6 Things to Know About New Jets DL Vinny Curry He s a Family Man, Whether That Family s at the Jersey Shore, Marshall U., the Eagles or the Green & White Apr 27, 2021 at 08:10 AM Michael Perez/Associated Press
Vinny Curry is a homebody. He likes his Jersey Shore stomping grounds and, appropriate for the Garden State, various shades of green. Here are six things you might want to know about the Jets newly signed ninth-year defensive lineman.
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Curry loves his Neptune, NJ, hometown and his home shore area so much that he s given back to the community in many of the late springs/early summers he s been in the area. We may have lost count but in his first six seasons with the Eagles, he staged three one-day football camps for kids from kindergarten to eighth grade at his alma mater, Neptune HS.
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Joey Ramone, Who Died 20 Years Ago Today, Is Remembered as a Mensch and Punk s Eternal Godfather
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Even without today’s well-timed announcement that Pete Davidson would be playing Joey Ramone in an upcoming biopic, the 20th anniversary of his death would not have gone unnoted. April 15 stands out as Tax Day to many (even though in 2021, that doomy occasion won’t occur until May), but for some, it looms even larger as as the day the punk-rock flag flies at half-mast. The leather jacket-donning Ramone, with his humorously bleak lyrical outlook, exaggerated mop-top, lean frame and gnarly vocals remains undiminished as an icon by the passing years now, as then, the very definition of a punk rock godfather.
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⢠Brown Acid, a series of albums released by RidingEasy Records that is devoted to obscure early metal and stoner rock music, regularly unearths gems from the Mahoning Valley.
The local music scene will be represented once again on “Brown Acid: The Twelfth Trip” with “Every Lady Does It,” recorded in the mid-’70s by the Youngstown band Artist. The track actually is the B-side to the single recorded at Youngstown’s Peppermint Productions and released on its Peppermint Presents label. The A-side is “For the First Time.”
According to the press release announcing the album, “Artist weren’t too creative with their band name, instead saving that energy to create meaty Midwestern rock ‘n’ roll like ‘Every Lady Does It.’ Harmonized guitar leads and driving cowbell power their hook-filled lone 1977 single.”
by Charlie Smith on January 17th, 2021 at 10:54 AM 1 of 2 2 of 2
The man credited with creating the Wall of Sound on hits like Be My Baby and Then He Kissed Me has died in a California prison.
Phil Spector was 81.
In 2009, the legendary music producer was convicted of second-degree murder in the shooting death of actor Lana Clarkson and sentenced to 19 years to life. This came in a second trial after a 2007 mistrial.
His death has been attributed to natural causes by California prison officials.
Clarkson was found dead in his mansion in Alhambra, California in 2003.
Spector claimed to
A Phil Spector prison photograph, taken in 2009.
Phil Spector PHOTO: CA Dept of Corrections
Phil Spector, one of the most influential and successful record producers in rock ’n’ roll who drove a string of hits in the early 1960s with the Crystals, the Ronettes and the Righteous Brothers, has died.
His music was defined as a ‘wall of sound” featuring instrumental treatments.
In 2009 he was sentenced to prison for murder.
His death has been confirmed in a statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The department said he died “at an outside hospital,” and did not give a cause.
“Spector had been serving a prison sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson, a nightclub hostess he took home after a night of drinking in 2003. The Los Angeles police found her slumped in a chair in the foyer of Mr. Spector’s home, dead from a single bullet wound to the head,” writes the New York Times.