MLT Club Member Chris Weber
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Jung,
You might like this. NASA took this shot in September from a probe called Juno.
This is a shot of Jupiter, or so they say. I think it’s Janitor Joe.
And yeah, I finally noticed most of the posts in this thread are 2 years old.
nasa.gov
Just in Time for Halloween, NASA’s Juno Mission Spots Eerie “Face” on Jupiter - NASA
On Sept. 7, 2023, during its 54th close flyby of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno mission captured this view of an area in the giant planet’s far northern regions called
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People keep saying it’s the last Beatles song. Perhaps it is.
Or not. Surely there are some more unfinished songs somewhere, and technology hasn’t stopped in the meantime.
It sure does sound like John though, doesn’t it? In the vocal, and the song itself.
And maybe the story about it as well.
It’s sad. A sad story.
https://genius.com/John-lennon-now-and-then-lyrics
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One of my all time favorite musicians is Jan Hammer. I found him via Jeff Beck in the ’70s, but he was a Prague prodigy, and later a huge name in jazz rock fusion. First with Mahavishnu Orchestra, and as great as that band was, I really like the Jan Hammer Group that came later too. He has always had a very singular style, so you could tell it was him right away.
In the ’80s he got noticed in America by writing the weekly music for Miami Vice.
Here’s a nice interview with Jan about the show.
This clip is one time he actually got in front of the camera too.
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I didn’t know NASA was cutting back on missions. Here’s a listing of their missions.
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/
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Jürgen,
Seti.org has one of the free newsletters I currently subscribe to. They’re still around.
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Here’s a tool for planning a trip. I wonder if Janitor Joe used it(?).
https://trajbrowser.arc.nasa.gov/traj_browser.php
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Thanks Jung, I was just about to post about Rick Beato’s reaction as well.
He mentions that John is one of the few writers that would have changes with 3 minor chords in a row. I think it sounds very much like a John Lennon song. But the guy who’s not on this at all is George Martin.
I’m glad people like and enjoy this, and it’s interesting…
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Yeah, when I mentioned “It’s sad” above, I had just watched this video. Paul and Ringo don’t seem to be enjoying themselves too much, they just miss John and George.
I know I do.
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I saw A Clockwork Orange once, at university, so I don’t remember him from that; it would have been mid-70s.
But I just looked him up and saw his picture. I remember him for a tv series for a number of episodes called The Mentalist, which was a cop show. He was one of the bad guys. That was around a dozen years ago.
His entry on imdb.com shows a lot of things he was on. Born in Leeds.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000532/
imdb.com
Malcolm McDowell | Actor, Producer, Writer
Known for: Clockwork Orange - Kellopeliappelsiini, Star Trek: Sukupolvet, Aikakone eli mitä Jack Viiltäjälle kuuluu tänään
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Jürgen,
It sounds like you know quite a bit about it. I did know that Hupfeld wrote it, since it’s on my jazz playlist. On that list I wrote that it was written in 1931, 11 years before the movie was released.
I can sympathize with Max Steiner; he wrote the whole rest of the score, and the only song most people remember is one done by someone else.
But as you said, it is a wonderful, timeless song indeed.
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Somehow I missed that you posted this before I posted about Miami Vice.
I liked Jan’s soundtrack better than the show itself.
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That show was a regular when I was growing up. I remember for a long time, I didn’t get the line in that song,
“Gee, our old LaSalle ran great.”
Couldn’t figure out what they were saying, and no web to look it up on.
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Of all the gin joints in the world, she has to show up here.
Casablance is what I wrote on the Profile questionnaire as my favourite movie.
Ilsa was right, that’s as good a version of that song as you’ll find.
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Jürgen,
While that movie is a caricature, of course, I’ve been in places in the middle of nowhere that look like Bob’s Country Bunker, minus the chicken wire and most, but not all, of the beer bottles flying through the air. I live on the blues trail, so I see guys like Matt “Guitar” Murphy, who was in the movie, play where I live. For me, that makes the movie even better.
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I saw Mission: Impossible, It’s this one that I was too young for. It started around 1960 or 61. It was first in Europe and called Danger Man. Secret Agent Man was the American version that came after, around mid-’60s, and that’s the one which had the Johnny Rivers song.
A couple guys in the Brill Building wrote the short theme, then later fleshed it out so Johnny Rivers would have a full song to play.
There are episodes of it on YT and elsewhere.
forbes.com
Songwriter Steve Barri On How 1960s Hit ‘Secret Agent Man’ Came To Be
It started out as a 30-second opening jingle for a CBS summer replacement TV show from Great Britain, and ended up a No. 1 hit song in the U.S.
