May 17
This day in history:
- 2006 – The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
- 1900 – The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.
- 2014 – A military plane crash in northern Laos kills 17 people.
- 1973 – Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
Births:
- 1938 – Marcia Freedman, Israeli activist (d. 2021)
- 1443 – Edmund, Earl of Rutland (d. 1460)
- 1990 – Fabian Giefer, German footballer
Deaths:
- 1365 – Louis II, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328)
- 1943 – Johanna Elberskirchen, German author and activist (b. 1864)
- 1996 – Kevin Gilbert, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1966)
Holidays:
- Children's Day (Norway)
- Navy Day (Argentina)
- Liberation Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Random Article of the day:
Bob Bralove
Bob Bralove is a keyboard–synthesizer player who worked as a sound technician with the Grateful Dead from 1986 to 1995. Throughout his tenure, he performed as an auxiliary musician throughout "Drums" and "Space", the band's signature aleatoric music segments. Accordingly, he played a key role in their integration of MIDI technology, first working with drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, keyboardist Brent Mydland, and later guitarist Bob Weir and synthesizer/piano player Vince Welnick. He also co-wrote several songs with Weir and Welnick, including "Picasso Moon" on Built to Last (1989) and "Way to Go Home" and "Easy Answers", which were slated to appear on the band's unfinished fourteenth studio album. (A live reconstruction, Ready or Not, was ultimately released in 2019 and contains both songs.) Perhaps his most significant project with the band was curating excerpts from "Drums" and "Space" on Infrared Roses, a 1991 compilation album. "Parallelogram" and "Little Nemo in Nightland" are some of his most notable "compositions" from this release.
Bralove was also a member and producer of the Psychedelic Keyboard Trio, along with Welnick and fellow former Grateful Dead keyboardist Tom Constanten. Bralove and Constanten also collaborated as Dose Hermanos, a showcase for their improvisational keyboard work; since 1998, they have toured irregularly and released five albums under the moniker. Bralove also worked with Stevie Wonder, setting up and programming Wonder's synthesizers including while he was touring.
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