Richard Persike - All Vocals and Acoustic Guitars\r<br>\r<br>Loo Wood Slide and Electric Guitars\r<br>My parts were added in early December of 2008 SHOW MORE\r<br>This is what I would call new old stock fresh from the can!\r<br>Richards originals are in the cloud:\r<br>Where I Belong - Revisited Richard kept my guitar parts, wow! \r<br>Richard was the 1st guy I made a song list with. We Immediately started recording ourselves back in the 70s. Listen here if you like: \r<br>Richard also still has his personal web site Reno Rendezvous:\r<br>\r<br>\r<br>Betty Boop Cartoon Banned For Drug Use 1934\r<br>\r<br>This clip just reminds me of watching the moon rise on my walks the last few nights here in Norcal.\r<br>\r<br>This is all a little unbelievable, like most early cartoons. Not to mention a little nightmarish. At least Betty looks like a girl: in her first couple of appearances she was a dog with long ears and a snout that popped out from time to time. The animators didnt quite know what to do with her. \r<br>\r<br>After a few episodes she became a sexpot. Its interesting to watch the evolution of her costumes: here, in pre-code Hollywood, she was so scantily clad that you occasionally caught flickers of bare breasts (a wardrobe malfunction, perhaps) and, in her saucily flipped-up hemline, the delta of Venus. By the mid-30s the censors had clamped down, and by wartime she looked like a no-nonsense Army nurse with twill jackets and skirts below the knee. \r<br>\r<br>These were Max Fleischer cartoons, some of the strangest things ever made, and they evolved into Popeye which ran forever but also ran out of steam around the time of the war. Then they became patriotic bullshit and propaganda, and never quite recovered. I like the fact that these characters are all a little hideous, a little smudgy, and almost psychotic in their unpredictable behaviour. By the end they all get stoned, sucking up nitrous oxide like a dentist who has fallen off the rails. \r<br>\r<br>Were cartoons really made for children? I dont think so. They were shown along with movies (thered be a newsreel, a cartoon, a short subject, and the main feature: or perhaps two), later sent overseas to bolster the morale of the troops. The studios cranked out hundreds and even thousands of them: Disney and Warner Brothers were the big guns, but then you had weirdball Fleischer and, a little later, Bob Clampett with his bizarre puppets-brought-to-animated-life, Beany and Cecil.\r<br>\r<br>This just gets more unbelievable as you watch. Maybe the animators WERE on TO something. \r<br>I added the TO ~ Loo\r<br>Fore the times they are a changing ~ Robert Zimmerman
