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Of 2nd degree murder.Just saw it on CNN.

Uh, oh...

Well, it's good that he won't be shooting anybody in the near future. It's really hard to sympathize with him when it seems so clearly sociopathic to carry on that way with dangerous weapons. Maybe he'll be able to put this behavior behind him and find some peaceful energy to put back into his music.

Hmmm, might bring a whole new meaning to the "wall of sound".

You been reading Gawker, Stan? Somebody said the exact same thing on there about 30 min ago...

jingle_jangle wrote:You been reading Gawker, Stan? Somebody said the exact same thing on there about 30 min ago...

Naw, don't even know what Gawker is. Now, if it were Goober, I'd be right there.

I think it is sad because he should have been treated many years ago before he committed a big crime. It's not like nobody knew. If the stories are true he could have even killed John Lennon ten years before it actually happened, but for the grace of god. I don't understand why he was allowed to run around like that for so many years, and now that he's 70 he's being punished? It just seems so bloody sad.

He should have been convicted for butchering End Of The Century

Some would say he should have been locked up for Let It Be as well.

kiramdear wrote:Some would say he should have been locked up for Let It Be as well.

Without any dout, IMO, Kira.

If we start prosecuting pop musicians for esthetic crimes, however, I'm afraid we'll run out of rope.

I wonder what Ronnie thinks of this verdict? I'll bet she's a happy camper given the prison cell like marriage he put her through.

Phil Spector appears to be so strange - in all his assorted "looks" he showed up at Court with, over the course of the two trials.... he always looked guilty of something....

I suspect he is guilty as charged, with all these prior gun threats to other women over the years.. sounds like he's a psychopath. and one of his "games" ended up a tragedy.

In spite of Spector's psycho side, I will give him credit where credit is due and I think the George Harrison main solo and guitar fills Spector produced/overdubbed in April of 1970 on the "extended" version of Let It Be (original album) captured some of George's finest guitar work. Spector's version of the song Let It Be is much better than the "original" George Martin 45 RPM single version ... or the stripped down Let It Be Naked version. IMHO

Yeah.....no surprises today.

I think even when it happened 6 years ago.....nobody was surprised. Crazy guys with gun history, eccentric nature, and little grounding in reality are like a cocktail for some kind of trouble. Sad case, really...


What was surprising (and shameful) was that the court system here in California took SIX YEARS to convict a murderer as he spent the time in his posh mansion. Money gets you pretty far......I'd like to see the guy's jail cell, and how long he really ends up staying there.

According to our local newspaper, over here where I live, it was not absolutely certain that he was guilty, but in the end the jury did not believe his version of the story. I do not know why private persons are allowed to own guns anyway.