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billy powell: dead

Free Bird to be played non-stop for next 30 days on all Jacksonville stations

Powell, who went to Bishop Kenny High School, joined Skynyrd in 1972 after working for the Jacksonville band for a couple of years as a roadie. He was seriously injured in the Oct. 20, 1977 plane crash that killed singer Ronnie Van Zant and five other people.

Johnny Van Zant said his brother invited Powell to join the band after he heard him playing piano during a rehearsal of "Free Bird." "Ronnie said, 'What's that?' and Billy said, 'That's the introduction to 'Free Bird.' Ronnie said, 'I like that. You're in the band.'"

The piano introduction to the song became a highly anticipated part of the band's live show, though Johnny Van Zant said Powell was sometimes relucant to jump into the spotlight with it.

dude, i'm totally moving to Iran.

They make you get stoned for committing adultery there.  It's like the law or something.

Iran judiciary confirms men stoned to death for adultery

TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran's judiciary on Tuesday confirmed that two men had been stoned to death for adultery in the northeastern city of Mashhad while a third struggled from the stoning hole and escaped with his life.

"As you saw in reports, there were three stonings carried out in Mashhad. They were convicted of adultery, that is an affair with a married woman," judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi told reporters.

nothing butt hard hittin' journalism here at the dw

Bailout shmailout, debate shmebate, we've got Sarah Palin swimsuit footage from Miss Alaska 1984!!! 

Almost as good as Dick Cheney in a thong.

thems some funny sumbitches.

Oh good god.

bob repper suicide watch

Pink Floyd member Richard Wright dies age 65

By MEERA SELVA – 45 minutes ago

LONDON (AP) — Richard Wright, a founding member of the rock group Pink Floyd, died Monday. He was 65.

Pink Floyd's spokesman Doug Wright, who is not related to the artist, said Wright died after a battle with cancer at his home in Britain. He says the band member's family did not want to give more details about his death.

happy 63rd birfday clovis

Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Let's make monkey love next to a dead moose in the back of my f150, ban some books, shotgun marry my daughter to a meth addled redneck, do a little four-way ass-play with John and Cindy...
Happy Birthday to you!

* others celebrating a birthday today:

• Jesse James
• Raquel Welch
• Freddie Mercury

May Ye Be in Texarkana an Hour, before the Devil Knows Yer Dead

Death comes for us all they say and today it came for the great Jerry Reed. The last surviving 1/3 of the DW's Holy Trinity: Fred Sanford, Barney Fife, and the Snowman, has gone to his reward. Where does this leave us...we can't know for sure. But, I do know this: somewhere out there Jerry's drinking a cup of coffee and leaning on a long, formica counter trimmed in gold. "When You're Hot, You're Hot" is playing on the jukebox and the waitress has a twinkle in her eye. Jerry's thinking about ordering the pork chops and gravy. But he won't. Everybody on the road knows, when you finally pull into St. Peter's Moto-Plex and Diner, the first thing you got to do is try the pie. Enjoy the pie, Jerry, enjoy the pie.

P.S.  When you get a chance, say hello to Red Sovine and the Teddy Bear from all us here at the Double Wide.

Life's to short to do whatever it is I been doin'...so, in honor of Jerry Reed...I'm back bitches!

heaven bound and down...

This has got to stop Alvie.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Jerry Reed, a singer who became a "good ol' boy" actor opposite Burt Reynolds in car chase movies like "Smoky and the Bandit," is dead at age 71, according to his longtime booking agent.

Carrie Moore-Reed, who is no relation to the star, says Reed died early Monday morning of complications from emphysema.

Reed was a gifted guitarist who later became a songwriter, singer and finally an actor.

As a singer in the 1970s and early 1980s, he had a string of hits that included "Amos Moses," ''When You're Hot, You're Hot," ''East Bound and Down," and "The Bird".

hot love indeed

Well, if anything can make the double wide-ahem- stand tall again, it's Alaska GILF Sarah Palin.

As we all know, readership has been down here at the DW and the editorial content has been rather er, flaccid.

Look at our stats though and they show we know how to get eyeballs to our blog.  Our secret:  hot political boobies.  From Kitty Harris' sensational cans to Cindy McCain and her boffo bustline we know what readers want.

So thanks grampa McPervy for this fabulous gift.
 

hot buttered soul

Singer, songwriter Isaac Hayes dies at age 65

58 minutes ago

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Isaac Hayes, the pioneering singer, songwriter and musician whose relentless "Theme From Shaft" won Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday afternoon, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office said. He was 65.

A family member found him unresponsive near a treadmill and he was pronounced dead an hour later at Baptist East Hospital in Memphis, according to the sheriff's office. The cause of death was not immediately known.

Isaac Hayes .Chocolate Salty Balls [Live.2002]
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