#this day in rock

[classicrockblog1]

John Gary Driscoll (April 18, 1946 – June 8, 1987) was an American R&B-style rock drummer who performed in a number of successful bands from the 1960s until his unsolved murder.[1]

He first entered the music scene when he joined Ronnie Dio and the Prophets in June 1965, fronted by Ronnie James Dio. The band transformed into the Electric Elves, the Elves, and finally Elf in 1969, releasing a few singles along the way.[2][3][4] They were eventually discovered by Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover who went on to produce all three of Elf's studio albums.

Elf disbanded in 1975 when Gary Driscoll,[3] Ronnie James Dio,[3] Micky Lee Soule (Elf's keyboardist),[3] and Craig Gruber (their bassist)[3] were recruited by Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore to form the rock band Rainbow.[3]

Driscoll was dismissed from Rainbow shortly after their debut album, entitled Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, was recorded.[5] It is speculated that firing Gary was simply due to his R&B style of drumming, which did not sit well with Blackmore.[6][7] Driscoll was later replaced with British hard rocker, Cozy Powell.[5]

[veronicaisnotonline]

Green Day solicit donations for HIV/AIDS organization, 1994

[kiwi]

everybodys gotta get back into the practice of using pseudonyms online... i remember the time of screen names where u never ever told anyone ur real name and that was just understood as basic internet safety. plus having a screen name is fun because sometimes it sticks so well that it becomes part of ur identity that u can use in whatever facet of ur life you choose. it rocks to pick your own name

[super-nova5045]

jayvik nation i fear delusion is key right now…NEVER forget the biblical references at hand okay…judas was MISGUIDED and CONFUSED and jesus KNEW and WANTED JUDAS TO BETRAY HIM in the GARDEN of gethsemane…so he could DIE and come back STRONGER…ALL HOPE IS NOT LOST

[starridge]

btw alex hirsch said there was a cut tbob interaction where bill enters stan’s dream of being in high school where ford is stuck in the broken perpetual motion machine. bill disguised himself as a teacher and when he tries to “help” stan, stan asks why a teacher is being nice to him and then bill reveals it was a trick and stan asks why he lied before and basically stan is too paranoid to trick. i love you stanley pines the broken man that you are.

[bonetrousledbones]

fuck it since my birthday is in like one day i'm gonna use my birthday wish to tell y'all to look at the shit going on in southern Appalachia right now after Hurricane Helene. look at it and talk about it and spread resources about it like wildfire because nobody else fucking is and it feels like we're on our own out here.

there are people who are stranded in hazardous areas that are still safer than trying to leave by driving on the increasingly hazardous roads. i'm personally going into my third day without electricity at this point, and haven't been able to get any gas for a generator to even keep our fridge working. there are very few places with power or running water, and cell service has just barely been restored in the last hour. ground crews are working hard to repair things, but there are many, many areas that are entirely inaccessible that may not receive these fixes for several more days if not weeks. i'm afraid my own neighborhood might become one of those areas if repairs don't get to us soon, and since we're much more rural i have a difficult time trying to be optimistic about it.

we're very far inland. i guarantee you damn near everybody here was expecting a little more rain and wind like we usually get during hurricane season, if they even heard about the hurricane beforehand in the first place since most people only got about a twelve hour notice before landfall- after several major areas had already been flooded. our terrain protects us from most major weather events- most locals have never encountered a single tornado or legitimate tornado warning in our entire lives. nobody i've talked to or heard from about it seems to have had any idea that it would be this bad. everybody's wishing that they took it more seriously, but we've never, ever had to before. i've seen people comparing it to Hurricane Katrina and honestly i'm not sure if that's all too inaccurate. today while looking for a single working gas station i drove by a military helicopter parked in front of the elementary school i went to when i was little.

please for the love of god, talk about us. talk about the good memories you had here or the beauty of our mountains, and talk about how devastated we are as we watch historic structures, buildings, and entire towns get wiped from the face of the earth like they were never even there. stop dismissing us as uneducated hicks and rednecks and hilllbillies and fucking help us.

r/Asheville resource/updates megathread (Asheville is the largest city in western North Carolina)

How to set up disaster roaming for cell service

WLOS Live updates

Duke Energy power outage map

WNC Landslide Map

Hotels accepting locals

Emergency shelter locations

I live in western North Carolina so all of my own resources are centered around that. If anybody from the other impacted areas has additional sources they'd like to add, please don't hesitate to do so.

[lowpolyanimals]

Squirrel from Bratz: Rock Angelz

[usernaureen]

another banger of an April fools' game, tumblr

[starwarjotta]

looking for someone on Tatooine

[ayo-edebiri]

30 ROCK (2006 - 2011) I 6.09 - Leap Day

[classicrockblog1]

Accident of Birth is the fourth #studio #album by Bruce Dickinson, released on 3 June 1997[1] through Castle Communications' sub‑label Raw Power in the UK and through CMC International in the US.

[jzargo]

"The Hissing Wastes is the WORST" the Hissing Wastes is great if you bring Blackwall because he proceeds to tell you about the time he got lost in a desert storm, he and his men got drunk and high, and then they woke up naked and had to fight a bunch of ghasts. Most riveting story in the entire game. Solas and Varric wish they had stories to tell like this.

[amnhnyc]

Today’s Exhibit of the Day? It’s one of the largest amethyst geodes in the world! At about 13 ft (4 m) tall and 9,000 lbs (4,082 kg), this giant weighs about as much as three compact cars. It was born when molten magma poured from the Earth’s crust some 135 million years ago. While its dazzling purple crystals might catch your eye, this geode would have originally been composed of colorless quartz—its distinctive amethyst color deriving from millenia of natural radiation, heat, and trace contaminants. 

You can spot this geode, and other sparkly specimens, in the Museum’s Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals. We're open daily from 10 am-5:30 pm! Plan your visit.

Photo: D. Finnin/ © AMNH

[artistmarchalius]

He’s always had it in him.

A continuation of the Pop Rock Floyd series: here, here and here

[elvispresley]

John Lennon in every Beatles movies

[sadbocchi]

3.31

exclusive tumblr part 2