Rainbow, 1977

Ove Andersson & David Stone (Renault Alpine A110) vainqueur du Rallye de Monte-Carlo 1971. © Renault. - source Carros e Pilotos.

David Stone (born Michael David Stoyanoff on March 20, 1953) is a Canadian keyboard player best known for playing with Rainbow.[1] He later joined Max Webster for their album Universal Juveniles.[2]

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Stone worked on the Bud Matton Agency tour circuit and played in the band Symphonic Slam, whose self-titled and only album released in 1976 went gold in Japan. He then joined Rainbow, and was voted the fifth best keyboardist in the world in the Japanese magazine Music Life in January 1978. After performing on Long Live Rock 'n' Roll, he returned to Canada and played with Max Webster and singer B. B. Gabor. In 1991, Stone played on a demo by US prog metal band Vision.[3] Stone also played on the hard rock/prog metal band AraPacis' 2019 album Paradox of Denial and joined the band in September 2019.[4] He also played on AraPacis' 2020 EP Déja Hard, their 2021 full length Waterdog and their 2022 full length Suburban Mist. Stone was formerly married to award-winning journalist Madelaine Drohan.[5]

Rainbow Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll [Deluxe Edition] 2012 Polydor ————————————————— Tracks CD One: 01. Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll 02. Lady of the Lake 03. L.A. Connection 04. Gates of Babylon 05. Kill the King 06. The Shed (Subtle) 07. Sensitive to Light 08. Rainbow Eyes

Tracks CD Two: 01. Lady of the Lake [rough mix] 02. Sensitive to Light [rough mix] 03. L.A. Connection [rough mix] 04. Sensitive to Light [rough mix] 05. The Shed (Subtle) [rough mix] 06. Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll [rough mix] 07. Rainbow Eyes [Shepperton Film Studios rehearsal, 1977] 08. Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll [Shepperton Film Studios rehearsal, 1977] 09. Kill the King [Shepperton Film Studios rehearsal, 1977] 10. Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll [Don Kirschner’s rock concert, 1978] 11. L.A. Connection [Don Kirschner’s rock concert, 1978] 12. Gates of Babylon [Don Kirschner’s rock concert, 1978] 13. L.A. Connection [outtake Don Kirschner’s rock concert, 1978] 14. Gates of Babylon [outtake Don Kirschner’s rock concert, 1978] —————————————————

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* Long Live Rock Archive

Repulsion (1965)

My rating: 6/10

And to think, this whole unpleasantness could've been avoided if anybody had respected literally any boundaries. Unfortunately, it was the 60s and the concept hadn't been invented yet.

Angelina Jolie for Rolling Stone (2001) Photography: David LaChapelle

Demon Dogs, system moodboard

[ICB] David Stone

Titans (2023) #4 variant cover by David Talaski

Titans' holiday postcard by David Talaski

The most common mistake people make when thinking about prehistory and how to avoid it.

In "The Dawn of Everything, A New History for Humanity" David Graeber gives what I think might be the best piece of advice I've ever heard for understanding deep human history, and that is to get your mind out of the Garden of Eden.

People speculating about prehistory before modern archeology were quick to frame early humanity as existing in a "state of nature", either with pure innocent tribal communism, or being brutish barbarous cavemen, then something happened to bring us from the state of nature into "society". Did we make a Faustian bargain by domesticating plants and animals? Why is evidence of intergroup violence in prehistory so rare? How did we fall from the innocent state of nature? This, of course, smacks of the biblical creation story, so even if people don't believe it literally, they seem to have a hard time letting go of it spiritually even in a secular context.

This is pretty much nonsense, of course. Humans have existed for over 2 million years. Anatomically modern humans have existed for at least 300 thousand years. Behaviourally modern humans (with symbolism, art, long distance trade, political awareness) have existed for at least 50 thousand years, from our best evidence, but possibly a lot longer. The time between the Sumerians inventing writing and urban living 5,000 years ago and now is only a narrow slice of human history.

If we want to understand human history properly, we shouldn't understand people of the past as fundamentally different from us. They were intelligent, politically aware people doing their best in the world they found themselves in, just like we are today. We didn't fall from innocence with the development of behavioral modernity, religion, farming, war, money, capitalism, computers, or anything else. The world has changed a lot, but people have been experimenting with different ways to live for as long as there have been people, like this example I've posted before about disabled people's role in late pleistocene Eurasian society.

People have been the same as we are now for at least the last 50 thousand years. We have lived in countless different ways and will continue to experiment. There was no fall, and we don't live at the end of history.

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Their age, occupation, traits and biography are UTP.

magic couldn’t exist. it was impossible. it went against everything he was raised to believe. hell, he was never any sort of saint, but the idea of literal witches was beyond anything that he could stand. when he saw the war in the streets, he wanted to deny his eyes, but there was no denying the pain of catching a wayward hex. it felt pure evil.

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Taylor with Laura Dern, Emma Stone, David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield (President and co-president of Searchlight Pictures) at the Poor Things afterparty (via x)

David Harding's 'Henge', Glenrothes, Scotland

A first visit to this piece of outdoor art in a town rich in ancient sites.