Brad's Worlds

Thursday, February 17, 2005

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Why women have two hands. (thanks Mitsy)

Why men have two hands.


Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb (wedding march)



If I get married again.....


"I swear it was Hamburglar"







(thanks Penny)

This week in music history:

1893, Andres Segovia, the man who put modern classical guitar on the map, is born in Linares, Spain...

1904, Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly opens in Milan...

1958, the first Flying V is shipped from Gibson's factory in Kalamazoo...

1963, The Beatles form Northern Music Publishing which eventually will fall into the hands of Michael Jackson...

1968, Detroit, Michigan, observes Aretha Franklin Day...

1968, Pink Floyd cofounder Syd Barrett succumbs to mental illness and is replaced on guitar by the estimable David Gilmour...

1969, Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash hit the studio together in Nashville to record "Girl from the North Country"...

1969, the film version of Terry Southern's sex-comedy novel Candy with Ringo Starr in a prominent role premieres ... it marks Ringo's debut in a non-musical film...

1972, Pink Floyd premieres the Dark Side of the Moon live in London during a four-day gig a full year prior to the album's release...

1974, after 10 years of matrimonial bondage, Cher officially separates from Sonny...

1976, Rich Stevens, former lead singer for Tower of Power, is arrested for murder in a triple-slaying the police believe to be related to a drug deal ... he and an accomplice will eventually be convicted of murder and manslaughter...

1976, upon being given a "Woman of the Year" award by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding theatrical society, Bette Midler quips, "This award characterizes what the American male wants in a woman: brains, talent, and gorgeous t*ts"...

1978, Sex Pistol bassist Sid Vicious and girlfriend Nancy Spungen are arrested at the Chelsea Hotel for drug possession ... it is a prelude to murder and death by overdose...

1980, soon after reaching stardom, Bon Scott of AC/DC bites it in the back of a friend's car after a long night of very heavy drinking ... in a classic rock 'n' roll spin-crash-and-burn, the 33-year-old singer passes out and dies by choking on his own vomit...

1981, in one of the most absurd events in the history of music, George Harrison is ruled to be liable for "subconscious plagiarism" in a civil case regarding his song "My Sweet Lord" and the Chiffons' "He's So Fine" ... the judge orders that $587,000 be paid to ABKCO Music...

1984, federal authorities take Jerry Lee Lewis into custody when he surrenders himself to answer charges of tax evasion ... Lewis will later be acquitted of the charges...

1987, Sly Stone goes down for letting illicit substances take him higher ... two outstanding warrants on drug charges land him in the pokey in LA ... by the end of the year he'll be doing hard time on cocaine charges...

1988, a 12-year-old Motley Crue fan in Florida sets his legs on fire while emulating a stunt seen in the group's "Live Wire" video ... Motley Crue issues a statement saying the stunt should not be tried at home...

1990, Ike Turner is given a four-year prison sentence for commerce in cocaine...

1990, Aerosmith appear as themselves on SNL's "Wayne's World" ... they play the "Wayne's World" theme...

1995, Motley Crue's Tommy Lee, who married Heather Locklear in 1986, gets way luckier than any man should and marries bikini-clad Pamela Anderson on a beach in Cancun...

1996, Snoop Dogg and a bodyguard are acquitted of first-degree murder in the death of Phillip Woldermarian, who was shot by Dogg's bodyguard ... Dogg claimed Woldermarian was a stalker and the shooting was in self defense ... the jury deadlocks on voluntary manslaughter, a mistrial is declared, and The Dogg goes free...

1997, a judge in New York throws out a lawsuit blaming Motley Crue for a fan's hearing loss ... the judge points out that the fan knew it was going to be loud before he went to the concert...

1997, to maintain their market share among the unbathed crowd, Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream follows up their Cherry Garcia with a new flavor--Phish Food...

1998, Danber Nobacon of Chumbawamba leaps onto the table of Deputy Prime Minister of the U.K. John Prescott at the Brit Awards in London ... Nobacon is holding a bucket of water ... in an effort to defend the honor of his wife and others at the table, Prescott shoves Nobacon to the ground, getting himself drenched in the process ... Nobacon later claims he was making a political statement, but nobody is quite able to decipher what the statement was...

2003, a crowded nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island, at which Great White is performing, goes up in flames, ignited by onstage pyrotechnics ... 100 are killed and many more injured ... it is the deadliest rock-concert tragedy ever...

BIRTHDAYS:

February 16th: Bill Doggett (1916), Sonny Bono (1935), James Ingram (1956), Andy Taylor of Duran Duran (1961)

February 17th: Bobby "Tossin' and Turning" Lewis (1933), Gene Pitney (1941), Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day (1972)

February 18th: Yoko Ono (1933), Herman Santiago of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers (1941), Dennis DeYoung of Styx (1947), Mark Andes of Spirit (1948), Juice Newton (1952), Robbie Bachman of BTO (1953), Dr. Dre (1965)

February 19: Smokey Robinson and Bobby Rogers, both of the Miracles (1940), Tony Iommi (1948), Francis Buckholz of the Scorpions (1950), Seal aka Sealhenry Samuel (1963), Phish drummer John "Fish" Fishman (1965)

February 20: pianist Jimmy Yancey (1898), Nancy Wilson (1937), Barbara Ellis of The Fleetwoods (1939), Buffy Sainte-Marie (1941), Lew Soloff of Blood, Sweat & Tears (1944), Alan Hull of Lindisfarne (1945), Jerome (J.) Geils (1946), Walter Becker of Steely Dan (1950), Spirit's Randy California aka Randolph Wolfe (1951), Jon Brant of Cheap Trick (1954), Ian Brown of The Stone Roses (1963), Kurt Cobain (1967), Brian Littrell of Backstreet Boys (1975)

February 21: Andres Segovia (1893), Guy Mitchell aka Al Cernik (1927), Nina Simone (1933), Bobby Charles (1938), David Geffen (1943), Talking Head Jerry Harrison (1949), Mary Chapin Carpenter (1958), Ranking Roger aka Roger Charlery of The English Beat (1961), Sublime's Eric Wilson (1970), Charlotte Church (1986)

February 22: Frederic-Francois Chopin (1810), Spade Cooley (1910), Ernie K-Doe aka Ernest Kador Jr. (1936), Bobby Hendricks of The Drifters (1937)

DEATHS:

February 16th: Walter "Brownie" McGhee (1996)

February 17th: Thelonious Monk (1982)

February 18th: Bob Stinson of The Replacements (1995)

February 19: guitarist Ty Longley of Great White (2003), banjo picker/comedian Grandpa Jones (1998), Bon Scott of AC/DC (1980)

February 20: composer Toru Takemitsu (1996)

February 21: rockabilly singer Malcolm Yelvington (2001), English vocalist Ronnie Hilton (2001), DJ Murray "The K" Kaufman (1982), reggae singer Jacob Miller (1980)

February 22: guitarist John Fahey (2001), Florence Ballard of The Supremes (1976)



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