What are you Listening to Right now ? Febus XVIII

Finnforest wrote: micky wrote: Finnforest wrote: So sad that Duane and Oak went so young....talk about a force cut down way too soon just think what they, and the group could have done given time. Considering all they did do in two short years... No doubt about it.  And i was just reading about Oakley on Wiki, I had forgotten this part.  I guess it was better that he got to spend those 3 hours at home "Oakley said he was okay after the accident, declined medical treatment, and caught a ride home. Three hours later, he was rushed to the hospital, delirious and in pain, and died of cerebral swelling caused by a fractured skull. Attending doctors stated that even if Oakley had gone straight to the hospital from the scene of the accident, he could not have been saved"

He asked for a bench trial, without a jury, gambling that it would be easier to convince a judge than a conservative jury that Lyndon had been afflicted with amphetamine psychosis after five exhausting months of babysitting a band.

Managing a rock ’n’ roll tour would drive anyone nuts, Condon said. To prove his point, he called bassist Berry Oakley as an expert on narcotics abuse on the road.

“Did you take any dope in the last month?” Condon asked.

“Uh-huh,” Oakley replied.

“In the last week?”

“Oh, yeah,” the musician said.

“What about the last hour?”

“You bet,” said Oakley.

Condon’s strategy worked. Lyndon was judged not guilty by reason of insanity. He spent 18 months in jail before trial, then about six months locked up in a psych ward.

in the annuls of Rock and Roll..I'm not sure anything tops the Twiggs Lyndon story...  like something out of Hammer of the Gods.. without the mystique and embellishment.