#danny fields

[shippingmclennon]

[undying-love]

Interesting comments on John/Paul/Yoko

"It was clear to Paul by this point that Yoko had become by far the most important person in John Lennon's life; even were she to somehow vaporize, John would not come running back to Paul after that unfortunate disappearance."

"The Beatles were having severe problems then, with Yoko Ono apparently having driven a wedge between Paul McCartney and the most important person in his life, John Lennon."

"The wedding [of Paul and Linda] was front-page news all over the world [...] Girls wore the black of mourning for weeks afterwards, and, like an answering move in a chess game, John and Yoko were married in Gibraltar eight days later."

Source: Book, Linda McCartney, by Danny Fields (who was one of Linda's closest friends)

It's interesting how there are so many comments like "John leaving Paul", or "John going back to Paul", as if Paul was his previous romantic partner before Yoko, and not Cynthia.🤔

[holdoncallfailed]

literally the definition of two queens maximizing their joint slay

[vinylespassion]

Les Ramones faisant du shopping de disques chez Free Being Records sur la Deuxième Avenue, NYC, 1976.

Photo de Danny Fields.

[vinyl-artwork]

The Ramones, Rocket to Russia, 1977.

Photo by Danny Fields. Illustration by John Holmstrom.

[myvinylplaylist]

Ramones: End Of The Century: The Story Of The Ramones (2005)

Rhino Home Video

Sire Records

[i-am-the-oyster]

what is it that Pete Townshend has said about Paul and John? Thanks.

I can't find the post you're referring to, and I only have a vague memory of what exactly I said, sorry!

I do remember though that my intention wasn't to say that Pete Townshend commented on Paul and John, but that he commented on Paul's personality. In the book Linda McCartney: The Biography by Danny Fields he quotes Pete (p202 in my edition):

Linda was very, very pro-active in their social life. When they were driving through this town, she was the one who used to get him to come and visit, even made a couple of surprise visits. She was the one who would call me and then put him on the phone, and we would talk. Then he would be open and entirely accessible, but it was Linda who was always reminding him that he really had friends, the he was likeable as a person, that he could reach and be reached...she was constantly there with the idea that there is love between people when the tape stops running and the curtain is down. She was so centred - I think self-possession was her main character attribute, wasn't it? Maybe this marriage was more about Paul than about her, but you know, I don't think so.

This quote gives me *all* sorts of feelings. I'm so glad that Paul had Linda. She seems to have been such a good influence on him, and seen him so clearly. I really empathise with the Paul this quote conjures up. I know I have definitely appeared aloof when I was actually acting out of fear of rejection.

If you're interested in Linda at all I highly recommend this book (it seems to have been published under at least two different names--probably in slightly different versions).

Thanks for the ask!

[xabiramone]

Happy birthday to Danny Fields (born Daniel Feinberg; November 13, 1939) is an American music manager, publicist, journalist and author. As a music industry executive from the 1960s to the 1980s, he was one of the most influential figures in the history of punk rock. He signed and managed Iggy and the Stooges, signed the MC5 and managed the Ramones, and worked in various roles with Jim Morrison, the Velvet Underground and the Modern Lovers. In 2014 The New York Times said, "You could make a convincing case that without Danny Fields, punk rock would not have happened."🎂

[eternal--returned]

DANNY FIELDS: You kind of expected that Iggy would be someone Nico would fall in love with. He was everything she would like in a guy: wounded, brilliant, fragile but made of steel, insane, demented. So it was no surprise. Nico fell in love with everyone who was extremely brilliant, insane, or a junkie. I don't want to seem cynical, and if I knew it was going to make such history I would have had a tape recorder, but at the time it was, "Ho hum, Nico's in love with another poet."

Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain ֍ Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (1996)

[shippingmclennon]

[internatlvelvet]

Danny Fields and Susan Bottomly, 1966.

[ludmilachaibemachado]

"I suppose I can find it within me to forgive Linda for not sitting down and writing me a long and chatty letter. She had just moved from one country to another, was setting up a new family in a new home with a new Daddy for Heather, was now married to the erstwhile catch of the decade, whose child she was carrying, and was instantly notorious, misread and widely loathed, because she ruined a fantasy that had become an obsession with vast numbers of young women. Who did she think she was? And, as she was starting to realize with great dismay, she was right on time to witness her new husband live and suffer through the worst crisis of his adult life, as the Beatles flew apart."🌼

Danny Fields

Linda Eastman photographing Judy Collins while chatting with Danny Fields, on the beach in Malibu, California August 1968 (Danny Fields Collection)🌼

Via @maccalover66 on Instagram🌼

[holdoncallfailed]

danny fields and susan bottomly (aka international velvet) at the factory, shot by stephen shore, 1966

[katereads]

“Basically the Ramones said to them, which they said to countless other bands, ‘You don’t have to get better, just get out there, you’re as good as you are. Don’t wait until you’re better, how’re you ever going to know? Just go out there and do it.’”

- Please Kill Me, Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, quoting Danny Fields

[corkinavoid]

DPxDC Not So Artificial Intelligence

Barbara thinks it was Bruce, with his love for new additions to the Cave. Bruce thinks it was Tim, with his late hyperfixation on AI. Tim thinks it was Babs, with her ever evolving network of keeping everything under control.

They are all wrong, but the fact stays a fact: the BatCave has an AI assistant now.

It is not very good at first, not recognizing voices very well and messing up commands, but the Bats write it off as a learning curve. Besides, it never makes the same mistakes twice, and in a couple of months, even the tiniest slip ups fade away.

Its name is Betty. First, Dick named it Bat-AI (a reasonable name), then it transformed into Bat-I for easier pronunciation, and then Steph called in Betty once, and the name was sealed.

And they all love Betty. Betty is the best, keeping track of their everyday lives, reminding them of their civilian meetings and vigilante business, alerting them of any suspicious activity in the city. Oracle finally gets to sleep for more than 4 hours in a day with Betty's help. Tim gets company when he is three weeks in and elbows deep in a case - it's easier when he has an illusion of someone to discuss the matter with, and Betty even offers him insight. Damian learns to do digital art just to have a little competition with Betty. He wins, but the AI is a worthy opponent, in his opinion.

Even Bruce begrudgingly likes the AI assistant. She is competent and helpful, and Alfred seems to approve of how she doesn't let Bruce overwork himself when he escapes medbay to keep searching for answers.

That is, until one day, Tim installs speakers specifically for Betty in the Cave.

The voice that comes from them is not robotic or mechanical.

It definitely has human intonation.

"Hello, Red Robin," the voice - a male voice, actually - greets him with slight amusement. Tim feels an uneasy feeling sinking down in his stomach.

"Betty?"

"You know me as such. I would prefer it if you called me Danny. He/them pronouns."

Remind him, who installed the AI?..

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Danny got trapped inside the Batcomputer somehow - I suspect Technus had a hand in it - and decided to embrace it. He used to be a vigilante himself, so why not help this whole family of vigilantes while he is at it? They look like they need a hand.

[emacrow]

Ma and Pa were just lazing around the front porch in their farm during a meteor shower night.

Clark and Lois were out for rare time out at the town. Conner was with Tim in Gotham, and Jon was sleeping soundly in his bed upstairs.

It was a peaceful night indeed, but until one shooting meteor light came heading towards the opposite direction, going straight towards their Corn fields.

Pa glances at Ma, who looks to him and smiles back softly. Seem another family member was arriving soon enough indeed.

"Let go see the new arrivals, ma." Pa said softly, already taking his truck key out of his pocket.

5 minutes will go, driving straight toward the crash site where an almost broken apart silver and glowing green ship lies, the front glass shattered with a mere slightest touch.

Lies not one alien, but 6 aliens in total..

Most of them were unconscious, young children, huddle up close in a pile except for one, who was a young lady with bright orange hair, bleeding excessively green blood dripping down her head, a necklace that seem to just stop glowing and shattered to pieces, carrying a very small white haired child, or possibly a baby close with one hand out, tightly holding glowing green gun in her very shakenly grasp.

What came out of her voice was a mere whisper nearly static, like with a slur of very old English.

"Don't hurt them."