I drove The Police for their "Ghost in the Machine Tour" that hit Vancouver on August 31, 1982. Coincidentally, the "Synchronicity" tour had the band back in town on August 31, 1983. This was the band's final trip as a working unit. It was one of the highest grossing tours of the 1980s.
I spent most of my time with Sting -- a very serious, and typically quiet man. Andy Summers was different. He was engaging, talkative, and had a great sense of humour. The most memorable moment was when Andy needed something for his camera. I drove down the [restricted at the time] Granville Street Mall, to a popular camera shop, next to the Cineplex Theatre.
Only taxis, buses and pedestrians were allowed on the street. I would have none of that (the stars' safety comes first) and pulled up on the curb, as the street was too narrow for parking. After a few minutes, a policeman pulled up beside me, and before he could say anything I said: "I'm with The Police." He gave me a confused look, as Andy walked back towards the limo. Finally he recognized him and smiled back, and drove on. Andy and I had a good laugh as we drove away.
I was mostly with Sting for the rest of the trip. The band preferred the Bayshore Inn, and Sting jogged around Stanley Park every day he was in town on both trips. I finally figured out why Sting was so quiet. He saved every bit of energy for the stage, and his personality exploded when he walked out. On both trips, there was never an encounter with Stewart Copeland -- we passed like ships in the night. I learned that line from Jeff Beck, and still use it.
In a May 1984 interview with Neal Hall from the Vancouver Sun, this is what another limo driver had to say:
"Not the last time, but the time before when they played during the PNE, we had a couple of the drivers doing their laundry at the laundromat. At that time [the limo rental rate] was $35 an hour. Nice guys. Healthy. They travelled in three separate cars. A couple of them [Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers] we took to Richards on Richards after the show."
Sting may have been quiet, but at least I never had to do his laundry.
Dow 20,000 Update
The Dow closed the week at 17,897.46 and intraday, was within 400 points of an all-time high (18,312.39).
Should we be scared of this headline from Saturday?
Saudi Arabia Warns of Economic Fallout if Congress Passes 9/11 Bill
There may be a setback for a day or two, then up it goes to a new high, shocking the media. How can this be? You know how I feel from several reports earlier this month (see bottom).
Talking Our Books: 10-Bagger Update
The CEO.CA stocks have been doubling and tripling all year long. Everyone is a genius in the first inning of a junior mining bull. Lithium dominated until December, when the Golds (and the rest of the metals which usually follow) kicked in. The hot lithium money was commanding the percentage gains again last week.
Reminds me (last rock reference this week -- I promise) of the time in '68 when an unknown, Led Zeppelin (lithium) were the warmup act for Vanilla Fudge (gold). Within a year they both returned -- and you can guess (Zeppelin) who the headliner was. Incidentally, Tim Bogart (Vanilla Fudge) sat on the side of the stage close to Page and acted like his biggest fan. Not sure if the strict gold bulls feel the same way about lithium.
For you millennial rocks fans, substitute Weezer and the Foo Fighters. Yes I know gold bugs -- Weezer's No. 1 spot won't last. The big news is that we are all making money.
If you think the lithium bull is over, look at the action down under as posted by Peter Epstein at CEO.CA last week:
@EpsteinResearch 7 Aussie #lithium juniors up, on average. +1,252%. ( AJM, PLS, GXY, GMM, BGS, NMT & LIT ) up from 52-week lows
Are you hedged? Lithium has been a lot of fun since Labor Day. However one of my oil juniors is halted ($HPL) and the other one (JEM) is at a 52-week high. Betting on the jockeys as a way to pick the low-hanging fruit in the first inning is working so well, that it's almost not even fair.
One of the junior gold exploration stocks out west here, is a favourite with a few of the CEO.CA gang:
$CXO Colorado Resources
Year High 0.19
Year Low 0.05
Last 0.18
Up 3500%
- Rick Rule, Eric Coffin, and Low-ball are betting on management's 200-plus years experience in the industry.
- Rick Rule is in for 7.692 million shares:
http://www.bcsc.bc.ca/ViewDocument.aspx?DocNum=F7T4C6N2H7JBZ7R6L6I7X7OBZ7H3&s=False
- Promising drilling season in NW B.C.'s Golden Triangle.
If they can drill into some more visible gold (1.6 feet of 94 oz. gold per tonne in 1989) with decent widths, the market will go nuts. I'm in.
A couple of Giustra's deals: $CCY and $GGS have more than doubled as anticipated, and reported earlier.
From the "Kenny Rogers" March 27 Report:
"I added $CCY Catalyst Copper and $RST Rosita Mining late Tuesday morning to the BeckDex 40. Credit goes to a few of the usual suspects: @WorldofMining and @Tommy for CCY and @Low-Ball for RST."
https://mobile.twitter.com/peedeeheenee/status/712342734468718593?p=v
Selling CCY in early 2015 due to inactivity was a mistake. Fortunately, my re-entry penalty price with Takeover Kings Warke and Giustra is looking better already.
March 21: 0.26
Last Friday: 0.55
If you missed these 2 winners, and want something with decent fundamentals, there is always Giustra's 4.1-million-ounce Guyana gold company:
$SSP Sandspring Resources
Year High 0.435 (New)
Year Low 0.11
Last 0.395
Up 259% (New)
When SSP breaks out to 0.50 on volume, $1 will follow, I think.
$LIX and $NXE had a great week. CEO.CA favourite NXE hit the anticipated target of $2.50 on Tuesday, before rising to $2.76. NXE closed the week at $2.63, and is up 1,069% from its 3-year low and 448% from a 52-week low.
LIX opened up Friday morning at $2.01, and 13 minutes into trading, I posted a $3 target on CEO.CA. It hit $2.85 before backing off to close the week at $2.53. Well structured, tirelessly travelling the globe, and a basket of lithium projects tells me this will continue higher. How high? Let's take it a dollar at a time. When (not if) it hits $3, then $4 will be the call.
https://ceo.ca/@50yearbeckfan?fd3fc42a3e8b
The formula that has worked for decades started here on October 19 (ROY is now LIX):
http://blog.ceo.ca/2015/10/19/betting-on-the-jockeys-the-yorkton-lithium-express/
The Stellar Performance of the BergDex:
The next time Robert Hirschberg is interviewed by the Globe and Mail (March 4th), he should have rock star status with these phenomenal returns.
$LIX
March 03: 0.85
April 15: 2.53
Up 250%
(Up 4,217% from the 0.06 shell price, and up 1,600% from the 0.15 PP that was offered to the regulars at CEO.CA one afternoon a few months back. Approximately 30 people accepted)
$PGM
March 03: 0.24
April 15: 0.395
Up 65%
$NGZ
March 03: 0.045
April 15: 0.16
Up 256%
That's an outstanding 190% average in 6 weeks to the entire Globe and Mail subscriber base. It's only a matter of time before BNN reaches out.
Check out the returns on Robert's other picks from his tweet on March 24th:
$BOL Up 40%, $CAP Up 25%, $EAM Up 20%, $GSH Up 26%, $NFR Up 25%, $NX Up 86%, $SXR 0%, $WML Up 148%, $WPQ Up 92%
https://mobile.twitter.com/r_hirschberg/status/713018047846490112?p=v
That's an astounding 51% gain on average. If you think this is a fluke, then you better go back to last week's report on his secret weapon, whom I call Dr. 7/11 -- 11 discoveries and 7 in production:
https://ceo.ca/@50YearBeckFan/eric-clapton-rockn-stock-talk
The BeckDex 50
14 New 52-week highs:
$MAG $KOR $GGS $KES $WPQ $NGZ $GSH $WKM $NFR $CCY $SSP $ WML $LIX $NXE
The List:
$LIX $SBB $IDM $NXE $PTM $SKE $JEM $HPL $IDI $CCY $MCC $BOL $EAM $CAP $GSH $NFR $NGZ $NX $PGM $SXR $UWE $WML $WPQ $MRZ $KLS $BUS $CT $NXO $BAR $CIN $CT $DMA $GRG $ICG $MAG $WKM $RLG $RST $JEM $BAY $WLF $MSD $LAG $GPH $NEV $IN $TV $BTH $GLH $KRN $PE $KOR $SSP $RMX
- If a shell had a change of business, only the opening price low is used.
- Two-year lows are used (majority bottomed in 2105)
The list is broken down into 3 categories: Under .25, Under .50, and Over .50
UNDER .25:
$CXO Colorado Resources
Year High 0.19
Year Low 0.05
Last 0.18
Up 3500%
$GGS Golden Secret Ventures
Year High 0.45 (New)
Year Low 0.02
Last 0.38
Up 1800%
$RLG West Red Lake Gold Mines
Year High 0.21
Year Low 0.01
Last 0.14
Up 1300%
$JEM Jagercor Energy
Year High 0.07
Year Low 0.01
Last 0.065
Up 550%
$MCC Magor Corporation
Year High 0.315
Year Low 0.015
Last 0.08
Up 433%
$KES Kessulrun Resources
Year High 0.11 (New)
Year Low 0.02
Last 0.105
Up 425%
$NX Noka Resources
Year High 0.26
Year Low 0.025
Last 0.013
Up 420%
$HPL Horizon Petroleum
Year High 0.13
Year Low 0.01
Last 0.05
Up 400%
$CAP Castle Peak
Year High 0.025
Year Low 0.005
Last 0.025
Up 400%
$DMA DiaMedica
Year High 0.25
2014 Low 0.035
Last 0.17
Up 386%
$WPQ WPC Resources
Year High 0.115 (New)
Year Low 0.025
Last 0.115 (New)
Up 360% (New)
$HRT Harte Gold
Year High 0.345
Year Low 0.045
Last 0.195
Up 333%
$NGZ NRG Metals
Year High 0.175 (New)
Year Low 0.02
Last 0.16 (New)
Up 300% (New)
$GSH Golden Share Mining
Year High 0.12 (New)
Year Low 0.03
Last 0.012 (New)
Up 300% (New)
$RST Rosita Mining
Year High 0.10
Year Low 0.01
Last 0.04
Up 300%
$SXR SGX Resources
Year High 0.025
Year Low 0.005
Last 0.02
Up 300%
$EAM East Africa Metals
Year High 0.12
Year Low 0.03
Last 0.12
Up 300%
$RMX Rubicon Minerals
Year High 1.485
Year Low 0.015
Last 0.06
Up 300%
$IDI Indico Resources
Year High 0.16
Year Low 0.02
Last 0.07.5
Up 275%
$MSD Moseda Technologies
Year High 0.365
Year Low 0.065
Last 0.22
Up 238%
$WKM West Kirkland Mining
Year High 0.12 (New)
Year Low 0.035
Last 0.115 (New)
Up 229% (New)
$PRS.H Prism Resources
Year High 0.11
Year Low 0.04
Last 0.11
Up 175%
$WLF Wolfden Resources
Year High 0.21
2014 Low 0.045
Last 0.105
Up 133%
$NFR Northern Freegold
Year High 0.115 (New)
Year Low 0.04
Last 0.10
Up 125%
$GPH Graphite One Resources
Year High 0.145
Year Low 0.065
Last 0.125
Up 92%
$BOL Bold Ventures
Year High 0.055
Year Low 0.015
Last 0.035
Up 133%
$IDM IDM Mining
Year High 0.115
Year Low 0.065
Last 0.105
Up 61%
$LAG Laguna Blends
Year High 0.40
Year Low 0.08
Last 0.12
Up 50%
$SKE Skeena Resources
Year High 0.125
Year Low 0.055
Last 0.08
Up 45%
$IN InMed Pharmaceuticals
Year High 0.405
Year Low 0.10
Last 0.12
Up 20%
$MRS
Year High 0.275
Year Low 0.05
Last 0.055
Up 10%
UNDER .50:
$PGM Pure Gold Mining
Year High 0.43
Year Low 0.07
Last 0.395
Up 464%
$CCY Catalyst Copper
Year High 0.55 (New)
Year Low 0.10
Last 0.55 (New)
Up 450% (New)
$SSP Sandspring Resources
Year High 0.435 (New)
Year Low 0.11
Last 0.395
Up 259% (New)
$BAY Aston Bay Holdings
Year High 0.32
Year Low 0.08
Last 0.265
Up 231%
$NEV Nevada Sunrise Gold
Year High 0.38
Year Low 0.125
Last 0.28
Up 124%
$TV Trevali Mining
Year High 1.24
Year Low 0.245
Last 0.405
Up 65%
$GLH Golden Leaf Holdings
Year High 1.40
Year Low 0.365 (New)
Last 0.36.5
Up 0%
OVER .50:
$WML Wealth Minerals
Year High 0.67 (New)
2014 Low 0.03
Last 0.67 (New)
Up 2133% (New)
$LIX Lithium X Energy
Year High 2.85 (New)
Year Low 0.35
Last 2.53 (New)
Up 623% (New)
$NXE NexGen Energy
Year High 2.76 (New)
2015 Low 0.40
Last 2.63 (New)
Up 585% (New)
$CRH CRH Medical
Year High 5.50
2014 Low 0.65
Last 4.22
Up 549%
$KRN Karnalyte Resources
Year High 4.15
Year Low 0.52
Last 2.34
Up 350%
$PE Pure Energy
Year High 1.03
Year Low 0.18
Last 0.85
Up 372%
$LTE Lite Access Technologies
Year High 1.80
Year Low 0.39
Last 1.57
Up 303%
$SBB Sabina Gold & Silver
Year High 1.06
Year Low 0.30
Last 1.03
Up 243%
$KOR Corvus Gold
Year High 0.86 (New)
Year Low 0.33
Last 0.85
Up 158%
$PTM Platinum Group Metals
Year High 7.40
Year Low 1.35
Last 3.45
Up 156%
$MAG Mag Silver
Year High 13.98 (New)
Year Low 6.90
Last 13.92 (New)
Up 102%
$BAR Balmoral Resources
Year High 1.22
Year Low 0.33
Last 0.52
Up 58%
$BTH Breathtec BioMedical
Year High 0.55
Year Low 0.37
Last 0.54
Up 46%
Recent Reports
Eric Clapton: Rock'n Stock Talk (April 11)
On Jeff Beck, Elon Musk and the power of intention (April 4)
Kenny Rogers and the immutable law of reciprocity (March 27)
From the Four Seasons to Expo 86, and the Birth of CEO.CA (March 20)
1974 All Over Again (March 13)
The Trickle Down Theory: Large Gains in Junior Miners and Micro-Caps (March 7)
Finally, an Acorn for Us Mining Bulls (Feb. 29)
Why I Continue to Bet the Jockey in Canadian Micro-Caps (Feb. 21)
The Takeover Kings: $25 Billion to Shareholders and $22 Billion in Current Market Value (Jan. 12)
Betting on the Jockeys: The Yorkton Lithium Express (Oct. 19)
This article discusses highly speculative penny stocks. Nothing in this article should be construed as investment or professional advice of any kind. From time to time, the author may transact in securities mentioned. All facts are to be verified by the reader and all readers to do their own due diligence before investing including talking to a licensed financial advisor.