nyc's song of the day

[CowboyDan]

On This Day in History...
June 28, 1965 - In the first major offensive ordered for U.S. forces, 3,000 troops of the 173rd Airborne Brigade--in conjunction with 800 Australian soldiers and a Vietnamese airborne unit--assault a jungle area known as Viet Cong Zone D, 20 miles northeast of Saigon. The operation was called off after three days when it failed to make any major contract with the enemy. One American was killed and nine Americans and four Australians were wounded. The State Department assured the American public that the operation was in accord with Johnson administration policy on the role of U.S. troops.

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[YosemiteSam]

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[CowboyDan]

On This Day in History...
On this day in 1995, the American space shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir to form the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.
This historic moment of cooperation between former rival space programs was also the 100th human space mission in American history. At the time, Daniel Goldin, chief of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), called it the beginning of "a new era of friendship and cooperation" between the U.S. and Russia. With millions of viewers watching on television, Atlantis blasted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in eastern Florida on June 27, 1995.

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[CowboyDan]

On This Day in History...
On June 29, 1967, Keith Richards sat before magistrates in Chichester, West Sussex, England, facing charges that stemmed from the infamous raid of Richards' Redlands estate five months earlier. Though the raid netted very little in the way of actual drugs, what it did net was a great deal of notoriety for the already notorious Rolling Stones. It was during this raid that the police famously encountered a young Marianne Faithfull clad only in a bearskin rug, a fact that the prosecutor in the case seemed to regard as highly relevant to the case at hand. In questioning Richards, Queen's Counsel Malcolm Morris tried to imply that Faithfull's nudity was probably the result of a loss of inhibition due to cannabis use.

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[Khartun]

I really liked these guys back in the early 90s

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[Khartun]

WOOT! New Anthrax song, and Joey is back with the band.

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Plus Testament has a new album coming out soon. Have you guys seen how big Chuck Billy is now. Jeeze. Alex was always one of my favorite guitar players. Amazing how many great guitarists Joe Satriani trained.

Here's something from their last album

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[jimmy40]

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[YosemiteSam]

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[CowboyDan]

On This Day in History...
On this day in 1989, the writer-director Spike Lee’s third feature film, Do the Right Thing--a provocative, racially charged drama that takes place on one block in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, on the hottest day of the year--is released in U.S. theaters.
Nominated for two Oscars--Best Supporting Actor for Aiello and Best Original Screenplay for Lee--Do the Right Thing was later called “culturally significant” by the U.S. Library of Congress and stands to this day as one of Hollywood’s most notable portrayals of modern-day racial tensions.

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[CowboyDan]

On This Day in History...
Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, one of the best-selling novels of all time and the basis for a blockbuster 1939 movie, is published on this day in 1936.
In 1926, Mitchell was forced to quit her job as a reporter at the Atlanta Journal to recover from a series of physical injuries. With too much time on her hands, Mitchell soon grew restless. Working on a Remington typewriter, a gift from her second husband, John R. Marsh, in their cramped one-bedroom apartment, Mitchell began telling the story of an Atlanta belle named Pansy O'Hara.

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[CowboyDan]

On This Day in History...
The Night of the Long Knives - In Germany, **** leader Adolf Hitler orders a bloody purge of his own political party, assassinating hundreds of ***** whom he believed had the potential to become political enemies in the future. The leadership of the **** Storm Troopers (SA), whose four million members had helped bring Hitler to power in the early 1930s, was especially targeted. Hitler feared that some of his followers had taken his early "National Socialism" propaganda too seriously and thus might compromise his plan to suppress workers' rights in exchange for German industry making the country war-ready.

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[Khartun]

On This Day in History...
The Night of the Long Knives - In Germany, **** leader Adolf Hitler orders a bloody purge of his own political party, assassinating hundreds of ***** whom he believed had the potential to become political enemies in the future. The leadership of the **** Storm Troopers (SA), whose four million members had helped bring Hitler to power in the early 1930s, was especially targeted. Hitler feared that some of his followers had taken his early "National Socialism" propaganda too seriously and thus might compromise his plan to suppress workers' rights in exchange for German industry making the country war-ready.

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good song choice

 

[CowboyDan]

good song choice

I love that riff! Scott Ian's best, in my opinion.

 

[YosemiteSam]

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[Khartun]

Well, BP has been noticeably absent from the music thread so I'll post his song for him.

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[YosemiteSam]

Well, BP has been noticeably absent from the music thread so I'll post his song for him.

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Always a classic.

 

[CowboyDan]

Always a classic.

That was disturbing. :laugh2:

 

[CowboyDan]

On This Day in History...
The last Thunderbird, Ford Motor Company's iconic sports car, emerges from a Ford factory in Wixom, Michigan on this day in 2005.
Ford began its development of the Thunderbird in the years following World War II, during which American servicemen had the opportunity to observe sleek European sports cars. General Motors built the first American sports car: the Chevrolet Corvette, released in 1953. The undeniably sleek Corvette's initial engine performance was relatively underwhelming, but it was gaining lots of attention from the press and public, and Ford was motivated to respond, rushing the Thunderbird to the market in 1955. The 1955 Thunderbird was an immediate hit, selling more than 14,000 that year (compared to just 700 Corvettes). The success of the Thunderbird led Chevrolet to continue production of (and improve upon) the Corvette, which soon became a tough competitor in the sports car market.

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[CowboyDan]

On This Day in History...
The First Sony Walkman was sold.
The transistor radio was a technological marvel that put music literally into consumers' hands in the mid-1950s. It was cheap, it was reliable and it was portable, but it could never even approximate the sound quality of a record being played on a home stereo. It was, however, the only technology available to on-the-go music lovers until the Sony Corporation sparked a revolution in personal electronics with the introduction of the first personal stereo cassette player. A device as astonishing on first encounter as the cellular phone or digital camera would later be, the Sony Walkman went on sale for the very first time on July 1, 1979.

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[Khartun]

That was disturbing. :laugh2:

I love the top rated comment at youtube for it. :laugh1: