To: mr.mark who wrote (514 ) 2/17/2001 8:37:00 PM From: SIer formerly known as Joe B. Respond to of 2695 Today's Musical Milestones (2/17): In 1960, Elvis Presley received his first gold record for an album, a 1956 release titled "Elvis." In 1968, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Donovan flew to India to study transcendental meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. In 1969, Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash collaborated on a recording project at the CBS Studios in Nashville. Although a number of songs were recorded, only one -- "Girl From The North Country" -- appeared on Dylan's "Nashville Skyline" album, for which Cash wrote the sleeve notes. Another tune -- "One Too Many Mornings" -- appeared in the documentary film "Johnny Cash, The Man And His Music." In 1970, Joni Mitchell announced she would make no more public appearances. Before the year was out, she was on stage at the Isle of Wight Festival. and on this day in.. 1982 Jazz genius Thelonious Monk dies in Englewood, New Jersey. Today's musical quiz: Where did Bob Dylan go to college? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The University of Minnesota. Dylan was born in Duluth, Minn. You Can Quote Me On That... "Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted." - Fred Allen "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - Groucho Marx (1890-1977) "Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with." - W. C. Fields. "I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio". - Rodney Dangerfield "Someone very strange, with very little promise, has taken charge of the leadership of the great empire that we have as a neighbor." - Fidel Castro "We sound like the Bay City Rollers after an assault by Black Sabbath. And we vomit better on stage than anybody." - Kurt Cobain "The fact of the matter is, I'm fucking brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant." - Pete Townshend "If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it." - John Lennon "Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public." - Frank Zappa "Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." - Charles Mingus "Some Scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe." - Frank Zappa Justin Timberlake of 'N Sync on what he read last year that he most liked: "You mean like ... a book?" "It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness." - Jerry Garcia "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done." - Ernie Kovacs "The ONLY thing that seems to band all nations together, is that their governments are universally bad...." - Frank Zappa ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: 2001 Punmaster's MusicWire punmaster.com