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This was on the Florida Memories Facebook page and we see this shot of Hobie Island Beach Park off the Rickenbacker Cswy enroute to Key Biscayne in several of the closing credit montages. The photo was taken in 1984.

I saw Hammer (the group) at JB Scotts in Albany, NY in (I think) 1979. They played a lot of stuff from Black Sheep and Hammer. Colin Hodgkinson, Gregg Carter, Glenn Burtnick was lead vocalist and played a bit of keys. I was standing just below Jan where I could have reached out and grabbed his pedal foot. He had his 6-voice custom black Oberheim SEM system with the Probe. That's all he played. I'm 65 and a synthesizer player / keyboardist / composer and it was the best concert I've ever seen or heard, period. Jan played the living *&%$ out of that thing. It was a religious experience for all who witnessed it. I was literally in tears.

John Frankenheimer’s (“The Manchurian Candidate”) version matches Friedkin’s original, armed with an excellent script by Laura and Robert Dillon that has a lot of depth and offers a more challenging characterization of the flawed Popeye Doyle urban, bigot character played so superbly by Gene Hackman in both versions. Grade A rating.

our favorite bozos in our least favorite bozo episode (Missing hours)

on the set in season 1

Nice, I just watched The French Connection and The Conversation for the first time, loved both! Might have to check this one out soon too.

WOW that’s amazing. I’ve seen that rig on a lot of live footage (Beck, Di Meola, etc.), but can’t imagine what it looked/sounded like in person. Thanks for sharing, and I gotta say: for me, this is one of the best First Posts ever! Welcome to the sight, fellow JH Enthusiast! If you have any inside info about Jan’s MV era gear/sounds (besides all the obvious resources), I’d love to know. We can PM to spare all the locals of the nerdery if you like.

I wonder why they call it Hobie Island Beach Park. Seriously, it brings back memories. I learned to sail on a Hobie 16 with a buddy in college in the early 90’s. His father bought it used and we fixed it up. After an injury ended my basketball playing days in college, sailing became my new love. We would tow the Hobie cat with his old VW diesel Dasher up and down the coast and launch from beaches. We went as far north as Santa Barbara where there’s a beach called Leadbetters and people have them stored right on the sand, and all the way down to Baja California Sur where we launched in the Sea of Cortez at spot called Bahía Concepcion. We would sleep in the Dasher, sail when the wind was good, and explore the area the rest of the time. It’s how I decided to move to Long Beach, after a couple sailing trips there. My girlfriend, now wife, and I rented our first apartment and we could see the beach where they still launch cats. I have a Columbia 28 sloop in the marina where I live today. Good times then! Thanks for bringing back the memories.

Easy now! I was just quoting Tubbs from the “One-Eyed Jack” teaser.

We all remember the actor John Santucci playing the character Dale Menton in "Golden Triangle", as well as his roles in "Lombard" and "Jack of All Trades". I just discovered that he has an interesting background: Santucci was a jewel thief before he was hired by Michael Mann to appear in and be a technical advisor in the 1981 movie Thief (with Chuck Adamson, Dennis Farina, Willie Nelson and Tom Signorelli); Thief is notable for the extraordinary coincidences surrounding its cast, largely stemming from Mann's love of employing the right people for technical authenticity - Farina was a Chicago police officer before he became an actor and actually arrested Santucci while the latter was a jewel thief. Furthermore, the main heist in Thief, involving the use of a thermal lance to cut through a vault door, was based on a real-life robbery orchestrated by Santucci. Many of the other tools used in robberies throughout the film were also Santucci's own. http://miamivice.wikia.com/wiki/John_Santucci So the actor playing Al Lombard had in real life arrested the actor playing Lombard's henchman Charlie! Sadly, Santucci returned to his life of crime and was arrested again: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-05-18/news/9605180009_1_vending-machines-burglary-tools-chicago-police-department Some more background on the movie "Thief": http://rheaven.blogspot.com/2010/07/thief.html

I just bought Thief on blu ray. Never seen it but glanced at a few scenes out of curiosity. Definitely has a “Miami Vice” look. Only watched a few minutes but I’m looking forward to this one. The dialogue was outstanding.

“Kinky.”

a wrong cop ordered as present for DJs birthday on set (season 1)

I'm so glad people appreciate his work. My favorite role he played was the corrupt Sgt. Urizzi in the aforementioned Thief. One of the greatest scenes is when he pulls over Frank (James Caan) and confronts him about their "relationship". I absolutely love the dialogue: URIZZI: You know, a very important thing for you to remember is gonna be my name. Sergeant Urizzi. FRANK: Urizzi? Why's that? URIZZI: Because I'm gonna do good things for you. FRANK: What for? Good conduct medal? URIZZI: Ah, I'm here to make life easy for you. Smooth out the bumps and the humps. You know, your relationship with us. FRANK: I didn't know I had one. URIZZI: Look, we're your new partners. We're in for ten points. FRANK: Ten points of what? URIZZI: You know. The guy. Leo. The action. (after a beat) I don't get this. What's with you? Listen, our end goes with the territory. Don't you know you gotta come up? FRANK: I am a car salesman. You guys want a deal on a Buick?

they did a hell of a job on his hair in Crime Story . Sad that Farina is gone too, i think he actually knew him when he was a cop in chicago and Santucci was a criminal. Denison of course still going strong.

Kinky is the version where the cop is naked. I have that picture too.