The Bar Kays were Redding's every day, road band and had scored a #3 hit record on Billboard's R&B Singles chart themselves with their 1967 instumental Soul Finger. I think that's Joe Arnold on the second sax.įrom the "Legendary Stax-Volt Euaropean Tour of 1967". With them are arguably the greatest horn section in the history of Soul if ot all of recorded music, The Memphis Horns which were for the most part, Wayne Jackson on trumpet and Andrew Love standing at about center stage on the saxaphone. This is Otis Redding backed by Booker T and The MG's, Booker T Jones on the organ, Steve Cropper on his Tele, Duck Dunn holding down the bass position and Al Jackson Jr on the drums. Just three days earlier Redding had finally completed a six month project, writting and recording what would become his greatest hit and an American pop music staple, (Sitting On) The Dock Of The Bay. On this day in history, December 10, 1967, Otis Redding and all but one member of the Bar Kays lost their lives when the plane they were travelling in crashed into Lake Monona just outside of Madison, Wisconsin. In his first recorded appearance, no shadow. The ground hog was subsequently named Punxsutawney Phil, Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages, Prognosticator of Prognosticators and Weather Prophet Extraordinary. The official celebration began on Februwhen Clymer Freas, editor of the Punxutawney Spirit published the following comment, "Today is groundhog day and up to the time of going to press the beast has not seen it's shadow." It's origins are ancient and the date, Feb 2 is the seasonal turning point of the Celtic calender. The celebration began in America with the descendents of German immagrants in central and southern Pennsylvania during the 18th century. Groundhog Day is a driect descendent of Candlemas Day. So much so that the fact that Kasparov is still alive is evidence to Iowa Republican Congressional Representative, Steve King that Vladimir Putin does indeed allow dissent. Garry Kasparov would retire from professional chess in 2005 and pursue a career as a professional critic of Vladimir Putin. Time Magazine story on the move that got inot Kasparov's head.Ĭlick on this little gear right here for a move by move accounting of the entire series.Īs an aside, who the hell sets up an even game series? This victory was the first ever for a computer under international chess rules for match play which requires 40 moves in the first two hours, 20 moves over the course of the next two hours and one last hour to complete the match.Ĭheer up humans, Kasparov, who is widely considered the greatest player in the history of the game, ended up winning the series with three wins, two draws and the one loss in the first match.Ībandon all hope humans, Big Blue won the 1997 rematch.Ĭlick on the photo above for an interesting. On FebruWorld Champion chess player Garry Kasparov lost the first of a 6 match series to "Big Blue" a computer built by IBM that was reputed to have the ability to analyze 2,000,000 moves per second.
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