New York Times, 1924: Hitler no longer to be feared

By Jack Brummet, History Ed.

That didn't really work out, did it?

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Faces No. 835 - Scratchboard drawing

by Jack Brummet

[India Ink scratchboard; second image is the scratchboard image digitally reversed (negative image)]

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Faces No. 834 - Ten iPad drawings

By Jack Brummet

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Charlie Parker and Coleman Hawkins play together (with Ray Brown and Buddy Rich)

By Jack Brummet, Jazz Ed.

Two favorites performing together. . .with Ray Brown (whom I got to see just once; Bird died when I was two years old, and Hawkins died just a few years before I got into jazz).  Not quite so sure about Buddy Rich—I'm not a fan of his over the top drum attacks or his notorious treatment of young band members on the road.  Check out his rants here: http://youtu.be/omID1prJHFo).

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Neil Young performs Needle Of Death in Jack White's Third Man phono-recording booth

By Jack Brummet, Americana and Roots Music Ed.

Neil Young playing Bert Jansch's Needle of Death in Jack White's vintage phonograph recording booth, from his new album Letters From Home. This song is maybe my favorite (Del's too) from the album.

"I was especially taken by Needle Of Death, such a beautiful and angry song. That guy was so good… And years later, on On The Beach, I wrote the melody of Ambulance Blues by styling the guitar part completely on Needle Of Death. I wasn’t even aware of it, and someone else drew my attention to it."

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Painting/Drawing: Heatmap

By Jack Brummet

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47 years ago today: The Monterey Pop Festival

By Jack Brummet, American Music Ed.

On June 16, 1967, the three day Monterey Pop Festival in California began.  The performers played for free and all proceeds went to charity.  This was the birth of "the summer of love."  

The festival included the first major appearances of many bands that would come to dominate music over the next few years, . .and decades,   Among the bands and performers:  The Who, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, The Byrds, Grateful Dead, Otis Redding, Simon & Garfunkel, The Steve Miller Band, Canned Heat, The Mamas And The Papas, Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield, and The Electric Flag, 

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Drawings: Faces No. 833

By Jack Brummet

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Thee details from the drawing:

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Drawing: Faces No. 832: Camouflage

By Jack Brummet

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Van Gogh's Ear

By Jack Brummet, Painting Ed.

December 30, 1888: "'Last Sunday night at half past eleven a painter named Vincent Van Gogh, appeared at the maison de tolérance No 1, asked for a girl called Rachel, and handed her ... his ear with these words: 'Keep this object like a treasure.' Then he disappeared. The police, informed of these events, which could only be the work of an unfortunate madman, looked the next morning for this individual, whom they found in bed with scarcely a sign of life. The poor man was taken to hospital without delay."

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Throwback Thursday - My grandparent's tavern in Carnation, Wash., and teething on my Grandpa's hook arm

By Jack Brummet

Throwback Thursday: photographs of my grandparents' tavern in Carnation (the weird lines are due to the photo being trashed), in the early 50's, and one of me teething on my Grandpa Dell's hook arm in 1954.  Interestingly, I also had another uncle with a wooden leg.  You don't really see either hook arms, or wooden legs anymore. . .but growing up I thought it was perfectly normal.

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Painting: Faces No. 831 - Dreamfall

By Jack Brummet

[From an original acrylic painting, digitized and processed)

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