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June 30, 1976, Police raided the home of Neil Diamond searching for drugs, police enter the singer's house with a search warrant. After a three hour inspection the Police confiscated less than a gram of marijuana, which was no longer a felony under California's new drug law. (Therefore there was no arrest) The raid ended with Diamond presenting each of the officers with an autographed copy of his Beautiful Noise album. His debut the next night at the new Aladin Theatre for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas goes on as planned. Police admitted they acted on an anonymous tip, many people believe it was Elvis that turned him in.

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June 29, 2000, The graves of Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines of Lynyrd Skynyrd were vandalized. Authorities found Van Zant's casket pulled out of its vault and left on the ground, and some of Gaines' cremated ashes spilled. The remains of both musicians (who died when the band's plane crashed Oct. 20, 1977) have been temporarily moved to a mortuary. The families offer a five thousand dollar reward for information leading to the conviction of the vandals but no arrests are made. Most people believe it was Neil Young.

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June 28, 1969, Was the second day of the three day 'Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music'. Appearing at the festival were Frank Zappa, Led Zeppelin, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Johnny Winter, Hawkwind, Country Joe, Donovan, John Mayall, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Santana, Dr. John, and Steppenwolf. Tickets cost $6.00!

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June 27, 1885, Chichester Bell (Alexander Graham Bell's cousin ) and Charles Tainter applied for a patent on their invention, an improved phonograph called the Graphophone. The Graphophone was a variation on Edison's cylinder and received several important patents in 1886 that would shape the future of the recording industry.

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June 26, 1977, Elvis Presley plays his last concert ever at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis. He is in poor health but in good spirits during the show. At one point he tells the audience "I don't know what your all so excited about cause I only know three chords". While singing Bridge Over Troubled Waters Elvis has to read the lyrics to the song. In less then two months Elvis would be found dead . That night he played the following songs...
."Love Me", "Fairytale", " You Gave Me A Mountain", "Jailhouse Rock", "O Solo Mio / It's Now Or Never", "Little Sister", "Teddy Bear", "Don't Be Cruel", "Release Me", I Can't Stop Loving You" , "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "Early Morning Rain", "What'd I Say", "I Really Don't Want To Know", "Hurt", "Hound Dog", and "Can't Help Falling In Love."

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The vine that ate Sheboygan.

Under the vine at sunrise.

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He is like a small boy at Christmas, an expression of pure joy. His wife and friends are there and they all look like they've just won the lottery. A moment to cherish forever as he backs his new riding lawn mower onto the 2x4s that extend from his pick-up truck. Carefully rolling it gently to the driveway for all to see. He is like a peacock as he walks around the mower pointing out all the wonderful features as his dutiful wife takes a couple snapshots for the scrap book. He checks the oil and tops off the gas tank before mounting his new best friend. With a turn of a key the mower comes to life, the noise is like a symphony to him the smell of the exhaust is the sweet smell of success.
With the blades engaged he glides onto the lawn and in about 5 minutes he is done because his whole fucking yard is about as big as a postage stamp.
And there he is, a man who is not satisfied. Like Don Quixote with the beast idling beneath him he eyes the empty field across the street. He does not see a field of weeds and tall grass he sees a wrong that needs to be righted. Putting the thing in gear he rolls forward towards his destiny...
I swirl the ice in my glass and think - 20 billion people (give or take a few billion) have lived and died since man took his first step. They all loved and hated, created and destroyed. They all felt pain and they all dreamed of a better life.
Many of them died in horrible, unthinkable ways. Many of them lived in poverty and sickness. Most of them never got past childhood.
Most of the world still lives in poverty and sickness, without even clean water to drink. 50% of all people alive today will never use a telephone or see a doctor.
We live like kings (Better then the kings of old) the richest among us live like gods. Even our pets live better then most people have. There are robots on mars and computers in cars. Millions of people connected by the internet, all mans knowledge at the tips of our fingers. I am startled out of my thoughts by the roar of the mower.
I stare at my neighbor cutting the grass in the empty field across the street. My chair is on level ground yet I am tilted, not quite right. His wife appears from the house with "a cold one for her man", there's gonna be a party tonight.
I would be an alcoholic if I wasn't to lazy to go make another drink.

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June 25, 1990, Madonna donates 300 thousand dollars to AIDS research She made a similar donation (1/4 of a million) in 1987. She is one of the most generous celebrities of the last 20 years having done many charity events and concerts.

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June 24, 1995, Suffering from the flu Eddie Vedder leaves the stage after only 6 songs. Neil Young is asked to fill in for Pearl Jam. Young had planned to perform as a guest at the show. He played for 1.5 hours, mixing classics with songs from the not yet released Mirror Ball album. The crowd behaves poorly with more then half the audience walking out when Neil takes the stage. From then on whenever Vedder "Had the flu" Pearl Jam would replace him with Elmer Fudd.

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June 23, 1975, While playing a show in Vancouver (during his 'Welcome To My Nightmare' tour). Alice Cooper fell from the stage and broke six ribs. Some audience members claim to have seen a chicken push him.

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June 22, 1969, Judy Garland died. Her song 'Over The Rainbow' was voted the 'Song Of The Century' in a 2001 poll. Judy Garland died at the age of 47. She was found by her husband Mickey Deans. Autopsies showed that Judy could have died from an accidental overdose of barbituates. Suicide was ruled out.
"Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other,and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe, we'd like each other a little bit more.
-Judy Garland-

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June 21, 1832, Theobald Boehm unveils his "ring key" system he has developed for the flute. Flutes before that were shaped like cones, with eight finger holes and two keys.(more like recorders than flutes) As a boy Boehm made his own flute and taught himself to play. He quickly became proficient enough to play in an orchestra at the age of eighteen and at twenty-one he was first flute in the Royal Bavarian Orchestra.

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June 20, 1937, At the age of 26 Robert Johnson goes into a recording studio in Texas and records - "Hellhound On My Trail", "Little Queen Of Spades", "Malted Milk", "Drunken Hearted Man", "Me And The Devil Blues", "Travelling Riverside Blues", "Honeymoon Blues", "Milkcow's Calf Blues", and "Love In Vain". This would be Johnsons last time in a recording studio, he died in 1938.
From Hellhound On My Trail...
I got to keep moving, I got to keep moving
Blues falling down like hail, blues falling down like hail
And the day keeps on remindin' me, there's a hellhound on my trail

The vine that ate Sheboygan.

I'm insane with the vine. Its just so cool. Another view inside looking up.

The vine that ate Sheboygan.

Inside looking up.

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June 19, 1902, 12 year old Jelly Roll Morton invents jazz. Morton (A gifted piano player) combines ragtime, French quadrilles and the hot blues played by Buddy Bolden. Morton wrote more than one thousand songs in his career including "King Porter Stomp" which became a standard covered by most other swing bands of that time. Mortons claim to be the father of Jazz has been disputed by some historians but with a name like Jelly Roll we think he must have been.

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June 18, 1997, Brooks & Dunn play a special show for their fan club in Nashville. After the concert both Brooks and Dunn stick around to meet and sign autographs for all 2,000 people in the audience. They start signing at 9 pm and wrap things up at 5 am the next morning.
DLAK note: That may be the second coolest thing I have heard a star do. These guys get it, hats (cowboy) off to B & D.

The vine that ate Sheboygan.

To the left is a corner of white metal gazebo I put up for the vine to hang on. To the right you can see how the roots climb the trunk of the tree. The tree will eventually fall from the weight of the vine.

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This weekend we celebrate fathers.
Time, space and motion. Earth, wind and water. Within every bad poet is an even worse philosopher. I stopped a leak in the back hall. It was an easy enough fix, makes me wonder why it took me two years. hmmmmm (maybe she did have a couple valid points... oh well.)
They say the early bird gets the worm but that didn't work out to well for the worm did it? It really didn't pay for him to get up early. I guess it pays to know your place on the food chain and set your alarm accordingly.
So anyway I watched my neighbors unload and assemble one of these bad polly vinyl imitation wood, fake well lawn ornaments. (It has to be from Wal-Mart) you know if you looked you would see 'Made in China' stamped on the bottom of it.
They have placed it in the center of their yard like an alter to the god of white trash, a celebration of their bad taste. Perhaps they will sacrifice democrats on it. Whatever happens over there this weekend there will surly be a cookout. I cant wait to hear what the soundtrack of my weekend will be, my bet is on 'REO Speedwagons greatest hits' The conversation might go something like ... "Hey Bob did you see our new polly vinyl imitation wood, fake well lawn decoration? It was 9.99 at the Wal-Mart." "Imported all the way from China now that's a real sweet deal." Hell yes I seen it Martha , that would match up fine with our Mexican pulling a burro statue. I'm a gonna go get me one tomorrow." Hey Billy Bob how's dem antennas workin out fer yah?" "Martha get me another beer, Yeeeeha! lets go find us a Democrat"...Riding the storm out...

The vine that ate Sheboygan.

The roots, doesn't it look ancient?

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June 17, 1972, The Candy Man goes to number one on the charts. It would be the biggest hit of Sammy Davis Jr.s career. It is however surrounded in controversy when several religious and conservative groups claim the song promotes drug use. When Sammy is told about a possible radio ban on the song he says "What the fuck are these assholes smoking? Whatever it is I'm getting my shit from them from now on." The song is featured in the film ``Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'' and would earn an Academy Award nomination.
The Candyman
Who can take a sunrise sprinkle it with dew cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two
The candyman, the candyman can The candyman can cause he mixes it with pot and makes the world taste good
Who can take some acid wrap it in some smack soak it in the sun and make a groovy hunk of crack
The candyman, The candyman can, The candyman can cause he mixes it with pot and makes the world taste good
The candyman makes all the coke he bakes satisfying and delicious talk about your childhood wishes you can even smoke the dishes. Who can take some valium mix it with some 'Jack' separate the seeds and collect up all the cash
The candyman, The candyman can, The candyman can 'cause he mixes it with pot and makes the world taste good
And the world tastes good cause the candyman thinks it should

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June 16, 1982, Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott dies from a overdose of cocaine and heroin. Two days earlier the bass player Pete Farndon was kicked out of the band because of his addiction, he would be dead from an overdose in less then a year. Chrissie Hynde would soon be pregnant with Ray Davies (The Kinks) child. She would reform the Pretenders in February 1983, adding former Manfred Mann's Earth Band guitarist Robbie McIntosh and bassist Malcolm Foster; the reconstituted band released the Learning to Crawl album in early 1984. The Learning To Crawl album is one of the great rock albums of the eighties and if you haven't heard it yet what the fuck are you waiting for? hmmmmmmmmmmmm?

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June 15, 1966, Capital Records released the Beatles album Yesterday & Today. There is an immediate uproar over the cover which depicts the Fab Four covered in dismembered baby dolls and meat. People thought it looked like the Beatles were covered with aborted babies. The album was quickly pulled from the stores and replaced with a more conventional cover of the Beatles forcing a bondage clad girl to smell their gloves.

The vine that ate Sheboygan.

This vine lives in our backyard. It has killed two full grown trees and will soon kill the one that's under it. I don't know how old it is but it was here long before I moved in. It stretches along the fence for 30 feet in both directions.

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June 14, 2000, Noel Gallagher guitarist for the band Oasis was voted Melody Maker's annual 'Un-coolest Person in Rock'. Marilyn Manson came in second and George W. Bush was given honorable mention for being the 'Un-coolest Person ever".

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June 13, 1961, FM stereo broadcasting begins in Schenectady, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The FCC adopted the standard a year later. The first song played was' Freebird'.

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June 12, 1992, Law enforcement officials call for a ban on Ice-T's "Cop Killer" LP. Sales of the album quickly double. When told of the ban and resulting sales Ice says "Thanks"

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9 am, wake up. Gnashing of teeth and a pot of coffee. With the world drifting in and out of focus I cannot find the "Crux". Except for my shoes spit shined happiness eludes. The empty bottles abound and surround me, they mock the dull pain and bad taste that stand as a reminder that "smoke to much, drink too early" is a bad business plan.
White knuckled grip, deer in the headlights stare. What recourse has a man when his soul is left bare?
My neighbors have erected 300 foot antennas and are blocking all communication between me and my TV. They are lovely people that do not understand why their dumbass hobby is unreasonable. These wonderful folks like to sit outside and listen to music This weekend I have been treated to The Eagles Live Album about 50 times. (I hate the fucking eagles) I have always thought that the sound track in hell will be the Eagles live album and while standing in my back yard hearing You cant hide your lying eyes for the 20th time that day, there was a moment I thought I may have died and this is hell. But no such luck, we live to fight another pointless battle in an unwinnable war. We stand and we shrug our shoulders in a non committed gesture of apathetic ignorance. The dog just told me the neighbors are out side again...Life in the fast lane ... God help me.

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June 10, 1986, During the second day of a five day version of Casey Jones Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead went into a diabetic coma. No one noticed and the tour continued as planned.

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June 9, 1972, Bruce Spingsteen signed a 10 album contract with Columbia Records. The (studio) albums were...
Greetings from Asbury Park N,J - 1973
The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Band - 1974
Born to Run - 1975
Darkness on the Edge of Town - 1978
The River - 1980
Nebraska - 1982
Born in the USA - 1984
Tunnel of Love - 1987
Human Touch - 1992
Lucky Town - 1992
DLAK note: We love the boss.

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June 8, 1989, During a press conference Chrissie Hynde claimed that she once firebombed a McDonalds Restaurant. The following day a McDonalds in Milton Keynes was firebombed and Hynde was threatened with legal action. She also urged people to "go and batter the tuna fishermen responsible for the slaughter of dolphins in the East Pacific." McDonalds would soon unveil their McBattered Tuna Fisherman sandwich, which when purchased in the Happy meal came with a toy baby seal and a baseball bat.

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June 7, 1969, Supergroup Blind Faith, featuring Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Steve Winwood made their live debut at a free concert in London's Hyde Park. In the audience was Mick Jagger, Mick Fleetwood, Donovan, Chas Chandler, Mitch Mitchel, Noel Redding, Mike Hugg and Ritchie Havens. Blind Faith released only one album and completed one tour before breaking up. Their biggest hit was 'Cant Find My Way Home' This show has gone down in rock history as one of the great concerts of the time. If you are interested the concert has just been released on DVD (May 30 2005).

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June 6, 2003, Judge Kim Lewison A High court judge in London ruled that rap lyrics should be treated as a foreign language. The judge had been asked to rule on a case brought by the band Ant'ill Mob against The Heartless Crew. Andrew Alcee, the writer of Ant'ill Mob's hit Burnin, was claiming that lyrics "laid over" the top of the Heartless Crew's remix of the song constituted "derogatory treatment" of the copyright.
He said terms like "shizzle my nizzle", "mish mish man" and "string dem up" referred to drugs and violence and so "distorted and mutilated" his original tune.
The Judge admitted that even after playing the record at half speed and referral to the Urban Dictionary he was unable to be sure of the meaning of the slang. He said that although the lyrics were written in a form of English, they were "for practical purposes a foreign language", and he had no expert evidence as to what they meant. He dismissed Mr Alcee's damages claim.
According to the urbandictionary.com...
Shizzle my nizzle - A bastardization of "fo' sheezy mah neezy", which is a bastardization of a phrase meaning "I concur with you wholeheartedly my African American brother".
Wacked out cracka - Rich white person who pretends to act like a black "gangsta".
Dang blang hang thang - Valuable gold necklace.
and DLAKs personal fave
Ga dunk a dunk - A big bottom.

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June 5, 1956, Elvis Presley appeared on the Milton Berle Show. While singing 'Hound Dog he wiggles his butt in a "suggestive gyrating movement". The media has a field day accusing Elvis and ABC of corrupting the nations youth with inappropriate sexual imagery. The next time Elvis appears on TV he is shown only from the waist up so the young girls could not see his hips. Elvis admits that when he "hears that music he just cant stop himself from moving like that". Some in the media and politics use this statement as proof that rock and roll casts an evil spell on children. Some call for a total ban on rock and roll.

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June 4, 2000, Eminem's third album hit No.1 on the US album chart. 'The Marshall Mathers LP' is considered by some to be offensive because of its lyrical content. Reading the lyrics today its hard to see what they were so upset about.
Some excerpts taken from the song "Amityville"
get lifted and spin til I'm half-twisted/Feet planted and stand with a grin full of chapped lipstick ...
Drink gin til my chin's full of splashed whiskers/hash, whisky, and ash til I slap bitches...
I fucked my cousin in his asshole, slit my mother's throat ...
My little sister's birthday, she'll remember me/For a gift I had ten of my boys take her virginity ...
We don't do drivebys, we park in front of houses and shoot/and when the police come we fuckin shoot it out with them too
Cause once I snap I can't be held accountable for my acts/and that's when accidents happen/when a thousand bullets come at your house/and collapse the foundation around and they found you and your family in .

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June 3, 2000, During a music festival in Buffalo, NY Kenny Chesney asks the daughter of a mounted policeman if he can sit on the policeman's horse. After receiving permission and mounting the animal Chesney rode off. Other officers at the scene thought the horse was being stolen and while attempting to pull Chesney from the horse they are attacked by Tim McGraw. McGraw who was yelling "Get your hands off him"! knocks one cop to the ground before getting him in a headlock. After letting the first cop go Mcgraw went after another officer at which point the first officer struck him with his night stick the singer's manager was shouting, "That's Tim McGraw. He's a star." An officer at the scene testified, "I said, 'Calm down, calm down. If there's some type of misunderstanding, we'll work it out." He said that McGraw shot back, "You're fucking right there's a misunderstanding." The pair are arrested on four counts of disturbing the peace and resisting arrest. One day earlier Tim McGraw had been named "Father Of The Year" by the Country Music Association.

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June 2, 1967, ``Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.'' is released. The Beatles at this point had taken some of Dylans advice and some of his weed (And a little of Jimi's acid) and came up with such immortal lines as "I get high with a little help from my friends" And " I've got nothing to say but its okay"`The album would sell a trillion copies in one minute and to this day still sells 100 copies an hour. It is said that if you look at the album cover long enough you can unlock the meaning of life.

Don't know, it remains a mystery.

It looks like someone peaking out from behind something. I was in my back yard taking pictures of birds and this was on the camera. (digital) I did nothing to it to enhance it.

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June 1, 1968, Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson," hits number one on the charts. The song (featured in the soundtrack of the film The Graduate) contained the line "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio, Our nation turns it's lonely eyes to you. What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson. Jolting Joe has left and gone away,"
To which Joe DiMaggio replied "What the hell do they mean? Where'd I go? I'm right goddamned here!"