This Day In Music History: Sept 21st
1954 Drummer Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor is born. Lemmy, Fast Eddie and Taylor are considered the “classic” Motorhead line-up.
1985 Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing" is #1 for the first of three weeks. Inspired by a shopping trip to an appliance store, group leader Mark Knopfler composes the lyrics based on the critical comments he overhears a guy spew while watching display TVs all tuned to MTV. Coincidentally, the song is aided by an animated video that lands on MTV's heavy rotation.
2006 Queensrÿche present a full production of Operation: Mindcrime and Operation: Mindcrime II at New York's Nokia Theater. It's the first of two nights at the Times Square venue. Actors onstage portray the action while the band performs the two albums back-to-back. Frontman Geoff Tate wears a straightjacket, a double-breasted suit and an assassin's bulletproof vest (not all at once) during the dual-album tale of drug-fueled anarchy, revenge and redemption.
source: rockintwon
1954 Drummer Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor is born. Lemmy, Fast Eddie and Taylor are considered the “classic” Motorhead line-up.
1985 Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing" is #1 for the first of three weeks. Inspired by a shopping trip to an appliance store, group leader Mark Knopfler composes the lyrics based on the critical comments he overhears a guy spew while watching display TVs all tuned to MTV. Coincidentally, the song is aided by an animated video that lands on MTV's heavy rotation.
2006 Queensrÿche present a full production of Operation: Mindcrime and Operation: Mindcrime II at New York's Nokia Theater. It's the first of two nights at the Times Square venue. Actors onstage portray the action while the band performs the two albums back-to-back. Frontman Geoff Tate wears a straightjacket, a double-breasted suit and an assassin's bulletproof vest (not all at once) during the dual-album tale of drug-fueled anarchy, revenge and redemption.
source: rockintwon