Today in history 10-20 - Democratic Underground

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Today in history 10-20

1977 - Three days after the release of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Street Survivors," Lynyrd Skynyrd vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, his sister Cindy and a freelance singer touring with the group are killed with their rented single engine plane crashes in the swamps of Gillsburg, Mississippi.

I did a little checking on this, here's what I found out:

"Later in 1977, Rove got a job as executive director of the Fund for Limited Government, a political action committee (PAC) in Houston headed by James A. Baker, a Houston lawyer (later President George H.W. Bush's Secretary of State). The PAC eventually became the genesis of the Bush-for-President campaign of 1979–1980."

This is in 1977 people! WAKE THE FUCK UP! Karl Rove, James Baker, George Bush... in Houston, 1977? It's all right there in black and white. Karl Rove had Skynard killed! I'm posting this in GD and Rove is going down!!!

1976 - Led Zeppelin's film 'The Song Remains The Same', premiered in New York, raising $25,000 for the save the children fund.

Unfortunately, only a sliver of the money went to its intended target. John Paul Jones purchased $2500 in "I'm with the band" tee shirts, Jimmy Page bought up most of the blues albums in New York for what he called "writing material", John Bonham spent thousands of dollars on cases of expensive whiskey and 72 shot glasses and Robert Plant bought hundreds of cucumbers in which he then had wrapped in aluminum foil :shrug:

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2004 - Lenny Kravitz is sued after a backed-up toilet allegedly causes over $300,000 worth of damage to a neighbour’s apartment in New York.

That same year, the estate of Dr. Seuss sues Kravitz for what they call an infringement upon the Dr. Seuss trademark of just rhyming anything together and even making up words. The case was thrown out when the judged ruled that Kravitz was just "one shitty songwriter".

Sorry Lenny, songwriting is an art. Just because you can rhyme "This could be ours, let's go to Mars because the drummer's name is Lars" does not make you a songwriter.

2003 - Prince plays a secret show at the Bennett's Lane jazz club in Melbourne, Australia.

Sadly, the purple one was hospitalized shortly after his performance when a slightly blind patron, mistakenly used Prince's leg as a toothpick to clean out the kangaroo meat from between his teeth.

1953 - Happy Birthday to Tom Petty.

Hey Tom, just wanted to tell ya that Roger McGuinn would like to have his voice, guitar sound and songwriting style back. :hi:

1987 - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail.

Hey, what Bernie wants, Bernie Goetz.

I know, I know, most of you are probably lost on this one..lol.

1966 - Happy Birthday to Fred Coury, drummer for the band Cinderella.

Be sure to catch Cinderella on their "Happy as a Clam" tour. They will be appearing at Long John Silver's restaurants across the country to promote the store's "Jumbo Basket of 50 fried clam" special. Also, if you are in the Venice Beach area of Los Angeles, make sure you stop in to the Quickie Car wash out there and say hello to Fred. He has been promoted to head sham dryin man.

1978 - The Police made their US debut at C.B.G.B.S, New York, having flown on a Laker Airtrain flight carrying their instruments as hand luggage.

Sting also brought his ego as a carry-on, but it was too big for the overhead rack. He was required to purchase what was left of the tickets in coach.

1972 - It's Snoop Dogg's birthday

I'll tell ya, if you can scrap the resin out of this dude's lungs, that dope would be some potent shit. Hell, I bet it would even get Keith Richards stoned.

1994 - Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young join Bob Dylan onstage at the Roseland Ballroom in New York. The trio perform "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" and "Highway 61 Revisited."

Between Neil sounding like a chicken with a bone stuck in its throat, Dylan sounding like a circular saw trying to cut through stainless steel and Springsteen sounding like he's been constipated for 15 years, I bet THAT was a lovely experience for the audience.

http://theage.com.au/ffximage/2004/11/18/bob_dylan_2,0.jpg

OK, this last picture has nothing whatsoever to do with anything except that I think Alyssa is smokin'..LOL