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Jimi Hendrix
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James Marshall Jimi Hendrix was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music, born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and trained as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division, within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Hey Joe, Purple Haze, and The Wind Cries Mary. Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues and he favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in utilizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He helped to popularize the use of a pedal in mainstream rock. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented, Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as a sound source. Hendrix was the recipient of several awards during his lifetime. In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year, disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, Jimi Hendrix was of African American descent. Both his mother Lucille and father Al were African Americans and his paternal grandmother, Zenora Nora Rose Moore, was African American and one-quarter Cherokee. On June 10,1919, Hendrix and Moore had a son they named James Allen Ross Hendrix, in 1941, Al met Lucille Jeter at a dance in Seattle, they married on March 31,1942. Al, who had been drafted by the U. S. Army to serve in World War II, Johnny Allen Hendrix was born on November 27,1942, in Seattle, he was the first of Lucilles five children. In 1946, Johnnys parents changed his name to James Marshall Hendrix, in honor of Al and he spent two months locked up without trial, and while in the stockade received a telegram announcing his sons birth. During Als three-year absence, Lucille struggled to raise their son, when Al was away, Hendrix was mostly cared for by family members and friends, especially Lucilles sister Delores Hall and her friend Dorothy Harding. Al received a discharge from the U. S. Army on September 1,1945. After returning from service, Al reunited with Lucille, but his inability to find steady work left the family impoverished and they both struggled with alcohol, and often fought when intoxicated. The violence sometimes drove Hendrix to withdraw and hide in a closet in their home and his relationship with his brother Leon was close but precarious, with Leon in and out of foster care, they lived with an almost constant threat of fraternal separation. In addition to Leon, Hendrix had three siblings, Joseph, born in 1949, Kathy in 1950, and Pamela,1951, all of whom Al and Lucille gave up to foster care
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First Rays of the New Rising Sun
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First Rays of the New Rising Sun is a compilation album by American rock musician Jimi Hendrix, released in 1997 by MCA Records. It featured songs Hendrix had recorded for a double album before his death in 1970. Kramer selected and sequenced the songs in their form to realize Hendrixs planned album to the best of his abilities, based on the latters notes. First Rays of the New Rising Sun was an attempt to produce the studio album of the same name Hendrix was working on before his death in September 1970. During the 1970s through the 1990s, the songs appeared on other posthumous compilations supervised by producer Alan Douglas. For the 1997 compilation, Kramer instead used the master recordings. He selected tracks based on their level of completion and Hendrixs personal notes. When First Rays of the New Rising Sun was released in 1997, it charted at number 49 on the Billboard 200 in the United States, and at number 37 on the UK Albums Charts in Britain. In 2010, the album was remastered and re-released by Sony Legacy, on March 8 in the UK and March 9 in the US. Nonetheless, Christgau deemed it a successor to The Cry of Love, as well as a powerful collection by a genius whose songwriting kept growing. Sean Murphy from PopMatters believed it was successful than The Cry of Love in realizing Hendrixs vision. He highlighted the presence of bassist Billy Cox, deeming him an improvement over Noel Redding. According to Murphy, Cox allowed the band to out and chase the guitarist as he soars above, around. Rolling Stone magazine called the album a cohesive cosmic missive, writing that it illuminates what would have been a phase for Hendrix. All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix
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The Cry of Love
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The Cry of Love is a posthumous compilation album by American rock musician Jimi Hendrix. It was released in 1971 by Track Records and featured songs he had working on for an album before his death. All of the songs were written by Hendrix and include some of his last studio work, the Cry of Love was the first in a number of other posthumous releases that were released in the following years. Critics responded favorably to the album, viewing it as an tribute to Hendrix. The Cry of Love is composed mostly of songs which Hendrix recorded in 1970 at his new Electric Lady Studios in New York City with drummer Mitch Mitchell, about half of the albums ten songs were nearly completed with mixes prepared by Hendrix. The balance were in varying stages of development and were mixed after his death, the album credits Hendrix as a producer, as well as long-time recording engineer Eddie Kramer and Mitchell, who prepared the final mixes and track selection, with input from manager Michael Jeffery. Seven of the songs on The Cry of Love were later included on Voodoo Soup, in 1997, all were included on First Rays of the New Rising Sun, along with seven other songs, in Kramers most realized effort to complete Hendrixs last studio album. They were replaced by Straight Ahead and My Friend on the track listing. The Cry of Love was released by Track Records in March 1971 and it charted at number two in the United Kingdom and number three in the United States, where it had sold 500,000 copies by April. In 1998, the Recording Industry Association of America certified the album platinum, in 2014, VH1 deemed The Cry of Love the greatest posthumous classic rock record of all time. That same year, it was reissued in both CD and LP formats by Experience Hendrix, all tracks written by Jimi Hendrix. The Cry of Love at Acclaimed Music The Cry of Love at Discogs
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Concert tour
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A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience. A recital is a concert by a soloist or small group which follows a program, a recitalist is a musician who gives frequent recitals. The invention of the piano recital has been attributed to Franz Liszt. The performance may be by a musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, choir. Indoor concerts held in the largest venues are sometimes called arena concerts or amphitheatre concerts, informal names for a concert include show and gig. Regardless of the venue, musicians perform on a stage. Concerts often require live event support with professional audio equipment, before recorded music, concerts provided the main opportunity to hear musicians play. The nature of a concert varies by musical genre, individual performers, concerts by a small jazz combo or small bluegrass band may have the same order of program, mood, and volume—but vary in music and dress. In a similar way, a musician, band, or genre of music might attract concert attendees with similar dress, hairstyle. For example, concert goers in the 1960s often had hair, sandals. Regular attendees to a concert venue might also have a style that comprises that venues scene. Other Types of concerts, To plan or arrange by mutual agreement, some performers or groups put on very elaborate and expensive shows. To create a memorable and exciting atmosphere and increase the spectacle, some singers, especially popular music, augment concert sound with pre-recorded accompaniment, back-up dancers, and even broadcast vocal tracks of the singers own voice. Activities during these concerts can include dancing, sing-alongs, and moshing, concerts involving a greater number of artists, especially those that last for multiple days, are known as festivals. Unlike other concerts, which remain in a single genre of music or work of a particular artist, festivals often cover a broad scope of music. Due to their size, festivals are almost exclusively held outdoors, new platforms for festivals are becoming increasingly popular such as Jam Cruise, which is a festival held on a cruise ship, as well as Mayan Holidaze, which is a destination festival held in Tulum. Often concert tours are named, to differentiate different tours by the same artist, different segments of longer concert tours are known as legs. In the largest concert tours it is becoming common for different legs to employ separate touring production crews and equipment
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Noel Redding
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Noel David Redding was an English rock musician, best known as the bass player and occasional lead singer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience and guitarist/singer for Fat Mattress. There he formed the Noel Redding Band with former Thin Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell with whom he released two albums, although by the 1980s Redding had largely removed himself from the music business, he would later perform around his new hometown with wife Carol Appleby. Redding was born at Royal Victoria Hospital in Folkestone, Kent to Bromley-born Margaret and he grew up on Cliff Road, Seabrook where his mother ran a guest house, with his mother, his Swedish-born grandmother, brother Anthony and sister Vicki. He attended St Leonards Primary in Hythe and Harvey Grammar School in Folkestone, at age nine, he played violin at school and then mandolin and guitar. His first public appearances were at the Hythe Youth Club then at his school. His first local bands, in which he played guitar, were, The Strangers, with John Andy Andrews The Lonely Ones,1961 - John Andrews, Bob Hiscocks, Mick Wibley. First recordings, Some Other Guy, Money, Talking About You, the Loving Kind,1966 with Pete Carter, Jim Leverton, and Derek Knight. At 17 Redding went professional and toured clubs in Scotland and Germany with Neil Landon, in addition, The Lonely Ones reunited in September 1964, and Redding remained with them a year before taking his leave. Redding switched from guitar to bass on joining the Jimi Hendrix Experience and he was the first person to join the Experience. With the band, he helped create the three landmark albums Are You Experienced, Axis, Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland, as well as performing in some of Hendrixs most celebrated concerts. His playing style was distinguished by the use of a pick, a mid-range trebly sound and his role in the band was that of a time-keeper. This was evident in the Experiences version of Come On and Drivin South from the BBC Sessions and he would typically lay down a bass groove over which Hendrix and drummer Mitch Mitchell would loosely play. Redding wrote and sang lead on two tracks, Little Miss Strange and Shes So Fine. He played the line on Red House using the bass strings on a normal six-string guitar. In 1968, Redding formed the group Fat Mattress with another Kent musician, the band also included Jim Leverton on bass and keyboards and Eric Dillon on drums. Redding played guitar and vocals, and a key part of the Fat Mattress sound was the vocal harmonies between him, Landon and Leverton, the band initially toured in support of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, requiring Redding to play two full sets each night. He left Fat Mattress after only one album with them, though some of his compositions would appear on their second album, Hendrixs manager, Michael Jeffery, attempted to reunite the Jimi Hendrix Experience months after the Woodstock event. The three were interviewed by Rolling Stone magazine, but no shows or recordings resulted, Redding soon went on to other projects
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Mitch Mitchell
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John Graham Mitch Mitchell was an English drummer who was best known for his work in the Jimi Hendrix Experience. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2009, Mitchell was born in Ealing, Middlesex to Phyliss C and Thomas J Mitchell. As a teenager, he starred in a television programme, Jennings and Derbyshire. Mitchell became a musician working at Jim Marshalls drum shop on Saturdays while still at school. In 1965, he also replaced temporarily Viv Prince as drummer in the Pretty Things, from December 1965 until October 1966, Mitchell was the drummer of Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, appearing on their 1966 album, Sweet Things. In a 2015 interview, Fame recalled, His main hero was jazz drummer Ronnie Stephenson and if you look at early film clips of Mitch, he had that Ronnie Stephenson look, the way he set his jaw. And he loved crashing around on the cymbals like Ronnie, when he started splashing around Id say, Just play the hi-hat. Mitchell auditioned for Hendrixs band in October 1966, edging out drummer Aynsley Dunbar on the flip of a coin, Mitchells fast, driving, jazz influenced playing meshed well with Hendrixs open-ended, revolutionary approach to the electric guitar. Mitchell came from a background, and like many of his contemporaries in the London scene, was influenced by Elvin Jones, Max Roach. He played in Hendrixs Experience trio from October 1966 to mid-1969, in the Woodstock band, in December 1968, Mitchell played with the Dirty Mac, an all-star band assembled for The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus. Others included John Lennon as vocalist and rhythm guitarist Winston Leg-Thigh, Yoko Ono providing improvised primal screams, Eric Clapton as guitarist, the group recorded a cover of Yer Blues as well as a jam called Whole Lotta Yoko. Mitchell also took part in Miles Davis demo sessions for the 1969 album Bitches Brew, after Hendrixs death, Mitchell finished production work with engineer Eddie Kramer on incomplete Hendrix recordings, resulting in the releases The Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge. In 1972, he teamed up with guitarists Mike Pinera and April Lawton to form Ramatam and they recorded the first of Ramatams two albums and were an opening act for Emerson, Lake & Palmer at a number of concerts. Mitchell and Hendrix had been offered spots in the band Keith Emerson and Greg Lake were forming, Ramatam never achieved commercial success and Mitchell left the act before their second LP was released. Mitchell also performed in concerts with Terry Reid, Jack Bruce, Mitchell drummed alongside John Halsey in the 1970s jam band, Hinkleys Heroes, the only time he played alongside another drummer. Michael Jeffery, Hendrixs manager, had relegated Mitchell and Noel Redding to paid employees without a share in future revenues. This had limited their earnings, since Mitchell and Redding had been excluded from sharing in revenues generated from the Experience. Financial hardship pressured Mitchell in the mid-1970s to sell a prized Hendrix guitar and he also sold his small legal claim to future Hendrix record sales for about $200,000
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Billy Cox
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William Billy Cox is an American bassist, best known for performing with Jimi Hendrix. Cox is the surviving member of Jimi Hendrixs three main bands, including the original Experience lineup, he was in the Band of Gypsys. Cox was also in the short-lived Hendrix band Gypsy Sun and Rainbows which played Woodstock, Cox continues to perform dates with the Band of Gypsys Experience and the Experience Hendrix Tour. Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, Billy Cox was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Cox met Jimi Hendrix when they were serving in the Army at Fort Campbell, Kentucky in 1961. While using the bathroom at Service Club #1 during a sudden rainstorm, impressed with what he heard, he introduced himself, told Hendrix he played bass, and they were jamming soon after. They became, and remained, fast friends and they left the military around the same time and they played clubs around Clarksville, Tennessee, finally moving to Nashville. They formed a group called the King Kasuals and they played at Nashville clubs, mostly the Del Morocco, and occasional outlying gigs in the southeast, once as far north as Indianapolis playing what was called the Chitlin Circuit. Cox and Hendrix played in the band for Marion James around this time. Chandler took Hendrix to England, but before Hendrix left, he called Cox, Cox Only had three strings on my bass and no money to travel to New York, so he thanked Hendrix and wished him well. From 1962 to 1968 Cox gained musical experience and developed his expertise, Cox played bass on the pioneering R&B television shows, Nashville’s “Night Train” and then the “The. Beat” from Dallas, Texas, working closely with Hoss Allen, Billy Cox has played behind many famous artists. In 1969, several months before bassist Noel Redding left the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Hendrix called his old friend Cox, following the break-up of the Experience, Cox became a member of Hendrixs experimental group, tentatively titled Gypsy Sun and Rainbows. This group went on to play at Woodstock and two low-key New York gigs before being disbanded, Hendrix then formed another short-lived group with Cox and Buddy Miles, the Band of Gypsys. They recorded the eponymously titled live LP that he owed former manager Ed Chalpin as part of a legal settlement, following their demise, Cox played a series of shows with Hendrix and Mitch Mitchell in the reformed New Experience, formerly called The Cry of Love. On September 8,2006, Cox mentioned in an interview on the KQRS-FM morning show that he can be playing bass on five of the first notes of Jimi Hendrixs famous Woodstock Star Spangled Banner. The rendition was completely impromptu according to him and he said he thought to himself at the moment, I realized we had not rehearsed this, I had better lay off. He toured with Hendrix, usually billed as the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cox lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he remains active in music, and acts as an ambassador for Jimi Hendrix, his music and philosophy. In 1971, Cox released his album Nitro Function with Char Vinnedge and Robert Tarrant, Cox played with others, including the Charlie Daniels Band, as well as session work and live dates
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience was an American-English rock band that formed in Westminster, London, in September 1966. Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Jimi Hendrix, bassist and backing vocalist Noel Redding, and drummer Mitch Mitchell comprised the group, during this time, they released three studio albums and became one of the most popular acts in rock. In April 1970, Hendrix, Mitchell, and bassist Billy Cox performed and recorded until Hendrixs death on September 18,1970 and this later trio was sometimes billed as the Jimi Hendrix Experience, but the title was never formalized. Highly influential in the popularization of hard rock and psychedelic rock, the Experience was best known for the skill, style, in 1992, the Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Jimi Hendrix arrived in England on September 24,1966, and with his new manager and former Animals bassist, Chas Chandler, formed a band with bassist Noel Redding. Mitchell was a seasoned London drummer formerly with Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, Hendrix chose Redding because of his attitude towards music and his hairstyle. Redding had been a player until that time, but played bass in the band. The name The Jimi Hendrix Experience was coined by their business manager Michael Jeffery, the first official appearance of The Jimi Hendrix Experience was at the Novelty in Évreux, France, on October 13,1966. Six days later the band played their first UK gig at a showcase at the Scotch of St James. Though conceived as back-up band for Hendrix, the Experience, as a unit, gained fame and critical acclaim. Following the lead of Cream, the Jimi Hendrix Experience was one of the first groups to popularize the power trio format, which limited a rock bands line-up to guitar, bass and drums. Hendrix combined lead and rhythm guitar styles and used special effects to modify his guitar such as feedback. Mitchell sometimes utilized jazz-influenced grooves, while Redding played simple bass lines that helped to anchor the bands sound, visually, they set the trend in psychedelic clothes and hairstyles. The Whos Pete Townshend admitted, changed the sound of electric guitar. Clapton agreed, after Pete Townshend and I went to see him play, I thought that was it, the group came to prominence in the US after the June 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, one of the first major rock music festivals. The bands performance ended with Hendrix famously setting his psychedelically painted Fender Stratocaster on fire, after the festival they toured with the Monkees, but left the tour two weeks later, reportedly due to lack of audience response. By April 1969, however, Hendrixs deteriorating relations with Redding were coming to a head, the original group held together long enough to fulfill their existing engagements, culminating in the Denver Pop Festival on June 29,1969. After hearing that Hendrix was planning to expand the Experience lineup without first consulting him, Redding quit the group, Hendrix and Mitchell experimented with a larger ensemble that included bassist Billy Cox
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Woodstock
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Billed as An Aquarian Exposition,3 Days of Peace & Music, it was held at Max Yasgurs 600-acre dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel. Bethel, in Sullivan County, is 43 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, during the sometimes rainy weekend,32 acts performed outdoors before an audience of 400,000 people. It is widely regarded as a moment in popular music history. Rolling Stone listed it as one of the 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock, in 2017 the festival site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Woodstock was initiated through the efforts of Michael Lang, John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Roberts and Rosenman financed the project. Lang had some experience as a promoter, having co-organized a small festival on the East Coast the prior year, the Miami Pop Festival, where an estimated 25,000 people attended the two-day event. Early in 1969, Roberts and Rosenman were New York City entrepreneurs, in the process of building Media Sound, unpersuaded by this Studio-in-the-Woods proposal, Roberts and Rosenman counter-proposed a concert featuring the kind of artists known to frequent the Woodstock area. Kornfeld and Lang agreed to the new plan, and Woodstock Ventures was formed in January 1969, the company offices were located in an oddly decorated floor of 47 West 57th Street in Manhattan. Burt Cohen, and his group, Curtain Call Productions. When Lang was unable to find a site for the concert, Roberts and Rosenman, growing increasingly concerned, took to the road, similar differences about financial discipline made Roberts and Rosenman wonder whether to pull the plug or to continue pumping money into the project. In April 1969, newly minted superstars Creedence Clearwater Revival became the first act to sign a contract for the event, the promoters had experienced difficulty landing big-name groups prior to Creedence committing to play. Creedence drummer Doug Clifford later commented, Once Creedence signed, everyone else jumped in line, given their 3,00 a. m. start time and omission from the Woodstock film, Creedence members have expressed bitterness over their experiences at the famed festival. Woodstock was designed as a venture, aptly titled Woodstock Ventures. It famously became a free concert only after the event drew hundreds of more people than the organizers had prepared for. Tickets for the event cost $18 in advance and $24 at the gate. Ticket sales were limited to record stores in the greater New York City area, around 186,000 advance tickets were sold, and the organizers anticipated approximately 200,000 festival-goers would turn up. The original venue plan was for the festival to take place in Woodstock, New York, after local residents quickly shot down that idea, Lang and Kornfeld thought they had found another possible location in Saugerties, New York. But they had misunderstood, as the landowners attorney made clear, in a meeting with Roberts
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Band of Gypsys
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Band of Gypsys is a live album by Jimi Hendrix and the first without his original group, the Jimi Hendrix Experience. It was recorded on January 1,1970, at the Fillmore East in New York City with Billy Cox on bass and Buddy Miles on drums, frequently referred to as the Band of Gypsys. The album mixes funk and rhythm and blues elements with hard rock and jamming and it contains previously unreleased songs and was the last full-length Hendrix album released before his death. After his appearance at Woodstock with an group that included Cox, Hendrix began developing new songs. When Miles became involved, he and Cox agreed to record an album with Hendrix to be used to settle a contract dispute with a former manager. The new material, influenced by Coxs and Miles musical approaches, songs such as Power of Soul and Message to Love still maintain the dominant role of Hendrixs guitar, but show funk and R&B influences. Lyrically, they explore new, more humanistic themes for Hendrix. The two numbers written and sung by Miles bear the stylings of soul music, the anti-riot/anti-war Machine Gun, draws on Hendrixs earlier blues aspirations, but incorporates new approaches to guitar improvisation and tonal effects. As the albums producer, Hendrix had a difficult time completing the task, presented with the sometimes problematic recordings and resigned to turning it over to a different record company, Hendrix expressed his dissatisfaction with the final product. Shortly after its release, Band of Gypsys reached the top ten of the charts in the US. Although it was as popular as his albums with the Experience, some faulted the performances as tentative and underprepared, additionally, Miles contributions on drums and vocals have been characterized as plodding and obtrusive. However, Machine Gun is generally regarded as the albums highlight, the influence of Band of Gypsys is heard in the funk rock developments of the 1970s and has been cited as an inspiration by various later rock musicians. Reissues of the album on compact disc included three songs recorded during the Fillmore East shows and additional material has been released on later albums. In 1969, Jimi Hendrix was under pressure from his manager and he was also required to produce an albums worth of new material for Capitol Records in order to satisfy a contract dispute with former manager Ed Chalpin and PPX Enterprises. Capitol had released two misleading Chalpin-produced Curtis Knight albums with Hendrix on guitar, which competed directly with his own Experience albums, additionally, Hendrix was becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the limitations of bassist Noel Redding and the Experience format. During the recording of Electric Ladyland, he and producer Chas Chandler parted ways and Hendrix explored recording with new musicians, a concert film for which he had performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London in February 1969 was wrapped up in legal disputes and its release was uncertain. In May, while en route to a performance in Toronto. If convicted of the felony, he faced as many as 20 years in prison, on June 28,1969, Hendrix announced he planned to work with new musicians, including a new bass player
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Buddy Miles
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George Allen Buddy Miles, Jr. was an American rock drummer, vocalist, composer, and producer. He was a member of The Electric Flag, a member of Jimi Hendrixs Band of Gypsys, founder and leader of the Buddy Miles Express and later. In addition to Jimi Hendrix, Miles played and recorded with Carlos Santana, Mike Bloomfield, in a lighter vein, he sang lead vocals on the popular California Raisins claymation TV commercials and recorded two California Raisins R&B albums. Miles was born in Omaha, Nebraska on September 5,1947. Buddys father played bass for the likes of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Parker. Miles played with a variety of rhythm and blues and soul acts as a teenager, including Ruby & the Romantics, the Delfonics, and Wilson Pickett. In 1964, at the age of 16, Miles met Jimi Hendrix at a show in Montreal in Canada, in 1967, Miles joined Hendrix in a jam session at the Malibu home of Stephen Stills. They also went on to play again in 1968 in both Los Angeles and New York. In the same year, Miles moved to Chicago where he teamed with guitarist Mike Bloomfield and vocalist Nick Gravenites to form The Electric Flag, a blues/soul/rock band. In addition to playing drums, Miles sometimes sang lead vocals for the band, in early 1968, the band released A Long Time Comin, its first album for Columbia. The Electric Flags second album, An American Music Band, followed late the same year, shortly after that release, though, the group disbanded. In the same year, Hendrix used several guest artists, including Miles, during the recording of the album, at age 21, after the breakup of The Electric Flag, Miles put together a new band with Jim McCarty, who later became the guitarist for Cactus. This new group performed and recorded as the Buddy Miles Express, in 1969, Hendrix wrote a short poem as a liner note for Expressway To Your Skull, the first studio album recorded by the Buddy Miles Express. Hendrix went on to four of the tracks on the groups follow-up album. The title of the latter LP was taken from Hendrixs poem on the first, in 1969 he appeared on British jazz guitarist John McLaughlins album Devotion. In 1970, after the Buddy Miles Express split up, Miles began a collaboration with Hendrix, Together, they formed Band of Gypsys, producing one self-titled live album before disbanding. Later in 1970, while recording the album We Got To Live Together, Buddy Miles learned of the death of Hendrix, released in 1971, We Got To Live Together was produced by Miles and Robin McBride. It comprises five songs, including the instrumental Easy Greasy, the other cuts on the album were Runaway Child, Walking Down the Highway, We Got To Live Together and Take It Off Him and Put It on Me
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Set list
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A set list, or setlist, is a document that lists the songs that a band or musical artist intends to play, or has played, during a specific concert performance. Hand-written or printed, on paper, cardboard, or laminate, it is taped to the stage. Music fans also refer to the set list in the sense of what a performing artist chooses to play. For many artists, the set list is played for every performance on a given concert tour. For others this is not necessarily the case, and for their fan bases who follow the artist around on tour. The Grateful Dead are one example, having never played the set list twice in the bands entire existence. Web sites exist to track and report statistics on the set lists of those artists who change them from night to night. Roadies sometimes keep the set lists for themselves, and sell them up on eBay, instances of deviations of the actual show from the planned one are then spotted, these are called audibles after the American football term
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Freedom (Jimi Hendrix song)
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Freedom is a Jimi Hendrix song released in 1971 from the album The Cry of Love. The album was released posthumously in 1971 and became a major hit and this was the only single released from the album and was somewhat successful on the charts, reaching number 59 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. It is now one of the popular songs in the Hendrix collection. It was later featured on the 1997 album First Rays of the New Rising Sun, the lyrics Keep on pushing straight ahead. Towards the end of the song are most likely a reference to the Curtis Mayfield song Keep On Pushing from the album of the same name. Mayfield was an influence on Hendrix, from whom he borrowed much of his R&B rhythm guitar style, as heard on recordings such as Have You Ever Been. Straight ahead is a phrase which features on tracks from the period—and it was one of the titles considered for his final studio album. In 1990 Psychefunkapus performed a version on the album Psychefunkapus, in 1994, Steve Lukather sang this song for his album Candyman. In 1995 Jeff Healey performed a version on the album Cover To Cover, in 1997 Joe Lynn Turner performed a version on the album Under Cover. In 2011 Jon Stevens covered the song on his album, Testify, on March 19,2009 the song was released as downloadable content playable on basic controllers for Guitar Hero, World Tour
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Fire (The Jimi Hendrix Experience song)
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Fire is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience in early 1967. It has been described as an exercise in soul, psychedelic rock, the song was remixed in stereo for the American release of the album. In 1969, it was released as a single in the UK with the title Let Me Light Your Fire. One of Hendrixs most popular songs, he played it in concert. Despite its sexual overtones, the song had an innocuous origin, noel Redding, bass player for the Experience, invited Hendrix to his mothers house on a cold New Years Eve in Folkestone, England, after a gig. Hendrix asked Noels mother if he could stand next to her fireplace to warm himself and she agreed, but her Great Dane was in the way, so Hendrix let out with, Aw, move over, Rover, and let Jimi take over. Hendrix later joked with the lyric, Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to find her poor dog a bone, kingston Wall covered it on their 1992 debut album I. In 1994, the rock band Those Darn Accordions recorded a version for their 1994 album Squeeze This. Where it was sung by a then 79-year-old Clyde Forsman, one of the groups accordionists, alice Cooper covered it on his 1995 compilation album Classicks. SSQ covered the song as a b-side to their single Synthicide
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Purple Haze
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Purple Haze is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and released as the second record single by the Jimi Hendrix Experience on March 17,1967. As a record chart hit in countries and the opening number on the Experiences debut American album. The song features his guitar playing, which uses the signature Hendrix chord. Because of ambiguities in the lyrics, listeners often interpret the song as referring to a psychedelic experience, Purple Haze is one of Hendrixs best-known songs and appears on many Hendrix compilation albums. The song featured regularly in concerts and each of Hendrixs group configurations issued live recordings and it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and is included on lists of the greatest guitar songs, including at number two by Rolling Stone and number one by Q magazine. By January 5,1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experiences first single, Hey Joe, backed with Stone Free, Hey Joe was not a Hendrix composition – it was written by Billy Roberts and recorded by several groups prior to the Experience. Hendrix commented, That record isnt us, the next ones gonna be different. Were working on an LP which will mainly be our stuff, the group recorded several demos of original material at studios in London, including Can You See Me, Foxy Lady, Third Stone from the Sun, Red House, and Remember. In the middle of December, producer Chas Chandler heard Hendrix toying around with a new guitar riff, I heard him playing it at the flat and was knocked out. I told him to working on that, saying, Thats the next single. Chandler claimed that some more urging, Hendrix wrote the rest of Purple Haze in the dressing room of a London club during the afternoon of December 26,1966. In several interviews, Hendrix spoke about writing the song, the Experience began recording Purple Haze on January 11,1967, at De Lane Lea Studios in London. According to drummer Mitch Mitchell, he and bassist Noel Redding learned the song in the studio, Hendrix came in and kind of hummed us the riff and showed Noel the chords, I listened to it and we went, OK, lets do it. We got it on the take as I recall. The basic track was recorded in four hours, according to Chandler, multitrack recording technology allowed engineers to record and complete additional parts on the final master. It wasnt like we were there for days on end and we recorded it, and then Hendrix and I would be sitting at home saying, Lets try that. Then we would go in for an hour or two, Thats how it was in those days. However long it took to one specific idea, thats how long we would book
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Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
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Voodoo Child is a song recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1968 that appears on the Electric Ladyland album released that year. It contains improvised guitar and a vocal from Jimi Hendrix, backed by Noel Redding on bass, the song is one of Hendrixs best known, it was a feature of his concert performances throughout his career and several live renditions were recorded and released on later albums. After his death in 1970, Voodoo Child, using the title Voodoo Chile, was released in the UK, several artists have performed or recorded versions of the song. Rolling Stone magazine included it at number 102 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, Voodoo Child was developed from Voodoo Chile, recorded May 2,1968, during a studio jam with Steve Winwood on organ and Jack Casady on bass. The next day, Hendrix returned to the studio with Redding, Noel Redding explained, We learned that song in the studio. They had the cameras rolling on us as we played it, Hendrix added, omeone was filming when we started doing. According to Hendrix biographer Steven Roby, eight takes of the song were recorded by Hendrix, Redding, and Mitchell, and the one was chosen as the master. Author Charles Shaar Murray examines Hendrixs use of the term Voodoo Child in his book Crosstown Traffic and he notes that Voodoo symbolism and reference resound through the country blues, and through the urbanized electric county blues of the Chicago school. In Hendrix’s case, this is pure metaphor and he certainly was not a Voodoo inititate in any formal sense. At the time, he was being pressured to make a statement about racial issues in the U. S, Voodoo Child became a staple of Hendrixs concert performances and would vary in length from seven to eighteen minutes. Many more recordings have also been issued, the real guitar explorations happen midway through the song, while the basic, thundering riff is unrelenting. Rolling Stone magazine included the song at number 102 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. A variety of musicians have recorded Voodoo Child, sometimes using the shortened title Voodoo Child, some of these include, Stevie Ray Vaughan on the album Couldnt Stand the Weather and Live Alive. Pop Mašina on Antologija 1972–1976 Gary Moore on Blues for Jimi Brick + Mortar List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 1970s Henderson, scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky, The Life of Jimi Hendrix. McDermott, John, Kramer, Eddie, Cox, Billy, new York City, St. Martins Press. Black Gold, The Lost Archives of Jimi Hendrix, new York City, St. Martins Press
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Machine Gun (Jimi Hendrix song)
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Machine Gun is a song written by American musician Jimi Hendrix, and originally recorded by Band of Gypsys for their self-titled live album. It is a lengthy, loosely defined protest of the Vietnam War, the Band of Gypsys performance is often lauded as Hendrixs finest, and is widely considered a particularly fine electric guitar performance. The Band of Gypsys version of Machine Gun is roughly 12 minutes long, Machine Gun debuted in September 1969 with a performance by Hendrix and his bandmates at that time, drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox. The song was broadcast on The Dick Cavett Show the week of September 5, most known performances are between ten and twenty minutes long, varying somewhat in their lyrics. The improvisatory material revolves around a descending riff and bassline. The bass and drum patterns then commence, Machine Gun is a prime example of Hendrixs use of guitar effects, as most recordings use a wah-wah pedal, an Arbiter Fuzz Face, a Univibe pedal, and an Octavia pedal, as well as heavy feedback. Two versions of the song appears on the expanded Band of Gypsys album Live at the Fillmore East released in 1999, a fourth is included on Machine Gun, The Fillmore East First Show. Drawing upon the protest theme, The Isley Brothers performed a medley of Machine Gun and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Youngs song Ohio on their 1971 album Givin It Back
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Hear My Train A Comin'
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Hear My Train A Comin is a blues-based song written by Jimi Hendrix. Lyrically, it was inspired by earlier American spirituals and blues songs which use a metaphor to represent salvation. Hendrix recorded the song in live, studio, and impromptu settings several times between 1967 and 1970, but never completed it to his satisfaction, the documentary film Experience features the only version released during Hendrixs lifetime. Hendrix played the solo as an acoustic guitar country-style blues. In 1973, it was included in the film Jimi Hendrix, the song was also released as a single in the UK. Hendrix often played Hear My Train A Comin in concert using a rock arrangement with accompaniment. He developed it into an extended improvisational guitar piece comparable to Voodoo Child, there are several live performances in release, according to music critics, the 1970 recording from the Berkeley Community Theatre is considered the definitive version. Recent Hendrix compilation albums, such as People, Hell and Angels, Hear My Train A Comin is one of several blues-oriented songs that were in Hendrixs repertoire throughout his career. One of his earliest recordings with the Experience was his composition Red House, a song inspired by Albert King. In their early years, the Experience adapted and frequently performed other songs, including Howlin Wolfs Killing Floor. Kings Rock Me Baby, Elmore James Bleeding Heart, and Catfish Blues and they also played Muddy Waters Hoochie Coochie Man in 1967 with BBC Rhythm and Blues radio show host Alexis Korner accompanying the group on slide guitar. Hendrix biographer John McDermott calls Hear My Train A Comin a powerful blues prayer based on the salvation-train metaphor running through American folklore of every color, a 1897 manuscript by Richard Spurling describes the gospel train as built by God to carry redeemed sinners safely from this wilderness. The late-1800s spiritual The Gospel Train uses the lyrics I hear the train a-comin, when he left home at 18, Hendrix departed by train for U. S. Army basic training in California. Jimis confusion about leaving those he cared about coexisted with his eagerness to put his nightmarish existence in Seattle behind him, biographer John McDermott describes his lyrics as a powerful blues prayer based on the salvation-train metaphor running through American folklore of every color and faith. In his August 1970 handwritten notes for the listing of his proposed fourth studio album. It is unclear why it was renamed Hear My Train A Comin for subsequent releases, occasionally he added a train reference to the song title, such as Lonesome Train, I See My Train, and Waitin Down at the Train Station. As Hendrix developed the song, he added to the lyrics and included Im gonna be a voodoo child, about a cat runnin around town and his old lady, she dont want him around and a whole lot of people from across the tracks are puttin him down. And nobody dont want to face up to it but the cat might have somethin, so he goes on the road to be a Voodoo Child, come back to be a Magic Boy
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Will Rogers Coliseum
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The Will Rogers Memorial Center is an 85-acre public entertainment, sports and livestock complex located in Fort Worth, Texas. The complex is named for American humorist and writer Will Rogers, the WRMC is the home of the annual Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo. It is also the home of the Fort Worth Texans ice hockey team. Events at the WRMC attract over 2 million visitors annually, Hedrick, who employed the Moderne style. Also in 1936 Amon G. Carter commissioned Electra Waggoner Biggs to create the statue Riding into the Sunset, over a decade later, in 1947, the work was unveiled at the Center. On March 22,2016, the complex was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, will Rogers Memorial Center Will Rogers Memorial Center Calendar of Events Wyatt Cephas Hedrick from the Handbook of Texas Online
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Foxy Lady
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Foxy Lady is a song by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. It first appeared on their 1967 debut album Are You Experienced and was issued as their third single in the U. S. with the alternate spelling. It is one of Hendrixs best-known songs and was performed in concerts throughout his career. Rolling Stone magazine placed the song at number 153 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, music critic Thomas Ward points out if one song could be said to encapsulate Hendrix’s entire oeuvre, Foxey Lady is certainly closer than most. The song opens with a fingered note shaken in a wide exaggerated vibrato so the adjacent strings are sounded. According to biographer Keith Shadwick, casts the whole solo in the vernacular, using bent notes and glisses, or slides. To that he adds the new melodicism he had been hearing on recent British rock records, prior to the recording, the group had not worked out an ending for the song and bassist Noel Redding claimed that using the last IV chord was his idea. Hendrix biographer Harry Shapiro suggests that songs lyrics were inspired by Heather Taylor, Hendrix later commented that he did not approach women in such a straightforward manner as the lyrics suggested. Lithofayne Faye Pridgon, Hendrixs girlfriend in the mid 1960s, has also suggested as the inspiration for the song. Hendrixs American record company Reprise Records issued the song in December 1967, one month before the release of the second Experience album, Axis, Reprise used the title Foxey Lady, which also appeared on the North American release of Are You Experienced. It was backed with Hey Joe, which Reprise had already released as a single in April 1967, in 1967, Polydor Records issued the single in Germany with Manic Depression as the B-side, but it did not appear on the charts. It is also one of the few songs to be performed by each of the different Hendrix lineups, including the Experience, Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, the Band of Gypsys, and the Cry of Love touring group. Live renditions appear on Live at Monterey, Live at Woodstock, Band of Gypsys 2, Blue Wild Angel, Live at the Isle of Wight, rolling Stone magazine ranked Foxy Lady at number 153 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song was used in a sequence in the film Waynes World. The song was included on the soundtrack album, which reached #1 on the Billboard chart. In the SNES and Sega Genesis games, an arrangement of the song is used on the second level, many artists have recorded their interpretations of the song. Some of these include,1967 – Soul Agents 1968 – The Human Beinz from Nobody But Me 1968 – Booker T. Experience Hendrix, The Best of Jimi Hendrix Transcribed Scores. McDermott, John, Kramer, Eddie, Cox, Billy
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The Star-Spangled Banner
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The Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem of the United States of America. Key was inspired by the large American flag, the Star-Spangled Banner, the poem was set to the tune of a popular British song written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a mens social club in London. To Anacreon in Heaven, with lyrics, was already popular in the United States. Set to Keys poem and renamed The Star-Spangled Banner, it became a well-known American patriotic song. With a range of one octave and one fifth, it is known for being difficult to sing, although the poem has four stanzas, only the first is commonly sung today. Before 1931, other songs served as the hymns of American officialdom, hail, Columbia served this purpose at official functions for most of the 19th century. My Country, Tis of Thee, whose melody is identical to God Save the Queen, following the War of 1812 and subsequent American wars, other songs emerged to compete for popularity at public events, among them The Star-Spangled Banner, as well as America the Beautiful. Beanes was accused of aiding the arrest of British soldiers, because Key and Skinner had heard details of the plans for the attack on Baltimore, they were held captive until after the battle, first aboard HMS Surprise and later back on HMS Minden. On the morning of September 14, the flag had been lowered. During the bombardment, HMS Terror and HMS Meteor provided some of the bombs bursting in air, Key was inspired by the American victory and the sight of the large American flag flying triumphantly above the fort. This flag, with fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, had made by Mary Young Pickersgill together with other workers in her home on Baltimores Pratt Street. The flag later came to be known as the Star-Spangled Banner and is today on display in the National Museum of American History and it was restored in 1914 by Amelia Fowler, and again in 1998 as part of an ongoing conservation program. Aboard the ship the day, Key wrote a poem on the back of a letter he had kept in his pocket. At twilight on September 16, he and Skinner were released in Baltimore and he completed the poem at the Indian Queen Hotel, where he was staying, and titled it Defence of Fort MHenry. Much of the idea of the poem, including the flag imagery and some of the wording, is derived from a song by Key. The song, known as When the Warrior Returns, was written in honor of Stephen Decatur, absent elaboration by Francis Scott Key prior to his death in 1843, some have speculated in modern times about the meaning of phrases or verses. Professor Mark Clague has stated that the two verses of Keys lyric vilify the British enemy in the War of 1812 and in no way glorifies or celebrates slavery. Clague asserts that the used to refer to British professional soldiers but also the Corps of Colonial Marines which Key viewed as scoundrels
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Dolly Dagger
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Dolly Dagger is a song written and recorded by Jimi Hendrix. It was first released on 9 October 1971 on the posthumous LP Rainbow Bridge and it peaked at no.74 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the last Hendrix single to break the charts. Although labeled as an Original Soundtrack, it did not feature any music from the film and was made available only through Reprise Records. The B side of single was Night Bird Flying which was released as the B side of the final UK studio single Angel. The song was written for Hendrix girlfriend, groupie Devon Wilson
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The Forum (Inglewood, California)
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The Forum is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Inglewood, California, adjacent to Los Angeles. Located between West Manchester Boulevard, across Pincay Drive and Kareem Court, it is north of the under-construction Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park and it is about three miles east of Los Angeles International Airport. Opening on December 30,1967, the Forum was an unusual, architect Charles Luckmans vision was brought to life by engineers Carl Johnson and Svend Nielsen, who were able to engineer the structure so that it had no major support pillars. This had previously been unheard of in an arena the size of the Forum. The arena is visible on the approach to the airport from the east. With Madison Square Garden, it was one of the best-known indoor sports venues in the U. S. The Forum was also the home of the WNBAs Los Angeles Sparks from 1997 to their 2001 move to Staples Center. It was acquired in 2000 by the Faithful Central Bible Church, on September 24,2014, the Forum was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The arena is known as The Forum Presented by Chase. It is also informally as the L. A. Forum. On the site of a golf course, the fabulous Forum was built in 1967 by Jack Kent Cooke. The Canadian Cooke, who enjoyed ice hockey, was determined to bring the NHL to Los Angeles, in 1966, the league announced that it was selling six new franchises, and Cooke prepared a bid. In response, Cooke planned to build a new arena in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, the Canadian won the franchise, paying $2 million for the Los Angeles club, which he called the Kings. According to Springer, Cooke went to Inglewood and built the Forum, the round, $16-million building was designed by Los Angeles architect Charles Luckman to evoke the Roman Forum. The arena seats 17,505 for basketball,16,005 for hockey and up to 18,000 for musical concerts, although it has no luxury suites, it had 2,400 club seats for events. More than 70% of the seats are between the goals, and no seat is more than 170 feet from the playing surface, the Forum became a landmark in the greater Los Angeles area, largely due to the Lakers success and the Hollywood celebrities often seen there. It hosted tennis matches, music concerts, boxing matches and U. S. political events, the arena is sometimes called the Los Angeles Forum or the L. A. Forum to distinguish it from places with the name Forum
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Sacramento, California
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Sacramento is the capital city of the U. S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County. It is at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the portion of Californias expansive Central Valley. Its estimated 2014 population of 485,199 made it the sixth-largest city in California, Sacramento is the cultural and economic core of the Sacramento metropolitan area, which includes seven counties with a 2010 population of 2,414,783. In 2002, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University conducted for Time magazine named Sacramento Americas Most Diverse City, Sacramento became a city through the efforts of the Swiss immigrant John Sutter, Sr. his son John Augustus Sutter, Jr. and James W. Marshall. Sacramento grew quickly thanks to the protection of Sutters Fort, which was established by Sutter in 1839, the city was named after the Sacramento River, which forms its western border. The river was named by Spanish cavalry officer Gabriel Moraga for the Santísimo Sacramento, California State University, Sacramento, is the largest university in the city and one of 23 campuses in the California State University system. University of the Pacific is a university with one of its three campuses in Sacramento. In addition, the University of California, Davis, located in nearby Davis, operates its UC Davis Medical Center, nisenan and Plains Miwok Native Americans had lived in the area for perhaps thousands of years. Unlike the settlers who would eventually make Sacramento their home, these Native Americans left little evidence of their existence. Traditionally, their diet was dominated by acorns taken from the oak trees in the region, and by fruits, bulbs, seeds. In 1808, the Spanish explorer Gabriel Moraga discovered and named the Sacramento Valley, a Spanish writer with the Moraga expedition wrote, Canopies of oaks and cottonwoods, many festooned with grapevines, overhung both sides of the blue current. Birds chattered in the trees and big fish darted through the pellucid depths, the air was like champagne, and drank deep of it, drank in the beauty around them. The valley and the river were then christened after the Most Holy Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, John Sutter first arrived on August 13,1839 at the divergence of the American and Sacramento Rivers with a Mexican land grant of 50,000 acres. The next year, he and his party established Sutters Fort, representing Mexico, Sutter called his colony New Helvetia, a Swiss inspired name, and was the political authority and dispenser of justice in the new settlement. Soon, the colony began to grow as more and more pioneers headed west, within just a few short years, John Sutter had become a grand success, owning a ten-acre orchard and a herd of thirteen thousand cattle. Fort Sutter became a stop for the increasing number of immigrants coming through the valley. In 1847, Sutter hired James Marshall to build a sawmill so that he could continue to expand his empire, Sutter received 2,000 fruit trees in 1847, which started the agriculture industry in the Sacramento Valley. In 1848, when gold was discovered by James W. Marshall at Sutters Mill in Coloma and he hired topographical engineer William H
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Milwaukee
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Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States. The county seat of Milwaukee County, it is on Lake Michigans western shore, Milwaukees estimated population in 2015 was 600,155. Milwaukee is the cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee–Racine–Waukesha Metropolitan Area with an estimated population of 2,046,692 as of 2015. Ranked by estimated 2014 population, Milwaukee is the 31st largest city in the United States, the first Europeans to pass through the area were French Catholic missionaries and fur traders. In 1818, the French Canadian explorer Solomon Juneau settled in the area, large numbers of German immigrants helped increase the citys population during the 1840s, with Poles and other immigrants arriving in the following decades. Known for its traditions, Milwaukee is currently experiencing its largest construction boom since the 1960s. In addition, many new skyscrapers, condos, lofts and apartments have been built in neighborhoods on and near the lakefront, the word Milwaukee may come from the Potawatomi language minwaking, or Ojibwe language ominowakiing, Gathering place. The first recorded inhabitants of the Milwaukee area are the Menominee, Fox, Mascouten, Sauk, Potawatomi, Ojibwe, many of these people had lived around Green Bay before migrating to the Milwaukee area around the time of European contact. In the second half of the 18th century, the Indians at Milwaukee played a role in all the wars on the American continent. During the French and Indian War, a group of Ojibwas, in the American Revolutionary War, the Indians around Milwaukee were some of the few Indians who remained loyal to the American cause throughout the Revolution. After American independence, the Indians fought the United States in the Northwest Indian War as part of the Council of Three Fires, during the War of 1812, Indians held a council in Milwaukee in June 1812, which resulted in their decision to attack Chicago. This resulted in the Battle of Fort Dearborn on August 15,1812, the War of 1812 did not end well for the Indians, and after the Black Hawk War in 1832, the Indians in Milwaukee signed their final treaty with the United States in Chicago in 1833. This paved the way for American settlement, Europeans had arrived in the Milwaukee area prior to the 1833 Treaty of Chicago. French missionaries and traders first passed through the area in the late 17th and 18th centuries, alexis Laframboise, in 1785, coming from Michilimackinac settled a trading post, therefore, he is the first European descent resident of the Milwaukee region. Early explorers called the Milwaukee River and surrounding lands various names, Melleorki, Milwacky, Mahn-a-waukie, Milwarck, for many years, printed records gave the name as Milwaukie. One story of Milwaukees name says, ne day during the thirties of the last century a newspaper calmly changed the name to Milwaukee, the spelling Milwaukie lives on in Milwaukie, Oregon, named after the Wisconsin city in 1847, before the current spelling was universally accepted. Milwaukee has three founding fathers, Solomon Juneau, Byron Kilbourn, and George H. Walker, Solomon Juneau was the first of the three to come to the area, in 1818. He was not the first European settler but founded a town called Juneaus Side, or Juneautown, in competition with Juneau, Byron Kilbourn established Kilbourntown west of the Milwaukee River and made sure the streets running toward the river did not join with those on the east side
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Miller High Life Theatre
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Milwaukee Theatre is a theatre located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The building was renovated between 2001-2003, at which point it received its current name. It seats 4,086 people and can be configured into an intimate venue that seats 2,500. It is located at 500 W. Kilbourn Avenue in downtown Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Auditorium was built in 1909, in a place formerly occupied by the Milwaukee Industrial Exposition Building, which had been destroyed by fire in 1905. The Milwaukee Auditorium held 13,520 people, and had 104,952 square feet of exhibition space, the cornerstone was laid on August 1,1908, and the building was dedicated on September 21,1909. At that time philanthropist Elizabeth Plankinton donated a $10,000 pipe organ, historical uses included concerts, circuses, political rallies and sports events. Sitting Presidents from Taft to Clinton delivered important policy addresses in the Auditorium and he was shot across the street from the Auditorium at the Gilpatrick Hotel by John Schrank, but declined to go to the hospital before giving his speech. Beginning in October 2001, the Auditorium was converted into a theater, the project, which cost $41.9 million, was completed on November 7,2003. Since opening, The Milwaukee Theatre has hosted a range of convention, corporate, religious and political assemblies as well as Broadway musicals. Kennedy - October 23,1960 Martin Luther King, Jr. YouTube personnel Dan Howell and Phil Lester for their theatrical show The Amazing Tour is Not On Fire
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Dane County, Wisconsin
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Dane County is a county in the U. S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2010 census, the population was 488,073, the 2015 estimate places the countys population at 523,643. The county seat is Madison, which is also the state capital, Dane County is part of the Madison, Wisconsin, Metropolitan Statistical Area, as well as the Madison-Janesville-Beloit Combined Statistical Area. Dane County was formed in 1836 as a county and organized in 1839. It was named after Nathan Dane, a Massachusetts delegate to the Congress of the Confederation who helped carve Wisconsin out of the Northwest Territory, Dane County was first settled in the 1840s by settlers from New England. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 1,238 square miles. Dane County Regional Airport supports commercial airline service for Dane County, middleton Municipal Airport serves the county and surrounding communities. The population density was 394 people per square mile, there were 216,022 housing units at an average density of 174 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 84. 7% White,5. 2% Black or African American,0. 4% Native American,4. 7% Asian,0. 003% Pacific Islander,2. 5% from other races, and 2. 5% from two or more races. 5. 9% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,30. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 7. 7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.33 and the family size was 2.95. In the county, the population was out with 21. 7% under the age of 18,12. 8% from 18 to 24,29. 5% from 25 to 44,25. 7% from 45 to 64. The median age was 34.4 years, for every 100 females there were 97.80 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.00 males, as of the census of 2000, there were 426,526 people,173,484 households, and 100,794 families residing in the county. The population density was 355 people per square mile, there were 180,398 housing units at an average density of 150 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 88. 96% White,4. 00% Black or African American,0. 33% Native American,3. 45% Asian,0. 03% Pacific Islander,1. 43% from other races, and 1. 79% from two or more races. 3. 37% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,34. 4% were of German,11. 5% Norwegian,8. 9% Irish and 6. 0% English ancestry. 29. 40% of all households were made up of individuals and 7. 00% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.37 and the average family size was 2.97
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Alliant Energy Center
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Alliant Energy Center is a multi-building complex located in Madison, Wisconsin. It comprises 164 acres of greenspace and includes the 255, 000-square-foot Exhibition Hall, the 10, 000-seat Veterans Memorial Coliseum, the 29-acre Willow Island, the exhibition pavilions, which total 290,000 square feet, will be replacing the nine current agricultural barns. Construction began following the Midwest Horse Fair in April 2014 with completion set in time for the 2014 World Dairy Expo in late September. The Center welcomes more than one million people attending more than 500 events annually, ranging from local meetings and banquets to large sporting events, the Alliant Energy Center campus is located on the southern edge of Madison, Wisconsin, on John Nolen Drive. In 1895 the Agricultural Society and Dane County purchased 250 acres of land at the current site to provide an area that could be used for the Dane County Fair and this area was known as Lakeside Park Farm, but some thought it merely represented a worthless swampland. Because of financial difficulties, the Dane County Fair was halted on the site in 1938 and did not return until 1951. As a major turning point towards the advent of a venue, roads, parking lots, sewer and water. In 1951, the Dane County Fair moved back to the present Alliant Energy Center, over the ensuing years, the first buildings were erected on the site. In 1954 the Arena was built, it remains the building still standing from this era. The Youth Building was constructed in 1962 and housed the offices for 4-H in Dane County and this area now serves as the administration building for the Alliant Energy Center. In 1967, Veterans Memorial Coliseum was built, in 1974, the first Exposition Center Commission was appointed. This Committee headed construction and development for the present Alliant Energy Center, with the Coliseum schedule reaching 160 event days in 1977, it was clear that the demand for trade and consumer shows and conventions was competing with concerts, sporting events and family shows. Over time, the area had expanded well beyond Wisconsin. In 1978, an addition to the Youth Building was built, at the time, this facility offered the areas largest facilities for trade shows, banquets and other public functions. The forum was replaced with the construction of Exhibition Hall in 1995 Veterans Memorial Coliseum celebrated its 25th anniversary in 1992, at this point, over 16 million people had entered the Coliseum doors to attend a vast array of events. The naming rights for the campus, previously the Dane County Exposition Center, were sold in 2000 to Alliant Energy Corporation, the agreement does not include the naming rights of individual buildings on the campus, which have all retained their original names. Although the naming rights belong to Alliant Energy, the Center is owned and operated by Dane County, the Center has operated in this manner since 1990. In 2013 Dane County completed plans for the construction of new multi-use pavilions at the Alliant Energy Center, pavilions totaling 290,000 square feet replaced nine agricultural barns
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Saint Paul, Minnesota
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Saint Paul is the capital and second-most populous city of the U. S. state of Minnesota. As of 2015, the estimated population was 300,851. Saint Paul is the county seat of Ramsey County, the smallest and most densely populated county in Minnesota. The city lies mostly on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the area surrounding its point of confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Minneapolis, the states largest city. Known as the Twin Cities, the two form the core of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States, with about 3.52 million residents. Founded near historic Native American settlements as a trading and transportation center, the Dakota name for Saint Paul is Imnizaska. Though Minneapolis is better-known nationally, Saint Paul contains the state government, regionally, the city is known for the Xcel Energy Center, home of the Minnesota Wild, and for the Science Museum of Minnesota. As a business hub of the Upper Midwest, it is the headquarters of such as Ecolab. Saint Paul, along with its Twin City, Minneapolis, is known for its literacy rate. It was the city in the United States with a population of 250,000 or more to see an increase in circulation of Sunday newspapers in 2007. The settlement originally began at present-day Lamberts Landing, but was known as Pigs Eye after Pierre Pigs Eye Parrant established a tavern there. Burial mounds in present-day Indian Mounds Park suggest that the area was inhabited by the Hopewell Native Americans about two thousand years ago. From the early 17th century until 1837, the Mdewakanton Dakota and they called the area I-mni-za ska dan for its exposed white sandstone cliffs. Following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, a U. S. Army officer named Zebulon Pike negotiated approximately 100,000 acres of land from the local Dakota tribes in 1805 in order to establish a fort. The negotiated territory was located on banks of the Mississippi River, starting from Saint Anthony Falls in present-day Minneapolis, to its confluence with the Saint Croix River. Fort Snelling was built on the territory in 1819 at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, the 1837 Treaty with the Sioux ceded all local tribal land east of the Mississippi to the U. S. Government. Taoyateduta moved his band at Kaposia across the river to the south, fur traders, explorers, and missionaries came to the area for the forts protection. Many of the settlers were French-Canadians who lived nearby, however, as a whiskey trade flourished, military officers banned settlers from the fort-controlled lands
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Village Gate
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The Village Gate was a nightclub at the corner of Thompson and Bleecker Streets in Greenwich Village, New York. Art DLugoff opened the club in 1958, on the ground floor, the large 1896 Chicago School structure by architect Ernest Flagg was known at the time as Mills House No.1 and served as a flophouse for transient men. In its heyday, the Village Gate also included a performance space. The show Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, as salsa music began to grow in popularity, the Alegre record label began to host quite a few events at the Village Gate - many of which resulted in live recordings. Some of the recordings from the Village Gate were the Alegre All-Star Descarga sessions. The Salsa Meets Jazz series at the Village Gate was a part of the history of New York Latin music. In 1977, WRVR jazz and Latin music DJ and jazz musician/conga drummer Roger Dawson created and hosted an event that brought top Latin bands together with a guest jazz soloist. Dawson named the event Salsa Meets Jazz, the club hosted a benefit for Timothy Leary in May 1970 that featured performances from such counterculture luminaries as Jimi Hendrix and Allen Ginsberg. From 1971 to 1973, a comedy revue called National Lampoons Lemmings had a successful run at the Gate. Let My People Come opened at the Village Gate Theater in 1974, the show broke all box office records there and played for 1,167 performances. Its transfer to the Morosco Theatre on Broadway was not as successful, though and it was nominated for a Grammy in 1974 and has appeared all over the world. From 1989 to 1991, the comedy troupe Noo Yawk Tawk performed at the upstairs theater. The group was conceived and directed by Richmond Shepard, a mime, actor, comedian. All of the performances for Noo Yawk Tawk were entirely improvised, characters may have been repeated, but never the sketches or the dialogue. The audience always set the scene and conditions for each improvisation, the cast included Stan Taffel, Marc Kudisch, Debra Wilson, Eric Douglas, Garry Goodrow, Miguel Sierra, Ken Dashow, Nola Roeper, Bonnie Comley, and Richmond Shepard. Taffel would go on to win three Emmy Awards for his performances in The News In Revue on PBS, Kudisch earned a Tony nomination in 2002. The Village Gate name was used in 1996 at 240 West 52d Street. Art DLugoff, co-producer of the show A Brief History of White Music was looking to rent the space in a formerly occupied by the Lone Star Road House
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Johnny Winter
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John Dawson Winter III, known as Johnny Winter, was an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Best known for his high-energy blues-rock albums and live performances in the late 1960s and 1970s, after his time with Waters, Winter recorded several Grammy-nominated blues albums. In 1988, he was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame and in 2003, Johnny Winter was born in Beaumont, Texas, on February 23,1944. Winter and younger brother Edgar were nurtured at an age by their parents in musical pursuits. Johnny and his brother, both of whom were born with albinism, began performing at an early age, when he was ten years old, the brothers appeared on a local childrens show with Johnny playing ukulele. His recording career began at the age of fifteen, when his band Johnny, during this same period, he was able to see performances by classic blues artists such as Muddy Waters, B. B. King, and Bobby Bland. In 1968, he released his first album The Progressive Blues Experiment, as it happened, representatives of Columbia Records were at the concert. Kings Its My Own Fault to loud applause and, within a few days, was signed to what was reportedly the largest advance in the history of the industry at that time—$600,000. Winters first Columbia album, Johnny Winter, was recorded and released in 1969, the album featured a few selections that became Winter signature songs, including his composition Dallas, John Lee Sonny Boy Williamsons Good Morning Little School Girl, and B. B. Kings Be Careful with a Fool, the albums success coincided with Imperial Records picking up The Progressive Blues Experiment for wider release. The same year, the Winter trio toured and performed at rock festivals. With brother Edgar added as a member of the group, Winter also recorded his second album, Second Winter. The two-record album, which only had three recorded sides, introduced a couple more staples of Winters concerts, including Chuck Berrys Johnny B. Goode, according to Winter, I never even met Jim Morrison. Theres a whole album of Jimi and Jim and Im supposedly on the album, Im sure I never, never played with Jim Morrison at all. I dont know how that got started, beginning in 1969, the first of numerous Johnny Winter albums was released which were cobbled together from approximately fifteen singles he recorded before signing with Columbia in 1969. Many were produced by Roy Ames, owner of Home Cooking Records/Clarity Music Publishing, according to an article from the Houston Press, Winter left town for the express purpose of getting away from him. Ames died on August 14,2003, of natural causes at age 66, as Ames left no obvious heirs, the ownership rights of the Ames master recordings remains unclear. As Winter stated in an interview when the subject of Roy Ames came up, in 1970, when his brother Edgar released a solo album Entrance and formed Edgar Winters White Trash, an R&B/jazz-rock group, the original trio disbanded
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Grateful Dead
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The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. Their music, writes Lenny Kaye, touches on ground that most other groups dont even know exists and these various influences were distilled into a diverse and psychedelic whole that made the Grateful Dead the pioneering Godfathers of the jam band world. The band was ranked 57th by Rolling Stone magazine in its The Greatest Artists of All Time issue, the Grateful Dead have sold more than 35 million albums worldwide. The Grateful Dead was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area amid the rise of the counterculture of the 1960s, the founding members were Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron Pigpen McKernan, Phil Lesh, and Bill Kreutzmann. Members of the Grateful Dead had played together in various San Francisco bands, including Mother McCrees Uptown Jug Champions, Lesh was the last member to join the Warlocks before they became the Grateful Dead, he replaced Dana Morgan Jr. who had played bass for a few gigs. Drummer Mickey Hart and nonperforming lyricist Robert Hunter joined in 1967, with the exception of McKernan, who died in 1973, and Hart, who took time off from 1971 to 1974, the core of the band stayed together for its entire 30-year history. The other official members of the band are Tom Constanten, John Perry Barlow, Keith Godchaux, Donna Godchaux, Brent Mydland, pianist Bruce Hornsby was a touring member from 1990 to 1992, as well as guesting with the band on occasion before and after the tours. After the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995, former members of the band, along with musicians, toured as the Other Ones in 1998,2000, and 2002, and the Dead in 2003,2004. In 2015, the four surviving core members marked the bands 50th anniversary in a series of concerts that were billed as their last performances together. There have also been several spin-offs featuring one or more members, such as Dead & Company, Furthur, the Rhythm Devils, Phil Lesh & Friends, RatDog. The Grateful Dead began their career as the Warlocks, a group formed in early 1965 from the remnants of a Palo Alto, the bands first show was at Magoos Pizza located at 639 Santa Cruz Avenue in suburban Menlo Park, California, on May 5,1965. They were initially known as the Warlocks, coincidentally, the Velvet Underground was also using that name on the East Coast, the show was not recorded but the set list has been preserved. Gigging as a bar band, the group changed its name after finding out that another band of the same name had signed a recording contract. The first show under the new name Grateful Dead was in San Jose, California on December 4,1965, at one of Ken Keseys Acid Tests. Earlier demo tapes have survived, but the first of over 2,000 concerts known to have recorded by the bands fans was a show at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco on January 8,1966. Later that month, the Grateful Dead played at the Trips Festival, the name Grateful Dead was chosen from a dictionary. According to Phil Lesh, in his autobiography, picked up an old Britannica World Language Dictionary. In that silvery elf-voice he said to me, Hey, man, the definition there was the soul of a dead person, or his angel, showing gratitude to someone who, as an act of charity, arranged their burial
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Norman, Oklahoma
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Norman /ˈnɔːrmən/ is a city in the U. S. state of Oklahoma 20 miles south of downtown Oklahoma City in its metropolitan area. The population was 110,925 at the 2010 census, Normans estimated population of 120,284 in 2015 makes it the third-largest city in Oklahoma, and the city serves as the county seat of Cleveland County. Norman was settled during the Land Run of 1889, which opened the former Unassigned Lands of Indian Territory to American pioneer settlement, the city was named in honor of Abner Norman, the areas initial land surveyor, and was formally incorporated on May 13,1891. The university is known for its sporting events by teams under the banner of the nickname Sooners. The university is home to museums, including the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, which contains the largest collection of French Impressionist art ever given to an American university, Norman lies within Tornado Alley, a geographic region where tornadic activity is particularly frequent and intense. The Oklahoma City metropolitan area, including Norman, is the most tornado-prone area in the world, the Storm Prediction Center, a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is located at the NWC. SPC forecasts severe storm and tornado outbreaks nationwide, additionally, research is conducted at the co-located National Severe Storms Laboratory, which includes field research and operates various experimental weather radars. In 2008, CNNs Money Magazine ranked Norman as the sixth best small city within the United States to live in, the Oklahoma region became part of the United States with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Treaties of 1832 and 1833 assigned the area today as Norman to the Creek Nation. Following the Civil War, the Creeks were accused of aiding the Confederacy, in the early 1870s, the federal government undertook a survey of these unassigned lands. Abner Ernest Norman, a 23-year-old surveyor from Kentucky, was hired to oversee part of this project. In 1887, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway began service to the area, which was later opened to settlement as part of the Land Run of 1889, early settlers decided to keep the name Norman. On April 22,1889, the Land Run saw the founding of Norman, with at least 150 residents spending the night in makeshift campsites, by the next morning a downtown was already being constructed. On December 19,1890, Larsh and Waggoner were successful with the passage of Council Bill 114, the City of Norman was formally incorporated on May 13,1891. The city has continued to grow throughout the decades, the rail lines eventually transitioned to freight during the 1940s as the United States Numbered Highway system developed. The city population reached 11,429 in 1940, in 1941, the University of Oklahoma and Norman city officials established Max Westheimer Field, a university airstrip, and then leased it to the U. S. Navy as a Naval Flight Training Center in 1942. The training center was used for training combat pilots during World War II, a second training center, known as Naval Air Technical Training Center, and a naval hospital were later established to the south
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McCasland Field House
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The McCasland Field House is a multi-purpose indoor arena on the University of Oklahoma main campus in Norman, Oklahoma. Home of the basketball Sooners until 1975, the Field House currently hosts the mens wrestling, womens volleyball, the Field House is named for T. Howard McCasland, a two-sport star who was the captain of the 1916 basketball team and an end for the football team. The facility opened with a game between the Sooners and the University of Kansas Jayhawks on January 13,1928, which the Sooners won 45-19. When it opened, the facility held over 5,000 people and it is rather unknown, these days on campus, that the Fieldhouse once witnessed concerts by Jimi Hendrix, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley in the 1960s and 1970s. As the campus was constructed around the Field House, parking for fans disappeared, after the Lloyd Noble Center opened in 1975 and the basketball teams moved south to the new facility, the Field House seemed forgotten and neglected. Plans for refurbishment began in the 1990s along with other campus improvements, finally, all of the buildings windows, a distinguishing feature of the Field House, will be replaced, along with the roof. Tulsa Olympics Official Howard McCasland Field House information page
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Fort Worth, Texas
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Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. The city is in North Central Texas and covers nearly 350 square miles in the counties of Denton, Parker, Wise, according to the 2015 census, estimates, Fort Worths population is 833,319. The city is the second-largest in the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, the city was established in 1849 as an Army outpost on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River. Today, Fort Worth still embraces its Western heritage and traditional architecture, USS Fort Worth is the first ship of the United States Navy named after the city. Fort Worth is home to the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, also of note is the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, designed by Tadao Ando. The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, designed by Philip Johnson, the Sid Richardson Museum, redesigned by David M. Schwarz, has one of the most focused collections of Western Art in the U. S. emphasizing Frederic Remington and Charles Russell. The Treaty of Birds Fort between the Republic of Texas and several Native American tribes was signed in 1843 at Birds Fort in present-day Arlington, Texas. Article XI of the treaty provided that no one may pass the line of trading houses without permission of the President of Texas and these trading houses were later established at the junction of the Clear Fork and West Fork of the Trinity River in present-day Fort Worth. At this river junction, the U. S, War Department established Fort Worth in 1849 as the northernmost of a system of 10 forts for protecting the American Frontier following the end of the Mexican–American War. The City of Fort Worth continues to be known as where the West begins, originally 10 forts had been proposed by Major General William Jenkins Worth, who commanded the Department of Texas in 1849. In January 1849, Worth proposed a line of 10 forts to mark the western Texas frontier from Eagle Pass to the confluence of the West Fork, One month later, Worth died from cholera in South Texas. General William S. Harney assumed command of the Department of Texas, Arnold to find a new fort site near the West Fork and Clear Fork. On June 6,1849, Arnold, advised by Middleton Tate Johnson, established a camp on the bank of the Trinity River, in August 1849, Arnold moved the camp to the north-facing bluff, which overlooked the mouth of the Clear Fork of the Trinity River. The United States War Department officially named the post Fort Worth on November 14,1849, E. S. Terrell from Tennessee claimed to be the first resident of Fort Worth. The fort was flooded the first year and moved to the top of the bluff, the fort was abandoned September 17,1853. As a stop on the legendary Chisholm Trail, Fort Worth was stimulated by the business of the cattle drives, millions of head of cattle were driven north to market along this trail. Fort Worth became the center of the drives, and later. It was given the nickname of Cowtown, during Civil War, Fort Worth suffered from shortages of money, food, and supplies
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San Antonio
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San Antonio, officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh-most populated city in the United States and the second-most populous city in the state of Texas, with a population of 1,409,019. It was the fastest growing of the top 10 largest cities in the United States from 2000 to 2010, the city straddles South Texas and Central Texas and is on the southwestern corner of an urban megaregion known as the Texas Triangle. San Antonio serves as the seat of Bexar County, recent annexations have extended the citys boundaries into Medina County and, though for only a very tiny area near the city of Garden Ridge, into Comal County. Due to its placement, the city has characteristics of other urban centers in which there are sparsely populated areas. San Antonio is the center of the San Antonio–New Braunfels Metropolitan Statistical Area, growth along the Interstate 35 and Interstate 10 corridors to the north, west and east make it likely that the metropolitan area will continue to expand. San Antonio was named for Saint Anthony of Padua, whose feast day is on June 13, the city contains five 18th-century Spanish frontier missions, including The Alamo and San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, which were designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2015. Other notable attractions include the River Walk, the Tower of the Americas, the Alamo Bowl, the city is home to the five-time NBA champion San Antonio Spurs and hosts the annual San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, one of the largest such events in the country. The U. S. Kelly Air Force Base operated out of San Antonio until 2001, the remaining portions of the base were developed as Port San Antonio, an industrial/business park and aerospace complex. San Antonio is home to six Fortune 500 companies and the South Texas Medical Center, at the time of European encounter, Payaya Indians lived near the San Antonio River Valley in the San Pedro Springs area, calling the vicinity Yanaguana, meaning refreshing waters. In 1691, a group of Spanish Catholic explorers and missionaries came upon the river and Payaya settlement on June 13 and they named the place and river San Antonio in his honor. It was years before any Spanish settlement took place, father Antonio de Olivares visited the site in 1709, and he was determined to found a mission and civilian settlement there. He directed Martin de Alarcón, the governor of Coahuila and Texas, differences between Alarcón and Olivares resulted in delays, and construction did not start until 1718. The families who clustered around the presidio and mission formed the beginnings of Villa de Béjar, on May 1, the governor transferred ownership of the Mission San Antonio de Valero to Fray Antonio de Olivares. On May 5,1718 he commissioned the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar on the west side of the San Antonio River, one-fourth league from the mission. On February 14,1719, the Marquis of San Miguel de Aguayo proposed to the king of Spain that 400 families be transported from the Canary Islands, Galicia, or Havana to populate the province of Texas. By June 1730,25 families had reached Cuba, and 10 families had sent to Veracruz before orders from Spain came to stop the re-settlement. Under the leadership of Juan Leal Goraz, the group marched overland from Veracruz to the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar, due to marriages along the way, the party now included 15 families, a total of 56 persons. They joined the community established in 1718
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Philadelphia
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In 1682, William Penn, an English Quaker, founded the city to serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony. Philadelphia was one of the capitals in the Revolutionary War. In the 19th century, Philadelphia became an industrial center. It became a destination for African-Americans in the Great Migration. The areas many universities and colleges make Philadelphia a top international study destination, as the city has evolved into an educational, with a gross domestic product of $388 billion, Philadelphia ranks ninth among world cities and fourth in the nation. Philadelphia is the center of activity in Pennsylvania and is home to seven Fortune 1000 companies. The Philadelphia skyline is growing, with a market of almost 81,900 commercial properties in 2016 including several prominent skyscrapers. The city is known for its arts, culture, and rich history, Philadelphia has more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city. Fairmount Park, when combined with the adjacent Wissahickon Valley Park in the watershed, is one of the largest contiguous urban park areas in the United States. The 67 National Historic Landmarks in the city helped account for the $10 billion generated by tourism, Philadelphia is the only World Heritage City in the United States. Before Europeans arrived, the Philadelphia area was home to the Lenape Indians in the village of Shackamaxon, the Lenape are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government. They are also called Delaware Indians and their territory was along the Delaware River watershed, western Long Island. Most Lenape were pushed out of their Delaware homeland during the 18th century by expanding European colonies, Lenape communities were weakened by newly introduced diseases, mainly smallpox, and violent conflict with Europeans. Iroquois people occasionally fought the Lenape, surviving Lenape moved west into the upper Ohio River basin. The American Revolutionary War and United States independence pushed them further west, in the 1860s, the United States government sent most Lenape remaining in the eastern United States to the Indian Territory under the Indian removal policy. In the 21st century, most Lenape now reside in the US state of Oklahoma, with communities living also in Wisconsin, Ontario. The Dutch considered the entire Delaware River valley to be part of their New Netherland colony, in 1638, Swedish settlers led by renegade Dutch established the colony of New Sweden at Fort Christina and quickly spread out in the valley. In 1644, New Sweden supported the Susquehannocks in their defeat of the English colony of Maryland
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Temple Stadium
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Temple Stadium was a stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It opened in 1928 and hosted the Temple University Owls football team until they moved to Veterans Stadium in 1978. It was located on a 32-acre area in the West Oak Lane neighborhood of the city bounded by Cheltenham Avenue, Vernon Road, Michener Avenue, the football stadium stood on one end of the site, the baseball and softball diamonds stood on the other. The football stadium had seating for approximately 20,000 people, mobile seating raised capacity to 34,200, Temple Stadium was horseshoe-shaped, with the open end facing west-northwest, and built into a natural bowl. It was also known as Owl Stadium and Beury Stadium, named for the school president responsible for its construction, prior to the building of the stadium, Vernon Park, the park where the stadium was built, was the Owls home for several years. The grounds of the old stadium were maintained for years after Temples move to the Vet. The stadium was razed in 1996 and 1997 at a cost of $334,000, leaving only the natural bowl where the teams played. On December 31,2001, the site was sold to Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church for $4.5 million. The area which was used as a parking lot and intramural field, north of the former stadium, is now home to the Enon Tabernacle Baptist Churchs East church. Temple played 263 home games at Temple Stadium between 1928 and 1977, one of the largest crowds was on November 24,1934 when 40,000 fans saw Temple defeat Villanova 22 to 0. Temple opened the stadium on September 29,1928 with a 12-0 victory over St. Thomas College, the school officially dedicated the stadium on October 13,1928 before a 7-0 victory over Western Maryland College with Philadelphia Mayor Harry Mackey in attendance. Temple played its first night game at the stadium on September 26,1930, Temple football held their final event on the field on April 27,2002 with their annual Cherry and White game. The Philadelphia Eagles used the stadium twice for home games, on Tuesday, November 6,1934, the Eagles beat the Cincinnati Reds, 64-0. It was also the last game ever for the Reds, who had out the previous day that their team was being disbanded and replaced in the league by the St. Louis Gunners. The Eagles considered trying to purchase Temple Stadium in 1952 when the team was unhappy with their lease at Shibe Park, Temple University claimed the property to have been appraised for $1 million and said they were uninterested in selling. The Eagles would play at Shibe Park through 1957 and then move to Franklin Field, the Continental Football League Philadelphia Bulldogs played their home games at Temple Stadium during their two seasons in the league. The club won the 1966 league title, on December 4,1966, the Bulldogs defeated the Orlando Panthers,20 to 17 in overtime in front of 5,226 at Temple Stadium for the CFL Championship. The club disbanded in May 1967, Temple Stadium was the long-time home of the Temple University mens and womens soccer teams
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Steve Miller Band
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The Steve Miller Band is an American rock band formed in 1966 in San Francisco, California. The band is led by Steve Miller on guitar and lead vocals and it is best known today for a string of mid-1970s hit singles that are staples of classic rock radio, as well as several earlier acid rock albums. Miller left his first band to move to San Francisco and form the Steve Miller Blues Band, shortly after Harvey Kornspan negotiated the band’s landmark contract with Capitol/EMI Records in 1967, the band shortened its name to the Steve Miller Band. In February 1968, the band recorded its album, Children of the Future. It went on to produce the albums Sailor, Brave New World, Your Saving Grace, Number 5, Rock Love, the bands Greatest Hits 1974–78, released in 1978, sold over 13 million copies. The band continued to produce more albums and in 2014 toured with the rock band Journey, in 2016, Steve Miller was inducted as a solo artist in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band was contracted to Epic Records after playing many Chicago clubs and they also appeared on Hullabaloo with the Four Tops and the Supremes. Miller left the group to go to San Francisco, where the scene was flourishing. He then formed the Steve Miller Blues Band, Harvey Kornspan, managing partner, wrote and negotiated the bands landmark contract with Capitol/EMI Records then-president Alan Livingston in 1967. Shortly after, the name was shortened to the Steve Miller Band in order to broaden its appeal. Guitarist Boz Scaggs joined the band soon after and the group performed at the Magic Mountain Festival, in February 1968, while in England, the band recorded their debut album Children of the Future at Olympic studios with Glyn Johns as engineer/producer. The album did not score among the Top 100 album chart, the second album Sailor appeared in October 1968 and climbed the Billboard chart to #24. Successes included the single Living in the USA, Brave New World featured the songs Space Cowboy and My Dark Hour. Paul Ramon played drums, bass and sang backing vocals and this was followed by Your Saving Grace and Number 5. In 1971, Miller broke his neck in a car accident, capitol Records released the album Rock Love, featuring unreleased live performances and studio material. This is one of two Steve Miller Band albums not to be released on CD, the other being Recall the Beginning. A Journey from Eden, in 1972, the double album compilation Anthology was released, containing 16 songs from the bands first five albums. The style and personnel of the band changed radically with The Joker, concentrating on straightforward rock, the title track became a #1 single and was certified platinum, reaching over one million sales. It was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA on January 11,1974, three years later, the band returned with the album Fly Like an Eagle, which charted at #3
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Cactus (American band)
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Cactus is an American hard rock band, formed in 1969. In early 1970, Bogert and Appice brought in blues guitarist Jim McCarty from Mitch Ryders Detroit Wheels and The Buddy Miles Express, and singer Rusty Day from The Amboy Dukes. This line-up released three albums on Atco Records, Cactus, One Way. or Another, and Restrictions, Day was fired from the group shortly afterwards. After Cactuss dissolution in 1972, Bogert and Appice finally joined with Beck to form Beck, after one studio album, the self-titled Beck, Bogert & Appice and one live album, Beck, Bogert & Appice Live, the band dissolved. Their second album remains unreleased to this day, along with recordings of the bands last concert at the Rainbow Theatre in London on January 26,1974. Having made a name for himself in Detroits rock scene as a force to be reckoned with, Rusty Day worked to restore one of Detroits most legendary bands, The Band Detroit, to the national stage. The Band Detroit was formed as an offshoot of The Detroit Wheels by members Steve Gaines, Ted T-Mel Smith, Nathaniel Peterson, Terry Emery, Bill Hodgeson, the bands initial flame burned out quickly due to many different issues going on at once. Theres a recording of Rusty Day, Steve Gaines, and the rest of the band performing in 1973 called The Band Detroit - The Driftwood Tapes. The New Cactus Band, led by Duane Hitchings, released one album, Son of Cactus, mike Pinera, formerly of Blues Image and Iron Butterfly, came in on guitar, along with Roland Robinson on bass and Jerry Norris on drums. The band then toured live in the Midwest and on the East Coast in mid 1973 with Captain Beyond drummer Bobby Caldwell, the New Cactus Band soon disbanded. Their sole album peaked at #183 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart, in 1976, Rusty Day formed another version of Cactus in Longwood, Florida, where he had relocated. This version of Cactus featured Steve Kahoutek Dansby on guitar, John Soybean Slim Sauter on bass guitar and this was the longest lasting 1970s line-up of the band, which ended around 1979. On June 3,1982, Rusty Day was murdered at his own house in Longwood and he and his son were shot to death by an unknown gang of drug dealers. The case has never solved and remains open. After a long hiatus, Cactus re-emerged in June 2006 with two appearances in New York City, an appearance on The Radiochick Show, and their first show since 1972 at B. B. Kings Blues Club in Times Square on June 3 and this show was a warm up for the gig which sparked the reunion, an appearance at the Sweden Rock Festival in Norje, Sweden on June 9. The 2006 version of Cactus saw original members Appice, Bogert, Randy Pratt joined the band in New York and Sweden on harmonica. The group also released a new album, Cactus V, in 2008, McCarty left the band again and, coincidentally repeating history, was once again replaced by Werner Fritzchings
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Berkeley, California
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Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley and it borders the cities of Oakland and Emeryville to the south and the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington to the north. Its eastern border with Contra Costa County generally follows the ridge of the Berkeley Hills, the 2010 census recorded a population of 112,580. It also has the Graduate Theological Union, one of the largest religious studies institutions in the world and it is one of the most politically liberal cities in the United States. The site of todays City of Berkeley was the territory of the Chochenyo/Huchiun band of the Ohlone people when the first Europeans arrived, other artifacts were discovered in the 1950s in the downtown area during remodeling of a commercial building, near the upper course of the creek. The first people of European descent arrived with the De Anza Expedition in 1776, today, this is noted by signage on Interstate 80, which runs along the San Francisco Bay shoreline of Berkeley. The De Anza Expedition led to establishment of the Spanish Presidio of San Francisco at the entrance to San Francisco Bay, luis Peralta was among the soldiers at the Presidio. For his services to the King of Spain, he was granted a vast stretch of land on the east shore of San Francisco Bay for a ranch, luis Peralta named his holding Rancho San Antonio. The primary activity of the ranch was raising cattle for meat and hides, eventually, Peralta gave portions of the ranch to each of his four sons. What is now Berkeley lies mostly in the portion that went to Peraltas son Domingo, with a little in the portion that went to another son, no artifact survives of the Domingo or Vicente ranches, but their names survive in Berkeley street names. However, legal title to all land in the City of Berkeley remains based on the original Peralta land grant, the Peraltas Rancho San Antonio continued after Alta California passed from Spanish to Mexican sovereignty after the Mexican War of Independence. The lands of the brothers Domingo and Vicente were quickly reduced to reservations close to their respective ranch homes, the rest of the land was surveyed and parceled out to various American claimants. Politically, the area that became Berkeley was initially part of a vast Contra Costa County, on March 25,1853, Alameda County was created from a division within Contra Costa County, as well as from a small portion of Santa Clara County. The area of Berkeley was at this period mostly a mix of land, farms and ranches. It was not yet Berkeley, but merely the part of the Oakland Township subdivision of Alameda County. In 1866, Oaklands private College of California looked for a new site, according to the Centennial Record of the University of California, In 1866…at Founders Rock, a group of College of California men watched two ships standing out to sea through the Golden Gate. Although the philosophers name is pronounced bark-lee, the pronunciation of the name has evolved to suit American English as burk-lee. The College of Californias College Homestead Association planned to raise funds for the new campus by selling off adjacent parcels of land, to this end, they laid out a plat and street grid that became the basis of Berkeleys modern street plan
