The Doors keyboardist Ray Manzerek passed away today at 74. Here’s audio of ‘Light My Fire’ performed at the old Minneapolis Auditorium in 1968.
Lake Harriet Pavilion tornado damage, 1925.
If you haven’t heard yet, Moore, Oklahoma; a suburb of Oklahoma City, was just decimated by an F-4 tornado. My thoughts are with her citizens.
(image via MHS Visual Resources Database)
Happy birthday to the late, great Joey Ramone; born on this day in 1951. Here’s The Ramones playing at the State Theater in 1978.
Weezy and I went to her friend’s birthday party today, which was tied into Art-a-Whirl. Glad we went, plus she got to meet local Tumblr immortality, Paul from Stuff About Minneapolis and his two girls.
