Earlier today, the teaser poster for SPECTRE was released. Here it is!
Now, I have to admit that I was a bit underwhelmed when I first saw it and I was planning on going on for a few thousands words about what this image might mean. However, as I’m currently dealing with a case of bronchitis and I need to get some rest, I’m just going to include the following twitter exchange which will explain both my reaction and why there may be more to this image than I originally considered.
Judging from the Spectre teaser poster, the role of James Bond will apparently now be played by a wax figure with a gun.
Regardless of how I felt about the teaser poster, I was looking forward to SPECTRE because Sam Mendes did such a great job with Skyfall.However, learning that Live and Let Die is Mendes’s favorite just makes me even more excited!
Why is it that those with creative talents that border on genius tend to die young and much too soon. This has become almost synonymous with the premature passing of some of the greatest musician of the last 50 years. Most seem to be from the rock and metal corner of the musical landscape. Some has been due to the very lifestyle led by these musicians. A lifestyle of libertine excess that catches up to their talent way too soon.
One such individual who went before his time yet made such an impact on the music scene that he’s considered one of the greatest metal guitarist of all-time (I say one of the best guitarist in or out of metal). His name was Randy Rhoads.
Only 25 when he passed away not due to a life of excess (he was actually quite responsible a rock star in his era where sex, booze and drugs were commonplace) but to a tragic accident that didn’t need to happen.
While some always point to his guitar work on the Ozzy Osbourne song “Crazy Train” from his solo debut album, I always thought one of his best guitar work was on another song from that debut album. The song I speak about is “Mr. Crowley”.
The song itself is one of those songs that drove parents crazy when they first heard their young teenage sons listening to it. I mean it’s a song about self-proclaimed Anti-Christ, libertine and sex magick user Aleister Crowley. Yet, it’s not Ozzy’s vocals that make the song memorable. It’s Rhoad’s lead guitar performance with special focus on the two guitar solos which rise up in the middle of the track and closes it out.
Mr. Crowley
Mister Crowley What went down in your head? Oh, Mister Crowley Did you talk to the dead?
Your lifestyle to me seems so tragic With the thrill of it all You fooled all the faithful with magic Yeah, you waited on Satan’s call
Mister Charming Did you think you were pure? Mister Alarming In nocturnal rapport
Uncovering things that were sacred Manifest on this earth Oh, conceived in the eye of a secret Yeah, they scattered the afterbirth
(guitar solo)
Mister Crowley Won’t you ride my white horse? Mister Crowley It’s symbolic, of course
Approaching a time that is classic I hear that maiden’s call Approaching a time that is drastic Standing with their backs to the wall
Was it polemically sent? I wanna know what you meant I wanna know I wanna know what you meant, yeah!
Through the Shattered Lens 