Someone in southern New Jersey found a VHS cassette tape, digitized it, and posted it on the fan site for the old New Jersey heavy metal band Judgement (note British spelling). The band was formerly named Anacreon, after the Greek lyric poet (570 BC-488 BC) known for his drinking songs.
The video below shows the band, in its original lineup, playing at the Fort Dix “Battle of the Bands” in 1988 (they won). The bass player’s name was Ernest Hilbert. Yes, that Ernest Hilbert, host of E-Verse Radio.
The song is called “Descend Into the Maelstrom,” with music by Andrew Bordynowski and lyrics by Hilbert, based on Cantos XIV through XVI of Dante’s Inferno, the first cantica of his Divina Comedia. The title was clumsily swiped from Edgar Allan Poe’s 1841 “A Descent Into the Maelstrom.”
Hilbert is the one with straight hair, playing bass, in the center of the frame.
Mullet? Check. Giant wallet in the back pocket of too-tight jeans? Check. Ernie headbanging? Priceless. Enjoy!
Lynn and I went sailing with some friends last weekend. Here are a few photographs. Amazingly, we did not founder, capsize, or burst into flames when I was at the helm.
“If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.”
And here we are, swimming with the jellyfish, moments before screaming and jumping out of the water.
Lynn takes the wheel from Ernie and steers us back in the right direction.
Yes, the leopard-print carpet in the cabin.
Is the sail supposed to be doing that?
Our good friend Andy Hallman decided to leave his current job for a brighter future elsewhere. So, as one does, the E-Verse team wrapped his entire desk and its contents in tin foil last night. We even wrapped individual pieces of paper in foil. Have a look.
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