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So Tom Petty died twice, as it were. I like to think that he saw coverage of the horror in Las Vegas and couldn’t take it, having just concluded – successfully! – his final round-up tour. It just took him a while longer to shake loose this mortal coil.
I wish he was still with us, for his music, but also for him – I am a big, huge fan of his XM (known as SiriusXM) Radio program “Tom Petty’s Buried Treasure”. It’s some of the best stuff you’ll ever hear, and you’ll have lots of laughs learning about some great American (and British! and other!) amazing music. His knowledge, passion, oddity, heartiness, skill, cockiness, and subtle sensitivity were inspirational.
His radio show offers such a nice alternative to commercial crap it makes you weep, even more so knowing that he won’t be back to Rick’s Airport Recordings, having once again brought some rare recordings from his personal collection to provide – as he said, “the best rock, rhythm and blues”. It is an education, and I recommend it highly.
I just know Tom would wish we’d all roll some great tunes, likely featuring some of the great Lucinda Williams:
I’ll be posting one more song/artist Tom turned me on to, tomorrow, but now, onto the pictures!
Today, pictures from valued commenter Mnemosyne:
These were delayed due to technical issues, and for that, my apologies!
One of the things I love about Southern California is the diversity — not just of the people, but of the state itself. I drove 90 minutes one way to go sailing on the ocean on a Saturday, and then drove 90 minutes the next day to go into the mountains.
On board the Californian, which is the official Tall Ship of the state of California. I talked old salt Ruckus into coming with me, and we had a great time.
Optical zoom on the other ships that were out for the cannon battle — I think there were about 6 in total.
Rigging, from the back (aft?) of the ship.
The very next day, driving up to Lake Arrowhead. These are the San Bernardino Mountains, just north of the same-named city.
I swear this same shot is in the first episode of Columbo, with the glorious Jack Cassidy, and directed by one Stephen Spielberg. (Pedants – I know there were previous movies-of-the-week before it became a series, but this was the first Episode!) Just gorgeous!
View from the Zen Deck — it was a fairly steep hike, but on well-maintained trails. There are comfy armchairs and a loveseat behind me that I sat in with my laptop to write. That’s Lake Arrowhead between the trees, with clouds rolling over the mountaintop.
The footbridge where I turned around and discovered a bobcat following me. I was too freaked out to get my camera out.
My other favorite writing spot — at the firepit in front of the Main Lodge. If you ever have a chance to have a conference at UCLA’s Lake Arrowhead facility, I highly recommend it — great facility and terrific service.
I had hoped to see the famous firepit, and my imagination didn’t do it justice. Just…wow!
Thank you so much Mnemosyne, do send us more when you can.
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OzarkHillbilly
Sailing on a topsail schooner (as per the Californians wiki page), too cool.
Schooners:
p.a.
Wow. Between these and BinG’s work, wow, and here I am and all I can think of is the Beverly Hillbillies schlocky theme: “Jed Cal- i- for- ni- a’s the place you otta be,
so they loaded up the truck and they moved to Beverley…”
My earworm du jour…
raven
Great pics!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@p.a.: Hmmmm, I do have some pics from there.
ETA: Interesting trivia, you know who had a house behind the home that was used for the Beverly Hillbillies exterior shots. St. Ronnie.
Waratah
Great photos, love the schooners and the mountains.
JPL
Great photos and thank you for posting them.
Baud
Uh oh. Mnemosyne has thrown down for Billin. The SoCal photo wars heats up!
debbie
Thanks for the beautiful pictures. Love all that rigging!
rikyrah
The pictures today were beautiful ?
I love the water. Always have.
MomSense
Now I really want to live in SoCal.
Mary G
I love the tall ships; I live about five miles south of that harbor. In the background of the first picture is Saddleback Mountain, named for obvious reasons. Occasionally in the winter it has snow on it, or used to anyway. We are lucky indeed to live here.
Mary G
@Mary G: Oops, correction, Saddleback Mountainuntain is in the second picture, not the first, my bad.
Elizabelle
Great photos. I love California. Thanks, Mnemosyne.
And grateful we are linking to Tom Petty stuff. Here’s audio from the last interview he did with the Randy Lewis for Los Angeles Times. It’s just over an hour long. Maybe 4 days before he passed.
Tom Petty: The final interview
I wish Sirius would make those radio shows available, even to non-Sirius subscribers. Gold mine there, apparently, and a lot of interest in and love for Mr. Petty. Keep me posted if you all hear anything.
MomSaysI*mHandsome
Excellent recommendation of Lucinda Williams’ “Car Wheels On A Gravel Road”. I don’t know a lot about Louisiana, but it makes me think that state is a lot like New York State: both have a world-famous sexy city anchoring the southern part of the state, while “upstate” gets little
interest and even less respect. Everything I learned about upstate Louisiana I learned from “True Detective” and Lu’s magical record.
Lucinda Williams gave a fascinating interview on Anna Sale’s “Death, Sex and Money” podcast; I got a lot more perspective on her growing up near Lake Charles, and the Louisiana vibe in general. Wunnerful stuff.
Nice pix today, too.
Alain the site fixer
@Elizabelle: Thanks for sharing this, I’ll listen later. His show was like a history course, laced with great stories, odd humor. and the occasional drug reference. I hope more can hear it – there were 10 or so seasons of it, so lots of re-listen-a-bility.
The Golux
“I Lost It” is one of my favorite Lucinda Williams songs. One of those that sounds better the louder it is played.
We saw her at Infinity Hall in Hartford in August. She was in a great mood, and she and her band, Buick Six, were in top form. Truly a superb show.
dexwood
@Alain the site fixer:
I agree with you about “Buried Treasure”. Tom Petty was a great DJ and put together excellent shows. Petty and his show were the main reason I renewed my Sirius subscription when it was coming to an end a few years ago.
Love the pictures, miss the water sometimes, but always miss the mountains here when I travel.
Ken
@OzarkHillbilly:
Their shallow draft was more important to the pirates than the article acknowledges.
Many pirates grew to know the areas they operated in very well indeed, and a common tactic for them if pursued by a larger ship was to slip over a shoal. The schooner would clear it easily. The pursuing vessel, being of deeper draft, would either have to shy away or risk running aground.
Ruckus
We did have a grand day!
I hadn’t been sailing since 1983 and it was even more fun this time because I didn’t have to do all/any of the work. Seas were rather calm and wind wasn’t totally bad. The ship is a well build replica built in the 80s so it has an engine, which makes getting out and back into port a lot easier. But the rigging is real, they sailed this just like they would have more than 100 yrs ago.
My suggestion is that if you have the chance do it.
MattF
This is Version Two of William’s “I Lost It”– the slower, sadder one.
Miss Bianca
What lovely photos! Sailing on a tall ship is definitely on my bucket list – done a fair bit f sailing, and toured both the “Constitution” and HMS “Victory” in my youth, now just need to put it all together!
J R in WV
Seriously, you went sailing on real sailboats, and there was a cannon battle, and this is the only mention of it? You gotta be kiddin’ me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Really!!!!… And no pix of the fire and smoke shooting out of the sailboats? I wouldn’t want to be near a real cannon battle, obviously, but being at sea to hear and see a cannon battle with no casualties, an ideal way to spend a day!!
Does this gathering happen regularly? Is there a schedule? a web page where you can make reservations? I was day-dreaming about taking off from SE Arizona at the end of winter, and doing the continental USA clockwise from San Diego up the coast and then heading east across the top come April.
So this would be a great way to see some of the west coast by looking east at it from the sea.
trollhattan
If you ever get the chance to see Lucinda Williams, go.
Happy Thursday.
Mnemosyne
Thanks, everyone! Just shows how good iPhone cameras have become — I took all of these with my iPhone SE. I was a little worried about getting seasick since I seem to be getting prone to it as I get older, between NotMax’s OTC remedy recommendation, a couple of SeaBands, and some ginger candy, I was fine.
@J R in WV:
I forgot to bring earplugs, so I couldn’t take photos of the cannons actually going off. It was fun to sit at the back near where the captain was and listen to them strategize which ships to approach.
This was the Tall Ships Festival in Dana Point (CA), which happens every September, usually the weekend after Labor Day. I think they do a similar one in San Diego at the Maritime Museum. We were originally hoping to sail on the Bill of Rights, but the Coast Guard withdrew it from the roster.