Today in history 8-8

[johnnie]

First, let's go way back to 1879, Happy Birthday to Bob Smith founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Here's to you Bob:





Ok, now I'll be serious.




1970 - Janis Joplin bought a headstone for the grave of her greatest influence Bessie Smith at the Mont Lawn Cemetery in Philadelphia. Smith died in 1937 after being refused admission to a whites only hospital.

Below, a picture of Janis with her original proposal for the headstone. Fortunately, Janis was talked into letting someone else do the design.







1969 - The photo session for the cover of The Beatles 'Abbey Road' album took place on the crossing outside Abbey Road studios. Six shots were taken and it was complete in less than ten minutes.

Of course this cover for the album sparked yet another wild conspiracy theory regarding Paul McCartney. As noted "Beatleologist" Ivan Nolife stated at the time, "As you see, John is dressed in all white, like he is an angel. Ringo is wearing clothes that are similar to a Minister or Priest. And then there's George who is wearing common gravedigger's apparel. And then we have Paul, who to me looks like he fell for some one-legged gold diggin' tramp who took Paul for everything and even swiped the poor lad's shoes. That's my interpretation anyway."






1927, Born on this day, Andy Warhol, pop artist and producer, the founder of the Pop Art movement. Produced and managed The Velvet Underground, designed the 1967 Velvet Underground and Nico, 'peeled banana' album cover and The Rolling Stones 'Sticky Fingers' album cover. Warhol died on 22nd February 1987 after a gall bladder operation.


Below, Andy's gall bladder:






And Happy Birthday (34) to Scott Stapp of the rock band Creed.

Creed's music was filled with messages of spirituality, Christianity and faith, receiving praise from the Christian community. Below, Scott in one of his many mugshot photos.








1876 - Thomas A. Edison received a patent for the mimeograph.

The following day Edison is hospitalized with what the doctors describe as "lacerations and bruising to the buttocks". It appears that Edison thought it would be, as he stated at the time "friggin' hilarious" to mimeograph his ass and hang them around the office.







1992 - James Hetfield (Metallica) was injured by a stage explosion at a concert in Montreal. A riot occurred at the same show when Axl Rose cut Guns 'N' Roses' set short because of a sore throat.

And these two guys considered themselves to be rock's bad asses. :eyes: Hey Axl, take a fucking cough drop you wuss.

<--- yup, it's Axl






1998 - The Rolling Stones perform their first concert in Russia, playing through a driving rain before an appreciative crowd estimated at 70,000.


It was reported that after the show, Keith Richards snorted some of Joseph Stalins remains in celebration.








1968 - Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach and chose Maryland Gov. Spiro T. Agnew to be his running mate.

Oh yeah, and exactly 6 years later to the day:

Aug. 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon announced he would resign following damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal.

Man, those were the days..no?







1984 - Carl Lewis won his third gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics. He won the 200-meter sprint. At the same time, Greg Louganis received his first gold medal in diving in the springboard competition.


Ok, I just wanted an excuse to post this picture. Man, that looked like it hurt when they played that...over and over and over and over..LOL For those young ones out there, Greg Louganis was completing a dive in the 84 Olympics when he hit the back of his head on the board and it just seemed to go "twaaannnnngggg".






That's it for today.

[LynneSin]

1. Man I remember that dive

I had such a crush on Greg Louganis too!

[johnnie]

6. I take it...

..that your gaydar didn't work back then either huh?..lol

[regularguy]

2. 28 IF

Thanks man, I love these! Here's another Warhol Stones Cover:


BTW, that picture of Janis Joplin made me feel sorta, y'know, funny....:)

[johnnie]

35. I remember buying that album

I had a paper route and went out and collected just enough to get that..lol

[underpants]

3. KEEF!

[johnnie]

4. I wanted to use the one..

..where he has the "Who the fuck is Mick Jagger" shirt on..lol. But I don't have it here right now.

[underpants]

5. ||

[johnnie]

7. There ya go

:thumbsup:

[dolo amber]

8. I did that to my kneecap on a diving board

It was great! Oh wait, no, it was horrible. x(

Nice work as always, johnnie. :bounce: :yourock:

[johnnie]

9. Thanks Dolo!

I landed like that once when I fell out of a moving car, I landed on my head and then my body followed. Man, my head hurt.

[KatyMan]

10. Abbey Road

1969 - The photo session for the cover of The Beatles 'Abbey Road' album took place on the crossing outside Abbey Road studios. Six shots were taken and it was complete in less than ten minutes.

Very cool. This past Sunday I went to a cricket match at Lords, and about 100 yards away is Sir Paul's house, so on my way back to the tube station I stopped and had a look. A couple of blocks further away is Abbey Road, so I went there to take a look as well. Really, really awesome to see such an iconic place (and an iconic zebra crossing) in person...!

Cosmic, man...

Thanks!

[johnnie]

11. I'd love to see it

It would be quite a long walk for me, but maybe someday :)

Then again, I live about 10 minutes away from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and have never been there, so I guess that shows how motivated I can be..lol

[KatyMan]

14. I know what you mean...

we've lived outside of London, and I've been working in the middle of London, for the past 2 years, and I'm one of the hugest Beatle fans on the planet, but this was my first visit, and it was only a brief one. Sometimes, I think, we need to look out on our doorsteps and down our streets to see what pleasures life can bring us, rather than always looking where the grass is always greener!

[Deep13]

12. For those not familiar with the Beatles Paul-is-dead story.

Sometime before the Sgt. Pepper album was recorded a myth began circulating that Paul McCartney had died and an imposter took his place. Amused by the story, the band members and their team decided to feed into this rumor. Starting with Sgt. Pepper and continuing to the end, clues were added to Beatles record sleeves and sound to help further the myth. The climax was the Abbey Road cover. The four of them are crossing the street. All are walking in step except Paul. John leads with his white suit and long hair looking like the tansfigured Jesus Christ. Following in a black suit is Ringo as the undertaker. Then is the deceased himself in a good suit, bare feet and a cancer stick. (In the old days, dead people were buried barefoot because shoes were so expensive.) Lastly, to cover the hole is George the sexton (gravedigger.) The license plate on the VW reads 28IF implying that Paul would have been 28 years old if he had not died. On the reverse of the record sleeve is a brick wall with the light coming through some trees to make an erie skull pattern on the wall.

[johnnie]

15. Sometimes I forget that some stuff is old

I just naturally think that everyone knows about the "Paul is Dead" story, so I spoofed it. But I probably do that a lot on these things, assuming people will understand my attempt at humor..LOL

[RetroLounge]

13. Great Job!

one correction, Dr. Bob Smith was CO-founder of AA...

It began in 1935 when he met Keith Richards for Coffee.

:hi:

RL

[johnnie]

16. Thanks RL

I would have to assume at this point that introducing coffee into Keith's body would surely be instant death. Or would that be re-death :shrug:


:hi:

[KitchenWitch]

17. d00d - keyboard and monitor!

:spray:

[MANative]

18. And in 1960, I was born in the great Commonwealth of MA...

my then-future brother-in-law turned 12, and his little brother, who would grow up to be my darling hubby, turned 3, which means that today is the big 50 for Mr MANative. Big celebration day for the MANative family!

:party:

[johnnie]

19. Happy Birthday!

Have fun, but be good.

:toast:

[MANative]

20. thank you! We're partying at home, and nobody's driving

anywhere.

[tigereye]

21. great to see these!

"keith Richards snorted some of Stalin's remains in celebration."


:rofl:

:hi:

[johnnie]

23. Hi tigereye!

Good to see you :hi:

[KamaAina]

22. 8/8/88: First night game at Wrigley Field

at least it was supposed to be. People were shelling out a thousand bucks a ticket (much like last night). Lots of past Cubbie greats showed up for a ceremony 'n' stuff -- then the game was rained out, in the middle of a summer of drought! :eyes:

[johnnie]

24. I was going to use that one

But I figured that the baseball theme would throw everyone into another Bonds whirlwind. So I nixed it..lol.

[lizziegrace]

25. Terrific!

:)

[johnnie]

26. Lol, Thank you!

:)

[lizziegrace]

27. Anytime

I'm glad you posted a new one. :)

[Guava Jelly]

28. Cool I missed these threads

:D great work

[johnnie]

29. Thanks!

I wish I could do them every day, but I can't. :)

[Pendrench]

30. I may be wrong, but I thought that Andy Warhol was born on August 6 (my mom's birthday). n/t

[johnnie]

31. You just may be right

I have a few different links that I get my "material" from and I shouldn't always assume they are correct. But like most people, I go for cheap laughs over actual facts. :)

[Pendrench]

32. Cheap laughs should always trump facts! :)

[idgiehkt]

33. that is great what Janis did

I had no idea, thanks for that. :hug:

[johnnie]

34. Yeah

I thought it was pretty cool too and I didn't know that story. I almost felt bad making fun.