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1. First foundations of mathematics (detailed list of sections) - pdf version (13 + 6 pages, updated on July, 2014 - full text in 1 html page).
2. Set theory (continued) (11 pdf pages)
3.1. What is a mathematical theoryMore philosophical notes : About the powerset axiom
3.2. How mathematical theories develop
3.3. Relational systems and morphisms
3.4. Algebras
3.5. The Galois connection between (invariant) structures and permutations (automorphisms) (updated august 2014)
3.6. Second-order theories
3.7. Formalizations of Arithmetic
3.8. Non-standard models of Arithmetic
3.9. The Incompleteness Theorem
The following text makes rigorously no use of texts 3 and 4, but only uses text 1 (without complements) and 2. Its position has been moved from 3 to 5 for pedagogical reasons (higher difficulty level while the above texts 3 and 4 are more directly interesting).
Introduction to the foundations of geometry
What is geometryProducts of relational systems
Structures and permutations in the plane
Affine geometry
Beyond affine geometry
Euclidean geometry
The completeness of first-order geometry
Truth of formulas in productsPolymorphisms and invariants
Morphisms into products
Products of algebras
The Galois connection Inv-Pol between sets of operations and relationsDuality theories (to be completed)
The Galois connection Pol-Pol between sets of operations
Morphisms of duality systems
Duality theories with structures
Algebraic duality theories[This section 4 has only been well worked on to this point; the below is a draft, to be reworked later]
Affine geometry
Introduction to inversive geometry
Introduction to topology
Monoids, groups and actions
From transformation monoids to abstract monoidsVector spaces in duality
Monoids, theories and morphisms
Dimensional analysis
Axiomatic expressions of Euclidean and Non-Euclidean geometries
Special Relativity
Introduction to topology
Cardinals6. Universal algebra
Well-orderings and ordinals (with an alternative to Zorn's Lemma but still in draft).
Philosophical proof of consistency of the Zermelo-Fraenkel axiomatic system (Requires to have read the above metamathematical complements)
I wrote large parts of the Wikipedia article on Foundations
of mathematics (September 2012 - because until then,
other authors focused on the more professional and technical
article Mathematical
logic instead; the Foundations of mathematics article is
more introductory, historical and philosophical) and improved
the one on the completeness
Pythagorean triples (triples of integers (a,b,c) forming the sides of a right triangle, such as (3,4,5))
Resolution of cubic equations
Research teams and centers : Europe - North America - Other
List of
physics theories that will progressively link to other
pages presenting each theory. The main presentations of
physics theories already available here are
exploration of physics by dimensional analysis : telling a
lot of fundamental physics and the amplitudes of diverse effects
mainly by multiplying quantities. Some sections have been
moved to separate pages:
The speed of light and astronomical distancesSolved physics problems (for now just one thing about gravitation)
The energy of nuclear reactions ; The radius of nuclei
The gravitational constant
Effects of General Relativity
The parameters of the atomic structure
The compressibility of condensed matter
The speed of the sound in condensed matter
(to be continued)


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Charles VanBuren, 86, of Danville, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, at Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis.
He was born Jan. 10, 1927, in Palermo, Ill., the son of Charles and Melita (Roberts) VanBuren.
He married Opal Fillinger on Sept. 12, 1949, in Paris, Ill. Opal preceded him in death in 2005.
Surviving him are two sons, Stephen (Anne) VanBuren of Lansing, Mich., and Randell (Lolita) VanBuren of Milton, Fla.; three daughters, Cathy VanBuren of Danville, Teresa (Joe) Humrichous of West Lebanon, Ind., and Tammy (Shane) Hopper of Danville; a daughter-in-law, Louise VanBuren of Danville; three sisters, Alma Parker, Carolyn Holler and Virginia VanBuren; 11 grandchildren, Craig (Ronda) VanBuren, Mark (Jessica) VanBuren, Erika (Brandon) Ruiz, Charles (Sarah) VanBuren, Amber (Loren) Winters, Amy VanBuren, Allan (Amanda) Shepherd, April Shepherd, Jared Tarquini, Joshua (Tyler) Hopper and Christa (Tanner) Sawka; 14 great-grandchildren; one great-great-granddaughter; and several special friends and neighbors.
Charles was preceded in death by his parents; wife; one son, Gregory VanBuren; and one great-grandson, Noah VanBuren.
He went to the University of Illinois and worked in sales and service for Bass Tire and Oil Company in Danville until retiring in 1989. Charles was an avid St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates fan. He served our country in WWII as part of the United States Army. He loved his cat "Holly" dearly. Charles also was a member of Calvary Baptist Church and trusted Jesus as his personal savior.
The family would like to thank everyone from Indiana University Medical Center, "angels in our midst."
A Celebration of Charles' Life will begin at 10 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, at Sunset Funeral Home and Cremation Center, A Life Celebration Home, in Danville with Pastors Scott McCurdy and Joe Humrichous officiating. A visitation will be 4-8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, at the funeral home. Burial will take place at Sunset Memorial Park.
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Every year, tens of thousands of ships dock in 26 states to unload goodies from other countries. In a process called ballast exchange, they release 48 million gallons a day of fresh, brackish, or salt water they sucked in at another port to stabilize the vessel for its perilous transoceanic journey.
Not all the 3,000 (or so) plant and animal species that're sucked in with this water survive the trip or can live here, but many do. Zebra mussels (from Russia) clog Great Lakes intake pipes. Snakehead fish (from Africa and Asia) gobble resources in our lakes and rivers, but at least we in turn can eat them.
State requirements for managing ballast water vary, so for more than 20 years two federal agencies and both houses of Congress have tried to reconcile these into a single coherent standard.
The U.S. Coast Guard leads the effort. Like all federal entities charged with devising a one-size-fits-all program, it wants to get a handle on the problem. Ship owners are supposed to submit basic information (like how, if at all, their vessels treat this particular form of water pollution) for a National Ballast Survey that was mandated in 1996, but usually don't. Same goes for ballast water management plans and reporting.
Northwest Environmental Advocates of Portland, Ore., is attacking the problem through another federal agency. Three times since 1999, the nonprofit has sued to get U.S. EPA to require a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for ship discharges under the Clean Water Act. Each time, the organization gets a little closer to achieving its goal.
No single treatment approach removes every single organism from ballast water, so everyone's arguing over methodology. Environmentalists distrust biocides while engineers weigh heat versus filtration. Shipping companies don't want to spend the money on retrofitting or training employees on new equipment when they don't know what standards they're shooting for. Technology developers don't want to invest in R&D if there's not going to be a market for their products and services.
This month could bring a breakthrough, though. According to Water & Wastewater Equipment Manufacturers Association President Dawn Kristof Champney, EPA's expected to release a court-ordered proposed regulation. The Coast Guard is preparing to issue its final rule, which is parked in the Department of Homeland Security awaiting final review by the Office of Management and Budget. Hopefully, one or both are based on soon-to-be-ratified International Maritime Organization standards. If so, everyone will finally know what's expected and what their deadlines are.
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Peeples Place At KHTS: Spotlight Q&A With Domino Bobby Whitlock, Pt. 1: Intro & Stax
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Special note for SCV music fans headed to the SXSW music blowout in Austin: Derek & The Dominos legend Bobby Whitlock and his musical collaborator and wife CoCo Carmel and their band play The Saxon in Austin on March 15 at 10 p.m. The gig coincides with SXSW and celebrates the release of Bobby and CoCo's latest album, "Esoteric," available now on iTunes, CD Baby and other major online outlets. Hours later, the band flies to Bangalore, India, to headline the Indigo Jazz & Blues Festival, where Whitlock will also celebrate his 64th birthday on March 18. Back in Texas, March 22 has been proclaimed "Bobby Whitlock Day" in Austin by the mayor, with a special performance by Bobby, CoCo and the band set for 10 that night.
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As detailed in my recent Peeples Place Spotlight Q&A with Ron & Howard Albert, the lead engineers on the epochal late summer 1970 "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" sessions by Derek & The Dominos, the album first released that November was reissued in a deluxe two-CD 40th anniversary edition in spring 2011.
A super-deluxe edition (above) included a new 5.1 surround mix by another engineering legend, Grammy-winner and surround pioneer Elliot Scheiner, that won the "Best Surround Sound Album" Grammy on Feb. 12 and sparked yet another resurgence of interest in the album, and the band, as new generations of rock 'n' roll fans are introduced to them.
Derek & The Dominos' lineup: Eric Clapton (guitar, vocals, songs); his primary collaborator Bobby Whitlock (keyboards, vocals, songs); Carl Radle (bass); and Jim Gordon (drums). Duane Allman, on loan from the Allman Brothers Band, another Criteria Studios client, sat in at Clapton's invitation for most of the sessions.
The reissue, the nomination and an irresistible urge to flash back to what was a great time in my misspent youth prompted me to revisit these musicians and their remarkable body of work, a legacy that to my ears still sounds great, timeless, soul-deep. There was also sort of a personal connection between yours truly and the Alberts and Criteria in North Miami, Fla., the studio in which they engineered the original "Layla" sessions with legendary producer/engineer Tom Dowd serving as exec producer. I grew up less than a mile from the studio, and went to the same junior and senior high schools as Ron; Howard was a few years older. They were 19 and 23, respectively, when "Layla" was recorded. The band was roughly the same age, maybe a little older. Dowd and Criteria owner Mac Emmerman were really the only adults in the room. Mugging during the "Layla" sessions at Criteria Studios in Miami, August-September 1970, are (from left): Duane Allman, Jim Gordon, Eric Clapton, Carl Radle and Bobby Whitlock.
The Grammy nomination also prompted me to reach out to Bobby Whitlock, who I had long admired but never written about. On Facebook in December. I saw a comment from "Domino Bobby Whitlock" on a mutual friend's post, something relating to "Layla." At first, I thought it was a poseur pretending to be the real Domino. I was delighted to be wrong.
After checking outwhat he's doing now, solo and with his singer/musician/producer/photographer wife CoCo Carmel (the couple is pictured at right), from his base in Austin, Tex., I sent him a short private "Hail Mary" message, thanking him as a fan for all the great music he's helped make, and asking as a music journalist if he was up for talking sometime about "Layla" and his book. I didn't really expect a response.
I flashed back to the first time I heard Whitlock on a Delaney & Bonnie song on the radio. I thought he was black, his vocals were so intensely soulful. Nossir, turned out he was just a starving white hippie kid with a gospel-soul vocal style and soulful attack as a musician.
As a singer, Hammond B3 player, and songwriter, Whitlock, I thought, was the real sparkplug in Derek & The Dominos, a band from May 1970 through April 1971. Emerging from his support role as the first "friend" in rock 'n' soul band Delaney & Bonnie & Friends (which later included Clapton for a time) and then connecting with Clapton on his own, Whitlock was a perfect rock 'n' roll foil for EC in the Dominos.
Whitlock, born in 1948 in Memphis, Tenn., was raised poor there and on other areas of the rural American South by an abusive father who was an itinerant preacher and a very young mother who was still a teenager when she got pregnant. The couple was often separated by his work and Bobby was partly raised by a colorful but dysfunctional extended family, some of whom were involved in bootlegging and prostitution as well as music.
Singing since childhood and a musician since his early teens, Bobby embodied the pure, genuine soul that Eric the Englishman thought his singing, playing and songwriting lacked. The two also shared an affinity for the rock star lifestyle — fast cars, wads of cash, lots of women, piles of cocaine, and eventually, heroin.
Clapton and Whitlock's musical collaboration in turn with fellow Dominos Radle and Gordon, one of the best rock rhythm sections ever, resulted in songs and records we're still enjoying and talking about today. That the musicians were all doing heavy drugs makes their body of work all the more remarkable, and we're left to wonder how it might have differed, if at all, had they played it straight.
After D&D's demise in spring '71, partway through sessions for a second album, this time in the U.K., Whitlock embarked on a solo career that produced four Southern roots-rock albums few people ever heard. His eponymous debut in 1972, recorded with his fellow Dominos (minus Allman) got the best response; "Raw Velvet" later the same year (produced by Jimmy Miller) included awesome Rick Vito slidework on "Dearest I Wonder." Signing a new deal with Phil Walden and Capricorn Records, Whitlock released "One of a Kind" in 1975 and "Rock Your Sox Off" in 1976, the latter produced by Paul Hornsby; neither of which went anywhere.
After that, Whitlock laid low through most of the '80s and '90s, living on a farm in Mississippi, raising a family and occasionally guesting with others on record and onstage, before returning with a fourth solo album, "It's About Time," in 1999. There were spells in Europe (including a 2000 reunion with Clapton on Jools Hollands' TV show), Nashville and elsewhere, connecting creatively and romantically with Delaney Bramlett's ex-wife CoCo Carmel, a singer, songwriter, musician and producer in her own right, and moving to Austin to start a new life. So Whitlock's not only still active as a musician, songwriter and recording artist, but is also a published author.
Clapton's career has fared and been documented much better. He was off the scene in 1972, nursing a broken heart (the object of his affection, his friend George Harrison's wife Pattie Boyd, turned down his advances) and a heroin habit, when the "Layla" single (with piano coda) and original album finally took off. Upon their initial release in late 1970, the album and coda-less "Layla" single essentially had been ignored. Clapton was still holed up at home in England in 1973 when the D&D "In Concert" double album from the band's 1970 Fillmore East sets was released, and as Whitlock was struggling to find his own way.
By early '73, thanks in no small part to EC's friend Pete Townshend dragging him back from the living dead to play a concert at the Rainbow on Jan. 13, Clapton was cleaning up and coming back into the public eye. In his mind, the Dominos were history by then; ready to finally resume his studio career, he reconnected with the Alberts and a new band, including Radle; Jamie Oldaker, Dick Sims and Marcy Levy from Bob Seger's 1973 band; second guitarist George Terry; singer Yvonne Elliman; and percussionist Sergio Pastora.
They recorded the EC solo album "461 Ocean Boulevard" with the Alberts at Criteria in 1974. Clapton titled the album after the beach house where he lived during the sessions, which was leased by the studio and a welcome alternative to hotels for visiting rock star clients.
A couple of enterprising local girls, Cindy Johnson and Jeri Jenkins, who went to the same high school as Ron and I (Cindy's grandmother was my next-door neighbor in North Miami) established a sister company (you should pardon the expression) called Home at Last. They took care of everything from food to transportation to entertainment for artists in Miami to record at Criteria.
"When Eric did '461...' he was just off heroin and had been living on a farm and was very sweet and sober for a while," Johnson wrote me last week. "He used to come over to Jeri's and my house ALL the time and hang out if he wasn't in the studio. He was kind of lonely. We would take him to the movies at the 163rd Street mall and all kinds of normal things like that. He took me to a record store to buy me a Robert Johnson album and he got kicked out cause he had a Coke and wouldn't throw it out."
Johnson added she had a "million stories like that." She's done quite well in real estate on the Florida East Coast since her Home at Last days; I hope to get her to share some of those million stories with us soon.
With a hit single version of Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff," "461 Ocean Boulevard" relaunched Clapton's career. I'd seen him play several times from Cream to solo from the mid-1970s through the '80s (but not with the Dominos), but met him only once. It was a taping for a Cinemax blues TV special at the Ebony Showcase Theatre in L.A. on April 15, 1987. I was a radio programming writer/producer at Westwood One and covering music, TV and movies on "Earth News Radio." An intern I'd worked with at Elektra/Asylum Records several years earlier was by then an HBO publicist, and she invited me to be among the studio audience (thank you, again, Mara Mikailian, now HBO's PR VP).
It was "Cinemax Sessions: A Blues Session with B.B. King and Friends," and I was in the second or third row in tiny bleachers crammed with maybe 75 other people being thrilled by B.B. and Lucille, Clapton, Paul Butterfield, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Etta James, Albert King, Gladys Knight, Dr. John, Chaka Khan, Billy Ocean and Phil Collins. They jammed in varying configurations on a handful of blues classics. (Full circle: Ken Erlich produced the show; he just produced the 2012 Grammy telecast, and the all-star blues jam at The White House for POTUS Barack Obama and FLOTUS Michelle Obama, when the president threw down a few lines from "Sweet Home Chicago.")
During a break in the "Blues Session" taping I was outside the small studio's back door, by the stacks of equipment cases, getting some air when Clapton came out to have a ciggie. Standing there, we had a three-minute chat, delayed only by my temporary inability to operate my tongue as he lit up.
Finally I managed to impart that I'd been an early Yardbirds fan and had seen Cream's farewell gig at the Forum in Inglewood in October '68. He laughed. "That was all a loooong time ago," he said. He was cool about hanging out and put me at ease. He might have mistaken me for a member of the crew. Whatever. I also mentioned my favorites of his stuff were "Let it Rain" and "Layla." He thanked me and signed the back of my after-party invite just as we were all called back into the Ebony to tape the next segment. In all my years in the biz, that was unfortunately my only direct encounter with EC.
All the above was playing back vividly on my mental widescreen when to my immense surprise and pleasure a reply to my Facebook message to Whitlock boinked in. He responded to my "let's talk sometime" Hail Mary with, "Anytime Stephen — BW."
We exchanged a few more notes to set up a phone interview a couple of weeks later, after I'd read his best-selling autobiography, which of course I did over the year-end holidays, along with several other related books and blogs covering events during the "Layla" period from other perspectives. I spent a lot of enjoyable time on the Steve Hoffman Music Forum thread that led to Whitlock's book, too.
As I read, I also re-listened to a healthy sampling of the era's related music, including the "Layla" 40th anniversary reissue with second D&D album outtakes, the "Johnny Cash Show" live cuts, and all the live stuff from the Fillmore East concert (thanks, Uni PR folks), a raw affair with many moments of brilliance at the bitter, exhausted end of what turned out to be the Dominos' only tour.
And CoCo graciously sent me more than a dozen photos from Whitlock's archives, with their permission to include them with this Q&A.
Now, if you're looking for great literature, "Bobby Whitlock: A Rock 'n' Roll Autobiography" ain't it. But it's quintessentially rock 'n' roll. The reader who suspends expectations of eloquence will find the narrative simple and down-to-earth, and so gripping, the book is almost impossible to put down. Whitlock fills in many blanks in fans' knowledge of what was going on behind the scenes with all these guys and all these historic sessions and events from the late '60s to the mid-1970s. After riding along with Whitlock during his entire hair-raising journey, the reader is left informed, enriched and exhausted.
Whitlock's collaborator was Marc Roberty, author of approximately 30 rock books including several Clapton biographies, who served as the developmental editor, helping to put the remarkable stories Bobby was writing into chronological order over a 17-18-month period, without muffling the author's own voice and style.
Whitlock and Clapton have reconnected in the past few years. EC contributed the foreword, which reads, in part: "It was a golden period for us all: I finally belonged to a band formed of musicians that I totally respected, and I truly felt that I had to work to keep up with them. We made sweet, tough and soulful music, and the future looked good. It was during this period that I learned what little I do know about writing songs, and most of that I learned from BW.... Our ride was fast and dangerous, and in the end it chewed us all up pretty badly, so that by the time people had figured out who they were, we were long gone... The day of our great reunion glimmers now and then, although it hasn't fully happened yet, and of course it might not ever come to pass, but never underestimate Bobby Whitlock."
Published in trade paperback by McFarland & Co. (Jefferson, N.C. and London) on Dec. 17, 2010, Whitlock's autobiography has received more attention and sales than the author ever imagined. It reigned at No. 1 for 14 months on Amazon.com's Kindle Rock Music book list, and is still there as of today. The paperback is also Amazon's No. 2 Music Biography right now, after months at the top of that category. Of the 99 reviews written by readers to date, 93 of them are five-star raves, and another four reviewers gave it four stars. And a Google search turns up a ton of press about it.
What actually sparked Whitlock to write his autobiography in the first place, and a life-changing event he recounts at the end, are things I won't give away here, but both resulted from seemingly random, coincidental occurrences and could easily have never happened at all.
When Whitlock and I connected on the phone on Jan. 6, at high noon Texas time, I had 10 pages of questions (knowing I'd be golden if I could get 10 percent of them answered) and he was in good spirits and ready to talk.
We jumped right into the deep end, covering his rough childhood; his intro to music as a toddler; early musical apprenticeships in Memphis and at Stax as a teen; his stint on the West Coast with Delaney & Bonnie and Friends; meeting and becoming friends with Eric Clapton; the saga of Derek & The Dominos, from their earliest woodshedding at Clapton's estate in England through the band's explosion in a British studio less than two years later; and a little about hanging out with the Stones during the "Exile on Main Street" sessions in France, and playing uncredited.
After what seemed like no time at all, Whitlock asked, "Hey, can we wrap this up soon? I'm getting a little tired..."
Looking at the clock, I realized we'd been talking for an hour and 45 minutes. Holy _____! And we hadn't really gotten into his post-Dominos solo career, his meeting and eventually marrying Carmel, how they bounced from Nashville to Switzerland to Austin; how he finally got sober in 2002; and the music he and CoCo have collaborated on.
"Lovers" was their first duo album, out in 2007. They also recorded with Willie Nelson at his studio outside Austin a few years ago.
Nelson played on a couple of Whitlock/Carmel tracks, "True Love" and "Dear Veronica," the latter penned by Whitlock and Clapton, and inspired by film noir beauty Veronica Lake. Since my wife and I had named our daughter Veronica in homage to Ms. Lake 24 years ago, and I'd first met Willie in 1975, the coincidences were things I wanted to touch on as well, just for grins.
There's also CoCo's first solo album, 2010's "First Fruit" (she wrote, sang, played guitar, sax and more, and produced), the duo's weekly Sunday night residency at the Saxon Pub in Austin (search "whitlock" on YouTube for videos), and their just-released "Esoteric" album to talk about. Carmel also produced those sessions, which feature the two of them singing a brace of new originals and playing various instruments, backed by drummer Brannen Temple. Roberty wrote the liner notes.
But Whitlock was exceptionally generous with his time, and forthcoming in his responses, and I will always be grateful. Still, I hope to catch another 10 minutes or so with him to preview the rest of his remarkable rock 'n' roll story, as detailed in the latter chapters of his book.
Meanwhile, Part 1 of our Q&A follows; more segments will come in future Peeples Place at KHTS posts.
Bobby Whitlock: My time is yours. It's a beautiful day here in Texas.
Stephen K. Peeples: Well, thank you. It's beautiful here in California, and a real pleasure to talk with you, after all these years of enjoying your music.
Whitlock: Thank you for taking the time out of your life to read about mine, man. That's very cool.
Peeples: Well, your "Rock 'n' Roll Autobiography" was one hell of a read. I couldn't imagine growing up under the same circumstances as you, and how it would have affected me, even after breaking out of there, as you did. Like it has been for so many, music was your ticket out of poverty, but you never forgot your roots.
Whitlock: Yeah. What I took with me when I broke out of it, I think, is an important matter. I didn't realize the significance of all of that until it started being applied in my later life. (As a child) I was toting water in a bucket down a half-mile long cotton row, and hearing those people calling and singing for me. It was awesome music, soul music, really. All of the influences I had as I was coming up — didn't really think about them, but they came along with me. Some of them weren't as bright and pleasant, as you know, but the better part of it is what I brought along.
There were some things that didn't make the book. It was turning into a very, very long book (laughs), and some of it just had to be cut down, or it was going to be as long as Keith (Richards'), or longer. I think we had about 476 stories or so. What Marc Roberty would do is, he would just kind of open the door for me: "And what happened here, when this went down, Bobby?" And then I would just write about it. He would categorize all the different stories I was writing as I had this cathartic experience (of finally getting the stories out), and compiled it. He gave it the flow and made it sound like I knew what I was doing, when I didn't.
Peeples: It's almost kind of like sequencing a record. You record the individual tunes in a certain order for whatever reasons, and then later you figure out the way they're supposed to flow.
Whitlock: That's a good way to put it, man. This is really new to me, and I never thought to identify it like that. It is — it's just like sequencing a record, and that is so dadgum important to give it its flow, you know?
Like the "Layla" record. It carries you. It takes you on a ride, on a musical journey. A really picturesque musical journey, that particular record. Writing my book was a picturesque journey, for sure. I've read it a couple of times for different reasons, and what isn't there is what amazes me. There's so much.
But there's so much to everyone's lives they're not bringin', and especially when you turn about 60 or so. I didn't realize I'd been carrying all that around. I didn't realize I was the messenger, that I was going to be the one who was to make all of this information available. I never wrote it down — who played what on this and that. Never did.
I don't know if you did this or not, but when I wrote the song-by-song on "All Things Must Pass" and the "Layla" album (for chapters of his book), I put the records on. It really just made it come alive.
Peeples: Absolutely. I have probably eight or nine of the albums that Delaney & Bonnie and Clapton and Harrison and Derek & The Dominos did during that period, so I've been listening to them on my old vinyl albums and the CD reissues pretty much steadily again for the last month or so. My wife is amazed at all the deep tracks that never get played on classic rock radio, with the exceptions of "Layla" and "Bell Botttom Blues."
Whitlock: That's some good food, isn't it?
Peeples: It's very satisfying food, I'd say. But it also still leaves you wanting more.
Whitlock: Yeah, yeah. Talking about Delaney & Bonnie and Friends and all those records... I don't have my ear to the ground of the modern music scene, but sometimes you can't hardly get away from what's going on. But there's some of us who are doing what we've always done, and we're just better at it now.
We're champions of that era — that was a really beautiful, creative era. All that music was so organic. No one had to try to do anything, to try to make anything happen, because it was just happening without any effort. All you had to do was just kind of fit yourself in that slot where you belonged, and listen up, pretty much. And everyone was doing that. It was like a revolving door of creativity. There's so many people comin' and goin', people in and out of the throng — but always there. Pretty amazing, suddenly just showing up with a song — Dr. John, just showing up with a song.
Above, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends in the California desert, from the center spread of the 1970 "Delaney & Bonnie & Friends On Tour with Eric Clapton" album. Whitlock's up front, wearing the leather jacket. Photo: Barry Feinstein.
Really, what's not in my book is what's amazing to me, because for every story that's there, there's probably eight or 10 more that aren't.
Peeples: Why don't you drop a couple on us that you would have liked to have seen in the book?
Whitlock: Well... really, I'm happy with everything that came in there, but some of them are about the abuse I endured when I was a boy. That's a book unto itself. When I started putting things down, it was a healing experience for me. But we had to refuse a lot of things. I figured this might be the only (book) that ever happens, and I wanted this one to be of integrity and not just drag everybody through the mud. Anybody can do that, anybody can talk about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll and misfortune. No, there's more to my life than that. All of those things are just a part of one chapter in my life. So there were things, like Marc says, that might be factual, might be a good story, but don't make good literature.
But there was a time when I was eight years old. I remember it well; the other day, I was reflecting on this. My dad is no longer on the scene, and he left some years ago. There was a place, Bull Shoals Dam, in Arkansas near Blanchard Springs. There was this beautiful lake, and we went there, just to do a little family thing. My dad was a smallish man, like just about 5' 1". Nobody's ever been a hugger — a hugging family. Nobody ever really did any of that. My aunts and grandmothers did, they always had me up in their arms, but not my dad. He would hug other people, but not me, for some reason. My sister, yes, but not me for some reason, and I could never figure it out.
We walked out onto this pier, this boat dock. I (remember it) as clear as a bell. We got to the end of the ramp, and he picked me up in his arms, and I thought right then, "Wow. How wonderful." My dad finally put his arms around me and was holdin' me. And with that, he tossed me in the water.
I couldn't swim, so I sank like a stone. I could still see him (above) as I was (sinking) out of view. I hit the bottom and righted myself and pushed myself up real instinctively, came up to the surface and started breast-stroking.
Too many hard-hitting stories like that. I could go on and on...
Bobby at about age 7, before the plunge off the pier. Photo courtesy Bobby Whitlock.
(My father) was so confused in his life, and he never quit doing all those drugs and stuff, but he was a preacher and everything. So, he was having a difficult time figuring out what the hell it was that he believed in and what was true for him. He was supposed to be a preacher and a man of God and all of this (but was) abusing his wife and his children behind closed doors, and it was very confusing for my dad. He was trying to figure out, "What is this book, the Bible?" He was supposed to be imparting all of this spiritual wisdom to the masses, but he didn't understand it himself. He had a very difficult time with just his own life, and he wanted so to believe what he thought was in there, in the Bible, but it just did not tally up with him. He had one bad experience after the next.
And that was all the way up in my adulthood. What it amounted to was me, in being abused as a child, was that I grew up in fear. Literally, fear.
And I still deal with anxiety attacks, panic attacks. I have to recognize when they come up, and that it's just old, old stuff from decades ago. We still carry that stuff around, unbeknownst to us, and It surfaces from time to time. That fear thing — I dealt with that until I was about 33, and I had children of my own. And then it just hit me: that (fear) was just an image in thought. It was like a picture on a movie screen; it couldn't hurt me at all.
I was telling CoCo the other day — I have some cowboy boots that belonged to my dad, and I had put them away. I went and got them and showed them to my sister, and they were size 4½. I told CoCo, it was amazing that I let somebody who actually fit in these boots intimidate me until I was a grown man with children of my own.
Peeples: That's pretty amazing, Bobby, and testament to your inner strength that we're talking about it today.
Whitlock: We learn from all of these things, hopefully. I have family members who still resent and carry these burdens. This is like taking a big drink of poison and expecting somebody else to die. You've got to let go of all these things, or they will, in fact, eat you alive.
Peeples: Roger that. Let's get into the music. Would that be okay?
Whitlock: Sure! Because that's really happening in our world now.
Peeples: You touched on it a moment ago and detail it in your book — tell our readers a little more about your earliest exposure to music through your family and your neighbors.
Whitlock: Well, my first exposure to music was like I said, when I was working in the fields and they'd be singing, calling for me, "Hey, little water boy, bring me a drink of water." And my dad, he always chose some fallen-down church out in the middle of the cotton or bean field somewhere, and gospel singing was always in the house and it was always around. The black churches were just always down the way from the white churches out along the gravel roads back in Arkansas, and those are the ones I would always sneak off and go to — real singing. So, I've always been exposed.
Bobby Whitlock's maternal grandfather, "Peapaw" King, and grandmother "Big Mama" King are pictured in Richmond, Ind., in 1938 with their three kids (from left): Bobby's mother LaVada (nicknamed "Bitsy"); his Aunt Christine in the stroller; and Uncle Troy at right. Photo courtesy Bobby Whitlock.
My family, my Uncle Troy (mother's brother) played flat-top guitar and mandolin up till the day he passed, and my Big Mama (maternal grandmother) played a Dobro, the big Dobro that I have right now. She would set me on her lap when I was a baby, and I remember not being able to put my arm over that, and I've got that guitar now. So, singing and playing has always been important in my life, and it still is. I have a real soul music and gospel background, and I was the first white artist to sign the Stax HIP label, their attempt to cash in on contemporary pop.
Peeples: Tell us how that happened, how you came to the attention of those guys and landed a deal.
Whitlock: Well, I had a band, The Counts, and we were playing around all the nightclubs in Memphis. At that time, 1965, '66, '67, it was the place to be. The music was going on 24/7, like Austin is today. The town was all about the music goin' down. You could go somewhere else at all times in Memphis — 2:30 in the morning and hear great jazz or blues being played. I grew up with all of that, so (my band) was doing all the stuff that came out of Stax.
The Counts at the Cabaret Lounge in Memphis, mid-1960s. From left: Bobby Whitlock; Stan Cecil on the bar; Richie Simpson (standing) and an unknown guitar player (foreground). Photo: Jerry Hankins, courtesy Bobby Whitlock.
We did "Expressway to Your Heart," by an American band called the Soul Survivors, and "I'm a Man" and "Gimme Some Lovin'" by the Spencer Davis Group. And some of The Beatles' stuff was way cool, like "Paperback Writer" — that was way, way cool stuff. They had some very cool stuff.
But I wasn't into The Rolling Stones or Beatles or anything like that. I was into soul music that was coming out of Memphis, Tennessee, out of Hi Studios, Al Green's place, Willie Mitchell's place where Al Green did all of his stuff, Stax Records and American Studios. They're in Memphis. Something was always going down there.
There was always somebody great coming through town on the road. Like (Atlantic soul producers) Jerry Wexler and Tom Dowd's in town, bringing Wilson Pickett, The Staple Singers. I always knew who was coming and who was there, and was always ecstatic because they would always come to my band's gigs, because we did all of the material that came out of Stax. So, (bassist Donald) "Duck" (Dunn) and Steve Cropper and those guys, Booker T. & The MGs, they would come.
We were playing the Cabaret Club down on Highland and Southern with our little rock 'n' roll band, doing "Knock on Wood," "Midnight Hour," "Tell Daddy" and stuff. Way, way cool stuff. And they would come and sit in with us.
Eventually they wanted me to start (recording) with their new HIP label, because they wanted to get in on that English Invasion, but they wanted me to be something other than what I was and am today. I sing and play today like I did then, except I'm just more experienced at being real simple. I try to make it as easy on myself as possible, not singing any hard lyrics that go over my head. I'm just staying in my own depths so I don't drown. (laughs)
But it's all right — I learned from the best. I'm probably the only person in the world that actually had hands-on guitar instructions from Eric Clapton and Duane Allman and Delaney Bramlett and George Harrison, that's for sure. Where they'd say, "No, Bobby, put your hands here, it goes like this." When Eric and I started writing songs together, that's when I was just really just beginning to start playing guitar effectively, as a tool to write songs, rather than something that I expressed how I was feeling. I didn't know but like three chords, and there I was, sitting with Eric Clapton, and my first song we wrote was "I Looked Away," and that's no simple song. (The track leads off the "Layla" album.) So I learned some new chords right away with Eric, all these open tunings and stuff, like the open D on "Any Day" (another "Layla" classic") — pretty amazing stuff.
Peeples: Absolutely. Well, I want to get into that a little bit later, but I'd like to rewind just a bit and get back to the Stax scene, where you got to hang out and be a fly on the wall and...
Whitlock: Oh, a whole lot was going down there, and I remember Stax when it was still... The board — it had four great big black RCA knobs for the volume, and I can still see Steve Cropper, with his left arm laying on the top of them, moving it to the left, fading all four at the same time, and it went down to a two-track and then on to a pressing machine, right then. And that was a four-channel board. They had an eight-track machine sitting in the corner.
So, the entire recording process, actually took place (there)... Like (songwriters Isaac) Hayes and (David) Porter, "Hold on, I'm Coming" — David was in the bathroom and Isaac was standing out there, getting ready to go somewhere. Isaac was getting impatient and he says, "C'mon, man, c'mon, we're going to be late!" And (Porter) says, "Hold on, I'm comin', man!"
Wow! They write the song right there, and then they got MGs right there, and Sam (Moore) & Dave (Prater) were there, so it's recorded right then and there. That whole process took place right there in those four walls, in that theater called Stax Records. And I got to see all of this go down.
The Stax Museum as it looks today on McLemore in Memphis. Photo: Victor Chapa.
When The Staple Singers came to town, that's when I met (Atlantic Records') Ahmet Ertegun and Tom Dowd, 'cause Tom was one of the premier engineer-producers. Anytime those guys were coming to town, everybody knew about it beforehand.
Ronnie Capone was the guy who really got that Stax sound and translated it down from the studio onto the tape. He's the one... I don't think people give him credit. He's not around anymore. He was a smallish guy as well, but a wonderful, wonderful guy and friend for as long as I ever knew him. I never remember him when he didn't have a smile on his face, happy to see me. But, he got a great sound. He did some stuff with me.
As a matter of fact, it was out in California, when Village Recorders was just opening (in West Los Angeles), they had hopsack on the wall, I recorded some stuff in there with (drummer) Jim Keltner and Tim Drummond on bass and Steve Cropper and myself, and I had Ronnie as the engineer because he got that great sound. Went out into the drum room and listened to Keltner as he was getting his kit set up, and he was telling Ronnie, "I want it to sound just like that, inside there" (meaning in the control room), and Ronnie said, "No problem." And it did, too. There's so much I learned from being there.
Their idea at that time, we're talkin' like, 1967-68, they wanted to get in on that English Invasion, the pop scene. The pop scene then was like Herman's Hermits and Freddie & The Dreamers, and some of this outrageously pop-ish stuff. And here I'm getting ready to record with my heroes, and they come up with stuff like, some silly songs for me that were just way, way, not me, not what I was doing. I was singing rock 'n' roll and rhythm & blues, and they wanted to give me some kind of bubblegum stuff. So, that was not going to work.
Then along come Delaney and Bonnie.
Duck brought them out to see us at the Cabaret Club, and there they were out there, and I'm up there on the stage, doing my thing, singing "Tell Daddy" or something. After the set, I went out and talked to them and they said they were putting together a band, wanted to know if I'd be interested in coming (to California).
I hadn't been any further (west) than Texarkana in Texas, so I said, "Hell, yeah!" right there in front of Duck and everybody. And so I was gone in two days after that. We started Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, just Delaney and Bonnie and myself.
Pictured above, from left: First Friend Bobby Whitlock with Bonnie Bramlett and Delaney Bramlett, opening for Blind Faith, Madison Square Garden, July 1969. Photo courtesy Bobby Whitlock.
In Part 2 of our exclusive Peeples Place Q&A with Bobby Whitlock, we'll pick up the story as he splits Memphis to join Delaney & Bonnie in Hawthorne, California, and helps launch the band and record its first album, "Home."
Stephen K. Peeples is a writer/reporter for KHTS News (www.hometownstation.com) and SCVNews.com, and host, writer and co-producer of the weekly "House Blend" music and interview show on SCVTV (www.scvhouseblend.com). A former Santa Clarita Valley music and entertainment columnist (The Signal, 2004-2011), and drummer with on-hiatus SCV jazz group RainTree (www.raintreejazz.com, 2010-2011), he is a Grammy-nominated record producer ("Monterey International Pop Festival," MIPF/Rhino, 1992), an award-winning radio producer ("The Lost Lennon Tapes," Westwood One, 1988-1990) and an award-winning online editor (The Signal website, 2007-2011). For more information, email email@example.com or visit www.stephenkpeeples.com.


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After a one-year hiatus, Santa Claus will once again ride his sleigh through the streets of Redondo Beach with the help of the Redondo Beach Police Officers' and Firefighters' associations from Monday through Dec. 13.
Santa and his elves will start Monday in North Redondo Beach and make their way down to South Redondo Beach by Dec. 13. (See attached .pdf for the full route map and directions.) The sleigh generally departs from the "North Pole" at about 5:30 p.m. and wraps up the night's journey at about 9 p.m.
For safety reasons, Santa won't stop on busy streets like Manhattan Beach, Aviation and Artesia boulevards; Grant, Prospect and Catalina avenues; 190th Street and Pacific Coast Highway. If a night's journeys are canceled due to weather conditions, the route will be made-up Dec. 14, 15 or 16.
Residents in the Hollywood Riviera—where properties have Redondo Beach addresses but technically are within Torrance city limits—will also have a chance to meet Santa.
Officers with the Torrance Police Department began their Santa escort on Saturday and will complete it Dec. 16. He will pass through South Torrance and the Hollywood Riviera from Dec. 3-6. (See attached maps.)
The Redondo Beach street-by-street tour, which began decades ago, was canceled in 2011 due to staffing issues, causing a small controversy. Instead of the three-week route, Santa scheduled two stops at local parks.
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Another Hole in the Head unleashes multiple malevolent ghosts. Plus: our guide to the film fest's horror highlights
After the four-person crew's initial visit to the hospital, director Andrew (Andrew Lau, also credited as Haunted Changi's director) becomes obsessed with the place, returning again and again to shoot more footage and hang out with a mysterious woman he encounters there. Meanwhile, uptight producer Sheena (Sheena Chung), dreadlocked sound guy Farid (Farid Azlam), and "I am filming myself at all times" camera guy Audi (Audi Khalis) feel the after-effects in different ways — all of them bad.
Haunted Changi features a scene where a group of paranormal investigators use a little kid as their supernatural-activity barometer, like a canary in a coal mine. Way creepy, and one of the few novel ideas in a film that's solid without being particularly original. Still, Old Changi Hospital has plenty of built-in atmosphere; a real-real documentary on its history would probably be just as scary as Haunted Changi's paranormal fantasy.
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Absentia (Mike Flanagan, U.S., 2010) Daniel has been missing for seven years. His wife, Tricia (Courtney Bell), has dutifully done all the right things, distributing missing-person posters, mourning, seeking therapy, and filling out the paperwork to have him declared dead in absentia. But — heavily pregnant by a new suitor — she's more than ready to move on with her life. In town to help with this task is her younger sister, Callie (Katie Parker), a former drug addict who nudges Tricia to look for new apartments and work on her social life. But is Daniel really dead? Tricia's been having freaky visions that suggest he's still ... somewhere. And what, exactly, is haunting that tunnel down the block from Tricia's front door? Absentia is an indie-horror find: Bell and Parker are totally believable as sisters who stick together despite their complicated relationship, and writer-director Mike Flanagan conjures serious menace from a benign suburban streetscape. Mon/6, 9:20 p.m.; June 12, 5:20 p.m. (Cheryl Eddy)
Apocrypha (Michael Fredianelli, U.S., 2011) Vampires are about as ubiquitous and tired a pop cultural fixture as the Kardashians and it's getting harder and harder to come up with an original twist on such a shopworn staple. That's all the more reason why I wanted Apocrypha, a modestly-budgeted, locally-made indie premiering at HoleHead, to make good on its promising premise that vampires aren't just bloodsuckers, they're also amnesiacs. Unfortunately, director Michael Fredianelli (who also coproduced, edited, cowrote, and stars in the film) makes a hot mess out of this neat idea thanks to weak dialogue, inept direction, lackluster performances, and a virulent misogynistic streak that's far more unsettling than the inevitable torrents of blood. Fredianelli plays Griffith Townsend, a man at wit's end to understand his growing compulsion to bite the women he takes home. Eventually, his path crosses with Maggie (cowriter and coproducer Kat Reichmuth) — an equally confused woman trying to find out how she woke up in Golden Gate Park — with whom he shares a dark, and somewhat obvious, connection. When Townsend's job as a senior editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, rather than all the neck-biting, requires the greatest suspension of audience disbelief, you know it's time to go back to the drawing board. June 11, 3:20 p.m. (Matt Sussman)
I have been on the set of GAC and the Host Zak Bagans (former film student by the way), came in and asked if he could use some of the space in the room...to do what I thought...he was rehearsing! Everything on that show was crap...thougth it was a cool halloween gig, till I found out it was all fake. We set our cameras up and watched the smoke and mirrors show. The guys were cool, but total frauds. We were introduce to the "stunt quardinator"...why would we need him, unless ohhh that's right, the falls, jumps, runs and screams are all fake...he makes sure that they don't get hurt and the make up artist makes sure that when they do...it looks real. From start to finish its a short movie...done quick and ad-libbed I was hoping for the real deal, instead it was BS!
The more I think about it, the more I'm certain that show exists only to fuel drinking games!! Hilarious that they have a stunt guy on-set.
Are you sure he wasn't doing this for stunt work or the cheesy "re-enactment" sequences? I had a friend who was on the set on their Niagra episode (filmed on the Canadian side at an old fort) who reported literally the opposite experience as yours.
the "rehearsals" they film are for the interviews you see before they investigate and BoB T your just a jealous liar... keep hating on them cause this show is the best...dork LMAO
all you bastards hatin on Ghost Adventures including you Bob T with your little make up story abou being on the "set" of Ghost Adventures I was a guest investigator on their show and they are the MOST realistic paranormal team on TV...they have NO ONE in these locations except for them. So heres a message to all you trash talking JEALOUS haterz. They are the #1 paranormal show on televisiom that gets the best evidence of any tv shows. So do you think with all that success they would have haters???? Keep hatin folks for biggest bad asses in the paranormal. Bob T you will be cursed for makin up your stupid ass story
they DO rehearsals and stuff for the reenactments for the interviews BEFORE the lockdown...I filmed with them as guest investigator on an episode....during the "Lockdown" its just the 3 of them and they are the most authentic investigators on television....Ghost Hunters is the show that has the "scenes"....and here's a message to all....being the #1 Paranormal Show on telelvision and all their success in the spotlight...if you dont have haters like the writer of this stupid blog....then you dont have success KUDOS to Ghost Adventures and we look forward to seeing many more seasons....shit they even have movies copying them!!!!!!!
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Zak had a stunt coordinator for a stunt he did for fun at Bonnie Springs Ranch....I laughed when the Bob T guy commented and made up the story funny dude.... they are super legit my friends dad owned one of the locations they filmed at and when they get locked down they actually have the owners watch the outside of the building proving they are in there by themselves... Ghost Adventures are awesome and go to their events they they will show you to your face its not a "smoke-n-mirrors" show like the loser said at the top comment
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Ghost Adventures is a compelling show and I can personally attest to the presence of paranormal entities. Articles like this are the reason I only pick up the SF Bay Guardian for the weed ads in the back!
"If these films are fake-real, then shows like Ghost Adventures, which follow regular people through actual abandoned prisons, sanitariums, and the like, are real-fake."
No. The authenticity of people's experiences and life-changing encounters with unexplained phenomena are the inspiration to many of these "fake-real" films. To the writer of this article, I suggest you enter the abandoned USS Hornet docked in Alameda. Spend the whole night there and let me know if your opinion has changed.
Ghost Adventures is a compelling show and I can personally attest to the presence of paranormal entities. Articles like this are the reason I only pick up the SF Bay Guardian for the weed ads in the back!
"If these films are fake-real, then shows like Ghost Adventures, which follow regular people through actual abandoned prisons, sanitariums, and the like, are real-fake."
No. The authenticity of people's experiences and life-changing encounters with unexplained phenomena are the inspiration to many of these "fake-real" films. To the writer of this article, I suggest you enter the abandoned USS Hornet docked in Alameda. Spend the whole night there and let me know if your opinion has changed.
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Kentley Hills is one of the larger communities within Highlands Ranch. In fact, it is so large that one of the area's smaller communities, Lantern Hill, is almost entirely surrounded by it.
Some of the best properties in Kentley Hills are considered among the most desirable in the Highlands Ranch area. Commanding spectacular views of the Rockies and the Highlands Ranch Windmill, and with spacious open plan rooms that are perfect for entertaining, they are highly sought after.
The Kentley Hills community consists of approximately 850 single family houses. Most of these properties were built between 1999 and 2001. A Kentley Hills home is characteristically a two story home, although there are also a few ranch style properties in the area, and there is a great deal of variation in property size. Many of the houses back onto the local green belt. A lot of the properties in Kentley Hills have amazing views of the Rocky Mountains, as well as of the Landmark Windmill, a local landmark that is stationed at the Highlands Ranch Mansion.
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Residents of Highlands Ranch have access to a range of different amenities including a system of trails, the Backcountry Wilderness Area, various parks and the local recreation centers. The nearest recreation center for residents of Kentley Hills is the Southridge Center, although the Eastridge Center is also nearby. The closest park is Dad Clark Park, which has a children's playground and a separate dog park, which offers a space where pets can be allowed to roam off the leash. Dad Clark, also known as the Potato King, was one of the original landowners in the Highlands Ranch area.
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Kentley Hills is within the school district of Douglas County. The usual schools for children living in Kentley Hills are the Heritage and Summit View elementary schools, Mountain Ridge middle school and Mountain Vista high school.
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Brooklyn Ale / Pennant Ale '55 - Brooklyn Brewery
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Reviews by rdilauro:
2.8/5 rDev -22.7%
Sorry, but I did not like this one. Guess my nostalgic baseball days and thinking about the Brooklyn Dodges and Ebbets field made me excited about this ale.
The color was a tannish amber like many other domestic ales. There wasnt any particular aroma that I could detect. No hops that stood out and for a second, I almost picked up a whiff of what I remember almost 45 years ago, my first Ballentine Ale.
There was nothing actually wrong with this Ale, its just that I could not find specifics about it which I really wanted to positively comment on.
Its still a very drinkable ale and considering so many of the larger company brews, this one is still better.
02-07-2012 16:16:32 | More by rdilauro
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4/5 rDev +10.5%
Presentation: 12oz brown bottle. Freshness date cleary marked.
Appearance: A rich looking, bright chestnut coloured beer with a creamy, patchy and sticky off-white head.
Smell: Malty sweet and fruity in the nose with a complex hop aroma.
Taste: A very malty brew with a sweet profile and smooth overall feel on the palate. Grape and passion fruit flavours come to the front, followed by dextrin sweetness and light toasted/biscuit malt background flavours. Hops strike with an assertive citrus bite, crisp dryness and distinct coarse/raw herbal flavours and oils. Finishes a bit dry with a tea-like sweetness.
Notes: A classic example of (an American made) English Pale Ale. Very true to the style. Brooklyn's tribute to the world champion Brooklyn baseball team.
05-06-2001 00:00:01 | More by Todd
North Carolina
4/5 rDev +10.5%
One of the better pale ales I have had,poured a real nice copper color with medium well retained head.Very hoppy aroma but great malty balance to this brew,hop was present but not overpowering.I like a good balanced pale ale alot more than one with too much bitterness,if I want that I will order a IPA.This brewery makes some real nice beers at least all the ones I have had.
04-06-2003 16:00:43 | More by oberon
Newfoundland (Canada)
3.75/5 rDev +3.6%
05-18-2014 20:36:44 | More by cam477
3.75/5 rDev +3.6%
04-26-2012 15:52:46 | More by DavyJones
3.52/5 rDev -2.8%
08-19-2014 01:10:56 | More by GameOfBeers
New York
3.5/5 rDev -3.3%
08-04-2014 18:54:29 | More by SkiBum22
North Carolina
3.83/5 rDev +5.8%
Poured from a 12 oz. bottle into a pint glass.
Nice coppery amber color, clear, with a good 1/2" of off-white head that reduced to a creamy layer of bubbles before too long. Ok lacing.
The smell was a mostly light malts and something of a yeast smell with some hops sneaking in there to add a light citrus note.
A good long pull produced smooth and satisfying results - pale and caramel malts were formost, a bit fruity and a touch of sweetness. Hops were present but weak, seemingly there to balance the malt character a bit. The finish is pretty quick, starting with a malty edge, a slim bit of bitter-ish hop linger, and a water end. I have to say, this went down smooth and easy - very nice.
Overall this is a relatively tasty brew. It seemed to me to be a bit more flavorful and robust than some other APAs but I say that as a good thing. Another nice brew from Brooklyn.
04-15-2008 23:08:11 | More by SIRIUS2
3/5 rDev -17.1%
12-17-2013 08:28:55 | More by BubalooBrewMaster
3.18/5 rDev -12.2%
Appearance: Deep copper, caramel color with average head when poured. Average carbonation. Penetrating light gives beer a nice "shine"....
Aroma: Deep malty aroma with some hop profile noted. Caramel, toasty, roasty aroma.
Taste: Rich, caramel, malty flavor. Slight tangy, sour side that was unexpecte. It is a fresh bottle (best before Oct 06) so don't think its off.
Mouthfeel: Crisp & clean. Whether intentional or not, the sourness mentioned above gives a sharp, crisp mouthfeel. Very nicely carbonated which also lends to the crispness.
Drinkability: Medium drinkability. Not too light or too heavy. Nice to have one or two, but become too cloying after a few.
Comments: I enjoyed this but am curious whether the sour taste was intentional or the result of improper storage at the distributor/retailer. As I drank the bottle, the sour taste became less evident.
07-31-2006 20:25:08 | More by JMD71
3.18/5 rDev -12.2%
A: a translucent amber bubbles with a very thin head.
S: hints of hops and malts underwhelm the nose.
T: some initial bitterness of hops that fades to a sweet, albeit dry, finish.
MF/D: light on the tongue, with a smooth, crisp swallow. a decent brew for a hot day.
09-06-2010 21:34:36 | More by newk340
3.33/5 rDev -8%
Pours a typical pale ale orange with a nearly white head on top. Head didn't stick around for long, literally less than a minute which is why I bring the appearance score down a bit.
Smell is a nice balance that is malty sweet with hints of caramel and a good hop blend.
Taste is again fairly well balanced. Not much of the sweet malts found in the nose but there is some malt background balacing the bitterness of this brew. I pick up alot of english hop influence with the profile of this. Hops are mostly resin based. This isn't a pale ale I would introduce a newbie to since the flavor profile isn't flowery/fruity but more along the lines of slightly dirt/earth taste. Not saying it is a bad thing, but it has its place for me and isn't my favorite flavor profile.
Mouthfeel is acceptable but not overexciting. And drinkability comes down a bit as well since I don't find this one overly appetizing, but on the right day I could have a couple if I was craving this particular flavor.
05-02-2005 05:48:15 | More by blitz134
3/5 rDev -17.1%
My bottle reads "Brooklyn Pennant Pale Ale '55." I thought maybe I found something different, but no. Brooklyn brewing seems to do the same thing Rogue does, and bottle the same beer under different names. Pretty lame - not sure what the point is.
Average, average, average. Man, there is just not much to say about this one. A pretty even-keel, straight-across-the-board american pale ale. I thought I tasted/smelled some wheat at first, but that disappeared after a few sips.
I guess if you want a beer that you can drink and ignore, this is your beer. Unintrusive, mild, forgettable. With so many pale ales in the world of beer, there are undoubtedly better ones you can pick up.
10-06-2005 00:16:02 | More by chOAKbarrell
3.5/5 rDev -3.3%
08-15-2012 04:02:07 | More by danthehopslamman
New York
3/5 rDev -17.1%
07-06-2014 04:41:54 | More by kuishinbo_tantei
4/5 rDev +10.5%
A nice summer beer. In a bottle, Best By July 2009. It had a dark amber color in my pint glass, with a medium-sized off-white head. Malty aroma with some sweetness. Bscuit/toast taste, still sweet, like fruit. Rather dry in the mouth. This was a great beer to drink after mowing the lawn.
06-06-2009 20:06:32 | More by lordofthewiens
3.08/5 rDev -14.9%
On draft at the brewery during a 3/19/05 pubhop. Clear and golden amber with a thick, creamy eggshell colored head. Bits of small bubbles in the center, and a lot of carbonation seen rising. Excellent head retention. Malty, carmamel, sweet and clean, not too much jumping out at you. Slightly frothy feel to it. Very crisp, nicely malty, bit of hops in there but not much. Slight darkened toast flavors left on your tongue, but very balanced.
03-21-2005 02:48:39 | More by shapudding
3.5/5 rDev -3.3%
05-10-2012 07:28:46 | More by TimoP
Rhode Island
3/5 rDev -17.1%
08-01-2014 14:09:05 | More by Doomcifer
3.5/5 rDev -3.3%
12-09-2011 17:14:24 | More by iemailjack
4/5 rDev +10.5%
12oz brown bottle with a freshness date.
Color: Brilliantly clear copper.
Smell: Some hops, buttery, ripe plums, malty with a semi-sweet toastiness.
Taste & Mouthfeel: Smoothness and crispness is nearly perfect, medium bodied. Slightly toasted malt, buttery throughout, balancing hoppiness, mildly fruity. Apples and plums, dried grass & woody hops. Dry finish.
Overall: Yeah, beer screams "English Pale Ale". Not the biggest fan of buttery ales but it works here and Brooklyn hits the mark for style.
08-10-2011 04:21:16 | More by Jason
4.03/5 rDev +11.3%
Brooklyn Ale pours a light chestnut, clear body with some active carbonation going on. Skimpy beige head is shortlived and leaves minimal lace. Nose is mostly caramel malt with an even balance of British smelling hops that add floral and herbal notes. Mouthfeel is light medium, with crisp carbonation. Taste is soft in that English Ale sort of way, with a delicately balanced hop and malt profile. Nothing overwhelms, but the caramel malt seems to fold perfectly into the floral and herbal hops. Very smooth and balanced. Slightly bitter finish with a clean aftertaste. Session ales don't get much better than this.
02-11-2005 23:12:15 | More by merlin48
New York
4/5 rDev +10.5%
A: 12 ouncer sampled, pours dark honey amber, clear with a tan head , and leaving moderate, not too exciting lacing. Freshness dating notched onto the label.
S: malty, earthy nose, touch of peat?
T: This is a British style ale, if you ask me, and the label bears me out -maris otter malt, fuggles and east kent goldings hops. Nice malt/hop balance and the combo adds up to a pleasantly smooth and drinkable ale of distinction and subtlety
M: Nice, full, smooth mouthfeel. Dry in the finish
D: high marks here, cuz, this is a fine, tasty brew, makes you want to drink a second
04-15-2005 03:09:06 | More by Billolick
4.2/5 rDev +16%
Pours a huge three finger head. Off white in color. Clear amber body. Smells of crystal malts, noble hops, some grassy notes. Tastes of crystal malts, noble hops, earthy, mineraly. Medium bodied medium carbing. This one is especially plesant for it's mouthfeel, very balanced and neutral. Nothing harsh or offensive. I could easily finsh a sixer of this. $1.75 a single.
02-19-2011 22:50:16 | More by Homebrew35
3.5/5 rDev -3.3%
Appearance: 1/3 inch head, clear, orange/brown in color, high carbonation
Smell: toasted malt and some spice
Taste: toasted malt, bread, and small hops at the end
Mouthfeel: medium bodied, high carbonation, semi-sweet
Drinkability: Another very sessionable biscuity beer. I could have three. A lot of the flavor here is reminiscent of the flavors I associate with Abita's beers. This is an above average, not great beer.
12-10-2009 15:51:40 | More by tigg924
Brooklyn Ale / Pennant Ale '55 from Brooklyn Brewery
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OCZ unveiled the Pro-Source 1500, the first UPS from PC Power & Cooling. The Pro-Source 1500 features 10 minutes of back-up battery time at typical load (600W). The software and the front panel both show Input Voltage, Output Voltage, Frequency, Load, Backup Time, and Temperature. It is retailing for US$299.99
Samsung Impression Retailing At AT&T
(Engadget) If you were hoping for a cellphone that comes with a big OLED screen, you might wanna take a look into Samsung Impression. The down side about it ? It is retailing at AT&T, right in North America.
LG's New W53 SMART Monitors Just Got Cleverer
(Engadget) Hitting worldwide this month, the new W53 SMART Monitors series by LG includes a few "smart" features. Sizes will range form 18.5 to 27 inch with resolutions up to 1920×1080, offering contrast ratios up to 50000:1 at a response time of 2ms.
LG Introduces New Music Player Phone in Korea
(Akihabara News) The LG-GM310, LG-GM210 or LG-GM205 is the latest walkman music phones by LG. Sporting a trendy look, lets take a peek at what it has to offer
Nehalem-EP based Xeons Hit Akiba
(Impress) With a TDP of 60W to 130W, these lovely Nehalem-EP based Xeon 5xxx series have hit Akiba stores. They don't come cheap but these beasts has got the features packed to make its worth.
Galaxy Launched GTX 275 OC Edition with Digital PWM
GALAXY has launched GeForce GTX275 OverClocked /w Digital PWM card that is clocked at 650MHz core, 1475MHz shader and 1200MHz memory. It has 240 stream processors same as GTX285 and 896MB of 0.8ns GDDR3 memory across a 448-bit wide memory bus. Find out why this card is different from the rest…
Dell's Netbook Roadmap Leaked ?
Engadget reports that Dell has leaked its netbook roadmap, revealing that the upcoming Mini 11 is scheduled for a Q3 2009 release.