The Real CAPTAIN.

The REAL Captain Jack.

Get off on this you toothy bastards. I got to see him in October of 2012. Go out again Jack and we will see you more than once!!

Just random pics out of a random mind.....

I don't know what the hell this is nor will not take a guess.....

(kinda looks like Meg White though, doesn't it? But her sign would have read "want to get back with Jack.")

Speaking of being totally screwed up.....

(Of course I always heard that nothing settles down a cranky toddler like a case of Old Milwaukee. Always worked in my house......)

And lastly, from the WTF X-Files...

That's right, sandwiches in a can. Bring out the cooler, the cola and beer, load up Grandma and the kids, bring the Frisbees, it's PICNIC TIME!!! (Who thinks up this stuff?)

"...and so now you know the REST of the story.
Paul Harvey............... Good DAY."







                

So until next time my peeps....
"Tarzan go now. Swing away on vines!"

"It's seems the good die young"

Since I didn't have my blog in September of 2012 I want to say a few words about the departed Steve Sabol of NFL Films. 

Steve's father Ed Sabol was the man who started NFL Films in 1962. Back then Ed Sabol founded Blair Motion Pictures (named after his daughter) and won the bid to film the 1962 NFL Championshiip Game between the Green Bay Packers vs. the New York Giants at Yankee Stadium. The film of that game impressed NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, who asked the owners of the NFL to agree to buy out Sabol's company. Although the owners rejected Rozelle's proposal in 1964, they agreed a year later and renamed Sabol's company NFL Films. He received $20,000 in seed money from each of the league's 14 owners, and in return would shoot all NFL games and produce a highlight film for each team. 

I belong to a fraternity, so to speak as do millions of others, who know the NFL Films style. Going back to the late 60's and early 70's (especially the Super 70's) NFL Films began to craft a style that they eventually called their own. Whether it be the music (mostly Sam Spence), the narrators (mostly the great John Facenda), the tight spiral of the fooball in slow motion down the field that the cameramen perfected; it all added up to television critic Matt Zoller Seitz calling NFL Films "the greatest in-house P.R. machine in pro sports history . . . an outfit that could make even a tedious stalemate seem as momentous as the battle for the Alamo.

From highlight films, special programming, weekly highlights (who could forget "This Week in the NFL), the halftime highlights in the 1970's for Howard Cosell, the Super Bowl Highlights stand above the rest. The Super Bowl III is probably the most famous because of the magnitude of the game, but I think my personal favorite is Super Bowl V played on a sunny Miami afternoon, the Colts versus the Cowboys. One of the things Steve said was that since the game was now played about 6:30pm every year, you don't get those clean lighted afternoon shots of Miami or when they played it in the Rose Bowl in 1976. Also 1983 at the height of their popularity, NFL Films recorded a documentary, following the band Journey for about 6 months. Not only was it a film about the band but the story of the crew that puts on the show. Again Steve's ideas.

NFL Films will go on and in the digital and technology age will prosper beyond it's wildest dreams. The NFL Network owes its success to the Sabols.

One of most famous programs that NFL Films ever produced was "The Championship Chase" which was broadcasted before Super Bowl IX, the Steelers and Vikings. Steve Sabol and John Facenda was at the pinnacle of their style in 1974's "The Championship Chase" with John's recitation of “The Autumn Wind,” a football poem written by Steve, personifying fall weather and the Raiders 1974 season:


"The Autumn wind is a pirate
Blustering in from sea
With a rollicking song he sweeps along
Swaggering boisterously.
His face is weather beaten
He wears a hooded sash
With a silver hat about his head
And a bristling black mustache
He growls as he storms the country
A villain big and bold
And the trees all shake and quiver and quake
As he robs them of their gold.
The Autumn wind is a Raider
Pillaging just for fun
He'll knock you 'round and upside down
And laugh when he's conquered and won."

According to the NFL, Steve Sabol won more than 40 Emmy Awards and oversaw 107 Emmys for NFL Films.

I had the good fortune to speak to Steve Sabol in 1992 when a video tape order I made with them got messed up. First of all, it was shocking to me that it was actually Steve on the phone and the order matter was cleared up quickly but he took about 20 minutes with me to talk NFL Films and the NFL. He was a gracious man that I know the people who worked for NFL Films will miss him every day.

Again, we lose another talented man. 

Rest in peace.

NFL Films now located at ONE SABOL WAY

So until next time my peeps....

"Tarzan go now. Swing away on vines!"

PS - To all of you that has wrote to me about this blog I appreciate your kind words and feedback. I intend this blog to go in different directions. I have received email from some family members wanting to know if I was going to "pontificate" on a certain situation that happened in our family.

Let me say just for the record.... you goddamn right I am. And if they don't like it, they can get their attorney. I won't be very difficult to find. I will be hiding right behind my first amendment rights. Even a Jewish lawyer can figure that out.

Tuscaloosa Joe and the Bear

Joe Willie and "THE" Coach......

SCREW Interruption??

Jack, Jack, Jack (shaking my head). You are a man after my own heart.

One of the reasons I fell in love with Jack White is his obviously amazing talent and creativity  And he is certainly one that his creativity has risen beyond the rest. 

I know that I am a geek, a nerd, an oddball and was just recently described as eccentric (I took that as a compliment) but what I do know is the history of rock music and Jack White is the real deal. We haven't seen his likes since the Beatles and since it's just one person, probably since Buddy Holly. 

Jack is one the main reasons of the garage rock revival. Whenever you go out to a music store and you see vinyl records, you can thank Jack White for that revival. Now even the Beatles entire catalog has been issued on vinyl. Turntable and now retro "record players" are being sold.

Jack never stays the same. He is content to go out on his own, as his Grammy nominated album Blunderbuss proves, he made himself and Meg White household names during the White Stripes era, formed and melded with the Raconteurs with whom he earned three GRAMMY nominations including Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for "Steady, As She Goes" and Best Rock Album for Broken Boy Soldiers in 2006. The group's last studio album was 2008's Consolers Of The Lonely, which reached No. 7 on the Billboard 200 and earned a GRAMMY nomination for Best Rock Album.

White's most recent band project, the Dead Weather, was formed in 2008 and featured the Kills lead singer Alison Mosshart and Queens Of The Stone Age guitarist Dean Fertita. The band released their debut album, Horehound, in 2009, followed by 2010's Sea Of Cowards. 

In 2012 White released his debut solo album, Blunderbuss, via Third Man Records, a label he founded in 2001. Produced by White, the album peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and earned three nominations for the 55th GRAMMY Awards, including Album Of The Year. Jack owns Third Man Records and he also owns the titles of producer, actor, wrote, produced and performed the theme song from the Daniel Craig James Bond "Quantum of Solace" with Alicia Keys. The list goes on and on. 

Even with 10 editors overlooking for expletives and a typical 10-second delay on the live Grammy Awards telecast, CBS is dealing with some disagreements over Jack White's appearance as it seems that Jack sang "fuck me" during his performance that went uncensored.

While singing his song "Love Interruption" with Ruby Amanfu, it sounded like Jack sang the word, leading to many viewers tweeting about Jack afterwards. CBS said that Jack sang the song like it was written, which was "fight me" so there was any problem with it. 

CBS also stated that the people who was in charge of that kind of thing were experienced with these shows and doing that type of delays. So CBS is standing behind the word fight.

I've listened to it over and over.

I think if you want to believe that he did say "fuck" you will believe you heard it. If  you believe he said "fight" you will hear that too. Voice inflection could have fooled the cameras as he turned his head slightly or something else.

Personally I think he probably did say it or at least I hope he did. Why? Because he is a fucking badass. It adds to the legend. Probably about 2008, the dude's place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was secure and you haven't seen THAT since the Beatles, I will guarantee you.

Jack White would look cool even if he couldn't play the guitar and there are a load of  people who agree with me. A most prominent fan of those would be Dan Lebatard of ESPN who commented on that very subject on his daily radio show on The Ticket in Miami.

Jack is the savior of rock and roll. He knows what it is about. I had the privilege of seeing him in concert back in October of 2012 and that was the best concert I ever attended.  It was cold, it was rainy but once the concert started Hannah and I didn't give a rats ass. You just completely forgot about it after he came on the stage.

I will travel to as many of his shows in the future as well as the Dead Weather.

Jack White is the now and future king of music. 

All hail the king.