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Aug. 15th is a hell of a day in New York Rock and Roll History!!!

At 8:15 pm, on Aug. 15, 1965, The Beatles took the stage at Shea Stadium in New York City, marking the very first time a rock band would headline a stadium concert. Tickets for the show, sold merely by word of mouth created by kids who asked the concert promoter Sid Bernstein about the next Beatles show while he strolled in Central Park. The concert sold out in just three weeks, beating the stadium's old seating record with 56,000 seats sold.

Two thousand professionals were hired for security. The concert, filmed for BBC and NBC both, also featured openers Brenda Holloway and The King Curtis Band.

The attendance record would stand until Grand Funk Railroad out did it a few years later.

On Aug. 15, 1965, New York City was the place to be for great Rock and Roll. Just 4 years later to the day, the place to be was in Upstate New York in a little place called White Lake.

How many of you were there for the first time The Beatles played Shea, 54 years ago tonight! For our younger friends, this was a really big show for the time. It was record breaking.

They really did Shake it up Baby.

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"While salmon fishing near the Klondike River in Canada’s Yukon Territory on August 16, 1896, George Carmack reportedly spots nuggets of gold in a creek bed. His lucky discovery sparks the last great gold rush in the American West.

Hoping to cash in on reported gold strikes in Alaska, Carmack had traveled there from California in 1881. After running into a dead end, he headed north into the isolated Yukon Territory, just across the Canadian border. In 1896, another prospector, Robert Henderson, told Carmack of finding gold in a tributary of the Klondike River. Carmack headed to the region with two Native American companions, known as Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie. On August 16, while camping near Rabbit Creek, Carmack reportedly spotted a nugget of gold jutting out from the creek bank. His two companions later agreed that Skookum Jim–Carmack’s brother-in-law–actually made the discovery.

Regardless of who spotted the gold first, the three men soon found that the rock near the creek bed was thick with gold deposits. They staked their claim the following day. News of the gold strike spread fast across Canada and the United States, and over the next two years, as many as 50,000 would-be miners arrived in the region. Rabbit Creek was renamed Bonanza, and even more gold was discovered in another Klondike tributary, dubbed Eldorado.

“Klondike Fever” reached its height in the United States in mid-July 1897 when two steamships arrived from the Yukon in San Francisco and Seattle, bringing a total of more than two tons of gold. Thousands of eager young men bought elaborate “Yukon outfits” (kits assembled by clever marketers containing food, clothing, tools and other necessary equipment) and set out on their way north. Few of these would find what they were looking for, as most of the land in the region had already been claimed. One of the unsuccessful gold-seekers was 21-year-old Jack London, whose short stories based on his Klondike experience became his first book, The Son of the Wolf (1900).

For his part, Carmack became rich off his discovery, leaving the Yukon with $1 million worth of gold. Many individual gold miners in the Klondike eventually sold their stakes to mining companies, who had the resources and machinery to access more gold. Large-scale gold mining in the Yukon Territory didn’t end until 1966, and by that time the region had yielded some $250 million in gold. Today, some 200 small gold mines still operate in the region."

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Thank you for this post. I haven't even gotten the entire first cup of coffee installed and I'm having to listen to Herr Doktor Trivia tell me that the Klondike Gold Rush was the richest strike and did I know...... Yup he's precisely like he is online IRL.

I'm now chugging coffee.

Give him my best.

50 years ago yesterday:

Sunday's Woodstock lineup.

• • Sunday, August 17 to Monday, August 18
  • 3.1The Grease Band
  • 3.2Joe Cocker
  • 3.3Country Joe and the Fish
  • 3.4Ten Years After
  • 3.5The Band
  • 3.6Johnny Winter
  • 3.7Blood, Sweat & Tears
  • 3.8Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
  • 3.9Paul Butterfield Blues Band
  • 3.10Sha Na Na
  • 3.11Jimi Hendrix

too larry said:

Sunday's Woodstock lineup.

• • Sunday, August 17 to Monday, August 18
  • 3.1The Grease Band
  • 3.2Joe Cocker
  • 3.3Country Joe and the Fish
  • 3.4Ten Years After
  • 3.5The Band
  • 3.6Johnny Winter
  • 3.7Blood, Sweat & Tears
  • 3.8Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
  • 3.9Paul Butterfield Blues Band
  • 3.10Sha Na Na
  • 3.11Jimi Hendrix

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Best impersonation ever!

GreatwhiteNorth said:

Wait!, so those Elephants, Rhino's & gigantic mosquitoes were real?

~Hides head under the covers~

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Elephants and rhinos are fake. But the giant mosquitoes are real. The ones in Minnesota are now required to carry N-numbers and Mode S transponders.

cannabineer said:

Elephants and rhinos are fake. But the giant mosquitoes are real. The ones in Minnesota are now required to carry N-numbers and Mode S transponders.

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I've bumped into a few here (or perhaps it was the other way around) that were certified VFR only due to size/instrumentation restrictions.

GreatwhiteNorth said:

I've bumped into a few here (or perhaps it was the other way around) that were certified VFR only due to size/instrumentation restrictions.

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The ones at the camp last night were small. But there were a lot of them. Most of the time a sheet with a small amount of deet will do the trick. Not last night. I had a hell of a night just from bites. Not going to talk about the sweat holding capacity of my inflatable pillow.

too larry said:

The ones at the camp last night were small. But there were a lot of them. Most of the time a sheet with a small amount of deet will do the trick. Not last night. I had a hell of a night just from bites. Not going to talk about the sweat holding capacity of my inflatable pillow.

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I'm headed up above treeline in the Alaska Range in about 3 weeks for Moose - the skeeters are usually not a problem but the White socks gnats pack one hell of a punch in the middle of the day when it's warm.
With any luck we'll get a frost or even some snow by then to knock them down & get the swamp donkeys talking & feeling frisky.

GreatwhiteNorth said:

I'm headed up above treeline in the Alaska Range in about 3 weeks for Moose - the skeeters are usually not a problem but the White socks gnats pack one hell of a punch in the middle of the day when it's warm.
With any luck we'll get a frost or even some snow by then to knock them down & get the swamp donkeys talking.

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Good luck. Sounds like a fun trip.

It's been a crazy snow year out west. The CDT and PCT both have folks flipping to get away from the snow. But I hear parts of Alaska has had a warm summer.

too larry said:

Good luck. Sounds like a fun trip.

It's been a crazy snow year out west. The CDT and PCT both have folks flipping to get away from the snow. But I hear parts of Alaska has had a warm summer.

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Our summer has been beautiful - very warm weather & little rain (I'm coastal & it usually rains at least one or two days a week).
Unfortunately for the salmon that is bad as the rivers are so low and warm it will make it really rough for them to spawn.

GreatwhiteNorth said:

... swamp donkeys talking & feeling frisky.

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lol, https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Swamp Donkey

BarnBuster said:

lol, https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Swamp Donkey

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Wow, didn't know that one, but I did shoot a bull hanging with a couple of cows a few years back & the girls just stood there so when I got up on the bull on a lark I gave a few grunts to see what happened.
One of them chased me around my 4 wheeler like 3 times very confused. Scared the shit outta me as those hoofs are lethal.

"Today in History, 1920 – The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, is ratified by Tennessee, giving it the two-thirds majority of state ratification necessary to make it the law of the land.

The amendment was the culmination of more than 70 years of struggle by woman suffragists. Its two sections read simply: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex” and “Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” America’s woman suffrage movement was founded in the mid 19th century by women who had become politically active through their work in the abolitionist and temperance movements. In July 1848, 200 woman suffragists, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, met in Seneca Falls, New York, to discuss women’s rights. After approving measures asserting the right of women to educational and employment opportunities, they passed a resolution that declared “it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.” For proclaiming a woman’s right to vote, the Seneca Falls Convention was subjected to public ridicule, and some backers of women’s rights withdrew their support. However, the resolution marked the beginning of the woman suffrage movement in America. The first national women’s rights convention was held in 1850 and then repeated annually, providing an important focus for the growing woman suffrage movement. In the Reconstruction era, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was adopted, granting African American men the right to vote, but Congress declined to expand enfranchisement into the sphere of gender. In 1869, the National Woman Suffrage Association was founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to push for a woman suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Another organization, the American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Lucy Stone, was formed in the same year to work through the state legislatures. In 1890, these two groups were united as the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

That year, Wyoming became the first state to grant women the right to vote. By the beginning of the 20th century, the role of women in American society was changing drastically: Women were working more, receiving a better education, bearing fewer children, and three more states (Colorado, Utah, and Idaho) had yielded to the demand for female enfranchisement. In 1916, the National Woman’s Party (formed in 1913 at the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage) decided to adopt a more radical approach to woman suffrage. Instead of questionnaires and lobbying, its members picketed the White House, marched, and staged acts of civil disobedience.

In 1917, America entered World War I, and women aided the war effort in various capacities, which helped to break down most of the remaining opposition to woman suffrage. By 1918, women had acquired equal suffrage with men in 15 states, and both the Democratic and Republican parties openly endorsed female enfranchisement. In January 1918, the woman suffrage amendment passed the House of Representatives with the necessary two-thirds majority vote. In June 1919, it was approved by the Senate sent to the states for ratification. Campaigns were waged by suffragists around the country to secure ratification, and on August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment. On August 26, it was formally adopted into the Constitution by proclamation of Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby."

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex” and “Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”


Where is Thomas Jefferson when you need him? He could have got a couple of pages out of that.

I hope this is my last Woodstock post. But no promises . . . . . . .

The College of Rock and Roll Knowledge

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At 11:10 am on Aug. 18, 1969, the Woodstock festival was over. It went down in history as one of the greatest events ever in Rock and Roll. If all of the acts that were scheduled and or invited to perform there would have, it probably would have taken a couple more days. Here is a list of 'the others', the ones that didn't make it or decided not to do the festival; (We took this from wikipedia, it is well put together)

Declined invitations and missed connections:

Bob Dylan, in whose "backyard" the festival was held, was never in serious negotiation. Instead, Dylan signed in mid-July to play the Isle of Wight Festival of Music, on August 31. Dylan set sail for England on Queen Elizabeth 2 on August 15, the day the Woodstock Festival started. His son was injured by a cabin door and the family disembarked. Dylan, with his wife Sara, flew to England the following week. Dylan had been unhappy about the number of hippies piling up outside his house in the nearby town of Woodstock.

The Jeff Beck Group: Jeff Beck disbanded the group prior to Woodstock. "I deliberately broke the group up before Woodstock", Beck said. "I didn't want it to be preserved." Interestingly, it was to have been the first time that Beck would perform with Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice. Also, Beck's piano player Nicky Hopkins performed with Jefferson Airplane.

The Doors were considered as a potential performing band but canceled at the last moment. According to guitarist Robby Krieger, they turned it down because they thought it would be a "second class repeat of Monterey Pop Festival" and later regretted that decision.

Led Zeppelin was asked to perform, their manager Peter Grant stated: "We were asked to do Woodstock and Atlantic were very keen, and so was our U.S. promoter, Frank Barsalona. I said no because at Woodstock we'd have just been another band on the bill." However, the group did play the first Atlanta International Pop Festival on July 5, as one of 22 bands at the two-day event. Woodstock weekend, Zeppelin performed south of the festival at the Asbury Park Convention Hall in New Jersey. Their only time out taken was to attend Elvis Presley's show at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, on August 12. . . . .

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The Byrds were invited, but chose not to participate, figuring Woodstock to be no different from any of the other music festivals that summer. There were also concerns about money. As bassist John York remembers: "We were flying to a gig and Roger [McGuinn] came up to us and said that a guy was putting on a festival in upstate New York. But at that point they weren't paying all of the bands. He asked us if we wanted to do it and we said, 'No'. We had no idea what it was going to be. We were burned out and tired of the festival scene. [...] So all of us said, 'No, we want a rest' and missed the best festival of all."

Chicago, at the time still known as the Chicago Transit Authority, had initially been signed on to play at Woodstock. However, they had a contract with concert promoter Bill Graham, which allowed him to move Chicago's concerts at the Fillmore West. He rescheduled some of their dates to August 17, thus forcing the band to back out of the concert. Graham did so to ensure that Santana, which he managed at the time, would take their slot at the festival. According to singer and bassist Peter Cetera, "We were sort of peeved at him for pulling that one."

Tommy James and the Shondells and the Shondells declined an invitation. Lead singer Tommy James stated later: "We could have just kicked ourselves. We were in Hawaii, and my secretary called and said, 'Yeah, listen, there's this pig farmer in upstate New York that wants you to play in his field.' That's how it was put to me. So we passed, and we realized what we'd missed a couple of days later."