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Post by hoofyflipflops on Aug 26, 2023 5:36:11 GMT
That poat must have been removed? Libelous. Still there
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Post by braindead on Aug 26, 2023 8:10:08 GMT
"Well he was, I met Mike around 1980ish... We had the same er dealer, the most popular Englishman in Sherman Oaks.. I got to hang & throw darts and toot the powder with the big boys, they were a different world, their music,, Mike CSN, Devo, all the customers, one night, kind of the night I met Mike, I was 19 or 20, already in a troubled dysfunctional marriage, she was steppin out on me, & I was hurt and angry, I said what should I do, Mike the Giant man paused to pluck out the darts, & said I know what i'd do.....So I did ! went and kicked in the door where they were having their tryst, to beat the guy up, and unleashed 9 kinds of hell on my life. Dear dad payed a couple attorneys for that, thank you daddy... I mean really by the time No Ho police beat me & explained who was in charge, I didin't much care if I ever saw her again... Thats another long story."
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Post by braindead on Aug 26, 2023 8:11:47 GMT
"Mike died ? God I didn't know oh Jesus, I have calls to make, oh God, big 6ft.7 Mike played hoops at Kansas, oh God. I read something I thought it was someone else oh God. There are often incorrect spellings, I think yours is wrong ..oh God...ty bye"
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Post by streamingservice on Aug 26, 2023 10:17:56 GMT
"Well he was, I met Mike around 1980ish... We had the same er dealer, the most popular Englishman in Sherman Oaks.. I got to hang & throw darts and toot the powder with the big boys, they were a different world, their music,, Mike CSN, Devo, all the customers, one night, kind of the night I met Mike, I was 19 or 20, already in a troubled dysfunctional marriage, she was steppin out on me, & I was hurt and angry, I said what should I do, Mike the Giant man paused to pluck out the darts, & said I know what i'd do.....So I did ! went and kicked in the door where they were having their tryst, to beat the guy up, and unleashed 9 kinds of hell on my life. Dear dad payed a couple attorneys for that, thank you daddy... I mean really by the time No Ho police beat me & explained who was in charge, I didin't much care if I ever saw her again... Thats another long story." More Boomer day dreams
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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Sept 15, 2023 18:15:32 GMT
I think like many people with ambitious plans, Lewisohn had good intentions, initially about the 3 volume set. I think Lewisohn spent that advance money like water, some well earned break time, turned into more & more drinking , worrying, years slipped by. Lewisohn did some additional work, some review on what he already had. But eventually Lewisohn spent most of the money, wasted too much time on a 6 or 8 year hiatus & break. Now I think Lewisohn offers these lectures , seminars, to earn cash for his lifestyle, he essentially needs to turn in volume 2, before he is owed a dime. But as it sits...Lewisohn has say 3-5 years of research & hard work, to turn in a decent volume 2. That's if he works at it 6 days a week to finish it. Without anymore big paydays, until after the 2nd book is finished, edited, printed, packaged & available for sale. Volume 2 more or less-needs to considered as good or better than volume one. Failing that, it needs to be considered, at least a decent follow up to volume one. If it is considered totally inferior, the book publishers might cry foul, canceling the deal, or insisting on more rewrites. If Lewisohn keeps taking somewhat lucrative fees, for lectures & chats, he won't be writing the book. It's a full decade since volume one. No one is even sure Lewisohn has set pen to paper & finished the first ten pages. The man is past 60, blew a lot of money, & is past due on the 2nd volume. I have doubts he will ever finish volume 3. But in my opinion, nose to the grindstone, 6-7 days a week, religiously for 2-3 years. Even 4-5 years if that's what it takes. There is no other way out. He can do it. By turning in a decent volume 2. Once done with volume 2, Lewisohn will earn lots of fresh cash, get lucrative offers for lectures, other projects, possibly even do some preliminary work on volume 3, then beg off due to advancing age, & help find his replacement, or keep going off & on, eventually turning in volume 3, in his 70s. Other than never again earning big, having a sullied reputation, I see no escape for this guy. Unless he works hard daily & turns in volume 2, within the next 2-3 years, or he is through professionally. Book 2 should have been easier, he'd conducted interviews & research for over a decade, before he even started volume 2. Now another 10 years, and still he hasn't even started. I wish I could work really hard nearly everyday, for 2-3 years. Then cash out for a fresh 2 or 3 million, restore my reputation, & do what I want. How do you know all this? Some of it is just my colorful way. But mostly, the majority of what I posted, is well published in the press, & from confidants of the man. He has said quite a bit himself in the press, or public forums. Perhaps you could provide a source as to where Lewisohn or one of his "confidants" has said that he has a drinking problem and blew through piles of money. This is not ok to write. Malicious speculation. I have followed Mark Lewisohn closely through countless interviews and podcasts and have never heard any of what you claim. I would like to know concretely what sources you base your speculations on? Gotta ask; sure you are not just lashing out in a wave of impatience, just like in the Beatles new releases thread? Can i suggest, if this is the case, that you count to 100 before typing? Because what you say here could actually be libel in a legal sense.
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Post by daved on Sept 16, 2023 8:58:36 GMT
Man this guy has to be off his meds. Just rambling like a lunatic.
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Post by sₚⲁᵣₖydₒg on Sept 16, 2023 16:53:58 GMT
I am pretty sure the guy's name might be Lewisohn.
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Post by Brick Wall on Sept 16, 2023 21:40:43 GMT
I thought he was great in Lewisohn Clark
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Post by spicer on Sept 17, 2023 7:42:57 GMT
“…and I said to Lewisohn, ‘why did you buy all those cats then?” No reply, as per usual, but I could see he was getting salty so in my colourful way I said he needed to get off the bus, right there in the middle of Mexia. Lewisohn turned and continued sipping at the bottle of Thunderbird. It’s that typical thing Lewisohn does and I was of a mind to belt him good and hard in that colourful way I have. I didn’t but wished I had when Lewisohn cracked me on the back of the head with the empty Thunderbird bottle as he stumbled down the aisle to the toilet. That thieving limey bastard…”
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Sept 17, 2023 8:02:15 GMT
It takes a special kind of talent to add two and two and come out with a pile of weird, twisted shit.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Sept 17, 2023 8:32:03 GMT
“Of all the Beatards in the world, Johnny Moondog is the Beatardiest…”
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Post by spicer on Sept 17, 2023 11:20:57 GMT
“…then Lewisohn got all salty about the fact I hadn’t gone back to get him that time we sprang from Parchman. ‘Why you wanna do me like that, Johnny? Why you wanna let them drag me back to the hole?’ He was practically crying now, the way Lewisohn does when he’s good and soaked in the port wine. I kept pissing, aiming the flow so it splashed over Lewisohn’s bag, the bag with all his Beatles papers in it. The limey fuck deserved the five he’d done at Parchman. If he’d got on with the job - the one fuckin’ job he’d had - and finished that goddamn second volume we wouldn’t have had to take the bank in Clarksdale. ‘Shut yo pie-hole, Lewisohn’. I wrung my dingus, piss drops falling onto a torn 8 x 10 of Brian and the boys backstage at Shea Stadium. That drunk-ass motherfucker Lewisohn had been the one who’d made me shoot the goddamn guard when he started needling me about the provisional release dates an insider had given me. ‘So why hasn’t the Deluxe Special Edition 9 disc boxset of Beatles Stars on 45 dropped yet, huh?’ Lewisohn had shouted across the foyer. I’d seen the guard smirk and knew he thought I’d just pulled the release date from my ass and there was no actual insider info. ‘You think I’m just making this shit up, fuckface.?’ Before the guard had a chance to reply I’d popped his ass, turning to smile at Lewisohn as the man from Western Union slumped to the ground…”
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Post by sₚⲁᵣₖydₒg on Sept 17, 2023 17:56:42 GMT
It takes a special kind of talent to add two and two and come out with a pile of weird, twisted shit. Johnny brought this to mind.
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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Sept 18, 2023 4:32:13 GMT
For at least a decade, conservatively, at least 60-80 people rudely, cruelly , obnoxiously put me down for saying, I strongly believed Now & Then by the Beatles was on the way. Of course not a peep out of most of those folks now. I supplied all the info I could, who I'd spoken to, what I'd gleaned in the published stories. What I'd gleaned off the record. It didn't matter. They knew better. Of course they didn't, & not one of them has apologized or whatever. Conversely, my remarks about Mark Lewisohn stuck on volume 2, weren't intended to be taken wholly literally. Just generally true, in that a decade has passed, & not much has happened from his end on volume 2. Remarks about drinking Or spending money, were partially rooted in truth, but more tongue in cheek. I have nothing against the guy, & am disappointed, he is so far behind , behind General expectations people had 10 years ago, or even 5 years ago for volume 2. I kind of wish I'd never written that post. Not because it's fiction. Sometimes it's better to just keep quiet. It did bother me frankly, when a number of posters here accused me of mental illness, or lying about Now & Then. As far as the Lewisohn post, believe what you want. I'm not really bothered, I kind of regret airing things, that aren't really my business. He's a big boy, & I'm sure he'll buckle down & finish volume 2 in the next couple years. I'm just as guilty as many people, about speaking or texting somewhat brusque manner, on the internet, where much nuance & meaning don't come across as intended.
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Post by sₚⲁᵣₖydₒg on Sept 18, 2023 5:40:45 GMT
Mentally ill and a cunt. Nice mix.
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