This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 2nd


1933 Bunk Gardner (played woodwinds and tenor sax for Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention) is born John Leon Gardner in Cleveland, Ohio.

1944 English drummer Bob Henrit (of The Kinks, Argent) is born in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England.

1945 Rock keyboardist Goldy McJohn (of Steppenwolf) is born John Raymond Goadsby in Toronto, Canada.

1950 Lou Gramm (original frontman of Foreigner) is born Louis Andrew Grammatico in Rochester, New York.

1951 John Glascock (bassist for Jethro Tull) is born in Islington, Greater London, England.

2005 Cream reunite for the first of four shows in London's Royal Albert Hall, the site of their farewell concert 36 years earlier. The band hasn't played together since their 1993 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 2nd


2006 - Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was released from hospital in New Zealand after the 62 year-old suffered a "mild concussion" when he fell out of a coconut tree while on holiday in Fiji.

2009 - Bob Dylan mingled unnoticed with other Beatles tourists during a minibus tour to John Lennon's childhood home. Dylan, who was on a day off on a European tour, paid p16 for the public trip to the 1940s house in Woolton, Liverpool.


source: thecurrent

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 2nd


1979 The Who introduced their movie, Quadrophenia, as well as their new drummer, Kenney Jones. He had been a member of The Small Faces with Steve Marriott and played on their hit, "Itchycoo Park" in 1967.


source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 2nd


1968: During a late night jam session that included Steve Winwood and Jack Casady at New York’s Record Plant studio, Jimi Hendrix recorded “Voodoo Chile” a song based on the Muddy Waters’ “Rollin’ Stone.” At fifteen minutes, it is Hendrix’s longest studio recording, and served as the basis for “Voodoo Child (Slight Return),” which was recorded by Hendrix and Experience members Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell the next day during the filming of a short documentary for ABC television. Both songs were later included on the band’s Electric Ladyland double album and “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” became Hendrix’s only single to top the UK chart in November of 1970, two months after his death.


source: wwcfradio

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 2nd


A few albums that was released....


1978 ● Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers —— You’re Gonna Get It! ► Album Rock

1982 ● Rory Gallagher —— Jinx ► Blues-Rock

1995 ● Ian Anderson —— Divinities: Twelve Dances With God ► Prog Rock

2006 ● Pearl Jam —— Pearl Jam ► Hard Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 3rd


1933 James Brown is born in Barnwell, South Carolina, but will be raised in Augusta, Georgia.

1934 '60s pop singer Frankie Valli (of The Four Seasons) is born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio in Newark, New Jersey

1944 Pete Staples (bass guitarist for The Troggs) is born in Andover, Hampshire, England.

1953 Bruce Hall (bassist for REO Speedwagon) is born in Champaign, Illinois.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 3rd


1972 Guitarist Les Harvey of the Scottish / English soul band Stone the Crows, was electrocuted by a shorted microphone wire during a concert attended by 12-thousand people in Swansea, Wales. He died in a local hospital three hours later.

1986 Robert Palmer's "Addicted To Love" tops the Billboard singles chart on its way to becoming a world-wide million seller. Originally recorded as a duet with Chaka Khan, her record company wouldn't grant her a release to work on Palmer's label, Island Records, and her voice was removed.


source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 3rd


2014 - Bobby Gregg died at age 78. Gregg is best-known for his work as a drummer on several seminal 1960s songs, including Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" and Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence." He was also temporarily a member of the Hawks, which later became known as the Band.

2020 - The Stranglers' keyboard player Dave Greenfield died at the age of 71 after testing positive for coronavirus. He is best-known as a long-standing member of the rock band and penning the music for their biggest hit “Golden Brown.”


source: thecurrent

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 3rd


1976: Paul McCartney made his first concert appearance in the US in almost ten years when Wings kicked off their 31-date Wings Over America tour at the Tarrant County Convention Center in Fort Worth, TX. The best performances from the tour were overdubbed and compiled, for release as the triple album Wings Over America. In 1980, footage from the Seattle, New York, and Los Angeles shows was released in theaters as the concert film Rockshow.

1977: The Eagles released “Life in the Fast Lane,” the third single from their fifth studio album, Hotel California.

1994: The Allman Brothers Band released Where It All Begins, the group’s eleventh studio album and last with original guitarist Dickey Betts.


source: wwcfradio

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 3rd


A few albums that was released....


1974 ● Status Quo —— Quo ► Hard Rock

1976 ● Aerosmith —— Rocks ► Hard Rock

1988 ● Queensrÿche —— Operation: Mindcrime ► Heavy Metal

2009 ● Rush —— Retrospective III: 1989-2008 ► Prog/Art Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll