SCOTT MORGAN'S MUSIC AND GARY GRIMSHAW'S ART

See Scott play live November 26, 2011 at Corktown!

THREE CHORDS AND A CLOUD OF DUST.....
Scott Morgan Official Website
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Sonic's Rendezvous Band on Myspace
Sonic's Rendezvous Band

Gary Grimshaw Official Art Web Site

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DENIZ TEK!

Deniz Tek

Deniz is in Australia and their time is ahead so though this story is November 9 here is is the 10th there... Thanks to Mark Sisto for the assist tonight!

My tribute to The Only and Only Deniz Tek!

Happy Birthday to my pal Deniz Tek. What a guy and and I ever happy to have met him. We have worked together going on 2 years now and what an experience... What a musical education along with all the very exciting stories he tells me about life as a Navy Flight Surgeon and more.... Deniz just finished an art showing at Hand Of Law Gallery and sat in with his great friend Penny Ikinger too. For now I am sharing some videos of Deniz that I had a lot to do with getting produced...

This little video is from my first meeting with Deniz at a rehearsal studio/warehouse in Ann Arbor and what a lucky girl to be sitting in a chair with my camera! Al King on Drums/Chris Taylor Bass/ Scott Morgan guitar and vocals/Deniz Tek...

Eric Pouille (Holy Curse) singing "New Race" impromptu at The Blind Pig... Al King/Chris Taylor/Scott Morgan and Deniz Tek back to camera....

Deniz, his brother Karl, and Eric Pouille went to film this clip about Denniz "Machinegun Thompson" at Madonna University with Dan Boyd.

Deniz Tek...best known as the guitarist, main songwriter, and leader of Aussie Stooges-disciples Radio Birdman, Deniz Tek is originally from Ann Arbor, MI. Inspired by such local heroes as the MC5 and the aforementioned Stooges during the '60s, Tek decided to form his own high-energy rock outfit, patterned after both bands, upon arriving in Australia in 1971 (to study medicine at the University of New South Wales).

Happy Birthday Deniz with much love from KIMMER

PATRICIA IZZO: RIVER'S EDGE GALLERY SERPENTS & HEROINES OPENING

River's Edge Gallery is a full service gallery. They specialize in carrying local and regional artists. REG has 3 floors featuring wall art, fine art photography, sculptures, glass, metal works, jewelry and much more.

We will be at this opening to see our Wyandotte friends and enjoy all the fabulous art on hand.... Can't wait to meet Patricia Izzo in person!

Photographer/Painter Patricia Izzo

Hours:

Mon-Thurs 10am-7pm

Friday 10am-8pm

Saturday 10am-5pm

3024 Biddle Wyandotte, Mi. 48192 (734)246-9880

DETROIT MAFIA....ANTHONY JOSEPH ZERILLI:

TONY ZERILLI SPEAKS ABOUT JIMMY HOFFA

***UPDATE**

“The master plan was, that I understood, was that they were going to put him in a shallow grave here. Then, they were going to take him from here to Rogers City upstate,” Zerilli said. “There was a hunting lodge and they were going to bury in a shallow grave then take him up there for final burial. Then, I understand, that it just fell through.”

JOSEPH ZERILLI

The Detroit Purple Gang are perhaps the most infamous in the history of Detroit, Michigan's Organized Crime. However the Detroit Italian Mafia organization was quite active... however camera shy... They were one of the most powerful Italian Mafia families short of New York and Chicago. May still be for all we know...

Just try to find photos of the early members...almost non existent. More savvy than the famed mobsters of legend...the Detroit Mob operated quite successfully and continue to this today or so they say.... Today I thought we'd take a look at Anthony Joseph Zerilli (Tony Z)....

Tony Z

Anthony Joseph Zerilli (born October 24, 1927) is an Italian-American mobster from Sterling Heights, Michigan who was the reputed underboss of the Detroit Partnership ("The Partnership") criminal organization, which is part of La Cosa Nostra.

At the time of his birth, Tony's father was an up-and-coming member of the Eastside Detroit Mob under the direction of Angelo Meli and his cousin and brother-in-law Vito William Tocco.

Detroit Italian Crime Bosses

Joseph Zirelli (father) 1897-1977

Tony spent his teenage years working at the Detroit Italian-American Bakery in Roseville, Michigan. Like his cousin Jack Tocco, Tony graduated from the University of Detroit in 1949. In 1947, Tony reportedly became a made man in the (Detroit) Partnership by murdering Gust Andromalus in a Detroit basement.

By 1964, Tony was recognized as the leader of his own unit or "crew" within the Detroit mafia. This meant that Tony was officially the leader of his own group of criminal operators and was recognized as a leader within the Detroit partnership and the local underworld. This added power and influence gave the young Zerilli a heightened and more significant status not only within the Detroit underworld, but within the national underworld as a mid-level mobster. (Mafia Wiki)

 “Tony Z”

Detroit don Joseph Zerilli's only son, “Tony Z” was initially tagged as his father’s replacement, however following Tony Z’s imprisonment in 1973 on charges of skimming millions of dollars from a Las Vegas hotel and casino, the aging mob chieftain demoted his offspring in favor of his nephew Jack Tocco.

Both the younger Tocco and Zerilli received college business degrees from the University of Detroit-Mercy in 1949, around the same time, according to Congressional testimony, they “made their bones” and were inducted into the mafia. ( Organized Crime in Detroit CBS Detroit)

Hazel Park Raceway

In 1949, Tony became president of the Hazel Park Racing Association and Track in Hazel Park, Michigan. Tony purchased a controlling interest in the operation for $50,000. Over the next twenty-three years, Hazel Park produced an estimated $15,000,000 a year in revenue, netting an annual profit of $1,200,000 for its investors.

Although listed as the number one man in the Hazel Park operation, Hazel Park was such a success that in August 1970 Tony, Jack Tocco, and Dominic Corrado decided to build another race track. The three men invested $2,500,000 in 280 acres (1.1 km²) of land in Hollywood, Florida, for the construction of a second racing complex.

 However, the second project, to be called Hazel Park South, was cancelled when Tony ran into legal problems in Las Vegas. Tony's legal difficulties not only canceled Hazel Park South, but in 1972 forced him and his partners to sell the original Hazel Park Complex in Michigan. Upon the sale of Hazel Park, Zerilli made $780,000 from his 92,634 shares.

Zerilli's profits from Hazel Park allowed him to enter into several other businesses, including the 1968 establishment of the Spaghetti Palace restaurant near the Macomb Mall in Roseville, Michigan.

Tony would succeed his father as the boss of the Partnership until his incarceration in 1974. Tony would be demoted while in prison and has never been recognized as the official boss of the Detroit Partnership since. His cousin, Jack Tocco, son of Detroit Partnership patriarch, Vito "Black Bill" Tocco assumed control of the crime family by 1978 with the death of his uncle Joe Zerilli, but Tony was named underboss and has allegedly remained in this highly powerful and influential position within the organization since.

Like several other legendary mafia offspring such as Santo Trafficante Jr. (Tampa), Salvatore "Bill" Bonanno (Bonanno), Anthony Carolla (New Orleans), Alphonse "Little Allie Boy" Persico (Colombo), Joseph "Big Joe" Todaro Jr. (Buffalo) and his cousin Jack Tocco, Tony Zerilli is considered "American Mafia Royalty" and at one time led one of America's most powerful mafia crime families and was called "The Boss." (Mafia Wiki)

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DETROIT ROCKERS CRUD WERE ON CBS CSI TV SHOW!!!

CRUD

Detroit Rockers Crud were featured on CBS' CSI TV Show! New Single "Man Goes Down" Included in Episode Soundtrack Aired 11/2/11 at 10 pm so stay tuned for re broadcasts soon!

Detroit Rockers Crud was heard on episode (11/2/11) of CBS' hit show "CSI" (Las Vegas). The band's song "Man Goes Down" was part of the episode's soundtrack which centered around a murderous sideshow circus.

No strangers to television or film, Crud's music has been the soundtrack of choice to an array of hit shows and films, most notably FX's "Sons of Anarchy," "Burn Notice" (USA), "Detroit 1-8-7" (ABC), cult horror flicks "Laid 2 Rest" (I and II), and the trailer (TV version) for the blockbuster movie "Sherlock Holmes."

"Man Goes Down" is culled from Crud's new critically acclaimed CD "Crud on Monster Island," now available on Itunes, CDbaby.net and bigcartel.com.

Fronted by Sponge lead singer Vinnie Dombroski (who the Austin Chronicle calls one of rock's most mesmerizing front-men) and burlesque beauty Danielle Arsenault, the duo - along with band mates David Black (guitar), Dana Forrester (bass), and Leander Decordova (drums) - are notorious for their decadent live show - a visual and aural assault that evokes the subversiveness of "Fight Club" with the danger of a Quentin Tarantino film, while leaving audiences begging for more.

Hailing from Detroit’s underbelly, Crud toured the UK (including a headlining slot at the Whitby Goth Festival) in support of their debut CD "Devil at the Wheel." The band also landed a coveted slot at Rue Morgue Magazine's "Festival of Fear" with George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead) in Toronto, in addition to headlining some of the coolest festivals across the land: Theatre Bizarre, The Peoples Arts Festival, Arts, Beats and Eats Festival, Noir Leather and Showtime Clothing Anniversary Bashes, “Pink’s All Out” party at Milan Dragway, Carnival of Chaos, Hellbent and more!

Detroiters can see Crud live on November 23 at The Ritz (24300 Hoover Rd., Warren, Michigan) when they headline the venue during the biggest bar night of the year.

With plans for a 2012 European tour and a new music video in the works - fans will soon have plenty of CRUD to satisfy their Crudlust.

For more information about Crud please visit crud313.com or facebook.com/cruddetroit.

RETROKIMMER'S FAVORITE GIG VIDEOS

Stanley T Madhatter photo by Kimmer

Here are several of my very favorite videos from gigs I went to or wish I had gone to... Videos by Dan Boyd (The Wizard of Livonia) and the other by Kimmer... Love these videos especially the ones with Madhatter.... xoRK

MY TOP FAVORITE:

MADHATTER,STEVE GODOY BERMONDSEY JOYRIDERS

THE SEATBELTS

STANLEY T MADHATTER

THE RUINERS

BOOTSEY X

THE TORPEDOS

DISPATCHES BLOG: SUPERSONIC MAN COL. JOE KITTINGER

Colonel Joe Kittinger

Story by Greg J. Johnson
DISPATCHES #3457

Joe Kittinger is not a household aviation name like Neil Armstrong or Chuck Yeager. But what he did for the U.S. space program is comparable. On August 16, 1960, as research for the then-fledgling U.S. space program, Air Force Captain Joseph Kittinger rode a helium balloon to the edge of space,102,800 feet above the earth, a feat in itself.

Col Joe Kittinger The Right Stuff

Then, wearing just a thin pressure suit and breathing supplemental oxygen,he leaned over the cramped confines of his gondola and jumped--into the 110-degree-below-zero, near-vacuum of space. Within seconds his body accelerated to 714mph in the thin air, breaking the sound barrier.

After free-falling for more than four and a half minutes, slowed finally by friction from the heavier air below, he felt his parachute open at 14,000 feet, and he coasted gently down to the New Mexico desert floor. Kittinger's feat showed scientists that astronauts could survive the harshness of space with just a pressure suit and that man could eject from aircraft at extreme altitudes and survive.

Upon Kittinger's return to base, a congratulatory telegram was waiting from the Mercury seven astronauts-including Alan Shepard and John Glenn. More than four decades later Kittinger's two world records--the highest parachute jump, and the only man to break the sound barrier without an aircraft and live-still stand.

We decided to visit the retired colonel and Aviation Hall of Famer, now 75, at his home in Altamonte Springs, Florida, to recall his historic jump.

Joe Kittinger: We got up at 2 a.m. to start filling the helium balloon. At sea level, it was 35 to 40 feet wide and 200 feet high; at altitude, due to the low air pressure, it expanded to 25 stories in width, and still was 20 stories high!

At 4 a.m. I began breathing pure oxygen for two hours. That's how long it takes to remove all the nitrogen from your blood so you don't get the bends going so high so fast. Then it was a lengthy dress procedure layering warm clothing under my pressure suit. They kept me in air-conditioning until it was time to launch because we were in the desert and I wasn't supposed to sweat. If I did, my clothes would freeze on the way up.

How was your ascent?

It took an hour and a half to get to altitude. It was cold. At 40,000 feet,the glove on my right hand hadn't inflated. I knew that if I radioed my doctor, he would abort the flight. If that happened, I knew I might never get another chance because there were lots of people who didn¹t want this test to happen.

I took a calculated risk, that I might lose use of my right hand. It quickly swelled up, and I did lose use for the duration of the flight. But the rest of the pressure suit worked. When I reached 102,800 feet, maximum altitude, I wasn't quite over the target.

So I drifted for 11 minutes. The winds were out of the east. What's it look like from so high up? You can see about 400 miles in every direction. The formula is 1.25 x the sq. root of the altitude in thousands of feet. (The square root of 102,000 ft is 319 X 1.25 = 399 miles)

The most fascinating thing is that it's just black overhead--the transition from normal blue to black is very stark. You can't see stars because there's a lot of glare from the sun, so your pupils are too small. I was struck with the beauty of it. But I was also struck by how hostile it is: more than 100 degrees below zero, no air. If my protection suit failed, I would be dead in a few seconds. Blood actually boils above 62,000 feet.

I went through my 46-step checklist, disconnected from the balloon¹s power supply and lost all communication with the ground. I was totally under power from the kit on my back. When everything was done, I stood up,turned around to the door, took one final look out and said a silent prayer: "Lord,take care of me now." Then I just jumped over the side.

What were you thinking as you took that step?

It's the beginning of a test. I had gone through simulations many
times--more than 100. I rolled over and looked up, and there was the
balloon just roaring into space. I realized that the balloon wasn't roaring into space; I was going down at a fantastic rate! At about 90,000 feet, I reached 714mph.

The altimeter on my wrist was unwinding very rapidly. But there was no sense of speed. Where you determine speed is visual--if you see something go flashing by. But nothing flashes by 20 miles up--there are no signposts there, and you are way above any clouds. When the chute opened, the rest of the jump was anticlimactic because everything had worked perfectly. I landed 12 or 13 minutes later, and there was my crew waiting. We were elated.

How about your right hand?

It hurt--there was quite a bit of swelling and the blood pressure in my arm was high. But that went away in a few days, and I regained full use of my hand.

What about attempts to break your record?

We did it for air crews and astronauts--for the learning, not to set a record. They will be going up as skydivers. Somebody will beat it someday. Records are made to be broken. And I'll be elated. But I'll also be concerned that they¹re properly trained. If they're not, they're taking a heck of a risk.

Today we are seeing cliff suit diving...

and even Rocket Man pushing the envelope...

I will be surprised, however, to see another Supersonic Man in the near future.

Feedback..

On Supersonic Man, Air Force vet Ron Kosh: "Coincidentally, another personalexperience from the 606th Air Commando Sq. at NKP ca '66-'67.. Kittinger was also in the squadron at the same time flying the A-26/B-26 (Douglas not Martin) on night HCM Trail interdiction. He was a Major then aka 'The Red Baron' (a flaming red handle bar and white scarf too.) and our CCT would spot night-time traffic for the A-26s using the 'new' 'starlight scope'. AC-123 would then illuminate with parachute flares...

Coincidentally, my Combat Control Team NCOIC at NKP was CM Sgt Jim Howell who served in the same capacity a few years earlier with Kittinger at El Centro/Parachute Test Gr..

Howell made the leap/tested the system from +/-100K' and actually held the record for a few days before Kittinger made 'The Long, Lonely Leap' (title of a book on it by Kittinger). Jim was no stranger to pressure suits.

A few years prior, ca '58, Howell was the first to eject at +1 mach. It was at 1.2 from the rear seat of a F-106 at something like 45K' to test it for Convair!

Even at that altitude and with all the protection, Jim said that when he cleared the windscreen he blacked out - felt as though he was hit between the eyes with a 2x4.. Kittinger was infamous with 606th armorers- whenever he flew, the barrels on his .50's always had to be replaced and never came back with ammo left over. He was shot down way north on a subsequent tour flying F-105's and finished the war as a POW. By that time a full colonel and senior officer of the second group to be released by Hanoi.

A couple decades ago he also did a (one of or the first) solo Atlantic crossing in a balloon."

I did not know about Kittinger's POW experience. Imagine what a great story it would have been if he'd been able to break out of the Hanoi Hilton in a hot air balloon!