#Johnny Kretz

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Friday, April 19, 2024: 12pm ET: Feature LP: Ian Hunter - Defiance Part 2: Fiction (2024)

Ian Hunter – Defiance Part 2: FictionReleased April 19, 2024 People [feat. Joe Elliott] 5:01Fiction 5:39The 3rd Rail [feat. Jeff Beck & Johnny Depp] 3:19This Ain’t Rock And Roll [feat. Phil Collen] 3:47Precious [feat. Joe Elliott & Brian May & Taylor Hawkins] 3:51Weed [feat. Eric Kretz & Dean DeLeo & Robert DeLeo] 4:37Kettle Of Fish [feat. Taylor Hawkins] 3:43What Would I Do Without You [feat.…

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4 years ago, on this day (March 8), Johnny Depp attended and was one the special guests on the Stone Temple Pilots’ third concert of their 2018 North American Tour, rocking The Rose, in Pasadena, California.

On that day, Johnny went on stage to play guitar on the last three songs. First he played “Down”, and then with Joe Perry played Aerosmith’s cover of “Toys in the Attic” (making this the first and only time the Stone Temple Pilots performed the song) and “Sex Type Thing”. This show also marks Johnny’s second time as special guest on their tour, after attending and performing on stage on the first show on March 2, 2018.

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1948 Indian 45ci Big Base Factory Racing Motorcycle Engine no. FDH 141· Only one number away from Floyd Emde's '48 Daytona winning Indian · One of between 25 and 100 Big Base racers made · One of perhaps the most significant post war Indian models made 'The Big Base project paid off handsomely on March 14, 1948. Floyd Emde, heretofore a prominent Harley racer, won the 200 miles beach classic at the record pace of 84.01mph. For 1948, the Daytona course had been lengthened from its former 3.2 miles distance to 4.1 miles, resulting in the lengthening of each of the two straights to almost two miles. Consequently, a new race record was virtually assured.' (Jerry Hatfield, American Racing Motorcycles.) 'The starting line-up of the 1948 Daytona 200 was symbolic of the changing balance of power in American motorcycle racing... Harley-Davidson was holding its share of competition racers, but Indian was losing ground to Norton, BSA and Triumph.' But that's another story for another time.' That glorious day on the beach, Emde was riding his Big Base Scout engine no. FDH 140. The bike for sale is FDH 141. When Indian went to war after Pearl Harbor, three different models were conscripted, and the factory even developed a completely new machine to do battle with Field Marshall Rommel and his vaunted Afrika Korps. While rival Harley-Davidson got the bigger military contracts, Indian still contributed 40,000-plus machines to the war effort, supplying bikes to US armed services and those of our allies. By far the most prolific of war Indians was the 741B Scout, some 35,000 of which saw service. Power came from a 30.50ci (500cc) v-twin repurposed from the pre-war Junior Scout. To cope with the low-octane gasoline often found in war zones, compression ratio was lowered, which also aided reliability and made kickstarting easier – never a bad thing when someone is shooting at you. Clearly Indian could mass produce tough, easy to fix, ridable motorcycles. But could they go racing in a post-WW2 America? While full-fendered Fours and Chiefs were the company's flagships, it was stripped-down 750cc Sport Scouts that had given Indian most of its racetrack glory throughout the 1930s right up until the attack on Pearl Harbor put most racing on hold. Performance was stressed from the model's first advertisement in 1934: 'Acceleration, speed, agility, the Sport Scout 45, streamlined from the ground up,' promised the copy. That boast was more than fulfilled in 1937 when Ed 'Iron Man' Kretz took a Sport Scout to victory in the inaugural AMA 200-miler on the sands of Daytona Beach. A reputation for outright top speed was taken care of later that year when former racer and Pasadena Police motor officer Fred Ludlow rode a tuned example to 128.57mph on California's Muroc Dry Lake. No new Sport Scout street bikes were produced after WW2 but the factory did conjure up a special batch of so-called 'Big Base' engines so Indian could continue doing battle with their great rival, Harley-Davidson. The hot-rodded Sport Scouts gave a good account of themselves, starting with another Daytona 200 win in 1947 with smooth-riding Johnny Spiegelhoff at the controls. Next year it was Indian rider Floyd Emde's turn to take the Daytona 200 headlines on his Big Base Scout. Could Indian go racing! More victories followed notched up by the famous 'Indian Wrecking Crew' consisting of Bobby Hill, Bill Tuman and Ernie Beckman – like Kretz, Ludlow, Spiegelhoff and Emde, all AMA Hall of Famers. Hill rode a Sport Scout to 11 AMA national wins and was Grand National Champion in 1951 and 1952. Tuman, with a total of five nationals, also had the distinction of being the last Sport Scout rider to wear the GNC crown when he took the title in 1953. Beckman won nationals three times in his career, and at the Williams Grove Half-Mile in 1953 was the last Indian rider to take the checkers at an AMA race – until 2017, that is, when a reconstituted Indian Motorcycle Company began racing once again. In appearance, Big Base crankcases were similar to standard Sport Scout units, but they were specifically built for racing purposes. 'Despite having (supposedly) 98 percent commonality of parts with the defunct prewar Sports Scouts, the new "big base" Scouts had significant internal and external differences...an updated version of the several experimental prewar racers.' The flywheels were narrower, of cast steel and with an Army shaftdrive counterweight pattern. The crankshaft was well modified especially its lubrication. The pistons were now 'heavily-domed' which in turn required combustion chamber modification. There was a new aluminum oil pump connected to a new style oil tank. The new Edison-Splitdorf magneto required some cylinder fin cutting. These were just a few of the improvements. While there is much confusion about how many Big Base Scout motors were actually built by Indian, most agree it was no less than 25 and no more than 100.

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Behind the Scenes: Johnny Depp, through the lens of Ross Halfin, 4 years ago (2018), on this day (March 8), with Joe Perry and the Stone Temple Pilots. 

On that day, Ross Halfin started the day taking photos (the last 2 photos) of Johnny in his home/studio in West Hollywood, while he was working with Joe Perry. Later they were photographed on the backstage of the Stone Temple Pilots’ third show of their 2018 North American Tour, which they attended and were special guests, at The Rose, in Pasadena, California.

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The white t-shirt Johnny is wearing in his studio, is the cover of the The Sun newspaper released on February 3rd 1979 reporting the death of Sid Vicious; the 21 years old English musician known as the bassist for the punk rock band “Sex Pistols”, which died of a drug overdose on the day before.

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Behind the Scenes: Johnny Depp, Stone Temples Pilots, Rival Sons and Tim Burton, 2 years ago, on this day (October 6), in Las Vegas. 

On that day, Johnny attended the Stone Temple Pilots and Rival Sons 2019 co-headlining tour in Las Vegas, and played guitar in two songs during the Pilots performance. On the backstage, Ross Halfin took photos of Johnny and Tim Burton, and the members of the two rock bands: The vocalist Jeff Gutt, the guitarists Dean DeLeo and Robert DeLeo and drummer Eric Kretz all from “Stone Temple Pilots” and the “Rival Sons” members, vocalist Jay Buchanan and bassist Dave Beste.

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2 years ago, on this day (October 6), Johnny attended and was the special guest on the Stone Temple Pilots show at The Joint, at Hard Rock Hotel, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

On that day, Johnny attended the event with Tim Burton and Ross Halfin, and joined on stage, wearing his Jerry Judge tribute shirt, to play guitar on the last two songs: “Down” and “Sex Type Thing”