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- 141: Jimi
- ... as with most of the Experience's music, sounds heavy no matter how many times you listen to it. In actuality, the stony "Purple Haze" is about as close as they ever come to hard rock. The next song, "Manic Depression" comes in strong with the opening chords and then reveals Mitch Mitchell's trademark rolling drums. It also contains another of Jimi's solos worth listening to by any new ... direction, it drops out from under you, leaving you to fall mercilessly to the depths of reality. That's when "May This Be Love" enters to let you down easily. Mitch turns on the soft roll. Jimi sings sweetly about his waterfall. The pace picks up, getting hectic for a moment when Jimi recalls the other people in this world, with their plans. But they can do whatever it is that ... I, as long as I have my waterfall. "I Don't Live Today" goes through a couple of lead-in verses, but it wastes little time getting to one of the most psychedelic minutes in rock. At the apex, Jimi cries, "Ah, There ain't no life nowhere!" When you hear it the statement is oddly comforting. The song leads out with Jimi pleading repeatedly to you: "Get Experienced." If ...
- 142: The Beatles
- The Beatles to this day are one of the most famous and popular rock 'n roll groups in the world. The Beatles include George Harrison, John Lennon(1940-1980), Paul McCartney, and Richard Starkey(Ringo Starr). All of the Beatles where born and raised in Liverpool, England. John Lennon was considered ... were by the Beatles. They became world famous by the end of 1964. Also in 1964 the song "I Want To Hold Your Hand" marked the beginning of "BEATLEMANIA." The Beatles were unusual because most rock was strong beat with no melody. The Beatles added melody to rock. The Beatles also added strong and meaningful lyrics. John Lennon wrote a book called "In His Own Write." The Beatles started a ...
- 143: Jimi Hedndrix Are You Experien
- ... as with most of the Experience's music, sounds heavy no matter how many times you listen to it. In actuality, the stony "Purple Haze" is about as close as they ever come to hard rock. The next song, "Manic Depression" comes in strong with the opening chords and then reveals Mitch Mitchell's trademark rolling drums. It also contains another of Jimi's solos worth listening to by any new ... direction, it drops out from under you, leaving you to fall mercilessly to the depths of reality. That's when "May This Be Love" enters to let you down easily. Mitch turns on the soft roll. Jimi sings sweetly about his waterfall. The pace picks up, getting hectic for a moment when Jimi recalls the other people in this world, with their plans. But they can do whatever it is that ... I, as long as I have my waterfall. "I Don't Live Today" goes through a couple of lead-in verses, but it wastes little time getting to one of the most psychedelic minutes in rock. At the apex, Jimi cries, "Ah, There ain't no life nowhere!" When you hear it the statement is oddly comforting. The song leads out with Jimi pleading repeatedly to you: "Get Experienced." If ...
- 144: Just Say No! A Profile Of Cocaine and It's Effects On Two Lives
- ... the wrong end of the gun. Entertainers seem to live in a world exposed to many drugs. Sometimes they, too, make poor choices. An example of this is Kurt Cobain. Kurt Cobain was a famous rock singer for the group Nirvana. His music influenced millions of people, and led the world of rock into a completely different direction. While he didn't die of drugs, Kobain's use of cocaine and other drugs helped lead to his death. When he killed himself, the news spread fast, and soon millions of fans, all around the world, were completely shocked. "As if the loss of Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin hadn't crushed the rock-n- roll world, now it mourned another family member."6 Drugs don't just affect the famous--they are a crippling part of our society. There is no reason to take drugs; they won' ...
- 145: Canada
- ... of the region is covered with numerous lakes and marshy areas as well as rolling hills from worn down mountains. The Canadian Shield was formed in the early Paleozoic era and is composed of igneous rock. Podzolic soils, which are soils of low natural fertility cover much of this area, they are also quite wet from the climate. The climate in this area varies quite a bit due to the different ... 2926 m in northern Ellesmere Island. The southern sections are lower in altitude and are sometimes referred to collectively as the Arctic Lowlands and Plateaus. The Arctic Mountains are primarily composed of igneous and metamorphic rock. The mountains are very young mountains with jagged peaks. The Arctic Lowlands are made solely of sedimentary rock. Glaciation has worn down the land in this area leaving it flat with some rounded hills. Tundra and subarctic soils cover all of this area and ice and stone deserts are found over large ...
- 146: Is There Life On Mars
- ... 12 are believed to have originated on Mars. These 12 were determined to be from Mars based on comparisons with the 1970's Viking mission's findings on the analysis of the Red Planet's rock and soil. "The conclusive evidence that the SNC meteorites originated on Mars comes from the measurement of gases trapped in one meteorite's interior. The trapped gases match those that Viking measured in the Martian ... 1). The team from NASA found the first organic molecules thought to be of Martian origin; several mineral features characteristic of biological activity; and fossils of primitive, bacteria-like organisms inside of an ancient Martian rock that fell to Earth as a meteorite. There was not one finding that led the team to their conclusion, but rather a combination of things. The scientists found a unique pattern of organic molecules, carbon ... says this is quite small. Only about 3% of and estimated 14,000 visitors to a website believe that there was a civilized race on Mars. However, the basis for this belief is the Cydonia rock that is found on Mars. This rock is formed so that it appears to be a face. The sect that holds the civilized race theory is convinced that the rock was formed as a ...
- 147: Silverchair: Neon Ballroom (epic)
- ... that like those people who hit it big, win a million and then keep their job at McDonalds, these assholes won't give it up. They just keep dealing out the vitamin-challenged, fast food rock long after the "ahh, ain't they cute" bit has worn off. When Silverchair wrap up their mopey opening track with the words "lessons learned", it's hard to suppress a sigh at the overt ... boys deliver on the promise of that title, creating a miserable mishmash of Nirvana in a soft mode, Zeppelin playing "Kashmir" on a bad drug day, even throwing in a little flatulent. Yes-ish prog-rock to boot, all of which staggers around a bit and then proceeds to fall flat on its sunburnt face. Silverchair's leader Daniel Johns has been thinking long and hard about what's happening today ... disable world communications for a few years isolating the Land Down Under until these guys decide to find something more constructive to do. Of course, the goodies just keep on coming. To create valid hard-rock n' roll in this day and age is a trick that only talented performer like Marilyn Manson can pull off, requiring a fine balance of irony and passion. Silver chair, however, are a mere ...
- 148: 1968
- ... 1968 Most music in 1968 was about drugs, love, and peace. One of the best bands were the Beatles. They have many albums which feature drugs, love, and peace. Hippies were ones that admired these rock and roll bands. The bands that were top ten in 1968 were: #10 "Woman, Woman" by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap #9 "Judy in Disguise(With Glasses)" by John Fred and his Playboy band #8 "This ... the Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye #1 "Hey Jude" by The Beatles. Certainly, as Paul Simon sang on his Gracdland album, "Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts." The talent is out there. But rock doen't seem as important to this generation. The music industry has been in a downbeat since 1995, with shipments of album-length CD's slipping three percent last year. Some say CD's ...
- 149: Personal Writing: Learning About Myself
- ... tan and happy. My dad, my two sisters and I were driving through Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island, in Maine. We stopped and parked at the foot of a mountain. The infamous Bubble Rock rested at its peak. While reading the posted sign we learned how Bubble Rock was formed by glaciers. This rock hung over the edge of the steep mountain. Although the rock was quite stable, it looked like it would snap off at any moment. I looked up and realized how much I wished I ...
- 150: Introduction To Evolution
- ... to the origin of Life from one celled organims. The most direct proof of evolution is the science of Paleontology, or the study of life in the past through fossil remains or impressions, usually in rock. Changes occur in living organisms that serve to increase their adaptability, for survival and reproduction, in changing environments. Evolution apparently has no built-in direction purpose. A given kind of organism may evolve only when ... emerging sciences of geology and paleontology gave rise to hypotheses that the life-forms of the day evolved from earlier forms through a process of change. Extremely important was the realization that different layers of rock represented different time periods and that each layer had a distinctive set of fossils of life-forms that had lived in the past. Lamarckism Jean Baptiste Lamarck was one of several theorists who proposed an ... by dropping their leaves during periods of drought. EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION The Fossil Record has important insights into the history of life. The order of fossils, starting at the bottom and rising upward in stratified rock, corresponds to their age, from oldest to youngest. Deep Cambrian rocks, up to 570 million years old, contain the remains of various marine invertebrate animals, sponges, jellyfish, worms, shellfish, starfish, and crustaceans. These invertebrates ...
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