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MONDAY, JULY 18, 2016 - JULY 24, 2016 - VOLUME 7, NO. 29
For Your Love – The Yardbirds
Statement on the Attack in Nice, France
July 22 - The Rose
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Attack Took 84 lives - 2 From the US The LASD issue the following statement: “Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Nice, France as they work to deal with the challenging and troubling circumstances created by this horrific attack. Los Angeles County is made up of a unique and diverse population. It is home to people from all over the world, including France. We stand united with our French residents, locally and globally. We at SEE PAGE 3
Man Charged in Domestic Murder
The Yardbirds: (Left to Right) Myke Scavone, Johnny A., Kenny Aaronson, Jim McCarty, and John Idan.
BY TERRY MILLER Back in England, particularly northern England, there was a plethora of exciting Rock ‘n’ Roll in the 1960s - The Beatles (the Mods), with their amazing vocals and studio experimentation; The Rolling Stones, with their “Rocker
Moniker” and radically raw sound; The Who, with their wild live shows; The Kinks, with their wit and repartee - combined with “music hall sensibility,” according to one critic … and then, there were The Yardbirds: the quintessential Blues/Rock band that launched the careers of such guitarists as Eric Clap-
ton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page. Though The Yardbirds called it quits by the late 1960s, longtime drummer and founding member Jim McCarty has kept The Yardbirds’ music alive over the years by touring with other players who are drawn by the band’s “seminal mix of
Blues, Soul, and psychedelia,” according to Steve Pfarrers, a writer with the Daily Hampshire Gazette. In 1992, the band was inducted into the hall of fame when U2 guitarist, The Edge, was quoted as saying the Yardbirds were “loud and exciting.” It (the induction into the hall of fame)
– Photo by Arnie Goodman
was a pivotal moment in McCarty’s career. It is not very often you get to witness legends, but next week, if you go to the Rose, that is exactly what you will see when McCarty gets behind the drum kit here in Pasadena on Friday,
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A suspect, who lost both his legs in 2012 after crashing a stolen police vehicle, was recently charged with killing his boyfriend in their Echo Park residence last week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced. Nicholas James Bowling, 28, is scheduled to be arraigned in Department 30 at the Foltz Criminal Justice Center in case BA448279. Prosecutors will ask that his bail be set at $2 million. Deputy District Attorney Colby Cano with the Family Violence Division is SEE PAGE 2