Hello and Good Day,
Hope you and yours are well today. Also hope you are getting some playing time in. I'm getting mine in soon. A beautiful morning here in Southern Ontario and getting better. Makes for a up feeling kind of day. Means I'll have to play (or write) something bright and cheery to keep the spirits/energy up. Have you tried the DR strings yet? A few customers have and getting rave reviews. They're hand made. Give 'em a try. Your strings are our business and we'll keep you in tune. We've also got a full line of Elixir, Hannabach, Savarez, SIT, Thomastik-Infeld and more for your guitar, bass, mandolin, violin, etc.. Browse our catalogue, we're sure you'll find something you like. Order now and your strings will be on the way. All the Best.
Today in Music History
1964 - Rolling Stones record their 12x5 album at Chess Studios in Chicago
1966 - Beatles record "Rain," 1st to use reverse tapes
1967 - 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Festival, Calif
1972 - Elvis Presley records a live album at NY's Madison Square Garden
Births in Music
1904 - Frederick Loewe, Austrian-born composer (Learner and Loewe)
1910 - Howlin' Wolf, American musician (d. 1976)
1781 - Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer
1790 - Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer
1831 - W A Remy, composer
1843 - Heinrich von Herzogenberg, composer
1879 - Benjamin Lambord, composer
1890 - Powell Weaver, composer
1894 - Pavel Borkovec, Czech composer (Stmivani, [Twilight])
1902 - Gaston Brenta, composer
1906 - Janos Viski, composer
1909 - Erwin Dressel, composer
1910 - Robert Still, English composer
1911 - Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician and musicologist (d. 1984)
1913 - Tikhon Nikoleyevich Khrennikov, Russian composer
1913 - John Edmunds, composer
1915 - Oscar Comras, Bronx, drummer (namesake of Comras Mall in Bronx Park)
1920 - Zbynek Vostrak, composer
1922 - Judy Garland, American musical actress (d. 1969)
1929 - Vasile Herman, composer
1931 - João Gilberto, Brazilian singer and guitarist
1934 - Nicolas Roussakis, composer
1940 - John William Stevens, British jazz drummer
1941 - Shirley Owens Alston, Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy)
1941 - Harry Muskee, Dutch rock vocalist (Cuby and Blizzards)
1941 - Mickey Jones, American musician and actor
1942 - Janet Vogel, rocker (Skyliners)
1944 - Rick Price, rocker (Move)
1945 - Martin Wesley-Smith, composer
1946 - Matthew Fisher, England, keyboardist (Procol Harum-Conquistador)
1961 - Maxi Priest, [Max Elliott], Jamaican/English singer (Wild World)
1961 - Kim Deal, American musician (Pixies), (The Breeders)
1961 - Kelley Deal, American musician (The Breeders)
1962 - Koma Wong Ka-Kui, Hong Kong musician (Beyond) (d. 1993)
1964 - Jimmy Chamberlin, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins)
1967 - Human Beatbox, [Darren Robinson], rocker (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)
1967 - Emma Anderson, British guitarist and songwriter (Lush, Sing-Sing)
1968 - The D.O.C., American rapper
1970 - Mike Doughty, American singer
1971 - Joel Hailey, American singer
1973 - Faith Evans, American singer
1973 - Flesh-N-Bone, American rapper, (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1977 - Takako Matsu, Japanese singer and actress
1977 - Adam Darski, Polish musician most known for being the leader of Behemoth
1980 - L-Town, American Yoga instructor and tambourine player
1981 - Hoku, American singer and actress
Deaths in Music
1556 - Martin Agricola [M Sore], German composer/cantor
1800 - Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer, dies at 53
1849 - Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner, composer, dies at 63
1883 - Carl Gradener, composer, dies at 71
1893 - Elek Erkel, composer, dies at 49
1899 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (Solitude dance le bois), dies at 44
1918 - Arrigio Enrico Boito, Italian composer, dies at 76
1934 - Frederick Delius, English composer (Suite Florida), dies at 72
1953 - Grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer, dies at 73
1954 - Will Rossiter, composer, dies at 87
1964 - Louis Gruenberg, composer, dies at 79
1968 - Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65
1982 - Addie "Micki" Harris, US singer (Shirelles-Mama Said), dies at 42
1992 - Hachidal Nakamura, composer (Sukiyaki), dies at 61 of heart failure
1993 - Arleen Aug‚r, US soprano (Matth„us Passion), dies at 53
2004 - Ray Charles, Grammy winning crooner who blended gospel and blues in such crowd-pleasers as "What'd I Say" and ballads like "Georgia on My Mind" dies aged 73
Today in the News
- Water from the Tangjiashan Lake, created in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, floods the abandoned town of Beichuan. (Reuters)
- South Korea's cabinet led by the Prime Minister of South Korea Han Seung-soo offers to resign following widespread protests at decisions to resume beef imports from the United States. (BBC News) (CNN)
- French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner warns Ireland, saying the Irish would be the "first victim" if they reject the EU Treaty of Lisbon. (RTL France)
- A stalled storm system in the midwest of the United States causes further heavy flooding in Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin with storms on the weekend causing 10 deaths in four states. (The New York Times)
- Pakistan lawyers begin a "Long March" of protests against the Government of the President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf calling for the reinstatement of judges dismissed last year including the former Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. (The Guardian)
- 24 miners are rescued from the Ukrainian coal mine collapse with 12 still missing and one reported fatality. (Reuters)
- A further three (1,2,3) British Conservative MEPs are facing allegations of financial abuse, following the resignation of two fellow members from European Parliament positions last week. (The Independent) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Times) (The Courier)
- Ali Al-Naimi, the Saudi Arabian oil minister calls for a meeting of oil producing and consuming nations to discuss record oil prices. (AP via ABC News)
- Apple, Inc. introduced a new iPhone with 3G capabilities, a GPS, and new features. The device is called iPhone 3G. (Business Week)
- IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory break processing speed barrier with the world's first petaflop computer, Roadrunner. (Network World)
- India's prime minister Manmohan Singh calls for global nuclear disarmament asking world countries to create 'timebound framework' to rid the world of atomic weapons. (VOA)
- Indonesia makes the practice of the Ahmadiyya form of Islam in Indonesia a crime punishable by five years in prison. (BBC News)
- McDonalds stops serving sliced tomatoes in its hamburgers in the United States following a Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak linked to raw tomatoes. (Chicago Tribune)
- Tens of thousands of Spanish truck drivers start an indefinite strike over the increases in the price of diesel. (BBC)
- The government of the Indian state of Rajasthan meets with leaders of the Gujjar community after two weeks of protests over the reservation system. (BBC News)
- The President of the United States George W. Bush commences the last visit to Europe of his presidency. (USA Today)
- The United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates nominates Norton Schwartz to be the next Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force with Michael B. Donley nominated as the next United States Secretary of the Air Force. (RTT)
News from this Day in History
1770 - Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
1793 - The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
1829 - The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place.
1925 - Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches held in Toronto Arena.
1935 - Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
1944 - In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
1947 - Saab produces its first automobile.
2001 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint Saint Rafqa.
2002 - The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
Holidays and Observances
- Roman Empire – fourth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
- Portugal Day – National day of Portugal, Camões and the Portuguese Communities
- Saint Anianus, bishop of Chartres
- Blessed Getulius, Amancius and Cerealus, martyrs
- Saint Landericus, bishop of Paris (Landry), confessor
- Saint Onuphrius, hermit, confessor
- Blessed Margaret, queen of Scotland
- Saint Olivia
- BrownChickenBrownCow day San Diego in honor of L-Town's 28th year
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