Saturday, July 2, 2011
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Collective Soul - Thick
A song from Collective Soul called Thick..... (Unreleased Yet)
Collective Soul is an American rock band originally formed in Stockbridge, Georgia.
Collective Soul is an American rock band originally formed in Stockbridge, Georgia.
Band members
Present
- Ed Roland - (1992–present) - lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards
- Dean Roland - (1993–present) - rhythm guitar
- Will Turpin - (1993–present) - bass guitar, backup vocals
- Joel Kosche - (2001–present) - lead guitar
- Cheney Brannon - (2008–present) - drums, other percussion
Former members
- Ross Childress - (1992–2001) - lead guitar
- Shane Evans - (1992–2003) - drums, percussion
- Ryan Hoyle - (2003–2008) - drums, percussion
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Paan
Paan, from the word pān (Hindi: पान, Urdu: پان) is an Indian/Pakistani and South East Asian tradition of chewing betel leaf (Piper betle) with areca nut and slaked lime paste.
It's All About Missing The Letter "B".
Sometime!!! Missing just one letter in a word can be Funny.... This one is all about My Cousin Missing The Letter "B". GULA + "B" = GULAB... Hahaha
Chitre - Darjeeling, India
This is the view of a Chitre Dara (Darjeeling, India)... We (me and Tashi Uncle) took a hike all the way to the top... View Waz Great... Peaceful indeed... No mans land.. that's what they call... Well it waz a up hill climb - but since i waz playing football and doing all the running - lately - at that time... it waznt that hard a climb... But i did reached 2nd to Uncle.. :)
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Rickshaw Ride In Siluguri, India.
Easiest way to get from one place to another.. in a busy street... Take a Rickshaw Ride... Me and My Sister...
Gurung Loshar (31st Dec) at Pashupatinagar, Ilam, Nepal
Gurung Loshar (31st Dec) at Pashupatinagar, Ilam, Nepal...
Me and My Mom waz waiting for a bus... we were coming back to Kathmandu... Yup! i did spent this new year's eve in the middle of nowhere; inside Nepal...
Me and My Mom waz waiting for a bus... we were coming back to Kathmandu... Yup! i did spent this new year's eve in the middle of nowhere; inside Nepal...
Monday, February 21, 2011
JIM MORRISON - Death Biography
JIM MORRISON
James Douglas "Jim" Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was the lead singer and lyricist of American band The Doors and is widely regarded as one of the most iconic frontmen in rock music history.
DEATH
Morrison flew to Paris in March 1971, took up residence in a rented apartment on the rue Beautreillis on the Right Bank, and went for long walks through the city, admiring the city's architecture. During that time, Morrison shaved his beard and lost some of the weight he had gained in the previous months. The last studio recording was with two American street musicians — a session dismissed by Manzarek as "drunken gibberish". The session included a version of a song-in-progress, "Orange County Suite", which can be heard on the bootleg The Lost Paris Tapes.
Morrison died on July 3, 1971. In the official account of his death, he was found in a Paris apartment bathtub by Courson. Pursuant to French law, no autopsy was performed because the medical examiner claimed to have found no evidence of foul play. The absence of an official autopsy has left many questions regarding Morrison's cause of death.
In Wonderland Avenue, Danny Sugerman discussed his encounter with Courson after she returned to the U.S. According to Sugerman's account, Courson stated that Morrison had died of a heroin overdose, having insufflated what he believed to be cocaine. Sugerman added that Courson had given numerous contradictory versions of Morrison's death, at times saying that she had killed Morrison, or that his death was her fault. Courson's story of Morrison's unintentional ingestion of heroin, followed by accidental overdose, is supported by the confession of Alain Ronay, who has written that Morrison died of a hemorrhage after snorting Courson's heroin, and that Courson nodded off instead of phoning for medical help, leaving Morrison
bleeding to death.
Ronay confessed in an article in Paris Match that he then helped cover up the circumstances of Morrison's death. In the epilogue of No One Here Gets Out Alive, Hopkins and Sugerman write that Ronay and Agnès Varda say Courson lied to the police who responded at the death scene, and later in her deposition, telling them Morrison never took drugs.
In the epilogue to No One Here Gets Out Alive, Hopkins says that 20 years after Morrison's death, Ronay and Varda broke silence and gave this account: They arrived at the house shortly after Morrison's death and Courson said that she and Morrison had taken heroin after a night of drinking. Morrison had been coughing badly, had gone to take a bath, and vomited blood. Courson said that he appeared to recover and that she then went to sleep. When she awoke sometime later Morrison was unresponsive, and so she called for medical assistance.
Courson died of a heroin overdose three years later. Like Morrison, she was 27 years old at the time of her death.
In the epilogue of No One Here Gets Out Alive, Hopkins and Sugerman also claim that Morrison had asthma and was suffering from a respiratory condition involving a chronic cough and throwing up blood on the night of his death. This theory is partially supported in The Doors (written by the remaining members of the band) in which they claim Morrison had been coughing up blood for nearly two months in Paris. None of the members of the Doors were in Paris with Morrison in the months before his death.
In the first version of No One Here Gets Out Alive published in 1980, Sugerman and Hopkins gave some credence to the rumor that Morrison may not have died at all, calling the fake death theory “not as far-fetched as it might seem”. This theory led to considerable distress for Morrison's loved ones over the years, notably when fans would stalk them, searching for evidence of Morrison's whereabouts. In 1995 a new epilogue was added to Sugerman's and Hopkins's book, giving new facts about Morrison's
death and discounting the fake death theory, saying “As time passed, some of Jim and Pamela [Courson]'s friends began to talk about what they knew, and although everything they said pointed irrefutably to Jim's demise, there remained and probably always will be those who refuse to believe that Jim is dead and those who will not allow him to rest in peace.”
In a July 2007 newspaper interview, a self-described close friend of Morrison's, Sam Bernett, resurrected an old rumor and announced that Morrison actually died of a heroin overdose in the Rock 'n' Roll Circus nightclub, on the Left Bank in Paris. Bernett claims that Morrison came to the club to buy heroin for Courson then did some himself and died in the bathroom. Bernett alleges that Morrison was then moved back to the rue Beautreillis apartment and dumped in the bathtub by the same two drug dealers from whom Morrison had purchased the heroin. Bernett says those who saw Morrison that night were sworn to secrecy in order to prevent a scandal for the famous club, and that some of the witnesses immediately left the country. This is just the latest of many in a long line of old rumors and conspiracy theories surrounding Morrison's death and is less supported by witnesses than are the accounts of Ronay and Courson (cited above).
Jim Morrison
James Douglas "Jim" Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was the lead singer and lyricist of American band The Doors and is widely regarded as one of the most iconic frontmen in rock music history.
The Doors
DEATH
Morrison flew to Paris in March 1971, took up residence in a rented apartment on the rue Beautreillis on the Right Bank, and went for long walks through the city, admiring the city's architecture. During that time, Morrison shaved his beard and lost some of the weight he had gained in the previous months. The last studio recording was with two American street musicians — a session dismissed by Manzarek as "drunken gibberish". The session included a version of a song-in-progress, "Orange County Suite", which can be heard on the bootleg The Lost Paris Tapes.
Morrison died on July 3, 1971. In the official account of his death, he was found in a Paris apartment bathtub by Courson. Pursuant to French law, no autopsy was performed because the medical examiner claimed to have found no evidence of foul play. The absence of an official autopsy has left many questions regarding Morrison's cause of death.
Jim Morrison and Pamela Courson (1970)
In Wonderland Avenue, Danny Sugerman discussed his encounter with Courson after she returned to the U.S. According to Sugerman's account, Courson stated that Morrison had died of a heroin overdose, having insufflated what he believed to be cocaine. Sugerman added that Courson had given numerous contradictory versions of Morrison's death, at times saying that she had killed Morrison, or that his death was her fault. Courson's story of Morrison's unintentional ingestion of heroin, followed by accidental overdose, is supported by the confession of Alain Ronay, who has written that Morrison died of a hemorrhage after snorting Courson's heroin, and that Courson nodded off instead of phoning for medical help, leaving Morrison
bleeding to death.
Ronay confessed in an article in Paris Match that he then helped cover up the circumstances of Morrison's death. In the epilogue of No One Here Gets Out Alive, Hopkins and Sugerman write that Ronay and Agnès Varda say Courson lied to the police who responded at the death scene, and later in her deposition, telling them Morrison never took drugs.
In the epilogue to No One Here Gets Out Alive, Hopkins says that 20 years after Morrison's death, Ronay and Varda broke silence and gave this account: They arrived at the house shortly after Morrison's death and Courson said that she and Morrison had taken heroin after a night of drinking. Morrison had been coughing badly, had gone to take a bath, and vomited blood. Courson said that he appeared to recover and that she then went to sleep. When she awoke sometime later Morrison was unresponsive, and so she called for medical assistance.
Courson died of a heroin overdose three years later. Like Morrison, she was 27 years old at the time of her death.
In the epilogue of No One Here Gets Out Alive, Hopkins and Sugerman also claim that Morrison had asthma and was suffering from a respiratory condition involving a chronic cough and throwing up blood on the night of his death. This theory is partially supported in The Doors (written by the remaining members of the band) in which they claim Morrison had been coughing up blood for nearly two months in Paris. None of the members of the Doors were in Paris with Morrison in the months before his death.
In the first version of No One Here Gets Out Alive published in 1980, Sugerman and Hopkins gave some credence to the rumor that Morrison may not have died at all, calling the fake death theory “not as far-fetched as it might seem”. This theory led to considerable distress for Morrison's loved ones over the years, notably when fans would stalk them, searching for evidence of Morrison's whereabouts. In 1995 a new epilogue was added to Sugerman's and Hopkins's book, giving new facts about Morrison's
death and discounting the fake death theory, saying “As time passed, some of Jim and Pamela [Courson]'s friends began to talk about what they knew, and although everything they said pointed irrefutably to Jim's demise, there remained and probably always will be those who refuse to believe that Jim is dead and those who will not allow him to rest in peace.”
In a July 2007 newspaper interview, a self-described close friend of Morrison's, Sam Bernett, resurrected an old rumor and announced that Morrison actually died of a heroin overdose in the Rock 'n' Roll Circus nightclub, on the Left Bank in Paris. Bernett claims that Morrison came to the club to buy heroin for Courson then did some himself and died in the bathroom. Bernett alleges that Morrison was then moved back to the rue Beautreillis apartment and dumped in the bathtub by the same two drug dealers from whom Morrison had purchased the heroin. Bernett says those who saw Morrison that night were sworn to secrecy in order to prevent a scandal for the famous club, and that some of the witnesses immediately left the country. This is just the latest of many in a long line of old rumors and conspiracy theories surrounding Morrison's death and is less supported by witnesses than are the accounts of Ronay and Courson (cited above).
JANIS JOPLIN - Death Biography
JANIS JOPLIN
Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer, songwriter and music arranger.
Janis Joplin
Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer, songwriter and music arranger.
She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company
and later as a solo artist.
with Big Brother Band
DEATH
The last recordings Joplin completed were "Mercedes Benz" and a birthday greeting for John Lennon ("Happy Trails",
composed by Dale Evans) on October 1, 1970. Lennon, whose birthday was October 9, later told Dick Cavett that her
aped greeting arrived at his home after her death. On October 3, Joplin visited the Sunset Sound Recorders in Los Angeles
to listen to the instrumental track for Nick Gravenites' song "Buried Alive in the Blues" prior to recording the vocal track, scheduled for the next day. When she failed to show up at the studio by Sunday afternoon, producer Paul A. Rothchild became concerned. Full Tilt Boogie's road manager, John Cooke, drove to the Landmark Motor Hotel (since renamed the Highland Gardens Hotel) where Joplin had been a guest since August 24. He saw Joplin's psychedelically painted Porschestill in the parking lot. Upon entering her room, he found her dead on the floor. The official cause of death was an overdose of heroin, possibly combined with the effects of alcohol. Cooke believes that Joplin had accidentally been given heroin which was much more potent than normal, as several of her dealer's other customers also overdosed that week.
Joplin was cremated in the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Mortuary in Los Angeles; her ashes were scattered from a plane into the Pacific Ocean and along Stinson Beach. The only funeral service was a private affair held at Pierce Brothers and attended by Joplin's parents and maternal aunt.
Joplin's will funded $2,500 to throw a wake party in the event of her demise. The party, which took place October 26, 1970, at the Lion's Share, located in San Anselmo California, was attended by her sister Laura and Joplin's close friends, that included tattoo artist Lyle Tuttle; Joplin's fiancé Seth Morgan; Bob Gordon; and her road manager, John Cooke. Brownies laced with hashish were unknowingly passed around.
JAMES MARSHALL "JIMI" HENDRIX - Death Biography
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix, November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is widely considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in musical history, and one of the most influential musicians of his era across a range of genres.
DEATH.
Early on September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix died in London. He had spent the latter part of the previous
evening at a party and was picked up by girlfriend Monika Dannemann and driven to her flat at the
Samarkand Hotel, 22 Lansdowne Crescent, Notting Hill. According to the estimated time of death, from
autopsy data and statements by friends about the evening of September 17, he died within a few hours
after midnight, though no precise estimate was made at the original inquest.
With Monika Dannemann
Dannemann claimed in her original testimony that after they returned to her lodgings the evening before,
Hendrix, unknown to her, had taken nine of her prescribed Vesperax sleeping pills. The normal medical
dose was half a tablet, but Hendrix was unfamiliar with this very strong German brand. According to surgeon
John Bannister, the doctor who initially attended to him, Hendrix had asphyxiated in his own vomit, mainly
red wine which had filled his airways, as an autopsy later confirmed. For years, Dannemann publicly
claimed that she had only discovered that her lover was unconscious and unresponsive sometime after 9 a.m.,
that Hendrix was alive when placed in the back of the ambulance after half past eleven, and that she rode with
him on the way to the hospital; the latter two are denied by the ambulance crew. However, Dannemann's
comments about that morning were often contradictory, varying from interview to interview. Police and
ambulance statements reveal that there was no one but Hendrix in the flat when they arrived at 11:27 a.m.,
and not only was he dead when they arrived on the scene, but was fully clothed and had been dead for some time.
Later, Dannemen claimed that former road managers Gerry Stickels and Eric Barrett had been present before
the ambulance was called and had removed some of Hendrix's possessions, including some of his most recent
messages. Lyrics written by Hendrix, which were found in the apartment, led Eric Burdon to make a premature
announcement on the BBC-TV program 24 Hours that he believed Hendrix had committed suicide. Burdon often
claimed he had been telephoned by Dannemann after she discovered that Jimi failed to wake up.
Following a libel case brought in 1996 by Hendrix's long-term English girlfriend Kathy Etchingham,
Monika Dannemann committed suicide.
ALLEGATIONS OF MURDER
A former Animals "roadie," James "Tappy" Wright, published a book in May 2009 claiming Hendrix's manager,
Mike Jeffery, admitted to him that he had Hendrix killed because the rock star wanted to end his management
contract. John Bannister, the doctor who attended the scene of his death in 1970 stated in 2009 that it "sounded plausible".
It was claimed that Mike Jeffery was not "in London," he was in Spain when Jimi died in London on September 18, 1970.
"There was a freak storm across Mallorca and all the phone lines were down. Somebody told Mike that Jimi had been
trying to phone him. The first call that got through was to say Jimi was dead. Mike was terribly upset at the thought of Jimi not being able to get through to him." - Trixie Sullivan, secretary/assistant for Mike Jeffery
Sunday, February 20, 2011
A Tribute To The Rock and Roll Stars....
"I Love Rock 'n Roll" is a rock song written in 1975 by Alan Merrill and Jake Hooker of The Arrows, who recorded the first released version. The song was later made famous by the hit version recorded by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts in 1981.
The song was originally recorded and released by the Arrows in 1975 on RAK Records, with lead vocals by Alan Merrill and produced by Mickie Most. In an interview with Songfacts, Merrill said he wrote it as "a knee-jerk response to The Rolling Stones' It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It).'"[1] This version was first released as a B-side, but was soon re-recorded and flipped to A-side status on a subsequent pressing of the record. Although not a chart hit in its original version as a result of non-existent promotion by the band's label, the song has come to worldwide prominence due to very successful cover versions that have been recorded.
Joan Jett saw the Arrows perform "I Love Rock 'n Roll" on their weekly television series The Arrows Show when she was touring England with The Runaways in 1976. She first recorded the song in 1979 with two of the Sex Pistols: Steve Jones and Paul Cook. This first version was not released until 1993 in Flashback. In 1981, Jett re-recorded the song, this time with her band, The Blackhearts. Early copies of the album, which was released just before Christmas 1981, featured the Christmas song "Little Drummer Boy" but, since it made little sense to have such a song on an album outside the holiday period, it was quickly replaced with "Oh Woe is Me". This recording became a U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one single for seven weeks,[2] effectively launching Jett's solo career. The single was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, representing two million records shipped. This success propelled Jett's I Love Rock 'n Roll album to number two on the Billboard 200.
"I Love Rock 'n' Roll" is the fourth European single released internationally by pop singer Britney Spears from the album Britney during the second quarter of 2002, except in the USA. The song was used in her 2002 movie Crossroads. Spears's character, Lucy, performs it in a karaoke bar. Spears said of the song, "They asked me to sing karaoke in the movie Crossroads and I've actually sung I Love Rock 'n' Roll in a lot of clubs that I've been to."[6]
Spears has publicly admitted the original song to be one of her favorites. Spears listened to The Arrows' original Mickie Most-produced version just before she recorded the song, according to her Jive A&R man Steve Lunt. When promoting the single's release she infamously attributed the hit version of the song to Pat Benatar instead of Jett, although she claims this was a remark made in sarcasm rather than a mistake.
Fiddler's Green - All These Feelings
"Fiddler's Green - All These Feelings"
Do you smell the wind in the heather
Can you hear it coming from behind
There’s a breeze coming out of nowhere
There’s a storm that’s growing in my mind
All these feelings, all these feelings
All these feelings, all these feelings
Young boy is aimlessly seeking
Do you run as if you’re almost blind?
Try to hide in a crowded building
Do you think that’s what you ought to find?
All these feelings, all these feelings
All these feelings, all these feelings
Send your message out of nowhere
For an answer from the other side
Calling you, no one seems to listen
Wonder if I’m wrong or if I’m right
All these feelings, all these feelings
All these feelings, all these feelings
And the earth is shaking, all the rocks are breaking
And the tide is rising, all those waves colliding
With the cold moon blinking, while the sun is sinking down
So you smell the wind in the heather
Can you hear it coming from behind
There’s a breeze coming out of nowhere
There’s a storm that’s growing in my mind
All these feelings, all these feelings
All these feelings, all these feelings
And the earth is shaking, all the rocks are breaking
And the tide is rising, all those waves colliding
With the cold moon blinking, while the sun is sinking down
And the earth is shaking, all the rocks are breaking
And the tide is rising, all those waves colliding
With the cold moon blinking, while the sun is sinking down
All these feelings, all these feelings
All these feelings, all these feelings
All these feelings, all these feelings
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Picturesque....
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