{"id":22992,"date":"2016-01-29T10:36:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T15:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22992"},"modified":"2016-01-29T10:36:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T15:36:46","slug":"musical-schizophrenic-killers-we-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/musical-schizophrenic-killers-we-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Schizophrenic Killers We Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t54NeRX03_o\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to welcome <strong>Townsman Mark<\/strong> to the Hall. Or maybe I\u2019m welcoming him under some other name as I\u2019m not sure how he registered; I\u2019ll let him introduce himself if he\u2019d like.<\/p>\n<p>Mark is an old acquaintance. We\u2019ve had little contact since I met him around 30 yeas ago and not a lot even then. But\u2026there\u2019s been quite a lot of contact in the last week and Mark has posed some thoughts\/issues that seem cut from the RTH mold. And he\u2019s posed them in the insightful\/witty\/sarcastic manner that is a hallmark of the Hall. I asked his permission to steal one for the Hall and suggested he check us out. He\u2019s joined and now I\u2019m opening this thread but it\u2019s really Mark\u2019s in conception and in words.<\/p>\n<p>Al: \u201cTake over Mark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>So, on to musical schizophrenic killers we love&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start with Jim Gordon (drums) &#8211; disciple of Hal Blaine &amp; Wrecking Crew; toured\u00a0with Everly Brothers, Derek &amp; The Dominos, Joe Cocker&#8217;s Mad Dogs &amp; Englishman<em>,\u00a0<\/em>Delanie &amp; Bonnie, Traffic, Souther-Furay-HIllman; played on Beach Boys<em>&#8216; Pet\u00a0Sounds, <\/em>Dave Mason&#8217;s<em> Alone Together<\/em>, Steely Dan&#8217;s<em> Pretzel Logic<\/em>,\u00a0Traffic&#8217;s<em> Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys<\/em>, Emitt Rhodes\u2019<em> The American\u00a0Dream<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In 1983, he attacked his 72-year-old mother, Osa Marie Gordon, with a\u00a0hammer before fatally stabbing her with a butcher knife, after claiming the\u00a0voice told him to kill her.<!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p>On July 10, 1984 Gordon was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison. While\u00a0first eligible for parole in 1992, he was denied several times. At a 2005\u00a0hearing he claimed his mother was still alive. In 2014, he declined to attend\u00a0his hearing, and was denied parole until at least 2018. A Los Angeles deputy\u00a0district attorney stated at the hearing that he was still &#8220;seriously\u00a0psychologically incapacitated&#8221; and &#8220;a danger when he is not taking his\u00a0medication&#8221;. As of 2015, he is serving his sentence at the California Medical\u00a0Facility, a specialist medical and psychiatric prison in Vacaville,\u00a0California.<\/p>\n<p>Who are the other members of this supergroup, which we&#8217;ll call Musical Schizophrenic Killers We Love\u00a0(obviously produced by Phil\u00a0Spector)?<\/p>\n<p>Mark: \u201cBack to you Al\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More to come from Mark because this isn\u2019t even the topic I asked him if I could steal!<\/p>\n<nav class=\"page-links\"><strong>Pages:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/musical-schizophrenic-killers-we-love\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">1<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/musical-schizophrenic-killers-we-love\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">2<\/span><\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d like to welcome Townsman Mark to the Hall. Or maybe I\u2019m welcoming him under some other name as I\u2019m not sure how he registered; I\u2019ll let him introduce himself if he\u2019d like. Mark is an old acquaintance. We\u2019ve had little contact since I met him around 30 yeas ago and not a lot even <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/musical-schizophrenic-killers-we-love\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[146,1026],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}