It was right after Home Alone. I was talking to my GF about this yesterday. Did Jackson hang around with famous kids like Culkin and Feldman but not do sex stuff with them so they would defend him? Could a predator like Jackson have that much restraint? I don't know, but I think it's more likely that they were victims too.
He also played up his shitty childhood and used it to his advantage. In the post doc interview with Oprah, Robson talked about how Jackson had started grooming him and others before he ever met them. The Peter Pan persona, the idea that he wasn't a perv, he was just a weird dude who was robbed of his childhood so it's ok that he likes to have slumber parties with kids. That was calculated on Jackson's part.
If you've gone down the wormhole, you've probably already seen this, but I'll post it anyway. GCJ at the Crossroads Festival in Chicago in 2010. This was him stepping on a big stage for the first time, and doing it in front of dudes like Clapton, BB King, Jeff Beck, Ronnie Wood and Buddy Guy.
According to this Houston Chronicle article three days after the raid, HPD identified the powder as cocaine. At this point, Art was still shooting down conspiracy theories and maintaining the story that a confidential informant had bought heroin at the house.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/houston/article/Powder-found-in-police-raid-identified-13578839.php
I think I remember reading it was 18 grams. A little over half an ounce, which is consistent with personal use. No evidence of scales or baggies in the house.
These people were not dealers.
And yeah, some cancer patients smoke weed. They don't usually do coke and heroin.
That pot and coke could have easily been planted by a cop or cops who didn't get shot first.
Cokeheads don't leave a gram and half of coke just laying around. They do the coke. Who buys an eight ball, does half of it and says, "I think I'll save that for later"?
Unless they were chopping it up into lines as the cops bust through the door, I'd bet it wasn't theirs.
In the middle of all this, Art is hanging out courtside with a known cokehead.
Oscar De La Hoya probably had more coke on him when this pic was taken than was found in the house on Harding Street.
Goines might be incapacitated now, but according to this news report that came out the next day, he was well enough to write a note and pass it to Art after being shot. He was still working the cover up while being treated at the hospital.
https://abc13.com/hpd-chief-recalls-struggle-that-left-suspects-dead-officers-shot/5110369/
"Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said a senior officer shot while serving a narcotics warrant at a home later passed a note to him at the hospital saying he had to jump in there when other officers were down.... According to Acevedo, once two officers were down and a third was shot, the other officers left their cover positions to pull their fellow officers out of harm's way.
The 54-year-old senior officer breached the door when he knew his partners were down.
"I had to get in there because I knew my guys were down," the officer later said in a note to Acevedo.
"That just speaks volumes as to what this man... just his courage under fire," Acevedo said of the officer.
This was the third time in the officer's career that he had been shot. He was shot before in 1992 and 1997."
Speaking of P90s, here's a cross post from the Gary Clark Jr. thread. I've seen him play his signature SG with three P90s. But check out this Flying V with three P90s that he played on SNL.
My daily watch is the same, but I use the two-ring Zulu instead of the Nato style strap. Maratac makes great straps.
https://countycomm.com/products/maratac-zulu-watch-straps
Almost kinda, but no.
It's a 1980 Hondo II Professional p-bass copy made in Japan at the Tokai factory. It's a pretty close copy of mid-70s Fender made with a solid ash body and nitro finish.
In case you wanna buy the Sweet Home Alabama Strat, it's listed at the ink below with other celebrity owned gear including a couple Dumbles...
https://cartervintage.com/collections/celebrity-owned
And to echo what others have already said, yeah JJ, that clip is really good.
Isbell's comment about the guitar being played and not locked up in a vault seems like a subtle dig at Dirk Ziff.
There are more pictures of this guitar at the link below, including a couple that really show the distinct red patch below the toggle switch that helped King identify it years after it was stolen. I'd never heard of "tag fade" before. Back then Gibson put a small paper tag on the toggle. Depending on how long the tag was left on, the finish faded around the tag, leaving a brighter spot underneath. Hence the name, Red Eye.
https://www.lespaulforum.com/forum/showthread.php?132199-The-Ed-King-Burst