Last week I was having dinner with some friends in Baja and ended up meeting Randy Seol, who played drums in Strawberry Alarm Clock back in the 60's.
He still plays from time to time, but his main line of work is installing solar panels, and was down in Baja to do an install. This is a clip of him
playing recently....pretty impressive stuff!
Being a drummer yourself, my question is did you recognize him, or how did this come out in the conversation?
Just curious...
BajaGeoff - 2-3-2009 at 03:40 PM
I had no idea who he was....seeing as how I was born six years after they had their big hit! We were actually talking about music, and his girlfriend
mentioned that he was a drummer and that started the whole thing. It was fun talking to him about his experiences over the years....Russ - 2-3-2009 at 04:19 PM
Wow! DENNIS will want him as a neighbor for sure.
my friends claim to have seen Zena the Warrior Princess
BajaVida - 2-3-2009 at 04:48 PM
fishing near La PazBajaGeoff - 2-3-2009 at 05:05 PM
Awesome! Was she in full costume? Hehe.thebajarunner - 2-3-2009 at 05:34 PM
I met Doug Toms, Reagan's Highway Transportation Czar, while we were all stuck in a wash South of Punta Prieta in the 1972 Mexican 1000.
He actually used his skills to get some organization going and a bunch of us on our way again.BajaGringo - 2-3-2009 at 05:40 PM
Incense and Peppermint...
Saw them at the Hollywood Bowl - think it was maybe 1968???tripledigitken - 2-3-2009 at 05:41 PM
I saw the Lone Ranger at the Pyramid Hotel!
and I only had a couple of tequila shots at the time.
KenBajaGringo - 2-3-2009 at 05:47 PM
Yea - he had a place down here years back. Not sure if he is still a neighbor or not???BajaGeoff - 2-3-2009 at 05:52 PM
I saw him too Ken.....it wasn't the tequila!David K - 2-3-2009 at 06:09 PM
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Originally posted by BajaGeoff
I saw him too Ken.....it wasn't the tequila!
Contrary to popular belief, the Lone Ranger is not dead.
Clayton Moore, the actor who played the character on television in the 1950s and who is most
associated with the masked man, passed away in 1999. But there is another actor who played the
Lone Ranger on TV who is very much alive and well - a man who is now the lone Lone Ranger.
John Hart played the part from 1952 to 1954 on 52 episodes of the show while Moore held out in a
contact dispute.Von - 2-3-2009 at 06:17 PM
Lone Ranger lives in Rosarito now. My Friend talks to him all the time..55steve - 2-3-2009 at 07:06 PM
I saw myself in BoLA.BajaGringo - 2-3-2009 at 07:15 PM
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Originally posted by 55steve
I saw myself in BoLA.
Did he recognize you???
You Never Know Who You're Gonna Meet In Baja
woody with a view - 2-3-2009 at 07:23 PM
that's why people are freaked out about traveling south!!!!!!
BajaGringo - 2-3-2009 at 07:30 PM
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Originally posted by woody in ob
that's why people are freaked out about traveling south!!!!!!
Because they are afraid of running into the Lone Ranger or being forced to listen to a jukebox play Incense and Peppermint???woody with a view - 2-3-2009 at 07:59 PM
well, okay. add these to the long list nowadays.....cartel be damned!Gaucho - 2-3-2009 at 08:25 PM
I've seen Raquel Welch twice. Once at the airport in San Jose and once down near Medano beach.
Oh and yes, they're real 55steve - 2-3-2009 at 08:33 PM
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Originally posted by BajaGringo
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Originally posted by 55steve
I saw myself in BoLA.
Did he recognize you???
Haha! Probably not!Bob H - 2-3-2009 at 08:38 PM
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Originally posted by tripledigitken
I saw the Lone Ranger at the Pyramid Hotel!
and I only had a couple of tequila shots at the time.
Ken
Oh yeah... me too. He was one of them anyway.
The drum solo was just GREAT! He's still got it. What a workout.
Bob H
[Edited on 2-4-2009 by Bob H]
Letz zeee
Mulegena - 2-4-2009 at 09:11 AM
Tommy Lee Jones and his son overnighted in Mulege two years ago. Was recognized dining in El Candil by the proprietor. "Call me Tom," was all he said.
Baja's a great place for a getaway!wilderone - 2-4-2009 at 09:54 AM
Had coffee with Lance Alworth at Rancho Leonero last summer. He's building a house on the beach there.David K - 2-4-2009 at 10:04 AM
Around 1966, Lloyd Bridges (then star of Sea Hunt) and others arrived at Nuevo Mazatlan (Agua de Chale) in dune buggies.Bob H - 2-4-2009 at 10:09 AM
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Around 1966, Lloyd Bridges (then star of Sea Hunt) and others arrived at Nuevo Mazatlan (Agua de Chale) in dune buggies.
No WAY!.... one of my favorites! I remember watching all of his shows as a kid growing up in Miami!
Bob H
Sam Elliot
dravnx - 2-4-2009 at 12:02 PM
Met Sam Elliot in a bar in San Felipe. Don't remember the name of the bar but it's the one where you can ride your bike or quad into the back room
next to the pool tables. Sam rode in on a dirt bike. This was around '95-99.
David K and Baja Angel
BajaVida - 2-4-2009 at 08:24 PM
We meet them in a Marie Callender's parking lot in N. San Diego County.
I also saw God when I almost had a head on with a Pemex truck when we were headed northbound in 1 south of El Rosario--he was about 2 feet over the
center line and but for may maneuver into the culvert, I would not be writing this.
And I saw Baja Vida
thebajarunner - 2-4-2009 at 08:50 PM
In the racing days we had James Garner.
and Parnelli
and Mickey
and Rick Mears
I think those were the "good old days"
I also met Bill France, Jr. in El Arco during the 1971 Mexican 1000
He was sitting on a stool, smoking a Winston
(oh yeah, and he died last year from lung cancer)David K - 2-4-2009 at 09:20 PM
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Originally posted by thebajarunner
In the racing days we had James Garner.
and Parnelli
and Mickey
and Rick Mears
I think those were the "good old days"
I also met Bill France, Jr. in El Arco during the 1971 Mexican 1000
He was sitting on a stool, smoking a Winston
(oh yeah, and he died last year from lung cancer)
I totally forgot about the motorsports stars! Heck, they were just good folks like the rest of us Nomads!
Parnelli Jones, Walker Evans, Roger Mears, Mickey Thompson... I met and talked with them all!
Parnelli at the 1973 Baja 1000, in Ensenada the day before the race "warming up the tires" he said:
Mickey Thompson at the 1975 Baja Internacional (500) where he broke at Valle de Trinidad:
Ivan Stewart at the 1975 Baja 300 in Santo Tomas as he just won here:
Here's Parnelli again at the 1975 Baja 1000 in Valle de Trinidad getting fuel:
Here's Mickey Thompson again at the '79 or '80 Parker 400 race next to my pit I was running for Los Campeones Racing Team. Here was by the Turtle
Mountains on the California loop.
FUN TIMES!!!
[Edited on 2-5-2009 by David K]
Mears Gang
motoged - 2-4-2009 at 09:50 PM
While riding in Baja this past Xmas, I met a guy who later met up with Roger Mears at San Borja Mission....as he says in his ride report:
That looks like a very cool buggy that Mears has there. Can you fill in any details about it.
Thanks,
Kenmotoged - 2-5-2009 at 12:06 AM
TDK,
Sorry, I can't...as my post indicated, a guy I met while riding posted those pics on his ride report that is identified at the beginning of my
post...BajaGeoff - 2-5-2009 at 12:12 AM
Great stuff! More, more, more!pacside - 2-5-2009 at 01:56 PM
Thanks to two folks my husband met in a 12 hour period he was persuaded to agree (with me) to buy a little patch of dirt in baja sur.
First at the Hotel Twin Dolphin in Cabo he got drunk at the pool bar with the Halliburton heir who owned the Hotel Twin Dolphin (so sad the place got
torn down recently). The Halliburton guy talked on and on about how great a place this was and reassured husband the place to buy is a bit up north
where we were looking.
Second, during a wait at the Cabo airport he went up to Sammy Hagar and proceeded to talk to him for 30 minutes about baja and Sammy went on and on
about how great this place is and reiterated how much he liked the area we were looking at. Husband was so jazzed that Sammy spoke to him for so long
and thought that was the coolest thing. So I guess if it weren't for these two folks we might not have taken the plunge and bought.
So thank you Mr. Hagar and Mr. Halliburton.
pacsidecantinflas - 2-5-2009 at 02:25 PM
Jan Michael Vincent in Mulege and then again in Scorpion Bay summer of 1975.
p.s. Hello everybody I'm a newbie to this fine website.DENNIS - 2-5-2009 at 02:44 PM
Welcome to BajaNomad, Cantinflas. I thought you were dead.BajaGeoff - 2-5-2009 at 02:47 PM
Welcome cantinflas!
As a kid I was really into Airwolf with Jan Michael Vincent! I know he was a decent surfer too...I think he did a lot of his own surfing when they
filmed Big Wednesday.cantinflas - 2-5-2009 at 03:05 PM
Dead? Heck no I'm hanging out in Mexico with Elvis. BajaGeoff= He was'nt a great surfer but he could hold his own in the line up.The Sculpin - 2-5-2009 at 03:28 PM
I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Cerritos
His hair was perfectmotoged - 2-5-2009 at 03:41 PM
Yeah?!?!
Well, one late evening I met Mr Cabra....
He asked me to call him by his first name after a while ...
It felt a bit weird at first as it was an unusual first name ...
I had never heard that name before that night, but I certainly have never forgotten it....
Chupa.....
Chupacabra.....
MISTER to you....
LancairDriver - 2-6-2009 at 02:42 PM
Read Lou Federico's book "One Hell of a Ride" where he describes building the original Hotel Mulege and Punta Chivato. He had guests such as Ann
Margaret, John Wayne, Jane Mansfield, and a few other well known personalities. A very interesting book on Baja in the time before the road was put
in. Don Johnson at the Hotel Serenidad has had quite a few celebrities stop in, and was a personal friend of John Wayne. I have heard Olivia
Newton-John had a house around Conception Bay also. I have run into Harrison Ford and Patrick Swayzy checking in at the San Filepe airport in the
past, not to mention Javier Arellano-Felix and a couple of other thugs buying fuel at the same airport. He was later busted which started the current
drug wars. By the way- he was given preferential treatment by everyone at the airport and I wondered why at the time.David K - 2-6-2009 at 03:33 PM
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Originally posted by The Sculpin
I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Cerritos
His hair was perfect
From London to Baja?!2-tie-dye-4 - 2-8-2009 at 07:00 AM
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Originally posted by woody in ob
that's why people are freaked out about traveling south!!!!!!
I disagree, that's why we go.
2-tie-dye-4 - 2-8-2009 at 07:17 AM
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Originally posted by BajaGringo
Incense and Peppermint...
meaningless nouns..(someone else's turn for the next line...Bgringo?) here's a clue...turn on, tune in.....
Hey Bajagringo, if I ever get busted, can I be your avatar?
[Edited on 2-8-2009 by 2-tie-dye-4]
woody with a view - 2-8-2009 at 07:44 AM
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Originally posted by 2-tie-dye-4
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Originally posted by woody in ob
that's why people are freaked out about traveling south!!!!!!
I disagree, that's why we go.
yes, these are the good old days, again. however, there are millions over the past 12-18 months who didn't show up.......
Ford - 2-8-2009 at 04:02 PM
I met the Captain in Todos Santos...I tried to order wine but they were out of it!!! They said they haven't had it since 1969! I can't remember the
name of the hotel we were at BajaGringo - 2-8-2009 at 04:36 PM
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Originally posted by 2-tie-dye-4
Quote:
Originally posted by BajaGringo
Incense and Peppermint...
meaningless nouns..(someone else's turn for the next line...Bgringo?) here's a clue...turn on, tune in.....
Hey Bajagringo, if I ever get busted, can I be your avatar?
[Edited on 2-8-2009 by 2-tie-dye-4]
Good Sense, Innocence, Cripplin' Mankind
Dead Kings, Many Things I Can't Define
Occasions, Persuasions Clutter Your Mind
Incense And Peppermints, The Color Of Time.
Who Cares What Games We Choose?
Little To Win, But Nothing To Lose.
Incense And Peppermints, Meaningless Nouns Turn On, Tune In, Turn Your Eyes Around.
Look At Yourself, Look At Yourself, Yeah, Yeah
Look At Yourself, Look At Yourself, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!
To Divide This c-ckeyed World In Two
Throw Your Pride To One Side, It's The Least You Can Do.
Beatniks And Politics, Nothing In New
A Yardstick For Lunatics, One Point Of View
Who Care What Games We Choose?
Little To Win, But Nothin' To Lose.
With my avatar, who would WANT to bust you???rpleger - 2-8-2009 at 06:01 PM
A few years ago, 10, I was in a panga looking at whales in San Ignacio Lagoon and Glen Close was in the panga next to us.2-tie-dye-4 - 2-9-2009 at 02:18 PM
I knew I could count on you BG, oh, and Maynard, from Tool lives here, has a very successful vineyard, and the drummer from Pearl Jam left. I wanna
play, too.
