The Beatles’ “Here Comes The Sun”: the lost guitar solo
Here’s a video of Dhani Harrison (George Harrison’s son), longtime Beatles producer George Martin, and his son Giles Martin fiddling with controls in the studio and finding a guitar solo that never made it to the final version of the song. George Martin says, amazed, “I forgot the matter.”
I love stuff like this, especially from my all-time favorite band.
[via @joethepeacock]
CLUE 1:
“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
”The Lakers beat the Super
Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release of the single FEBRUARY 23 1993 where the Lakers beat the Super Sonics:
Nov 11 1988 114-103
Nov 30 1988 110-106
Apr 4 1989 115-97
Apr 23 1989 121-117
Jan 17 1990 100-90
Feb 28 1990 112-107
Mar 25 1990 116-94
Apr 17 1990 102-101
Jan 18 1991 105-96
Mar 24 1991 113-96
Apr 21 1991 103-100
Jan 20 1992 116-110
CLUE 4:
Dates of those Laker wins over SuperSonics where it was a clear day with no Smog:
Nov 30 1988
Apr 4 1989
Jan 18 1991
Jan 20 1992
CLUE 5:
“Got a beep from Kim, and
she can fuck all night”
beepers weren’t adopted by mobile phone companies until the 1990s. Dates left where mobile beepers were availible to public:
Jan 18 1991
Jan 20 1992
CLUE 6:
Ice Cube starred in the film “Boyz in the hood” that released late Summer of 1991, but was being filmed mid-late 1990 early 1991 and Ice Cube was busy on set filming the movie Jan 18 1991 too busy to be lounging around the streets with no plans. Ladies and Gentlemen..The ONLY day where:
Yo MTV Raps was on air
It was a clear and smogless day
Beepers were commercially sold
Lakers beat the SuperSonics
and Ice Cube had no events to attend was…
JANUARY 20 1992
National Good Day Day-Donovan
This man deserves a Pulitzer.
Last night, I went back to Hofstra (after graduating in December) for the induction ceremony for Phi Alpha Theta, a national honor society for history students. I figured I was just going to get a certificate, and that’d be that.
I did, indeed, get a nice certificate. But what I didn’t know was that I would also be receiving an award from the History Department: the Robert L. Payton Endowed Prize for Best Seminar Paper.
I was further unaware that the prize consisted of a check for $1,000. That’s pretty well endowed, all right.
An exemplar of pure dedication to military history or a love sacrifice to the God of War, Conflict History is exactly as it seems. (It’s Friday. We’re straightforward.) For Civilization nuts, this a perfect way to compare your plans of world domination to those of glorious yesterday. Scroll through the different wars and watch the bloodshed unfold.
As a history buff, this is fascinating and awesome. And kinda depressing.
kayfabe: In 1972, four years after playing his last game for the team, the…
In 1972, four years after playing his last game for the team, the legendary Mickey Mantle was sent a letter by then-Vice-President of the New York Yankees, Bob Fishel, and asked to contribute to the Yankee Stadium’s forthcoming 50th anniversary celebrations. All Mickey had to do was fill in the enclosed survey and share details of his “outstanding experience at Yankee Stadium.”
Below is the letter, and Mantle’s surprising response.
I consider the following my outstanding experience at Yankee Stadium:
— I got a blow-job under the right field Bleachers, by the Yankee Bull pen.
This event occurred on or about: (Give as much detail as you can)
— It was about the third or fourth inning. I had a pulled groin and couldn’t fuck at the time. She was a very nice girl and asked me what to do with the cum after I came in her mouth. I said don’t ask me, I’m no cock-sucker.
Signed: Mickey Mantle, The All-American BoyHERO.
What a man.
(Source: lettersofnote.com)
“Dear Mike: Just because someone beats you in a toy lightsaber duel, doesn’t mean you have to cry about it.”
JoAnne, don’t go out in the backyard on July 31st. YOU ARE GOING TO CATCH ON FIRE.
Seriously, that was the year I was burned.
It is going to be OK. You’re not a freak. You’re not weird. You’re going to find amazing friends who will be there for you. You will fall in love. You won’t always feel so alone. Hang in there.
Get out of your mom’s house faster. Apply to Harvard. Play more video games, it’s going to come in handy.
Don’t let other people decide your career path for you. On that note, don’t fucking major in chemical engineering at Columbia. Switch from the engineering school to the college as soon as you can. Do what you love, not what you hope you’ll end up liking enough to tolerate as a career.
I’m not sure she could get more detestable at the moment if she tried.
(Source: themorallycorruptfayeresnick)
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