer
repeated himself, and when I felt sure no one would speak up, I raised my hand,
yelled, kicked out of my skis and ran up on stage accepting my unexpected
trophy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Thankfully, there was no
mention of any 1<sup>st</sup> place prize to complicate things so, plaque in
hand, I grabbed my skis and hurried off to the gondola line before anything
more was said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">I made the ride up the
mountain and hurriedly skied back down to the hotel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Excitedly, I handed over the
1<sup>st</sup> Place plaque and told Sandy about my amazing race:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">“I got there just as the last
race was called. They'd let my start position slide to the end when I didn’t
show up for my slot against... against…. BILLY KIDD…”, I said. </span><span style="font-size: 13pt;">(I’d had time to work on my
story on the way back.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">“I got there just in time to
slide into the gate next to him when they called my name. I didn’t even have
time to say anything more to Billy than hello. The count down began and we were
off. It was fairly close for the first two gates, until he really turned it on
and began to pull ahead. Then, I don’t know, he must have caught a tip on the
third gate, or something, because he shot across the course almost hitting me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Racing against such strong competition must
have inspired me. I was haulin’ and, gate after gate, I just put a good run
together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Sandy, I can’t believe it. I
won the damn thing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Sandy’s mouth hung open as he
stared at the 1<sup>st</sup> place trophy I’d handed him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">I went on… “and…, get this, 1<sup>st</sup>
prize is a week at the Aspen Lodge...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and, a free round-trip on Frontier anywhere in
the US…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and,”… his head tilted down in amazement now
leaning toward disbelief… “Subaru is giving me a car... for 6 months”…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">I would have gone on but that
last one put me over the top. We both fell on the floor laughing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeJXjYaUST_lNuVgTbEqdqv4ebfkrwlAh0okhnhyphenhyphenMMaNx7SSqO_jlH4w_QnXxm1CXn0Z1tkb69AvTVmRSY7QC4zC0VOCfqMVw-IpJtw7xlfXMwLyoiWtJFMbeEGFHTbNg0ZvaDYLCcT8de/s1600/Scanned+Image+110060099.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeJXjYaUST_lNuVgTbEqdqv4ebfkrwlAh0okhnhyphenhyphenMMaNx7SSqO_jlH4w_QnXxm1CXn0Z1tkb69AvTVmRSY7QC4zC0VOCfqMVw-IpJtw7xlfXMwLyoiWtJFMbeEGFHTbNg0ZvaDYLCcT8de/s400/Scanned+Image+110060099.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">What happened? I don’t know,
but the next week a letter arrived at my house for Lynn Richardson with a
picture of him making his winning run, and he looked pretty darn good. He had
the over-all 2<sup>nd</sup> best time of the contest, losing only to US Ski Team
member Andy Mill by 38 hundredths of a second. I was so proud for us…</span> <span style="font-size: 13pt;">And it was the closest I ever
came to beating Billy Kidd in a ski race too…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u>(Part 1)<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Spring came late in 1969 and I’d
had enough of my old Chicago stomping grounds. Events, starting with the
Democratic Convention fiasco, in late August the previous summer just after I’d
arrived back from college in Memphis, were as chaotic as ever. I was looking for a change, some
new scenery and warm weather. So, I applied for graduate school at my alma
mater, Memphis State University and was accepted.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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of the Broadcast/Film Department, offered an assistantship with a small stipend.
I was flattered and honored by the offer and gladly accepted. The past year
away from college had not lived up to my expectations and I was looking forward to a new life as a graduate assistant at Memphis State.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">I’d been playing with a band
from Elgin with the unwieldy name “The California Prune Advisory Board” and
working as a truck driver for a company owned by the father of one of the guys
in the band. He employed a couple of other band members too. It gave me a chance
to stay in music and still make a little money. But I was going nowhere and I
knew it. I couldn’t stand the thought of rolling out of bed on my 50<sup>th</sup>
birthday and going to work, playing the same old songs over and over, at some
local dive. This gig was just another stop on the way there and I knew it.
Perhaps Memphis would lead to something better.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">I saved up and bought a very
cheap, used, VW bus. I packed it with boxes filled with everything I owned, and
hit the road. My ride came to an abrupt end in southern Illinois after only 300
miles when the van totally, and terminally, broke down. I gave the VW bus, and
some of my stuff, that wasn’t properly boxed, to a tow truck driver in exchange
for a ride to the local Greyhound Bus station. From there I, and my many boxes,
pressed on to Memphis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">I can’t remember what I did
for transportation when I arrived but I must have acquired a car of some kind.
I first found a room at the YMCA and then a house to share on Vinton Street
with two women and their two, pre-school, children. My duties at Memphis State
didn’t really start until fall so, in early July, I was on the road again; this
time headed for a racetrack in Hampton Georgia, site of the first Atlanta International
Pop Festival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took a 16mm Bolex film camera
from Memphis State and 100 feet of film with me. That’s only about three
minutes of running time but it was all the film I could afford.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">I’d never seen anything like
the festival site. 150,000 people crammed onto a few dry, sweltering acres of hard
ground and, generally, pretty happy about it. The days were rain free. The nights
were beautiful. The sound was amazing and the lineup historic. I remember a
back stage shot of Janis Joplin raising a bottle of Southern Comfort in a toast
to my camera before she went on stage, and another of Grand Funk Railroad one
afternoon, when they were permitted to play after just showing up and begging
for a chance. I maneuvered close to the edge of the stage pointing my camera at
act after act while judiciously exposing little of my 100 feet of film. Just
having a nice camera, and acting like I belonged, got me almost anywhere back
then. Cameras weren’t banned like they often are today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">A few days later, when I returned
to Memphis, I received a call from Harry Chapman, a local disk jockey and
booking agent I’d worked with back in 1967-68, Harry offered a tour with The
King Lears, of Shad and the King Lears, a band coming off a recent hit, “Come
Back When You Grow Up Girl”. I joined them just as Shad, the lead singer, quit
to enter Seminary and his brother Bubba Williams took charge. Shad was the lead
singer but, even without him, the band still had contracts to honor. So, for
the next several weeks The King Lears and I traveled through Iowa, Illinois and
Wisconsin on the Gary Van Zeeland entertainment circuit. In August I celebrated
my 23rd birthday on the road with Taja, a dancer I met and fell in love with at
a next-door club in Davenport Iowa. But that birthday, and a short search for
her after the tour leading to Kalamazoo Michigan, is a story for another time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">I was back in Memphis by
September, ready to begin work at Memphis State, when I met a guy named Ray Howell through Karen Hubert, one of the women I was sharing the house with. Ray took
me over to an old, run down, mansion on Central Avenue the locals called The
Big House. There he introduced me to Wade Johnson, Sam Elrod and Danny Cleary.
They were musicians he’d recently met and they were looking for a keyboard
player who could sing. Ray thought we might be a good musical fit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">I’ll never forget my
introduction to the Big House and the boys.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">I was blown away by the sight
of the old mansion as we drove up the circular drive and parked in front. Ray
and I climbed the stone stairs beneath the Ionic columns that towered above the
heavy wooden and glass front door. We opened it and walked in without knocking.
I was soon to realize no one ever knocked on the Big House front door. It was
open to the world 24/7.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">We entered a large foyer with
a looming crystal chandelier overhead, many missing pieces leaving gaps in the
sparkles. On our left, partially open sliding doors revealed a great ballroom
with windows along the west side; quite dark, even in daylight, because of the
heavy undergrowth outside. To the right was a sitting room, or library of sorts,
where Ray and I heard voices. It was my first look at the boys and, as we
entered the room, they were an imposing sight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Wade, with long, wild, red hair
and beard, looked dangerous and hungry. He was wearing a brown, leather fringe
jacket and, if he’d had a worn cowboy hat pulled down over his head, might have
passed for Billy from the summer’s hit, Easy Rider. He was serious, quiet and
thin but large enough to be someone you didn’t want to get on the wrong side
of.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sam Elrod</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Sam was the talker. He was
Mr. Personality; all smiles, from one side of his muttonchops to the other. He
had rather short, for the time, curly, reddish hair. He looked like a college
student with a confident, yet friendly, southern manner and a knowing wink.
Almost immediately, I knew he must be popular with the ladies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Danny was quiet, cautious and
the hardest one to figure. His voice didn’t give away much about his thoughts. Dark,
pageboy length, hair framed the Van Dyke he sported on a thin face. He didn’t
look at you. He stared from a distance. He seemed to almost pull back into
himself like a man trying to make up his mind about something. Cleary had a way
of tilting his head toward you, with his chin down, that made him look like he
was staring over the top of his glasses with a bit of disapproval. But that
wasn’t when he was playing. When he had that guitar in his hands he was in
another world and it showed on his face…pure joy. He’d been taught as a child
by one of the best, Carl Perkins, who, Danny said, was a family friend back then. Cleary
was probably the best guitar player I ever played with. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chuck Richardson</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">What they thought of me I can
only guess. I was a little older and let’s just say better fed. OK, I was husky,
XL if you will. Weight gain and loss was a part of the story too, but that’s
also for another day. I had a beard and hair about the length of Danny’s but it
was trimmed and well kept. I probably looked pretty straight to them. I’d
played with bands they were familiar with. And I’d been able to make a living
at it for a number of years, so that probably influenced their opinion of me. Also
I had a college degree, a job with responsibilities and I didn’t look like I
just jumped off a freight train.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The three had been in
California when they decided Memphis would be a better place to put a band
together. Wade was from Thousand Oaks California, a magical, hip coastal town in
my imagination; a place I dreamed of going to someday. Sam and Danny were from
Jackson Tennessee where they’d been playing for some time with other groups. I’d
played there a few times myself and we knew some of the same people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">So there we were, standing in
this old mansion with all it’s stories swirling around us, about to make
stories of our own. Like everything else in life things just happen. For
whatever reasons, we all arrived at the Big House at the same time. I guess the
common denominator, the thing that drew us together, was we all needed each
other.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u>(Part 3)<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">I was concerned about, both
the responsibilities of a college assistantship and, the demands of a band. I knew
my job at Memphis State deserved a full commitment but I’d just come off the
road with a band that had almost made it. They were just one song away from
success and I believed, in my heart, I could be successful in music too if I
just kept at it… <br />
The decision was made that warm fall evening when we jammed together for the
first time in the grand ballroom of the creepy old southern mansion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The Big House rocked that
night! And we rocked it! </span></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">I knew then we were on to something.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Wade, Sam, Danny and another
friend of Wade’s named Bob Newton needed a place to live. I wanted to move in
with them so we could spend more time practicing when I wasn’t teaching speech
or attending classes at Memphis State. The Big House, having seen better days,
was cheap. I think the rent was only $200 a month for the whole place. It was
located on the northwest corner of Central Avenue, directly </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">across the street</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> from, and facing, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Immaculate Conception Church. To the east, across Belvedere, was
the house of Margaret Piazza the opera singer</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. To put it mildly, we were part of a rather exclusive old Memphis
neighborhood but mostly concealed from sight by the overgrown trees and
shrubbery. During its later years the deteriorating old mansion had been
divided up into rental rooms. Several rooms were presently available and the
house soon swallowed up the entire band.<br />
I was the only one with a paycheck so I pretty much paid for everything. I saw
it as a good investment at the time. However, I kept records because I’d been
around musicians long enough to know bands are in a constant state of flux. I
insisted that, as we got jobs, it was pay as we go. I was willing to gamble but
I didn’t know anyone well enough to really trust them. I shared what I had and
paid the bills first. If there was anything left, we used it for food. It kept
us alive but constantly bitching at each other. We handled it with humor. We
made fun of our situation and each other at every opportunity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made fun of Wade. He made fun of me. We
made fun of Sam and Sam made fun of both of us. Nobody messed with Danny and I
don’t know why. All of this led to, what we later called, “The Chuck And Wade
Show”; a running gag that persists still today.<br />
Wade and I constantly hassled each other to the delight of our friends. They
loved it when we went at each other with false boasts and threats that
sometimes got a little out of control.<br />
One night a bunch of us were sitting in a room together when Wade threatened to
throw a rotten potato at me… I know, you’re wondering where the potato came
from, and there’s no good answer for that, but he threatened me just the same.
I warned him… He threw it… And the chase began with two grown men running all
over the upstairs hollering and yelling like kids. Wade claims I broke down a
door to get at him but that’s not true. The door was broken anyway; I just
pushed it a little bit. All ended well, probably with everyone laughing, and we
liked that. We were fun to be around.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The enormous old manor
consisted of three floors and an unlit, dust covered basement where broken, overturned
tables whispered of a speakeasy said to have quietly existed during
prohibition. The dark cellar was sometimes offered as a place to test ones “manliness”,
and standing there alone in the silent dark wasn’t something many were willing
to do a second time, especially with all the known pranksters on the premises.<br />
Like the time Wade, and I came up with a small battery powered speaker that
gave out a creepy, ghost-like, laugh. One night we lowered it on a rope down
the dumbwaiter shaft to a level right next to Sam’s room. He was of course
entertaining a young lady and the laughing caused all sorts of problems because
Sam couldn’t figure out where sound inside the wall was coming from. Wade and I
considered it a victory any time we kept Sam, who we always called “El-Rod”
with the accent on Rod, from scoring. He usually won though, one way or the
other. El-Rod probably told the young lady the only safe place was in his bed. El-Rod
1… Chuck and Wade 0… but we had some great laughs for the effort. Sam would be
the first to say so. He had the best laugh and smile in the world, even when
the joke was on him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">On the main floor, just
inside the front entrance, a grand piano sat alone in a huge ballroom. It was
backlit, with windows shaded outside from the sun, by the dense v</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">egetation</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Overhead, recessed,
colored lights reflected onto a large rounded, dome-like ceiling. You could
imagine the couples at one time twirling joyfully around the large expanse;
gone now along with the times they danced in. Other rooms located on the first
floor were a library, a sitting room, a dinning room and a kitchen with a dumb
waiter to service the living quarters above. All but the ballroom and kitchen had
been made into rented rooms. Understand, I didn’t say remodeled. All the rooms
were still as they were originally built but without the original furnishings.
Over time, beds and personal items transformed each room into something
altogether different from the original intent, reflecting the personal tastes
of the present occupant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Standing in the center of the
entryway, a great wooden staircase, with numerous missing balusters, ascended
from the front door to a landing half way up. The stairs turned to the left and
on to the second floor, opening to a balcony, outside, and above the main
entrance. Five original bedrooms and a large servant’s pantry in the very back,
where another stairway led to the kitchen, made up the rest of the second floor.
We all took rooms on the east side of the mansion; Wade, in the made-over
servants pantry in back, Danny and I, in bedrooms on the second floor and Sam
in a room on the first floor right below.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The third floor was basically
a finished attic lined with wooden bookcases; many filled with old law books. One,
with a concealed latch, swung open revealing a long, hidden back stairway
leading down to the basement. A small round window facing due south allowed a
single focused shaft of light into the mostly darkened room, some days creating
a very dramatic effect to the delight of the two eccentric guys living there. Their
attic had a lot of atmosphere but not much heat in the winter. It, like the
rest of the Big House, was an icebox and that only added to the creepiness felt
there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u>(Part 4)<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The boys in the band weren’t
the only ones living there. A cast of characters surrounded us; from the
Satanists, Nick & Christian living in the attic they’d decorated with an
altar and child's coffin, to the bikers of various persuasions who seemed to be
coming and going at all hours of the night.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">I always expected the cops to
show up but they never came, even with the loud music from the ballroom where
we practiced late into the evening. The long distance, between houses in the
wealthy neighborhood and the dense overgrown foliage on the unkempt property surrounding
us, probably helped muffle the sound. It was a perfect place for us to put a
new band together and that's exactly what we used it for. It was a place where
we could be safe and get to know each other.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">From the start Ray Howell, who had
introduced us, felt he had a stake in the band’s future because his
introduction brought us together. It’s true. We never would have met had it not
been for him. We were grateful for that but he wanted to manage the band and
none of us wanted a manager. I had contacts all over the mid-south, because I
had played here for so many years while in college, so I didn’t foresee any
problems getting gigs. Ray felt left out and was pissed. I didn’t blame him for
feeling that way. I felt bad about it but that was the only way it could be. It
wasn’t just me. None of us wanted or needed management right then. We all saw
the band as a partnership. Four equal parts, each having a say. I loved that.
I’d been a sideman working for other bands for too long and this was a welcome
change. One for all… all for one and all that… It sounded great to me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">For a new band, coming up
with a name was always an interesting exercise in communication and usually the
genesis of the group’s first argument.<br />
I hadn’t played with a newly forming group in a couple of years. My old bands
had used the name “Me And The Rest” but that sounded pretty dated as the 60s
were coming to a tumultuous close. After some discussion, in which I think Wade
suggested “Trouser Trout”, we settled on “Freedom Street”. It was a name Danny
had used before with another band in Jackson Tennessee and we were all happy
with it. So, “Freedom Street”, it was.<br />
I asked myself what was so special about this band? I’d been in a dozen by now but
there was something about the way we jammed together that just grabbed me. We’d
get into a groove and the music would flow. We’d simply make it up from one
minute to the next. On and on we’d go, sliding into another rhythm or
progression as we went. While we weren’t really writing music, we were
inventing a sound that was our own. And that was very special. We needed to put
a set list of covers together so we could make some money but our practices
often just morphed into long jam sessions that attracted a local group of
listeners.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u>(Part 5)<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">A few weeks went by. I
attended and taught classes by day and we practiced at night in the ballroom.
The rent came due and what was left of my paycheck went for peanut butter and
bread. It was tough. Wade collected empty pop bottles to raise money and I
remember selling blood, getting fifteen dollars for a pint at one point. As always, I kept records of every penny,
which pissed everybody off. But the boys kept spending money on things I didn’t
think were necessary like cigarettes and they didn’t buy things for themselves
they needed, like toilet paper. The final straw came when someone took the last
roll of mine. I began keeping my TP under lock and key and charged five cents a
square for anyone who ran out of their own. They didn’t like it but they paid
up and we reached a compromise about the cigarettes. I bought a big can of
Bugler Tobacco and rolling papers and they made the best of it. Maybe that’s
why Wade quit smoking and I’ve never again had to loan him toilet paper.<br />
Bob Newton, a friend of Wade’s from back home, had taken on the duties of
roadie. He shared the butler’s pantry with Wade until Wade moved, a couple of
weeks later, to a much nicer bedroom on the second floor with a fireplace. Newton
was just like a member of the band and shared in our financial ups and downs. So
much so, that Sam took Bob to task for spending his own money from home on a
much-needed pair of shoes instead of sharing the cash with the rest of us. Sam
swore that’s what he would have done with the money. They actually argued about
it. They were indignant, but, nose to nose, they ended the squabble with the
closing nonviolent rejoinder we all fell back on when we were pissed at one
another…”ASSSSSS”, we’d hiss, and turn away smirking. It always defused the disagreements
and no one ever came to blows.<br />
Newton was a hoot, smart as a whip but quiet unless you pushed him into a
corner. He looked every bit like the Sundance Kid character in the movie. He
was ambitious and a hard worker. Bob took the Speech class I taught at Memphis
State in the spring semester and did very well too. The guy gives a pretty good
speech.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Robbie Gaylor was a young guy
who shared roadie responsibilities with Newton. He often stayed at the Big
House but really lived nearby in a commune headed by someone known as “Mom” who
was, in fact, his real mother.<br />
The six of us formed what was actually a small business and I tried to approach
it that way. We needed work and I took what ever I could find for us. I’d played
with other bands for Mrs. Reams at the Roaring 60s Club and she gave us a shot
there. It went over well and led to an audition at the Cock and Bull Lounge
where we met a whole new group of musicians including Joe Davis of the
Guilloteens and Tommy Jay Rasico of the Escorts who saw us and told others. We soon
filled in for Joe and the Guilloteens at the Cock and Bull when they left town
to play a few gigs in LA. People liked us and spread the word. The Show Bar, a
club in Helena Arkansas, heard about the band and booked us there several times
as well. We played frat parties at MSU and made new friends. Wade even
volunteered to be the target in a “Dunk The Hippie” tank at a fraternity
fund-raiser and dance we were playing for on campus. Things were picking up.
Money was beginning to flow so now everyone had a little. Life was good.<br />
We were working and finally paying the bills when, in January, Dan Penn and
Eddie Braddock stopped by the Big House to meet a band they’d heard about. I’m
not sure who told them about Freedom Street but it was probably someone from
the Cock and Bull. Maybe they’d seen us play there. Dan and his partner Eddie
owned the newly built Beautiful Sounds Studio in Memphis and were looking for
talent. Dan was well known as a songwriter/producer and acclaimed for his earlier
work with Elvis and recent success with the Box Tops hit “The Letter”. Eddie
had been the Director Of Promotions for Stax Records. They were two heavy
hitters. They liked us and offered the whole band a recording contract. The
band was elated. This was what we’d been working so hard for these last months.
And now it was paying off. We’d really done it. Four guys, working together had
made this happen. One for all, all for one. Right? When we lost sight of that…
it all began to change for the worse.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">When Dan
Penn later heard our songs, Wade and I were offered additional contracts as
artists and writers. What could be easier? You show a record producer your
songs; he likes them. He offers a contract; you sign it. It seemed so easy, but
it set a bad precedent for Wade and me. We thought from this first experience it
must be a snap to get someone interested in our music. We’d later find out that
wasn’t the case at all. It was quite the contrary. Meanwhile, Danny and Sam
were signed as part of the band but that was it. It would have helped if they’d
been writers too, or if Wade and I had worked harder to include them in our
music like we did when we free-jammed together in those early days, or even if the
four of us had more in common with each other. But bad feelings over those
contracts were a major contribution to the breakup of Freedom Street. Egos and
outside influences fired up the arguments and they became louder and ever more
frequent.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u>(Part 6)</u><br />
Nick, one of the Satanist living upstairs in the attic with the child’s coffin,
turned 21 and finally received, from a trust, a financial settlement he’d won
years earlier. A childhood accident involving a Halloween costume fire had left
him seriously scarred and the settlement was sizeable.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Now
understand, this is seen from my point of view but, Nick’s windfall gave him
power and influence with Danny that wasn’t there before, and Cleary soon fell
under his spell. Nick agreed to finance any musical endeavor and seemed always
to be lubricating the deal with copious amounts of drugs, which were edging
more and more toward the hard side. Cleary, already irritated about the
contracts with Beautiful Sounds, just quietly faded away into Nick’s wealthy new
world.<br />
Sam was pissed too but he wasn’t into Nick’s game. Nick was kind of creepy and
Sam didn’t like that. He started to look for work pretty quick as I remember,
and found it too, filling in with other bands. He even played a few gigs with
me in Columbus Mississippi at the Golden Spur when I later joined Joe Davis’ band.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Wade?
Wade fell in love… with the studio. He stayed there day and night. It didn’t
matter if he was working on someone else’s session or cleaning the studio for a
little extra cash. Wade was determined to make a go of it at Beautiful Sounds
and it paid off.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">He made
contacts and lifetime friends there watching and playing on sessions with some
very famous people. I saw some of this too but teaching speech and taking
graduate classes took a lot of my time. Later in the summer I sort of lost
faith in what I thought the studio could do for Wade and me and I spent less
and less time there. Like I said, Wade was on the scene for everything, and I
was envious of that.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">No one,
inside or outside our circle, seemed to care about the band anymore as we spent
less and less time together working or playing. I resigned my assistantship at
Memphis State, burning that bridge, so there was no longer any regular income and
I knew I’d soon to be broke again if Freedom Street didn’t keep playing gigs.
The band earned it’s own way now or went without. I could no longer support it.
Without gigs I couldn’t even support myself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The
final straw happened just after the Kent State Massacre on May 4th<sup> </sup>1970.
I’d always held strong anti-war feelings and spoke out about them openly. This
was no secret to anyone in the band. I knew people in the American Friends
Service Committee and was active in helping guys who wanted to avoid the draft
including a musician friend or two I’d helped stay awake for days before taking
their physicals. In every case they failed the exam. My beliefs showed up in the
music I wrote as well. In fact, the first song Freedom Street recorded was
called “Ride On Mother”. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It was written
in 1968, inspired by the Chicago police riots at the Democratic National
Convention…</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">“Now someone please explain
to me<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Just what is taking place.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">One side armed with rocks and
sticks<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">And one with guns and mace.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Now it don’t take long to
choose a side<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">When smoke is in the air.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">And them boys in green with
the M-16s<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Is looking at my hair.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">And I said ride on mother.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Leave this boy alone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Ride on mother<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Yeah, and let me go back
home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Now I don’t care much for
facing cops<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">When they’ve guns and we’ve
got rocks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">I said ride on Mother<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Leave this boy alone.”<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>----------<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">While no one in the band
disagreed with my lyrics, I was clearly the flag waver in the group. A day or
two after May 4<sup>th</sup> Memphis State erected a small platform, about 4
feet high, on the lawn in front of the administration building in the center of
campus. It was to serve as a “soap box” for students to stand on and voice
their concerns and feelings about the killings at Kent State. Colleges all over
the country held protest rallies and most lowered their flags to half-staff in
honor of the 4 dead students. Protesters at Memphis State demanded the same respect
and I was one of them. Of course, there were many who held an opposing view and,
for a while, the flag discussion went on without incident.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The crowd grew in size and gradually
the intensity escalated. Some members of the football team showed up and began
to threaten the protesters who shouted back all the louder. Scuffles broke out
and the anti-war side rushed the flagpole in mass and lowered the flag to half
staff. That’s when all hell broke loose. I was standing on the ground in front
of the platform where a lot of shouting and pushing was going on when someone fighting
up on the stage behind, kicked me in the side of my head… fight over…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">There
was a protest rally scheduled at Memphis State shortly after that and I was
asked if Freedom Street could play. We needed the money and I, of course, was
all for it but the rest of the band refused to play because they were afraid
our equipment, or worse, might be damaged if there was trouble. With the side
of my face still bruised and throbbing, I growled that, “trouble” was the whole
fucking point! In spite of my insistence, they still refused to play. I was
really pissed at what I saw as a total lack of support by them. I felt there
were bigger issues at stake here. But beyond that, I’d put everything I had
into that band and then this.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">With
everything else going on, I was just fed up. I’ll only argue to a certain
point, and then, when I see it’s a waste of everybody’s time, I disengage. And
so, disengage I did.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">In late May
I took off with a guy named Bear and members of his commune, The Family, who
were helping to stage the second Atlanta Pop Festival in Byron Georgia. It was hot,
hard, wonderful work building the stage, campgrounds and fences; just what my
head needed; a chance to be around some positive energy. I didn’t get back to
Memphis until after the festival, six weeks later in early July.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> (Part 8)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">When I did get back in town, there were stories of armed bikers pissing in the hallways of the Big House
with threats of coming back for more trouble. That was pretty much the end of
it for everybody. Wade and I moved out. Danny moved into Nick and Christian’s
fancy new apartment, Sam found other bands and ladies to share his talents
with and Bob went back to California and on to law school. <br />
I was broke again and started playing with Joe Davis and his brother, Steve in Joe's band, the </span></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Guilloteens. We played </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">several little Mississippi nightclubs but made it back to Memphis regularly
where I shared a house near the college on Spottswood Avenue with Wade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Wade worked
on at Beautiful Sounds Studio learning all he could about the recording process
while I looked for any work I could find. I even played for a while at the last
burlesque theater in Memphis, but that’s another story altogether.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Both the
Big House and the boys in the band moved on, as all things do.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Any
musician you meet has similar tails, they’re just part of the mandatory
lifestyle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">And that
big break? It might be just one band away. Who knows?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">But, regardless
of what may have been, in the end, there is only what was…</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">That, and
the old stories about it.</span></div>
TV News Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168636429317297540noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8605215000884717396.post-28331169461778847852015-03-23T07:23:00.000-07:002015-03-23T07:23:55.069-07:0020- It's War Out There!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"><span style="color: white;">I have slowly evolved into a conscientious objector to the fury of
our times known as “road rage“. I’ve simply decided not to participate. It’s
war out there! By anyone’s definition, it’s a war! Human beings pitted one
against another, some fully armed, some totally crazy, some both, all with a
mission... and thousands of pounds of steel and rubber to carry it out.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"><span style="color: white;">Their missions generally fall into one of two categories:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"><span style="color: white;">1. Get there before anyone else.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"><span style="color: white;">2. Don’t let anyone else get there before you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"><span style="color: white;">The “Passers” against the “Impeders”, as it were. All battling it
out.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"><span style="color: white;">As a former television news photographer and a long time freelance
photojournalist, I’ve driven well over a half million miles since I first came
to Colorado 40 years ago. I’ve been watching this battle brew for a long time
and it grows worse by the day. Remember the first time you even heard the
term... “Road rage“? How about the first time you heard of someone firing a gun
in traffic? Have you ever had someone in traffic flip you the bird and you
didn’t know why? Have you ever thought, even once, that you would enjoy seeing
some harm come to that son-of-a-bitch who just cut you off? I know I have.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"><span style="color: white;">I’m not proud of it but I’ve been both Passer and Impeder in my
time. I was a Passer when I was younger but, like most drivers, became more of
an Impeder as I aged.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"><span style="color: white;">Passers are nearly always young. Don’t be fooled that many look
older. Immaturity lurks just beneath the surface. They don’t think they can get
hurt and don’t care if they hurt you. Nothing is as important as their need to
be in front of the car in front of them. In the rear view mirror, you can spot
them a hundred yards back, weaving and dodging in and out of traffic...cutting
people off...changing lanes...blowing through red lights. “We’re in traffic for
Christ’s sake. Why can’t he just wait like everybody else?” You can feel your
heart speeding up...your grip on the wheel tightens. You press down on the
accelerator to close the gap with the car in the next lane. That should hold
him. But it doesn’t. And it’s not a “him“. It’s a woman driving the speeding
SUV and she’s swinging far to the right... and into the safety lane... passing
everyone on the shoulder...How can she get away with that?..........<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"><span style="color: white;">Banging your fist on the dashboard doesn’t help.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"><span style="color: white;">I’ve often fantasized about a special power of some kind, you know
like Superman has. I’d wish for the power to point my finger at any “problem”
vehicle and have and all four tires blow off... simultaneously...Can you just
imagine the satisfaction?....The supreme impediment. But being an Impeder is,
in it’s own way, just as unsafe as being a Passer, and the conflict generated
by the two can only lead to trouble.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"><span style="color: white;">I’d felt for years I should do something before I became a casualty
of the road wars myself. Over time I was able to give up being a Passer, partly
because of the traffic tickets I received (three on one occasion, a potential
18 points, speeding film back for Channel 9’s 5 o‘clock news show) but mostly
because I took pictures and saw, first hand, the damage this recklessness did.
It’s hard to ignore when you see the carnage day after day. So, I began by
wearing my seat belt... at all times. I drove slower. I was more attentive,
making up little rules for myself about changing lanes only after literally
turning my head to check them out. I considered myself to be a very safe
driver. But there were still problems. The warrior in me didn’t die. As the
Passers began to take advantage of my new safety consciousness, I found myself
moving in another direction. I became an Impeder. It didn’t seem aggressive. I
told myself I was really helping by slowing down these scofflaws. But it didn’t
end by simply blocking their way. I’d have to speed up, maybe even change
lanes. Once they realized a game was on, they’d make even riskier moves. This
was nuts. I had to do something because even as I saw the danger of my
situation, my foot was reflexively pressing on the gas to keep that
son-of-a-bitch up ahead on my left from cutting into my safe braking zone. Why,
you bastard........ Well here we go again.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"><span style="color: white;">And so was born my plan to conscientiously object to the madness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"><span style="color: white;">These other drivers brought out responses in me that were almost
involuntary. I was often totally unaware of what I was doing, on autopilot I
guess. I needed to bring my thoughts about driving to the front of my attention
so I could take them apart and examine them. So that’s what I did, literally. I
put the issue directly in front of me, on the steering wheel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"><span style="color: white;">I taped a sheet of paper right over the air bag in the center of
the wheel and recorded a minus sign each time I “engaged” another driver. The
only way to balance a minus was to acquire a plus, earned by allowing someone
else to go ahead of, or pull in front of me. Each time I did this, I marked a
perpendicular line through a minus, turning it into a plus. So much as a flexed
leg muscle meant I was reacting aggressively and put another minus on the
chart. I graded myself very severely. I wouldn’t go home in the evening unless
the ledger was balanced. That sometimes meant circling the block a few extra
times until I obtained a final plus. But it changed my dangerous habits almost
immediately, focusing concentration on my driving like nothing else had ever
done. As long as my driving was at the center of my attention, I could
successfully control both my active and passive aggressions. Over time it
simply became a new and better way to drive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"><span style="color: white;">I did this for 6 months, and that was about 14 years ago. I’m a
far safer and much less stressed driver than I was before. It’s true from time
to time I still get that little tickle in my gut when I see someone in the
rear-view mirror doing something really boneheaded in the safety lane..... But
I just don’t “engage” anymore. I stay out of the fray. Now I simply wave the
wild ones by saying, “Come on by buddy, Hell ain’t half full. You’re an
accident in the making and I want you past me and on down the road to your
certain, waiting destiny”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"><span style="color: white;">It’s probably a good idea to go through the routine again every
few years as needed, but the trick is to recognize my own aggressive driving in
the first place. I’ve got to believe there are lots of other people out there
who could benefit from this little exercise as well. I mean, next time you’re
in traffic, just look around at all the candidates who could make good use of this
information, and don’t forget that familiar mug in the rear view mirror.</span><span style="font-size: 19pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
TV News Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168636429317297540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8605215000884717396.post-75087905027969408962014-12-28T12:28:00.003-08:002023-08-04T10:04:53.443-07:0019- The Rocky Mountain Christmas Day Rescue<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 13pt;">I spent Christmas Day 1979 in Rocky Mountain National Park covering
a holiday plane crash rescue for ABC News.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Leaving
home early, well before Santa finished his rounds, I met Sky9 pilot Jug Hill
and reporter Kevin Roberts at the downtown helipad near Currigan Hall. When we took off in Denver that morning the wind
was bad but grew even stronger as we approached Rocky
Mountain National Park 75 miles to the northwest. The lost plane had been down for two
nights before it was spotted by a Civil Air Patrol pilot far above timberline
north of Milner Pass and Trail Ridge Road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 13.0pt;">High
winds, which nearly prevented us from flying at all, were hampering the mountain
rescue operation. At the base camp on Trail Ridge Road, we found it would be
hours before ground rescue teams could possibly reach the remote wreckage high
above on Shipler Mountain. It would be 3 more months before Jug and I, in Sky9,
would crash in similar conditions just north of here on Cameron Pass. So
perhaps, without that in our history yet, we were a little overconfident about
what we thought we could accomplish. In spite of the gusting wind, we decided
to give it a try. We took an Emergency Medical Technician with us but, because
of the high altitude, had to leave Kevin, the reporter, behind to save weight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 13.0pt;"><span id="goog_1816463764"></span><span id="goog_1816463765"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a>We
located the wreckage below a ridge at 12,000 feet and attempted a landing just
above it but were pushed back by swirling 90 mph wind gusts. We dropped to the
ridge below the crash site trying to find a level place to land but the snow
was too deep and powdery to support the helicopter. The strong winds and deep
snow forced us to hover just inches above the snow several hundred yards below
the crash site. I’d hoped to organize my gear a bit before stepping out but Jug
started yelling for us to jump, because he couldn’t hold our position in the
wind and was beginning to tilt backward. I grabbed everything in my arms and
leaped from the left front seat into the deep snow below. The EMT did the same,
jumping from the right back seat as Sky9 tilted further, leaned right and then
slowly pulled away as we both sprawled in the white-out below. It took me
several minutes to collect my equipment and prepare for the climb. The EMT was
already well ahead, moving steadily toward the plane about 200 yards above.
This was no easy task for either of us, in waist deep snow, hauling gear up a
steep mountain side, but it helped that he broke trail for me and my awkward
video gear. Still, it was like climbing in sand, one foot…step up…six
inches…slide back down. We were driven to get to the plane because, even from a
distance, we could see clothing stuffed into the broken windows, so we knew
someone had lived through the crash. The EMT was ahead of me by a good 40 yards
when he arrived at the plane. I tried like hell to catch up, but this guy never
stopped. Not once. He was a monster. I desperately wanted the video and audio
of him making first contact with the survivors but I couldn’t ask him to hold
up until I got there, so I shot his approach from below as best I could. I
finished climbing up to the plane and got shots of him caring for the injured
family members. </span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 17px;">Four out of five on board were still alive. </span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 13pt;">I was careful not to overshoot as tapes had 20 minutes of media
and I only had one extra tape. I had worked up a sweat climbing up to the plane
and my clothes were soaked. Now, in the strong, cold wind, my damp pants were
beginning to freeze like tubes around my legs. The crowded plane cabin, though
intact, was filled with the five victims, the EMT and his equipment, so there
was no room inside for me or my camera and recorder. It was the early days of
video tape and the gear didn’t take very well to the cold. I knew the rescue
teams behind us would take a while to arrive (more than three hours in fact)
and I needed to keep the recorder warm to shoot the evacuation of the survivors
and interviews. I hollowed out a shelter in the snow, below the wing, and
waited; huddled with the recorder, held close against my body, under my coat.
Over the wind I thought I could hear voices singing Christmas songs from within
the broken fuselage. It was a very long, cold day, but one with a wonderful,
joyful Rocky Mountain Christmas ending.</span></div>
TV News Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168636429317297540noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8605215000884717396.post-84167137966074659602014-11-20T07:37:00.004-08:002014-12-28T12:19:03.284-08:0018- All 50 States In 55 Years<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<u><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Tennessee</span></u><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> </span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">1</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"> was easy. I was born in Memphis. </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Mississippi </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">2</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"> was just down the road and home to my
mother‘s family in Eupora, where we visited</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">frequently. My father was a
young trainee with the W. T. Grant Co., which moved our family often. The first
move I remember was to East Alton, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Illinois</span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">
</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">3</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">
around 1950. I attended Kindergarten there. From East Alton we moved to
Nashville and I began</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">1st grade at Hattie Cotton Elementary
School.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">In the middle of the year
Grant‘s transferred Dad to Kalamazoo, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Michigan </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">4</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">. While there, we moved to a second
house at 315 Garland to escape from a rough neighborhood. Kalamazoo led to
Elgin, Illinois and then on to Carpentersville where there were 2 more moves.
By 9th grade, I‘d been in eight schools. Other than driving with the family to
nearby </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Missouri </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">5</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">
and </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Indiana </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">6</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">,
my intention to tour all 50 states stalled until I graduated from high school
and left for collage in 1964.</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">While attending Memphis
State University and playing in rock bands over the next 4 years, I traveled
throughout </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Arkansas </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">7</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">
</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">,</span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Alabama </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">8</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">,</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"> </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Florida</span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">
</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">9</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"> and </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Louisiana </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">10</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">. My parents moved a few more times,
once landing in Owensboro, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Kentucky </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">11</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"> where my brother and I visited for the
holidays. It was the first time Dave and I ever smoked a joint together. It was
the 60‘s, Man.......You just had to be there.</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">On April 4, 1968, the day
Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis I was playing for Bill Black’s
Combo. We left town in a rush just beating the curfew as National Guard troops
and tanks moved into Memphis. We traveled to Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">West</span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;"> <u>Virginia </u></span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">12</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"> , passing through </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Virginia </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">13</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">
on the way, for a gig for the Corps of Cadets. The dance was a military formal,
with drawn sabers forming an arched receiving line and all.</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">After graduation in 1968 I
moved to Chicago to play with my brother Dave’s band. We played in Clear Lake, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Iowa </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">14</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">
among many other places. The following summer, 1969, I moved back to Memphis
and went to Atlanta, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Georgia </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">15</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"> for the Atlanta Pop Festival. Later
that summer I played with Chad And The King Lears on the Gary Van Zeeland Tour
throughout </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Wisconsin </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">16</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">, stopping in Beloit, Stevens Point,
Appleton and so on.</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">In the fall of 1970 two
friends and I took off on a cross country trip covering a number of states
including </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Texas </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">17</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">New Mexico </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">18</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Arizona </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">19</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">California </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">20</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Nevada </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">21</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Utah </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">22</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Wyoming </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">23</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Nebraska </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">24</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">,</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">South</span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">
<u>Dakota </u></span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">25</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">,
</span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">North</span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;"> <u>Dakota </u></span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">26</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"> and </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Minnesota </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">27</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">.</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">In 1971 I moved to Dallas
where my new wife and I soon honeymooned at Lake Texoma in </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Oklahoma </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">28</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">.
In 1972 I went to </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Colorado </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">29</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"> for Christmas just prior to our
divorce.</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">I started playing with my
second version of the band, Freedom Street, in 1973. We preformed all over the
country, including Hutchinson, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Kansas </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">30</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"> and Hilo, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Hawaii </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">31</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">.</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">In 1984 KUSA-TV sent me to </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">New</span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;"> <u>York </u></span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">32</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"> to do a story about the Statue Of
Liberty restoration. While there, the station asked me to photograph the home
of a gangland character living in </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Connecticut </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">33</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">.
</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">KUSA also sent me to </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Washington</span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;"> <u>D.C. </u></span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">for a story about an NTSB investigation
involving a Colorado plane crash.</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">Margie and I drove to Expo
in Vancouver B.C. about 1988 staying in </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Idaho </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">34</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Oregon </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">35</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Washington </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">36</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"> and </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Montana </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">37</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">.</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">In 1989 I left KUSA-TV and
began work as a freelancer for a show called America’s Back Roads. For one trip
we started out in </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Maine </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">38</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"> then shot stories in </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">New</span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"> </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Hampshire </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">39</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Vermont </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">40</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Massachusetts </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">41</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"> and </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Rhode</span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">
I<u>sland </u></span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">42</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">.
On another trip we covered </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">New</span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;"> <u>Jersey </u></span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">43</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Pennsylvania </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">44</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"> and </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Ohio </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">45</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">. In 1991 I went to </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Alaska </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">46</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">
to shoot the US Extreme Ski Championships</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">In October of 2001 while
working for Oswego Creative, we visited </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Maryland </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">47</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Delaware </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">48</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">, </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">North Carolina </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">49</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"> and </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">South Carolina </span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">50</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">. Over the years I have visited and
worked in many of these states, all but one of the Hawaiian Islands and a
couple of territories, several times in </span><u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;">Porto Rico</span></u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;"> and all of the </span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;"><u>US Virgin Islands</u>. Country</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;"> road take me home…</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;">.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 1970 road trip somewhere in Texas</td></tr>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: 'comic sans ms'; font-size: 14pt;">In late September of 1970 I set off
with two friends on a cross-country trip to find America and our place in it. Little
did I know it would lead me to a life seminar on wealth and self worth.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">On October 6th of that journey I met my
first wife who, for the purposes of this narrative, we’ll call Pam, Pam
Rosewood. We found each other, one exciting, sultry southern evening, in a little
Dallas bar named Jim’s Place and parted company when I resumed my trip the next
day. We kept in touch with phone calls and letters over the next three months
before seeing each other again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">By the end of the year I was playing
with Joe Davis and the Guilloteens at the Vapors Club in Biloxi, Mississippi
when she drove down from Dallas in her VW to see me a few days before New Years
Eve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It was wonderful; love lost and found
again. From that point on, Pam and I were together 24/7. I remember fireworks,
romantic walks along the beach and incredibly long talks filling in the gaps in
our lives. When I finished playing the gig in Biloxi she went home with me to
Memphis where we shared a small house with Wade and his girlfriend Patsy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Following a year filled with extreme
highs and lows, the new one started off rough. Joe called it quits with the
band and I was out of work again. In January of 1971 Memphis seemed full of
missed opportunities and bad situations, one in particular which involved cops
showing pictures of protesters, one who looked a lot like me, to my friends. Pam
said she had contacts back in Dallas where we first met and suggested we move
there. The future was not looking very good. My only gig was playing at a local
burlesque theater for very little money. My savings were quickly dwindling. I
had even resorted to selling blood. So, in February we decided to move to
Dallas for a new start.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A new state. A nice town, but no work
and no money. We stayed with her friend Mary until I could find a band or even
a straight job. We were broke but under a warm roof and, what’s more important,
we had each other and we were in love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Within a week or two Pam asked if I’d
like to meet her parents. I said sure, and agreed to dinner at their house.
Over the previous weeks we’d talked about her family but only casually. I knew
she had grown up in Dallas with her parents and a couple of sisters and that
was about it. I was in for a shock.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As we pulled into the very upscale
neighborhood, where she had failed to mention she grew up until now, I noticed
her parents’ house, while only a single story, sprawled across the horizon from
one side of my peripheral vision to the other. I pulled the collar of my coat
up, perhaps to better conceal my ponytail and stepped out of the car,
bellbottoms swirling over my pointy-toed boot tops. A Cadillac and a small
sports car sat out front in the wide looping driveway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I opened the door for Pam and we walked
into the Rosewood estate. The entryway spilled into a large sunken living room
with an expansive view of the pool, tennis court and putting green just beyond
the patio windows. We were greeted by her parents, Joan and Lyndon. They were
warm and gracious and couldn’t have been kinder to us. Conversation came easy
and a delightful dinner, prepared by their housekeeper, followed. Afterwards, Lyndon
asked if I played billiards? I said I played pool and he invited me to his
billiards room. As we left, I noticed Pam walking, arm in arm, with her mother
toward the other end of the house. The farther apart we got, the stranger the
evening became.<br />
The billiards room was like a scene from a movie and the timing of Lyndon’s
question, right out of a script. As I drew back the cue stick to break for the
first game he asked, “ Exactly what are your intensions with my daughter?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I, of course, miscued…<br />
A lot was said by both of us in a relatively short time but it was civil. No
blows were exchanged or even threatened. It wasn’t bad. In fact, it was rather
business like. He said he wouldn’t interfere with our relationship but he
couldn’t give his “blessings to this arrangement, here in Texas, where we lived
together”, what ever the hell “blessings” meant. Pam was getting the same thing
from her mother at the far end of the house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I didn’t show it as we left it but I
was pissed. Who the hell did this guy think he was anyway? On the drive back
home Pam told me of the conversation with her mother at the other end of the
house. She explained how different our life could be if we had the support of
her parents. My anger cooled. She was right of course. We had found a little
bungalow to rent on, can you believe it, Lovers Lane, but we were still looking
for work and our savings were down to nothing. Now, all I had to do was agree
and things could change forever. The first “yes” was very difficult, but they
got progressively easier. In fact, I don’t remember actually asking Pam to
marry me. We just agreed to do it. That seems strange now, but that’s how I
remember it. On the drive back to Mary’s apartment we just decided to take that
road. The next day Pam moved back into her parents house and stayed there until
after the wedding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">From that moment on I felt like my life
slowly slid out from under me. I lost control. I just floated from one event to
another for the next two years or so, like I was in a dream. It was seldom
unpleasant but always unreal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The engagement was received with great
excitement. Plans were made, refined and then announced in the local papers.
Money was never a problem again. I was first introduced to Lyndon’s favorite
men’s store and given a closet full of new clothes to replace my current
wardrobe; Then given a job selling houses for his company which built homes. In
a matter of weeks I had gone from Memphis Police perp photos to the society
pages of the Dallas Morning News. I still can’t believe how fast it all
happened, or how fast I sold out. In spite of my love for David Crosby and his
song “Almost Cut My Hair”, MY long hair was the first thing to go. By this time
“yes” was much, much easier to say; much easier than I ever would have
imagined. Day by day the hippy musician was transforming into something else…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0WBdheV2fzv_bwfg5Gq9-93N6SRztsGW_st4zY6PDDbk9ud82K0xNzMme4vLUGdPc9i4Sug9QDV71JVTDRBe_Xm46r_GsnVnyr5Tg74P0JTmvklXf3z1ibh_qScgr8mJ0pBYWG8EBUQcU/s1600/Wedding+01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0WBdheV2fzv_bwfg5Gq9-93N6SRztsGW_st4zY6PDDbk9ud82K0xNzMme4vLUGdPc9i4Sug9QDV71JVTDRBe_Xm46r_GsnVnyr5Tg74P0JTmvklXf3z1ibh_qScgr8mJ0pBYWG8EBUQcU/s1600/Wedding+01.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The wedding was set for April 3, 1971,
only six months after we first laid eyes on each other. It was held in the
Slaughter Chapel of the First Baptist Church of Dallas Texas, then the largest
Baptist church in the world. The well known Reverend W.A. Criswell, famous as
spokesman for 1960’s right-wing, anti-JFK, sentiment, did the honors. He didn’t
do weddings anymore but for this family, solid members and supporters of the
church, he came back from retirement.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX_Mp8XsQtxwg82prXMpqEQPpsFJ9sBvJc-_ndc-1JDq45owonC8GNBEjpaoPnGkDZ_IVvZ8a-KZ4HKnPFxbaM-mK9DnEE0Mt8FxZ0rH9FmMvWekXpE18sHTggfl5u6yA8zQ6Kz87ksXWH/s1600/Wedding+02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX_Mp8XsQtxwg82prXMpqEQPpsFJ9sBvJc-_ndc-1JDq45owonC8GNBEjpaoPnGkDZ_IVvZ8a-KZ4HKnPFxbaM-mK9DnEE0Mt8FxZ0rH9FmMvWekXpE18sHTggfl5u6yA8zQ6Kz87ksXWH/s1600/Wedding+02.jpg" width="156" /></a><span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">My family and friends came from all
over the country for the wedding. Mom and Dad came from Texarkana. Wade Johnson
and Herb Havens, who stood up for me, jumped a freight train in California. My
brother Dave from Chicago filled in as best man for Joe Davis who had to deal
with a last minute family commitment back in Memphis. Other than Joe’s
cancellation, the wedding went off with out a hitch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A large reception was held at the Rosewoods’
house after the wedding. Pam and I were part of a long receiving line at the
door welcoming guests and I remember shaking hands and smiling until my face
hurt. Pam and I left later that evening, in one of the Cadillacs, for a short
honeymoon at Lake Texoma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Deal done.<br />
The whole affair must have cost Lyndon a pocket full of money. I guess this was
one of the “blessings” he was referring to back in the billiards room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">While I wouldn’t say the relationship
was a mistake, the marriage definitely was. Plain and simple, the marriage was
her parents idea and pressure from them was the reason it happened. The sad
part was we were adults and yet we easily allowed ourselves to be pulled, if
not so much pushed, into it. It was the lure of promises, not the fear of
threats we responded to. We became the dream that everyone, but us, envisioned.
Then, we had to live it and that was the hard part. Neither one of us turned
out to be the person we thought we’d met before that night at her parent’s
house. And we were never the same again. In the short time we’d been together,
we’d been a team; us against the world. Somehow the team had realigned, and our
goals subtly shifted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Left to our own devices we, as a
couple, probably wouldn’t have lasted more than a few weeks anyway. We were
quite different. Friends and family<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>pointed that out often enough and we were beginning to notice it ourselves.
But the marriage sealed us in. So we made the best of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Not that our life was really so bad. Pam
was given a job decorating her dad’s model homes. As a perk, she could use
anything in the models to furnish the new house her parents gave us as a
wedding gift. This was, obviously, another blessing. While this was going on I,
in my new, short hairdo, was trying to sell houses and hating it. It was too
much change, too fast. I must admit, it was exciting and a new world for me. I
had never been around such wealth. But it was also a huge contradiction of
values for me. I saw myself as a 60’s counter-culture warrior. These were the
people I had been rebelling against. And now I was one of them?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">That ate at me. I was desperate to do
something to establish my own identity and self worth. The first thing I tried
was quitting that stupid job selling homes and going back to graduate school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I enrolled at SMU that summer as a film
student. I also took a part time job at the Columbia School Of Broadcasting
(Not affiliated with CBS as they used to say). I was hired to use my teaching
skills but quickly found the pay was structured around how many students I
signed up. If there was time between answering the phones and selling, I could
use it to try to help students. But there was little time for that. Obviously
this wasn’t the self worth I was looking for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Through my classes at SMU I found
another part time job at Southwestern Medical School at Parkland Hospital. I
was hired there to shoot training films for the visual arts department but
spent most of my time working for Dr. Charles Baxter who was head of burn
treatment research. Between summer school and these two jobs I was pretty busy
that summer. I can’t say that Pam and I grew any closer during that time. We
were each busy with our own new lives; two totally different people from the
flower children who met only a year earlier. For the first year, I don’t think
either of us even noticed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In the fall I got a break when I
applied<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for an opening at the Dallas
news bureau of Ft. Worth TV station KTTV. I was hired as a
Photographer/Reporter for a 15 minute news cast and happy as hell about it. It
was part-time but my first real paying job in TV news. I learned a lot working
there. I was a one-man-band. I set up the camera, turned it on, did my interviews
and stand-ups, shot my B-roll on a smaller silent camera, went back to the
bureau, then wrote, voiced and edited each story. It was great experience. Two
months later a story I shot about a jet car crash caught the eye of Travis
Lynn, the news director at WFAA-TV Ch 8 in Dallas. He offered me a full time
job in, what was then I think, the 18th largest market in the country. I was on
my way… and, oh yes, married.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">By this time Pam and I had acquired
Sybil, Minerva and Loki who were two cats and a dog. None of them liked me very
much, probably because I didn’t spend a lot of time with them. They were always
Pam’s animals. There was something about the house that bothered me too. It
never felt like home. It felt like the model home it had been before it was given
to us. It was perfect and filled with perfect furniture. Much of it wicker as I
recall. I still hate wicker.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I wanted to get out of our too quiet,
neighborless, suburban neighborhood and go camping, or do something in the
city. Pam showed little interest. Not only that but, I felt like, she
discouraged outside friendships with co-workers or anyone really. Her dad had
season tickets for the Cowboys at the Cotton Bowl the first year and bought
tickets for us on the 50 yard line at the brand new Texas Stadium the second
year we were together, so we did go to football games during the season. And we
did drive back to Memphis for a few days to visit, but mostly we stayed in our
perfect little house watching our perfect little TV.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except for her family, we had no other
friends. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I had always been in charge of my own
finances but our relationship had evolved this “system”. A system where she
kept the books and handed out the money. It started off because it was easier
that way. We pooled our pay checks but, at some point, I started to gave my
check to her each week. Money had been a struggle for so long, frankly it was a
relief. It’s not like there was ever a shortage. She always gave me money for
anything I wanted but, pretty much, everything was accounted for. I didn’t
realize how confining that was. Now I see married women in this situation, with
the man parceling out the funds, and I understand how it effects the
relationship. It’s demeaning. It’s got to be a team effort or someone’s going
to feel left out. We never spoke of this; one of so many things we never
spoke of. It’s funny. When we first met, we couldn’t stop talking. Once we were
married, we couldn’t think of anything to say.<br />
By the end of our second summer I was approaching my anniversary at Ch 8 News
and was very consumed with the job. Unlike my home life, nearly every day at
work had been a new and exciting adventure. I enjoyed working at Ch 8 and made
friends easily. Friends who, over the next year, were never invited to our home
to visit and only rarely saw us as a couple at their functions. My best friend
at work was female and Pam was never comfortable with that. I was proud of what
I was doing, and seeing, every night on TV, and that may have got on Pam’s
nerves. And seeing so much of my life, lived outside of our house, probably
didn’t help either. We grew farther apart. I can see it now. Not so much then.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Pam began to hang around with Kim, an
old girlfriend who was Maid of Honor at our wedding, and the two of them began
to go out together. Kim was dating a biker and Pam went with her over to his
club house a couple of times. One Saturday morning in early October Pam left
with Kim for a group outing, a ride she said, and didn’t come home. There were
no cell phones and no way to talk to her. I was sick with worry and, of course,
didn’t sleep all night. We were scheduled to meet her parents to attend the
Cowboy’s game the next morning. I called them with made up excuses, first about
why we’d be late, then about not coming at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was horrible. I almost hoped for news of an accident. At least then
I’d know. It was with these thoughts, I went looking for her at the motorcycle
clubhouse when she didn’t show up by late Sunday morning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I must have looked pretty crazy and I
was. I hadn’t slept much for several days, none the night before, and there was
probably some crank involved when I walked into the biker clubhouse demanding
to know where my wife was. They knew who I was. They knew knew who she was.
They didn’t know if I was carrying. They said she’d left earlier. I was lucky I
didn’t get killed. If there was laughter, it was behind my back as I left but I
never heard it. At that point I don’t think I cared anyway. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Pam came home in the afternoon and
I…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spanked her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing dramatic. She walked into the bedroom
where I was sitting. I stood up. I grabbed her. Sat down and put her over my
knee. She resisted but didn’t hit back. I gave her a couple of swats and it was
over. Nothing was hurt but her pride and my opinion of myself for resorting to
this. I never did anything like it before… or since.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The separation was immediate. It was
over on all levels. She moved out leaving me with the house, two cats and a dog
at first glance. However, when all the smoke cleared, all I walked away with,
at my insistence, was a motorcycle, some silver goblets and what was left of my
self respect. That was about it. No lawyers needed or involved.<br />
But it wasn’t that cut and dried at first. Her parents, not knowing all the
gory details, thought the marriage could be saved and insisted we give it a
rest and not see each other for a few weeks. That part wasn’t a problem.
However, they wanted us to join them in Aspen for Christmas and see if we
wanted to get back together. At the time it was hard to consider divorce as an
option because that’s just the way we were raised. Besides I was just waking up
from this long sleep and much of it still didn’t seem real to me. I was willing
to try anything. Christmas in Aspen made as much sense as anything else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">So, in December of 1972 I climbed out
of one life in the flatlands of Texas and up to another in the mountains of
Colorado, enclosed in my father-in-law’s Cadillac with my wife, my chaperoning
sister-in-law and the last vestiges of a failing marriage.<br />
It was my 27th year. John Denver was playing on every radio station between
Dallas and Aspen as I took in my very first Colorado Rocky Mountain High. On
the drive, the chill between Pam and me was as cold as the falling temperatures
outside the car. And with every hill we climbed, and every turn in the road, it
became clearer, we would not be getting back together. One relationship was
ending and another was beginning; my love affair with Colorado would endure;
the marriage would not. So, I spent the next week learning to ski and the rest is history. To this day, I still consider that Christmas in Aspen and those several days of ski lessons to be Lyndon’s
final and finest “blessings” of them <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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TV News Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168636429317297540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8605215000884717396.post-11313915716712768632014-01-05T15:15:00.000-08:002014-01-05T15:16:17.950-08:0016- Lyle Lovett At Red Rocks - Friend Of The Devil<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzdTD03CINSX_ASr2brCvH3vWDENIc_6o3PL4nQxhCNa3lnIIi-sPWTbw645_UP1IapsgH8UjWQeSS31EZnNkwO00V-mMVLhfJC6KigzVTSBGGhnvgoe2WqK7f6s4K0_orcTrl4OHI3yIp/s1600/Red+Rocks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzdTD03CINSX_ASr2brCvH3vWDENIc_6o3PL4nQxhCNa3lnIIi-sPWTbw645_UP1IapsgH8UjWQeSS31EZnNkwO00V-mMVLhfJC6KigzVTSBGGhnvgoe2WqK7f6s4K0_orcTrl4OHI3yIp/s1600/Red+Rocks.jpg" height="132" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHTC6Mu06jNYcEW-fho8sVy_wD32w6be5ztz_K67-LUXC8l81cQ2nRkVmxxwS6giF-GFS_GVa_r3shu6om-ywskk_D8Glx3cO8mV7_YvYF-S6HRNB2oaBe4UV5TACwPiTs6h64rAvV1meX/s1600/Lyle+Lovett+Pic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHTC6Mu06jNYcEW-fho8sVy_wD32w6be5ztz_K67-LUXC8l81cQ2nRkVmxxwS6giF-GFS_GVa_r3shu6om-ywskk_D8Glx3cO8mV7_YvYF-S6HRNB2oaBe4UV5TACwPiTs6h64rAvV1meX/s1600/Lyle+Lovett+Pic.jpg" height="266" width="400" /></a>We used two cameras and an empty Red Rocks Amphitheater for the background on the morning of June 20, 1991. Lyle Lovett recorded this song live for ABC's In Concert series honoring the Grateful Dead. I was setting up for a wide shot when Lyle asked me politely on the side if I could get his girlfriend into the picture. I thought this was very sweet and did the best I could to discreetly include her in the background. Within a few months of this video Lyle was dating Julia Roberts. I've wondered if these shots, with his young girlfriend in them, affected the situation. The shoot went well and he was a pleasure to work with. He provided tickets and an invitation backstage later when he was playing in Steamboat Springs. Ever the quiet gentleman. I love his music and this version of a Grateful Dead favorite.<br />
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Lyle Lovett - Friend Of The Devil<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNUEiOufg00" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNUEiOufg00</a>TV News Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168636429317297540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8605215000884717396.post-72045795111753513562013-12-18T10:13:00.000-08:002013-12-18T10:19:38.589-08:0015- A Look Back At 2013<div class="p1">
15- A Look Back At 2013</div>
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For many years we made our own cards and used the US Postal Service to send them out to friends and family for the holidays. Frankly, I ran out of ideas before we ran out of friends and family, so the annual project morphed into something different last year.</div>
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So here's my latest effort. With a wish for a wonderful holiday season and a great new year for you and your family, I hope you enjoy this short look back at a portion of our 2013.</div>
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The music I wrote for this video, "A Snowy Day In Denver", was played on an Alesis Synthesizer and recorded in GarageBand. The video and still photos were all shot in 2013.</div>
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Click on link to see video card:<br />
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<span class="s1"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB4lS78on0U">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB4lS78on0U</a></span></div>
TV News Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168636429317297540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8605215000884717396.post-74817669648394492762013-11-10T13:56:00.000-08:002013-11-11T06:28:09.774-08:0014- Gone Nearly Four Years<h2>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPl6MLdcFsqQ7KSKr5itOuoa0bHSbiV8-nkrwghAP2yJCBFOYIfHHXWIIQCjD4_Mr4WU0lSldZIfLLE3w98rVyijBM4qDoo8ZuWsyaCN-wHDH8Ihesu9lt4Is-IH06h3M0dRzJ41le46bV/s1600/Bob+Brandon+Obit+Pic.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPl6MLdcFsqQ7KSKr5itOuoa0bHSbiV8-nkrwghAP2yJCBFOYIfHHXWIIQCjD4_Mr4WU0lSldZIfLLE3w98rVyijBM4qDoo8ZuWsyaCN-wHDH8Ihesu9lt4Is-IH06h3M0dRzJ41le46bV/s1600/Bob+Brandon+Obit+Pic.png" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bob Brandon - RIP<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">July 29, 1946 - December 9, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Chuck Richardson-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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called again soon after leaving the message saying his tests had been put off
until the 16<sup>th</sup> and was wondering if I’d be back from Las Vegas by
then to shoot the procedure. I reminded him that he’d already lined up someone
before I left because I couldn’t get back until the 17<sup>th</sup>. He seemed
confused. He said he forgot but now he knew who to call, and to disregard his
previous voice message.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I
had planned to erase it but just didn’t get to it.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I
finally played the message Thursday morning shortly after getting word of his
death.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It
was strange hearing his voice.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In
contrast to our conversation it was clear and confident. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Just
like everything else in his life for the last four years, he had his good
moments, and his bad moments, but more and more lately, he might be speaking
passionately one minute and then flutter his eyes and drift off, softly and quickly
to sleep, in mid conversation.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bob Brandon, a dear friend, a wonderful
storyteller and teacher, has died.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bob never met a problem he couldn’t handle,
somehow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Except maybe this one, and in his own way, maybe
he handled this one too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He knew this outcome was likely. We talked about
it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet, he fought for every moment he stayed alive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wasn’t
one to sit down and let the end game take care of itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It won’t be the same without him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I first met Bob while working for Channel 9 in the
early 1980s. I don’t remember the first time we met. It seems like we always
knew each other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We often covered the same TV news stories. He was
a free-lancer working mostly for CBS, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Outgoing, easy to talk to and a friend to anyone
who wanted to be his friend.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were from similar backgrounds, both born in the
south. He was 13 days older.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We started our careers in Texas, his in Houston at
KPRC about the same time I worked for WFAA in Dallas, and so we knew a lot of
the same people and lived through the same Texas history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He’d save a place for me in the camera line at one
Colorado press conference and I’d do the same for him at the next. Over time,
our friendship and respect for one another grew. We laughed at the same jokes.
We doubted the same religions. Liked the same bourbon and voted against the
same political party.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I could always turn to Bob for a straight up
answer and he knew he could expect the same from me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We helped each other on stories. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We complained to each other over the downsides of
the news business. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We cheered each other for the awards we won. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We consoled one another over crippling matters of
the heart. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We encouraged each other as we faced the medical
uncertainties of middle age <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and, as we grew older, lamented the passing of a
time we moved about the world more confidently. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We understood each other. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was there for me and I for him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText2">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He
offered work if I left channel 9 and encouraged me to try my hand at
freelancing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I bought my first camera from Bob, and the gear to
go with it, simply on my promise to pay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No contract, just my word. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We never broke our word on any agreement we ever
made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was honest to a fault. He’d say the same of me.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope I never disappointed him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was a huge support over the years, opening his
‘little black book of contacts’ to me until I could secure enough work to make
it on my own. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chuck Richardson, Bob Brandon and Ed Bradley</td></tr>
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<div class="MsoBodyText2">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He
introduced me to clients knowing they’d probably call me in the future and not
him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bob was a very generous man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That’s not to say he didn’t hav</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">e his faults. I’ve
been on the road with Bob and I know what a taskmaster he can be.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He could be difficult at times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In Memphis with Mike Wallace for 60 Minutes</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over
the years, I’ve known four of Bob’s sound persons. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And
I’ve heard them tell similar stories of life on the road with him filled with,
yes, adventure and action, but also hard work, long hours, isolation from
family and friends and sullen comfort often taken with his old friend, Jack
Daniels.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It could be a lonely life but by the next a.m. Bob
was always, “wheels up” at… whatever<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God-awful time. Work always came first.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Producers loved working with Bob. I believe he
could have worked nearly every day if he wanted to and there were stretches
when he had to, and did work long weeks to keep Helical Post afloat for a few
more days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That kind of grind can wear a man down from the
inside out, and it did take its toll.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He just didn’t show it. He wouldn’t allow anything
to hold him down for long.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I so admired that determination.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God knows I’ve taken strength from Bob’s
struggles. If he can fight back like that…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, what problems do I really have anyway?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>-------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I remember a fall day back in 2005, standing in a
hospital hallway with Smurf and Bob Swenson and his wife, as Bob was being
wheeled past us and down a long, sterile, fluorescent-lit corridor to surgery. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The mass of monitors and IV stands that were
snaking wires and tubes back to Bob on the gurney was intertwined with nurses
and orderlies struggling mightily to keep it all moving while wrangling it into
some kind of hospital order.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sight was almost funny, sort of Chaplinesque,
a parody of the moment, growing smaller as they moved down the hallway, the
many pieces slowly becoming one in the distance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was very quiet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don’t think any of us believed we’d ever see Bob
again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As it turned out,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was just another step in a long process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later we told Bob about the strange scene and
added, that on this worried occasion, one of us had even suggested Dean
Schneider’s Film/Video as a good place for a memorial service. I don’t remember
who suggested it, but Bob thought it was a great idea anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>---------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bob was in a coma for what seemed like weeks. I don’t
remember how many days it was but it was a long time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went to see him. I talked to him. I read to him.
I made sure CNN, and not FOX, played on the TV in his room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I sat with him watching the tragic stories about
hurricane Katrina coming in daily from New Orleans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought it was important to keep him stimulated
in some way but he remained unresponsive for days and days. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, finally, he began to come around. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He could focus and follow me with his eyes. He
could squeeze my hand. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He could smile. But he couldn’t speak. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ventilator keeping him alive prevented that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With an A-B-C board and a pointer we began an
impossible quest for communication that burned up incredible amounts of time
and undoubtedly reestablished old links to all kinds of broken synapses…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in each of us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bob tried so hard to speak. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One morning I worked for hours trying to make
sense of what he was struggling to say. The huge smile that broke out on his
face when I finally guessed ice, told it all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was so excited to finally discover that he was
asking for a piece of ice that I went running to the nurses’ station with the
news only to be told, “Yes, we know. But he can’t have any”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I snuck him a small piece anyway. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was the first time we had communicated a
thought since this whole thing began and we deserved some kind of a toast.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>---------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPaA6a51lo2vLKXzlTL35z9TkIwKPcKyjafn313rvQyihC8E58JljGNIEg-Y85Db28Dh5sz_Ti8WyhjRV5N71BbBWfVUQ2xX55rMW_rC56myKwWsJ8Ot5WD7IfhVYDtiAJkBY58KWpsTPU/s1600/Sitting+%25232+10-22-05.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPaA6a51lo2vLKXzlTL35z9TkIwKPcKyjafn313rvQyihC8E58JljGNIEg-Y85Db28Dh5sz_Ti8WyhjRV5N71BbBWfVUQ2xX55rMW_rC56myKwWsJ8Ot5WD7IfhVYDtiAJkBY58KWpsTPU/s200/Sitting+%25232+10-22-05.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It
was wonderful to see him coming back but very frustrating to try to talk to him
and not know if I was getting through. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He
later said he didn’t remember any of this anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He
did say, that before he came back, he had good memories of things happening
around him and of bright, warm lights. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He
said it wasn’t frightening at all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He
wanted to write a book about the experience and, in fact, did begin to work on
it. But most of his time spent in the first hospital was a black hole from
which he could pull no conscious memories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By
the time he was moved to the second hospital, Bob was pretty well aware of what
was going on and surprised when his good friend, Greg Dobbs, just back from the
storm ravaged gulf coast, stopped by and told us about his TV reports from New
Orleans on Hurricane Katrina. The vivid “behind the scenes” stories were
amazing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bob was fascinated. He didn’t know a thing
about the storm. He had been in the coma through it all and he hung on Greg’s
every word. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It
was a real treat to be there and watch these two great storytellers interact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’ve had that experience so many times with Bob. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With him I’ve met Presidents and protesters, newsmakers
and lawbreakers, lovers and haters and listened to them all spin their stories
for his camera. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I’ve heard Bob tell his own stories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stories about exploding gas tankers and bull
riding rodeo queens, hard drinking CBS newsmen and life on the road with
Darrell Barton and 48 Hours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>-----------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although I’ve spent very little time with him
outside of the hospital, I feel like I know Darrell as a close friend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bob mentioned Darrell nearly every time we talked.
There’s no one Bob talked about more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There’s also no one he talked to on the phone
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A FRIEND'S FINAL DIAGNOSIS</div>
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(a poem)</div>
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<i>-anaplastic thyroid cancer-</i></div>
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I looked it up.</div>
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I closed the page.</div>
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I blame the whole damn thing on age.</div>
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By any name it comes for all.</div>
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We can't ignore the siren call.</div>
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That makes it no less hard to take.</div>
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We leave the message that we make</div>
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For those behind to comprehend</div>
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And plan their own trip to the end.</div>
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But that's tomorrow.</div>
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Here's today,</div>
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And I don't know</div>
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Another way.<br />
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STILL ANOTHER DAY</div>
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(Watch song on You Tube)</div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_pEPTPS2pk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_pEPTPS2pk</a><br />
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Though we're travelers, one and all. </div>
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It's no less hard to say goodbye. </div>
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Only one step from a fall</div>
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Except for you friend, there go I. </div>
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If there's more, this doesn't matter. </div>
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If there's not,</div>
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Then what the hell?</div>
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Though our trails are widely scattered</div>
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We've each lived our stories well.</div>
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And when there's no one left to listen,</div>
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'Cause there's nothing left to say,</div>
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You know, that same old sun will rise again</div>
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And start, still... another day...</div>
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Still another day.</div>
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We were kind when life allowed us,</div>
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We were hard when forced our hand.</div>
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We found love and learned to give it</div>
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While the flames of life were fanned.</div>
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Sure, there's some things we'd do different,</div>
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But you can't live with regrets,</div>
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That's just dwelling in the past</div>
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And we all know what that begets.</div>
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So when there's no one left to listen,</div>
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'Cause there's nothing left to say,</div>
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You know, that same old sun will rise again</div>
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And start, still... another day...</div>
Still another day.</div>
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Things change.</div>
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It's the law and the order of the universe.</div>
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Things begin, exist and end.</div>
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So tell me now my friend</div>
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Why would the story differ much for us?<br />
In the end again, we're all just cosmic dust.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: white;">In the end we're all again just cosmic dust.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Officer
Moonbeam And The Doo Dah Parade<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Freedom Street<br />Sam, Danny, Chuck and Wade</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">The Big House on Central</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">In the fall of 1969 I began a graduate
assistantship in Film at Memphis State. That’s when Wade, Danny, Sam and I first
met, moved into the Big House, and formed Freedom Street. The three of them,
new in town from California, were looking for a keyboard player and a place to
stay but not necessarily in that order. I had just come off a summer tour in
Wisconsin with The King Leers and a short side trip to Michigan when I got back
to Memphis ready to start grad school but without a second job or a place to
live. An old dilapidated southern mansion known to the locals as the Big House,
with a large ballroom to practice in and low rent rooms was offered by a guy
who had introduced us and was now interested in managing the band. The Big
House wasn’t free but it was cheap. As the only one gainfully employed, my university
salary was all that kept the band alive for the next few months as we rehearsed
and auditioned at local clubs. That’s a story itself, where and when Freedom
Street became a band and how and why it fell apart. There’s more than one
version of what happened but basically, after Beautiful Sounds producer Dan
Penn signed the band to a recording contract, Wade and I were offered
additional contracts as artists and writers. Danny and Sam were signed as part
of the band but that was it. It would have helped if they’d been writers too or
if Wade and I had worked harder to include them in our music or even if we all had more in common with each other, but bad feelings over those contracts were
a major contributor to the breakup of our group. Egos and outside influences
fired up the arguments which became louder and more frequent. I’ll only argue
to a certain point, and then, when I see it’s a waste of everybody’s time,
disengage. Finally, by early summer, Wade and I moved out of the Big House and Danny
and Sam found other bands. Another band wasn’t on our horizon so Wade and I weren’t
playing with anyone outside of the studio musicians who came and went with each
session, but that was enough for us at the time. It was a great musical
experience even if it didn’t do much to put food on the table. After I resigned
my assistantship at Memphis State, our only income was a small monthly draw
toward future royalties and a few dollars extra Wade picked up for maintenance
work around the studio. Everyone told us we were on the road to fame. And we believed
fortune, while not exactly in hand, had to be just around the corner. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wade mixing at Beautiful Sounds Studios.<br />
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The link is to Freedom Street's, "Ride on Mother"<br />
made from a copy about 6 generations removed from the lost original.<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yla4hgaLeEw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yla4hgaLeEw</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Wade and Chuck</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Working at the studio was a hoot and the
value of rubbing shoulders with the likes of Joe Cocker, Leon Russell and B. J.
Thomas couldn’t be measured in money, neither could the jam sessions or the
demo days when we got to record our own music. We watched history being made. We
loved the scene and sessions and were writing a lot of new material but something
was wrong. We were trying to make a living as song writers but we felt like our
songs weren’t really getting shown to anyone. We were young and impatient and
we were hungry and broke. It was frustrating being so close to opportunity and
so unable to make anything of it. We thought we were spinning our wheels. We
had good reason to feel this way but let’s just keep the whining to a minimum
and say it hadn’t gone as well as we’d hoped. By September, the sweet sound of
the West Coast music scene was calling and we were listening. We planned to
travel to LA, make the rounds of the recording studios, show ‘em our stuff,
make some new contacts and then, who knows? The open highway looked like a
window into the future and we dove through it with all of the exuberance and
inexperience youth had to offer. After LA we’d make our way back to Memphis,
probably just to collect our stuff, and then move to California resuming our
journey toward rock and roll stardom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Wade's Dad gets married in Fargo</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">We weren’t on a schedule except Wade’s
Dad was getting married in Fargo North Dakota (It’s complicated) so that became
a part of the planed journey as well. Swinging that far north and then on to
Chicago on the way back to Memphis seems kind of convoluted now but at the time
it made perfect sense. It was all just part of the adventure. We were both
looking for song writing material anyway. There really was no wrong way to go…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">( Hey, jot
that down. It’s not a bad closing line for a chorus:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When you’re
hitchin’ on the highway<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You can take
another road<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But there
really is no wrong way to go)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yeah!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">In college I enjoyed hitchhiking and
traveled that way many times between Memphis and Chicago. I thought it was safe
and certainly economical. Being short of funds as usual we planned to hitchhike
the whole way to California and back until I saw an ad in the classifieds.</span><span style="font-family: "arialmt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">A
U-Drive-It company wanted a vehicle delivered to a location in New Mexico. We
had to pay for the gas but we could take several days and vary, somewhat, off a
straight-line course to the delivery point. It sounded like a plan but some
simple math dictated a third traveler would be needed to share expenses. Wade
and I were a little concerned about finding someone with money enough to split
the gas, as well as having room for them on the long ride, but we needn’t have
worried. The vehicle turned out to be quite roomy and we had several offers
when potential fellow travelers saw what a unique ride it was.</span><span style="font-family: "arialmt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">An old friend Fred, only a few weeks
out of Uncle Sam’s service, joined up with us. I’d known Fred from a college
fraternity we’d both been associated with. We were each into Memphis music and
early into the hip scene on Highland Avenue when Fred was drafted into the
Army. He was back now and said he went through his entire Viet Nam experience
with the words “Thank You Chuck” written in his helmet because he’d first
smoked weed with me in the Magic Truck; a 1946 Chevy panel truck I’d bought
from “Magic Cleaners” and lived in my last full year of college in 1968. He
said smoking weed was the only thing that got him through the war. I wondered
how much of himself he’d left over there. I had other friends that came back a
little different. It was too early yet to tell with Fred. However he had the
interest and more important the money to make the journey with us and that’s
what counted at the time.</span><span style="font-family: "arialmt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilGDhkqvqk7FuZxQu55RcNFsci2WG2d8TimFCsPsFygygITSxB53U8WNmWmN29g9l-g3_HtV6qYaWeKO2YTmFOBfr27w7hZu7QUbIMh14LWRCXX9WHsMq7holvrGYvD2VZdc2aqQE__i-w/s1600/06-Big+Blue.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilGDhkqvqk7FuZxQu55RcNFsci2WG2d8TimFCsPsFygygITSxB53U8WNmWmN29g9l-g3_HtV6qYaWeKO2YTmFOBfr27w7hZu7QUbIMh14LWRCXX9WHsMq7holvrGYvD2VZdc2aqQE__i-w/s200/06-Big+Blue.png" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The vehicle, as it turned out, was a
beautiful dark shade of blue with that
wonderful new-car scent plus something else. Perhaps it was the glint from the
stainless steel gurney in the back, that made her so special. And of course
there was that magical red flashing gum ball on top we dared ignite for only a
few seconds at a time, and even then, well off the main road, way back in the
desert.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9ujo_hdle0nUKx47Rf7Enzqj5WikHisTfmEcHUw__2eHT5CHtQ4Zls2OGGtvmhyphenhyphenjqJaSyaTHOcWTkGxxt5h-RFy_GI4oNByz5h-n7IB0sFxUeIY4gBHcLIN6WRtHyxKqA_Cwd69x0SQs1/s1600/07-Big+Blue+and+Chuck+and+Wade.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9ujo_hdle0nUKx47Rf7Enzqj5WikHisTfmEcHUw__2eHT5CHtQ4Zls2OGGtvmhyphenhyphenjqJaSyaTHOcWTkGxxt5h-RFy_GI4oNByz5h-n7IB0sFxUeIY4gBHcLIN6WRtHyxKqA_Cwd69x0SQs1/s200/07-Big+Blue+and+Chuck+and+Wade.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Big Blue was the real thing all right. She
was freshly customized and just off the detailing line; an official UNITED STATES
AIR FORCE AMBULANCE, siren, insignias and all.</span><span style="font-family: "arialmt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">That’s, of course, why every lawman who
laid eyes on us wanted to know why three hippies were driving her. And there
were 3 very good reasons:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> 1) The US government needed that ambulance
delivered to Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">2) We were the ordained facilitators of
that delivery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">And,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">3) We were carrying the paper work to
prove it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Case closed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Big Blue rolled south out of Memphis
Tennessee in early October with me behind the wheel, because my name was on the
paper work and the thought of anyone else driving her scared the hell out of me.
Besides I had a fresh supply of LA Turn-a-rounds from Dr Nic and was up, so to
speak, for a drive anywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Wade had us doing the family thing in
Fargo with his Dad, so it seemed only fair to swing by Shreveport Louisiana for
a quick visit with my folks as well. Fred, laying on the gurney in back and
playing his guitar, had already said his goodbyes to family in Memphis so that had
taken care of one stop on the list. We headed south on I-55 through the kudzu
covered Mississippi countryside turning right at the Capitol, Jackson, onto
Interstate 20. We crossed the Big Muddy at Vicksburg and continued west passing
through Monroe Louisiana. In the previous six years I’d played in towns all
along these roads with The Regents, The Crescents, Me and the Rest, Freedom
Street, Bill Black’s Combo, Joe Davis and the Guilloteens or varieties and combinations of other bands and
musicians. So, up until Texas, the territory was very familiar to me and I still felt pretty close to home. We made
good time on the interstate in the big ambulance, making it all the way to my
parents house in Shreveport on the first day. I hadn’t seen them since I
graduated from Memphis State two summers earlier. My parents and I hadn’t
always agreed on music’s place in my life but they were always glad to see me
because they thought God might have intervened, since whenever our last
meeting was, and made me come to my senses. One look at my companions and it
was obvious they were in need of prayer too so that kept Mom and Dad pretty
busy during the short visit. My parents' house was interesting too. I’d never seen
it before. It had been a funeral home at
some time before it was remodeled and they moved in. The overly large living room
was actually kind of nice. It would be great for parties and social functions
but the very large bathroom, with the oversized slightly sloping drain in the
middle of the room, was kind of creepy. One night was enough and the next
morning after a big southern breakfast I hugged my folks goodbye and the boys
and I made the short drive into Texas and on to Dallas. We could see the skyline
ahead for miles as we approached Big D from the east. Without ever being there
before we were drawn to what we thought of when the city’s name was
mentioned. The first thing we did was find Dealey Plaza where Kennedy had been
shot. Very strange feelings. It had only been six years since he’d been killed.
It was still very fresh to us all. We were so young. The downtown was empty and
quiet. Maybe it was a weekend. Maybe I just didn’t notice if there were others
around us. We soon left. It looked just like the pictures in my memories,
before and after.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">With Big Blue we never had a problem
finding anything. People were eager to offer directions and advice and it was
always reliable. We had to be careful about leaving her unattended as she
always drew attention but we were never broken into, probably because we didn't stay anywhere very long.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Fred and Wade</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Once we got away from the downtown, Dallas
was wonderful; so much energy. I remember hanging out for a while at Lee Park
with the freaks. There were drinks at a couple of neighborhood bars that
afternoon and lots of comments about our cool, over the top, Air Force wheels
in conversations with an interesting selection of people. And then this dazzling blond, with large
beautiful eyes, mesmerizing smoke and a promise of a place to stay that evening,
became the center of everything. Sometime after that I think Wade and Fred
voted to keep driving but I said it was safer to get some rest and stay where
we were. I may have had only the third vote but I had the keys. We opted for
rest and Wade and Fred slept in the ambulance. I should have too. Within six
months I’d be back here marrying those large beautiful eyes. But that’s a whole ‘nother
story about Dallas, and short hair and big bucks… And this story’s still about
a road trip. So early the next morning we pointed Big Blue toward Ft. Worth and
headed out again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">By this stop we had the routine down pretty good.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Now in 1970 it took a lot of attitude
for three hippies, wearing long hair, beards and bell-bottoms, to drive that
Air Force ambulance through the Deep South, but attitude we had. We were
stopped by the authorities 13 times between Memphis and New Mexico, each
encounter engendering a show Ken Kesey would have been proud of. Just one look at the three
of us in that shiny new ambulance was enough to spark the curiosity of even the
most complacent deputy on even the warmest and sleepiest of sunny southern
afternoons. As for us? The show was on. We were pretty animated. As I presented
my driver’s license to the inquiring officer, Fred sometimes played a little
guitar as Wade offered up the official papers then snapped a picture or two
with his camera. This was pretty unnerving for most of the lawmen that stopped
us. They didn’t know what to think but I noticed they always kept a hand on or
near their holstered pistols just in case. Usually they’d demand we stand still
and remain quiet until asked a question but we had lots of questions ourselves
and, while remaining still, we asked our questions when we felt they were
appropriate. They seemed annoyed that we weren’t afraid of them. We knew we
weren’t holding anything and, as long as we seemed harmless and a bit humorous,
we didn’t believe they’d bother us; not with the government keeping an eye on
our progress, through those wonderful papers, smoothing any wrinkles we might be
encountering along the way. Mostly the police checked us out and quickly let us
go, often with a free escort to the edge of town, but a couple of them were
more thorough; one in particular, Officer Jim Pain of the Snyder Texas Police
Department. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">(Now,
I’ve changed his name here to protect his identity, in case his relatives now
know him as Officer Moonbeam or something.)</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arialmt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> Officer Pain didn’t know what he
had on his hands but he wasn’t about to let anything slip through his fingers
either. He was probably only a few years older than us and certainly not long
out of the military. Eyeing the US Army dress hat I was wearing, he carefully
looked over the US Air Force papers Wade handed him then asked us to follow him
back to the station saying he wanted to check out a few things. I was kind
enough not to salute as he turned away. He said it would only take a few
minutes. That few minutes lasted for over five hours as he had taken a keen
interest in Fred’s military accessories. He wanted to know more about Fred’s
Army issued coat and hat, the one I’d been wearing, and where Fred had served
and been stationed when discharged. There was no law saying Fred had to keep
his discharge papers with him but I guess neither was there anything saying Officer
Pain couldn’t hold him until he made sure Fred wasn’t a deserter either. As for
Wade and me, well we were with Fred. Right? “And as long as you boys are gonna
be here at the station for a while, we’re gonna take a better look at that
ambulance of yours,”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Now Officer Pain struck me as a fair
man and I told him so. I said we’d be fools to carry any contraband in a
vehicle so sure to be stopped, and he agreed, but I wasn’t sure to what part he
was agreeing. I told him I had nothing to fear and I was sure he’d conduct a
fair search, which we’d like, very much, to observe. He thought about it for a
moment then gave the ok, probably so he could watch our reaction during the
procedure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">The big search at the Snyder, TX Police Department</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Well it was an education for us all
right. Officer Pain and his cohorts tore into that piece of government property
with all the gusto they could muster. Had that been my vehicle, I’d have had
serious concerns about their ability to put it all back together again. But
joyfully, it wasn’t my vehicle. Under our watchful eyes, however, they took the
side panels completely out and pulled open the dashboard examining every
screw-head, feeling for burrs and scratches that might indicate tampering. They
lifted the magical red flashing gum ball on top. They searched under the hood
and in the wheel wells, even letting some air out of each tire so they could
smell it, as they glanced back over their shoulders at us. And all the while we
just stood there watching and smiling. By now Officer Pain was beginning to
realize those smiles weren’t going away and, if delayed too much longer, Uncle
Sam might take an interest in how his property was being treated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">“Am I going to find anything in here?”
he asked me. “Not unless someone plants it in there, and we both seem like
honorable men.” I replied sincerely. “Any smoking that’s been done, was done
well outside of the vehicle.” And that was pretty much true.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Just 5 more hours and we're out of here.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Back in the squad room Officer Pain<span style="display: none; mso-hide: all;">urtPainPain</span> seemed to expedite his
inquiries about Fred’s status with the Army. But not before he’d satisfied his
latent curiosity about us and our life style. I don’t think he’d ever talked to
a hippy before. The Summer Of Love was only two years earlier. Not many flower
children got up this far north of Interstate 20, and the few that did didn’t
talk that much. The next two hours were amazing. We told him everything we knew
about drugs, sex and rock and roll and made up the rest. He seemed enthralled.
He wanted, in particular, to know about LSD and we told him it was the best
thing ever invented and he should give it a try. We told him about the Big
House, the commune we lived in back in Memphis, our band and our musical
ambitions. He took it all in and, you know on some level, I think he actually
wanted to be free of at least a few of his responsibilities. He mostly asked
questions and listened but he talked a little about his life and hopes too. I
actually got to like the guy a little bit even though he said we’d all be in a
cell now if he’d found even a single marijuana seed. He seemed very “by the
book” but all in all, it wasn’t a bad experience. He even gave back my diet pills from Dr. Nic without stealing any. Of course he
called the good doctor’s office, back in Memphis first, just to be sure it was
on the up and up. Wade nearly choked when I asked Officer Pain if the jail might be a safe place for us to spend the night but it wasn't until</span><span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16pt;"> I requested, with a straight
face, a formal note of some kind vouching for our, recently investigated, good character that he just gave up, </span><span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16pt;">finally realizing we had much
more time for this than he did. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtIyd_vhUb8pCj_BvANYr3PQbnZZNOUVxCxcGL-aDEfh_LplpdoOAzvzdajlaRkysO0R0VUKwpjxl3uqE5P1FgxaxLcFUw1qgGGJwProSAidZFSgOrat4FR6ILmzBfFkz8QhQ01rpfArWV/s1600/TICKETjpg.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtIyd_vhUb8pCj_BvANYr3PQbnZZNOUVxCxcGL-aDEfh_LplpdoOAzvzdajlaRkysO0R0VUKwpjxl3uqE5P1FgxaxLcFUw1qgGGJwProSAidZFSgOrat4FR6ILmzBfFkz8QhQ01rpfArWV/s640/TICKETjpg.jpg" width="640" /></a></span><span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16pt;">Time wasn’t money back then
like it seems to be now, and we had lots of it; “twenty four and there’s so
much more” as Neil Young bragged about us while we were rushing headlong into
old age.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">For the remainder of the trip I sent
post cards, from where ever we were, back to Officer Jim Pain of the Snyder Texas
Police Department. It was my intention to keep him abreast of our adventures
and to leave a trail of encouragement for him should he ever decide to leave it
all behind someday, change his name to, oh say, Officer Moonbeam and follow our doo dah parade into the west.</span><span style="font-family: "arialmt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">The delivery is complete</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Hurricane Marilyn devastated the </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>US Virgin Islands. </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Quite by coincidence, and on very short notice, I was offered work through an engineering firm with FEMA documenting the storm damage. The offer, tendered by someone I’d never met or worked with before, was unusual in that I was expected to pay for everything up front, to be reimbursed later. That, and demanding I decide and be ready to go </b><b>in six hours, would normally have raised a number of red flags, but I jumped at the job to get as far away as possible. As it turned out I was in the islands for nearly two, soul cleansing, months. Perhaps time to find what I was looking for. During this period I wrote something everyday. A lot of it poetry like this poem written, a few lines at a time, while taking refuge in the best little bar St. Thomas had to offer. The Poor Man’s Bar was like a thousand others in the islands except here t</b><b>hey’d give you the bottle</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>and you poured your own drink.</b></span></div>
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RED HOOK , US VIRGIN ISLANDS - October 1995</div>
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<span class="s1"><b> Prologue:</b></span></div>
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Searching through the freshly shattered pieces of my life</div>
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I was shooting for the government while working on my head,</div>
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Seeking shelter from the damage and the strain.</div>
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The storm had passed in Red Hook and it spared this little bar.</div>
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It seemed a place where lonely people went to be alone.</div>
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I’d stop there nearly every night and watch them from afar.</div>
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And when I had a drink, I’d always pour my own.</div>
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<span class="s1"><b> THE POOR MAN’S BAR</b></span></div>
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That hint of lives in other places. Loved ones left behind no doubt.</div>
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The music’s rock. They like it loud. This home away from home</div>
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The locals call The Poor Man’s Bar, up here you pour your own.<br />
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-Angie-</div>
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Her name is little Angie. She’s what some would call petite.</div>
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She always takes the same stool, and she drinks her whiskey neat.</div>
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She lost her love to the mainland. The hurricane took her car.</div>
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She’s biding time with her memories now, here upstairs, at The Poor Man’s Bar.<br />
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-James-</div>
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James, with wooden club in hand, explains the only rule,</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDlvTjrJ-dD_OcunOFsJ2eMyDlt79ZDk7-DHOUPhwTNJxOmmxtUXXUbACMhy-xgQtGfnVNnkUkVLULKXMPqTnT6kdFpGIeqnZdIRHRVDBn7eerdlRio52tjMaPTpRqvKF_qedNhPlppMJg/s1600/St+Thomas-Hurricane+Marilyn+Dammages+-+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDlvTjrJ-dD_OcunOFsJ2eMyDlt79ZDk7-DHOUPhwTNJxOmmxtUXXUbACMhy-xgQtGfnVNnkUkVLULKXMPqTnT6kdFpGIeqnZdIRHRVDBn7eerdlRio52tjMaPTpRqvKF_qedNhPlppMJg/s320/St+Thomas-Hurricane+Marilyn+Dammages+-+7.jpg" width="320" /></a>“Don’t throw nothing out the windows, Not an ashtray, not a stool.”</div>
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He’s not someone to trifle with when he’s not feeling nice.</div>
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And he keeps that cudgel limbered up by pounding bags of ice.<br />
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-Dee-</div>
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A whirling dervish tending bar, Dee turns the music down.</div>
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“Listen up,” he tells the crowd, “Let’s all just drink a round,</div>
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For Rick who’s gone and won’t be back To pour his own again”.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0eOYSLIi17TyviucZw1kPa8b9CoXnJyw7JpSjoolhbT2aR1lX2ZPMve8nUk0li9Ywlw0-XuOKIyUIa0f-2GpRxxOeFvUC_x0ATVMgHB2ftRUJ9VlQV7SMjemmZkGl1w7WGZhPYMVymaN1/s1600/St+Thomas-Sea+Plane+at+dock-with+Chuck.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0eOYSLIi17TyviucZw1kPa8b9CoXnJyw7JpSjoolhbT2aR1lX2ZPMve8nUk0li9Ywlw0-XuOKIyUIa0f-2GpRxxOeFvUC_x0ATVMgHB2ftRUJ9VlQV7SMjemmZkGl1w7WGZhPYMVymaN1/s320/St+Thomas-Sea+Plane+at+dock-with+Chuck.jpg" width="320" /></a>For he clearly knew when the big wind blew, that he’d lost his closest friend.<br />
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-John-</div>
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Now John by trade’s a watcher, and he usually knows the score.</div>
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You’ll notice how he never turns his backside to the door.</div>
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He’s in tune with all the tension like a broker on the phone.</div>
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And he’s drawn here like a magnet ‘cause he likes to pour his own.<br />
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-Rasta Larry-</div>
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Now there sits Rasta Larry, just returned from Bomba’s shack,</div>
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Tortola’s full moon madness, just a memory flashing back.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij-NzzKyjamvBw6uZzOck88GElNhufJ_NYehS7rh_eZwgw_pWsI10e2Xy-8Qk6x6dgvhqS1SPLwK5f1c1JBYxDKjsc8U3lCiTNeA12uU_vFpKvAHWYX2AADyFhY9fapsjs4WCGXoUspjux/s1600/St+Thomas-Sea+Plane-aerial-St+Thomas+ships+%231.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij-NzzKyjamvBw6uZzOck88GElNhufJ_NYehS7rh_eZwgw_pWsI10e2Xy-8Qk6x6dgvhqS1SPLwK5f1c1JBYxDKjsc8U3lCiTNeA12uU_vFpKvAHWYX2AADyFhY9fapsjs4WCGXoUspjux/s320/St+Thomas-Sea+Plane-aerial-St+Thomas+ships+%231.JPG" width="320" /></a>His eyes look out forever for some distant island home.</div>
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He likes to burn one down on the beach, come up here, and pour his own.<br />
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-Scotty-</div>
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Scotty hangs here often even tending bar some nights.</div>
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He drinks his coke with Absolute and smokes Marlboro Lites</div>
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That silver coin around his neck? A birthday gift he says.</div>
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A marker of another year he’s counting in his head.<br />
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-Tyler-</div>
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Young Tyler’s found another cause and charges in again.</div>
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Damn the danger-full ahead. She’s just not one to bend.</div>
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Her youthful zest will drive her on and take her memories far.</div>
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And years from now they’ll wander back up here, to The Poor Man’s Bar.</div>
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There’s a tale in each and everyone who’s here to pour their own,</div>
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And given time they’ll tell it, every bit, down to the bone.</div>
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But you’ve really got to listen, learn to see ‘em as they are.</div>
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‘Cause there’s drama down in Red Hook, here upstairs at The Poor Man’s Bar.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> </span><b>Like I said the characters were revolving and I revolved as well, out of St. Thomas and on to a string of jobs that kept me working around the Caribbean for several years.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The story has a good ending though. Like two wanderers in a Tolkien tale, Megumi and I stumbled our way together again two years later. Certainly older and probably wiser, we endure as a couple yet today, a testimony to the power and the mystery of love and those with the will, in spite of it all, to somehow hold on to each other, however far apart they drift.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Shooting My Last Dallas Killing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I
have this pattern of quitting jobs in the spring or starting new ones,
depending on how you look at it. </span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16pt;">By late March of 1973, I was ready to move on, leaving a marriage, a house, a
career, a town and soon a way of life I’d embraced for almost 3 years. No kids,
no touch, no foul. A clean start, I guess, for everybody.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Funny,
if it hadn’t been for that divorce, I might yet be under the seductive spell of
Texas. That can happen. I’ve seen the Lone Star State tighten her grip on
others like that as life moves inexorably on. I had no intention of that happening
to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">There’d
been a lot of stress at Channel 8; more so since the union had lost a recent vote
to organize the photographers and editors. Morale was low and respect was
nonexistent. I recall being told at one point that I was paid to shoot, not
think, but that’s another story. Clearly my personal beliefs were at odds with
the conservative TV station on more and more issues. With so many things going
on in my life it was no wonder something had to give.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I
was at Mother Blues one night where some friends in a band were playing and
they let me sit in. I hadn’t played with anyone professionally for 3 years. There
was something about jamming in front of a live audience that really made it
special. The music just flowed. It was overwhelming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Journal Entry: </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16pt;">Sunday- March 18, 1973- 4:40am<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16pt;"> It
was the closest thing I can imagine to time tripping. I mean, there I was,
sitting behind this organ, eyes closed, a big grin boogyin’ from one side of my
face to the other, and just playing my ass off, you know? When for a second,
just</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 19pt;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16pt;">for a second I began to drift… I was in Memphis… and it was as real as I ever
remember it being… but as always, I come back. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">It
had only been 3 days since my divorce was final and I wasn’t exactly happy with
what “coming back” meant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJdY1yPxJwtMkt_N6gpgz-g-dXKG85MerHS4O0dkVMEPKYsiviKffz_sYBzd0m6ZFym9v-xDNrziGIWOP52OSV1LvR-mhqsE3oFPKgLp01gJIyUrJmcwkgP7z13ywH1WCv4mZg-qsZRLY3/s1600/Music+Recording+Gear+9-21-86.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJdY1yPxJwtMkt_N6gpgz-g-dXKG85MerHS4O0dkVMEPKYsiviKffz_sYBzd0m6ZFym9v-xDNrziGIWOP52OSV1LvR-mhqsE3oFPKgLp01gJIyUrJmcwkgP7z13ywH1WCv4mZg-qsZRLY3/s200/Music+Recording+Gear+9-21-86.jpeg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The
next day, after rediscovering my soul the previous evening at Mother Blues, I
bought a 1939 Hammond organ (with 1937 pre-amps) from Wells Music and quietly
began looking for a band. Three months later, I was playing with </span><span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16pt;">Dave Norfleet on guitar, Gary
Leggett on bass, and Bill Adams on drums. We called ourselves </span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Freedom Street</span><span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 16pt;"> after an old Memphis band I’d
played in. </span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">We
started drawing a pretty good crowd in Oak Lawn at The Fog, later called Bobby
McGee’s, several nights a week. People were beginning to notice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: small;">Bill Adams, Gary Leggett, Chuck Richardson, Dave Norfleet</span></td></tr>
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Mafioso Tony Caterine, owner of the Castaway and Losers Clubs, stopped in one
night and was impressed by the band. He made us an offer we couldn’t refuse and
signed us to a booking contract. Tony promised his talent agency would keep the
band on the road from Hawaii to Georgia as long as we wanted the work. And in
spite of a short stay in prison, where he still managed to conduct business, Tony
did just that. Before long, I gave up my apartment and lived full time on the
road while he managed the band. It was a killer at first trying to keep a day
job while working so late in the nightclubs but I needed cash to live on until
we got established. But the end was in sight. Tony fronted me some money. I
gave notice to my boss, Burt Shipp, and was soon shooting my last stories for WFAA-TV.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">It
was no secret, I just wanted to turn in the gear and leave, but the afternoon
call on the police scanner meant one of my last days at the station would probably
be a late one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I
was only a few blocks away from a shooting at a convenience store, and already
headed in that direction, when Burt’s voice crackled on the radio, “You on that
Hoss?” He called everybody Hoss. “Yep. I got it Burt”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">More
reports were coming in on the scanner; shooter down, multiple victims, ambulance
and fire rolling. I pulled to the curb in front of the store. Two police units
were there already and a third was arriving as I grabbed my camera from the
trunk. I was using film and had to shoot very sparingly with only 3 minutes of
film in the 16mm Canon Scoopic. Not like it would soon be with videotape
cameras where I could start rolling, even as I ran up to the scene, with a
whole 20 minutes of media to burn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Two
officers were tending to a wounded girl on the floor near the check out
counter. Just beyond them the clerk lay dead. I stayed back and to the side
hoping to go unnoticed by the police while I gathered a wide shot and panned
over to the arriving ambulance crew. Through the lens, I followed them to the
victim where a blue uniform, first blocked my shot, then ushered me outside the
door beyond the newly established police line. There was time now to cross the
street and shoot back wide at the whole area with the storefront and emergency vehicles
jammed together outside. The girl had been secured to a gurney and I filmed her
being moved to the ambulance. Police were now saying two more dead, besides the
clerk, were in the store. The shooter had chased a woman inside with a gun. The
clerk and a customer tried to interfere and were each shot. The woman ran to an
isle but was cut down at point blank range in front of the store’s magazine
racks. The gunman then turned the pistol on himself and fell on top of the
woman. They died there together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">After
the ambulance pulled away, I moved farther down the front of the store, ducked beside
a Coke machine, and peered inside. Cupping my left hand to the glass, I focused
on a policeman near the bodies and released the shutter. The officer was
awkwardly straddling the pools of blood and piled bodies sprawled in front of
the magazine racks. I could see he was flipping through a newly released copy
of Playboy. He saw me but didn’t seem to mind I was taking his picture. It was
an amazing sight but one I didn’t even realize I’d shot until I saw it back at
the station after it came out of the processor. An editor pointed it out. Strangely,
nothing seemed out of place, not the policeman checking out the new Playboy or
me shooting him doing it, or the couple lying between his feet for that matter.
You become pretty callused to this sort of thing if you see it enough. Before
Dallas I don’t think I’d ever seen a dead person. Now I’d seen more than I
could count. A violent incident like this was mundane. I felt nothing and that
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was more than time for a change. Rock and roll and Mafia management may sound
crazier than the news business and a bad marriage but it seemed a whole lot saner
at the time. Especially when I later received a letter from Tony, still in his
prison get-a-way, thanking me for repaying my loan and conducting myself in such
a professional manner. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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didn’t owe anyone any money. I owned my own gear. The band was tight and on the road. And l</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16pt;">ife, while unpredictable, was good again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Playing Golf In My Living Room<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">All
my friends play it and swear by it. Men love it. Women love it. Kids love it.
But I hate it. It’s boring.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Golf
would be more fun if paintball guns were involved. I mean, knowing you could be
hit in the back of the neck at any moment would add an element of concentration
to the game I could learn to respect. But that’s just me. Hell, I’m a guy who
thinks basketball would be more entertaining if players were equipped with
roller skates and cattle prods too. I’d pay to see that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Most
of my experience with golf involves photographing tournaments and waiting as the
old men of the clubhouse scene, with their hands in the air and shushhhhing
everyone, exert the one moment of power they are allowed all year. Finally they’ll
drop their hands and I can move into position for the next shot… along with
hundreds of other people of course; a hard enough task without this interference.
Unless you’re shooting for the tournament TV venue from a fixed position, live golf
contests are no fun to cover. Even shooting with a large studio type camera
from one location has it’s drawbacks. In order to follow that tiny white ball,
as it tracks toward you in the air, you must set the contrast so only the white
spot shows against a field of black. In others words, you don’t see a damn
thing but that small white speck, and you pray you don’t lose sight of it while
your camera’s on air. Maybe the technology has improved by now but that’s how
we did it then. If you mess up, everyone on the headsets will know because the director
will say something, or even worse replace you on the camera. It happens. And
with that, let’s talk about something else…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">As
for actually swinging the clubs themselves…well, there are several good reasons
I don’t enjoy that, but one example in particular sticks in my mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I
was working with Bob Brandon and Dan Diamond. We were part of a five-man crew taping
a show called “Golf Shots Video Magazine” on the island of Kauai at the Lagoons
golf course. The host was former PGA champion Dave Stockton. The shoot ran for
several days, and while I’m not an enthusiast of the game, I was amazed and
entertained by the exotic layout of the course and the golfing skill of the
host. It was a lot of fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">On
the final day of the shoot, the last scene took place on the Lagoons driving
range. Stockton finished his lines; laid the driver he had borrowed from the
rental shop on the ground next to the unused pile of range balls and joined the
crew and several clubhouse workers in congratulating themselves on a job well
done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Now
I’ve never claimed to be a golfer. I’ve said I don’t even like the game. But I
had been watching one of the world’s best demonstrate his technique over and
over and over. Perhaps that was what inspired me to pick up the driver lying
next to the waiting pile of golf balls. That and the fact one ball was
already teed up and just begging to be blasted, straight and true, out into the
blue and green yonder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The
rest of the group was engaged in their conversations and not paying any
attention to me. So I picked up the club and proceeded to address the ball. I
turned my head to the left and visualized the white speck falling away in the
distance. Turning back to the ball, I fixed my gaze, concentrated on keeping my
left arm straight and my head down and drew back with all my might. Back around
I came with a vengeance, anticipating the solid ping of contact but
instead........Whoosh! How could it be? I had missed the ball.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The
shocking disbelief of the near miss gave way to a sudden dread the entire group
had seen my humiliation.....But no... I glanced back... maybe not. They were
still involved with their conversations. One or two perhaps had seen some
movement and maybe thought it was a warm-up swing. Yes, that’s it. It was a
warm-up swing. I certainly felt warmer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I
just needed to relax a little bit. You know. Shake out the shoulders, wiggle
the butt, and reset the feet. Don’t try to kill the ball, just make smooth,
solid contact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I
appealed to my inner self, took two deep breaths and became one with the ball.
Unfortunately becoming one with the ball was not the same as hitting it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Whooosh!
Damm! I missed again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I noticed the conversations behind me had stopped and worse, there were a few
outright snickers. There’re never gonna buy three warm-up swings. This next
one’s gotta be on the money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I
can’t tell you how bad it felt to miss that ball a third time........Whoooosh!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The
laughter was loud, as I laid the club back on the ground and walked away, but
not nearly loud enough to cover Dave Stockton’s stinging observation, “That’s
great Chuck,” he howled, ”You can play golf in your own living room.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The
crowd roared.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I
haven’t picked up a club since, and the world’s a better place for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Between 1980 and 1994</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Channel 9 lost 6 helicopters</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">I was on board the first time Sky 9 crashed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Monday April 8th, 1980, at 9 a.m.</span></div>
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When the pager goes off you just get up and go, simple as that. I left early, leaving Margie in a warm bed, explaining I would be searching in the helicopter for a lost cross-country skier in the Medicine Bow Mountains. I sped to the downtown helipad meeting pilot Jug Hill and Haney Howell, the reporter, before sunrise. Jug and I flew together in Sky 9 every weekday morning for the early news show on KBTV. This was really no different from every other morning, just earlier. Haney was there to report on, what might turn out be, a strong human-interest story requiring more than a pilot and photographer.</div>
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The weather was cool and clear in Denver but the mountains were overcast with reports of wind gusts up to 70 miles an hour. Cloudy or clear, I always wore mountaineering sunglasses in Sky 9 to hide my eyes.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Currigan Helipad</span> </td></tr>
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On these early mornings, just minutes out of bed, sleep was never very far away and if Jug noticed me nodding off in the left seat, he would immediately put the helicopter into a dive jolting me awake. He loved to see me gasping, my arms grabbing at empty air. “You must a got a little too much of that “poor man’s either” last night” he’d howl, between laughs.</div>
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After awhile I learned to sleep sitting straight up and, with my mountaineering glasses on, he couldn’t tell whether I was awake or not; just one of my little copter survival skills. And copter skills were very important with no camera mount, no gyro-stabilizer, no monitor and sometimes a hair raising trip standing outside on the skids for, what we thought was, a better shot.<br />
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The search was going on in the Rawah Wilderness Area located at the top of Poudre Canyon west above Ft. Collins. We found the Rocky Mountain Alpine Rescue Headquarters and met rescurer Hunter Holloway who accompanied us in Sky 9.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">No camera mount, no gyro-stabilizer, no monitor, no hair brush.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">And you might have to shoot standing outside on the skid.</span></td></tr>
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The cross-country skier had been missing since Sunday morning. We had been searching the area for 45 minutes with no success when Hunter suggested we go back and rendezvous with the ground teams. As we approached the Chambers Lake parking lot, we could see people on the ground and decided to land. Jug mentioned something about a Chinook helicopter in the area but I never saw it before the crash. There was some later question as to whether he hurried the landing because of the nearby Chinook but the approach seemed normal to me. I’d seen Jug quickly spin the helicopter for a landing dozens of times. Rather than turning in a slow bank, he’d freeze the front corner in the direction he was turning, and spin the ship around that point. It’s a very quick way to come about. This time, just as he began the maneuver, a strong gust of wind hit us broadside. The small tail rotor couldn’t overcome the natural tendency of the ship to spin the same direction as the, much larger, overhead rotor. This loss of “tail rotor effect” sent us into an accelerating spin. By the second time around, I knew something was wrong. I was pushed against the door by centrifugal force. With more altitude we could have overcome the problem but at 200 feet there was no hope. Jug tried to get more power from the collective (the emergency-brake-like stick located between the seats) but the thin air at 10,000 feet wouldn’t let the blades bite like they did in lower, thicker air. He literally broke the collective off pulling on it with his left hand as we crashed.</div>
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It was all so surreal, and very chaotic. One second there was gray to my left and green to my right...then gray... then green... and gray and green. Round and round we went...in total silence. I remember very clearly after the first, and slowest rotation, Jug calmly saying into the microphone, “Hold on.” But after that, as we spun faster and then crashed into the treetops, there wasn’t a sound. It was eerie. Either my brain turned off the audio, or the helicopter headphones silenced what must have been a very noisy final approach. The searchers below hit the ground as we tumbled down through the trees, the rotor chopping 3-foot sections as we fell. Shrapnel shot everywhere as Sky 9 separated into thousands of pieces of flying debris. They said it was quite a sight, the tail rotor splitting off and landing on the other side of the road. Loud as hell. Sorry I missed it. The view wasn’t as good from my position.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: small;">There were small pieces of aluminum honeycomb<br />from the rotor and splinters of wood everywhere.</span></span></td></tr>
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While I didn’t experience anything like my life flashing by, there was something worth noting. I’ve vocalized the same two words every time I’ve been in a life-threatening situation the moment I realized I was in real trouble. It’s happened enough times, and I mention this only because of this remarkable frequency, that I’m sure, if conscious, it’ll someday be the last thing I say,</div>
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“Oh Shit! ”, the words perfectly encapsulating both the explosive emotion and the total comprehension of the moment.</div>
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The chaotic, bumping and banging came to a sudden dark and airless stop. The cabin remained intact, but we came to rest inverted and on our left side, breaking out the Plexiglas around me. There’s no doubt all four of us would have been killed except for one thing...the cushioning effect of 20 feet of soft, fresh Colorado Champaign powder. Powdery snow that was now flooding, like water, into the broken cockpit. I was upside-down, on my head and left shoulder, and entangled in headphone and video cables. Only my right wrist, located somewhere near my face, could move. It was completely black. I couldn’t see but more important, I couldn’t breathe. With my free hand I grabbed at my face realizing only now it was snow I was gagging on. Jug was suspended from his seat on the right side, up and out of the snow. In the confusion, he unfastened his seat harness, and fell, head first, into the normally overhead control panel. Jug now stood in the only place available to him...on top of me.</div>
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I don’t remember saying anything but Jug swears I was yelling “Fire!” I do remember thinking that fire was a distinct possibility but I don’t remember saying it out loud. As I was clearing my face of the choking snow with my available hand and finally able to breathe, I saw my fingers were covered with blood...blood from my head. This is where Jug claims I screamed, “Fire!” but I only remember yelling, “Get off me! Get off!” as his boots stepped all over my upside down body. I didn’t feel any pain but I certainly was concerned about that blood.</div>
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I needn’t have been. It was pouring down from the Jug’s head where he’d received a large gash from falling into the control panel after releasing his seat belt. It was all <span class="s1">his</span> blood on me but at the time I was convinced I was hurt pretty bad. It was a scary moment. Jug scrambled up to and out of the side door. I freed my arms from the snow, sat upright, disentangled myself from the cables and climbed to the edge of the doorway just as the huge Chinook passed low overhead looking, for all the world, like the mother ship in “Close Encounters”.</div>
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Once I realized I was still alive, my next thought was of the camera gear. I found the TV camera buried in the snow under the front of the helicopter but it wouldn’t fire up. It must have fallen out through the broken Plexiglas. The recorder was in the back seat and seemed to be all right. By now Jug had found a passing motorist, who gave him a sanitary napkin to use as a temporary head bandage. I can still see him being led away from his fallen copter with that Kotex tied on his head and a large gauze bow under his chin. Haney was in the back seat just regaining consciousness. He couldn’t move his arms or legs. The camera recorder had struck him in the head. He was put on a backboard and taken to the waiting Chinook, trying to shout over the engines in sort of a half-stoned voice, “Chuck, Get pictures. Get pictures“.</div>
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They were both flown to the hospital in Ft. Collins. Jug escaped with a few stitches and Haney regained control of his extremities by the afternoon. Hunter Holloway had escaped without a scratch. I had smashed my right leg into the center console and hurt my lower back in the crash but didn‘t feel any pain for about an hour. I was taken to a small cabin a half-mile away to stay warm.</div>
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It was then I noticed my shin was swelling tight against the inside of my pant leg. My back was beginning to throb too. I was hurt but didn’t say anything. I didn’t want anyone to make me leave the crash site because my back pack was in the luggage compartment of the wreckage. I didn't want to lose my money, credit cards and IDs. I didn’t care to have my personal possessions picked over by just anyone, or even worse left behind in the deep snow.</div>
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Gary Croshaw, the northern bureau reporter for Ch 4 showed up at the cabin about an hour after the crash. I told him what happened, but said we crashed too far off the road for pictures. He’s a good friend. I can’t believe I said that. I must have been in shock or more likely embarrassed to BE the story instead of <span class="s1">COVERING</span> it. I didn’t want anyone to see Sky 9 like that either.</div>
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The story broke on Denver radio stations early that morning and Margie heard as she was driving to work: “Sky 9 has crashed. There is no word on survivors.” You can imagine how she felt.</div>
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The pain was just beginning to kick in as I caught a ride back to the crash site to retrieve my backpack with a borrowed shovel from a sheriff’s deputy. The cockpit had remained remarkably intact in spite of the trees, and the inverted landing. The ship was more on its side now than I remembered, the rescuers must have rolled it a little, but part of the top and all of the left side were still buried in the snow. There were small pieces of aluminum honeycomb from the rotor and splinters of wood everywhere. The luggage compartment door had come open as we were falling and the contents scattered.</div>
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The snow had been trampled by rescuers and there was no way to tell where my falling back pack might have hit and disturbed the snow.</div>
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If they had found it, they would have brought it to me or, more likely, set it aside with the other camera gear. Since it wasn’t in plain sight, my guess was it landed under the wreckage. I tried to dig with the shovel but found nothing but more pain from my now steadily throbbing legs and back.</div>
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It was cold and windy but I stayed there, waiting and chatting with the deputy, until a crane arrived that afternoon and lifted the wreck. Sure enough, there buried underneath Sky 9 was my pack. My posessions were intact.</div>
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Within the hour Chief Photographer Sam Allen arrived from channel 9 and drove me and the gear back to Denver. We talked about the crash and compaired other close calls we’d had along the way and hoped it wouldn’t happen again. But, of course, it did. Over the next 14 years the station lost 5 more news helicopters and 5 lives. It was dangerous work.</div>
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All these years later, almost another lifetime, the joys and sorrows of the last 36 years seem all the more precious. All this living has been extra; a gift.</div>
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I tell traveling companions they’re safe with me because I’ve already crashed once, so the odds are not in favor of it happening again.</div>
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I’ve stopped at the crash site a few times over the years while crossing over Cameron Pass. I’ve paused at the three chopped-off trees on the north side of the road by the Chamber‘s Lake parking lot. I’ve sat there, beside the road with Margie, watching the sun sparkle off the broken pieces of plexi-glass still littering the ground. It makes me feel humble; humble and very, very grateful for all the extra time.</div>
TV News Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168636429317297540noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8605215000884717396.post-32091126983520252462013-04-02T09:59:00.001-07:002016-04-11T15:17:28.932-07:0007- A Brownie Hawkeye And A Whole Roll Of Film<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A BROWNIE HAWKEYE AND A WHOLE ROLL OF FILM</span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Carefully crafted shots from my first roll of film.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’ve always been drawn to cameras. My earliest memories include flash bulbs and snapshots and funny faces on photo booth strips. Growing up, there were lots of pictures. My Mom gave me a Brownie Hawkeye and a whole roll of film to do with as I pleased when I was 6 years old. I had no problem e</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">xposing the 12 frames on my toys, my little brother, or our neighbors. There was a lot to shoot and I chronicled my childhood </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> grade school through high school.</span></b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Byrds</span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">1966 Memphis State</span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Chris Hillman-David Crosby-</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Mike Clarke-Roger McGuinn</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>In collage, I took courses in darkroom editing and photography, hung out with some of the staff at the school paper and yearbook and got pretty good at getting backstage to shoot stills at rock concerts and local TV stations. I took film courses in graduate school at Memphis State and SMU but never completed my Master’s Degree. My SMU classes in Dallas, however, produced a job lead at Parkland Hospital.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was 1971 when I began my journey as a paid cinematographer working for Southwestern Medical School. Mike Lorfing, head of the Medical Arts Department, hired me to photograph training films ordered up by the school staff, which I shot in the emergency room of Parkland Hospital. If someone requested a film about, say, intubation or chest tube insertion, I waited in the ER with my 16mm Arriflex until the procedure happened. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I did what I could to improve the odds of getting the shot by planning my strategy. For the general public, Friday was payday, and if Friday hit on the 1<sup>st</sup> or the 15<sup>th</sup> it usually meant a shorter wait, if it was raining, shorter still. More accidents meant more procedures. But, despite the best of plans, I spent many hours there waiting in the emergency room, receiving an unexpected education in human psychology. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On my first night, I watched as a man was rolled into Trauma Room 2 and swarmed over by the ER team. It seemed he was barely conscious but an ambulance crew member with a clipboard hounded the man for information. “What’s your name?” “Where do you live?" he shouted over and over. It seemed cruel. I later learned they wanted the patient to be alert as possible and this, gathering of information, was actually part of the evaluation. They say the quiet ones lay there and die. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had lots of time to read the police reports and, early on, saw the benefits of wearing a seat belt, at that time not standard equipment in a new car. To me, it was as clear as day. Seat belts saved lives and reduced injuries. It began a habit that would, years later, save my own life. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I saw the best and the worst of people while shooting my movies. A newborn on one night; a man with an ax imbedded in his forehead on another; the incredible heroics of the ER personal, all just part of the humdrum on a rainy Texas night; lots of people under lots of pressure, living their lives, doing their jobs. It was fascinating to be so close to it and, not just be allowed to watch, but expected to watch. It was a requirement for the job. It was exciting. I don’t think I ever got tired of it. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Trauma Room 1 sat mostly unused just across the hall. I was standing in it, mostly to get out of the way and take a short break, when one of the staff mentioned it was the room where President Kennedy was pronounced dead. I didn’t see any markers then, nothing to commemorate that grim day. I guess the blood from the 1963 assassination was still too fresh in Texas to publicly point out such a place. I would have never known it was this room where he died. It gave me chills just like the time I first heard of Kennedy’s shooting on that November 22<sup>nd</sup> over my high school’s PA system as we rehearsed the Hallelujah Chorus for the approaching Christmas concert. I still get chills, having nothing to do with the holidays, every time I hear it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I also worked for Dr. Charles Baxter who pioneered new treatment for burn injuries using pigskin. In the 1970s Parkland Hospital was one of the largest burn centers in the country. I was almost late for my new assignment. There was no time to lose. I was there to shoot a skin graft, already in progress. I quickly changed into scrubs and hurried into the OR to set up my camera. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This was my first operation and it really took me by surprise. With a deep breath, I absorbed the bloodiest scene I had ever witnessed. It looked, for the entire world, like a medieval torture chamber. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The patient was face down; his arms and legs spread out, with several people attending him. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Burns, covering his back, arms and hands, were being “roughed up” with brushes to make the new skin attach better; the freshly scrubbed wounds now enlarging into one great bloody mass. The medical team, working on his unburned legs, were shaving and lifting away, long patches of very thin skin leaving pale, but quickly oozing red, trails behind.</span><br />
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It formed a pattern of small diamond shaped spaces where new skin could grow and fill in. There would be other skin grafting operations but this stage of treatment meant he was nearing the end of a long healing process. Up until now he had been kept alive by dressing his burns with thin, specially treated, pigskin every three or four days to prevent infection and water loss but the old pigskin had to be removed to keep it from incorporating into the body. That was a slow and very painful process. I documented 5 or 6 patients in the program, including a child, as they went through the various stages of recovery. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Each time they endured this procedure I filmed their progress. I had to be careful with my lights as the burn patients sometimes felt the heat, even at several feet away. Most of the patients I shot were young men with horrifying stories about carburetor backfires or stove fuel explosions. Some of them cried and all of them trembled as the nurses worked on their wounds. It was hard for everyone in the room but the results were miraculous. New strides were being made daily. By 1973 the developing techniques were saving lives like that of an 8-year-old girl, burned over 92% of her body; as large a burn injury as anyone had ever survived. By this time I was working at WFAA-TV but I still filmed stories about Dr. Baxter and the Burn Center for the news while I was shooting at Channel 8. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’ve taken every opportunity over the years to work on medical stories whenever I can. I find them fascinating. I’ve shot everything from brain surgery to transsexual operations, from hip replacements to early defibrillator testing on live patients. A couple of seasons with Animal Planet’s “Emergency Vets” provided a real eye opener too; same stress, but animals present a whole different set of problems. You can’t simply ask where it hurts and how bad? End of life situations are very different and always heartbreaking. There were some great moments and funny ones as well. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I remember shooting with Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald, the standup comic and popular Emergency Vets veterinarian, when a lady came in with a shoebox containing a turtle.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWE5sck90TGm1YiYGGNn_i8PtxQMs0dtTEBYJf9ztzDzqo780-cwU7wadVmM5nQmZ_iBJkYkScjF6e4QvCi9Cy6_lGWv_cPpW95GuJpDO_0VGhIDSvKVaAKoP8mOxbWmMDQsnxcCktq0gk/s1600/Pima+Original.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> She said she and her husband were getting a divorce and wondered if Dr. Fitzgerald would put the turtle to sleep? The camera was rolling on all of this, and it was all I could do to keep from laughing out loud, but Kevin never cracked a smile. He put his arm around the distraught woman and consoled her. “We won’t put your turtle to sleep but we’ll find him a good home”, he said. After she left, Kevin jokingly wondered if the couple had any other lose ends to tie up, like kids. Wonder what the husband thought of all this?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As for the turtle, Kevin gave him to me and I named him Pema. It was definitely a step up for Pema. He went from a cold shoebox to a heat lamp and a small, fresh water, pool with occasional strolls in the backyard. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I kept that turtle in a comfortable landscaped aquarium for 10 years until a visiting little boy convinced me Pema and the aquarium would be happier with him. Seemed like a win, win for everybody.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">ROK-TV<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 14pt;"> I left KUSA on St.
Patrick's Day, March 17, 1989, after almost eleven years at the station; a
double reason to raise a pint every year on that fine mid-March day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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life and, even after I began freelancing, I continued to work with the station
on various projects. One was ROK-TV, a dance show appealing to teens and 20
somethings shot at Club LA, a hip Arvada nightspot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> I was 44 and normally wouldn’t be hanging with a crowd this young but I knew and liked
the music so I didn’t feel entirely out of it, the beat, I suppose, smoothing the age factor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">My camera was hand held for the
live-switched show, using what was, then considered, the new MTV style; never
mind that MTV had been around for 10 years. Clients asked for that <u>new</u> look for years to come. Low, wide angle, Dutch angle and shaky-cam shots were in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jeff Wilkins was on the level above me, also hand held.
Gunnar Blanke was running the jib, soaring over a couple of hundred writhing
dancers dispersed on various levels around the club; spotlights bathing us in pulsing, colors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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videos played on giant TV walls and flashed on monitors throughout the room. The show had
VJs, Christelle and Scott Patrick, introducing the music videos, enter-cut with
the kids dancing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I was on one of the larger floors, surrounded by dancers who
obviously liked being on camera.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">One
attractive, and very young, lady in particular was relating unusually well to
my lens. I’d drop to one knee and shoot up at her as she seductively swayed her
body back and forth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Occasionally Duke Hartman, the director, liking the shot,
would ask me to hold it until he could work his way around the room with the
other cameras. So there were times when I stayed on her for quite a while. She
obviously liked the camera. And it sure liked her. The fantasies running
through my head would make Jimmy Carter blush. She had to be at least 20
years younger than I...at least... but I wasn’t thinking about that then. I
mean I didn’t lose it or anything. I knew this was just a job, and all that,
but there were no rules saying I couldn’t enjoy my work. We were very creative.
This lady was smoking. It was good for me and I wondered if it was good for her
too? When the show finished, the house lights came on and reality reinserted
itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> I
was putting my camera away when I saw her coming from across the room. Oh, my
God. There went the fantasies again. “Hi” she cooed. I was intoxicated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“Tell me something. Are you
married?” I nearly dropped the camera, unable to say a thing as vivid images
ripped across my imagination.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“Me? Oh...” hesitating ever so
briefly “...Yes” I stammered, “Yes, I’m... I’m married.” “And very happily.” I laughed
grinning sheepishly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">She looked disappointed. My heart
was going pit-ti-pat. She really wanted me. What a guy. My ego was in the
stratosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“That’s too bad.” she said looking
up at me with these huge blue eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“My Mother would really dig you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Like they say, it’s not the long
fall that gets ya.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s the sudden stop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">There was a brilliant bit of
enlightenment </span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">in that
exchange.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">There just had to
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I‘m still searching for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“Is he shot?” I asked the grim faced officer who was only now lowering the revolver he was gripping with both hands. “Yes,” he exhaled as
the crimson shadow began to expand beneath the crumpled man on the ground….</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We were returning from the mountains with a story for the 5
o’clock news. Neal Brown and I had been to Copper Mountain shooting interviews
with tourist about the holiday ski business. It was still early in the
afternoon when we started back down to Denver.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The roads were dry but covered with sand and grit left by
the snowplows. We were eastbound on I-70, just past Idaho Springs, when we saw
a white pickup with a camper shell in the opposite lanes racing uphill ahead of
several police cars, red lights and sirens, in full pursuit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We looked at each other briefly as I swerved onto the approaching
off ramp at Hidden Valley for a quick turn around back to the westbound, uphill
lanes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’d learned long ago as a member of the media not to expect
any favors regarding speeding tickets from the local police organizations but
figured with all those flashing lights in front of us, there wouldn’t be anyone left to clock me, so I got on it. We closed on the convoy much faster than
expected because they were barely doing 50 miles an hour. It was a slow speed
chase on a four lane highway bounded in places by drop offs and cement walls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We pulled up along side the last police car and rolled down
the window. Neil asked what was going on and the patrolman yelled back, it was
a DUI. This was a day or so before New Year’s. Drunk driving was topical
because of the holidays, so we decided to stay with the chase for a while. We
might come back with two stories instead of just one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Falling back into the column, I noticed several other lawmen
now joining in behind us. We seemed to be picking up reinforcements as we
passed each new mountain jurisdiction but I held my place in the line. No one
tried to pass us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Even at the slow uphill speed, the Colorado State Patrol
cars behind the white pickup couldn’t get around to cut him off. Whenever the
CSP attempted to pass, the truck would swerve, trying to drive them off the
road. I suppose the PIT maneuver hadn’t been developed at that time so they
just stayed back and followed. We guessed they’d stop him up ahead, at the Eisenhower
Tunnel, with a roadblock.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">By now the procession had grown to more than a dozen
vehicles; all, but our news car, with blasting sirens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Neal reached into the back and grabbed my camera. He shot as
best as he could from the passenger side but was blocked by the police cars in
front of him. I shot a little of the swerving back and forth from my position
behind the wheel with Neal trying to steady the camera on my shoulder. But the
large awkward Beta Cam made that pretty scary for both of us. This wouldn’t be
the best place to lose control of the car. The hand held video was shaky but I
thought it would be pretty compelling. Combined with the upcoming arrest, it
would make a strong statement about the consequences of drunk driving. The tunnel
was coming up as we planned how we would shoot the approaching confrontation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The white pickup surprised us and took<br />the ramp heading toward Loveland Pass</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Just a few weeks before I had witnessed a very similar
situation in Denver. A motorist, who turned out to be an elderly man, would not
stop for a traffic officer and, at speeds under 30 miles an hour, continued to
drive. I heard it on the police scanner and headed in that direction. The
officer’s voice on the radio became angrier with each report of their position.
I was within a block when he said he had him. I could see an altercation up
ahead as I pulled over the news car and hurried to the back to get my camera.
By the time I ran the 50 yards or so, the gloved police officer was straddling
a man on the pavement who was bleeding from his mouth and attempting to retrieve
his dentures lying on the ground beside him. It became quite an incident. If
I’d have gotten there 30 seconds sooner there would have been video and it
would have been an even bigger incident. Luckily
there were witnesses. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">With this policeman’s overreaction still fresh on my mind, I
thought there might be a similar situation building again. It was pretty clear
the law was not happy with this guy. When they pulled him out of the car I
wanted to be ready to tape whatever happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">With one exit to go before the tunnel, the white pickup
surprised us and took the ramp heading toward Loveland Pass. Within a half mile
the truck stopped abruptly in front of the main entrance to Loveland Ski Area nearly
blocking the highway as a state patrol car sped around to box him in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The man held the long gun with<br />both hands in the ready position</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As skiers looked on from the slopes we, and the local law enforcement with their sirens blasting, came to a screeching halt, fanning out in all directions on the crowded roadway.
My camera was already fired up as I opened the car door. I never took my eyes
off the man in the pickup once he pulled over. His truck was about 30 yards in
front of me when he stepped out of it holding a long barreled gun. I froze.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">He appeared very calm in the mist of this chaos as lawmen
screamed from every direction to drop the gun. He slowly rotated his head surveying
the very tense situation and turned to the State Patrolman who had rushed past,
spun his car around, and was now standing outside leveling a shotgun over the
roof of the patrol car.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The noise was deafening. Everybody but me had a gun and was
pointing them, God knows where. Like I said, it was very tense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I ducked back behind my still open door and shot from there.
The man held the long gun with both hands in the ready position, keeping the
barrel up, and walked slowly from the door of his truck toward the State
Patrolman with the shot gun. There were no fast moves but the man could have fired the gun in an instant. I could see the officer shouting
something at him but he kept moving steadily closer anyway. As the man closed in
on the rear of the patrol car there was a boom, which I assumed was a shot,
but nothing seemed to change for a few seconds. Then the man slowly dropped to
all fours, laid down on his right side and rolled over on his back like he was
surrendering. Nothing like I’d seen a thousand times before on TV and the
movies where bodies are thrown violently backward by a bullet’s impact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Skiers looked on as the </span></span></span><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">lawman </span></span><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">pulled </span></span><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">the gun</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">from under </span></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">the man on </span></span></span><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">the road </span></span><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">and tossed it aside.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Everyone rushed forward as the lawman with the, shotgun still
in his left hand, pulled the long gun
from under the man on the road and tossed it aside. We quickly formed an
uneasy circle around the still form. Except for my question about the man being
shot and the affirmative answer from the officer beside me, everyone was quite.
The sirens, wailing all around us, seemed strangely in the distance. I could
clearly hear a final soft cough and see the last breath of the man lying at our
feet in the spreading pool of blood. As my
camera rolled and my mind recorded it all, he slipped away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Why did this happen? Who was this man? What were his stories
about? Who would care?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Left in the pickup, beer, whiskey and "Vengeance".</span></span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Later, as I was gathering other shots for the story, I photographed
a half empty bottle of Jack Daniels next to a book titled “Vengeance” on the
seat of the pickup. By then Neal was putting the pieces together as the
information came in. It was the first time I’d heard someone call it suicide by
cop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The white pickup had been pulled over in Golden on a traffic
stop. The officer saw the gun when he approached the truck. As he hurried back to
his patrol car to call in, the guy took off. The man had been released from a federal prison in
Oklahoma just a week before. He was 57 years old and I guess he didn’t plan to
go back. So a few days after Christmas, with a bottle of whiskey and a gun in
his truck he took off for the top of the world with the law on his tail as he searched
a final, certain end.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk2pCZaAOSOCdmZfPsGAMGDuDDPXe54d7g8oFBx9WLb9U8xyVES6oChbMF4TUYA326yY39kHkb8giWKE_6ipIX10qkNes65d40wkuFSSU6ZxHlXn1AdUT2CFHop5hBbS5bJ_RdMiOcqsOQ/s1600/Gunman+covered.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk2pCZaAOSOCdmZfPsGAMGDuDDPXe54d7g8oFBx9WLb9U8xyVES6oChbMF4TUYA326yY39kHkb8giWKE_6ipIX10qkNes65d40wkuFSSU6ZxHlXn1AdUT2CFHop5hBbS5bJ_RdMiOcqsOQ/s320/Gunman+covered.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">No innocent people were hurt. We got our story. And maybe
someone out there remembered something about a guy they once knew. A guy who
took a wrong turn back there a long time ago before winding up there, in front
of my camera on the bloody red ground.</span></div>
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<b>How I Met The Man Who Killed The King Of Rock And Roll</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">It was November 1965. I was a sophomore at Memphis
State living in the North Hall dormitory and playing in a new band called “Me
and the Rest”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">One morning I woke up and noticed a pain in my
lower right leg that ran up the inside of my thigh. It hurt but it wasn’t bad
enough at the time to even cause a limp, so I ignored it, got dressed and went
to class.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">As the morning wore on and the pain and swelling
in my leg increased, I began to run a fever. By the early afternoon I was
really out of it but the band had to play that night on campus for a sorority
dance. It was an important commitment that had to be honored. I gave it my best
shot. I remember beginning the first set and that’s about it. I was sitting
behind the organ so, when I collapsed, I guess I didn’t fall too far. Someone
took me back to the dorm and put me to bed. When I awoke the next morning I
remember feeling pretty bad and thinking a shower might help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB-xpyCj8IQKaWWF1Uats-fNuu-S0x8n_cYOApFVFBuSCoMAMFDqQ5TzjNXRWxPA7qd4-xK81z2yvaovJpas4upShnRRKq0MAxA7eRUPUeeJ7e71137V0ve1NUL35MZYj91AaJoeDxc-b1/s1600/ME+AND+THE+REST+1966+with+graphic.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB-xpyCj8IQKaWWF1Uats-fNuu-S0x8n_cYOApFVFBuSCoMAMFDqQ5TzjNXRWxPA7qd4-xK81z2yvaovJpas4upShnRRKq0MAxA7eRUPUeeJ7e71137V0ve1NUL35MZYj91AaJoeDxc-b1/s200/ME+AND+THE+REST+1966+with+graphic.JPG" width="160" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">I didn’t really pass out, because I can remember
being in the hot shower and falling, and then being on my back, and people
yelling, but I hit the floor pretty hard anyway. The brunt of the fall had been
taken by my right elbow, sustaining a rather large gash. I rolled onto my back,
draping my arm across my body, where the bleeding wound came to rest above my
neck and chest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Even though I was covered with blood, and the
first person to find me on the shower room floor thought I had attempted
suicide, no one called an ambulance. 911
didn’t exist back then and it seemed like people didn’t get as excited as we do
today. They just took care of things themselves and once they hosed the blood
off, I didn’t look so bad anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">A local doctor stitched up the elbow and said I
should see a blood specialist about the swelling in my leg. He was worried it
might be a blood clot or blood poisoning because a nasty looking lump was
beginning to form.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">My grandmother insisted that I see her doctor who
was treating her for a blood problem. His name was<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Dr. Plitman and he saw me right away at the
university hospital where he was teaching.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkxSrr1axty-sgD83X2U82kyghJEVPX1J98hsWW4gsj9epAUtIRe7IgsaxxmC3jR75Fl4GaAcnyJSGOsUUsdAECu7hGFWoqHPgxt3NnYNxbot8xbMelEpjgzbRd2puBwsz0AmDt7uFmDof/s1600/Scanned+Image+110160049.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkxSrr1axty-sgD83X2U82kyghJEVPX1J98hsWW4gsj9epAUtIRe7IgsaxxmC3jR75Fl4GaAcnyJSGOsUUsdAECu7hGFWoqHPgxt3NnYNxbot8xbMelEpjgzbRd2puBwsz0AmDt7uFmDof/s200/Scanned+Image+110160049.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">After a brief examination he asked if he might
show my Brown Recluse Spider bite to his class. That’s really the first time
I’d heard it was a spider bite. He told them this was a classic example of this
spider’s venom. “The tissue near the bite will die and slough off”, he said.
That “sloughing off” part didn’t sound too good especially when he added I’d be
in the hospital for a few days. They made an incision in the bite area and left it open to drain. It had to heal from the inside out and that took a while. On the first visit to Dr. Plitman after I got out of the hospital, I was redirected instead to his partner, Dr. George Nichopoulos</span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> who became my doctor from that point on. Everyone who knew him called him Doctor Nic. That's how I spelled it. Later the newspapers said it was Dr. Nick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Doctor Nic was a great guy, very upbeat and
positive. I don’t have anything bad to say about him. He seemed very
conscientious, caring and knowledgeable. He was concerned I had gained too much
weight over the previous year (it’s called “the freshman spread”) and thought I
should drop a few pounds. I said I had trouble sticking to a diet and he
offered some sample diet pills for me to try. They were </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Obedrin-LA, <i>Metamfetamine</i>
<i>hydrochloride</i></span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">,
sometimes called Speckled birds, Strawberries or LA Turn-a-rounds (because you
could drive to LA and back without a rest, I guess). It was a very strong
amphetamine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Now you have to understand, I had just turned 19.
I had only been playing rock and roll for a matter of months and the musicians
I had been exposed to were fraternity guys who’s only recreational drug was
alcohol, which I had never even tasted until the previous New Year’s Eve. I
didn’t know a soul who was smoking weed, and wouldn’t for a couple of years.
The terms “acid” and “hippy” hadn’t even been invented yet, and here was this
nice doctor offering me free diet pills. The truth is, I didn’t know what a
diet pill was but I did want to lose some weight, and thought they might help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The label said: Take 1 pill with a glass of water
before meals, so I started with breakfast. I assumed the water expanded the
pill in my stomach and made me feel full. And that’s the truth. It’s hard to
believe I was so naive. They helped with the diet all right, but it wasn’t
because I felt full. It was because I was electric!!!! Man, I was wired! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">I began
to take notes in classes I’d slept through just the day before. I practiced
keyboards for hours and hours, late into the night. Within a day or two I
realized the pills were responsible for my newfound focus and I wanted more of
them. Doctor Nic was a good source for a while but as my needs grew I had to
find other doctors who were willing to help out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">As I got more into the Memphis music scene playing
bars and nightclubs, I found, while alcohol was a necessary lubricant for the
blues, musicians stoked their creative fires with the pills they were always borrowing
from each other for that night’s gig. They didn’t cost much and someone in the
band always had some. Except for the low cost, it was very much like the high
so many musicians would be chasing with cocaine in 3 or 4 years. It was also
common to swap the names of friendly doctors with each other. Office calls were
ten to twenty dollars and I paid with cash. At one time I was seeing several
different doctors and keeping careful notes about what I weighed on each visit.
On some occasions I wore boots with weights in them and removed a little of the
weight each time I went in for a refill so I could show some progress. I
needn’t have bothered. This wasn’t illegal. Nobody thought of these diet pills
as drugs. “Drugs” were what people thought the black musicians did, and that
could include anything from reefer, to cocaine, to heroin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">These were just “pills”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Pills that I used to fuel a high-energy lifestyle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">1) Go to class from 9am-1pm,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2) Work in a factory rebuilding carburetors until
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">4) Play in a band at Little Abner’s Night Club
until 3am,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">5) Jam with musicians at the Manhattan Club until
5am,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Then start all over again… Seriously.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkOCMt7UCvHq8KuYaQuch9me_aImZuhO3XVOHeJLl2UOmlt-tCOIJOQR85wDqMOey2vHbgI7faijXPekc-UvvlEaTH_NHYYNkdeVMtmvi1k6CJ0Qndd3ox2CBrpuDs3wglBoxpL0by9drH/s1600/IMG_1702.JPG.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkOCMt7UCvHq8KuYaQuch9me_aImZuhO3XVOHeJLl2UOmlt-tCOIJOQR85wDqMOey2vHbgI7faijXPekc-UvvlEaTH_NHYYNkdeVMtmvi1k6CJ0Qndd3ox2CBrpuDs3wglBoxpL0by9drH/s200/IMG_1702.JPG.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">I became a patient of Dr. Nic a couple of years before Elvis Presley did. But when a “buzzed” Elvis said he wanted more pills, I
doubt he had to beat around the bush. Doctor Nic just gave him what he wanted.
Getting what you want is, of course, often a bad thing, as it proved to be for
Elvis. I guess my wants just weren’t as strong. While my love affair with “crank”
went on for a while, allowing me to get a lot done during that time, I never
fell totally under its control. I always saw it as more of a tool. Speed, weed
and alcohol, administered in the proper balance, helped me create some very
good music. However I could see what long term use had done to others and
finally, one day said, I’m just not doing this anymore. And that was pretty
much the end of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Clearly, I’m the better for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiar0NvrYwg9mziPrLC5W29jG9m2gJ9cIOuNSAKBDhl29eqmzXNJRxeI63QUnvyecEcY05nzPJKkqr6G-80q-CM93kwWUWj9OVgzWvpNOcR80t3FgevSw_GiHgRfY-m8U2FVDVXcJd81Ios/s1600/IMG_1685.JPG.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiar0NvrYwg9mziPrLC5W29jG9m2gJ9cIOuNSAKBDhl29eqmzXNJRxeI63QUnvyecEcY05nzPJKkqr6G-80q-CM93kwWUWj9OVgzWvpNOcR80t3FgevSw_GiHgRfY-m8U2FVDVXcJd81Ios/s200/IMG_1685.JPG.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">I still don’t think Dr. Nichopoulos was a bad guy;
at least he wasn’t at first. But as he got more involved with Elvis, and the
drug levels got higher and more and more out of control, he must have known
this was coming to a bad end. I suppose he just wanted to be friends with
Elvis. Instead Doctor Nic will always be known as the man who killed the King
Of Rock And Roll.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">And that’s how I met him.<span style="font-size: 21px;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">WHEN
YOU'RE IN NEW YORK</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms";"> Sometime late in the 1980s there was a big news story in New
York; a young police officer, recently a new father, was shot down and paralyzed by
a gang member. He was coming to Denver’s Craig Hospital to receive special
treatment to help him adapt to his new condition. Mostly because it was such
big news in New York, it became of interest to the Colorado media as well. A
news conference was planned for the afternoon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ6_pXg80v8vT5loEoR2yETGXARBMir8qpmCw2vyfXkENrzV1EQsMdsV6gFgh3CJ1ho-imBqwhFhM20-VMu2cJtUXpEsCvjGATTeHqVUjAWRnFDh3euCNR4MWtb4o0405TnxVmDs0lGa-8/s1600/Statue+of+Liberty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ6_pXg80v8vT5loEoR2yETGXARBMir8qpmCw2vyfXkENrzV1EQsMdsV6gFgh3CJ1ho-imBqwhFhM20-VMu2cJtUXpEsCvjGATTeHqVUjAWRnFDh3euCNR4MWtb4o0405TnxVmDs0lGa-8/s320/Statue+of+Liberty.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "comicsansms";">I got there early and found a New York TV crew of 5 in the
hospital gym with their lights and microphone cords taped securely to the
floor. They had set up about 20 feet back from the center of a long folding
table with a microphone on it. Clearly they expected the patient to sit at that
table. Attached to the mic was a huge sign with their station call letters on
it. As the other local stations arrived they noticed the same problem that had
caught my attention.</span><span style="font-family: "comicsansms";"> </span><span style="font-family: "comicsansms";">I remember, in particular, Dave Stevens was there beside me eyeing the New York crew.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comicsansms";">At that time Denver was a great place to work in the TV
news business. There was a mutual respect here shared by all of the people who
worked reporting and photographing the news. Over time the custom evolved to
not use “flags” (sometimes called “bugs” - the colorful station logos attached
to microphones) because, we all agreed, they cluttered up the picture and in
other markets had evolved to even larger and gaudier flags. I tried to explain
our local tradition to the New Yorkers. “We don’t use flags here in Denver,” I
said. “Well we do. And when you’re in New York you can use yours too.” All five
of them broke out in laughter. I smiled but said nothing more as I set up my
gear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms";">About 2 minutes before the news conference was scheduled to start,
I picked up my camera and tripod and moved 10 feet closer to the table. The
other local stations did the same. “Hey you can’t do that. We were here first,”
the big city crew stormed. “Well, here in Denver we obviously set up a little
closer than you do in New York. But while you’re here, you can still set up
back there if you want to,” I replied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms";">While they were fuming, and demanding we move back to their line,
all of the local stations noticed the patient being wheeled in from the far
corner of the large gym. In an instant all three photographers were off their
tri-pods, hand holding their cameras and using portable lights and shot gun
microphones. None of us wanted boring video of that guy telling his story sitting
behind a table. The story was about his mobility or lack of it. His best
remarks and certainly the best video were gathered while we were moving along
together as a group. The New York crew had no portable light and was completely
taped down to the floor. Even so, it was amazing how fast 5 people could scurry
about when they had a common goal. By the time they were able to free
themselves the wheelchair had reached the end of the table and paused there. They
had missed it all, and now that the procession had stopped, they were out of
position as all three local stations continued with their questions. This
effectively shut out the New York crew who tried as best they could to shoot
over our heads or from the side. They were trying to arrange a second interview
with the injured police officer as we all packed up and left. Their wide shot must have looked
very lonely in that large, empty gym... b</span><span style="font-family: "comicsansms";">ut maybe that’s how they do it in New York.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>THE JET CAR CRASH</b></span><b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms";">There had been showers that morning and the sky was still a dull
gray when I arrived at the Dallas International Motor Speedway. I was working
part time for KTTV Channel 11 in Ft. Worth and had been assigned to shoot Art
Arfons’ 280-mph jet-powered dragster as it tried to better the world quarter
mile land speed record. His new two seat “Super Cyclops” was scheduled to make
3 runs, the first with passenger Gene Thomas, a reporter from WFAA Channel 8,
who was doing a feature story on the event.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gene Thomas 2nd from left and<br />
Jack Smith with camera on Right</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms";">I’m not much of a car guy and had never been to a drag strip
before, much less seen a jet car, but it was clear when I got there the WFAA-TV
crew was getting what I saw as special treatment. No one was scheduled to make
that second ride with Arfons so I saw no reason why it shouldn’t be me. To say I made a pest of myself would be
putting it mildly. I ranted about the unfairness of letting my competition to
do something I wasn’t allowed to do. The track officials were unrelenting.
There was no way they were going to allow me to take that ride but I believe my
protests encouraged them to loosen up on the rules restricting where I could
shoot from. I overheard one official say to let me go anywhere I wanted if it
would shut me up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms";">Besides WFAA, there was one other station represented there. John
Jenkins of Ch 4 was shooting from the tower near the start line. When I later
saw his film of the crash the picture appeared to have been shot on a tripod
with a long lens and had much better detail than I got with my 16mm hand held
Bell and Howell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms";">Channel 11 had only a 15-minute newscast back then so I didn’t
plan to shoot much film but what I did shoot I would try to edit in the camera.
It’s hard to believe but I was expected to get 3 voice over stories on a 100-foot
roll of film that would run out in about 3 minutes. I got a couple of shots of
the car being prepared and saved the rest of the film for the 1st run. I
planned to move down to the finish line for the 2nd.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms";">Whether using a still or movie camera, the true art of news
photography is not necessarily shooting the picture itself but anticipating
what’s going to happen and putting yourself in a position to get that
picture. I moved to a spot near the start line behind a guardrail
about 40 feet from the path of the car on the passenger side. I might not get
my ride but at least I’d have a nice wide-angle full screen shot of the car as
it went by. The car was about 50 feet behind the start line when the jet roared
to life. Using short blasts the car slowly moved up to the timing lights. I’d
never heard anything like it. Each time Arfons hit the throttle the force from
the jet felt like a punch in the chest. I lifted my left arm to shield my ear
as much as possible and noticed the track official I’d had words with earlier
laughing with his buddies at my predicament. In spite of the blasts, if I’d had thoughts of moving
before, they were gone now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms";">When the car finally reached the line I pressed the shutter
release. The ground was shaking and the sound was painful but even after
hearing the incredible roar from the roll up I wasn’t prepared when the Super
Cyclops blasted into that quarter mile run. It parted my hair! The first
thought in my mind was there’s no way I’d get in that car… My God, it could go
straight up as easily as forward. I stayed with the shot, following the jet
down the asphalt for the 6.01 seconds it took to approach a bridge running over
the track at the finish line. Suddenly there was the blue smoke of skidding
rubber tires and wreckage flying everywhere and then farther down the strip a
column of smoke. I never hesitated. Jumping the guardrail, I ran toward the
crash.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms";">As I got nearer I saw a man crying and asked if he was OK. He
couldn’t speak but gestured to a pile of debris down the track. As I ran closer
I began to see it was a human torso scattered among several other body parts.
After reaching a little over 183 MPH the dragster had blown a tire, spun 180
degrees and slammed through the guardrail on the passinger side, killing Thomas, then striking a track
worker with such force that it propelled him into another worker killing them both. The carnage was overwhelming but I shot the scene as best as I could
leaving out the grim details I knew would never be aired anyway. I had shot all
100 feet of film but had another tin in my pocket as I and a young still
photographer started to run the several hundred feet farther down the track to
where the burning jet car had come to rest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms";">As we ran a car pulled in front of us blocking our way and several
large security guys jumped out and backed us into a retaining wall. One of the
men demanded that we give him our cameras and to my surprise the young
photographer complied. The man immediately opened the back and pulled out the
film exposing it to the light. Although I was out of film I had pretended to
shoot them as soon as they got out of the car and was still doing so when he
turned to me. The Bell and Howell with it’s handy little leather strap made a pretty good club as I backed up against the wall and raised it
above my head. “I’m dropping the first guy that touches me”, I warned. I wasn’t
the biggest guy in that group but I sure wasn’t the littlest either. I was
going to be a lot more trouble than that young guy with the still camera. They
didn’t come any closer and I agreed to stop taking pictures of them as more
people arrived on the scene to see what was going on. A truce of sorts was
worked out when one of them contacted the control tower about the situation. He
talked in front of me on the radio to a supervisor who told them not to touch
me or the camera and politely asked me to return to the tower with them. I
agreed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms";">In the office I was met by Malcolm Landess who was working part
time at WFAA and freelancing as PR for the track. There were several other
people in the room who seemed to be speedway officials. They didn’t demand the
film but wanted to talk to my boss at Channel 11 and I gave them the number. I
heard the conversation as they threatened to sue the station if we showed
anything inappropriate. After several minutes they handed the phone to me and I
was instructed to get back to the station with the film as quick as possible. It
aired that night and the station never was sued.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms";">Not long after the crash I was filming an interview with Harry
Reasoner, then of ABC, at the Dallas Press Club when I ran into Travis Lynn,
the news director at WFAA-TV. I’d been making the rounds of all the TV stations
that summer trying to move up the news ladder, so Travis knew who I was. He
complimented my work on the jet car crash and offered me a job at channel 8; this after telling me just a few weeks earlier that I needed more experience.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comicsansms";">I
worked at WFAA for the next three years, often with Malcolm Landess who I met that day at the track
office. He was soon employed full time as a reporter by Ch 8 as well. A few years later we worked together again at KBTV/KUSA in Denver where he was known as Mike Landess. He's now an anchorman at
KMGH in Denver.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms";">So that’s how it happened, my first TV news job in a major market.
Although I took his picture, I never met Gene Thomas but his career ended the
day that mine began. Life and death are so strange and sad. In the news business you’re
confronted with that time and again. The strangeness and the sadness just become part of the story.</span><b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS-Bold; font-size: 17pt;">How Clint Eastwood Made My Day<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;">Sun Valley Idaho was a beautiful place. I’d never been there
before and was looking forward to shooting the </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16pt;">1990 Duchin Cup celebrity ski weekend</span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;"> at the snow covered mountain resort.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 21px;">Several movie stars had come to this long time mountain playground for the annual event, among them Adam West, Michael Keaton and Clint Eastwood. </span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;">I was about to receive a lesson there I would never forget, about
celebrity and how different people handle it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;">I noticed on
the first night, at a cocktail party, Keaton had some kind of problem with
having his picture taken. Every time I turned on the camera, he turned his
back. The producer asked me to get the shots but Keaton was having none of it.
Maybe he was just having a bad week but why would he come to an event like this
if he didn’t want his picture taken? It was a <u>celebrity</u> ski race, after
all. Well, the looks he gave me could have killed but the rest of the stars
were great. I was careful not to crowd anyone and the guests were gracious and
outgoing. And except for Michael Keaton, the night went well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;">I’ve
photographed hundreds of celebrities over the years but, without a doubt, I met
my favorite on my very first TV interview. In 1971 KTVT Channel 11 in Ft.
Worth, Texas gave me my first genuine TV news job. An independent station,
Channel 11 carried only two 15-minute newscasts 5 days a week. As you can
imagine, the staff was very small requiring each of us to take on more than one
responsibility. That’s how I became a reporter/photographer. Now you might say
that has a nice ring to it, reporter slash photographer, and I thought so too
at the time. This was a great opportunity for a young man with virtually no
experience in the news business to extend himself a bit. But there was another
factor I didn’t consider. As a reporter I was expected to wear a coat and tie,
keep my hair combed and take notes. As a photographer I was responsible for
carrying in and setting up more than 100 pounds of camera equipment before
doing the interview. As reporter/photographer, I did it all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;">After a few
days of training I was sent out to do my first solo reporter/photographer
interview with a young star in town who was promoting his new movie, “Play
Misty For Me”. </span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;">In 1971, Clint
Eastwood had a big following from the TV series “Rawhide” and from Sergio
Leone’s series of spaghetti westerns, “A Fistful Of Dollars”, For A Few Dollars
More” and “The Good The Bad And The Ugly” but nothing like the fame that would
come later with movies like “Dirty Harry” and “Unforgiven”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;">It was a long
way from the parking lot to the hotel room where the interview was scheduled.
My coat and tie quickly wilted in the humid Texas heat as I struggled with the
sound camera, the b-roll camera, the amplifier, microphones, tripod and lights.
There was no time to make two trips. I carried it all. </span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;">By the time I
got to the room I was a mess. Sweating from head to toe and loaded down with
all that gear, I must have looked like a high tech street person. I knocked on
the door expecting to see a manager or agent, but was surprised to be greeted
by Clint himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;">He glanced past
me, looking up and down the hall, for the reporter I suppose, and then turning
back to me asked, “Are you it?” “I’m it.” I said with a sigh, relieved at the
prospect of setting all that equipment down. “Well, come on in”, he said,
opening the door wider. </span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;">Guessing I was
new at this, he took the lights from me and began setting them up. At the time
it didn’t seem unusual, but now, after 30 years in the business, I realize how
rare this gesture was. Stars never, I say never, help set up the gear! No
matter how late, how early, how rested or how tired...stars never set up the
gear! If the words aren’t written in their contract, they’re certainly embedded
in their soul...Talent Don’t Tote! </span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;">Mr. Eastwood
was a welcome exception. Not only was he knowledgeable and helpful with the
gear, but also he made for me, what could have been a horrible first interview,
a stress free experience. I was scared to death and he knew it. I asked him
only one question, “Why are you in town?” He did all the talking from there on.
I had a 100-foot roll of film in the camera that would last 3 minutes but I
never had to ask another question. I got a great interview, and of course, help
taking down the gear. I’m sure he would have carried it to the car if I’d
asked.</span></div>
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later, while working for KUSA in Denver, I was covering a celebrity ski race in
Vail, Colorado. Clint Eastwood, now a huge box office attraction and closely
identified with his on-screen-character, Dirty Harry, was a contestant at the
event. I was shooting a lighthearted feature about the weekend when he came
through the finish line. He skied right up to me and I asked if he would say,
“Make my day.” He smiled, leaned back, and in perfect character recited his
most famous line. What a guy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;">Now, back to
beautiful Sun Valley and the irrepressible Michael Keaton. </span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;">Sunday, the
final day of the celebrity event, finished with a ski race. The several
celebrities in attendance had been paired up for maximum entertainment effect,
the most obvious being Adam West and Michael Keaton ... </span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;">The old
against, at that time, new Batman. </span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;">Assigned to the
starting gates, I’d shot several races already when the two Batmen showed up.
Adam West was nearest and the first to respond to questions on camera. West was
charming and witty. The interview was very much like what you’d see on
Entertainment Tonight. Very light with lots of references to the old Batman TV
series. Then the camera moved over to Mr. Keaton who was staring ahead rather
stoically. </span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;">“And what does
the </span><u style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;">new</u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;"> Batman think of this match up?” asked the reporter smiling. Keaton,
without turning his head snarled, “Can’t you see, I’ve got my game face on”?
The reporter, somewhat shaken tried to laugh it off. “So you’re taking this
race pretty serious then?” </span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;">Without missing
a beat Keaton turned, looking directly into the camera, and said, “Fuck off!”
There wasn’t much more to be said about that, so the reporter backed away and
they started the race, the much younger Keaton storming into the lead. I
remember staying with the shot as long as possible hoping, just hoping, he’d
catch an edge, take a header, and plunge that smug face into the snow. Shooting
that would certainly have made </span><u style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;">my</u><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;"> day.</span></div>
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pairings of a long day finally moved to the starting line but there was a hold
on the course while some gates, knocked down by the previous racers, were
replaced. </span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;">They had saved
the best for last. Client Eastwood and some other guy, whose name I don’t
remember, waited at the top for the course to reopen. I spoke to Clint for the
first time that weekend. “You know, I’ve shot you several times over the
years,” only a slight exaggeration, “In fact, the first was 19 years ago this
month.” I went on to tell him about our first meeting in Dallas and how much I
appreciated his help. He laughed. “Yeah, I do remember that interview but I
can’t believe it was 19 years ago. I guess we’ve all learned a lot since then.”</span></div>
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let him slide all of the way out of the picture in case his form was weak. But
I needn’t have worried. He looked great all the way through the course. </span><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: 16pt;">As for the
other guy?…..I haven’t seen a Michael Keaton movie since.</span></div>
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