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MTV News from The Week In Rock to launching and leading news stints with ABC and CBS, documentaries.

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@davidaxelrod @nyknicks Remember Jerry West’s60 footer to put it into overtime?

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Karen Caroenter on the drums, always worth a watch and listen!

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Karen Carpenter's Legendary Drum Solo You Never Saw

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@gibsonguitar His 75th bd party! I was at that one.

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Rest In Peace James Blood Ulmer. For me he was his own genre.

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Visionary American guitarist James Blood Ulmer has died - he was 86 years old.

A true one-off - his family have shared a beautiful word statement...

https://t.co/wvemY8Nc6u

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@MrChuckD Nailed it.

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@vurnt22 Brooklyn Tech!

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@TheMichaelShore Ouch

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Chaka Khan on the drums!

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華麗なバチ捌きを披露するチャカ・カーン

1976年23歳
ソロデビュー前のルーファス時代ですね。

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The first public performance of Sgt. Pepper

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"Watch out for your ears!" @michaelalex

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@mitchlafon Ignore

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@RalstonReports Some people don’t understand that hiring prostitutes is s turnoff for som voters. I don’t judge it but I don’t ignore it either.

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@bluezharp The DNA of rock and roll

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@DHRonESPN @MrChuckD And the Laker team they had to beat was fantastic!

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New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

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Happy Birthday Charlie Watts!

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@AXSTV This is not coherent Perry. I interviewed him a few times in 1990 and 1991. When he was not high he was razor sharp, nuanced, genuinely exciting. He is burnt to a crisp now. Jane’s in the first few years was one of the greatest bands on earth imho.

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@kurt_loder Wow.

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You want to see and hear this.

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John Lee Hooker & Van Morrison performing “Baby Please Don’t Go”

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@MrChuckD I want to focus on your choice of Jeff Beck. A inimitable original for half a century. When his mother told him guitarist Les Paul (whom he admired) used technology to create effects and was therefore not real, Jeff said “I don’t care about that.” Second only to Hendrix imho.

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@kurt_loder Oh I’m planning on seeing it.

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Sounds good. Sorry…

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#Tuner: A rom-com/heist flick/sorta musical set in the little-explored world of New York piano tuners. Yes, at last. https://t.co/TrUJPeKGXs