Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt is the debut solo album by American musician John Frusciante (pictured), released on November 22, 1994, by American Recordings. Frusciante was previously a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but left in 1992 after he became overwhelmed by the band's newfound popularity. During this period, he became severely depressed and developed a serious drug addiction. He isolated himself in his home to record music for an eventual album. For Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt, Frusciante combined avant-garde and stream-of- consciousness styles, with guitar, piano and various effects on a four- track recorder. It was met with general confusion and a mixed response from fans and critics. David Wild of Rolling Stone wrote that the album "is twisted, cool stuff". It sold 15,000 copies by 1996. Two years later, Frusciante rehabilitated and rejoined the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1718:

The pirate Blackbeard was killed in battle by a boarding party of British sailors off the coast of the Province of North Carolina. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbeard

1873:

The French steamship Ville du Havre collided with a Scottish iron clipper in the North Atlantic and sank with the loss of 226 lives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Ville_du_Havre

1971:

In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, five teenage students and one of their leaders were found dead from exposure on the Cairngorm Plateau in the Scottish Highlands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairngorm_Plateau_disaster

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

clarion: 1. (transitive) 2. To announce or herald (something) using a clarion (noun sense 1). 3. (figuratively) To announce or herald (something) clearly, especially so as to stir or unite people. 4. (also figuratively) Of a thing: to cause (a place) to echo with a sound like that of a clarion. 5. (intransitive) To sound a clarion; also, to make a high-pitched, piercing sound like that of a clarion. 6. (music, historical or poetic) A medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal; related to the trumpet, it had a narrow, straight pipe and a high-pitched, piercing sound. 7. (by extension) 8. (poetic) The sound of a clarion (sense 1), or any sound resembling the loud, high-pitched note of a clarion. 9. (music) An organ stop consisting of pipes with reeds giving a high- pitched note like that of a clarion (sense 1). 10. (heraldry) A charge thought to represent a type of wind instrument, a keyboard instrument like a spinet, or perhaps a rest used by a knight to support a lance during jousting. 11. Of a sound, a voice, a message, etc.: brilliantly clear. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clarion

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.   --George Eliot https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Eliot