Mark Carver
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ALL THINGS MUST PASS APPLE JAM
# Guitars: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Dave Mason,
# Bass guitar: Klaus Voormann, Carl Radle
# Orchestral arrangements: John Barham
# Keyboards: Gary Wright, Bobby Whitlock, Billy Preston, Gary Brooker
# Drums and percussion: Ringo Starr, Jim Gordon, Alan White, Phil Collins, Ginger Baker
# Harmonica - George Harrison
# Pedal steel guitar (with talk box): Pete Drake
# Tenor saxophone: Bobby Keys
# Trumpet: Jim Price
# Rhythm guitars and percussion: Badfinger
Is that a band or what?
George Harrison could definitely attract them...
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I heard Dick Dale interviewed on the radio this morning... a man and his own music style. Alive and well and still touring at the age of 73! Any reference to him in your music class ScOtt?
What 6 lunatics gave it a thumbs down!
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Leo Fender kept giving Dale amps and Dale kept blowing them up! Till one night Leo and his right hand man Freddy T. (Freddy Tavares) went down to the Rendezvous Ballroom on the Balboa Peninsula in Balboa, California and stood in the middle of Four Thousand screaming dancing Dick Dale fans and said to Freddy, I now know what Dick Dale is trying to tell me. Back to the drawing board. A special 85 watt output transformer, manufactured by the Triad Transformer Company, was made that peaked 100 watts when Dale would pump up the volume of his amp, this transformer would create the sounds along with Dale's style of playing, the kind of sounds that Dale dreamed of. But they now needed a speaker that would handle the power and not burn up from the volume that would come from Dale's guitar. Leo, Freddy and Dale went to the James B. Lansing speaker company, and they explained that they wanted a fifteen inch speaker built to their specifications. That speaker would soon be known as the 15" JBL -D130 speaker. It made the complete package for Dale to play through and was named the Single Showman Amp. When Dale plugged his Fender Stratocaster guitar into the new Showman Amp and speaker cabinet, Dale became the first creature on earth to jump from the volume scale of a modest quiet guitar player on a scale of 4 to blasting up through the volume scale to TEN! That is when Dale became the "Father of Heavy Metal" as quoted from Guitar Player Magazine. Dale broke through the electronic barrier limitations of that era!<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xymVxcLQVT8?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xymVxcLQVT8?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>
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What another book on D-Day? Well I liked Antony Beevor's other books - Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943; The Fall of Berlin 1945 and The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939, so why not give his D-Day, The Battle of Normandy a try. So far, so good..
Beevor has established a solid reputation as a chronicler of WWII's great eastern front battles: Stalingrad and Berlin. In addressing D-Day, he faces much wider competition with historians like Stephen Ambrose and Max Hastings, who also use his method of integrating personal experiences, tactical engagements, operational intentions and strategic plans. Beevor combines extensive archival research with a remarkable sense of the telling anecdote: he quotes, for example, an officer's description of the bloody mass of arms and legs and heads, [and] cremated corpses created by artillery fire as the Germans tried to escape the Allied breakout. He is sharply critical of senior commanders on both sides: Bernard Montgomery's conceit; Adolf Hitler's self-delusion; Dwight Eisenhower's mediocrity. His heroes are the men who took the invasion ashore and carried it forward into Normandy in the teeth of a German defense whose skill and determination deserved a better cause. The result was a battle of attrition: a bloody slog that tested British and American fighting power to the limit—but not beyond. Beevor says that it wasn't Allied forces' material superiority but their successful use of combined arms and their high learning curve that were decisive in a victory that shaped postwar Europe. Maps, illus. -
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Volume 3 of Shelby Foote's Civil War trilogy.
Because, more than anything else, his language reminds me I never was from Los Angeles nor will I ever be.
(syntax intentional)
There's an audiobook version of this series out their. Foote does the reading! His words and his voice, perfecto!
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It's appropriate for today...
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Five Days in London, May 1940 by John Lukacs.
No. 8 on the 2001 Washington Post Book World Best-Seller list.The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940 altered the course of the history of this century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of John Lukacs’s magisterial new book.
Lukacs takes us hour by hour into the critical unfolding of events at 10 Downing Street, where Churchill and the members of his cabinet were painfully considering their war responsibilities. We see how the military disasters taking place on the Continent—particularly the plight of the nearly 400,000 British soldiers bottled up in Dunkirk—affected Churchill’s fragile political situation, for he had been prime minister only a fortnight and was regarded as impetuous and hotheaded even by many of his own party. Lukacs also investigates the mood of the British people, drawing on newspaper and Mass-Observation reports that show how the citizenry, though only partly informed about the dangers that faced them, nevertheless began to support Churchill’s determination to stand fast.
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Don't know of anyone that has done it better...
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Isley Brothers star Marvin Isley has died at a hospice in Chicago aged 56.
No cause of death was given for the bassist's death after he passed away on Sunday (June 6), but he had suffered from diabetes for over 20 years and lost his legs because of the illness.
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I caught Sir Paul recently on HDNET. It was his concert that christened the Mets new stadium. Not bad for a 67 year old dude (his age in July 2009 at the time of the concert).
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... born March 30, 1945, Eric Patrick Clapton.
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The Quarrymen, established 53 years ago this month by Lennon... with that in mind.
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It's a rocking cover Friday!
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Chris Squire, the bassist and co-founder of veteran prog rock troupe Yes, died on Saturday, June 27, after battling a rare form of leukemia. He was 67.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/chris-squire-yes-bassist-and-co-founder-dies-at-67/ar-AAcfLPx?ocid=ansbillboard11
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