The stuff that now passes as "music", particularly rock 'n roll, leaves me cold. So, to start off the week, here's a video of a classic rock artist.
To start off the week, we have T-Rex (formerly known as Tyrannosaurus Rex) with their 1971 hit "Jeepster". We have two videos for your enjoyment: one posted by Polydor and one with Pan's People.
T. Rex (originally Tyrannosaurus Rex) were an English rock band formed in London in 1967 by singer-songwriter and guitarist Marc Bolan, who was their leader, frontman and only consistent member. Though initially associated with the psychedelic folk genre, Bolan began to change the band's style towards electric rock in 1969, and shortened their name to T. Rex the following year. This development culminated in 1970 with their first significant hit single "Ride a White Swan", and the group soon became pioneers of the glam rock movement.
The stuff that now passes as "music", particularly rock 'n roll, leaves me cold. So, to start off the week, here's a video of a classic rock artist.
To start off the week, we have the English group T. Rex (previously known as Tyrannosaurus Rex) and their hit from 1971, "Bang A Gong (Get It On)". This song is notable for the inclusion of Mark Volman, "Flo" aka "Phlorescent Leech" and Howard Kaylan, "Eddie" (both formerly of The Turtles) as background vocalists.
T. Rex (originally Tyrannosaurus Rex) were an English rock band, formed in 1967 by singer-songwriter and guitarist Marc Bolan, who was their leader, frontman and only consistent member. Though initially associated with the psychedelic folk genre, Bolan began to change the band's style towards electric rock in 1969, and shortened their name to T. Rex the following year. This development culminated in 1970 with their first hit single "Ride a White Swan", and the group soon became pioneers of the glam rock movement.
From 1970 to 1973, T. Rex encountered a popularity in the UK comparable to that of the Beatles, with a run of eleven singles in the UK top ten. They scored four UK number one hits, "Hot Love", "Get It On", "Telegram Sam" and "Metal Guru". The band's 1971 album Electric Warrior received critical acclaim, reached number 1 in the UK and became a landmark album in glam rock. The 1972 follow-up, The Slider, entered the top 20 in the US. Bolstering their style with soul music, funk and gospel, the band released Tanx in 1973 which reached the top 5 in several countries. From 1974, T. Rex's appeal began to wane, though the band continued releasing albums. Their subsequent releases blended rock with R&B and occasionally even disco.
In 1977, Bolan died in a car crash several months after the release of the group's final studio album Dandy in the Underworld, and the group disbanded. T. Rex have continued to influence a variety of subsequent artists. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020.
Above, one of the more elaborate Christmas resident displays. Photo by Armand Vaquer.
Merry Christmas from Lake Havasu, Arizona!
Last night, we had a Christmas Eve party at Mitch and Holly Geriminsky's with three different stews/soups instead of the usual (and boring) turkey dinner. Each were quite good and everyone was filled up.
Above, another resident's yard display. Photo by Armand Vaquer.
We also had a Christmas gift exchange game which was fun. I received a set of jumper cables that will go into the Jeep when I get home.
As Christmas Eve was also Egg Nog Day, Mitch and I celebrated with egg nogs and brandy.
Above, celebrating Egg Nog Day with Daisy and Mandy. Photo by Holly Geriminsky.
After dinner, to took a ride in Mitch's golf cart around the neighborhood near the Lake Havasu Golf Club.
Below is my Christmas gift to Mitch and Holly, a yard gnome with a LED lantern:
One resident has a nice T-rex metal sculpture in their yard. I'm guessing it is about 10' tall:
Above, yesterday started with breakfast at Sam's Place.
Above, a tyrannosaur skeleton at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh. Photo by ScottRobertAnselmo.
Here's one for you dinosaur fans!
The biggest tyrannosaurus rex had been discovered in Saskatchewan, Canada in 1991. More details on the creature has been revealed in an article from National Geographic.
They wrote:
A fossil site in Canada has yielded the heaviest Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found—an animal that weighed an estimated 19,500 pounds in life, far heftier than most elephants alive today.
The dinosaur, unveiled last week in The Anatomical Record, consists of a skeleton that's about 65 percent complete, including the skull and hips along with some of its ribs, leg bones, and tail bones. Nicknamed “Scotty,” the tyrannosaur was a senior by this species' standards, making it to at least the age of 28.
Some 68 million years ago, the Canadian landscape Scotty knew was a subtropical coastal paradise—but life was no vacation. The dinosaur's remains include a broken and healed rib, a massive growth of bone in between two teeth—a sign of infection—and broken tailbones possibly maimed by another tyrannosaur's bite.
Above, a Godzilla filming suit on display in Shibuya. No, this isn't the new find, but since there's no photos of the new Tyrannosaur available, this gives me an excuse to post the Big G. Photo by Armand Vaquer.
Fossils of a new tyrannosaur have been found in Utah that proves that Tyrannosaurus rex-type dinosaurs were around ten million years earlier than previously thought.
According to Fox News:
SALT LAKE CITY – A new dinosaur has been discovered in southern Utah that proves giant tyrant dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus rex were around 10 million years earlier than previously believed.
The fossils were unveiled Wednesday at the Natural History Museum of Utah.
Paleontologists believe the dinosaur lived up to 95 million years ago in the late Cretaceous Period on a landmass in the flooded central region of North America. The fossils were found in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
Scientists are calling this new dinosaur "a great-uncle" of the Tyrannosaurus rex.
The Japan News picked up a Bloomberg story that "Hollywood got it right" in portraying the tyrannosaurus rex as a predator, not a scavenger.
According to the article:
A recent discovery of a T. rex tooth lodged in the spine of a smaller plant-eating dinosaur provides “unambiguous evidence that the T. rex was an active predator,” according to a report published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
