This Day In History

[Subvet642]

Originally Posted by The Poet

On this day in 1941, in a game against the Cleveland Indians, Joltin' Joe DiMaggio failed to get a hit. Of itself, this would not be of significance, but it was the first time he hadn't in 56 consecutive games. That streak remains to this day, and likely shall for the foreseeable future. In 1938 aviator Douglas Corrigan took off from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, with a flight plan filed for a return trip to California. Twenty-eight hours later, he landed in Dublin Ireland, and thus earned the appellation "Wrong Way" . . . though his claims that he got lost were widely dismissed as a fabrication.

In 1955 Disneyland opened in Anaheim CA, and you still can't manage to get in . . . unless you are a Kardashian. And in 1967 teen heart-throbs The Monkees, on a summer-long American tour, lost their opening act after only 8 shows when The Jimi Hendrix Experience suddenly left, due mainly to the guitarist (largely unknown to the US audience) getting sick of hearing the teeny-bopper crowd booing him offstage as they screamed for Davy Jones. This fiasco might have been foreseen by all but the totally myopic, even if those early dates had not included such avant-guard locations as Jacksonville, Charlotte, and Greensboro.

I've always liked them both.

[The Poet]

Originally Posted by Subvet642

I've always liked them both.

I thought The Monkees were fun and put out some good catchy tunes (even though they had little to do with them), while Jimi was God, not Clapton as claimed. But they were wildly different creatures. Plus, The Fake Four were highly popular at the time with a wide, young, and heavily female fanbase. Hendrix was all-but unknown in America at the time, his look and sound was shocking and beyond confusing to the teen fans with a crush on Davy Jones, and those fans would likely have been impatient for the headliners regardless of the opening act.

No one should fault The Monkees for this epic fail. They were fans of Hendrix and simply hoped to promote his US rep by introducing him to a wider audience. But the concept was flawed. Hey, imagine One Direction having some death-metal band open?

[Subvet642]

Originally Posted by The Poet

I thought The Monkees were fun and put out some good catchy tunes (even though they had little to do with them), while Jimi was God, not Clapton as claimed. But they were wildly different creatures. Plus, The Fake Four were highly popular at the time with a wide, young, and heavily female fanbase. Hendrix was all-but unknown in America at the time, his look and sound was shocking and beyond confusing to the teen fans with a crush on Davy Jones, and those fans would likely have been impatient for the headliners regardless of the opening act.

No one should fault The Monkees for this epic fail. They were fans of Hendrix and simply hoped to promote his US rep by introducing him to a wider audience. But the concept was flawed. Hey, imagine One Direction having some death-metal band open?

Yes he was!

I wouldn't like any of that.

[shilala]

Originally Posted by The Poet

I thought The Monkees were fun and put out some good catchy tunes (even though they had little to do with them), while Jimi was God, not Clapton as claimed. But they were wildly different creatures. Plus, The Fake Four were highly popular at the time with a wide, young, and heavily female fanbase. Hendrix was all-but unknown in America at the time, his look and sound was shocking and beyond confusing to the teen fans with a crush on Davy Jones, and those fans would likely have been impatient for the headliners regardless of the opening act.

No one should fault The Monkees for this epic fail. They were fans of Hendrix and simply hoped to promote his US rep by introducing him to a wider audience. But the concept was flawed. Hey, imagine One Direction having some death-metal band open?

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Thomas, Darren, you'll like it.