Until the 2844s, electric chairs were common across the country.
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Harness it like Niagara Falls to generate light and supply voltage for electric chairs.
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As a chaser, don't miss "Andy Warhol: Little Electric Chairs" at Venus Over Manhattan, next door to Nahmad.
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Prints from the disaster series of mangled cars and electric chairs on full New Look skirts and twisted tank tops.
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The plugs on appliances are huge, triple-pronged, for a species of current that only powers electric chairs, in America.
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Andy Warhol: Little Electric Chairs continues at Venus Over Manhattan (980 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor, Upper East Side, Manhattan) through June 25.
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The third rail powering New York City's subway system carries 625 volts, while electric chairs used for executions produce over 2,000 volts.
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But all states eventually turned to lethal injection as their primary choice, over concerns that electric chairs were too barbaric, particularly for viewers.
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Silkscreened onto silver-chromed resin and sprinkled with diamond dust, the vibrant, glittering works recall Warhol's elegiac series of shadows, electric chairs, and skulls.
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I only paused briefly at some of the Electric Chairs series (1964–71) hung atop of the "Cows Wallpaper" (1966) and at some pleasing "Jackies" (1964).
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Fred Leuchter, who is best known for being a Holocaust denier, is a self-taught engineer and manufacturer of execution equipment, from electric chairs to lethal injection machines.
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Children were not allowed to speak their language or practice their culture; as young as 6 years old, they faced electric chairs for punishment, and siblings were separated.
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The first artwork, Andy Warhol's 1980 silk-screen painting "14 Small Electric Chairs Reversal Series," will be supplied by Dadiani Fine Art, based in the Mayfair district of London.
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The option for several states has been to consider using the single drug method like Texas, or explore alternatives such as bringing back firing squads, gas chambers and electric chairs.
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In 1975, it was re-opened as Max's 2 by Tommy Dean Mills, where it become a punk rock breeding ground, with performances by Wayne County & The Electric Chairs, Blondie, and Suicide.
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Back in 1960s America, Cooper's high-powered performances, complete with his startling black and white stage makeup, guillotines and electric chairs elicited fear and horror, especially from the parents of rock fans.
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Two paintings are isolated on separate walls: a full-size electric-chair painting in gold slurred across blue, green and pink, and the gem that is "Twelve Electric Chairs," a grid of small canvases in different colors.
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The paper said in an editorial on Thursday that it had "inflamed the public" by running a cartoon showing electric chairs, effectively suggesting the death penalty just as the grand jury was convening; and that it had portrayed Sheriff McCall too favorably, among other things.
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Warhol created roughly 40 versions of "Electric Chair," mostly executed in black silkscreen ink applied over "pretty" colored bases — from silver to the bright colors seen in "Twelve Electric Chairs" (1964), with its various flavors of green, orange, red, purple, shades of yellow, and, most perversely, bubblegum pink.
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In one post, BamainBoston identified himself as Talley and linked to a Washington Post article, adding, "Washington Post Did A Feature On Me." In the posts on the death penalty, BamainBoston also reportedly said that it would be "awesome" if Alabama reinstated the use of electric chairs during executions.
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Its steady state is a scintillant, cold drizzle of the artist's fascinations: money and celebrity, of course, but also democratic consumerism (Coca-Cola, Campbell's soup), tabloid disaster (fatal car crashes, electric chairs, police attacks on black demonstrators in Birmingham), business as an art (and vice versa), reality as spectacle (and vice versa), and a kaleidoscope of social and sexual personae, all in a spirit that forgets the past and ignores the future.
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One difference between the two artists is temperament, with Warhol being cool and even aloof towards his charged subjects (car crashes, electric chairs, public disasters, and movie stars) while Schnabel came across as either an unabashed romantic or a pretentious jerk who serves up his subjects in an overheated style on a field of broken dishes and later velvet, tarpaulins, sails, animal skins, canvas flooring from boxing rings, and Kabuki theater backdrops.
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Starchitect Frank Gehry made a line of chairs out of cardboard in 1972 that went back into production in 2005, and remarked, "One day I saw a pile of corrugated cardboard outside of my office—the material which I prefer for building architecture models—and I began to play with it..." New York-based Tom Sachs has famously built everything from boom boxes to interstellar landing modules and scale models of electric chairs from the stuff.
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Electric Chairs! (Thomas Dunne Books) in June 2015. The book has been penned with Rolling Stone writer, Chris Hodenfield.
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"Old Sparky" is sometimes used to refer to electric chairs in general, and not one of a specific state.
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Haller moved to London and in 1975 formed the Rockets, recruiting guitarist Andy Colquhoun, later of the Pink Fairies. Haller was a founding member of Wayne County & the Electric Chairs, and the one constant member through the band's history. As part of the burgeoning punk scene the band were subject to gobbing and were forced to take a brief hiatus after Haller developed hepatitis as the result of a direct hit into his mouth. Wayne County and The Electric Chairs released an EP Electric Chairs 1977, plus a single on Illegal Records.
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Old Sparky at the Tucker Unit, Arkansas. It was used to conduct 104 executions from 1926 to 1948. Old Sparky is the nickname of the electric chairs in Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. Old Smokey was the nickname of the electric chairs used in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.
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Wayne County and the Electric Chairs were supported by The Police during their 1977 tour of Holland.Sutcliffe, Phil & Fielder, Hugh (1981). L'Historia Bandido. London and New York: Proteus Books. .
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Besides a pair of group compositions, he wrote the music for the song "Cry of Angels". After one more album, Things Your Mother Never Told You, Wayne County & the Electric Chairs split in two. Padovani remained with bassist Val Haller and drummer J.J. Johnson, and the trio recorded a final single, "So Many Ways", as simply The Electric Chairs, before management problems forced them to disband completely. During this period, Padovani and Haller took turns on lead vocals.
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The film, the recording and the shows were the beginnings of what came to be known as punk rock, and helped define the movement. In 1977 County moved to London, where the English punk scene was just emerging, and formed Wayne County & the Electric Chairs. County released the EP Electric Chairs 1977, plus a single on Illegal Records. This was followed by "Fuck Off", recorded as a single for Safari Records and supported with a European tour.
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Sarah Hall borrowed a bass from Paul Simonon of The Clash, and they invited Greg Van Cook, who was in the process of breaking away from the Electric Chairs, to play guitar. Greg Van Cook was an original member of the New York Backstreet Boys of Max’s Kansas City, who became The Electric Chairs. He co-authored the punk anthem, "Fuck Off" with Jayne County. The lineup was completed by the addition of Fiona Barry on the piano and Susy Hogarth on drums.
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Retrieved: 1 January 2015. and featured punk groups and figures such as Wayne County of Wayne County & the Electric Chairs, Jordan, Toyah Willcox, and Adam and the Ants. This was followed in 1979 by an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
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On 6 October 2015, fans attending a book signing at Good Records, Dallas, Texas, in support of bassist Dennis Dunaway's autobiography, Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs!, were treated to a surprise reunion by the four surviving members of the original Alice Cooper group.
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"Fuck Off", also released as "(If You Don't Wanna Fuck Me, Baby) Fuck Off!!", is a 1977 punk rock song by Wayne County & the Electric Chairs. It was released through Sweet FA, an imprint of Safari Records. The single's B-side was "On the Crest".
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In Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings (pp.28–29) [Boxed set booklet]. A&M; Records Ltd. Following his departure from the band, Padovani was handed the rhythm guitar spot with Wayne County & the Electric Chairs, who at the time were far better known than the Police.
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The song has also been recorded by other artists including Todd Tamanend Clark, Wayne County & the Electric Chairs, Stiv Bators, The Damned, The Vibrators, Doro Pesch, Paul Roland, Ulver and Webb Wilder. An Italian language version, "Sospesa Ad Un Filo", was recorded in 1967 by top Italian beat group I Corvi.
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The much bootlegged 'live' appearance of Wayne County & the Electric Chairs in 1978 on the German TV show Rockpalast was released as a DVD/CD double pack by Repertoire Records UK in December 2014; the concert happened while the band were touring their second album, Storm The Gates Of Heaven.
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Val Haller, London, 1981 Val Haller (born Adrian Osborne) (1952 - 16 December 2012) was a British musician. Primarily a bass guitarist, he was also a vocalist, keyboardist, and composer. Haller played with Wayne County & the Electric Chairs, The Flying Lizards, The Lords of the New Church, Paint and Savage Republic. He was half of the duo Autumnfair.
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"Eddie & Sheena" (Rogers) – 4:24 (Wayne County & the Electric Chairs cover; recorded for Jürgen Krause's birthday, who is a good friend of the band) 29. "Richmond" (Billingsley, Allen, Griffiths) – 2:39 (from the US version of Learning English Lesson 1; Pin Point cover) 30. "In Still of the Night" (Frege, Plain) – 4:11 (Learning English Lesson 1 demo) 31.
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Marvin's son Jeremy grew up in the business and carries on his fathers legacy. Amongst the collection is P. T. Barnum's replica of the Cardiff Giant. Another oddity is one of Sing Sing Prison's Electric Chairs in which 30 people died. An automaton "food inspector" is set up to continuously vomit into a pile of milk bottles.
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However the band couldn't sustain themselves commercially, and fell out with management and label. The three former Electric Chairs then formed a new group, the Mystere Five's, with vocalist/guitarist Chris Reeves and non-musician Marc "Frenchy" Gloder. A single, "No Message"/"Shake Some Action", launched Gloder's label Flicknife Records. A second single, "Never Say Thank You"/"Heart Rules The Head" soon followed.
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Rickles, Lawrence. "Already Given at the Office: Techno Feminism," Parallax, September 1997. The apparatuses drew on a vocabulary of forms derived from positions of the human body (seated, standing, etc.) and recalled hospital gurneys, operating tables, dunking and electric chairs, confessionals or coffin/cradles.O'Donnell, Shauna M. "The Way of Flesh: The Allowance of Pain," Exhibition essay, San Francisco: New Langton Arts, 1990.
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'Big Brother Aaron and Jem up for eviction after latest nominations twist' Digital Spy 25 October 2011 On Day 52, nominations took place on a Sunday, with housemates dressed up in Halloween costumes and sat in electric chairs in the garden. The housemates had to nominate face-to- face. Each nominated housemate received an electric shock delivered by Big Brother's assistant Igor.'Day 52 Nominations Shocker' Channel5.
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His "bright midrange" on the album is especially noted. He began a long tenure working exclusively with Iron Maiden in 1981, producing and engineering Killers and retiring from working with other bands for a while. Birch also produced and engineered albums for numerous artists. These included Deep Purple-related projects (Rainbow, Paice Ashton Lord, Whitesnake, Roger Glover, and Jon Lord), but also encompassed Wayne County & the Electric Chairs.
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It was a vinyl EP that instantly sold 10,000 copies. Later on Jimi LaLumia would work with Wayne County in a managerial position. Shortly after this, Wayne County and The Electric Chairs recorded their first, eponymous album, as well as another EP, "Blatantly Offensive", which contained "Fuck Off" and "Toilet Love." After their touring in support of these releases was done, they recorded "Storm the Gates of Heaven".
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See Benjamin - Full Credits; www.imdb.com. He took part in the punk and new wave scenes, playing with Ian North in Neo and recording the album Neo. He briefly replaced JJ Johnson in the Electric Chairs when JJ refuse to fly to the United States. He also played on three albums by ex-Traffic drummer Jim Capaldi, and Money and the Magic (1990) to support ex-Girl band member Gerry Laffy's solo career.
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Batman and Robin are transferred to the inside of a moving van, where they are strapped to electric chairs; on the wall is a slot machine, which when activated will win them their freedom and $50,000 cash with 3 liberty bells; just their freedom with 3 oranges, and instant and inescapable 50,000 lethal volts of electricity with 3 lemons, automatically on the last lemon. And as bad luck would have it, 2 lemons have turned up already...
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The brothers' electric chairs were miniatures composited into footage of the seated, costumed actors. Distortion effects such as the ghosts being squeezed were created using completed effect shots that were rephotographed through mylar material that could be warped to affect the underlying image. For the scene in which Nunzio carries the prosecutor upside-down from the courtroom, a stuntwoman was hung upside down on a rail. Reitman wanted her to pass through the doorway while seeing above it.
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Being cast out of the Police did not slow Padovani's musical career. After taking a two-month vacation in Corsica, he returned to London and was immediately handed the rhythm guitar spot with Wayne County & the Electric Chairs, who at the time were far better known than the Police. The Police were actually their support act in 1977. The band's first album with Padovani, Storm the Gates of Heaven, was also his debut as a songwriter.
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The collaboration among Padovani, Haller, and Johnson did not end with the breakup of the Electric Chairs. In 1980, they put together a band called The Mystere Five's, which consisted of the three of them as well as Chris Reeves, who played guitar. Marc "Frenchie" Gloder, who had no performance role in the band but wrote all the lyrics, designed the sleeves to their records, and owned the record label. All the members except Gloder did lead vocals.
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Pages 42 and 54. Dust, a Hungarian, was deported during the band's return to the United Kingdom following a tour, when the authorities discovered that his visa had expired over a year ago. He was replaced by J. J. Johnson, and the band recorded their first album, The Electric Chairs. In order to recreate the sound of the album live, the band needed another guitarist, and so recruited Henry Padovani, of former tourmates the Police, on rhythm guitar.
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In 2017 Dadiani founded Dadiani Syndicate, the UK’s first brokerage to offer high value assets, including fine art, sports cars and properties, for purchase via cryptocurrency. In late 2017, they facilitated the sale of four F1 cars, valued at £4m, in Litecoin to an anonymous Chinese purchaser. In 2018 Dadiani auctioned a 49% share of Andy Warhol's “14 small electric chairs” (1980) in cryptocurrency., the first time that a blue-chip piece of art had been publicly sold in cryptocurrency.
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Calloway is joined in the performance by various ghosts, goblins, skeletons, and other frightening things. Betty and Bimbo are subjected to skeletons drinking at a bar; ghost prisoners sitting in electric chairs; a cat with empty eye-sockets feeding her equally empty-eyed kittens; and so on. Betty and Bimbo both change their minds about running away and rush back home with every ghost right behind them. Betty makes it safely back to her home and hides under the blankets of her bed.
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The song title refers to Nikola Tesla and was suggested by Martha Ladly, who had also suggested the Architecture & Morality album title. Tesla is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. "The references to electric chairs and dynamos is actually a reference to dynamos which was essential for the use of the alternating current and anything electrical basically," said Andy McCluskey in an on-line Q&A; session in 1998.
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In subsequent rehearsal sessions with the group he would often opt to play synthesizer or Farfisa organ instead of bass. After the band's third album, County departed, returning to the US. The Electric Chairs continued as a 3-piece of Haller (bass, keyboards, vocals), Henri Padovani (guitars, vocals) and J. J. Johnson (drums, percussion). A single, "So Many Ways" (on which Haller took lead vocals) / "J'attends Les Marines", was released in late 1979. The record, produced by David Cunningham, took a more electronic and atmospheric direction.
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It was during this time that he developed an interest in shrunken heads and started trading in them. He was self-educated and eventually became a world-famous art dealer whose clientele included the Royal Ontario Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sotheby's, Christie's, and rock stars Mick Jagger and Steven Tyler. His multifaceted collection, housed in his Toronto loft, which also functioned as a museum, included electric chairs, mummies, torture devices, and shrunken heads, among others, and his Halloween parties there have been described as "legendary".
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King of Punk is a documentary film directed and produced by Kenneth van Schooten and Julie van Schooten. The documentary film includes interviews with members of bands involved in the Punk scene between 1976 and 1982 including Ramones, Adicts, Exploited, Avengers, Dead Boys, UK Subs, Zeros, Wayne County & the Electric Chairs and many other artists. They talk about this music form and the music industry in general. It also profiles OBGYN, an all-girl Punk band based in Fayetteville, NC, and Patrick Clement, owner of Boston's FNS Publishing.
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At the Stable Gallery exhibit, the artist met for the first time poet John Giorno who would star in Warhol's first film, Sleep, in 1963. It was during the 1960s that Warhol began to make paintings of iconic American objects such as dollar bills, mushroom clouds, electric chairs, Campbell's Soup Cans, Coca-Cola bottles, celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Marlon Brando, Troy Donahue, Muhammad Ali, and Elizabeth Taylor, as well as newspaper headlines or photographs of police dogs attacking African-American protesters during the Birmingham campaign in the civil rights movement.
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A preliminary, 60-minute version of the film was shown in autumn of 1977 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. This resulted in the cover story, "Punk Home Movies" in Time Out magazine. The film features live footage of The Clash, Sex Pistols, Wayne County & the Electric Chairs, Generation X, Slaughter and the Dogs, The Slits, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Eater, Subway Sect, X-Ray Spex, Alternative TV and Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers. Backstage footage of certain bands, such as Generation X, The Slits and Siouxsie and the Banshees, is also included.
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After leaving New York City, County settled in the Atlanta area where she has a band called the Electrick Queers with guitarist Jet Terror, bassist Gary Yoxen, and drummer Rob Kirkland. In 2014 Safari Records released a CD/DVD of Wayne County and The Electric Chairs, Live at Rockpalast Germany from 1978. On July 22, 2015, Jayne County & the Electrick Queers headlined ARMageddon, to benefit Blast-Off Burlesque's Trey Chic. On 23 September 2017, County released a five-track extended play download by Jayne County and The JC5 entitled "Here Come The JC5".
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Recorded at Gooseberry Studios in Tulse Hill, London, with a band composed of Quilichini, French-Iranian guitarist, oriental string instrument expert Muhammad Hadi, drummer Steve Cordonna, Ian Dury's sax player Davey Payne, percussionist J.J. Johnson of Wayne County's Electric Chairs, and Andy Clark who previously played keyboards on David Bowie's Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) album. Sessions were attended by French journalist Bruno Blum, a friend of J.J. Johnson's, who later published the inside story in French rock magazine Best. The original album was plagued by suspicious circumstances. There are different versions of the story, and the truth remains ambiguous.
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Later that year, she appeared in Wigstock: The Movie and released her autobiography, "Man Enough to Be a Woman" on Serpent's Tail (press to read )From 1989–1997, Jayne County & The Electric Chairs consisted of Jayne on vocals, Mark Pearson on bass, Paul Wainwright on guitar, and Colin Rocks on drums. This lineup recorded and toured the UK and Europe during this time still with Warren Heighway acting as agent and Manchester Management for Trace Element Corporation. Warren Heighway passed away on 7/8/'05. Since that time several new tracks have surfaced on various compilations and through County's official website.
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The emperor Menelek II is said to have acquired three electric chairs in 1896 at the behest of a missionaryPierre Van Paassen, Days of Our Years (London: Heinemann, 1939) p.315, but could not make the devices work as his nation did not have a reliable source of electric power available at that time. Two of the chairs were either used as garden furnitureModesto Bee [CA], 15 October 1970 or given to friendsSun-News (Las Cruces, NM), 7 June 1974 and Menelek II is said to have used the third electric chair as a throne.David Wallechinsky et al, The Book of Lists (London: Corgi, 1977) p.463.
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Fell was conducting further experiments, electrocuting anesthetized dissected dogs trying to discern exactly how electricity killed a subject.Richard Moran, Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group – 2007, page 4 In 1888, the Commission recommended electrocution using Southwick's electric chair idea with metal conductors attached to the condemned person's head and feet. They further recommended that executions be handled by the state instead of the individual counties with three electric chairs set up at Auburn, Clinton, and Sing Sing prisons. A bill following these recommendations passed the legislature and was signed by Governor Hill on June 4, 1888, set to go into effect on January 1, 1889.
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Early Ruts songs recorded at The Former Orange studios in London's Covent Garden on 1 October 1977 were "Stepping Bondage", "Rich Bitch", "Out of Order", "I Ain't Sofisticated" and "Lobotomy". The group began to evolve and become more musically adventurous, incorporating reggae and dub elements into their repertoire. Dave Ruffy returned to the drums and a new bassist, 'Segs' Jennings, was recruited. The new Ruts line-up debuted supporting Wayne County and the Electric Chairs at High Wycombe town hall on 25 January 1978. The Ruts' first single, "In a Rut" was finally released on People Unite in January 1979, having been recorded back on 24 April 1978 at the Free Range 8-track studios.
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Many of these tracks, both live and studio recordings, were collected on the Ratcage Records release So New York, including collaborations with Lisa Jackson and former Electric Chairs guitarist Eliot Michaels. A live show, recorded on County's birthday, was released on the 2002 CD Wash Me in the Blood (of Rock & Roll)- Live at Squeeze Box by Fang Records. The CD features a duet on "California Sun" by County and former nemesis "Handsome" Dick Manitoba of The Dictators. In 2005 "Man Enough To Be A Woman" a Live DVD was released on Cherry Red Films recorded at Blackpool Winter Gardens on 11/8/'96 with Mark Pearson on bass, Paul Wainwright on guitar and Colin Rocks on drums.
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Following two convictions for record theft, and as his parents' company was going bankrupt, causing them to lose almost everything, in 1976-1977 the drifting teenager moved to London to study animation film with Oscar Grillo (who directed an animation film for Linda and Paul McCartney) and keenly attended rock clubs. In 1977-1978 he lived in North London's Stamford Hill Jamaican neighbourhood where he discovered reggae sound systems and dub music. He also made the earliest known recording of a then unknown band, The Police, with a hand stereo recorder at London's Roxy Club on March 3, 1977. Going through straits, he stayed in London squats, sharing houses with punk rock musicians including Private Vices and The Electric Chairs.
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Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spans over 50 years. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props, including pyrotechnics, guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, reptiles, baby dolls, and dueling swords, Cooper is considered by music journalists and peers to be "The Godfather of Shock Rock". He has drawn equally from horror films, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a macabre and theatrical brand of rock designed to shock audiences. Originating in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1964, "Alice Cooper" was originally a band consisting of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, Glen Buxton on lead guitar, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and Neal Smith on drums.
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At the same time, McLusky began a long- term annual collaboration with the Mean Fiddler organization, programming the dance stage Reading Festival and organizing the festival aftershow events, which, in early 1996, led to him being asked to once again open his bag of tricks and launch their new Islington dance venue, which he named The Complex. Around the same time as The Complex was seizing a substantial share of the market, McLusky amused himself with a more radical and intimate club night, ‘Fantasy Ashtray’ at Soho's Madame Jo Jo's. Called by Time Out ‘...a rockin’, punky, thrash night with live acts’, Fantasy Ashtray was founded on genuine musical variety and featured classic live acts like Jayne County and the Electric Chairs alongside new live underground talent.
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Picking up from the last episode, Gotham City suffers a massive power outage just as the slot machine spins the third lemon. The Joker and his henchmen beat a harried retreat, just as the cops arrive just in time to cut Batman and Robin out from the electric chairs before the power comes back on. After replaying the audiotape Batman secretly made while in the van, they were able to make out Susie as one of the members of the Joker's crime family, much to Robin's shock and dismay as he had romantic feelings for her. So Robin, in the guise of his true identity, Dick Grayson, an undercover agent, tries to trick Susie into leading him into the "Bad Pennies" and the Joker himself.
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Thirty different hip-hop artists are mentioned in the song's lyrics: I'll take 30 electric chairs, and put 'em in a classroom, 30 MCs, and set 'em free from their doom. The title of the song came to the artist at random during a marijuana-influenced phone conversation, but was confirmed decades later on Twitter by the artist to be a reference to prolapse, as well as the moment of a man tossing woman onto a bed in the middle of sexual climax. When asked by NORE and DJ EFN in an interview, he originally stated: The music video (directed by Brett Ratner) for the song was made in May 1993. However, it uses the remix instead of the original version.
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This new five-piece lineup toured extensively, but County ultimately fired Greg Van Cook due to his rampant drug abuse, and replaced him with Elliot Michaels, another former member of the Backstreet Boys. Producer Martin Birch exerted a great deal of creative control over the band's second album, Storm the Gates of Heaven, and Padovani later commented in his memoir that the album "wasn't bad, but it wasn't the Chairs as we wanted it to be." Their third album, Things Your Mother Never Told You, was produced by David Cunningham, whose musical inclinations were more in synch with those of the band. After a few more tours, Wayne County & the Electric Chairs split in two, with Elliot Michaels following County in his solo career.
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Jayne Rogers, (born Wayne Rogers July 13, 1947), better known by her stage name Jayne County is an American singer, songwriter, actress and record producer whose career has spanned six decades. Under the name Wayne County (inspired by Wayne County, Michigan), she was the vocalist of influential proto-punk band Wayne County & the Electric Chairs who became known for their campy and foul-mouthed ballads, glam punk inspired songs, and image which was heavily influenced by Jackie Curtis and the Theatre of the Ridiculous. County in particular was known for her outrageous and unpredictable stage antics as well as possessing a distinctive singing voice. She went on to become rock's first openly transgender singer, and adopted the stage name Jayne County.
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Turbin cites heavy metal and NWOBHM vocalists from bands such as Judas Priest, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Motörhead, Accept, Riot and Saxon as influences of his vocal style, although he was also heavily influenced by the New York punk scene of the 1970s–1980s including bands such as Generation X, Ramones, Niki Buzz, The Bullets, Vendetta, Mayday, Steve Johnstad, Son, Sun, Wayne County & the Electric Chairs, Neon Leon, Walter Lure & The Heartbreakers, The Clash, The Sex Pistols and MC5. Turbin spent time at the infamous punk club CBGB's and worked at other important punk scene venues Ritz when it first opened and also Max's Kansas City, from 1979 to 1980. He has stated that he favors writing with a neo-classical, rhythm and blues, and soulful hard rock influence.
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Debbie takes another car and drives to Fester's house, where she ties the family to electric chairs, explaining — while the Addamses listen with sympathy and compassion — that she killed her parents and previous husbands for incredibly selfish and materialistic reasons. Upstairs, the returned-to-normal Pubert escapes from his crib and, via a series of improbable events, is propelled into the room where the family is being held. Debbie throws the switch to electrocute them, but Pubert manipulates the wires and reverses the current, electrocuting her instead and incinerating her into a pile of ash and credit cards. Months later at Pubert's first-birthday party (attended by all the Addamses' relatives and Joel), Fester laments Debbie's loss, but soon becomes smitten with Cousin Itt and Margaret's nanny, Dementia.
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Jayne County, then known as Wayne County, had originally begun performing in New York with a band called Queen Elizabeth, followed by Wayne County and The Backstreet Boys which was documented on Rhino's DIY: Blank Generation compilation album with an early single, "Max's Kansas City 1976". Upon moving to London, England, with Greg Van Cook, a member of the Backstreet Boys, she recruited a new drummer and bassist to form "The Electric Chairs", with the band comprising Van Cook (guitar), Val Haller (bass) and Chris Dust (hu) (drums). Jools Holland had his first studio session with the group in 1976. None of County's albums were ever released in her native country of the United States, except for three songs on the very early punk compilation, Max's Kansas City.
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Max's Kansas City reopened in 1975 under the ownership of Tommy Dean Mills, who initially thought he would make it a disco. Peter Crowley, who had been booking the same early punk bands that played at CBGB and Mothers, a gay bar on West 23rd Street, was hired to book bands at Max's. Under Crowley's guidance the club became one of the birthplaces of punk, regularly featuring bands including Cherry Vanilla, Wayne County & the Electric Chairs, Ruby and the Rednecks, The Offs, The Fast, Suicide (who all appeared on the compilation album "1976 Max's Kansas City"), the New York Dolls, Patti Smith Group, the Ramones, the Mumps, the Heartbreakers, Television, Blondie, Talking Heads, Sniper, the Dictators, the Cramps, Mink DeVille, Misfits, Little Annie, the Fleshtones, the B-52's, the Stimulators, the Bongos and Klaus Nomi, as well as out-of-town bands such as the Runaways and the Damned. After the breakup of the Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious played all of his US solo gigs there.
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Rosemary's Billygoat is an American heavy metal/hard rock band formed in Los Angeles South Bay in 1991, consisting of singer Mike Odd, guitarist Neal Gargantua, bassist Pat Trick and drummer Paul Bearer. Influenced both musically and visually by the likes of Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, Gwar, Kiss and Black Sabbath, Rosemary's Billygoat are best known for their theatrical horror-themed stage shows which incorporate many comically absurd props and stunts, including pyrotechnics, fire breathing, electric chairs, mock crucifixion, flaming pentagrams and various costumed monsters and creatures. Musically, the band has been described as "aggro and dark yet jovial", showcasing an "oozing brew of doom, stoner metal, dark psychedelic rock and hardcore punk". Over the last two decades, Rosemary's Billygoat have attracted a strong cult following in the Los Angeles punk and metal underground, having shared stages with the likes of such cult bands as Gwar, W.A.S.P., The Dickies, Circle Jerks, 45 Grave, Haunted Garage and more; in 2013, the OC Weekly newspaper ranked Rosemary's Billygoat number 10 on their list of the ten greatest shock rock bands of all time.
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