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🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- Pura vida. 'Pure signal, no noise' Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- Described as “Australia’s own Cobra”, here's a 1973 Bolwell Nagari.... ...with a Ford 351 Cleveland engine, one of 120 built. Ross Allen photos. "Pure signal, no noise" Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- by Katerina Dramitinou "Zappa" Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, songwriter, guitarist, conductor, actor, satirist, filmmaker, and activist. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works; he additionally produced nearly all the 60-plus albums he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. His discography is characterized by nonconformity, improvisation, sonic experimentation, musical virtuosity and satire of American culture. Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse musicians of the 20th century. "Pure signal, no noise" Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- "So, so you think you can tell / Heaven from Hell, / Blue skies from pain. / Can you tell a green field / From a cold steel rail? / A smile from a veil? / Do you think you can tell?" "Wish You Were Here" by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released as the title track of their 1975 album "Wish You Were Here." https://youtu.be/K6qj09OHvjw?si=gvZnF_Dcy655HgQS David Gilmour and Roger Waters collaborated to write the music, and Gilmour sang the lead vocal. Lyrically, the song is often considered to be a direct tribute to former band member Syd Barrett. In 2011, the song was ranked No. 324 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list. "Pure signal, no noise" Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- ‘Vampirella’ by Alex Horley 🦇 🐍 🎨 "Pure signal, no noise" Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- Today's grandmas....... "Pure signal, no noise" Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- Art by Matt Griffin. "Pure signal, no noise" Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- 16 September, 1977..... ”There is so little time for us all. I need to be able to say what I want quickly, and to as many people as possible." Remembering British singer-songwriter, musician, guitarist, and poet Marc Bolan (30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977) of T Rex fame who died, aged 29, in a car accident near Gipsy Lane on Queens Ride, Barnes, southwest London, England on this day in 1977. https://youtu.be/2tO2k6-2e4c As the lead singer and main songwriter for T. Rex, Bolan is regarded as one of the pioneers of the glam rock movement of the 1970s. His appearance on the BBC's music show Top of the Pops in March 1971, wearing glitter and satins, is often cited as the beginning of the glam rock movement. T. Rex’s landmark 1971 album "Electric Warrior" (https://youtu.be/xhRjj4oIsAY) with all songs written by Bolan, including the UK chart topper “Get It On” (https://youtu.be/wZkTh_T75QY), has been described by AllMusic as “the album that essentially kick-started the UK glam rock craze." Producer Tony Visconti, who would also work with the other major glam rock pioneer David Bowie, stated, “What I saw in Marc Bolan ... was raw talent. I saw genius. I saw a potential rock star in Marc – right from the minute, the hour I met him.” Bolan's death at the age of 29 in a car crash just two weeks before his 30th birthday caused a great outpouring of grief amongst his fans. https://youtu.be/QYSi1CQsLVo In 1997, 20 years after the tragedy, a memorial stone and bust of Bolan, Marc Bolan's Rock Shrine, was unveiled at the site where he died in Barnes, London. https://youtu.be/oATXQ3hNYyM "Pure signal, no noise" Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

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🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- A Berber woman in ethnic attire, circa 1908. Photograph by Lehnert & Landrock. "Pure signal, no noise" Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- The Castelul de Lut din Valea Zânelor (the Clay Castle of the Valley of the Fairies), a fairy-tale building located in Porumbacu de Sus, Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. 👀 "Pure signal, no noise" Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

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🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- Happy Birthday Ian Gillan (born August 19, 1945) https://youtu.be/OorZcOzNcgE?si=En1pZolHmyWOVEzB is an English singer who is best known as the lead singer and lyricist for the rock band Deep Purple. He is known for his powerful and wide-ranging singing voice. He first found widespread commercial success after joining Deep Purple in 1969. He resigned from the band in June 1973, having given a lengthy notice period to their managers. After a short time away from the music business, he resumed his music career with solo bands the Ian Gillan Band and Gillan, before a year-long stint as the vocalist for Black Sabbath in 1983. The following year, Deep Purple reformed and two more successful albums followed before he left in 1989. He returned to the group in 1992, and has remained its lead singer ever since. #iangillan #deeppurple #blacksabbath "Pure signal, no noise" Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- RIP Frank Beard of ZZ Top. https://youtu.be/cKKJV0Aiiv0?si=APthsztm9vFY_G1X Frank Beard, the drummer whose deceptively spare, deeply swinging backbeat powered ZZ Top for more than half a century and helped transform three Texas blues musicians into one of the most recognizable rock bands in the world, died on Monday at his ranch in Richmond, Texas. He was 77. Mr. Beard had been in hospice care and died with members of his family at his side, according to a representative for ZZ Top. A cause of death was not immediately disclosed. His death came after an extended period of health problems that had increasingly kept him from the road. Earlier this month, ZZ Top announced that Mr. Beard was taking another leave from the band's summer tour, with drummer Michael Monahan filling in for him. For a musician who spent most of his career seated behind two of rock's most visually distinctive figures, Mr. Beard was an essential part of what made ZZ Top sound like ZZ Top. Billy Gibbons supplied the serrated guitar riffs and laconic vocals, and Dusty Hill locked his bass into the spaces between them, but Mr. Beard provided the propulsion. His playing could be muscular without being heavy-handed, economical without sounding restrained. He understood the shuffle, the blues and, perhaps most importantly, the power of leaving something out. It was a style perfectly suited to a band that spent its career making difficult things sound easy. ZZ Top's music was built from blues, boogie, R&B and the particular musical geography of Texas, but the trio stripped those influences down until a song could seem to run on little more than a guitar riff, a bass line and Mr. Beard's pocket. Records like “La Grange,” “Tush,” “Cheap Sunglasses” and “I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide” were not showcases for drumming in the conventional sense. The drums were embedded in the architecture of the music, pushing it forward with a loose precision that countless bar bands tried to duplicate and few ever quite captured. Frank Lee Beard was born June 11, 1949, in Frankston, Texas, and grew up in Irving, outside Dallas. He began playing drums as a teenager and became part of the thriving North Texas rock and blues scene of the 1960s. Among the groups he played with were the Cellar Dwellers, the Warlocks and American Blues, the latter featuring brothers Rocky and Dusty Hill. That association would prove decisive. By 1969, guitarist Billy Gibbons was rebuilding his band after the dissolution of the Moving Sidewalks, his Houston psychedelic group. Mr. Beard joined him and soon helped bring Dusty Hill into the fold. The lineup of Gibbons, Hill and Beard was in place in time to record “ZZ Top's First Album,” released in 1971. It would remain essentially unchanged for more than 50 years, an extraordinary feat of endurance in a business where successful bands often measure their stability in months rather than decades. The breakthrough came with “Tres Hombres” in 1973. Its centerpiece, “La Grange,” took the rhythm of John Lee Hooker's boogie and sent it barreling down a Texas highway. The record established the formula ZZ Top would refine for decades: blues reduced to its elemental ingredients, amplified until it filled arenas, then delivered with enough humor and swagger to keep the machinery from becoming ponderous. By the middle of the 1970s, ZZ Top had become one of America's formidable touring bands. Their Worldwide Texas Tour was an exercise in Lone Star excess, with a Texas-shaped stage and an assortment of live animals, including cattle, rattlesnakes and a buffalo. Beneath the spectacle, however, was a trio that could play. Night after night, Beard and Hill created a rhythm section so secure that Gibbons could play around the beat rather than simply on top of it. After an extended break from touring in the late 1970s, ZZ Top returned to find that Gibbons and Hill had independently grown the enormous beards that would become part of the group's identity. Mr. Beard, in one of rock's enduring visual jokes, was the member named Beard who did not grow one. He generally settled for a mustache while his bandmates' chest-length whiskers became almost as famous as their music. What followed was one of the more improbable second acts in rock history. Rather than becoming a 1970s blues-rock relic, ZZ Top embraced synthesizers, sequencers, drum machines and the emerging visual language of MTV. “Eliminator,” released in 1983, retained the band's blues foundation while surrounding it with the sleek pulse of the new decade. “Gimme All Your Lovin',” “Sharp Dressed Man” and “Legs” became international hits, and their videos — filled with hot rods, beautiful women, spinning guitars and the mysteriously omnipresent Gibbons and Hill — turned three veteran Texas musicians into unlikely MTV stars. The album eventually sold more than 10 million copies in the United States. For Mr. Beard, the band's technological transformation required an unusual degree of adaptability. ZZ Top's 1980s records increasingly incorporated programmed percussion and electronic production, but the rhythmic personality underneath remained recognizably his. The tension between machine-like precision and the human Texas shuffle became one of the defining characteristics of the band's biggest records. Where another drummer might have fought the technology, Beard seemed to understand that the groove mattered more than the method used to create it. Success brought its own difficulties. Mr. Beard later spoke openly about struggles with drugs and alcohol during ZZ Top's rise and eventually became sober. The band's survival was partly a story of men who learned how to endure the excesses that destroyed many of their contemporaries. They continued recording and touring long after the MTV era had passed, eventually releasing 15 studio albums, from “ZZ Top's First Album” through “La Futura” in 2012. In 2004, ZZ Top was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, formal recognition of a career that by then had already stretched across four decades. Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones handled the induction, welcoming a band whose roots reached back to many of the same blues musicians who had inspired his own. The trio's remarkable continuity ended with Dusty Hill's death in July 2021 at 72. At Hill's request, ZZ Top continued, with longtime guitar technician Elwood Francis taking over on bass. Beard remained behind the drums, linking the band's new incarnation to the partnership that had begun more than half a century earlier. In recent years, however, Mr. Beard's health increasingly interrupted his touring. He underwent a medical procedure in 2025 and temporarily stepped away from performances, and his health again forced him from the road during 2026. Earlier this month, ZZ Top canceled its Aug. 5 appearance at the Hollywood Bowl because of what was initially described as “unforeseen personnel matters.” Days later, the band announced that Mr. Beard would take a leave from the tour. Following his death, Gibbons described Mr. Beard as a great friend and collaborator and praised the natural inventiveness of his drumming, saying that Beard's backbeat had been fundamental to the band's sound. Gibbons also said ZZ Top intended to continue, as Mr. Beard had wanted. Mr. Beard is survived by his wife, Debbie Meredith, whom he married in 1982, and their twin sons. Reports also identified a daughter from an earlier relationship among his survivors. His death leaves Billy Gibbons as the sole surviving member of the trio that recorded “Tres Hombres,” toured the world with livestock, conquered MTV with a red 1933 Ford coupe and somehow carried Texas blues into nearly every corner of popular culture. Yet Frank Beard's contribution was rarely about spectacle. It was about time — where to put the beat, how long to let a shuffle breathe, when to strike the snare and when not to. For 56 years, while the cars became faster, the stages became larger, the beards became longer and the technology became more sophisticated, Beard sat behind the kit and kept that little ol' band from Texas moving forward. The sound was unmistakable because the beat underneath it was, too. "Pure signal, no noise" Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️