Beware the Ides of March

According to Plutarch, Caesar was warned by a seer to be on his guard against a great peril on the Ides of March. On his way to the Theatre of Pompey (where he would be assassinated) Caesar saw the seer and joked "Well, the Ides of March have come," to which the seer replied "Ay, they have come, but they are not gone."

Well, you win some, you lose some...

Born on 07/13

Bob Crane, DJ, actor, drummer, born in 1928:



Albert Ayler, saxophonist, born in Cleveland Heights, 1936:



Jim "Roger" McGuinn, guitarist, born in 1942:



Shin-Soo Choo, baseball player, Indian, born in 1982:

Grandmaster Flash & David Tibet...

and Brian Wilson love The Ronettes and "Be My Baby"...



In the BW documentary "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times," Brian rhapsodizes
about hearing "Be My Baby" for the first time, on the radio while he was driving around (I know! I don't think he drives anymore, thankfully), and how he had to
pull over to listen to it...

In his new autobiography, Grandmaster "Joseph Saddler" Flash writes about his sisters
:
"I would just spin out. Might not have made me a good little brother,
but it sure was fun to get mixed up in their business. Any records they
had were mine, as far as I was concerned. They were deep into Aretha and
The Supremes and The Ronettes. I couldn't get enough of Ronnie Spector's
voice. My favorite thing to do was put on "Be My Baby," then run around
the house while my sisters chased me."

David Tibet of Current 93, in an old issue of "The Wire," said:
"'Apocalypse' in the Greek means 'unveiling.' Something like "Be
My Baby" by The Ronettes, which is one of my favourite songs ever,
is a truly moving and apocalyptic pop song. It's full of yearning
and unveiling. That's what I want Current 93 to do."