#like ned fucked up no need to bring Keith’s appearance into this
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Saw some people on Twitter making fun of the way Keith looks. Let’s pack it up. Non Try Guys fans are no longer allowed to talk about this
#try guys#ned Fulmer#like ned fucked up no need to bring Keith’s appearance into this#we get it they’re all white guys but they do not look the same#and their try guys photos look like that cuz they’re all being goofy on purpose#containment breach lets reel it back in this isn’t fun anymore#don’t you dare say Keith cheated on his wife he loves Becky#the tweet was literally making fun of someone saying they didn’t care that it wasn’t actually Keith#and the comments were other non fans saying they also don’t care#if you don’t know who you’re talking about just fucking leave it alone#this doesn’t concern you at all
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Notes on TAZ Amnesty, Episode 29
So, first things first, these notes don't really go in the same order as the episode, and I wasn't actively listening when I wrote them so there's bound to be things I missed. Please, feel free to let me know connections I missed or theories you've formulated in the notes
Bolded are my initial observations, normal are further thoughts and questions
Eugene's abduction and the Greenbank Telescope Collapse occured on the same day, or at the very least within days of each other. This also lines up with Mama joining the Pine Guard.
The Flamebright Pendent is a part of Sylvain, likely brought back by humans during the war that broke the crystal. It was worn by Aubrey's mother when she gave birth to her and could be the source of Aubrey's powers. Could it have made her the interpreter of the Earth?
Janelle says Sylvain (the being) disappeared after the crystal was broken. Could Sylvain have taken a human form and come to Earth? The Flamebright Pendent is a matrilineal heirloom, could Aubrey be a descendent of Sylvain?
Light Beings (hereforth called Lights) were not hostile in previous encounters. This only changes after the Bom Bom Billy came with was defeated, as it is the one immediately before the Shifter. Was the change in demeanor caused by Billy staying?
The Shifter refers to Billy as "the Partition." This implies he's a separation, a wall of sorts between worlds or peoples. Indrid said Billy would be important, now we just need to find out why.
Minerva Chooses™ people to share her powers with via brain wormhole. This is how she got to Earth, through Duck and Sarah Drake. Will Sarah become a Chosen? Or was that a one time deal?
The Hornets are now working together with the Pine Guard (or at least Aubrey). They're planning some sort of mission, no guns allowed (rip Ned). Only heard from Keith (fuck him, ally or not). Where is Hollis? Is Pigeon alright?
Amnesty Lodge has been abandoned. The Sylphs are likely blending in with the townsfolk. Barclay and Janelle are both at the Cryptonomica, but that may just be temporary. Where is Dani?
Mama was arrested by the FBI, and has been in custody for a few weeks at least. I don't trust Agent Haynes (Hanes?) As far as I can throw him, and he's a fictional character so I can't throw him at all. Agent H. brought up the possibility that Agent Stern is on our side. He has been living with the people of the Lodge for months now, he's probably made friends, it would make sense that he's protecting them.
Thacker is aware now. Aubrey and Janelle seem to have exorcised the thing that had been possessing him. Could the thing have been a Light? It mentioned bringing balance to Sylvain, and the Lights seem to be trying to start a war between Earth and Sylvain. Such a war could completely destroy either planet, which would technically bring balance, but fuck that Thanos shit honestly.
Indrid is brought up, specifically in reference to Billy. He should be appearing soon, as he said the Pine Guard would need him to protect Billy.
Gates opening and closing randomly was brought up. Leo mentions a gate in New York that he protected for years before it closed, and he moved to Kepler. Will the finale center on closing Kepler's gate? Or, if Kepler's has closed for good, finding the next one?
Where is Dr. Harris Bonkers, PhD? Why did he keep the bit about him being Aubrey's familiar but refuses to give us his location? Griffin please?
#taz#taz amnesty#taz ep 29#taz theory#the adventure zone#look billy and indrid are coming back and they're gonna be /important/#and besides that i need Dr. Harris Bonkers PhD#i'm big worried about him
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Characters/Pairings: Keith/Shane, Ned, Ryan and Jen.
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Word Count: ~ 1,643
Summary: Keith kinda, more or less, maaaybe has a crush on the new intern he and Henry have taken under their wing.
A/N: LATE BUT here’s m first entry for the RareShaneWeek hosted by @rarebuzzships! I’ll try to not be too late tomorrow. Thanks for this chance, @poiregourmande! ~ Also, this is not beta’ed, I’m VERY sorry about it.
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“Gosh...” Ned murmured, his hand moved to his cheek to give emphasis to his expression. “He’s adorable, isn't he?”
Keith looked at his friend for a second, then back at the screen where the phootage he had been working on almost all week was frozen on the image of one sleepy and shy looking Shane Madej.
He blinked a couple of times, a small smile following his thoughts as he remembered Shane following behind him while Henry told him what he needed to record for the video. The man had looked a bit lost when Henry chose him to go with them, but had nodded with enthusiasm once the small shock was gone.
“He’s a good little helper.” Keith said, Ned giggled at his side like if he knew some secret. “What?”
“Cut the crap, I know why you and Henry chose him to help.” The man answered, standing with his cup and Keith’s. “I’m straight but not stupid.”
“Okay,” Keith smiled, signaling him with a big smile. “That’s an argument, we should bring Ashly and Eugene in here, and decide!”
“Unfair!” He announced, walking away from Keith’s desk, probably into the office’s kitchenette.
Keith sighed, looking back at his work and starting to video again. He had been at this all morning, mostly bored than stuck with the same phootage, there was something not working out in this.
In the video, he asked Shane to have some of what they had been eating with the driver in turn. The man looks up at him and, for one second, his cheeks turn pink. It’s perfectly fine, but it’s also so cute. Would Henry mind if he left it? Probably nobody else would realize anyway, so...
Why he wanted it in, Keith wasn’t sure.
“Here.” He heard a different voice at his side and his cup appeared with coffee at his side. “Fulmer said you he had something to do, so he asked me to bring you this.”
Looking up, Cute Intern Of The Month stood in all his happy awkwardness. Keith smiled at him and the title Zach had given him and many other interns before, but for the first time, it just happened to be true.
Shane looked back, waiting for him to say anything else. His hair had been getting longer, looking softer than ever while his beard still looked like if God herself had decided to put it in there. Nice.
“Thanks, buddy.” Keith answered at least, patting the seat at his side. “Here, come on-- I’m suffering with this.”
“What is it?”
The man sat down, moving the chair closer to Keith and the screen.
“Oh, it’s what we filmed the other day, right?” He said, Keith only nodded. “Is there a problem with the phootage?”
The way he sounded concerned made his heart hurt a little. Keith remembered when he had been an intern, having moved from the place he grow up in and called home, unsure and wanting to do his best. It was no different for this guy, so he shook his head and explained himself.
Shane listened, suggesting the standard procedure for when you are blocked at work. Normally, that would be enough and it would help just perfectly. But these were special circumstances, he had said after asking Shane to have lunch with him. The man said yes, it was special circumstanes indeed.
He’s adorable!, Ned wasn’t wrong. He had also not been wrong when he guessed why Henry had incisted in having Shane with them, and why Keith had accepted the second he saw the guy enter the room and smile at them.
The problem with the video is that they have a lot of Shane in it. His takes are good, the guy made sure to film him and Henry exactly how they had thought him, and he had a good eye for little moments that could be transformed into something more with good editing.
But they had-- they had filmed so much of him, too. And Keith wanted to keep it all in the video. The guy gave it something else that was lacking in everything they showed before. He looked at the camera like if he knew everyone wanted to see him and it made him shy, his cheeks turned pink and red with every smile and when the attention was focused on him.
Yeah, Ned was right. Adorable.
“What you could do is delete some of the takes of us, use more of the food phootage” The man suggested, Keith looked at him for a moment.
Even his profile was nice. He had a unique nose and a good jaw, his kips were small and tin but-- Jesus. Pink. Looked soft. And he was acting like a highschooler all over again, fanning over the new boy in class. Fuck.
“Sure, I guess.” He said, sighing. He could feel Shane’s eyes on him for a few seconds, then the man went back to his food. Keith knew perfectly what he needed to take off, but-- “You wouldn’t mind not appearing much in the video, right?”
Shane shook his head, a frown between his eyebrows. “No. Why?”
“Uh, nothing. You are still getting credited, though.”
He smiled again. And oh yeah, whatever. So he had a crush on an intern. Big deal.
This is Henry. And this is me, Keith. And over here, the beautiful Shane.
“Gosh.” Jen laughed on Ryan’s shoulder, the man had stopped the video to let them laugh and Shane felt his ears warmth at the scene in front of him. “He is sooooo crushing on you!”
Shane closed his eyes, trying not to think of happy eyes and loud laughs. His hands covered his face and he muffled a frustrated scream in them, his new friends laughing their asses off in Ryan’s desk.
“Oh boy, at least he’s nice about it and not asking you to do shit for him.” Ryan said. “I once had this boss while in--”
His friend’s conversation was lost to him as Shane sighed and tried to think straight. Not like if that has ever prevent him from liking dick, but he didn’t need yet another frustration while getting used to his job. Man, he wanted to stay here.
People were great, things were going better than how fucking shitty everything had been back home. This was the start he had hoped, but...
“Oh shit.” Ryan said in front of him. “Are you okay, dude?”
Shane looked up, swallowing while trying to smile. When it didn’t came, Ryan did for him and moved his head to one side.
“Look, we love fucking with you, but I’m sure it will be fine.”
“No, I know.” Shane said, licking his lips before realizing Jen had went back to her own desk. Shane blinked a couple of times. “It’s just, like...” He swallowed. “I, I don’t know.”
Ryan watched his for what felt like a long time, crossing his arms over the table and putting his head there, looking up at him. If he was searching for something, Shane wondered what could it be. Did he had said something too weird? To risky? Uh--
“So you like him, too.” Ryan smiled the same way Scott would back home.
A shiver went up Shane’s back and he just-- “N-no, what make you think that?”
“You just blushed!” Ryan said, “Look,” Ryan sat down straight again, he had that older brother look on him again and it made Shane frown. “It’s gonna be fine. You have nothing to worry about because, let’s be honest, Keith’s a good guy... and so are you, so--”
“So?”
“So, just chill.” Ryan shrugged. “Nothing is happening anyway. Do you have any idea how many crushes I have had? And nothing ever has to happen.”
He kinda had a point, but, “I’m not sure if I can be comfortable like this.”
“Oh, you can.” Ryan assured. “You were okay until we told you this.” The man finished, sounding smooth and satisfied with himself.
Shane glared at him before sighing and trying to get back to the last bits he needed to edit of Henry and Keith’s video, even when he had Keith’s intro in the back of his head, repeating over and over, “beautiful Shane”.
Jesus fuck. He needed to chil--
“Shane!”
He looked up, heart beating faster as he found Keith at his side, the happiest of the smiles on his face.
“It’s lunch time, have you eat anything yet?”
“Uh,” He looked at Ryan from the corner of his eyes, the man was drawing a heart in the air and holy shit-- Shane was so gonna kill him. “I mean-- sure. I haven’t finishe yet, but--”
“Aaah, leave it!” He shrugged. “You can do it after lunch, come on. Come onnn, there’s a place I wanna show you!”
“Well-- okay.”
Lunch has never hurt anbody, so why not? Shane smiled at the man, slightly jumping when he gasped and put his hands on his cheeks, cradling his face while looking at him.
“Look at you, all smiley!” He said, his thumbs caressed his bearded cheeks and oh. Oh. “Never stop smiling, buddy. It’s your best look.”
Keith liked him. Jen and Ryan were right.
“Oh,” Shane moved his head, his left cheek leaning against Keith’s hand, and he smiled again. “I’ll try to keep it going, sir.”
Ran snorted on his coffee, but all Shane could concentrate now was Keith’s surprised face. It was just an unspoken thing their eyes concluded in the seconds it took him to take his hands away slowly and Shane to relax completely.
He wonered if the change was too much, if he’d like him even like this. Shane just couldn’t help him.
“Spicey guy.” Keith laughed, putting a hand on Shane’s shoulder. “I like that! Let’s go.”
So they went.
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Chuck Berry's Backing Bands: Tales From the Circle Jerks, Uptown Horns & More
Chuck Berry's Backing Bands: Tales From the Circle Jerks, Uptown Horns & More
When he took the stage, Chuck Berry could strike terror into the hearts of backup musicians who were booked to play behind the father of rock’n’roll.
“We were in a state of total panic…trying to find out what song we were playing and what key it was in,” Bruce Springsteen recalls in the film Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll, describing when the then-unknown E Street Band backed Berry at a show at the University of Maryland in 1973.
Scores of journeyman musicians have tales of playing one-off or small numbers of gigs through the decades with Berry who infamously traveled alone, got paid upfront (cash only), never bothered with soundchecks, expected his sidemen to play his classics — and sometimes fired them mid-show if they could not.
Here are some of their stories.
Guitarist Ned Nelter and his band, Jr. Cadillac, from Seattle, backed Berry for more than a dozen dates in the Pacific Nortwest. “No entourage. No rehearsal. No set list. No soundcheck. In fact, he’d often do the same song in a different key. He never called keys, or counted off. We just found the key and fell in. My best memory was at Boise State University. He was in fine form, a good mood. He asked two couples to join us on stage and dance. Suddenly, we have 40 revelers dancing all around us. Chuck went to our piano player, and started playing the right hand, while our piano player maintained the left. Then he switched around to the left hand. A natural showman. His sense of pitch was like a laser on the note — even though his guitar was rarely in tune.”
Danny Benair was the drummer in a Los Angeles band called the Falcons booked to play with Berry in March 1980 at the Hollywood Palladium. “The band rehearsed his songs for a couple of weeks, with no idea what he would play,” recalls Benair. The night of the show, Berry arrived with his own bass player, Jimmy Marsala, but otherwise relied on Benair and his bandmates. “During the second song, our piano player, Mickey Mariano, was not seeing that Chuck wanted to bring the sound down. His head was staring into the grand piano. After the song, Chuck’s bass player went up to him and said, ‘Chuck, would like you to leave the stage.’ But Chuck did invite him back for the encore.”
In 1995, Greg Hetson was playing with the Circle Jerks at the club Mississippi Nights in Berry’s hometown of St. Louis. “About halfway through the show, the stage manager hands me a note saying, ‘Chuck Berry is here and he wants to play with you. Is that okay?’ I say, ‘Yes, of course! Bring him up!’ So I unplugged one of my amps and gave him my spare guitar.” Berry calls out for “Roll Over Beethoven” and Hetson turns to bandmate Zander Schloss: “Oh shit, what key? Then I remembered from watching Keith Richards in Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll that most of his songs were in C, so I yell “C!” And we followed his lead. He left before we finished our set so we didn’t get to meet him. Our singer, Keith Morris, heard from the club manager that he thought we were one of the best rock bands he’d ever seen. Who would have thunk?”
A festival called Summit on the Hudson in 2003 in Westchester County gave Brian O’Callaghan his “one opportunity to play with Mr. Berry — or Chuck, as he asked us to call him.” O’Callaghan was hired to play bass, with Nate Wilson on piano and Eric Kalb on drums. “After getting the gig, I proceeded to the record store and purchased two double CDs of Chuck Berry music. I listened to nothing else for the next six weeks” before the show. “Show time. Chuck comes wailing onto the concert site in the Lincoln Town Car the promoters rented for him, per his rider. He said, ‘I start every song. That’s where you get the key and the tempo. Let’s rock it!’ We rocked it for 60 minutes and we were done. It felt like five minutes had passed. Unlike those horror stories, he treated us like professionals, equals and seemed to be having just as much fun as we were.”
In recent years, Ray Andersen has recorded 11 albums that have climbed the Top Kid Albums chart as Mr. Ray. But in 1996, playing in a band called Blue Van Gogh, Andersen had one of the more unusual encounters with Berry. He recalls a hot, muggy, August night when Berry drove up, alone, in his rented black Cadillac to play a show in South Dakota, at a concert site overrun by a late-summer infestation of grasshoppers. Stepping out of his car, a handkerchief in hand, the father of rock’n’roll proceeded to wipe the grasshoppers off his windshield — taking care of business himself, as usual. “We all watched like it’s the bottom of the 9th in a World Series game—it was surreal,” recalls Andersen, who sat in on piano behind Berry that night at the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. When Andersen asked Berry the key to a song, the rocker said he was “whining like Keith Richards. What a freaking honor.”
When it came to getting paid, Berry didn’t mess around. Steve Fossen, of the band Heart By Heart and a founding original bassist with Heart, was backstage at the Seattle Coliseum in 1981 when Berry faced down a promoter, demanding an additional $10,000. “But we have a contract,” the promoter countered. “Fuck the contract,” Fossen remembers Berry saying. “I ain’t playing unless you pay me another $10,000.” The promoter insisted, “But our deal was for $50,000.” Berry stated: “Look man, you got two choices. Either go on stage and tell 15,000 people that I ain’t playing – or find another $10,000. Cause I’m not going out there until you do.” Berry got his extra cash and took the stage, backed by members of Heart.
Tom Hambridge played some 30 Northeast shows with Berry from the mid ’80s through the mid ’90s, and recalls a night the singer’s cash temporarily went astray. At an amphitheater show in Mansfield, Mass., Berry received his performance pay in cash, as usual, and put it in a suitcase in the trunk of his rented Cadillac. “After the show, he realized he had put the car keys in the suitcase and locked them in the trunk. He desperately needed to get that suitcase out, filled with $20,000 or $30,000. Stagehands at the venue worked on getting into that car for about an hour. They finally pried open the trunk and we were all standing there. Chuck opened the suitcase and took out one $20 bill, signed it and handed to the guys, said thanks, and drove off. The stage hands ended up framing the twenty backstage.”
Saxophonist Arno Hecht, co-founder of the Uptown Horns, which backed the J. Geils Band, the Rolling Stones and others, recalls when Berry first played The Ritz (now Webster Hall) in New York City in the early `80s. “He apparently fired the bass player after a couple of songs, right off the stage. And then he fired the drummer a few more songs later, and finished the set with just him and the piano player.”
For Berry’s return to The Ritz, Hecht was asked to recruit a new set of players and tapped guitarist Jon Paris, bassist Charles Torres, drummer Ray Agcaoili, fellow saxophonist Crispin Cioe and keyboardist Charlie Giordano, now a member of the E Street band. “Chuck’s attitude was, if you’re going to take a Chuck Berry gig, you should know Chuck Berry material,” says Hecht. The Ritz sidemen knew Berry’s repertoire so well “he would do songs which he generally never did” in concert. They played with Berry throughout the New York area. “It came to a point,” says Hecht, “where Chuck would know we were the guys on the gig and he actually — and uncharacteristically — showed up for soundcheck, just to jam, just for the fun of it. It was thrilling. We loved the guy.”
This article originally appeared on: Billboard
http://tunecollective.com/2017/03/28/chuck-berrys-backing-bands-tales-circle-jerks-uptown-horns/
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