Today in history 10-25

[johnnie]

Let's start off on a sad note.

1991 - Bill Graham died at the age of 60 in a helicopter crash.

Now this next part is true (for Peggy.. :))

Here is a guy who almost single-handedly changed the music industry on concert promotions and productions. He worked with Dylan, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Neil Young, The Band, Santana, Miles Davis, B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix, The Byrds, Sly and the Family Stone, Ravi Shankar and George Harrison, just to name a few.

Who did Bill go to see the night he died? Huey Lewis and the Fucking News! You talk about a complete kick in the dick.









1993 - Vincent Price died at the age of 82.

Price would star in over 100 movies was Gourmet cook, a Yale graduate, an art historian, an accomplished writer and appeared on countless television shows. He was married three times and had two children.

And what killed this poor man? Was it a helicopter crash? No, it was those damn cigarettes. So sad... Here is a man who hardly started living and those damn smokes cut him down before his prime. 82 lousy years, and he didn't get to even scrape the tip of what life has to offer.









2001 - 13 law firms were still involved in claims to Grateful Dead's guitarist Jerry Garcia's $10m estate six years after his death. Former wives & girlfriends continued to fight on how to distribute his estate and annual royalties of $4.6m.

Unfortunately, Jerry insisted writing his will on sheets of Zig Zag papers stating "I own stock in the company" and his will literally went up in smoke a few months before he died when Jerry scored a "bitchin'" bag of Acapulco Gold.


Below, the lost will?










1974 - Al Green was taking a shower at his Memphis home when his ex-girlfriend Mary Woodson burst in and poured boiling hot grits over him. She then shot herself dead. Green suffered second degree burns. Apparently because he had rejected her marriage proposal.


Whoa! WTF? That is just bizarre. Tryin' to kill the Reverend (he became one after this....seriously) with soul food, then doin' yourself in? And why do you think Al didn't want to marry this one? I bet it wasn't because of her cooking..... DAMN!


Below, suspected assault weapon: Or is that a salted weapon? I know.. bad joke.
*Note: This is not the real grits, just a re-creation.








1970 - Speaking at a US radio conference President Nixon asked programmers to ban all songs containing drug references.


Needless to say, this was 1970 and that would leave only (2) Donny Osmond songs, (1) B.J. Thomas song (although his initials might cause concern), some The Partridge Family tunes and "Everything Is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens.

Tricky Dick didn't get his way, but a few years later, Nixon was successful in banning many Republicans from the White House.










1999 - Golfer Payne Stewart and five others were killed when their Learjet flew uncontrolled for four hours before crashing in South Dakota.

It was reported that within 20 minutes of the loss of communications from the cockpit, The US Air Force had scrambled fighters to escort the plane; President Bill Clinton gave orders to shoot it down if necessary.

2 years later there were four planes flying around the United States with no communication and it took "President" bush the same 20 minutes to finish the first page of "My Pet Goat".









1912 - Minnie Pearl is born Sarah Ophelia Colley in Centerville, Tenn.


Minnie wasn't very funny, and she didn't sing, dance or act. What the hell did she do that made her a legendary country superstar? Oh yeah, she wore a fucking price tag on her hat. :shrug:

Happy birthday Minnie, wherever you are:







1964 - Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in the wrong direction for a safety;


OK, that is just too friggin' funny to leave off of here.







2000 - Billy Ray Cyrus lends his support to two causes when his tour bus stops in 16 different locations on Nashville's Music Row throughout the day to collect food for Second Harvest Food Bank's Harvest 2000; and later the same night, headlines a concert benefiting the charity.

These days Billy Ray can be heard singing "Achy Breaky Bank Account" in these same locations on Nashville's Music Row while squeegeeing windshields and trying to start up his own food collection.







1995 - Blind Melon lead singer Shannon Hoon is buried in his hometown of Lafayette, Ind. Hoon had been found dead from an accidental drug overdose four days earlier in New Orleans.

It was reported that Hoon accidentally purchased a large quantity of cocaine, accidentally hid away on his tour bus and accidentally snorted a shitload of the stuff. Or it might have been he accidentally injected it into his veins. Then again some say he accidentally used heroin. Oh, and he accidentally drank a hell of a lot of booze that day too.







1990 - The Sheena Easton albums "A Private Heaven" and "The Lover In Me" were released on CD.

:)







1997 - After falling over on stage when reaching for a guitar pick, Johnny Cash announced during a gig in Michigan that he was suffering from Parkinson's disease. :(


After his announcement, an overweight, pill-poppin' heckler with a boil on his ass and a Viagra addiction shouted... "Bullshit, he's fakin' it."


Hey rush:

[Phillycat]

1. Awesome, as usual

Love that pic of Johnny Cash. :loveya:

:applause:

[johnnie]

2. Thanks

:)

I'm tired today..lol.

[LynneSin]

3. For Bill Graham's legacy check out Wolfgang's Vault

Basically they opened the library of all the stuff he taped and have a streaming radio of some of the most amazing stuff you'll ever hear

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/Static.aspx?Type=Audio/Radio.htm&CategoryID=RA&LeftNav=Audio/RadioNav.htm

[johnnie]

8. Oh yeah..thanks

I seen that a while ago but didn't spend too much time. I'll have to check it out again.

[rockymountaindem]

4. That Cash pic makes your whole post come together

God bless 'em.

[wildhorses]

5. damn but, you do good work--

you are a fucking genious:loveya:

[johnnie]

9. That's funny

Thanks..lol

[UrbScotty]

6. It's amazing that a Viking ran the ball for a safety and not a Lion (nt)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My dear johnnie!

These are great, as usual.........

But watch it, baby! I happen to just love Huey!

You do such an excellent job of this........

Thank you so damn much!

:woohoo: :woohoo:

[idgiehkt]

10. thanks johnnie

we covered the Jerry Garcia will fiasco in a paralegal wills course I took, here's what my text says:

"Using the CA Probate Code as a guide, the Marin County Superior Court received more than thirty claims against the estate of Grateful Dead leader, Jerry Garcia, who died in 1995. Claims against his estate were made by ex-lovers, associates and others to the extent of $38 million; more than it's value. Under CA community property law, Garcia's wife of 18 months is entitled to half of the assets acquired during marriage. The singer's eighteen page will left one third of the other half of the community property plus one third of the rest of his estate to his wife Deborah. The remainder of his estate was divided among his children, his brother, and the daughter of a friend.

Garcia did little to shelter his estate from taxes. He could have used the unlimited marital deduction to leave all of his estate , tax free, to his widow. Similarly he could have created a QTIP trust, which would have excluded the first $600,000 from the estate tax and given his widow the trust's income for her life. Such actions, however, woul have delayed inheritances by his children of previous marriages and it is apparent that he did not want to do this. He seemed grateful for his family."

I thought that was interesting, (one of the few interesting parts of that course).

RIP Shannon Hoon