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Jimi

Jimi

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September 3rd Happy Birthday to Memphis Slim (1915), Freddie King (1934), Al Jardine - The Beach Boys (1942), George Biondo - Steppenwolf (1945), Eric Bell - Thin Lizzy (1947), Donald Brewer - Grand Funk Railroad (1948), Doug Pinnick 'dUg' - King's X (1950), Leroy Smith - Sweet Sensation (1952), Steve Jones - Sex Pistols (1955), Suzanne Freytag - Propaganda (1957), Taana Gardner (1960), Darryl Payne (1961), Lester Noel - Beats International (1962), Jennifer Paige (1973), Richard Wingo - Jagged Edge (1975), Redfoo (1975), Tomo Miličević, - 30 Seconds to Mars (1979)
Chart News
1955 Mitch Miller at No.1 on the US chart with ‘The Yellow Rose Of Texas’
1966 Donovan at No.1 on the US chart with 'Sunshine Superman'
1966 The Beatles at No.1 in Australia with ‘Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby’
1977 The month after his death, Elvis Presley had 27 albums and 9 singles in the Top 100 charts in the UK. 'Moody Blue' was the No.1 album while 'Way Down' was No.1 on the singles chart
1979 The Knack at No.1 in Australia with ‘My Sharona’
1983 The Eurythmics at No.1 on the US chart with 'Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)'
1983 UB40 at No.1 on the UK chart with 'Red Red Wine'
2000 A1 at No.1 on the UK chart with 'Take On Me'
2000 Madonna at No.1 on the US and Australian chart with 'Music.'
2000 Robbie Williams at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Sing When You're Winning'
2005 Gorillaz at No.1 on the UK chart with 'Dare'
2006 Kasabian at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Empire'
2006 Justin Timberlake featuring Timbaland at No.1 on the UK chart with 'SexyBack'
2008 Slipknot at No.1 on the US album chart with 'All Hope Is Gone'
2011 Olly Murs featuring Rizzle Kicks at No.1 in the UK with 'Heart Skips a Beat'
2015 Rachel Platten at No.1in the UK with 'Fight Song'
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Gig News
1962 The Beatles played a lunchtime show at The Cavern in Liverpool then an evening gig at The Queen’s Hall, Widnes, Cheshire.
1964 The Beatles played two shows at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis.
1967 The Jimi Hendrix Experience played at the Liseburg in Gothenburg.
1982 The three day US Festival in San Bernardino, California took place featuring, Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac, The Police, The Cars Talking Heads, The Kinks, Ramones, B52's, The English Beat, Gang Of Four, The Grateful Dead, Pat Benatar, Jackson Browne. Apple Computers founder Steven Wozniak bankrolled the festival.
1991 Whitney Houston played the first of 10 dates at Wembley Arena, London.
2002 The Rolling Stones played at The Fleet Centre Boston.
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Music News
2006 Hundreds of Paris Hilton albums were tampered with in record stores in Bristol, Brighton, Birmingham, Newcastle, Glasgow and London in the latest stunt by 'guerrilla artist' Banksy. Banksy had replaced Hilton's CD with his own remixes and gave them titles such as ‘Why am I Famous?’, ‘What Have I Done?’ and ‘What Am I For?’. He had also changed pictures of her on the CD sleeve to show the US socialite topless and with a dog's head
 
Jimi

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Ok I'm gonna call it a night early tonight
Thank you to everyone for playin today
Hope to catch you tomorrow

May be an image of text that says 'Good.Night Good ZeoBredenkamp បមមល It's time to snuggle in-forthe the night! in in-for Sweet Sweet-dream dreams!'
 
gloopdegurp

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2WhiteWolves said:
Just WOW. First of hearing this band. Will have to listen to more of their tunes.
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I just discovered them recently. The singer, Aleah Stanbridge, passed away from cancer before the album was released.
Here is a short video about the band (there is a music introduction for the first minute and a half),


Not a lot of info there, but an introduction if interested.
 
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gloopdegurp said:
I just discovered them recently. The singer, Aleah Stanbridge, passed away from cancer before the album was released.
Here is a short video about the band (there is a music introduction for the first minute and a half),


Not a lot of info there, but an introduction if interested.
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This is so sad, she was so young to have passed away from cancer. Am pleased they released the album in honour of her. Would have never heard her beautiful voice and the band. Really stinks that we won't hear anymore :(
Thank you, Gloop.
 
Jimi

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I went out to the store this mornin and on the way back had this guy who was on an electric unicycle dodge right in front of me (luckily I was goin slow). He went up the hill we use and was goin about 30 MPH on this crazy thing. He come off a side street right in front of me I am just lucky I didn't hit him. Anyway who would be at fault?
 
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September 4th Happy Birthday to Jerry Ragavoy (1930), Sonny Charles (1940), Bubba Knight - The Pips (1942), Gary Duncan - Quicksilver Messenger Service (1946), Ronald La Pread - The Commodores (1949), Cheryl Mason Dorman - The Ritchie Family (1950), Martin Chambers - Pretenders (1951), Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs (1953), Blackie Lawless - WASP (1956), George Hurley - Minutemen (1958), Kim Thayil - Soundgarden (1960), Paul Anthony - Full Force (1960), Sami Yaffa - Hanoi Rocks (1963), DJ Sasha (1969), Ty Longley - Great White (1971), Guto Pryce - Super Furry Animals (1972), Carmit Bachar - The Pussycat Dolls (1974), Nona Gaye (1974), Mark Ronson (1975), Dan Miller - O-Town (1980), Beyonce (1981)
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Chart News
1961 The Highwaymen at No.1 on the US chart with 'Michael'
1965 The Beatles at No.1 on the US chart with 'Help'
1968 The Bee Gees at No.1 on the UK chart with 'I've Gotta Get A Message To You'
1971 Paul and Linda McCartney at No.1 on the US chart with 'Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey'.
1972 Wayne Newton at No.1 in Australia with ‘Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast’
1976 Fleetwood Mac at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Fleetwood Mac'
1976 The Bee Gees at No.1 on the US chart with 'You Should Be Dancing'
1982 Survivor at No.1 on the UK chart with 'Eye Of The Tiger'
1993 Meat Loaf at No.1 in Australia with “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)”
1999 Enrique Iglesias at No.1 on the US chart with 'Ballamos'
2005 McFly at No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘Wonderland’ the group's second No.1 album.
2010 Taio Cruz at No.1 on the UK chart with ‘Dynamite’
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Gig News
1971 Led Zeppelin played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Canada
1973 Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins played Newcastle City Hall
1979 The Grateful Dead played at Madison Square Garden, New York.
1980 Yes (Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Alan White, Geoff Downes and Trevor Horn) played Madison Square Garden, New York.
1982 Queen played at PNE Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada.
1984 U2 played at Sydney Entertainment Centre in Australia.
2007 The Police played the first UK date on their Reunion tour at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, England
 
Bliss Doubt

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Okay, where to talk about this? Not in the health thread. Not in the gardening thread, since I'm only concerned with indoors in my own apartment.

I got ants again. The first 20 or so years I lived here, not one ant. Then one year they came in with a Doordash delivery, either from the restaurant or from the driver's car. I got rid of them pretty quickly with a mixture of honey, water and boric acid. There weren't that many of them.

This year, it seems my whole building is infested. Drought conditions have made it a bonanza year for ants. The only defense an ant in the wild doesn't have is against drowning, so somebody goes out and hoses down the steps and walkways every couple of days. If it rains, even better.

But they are little hitch hikers, coming in on the feet of people, their dogs and cats. Anyway, I had too many to get rid of easily. I'd think they were all gone, but then leave out a plate after lunch for a few minutes before cleaning up, and find the plate swarming with the little beasts. They got under my desk and climbed under my pants legs. They were on the bathroom floor. It made me cry. Is this life from now on? What to do?

Well, you have to bring them all out. All of you out here now! So I made a station in the kitchen, and a smaller one under my desk.

Just for this purpose I bought a package of Little Debbies strawberry shortcake rolls. I mushed one up with some borax (20 Mule Team, cheap in any grocery store), really mushed it together well, with wet hands, so the ants wouldn't be able to separate the food from the borax. It made like a playdough. I spread some out on a small area of the kitchen counter, and spread some on a small tupper lid under my desk.

Let it go. Don't kill them when you see them swarm the bait. They have to take it back to the nest to feed everybody. It took four days. I watched what was going on in the kitchen, couldn't tell so much about the trap under my desk, but I painted my feet and legs with cinnamon oil to keep them from trying to get on me.

So monitoring the kitchen trap, the first day a giant ant metropolis was going to and fro. You could see each one was carrying a teeny tiny dot of food back to the nest. The next day, less but still going strong. Third day, the herd was starting to thin out. Fourth day there were so many dead ants on the playdough, and so few staggering back to the nest, I doused the whole trap with dish detergent and washed the counter clean. You do have to drown the bait, in case some ants are still alive in it. I'm sure now that they are all gone. I removed the tupper lid under my desk, also covered with dead ants, washed that, and sprayed under my desk with peppermint essential oil.

The bathroom was easy, vinegar in a cheap plastic spray bottle, no time at all, but spraying every time I thought of it, and leaving it on the floor, not wiping it up.

I have painted my front and back door thresholds, and the kitchen window sill, with cinnamon oil to keep newcomers away.

I'm not as confident as I used to be about never having ants, but now I know what to do if I get them again, and won't let them drive me mad before taking action.
 
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