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Twisted Fact of the Day:
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
The Day In Rock
No. 1
1960 Mark Dinning Teen Angel US 45
1975 Ohio Players: Fire US 45
1969 Supremes & Temptations: TCB US LP
1986 Billy Ocean: When the going Gets Tough UK 45
1992 Wet Wet Wet : High on the Happy Side : UK LP
1992 Right Said Fred : I'm Too Sexy : US single
Births
1931 James Dean (James Byron)
1941 Tom Rush
1944 Jim Capaldi (Traffic)
1946 Adolpho 'Fito' de la Para (Canned Heat)
1950 Ted Turner (Wishbone Ash)
1961 Vince Neil (Motley Crue)
Deaths
1990 Del Shannon (Runaway)
Miscellany
1957 Little Richard's Long Tall Sally hits UK chart.
1960 Hearings begin into payola in the US radio and record industries, Alan Freed and Dick Clark are among the accused.
1965 Dave Clark Five begin filming Catch Us if You Can.
1967 Peter and Gordon split.
1969 Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Steve Winwood announce plans for Blind Faith. 1971 Bob Dylan's film Eat the Documentary premiers at the New York Academy of Music. ABC TV buys it, then rejects the project when they discover that it is not a Dylan concert film.
1972 A Frank Zappa concert at the Albert Hall is cancelled because of 'obscene lyrics' in the score of 200 Motels.
1972 The Beatles Fan Club goes out of business.
1973 Max Yasgur dies of a heart attack in Florida. His dairy farm was the site of Woodstock Festival.
1980 Peter Gabriel's Games Without Frontiers hits UK chart.
1980 Angie and David Bowie are divorced.
1986 INXS debut on UK LP chart with Listen Like Thieves.
What’s in the CD player?
Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975 - The Rolling Thunder Revue
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
The biggest criticism of The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975 -- the third installment in Columbia/Legacy's excavation of the exhaustive Bob Dylan vaults (the first was a box set, containing three volumes) -- is that it's a compilation of highlights from his Rolling Thunder Revue of 1975, one that doesn't set out to replicate a set list but instead offers two discs and 22 tracks from this fabled tour. Apart from that, there's very little to complain about on this superlative set, which offers the first official release of Rolling Thunder material. Yes, this had been heavily bootlegged over the decades, plus it was documented on Dylan's notoriously unwatchable film Renaldo & Clara and there was Hard Rain, a collection culled from the post-Thunder 1976 tour that was similar but sour and nowhere near as good the 1975 material, as this superb set illustrates. Hearing this is a revelation, even for serious Dylan watchers -- those so serious to own several bootlegs, even a full shelf of Dylan, but not as obsessive as those who track Bob's every move -- and those who aren't as dedicated, yet still harbor a serious interest, will find this equally absorbing, since this is simply tremendous. It has become legend that Dylan will change arrangements and switch lyrics at the drop of a hat, which was evident on his jaunt with the Band in 1974, preserved for posterity on Before the Flood. Even so, he's looser, wilder, and more alive in this careening, thrilling album, a record where "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" gallops along as if it were "Leopard Skin Pill-Box Hat." As that suggests, the wildest thing about this is the electric cuts, where an unwieldy band turns out an overpowering sound that sounds inevitable, as if it's the only way these songs could be played, even when you've heard these songs countless times before in other arrangements. The acoustic moments don't pack the same charge, nor do they contain many of his duets with Joan Baez, yet they're intimate, passionate versions of the songs. In fact, there's not a bad moment here, and if it doesn't replicate the Rolling Thunder tour list to the letter, it does indeed capture the essence of this legendary stint, which is why it's necessary for every serious fan.
Funny
Food
Goat Cheese Souffle
Zoom Zoom
Tyrrell P34
Babe (of yore)
Mary Tyler Moore - By Request
Not sure if you were serious, Steve… but here she is…
Any other requests??
Art
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat , 1884