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DaveRock - Lon Chaney was known as The Man of a Thousand Faces. Switch "personas" for "faces", and I think it applied to Bowie. He kept it interesting, no doubt.

Jack - I was glad a few years ago when Kadri left the Leafs (for the Avs), because of bone headed stuff. Now we have Bunting. Gutless and stupid move. Speaking of Lon Chaney, how about that guy for the Jets - 75 (!!) stitches to the face during the Knights game, and he returns to play! He looked like a Chaney character! Wow.

You can further extrapolate that premise to include today's music. Even more so.

My favorite comment while watching an old Traffic jam session on the tube - "Seven dudes with more talent than the entire music industry in 2022."

Mike - Tampa could likely be in deep trouble with Hedman (and Cernak) potentially being out. By the way, has Bunting been hanging out with Marchand? Still backing the Leafs, but he's a punk.

KISS, all show, no musical talent.
Applies to a lot of 80’s big-hair bands too.

Sounds good to me ! Hockey isn't covered on the telly in England, so I know nothing about it. I guess it's more of an American or Canadian thing.

There is an interesting interview with David Bowie in July 1972, in which he was challenged about being camp. He argues, in this one, that he isn't camper than anyone else in rock music - to which the interviewer replies " Nobody ever called Jerry Garcia camp". Bowie agrees, but points out that Jerry is a musician, and that he ( Bowie) isn't into music on that level. That he was using music, along with mime and theatre to create an effect.

It was a weirder phenomenon than it at first appeared - that whole David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust schtick. Basically, a bloke called David Jones wanted to be a rock star, so he changed his name and personality and became David Bowie. When this didn't achieve the desired effect, the fabrication that was Bowie changed identity again, and became Ziggy Stardust. Bullseye.
I don't think anyone who saw him in 1972-73 realised that what they were seeing wasn't seeing a real rock performer, but someone acting as a one. And when he announced his retirement on stage in 1973, everyone, I think, assumed that the real person was retiring. Clearly in retrospect this wasn't the case - it was just the role being played - the illusion, that was being laid to rest.
I think there was an element of fabrication with most rock performers - people acting a role that the public thought was how they were in their private life. But it seemed more pronounced with David Bowie than most performers of my generation.

Jack - Good point about the 2004 Red Sox! We just got pounded by the better team, but it’s a series. You take a breath, and move on.
Looks like it was the night for the underdogs - Bolts, Kraken, Rangers, and the Jets!

DaveRock - I love hockey, and I love the Band and the Dead etc, proving great music and the thrill of in-the-moment sports are not mutually exclusive. But I get hockey is an acquired taste :-)
Re: Ziggy Stardust - I read an interview with David Bowie once where he defended the glam movement from critics who said it introduced androgynous fashion into rock & roll. He said it was the current trends of the time that were androgynous, in that all men & women had the standard long straightish hair, the blue jeans & tees look. He was a pretty astute guy, Bowie, and he may have had a point.

...I prefer The Band to hockey. I think .

....Jet player got sliced in the face during a huge scrum in the blue paint
Over fifty stitches later, he's out there skating.
Meanwhile, football players complain about turf toe.
Flaming Lips Yoshimi five LP delivered. It's very pink. And it has a Seven Nation Army cover.

If a board of that show existed it would be very well known

And 1 22 71...a board of that with the second set (only set one seems to be available).... schwingadingding!

What a great line and image

Keep the faith and don’t get discouraged by tonight’s outcome. Sometimes a team needs a drubbing like this before they can coalesce. I say that as a long-suffering Red Sox fan who remembers 2004 quite well.

This is my first time seeing the Kraken jerseys. I thought I would like them more than I do. They’ve got a weird neon, pastel color that doesn’t fit with the rest of the palette and certainly doesn’t look good on TV.