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Forbes
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Firefall Guitarist's Travels Go Way Beyond Colorado's Mountains
Firefall's Jock Bartley (left) and Steven Weinmeister perform as part of the Stagecoach Music Festival in 2010 in Indio, California. (Photo by) Getty Images The band Firefall has always been synonymous with Boulder, Colorado. As the veteran rock group releases a new album and readies for a tour that will take them to seven states, founding member Jock Bartley reveals his love for other travel destinations besides his everyday Rocky Mountain high. 'For me, Hawaii is No. 1 for beaches and warm, windy weather,' Bartley says. 'Paradise! The road to Hana in Maui—wow—and the (Lahaina) harbor in Maui is unbelievable. There's also Haleakala Crater and Haleakala National Park. I've only been to Hawaii four to five times, but they are always the best vacations I have ever had.' Lead guitarist Bartley is the only remaining original member of Firefall, which formed in Boulder in 1974 and scored several hit singles, including "You Are the Woman," "Just Remember I Love You," "Strange Way" and "Cinderella." The new album, entitled Friends & Family 2, is comprised of cover versions of songs by bands and musicians who shared the stage with Firefall members in the 1970s. Firefall's new 11-concert tour begins July 12 in Orland Park, Illinois and runs through mid-November. Bartley recalls a 1970s Firefall concert in Hawaii attended by the late actor Peter Fonda, who was friendly with the group's drummer Michael Clarke. Fonda made the trip unforgettable, inviting Bartley to a sail on his 'magnificent wooden schooner, the Tatoosh , in Maui harbor.' Firefall performs outdoors in Kanagawa, Japan in 1979. (Photo by Koh Hasebe/) Getty Images Fonda had bought the boat in 1969 and then spent many memorable vacation days on it until selling Tatoosh in 1985, according to a 2014 post by Fonda on his website. The schooner took Fonda to deep-sea dives through lava tubes off Lanai with musician David Crosby and on sails that, he says, made him 'totally free and happy' around the Hawaiian Islands. Other coastal destinations have impressed Bartley during his vacations. 'California and Florida have great beaches, and I've loved taking boat trips in the ocean or the Gulf to get away,' he says. 'And, I've been to the Bahamas twice, but, frankly, things at times seemed so hurried on those vacations that I couldn't totally wind down. But Hawaii for me was different. Talk about time to chill out.' There was often, though, little time to chill out and enjoy the many destinations Firefall traveled to as performing musicians. 'Yikes—45 to 50 years of rock and roll touring!' Bartley exclaims. 'Much of those tours, I'd see the airport, hotel, gig, hotel and back to the airport—a total whirlwind of being on the road.' Yet, even the glimpses were memorable. 'So many states are amazing and scenic, and there's so much diversity in American cities and towns,' Bartley says. 'I've sometimes had time to explore California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, all of New England, New York, Michigan, Minnesota, Arizona and New Mexico. The list goes on and on. I particularly love the great Northwest, the fertile, lush countrysides of Oregon and Washington, Florida with its year-round warm temperatures and palm trees and the great Southwest with the Grand Canyon and other high desert locations.' Every Firefall tour, of course, ended with a return home to Colorado. Bartley's family moved from Kansas to Green Mountain Falls, Colorado—in the Rocky Mountains about 15 miles northwest of Colorado Springs—when he was 9 years old. They later moved to nearby Manitou Springs—'at the foot of Pikes Peak,' Bartley notes—and he moved to Boulder to attend the University of Colorado, 'right next to majestic mountains.' Boulder and its majestic Flatirons attract locals and visitors to Colorado and always feel like home to Firefall and its lead guitarist Jock Bartley. Gary Stoller 'Colorado!' Bartley shouts. 'I absolutely love Colorado! Colorado has been my life. You know, half of Colorado is Kansas, and the other half is Switzerland. I have always lived in or near the mountains. I would travel all over the country having fun, playing and meeting people, but I always knew I'd be going home, home to Colorado.'
Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ex-TV production assistant who accused Harvey Weinstein of sex assault takes stand at retrial
A former TV production assistant who testified in 2020 about how Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her in his Soho loft took the stand to tell her story again at the monstrous movie mogul's retrial in Manhattan Tuesday. In an afternoon of testimony, 'Miriam 'Mimi' Haley, 48, described how she met Weinstein in 2004, at a London afterparty for the premiere of 'The Aviator,' and told the jury about a string of interactions in 2006 leading up to the alleged attack. Haley has accused Weinstein of pinning her down against her will on July 10, 2006, pulling out her tampon and forcibly performing oral sex on her. Her testimony Tuesday stopped short of that encounter, and she's expected to take the stand to continue her direct examination on Wednesday. Weinstein, 73, is being retried on allegations of first-degree criminal sexual act and third-degree rape stemming from separate allegations by Haley, aspiring actress Jessica Mann and new allegations by a third woman, Polish model Kaja Sokola, New York's highest court threw out his 2020 conviction and subsequent 23-year sentence in May 2024, after finding that the trial court judge erroneously allowed testimony about sexual assaults for which Weinstein was not charged to establish a pattern of behavior. Haley testified she reconnected with Weinstein after their 2004 introduction during the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, when she and close friend Mike White attended a party on the Tatoosh, a super-yacht owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. White had fallen ill and had closed up his production business the year prior, and Haley was looking for work in New York City — and Weinstein asked her to meet him at Miramax's offices at the Majestic Hotel in Cannes. That meeting happened May 24, 2006, but it didn't go as Haley expected. 'He quickly started talking about other things like asking me whether I could give him a massage,' she recounted. 'I was taken aback by the question. … He said 'That's not what I meant. How about I give you a massage?' or something like that,' she said. She took his number and left without giving or receiving a massage, then broke out in tears, she said. 'I was really disappointed and it was very humiliating,' she said. Nevertheless, Weinstein got her an off-the-books job working for the 'Project Runway' TV show in New York, and offered to get her a visa so she could do more work for his company. They had two 'perfectly pleasant' conversations afterwards, but things took a darker turn when she refused an invitation to accompany him on a Paris trip, she testified. Weinstein showed up unannounced at her East Village apartment, and pushed past her into her flat. He backed off when she bluffed, 'I've heard about your reputation with women,' she said. Haley's testimony is expected to continue Wednesday. Regardless of the outcome of the trial, Weinstein has no chance of tasting freedom — he was convicted at a second trial in Los Angeles on separate rape and sexual assault charges in December 2022 and sentenced to 16 years.
