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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
I suspect many of us are spending some more time online, and finding ourselves going down strange Internet Rabbit Holes.
I thought it would be fun to share some of them.
This was mine from yesterday
- I was reading about national parks being closed
- From there I started looking at images of Yellowstone National Park, which I visited when I was a teen, and think it is just an amazing place
- From there I googled Jellystone for some reason
- From there I started reading about Yogi the Bear
- From there i read the history of Hanna Barbera
- Which led me to browse through the entirety of all the shows they created, my gawd, what a bunch of junk. Yeah they hit on some, but they just churned out oodles of garbage, and a fair share of stuff that would seem highly culturally insensitive.
That last item ended up being a good 90 minute rabbit hole, reading about the shows, googling clips, and so on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ra_Productions
I mean who can forget the likes of Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey, The Herculoids, or Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse.
What's your most recent rabbit hole? |
Not so much a rabbit hole that jumps me to related topics, I think was searching 1985 All Star game, which lead me to “Tears are not enough”, (the player sang it post game and fans behind them in the Dome swayed as part of the video) first the two versions of the video, then the making of it, chopped up, but then finding then full documentary.
Then from there doing a deep dive on some of the artists and people on that group for famine relief, artists I wouldve heard of back then and as growing up (I was 9 at the time) being now nearly in my mid 40s. You took them for granted I guess and Canadian music wasn’t cool back in the 80s for us that watched CBC Video Hits and the early Much Music days.
From David Foster and his subtle but clear ego at the time as a very young producer, to Bruce Allen a high profile manager, Anne Murray, who Allen hated before this benefit occurred, but the took over as manager years later (and Allen is still around), Loverboy and Lou Blair as manager, finding out Lou was doorman at bars here in Calgary but then opened the now defunct Refinery night club which was a Calgary hit spot for rock in the 80s, and Loverboy came from Mike Reno meeting his band mates at that club.
To Burton Cummings and his fantastic voice, to going back further with Neil Young, and then looking up backgrounds on randoms in the video like Andy Kim and Kim St John. Terry David Mulligan from Good Rocking Tonight and then Much Music was on there too and peicing together how he would’ve gotten to be in that video.
To the kissing in the lips of fans outside the studio from the dude from Platinum Blonde. Bruce Cockburn, known for his humatarian efforts and folksongs, who originally didn’t want to be part of the project, and said so to the guy who flew over there to record his single line, until he was convinced otherwise.
That benefit was a big deal back in the day, after the US and Brits had done it. Don’t think this would ever happen again, physically assembling all isn one place, with technology, and social media as the ability to raise money and cause awareness. Nevermind egos.
All in all, fascinating to take a closer look at some of these people involved in shaping Canadian music in a simpler time.
Anyways, here the video, both the studio one then the commercial one, and part 1 of the 4 parts in the documentary ( some odd Philippine credits on this version for some reason), and Good Rocking Tonight which gives a brief synopsis of the project.