July 29, 201511 yr On this day: 1966 - Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker made their live debut as Cream. 1974 - Cass Elliot died in her sleep from a heart attack. Freaky Trivia: Cass Elliot died at age 32 in 1974 in Flat 12, 9 Curzon Place, Shepherd Market, Mayfair, London. Four years later, The Who's drummer Keith Moon died in the same flat at the same age. The owner of the flat, Harry Nilsson was concerned about letting the flat to Moon believing that it was cursed. Pete Townshend disagreed, assuring him that "lightning wouldn't strike the same place twice".
July 29, 201511 yr Author On this day: 1966 - Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker made their live debut as Cream. 1974 - Cass Elliot died in her sleep from a heart attack. also.... 1967, The Doors started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with an edited version of 'Light My Fire', the group's first US No.1. 1968, The first recording session of The Beatles seven-minute epic 'Hey Jude' took place at Abbey Road studios London. The Paul McCartney song was written about John Lennon's son Julian. 1973, Led Zeppelin played the last of three nights at Madison Square Garden, New York at the end of a 33-date North American tour. It was on this day that Led Zeppelin lost around $203,000 in cash after a thief made off with the receipts from the two Madison Square Garden concerts. The theft took place from the safe at The Drake Hotel in New York where the group were staying. Tour manager Richard Cole, who discovered the theft, was arrested as a suspect and questioned by police but was later released. 1978, The film soundtrack to Grease featuring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John went to No.1 on the US album chart. Birthdays 1946 - Neal Doughty (Keyboards) REO Speedwagon 1953 - Getty Lee (Bass/Lead Vocals) Rush 1959 - John Sykes (Guitar) Thin Lizzy/Whitesnake.
July 30, 201511 yr Author Released 29 years ago this month, GTR (abbreviation of "guitar" as used for track labelling in multi-track recording studios) released their only album. Founded in 1985 by former Yes and Asia guitarist Steve Howe and former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett. The album went gold, hit No. 11 on the album charts, and spawned a hit single, "When the Heart Rules the Mind" (#14), which stayed in the charts for 16 weeks. Another single, "The Hunter", received some video coverage and modest airplay, peaking at No. 85. Did you know......One of the central ideas for GTR as a project was an attempt to create a fully fleshed contemporary band sound without the use of keyboard synthesizers (following Howe's increasing disgruntlement with the predominance of keyboards in Asia). Instead, Hackett and Howe's guitars were outfitted with Roland guitar synthesizer pickups, which used the vibrations of the strings to create MIDI signals which could be used to trigger and operate rack synthesizers. All of the synthesizer sounds on the group's studio recordings were created using this method, which was also in line with the emphasis on the band as a "guitar" project featuring two "superstar" progressive rock guitarists. [video=youtube;-taPFcAMDjs] The Hunter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2AMxYjsaC4
July 30, 201511 yr Author 1966 - The Beatles start a 5 week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Yesterday...And Today', the group's 8th No.1 album. 1986 - Variety magazine reported that RCA had dropped John Denver from its roster after the release of his single, ‘What Are We Making Weapons For’. Variety said the song upset the record company's new owner, General Electric, one of the largest defense contractors in the US. 1988 - Steve Winwood started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Roll With It'. 1991 - A police officer was forced to tear up a traffic ticket given to the limousine that Axl Rose was travelling in after it made an illegal turn. Rose threatened to pull that nights Guns N' Roses gig if the ticket was issued.
July 31, 201511 yr LB is doing some work in this thread. I like it:thumb: What city did the Axl Rose thing happen?
July 31, 201511 yr Remember seeing his band Chastain at Annie's back in the mid 80's. Did you know, Fred Coury, drummer for Cinderella, was the drummer for Mystery of Illusion, Chastain's, debut studio album. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_of_Illusion Freaky coincidence: I hadn't thought of Chastain or CJSS in forever, and I see today that CJSS just announced an October date at Bogarts.
July 31, 201511 yr Author 1991 - A police officer was forced to tear up a traffic ticket given to the limousine that Axl Rose was travelling in after it made an illegal turn. Rose threatened to pull that nights Guns N' Roses gig if the ticket was issued. LB is doing some work in this thread. I like it:thumb: What city did the Axl Rose thing happen? Happened in Los Angeles, his limo had made an illegal U-turn and the driver was going to get a ticket. That is until Axl made him tear it up, saying if he got a ticket then Guns n Roses wouldn't play their show that night. Wow! Push came to shove and Axl came out the winner there.
July 31, 201511 yr Author On this day: 1964 - Jim Reeves died in a plane crash 1955 - Elvis Presley performed three shows at Fort Homer Hesterly Armory in Tampa, Florida, (2 matinee and 1 evening). A full scale riot broke out after the show when Elvis announced to the 14,000 strong crowd, "Girls, I'll see you backstage." Fans chased Elvis into the dressing room tearing off his clothes and shoes. :lol2: 1969 - Elvis Presley kicked off a four week run at the Las Vegas International Hotel, (his first live show since 1961). He reportedly netted $1.5m for the shows. (Serious "jack" back in those days). 1980 - During An Eagles concert at Long Beach, California, tempers boiled over between Glen Frey and Don Felder, who spent the entire show describing to each other the beating each planned to administer backstage. "Only three more songs until I kick your "butt", pal," Frey told Felder. The group’s next album was mixed by Frey and Felder on opposite coasts after the two decided they couldn't bear to be in the same state, let alone the same studio. :lol: 1982 - Survivor's 'Eye Of The Tiger' was at No.1 on the US album chart. The song, which was commissioned by actor Sylvester Stallone for the theme for the movie Rocky III, received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song and go on to sell over five million copies.
August 2, 201511 yr Author 1962 - Robert Allen Zimmerman legally became Bob Dylan, having signed a music publishing deal with Witmark Music on 12th July of this year, engineered by Albert Grossman. 1964 - After an intense search the bodies of Jim Reeves and Dean Manuel were found in the wreckage of an aircraft and, at 1:00 p.m. local time, radio stations across the United States announced Reeves' death formally. The single-engine Beechcraft Debonair aircraft, with Reeves at the controls had crashed 42 hours earlier during a thunderstrom. Thousands of people travelled to pay their last respects at his funeral two days later. The coffin, draped in flowers from fans, was driven through the streets of Nashville and then to Reeves' final resting place near Carthage, Texas. 1975 - The Eagles went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'One Of These Nights', the group's second US No.1 single and the first to chart in the UK where it peaked at No.23 1976 - Peter "Puddy" Watts, road manager with Pink Floyd died of a heroin overdose. Watts supplied the crazed laughter on the groups 'Dark Side Of The Moon' album. 1951 - Joe Lynn Turner, singer, Rainbow, Deep Purple. 1957 - Mojo Nixon, US singer, guitarist. Wrote the song 'Bring Me The Head Of David Geffen'. 1970 - Zelma Davis, C & C Music Factory. Albums released on this day 1983 Lawyers in Love - Jackson Browne 1986 Look What the Cat Dragged In - Poison 1986 Night Songs - Cinderella 1989 The Cinderella Theory - George Clinton
August 3, 201511 yr Some 30 years and two months ago, Sting released the record "Dream of The Blue Turtles," his solo debut and an amazing album, highlighted by the nuclear-war scare-song "The Russians." Sting, who made scores of great songs with his former band, The Police, never made another relevant piece of music again, and still stinks to this day.
August 3, 201511 yr Some 30 years and two months ago, Sting released the record "Dream of The Blue Turtles," his solo debut and an amazing album, highlighted by the nuclear-war scare-song "The Russians." Sting, who made scores of great songs with his former band, The Police, never made another relevant piece of music again, and still stinks to this day. I somewhat enjoy the song "I Hung My Head".. But I prefer the Johnny Cash version.
August 3, 201511 yr Author Some 30 years and two months ago, Sting released the record "Dream of The Blue Turtles," his solo debut and an amazing album, highlighted by the nuclear-war scare-song "The Russians." Sting, who made scores of great songs with his former band, The Police, never made another relevant piece of music again, and still stinks to this day. :laugh: We agree.
August 4, 201511 yr On this day: 1901 - The Great Satchmo was born. [video=youtube_share;E2VCwBzGdPM]http://youtu.be/E2VCwBzGdPM
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