avoidance?

Astronomers catch a shooting star for first time...

25 Mar '09

By Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - For the first time, scientists have matched a meteorite found on Earth with a specific asteroid that became a fireball plunging through the sky.

It gives them a glimpse into the past, when planets formed, and an idea about how to avoid a future asteroid Armageddon.

Last October, astronomers tracked a small non-threatening asteroid heading toward Earth before it became a "shooting star" - something they had not done before.

It blew up, in the sky, and scientists thought there would be no space rocks left to examine.

But a painstaking search by dozens of students through the remote Sudan desert came up with four kilograms of black jagged rocks - leftovers from the asteroid 2008 TC3.

The study is being published Thursday in the journal, Nature.

It says the dark rocks found in the desert were full of surprises, including minuscule diamonds.

"This was a meteorite that was not in our collection, a completely new material," said study lead author, Peter Jenniskens, of NASA's Ames Research Center in California.

For years, astronomers have been lobbying to send a robot probe to an asteroid, grab a chunk of it and return it to Earth for labs to analyze the material.

Instead, a piece of an asteroid dropped in their laps and the researchers were able to track where it came from and where it landed.

The asteroid, which mostly burned in the atmosphere 37 kilometres above the ground, is likely a leftover from when chunks of rock tried and failed to become a planet, about 4.5 billion years ago, scientists said.

"This is a look back in time, and it came to us," said University of Maryland astronomer Lucy McFadden.

She wasn't part of the study, but like four other outside experts praised the findings as important to the understanding of the solar system.

"It's a beautiful example of looking at an earlier stage of planet development that was arrested, halted," said NASA cosmic mineralogist Michael Zolensky, a co-author of the study.

But it also serves as a lesson for the future, if this asteroid's big brother comes hurtling toward Earth.

Blowing it up like in the Bruce Willis movie, "Armageddon", wouldn't be smart, because this type of asteroid turns out to be very much like a "traveling sandpile," Zolensky said.

"If you blow it up, all the millions of pieces are heading toward Earth."

Instead, a spaceship-aided nudge would be more effective, said NASA Ames Research Center director, Simon (Pete) Worden, another study co-author.

He is a longtime advocate of a worldwide program to plan for the threat of asteroids and comets hitting Earth.

"The real important issue is to understand the physics of these objects," Worden said.

There are many different types of asteroids, all classified from afar based on color and light wavelengths.

This type is called a class F, and turns out to be mostly porous and fragile.

University of Maryland's McFadden said it's unlikely a class F asteroid could be any danger to Earth, even if it's bigger, because of its porous makeup, which would cause it to break up before hitting.

It was full of metals, such as iron and nickel, and organics such as graphites, Zolensky said.

And most interesting is, it has "nanodiamonds".

These diamonds are formed by collisions in space, high pressure, and they are all over the rocks, making them glitter like geodes, he said.

But they aren't big.

"If bacteria had engagement rings, these would be the right size for them," Zolensky said.

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On the Net

Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature

Copyright © 2009 Canadian Press

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A "falling star" or a "shooting star" has nothing at all to do with a star!

These amazing streaks of light you can sometimes see in the night sky are caused by tiny bits of dust and rock, called meteoroids, falling into the Earth's atmosphere and burning up.


The short-lived trail of light the burning meteoroid produces is called a meteor.

Meteors are commonly called falling stars or shooting stars.

If any part of the meteoroid survives burning up, and actually hits the Earth, that remaining bit is then called a meteorite.

At certain times of year, you are likely to see a great number of meteors in the night sky.

These events are called meteor showers and they occur when the Earth passes through the trail of debris left by a comet as it orbits the Sun.

These showers are given names based on the constellation present in the sky from which they appear to originate.

For example, the Leonid Meteor Shower, or Leonids, appear to originate in the constellation Leo.

It is important to understand the meteoroids (and therefore the meteors) do not really originate from the constellations, or any of the stars in the constellations.

They just seem to come from that part of the sky, because of the way the Earth encounters the particles moving in the path of the comet's orbit.

Associating the shower name with the region of the sky they seem to come from just helps astronomers know where to look!

The dust and rocks that cause meteor showers come primarily from the Earth passing through the debris stream left behind by a comet as it orbits the Sun. Usually, the Earth's orbit and the comet's orbit are slightly tilted relative to one another. So the paths only intersect on one side!

Annual Meteor Showers
Name	When They Occur
Quadrantids	January 1-6
April Lyrids	April 19-24
Eta Aquarids	May 1-8
Delta Aquarids	July 15- August 15
Perseids	July 25 - August 18
Orionids	October 16-27
Taurids	October 20-November 30
Leonids	November 15-20
Geminids	December 7-15

Note: one of the best meteor showers, the Perseids, happens in August.

"Peak time" is when you are likely to see the largest number of meteors per hour.

It occurs in the middle of August, and can be quite spectacular to see!

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threats...

31 Mar 09

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, seen here in 2008, arrived Tuesday for Turkish-sponsored talks with Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai, on boosting cooperation against Islamist extremists, a Pakistani diplomat said. Photo:Jim Watson/AFP

Pakistani Taliban threatens White House attack that will 'amaze everyone'...

1 hour, 48 minutes ago

By The Associated Press

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - The commander of the Pakistani Taliban said the group was planning a terrorist attack on the White House that would "amaze" the world.

Baitullah Mehsud claimed responsibility for a deadly assault on a Pakistani police academy in the eastern city of Lahore.

He said it was retaliation for U.S. missile strikes against militants along the Afghan border.

Mehsud told The Associated Press by phone: "Soon we will launch an attack in Washington that will amaze everyone in the world."

In his latest comments, Mehsud identified the White House as one of the targets in an interview with local Dewa Radio.

Mehsud has a US$5 million bounty on his head, from U.S. authorities.

Mehsud has never been directly linked to any attacks outside Pakistan, but attacks blamed on his network of fighters have widened in scope and ambition in recent years.

Copyright © 2009 Canadian Press

irony...

quote...

If you can't annoy somebody

with what you write,

I think there's little point

in writing.

~Kingsley Amis

dna...

Quebec man wants name stricken from birth certificate of child who isn't his...

30 Mar '09

By Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press

MONTREAL - A Quebec man who has failed to have his name removed from the birth certificate of a young girl he found out was not his biological daughter, wants to argue his case before the Supreme Court of Canada.

The businessman has already struck out in Quebec Superior Court and in the Quebec Court of Appeal.

Both courts ruled paternity is ironclad if a man's name is on the birth certificate if that status is not contested within a year of the child's birth, and if other factors, including the same family name, indicate obvious bonds between the child and the parent.

The courts ruled there is little room for interpretation, but the man's lawyer disagreed with both rulings.

"It's not a monetary question as much as it is a question of principle - can we impose a child on a man?" Guylaine Gauthier said in an interview.

"The message the courts have sent is, we can falsely name someone as the father, and this goes against the judicial system and the values upon which it is based.

"The question of good faith and bad faith is of major importance here - and I think there's a poor application of the Civil Code."

The man, a native of Rimouski in eastern Quebec, was involved in a common-law relationship with a woman between 1998 and 2005 and the girl was born in 2002.

He testified he had no reason to believe he wasn't the father, but after the relationship ended, he learned she'd kept her infidelity from him.

"After he was separated, people came forward and told him who the father was, and that person also acknowledged he is the girl's father," Gauthier said.

In January 2007, a DNA test concluded with a probability of more than 99.99 per cent Gauthier's client is NOT the biological father.

Since then, he's had no contact with the young girl, and the girl's mother has cut ties with him, but the man is still legally considered her father, and could still be responsible for her financially, Gauthier said.

A well-known Quebec family lawyer said she doesn't think the case will even make it to Ottawa, as she says the question of 'filiation' has been long settled.

"The theme of this is filiation has nothing to do with biology," said Anne-France Goldwater.

"Once a child has a birth certificate, and the child has a possession of status that matches the certificate, it's over, you cannot contest its filiation... ever again."

Goldwater said there is a short window of time to contest, but in the majority of cases, the truth is discovered too late.

"Once his name is on the birth certificate, and he has treated the child as his own, filiation is considered irrevocably established," she said.

The Canadian Children's Rights Council, an advocacy group concerned with children's human rights, said statistics reveal about 10 per cent of Canadians don't have the name of their biological father on their birth certificate.

President Grant Wilson said men should not have to go to court in cases of paternal fraud to have the matter resolved.

Also, judges often rule "because you've acted like dad long enough, we're making you the dad, but unfortunately, you can't tell people how to feel," Wilson said.

"Certainly, their relationship is going to be different."

Mandatory DNA testing during pregnancy would go a long way to limit the damage and protect the children from future harm, Wilson said.

"It's extremely damaging to children when they find out the man they thought was their father isn't their father," he said.

Goldwater said seemingly forgotten in the whole affair is the young girl.

"It's a cruelty, beyond understanding, to break this child's life like that," she said.

Copyright © 2009 Canadian Press

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12-word novel XXXIX..

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Sorely outnumbered, you continue to fight the Grath.
Assistance is hours away.

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maurice jarre, rip :(

Maurice Jarre, RIP: 1924 - 2009

Posted by Jorn Tillnes

30 March 2009

“One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack.

"Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life.

"When I die, there will be a final waltz playing in my head and that only I can hear.”

~Maurice Jarre

What a sad message to wake up to.

The French composer, Maurice Jarre, died in Los Angeles after suffering from cancer.

Composer of more tan 150 films, he had a long and fruitful career.

His perhaps biggest breakthrough if you will came in 1962 when he composed for Lawrence of Arabia which is frequently featured on the t soundtracks list.

He won 2 oscars, one for Doctor Zhivago and one for A PassTo India.

His last score, Uprising, was released in 2001.

Other scores he composed:

A Walk In The Clouds
Ghost
Jacob’s Ladder
Dead Poets Society
The Message
Enemy Mine
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Shogun

His final waltz will be playing, but only for his ears.

Here’s the man himself composing one of the greatest masterpieces put on film, Lawrence Of Arabia:

stress. . .

Mini LXV...

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Run...

For our morning routines, you have always ridden me bareback... in both senses.

This morning as the ground begins to warm to the rising sun, we seem to have attracted a pack of jackals, the biped variety, riding hard to cut us off.

My pounding hooves wake you from your reverie... I sense your fear.

~2009 laughingwolf

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i say, old chap...

6-word tales XLXIII...

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Can you ever trust your eyes?

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nao...

hart. . .

Aesop's: Hart in Ox stall...

Hart, hotly pursued by Hounds, flees for refuge into an Ox stall, and buries itself in a truss of hay, leaving nothing to be seen but the tips of his horns.

Soon after, the Hunters come up and ask if any one has seen a Hart.

Stable boys, resting after their dinner, look round, but see nothing.

The Hunters leave.

Shortly afterward, the farm Master comes in, looks around, sees something unusual has taken place.

He points the truss of hay and asks, "What are those two curious things sticking out of the hay?"

When the stable boys come to look, they discover Hart, and soon make an end of him.

~Too late, he learnt... nothing escapes the Master's eye.

buddy guy... now 73 :)

Buddy Guy...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Buddy Guy
Buddy Guy performing at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2007
Background information
Birth name	George Guy
Born	30 July 1936 (1936-07-30) (age 73)[1]
Origin	Lettsworth, Louisiana
Genre(s)	Electric blues, Chicago blues
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instrument(s)	Guitar
Years active	1953 - present
Label(s)	Cobra Records, Chess Records, Delmark Records, Silvertone Records
Website	Official Website
Notable instrument(s)
Fender Buddy Guy Signature Stratocaster

George "Buddy" Guy (born 30 July1936) is a five-time Grammy Award-winning American blues and rock guitarist and singer.

Known as an inspiration to Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and other guitarists, Guy is considered an important exponent of Chicago blues.

He is the father of female rapper, Shawnna, and also has a son, Michael.

He is the older brother of late blues guitarist, Phil Guy.

Guy is known for his showmanship, playing his guitar with drumsticks, or strolling into the audience while jamming and trailing a long guitar chord.

He was ranked thirtieth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"^[2]

Contents 1 Biography 2 Music 3 Entertainer 4 Influence 5 Awards 5.1 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 6 The Louisiana Music Hall Of Fame 7 Discography 8 References 9 See also 10 External links 10.1 Magazine articles 10.2 News articles

Biography

Born in Lettsworth, Louisiana, Guy grew up in Louisiana learning guitar on a two string diddley bow he made.

Later he was given a Harmony acoustic guitar, which he later donated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

In the early '50s, he began performing with bands in Baton Rouge.

Soon after moving to Chicago in 1957, Guy fell under the influence of Muddy Waters.

In 1958, a competition with West Side guitarists, Magic Sam and Otis Rush, gave Guy a record contract.

Soon afterwards, he recorded for Cobra Records.

He recorded sessions with Junior Wells for Delmark Records, under the pseudonym, Friendly Chap, in 1965 and 1966^[3].

Guy’s early career was supposedly held back by both conservative business choices made by his record company (Chess Records), and "the scorn, diminishments, and petty subterfuge from a few jealous rivals".

Chess, Guy’s record label from 1959 to 1968, refused to record Buddy Guy’s novel style similar to his live shows.

Leonard Chess (Chess founder and 1987 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee) denounced Guy’s playing as "noise".

In the early 1960s, Chess tried recording Guy as a solo artist with R&B ballads, jazz instrumentals, soul and novelty dance tunes, but none were released as singles.

Guy’s only Chess album, "Left My Blues in San Francisco", was finally issued in 1967.

Most of the songs belong stylistically to the era's soul boom, with orchestrations by Gene Barge and Charlie Stepney.

Chess used Guy mainly as a session guitarist to back Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Koko Taylor, and others.

Buddy Guy was a leading star at the 1969 Supershow at Staines, England, that also included Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Jack Bruce, Stephen Stills, Buddy Miles, Glen Campbell, Roland Kirk, and Jon Hiseman.

Image: 1969 Supershow.

By the late 1960s, Guy's career was in decline.

The heavy blues-rock scene he had helped inspire was flourishing without him.

For the next two decades, Buddy Guy had to endure the neglect many blues and rock artists faced in their careers: As visionaries and pathfinders they are overlooked while their followers received the fame, recognition and fortune.

Guy's career finally took off during the blues revival period of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

It was sparked by Clapton's request that Guy be part of the '24 Nights' all-star blues guitar lineup at London's Royal Albert Hall, and Guy's subsequent signing with Silvertone Records.

Music

Buddy Guy in 1973 performing
Courtesy: Jean-Luc Ourlin

While Buddy Guy's music is often labeled Chicago blues, his style is unique and separate.

His music can vary from the most traditional, deepest blues to a creative, unpredictable and radical gumbo of the blues, avant rock, soul and free jazz that morphs at each night’s performance.

As New York Times pop music critic Jon Pareles noted in 2004:

Mr. Guy, 68, mingles anarchy, virtuosity, deep blues and hammy shtick in ways that keep all eyes on him... Guy loves extremes: sudden drops from loud to soft, or a sweet, sustained guitar solo followed by a jolt of speed, or a high, imploring vocal cut off with a rasp...Whether he's singing with gentle menace or bending new curves into a blue note, he is a master of tension and release, and his every wayward impulse was riveting.

Some blues fans and music critics believe Guy's 1960–1967 Chess catalog remains his most satisfying body of work.

This view discounts the pathfinding music Guy was creating since his early live performances, some of which is captured in the American Folk Blues Festival albums.

Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page, appreciated this more radical side of Guy's music, in the early 1960s.

However, Guy himself has suggested the styles represented on his albums from the 1990s, which tended to stray furthest from traditional blues, were an effort to adapt to the changing realities of commercial radio and the record business.

In an revealing interview taped on 14 April 2000 for WRUW-FM Cleveland (a college station), Guy said "The purpose of me trying to play the kind of rocky stuff is to get airplay...I find myself kind of searching, hoping I'll hit the right notes, say the right things, maybe they'll put me on one of these big stations, what they call 'classic'...if you get Eric Clapton to play a Muddy Waters song, they call it classic, and they will put it on that station, but you'll never hear Muddy Waters."

Guy’s songs have been covered by Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Mayall, Jack Bruce, and others.

Regardless, Guy is perhaps better known for his creative interpretation of the work of other songwriters.

Traditional blues fans may appreciate the albums, The Very Best of Buddy Guy, Blues Singer, Junior Wells' Hoodoo Man Blues, A Man & The Blues and I Was Walking Through The Woods. Contemporary blues and rock fans may appreciate Slippin’ In, Sweet Tea, Stone Crazy, Buddy's Baddest: The Best Of Buddy Guy, Damn Right, I’ve Got The Blues, and D.J. Play My Blues.

Guy's live show is featured in the video Live! The Real Deal and he performs in the DVDs Lightning In a Bottle, Crossroads Guitar Festival, Eric Clapton: 24 Nights, Festival Express, and A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Entertainer

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Guy performing at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2006

Guy's showmanship has influenced many musicians' stage presentation, notably Jimi Hendrix.

Hendrix sometimes canceled his own concerts to attend Guy’s club shows, which he filmed or audio taped.

In Antoine Fuqua's blues concert DVD, Lightning In A Bottle, footage shows an enchanted Hendrix in the audience watching a wild Buddy Guy performance.

One technique Hendrix may have learned from Guy was playing the guitar with only the left hand: Hammering on and pulling off the strings to sound them, without plucking the strings with his right hand at all.

Guy would often do something entirely different with his right hand, like swigging from a can of beer, while his left hand did all the work.

One trick Guy has perfected in recent years is pulling someone out of the audience—often an attractive woman—and having her paw the strings on his guitar, as Guy fingers the frets with his left hand.

At one concert in the early '90s, playing to a huge hometown audience at Chicago's Ravinia Festival, Guy grabbed a nine-year-old boy by the wrist, pulled him on stage, and had him play the right-hand part of a robust and drawn-out solo.

Guy has also left the stage entirely at concerts and into the spectator area.

At a concert in Hamilton Place, in Ontario, Buddy Guy walked into different sections of the stadium and sat with the audience while he continued to play a guitar solo.

He would often say comments to the audience such as "that's really me playing".

Tom Lavin remembers the first time he saw Buddy Guy at a college concert.

"Buddy was wearing a leopard skin blazer and when he soloed with one hand while he removed his jacket and then switched to soloing with the other hand while he took off the other sleeve, never missing a note.

"I thought it was the coolest thing I had ever seen.

"Right there I knew that's what I wanted to do."

Guy recalls, "The first guitar player I saw putting on a show was Guitar Slim—I must've been 13 years old—he came out riding that guitar, wearing a bright red suit.

"I thought; 'I wanna sound like B.B. King, but I wanna play guitar like that.' "

"Buddy's act was not premeditated or contrived," Donald Wilcox said in his biography of Guy.

"His style was merely a natural by-product of being self-taught, having a compulsion to play, and being insecure enough to feel if he didn't dazzle and hypnotize his audience with the flamboyant techniques he'd seen work for Guitar Slim, he'd be buried by competition from guitarists who were better technicians."

Influence

For almost 50 years, Guy performed flamboyant live concerts of energetic blues and blues rock, predating the 1960s blues rockers.

As a musician’s musician, he had a fundamental impact on the blues and on rock and roll, influencing a new generation of artists.

As Josh Hathaway once observed: “Rock and roll just could not be the same without Buddy Guy”.

Buddy Guy helped modernize the blues, “moving the blues forward without losing sight of its roots”.

Buddy Guy has been called the bridge between the blues and rock and roll.

He is one of the historic links between Chicago electric blues pioneers Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and popular musicians like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page as well as later revivalists like Stevie Ray Vaughan.

This was what Stevie Ray Vaughan meant when he said, "Without Buddy Guy, there would be no Stevie Ray Vaughan."

Even Guitarist magazine observed:

Without Buddy Guy, the blues, not to mention rock as we know it, might be a heckuva lot less interesting today.

Take the blues out of contemporary rock music—or pop, jazz and funk for that matter—and what you have left is a wholly spineless affair.

A tasteless stew.

Makes you shudder to think about it...

In addition, Guy's pathfinding guitar techniques also contributed greatly to rock and roll music.

Guy’s guitar playing was loud and aggressive; used pioneering distortion and feedback techniques; employed longer solos; had shifts of volume and texture; and was driven by emotion and impulse.

These lessons were eagerly learned and applied by the new wave of 1960s British artists and later became basic attributes of blues-rock music and its offspring, hard rock and heavy metal music.

Jeff Beck realized in the early 1960s: “I didn't know a Strat could sound like that — until I heard Buddy's tracks on the Blues From Big Bill's Copa Cabana album” (reissue of 1963 Folk Festival Of The Blues album) and “It was the total manic abandon in Buddy's solos.

"They broke all boundaries.

"I just thought, this is more like it!

"Also, his solos weren't restricted to a three-minute pop format; they were long and really developed.”

Guy could arguably be considered the inspiration, directly or indirectly, for every rock power trio format since Cream (i.e., bands such as Beck Bogert Appice, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Rush, etc.).

Clapton admitted he got his idea for a blues-rock power trio during his teenage years while watching Buddy Guy's trio perform in England in 1965.

Clapton later formed the rock band Cream, which was “the first rock supergroup to become superstars” and was also “the first top group to truly exploit the power-trio format, in the process laying the foundation for much blues-rock and hard rock of the 1960s and 1970s.”

Buddy Guy and Eric Clapton performing at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2007

Eric Clapton said "Buddy Guy was to me what Elvis was for others."

Clapton, who's not prone to hyperbole, insisted in a 1985 Musician magazine article "Buddy Guy is by far and without a doubt the best guitar player alive...if you see him in person, the way he plays is beyond anyone.

"Total freedom of spirit, I guess…

"He really changed the course of rock and roll blues."

Recalls Guy: "Eric Clapton and I are the best of friends and I like the tune 'Strange Brew' and we were sitting and having a drink one day and I said ‘Man, that "Strange Brew"...you just cracked me up with that note.’

"And he said, ‘You should...cause it's your licks...’ "

As soon as Clapton completed his famous Derek & the Dominos sessions (spawning "Layla") in October 1970, he co-produced (with Ahmet Ertegün and Tom Dowd) the Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Play The Blues album with Guy's longtime harp and vocal compatriot.

That record, released in 1972, is regarded by some critics as among the finest electric blues recordings of the modern era.

In recognition of Guy's influence on Hendrix's career, the Hendrix family invited Buddy Guy to headline all-star casts at several Jimi Hendrix tribute concerts they organized in recent years, "calling on a legend to celebrate a legend."

Jimi Hendrix himself once said “Heaven is lying at Buddy Guy’s feet while listening to him play guitar.”

Songs such as "Red House", "Voodoo Chile", and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" partly came from the sonic world that Buddy Guy helped to create.

According to the Fender Players’ Club: “Almost ten years before Jimi Hendrix would electrify the rock world with his high-voltage voodoo blues, Buddy Guy was shocking juke joint patrons in Baton Rouge with his own brand of high-octane blues.

Ironically, when Buddy’s playing technique and flamboyant showmanship were later revealed to crossover audiences in the late Sixties, it was erroneously assumed that he was imitating Hendrix."

Stevie Ray Vaughan once declared that Buddy Guy "plays from a place that I've never heard anyone play."

Vaughan continued:

"Buddy can go from one end of the spectrum to another.

"He can play quieter than anybody I've ever heard, or wilder and louder than anybody I've ever heard.

"I play pretty loud a lot of times, but Buddy's tones are incredible…he pulls such emotion out of so little volume.

"Buddy just has this cool feel to everything he does.

"And when he sings, it's just compounded.

"Girls fall over, and sweat and die!

"Every once in a while, I get the chance to play with Buddy, and he gets me every time, because we could try to go to Mars on guitars but then he'll start singing, sing a couple of lines, and then stick the mic in front of me!

"What are you gonna do?

"What is a person gonna do?"

Jeff Beck affirmed:

Geez, you can’t forget Buddy Guy.

He transcended blues and started becoming theater.

It was high art, kind of like drama theater when he played, you know.

He was playing behind his head long before Hendrix.

I once saw him throw the guitar up in the air and catch it in the same chord.

Beck recalled the night he and Stevie Ray Vaughan jammed with Guy at Buddy Guy’s Legends club in Chicago: “That was just the most incredible stuff I ever heard in my life.

"The three of us all jammed and it was so thrilling.

"That is as close you can come to the heart of the blues.”

Image: Jeff Beck with Guy.

According to Jimmy Page: “Buddy Guy is an absolute monster”, and, “There were a number of albums everybody got tuned into in the early days.

"There was one in particular called, I think, American Folk Festival Of The Blues, which featured Buddy Guy—he just astounded everybody.”

Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman: “Guitar Legends do not come any better than Buddy Guy.

"He is feted by his peers and loved by his fans for his ability to make the guitar both talk and cry the blues…

"Such is Buddy’s mastery of the guitar that there is virtually no guitarist he cannot imitate.”

Guy has opened for the Rolling Stones on numerous tours since the early 1970s.

Slash: "Buddy Guy is the perfect combination of R&B and hardcore rock and roll."

ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons: "Buddy Guy ain't no trickster.

"He may appear surprised by his own instant ability, but, clearly, he knows what's up."

Lonnie Brooks: “Buddy Guy is a master.

"He’s the bravest guitar player I’ve ever seen on a bandstand.

'He’ll pull you into his trap and kill you.

'He owns that bandstand and everyone knows it when Buddy’s up there."

Image:Guy performing with the Rolling Stones at the Orpheum Theatre, Boston. Image:Buddy Guy.

Awards

Guy previously served on the Hall of Fame’s nominating committee.

Guy has won five Grammy Awards both for his work on his electric and acoustic guitars, and for contemporary and traditional forms of blues music.

By 2004, Buddy Guy had also earned 23 W.C. Handy Awards (more than any other artist has received), Billboard magazine's The Century Award (Guy was its second recipient) for “distinguished artistic achievement,” the title of Greatest Living Electric Blues Guitarist, and the National Medal of Arts (awarded by the President to those who have made extraordinary contributions to the creation, growth and support in the arts in the United States).

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Guy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 14, 2005 by Eric Clapton and B.B. King.

Clapton recalled in 1965, seeing Guy perform in London’s The Marquee Club and was impressed by Guy’s playing, his looks, his star power.

He remembered seeing Guy pick the guitar with his teeth and play it over his head—two tricks that later influenced Jimi Hendrix.

Guy’s acceptance speech was concise: “If you don’t think you have the blues, just keep living.”

The Louisiana Music Hall Of Fame

In 2008, Buddy Guy was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall Of Fame while performing at Texas Club, Baton Rouge, LA.

Discography

Album	Year	Label	Notes
Hoodoo Man Blues	1965	Delmark	w/ Junior Wells band
Chicago/The Blues/Today! vol. 1	1966	Vanguard	w/ Junior Wells band
It’s my Life, Baby!	1966	Vanguard	w/ Junior Wells band
I Left My Blues in San Francisco	1967	Chess
Berlin festival - Guitar Workshop	1967	MPS	Long Play released in Argentina by Microphone Argentina S.A. (1974)
A Man and the Blues	1968	Vanguard
Coming At You	1968	Vanguard
Blues Today	1968	Vanguard
This Is Buddy Guy (live)	1968	Vanguard
Hot And Cool	1969	Vanguard
First Time I Met the Blues-Python	1969
Buddy and the Juniors	1970	MCA	w/ Junior Mance & Junior Wells
South Side Blues Jam	1970	Delmark	w/ Junior Wells and Otis Spann
In The Beginning	1971	Red Lightnin’
Play The Blues	1972	Rhino	w/ Junior Wells
Hold That Plane!	1972	Vanguard
I Was Walking Through the Woods	1974	Chess	rec. 1960–64
Got to Use Your House	1979	Blues Ball
Stone Crazy	1981	Alligator
Alone & Acoustic	1981	Alligator	w/ Junior Wells, France release only
Drinkin' TNT 'n' Smokin' Dynamite (live)	1982	Blind Pig	rec. 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival
DJ Play My Blues	1982	JSP Records
Dollar Done Fell	1982	JSP Records
Buddy Guy	1983	Chess
The Original Blues Brothers (live)	1983	Blue Moon
Ten Blue Fingers	1985	JSP Records
Atlantic Blues: Chicago	1986	Atlantic
Chess Masters	1987	Charly)
Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago-1979	1988	JSP Records
Breakin Out	1988	JSP Records
I Ain’t Got No Money	1989	Flyright
Alone & Acoustic	1991	Alligator	reissue, rec. 1981 w/ Junior Wells
Damn Right, I've Got the Blues	1991	Silvertone/BMG
Buddy's Baddest: The Best of Buddy Guy	1991	Silvertone
My Time After Awhile	1992	Vanguard
The Very Best of Buddy Guy	1992	Rhino/WEA
The Complete Chess Studio Recordings	1992	Chess	2 CD, 1960–67
Live at Montreaux	1992	Evidence	w/ Junior Wells
Feels Like Rain	1993	Silvertone
Slippin' In	1994	Silvertone
Live: The Real Deal	1996	Silvertone
Buddy's Blues	1997	Chess "Chess Masters"
Buddy’s Blues 1978-1982: The Best of the JSP Recordings	1998	JSP Records
As Good As It Gets	1998	Vanguard
Heavy Love	1998	Silvertone
Last Time Around - Live at Legends	1998	Jive	w/Junior Wells
This Is Buddy Guy	1998	VMD
Blues Master	1998	Vanguard
Buddy’s Baddest: The Best of Buddy Guy	1999	Silvertone
The Complete Vanguard Recordings	2000	Vanguard
Every Day I Have the Blues	2000	Purple Pyramid	w/ Junior Wells
20th Century Masters: The Millennium: The Best of Buddy Guy	2001	MCA
Sweet Tea	2001	Silvertone
Double Dynamite	2001	AIM Recording Co.	Import
Blues Singer	2003	Silvertone
Chicago Blues Festival 1964 (live)	2003	Stardust
Jammin’ Blues Electric & Acoustic	2003	Sony
Live At the Mystery Club	2003	Quicksilver
A Night of the Blues	2005		w/ Junior Wells - Master Classics
Bring 'Em In	2005	Jive
Can't Quit The Blues:Box Set	2006	Silvertone/Legacy Recordings
Live: The Real Deal	2006	Sony	w/ G.E. Smith & Saturday Night Live Band
Skin Deep	2008	Zomba

Album	Year	Label	Notes
Folk Singer		Chess
Baby Please Don’t Go		Chess	Import
The Super Duper Blues Band		Chess	Import
Muddy Waters		Chess

In April 2009, Shout! Factory will release the first Single-Disc career overview, The Definitive Buddy Guy.

References

1. ^ "Buddy Guy". Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/buddy-guy.
2. ^ "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All time". Rolling Stone. 2004-03-24. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/5937559/page/20. Retrieved on 2008-08-29.
3. ^ Lockhart, John M. "Words & Music", The Riverside Reader, February 4, 2008, p. 1

• “Damn Right I've Got the Blues: Buddy Guy and the Blues Roots of Rock-And-Roll (1993) by Donald Wilcox and Buddy Guy, Duane Press 1999 paperback: ISBN 0-942627-13-X

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Buddy Guy

• Chicago Blues Festival

External links

• Buddy Guy: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee
• Buddy Guy: Official Website by Jive Records
• Buddy Guy: Billboard Magazine’s Century Award
• Buddy Guy: Allmusic biography
• Buddy Guy: Tribute Site
• Buddy Guy: Buddy's Chicago Club Website
• Buddy Guy Interview & Music Video
• Buddy Guy at Legacy Recordings - A focus on Buddy's catalog

Magazine articles

• "Roll Hall of Fame 2005: Buddy Guy" Rolling Stone, March 8, 2005
• April 2005 interview from Modern Guitars magazine
• "Damn Right He's Buddy Guy" Rolling Stone, May 22, 1998
• 1998 interview from Guitar World magazine
• June 1996 interview from GuitarTechniques magazine
• July 1996 interview from Total Guitar magazine
• "The Blues Are the Truth" Rolling Stone, September 28, 1968
• "Down Home With Buddy Guy" Cover story, "Seventh Hour Blues Magazine" 2006

News articles

• Seattle Times article: Hendrix 2004 tribute concerts
• Articles: Historic Legends of Blues Concert at Lincoln Center Jan. 28, 2005
• Article: Hendrix 60th birthday tribute concert

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my area today...

Maritime snowstorm closes schools, causes power outages...

30 Mar '09

Several schools in Moncton have been closed, and some people are without power because of a spring snowstorm making its way across parts of the Maritimes.

Most of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island could get as much as 25 centimetres nearly 12"] of snow before the storm moves out Tuesday morning, Environment Canada said.

At noon AT on Monday, a snowfall warning was in effect for much of the province, with the exception of the Acadian Peninsula and the Fundy Coast, where a rain warning has been issued.

What started out as rain quickly turned to wet snow early Monday.

Forecasters are predicting ice pellets will be added to the mix.

They say 10 to 15 centimetres of more snow is expected overnight.

Early in the day, NB Power reported about 1,300 customers had lost power, mostly in the Moncton area, because of problems with high winds.

Later, another 7,000 customers in Riverview, NB, lost power around mid-afternoon, but service was expected to be restored within hours, NB Power said.

Elsewhere, New Brunswick RCMP reported at 1:30 p.m. AT, eastbound lanes of the Trans-Canada Highway near Scoudouc had been closed due a jack-knifed tractor-trailer.

The driver was reported to be uninjured as a result of the accident just east of Moncton, NB.

Police throughout the region were urging drivers to stay off the road due to deteriorating conditions.

Anticipating transportation problems, schools were closed in the Moncton area, as well as in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley and along the province's north shore.

A bus driver-training course scheduled for Monday in School District 2, covering Moncton and the surrounding area, has been canceled.

The fresh snow will likely push the cost of clearing roads above last year's total, according to Andrew Holland, a spokesman for the Department of Transportation

While there were three fewer storms in the province this winter, Holland said, there was a lot of blowing snow.

As well, flooding last spring, and the freeze-thaw cycle, has meant there are a lot more potholes to be repaired, he said.

Copyright © 2009 CBC

horror update...

Sisters to be buried with brother who killed them...

2 hours, 2 minutes ago

By Denise Lavoie, The Associated Press

BOSTON - Two Massachusetts sisters will be buried with the brother who killed them with a kitchen knife.

Seventeen-year-old Samantha Revelus, and her five-year-old sister, Bianca, were killed at their Milton home, Saturday.

Police burst into their apartment and say they saw the girls' brother, 23-year-old Kerby Revelus, decapitating Bianca.

Police say they shot Kerby Revelus dead, as he tried to attack another sister, nine-year-old Saraphina.

A spokesman for the children's parents says they are making arrangements to bury their three children together.

He said they are "in shock and disbelief", and have no explanation for why their son would kill his sisters.

Saraphina had surgery Monday, and is expected to survive.

Copyright © 2009 Canadian Press

saint...

	by MIKE PETERS	03/30/09
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6-word tales XLXII...

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Tiny ripples on the surface... JAWS!

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The most fearsome sea monster the world has ever seen has been found buried in the Arctic.

Dubbed "Predator X", the massive pliosaur was fifty feet long and weighed 45 tons.

It had massive jaws with a bite force of 33,000 pounds - ten times the force of any animal alive today, including the Great White Shark.

Every tooth in its massive jaw was a foot long, and Predator X clamped its victims with four times the force of T-Rex.

Predator X, which patrolled the oceans 147 millions years ago, was found buried in the remote Arctic, near Svalbard, by a team of scientists led by Dr Jorn Hurum of the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo.

They found another headline-making pliosaur - dubbed The Monster - two years ago, and they were just leaving when when they spotted some more bones.

They marked the spot with a GPS reading, and returned a year later to find the head of an even bigger sea giant - Predator X.

After a two week dig, they found the skull buried in the frozen ground.

Its size, body and hunting skills, all point to it being the most dangerous predator ever to patrol the world's oceans.

The bone linking its skull to its back is six inches in diameter, making its skull twice the size of a T-Rex dinosaur.

The team also found 20,000 bone fragments, which are being glued together to reconstruct the monster, at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo.

Predator X had four flippers to propel its massive body through the water.

Scientists used a flippered robot, and did tests in a wind tunnel to see how it swam, calculating it would only need two flippers.

But they believe it used two flippers for cruising, and all four when it wanted to surge fast through the water to pounce on its prey... making it the deadliest hunter.

Another team used an industrial scanner to analyze its brain.

It was found to have a long thin brain, similar to a Great White shark.

The find has been dubbed the most significant Jurassic discovery in the Arctic.

Large pliosaurs were big and powerful enough to pick up a small car in its jaws and bite it in two.

The Arctic island chain of Scvalbard is known as a "treasure trove" of Jurassic creatures, with at least 40 species already discovered.

Pliosaurs were a short-necked form of plesiosaur, a group of extinct reptiles that lived in the world's oceans during the age of the dinosaurs.

Around 150 million years ago, Svalbard wasn't so close to the North Pole, and had a warmer climate.

izadazey...

12-word novel XXXVIII..

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Don't make promises you have no intention of keeping.
Truth will out.

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lick!

Mini XLXIV...

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Rebel...

You led your forces to sweet victory against those nasty Red Hummers, but lost your brother, father and three sisters in the five year conflict.

A steep price, but now your mother can resume the throne usurped by her brother.

For our help, I ask only that we may return home with our dragon horde.

~2009 laughingwolf

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gotcha!

belly...

Aesop's: Belly and Other Members...

One fine day it occurred to the Members of the Body they were doing all the work and Belly was getting all the food.

So they hold a meeting, and after a long discussion, decide to strike til Belly consents to take its proper share of work.

For the next two days, Hands refuse to take the food, Mouth refuses to receive it, and Teeth have no work to do.

But after the two days, the Members began to find they are not in a very active condition.

Hands could hardly move.

Mouth is all parched and dry.

While Legs are unable to support the rest.

~Thus they find, even Belly, in its dull and quiet ways, is doing necessary work for the rest of Body Members, and all must work together or the Body itself will not function.