Talk about a trip down memory lane - you just posted two songs that we used to perform when I was in a R&R band back in '65 and '66. Our version of "Shapes" was based on the one done by The Yardbirds, you know, the band that Jimmy Page was in before he wandered into that obscure band Led Zeppelin. Now that I listen to that Trooper version I realize those are two completely different songs. I guess that's what the passage of nearly 60 years will do...
Speaking of trips down memory lane - I was just dust mopping my house and I rounded up a big ol' mess of dust bunnies and that made me wonder whatever happened to DBQ. I hope she is doing well.
Did you ever notice that Sheriff Longmire and Detective Bosch are exactly the same character just in different settings?
Many of the protagonists of hardboiled detective stories are more the same then different.
Bosch is just more cliched with the lonely jazz music.
Walt has a faithful Indian companion like the Lone Ranger.
Spencer is another jazz fan who has a minority side kick in Hawk.
Travis McGee had Meyer the brilliant foil to his man of action.
Even Easy Rawlins has Mouse to be his psychopath who can do the things he wants to do but is too "Moral" to do.
Raylan was a little different in that his sidekick is a criminal who he is trying to arrest half the time. It is hard to find an original in the genre.
I was thinking that they are both widowers, both have redheaded daughters who go into law enforcement, and they both deal with drunks, indians, drunken indians and illegals. Maybe that is too specific.
The Kookie sidekick angle goes all the way back to Edd "Kookie" Byrnes on 77 Sunset Strip. That is a trope that will not die.
And never speak ill of Boyd Crowder - he was the man!
Has Raylan been recast in another city yet? I read that might happen...
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Talk about a trip down memory lane - you just posted two songs that we used to perform when I was in a R&R band back in '65 and '66. Our version of "Shapes" was based on the one done by The Yardbirds, you know, the band that Jimmy Page was in before he wandered into that obscure band Led Zeppelin. Now that I listen to that Trooper version I realize those are two completely different songs. I guess that's what the passage of nearly 60 years will do...
Speaking of trips down memory lane - I was just dust mopping my house and I rounded up a big ol' mess of dust bunnies and that made me wonder whatever happened to DBQ. I hope she is doing well.
Did you ever notice that Sheriff Longmire and Detective Bosch are exactly the same character just in different settings?
Very true Dude.
Many of the protagonists of hardboiled detective stories are more the same then different.
Bosch is just more cliched with the lonely jazz music.
Walt has a faithful Indian companion like the Lone Ranger.
Spencer is another jazz fan who has a minority side kick in Hawk.
Travis McGee had Meyer the brilliant foil to his man of action.
Even Easy Rawlins has Mouse to be his psychopath who can do the things he wants to do but is too "Moral" to do.
Raylan was a little different in that his sidekick is a criminal who he is trying to arrest half the time.
It is hard to find an original in the genre.
I was thinking that they are both widowers, both have redheaded daughters who go into law enforcement, and they both deal with drunks, indians, drunken indians and illegals. Maybe that is too specific.
The Kookie sidekick angle goes all the way back to Edd "Kookie" Byrnes on 77 Sunset Strip. That is a trope that will not die.
And never speak ill of Boyd Crowder - he was the man!
Has Raylan been recast in another city yet? I read that might happen...
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