RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday FFL

[Rick Archer]

Thanks. Nice montage.

 

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of merudanda
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 12:32 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday FFL

 

  


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer"  wrote:
>
> Today is our 9th birthday. 255,824 posts.

Happy Birthday, FFL and founder Rick!

 
 

 

happy  happy birthday

Fairy Field Life forever

 
 

They stole little Richard for nine years long;

When he came down again his friends were all gone.

They took him lightly back, between the night and morrow;

They thought that he was fast asleep, but he was dead with sorrow.

They have kept him ever since deep within the lake,

On a bed of flag-leaves, watching till he wake.'

 

Poem adapted from the 19th century Anglo-Irish poet Richard Allingham  a
theme stretched back to ancient Persian myths that date from 3000 BC

Happy Awakening shift 

 
 

and Happy Homecoming

 
 

SOON

 

happy  U zee

 

 
 

 

 

happy G zee and happy

Zee Zee

 :D  

hope You like the music and the singing

as well as

the company

 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday FFL

[Bhairitu]

Vaj wrote:
>
> On Sep 6, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
>
>> Rick Archer wrote:
>>>> -Original Message-
>>>> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
>>>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bhairitu
>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 1:39 PM
>>>> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
>>>> Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday FFL
>>>>
>>>> Though the rock group I had in 1967 toured for a week with the Buffalo
>>>> Springfield I didn't get to know Neil that much because he was kind of
>>>> the quiet one in the group and he was also have a little problem with
>>>> his epilepsy flaring up during the tour.  Nice guy though, he came out
>>>> one evening when we played a little extra so that Richie Furay could
>>>> gain some strength (he had the flu) and raved about our band to the
>>>> audience and that we probably become very famous (we didn't).
>>>>
>>>
>>> What was your band. Ever cut an album?
>> The "Magic Fern", a Seattle group.
>
>
> Did you know your posters were selling for over 3000 USD on wolfgangs 
> vault?
No. :)  Unfortunately I don't have one of those California Hall 
posters.  That concert didn't go so well as there was not good 
attendance and was the only time we played in California.   However the 
following Monday I visited the Columbia Records offices in San Francisco 
where we were offered a good contract if we could get out the contract 
with the jerk who screwed a lot of northwest bands including the 
Kingsmen who recorded "Louie, Louie."  I also did a radio interview with 
Tom Donahue on KMPX (I think those were the call letters) that night.

We did a lot of concerts with the Youngbloods.   At the Yardbirds 
concert in Richmond, BC the backdrop caught fire while the Family Tree 
was playing. Fortunately they got it under control.   I don't actually 
see the Magic Fern on the 1979 poster and I was still living in Seattle 
at the time, actively playing music so I would have probably been 
contacted for a band reunion.

Earlier in the summer we played a Trips Festival at the Seattle Center 
and only found out a few years ago that offstage incognito Mick Jagger 
was watching.   At another festival later that summer at the Montlake 
Aquatheater we were introduced by Sonny and Cher who emceed the show.

Also we rented an old mansion on Queen Anne Hill as the band house and 
many folks including the Grateful Dead came to visit.  If you've seen 
the Elvis Seattle World's Fair movie the scene of the fairgrounds and 
Space Needle was taken from the balcony of the house.  We got the 
mansion because the owner wanted to tear it down and put a condo there.  
He figured letting a rock group rent it would get the neighbors up in 
arms and he could get his condo.  He did.  :)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday FFL

[Vaj]

On Sep 6, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Bhairitu wrote:


Rick Archer wrote:

-Original Message-
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
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Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 1:39 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday FFL

Though the rock group I had in 1967 toured for a week with the  
Buffalo
Springfield I didn't get to know Neil that much because he was  
kind of
the quiet one in the group and he was also have a little problem  
with
his epilepsy flaring up during the tour.  Nice guy though, he  
came out

one evening when we played a little extra so that Richie Furay could
gain some strength (he had the flu) and raved about our band to the
audience and that we probably become very famous (we didn't).



What was your band. Ever cut an album?

The "Magic Fern", a Seattle group.



Did you know your posters were selling for over 3000 USD on wolfgangs  
vault?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday FFL

[Bhairitu]

Rick Archer wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bhairitu
>> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 1:39 PM
>> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday FFL
>>
>> Though the rock group I had in 1967 toured for a week with the Buffalo
>> Springfield I didn't get to know Neil that much because he was kind of
>> the quiet one in the group and he was also have a little problem with
>> his epilepsy flaring up during the tour.  Nice guy though, he came out
>> one evening when we played a little extra so that Richie Furay could
>> gain some strength (he had the flu) and raved about our band to the
>> audience and that we probably become very famous (we didn't).
>> 
>
> What was your band. Ever cut an album?
The "Magic Fern", a Seattle group.  We did some recordings and there was 
an album released some years after the band broke up (which took place 
in 1968). However these were rushed studio recordings which were demos 
to sell the group to other record companies.  Some of our more 
innovative work was not on that album.  Our signature piece was a long 
almost 8 to 10 minute modal blues which when the Springfield heard it 
decided to try the same thing in their next set.  :)



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RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday FFL

[Rick Archer]

> -Original Message-
> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bhairitu
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 1:39 PM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday FFL
> 
> Though the rock group I had in 1967 toured for a week with the Buffalo
> Springfield I didn't get to know Neil that much because he was kind of
> the quiet one in the group and he was also have a little problem with
> his epilepsy flaring up during the tour.  Nice guy though, he came out
> one evening when we played a little extra so that Richie Furay could
> gain some strength (he had the flu) and raved about our band to the
> audience and that we probably become very famous (we didn't).

What was your band. Ever cut an album?
 

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday FFL

[Vaj]

On Sep 5, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Bhairitu wrote:


Showtime showed the Neil Young "Heart of Gold" movie last night in HD.
I never got around to renting the DVD but this was a real treat and a
fine film by Jonathan Demme. Neil definitely has a very interesting
style of composition that stood out from the rest of the Buffalo
Springfield compositions and probably the basis for much of the
harmonies used by CSN&Y. It's like he's more of a poet painting scenes
with kinesthetic images and setting them to music with a broad  
pastoral

brush of deferent harmonic devices not usually found in blues or rock
but in symphonic and jazz works. Sounded great on my Klipsch speakers.



I actually just watched that last night. What an excellent concert!  
This was right after Neil had been operated on for a cerebral  
aneurism. It really caused him to rethink his life and write some  
great songs, as he wasn't sure if he'd live or die. Those songs make  
up the first half of the concert set. It was also cool to see Grant  
Boatright (the guy who looks like Custer) and some of his old friends  
all together.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday FFL

[Bhairitu]

Rick Archer wrote:
> I met a private pilot the other day who has flown lots of rock stars. Kiss,
> Aerosmith, Moody Blues, Whitney Houston, etc. These days he’s flying Arab
> Shieks around Europe, and living in FF during his down time. He once flew
> Neil Young from Chicago to Santa Fe, along with Neil’s son who’s a
> quadaplegic. He said he earned Neil’s respect by being aware that he was a
> model train buff, a hobby he had picked up because it was something he could
> do with his son. Neil has built an elaborate model train set in his
> basement, and his son can control the trains by sucking or blowing on a
> straw-like device, similar to that which controls some wheelchairs.
Though the rock group I had in 1967 toured for a week with the Buffalo 
Springfield I didn't get to know Neil that much because he was kind of 
the quiet one in the group and he was also have a little problem with 
his epilepsy flaring up during the tour.  Nice guy though, he came out 
one evening when we played a little extra so that Richie Furay could 
gain some strength (he had the flu) and raved about our band to the 
audience and that we probably become very famous (we didn't).



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RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday FFL

[Rick Archer]

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of TurquoiseB
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 1:53 AM
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Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday FFL

 

Wandering down to the lakefront, Graham discovered
that Neil Young had set up one set of huge concert-
style loudspeakers in one wall of the house, and
another set in the barn. There was music booming
through the speakers and Neil was out in the middle
of the lake on a little floating platform there, 
shouting back to the sound technicians through a
bullhorn as they tried to get the right stereo 
balance out of the system, "More barn!" :-)

I met a private pilot the other day who has flown lots of rock stars. Kiss,
Aerosmith, Moody Blues, Whitney Houston, etc. These days he’s flying Arab
Shieks around Europe, and living in FF during his down time. He once flew
Neil Young from Chicago to Santa Fe, along with Neil’s son who’s a
quadaplegic. He said he earned Neil’s respect by being aware that he was a
model train buff, a hobby he had picked up because it was something he could
do with his son. Neil has built an elaborate model train set in his
basement, and his son can control the trains by sucking or blowing on a
straw-like device, similar to that which controls some wheelchairs.


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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday FFL

[Bhairitu]

TurquoiseB wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> Today is FFL's 6th birthday. See
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/messages/1?l=1
>> 
>
> Happy Birthday, FFL.
>
> Still reading it...just haven't found anything 
> interesting enough to respond to compared to
> my new apartment and new beach town. It's just 
> a zoo. But the good kind of zoo. :-)
Congrats on your new abode.  Let's hope Sue Nami doesn't pay a visit.

If you get around to unpacking and setting up your HD set instead of 
watching sex on the beach then here are a couple interesting little 
films to look for:

"Confess" which is about a guy who uses guerrilla video posted online to 
fall people.  This script was written in 1999 way before YouTube was 
around and the director laments he didn't just take the web site idea 
and implement.  Of course YouTube was simply spun out of the fact that 
Adobe Flash available on most computers for free and that broadband is 
more prevalent.   This film also stars Ali Larter (Heroes) who did the 
small film because she was interested in doing more independent film 
projects.

"Unholy" with Adrienne Barbeau which is sort of a trippy horror film 
about supernatural Nazi technology that the US developed after the war.  
I was kind of interested where the film makers got the idea but so far 
the commentary shows that they just wrote what they thought was a wild 
and crazy film and even joke to the audience if the can figure out what 
it means to contact them because they don't know what it means.  :)

Showtime showed the Neil Young "Heart of Gold" movie last night in HD.  
I never got around to renting the DVD but this was a real treat and a 
fine film by Jonathan Demme.  Neil definitely has a very interesting 
style of composition that stood out from the rest of the Buffalo 
Springfield compositions and probably the basis for much of the 
harmonies used by CSN&Y.  It's like he's more of a poet painting scenes 
with kinesthetic images and setting them to music with a broad pastoral 
brush of deferent harmonic devices not usually found in blues or rock 
but in symphonic and jazz works.  Sounded great on my Klipsch speakers.

And also Happy Birthday FFL!

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday FFL

[Rick Archer]

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of curtisdeltablues
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 12:57 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday FFL

 

So many "good ideas" rise and fall quickly on the Web. You must be
doing something right to keep this rolling this long. Thanks Rick.

I don’t feel like I’ve done much, except perhaps set an “anything goes” sort
of tone. If FFL is successful, it’s because of the caliber of its
participants.

 


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