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First published in 2013 by Blackstaff Press, Belfast.
On the centenary of Carl Stearns Clancy's journey to become the first person to circumnavigate the globe on a motorbike, Geoff Hill recreated the historic journey.
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Twenty four metres, at 13:00pm on Monday 4th November 2019, off Hyde Park Corner and Park Lane A4202 in the grounds of Hyde park, a Grade 1 listed Royal Park (the largest of) of London.
Spanning an area of 350 acres, the park is divided by the Serpentine and the Long water lakes, and was created by King Henry VIII in 1536 as hunting ground. It opened to the puiblic in 1637 and was extensively improved under Queen Caroline in the early righteenth century. The Great exhibition for which the Crystal Palace was erected, designed by Joseph Paxton, was also held here.
Here we see, Sciurus Carolinensis (Eastern Gray Squirrel or Grey Squirrel), a tree squirrel native to North America and first introduced to the UK in the 1870's. Though it was largely resonsible for the decimation of our own native red squirrel population, those are now on the increase and found in certain parts of the UK including Scotland. The Greys are still an ecologically essential natural forester regenerator.
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Vandaag ontving ik per post mijn presentexemplaar van Heel Nederland een gids, geschreven door Rik Zaal.
Toen mij gevraagd werd of men deze foto mocht gebruiken en daar geen geld voor wilden neertellen maar me wel een presentexemplaar toezegde ben ik akkoord gegaan. Ik had toen nog geen idee van de omvang van dit boek en het PR plan eromheen (presentatie bij Pauw en Witteman, overal lezingen door Heel Nedereland e.d.)
Ik ben helemaal trots dat hier ook een foto in staat die ik gemaakt heb. Zoals jullie zien heeft de foto een prominente plaats gekregen en is de naamsvermelding direct onder de foto geplaatst.
Het boekwerk bestaat uit twee delen van elk ongeveer 650 pagina's dik.
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It's that photo again, this time i found it in 'Professional Photographer Magazine'. It's being used in an advert for 'Canon Pro Photo Solutions' (Thanks to Miss HP for letting me know about this one)
Posted here because i keep a record of where my work has been published for the news pages on my website
Sopranos Tour: The beautiful and real-life Soprano house in North Caldwell, NJ. (June 2007)
Flickr Explore: July 9, 2007 #481 (dropped)
Published on Wikipedia entry for "North Caldwell, New Jersey"
Published by W. H. Burton
American News Company Litho-Chrome
Postmark 1907. Litho-Chrome postcards were published by ANC 1906-1909.
The Postcard
A postcard published by DLG that has a divided back.
The card was posted in Amiens on Monday the 19th. April 1909 to:
Monsieur Georges Lee,
Ouvrier Marechal,
Chez M. Coengnet,
Rue Victor Hugo,
Boves,
Somme.
Jim 'Killer' Miller
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 19th. April 1909, Jim Miller escaped from prison.
Jim "Killer" Miller had been a terror in the southwestern United States for 25 years.
After Miller murdered former U.S. Marshal Gus Bobbitt in 1908, he and the three men who hired him were caught in March 1909, and placed in the Pontotoc County Jail in Ada, Oklahoma, to await trial.
At 2:00 a.m. on the 19th. April, the electric power to the jail was cut and more than 100 men broke in, overpowered the guards, and took the four men to a nearby livery stable.
Miller, along with Jess West, Joe Allen and B.B. Burwell, were hanged by their vigilante executioners.
William Howard Taft
Also on that day, William Howard Taft became the first U.S. President to attend a major league baseball game He joined Vice-President Sherman in watching the Washington Senators host the Boston Red Sox.
Boston won 8–4.
Hanging as a Means of Execution
The Short Drop
The short drop is a method of hanging in which the condemned prisoner stands on a raised support such as a stool, ladder, cart, or other vehicle, with the noose around the neck. The support is then moved away, leaving the person dangling from the rope.
Suspended by the neck, the weight of the body tightens the noose around the neck, effecting strangulation and death. This typically takes 10–20 minutes. This means that the prisoner can be revived before death and hung again, perhaps multiple times.
Before 1850, the short drop was the standard method of hanging, and it is still common in suicides and extrajudicial hangings (such as lynchings and summary executions) which do not benefit from the specialised equipment and drop-length calculation tables used in the newer methods.
The Pole Method
A short drop variant is the Austro-Hungarian "pole" method, in which the following steps take place:
-- The condemned is made to stand before a specialized vertical pole or pillar, approximately 3 metres (9.8 ft) in height.
-- A rope is attached around the condemned's feet and routed through a pulley at the base of the pole.
-- The condemned is hoisted to the top of the pole by means of a sling running across the chest and under the armpits.
-- A narrow-diameter noose is looped around the prisoner's neck, then secured to a hook mounted at the top of the pole.
-- The chest sling is released, and the prisoner is rapidly jerked downward by the assistant executioners via the foot rope.
-- The executioner stands on a stepped platform approximately 1.2 metres (3.9 ft) high beside the condemned, and guides the head downward with his hand simultaneous to the efforts of his assistants. In some countries the executioner would then manually dislocate the condemned's neck.
This method was later also adopted by the successor states, most notably by Czechoslovakia, where the pole method was used as the only type of execution from 1918 until the abolition of capital punishment in 1990.
Nazi war criminal Karl Hermann Frank, executed in 1946 in Prague, was among approximately 1,000 condemned people executed in this manner in Czechoslovakia.
The Standard Drop
The standard drop involves a drop of between 4 and 6 feet (1.2 and 1.8 m) and came into use from 1866, when the scientific details were published by Irish doctor Samuel Haughton. Its use rapidly spread to English-speaking countries and those with judicial systems of English origin.
It was considered a humane improvement on the short drop, because it was intended to be enough to break the person's neck, causing immediate unconsciousness and rapid brain death.
This method was used to execute condemned Nazis under United States jurisdiction after the Nuremberg Trials including Joachim von Ribbentrop and Ernst Kaltenbrunner. In the execution of Ribbentrop, historian Giles MacDonogh records that:
"The hangman botched the execution and the
rope throttled the former foreign minister for
20 minutes before he expired."
A Life magazine report on the execution merely says:
"The trap fell open and with a sound midway
between a rumble and a crash, Ribbentrop
disappeared. The rope quivered for a time,
then stood tautly straight."
The Long Drop
This process, also known as the measured drop, was introduced to Great Britain in 1872 by William Marwood as a scientific advance on the standard drop.
Instead of everyone falling the same standard distance, the person's height and weight were used to determine how much slack would be provided in the rope so that the distance dropped would be enough to ensure that the neck was broken, but not so much that the person was decapitated.
The careful placement of the knot of the noose (so that the head was jerked back as the rope tightened) contributed to breaking the neck.
Prior to 1892, the drop was between four and ten feet (about one to three metres), depending on the weight of the body, and was calculated to deliver an energy of 1,260 foot-pounds force (1,710 J), which fractured the neck at either the 2nd. and 3rd. or 4th. and 5th. cervical vertebrae.
This force resulted in some decapitations, such as the infamous case of Black Jack Ketchum in New Mexico Territory in 1901, owing to a significant weight gain while in custody not having been factored into the drop calculations.
Between 1892 and 1913, the length of the drop was shortened to avoid decapitation. After 1913, other factors were also taken into account, and the energy delivered was reduced to about 1,000 foot-pounds force (1,400 J).
The decapitation of Eva Dugan during a botched hanging in 1930 led the state of Arizona to switch to the gas chamber as its primary execution method, on the grounds that it was believed more humane.
One of the more recent decapitations as a result of the long drop occurred when Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti was hanged in Iraq in 2007. Accidental decapitation also occurred during the 1962 hanging of Arthur Lucas, one of the last two people to be put to death in Canada.
Nazis executed under British jurisdiction, including Josef Kramer, Fritz Klein, Irma Grese and Elisabeth Volkenrath, were hanged by Albert Pierrepoint using the variable-drop method devised by Marwood. The record speed for a British long-drop hanging was seven seconds from the executioner entering the cell to the drop. Speed was considered to be important in the British system as it reduced the condemned's mental distress.
Suicide by Hanging
Hanging is a common suicide method. The materials necessary for suicide by hanging are readily available to the average person, compared to firearms or poisons. Full suspension is not required, and for this reason, hanging is especially commonplace among suicidal prisoners.
A type of hanging comparable to full suspension hanging may be obtained by self-strangulation using a ligature around the neck and the partial weight of the body to tighten the ligature. When a suicidal hanging involves partial suspension the deceased is found to have both feet touching the ground, e.g., they are kneeling, crouching or standing.
Partial suspension is sometimes used, particularly in prisons, mental hospitals or other institutions, where full suspension support is difficult to devise, because high ligature points (e.g., hooks or pipes) have been removed.
In Canada, hanging is the most common method of suicide, and in the U.S., hanging is the second most common method, after self-inflicted gunshot wounds. In the United Kingdom, where firearms are less easily available, in 2001 hanging was the most common method among men, and the second most commonplace among women (after poisoning).
Those who survive a suicide-via-hanging, whether due to breakage of the cord, or being discovered and cut down, face a range of serious injuries, including cerebral anoxia (which can lead to permanent brain damage), laryngeal fracture, cervical spine fracture (which may cause paralysis), tracheal fracture, pharyngeal laceration, and carotid artery injury.
Hanging Practices Across the Globe
Hanging has been a method of capital punishment in many countries, and is still used by many countries to this day. Long drop hanging is mainly used by former British colonies, while short-drop and suspension hanging is common in Iran.
-- Afghanistan
Hanging is the most-used form of capital punishment in Afghanistan.
-- Australia
Capital punishment was a part of the legal system of Australia from the establishment of New South Wales as a British penal colony, until 1985, by which time all Australian states and territories had abolished the death penalty. In practice, the last execution in Australia was the hanging of Ronald Ryan on the 3rd. February 1967, in Victoria.
During the 19th. century, crimes that could carry a death sentence included burglary, sheep theft, forgery, sexual assaults, murder and manslaughter. During the 19th. century, roughly eighty people were hanged every year throughout the Australian colonies for these crimes.
-- Bangladesh
Hanging is the only method of execution in Bangladesh, ever since its independence.
-- Brazil
Death by hanging was the customary method of capital punishment in Brazil throughout its history. Some important national heroes like Tiradentes (1792) were killed by hanging.
The last man to be executed in Brazil was the slave Francisco, in 1876. The death penalty was abolished for all crimes, except for those committed under extraordinary circumstances such as war or military law, in 1890.
-- Bulgaria
Bulgaria's national hero, Vasil Levski, was executed by hanging by the Ottoman court in Sofia in 1873. Every year since Bulgaria's liberation, thousands come with flowers on the date of his death, 19th. February, to his monument where the gallows stood. The last execution was in 1989, and the death penalty was abolished for all crimes in 1998.
-- Canada
Historically, hanging was the only method of execution used in Canada, and was in use as possible punishment for all murders until 1961, when murders were re-classified into capital and non-capital offences.
The death penalty was restricted to apply only for certain offences under the National Defence Act in 1976, and was completely abolished in 1998. The last hangings in Canada took place on the 11th. December 1962.
-- Egypt
In 1955, Egypt hanged three Israelis on charges of spying. In 1982 Egypt hanged three civilians convicted of the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
In 2004, Egypt hanged five militants on charges of trying to kill the Prime Minister. To this day, hanging remains the standard method of capital punishment in Egypt, which executes more people each year than any other African country.
-- Germany
In the territories occupied by Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1945, strangulation hanging was a preferred means of public execution, although more criminal executions were performed by guillotine than hanging.
The most commonly sentenced were partisans and black marketeers, whose bodies were usually left hanging for long periods. There are also numerous reports of concentration camp inmates being hanged.
Hanging was continued in post-war Germany in the British and US Occupation Zones under their jurisdiction, and for Nazi war criminals, until well after (western) Germany had abolished the death penalty. The last execution ordered by a West German court was carried out by guillotine in Moabit prison in 1949.
The last hanging in Germany was of several war criminals in Landsberg am Lech on the 7th. June 1951. The last known execution in East Germany was in 1981 by a pistol shot to the neck.
-- Hungary
During the 1956 Revolution, the prime minister of Hungary, Imre Nagy, was secretly tried, executed by hanging, and buried unceremoniously by the new Soviet-backed Hungarian government. Nagy was later publicly exonerated by Hungary.
Capital punishment was abolished for all crimes in 1990.
-- India
All executions in India since independence have been carried out by hanging, although the law provides for military executions to be carried out by firing squad.
In 1949, Nathuram Godse, who had been sentenced to death for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, was the first person to be executed by hanging in independent India.
The Supreme Court of India has suggested that capital punishment should be given only in the "rarest of rare cases".
Since 2001, eight people have been executed in India. Dhananjoy Chatterjee, the 1991 rapist and murderer was executed on the 14th. August 2004 in Alipore Jail, Kolkata.
Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist of the 2008 Mumbai attacks was executed on the 21st. November 2012 in Yerwada Central Jail, Pune. The Supreme Court of India had previously rejected his mercy plea, which was then rejected by the President of India. He was hanged one week later.
Afzal Guru, a terrorist found guilty of conspiracy in the December 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament, was executed by hanging in Tihar Jail, Delhi on the 9th. February 2013.
Yakub Memon was convicted over his involvement in the 1993 Bombay bombings on the 27th. July 2007. His appeals and petitions for clemency were all rejected, and he was finally executed by hanging on 30 July 2015 in Nagpur jail. In March 2020, four prisoners convicted of rape and murder were executed by hanging in Tihar Jail.
-- Iran
Death by hanging is the primary means of capital punishment in Iran, which carries out one of the highest numbers of annual executions in the world. The method used is the short drop, which does not break the neck of the condemned, but rather causes a slower death due to strangulation.
Hanging is legally approved for murder, rape, and drug trafficking unless the criminal pays diyya to the victim's family, thus attaining their forgiveness.
If the presiding judge deems the case to be causing public outrage, he can order the hanging to take place in public at the spot where the crime was committed, typically from a mobile telescoping crane which hoists the condemned high into the air.
On the 19th. July 2005, two boys, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, aged 15 and 17 respectively, who had been convicted of the rape of a 13-year-old boy, were hanged at Edalat (Justice) Square in Mashhad, on charges of homosexuality and rape.
On the 15th. August 2004, a 16-year-old girl, Atefeh Sahaaleh was executed for having committed "acts incompatible with chastity".
At dawn on the 27th. July 2008, the Iranian government executed 29 people at Evin Prison in Tehran.
On the 2nd. December 2008, an unnamed man was hanged for murder at Kazeroun Prison, just moments after he was pardoned by the murder victim's family. He was quickly cut down and rushed to a hospital, where he was successfully revived.
The conviction and hanging of Reyhaneh Jabbari caused international uproar as she was sentenced to death in 2009 and hanged on the 25th. October 2014 for murdering a former intelligence officer; according to Jabbari's testimony she stabbed him during an attempt at rape and then another person killed him.
-- Iraq
Hanging was used under the regime of Saddam Hussein, but was suspended along with capital punishment on the 10th. June 2003, when a coalition led by the United States invaded and overthrew the previous regime. The death penalty was reinstated on the 8th. August 2004.
In September 2005, three murderers were the first people to be executed since the restoration. Then on the 9th. March 2006, the Supreme Judicial Council confirmed that the first insurgents had been executed by hanging.
Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity, and was executed on the 30th. December 2006 at approximately 6:00 a.m. local time. During the drop, there was an audible crack, indicating that his neck was broken, a successful example of a long-drop hanging.
Barzan Ibrahim, the head of the Mukhabarat, Saddam's security agency, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge, were executed on the 15th. January 2007, also by the long-drop method, but Barzan was decapitated by the rope at the end of his fall.
Former vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan had been sentenced to life in prison, but the sentence was changed to death by hanging on the 20th. March 2007. He was the fourth and final man to be executed for the 1982 crimes against humanity. The execution went smoothly.
It is alleged that Iraq's government keeps the execution rate secret, and that hundreds may be carried out every year. In 2007, Amnesty International stated that 900 people were at "imminent risk" of execution in Iraq.
-- Israel
Although Israel has legal provisions for the death penalty for extraordinary crimes, it has been used only twice, and only one of those executions was by hanging. On the 31st. May 1962, Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was executed by hanging.
-- Japan
All executions in Japan are carried out by long drop hanging.
On the 23rd. December 1948, seven men were hanged at Sugamo Prison by the U.S. occupation authorities in Allied-occupied Japan for war crimes during the Asian-Pacific theatre of World War II.
On 27 February 2004, the mastermind of the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, Shoko Asahara, was found guilty, and sentenced to death by hanging. In 2018 Asahara and several of his cult members were hanged for committing the 1995 sarin gas attack.
On the 25th. December 2006, serial killer Hiroaki Hidaka and three others were hanged in Japan.
-- Jordan
Death by hanging is the traditional method of capital punishment in Jordan. On the 14th. August 1993, Jordan hanged two Jordanians convicted of spying for Israel.
Sajida al-Rishawi, "The 4th Bomber" of the 2005 Amman bombings, was executed by hanging alongside Ziad al-Karbouly on the 4th. February 2015 in retribution for the immolation of Jordanian pilot Muath Al-Kasasbeh.
-- Lebanon
Lebanon hanged two men in 1998 for murdering a man and his sister. However, capital punishment was altogether suspended in Lebanon, as a result of staunch opposition by activists and some political factions.
-- Liberia
On the 16th. February 1979, seven men convicted of the ritual killing of the popular singer Moses Tweh, were publicly hanged at dawn in Harper.
-- Malaysia
Hanging is the traditional method of capital punishment in Malaysia, and has been used to execute people convicted of murder and drug trafficking. The Barlow and Chambers execution was carried out as a result of new tighter drug regulations.
-- Portugal
The last person executed by hanging in Portugal was Francisco Matos Lobos on the 16th. April 1842. Before that, it had been a common death penalty.
-- Pakistan
In Pakistan, hanging is the most common form of execution.
-- Russia
Hanging was commonly practised in the Russian Empire during the rule of the Romanov Dynasty as an alternative to impalement, which was used in the 15th. and 16th. centuries.
Hanging was abolished in 1868 by Alexander II, but was restored by the time of his death, and his assassins were hanged. While those sentenced to death for murder were usually pardoned and sentences commuted to life imprisonment, those guilty of high treason were usually executed.
This also included the Grand Duchy of Finland and the Kingdom of Poland under the Russian crown. Taavetti Lukkarinen became the last Finn to be executed this way. He was hanged for espionage and high treason in 1916.
The hanging was usually performed by short drop in public. The gallows were usually either a stout nearby tree branch, as in the case of Lukkarinen, or a makeshift gallows constructed for the purpose.
After the October Revolution in 1917, capital punishment was, on paper, abolished, but continued to be used unabated against people perceived to be enemies of the regime. Under the Bolsheviks, most executions were performed by shooting, either by firing squad or by a single firearm.
In 1943, hanging was restored primarily for German servicemen and native collaborators for atrocities committed against Soviet POWs and civilians. The last to be hanged were Andrey Vlasov and his companions in 1946.
-- Singapore
In Singapore, long-drop hanging is currently used as a mandatory punishment for crimes such as drug trafficking, murder and some types of kidnapping. It has also been used for punishing those convicted of unauthorised discharging of firearms.
-- Sri Lanka
Hanging was abolished in Sri Lanka in 1956, but in 1959 it was brought back and later halted in 1978. In 1975, the day before the execution of Maru Sira, he had been overdosed by the prison guards to prevent him from escaping.
On the day of his execution he was unconscious, so when he was brought to the gallows, he was slumped over on the trapdoor with a noose around his neck, and when the executioner pulled the lever, his execution was botched and he strangled.
-- Syria
Syria has publicly hanged people, such as two Jews in 1952, Israeli spy Eli Cohen in 1965, and a number of Jews accused of spying in 1969.
According to a 19th.-century report, members of the Alawite sect in Syria had a particular aversion towards being hanged, and the family of the condemned was willing to pay "considerable sums" to ensure its relatives were impaled, rather than hanged.
This attitude was based upon the belief that the soul ought to leave the body through the mouth, rather than leave it in any other fashion.
-- The United Kingdom
As a form of judicial execution in England, hanging is thought to date from the Anglo-Saxon period. Records of the names of British hangmen begin with Thomas de Warblynton in the 1360's and continue on to the last hangmen, Robert Leslie Stewart and Harry Allen, who conducted the last British executions in 1964.
Until 1868, hangings were performed in public. In London, the traditional site was at Tyburn, a settlement west of the City on the main road to Oxford, which was used on eight hanging days a year, though before 1865, executions had been conducted on the street outside Newgate Prison, Old Bailey, now the site of the Central Criminal Court.
Three British subjects were hanged after World War II, having been convicted of helping Nazi Germany in its war against Great Britain.
John Amery, the son of prominent British politician Leo Amery, became an expatriate in the 1930's, moving to France. He became involved in pre-war fascist politics, remained in what became Vichy France following France's defeat by Germany in 1940, and eventually went to Germany and later the German puppet state in Italy headed by Benito Mussolini.
Captured by Italian partisans at the end of the war and handed over to British authorities, Amery was accused of having made propaganda broadcasts for the Nazis, and of having attempted to recruit British prisoners of war for a Waffen SS regiment later known as the British Free Corps.
Amery pleaded guilty to treason charges on the 28th. November 1945, and was hanged at Wandsworth Prison on the 19th. December 1945.
William Joyce, an American-born Irishman who had lived in Great Britain and possessed a British passport, had been involved in pre-war fascist politics in the UK, fled to Nazi Germany just before the war and became a naturalised German citizen.
Joyce made propaganda broadcasts for the Nazis, becoming infamous under the nickname Lord Haw Haw. Captured by British forces in May 1945, he was tried for treason later that year. Although Joyce's defence argued that he was by birth American, and thus not subject to being tried for treason, the prosecution successfully argued that Joyce's pre-war British passport meant that he was a subject of the British Crown, and he was convicted.
After his appeals failed, he was hanged at Wandsworth Prison on the 3rd. January 1946.
Theodore Schurch was a British soldier captured by the Nazis who then began working for the Italian and German intelligence services by acting as a spy and informer when he was placed among other British prisoners. Schurch was arrested in Rome in March 1945 and tried under the Treachery Act 1940. After his conviction, he was hanged at HM Prison Pentonville on the 4th. January 1946.
The Homicide Act 1957 created the new offence of capital murder, punishable by death, with all other murders being punishable by life imprisonment.
In 1965, Parliament passed the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act, temporarily abolishing capital punishment for murder for five years. The Act was renewed in 1969, making the abolition permanent.
Following the complete abolition of the death penalty, the gallows were removed from Wandsworth Prison, where they remained in full working order until that year.
The last woman to be hanged in the UK was Ruth Ellis on the 13th. July 1955, by Albert Pierrepoint who was a prominent hangman in the 20th. century in England.
The last hanging in Great Britain took place in 1964, when Peter Anthony Allen, at Walton Prison in Liverpool, and Gwynne Owen Evans, at Strangeways Prison in Manchester were executed for the murder of John Alan West.
Hanging was also the method used in many British colonies and overseas territories. During Queen Elizabeth I's reign, the following was written concerning those who stole a ship from the Royal Navy:
"If anye one practysed to steale awaye anye of
her Majesty's shippes, the captaine was to cause
him to be hanged by the heels untill his braines
were beaten out against the shippe's sides, and
then to be cutt down and lett fall intoe the sea."
-- The United States
The hangman's noose was one of the various punishments the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony applied to enforce religious and intellectual conformity on the whole community. The best known hanging carried out by the Puritans was of Mary Dyer; she was one of the four executed Quakers known as the Boston martyrs.
Capital punishment in the U.S. varies from state to state; it is outlawed in some states but used in most others. However, the death penalty under federal law is applicable in every state. Hanging is no longer used as a method of execution.
When Black pastor Denmark Vesey of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church was suspected of plotting to launch a slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822, 35 people, including Vesey, were judged guilty by a city-appointed court and were subsequently hanged, and the church was burned down.
The largest mass execution in the United States, of 38 Sioux Indians sentenced to death after being charged of massacring white settlers, was carried out by hanging in Mankato, Minnesota in 1862.
Originally, 303 had been sentenced to hang, but the convictions were reviewed by President Abraham Lincoln and the sentences of all but 38 were commuted.
A total of 40 suspected Unionists were hanged in Gainesville, Texas in October 1862.
On the 7th. July 1865, four people involved in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln—Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt—were hanged at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C.
Hanging was a popular method of lynching, for example the 1920 Duluth, Minnesota lynchings. The hangings became public spectacles for the white community to celebrate what they regarded as white supremacy.
While rope was most commonly used for hanging, chains had also been used (mainly during the colonial era), the first being a slave after the New York Slave Revolt of 1712. The last hanging in chains was in 1913, of John Marshall in West Virginia for murder.
The last public hanging in the United States (not including lynching, one of the last of which was Michael Donald in 1981) took place on the 14th. August 1936, in Owensboro, Kentucky.
Rainey Bethea was executed for the rape and murder of 70-year-old Lischa Edwards. The execution was presided over by the first female sheriff in Kentucky, Florence Shoemaker Thompson.
In California, Clinton Duffy, who served as warden of San Quentin State Prison between 1940 and 1952, presided over ninety executions. He began to oppose the death penalty, and after his retirement, wrote a memoir entitled 'Eighty-Eight Men and Two Women' in support of the movement to abolish the death penalty.
The book documents several hangings gone wrong, and describes how they led his predecessor, Warden James B. Holohan, to persuade the California Legislature to replace hanging with the gas chamber in 1937.
Various methods of capital punishment have been replaced by lethal injection in most states. Many states that offered hanging as an option have since eliminated the method.
Condemned murderer Victor Feguer became the last inmate to be executed by hanging in the state of Iowa on the 15th. March 1963. Hanging was the preferred method of execution for capital murder cases in Iowa until 1965, when the death penalty was abolished and replaced with life imprisonment without parole.
Barton Kay Kirkham was the last person to be hanged in Utah, preferring it over execution by firing squad. No subsequent inmate in Utah had been hanged by the time the option was replaced with lethal injection in 1980.
Laws in Delaware were changed in 1986 to specify lethal injection, except for those convicted before 1986 (who were still allowed to choose hanging). If a choice was not made, or the convict refused to choose injection, then hanging would become the default method. This was the case in the 1996 execution of Billy Bailey, the most recent hanging in American history; since then, no Delaware prisoner fit the category, and the state's gallows were later dismantled.
The "Upright Jerker" is a method of hanging that originated in the United States in the late 19th. century, where the person to be hanged is jerked into the air by weights and pulleys. However it proved to be ineffective at breaking the neck of the condemned, and use of the method ceased in late 1930's.
Jan Theuninck published in "Rimbaud et moi", Editions du Pont de l’Europe (sept.2020)
ISBN 978-2-36851-520-4
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Rimbaud est toujours d'actualité, maintenant que nous vivons une saison en enfer dans une civilisation qui s’oriente vers un nouvel ordre mondial: ce communautarisme est déjà à la base de centaines de nouvelles règles et réglementations mondiales qui éliminent les droits individuels car cette politique considère que les droits et libertés individuels constituent une menace réelle pour la sécurité de la communauté; la propagande messianique utilisée nous rappelle les heures sombres du nazisme ou du communisme. L'histoire ne nous a rien appris: on peut voir les commémorations de l'holocauste presque quotidiennement alors qu'aujourd'hui il y a une prolifération d'armes chimiques(technologie de la chambre à gaz) et énergétiques à l'échelle individuelle: c’est de la torture contemporaine pour ceux qui sont suspects de ne pas penser correctement. La technologie de la “ville sûre” surveille chaque personne à partir du moment où elle quitte sa porte jusqu'au moment où elle y retourne et ils entrent chez vous pour y placer des micros et micro caméras sous prétexte que vous êtes en contact avec un “suspect” de terrorisme. Selon Hannah Arendt, la préparation au totalitarisme a réussi lorsque les gens ont perdu le contact avec leurs semblables ainsi que la réalité qui les entoure: pensez-y !
Jan Theuninck
Rimbaud is still relevant now that we are living a season in hell in a civilization that is moving towards a new world order: this communitarianism is already the basis of hundreds of new global rules and regulations that eliminate individual rights because this policy considers that individual rights and freedoms constitute a real threat to the security of the community; the messianic propaganda used reminds us of the dark days of Nazism or Communism. History has taught us nothing: we can see the commemorations of the Holocaust almost daily while today there is a proliferation of chemical (gas chamber technology) and energy weapons on an individual scale : it is contemporary torture for those who are suspected of not thinking correctly. “Safe City” technology monitors everyone from the moment they leave their door until the moment they return, and they enter your home to place microphones and micro cameras there under the pretext that you are in contact with a person “suspect” of terrorism. According to Hannah Arendt, preparation for totalitarianism has been successful when people have lost touch with their fellow human beings as well as the reality around them: think about it!
Jan Theuninck
Rimbaud is nog steeds relevant nu we een 'seizoen in de hel' beleven in een beschaving die op weg is naar een nieuwe wereldorde: dit communitarisme is nu al de basis van
honderden nieuwe wereldwijde regels en voorschriften die individuele rechten elimineren, omdat dit beleid van mening is dat individuele rechten en vrijheden een reële bedreiging
vormen voor de veiligheid van de 'gemeenschap'; de messiaanse propaganda die wordt gebruikt, herinnert ons aan de donkere dagen van het nazisme of het communisme.
De geschiedenis heeft ons niets geleerd: we krijgen de herdenkingen van de Holocaust bijna dagelijks te zien, terwijl er vandaag een proliferatie is van chemische (gaskamertechnologie) en energiewapens op individuele schaal : het is een hedendaagse marteling voor degenen die ervan worden verdacht niet correct te denken. “Safe City”- technologie houdt iedereen in de gaten vanaf het moment dat je het huis verlaat tot het moment dat je terugkeert, en ze komen je huis binnen om daar microfoons en microcamera's te plaatsen onder het voorwendsel dat je in contact bent met een persoon die "verdacht" wordt van terrorisme.
Volgens Hannah Arendt is de voorbereiding op het totalitarisme geslaagd als mensen het contact met hun medemensen en de realiteit om hen heen zijn kwijtgeraakt:.
Denk er eens over na..
Jan Theuninck
History has taught us nothing: this is going on since at least 25 years - read the text.
Historia ei ole opettanut meille mitään
Prof MD Karl Hecht (armes énergétiques)
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Barrie Trower(microwave weaponry expert) : The '5G' frequencies, ( the effects & possibilities) were known many decades ago in military services - all wireless technology causes non-ionising radiation sickness, which often results in flu-like symptoms and sometimes in death.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pFjB59694o
Dr Russell Blaylock (armes chimiques - english/français)
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Le psychologue allemand l'explique clairement, les mesures corona sont des méthodes de torture qui sont également utilisées en Chine et en Corée du Nord
Published photograph in The Trace on July 29th, 2015 to illustrate an article by Adam Weinstein "Why Military Security Experts Know That Arming More Troops is Not The Answer"
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Opening-act dei Whitesnake all’Alcatraz di Milano il 29 novembre 2015, The Dead Daisies.
Influenced by 70’s and early 80’s hard rock, The Dead Daisies sound is soulful and accessible – equal parts of The Faces, Bad Company and Foreigner: muscular vocals, bluesy riffs, big choruses, powerful melodies and strong hooks. With stellar musicianship and pulverizing live shows, fans across the globe are discovering the band that is bringing back Rock & Roll!
The musical collective is created by a rotating line-up that features some of the best Rock musicians on the planet. This includes: Richard Fortus (Guns N’ Roses/The Psychedelic Furs), Dizzy Reed (Guns N’ Roses/Hookers and Blow), Darryl Jones (The Rolling Stones), Charley Drayton (The X-pensive Winos/The Cult), Jon Stevens (Noiseworks/INXS), Brian Tichy (Ozzy Osbourne/Billy Idol), David Lowy (Red Phoenix/Mink), John Tempesta (The Cult/Rob Zombie), Marco Mendoza (Thin Lizzy/Whitesnake), John Corabi (Motley Crue/RATT), Alex Carapetis (Julian Casablancas + The Voidz/Nine Inch Nails), Bernard Fowler (The Rolling Stones) and Frank Ferrer (Guns N’ Roses/The Psychedelic Furs).
Richard Fortus, originally from St. Louis, Missouri, is probably best know for his ‘other’ position, guitarist with legendary American rock band Guns N’ Roses where he handles both rhythm and lead duties since first joining the band 2001.
Marco Mendoza is a well-known face around the rock music circuit. His bass playing skills have seen him hold down the rhythm section for many legendary bands like Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Dolores O'Riordan, Lynch Mob and Ted Nugent among others.
John Corabi was already an established singer in the rock world with bands like Angora and Scream before he joined Motley Crue in 1992 as their new lead singer. He recorded the critically acclaimed self titled album before Vince Neil returned in 1996.
Dizzy Reed is a multi-talented keyboard/vocalist who has been part of The Dead Daisies line-up since 2013.
Brian Tichy started drumming from age 8. He attended the prestigious Berklee College of Music from 1986-1990.
Throughout his career, rhythm guitarist David Lowy has extensively played with various Australian rock bands, including Red Phoenix, Mink and Doc Neeson’s Angels. Read
David Lowy – rhythm guitar
Richard Fortus – lead guitar
Dizzy Reed – keyboards
Marco Mendoza – bass
John Corabi – lead vocals
Brian Tichy – drums
While having lunch on national highway with Zahid Ali Khan I took a random click which got sold for a hefty amount. I took this photograph from my mobile phone camera and had curiosity that where it got published. Last week I was passing outside liberity books when spotted my photograph behind their display window. It always feels good when you see your work published and this time it got published on a cover page of a book published by Other press Newyork (www.amazon.com/Shahan-Mufti/e/B00E0N1T30).
From a pattern by Catherine Butterworth published in "Down Under Quilts" late last year. It is entirely hand pieced except for the last thin straight borders. I used The Marti Mitchell "H " template set to cut each piece and stitched point to point along a marked seam line.
Trade paperback - Ballantine Books-Del Rey - ISBN 978-0-345-46151-3 - first edition published 2003
comments by CR:
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian - [0745 - 2017-03-27]
My first introduction to "Conan" were the Lancer paperbacks I starting buying in 1966. All of the Lancer editions were edited by or co-written with other authors mostly L. Sprague deCamp. How this "editing and co-authorship" took place 30 years after Howard's death was never adequately explained. Nonetheless I found in the Conan tales a creditable character that excited my teen-age imagination.
Howard was a prolific writer and his Conan stories were one of many characters and general themes he wrote about.
Fortunately readers appreciation for Howard's Conan stories took root and starting approximately 2002 a handsome series of trade paperbacks were published by Ballantine Books. Robert E. Howard (1906-36) is know today primarily as the author who introduced Conan to the reading public which in turn created the genre of sword and sorcery fiction. What is not as well known is that Howard in his short life had published a couple hundred stories. The majority were supernatural themed fictions with gallant protagonists but were not all "Conan" stories.
Ten of the thirteen stories in this Ballantine edition, "The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian" were first published in Wierd Tales magazine during 1932-34. The remaining three were resurrected and published in various publication after his death.
The Stories in the order they appear with first publication in ():
The Phoenix on the Sword (1932)
Conan the barbarian is King(!) and is the subject of a palace coup d'état. An ancient wizard impresses the sign of the phoenix on his sword giving him the measured advantage in a duel with a supernatural foe.
The Frost-Giants Daughter (1976)
After a bloody battle in the frozen north Conan, the sole survivor, is mesmerized by the erotic vision of an ice maiden. Driven by his lust he follows her relentlessly until the Frost-Giant cools his ardor.
The God in the Bowl (1975)
Conan is hired by a foppish courtesan to pilfer a jewel from a museum of mystical artifacts. The museums overseer is found strangled and Conan is suspected but a minion of Set, the evil snake god, is the true perpetrator of the strangulation.
The Tower of the Elephant (1933)
A 150 foot tower houses an evil wizard and his mysterious jewel with magical powers. The tower is enchanted with spells and ghostly guards to deter foolish individuals intend on stealing the Elephant Eyes. Conan is undeterred and seek his fortune at the wizards expense.
The Scarlet Citadel (1933)
Palace intrigue finds Conan usurped from his throne and captive of a very malevolent sorcerer. Armies are on the move - pontoon bridges are employed - fortified cities are under siege - Conan find an unlikely ally in a fellow prisoner who employees mystical means to restore the cosmic balance.
Queen of the Black Coast (1934)
Conan falls in with a vivacious Pirate Queen with a unquenchable lust for plunder - especially jewels. An abandoned city in ruins surrounded by jungle along a turgid river leads to the Queen's undoing. Conan barely survives after battling a gigantic flying ape!
Black Colossus (1933)
A oracle tells a Queen regent to employ the first man she meets to save the kingdom from an the impend peril of invasion let by the devil himself. Conan, a man with no common sense, instead of jumping out the nearest window says "yes, I'll save the kingdom".
Iron Shadows of the Moon (1934)
Mysterious ruins with menacing statues that come to life in moonlight gives Conan ample opportunity to hack and bash his way to freedom.
Xuthal of the Dark (1933)
Escaping into a barren desert region with a clinging wench is almost Conan undoing until an oasis is spotted. Said oasis is a horror house of drugged pleasure seekers and the demon that feeds off them. Conan is fortunate to break out of the prison-like town with his life.
Pool of the Black One (1933)
Fished out of the ocean after escaping a misunderstanding ashore Conan falls in with a band of freebooters. A uncharted island, a scheming damsel and an evil entity keep Conan busy in this entertaining tale.
Rogues in the House (1934)
As a price for being sprung from prison Conan must dispatch a conniving priest and his half-man half-ape. Complications set it and much blood is spilt.
Vale of Lost Woman (first publication 1967)
A high principled princess is captured by a band of lusty natives. Seeing Conan as her only hope for rescue - and the preserving of her virtue - the princess promises him her "desirable quality" if he can liberate her. Conan obliges but said princess eludes Conan's embrace only to fall in with some "Lost Women" which necessitates a second rescue by Conan..
Devil in Iron (1934)
Another swampy island with a ruined temple leads Conan to an encounter with a supernatural daemon. A magical knife, an encounter with a 40 foot snake(!) and a reluctant half naked damsel in distress cannot deter Conan!
There is something gratifying to possess a book that reflects a publishers and editors respect and admiration for the author and the subject matter; " The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian " is such a book. This Del Ray trade paperback is an original edition published in 2002. The 464-page book includes in addition to the stories outlined above, approximately 100 pages of Conan reference material. These includes Howard's drafts for several of the stories, maps, notes etc. This is a definitive reference for the Howard student and for just curious readers. Quality paper and a very readable font make this a worthy book for fans and collectors.
Each story is illustrated with several quarter page drawings and a near full-page illustration by Mark Schultz. Mr. Schultz provided an article about how he approached drawing Conan.
The majority of the stories were first published in Wierd Tales magazine during 1925-37. The executors of his estate published another group of stories well after Howard's death.
Howard's character Conan is deceptively simple: likes to drink, wench and fight. He is dubious of the gods, uneasy when in the presence of supernatural evil and for the most part a loner. He is also very, very lucky. Howard is a master story teller with a outstanding talent for narrative pacing and descriptive prose. For the most part the stories are entertaining and colorfully written.
The question of genuine significance for potential readers or just the curious is: are the stories worth reading - or are they just historical literary curiosities. answer of course is subjective but if your inclined to these type stories you would do well not to pass up on this collection.
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Il collettivo britannico Archive in italia per una data unica con il nuovo album The False Foundation, sabato 26 novembre al Fabrique di Milano
A poco più di un anno dall’ultimo tour nel nostro Paese, tornano in Italia gli Archive per una data unica con il loro Kings of the False Foundation Tour, sabato 26 novembre al Fabrique di Milano per presentare il nuovo album The False Foundation, in uscita il 7 ottobre!
Collettivo britannico che mescola progressive rock, trip-hop, elettronica, psichedelia ed ambient, gli Archive nascono nel 1993 a Londra da un’idea di Darius Keeler e Rosko John, ai quali poco dopo si uniscono Danny Griffiths e la vocalist Roya Arab. Nel 1996 esordiscono con Londinium, un mix di trip-hop, elettronica e breakbeat che li affianca ad artisti come Massive Attack e Portishead. Il moderato successo di critica non impedisce a Rosko John e Roya Arab di lasciare la band; quest’ultima viene sostituita da Suzanne Wooder, insieme alla quale l’ensemble dà alle stampe Take My Head. Gli avvicendamenti all’interno della formazione non hanno fine e, dopo tre album insieme a Craig Walker, nel 2004 Keeler e Griffiths decidono di trasformare la band in un collettivo di artisti individuali che offrono il loro contributo per mantenere vivo il tradizionale sound degli Archive. Ad oggi gli Archive hanno all’attivo la colonna sonora del film Michel Vaillant (2003), tre compilation, sette live album, tre EP e dieci album in studio, l’ultimo dei quali è per l’appunto The False Foundation.
Oltre ai due fondatori Darius Keeler (testi, sintetizzatore, piano, programming, arrangiamenti) e Danny Griffiths (testi, sintetizzatore, campionamenti, programming, arrangiamenti), ad oggi il collettivo Archive comprende Pollard Berrier (testi, voce, chitarra, programming, arrangiamenti), Dave Pen (testi, voce, chitarra), Maria Q (voce), Holly Martin (voce), Steve Harris (chitarra, cori), Jonathan Noyce (basso), Steve “The Menace” Davis (basso), Steve “Smiley” Barnard (batteria), Mickey Hurcombe (chitarra) e Tom Brazelle (armonica).
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Appeared in July 14, 2016 edition of the New Westminster Record "Snapped".
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Roberto Bolle presenta La Mia Danza Libera, il 5 ottobre, al Teatro Franco Parenti di Milano.
“Roberto Bolle – La Mia Danza Libera”, è una grande show evento di sorprendente spettacolo, in onda su RaiUno sabato 8 ottobre in prima serata. Dopo aver conquistato spazi ed entusiasmi finora destinati solo al mondo del rock, The king of dance, come lo ha definito il New York Times, riporta la danza ai suoi massimi livelli in televisione.
Roberto Bolle sarà infatti il protagonista su RaiUno di una serata speciale, un tributo straordinario alla sua arte, motivo di orgoglio per l’eccellenza italiana in tutto il mondo.
Assieme a Roberto, il dire tore di RaiUno Andrea Fabiano e Giampiero Solari, l’autore dello show.
Un appuntamento esclusivo che vedrà la partecipazione accanto a Roberto Bolle delle stelle del balletto internazionale provenienti dai più prestigiosi palcoscenici di tutto il mondo, ma anche musicisti, attori e cantanti che daranno vita ad uno show imprevedibile e unico nel suo genere. Insieme a loro, infatti, in una location esclusiva del tutto inedita per la televisione, l’“Étoile dei due mondi” sorprenderà il pubblico di RaiUno mostrando possibilità inaspettate della danza e creando sinergie con artisti provenienti da altri mondi dell’arte, con un risultato potente, ironico e sublime insieme, sempre all’insegna della grande qualità.
Roberto Bolle – La Mia Danza Libera sarà anche l’occasione per scoprire il lato più eclettico e leggero dell’étoile della danza tra le più grandi e acclamate a livello internazionale. Primo ballerino al mondo contemporaneamente Étoile del Teatro alla Scala e Principal dell’American Ballet, Roberto Bolle è il protagonista assoluto di una serata imperdibile per appassionati di balletto, ma anche per chi non ha idea di cosa sia un jeté (o un arabesque).
'The Greyfriars' in Friar Street is the finest half-timbered building in the City. From the 13th century until the Reformation the street was dominated by a Franciscan friary from which Friar Street and Greyfriars both get their names. It was suppressed in 1530s when Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries.
Franciscan friars were sometimes called Grey Friars because of their grey habits. The name of Greyfriars might have come from the house being wrongly associated, from the early twentieth century, with the old Friary, the last building the friars added.
18th-century and 19th-century historians make no reference to No 9 being part of the Old Friary. In 1828 Ambrose Florence merely states ‘... large timber ribbed house adjoins the wall of the new city gaol...’ and in 1882 Littlebury dismisses the building as ‘a quaint old timbered building worth glancing at in passing...’. Official City Guides in the early 20th century also list No 9 under Old Houses, remarking ‘... one of the most interesting is the large structure in Friar Street supposed to have been an ancient hostelry’.
However, The Victoria County History (eds William Page and J. W. Willis-Bund), published in 1924, says ‘... facing Friar Street is a fine two-storied building of timber, having a bold gable at either end and a gateway in the middle, over which is a window of not less than twelve lights. This house may only be the town house of some city merchant, but its position suggests that it belonged to the Grey Friars, and might have been their guest-house”. A further suggestion that No 9 may have been part of the Friary was in 1911 when a local historian, Lewis Shepherd, wrote in the journal of the Associated Archaeological Societies ‘... a considerable portion of the old friary still exists. .. it is of the early Tudor period ...’. Without giving any reasons he implies that No 9 was the guest house of the Friary.
In 1937, an expert on monastic architecture, A.R. Martin, said that Greyfriars was not part of the Friary but a typical medieval merchant’s house. This information was not re-discovered until 1983-85 when a local historian, Pat Hughes, was doing some research into Friar Street and local charities. She identified that rent for No.s 7-9 was paid to the St Thomas Day Charities an ancient ‘bread and coal’ charity with records dating back to the 15th century.
She was able to trace the tenants for No 9 and establish that Greyfriars was built c1480-5, probably by Thomas Grene, an influential citizen and brewer, who was High Bailiff of Worcester on two occasions.
In 1947 Canon Buchanan-Dunlop, another local historian, writing in Worcester Archaeological Transactions, accepted the assumption that No 9 was part of the old friary. This arose from his research which showed that the house, and the old friary site next door, had been owned by the Corporation for at least 350 years.
The external shape of the two gables, with a long pitched roof level between them, is typical of merchant houses of the late 15thC. The remains of the very richly carved barge boards on the gables also suggest a very expensive and high quality building of the early Tudor period, as does the height of the archway which horses and riders would have been able to pass through into the courtyard.
The plot now occupied by 7-9 has always changed hands in its present form. No 7 (now a hairdresser) was built at the end of the 17th century. As the north wall of No. 9 shows considerable weathering, the No. 7 plot may either have been used as a garden or occupied by outbuildings at the beginning of the century. wikipedia
Hennepin Avenue is pretty cool.
This picture was published in the arts section of themacweekly, along with my cooresponding article on the show:
www.themacweekly.com/articles/20061120/the_arts/10923
By Aaron Brown
Contributing Writer
Photographer
“This is the biggest venue we’ve ever played at in Minnesota. I feel like, we’re getting closer, you know? I’m glad we’re taking this step together. Not like Milwaukee; fuck Milwaukee, she doesn’t mean anything to me! I’m not lookin’ ahead to marriage or anything, I just wanted to say, I like the direction this is going, I have a good feeling about this.”
Indeed, lead singer Ryan Miller and his band Guster lit up Minneapolis two weeks ago, playing to a large crowd of over 2000 at the State Theatre. The band is currently in the midst of an enormous tour in support of their new album, Ganging Up on the Sun.
Ryan Miller, Adam Gardner, and Brian “Thunder God” Rosenworcel met at Tufts University over fifteen years ago and independently produced their first CD “Parachutes.” Their early work is reminiscent of those stereotypical collegiate floormates down the hall that jam on weekends; upbeat guitars, intelligent lyrics and furiously audacious bongo drums helped define their act. The trio continued to refine their sound over the next couple years, signing with a major label in 1999 and achieving national recognition with Lost and Gone Forever, an album that signaled a change in direction for the band’s music, including their first use of electric guitars and drum kits. While many fans were disappointed about the new, “mainstream” sound of the band and their departure from the acoustic-guitar-and-bongo-drums vibe, singles “Amsterdam” and “Careful” from 2003’s Keep it Together received moderate airplay and garnered national attention. Ganging Up on the Sun continues this trend; their latest album reflects their distance from the collegiate scene, and it builds on themes of growing up, dealing with responsibilities and adulthood.
Miller’s gag about playing in a large venue explains a lot about how the band reacts to their successful transformation from teenage jam band to nationally credible band, recently exemplified by Guster’s involvement with the television show The OC and a Nissan commercial. Despite their fame, the band still maintains their humor and wit, and the set list Friday combined elements of their newer, “rock-band” sound (such as the recent single “Satellite”) with classic Guster songs “Either Way” and “Great Escape.”
Perhaps most revealing was the final encore, in which Guster returned to an applauding crowd to demand that everyone “be entirely silent” as the band finished with a one-mic acoustic version of “Jesus on the Radio.” In spite of co-lead singer Adam Gardner’s bout with pneumonia, Ryan’s admittance that “We’ve never tried this in such a large venue,” and the subsequent uneasy hush of the audience, the band pulled off the folksy, banjo-led ballad with astonishingly clear harmonies and the wild approval of the audience. While somewhat of an anticlimactic ending, the acoustic finish solidified the status of a group caught somewhere between “that college band” playing in Harvard Square in front of friends and “that up-and-coming indie band” playing in the State Theatre in front of the Twin Cities. Say what you want about the band becoming too mainstream, these guys can still pull out the stops and bring back the quirky, acoustic roots that brought them success, even in front of a large audience.
In short, while Guster may not be “your” band anymore, and while they aren’t quite as young as they used to be, the band and their music have aged well, and they continue to entertain fans with onstage spontaneity and ever-changing music.
Altagracia Nova
A-Nova Music
Saturday, Desember 3rd, 2016
"El Barrio" (NYC)
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