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Friday, March 25, 2011

Gossip The Curious Conundrum of Philip Taylor Kramer

Posted by Derek Erdman on Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:20 PM

Though he didn't play on the yawn-tastic classic "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," Philip Taylor Kramer served as bass player for Iron Butterfly for a stretch in the 1970s. Eventually he left the band to obtain a degree in aerospace engineering and worked on the MX missile guidance system linked to the US DOD. Soon after that, Kramer teamed up with Michael Jackson's brother Randy to develop innovative data compression techniques for CD-ROMs in the early 1990s. Then he set off to work on a project that he claimed would result in faster-than-light speed communication using ideas that were to discredit Albert Einstein's theories. Then he disappeared out of nowhere after attempting to meet a colleague at an airport in Los Angeles. Before he vanished, he made a number of cell-phone calls and was quoted as saying, "I’m going to kill myself. And I want everyone to know O.J. Simpson is innocent. They did it."

Four years later, his Ford Aerostar minivan was found at the bottom of a canyon near Malibu, California.

Some think he was killed by our government. Some think he was murdered by a foreign government. Others think he may have just lost his marbles. You can read more about it here and here. What do you think? Poll below!

A vague rendition of Philip Taylor Kramer (Im bad at drawing, sorry!)

A vague rendition of Philip Taylor Kramer (I'm bad at drawing, sorry!)

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I read this today.

Posted by care bear on March 25, 2011 at 4:49 PM

This is one of my favorite stories, ever. Nobody ever believes me when I tell it. The only one that people seem even more resistant to believing is the one involving Lou Reed sending that girl to OD as a ritual sacrifice in the house where John Cale was recording the first Modern Lovers LP. To cast a New Age voodoo hex on the despised obsessed VU uber-fan J. Richman, who then flipped out and dismantled the engine of rock (loudness, aggression) from behind his songs from then on. Foiling bitter mean Lou in the process (creating twee, etc.)!

Posted by Estey on March 26, 2011 at 6:37 AM