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Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong both recorded songs making fun of each other in a way that was… good natured? Or maybe not?

The Cab Calloway/Dizzy Gillespie one is funny because people are still poring over eyewitness accounts trying to figure out who shot the spitball to this day, like it’s the Warren Commission Report

Apparently Duke Ellington did this with the players in his band all the time

Mike Judge completely torpedoed Winger at the height of their popularity by having a loser character wear their shirt in Beavis and Butthead

Huh, a whole bunch of these fights involve Miles Davis, that’s weird

- Miles Davis tells Monk not to play under his trumpet solo (this gets talked about for DECADES)
- Wynton Marsalis invites himself onstage with Miles and Miles boots him off
- Miles talks shit about that Mingus+Ellington record in Downbeat Magazine and Mingus writes an open letter in response

Highlights are:
- Cab Calloway accuses Dizzy Gillespie of shooting a spitball at him and Dizzy gets so mad he pulls a knife
- Mingus, Max Roach, and Duke Ellington have some kind of argument in the middle of a recording session, where no one can even agree on who was mad at who

Reading interviews with old jazz musicians is so funny because they’re constantly rehashing petty drama from the past. Two musicians will get pissed at each other and then everyone around them will talk about it for years. It’s like all they do.

The funny thing about Stallone is that he started as the first kind of actor then transformed into the second. (And maybe same for Carl Weathers too?)

There were the everyman types, which was the model in the 70s, when the lead of a thriller would be Gene Hackman or Walter Matthau. Thats what Bruce Willis was doing. Then there was Schwarzenegger, Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren and the other muscleheads who took over in the 80s.

He posted a second angle, amazing

This car salesman is the best stuntman alive?

I actually read a Peter Benchley follow up to jaws that was about a giant squid, and I think it had a forward talking about how he felt bad about villainizing sharks, but fuck squids

This is the least fun fact in this thread

Bob Marley’s Greatest Hits too, that one was everywhere

This was the same teacher who introduced me to Tom Waits and Allen Toussaint, he knew what was up

Mea culpa! But interesting that the movie did have other effects.

As someone who literally worked in wine, the Merlot shit is also untrue. Merlot ate up less market share than it did previously and overplanting led to depressed prices long before the movie came out. Pinot went up huge, but wine sales overall went up! So no losers

I also remember The Eagles Greatest Hits being a go-to punchline, like the example of what a boring person has on cassette in their car

My middle school English teacher once spent like ten minutes telling our class that they were “rip off artists” (a super 90s term) who just copied Gram Parsons and made it more marketable

Outdoor fruit stand with huge pyramid of oranges and tall round banana display.

they’re just begging for a car chase

I think the second example is good but the first one… I can tell you that hating the Eagles was already a very healthy cultural movement

The only real problem I have with the modern Indy movies is that they broke the pattern of the first 3, where every movie establishes that a different religion is the one true religion

The lyrics of this song always get me. I’d quote a favorite bit but it doesn’t seem right to type out the words and separate it from the music, they support each other so well

Hard Times Come Again No More | The Longest Johns Music Video | First Single from Smoke & Oakum YouTube video by The Longest Johns

You can basically name any singer with folk/americana connections and there’s a good chance you can find them singing it (like Dylan, Mavis Staples, Johnny Cash, etc). This is a newer band I like that does a great version.

Yeah, that one jumped out at me. That’s a really great song I’ve heard a lot of different people sing. No mistaking that melody either.

Ty!

IIRC they did a whole thing where they tried to bring in a few familiar songs for each of the civs, but rearrange them according to era.

So in the first era you’ll hear a very rudimentary version of say, Waltzing Matilda but then by the later eras it’s loud and bombastic and instantly recognizable

a cartoon of a man opening a door with a bunch of monsters inside of it Alt: Animated gif of the doctor from the simpsons explaining Mr Burns Disease, where he has so many diseases they get stuck on each other

It’s this but with money and oil

This is sort of like getting nuclear winter and global warming to balance out in simearth