* Famous musicians such as Kirk Hammett of Metallica and Exodus, Marc Biederman of Blind Illusion, Les Claypool ( former member of Blind Ilusion currently of Primus ), Larry " Ler " LaLonde of Primus and Possessed, Jason Beebout of Samiam and Isocracy and John Kiffmeyer of Green Day and Isocracy all grew up in El Sobrante, and most of them attended De Anza High School.

In 1989, Primus was put on hold briefly and Claypool rejoined his former band, Blind Illusion, who at the time also featured one-time Joe Satriani student and ex-Possessed guitarist Larry " Ler " LaLonde.

Heavy metal bass players such as Geezer Butler ( Black Sabbath ), Alex Webster ( Cannibal Corpse ), Cliff Burton ( Metallica ), jazz fusion bassist Jaco Pastorius ( Weather Report ), and Les Claypool ( Primus, Blind Illusion ) used chime-like harmonics and rapid plucking techniques in their bass solos.

Blind Illusion is an American progressive thrash metal band from Richmond, California.

After a 20 year hiatus, Biedermann reformed Blind Illusion in 2009 and released the band's 2nd album, Demon Master.

Before Godfrey left in 1985 to form Heathen, Blind Illusion had already released 2 demos.

During this period, Blind Illusion worked extensively with bands such as Exodus and Aftermath, playing shows throughout the area.

Upon receiving the news he had not been chosen, he went on to form Primate ( a precursor to Primus ) but continued to write music with Blind Illusion.

In the same year, Blind Illusion reached a record deal with Combat Records, with whom the band recorded their debut, The Sane Asylum, in 1988, also produced by Metallica's Kirk Hammett.

After Blind Illusion broke up, Mark Biedermann briefly played bass for Heathen on their Victims of Deception album and contributed guitar leads for Blue Öyster Cult on their Imaginos album.

Biedermann reformed Blind Illusion in 2009 with a new-lineup, and released Demon Master on July 7, 2010.

Before reuniting Blind Illusion, Biedermann had performed earlier shows at the Sobrante Stroll as well as at the older and much larger Solano Stroll fair in Berkeley.

The material Biedermann covered included a mix of Blind Illusion originals and blues rock collaborations with other local musicians.

when Blind Illusion double bills with Marc Biedermann's other band, the Ghost Kings.

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After Possessed's first disbanding, LaLonde went on to join Blind Illusion, which featured former Exodus members Evan McCaskey and Tim Agnello, then-Heathen members Marc Biedermann and Dave Godfrey, and Blizzard drummer Mike Miner.

Blind Illusion co-founder Les Claypool ( who was a high school friend of Kirk Hammett at Richmond's DeAnza High School ) would unsuccessfully audition as Metallica's bassist in 1986 after Burton's bus accident death in Sweden.

Blind Illusion, which had disbanded 1989, reconvened in 2009.

It has been noted that Ambrose's theology was significantly influenced by that of Origen and Didymus the Blind, two other early Christian universalists.

In 1995, the year Ajax won the Champions League, the Dutch national team was almost entirely composed of Ajax players, with Edwin van der Sar in goal ; players such as Michael Reiziger, Frank de Boer, and Danny Blind in defense ; Ronald de Boer, Edgar Davids, and Clarence Seedorf in midfield ; and Patrick Kluivert and Marc Overmars in attack.

" Blind " Lemon Jefferson ( Lemon Henry Jefferson ; September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929 ) was an American blues singer and guitarist from Texas.

It was largely due to the popularity of artists such as Blind Lemon Jefferson and contemporaries such as Blind Blake and Ma Rainey that Paramount became the leading recording company for the blues in the 1920s.

In 2007, the cemetery's name was changed to Blind Lemon Memorial Cemetery and his gravesite is kept clean by a cemetery committee in Wortham, Texas.

Adoption was slow at first ; in 2000 the National Federation of the Blind said there were only 3 of these in the USA, one owned by the NFB itself and the other two by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.

The quake produced a furrow in the ground along the fault line in Berkeley, across the grounds of the new State Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind then under construction, which was noted by one early University of California professor.

In 1892, Frank Haven Hall, superintendent of the Illinois Institute for the for the Education of the Blind, created the Hall Braille Writer, which was like a typewriter with 6 keys, one for each dot in a braille cell.

Later that year, Cleveland's brother William was hired as a teacher at the New York Institute for the Blind in New York City, and William obtained a place for Cleveland as an assistant teacher.

John Atkinson ( editor ), current editor of Stereophile, stated ( in a 2005 July editorial named Blind Tests & Bus Stops ) that he once purchased a solid-state amplifier, the Quad 405, in 1978 after blind tests, but came to realize months later that " the magic was gone " until he replaced it with a tube amp.

Bell advised the couple to contact the Perkins Institute for the Blind, the school where Bridgman had been educated, which was then located in South Boston.

Development of these technologies was completed at other institutions such as Bell Labs, and on January 13, 1976, the finished product was unveiled during a news conference headed by him and the leaders of the National Federation of the Blind.

He was blinded by King Henry after the failure of the invasion of Wales in 1165, and became known as Maredudd Ddall ( Maredudd the Blind ).

Bullock was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, and the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side.

The Tadoma method was invented by American teacher Sophie Alcorn and developed at the Perkins School for the Blind in Massachusetts.

John the Blind ( Luxembourgish: < span lang =" lb "> Jang de Blannen </ span >; German: < span lang =" de "> Johann der Blinde von Luxemburg </ span >; Czech: < span lang =" cz "> Jan Lucemburský </ span >) ( 10 August 1296 – 26 August 1346 ) was the Count of Luxembourg from 1309 and King of Bohemia from 1310 and titular King of Poland.

The body of John the Blind was moved to Kloster Altmünster (" Old-Minster Abbey ") in Luxembourg.

In 1838 on the anniversary of his death John the Blind was laid in a black marble Sarcophagus in a public ceremony.

Other examples are My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss ( modeled after The Apprentice ), My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance, Hell Date ( modeled after Blind Date ), Superstar USA ( modeled after American Idol ), Space Cadets ( which convinced the hoax targets that they were being flown into space ), Punk'd ( involving celebrities in staged crises ), Invasion Iowa ( in which a town was convinced that William Shatner was filming a movie there ), and Reality Hell ( different target and premise every episode ).

In the 1969 episode, " Blind Tiger ," McGarrett, who had been temporarily blinded by an attempt on his life ( a criminal bombing his car ), asked a hospital operator to connect him to 732-5577, which was the phone number at Five-O headquarters.

Blind Harry was active some two hundred years after the events described in his The Acts and Deeds of the Illustrious and Valiant Champion Sir William Wallace, c. 1470.

The first half was played by members of Arsenal and Ajax's current squads, while the second was played by famous ex-players from both sides, including Ian Wright, Patrick Vieira, Marc Overmars, Emmanuel Petit and David Seaman for Arsenal, and Marco van Basten, Danny Blind, Johan Cruijff, Frank and Ronald de Boer for Ajax.