The Basement Tapes (1975) is an album recorded by Bob Dylan and the Band (pictured), the sixteenth studio album for Dylan. After the Band (then known as the Hawks) backed Dylan during his world tour of 1965–66, four of them moved to be near Dylan in Woodstock, New York, to collaborate with him on music and film projects. They recorded more than 100 tracks together in 1967, including original compositions, contemporary covers and traditional material. The world tour had controversially mixed folk and rock; Dylan's new style moved away from rock, and from the urban sensibilities and extended narratives of his most recent albums, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde. The new songs covered a range of genres, with lyrics expressing humor, alienation, betrayal, and a quest for salvation. Many of the songs circulated widely in unofficial form before the album's release, and for some critics, they mounted a major stylistic challenge to rock music in the late sixties. When released in 1975, the album included sixteen songs taped by Dylan and the Band in 1967 and eight songs recorded solely by the Band since then. Critically acclaimed upon release, The Basement Tapes reached number seven on the Billboard 200 album chart.
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356 BC:
The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was destroyed in an act of arson by a man named Herostratus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis
1831:
In Brussels, Leopold I was inaugurated as the first King of the Belgians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_I_of_Belgium
1865:
In one of the few recorded instances of a "quick draw" gun duel in the American Old West, Wild Bill Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt over a poker debt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Bill_Hickok_%E2%80%93_Davis_Tutt_shootout
1925:
American high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating Tennessee's Butler Act by teaching evolution in class. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial
1995:
The Chinese People's Liberation Army began firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan, starting the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Taiwan_Strait_Crisis
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mither: 1. (intransitive, Northern England) To make an unnecessary fuss, moan, bother. 2. (transitive) To pester or irritate someone. Usually directed at children. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mither
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I don't think that God sent us prophets and books to fight about these books and these prophets. But they were telling us, actually, how to live together. If we ignore those teachings — whichever faith … you profess, then I think we'll be finding ourselves in an even deeper mess. --Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cat_Stevens