Paradise Blues (4.15)

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One word describes this episode for me: forgettable!

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#52 Post by Lord Ickenham »

Maybe I am wrong, but is there a panel pocket on TC's dark red Island Hoppers T-shirt (about 5')?

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#53 Post by Lord Ickenham »

I don't like the too "dramatic" episodes. When Rick lost his sister it was sad, until he started to fight in a commando uniform.
In this episode I couldn't feel with TC. I didn't feel his drama, and his love with the woman. Although, the end was very tragical, but the singer wasn't symphatic.

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This is one of those episodes that, when it comes on when bingeing, I skip it.

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Boring episode saved, as usual, by the TM/JH interaction. The guest house conversation is revealing on a couple of levels.
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#56 Post by ENSHealy »

The "smoke before the explosion" has always bugged me too....so I fixed it!

https://vimeo.com/391991204

https://vimeo.com/391990577

Too lazy to separate the audio and re-do it to match as well, but you get the idea. Also, I never liked the photos at the end. Seemed too melodramatic, and as others have said here, a poor job was done building an emotional foundation for her and their relationship, so I really didn't care. Frankly, I was glad she'd take herself out of T.C.'s life. I would have just had the Bellisario credit run over a freeze frame of them standing on the cliff.

P.S. I think the car crash come as such a shock because it come so soon in the chase. If they'd have stretched the chase out a little, I think we'd have been more ready for it. That's where the extra time should have been spent, not in the photo montage at the end. Although, I have to say the shocking suddenness of the car going over the cliff is part of it's effectiveness, so maybe they did that part right.

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4.15 PARADISE BLUES
Famous guest stars: 2 Leslie Uggams, Chuck Mangione
Hawaiian shirts: 1 blue with white orchids
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Tigers Cap: 2 Al’s Automotive
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Island Hopper shirts: 2 maroon, green
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Shirtless Magnum:
OMG:
Higgins Organizations:
Higgins musings: 1
Negotiations:
Body Count:
Bullet wounds:
Little Voice:
I know what you’re thinking:
When I write HTBAWCPI:
Investigator corrections:
4th wall breaks:
Magnumometer: 8
Magnumometer Moments: https://vimeo.com/392099418
Jay-Firestorm wrote:* At the beginning, when the bad guy is chasing Alexis across the road, a car grinds to a halt so not to hit him. The car is only travelling slowly, and the long skidding sound does not match the speed that the car was travelling at.
Not only that, the car never actually skids or stops moving. It just sort of rolls slowly through the shot.
308GTS wrote:And, that damn trumpet player, he almost comes across as a total looney tune, especially the scenes where TM is trying to talk to him in Alex's dressing room, every time TM talks to him he starts blowing on that damn thing like he's possessed by it.
As a recovering trumpet player myself (that’s me below, 30 years and 100 pounds ago) I can assure you, he is possessed by it. You don’t become famous as a horn player without a more than healthy dose of obsession and possession.

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#58 Post by Jelly Doughnut »

In this episode once again we see the father - son relationship between Higgins and Magnum, when Thomas seeks advice on how to help a friend he thinks he is in trouble.

I also love the Chuck Mangione appearance. Chuck's records fit so well into the Hawaii scene. When I went to Hawaii earlier this month, I had it non-stop in the car. I've put my videos to his songs. I especially like "Give it all you Got"....

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#59 Post by Pahonu »

I just read through this thread again and I’m still a little surprised at the response to Chuck Mangione. I’m not sure if it’s lack of familiarity with his work or just a general annoyance with horn players, but I liked the quirkiness of the scene and the depiction of the artistic spirit behind the music.

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Pahonu wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 4:18 am I just read through this thread again and I’m still a little surprised at the response to Chuck Mangione. I’m not sure if it’s lack of familiarity with his work or just a general annoyance with horn players, but I liked the quirkiness of the scene and the depiction of the artistic spirit behind the music.
Agree with you there even though I’ve no idea who Chuck Mangione is - what you can figure out is the guy can play and is clearly no actor.
The scene didn’t bother me - muso’s get obsessively attached to their instruments, for me I see it in guitarists who have their “axe” by their side almost constantly. I’d imagine the likes of Angus Young, Michael Schenker and Yngwie Malmsteen would spend most of their waking minutes playing.

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charybdis1966 wrote: Fri Mar 18, 2022 12:35 am Agree with you there even though I’ve no idea who Chuck Mangione is - what you can figure out is the guy can play and is clearly no actor.
“Feels So Good” is everything most people “need” to know about Chuck Mangione.


youtu.be/V7dg8vRDM68

For those of us of a certain age, the song is a vivid ‘70s memory, or at least the background music of one.
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Little Garwood wrote: Sat Mar 19, 2022 1:01 am
charybdis1966 wrote: Fri Mar 18, 2022 12:35 am Agree with you there even though I’ve no idea who Chuck Mangione is - what you can figure out is the guy can play and is clearly no actor.
“Feels So Good” is everything most people “need” to know about Chuck Mangione.


youtu.be/V7dg8vRDM68

For those of us of a certain age, the song is a vivid ‘70s memory, or at least the background music of one.
I knew him as the annoying horn guy from Magnum, P.I. until your post. Even I, who knows little of music, has heard that song many times. I never had a name attached to it though. The song to me seemed to be everywhere in my childhood, but that is probably just how I remember things.

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Little Garwood wrote: Sat Mar 19, 2022 1:01 am
charybdis1966 wrote: Fri Mar 18, 2022 12:35 am Agree with you there even though I’ve no idea who Chuck Mangione is - what you can figure out is the guy can play and is clearly no actor.
“Feels So Good” is everything most people “need” to know about Chuck Mangione.


youtu.be/V7dg8vRDM68

For those of us of a certain age, the song is a vivid ‘70s memory, or at least the background music of one.
That sounds like something I’ve heard in various 70’s/early 80’s based movies, perhaps something like the Clint Eastwood film The Gauntlet ?
Some nifty jazz guitar going on in that track too. Nice.

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80s Big Hair wrote: Sat Mar 19, 2022 3:48 pmI knew him as the annoying horn guy from Magnum, P.I. until your post. Even I, who knows little of music, has heard that song many times. I never had a name attached to it though. The song to me seemed to be everywhere in my childhood, but that is probably just how I remember things.
Instrumentals (and scents) imo evoke a time and place better than anything else.
charybdis1966 wrote: Sun Mar 20, 2022 1:30 amThat sounds like something I’ve heard in various 70’s/early 80’s based movies, perhaps something like the Clint Eastwood film The Gauntlet ?
Some nifty jazz guitar going on in that track too. Nice.
I haven’t watched The Gauntlet in years, but I know that Jerry Fielding—one of my musical heroes—did the score. I always thought that Ian Freebairn-Smith’s Magnum theme sounded Fieldingesque.
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#65 Post by Ivan »

The way this episode unfolds and ends puts it high on my list. The way the camera pulls away from TC and Magnum at the end and goes into the photos… very dramatic and moving

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