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The Sixth Beetle: Jimmy Bonar
Registrace 30. 10. 2011
The Sixth Beetle........ A bit of John, Paul , George and Ringo - that's a good combination of who I am.
Besides making these short 'Living History' videos, I also play in the New Zealand rock band 'The Honeybee Rocket Scientists as a drummer/guitarist/singer songwriter.
I appreciate you watching the channel and checking out my music! Please leave a comment if you feel so inclined and I'd completely dig if you click on the subscribe button!. Thank you.
Jimmy B
Besides making these short 'Living History' videos, I also play in the New Zealand rock band 'The Honeybee Rocket Scientists as a drummer/guitarist/singer songwriter.
I appreciate you watching the channel and checking out my music! Please leave a comment if you feel so inclined and I'd completely dig if you click on the subscribe button!. Thank you.
Jimmy B
#14: The Beatles and Rickenbacker guitars!
Jimmy is on location in Santa Ana, California and visits the location of the legendary Rickenbacker guitar factory which was made very famous by their association with The Beatles in the 1960's. John Lennon first bought a Rickenbacker whilst in Hamburg pre fame - George Harrison played a 12 string Rickenbacker - most memorably on the opening chord of 'A Hard Days' Night in 1964', whilst Paul McCartney played his left handed Rickenbacker bass guitar extensively from late 1965 onwards.
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#13: SUNFLOWER, a song by THE HONEYBEE ROCKET SCIENTSTS
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SUNFLOWER is a song from Auckland, NZ alternative rock band 'The Honeybee Rocket Scientists' featuring Jimmy Bonar (drums/guitar/vocals) and Joey Vallis (guitar/drums/vocals). Taken from their debut album 'Check Yourself' which is available on You Tube, Spotify, Apple Music and all good streaming platforms - this is one of their personal favourites. Written by Jimmy Bonar and Joey Vallis. Sunfl...
#12: DISCO TAKES OVER! It’s 1979 and the mainstream media have discovered something musically ‘new’.
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Jimmy is intrigued by a 1979 copy of Newsweek magazine featuring Donna Summer on the cover - which announces the arrival of DISCO! He explores this musical genre with personnel recollections including the influence of legendary American DJ Casey Kasey (American Top 40) and also an interview with record store owner and music aficionado Parker Macy discussing ‘disco’. #history #africanamericancul...
#11: World War 2 Aircraft and more at The Lyon Air Museum, Santa Ana, CA
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Jimmy visits the Lyon Air Museum at John Wayne Airport, Santa Ana, California. On display at this small working museum are some incredibly historic aircraft, including a B17, North American Mitchell, and a Douglas Invader - as well as some of Steve McQueen’s motorcycles and even one of Hitler’s staff cars.
#10: HARLEM 1958 / 2024
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Jimmy visits Harlem , New York at the site of the famous 1958 Esquire Magazine photograph featuring 57 jazz musicians (including Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Thelonious Monk). Close by on Lenox Ave/Malcom X Boulevard he explores further music history. #harlem #jazz #music #esquiremagazine #billieholliday #bigl #luckeyroberts #williethelionsmith #piano #americanculture #africanamericanculture...
#9: KOJAK
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Jimmy looks back at one of televisions greatest police shows, the 1970’s US produced ‘KOJAK’ starring Telly Savalas as Lt Theo Kojak of Manhattan South’s Eleventh Precinct in New York City. Jimmy’s video is filmed outside the fictitious TV precinct - but in reality it is the actual functioning Ninth Precinct of the New York City Police Department located at 321 East 5th Street. #kojak #policedr...
#8: James Douglas Gordon ANZAC DAY 2024 (RNZAF)
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ANZAC DAY (25 APRIL) is a national war remembrance day commemorated in both Australia and New Zealand. In today's 'Living History' video, Jimmy talks about Flight Sergeant James Gordon, of the Royal New Zealand Air Force who served in WW2 (with the British Royal Air Force) flying Wellington bombers. He lost his life in Libya in 1942. Many years later Jamie Gordon's mother regularly used to baby...
#7: Alexandra Park, Auckland: The historic home of The Auckland Trotting Club.
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Alexandra Park was the site of Auckland's first organised horse racing in 1842. In this video Jimmy visits the raceway focusing on its history but also how it is trying to remain financially solvent. You will also get to see Jimmy channelling his own Robert De Niro!
#6: TIPUNA MAUNGA (Ancestral Mountains of Auckland)
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Jimmy visits Mt St John / Te Kopuku / Titikopuko - one of the 14 Tipuna Maunga's (Maori ancestral mountains) in Auckland City. All are extinct volcanos - this particular mountain is over 28,500 years old and is located in the central Auckland suburb of Epsom. Hundreds of years ago a Maori tribe used to live here - it was known as a 'PA' - a village or defensive settlement. For further informati...
# 5: General Douglas MacArthur’s association with Brisbane, Australia
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Jimmy visits the World War Two headquarters of legendary US General Douglas MacArthur in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. This is now a fascinating museum encompassing not only the General’s tenure, but also focusing and detailing the social, cultural and everyday life the Australian people endured during the Second World War. The MacArthur Museum Brisbane is located at 201 Edward Street, in th...
# 4: The Red Caboose Hobby Shop, New York City
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Jimmy B meets Mr Alan Spitz, owner (since 1970) of the iconic New York Hobby shop 'The Red Caboose'. Alan tells us a brief history of his store and of hobby shops in New York City. Catch some Godfather trivia too! Location: 23 West 45th Street, Manhattan, NYC. www.theredcaboose.com
#3: The Original McLaren’s Garage (Formula One), Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand
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Today I visit the original home and garage where Formula One legend Bruce McLaren grew up, in Remuera, Auckland, Mew Zealand.
#2: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan cover, Jones St, Greenwich Village, New York
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Today I visit Jones Street, Greenwich Village in New York City to see where Bob Dylan's famous album cover 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan' was shot back in 1963.
#1: The anchor of the HMS Sirius, flagship of Australia's first fleet, 1788, Sydney, Australia
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Jimmy 'B' Bonar is on the history trail. This is his first short vid: location Sydney, NSW Australia and the subject is about the HMS Sirius, the flagship of the first fleet which arrived in Sydney in early 1788.
My 1st guitar was a Rickenbacker 450 sunburst in 1964. In 1970, I switched to bass and bought a blonde 4001. I also bought a lap-steel and it had RickenbacHer on the head (which, unfortunately was stolen).
Thanks for sharing! Do you still prefer bass today?
Absolutely fantastic have a wonderful day ❤😊
Thanks so much, really appreciate it! I’m planning on doing some more Beatle oriented videos in the future.
For the longest time in the 60s I thought John had snagged his Ricky in Germany utilI I remembered that Rickenbacker was the surname of one of America's greatest air aces in WWI. I bought a program at a Beatles show I attended and there was an ad for Rickenbacker and they were indeed American. Found my own Ricky by chance in 1980 at a local music shop an havew never looked back. Needs an overhaul but it still is a joy to look at.
Adolph Richenbacher (sic), who started the company in the early 20th c was Swiss. He emigrated to America, where he started his eponymous guitar company and co-created the first-ever electric guitar (the 'frying pan') with George Beauchamp. The latter-day designs of Rickenbackers (the h was changed to a k somewhere down the line) we've known since the '50s and '60s were created by master luthier Roger Rossmeisel, who was indeed German.
John did buy his famous Rick in Germany, during the Beatles' Hamburg stint, apparently having seen the great jazz guitar and harmonica player Toots Thielemans with one.
That’s a great story! Which Beatles show did you attend? Love to know what type of Ricky you have.
@@jimmybonar2566 Second North American tour in Toronto at Maple Leaf Gardens. Too much screaming to hear anything and I was fairly close ... just heard a snippet of Baby's in Black ... everything else was visual. My Ricky is a 12 string ... not deluxe like George's and natural finish more like John's first before it was painted black. I think it's a 360-12 and was manufactured in 1968 ... I bought it used.
I had no idea those guitars were made in a warehouse off the 405 fwy in Orange County. We think of fine craftsmanship in Europe, and maybe the Lays Potato Chip factory near Santa Ana.
I had a surprise too when discovering that inside that nondescript building was the workshop for Rickenbacker!
Thr most beautiful looking electric guitars ever made. Great video dude.
Hey thanks so much, appreciate it! Yeah they really are something special.
Donna Summers 1977 double lp Once Upon a Time hit the circuit by storm! Constantly played at clubs and house parties alike. Giorgio Moroder & Summers at their finest. - it really is a terrific album.
Hey thanks so much for your comment! It really was THE time!
A great place to visit! Thanks for covering it.
You’re welcome! Thanks for the comment 😊
Very interesting, thank you! I imagined that Greenwich Village was mostly mansions. It's a very beautiful street. I love this view. A similar view of 44 Morton Street in West Village. The Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, lived there.Good luck with the development of the channel.
Thank you so much!. I really appreciate your nice words and also the information about Joseph Brodsky.
Thanks for the interesting video! Tell us about 42nd Street and Hell's kitchen from 1960 to 1970. It will be interesting to learn about Times Square and the BOND store. I am grateful in advance!
Thanks for the information. Like to see where else you end up.
that Black Leather jacket would be better if it was an original. WallMart doesn't cut it.
Just to help you out Walmart is actually spelt with just one L, IDIOT, and they don't stock ZARA products either KNOB.
Thanks for the guided tour of a unique toy train shop. The toy trains and talk about them from this businessman and enthusiast brings to mind my brother's love for toy trains when he was a boy.
Thanks so much for your nice comment; yes it was a privilege to talk to Mr Spitz and hear about the local history of NYC toy train stores.
East 126th Street looks a lot like the one where Janet Jackson's music video featuring Cab Calloway was filmed.
Thanks, someone close by told me the area is becoming gentrified - this street sort of looks like it.
What a great look at the precinct house! That book you have on Kojak is priceless. Thank you for sharing them with us, and for your narration and insights.
Thanks so much; yes the book is very cool and I appreciate your nice words. Personally I rate this show as one of the greatest and most realistic dramas depicting the hardcore mid 1970's.
@@jimmybonar2566 I agree with your rating of Kojak.
They're repeating the show on ITV 4 here in the UK. It's amazing how many pre-fame actors appeared on the show: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Gere, James Woods, Harvey Keitel.
Always a surprise in many of these 70's shows who actually pops up.
Awesome ❤😊
Thank you! It was great being down at 'Manhattan South' with the real NYPD featured.
Back when white males were considered good.
Man, I miss Kojak. I just loved that dilapidated police station as well.
Such a great realistic show, warts and all. Yes, the police station was not exactly glam!
Place to be in NYC, absolutely amazing availability of planes trains and cars of any make and model … cheers from Belgium 🇧🇪
Thank you, yes a real treat to discover this store and it's unique owner.
What a great vignette. It's always interesting to learn the stories behind the numbers. RIP Flight Sergeant Gordon.
Thank you. I appreciate your nice words ands concur with your sentiments.
Lest we forget !
Thank you.
I visited Auckland once and the avocados there were very expensive.
I used to manage the restaurant there, it sat 2000 people.
Best harness track in the world
I love history of any kind. Very interesting, thanks
Very interesting.
Thank you :)