This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 17th


1969, The final day of the 3 day Woodstock Festival took place at Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York. Acts who appeared included Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Ten Years After, John Sebastian, Sha Na Na, Joe Cocker, Country Joe and the Fish, The Band, Ten Years After, Johnny Winter and Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Over 186,000 tickets had been sold but on the first day the flimsy fences and ticket barriers had come down. Organizers announced the concert would be a free event, prompting thousands more to head for the concert.

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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 17th


1965 The Byrds were forced to cancel a concert during their UK tour at The Guildhall, Portsmouth when only 250 of the 4,000 tickets were sold.

1968 The Rascals' "People Got to Be Free" reaches number one on the Billboard Hot 100. It will be awarded a Gold record a week later, eventually selling over 4 million copies.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 17th


1947 Rock/soul musician Gary Talley (of The Box Tops and Big Star) is born in Memphis, Tennessee.

1949 Sib Hashian (drummer for Boston) is born in Boston, Massachusetts.

1965 Steve Gorman (drummer for The Black Crowes) is born in Muskegon, Michigan.

1980 At the Toledo Speedway Jam II in Toledo, Ohio, ZZ Top headlines the show with AC/DC, Sammy Hagar and Humble Pie on the undercard. (Also advertised on the poster: 800 kegs of beer, drinking age 18 in Ohio!) It is the last time AC/DC is a support act until 2003, when they open for The Rolling Stones.

2004 The venerable "Like A Rock" ad campaign comes to an end, as Chevy stops using the song and ends their association with Bob Seger. The 1986 song wasn't written for Chevy, but was used in the ads since 1989. Two years later, John Mellencamp's "Our Country" becomes the Silverado theme.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 17th



1985: ZZ Top headlined the Monster of Rock festival at Castle Donington in the U.K. Other acts on the bill included Bon Jovi, Metallica & Ratt.

1991: Nirvana filmed the music video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” in Culver City, CA. The video cost less than $50,000 to make & led MTV to favor alternative bands in place of pop metal bands.

1991: AC/DC headlined the Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington in the U.K. on a bill that included Metallica, Motley Crue, Queensryche & The Black Crowes. This was the first & only time in the festival’s history that every band on the bill had a Platinum album in the U.S.


Birthdays:

Gilby Clarke-guitarist for Guns N’ Roses born in 1962

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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: August 17th


A few albums that was released....

1959 ● Miles Davis —— Kind Of Blue ► Improv Jazz

1970 ● The Band —— Stage Fright ► Folk-Rock

1979 ● XTC —— Drums And Wires ► New Wave Pop-Rock

1984 ● W.A.S.P. —— W.A.S.P. ► Glam Metal

1990 ● Cannibal Corpse —— Eaten Back To Life ► Heavy Metal/Death Metal

1991 ● Manfred Mann’s Earth Band —— Plains Music ► British Rock

1999 ● John Mellencamp —— Rough Harvest ► Folk-Rock

1999 ● The Moody Blues —— Strange Times ► Prog Rock

2004 ● Boz Scaggs —— Greatest Hits Live ► Pop-Rock

2004 ● Talking Heads —— The Best Of The Talking Heads ► New Wave Art-Rock

2010 ● John Mellencamp —— No Better Than This ► Roots Rock



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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 18th


1964, Over 9,000 frenzied fans met The Beatles as they arrived in San Francisco, to begin an American tour. The Beatles were driven into a protective fence enclosure so that photographers could take pictures. As the 9,000 fans pressed against the fencing, it gave way, with The Beatles managing to get out split-seconds before it came crashing down.

1969, Mick Jagger was accidentally shot in the hand during filming of Ned Kelly in Australia. The film was dogged by problems: Jagger's girlfriend of the time, Marianne Faithfull, had gone to Australia to play the lead female role (Ned's sister, Maggie), but the Jagger-Faithfull relationship was breaking up, and she took an overdose of sleeping tablets soon after arrival in Sydney resulting in being hospitalized in a coma, and pulling out of the film.

1977, The Police made their live debut as a three-piece band when they played at Rebecca's Birmingham, England. The Police became globally popular in the late 1970s and are generally regarded as one of the first New Wave groups to achieve mainstream success, playing a style of rock that was influenced by punk, reggae, and jazz.

1986, Bon Jovi released their third studio album, Slippery When Wet, which peaked at No.1 on the US charts, going on to sell over 28 million copies worldwide. The set featured two US chart toppers, 'You Give Love A Bad Name' and 'Livin’ On A Prayer'.

source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 18th


1950 Dennis Elliott (drummer for Foreigner) is born in Peckham, London, England.

1973 Jazz drumming legend Gene Krupa plays what is to be his last live show, a gig with the Benny Goodman Quartet in New York City.

1992 Frances Bean Cobain is born to Courtney Love and Nirvana's Kurt Cobain.

source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: August 18th


A few albums that was released....

1978 ● The Who —— Who Are You ► British Rock

1980 ● Yes —— Drama ► Prog Rock

1992 ● Patty Smyth —— Patty Smyth ► Pop-Rock

1992 ● Eric Clapton —— Unplugged ► Blues-Rock

1997 ● Billy Joel —— Greatest Hits Volume III ► Pop-Rock

2008 ● Lynyrd Skynyrd —— Greatest Hits [2008] ► Southern Rock


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 19th


1972: NBC-TV presented “The Midnight Special” for the first time with John Denver as the first host.

1980: 1,400 people riot in Toronto when Alice Cooper cancelled a show due to illness.

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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 19th


1997 - Fleetwood Mac's reunion album "The Dance" was released.

2001 - Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted made his first live appearance with EchoBrain.

source: onthisday