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This is the week that was in matters musical...

1757, playing clavier for an awestruck Salzburg salon, 11-month old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart stuns listeners with his flawless virtuosity ... the performance is interrupted in the final movement by Wolfgang's own little movement...

1946, up-and-coming semi-pro bowler Robert Moog's life is forever changed when he breaks a wrist and four bones in his right hand in a horrific Scrabble tournament incident ... he is attacked by his opponent after scoring a devastating 45 points on the word "oscillator" and is forced to physically defend himself, resulting in the injuries ... in an effort to alleviate Moog's depression over his inability to grip a bowling ball, his father purchases a Heathkit Electronics Learning Lab...

1959, Jerry Lee Lewis celebrates a week of complete sobriety, free of child-bride marriages and charges of disturbing the peace...

1966, Dunhill Records cancels its "Win a Date With Mama Cass" promotion when no entries are received...

1967, Elvis frees the slaves of Graceland...

1968, more than 200 attending a Jefferson Airplane concert at the Fillmore West in San Francisco are overcome by patchouli fumes...

1969, attending a Grateful Dead show in Binghamton, New York, Deadhead Rollie Schwartz is unable to score acid and is forced to watch the concert straight ... asked for his reaction to the show, Schwartz responds, "What a lame-ass band!"...

1973, following a Las Vegas performance at the Sands, paramedics extricate a sweat-drenched Elvis from his jumpsuit with the Jaws of Life...

1978, the surviving members of Lynyrd Skynyrd issue a limited-edition commemorative wallet-on-a-chain in tribute to their fallen bandmates who died in a tragic plane crash the previous year...

1979, The Economist reports that the cost of funkmeister Rick James' cocaine intake for 1978 exceeds the GNP of Zimbabwe by a ratio of 5 to 4...

1984, William Shatner releases an album of all-original songs inspired by his experiences playing a police officer on the popular TV program T.J. Hooker ... song titles include "Book 'Em Hooker," "The Sergeant and the Lady," "Flashing Lights," and "Hot Pursuit"...

1988, Aerosmith records "Dude Looks Like a Lady" as a tribute to Kenny G...

1989, a 747 jet chartered by the Soul Revue Tour is unable to take off because of excess weight ... those aboard the plane include Aretha Franklin, Solomon Burke, Chaka Kahn, Etta James, and Barry White...

1990, Keith Richards checks into Geneva's Gesundheit Hospital for his semiannual blood exchange and decides to splurge on a glistening liver freshly dug out of a young, teetotaling highway accident victim ... this same week in what would prove to be his last interview with Rolling Stone, Stevie Ray Vaughan credits his musical talent to good genes received from his mother, jazz great Sarah Vaughan...

1991, Madonna announces that although she is only "like" a virgin, she has immaculately conceived Rosie O'Donnell's baby ... the child is mysteriously lost before Rosie denies everything...

1993, the Orlando Sentinel reports that a local Elvis impersonator has signed a management contract with a Colonel Tom Parker impersonator...

1995, Donny Osmond and Ozzy Osbourne host an all-day concert in Las Vegas dubbed Osz Fest ... the pair's vocal duet "Close My Mind Forever" will make it to number 3 on the pop charts ... Marilyn Manson is booked for assault after punching a 10-year-old boy at a Star Trek convention ... Manson, who was dressed as a Vulcan, claims the boy had insulted him in Klingon ... he is released on one million dollars bail and proceeds to trash his hotel room...

1997, plans for a free Rolling Stones concert in San Francisco dubbed Altamont II are scratched when the Hell's Angels decline an offer to handle security ... they have a previous commitment to supply security for The Vibe Awards...

1998, Steve Vai scores big at Paris Fashion Week with his new "'70s Pimp Drag" collection of men's apparel...

1999, in an amazing display of gentle charisma and audience connection, Tiny Tim goes onstage to calm the crowd during a drug and alcohol-fueled riot at Woodstock III...

2000, plans for an episode of VH1's Behind the Music on pop star Britney Spears are scrapped when producers realize there really isn't any music to go behind...

2001, Mariah Carey in her newly released autobiography, Glitter: Not Such a Good Idea, reveals her conviction that in a former life she was Marie Curie ... Creed frontman Scott Stapp is arrested on theft charges in Florida for stealing Eddie Vedder's voice...

2002, velvet-throated crooner Tony Bennett collaborates on a duets album with shock-rocker Marilyn Manson ... the release is titled I Left My Heart in a Seething Pus-Filled Pit ... Kurt Cobain rolls over in his grave as Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst shows off a tattoo of the Nirvana legend on Total Request Live...

2003, proving that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, Melissa Etheridge's two children from sperm donor David Crosby are arrested on weapons and drug charges after a high-speed chase through downtown LA ... the kids are four and two...

2004, Ex-Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighter Dave Grohl sets a new record by playing on every single album released in the past year...

2005, Robert Venable, an avowed Dave Matthews Band fan files suit against band ... the Quincy, Illinois resident was among dozens of sightseers aboard a tour boat passing beneath Chicago's Kinzie Street Bridge that were hit by 800 pounds of human waste illegally dumped from a DMB tour bus ... the August 2004 incident triggers considerable embarrassment for the band prompting the DMB to make large donations to environmental groups ... commenting on this most recent development, a band spokesperson says, "We truly regret the incident, especially knowing that the waste hit a fan" ... this same week the Federal Communications Commission decides to take no action on an incident that occurred during Superbowl halftime activities in which Paul McCartney's left breast was briefly visible ... the FCC concludes that the event went unnoticed by millions of viewers...

2006, in a surprise decision, a Los Angles jury acquits record producer Phil Spector in the shooting death of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson ... following the acquittal Spector announces he is planning a bachelor getaway to Tahiti with actor Robert Blake...

2007, pop music sustains a stunning setback when Antares, maker of the pitch-correcting wunderware AutoTune, announces they are closing their doors ... panicking pop performers flood therapists' offices suffering from what is coined "Milli Vanilli Syndrome" ... also this week, a mint-condition copy of Dark Side of the Moon fails to fetch its 25-cent asking price at a Columbus, Ohio yard sale and is placed in the trash...

And that was the April Fool's week that was.

Births:

March 30: John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson (1914), Willie Nelson (1933), Graeme Edge of the Moody Blues (1942), Eric Clapton (1945), Jim Dandy Mangrum of Black Oak Arkansas (1948), Procol Harum's Dave Ball (1950), rapper Stanley "M.C. Hammer" Burell (1963), Tracy Chapman (1964), Celine Dion (1968), Norah Jones (1979)

March 31: blues pianist "Big Maceo" Merriweather (1905), Lightning Hopkins (1912), Herb Alpert (1937), R&B performer and songwriter Chuck Willis (1928), Al Nichol of The Turtles (1946), Jon-Jon Poulos of The Buckinghams (1948), Angus Young (1959)

April 1: jazz-blues singer Alberta Hunter (1895), Willie Dixon (1915), bluesman Amos Milburn (1927), singer-actress Debbie Reynolds (1932), Rudolph Isley (1939), Alan Blakely of The Tremeloes (1942), John Barbata of Jefferson Starship (1945), soul man Arthur Conley (1946), Jimmy Cliff (1948), Jeff Porcaro of Toto (1954), Stan Ridgeway of Wall of Voodoo (1955)

April 2: blues sax man J.T. Brown (1910), French pop star Serge Gainsbourg (1928), Marvin Gaye (1939), Leon Russell (1941), Kurt Winter of The Guess Who? (1946), Emmylou Harris (1947)

April 3: Don Gibson (1928), Johnny Horton (1929), R&B/funk guitarist Jimmy Nolen (1934), jazz organist Jimmy McGriff (1936), songwriter Jeff Barry (1939), Jan Berry of Jan & Dean (1941), Joey Vann of The Duprees (1943), Tony Orlando (1944), The Band's Richard Manuel (1945), Elton John bassist Dee Murray (1946), Grand Funk's Mel Schacher (1951), Mike Ness of Social Distortion (1962), Criss Oliva of Savatage (1963)

April 4: Cecil Gant (1913), Muddy Waters aka McKinley Morganfield (1915), writer/actor/dancer/singer/poet laureate Maya Angelou (1928), Tiny Tim (1930), Margo Sylvia of The Tune Weavers (1936), trumpeter Hugh Masekela (1939), soulman Major Lance (1941), Tangerine Dream's Christophe Franke (1942), Allman Brothers' Berry Oakley (1948), Dire Straits' Pick Withers (1948), The Faces' Ronnie Lane (1948), Peter Haycock of Climax Blues Band (1952), Humble Pie's Jerry Shirley (1952)

April 5: The Platters' Tony Williams (1928), Leroy Griffin of The Nutmegs (1934), Fairport Convention's Dave Swarbrick (1941), David LaFlamme of It's a Beautiful Day (1941), Eric Burdon (1941), Allan Clarke of the Hollies (1942), Crispin St. Peters (1944), Agnetha Faltskog of ABBA (1948), Everett Morton of The English Beat (1951), Dream Theater's James LaBrie (1963), Michael McCready of Pearl Jam (1964)

Deaths:

March 30: Doors producer Paul Rothschild (1995)

March 31: Jeffrey Lee Pierce of The Gun Club (1996), Tejano singing star Selena (1995), O'Kelly Isley of the Isley Brothers (1986), Big Dee Irwin of The Pastels (1986)

April 1: Zombies guitarist Paul Atkinson (2004), rock 'n' roll pioneer Jesse Stone (1999), Rozz Williams of goth band Christian Death (1998), soul singer Jimmy Hughes (1997), Sister Luc-Gabrielle AKA The Singing Nun (1985), Marvin Gaye (1984), Scott Joplin ( 1917)

April 2: Rob Pilatus of the disgraced Milli Vanilli (1998), session guitarist Cliff White (1998), organist Joe Madison (1995), Buddy Rich (1987)

April 3: session sax man Alvin "Red" Tyler (1998), Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes (1996), Sarah Vaughan (1990)

April 4: songwriter Kurt Weill (1950)

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So what's the key to saving money? Patience and determination. Let me tell you why I'm on this topic. I was checking prices on a new Gallien Krueger 410BLX Bass Speaker Cabinet from several different locations. I got prices from $299 to $399 on the cabinet but then had to worry about shipping. This cabinet weighs 93 lbs. Whew. Good thing it has wheels. So I check my trusted online music stores:

Musicians Friend $299 plus $85 shipping
Sam Ash $399 (too afraid to ask shipping price)
AMS Doesn't sell Gallien Krueger??????
ZZ Sounds Doesn't sell Gallien Krueger??????
Manny's Music Unavailable on website. Didn't call.

I had my order in with Musicians Friend and just had to press the submit order button and then I came across Matt at Music123, Cabinet $299 with FREE SHIPPING!!!!!
Of course, I ordered it immediately. I've always been satisfied with Music123. I've spent many a dollar with them and they've always helped me out.

Some things, you just can't save money on no matter what you do....

Uh huh.

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Guitarist Rod Price of Foghat Dies at 57

1721, the six Brandenburg Concertos are published in Germany by Johann Sebastian Bach...

1827, Ludwig van Beethoven enters the grave in which he will later do so much rolling over...

1964, John Lennon receives Foyle's literary prize for his first book, In His Own Write, published the same day ... his acceptance speech is, "Thank you very much, you've got a lucky face."...

1965, the infamous blue flame strikes again, knocking Bill Wyman unconscious when he touches a mic stand on the first date of the Rolling Stones' anniversary tour...

1968, "The Dock of the Bay" hits the top of the charts ... alas, Otis Redding is not around to enjoy the success, having been killed in a plane crash three months earlier...

1970, Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, and Mary admits to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14-year-old girl...

1973, Roberta Flack mesmerizes fans with her number-one hit "Killing me Softly with His Song" ... the song will win Grammys for Best Female Pop Vocal and Record of the Year ... it earns writers Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox an award for Song of the Year ... the Fugees will score a top-ten hit with the tune in 1996...

1973, Rolling Stone reports that Carlos Santana has a new handle ... the guitar god has changed his name to Devadip, as bestowed by his guru Sri Chinmoy ... Chinmoy counts among his disciples fusion greats Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, Narada Michael Walden, and Turiya Alice Coltrane...

1973, Rolling Stone runs a picture of Dr. Hook on the cover after being pressured into it by the band's hit "Cover of The Rolling Stone" ... this tongue-in-cheek lament is penned by poet-humorist Shel Silverstein, who wrote several Dr. Hook hits and Johnny Cash's big hit, "A Boy Named Sue"...

1973, a butt-muncher at a concert in Buffalo blasts past the stage guards and screams "LEATHER!" before champing on Lou Reed's derriere, causing genuine pain and getting himself tossed from the show...

1979, as the scourge of disco maintains its grip on the pop psyche, the Bee Gees continue to rule the airwaves with "Tragedy," their fifth number one single in a row...

1980, a man holds up the New York offices of Elektra/Asylum Records with a gun, demanding to see Jackson Browne and the Eagles ... he surrenders after it is explained to him that both acts live in California...

1981, Blondie's "Rapture" tops the charts ... it is the first rap song to do so...

1982, David Crosby is cruising around L.A. pumped up on cocaine with a pocket full of Quaaludes, a bunch of drug paraphernalia, and a concealed .45 automatic when he sees those flashing red lights in his rear view ... the man takes Crosby to the can...

1985, an Oscar for Best Original Score goes to Prince for his work in Purple Rain...

1988, Mick Jagger does the first gig of his first solo tour in Japan ... in previous years, the Stones had been banned from playing there due to their too-public involvement with illegal substances...

1990, Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee (long known for judicious behavior) is busted for mooning the crowd at a concert in Augusta, Georgia...

1991, The Black Crowes lose a tour gig opening for ZZ Top after repeatedly dissing Miller Beer in public ... Miller is a sponsor of the tour...

1991 one of the New Kids on the Block, Donnie Wahlberg, is charged with first-degree arson relating to a fire at the historic Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, KY ... allegedly, Wahlberg poured vodka on the carpet and torched it ... he sings onstage later the same night after posting five grand in bail money...

1992, making absurd theater of the American court system, a Chicago judge awards $3 per plaintiff in a class action suit against Milli Vanilli, who didn't sing on their own album ... nobody explains why they would rather have had an album with bad singers on it...

1995, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder is enjoying the waves in New Zealand when a rip tide sweeps him offshore, necessitating an embarrassing rescue...

1995, Tupac Shakur becomes the first rap artist to debut at #1 on the charts with "Me Against the World" ... unfortunately, the world is winning at the time of the debut ... Shakur is in the slam on sexual assault charges...

1998, after being sued for using unlicensed pop hits in its video-taped sales pitches, Amway Corp. announces that it has agreed to fork over nine million bucks to settle...

1999, Pope John Paul II hits pop stardom with 50,000 sales the first DAY his Abba Pater CD is released ... it features 11 tracks in which the pontiff chants and prays in Latin with a heavenly musical accompaniment...

1999, 27-year-old Lost Boyz rapper Freaky Tah (AKA Raymond Rogers) takes a cap to the head when a gunman attacks him as he leaves the Four Points Sheraton Hotel at 4:00 a.m .... Tah breathes his last...

1999, it becomes known that rapper Master P has recently donated half a million dollars to keep his old grammar school, St. Monica Elementary, from closing...

2002, Lyle Lovett is trying to help his uncle, who's just been tossed off the back of an angry bull when the Brobdingnagian bovine stomps Lovett's leg, busting it up good...

Birthdays:

March 23: Ric Ocasek of The Cars (1949), Chaka Khan born Yvette Marie Stevens (1953), Marti Pellow of Wet Wet Wet (1966), Clarence Collins of Little Anthony & the Imperials (1939), Damon Albarn of Blur (1968)

March 24: "Fat Boy" Billy Stewart (1937), Mike Kellie of Spooky Tooth (1947), Lee Oskar of War (1948), Dougie Thompson of Supertramp (1951)

March 25: Hoyt Axton (1932), Aretha Franklin (1942), Elton Hercules John born Reginald Kenneth Dwight (1947), Nick Lowe (1949), Steve Norman of Spandau Ballet (1960)

March 26: Ludwig van Beethoven (1827), Al Jolson born Asa Yoelson (1886), R&B legend Rufus Thomas (1917), Diana Ross (1944), Steven Tyler of Aerosmith (1948), Richard Tandy of ELO (1948), Fran Sheehan of Boston (1949), Teddy Pendergrass (1950), James Iha of Smashing Pumpkins (1968), Kenny Chesney (1968)

March 27: Sarah Vaughan (1924), Tony Banks of Genesis (1950), Andrew Farris of INXS (1959), Derrick McKenzie of Jamiroquai (1964), Mariah Carey (1970), Brendan Hill of Blues Traveler (1970)

March 28: rockabilly Johnny Burnette (1934), John Evan of Jethro Tull (1948), Milian Williams of The Commodores (1948), Reba McEntire (1954), Salt of Salt-N-Pepa (1969)

March 29: Vangelis (1943), Chad Allan of Guess Who? (1943), Toto's Bobby Kimball (1947), Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction (1959), John Popper of Blues Traveler (1967)

Deaths:

March 23: swamp blues songwriter-producer J. D. Miller (1996), Turtles drummer Don Murray (1996), guitarist of Flash Cadillac Lynn V. Phillips (1993), "Big Al" Sears (1990), Bo Diddley's drummer Frank Kirkland (1973)

March 24: Harold Melvin (1997), pianist Kenny Moore (1997), Elmore James (1963)

March 25: Kenny Moore (1997), folkie Tom Jans (1984), Duster Bennett (1976)

March 26: Ozzy Osbourne's drummer Randy Castillo (2002), Ananda Shankar (1999), rapper Eric Wright a.k.a. Eazy-E (1995), The Buckinghams' John Paulus (1980), Noel Coward (1973), Little Willie John (1968)

March 27: Ian Dury (2000), Clifford Jordan (1993)

March 28: Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff (1943), rapper Raymond Rogers "Freaky Tah" (1999), Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (1974)

March 29: jazz pianist John Lewis (2001), Joe Williams (1999), schlockmeister Mantovani (1980)

Humming a tune.

Ugg Boot

Well here I sit high,
gettin' Ideas,
ain't nothing but a fool
could live like this,
out all night running wild
my woman sittin' home with a month old child

dang me dang me
they oughtta take a rope and hang me
high from the highest tree
woman would you weep for me

do do do do do do do do do do

Here comes peter cottontail.

Ugg Boot


Happy Easter!!!!!!!!
Don't you just love Easter? Hunting eggs is fun.

Did you see Guitar Worlds list of 100 greatest metal guitarists? Here is the list. Click on the link for more info.

01. Tony Iommi (BLACK SABBATH)
02. Kirk Hammett & James Hetfield (METALLICA)
03. Angus & Malcolm Young (AC/DC)
04. Randy Rhoads (OZZY OSBOURNE)
05. Eddie Van Halen (VAN HALEN)
06. Jimmy Page (LED ZEPPELIN)
07. Dimebag Darrell (PANTERA, DAMAGEPLAN)
08. Zakk Wylde (OZZY OSBOURNE, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY)
09. Adam Jones (TOOL)
10. Kerry King & Jeff Hanneman (SLAYER)
11. Dave Murray & Adrian Smith (IRON MAIDEN)
12. Jimi Hendrix
13. Glen Tipton & K.K. Downing (JUDAS PRIEST)
14. Ace Frehley & Paul Stanley (KISS)
15. Slash (GUNS N' ROSES)
16. Ritchie Blackmore (DEEP PURPLE, RAINBOW)
17. Yngwie Malmsteen
18. Joe Perry & Brad Whitford (AEROSMITH)
19. Dave Mustaine & Marty Friedman (MEGADETH)
20. Chuck Schuldiner (DEATH)
21. Brian May (QUEEN)
22. Michael Schenker (MSG, UFO)
23. Nigel Tufnel (SPINAL TAP)
24. Jeff Beck
25. Tom Morello (RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE)
26. Head & Munky (KORN)
27. John Petrucci (DREAM THEATER)
28. Kim Thayil (SOUNDGARDEN)
29. Vivian Campbell (DEF LEPPARD)
30. Daron Malakian (SYSTEM OF A DOWN)
31. Scott Ian (ANTHRAX)
32. Tom G. Warrior (CELTIC FROST)
33. Chris Degarmo & Michael Wilton (QUEENSRYCHE)
34. C.C. Deville
35. Marten Hagstrom & Fredrik Thorndendal (MESHUGGAH)
36. Alex Lifeson (RUSH)
37. Paul Gilbert (MR. BIG, RACER X)
38. Jerry Cantrell (ALICE IN CHAINS)
39. Mantas (VENOM)
40. Jason Becker (DAVE LEE ROTH)
41. Phil Collen & Steve Clarke (DEF LEPPARD)
42. Mikael Akerfeldt & Peter Lindgren (OPETH)
43. Fast Eddie Clarke (MOTORHEAD)
44. Nuno Bettencourt (EXTREME)
45. Warren DeMartini (RATT)
46. Mick Mars (MOTLEY CRUE)
47. George Lynch (DOKKEN)
48. Ted Nugent
49. Jake E. Lee (OZZY OSBOURNE, BADLANDS)
50. Rudolf Schenker & Uli John Roth (SCORPIONS)
51. Oystein "Euronymous" Aarseth (MAYHEM)
52. Scott Gorham & Brian Robertson (THIN LIZZY)
53. Steve Vai (DAVE LEE ROTH)
54. Reb Beach (WINGER, DOKKEN)
55. Trey Azagthoth (MORBID ANGEL)
56. John Sykes (THIN LIZZY, BLUE MURDER)
57. Hank Shermann & Michael Denner (MERCYFUL FATE)
58. Richie Sambora (BON JOVI)
59. Jon Donais & Matt Backhand (SHADOWS FALL)
60. Stephen Carpenter (DEFTONES)
61. Alex Skolnick & Eric Peterson (TESTAMENT)
62. Brian Tatler (DIAMOND HEAD)
63. John Christ (DANZIG)
64. Scott "Wino" Weinrich (THE OBSESSED)
65. Pepper Keenan & Woody Weatherman (C.O.C.)
66. Tommy Victor (PRONG)
67. Leslie West (MOUNTAIN)
68. Vernon Reid (LIVING COLOUR)
69. Glen Buxton & Michael Bruce (ALICE COOPER)
70. Bjorn Gelotte & Jesper Stromblad (IN FLAMES)
71. Jim Matheos (FATES WARNING)
72. Gary Holt & Rick Hunolt (EXODUS)
73. Donald Buck Dharma Roeser (BLUE OYSTER CULT)
74. Michael Amott (ARCH ENEMY)
75. Robert Fripp (KING CRIMSON)
76. Andre Olbrich (BLIND GUARDIAN)
77. Joe Satriani
78. Frank Hannon & Tommy Skeoch (TESLA)
79. Ty Tabor (KING'S X)
80. Mark Morton & Will Adler (LAMB OF GOD)
81. Dino Cazares (FEAR FACTORY)
82. Pete Townshend (THE WHO)
83. Jon Schaffer (ICED EARTH)
84. Timo Tolkki (STRATOVARIUS)
85. Neil Young
86. Abbath Doom Occulta (IMMORTAL)
87. Kai Hansen (GAMMA RAY)
88. Uffe Cederlund & Alex Hellid (ENTOMBED)
89. Leigh Stephens (BLUE CHEER)
90. Jim Martin (FAITH NO MORE)
91. Michael Romeo (SYMPHONY X)
92. Bill Steer (CARCASS)
93. Piggy (VOIVOD)
94. Tony Bourge (BUDGIE)
95. Sammy Hagar (VAN HALEN)
96. Alexi Laiho (CHILDREN OF BODOM)
97. Akira Takasaki (LOUDNESS)
98. Michael Angelo
99. John Kay & Michael Monarh (STEPPENWOLF)
100. Nick Bowcott (GRIM REAPER)

and the top ......crap load.... Guitar solo's are here.
Stairway to Heaven is number 1 of course. Comfortably Numb is no. 2. Can't argue with this one. Any guitarist or music freak will agree or they should be shot.

I love Rock and Roll

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1969, John and Yoko are married in Gibraltar...two days later they begin their famous "bed-in for peace"...

1975, electric guitar pioneer and bluesman Aaron "T-Bone" Walker dies after complications from a stroke...he was one of the first to take advantage of the electric guitar in blues...artists from B.B. King to the Allman Brothers cite him as an influence, the latter having a hit with a cover of his song "Stormy Monday"...

1976, the New Jersey Supreme Court overturns the conviction of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who had been convicted of murdering three white men in 1967 during a robbery...Carter had garnered the support of Bob Dylan during his incarceration, and Dylan had penned the song "Hurricane" in support of Carter's claims...the song and subsequent benefit concert are credited with helping Carter's cause...

1982, Randy Rhoads, lead guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne's band, is killed when a plane he is flying in crashes into a home and explodes...the band is stopped at the Leesburg, FL. home of its bus driver, Andrew Aycock, a licensed pilot...Aycock "borrows" a plane from a nearby airfield and invites Rhoads and costume designer Rachel Younglood to take a quick flight...as Ozzy and the rest of the band sleep on the bus, Aycock circles and buzzes it three times without incident...on the fourth pass, the aircraft bumps the bus, clips a wing, and crashes into a nearby house, erupting in flames...all three onboard are killed...a postmortem finds cocaine in Aycock's system...

1991, seven members of Reba McEntire's touring band and her road manager are killed when their plane crashes into a mountainous area near the California/Mexico border...McEntire was traveling in a separate plane...

1991, guitar legend Eddie Van Halen and his wife, actress Valerie Bertinelli, celebrate the birth of their son...they name the boy Wolfgang...

1991, Eric Clapton's 4-year-old son, Conor, falls 56 floors out the window of a New York apartment building in a freak accident...the little boy is in the custody of his mother, Italian actress, Lori Del Santo...they are visiting New York and staying in a friend's apartment...the housekeeper has just cleaned a room and opened the window to air it out when young Conor comes dashing by and falls out the window...Clapton is in his hotel nearby...he has just taken Conor to the circus the previous evening..."Tears in Heaven," "The Circus Left Town," and "Lonely Stranger" are all inspired by the deep impact the accident has on Conor's aggrieved father...

1994, The Foo Fighters announce that former Alanis Morissette drummer Taylor Hawkins will be hitting the skins for the band...their former drummer William Goldsmith departed a few weeks earlier "to pursue a variety of other musical interests"...

1994, Bruce Springsteen wins the Oscar for Best Original Song for "Streets of Philadelphia"...the song is from the film Philadelphia and is the first ever written by Springsteen specifically for a film...

1999, Lillian McMurry, the co-founder of Trumpet Records in Jackson, Mississippi, dies of a heart attack at age 78...the label, which she ran out of the back of her furniture store, released sides by the masterful harp player Sonny Boy Williamson II as well as Elmore James, B.B. King, Big Joe Williams, and Little Milton...McMurry enjoyed a sterling reputation as someone who treated blues artists fairly...

1999, Radiohead debuts its behind-the-scenes film, Meeting People is Easy, at the South By Southwest Music and Film Festival in Austin, Texas...

1999, rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard is arrested yet again, this time in New York City after police claim to have found crack cocaine in his vehicle after pulling him over for not having license plates on his vehicle...ODB will be charged with a misdemeanor drug possession charge and for driving with a suspended license...he will be arrested again five days later after police pull him over because once again the vehicle he is driving has no license plates...

2000, the Recording Industry Association of America certifies 17 million copies sold of Shania Twain's album Come On Over, making it the best-selling album by a solo female artist...

BIRTHS:

March 16: Jerry Jeff Walker born Paul Crosby (1942), Heart's Nancy Wilson (1954), Flavor Flav of Public Enemy (1959), Eddie's son Wolfgang Van Halen (1991)

March 17: Nat King Cole (1917), Clarence Collins of Little Anthony & The Imperials (1939), Paul Kantner of The Jefferson Airplane (1941), John Sebastian (1944), Harold Brown of War (1946), Ian Gomm of Brinsley Schwartz (1947), Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham (1951), Mike Lindup of Level 42 (1959), Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan (1967), Melissa Auf der Maur of Hole (1972)

March 18: Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), Robert Lee Smith of The Tams (1936), Charley Pride (1938), Wilson Pickett (1941), dub-style reggae pioneer Keith Hudson (1946), B.J. Wilson of Procol Harum (1947), John Hartman of The Doobie Brothers (1950), Bill Frisell (1951), Irene Cara (1959), Vanessa Williams (1963), Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains (1966), Queen Latifah born Dana Owens (1970), Jamiroquai's Stuart Zender (1974)

March 19: Moms Mabley (1894), Clarence "Frogman" Henry (1937), R&B artist Walter Jackson (1938), The Monkees' Mickey Dolenz (1945), The Zombies' Paul Atkinson (1946), Ruth Pointer of The Pointer Sisters (1946), The B-52s' Ricky Wilson (1953), Bay City Rollers' Derek Longmuir (1955), Terry Hall of The Specials (1959)

March 20: Jerry Reed (1937), Carl Palmer (1951), Jimmy Vaughan (1951), Slim Jim Phantom of Stray Cats (1961), Tracy Chapman (1964), Chester Bennington of Linkin Park (1976)

March 21: Delta blues legend Son House (1902), blues pianist Otis Span (1930), Rosemary Stone of Sly and the Family Stone born Rosemary Stewart (1945), Eddie Money (1949), Roger Hodgson of Supertramp (1950), Conrad Lozano of Los Lobos (1951), Prodigy's MC Maxim (1967), Ace of Base's Jonas Berggren (1967), Andrew Copeland of Sister Hazel (1968), rapper Notorious B.I.G. born Christopher Wallace (1972)

March 22: Keith Relf of the Yardbirds (1943), George Benson (1943), Jeremy Clyde of Chad & Jeremy (1944), Tony McPhee of The Groundhogs (1944), Harry Janda of The Easybeats (1947), Patrick Olive of Hot Chocolate (1947), Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948), Stephanie Mills (1957),
Richard Ploog of The Church (1962)

Deaths:

March 16: pop and country singer-songwriter Johnny Cymbal (1993), legendary electric bluesman Aaron "T-Bone" Walker (1975), Tammi Terrell (1970)

March 17: MTV VJ J.J. Jackson (2004), Trumpet Records co-founder Lillian McMurry (1999), Chantels member and James Brown backup vocalist Yvonne Fair (1994), Rick Grech (1990), New Orleans R&B singer Bobby Mitchell (1989), Samuel George Jr. of The Capitols (1982), James "Jimmie" Davis, bassist for Fats Domino (1920)

March 18: The Mamas & the Papas co-founder John Phillips (2001)

March 19: drummer Jeff Ward of Revolting Cocks (1993), Mother Love Bone's Andrew Wood (1990), Randy Rhoads (1982), Paul Kossoff of Free (1976)

March 20: Eric's son Conor Clapton (1991), jazz and R&B guitarist Billy Butler (1991), Cadence Records founder Archie Bleyer (1989)

March 21: songwriter Fred Spielman (1997), electric guitar revolutionary Leo Fender (1991)

March 22: saxophone player George Howard of Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes (1998), former Turtles drummer Don Murray (1996), singer-songwriter Dan Hartman (1994), Mark Dinning of "Teen Angel" fame (1986)

Hahahahahaha

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A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is leaning against the headboard
smoking a cigarette, with a satisfied smile on it's face. The egg, looking a bit pissed
off, grabs the sheet, rolls over, and says "Well, I guess we finally answered THAT question..."

Monday Monday

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I've been working on my kitchen for a while now. Check out the before pictures(taken during demolition)

I rebuilt the base cabinets a few years ago but wasn't crazy about them.

I started painting them white and finally gave up and redesigned it from scratch.

I had already started demolition. This kitchen was renovated in 1977. It looked like hell. The shelves were falling apart. Doors were sagging. It was time for something new.

I still have a few things to do to the kitchen before it's complete. Check out the new stove and new spacemaker microwave.


Notice the sink is pulled out from the wall 3" with fluted corner posts. This is my boss' trademark. He's a genius.

Here's another picture of the pulled out sink.

The inside of my pantry. It rocks so hard.

Inside of my pantry. Everything flips out. Tons of room.

I even have pull out trash cans.

And a lazy susan. I have no idea what to put in it but here it is.

Pot and Pan pullout shelf.

I designed and built the end shelves. Very cool. Check out my Wilton Guitar cake pan and my 1964 Remco Beatle figures. I love my kitchen. As you can see, my next project is the kitchen ceiling.

A teenager has agreed to admit to three counts of disturbing the peace after anonymously sending semen-frosted brownies to a fellow student. The recipient shared the treat with two other teens. Yummy yummy!!!


You Know You're Addicted to Survivor When...
When you lose a game of pick-up basketball, you turn to your teamates and dejectedly say "Well, I guess we're gonna have to hike up to Tribal Council tonight."

Your friends begin to wonder why you always say "I like you guys...but not in a homosexual way."

When your math teacher threatens to kick you out of class for talking to much, you proudly shoot back "You can't. I have immunity."

You buy a Canadian Alliance membership since "the only people who ever win are those in an alliance."

When giving out your phone number, you give people your cell number, pager number, and coconut phone number.

When someone tells you you're going on a picnic, you immediately assume that all you'll be eating are Doritos and Mountain Dew.

You scour the local health food store for chicken feed.

You deliberately cook all your rice mushy because you know it will "piss Jerri off".

Whenever your girlfriend so much as mentions chocolate, you stand up and shout "The Colbster (or Danster, or Jamester or whatever your name is) is not a Hershey Bar!!!"

You throw buckets on water on people you don't like.

You justify all your actions by saying: "It's what Mike would have wanted us to do."

You think the Gore-Bush deadlock should have been decided on "previous votes."

At 12:50 every day, you announce: "The tribe has spoken. It's time to go...to Biology."

You plant beef jerkey in your friends backpack and when he leaves you tell people that you think he's been smuggling jerkey "behind our backs."

You find the mere mention of beef jerkey funny.

When voting in the provincial election voting booth, you neatly print "RALPH" on your ballot, then hold it up and say: "Ralph, if you were dying of thirst in the..."

You force yourself to watch VH1 Rock 'N Roll jeopardy just to see more of Jeff Probst.

Whenever you use a candle snuffer, you insist on saying: "The tribe has spoken."

You get the innexplicable urge to wave your finger in the face of any vegetarians you know.

You no longer talk to anyone you know named Jerri.
Thanks, Amy. You rock!!!

Helloooooooooooooo

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Guess what I did today, with a whole lot of help from my brother??? Check it out here.

That's why I didn't get around to updating my blog today. Don't worry, you'll still have me here on my blogger.

I want it painted black

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I'm so tired of my cell phone ring. I've had several different ring tones but get tired of them very easily. What should I do? And just for me.... Adult film company New Frontier Media has something new for cell phones: ring moans. Oh baby. Push my buttons. harder. HARDER! That's it.

A Los Angeles man who sneaked into Canada in February to see his Internet girlfriend will be deported -- minus all his fingers and some of his toes because of severe frostbite suffered during a 100-hour trek from Pembina, North Dakota, across the border to Emerson, Manitoba, where he was found wandering on a golf course on Feb. 23, suffering from hypothermia. She ain't worth it. Nope, not at all.

President Fidel Castro gave Cuban women some good news on International Women's Day: rice cookers are coming to every household. Speaking of the Japanese. I was talking about Japanese wasn't I? Check out these carvings. Seems the Japanese carve wateremelons and not pumpkins. Or is it Chinese? Is there a difference between chinese and japanese? Can you tell them apart? Does anyone care? Should I go on?

A man given six months to live by his doctors has been told by an Italian court to come back in 14 months to hear the outcome of his demand for insurance damages. That dog don't hunt. It's true, 6 + 14 = 20, which is the number of fingers and toes this guy has. that's more than we can sayf for the idiot that went chasin' some woman to canada.

Prosecutors subpoena a dog in a murder case??? I can just hear it now. "Can you tell us where you saw the man hiding? Roof!!! Okay, and would you tell us, please, what he looked like? Rough!!!! When the man ran and slid down the tree, did he have anything on his clothing? Bark!!! Can you tell us anymore about the strange man? Well, he had a goatee and mustache, an earring in his left ear, and an eye patch. What else do you wanna know?

New York police have ticketed a man they say set up a table on a Brooklyn sidewalk to sell Girl Scout cookies without a license. Girl Scout cookies..... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

A judge threw out a high school student's lawsuit against mandatory summer homework, saying he and his father should have done a little more studying themselves before bringing the case. Hey idiot. You know those books you've been carrying around in your backpack all year? Those aren't to make you stronger and able to carry heavy loads, they're for reading. Looks like his father could use some high school as well. It's people like this that give white trash a bad name.


Thieves broke into an agency that serves the poor and made off with a safe. The only catch — the safe was empty.
Again, it's people like this that give white trash a bad name. I'll bet atleast one guy was named bubba.

What would you do if you had a winning lottery ticket? Barbara Lennen took her time being a multimillionaire. The mother of four carried the winning ticket for a $19.9 million Powerball jackpot in her wallet for two days after the drawing before checking the numbers. Let me get out my list. Oh here it is. "People to rob". Excuse me one second, I was just adding a name.

Florida historians have discovered a 40-year-old film clip of a clean-cut Jim Morrison that will give fans a different view of the Doors singer before his wilder days as a drug-using rock legend who drank hard and died young.

Time Is On My Side.... Yes It Is!

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Last week in history. Yeah, I'm a little behind. Read it anyway.

1955, Elvis Presley appears for the first time on television on a regional show called Louisiana Hayride ... this same week, it is an unlikely gathering for "The Limbo Party" at San Francisco's Cow Palace ... Chubby Checker is host ... performers include Marvin Gaye, The Crystals, Lou Christie, The Four Seasons, Dick & Dee Dee, Paul & Paula, and Herb Albert & the Tijuana Brass...

1963, golden-voiced country/pop great Patsy Cline never makes it back to Nashville when her plane goes down en route from St. Louis ... she, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins are returning from a benefit concert for the widow of DJ Cactus Jack Call, who was recently killed in a car crash...

1967, it is announced in the music media that Steve and Muff Winwood plan to quit the Spencer Davis Group ... the brothers have been with the band four years and will later form Traffic...

1970, Janis Joplin is fined $200 for onstage swearing in Tampa, Florida...

1971, Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner" ... the tape was sent to the North Vietnamese station by anti-war activist Abbie Hoffman...

1973, that notorious pothead Paul McCartney pleads guilty and pays a fine of $240 after marijuana plants are found growing at his farm in Scotland ... in his defense McCartney claims that a fan gave him some seeds, which he planted, not knowing what would grow from them ... this same week in 1975, Linda and Paul are pulled over for running a red light in Los Angeles ... police sniff pot and find six to eight ounces in Linda's purse and charge her with possession ... since it isn't his purse, Paul skates free...

1976, a wax version of Elton John goes on display at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum...

1980, the number-one song on the pop chart this week is "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" by Queen...

1982, Blues Brother John Belushi dies at age 33 of too much speedball ... according to fellow Blues Brother Dan Akroyd, Belushi had taken to hanging out with a group of sleazy sycophants who had anything but Belushi's best interests in mind...

1994, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana washes down a handful of Valiums with champagne and winds up in a coma in a Rome hospital ... he revives after about 20 hours ... though officially labeled accidental, the overdose was secretly thought to be a suicide attempt by those close to Cobain and conspiracy theorists have suggested that Courtney Love may have slipped him the dose without his knowledge ... a second try by Cobain a month or so later with a shotgun will prove fatal...

1995, R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry undergoes successful brain surgery for an aneurysm after collapsing during a concert in Switzerland...

2000, at the Annual Brit Awards in the U.K., Macy Gray takes honors for Best International Female Artist and Best Newcomer...

It's Hump Day Again. oh how I love hump day.

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One my readers, Penny, sent me this Yankee or Dixie quiz. It's groovy. I dig it. See if you dig it too. Far out.

Penny also told me of her work history:

My first job was working in an orange juice factory, but I got
canned...couldn't concentrate.

Then I worked in the woods as a lumberjack, but I just couldn't hack
it, so they gave me the ax.

After that I tried to be a tailor, but I just wasn't suited for it ...
mainly because it was a so-so job.

Next I tried working in a muffler factory but that was too exhausting.

Then I tried to be a chef -- figured it would add a little spice to my
life, but I just didn't have the time

I attempted to be a deli worker, but any way I sliced it, I couldn't
cut the mustard.

My best job was being a musician, but eventually I found I wasn't
noteworthy.

I studied a long time to become a doctor, but I didn't have any
patience.

Next was a job in a shoe factory; I tried but I just didn't fit in.

I became a professional fisherman, but discovered that I couldn't live
on my net income.

I managed to get a good job working for a pool maintenance company, but
the work was just too draining.

So then I got a job in a workout center, but they said I wasn't fit for
the job.

After many years of trying to find steady work I finally got a job as a
historian until I realized there was no future in it.

My last job was working at Starbucks, but I had to quit because it was
always the same old grind. 

March Madness (how dumb is that)

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A California high school teacher was arraigned on Monday at a Sacramento court accused of having sex with a student in a car as her two-year child was strapped into the back seat. Sing with me "I've got it bad, bad, bad.... I'm hot for teacher".

Berkeley students aren't getting written homework assignments because teachers are refusing to grade work on their own time after two years with no pay raise. Maybe they need some car sex?


In its 183-year history, the august Oxford Union debating society has heard the wisdom of Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan and Mother Teresa. Now get ready for Porn star Ron Jeremy, star of 1,700 adult films, including "Bang Along With Ron." If you've ever seen an interview with this guy, you'd know why. He's not the trashy, uneducated, dumb as a brick type that you'd expect.

Controversial German artist Gunther von Hagens, known for his displays of preserved human corpses stripped of skin, wants to build a factory in Poland to mass-produce his art. Have you seen any pictures of this guys work? Creeeeeeeeeeepy!


When Adolf Hitler first encountered the breathtaking mountain scenery and lofty isolation of Obersalzberg in the Bavarian Alps, he fell instantly in love with the spot. Later as German leader he sealed off the hamlet, creating an exclusive retreat where he and other top Nazis could wine and dine, savor the crisp Alpine air, and plan the most barbarous acts of the Third Reich. Sixty years on, the owners of a new luxury hotel in Obersalzberg, which opens this week, are hoping the area's serene natural charm can attract a different kind of visitor and open a new chapter in the area's blighted history. Can I stay in Hitlers room?

Alongside life-size posters of Hindu nationalist leaders, Indian political activists can now buy lotions, potions and pills to cure anything from cancer to hysteria to piles -- all made from cow urine or dung. 100% guarenteed to keep you from getting laid.

A man caught by police last summer on his 23rd birthday running naked and covered in nacho cheese pleaded guilty Monday to burglary and four other charges. I thought that's what you were supposed to do on your 23rd birthday. I did. I had my dog eat the nachos off of my..... On second thought, nevermind.

A 78-year-old woman faces drug charges and authorities are searching for her 72-year-old boyfriend after police found more than a pound of marijuana stashed in a freezer on her property. What's the problem?

A sculptor who created an entire orchestra of instruments from ice canceled his show at the last minute because he didn't like the sound of the musicians warming up. Is that a joke?

Forty-six young men preparing to take a military school entrance exam were caught trying to cheat using mobile phones taped to their bodies and hidden in their shoes and underwear. Doesn't this show initiative?

I came across a strange site today and I'm wondering... Who the hell is Franz Kafka? Does everyone but me know about Franz? I'm gonna have to read up on this. If nothing else, take a look at the cool pictures on the Franz kafka site.

I just realized that if you were to only look at the pictures on my site today, what would you think. I have sex and hitler. Hmmm. Sex and Hitler sounds like it could be a good song. I haven't taken my medication today have I?