The NEW YORK CHRONICLES: DON CORNELIUS and SOUL TRAIN ... A SAD DAY in The R&B and MUSIC WORLD as DON CORNELIUS DIES AGE 75

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

DON CORNELIUS and SOUL TRAIN ... A SAD DAY in The R&B and MUSIC WORLD as DON CORNELIUS DIES AGE 75

A sad day in The Music World and for all America today. Don Cornelius was found Dead at his home in Los Angelos today with a gunshot wound to his head, a apparent suicide Mr Cornelius was the Host and Creator of the highly popular Soul Train music show that featured mostly R&B and Black Musical Aritist, some Great Music. Soul Train was at its height of popularity in the 70s and 80s and featured such great talents as Aretha Franklin Michael Jackson, The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, and all the Greats of R&B, and Soul Music.
Like myself and "Anyone with Good Taste" don did not like the Tasteless Awful Crap "Rap Music." he never wanted any of the artist who made such GARBAGE on his show, but somehow was forced to and really had no choice to do so just a little bit. But he did in the end. This Crap Rap and Hi Hop Music unfortunately proved the end and death of such wonderful music as Soul and R&B and Don eventually gave up as there was hardly anymore of the great stuff R&B and Soul music, just a lot of "Rap Crap." So Soul Train ended its long illustrious career.
I've said it again, over and over, what has happened to all the great music we used to produce in this country? For the past 15 years or so, just a lot of Rap and other Crap. Mostly. Classic Rock has disappeared, and there is a little bit of R&B around, but very little and way too far in-between, mostly just a bunch of Crap, and worst of all "Rap Crap," music for Ignorant, Uneducated People who are devoid of any Taste. It's sad. Well this also people is the reason there are so many tasteless and mindless Soup Operas and Sitcoms out there and quite popular. It's true but sad that a large majority of people in the United States have horrible taste. just look how many dress. What are we gonna do? Nothing! It's inevitable, a certain percentage of the citizenry have and are going to have "Bad Taste" just as those who like Rap Music and other crap like it. That's Life!
just let us remember a man who had good taste, Mr. Don Cornelius who went up against and tried to ignore and steer people away from it, and when he couldn't, when the fact was that the youth of the time had and still has such bad taste in Music, oved the Crap, bought it and embrace it, all Don Cornelius could do was end the Great and Wonderful thing he created, "Souuuuuul Traaaainn" !!!!!
Soul Train, Don Cornelius, and all the great Artist who ever appeared on it are loved and will be loved and remembered for a long long time.
God Bless Don... R.I.P.

Daniel Bellino Zwicke

DON CORNELIUS

SOUL TRAIN

and

GREAT R&B
SOUL MUSIC

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NEW YORK and The $3.00 PBR

New York and the $3.00 PBR, Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer has been a God-Send to many New Yorkers. As you all know, the US Economy has been in the Shitter for the past 3-Half years or so.

Many people are out of work, and many who are working, are taking home Half-as-Much Money or more of what they used to make. People have had to buckle down and give up or curb many things they enjoyed previous to the current state of our economy, which is in almost a Depression Era State.

Yes, everybody says that we are not in a Depression, we're in a recession. Those are the Rich and Well-Off talking. To many, the state of our Union and their feelings are of Depression.

So, because of the Terrible State of our Economy you have given up eating out 3 times a week, you buy less clothes, spend less on Entertainment and any number of things and you haven't had a vacation in the past two years, maybe more. You given up a lot. We all have.

Now when it comes to socializing, going out for a few Beers or Cocktails with some friends, you've had to cut back on that too. But hey, you gotta draw a line somewhere, and everyone is entitled to a few drinks to unwind every now and then. But if you live in the Great City of New York this can be a costly undertaking, especially in this day, and of all times, to be having a Boom in The $14, Sixteen-Dollar-Or -More-Cocktail.W hat is a Poor Working Guy or Working Girl to do??? Well Boys and Girls, let's Thank God for that great thing of wonder and the Bars and establishments who so graciously and kindly serve it, The $3.00 PBR, That's right, a $3.oo Beer in The Land of The Over-Priced $16.00 Cocktail, Manhattan, New York, NY..... It's quite Sad, Greedy too.

Yes, Thank God and let's thank the Kind-Heart proprietors who serve $3.00 PBR'S or any Beer for just $3 or $4 in a New York Bar. You are doing you fellow man a public service and we thank you for that. Whoever you are, you are to be commended, and Shame-On-You, all those places that serve $14 PLUS Cocktails. "RIP-OFF" !!! Wish the masses would Boycott these places and patronize places like Blue & Gold Bar, 7B, and anyplace who has a heart. Bars that serve 3 and 4 Dollar Beers.

I just have to say, it's great to go to a place like Blue and Gold Bar on East 7th Street and know that you can have 3 or 4 Beers for just $12 to $16, accounting for a Buck a Pop for the Barkeep. Now that's pretty good. I have had the best times hanging at Blue & Gold with some friends. You sit at the Bar or get into a nice comfy booth, drink your Beers ($3 PBR'S), relax, listen to the Music, Chit Chat, and just enjoy, and it's not going to cost you The Shirt Off Your Back.

Yes, you can have 4 Beers, tip included for the price of 1 Rip-Off Drink at one of those Rip-Off Joints. And if you are Dumb enough to have four drinks in one of those places, guess what it's going to cost you? About $75 my friend.

Well, do the Math, and if you can afford $75 for only 4 drinks, God Bless You. And if you can't, you've got an alternative. Right, your local $3.00 PBR Joint. They're a God-Send.

Daniel Bellino-Zwicke