Posted on 03/27/2024 10:30:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I am hearing about the Layla portrait selling for the first time.
$2.5 million sounds absurdly low.
I could have put together a consortium of buyers at $2.6 million in one day with a dozen of my former college friends.
Many of the teenagers from the 1960s and early 1970s think Layla is the best rock song and greatest guitar solo of all time, and the album still has Top Ten standing with millions of Baby Boomers.
Boyd was not the artist. The artist was Emile Theeodore Frandsen who died in 1969.
Correction...the artist was Emile Théodore Frandsen (the name was misspelled in the article).
I saw D&D in Cincinnati and Santana was the warm-up act.
When D&D took the stage, EC was the last and “needed” a stage hand to strap on his guitar.
After hitting a few notes to fine tune, he blasted into the opening of “Layla” - it was great!!!
From Wiki...
On June 3, 1983, Gordon attacked his 71-year-old widowed mother, Osa Marie (Beck) Gordon, with a hammer, then fatally stabbed her with a butcher knife, claiming that a voice told him to kill her.[6][9][10]
Only after his arrest for murder was Gordon properly diagnosed with schizophrenia. At his trial, the court accepted that he had acute schizophrenia, but he was not allowed to use an insanity defense because of changes to California law arising from the federal Insanity Defense Reform Act.[7]
On July 10, 1984, Gordon was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison.[11] He was first eligible for parole in 1991, but it was denied several times because he never attended a parole hearing.
In 2014, he declined to attend his hearing and was denied parole until at least 2018. A Los Angeles deputy district attorney stated at the hearing that Gordon was still “seriously psychologically incapacitated” and “a danger when he is not taking his medication”.[12]
In November 2017, Gordon was rediagnosed with schizophrenia. On March 7, 2018, he was denied parole for the tenth time and was tentatively scheduled to become eligible again in March 2021.[13]
At the time of his death in 2023, he was serving his sentence at the California Medical Facility, a medical and psychiatric prison in Vacaville, California.
Yes, Jim Gordon is a cautionary tale... He wasn’t always a matricidal schizo. He’s yet another example, like so many of the lunatics ranting and raving on the street, of someone who became psychotic as a result of recreational drug use. What a waste... Gordon was a talented musician... for a while, the number #2 studio L.A. studio drummer after the legendary Hal Blaine. And his collaborations with Eric Clapton made the Layla album the masterpiece that it was.
He was indeed a very talented drummer who played on so many classic tracks...including every track (except for 1) on Steely Dan’s “Pretzel Logic”.
Fun fact: Jeff Porcaro played on that 1 track and later, played every track (except 1) on SD’s “Katy Lied” album.
I knew about Gordan. I had never heard of the Rita Coolidge allegation.
Now, let's take a cold, hard look at how she attained her "stature." She attained it by using her "stature" as a fashion model, about the most vacuous and fleeting occupation anyone can have, one largely populated and directed by various scumbags, predators, crazy homosexual men and messed up young people. She then parlayed her "stature" in that disgusting industry into plooking one rock start after another.
Yeah, that makes her a real "woman of stature" alright - perhaps to shallow people who view undeserved fame acquired from sleazy, thuggish or immoral behavior bereft of any real accomplishment, as something admirable and worthy of praise and emulation. That's normally a very leftist thing.
I'd flee if that shallow old bag sidled up to me at a bar. I've always preferred the company of beautiful women who weren't sleazebags, opportunists or "climbers." I'd avoid a woman like Boyd at all costs.
How many cats do you have? How much box wine do you drink every week?
Gee...
Layla is one of my hit parade songs... I never knew this.
Sorry for Gordon’s mom, obviously, and sorry that Rita Coolidge got ripped off like that. That was BS.
Layla will continue to be my ringtone though, despite the tragedy.
The deal with Rita does affect my opinion of Clapton.
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