*NEW BOOK* THE RUBY SLIPPERS OF OZ 30 YEARS LATER

Exposing the clandestine and often treacherous underground of movie memorabilia, this Hollywood mystery may be the film industry's most bizarre account of ambition, greed, obsession, and deception.

Something's afoot here as a colorful group of characters are spellbound by the charm and curse of the screen's most indelible and iconic image: The Ruby Slippers of Oz. Updated for the first time in 30 years, with many new revelations, this is a fascinating read for any Oz movie buff and those who love a good mystery.

The Ruby Slippers of Oz Thirty Years Later

MINNESOTA FATS CUSTOM WOOD BAR FROM ISLE OF LAKES MN HOME FOR SALE!

**Does anyone have photos of Fats sitting around this bar?** 

email them to me, please

Stephen Farland emailed me to say that he owns the custom-made wooden bar that belonged to Minnesota Fats from his Isle of Lakes Minnesota home. He has decided to sell this extremely rare and very cool rustic bar. Real wood and it appears to be in fabulous condition since the 1930s (approx).

In case you don't remember or know about Minnesota Fats read his history HERE

Someone stopped him in the crowd and said, "Fats, tell me about Titanic Thompson and Al Capone. " Fat smiled and said, "I knew 'em all and I beat em all"

Inside the back bar where there are the original beet tap and sink are the beer tap cooling coils. As I was cleaning them I heard rattling I thought it would be metal screws but they turned out to be real silver mercury dimes that had been put in there to reduce corrosion. But could have been Fats' way of making the Losers pay for their beer!

Look close at the years, Funny they were never going to be removed as long as Fats was alive and the bar was assembled.

It was only when I started restoring it that I discovered them. Most likely this is the only money that exists that he actually touched!  “His last dimes”! Steve Farland

The pictures were taken the day Steve moved it into his warehouse. We have included a short video of the man who removed it from the Isle of Lakes home.

For more information on purchasing 

this bar email Steve Farland

DETROIT RED WINGS AUCTION JOE LOUIS ARENA MEMORABILIA!

DON'T MISS YOUR CHANCE TO OWN 

A PIECE OF DETROIT HISTORY

The Detroit Red Wings are auctioning off authentic items from historic Joe Louis Arena including Al the Octopus, Red Wings legends locker room stalls, hundreds of unique framed photos, locker room doors and signs and MORE! This exciting online auction starts Saturday, December 9 at 7 a.m.

LEARN MORE

MACHINE GUN'S FAVORITE LUDWIG DRUM SET FOR SALE

Dennis Thompson's FAVORITE drum kit is for sale! The Ludwig White Oyster Marine set is original and in excellent condition considering the man whose style of drumming was to ATTACK.....

Dennis has treated the kit with great care over the years as you can see in the photos taken this past weekend.

Attention Music History Memorabilia Collectors!

Dennis Thompson's Ludwig White Oyster Marine Custom Kit is FOR SALE !!

BRAND: LUDWIG

COLOR: WHITE OYSTER MARINE

SET PIECES:

26X18 Bass Drum

14X6 Chrome Snare

Speed King Bass Drum Pedal

16X16 Floor Tom

18X16 Floor Tom

8X10 Tom

10X9 Tom

14X10 Tom

15X12 Tom

CYMBALS: Zildjian

20" RIDE

18'' CRASH,

15'' CRASH

 2/15'' HI-HAT

 

SET HARDWARE:

 Snare Stand

Hi Hat Stand

3 Cymbal Stands

1 TOM-TOM Stand

1 Drum Seat

1 Bass Drum Pedal

1 Trap Case

4 Drum Cases

EXTRAS:

TRAP CASE

4 FLIGHT CASES

4 ORIGINAL HEADS

1 BROKEN 18'' CRASH CYMBAL

PAIR OF MACHINE GUN'S SIGNED STICKS

T SHIRT FROM MGT'S PRIVATE COLLECTION
1 PAIR OF MGT'S GLOVES/AUTOGRAPHED 

COMPLETE KIT

This kit has shared the stage with PINK FLOYD, STOOGES, ALICE COOPER, BOB SEGER, ERIC BURDON & WAR, and ROD STEWART AND THE SMALL FACES, just to name a few.

SHIPPING HANDLING/INSURANCE TO BE HANDLED BY PURCHASER

TO MAKE AN OFFER 

EMAIL

 MACHINEGUNTHOMPSON@GMAIL.COM

PANDORA TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS

ORDER ONLINE OR PICK UP IN STORE

SCOTT MORGAN GETTING THERE IS HALF THE FUN!

Lot's of autographed merchandise! Original vinyl records LP's and 7 inch EP's too! This Saturday at Gibraltar Trade Center Taylor Michigan! Motor City Music Legends Show and Scott definitely qualifies and has never before sold his private collection of rock memorabilia! Wait till you see the stuff he has saved over the years.

Come out this Saturday at 6pm and meet Scott Morgan in person with Retro: Kimmer (me) and my artist daughter Lesley (Gullacass).

"Talking with some friends after dinner many years ago, Rob Tyner explained how it had been the ambition of every Motor City rock singer of his generation to come as close as possible to the spirit and passion of the R&B and soul stars who surrounded them. Then he looked across the table to Scott Morgan and laughed, "All except this guy," he said. "He just went out there and did it"." (Dave Marsh, 1988).

Scott Morgan at The Michigan State Fair

Scott Morgan was 16-years-old when his first band played to an audience of 13,000 fans, literally stopping the show as the screaming crowd rushed the stage. Growing up in Ann Arbor, a hip college town 40 miles from Detroit, he fronted the Rationals, an Ann Arbor blue eyed soul (green eyes in Scott's case) outfit managed by A-Square Records impresario Jeep Holland.

Their early singles featured assistance from local luminaries like Bob Seger and a blues drummer named Jim Osterberg . A couple of years later, Osterberg was wreaking mayhem all across the U.S.A. as Iggy Pop.

The Rationals' soulful cover of Otis Redding's "Respect" pre-dated Aretha Franklin's by a year, and was picked up for national distribution by Cameo-Parkway. A couple of years later, their single "Guitar Army" neatly encapsulated the explosive ethos of the Motor City and provided a title for MC5 mentor John Sinclair's book of street and prison writings.

Morgan teaming with MC5 guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith, Stooges drummer Scott "Rock Action" Asheton, and Up bassist Gary Rasmussen in the legendary Detroit super group, Sonic's Rendezvous Band. Swimming against the mid-seventies tide of commercial music, the Rendezvous played their uncompromising rock in backwoods dives as well as hip venues like Detroit's Bookies and Ann Arbor's Second Chance.

Scott wrote and sang half of the band's material, including their set-opening energy jolt "Electrophonic Tonic." But that perfect balance of Morgan/Sonic proved impossible to sustain and by the time the band stopped performing, sometime in 1980, they had completed only one vinyl artifact -- a two-sided single of Smith's classic song "City Slang."

For years, tapes of jaw-dropping live shows passed from hand to hand, fan to fan, until Mack Aborn Rhythmic Arts released the live "Sweet Nothing" disc in 1999, a classic recording of the Rendezvous in full flight. (Also in that year, the Rendezvous remnants regrouped with Radio Birdman guitarist Deniz Tek standing in Sonic's spot for a show at the Magic Stick in Detroit. A recording of the set was released on Real O Mind as "Gettin' There is Half the Fun.")