Machine Gun Thompson's Blog: Friends are Forever

Monday, February 22, 2010

Friends are Forever

3 comments:

Flag this message Mark Wakabayashi, February 23, 2010 8:47 PM: "Looks great!"
Teresa Sullivan, February 24, 2010 12:13 AM: Hi Mr. Thompson,

I found your website last week and can't thank you enough for doing it. Hearing what you have to say is rewarding, to say the least. For so many years (I'm 44 now, my husband is 55) we only knew a tiny handful of people who knew about and loved the MC-5 (topping the list of a few select bands that play what we call TheGodMusic. When I first heard the MC-5 it felt like I was coming back home somehow; it heralded the discovery of lots of other great sounds.

I had the privilege of giving a talk and some workshops for the Great Lakes Beadworkers Guild (they meet in the Detroit area) last March. Due in part to the average age of the members, a lot of them heard music at the Grande, had a brother who was a roadie, etc.; one woman's sister was the drummer for the Pleasure Seekers. So in addition to doing fun bead thangs I was in rock 'n' roll heaven, especially when I got to meet Diane Pettis, whose husband was a rock photographer. I got to have a great lasagne dinner with her, her husband Frank, and their friend Leni Sinclair. The weekend before I got there, there was a benefit for Leni.

Okay, enough name-dropping, I'm probably boring you to death. I'm just really happy that you are alive and well, still calling it like you see it, and most importantly, playing music.

Rock on,
Teresa Sullivan
"putting beads where they don't belong since 1994"
www.teresasullivanstudio.com
Zahra J aka, February 25, 2010 5:50 PM: Hello Machinegun

I welcome you here to my circle of Facebook friends Machinegun. It is indeed a delight to meet you and I will forward some suggested friends I have here that might interest you.
Indeed I see you are a drummer. Yeahh. Up with drummers. My cousin back in my homeland of London, UK used to drum with Phil Collins, Cream and a couple of other well known artists.
Sadly his drumming career was halted as he and his band manager were plowed down by a drunk driver while they were helping the roadies arrange their equipment.
My cousin never was able to perform again. After a lengthy recovery he went on to work as a DJ for the BBC radio 1 in the UK.
Now retired at the age of 61 he is doing okay but always talks about his days as a musician.
As for myself I started out working for EMI records as a PA for a record producer. One year later I was going to college for fashion design and somehow ended up working in motion pictures.
Here I have lived in the Western US since 1989 and have worked on so very high budgeted shows out here.
My passion is for music and my element lies within movie making...the two will always go hand in hand.
Great to meet you and do stop on by when you have the time....

Sending you warm sunny hugs from Scottsdale, AZ

Zahra J aka ~ZZ :-)))

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