Here Today... Gone To Hell!

you know that picture of them on the last page of the UYI booklet (I & II) there's a massive newspaper front page with some story about this guy, whys he there man? who is it?? i had a little look around this website but couldn't find the answer, so sorry if its already here somewhere!!

anyone know?? just wondering...



oh yeah, i've spent ages today looking for a decent priced live era cd import from japan on the net all 'coz of coma (i love that track), anyone know where i can get one?
i'm in the uk (london).

cheers!

It's actually a very famous article from the NY Times I believe. My wife who's a journalist told me the story once but I can't remember the details. It was like the first time an execution on the chair was being photographed to make the first page of a paper, or something like that. I will have to find the details and get back to the topic.

cheers!  : ok:

It's not a man, it's a woman called Ruth Snyder.

On March 13, 1927, Ruth Snyder, a Queens housewife, and her lover Judd Gray, a corset salesman, murdered Ruth's husband Albert, the art editor of Motor Boating magazine. After a sensational trial, the duo was sentenced to death.

On January 12, 1928, Ruth (33) became the second woman who went to the electric chair at Sing Sing prison in New York. She wore an unpressed brown cotton smock, grey skirt and slippers. Her wrists were strapped to the chair arms and the leather helmet was adjusted to her head. The leg electrode was carefully attached underneath her skirt. The mask was lowered, and the executioner threw the switch. Ruth's legs strained back against the chair, arms went stiff against the fastenings, while her chest rose and fell. Thomas Howard, a Daily News photographer and one of the official witnesses had a camera strapped to his leg and he took the photograph of Ruth at the moment she was dying. When Ruth finally died, the straps were undone. Her body fell limply onto the white enameled stretcher, with gaping mouth and protruding tongue, and was taken to the autopsy room.

The day after the execution, Daily News had the front page filled by the enlarged picture showing Ruth at the moment of her death. The picture was such a hit that the News had to run off an additional 750,000 copies.

The state attempted to prosecute Howard and the newspaper, but nothing ever came of it. For many years afterwards witnesses to executions were searched and asked to hold up their hands so they could not operate hidden cameras.

(http://david.snu.edu/~dwilliam.fs/f97projects/tabloid/ruth.gif)

RUTH SNYDER'S DEATH PICTURED! - This is perhaps the most remarkable exclusive picture in the history of criminology. It shows the actual scene in the Sing Sing death house as the lethal current surged through Ruth Snyder's body at 11:?? last night. Her helmeted head is stiffened in death, her face masked and an electrode strapped to her bare right leg. The autopsy table on which her body was removed is beside her. Judd Gray, mumbling a prayer, followed her down the narrow corridor at 11:11. "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing!" were Ruth's last words. The picture is the first Sing Sing execution picture and first of a woman's electrocution.

I don't know why the band is posing in front of that picture but it sure is a strong image!

http://www.101cd.com/music/info.asp?id=25015125

101cd are really good and astonisingly cheap - they are based in the UK.

If i ever get 29.99 i will buy it......

You can get a video of coma live at http://www.gnr.nu/?All you have to do is sign- up They got other cool stuff too : ok:

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AxlRocks, AC

29.99 pounds. That's 44 euros, or 53 US dollars (!). You can find it for the same price (or cheaper) on some japanese web sites such as cdjapan.co.jp or amazon.co.jp. They're giving out discounts from time to time. Once I saw it at for $35 shipping included.

I was wondering what a strange thing that the only band photo of the UYI-era has this title 'DEAD' above/behind the band members. Axl felt the band was dying (for some reasons) and he was right. They recorded nearly everything without even realizing it was their swan-song. Strange. Who did choose this 'DEAD' picture? Why? I don't think that it wanted to mean that it was over/finished forever.

cheers for everyone helping out on this, it had me confused for a while!!

i was gonna buy it on that japenese website but after postage it comes to about the same price as 101cd.com but i dont know man, i aint a millionaire so ?30 seems a bit over the top, supose i could blag taking back my old one to some record store getting a refund and then getting the new one... that'll keep the cost down!

god damn i'm good!!? :peace: