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VolNExile said:
Hubs was a professional musician as long as he could make it work*, and in his early 20’s, he was in a band with a couple of guys whose father was a Hollywood screenwriter and producer (big time, including Andy Griffith Show and One Day At a Time.) The band would practice in their house, nice Jewish mom bringing homemade cookies saying “I know you’re hungry” as the smoke boiled out of the room.

For breaks, they’d walk around the neighborhood (Mar Vista, next address down from Santa Monica.**) There was a park farther down the street, and Jerry West lived on the other side of the park. It wasn’t over-the-top McMansion territory at that point, but it was definitely LA-up-and-coming, and West lived in a relatively modest home with a basketball goal at the end of the driveway.

Hubs is still amazed that someone could get away with having a basketball hoop in that neighborhood, and moreover be able to use it

*which realistically, was not very long, this being Cali, although he hung in there for a long time

** Hubs never lived anywhere near a neighborhood like this, lol, although when his parents put their Westwood house up for sale, Leonard Nimoy actually checked it out not long before he died. 🖖🏻 Spock was my First Big Crush in sixth grade age 11, from the very first broadcast on our black and white TV, and it has never gone away. LA, you gotta love it, although I didn’t and still don’t.

- He is full of dreadful musician dad jokes, including this one:
Q: What do you call a musician who breaks up with his girlfriend?
A: Homeless.
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Hey my late husband w20231004_223812.jpgas a musician too, he had a band for 30 years called "The Breeze" and they played 60's 70's, 80' and some 90's, he is the lead singer in sunglasses.Arthur4.jpgArthur5.jpgArthur 1.jpgIMG_0277.jpg
 
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My favorite encounter with a famous musician was meeting Bonnie Raitt backstage on her 40th birthday. After the show, the few of us with backstage passes were huddled in a modest room in the bowels of the Fox Theater waiting… waiting… when Bonnie burst in wearing nothing but an oversized tie-die t-shirt. She exclaimed, “Where have you been?!” She proceeded to plop down on the table next to me and explained that she had to get cleaned up after her band had pied her (it was after midnight and her birthday). We all wished her a happy birthday. She noticed that my backstage pass was pinned to my shirt with an old Adlai Stevenson campaign pin. She said, “nice pin,” removed my pass, signed it, and pinned it back on my shirt. She chatted us up like we were neighbors until someone came to the door to retrieve her.

Awhile later, she won four Grammy awards. During the ceremony, Bette Midler won an award, and the first thing she said was “Look, Bonnie! I got one, too!” It reminded me of hanging around backstage at the Fox.
 
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one of my old golf partners, a member of my family, and a great man
RIP, buddy

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Leon Baird, age 85, passed peacefully on June 4, 2024 to be with his Heavenly Father. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends. He is survived by his wife, Diana Baird, and four sisters- Anna Newsom of Lyman, South Carolina Carole Ratledge of Maryville, Tennessee Shirley Sequin
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NorCalVol67 said:
He is. It is him and Ruth in my book. Henry Aaron is right there with them. And Bonds.
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Bonds would be right there without the cheating. Ruth played against off season plumbers in a completely different era (no AA or Hispanic players)

Aaron is right there but CF is so much more demanding and important than RF...
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
Bonds would be right there without the cheating. Ruth played against off season plumbers in a completely different era (no AA or Hispanic players)

Aaron is right there but CF is so much more demanding and important than RF...
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I get the argument about Ruth and agree actually, but baseball became what it did because of him.

Bonds was in the convo before the roids made his head big.

If someone says Mays and Aaron are the two greatest, I won’t argue. I may be biased though, I am a huge fan of Aaron.
 
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NorCalVol67 said:
I get the argument about Ruth and agree actually, but baseball became what it did because of him.

Bonds was in the convo before the roids made his head big.

If someone says Mays and Aaron are the two greatest, I won’t argue. I may be biased though, I am a huge fan of Aaron.
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didn't realize Mays had a total of 12 Gold Glove Awards (12 straight years)
wow
I think the 65 is the only card of his I own, maybe one of the late ones 73 or 74
I have a few Aarons somewhere
 
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