Bring 'em back to life.
It is with great sadness that I report this morning the death of Sandy West, drummer for the penultimate female rock and roll band, the Runaways. Ms. West, who was co-founder of the band with Joan Jett, died on Saturday, October 21, 2007 of lung cancer. She most recently appeared in the Runaways documentary, Edgeplay (an interesting film made even more so by Ms. Jett's refusal to appear or allow her songs to be used). Sandy's final scene in the film is a heart-breaking tale of her post-Runaways life. Unfortunately, it seems, the musical portion of her life was its nadir. I remember her being interviewed as she sat on a rock, crying, because many of the other groups from the 70s were reuniting and making money from new records and tours and the Runaways were not.
And writing of things that I'd like brought back to life, the following information was written for the
Sun ONE Identity Server 6.1 Customization and API Guide. Of course, in the time that Identity Server became Access Manager and 2004Q2 became 7.1, we were asked to remove it. From what I remember correctly, the higher-ups did not want customers modifying the Access Manager proprietary services or adding custom ones. It didn't seem to matter that the information was informative, or that modifying the proprietary services to change default values was normal behavior and something that I would want to know if I was a customer. (Adding new sevices is discouraged.) Anyway here is a link to the late and lamented Service Management chapter of the
Sun ONE Identity Server 6.1 Customization and API Guide:
http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6774-10/prog_service.html
Remember that this information has not been updated in years but much of it is still relevant.
RIP Sandy West and Service Management.
Posted at 07:28AM Oct 24, 2006
by Michael Teger in Sun |
How do we know she's going to die on Oct. 21, 2007??? It's only Oct. 8, 2007, now??? ...?
Posted by jr on October 08, 2007 at 05:27 PM PDT #
Huh? Oct. 24, 2007.
Posted by docteger on October 23, 2007 at 02:13 PM PDT #
Hey!! They re the best!!!
But I couldn't go to any concert (I'm 15 ¬¬')
The Runaways ROCK!!!!!
liss-93@hot...
LiS
Posted by Lis on September 11, 2008 at 03:31 AM PDT #
I was fifteen at the time and couldn't go to any concerts. But there's still the music!
Posted by DocTeger on September 12, 2008 at 08:03 AM PDT #
heyy!! THE RUNAWAYS ROCK!!
add me ^^
queenofnoise_runaways@hotmail.com
kissess
Posted by queenofnoise on November 25, 2008 at 08:25 AM PST #
penultimate?
Posted by skye on June 03, 2009 at 06:14 PM PDT #
Thank you, Skye. Penultimate? is a proper question. Are you (not you, Skye) really trying to say that the Runaways were the 2nd to the last girl rock n roll band? So, who was the last one? Was it the Red Aunts? Or was it the Slits? Or was it ESG? Oops, already got too many bands after the Runaways for them to be penultimate. Methinks you thinks penultimate means ultimate. And are you truly saying that the Runaways was Sandy West's low point? Because that's what nadir means.
Posted by Killer on December 27, 2009 at 09:09 PM PST #
Runaways, how about the group FANNY--They were an all girl group with a tad more talent then the Ruanaways
Posted by Tribader on February 06, 2010 at 11:47 AM PST #