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Come out and enjoy his guitar skills that have been honed over 4 decades of playing. He has played in concert bands, rock bands, jazz bands, marching bands, in the orchestra pit and any other combination of musicians you can think of. Dan has played bass guitar and saxophone, and has provided background vocals in bands in Florida, Virginia, and Georgia.

He has had both formal and informal training. He has played both professionally and in local bands since he was 14 years old. Toggle navigation. He had been in forbmanslaughter having killed a guy with his bare hands in a gambling dispute.

Another plant worker had been shot in the ass by has wife in the plantbparking lot. Just another day. I just happened to have an eye and ear for this stuff and this industry mostly urban at the time was surrounded by the underbelly of society. A tough business with all the types that came with it… Trying to keep it all going while keeping your back close to the wall could be quite challenging atvtimes.

This was not an attractive business. You did not talk about it at the country club dinners innpolite company. When I transferred to Texas it was mostly guys on probation who were mostly harmless. Keeping up with their P. I can laugh about it now. Lots more about guns and knives but I have taken up enough time and space….

Sorry Jim… Rife with grammatical errors and such. Doing it on the phone. Some day perhaps like Dostovesky, I could get a talented and dedicated amanuensis that is if I ever want to be on the printed page these fast and furious days… I better hurry! I remember when Stompanato was killed. The consensus was, that skinny little girl never shanked a bit thug like Johnny. The judgment was justifiable homicide anyway. Stompanato had absolutely zero sympathy from anybody.

That may have been mob family macho, unwilling to believe their boy had been killed by a child. Actually, if you see the pics of Cheryl Crane the daughter walking to court with Lana, the girl is actually taller than Lana herself, so she may have been able to do it.

Whatever, it was one of the great examples of Hollywood noir. Lana testified that she thought her daughter punched Stomp in the stomach. I swear it was so fast, I … I truthfully thought she had hit him in the stomach. The best I can remember, they came together and they parted. I still never saw a blade. As you know, JMR, knives are nasty business. Boy, this has all veered deeply into James Ellroy territory.

I think the consensus within and without the circle now is that Stomp did more or less impale shank himself on her knife. That said, Lana was certainly using all her Hollywood chops on the stand, that was clear, and probably backfired for the kid. Yeah — he walked onto the knife, I think. He does his homework and cuts close to the bone. This is serious work, not magazine interview fluff and you get a lot of insight into the writing craft, the writing life and the interior worlds of some crime fiction stalwarts.

Jim… Your imprimatur alone enough for me. Just ordered the last hard cover copy from Amazon. Always eager to see what makes them tick… Biographies and interviews always a favorite even though you might be stepping on some feet of clay in the process…. Just ordered Rogue Males. I once spent a long, boozy evening talking with James Crumley in an Austin bar. I wish I could remember more of it.

His border tales are second to none. Crumley deserves a post. Yes, he does. I envy you that evening, whether you can remember it or not. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email and website in this browser for the next time I comment checkbox. NOTE: this allows the FP website to set a cookie to display a message that "your comment is awaiting moderation.

Dig the caper: In a dusty cantina on the far side of the Rio Grande, larger-than-life and recently widowed crime writer Hector Lassiter and Bud Fiske, a callow young poet sent by True Magazine to profile Hector, are handed a carpet bag. Hell, Lassiter is working on a script for John Ford for a movie about cockfighting… McDonald is clearly having a blast just wallowing in his passions: noir; hyper-masculine literature; booze; good music; the old, weird America; Mexico; The Road; dark-eyed beauties.

Thanks for the very nice words on this, Jim. Deeply appreciate it. Not to to be remiss: For those so inclined. Absolutely perfect. I know what you mean. Audie Murphy But he got away with it since he killed plus Germans. High Sierra is under appreciated. Always liked that movie. And Ida Lupino delivered it for me… The bad girl with a heart of gold.

I will sign off now…. You most definitely do have an eye and an ear…. Produced by Roy Thomas Baker , the third producer employed in three album, Head Games has a grittier sound than its predecessors, with driving rock elements and sprinkles of synthesized embellishments.

But what truly makes this album unique among Foreigner albums is the fact that the best material is not the popular radio tracks, but found within the mostly unheralded songs in the heart of the album. After rehearsing for six months, the group scored a recording contract before even playing their first gig and released their self-titled debut in early The album was a raving success, staying in the Top 20 for the better part of a year and spawning a world tour into Double Vision was released in the summer of sold even better than the debut.

Prior to the recording the album, bassist Rick Wills was brought on as the newest member of the band. Jones wrote or co-wrote most of the material which was all new and written in the studio over the course of a couple months in