On this day:

[Dr.Amber Trichome]

These numbers are compelling
****9/19/19*****
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[Dr.Amber Trichome]

Early on September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix died in London. He had spent the latter part of the previous evening at a party and was picked up by girlfriend Monika Dannemann and driven to her flat at the Samarkand Hotel, 22 Lansdowne Crescent, Notting Hill. According to the estimated time of death, from autopsy data and statements by friends about the evening of September 17, he died within a few hours after midnight, though no precise estimate was made at the original inquest.

Dannemann claimed in her original testimony that after they returned to her lodgings the evening before, Hendrix, unknown to her, had taken nine of her prescribed Vesperax sleeping pills. The normal medical dose was half a tablet, but Hendrix was unfamiliar with this very strong German brand. According to surgeon John Bannister, the doctor who initially attended to him, Hendrix had asphyxiated in his own vomit, mainly red wine which had filled his airways, as the autopsy was to show. For years, Dannemann publicly claimed that she had only discovered that her lover was unconscious and unresponsive sometime after 9 a.m., that Hendrix was alive when placed in the back of the ambulance after half past eleven, and that she rode with him on the way to the hospital; the latter two are denied by the ambulance crew. However, Dannemann's comments about that morning were often contradictory, varying from interview to interview. Police and ambulance statements reveal that there was no one but Hendrix in the flat when they arrived at 11:27 a.m., and not only was he dead when they arrived on the scene, but was fully clothed and had been dead for some time.

Later, Dannemen claimed that former road managers Gerry Stickels and Eric Barrett had been present before the ambulance was called and had removed some of Hendrix's possessions, including some of his most recent messages. Lyrics written by Hendrix, which were found in the apartment, led Eric Burdon to make a premature announcement on the BBC-TV program 24 Hours that he believed Hendrix had committed suicide. Burdon often claimed he had been telephoned by Dannemann after she discovered that Jimi failed to wake up.

Following a libel case brought in 1996 by Hendrix's long-term English girlfriend Kathy Etchingham, Monika Dannemann committed suicide.

Allegations of murder

A former Animals "roadie," James "Tappy" Wright, published a book in May 2009 claiming Hendrix's manager, Mike Jeffery, admitted to him that he had Hendrix killed because the rock star wanted to end his management contract. John Bannister, the doctor who attended the scene of his death in 1970 stated in 2009 that it "sounded plausible".

It was claimed that Mike Jeffery was not "in London," he was in Spain when Jimi died in London on September 18, 1970.

"There was a freak storm across Majorca and all the phone lines were down. Somebody told Mike that Jimi had been trying to phone him. The first call that got through was to say Jimi was dead. Mike was terribly upset at the thought of Jimi not being able to get through to him." - Trixie Sullivan, secretary/assistant for Mike Jeffery

Gravesite

Hendrix's body was returned to Seattle and he was interred in Greenwood Memorial Park, Renton, Washington. As the popularity of Hendrix and his music grew over the decades following his death, concerns began to mount over fans damaging the adjoining graves at Greenwood, and the growing, extended Hendrix family further prompted his father to create an expanded memorial site separate from other burial sites in the park. The memorial was announced in late 1999, but Al Hendrix's deteriorating health led to delays and he died two months before its scheduled completion in 2002. Later that year, the remains of Jimi Hendrix, his father Al Hendrix, and grandmother Nora Rose Moore Hendrix were moved to the new site. The headstone contains a depiction of a Fender Stratocaster guitar, the instrument he was most famed for using —– although the guitar is shown right-side up, rather than the way Hendrix played it, upside down (left-handed).

The memorial is a granite dome supported by three pillars under which Jimi Hendrix and other family members are interred. Hendrix's autograph is inscribed at the base of each pillar, while two stepped entrances and one ramped entrance provide access to the dome's center where the original Stratocaster adorned headstone has been incorporated into a statue pedestal. A granite sundial complete with brass gnomon adjoins the dome, along with over 50 family plots that surround the central structure, half of which are currently adorned with raised granite headstones.

To date, the memorial remains incomplete: brass accents for the dome and a large brass statue of Hendrix were announced as being under construction in Italy, but since 2002, no information as to the status of the project has been revealed to the public. A memorial statue of Jimi playing a Stratocaster stands near the corner of Broadway and Pine Streets in Seattle.

In May 2006, the city of Seattle honored Hendrix with the re-naming of a park near Seattle's Colman School in the Central District.

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Love Jimmy. RIP . what a heart throb.
I have been to his gravesite and a dragonfly flew all around me .

 

[BarnBuster]

These numbers are compelling
****9/19/19*****
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The end of the last full palindrome week for quite a while

 

[Dr.Amber Trichome]

The end of the last full palindrome week for quite a while

i had a feeling something strange was going on. Trippy. I had a mad coworker once who was into numerology and kept
These weird paper journals with dates and and numbers and would run her life by what the numbers told her. I worked with that crazy bitch for 2 years and I used numbers writin on the office calendar counting down the days to the last day I would have to work with her. Lol. She never did ever win the lottery. She used a pendulum as well to help her answer questions. What a psycho.

 

[lokie]

The Assassination of President James A. Garfield
On July 2, 1881, newly inaugurated President James A. Garfield was mortally wounded by a deranged gunman as he prepared to board a train in Washington, D.C.
EVAN ANDREWS

White House portrait of James A. Garfield.

On the morning of July 2, 1881, James A. Garfield arrived at the Baltimore and Potomac train station for a much-needed holiday. Just four months had passed since the former Union general and Ohio congressman had been sworn in as the nation’s 20th president, but his term had already gotten off to a rocky start. He had clashed with Republican power brokers over patronage appointments to his administration, and had endured a brush with tragedy after his wife contracted a near-fatal case of malaria. With the first lady now on the mend, Garfield was eager to escape the sweltering capital for a summer trip to New England, where he planned to give a speech at his alma mater, Williams College. Along with his two teenaged sons and Secretary of State James G. Blaine, he had left the White House and taken a carriage ride to the station entrance near the National Mall. Like most presidents up to that point, he was not accompanied by bodyguards or a security detail.

As Garfield’s carriage pulled up outside the Baltimore and Potomac, Charles Guiteau paced the waiting room inside, ready to fulfill what he believed was a mission from God. For weeks, the 39-year-old had stalked the president across Washington, patiently waiting for a chance to gun him down. Family members and acquaintances had long suspected that Guiteau was insane, but he had planned the crime with chilling precision. He had conducted target practice with an ivory-handled .44 caliber pistol—specially purchased because Guiteau thought it would look nice in a museum one day—and had even tried to take a tour of the district jail, which he assumed would be his new home after he was arrested. In his pocket Guiteau carried a letter addressed to the White House. “The president’s tragic death was a sad necessity,” it read, “but it will unite the Republican Party and save the Republic. Life is a fleeting dream, and it matters little when one goes.”

Baltimore and Potomac station, where Garfield was shot.

At around 9:20 a.m., Garfield entered the station alongside Secretary Blaine, who had offered to escort him to his train. As the men strode through the waiting room, Guiteau snuck up behind them and drew his pistol. “His eye was steady,” a witness later noted, “and his face presented the appearance of a brave man, who is determined upon a desperate deed, and meant to do it calmly and well.” Guiteau fired two shots at the president from point blank range. The first bullet only grazed Garfield’s right arm, causing him to bellow “My God! What is this?” The second shot was more accurate, striking Garfield in the lower back and knocking him to the floor.

No sooner had the shots rang out than the station filled with the sound of panicked screams from bystanders. Guiteau made an attempt to flee, but a man blocked the door, allowing a ticket agent and a police officer to apprehend him. Furious train passengers immediately surrounded the shooter and began yelling “Lynch him! Lynch him!” At Guiteau’s own request, police whisked him away to the safety of the jailhouse.

Engraving depicting the assassination of President Garfield.

Garfield, meanwhile, was still laid out on the train station floor, bleeding profusely from his back wound. Within minutes, 10 different doctors had arrived to examine him and try to locate the second bullet. Though no one knew it at the time, the slug had missed the president’s arteries and vital organs and embedded itself near his pancreas. It was a survivable injury, but the army of well-meaning physicians only worsened the damage by using their unsterilized fingers and instruments to probe the wound, introducing germs and potentially causing an infection.

After an hour of excruciating prodding, the president was carried from the train station to a bedroom at the White House. His doctors feared he would not survive the night, but Garfield put on a brave face for his children. “The upper story is alright,” he assured one of his crying sons. “It is only the hull that was damaged.”

Charles Guiteau.

While Garfield spent the next few days fighting for his life, details emerged about the crazed gunman. Charles J. Guiteau was an Illinois native who had spent most of his life drifting between cities and trying his hand at everything from law and preaching to living in a free love religious commune. He was a staunch Republican, and had written a speech on Garfield’s behalf during the 1880 presidential election. It was largely ignored, but Guiteau formulated the delusion that it was a key factor in the president’s victory. Following Garfield’s inauguration, Guiteau moved to Washington, D.C. and became a frequent—and decidedly unwelcome—visitor to the White House. He even wrangled a personal meeting with Garfield, during which he gave the president a copy of his speech and asked to be rewarded with a consulship in Paris.

When he was denied a government office, Guiteau’s addled mind turned to revenge. While lying in bed one night, he had what he described as a “flash” of divine inspiration: God wanted him to kill the president. Guiteau became convinced that Garfield’s death would save the country by allowing Vice President Chester A. Arthur to take his place. Even after his arrest, he continued to believe that the vice president would come to his rescue. “You stick to me,” he counseled one detective. “Arthur and all those men are my friends, and I’ll have you made Chief of Police.”

Political cartoon showing Guiteau with a banner reading “An office or your life!”

As the summer dragged on, newspapers printed a steady stream of medical updates on Garfield. The 49-year-old president had rallied in the first few days after the shooting, but his condition worsened after his doctor, D. Willard Bliss, administered heavy doses of quinine, morphine and alcohol, which brought on bouts of vomiting that left him weak and emaciated. Bliss also conducted repeated medical probes in a futile attempt to locate the second bullet. In August, he even enlisted the help of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell, who used a crude metal detector called an “induction balance” to search for the slug. The machine had worked perfectly in tests, but the screening failed due to interference from metal springs on the President’s bed. To make matters worse, Bell was only permitted search the right side of Garfield’s body, where Bliss incorrectly believed the bullet was lodged.

By September, a massive infection—most likely caused by his medical treatment—had left Garfield with a persistent fever and abscesses over his entire body. He was taken to a cottage on the Jersey shore in the hope that the cool sea air would revive him, but died on the night of September 19, 1881. He had been president for just 200 days.

Chester A. Arthur, who became president upon Garfield’s death.

The nation entered a brief period of mourning for the leader it had barely known. As many as 100,000 people turned out to view Garfield’s body as it lay in state at the Capitol Rotunda, but attention soon turned toward punishing Charles Guiteau. Vigilantes tried to shoot the president’s assassin on two separate occasions, and when his murder trial began in November 1881, the court had to cycle through over 150 different men to assemble an impartial jury. Guiteau entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, arguing that the assassination had been “God’s act and not mine.” He even claimed that the true cause of Garfield’s death was malpractice at the hands of his doctors. “I deny the killing, if your honor please,” he announced at one point. “We admit the shooting.”

Guiteau had a point—many historians now believe that Garfield would have lived if not for the limitations of 1880s medicine—but his insanity plea failed to convince the jury, which took less than an hour to return a guilty verdict. On June 30, 1882, nearly a year to the day after he shot the president, Guiteau was executed by hanging in Washington, D.C.


https://www.history.com/news/the-assassination-of-president-james-a-garfield

 

[too larry]

The College of Rock and Roll Knowledge
13 hrs ·
It was 46 years ago today that we lost Ingram Cecil Connor III. You will know him better as Gram Parsons. Parsons is best known for his work with The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers. He also popularized what he called "Cosmic American Music", a hybrid of country, rhythm and blues, soul, folk, and rock. His relatively short career was described by AllMusic as "enormously influential" for country and rock, "blending the two genres to the point that they became indistinguishable from each other."

Gram became friends with many artists and one of his best friendships / collaborations was with Emmylou Harris.

AllMusic described Parsons as "enormously influential" for both country and rock, "blending the two genres to the point that they became indistinguishable from each other. ... His influence could still be heard well into the next millennium." In his essay on Parsons for Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Artist" list, Keith Richards notes that Parsons' recorded music output was "pretty minimal." But nevertheless, Richards claims that Parsons' "effect on country music is enormous, this is why we're talking about him now."

Emmylou Harris has continued to champion Parsons' work throughout her career, covering a number of his songs over the years, including "Hickory Wind", "Wheels", "Sin City", "Luxury Liner", and "Hot Burrito No. 2". Harris's songs "Boulder to Birmingham", from her 1975 album Pieces of the Sky, and "The Road", from her 2011 album Hard Bargain, are tributes to Parsons. In addition, her 1985 album The Ballad of Sally Rose is an original concept album that includes many allusions to Parsons in its narrative. The song "My Man", written by Bernie Leadon and performed by the Eagles on their album On the Border, is a tribute to Gram Parsons. Both Leadon and Parsons were members of the Flying Burrito Brothers during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The 1973 album Crazy Eyes by Poco pays homage to Parsons, as Richie Furay composed the title track in honor of him, and sings one of Parsons' own compositions, "Brass Buttons." The album was released four days before Parsons died.

Gram was only 26 years old when he passed.

RIP Gram. Thank you for all you did and all the influence you had on so many others.

 

[too larry]

The College of Rock and Roll Knowledge
5 hrs ·
'Cause they're waiting for me
Looking for me
Every single night
(They're) driving me insane…

Cheap Trick released their fourth LP "Dream Police" on Sept. 21, 1979. It was their third release in a row produced by Tom Werman. It is the band's most commercially successful studio album, going to No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart (their live LP Budokan went to #4) and being certified platinum within a few months of its release.

If you could only have one album by Cheap Trick, which one would you choose?

Happy 40th Birthday to Cheap Trick's LP "Dream

 

[too larry]

The College of Rock and Roll Knowledge
6 hrs ·
The Jimi Hendrix Experience didn't release their "Electric Ladyland" lp until the middle of October of 1968. To help promote the records, they released the first single from it, "All Along The Watchtower" on Sept. 21st of that year.

Jimi Hendrix, doing a Bob Dylan song with recording help from Dave Mason and The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones. Good combination.

The recording of the song began on January 21, 1968, at Olympic Studios in London. According to engineer Andy Johns, Jimi Hendrix had been given a tape of Dylan’s recording by publicist Michael Goldstein, who worked for Dylan’s manager Albert Grossman. "(Hendrix) came in with these Dylan tapes and we all heard them for the first time in the studio”, recalled Johns. According to Hendrix’s regular engineer Eddie Kramer, the guitarist cut a large number of takes on the first day, shouting chord changes at Dave Mason who had appeared at the session and played guitar. Halfway through the session, bass player Noel Redding became dissatisfied with the proceedings and left. Mason then took over on bass. According to Eddie Kramer, the final bass part was played by Hendrix himself.

Hendrix's friend and The Rolling Stones multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones played the various percussion instruments on the track. "That’s him playing the thwack you hear at the end of each bar in the intro, on an instrument called a vibraslap." Jones originally recorded a piano part that was later mixed out in place of the percussion instruments. Kramer and Chas Chandler mixed the first version of "All Along the Watchtower" on January 26, but Hendrix was quickly dissatisfied with the result and went on re-recording and overdubbing guitar parts during June, July, and August at the Record Plant studio in New York. Engineer Tony Bongiovi has described Hendrix becoming increasingly dissatisfied as the song progressed, overdubbing more and more guitar parts, moving the master tape from a four-track to a twelve-track to a sixteen-track machine. Bongiovi recalled, "Recording these new ideas meant he would have to erase something. In the weeks prior to the mixing, we had already recorded a number of overdubs, wiping track after track. [Hendrix] kept saying, 'I think I hear it a little bit differently.'"

The single reached number five in the British charts, and number 20 on the Billboard charts in the US, which made it Hendrix's only top 20 song in the US.

Happy 51st Birthday to The Jimi Hendrix Experience's version of Bob Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower"!!!

Remember when you first heard it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY

 

[BarnBuster]

On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves in territory that remained in rebellion on Jan. 1, 1863.

Though he was personally opposed to the institution of slavery, Abraham Lincoln had no intention of abolishing it when he became president. He believed the Constitution “forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery,” and he knew that any abolitionist act would likely be struck down by the courts.

His original aim for the Civil War was simply to preserve the Union rather than end slavery. But as the war dragged on, Lincoln “came to the conclusion that the only way to restore the Union was to wage war not only against Confederate armies, but also against slavery itself,” according to Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer.

Lincoln drafted an act to free the slaves and introduced it to his Cabinet in a July 22, 1862, meeting. Lincoln was determined to issue it; he “wanted the advice of his Cabinet on the style of the Proclamation, not its substance,” according to the Library of Congress.

Secretary of State William Seward suggested that Lincoln wait until a Union victory to announce the Emancipation Proclamation so that it wouldn’t be interpreted as “a cry for help—our last shriek on the retreat.”

Lincoln continued revising the proclamation over the next two months. Finally, on Sept. 22, five days after the Union won an important victory at Antietam, Lincoln released the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It called for slaves in rebelling states to be freed effective on Jan. 1, 1863; it effectively gave rebelling states 100 days to surrender or have slavery abolished.

It stated “all person held as slaves within any State, or any designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free.”

Lincoln issued a revised Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1. As no rebelling states had surrendered, it ordered that all 3 million slaves there be freed. It exempted slaves states fighting for the Union (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware, plus the counties that were forming West Virginia) and rebel territory that was already under Union control (Tennessee and parts of Louisiana, including New Orleans).

The Emancipation Proclamation therefore had little immediate impact because it covered almost exclusively territory where the Union had no authority. Seward remarked, “We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.”

Lincoln made this decision because he did not wish to upset border states loyal to the Union and because he knew that he did not have the constitutional authority to emancipate slaves in Union territory, explains Allen C. Guelzo for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The proclamation was carefully worded as a war powers act under which Lincoln invoked his authority as commander-in-chief; this authority could only be applied to rebelling states. Had Lincoln attempted to free slaves in Union territory, the proclamation likely would have been struck down by the Supreme Court.

Knowing the Emancipation Proclamation was not strong enough to permanently end the institution of slavery, Lincoln pushed the Radical Republican-controlled Congress to pass a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery. Congress passed the amendment before the end of the war, and it was ratified in December 1865.

The Emancipation Proclamation is sometimes criticized as an empty gesture that did not immediately free a single slave or change the status of blacks in America. However, upon its signing, it did free tens of thousands of slaves in areas occupied by Union troops, such as the Sea Islands off South Carolina and parts of Florida. Furthermore, slaves would be freed anytime Union forces took control of rebel territory.

It also authorized the Union army to recruit black soldiers, which had previously been unofficially practiced by some commanders, but not on a large scale. Nearly 200,000 blacks would fight in the war, representing about a tenth of the overall army.

The most lasting legacy of the Emancipation Proclamation is its symbolic importance. “Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the nation, it did fundamentally transform the character of the war,” says the National Archives’ Our Documents project. “After January 1, 1863, every advance of Federal troops expanded the domain of freedom. … From the first days of the Civil War, slaves had acted to secure their own liberty. The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom. It added moral force to the Union cause and strengthened the Union both militarily and politically.”

 

[lokie]

The Last of the Witch-Trial Hangings

An illustration showing a woman executed by hanging, for the practice of witchcraft, 1692. Published in 'A Pictorial History of the United States', 1845.

Interim Archives / Getty Images
BY JENNIFER LATSON
SEPTEMBER 22, 2014
It was easy to be declared a witch in Salem in 1692: All you had to do was deny that witches existed.

After a number of the town’s teenagers began to hallucinate and convulse, bark like dogs and run around on all fours, two magistrates were tasked with rooting out the evildoers behind the bizarre afflictions. The men invented their own methods for detecting witchcraft, according to TIME’s 1949 review of the book The Devil in Massachusetts:

After due deliberation the magistrates declared that a devil’s “teat” or “devil’s mark” on the body of the accused was proof of guilt, that mischief following anger between neighbors was ground for suspicion, and, most important of all, that “the devil could not assume the shape of an innocent person.” This last meant that hallucinations would be accepted not as evidence of the wrought-up condition of the accuser but as proof of the guilt of the accused.

In practice, suspicion fell even more broadly. In the absence of a devil’s mark or neighborly mischief, anyone who stood up to authorities and publicly questioned their actions was likely to be Salem’s next top suspect. Such was the case with Martha Cory, “a hearty matron who had rashly asserted she didn’t believe in witches,” and who appeared soon afterward in a stricken girl’s vision. Since the girl was in church at the time, half the town heard her scream, “Look! There sits Goody Cory on the beam, suckling a yellow bird betwixt her fingers!”

Cory (also spelled Corey) was among the seven women and one man hanged as witches on this day, Sept. 22, in 1692. It was the last round of executions before the tide of public opinion turned and the trials began to subside. They had claimed 20 lives.

Although Cory had urged her examiners not to believe “all that these distracted children say,” according to Charles Upham’s book Salem Witchcraft, the jury was less moved by her words than by the convulsions of her accusers while she spoke. In the midst of the proceedings, one woman threw her shoe at Cory, hitting her “square on the head.”

Cory’s husband Giles, who defended his wife and was therefore labeled a “dreadful wizard,” had been executed three days earlier — pressed to death under a pile of stones. In the backwards justice of the trials, those who confessed were spared, while those who protested their innocence were often killed. Giles Cory, who refused to plead guilty or even to stand trial before a corrupt court, endured the torture of a slow death instead.

Asked for his confession whenever a new layer of stones was added to the pile, he is reported to have answered only, “More weight!”

Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was an American soldier and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission in New York City but was captured by the British and executed. Hale has long been considered an American hero and in 1985, he was officially designated the state hero of Connecticut.

 

[too larry]

The College of Rock and Roll Knowledge
4 hrs ·
When you're the Boss, and you don't like the way things are going, you make changes. Even if it means changing the name of a television show.

On Sept 22, 1992, Bruce Springsteen was at the Warner Hollywood Studios stage #4 to do a taping of MTV's "Unplugged".

Bruce started the show playing a solo acoustic version of 'Red Headed Woman'. Then, he decided that he wanted his touring band to come out and play with him. He didn't like the way the rehearsals had gone when everything was acoustic, so he decided to use the full band and play a full 'plugged in' concert.

MTV had to change the name of this episode to "Plugged".

Hey, he's the 'Boss'….. How many of you remember seeing this when it aired? And how many of you wished he would have just done an "Unplugged" show like he was suppose to or were happy with what he did? There are no wrong answers.

 

[too larry]

The College of Rock and Roll Knowledge
5 hrs ·
This is something that we are not sure if you are aware of.

On Sept. 22, 2005, The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page was made an honorary citizen of Rio de Janeiro for his work in helping its street children. In 1998, Page opened Casa Jimmy which has supported many children over the years.

The best we can tell is that he is still supporting it to this day.

Very nice Mr. Page!!! We wish more people would do things like this.

 

[too larry]

The College of Rock and Roll Knowledge
5 hrs ·
On Sept. 22, 1979, The Eagles' / The James Gang's Joe Walsh announced that he was going to run for President of the United States. His platform included changing the national anthem to "Life's Been Good" and he said "Free gas for everyone!".

It would have been an interesting campaign but Joe was too young to be elected to the office.

In later years he said he was thinking of running for Vice-President and then later he was thinking of running for Congress. He change his mind about congress because he thought Congress was "too dysfunctional".

We think he'd make a great politician. If you had the chance, would you vote for Joe Walsh?

 

[too larry]

The College of Rock and Roll Knowledge
6 hrs ·
On Sept. 22, 1969, one of the most important albums of a generation was released. THE BAND released their 2nd LP, self titled "The Band". It is also referred to as 'The Brown Album'.

The record was a definitive moment in the bands career, featuring song including "Rag Mama Rag", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", "Up On Cripple Creek" and others.

The best way to understand what this record meant is this: In 2009, the album was preserved into the National Recording Registry because the album was "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or informs or reflects life in the United States."

Remember the first time you heard this, and was it the first time you heard The Band? And for something different, how many of you never 'got' THE BAND?

Happy 50th Birthday to The Band's LP "The Band"!! What an incredible record.

Yep, we said 50 years!!!

 

[GreatwhiteNorth]

That looks to be a Gretsch he's holding.
Very fitting for a master to play such a beautifully sounding instrument.

 

[BarnBuster]

During the American Revolution, the U.S. ship Bonhomme Richard, commanded by John Paul Jones, wins a hard-fought engagement against the British ships of war Serapis and Countess of Scarborough, off the eastern coast of England.

Scottish-born John Paul Jones first sailed to America as a cabin boy and lived for a time in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where his brother had a business. He later served on slave and merchant ships and proved an able seaman. After he killed a fellow sailor while suppressing a mutiny, he returned to the American colonies to escape possible British prosecution. With the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, he traveled to Philadelphia and was commissioned a senior lieutenant in the new Continental Navy. He soon distinguished himself in actions against British ships in the Bahamas, the Atlantic Ocean and the English Channel.

In August 1779, Jones took command of the Bonhomme Richard and sailed around the British Isles. On September 23, the Bonhomme Richard engaged the Serapis and the smaller Countess of Scarborough, which were escorting the Baltic merchant fleet. After inflicting considerable damage to the Bonhomme Richard, Richard Pearson, the captain of the Serapis, asked Jones if he had struck his colors, the naval signal indicating surrender. From his disabled ship, Jones replied, “Sir, I have not yet begun to fight,” and after three more hours of furious fighting it was the Serapis and Countess of Scarborough that surrendered. After the victory, the Americans transferred to the Serapis from the Bonhomme Richard, which sank the following day.

Though Bonhomme Richard sank after the battle, the battle's outcome was one of the factors that convinced the French crown to back the colonies in their fight to become independent of British authority. Bonhomme Richard's final resting location was the subject of much speculation. A number of unsuccessful efforts had been conducted to locate the wreck. The location was presumed to be in approximately 180 feet (55 m) of water off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, a headland near where her final battle took place. The quantity of other wrecks in the area and a century of fishing trawler operations had complicated all searches. In 2018 remains, possibly those of the Bonhomme Richard, were found in shallow water very close to the coast of Filey, North Yorkshire, England, by the Land and Sea search team Merlin Burrows. However, the location of this wreck does not corroborate with multiple eyewitness accounts from observers on land, who noted that on the morning of September 25, 1779, the Bonhomme Richard disappeared out of sight over the horizon.

Jones was hailed as a great hero in France, but recognition in the United States was somewhat belated. He continued to serve the United States until 1787 and then served briefly in the Russian navy before moving to France, where he died in 1792 amidst the chaos of the French Revolution. He was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1905, his remains were located under the direction of the U.S. ambassador to France and then escorted back to the United States by U.S. warships. His body was later enshrined in a crypt at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

 

[mysunnyboy]

Bruce Springsteen was born 70 years ago.

 

[too larry]

The College of Rock and Roll Knowledge
11 hrs ·
When the Billboard Chart came out on Sept. 23, 1967, there was a new #1 song in the country. The Box Tops hit the top spot with their single "The Letter". The song knocked "Ode to Billie Joe" by Bobbie Gentry out of the spot.

"The Letter" would remain the #1 song for 4 weeks. The Box Tops lead singer was Alex Chilton. Alex was just 16 years old when he sang / recorded this.

Remember this song from 52 years ago?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIWY8UyW9bw

 

[too larry]

The College of Rock and Roll Knowledge
11 hrs ·
Are you one of the people who believe Paul McCartney actually died way back in the 60's and was replaced by "Faul"?

Here's how it started. In the Sept. 23, 1969 issue of The Northern Star newspaper, a student newspaper from Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, IL, a story ran claiming that Paul McCartney had died on November 9, 1966 in a car crash and had been replaced by a British look-alike named William Campbell.

After the story came out, a guy named "Tom" called in to Detroit Radio station WKNR-FM and spoke with the dj, Russ Gibb about the story. It took off from there (Russ Gibb was the promoter for many concerts in the Detroit area including the infamous "Grande Ballroom"). It got to the point where LIFE Magazine sent a reporter to the UK to track down Paul to see if he was still alive.

At the time, Paul was in seclusion trying to avoid the press because of The Beatles breakup.

The Life reporter tracked Paul down at his farm, but Paul, not wanting any press, attacked the reporter with a bucket of water. The reporter quickly left, and Paul realizing that he would now look like the bad guy in the breakup, chased after the reported and agreed to do some pictures and an interview. The price Paul wanted…. the film of him throwing the water. The reporter agreed and the picture below was taken and it made the cover of the magazine.

But….. was it really Paul? The rumor started 50 years ago today.

Are you one of the people who believe Paul McCartney actually died way back in the 60's and was replaced by "Faul"?

 

[too larry]

Bruce Springsteen was born 70 years ago.

The College of Rock and Roll Knowledge
12 hrs ·
Bruce Springsteen was born in the USA, 70 years ago today. (Notice how we did that..his two biggest albums both have the word "born" in them, "Born in the USA" and "Born to Run", so we… never mind)

If you could be with Bruce tonight for his birthday party and he said he would play you just one song, what song would you ask for?

Happy Birthday to The Boss!!!

For those of you with the need for more musical birthdays. . . . . .https://www.rollitup.org/t/rock-roll-birthdays.985511/page-52#post-15093602