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Subject: Re: Announcing the all new Digital Byrotron B 90D

From: "ClayE" <ecclesreinson@rogers.com>
Date: 2010-05-28

What are you Chris, our resident GOSSIP guy?
If I want to read this kind of crap, I can get a tabloid newspaper.


Clay



--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Chris Dale <unobtainiumkeys@...> wrote:
>
> You're right - it is a horrible thing to say - regardless of whether it's
> true or not
>
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> The "unofficial" story is that he had some 14 year old fan-groupie over and
> when she didn't want to do what he wanted her to do, he beat the shit out of
> her while force feeding her drugs which almost killed her.
>
> The "official" story (doctored by their management for the media) is that
> she was a 16 year old prostitute who ingested too much drugs.
>
>
> If you care to look through enough Google to find it, you probably will.
> But the story I read was so disgusting it made me sick to my stomach.
>
> I thought later it was just a bunch of BS. I forgot about it for a while
> until a visit to LA to see Richard Chamberlin. While there I visited a
> lawyer friend of mine who lives in LA. .He considers the 'unofficial'
> version closer to the truth. So now his songs give me the creeps.
>
>
> Anyway, I think you guys should make your own minds up.
>
> Here's some captions with links. The "Ben Stiller" one suggests the
> 'unofficial' version isn't an isolated incident. .
>
> ∗The early samples of Henley's album contain some striking ballads, but the
> main tone is even more aggressive musically and biting lyrically than most
> of his work with the Eagles. It's as if he were trying to exorcise some of
> the anger and pain of 1980.∗
>
> ∗One especially biting track is titled "Nobody's Business," an apparent
> reference to a 1980 arrest for cocaine possession. With the hint offered in
> the song title, you don't expect Henley to comment on the much-publicized
> incident, but he did say, "I was at the bottom of the barrel emotionally
> when that happened. What really happened never really came out and I don't
> really care to talk about it. But I will say this: I feel like what I do on
> record and on stage is everybody's property because I'm in show business,
> but what I do in my own house-as long as I'm not hurting anybody-is just
> like the song says: nobody's business."∗
>
> from:
> http://www.eaglesfans.com/info/articles/the_long_run_is_over.html
>
>
>
> ∗Don Henley was arrested in 1980 in Los Angeles and charged with
> contributing to the delinquency of a minor when paramedics were called to
> his home to save a naked 16-year-old girl overdosing on cocaine and
> Quaaludes. He was fined $2,000 and given two years' probation and ordered
> into a drug counseling program. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
> ∗
> from:
>
> http://www.artistfacts.com/detail.php?id=217
>
>
> The DON HENLEY File
>
> Some quips from the ever-quotable Don Henley:
>
> "Besides being kind of slimy and mean-spirited, it wasn't particularly
> funny. It didn't have any redeeming qualities. I know Ben Stiller a bit and
> I intend to ask him the next time I see him, 'What the hell was that
> supposed to be?' "
>
> -- On a recent SNL short film featuring Will Farrell as Glenn Frey sexually
> torturing Stiller during a one-night stand
>
>
> from:
> http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/H/Henley_Don/2000/05/21/pf-745953.html
>
>
>
> Anyway regardless of the severity of what happened - the guy is a loser. .
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> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:57 AM, Gary Brumm <gabru@...> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > I googled it and find no such reference to itÂ…..just a drug bust from the
> > 80's.
> >
> > Where did you get your info? This is a horrible thing to say if it isn't
> > true.
> >
> >
> >
> > ∗From:∗ newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto:
> > newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] ∗On Behalf Of ∗lsf5275@...
> > ∗Sent:∗ Thursday, May 27, 2010 12:34 PM
> > ∗To:∗ newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> > ∗Subject:∗ Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Announcing the all new Digital
> > Byrotron B 90D
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > When did this happen?
> >
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 5/27/2010 11:04:32 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > unobtainiumkeys@... writes:
> >
> > I suppose. Specifically I was referring to his rape and beating of a 14
> > year old girl.
> >
> >
> >
>