This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Sept 12th


1946 Blue Cheer singer/bassist Dickie Peterson is born in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

1952 Folk rocker Gerry Beckley (of America) is born in Fort Worth, Texas.

1952 Neal Peart (drummer/lyricist for Rush) is born near Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

1969 The Rolling Stones release Through The Past, Darkly.

1975 Pink Floyd releases Wish You Were Here.

2000 Lynyrd Skynyrd releases Christmas Time Again, their first Christmas album.

2008 Metallica release Death Magnetic, produced by Rick Rubin.

source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: Sept 12th

A few albums that was released....



1975 ● Thin Lizzy —— Fighting ► Hard Rock

1977 ● Chicago —— Chicago XI ► Jazz-Rock

1980 ● David Bowie —— Scary Monsters ► Glam Rock

1990 ● Annihilator —— Never, Neverland ► Thrash Metal

1995 ● Jethro Tull —— Roots To Branches ► Prog Rock

2006 ● Peter Frampton —— Fingerprints ► Arena Rock

2006 ● Bob Seger —— Face The Promise ► Heartland Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Sept 13th


1960, A campaign was started in the UK to ban the American hit 'Tell Laura I Love Her' by Ray Peterson. The song was being denounced in the press as likely to inspire a teen-age "glorious death cult." The story told of a lovesick youngster who drives in a stock car race to win the hand of his sweetheart. He crashes and just before dying, groans out the words of the title.

1963, Graham Nash fell out of The Hollies van after a gig in Scotland. Nash checked to see if the door was locked, it wasn't and he fell out as it travelled at 40 m.p.h.

1969, The first day of the 3 day Rugby Bag Blues Festival in Warwickshire, England with Pink Floyd, The Nice, Taste, Free, Third Ear Band, Ralph McTell, Roy Harper, King Crimson, The Strawbs, Edgar Broughton, Spirit of John Morganand John Martyn, tickets from 12/6.

1996, American rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur died after being shot six days earlier when he was driving through Las Vegas. 13 bullets were fired into his BMW. The incident was blamed on East and West Coast Gang wars. Shakur was a convicted sex offender, guilty of sexual abuse. After serving eleven months of his sentence he was released from prison on an appeal financed by Marion "Suge" Knight, the CEO of Death Row Records.

2000, Elton John threw a tantrum when he was set to appear at a sell-out show at the Estoril Casino near Lisbon. Elton was unhappy after the audience were slow in leaving a VIP dinner before the concert, Elton left the building and flew home on his private jet without playing a note.

2015, Gary Richrath, lead guitarist and songwriter for REO Speedwagon died at the age of 65. Richrath recorded 12 albums with the band before leaving in 1989 and released his own solo album in 1992.

source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Sept 13th


1941 David Clayton-Thomas is born in England. He would grow up in Canada and become the lead singer in Blood, Sweat, Tears, bringing with him their biggest hit, "Spinning Wheel."

1944 Peter Cetera (bassist/vocalist for Chicago) is born in Chicago, Illinois.

1961 Dave Mustaine (lead singer/guitarist for Megadeth) is born in La Mesa, California.

1965 The Beatles release "Yesterday."

1967 Jane's Addiction drummer Steve Perkins is born in Los Angeles.

1976 Bob Dylan releases Hard Rain.

1976 Lynyrd Skynyrd releases their first live album, One More from the Road. It's the only live album the band releases before a 1977 plane wreak ends the original lineup and puts the band out of commission entirely for fourteen years.

1993 Max Weinberg, drummer with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, begins his new job as bandleader for NBC-TV's new show Late Night With Conan O'Brien.

2011 Almost Famous is released in theaters across the US. The film is a semi-autobiographical account of writer and director Cameron Crowe's time spent interviewing rock bands for Rolling Stone in the '70s, when he was just a teenager. The film centers around a fictional band called Stillwater, and rather than being based on one band in particular, Stillwater feels like every '70s arena band rolled into one.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Sept 13th


1967 Vocalist Tim “Ripper” Owens (Judas Priest/Iced Earth) enters the world.


1974 “Crime Of The Century,” Supertramp’s third studio album featuring “Dreamer,” “Bloody Well Right” and “School,” is released. Three years later, the album is certified Gold in the U.S.

1985 Don Henley's "The Boys Of Summer" wins the Best Video, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Direction categories at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York.

source: rockintown

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Sept 13th


1991: Alice Cooper sold copies of his latest album Hey Stoopid for 99 cents during a performance at Times Square in New York City.

Birthdays:

Zak Starkey-drummer for The Who & Oasis born in 1965


source; paulshaffersdayinrock

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: Sept 13th


A few albums that was released....


1972 ● Yes —— Close To The Edge ► Prog Rock

1974 ● Jackson Browne —— Late For The Sky ► Folk-Rock

1974 ● Fleetwood Mac —— Heros Are Hard To Find ► Pop-Rock

1977 ● Elton John —— Elton John’s Greatest Hits Volume II ► Pop-Rock

1984 ● Dokken —— Tooth And Nail ► Heavy Metal

1984 ● Kiss —— Animalize ► Hard Rock

1985 ● Stevie Wonder —— In Square Circle ► Pop-R&B

1988 ● Jeff Healey Band —— See The Light ► Blues-Rock

1994 ● Eric Clapton —— From The Cradle ► Blues-Rock

1994 ● Peter Gabriel —— Secret World Live ► Prog Rock

2005 ● Bonnie Raitt —— Souls Alike ► Blues-Rock

2011 ● Alice Cooper —— Welcome 2 My Nightmare ► Hard Rock

source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Sept 14th


1949, Born on this day, American musicia Steve Gaines, guitarist with Lynyrd Skynyrd who had the 1974 US No. 8 single 'Sweet Home Alabama' and the 1982 UK No.21 single 'Freebird'. Gaines was killed in a plane crash on 20th October 1977. The plane carrying the band between shows from Greenville, South Carolina to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, crashed outside of Gillsburg, Mississippi. Gaines died from blunt-force trauma to the head; he was 28 years old. The crash also killed Ronnie Van Zant, Steve's sister Cassie Gaines from the band.

1955, Little Richard entered a New Orleans recording studio to begin two days of recording. Things were not going well and during a break, Richard and his producer; Bumps Blackwell went to the Dew Drop Inn for lunch. Richard started playing the piano in the bar like crazy, singing a loud and lewd version of ‘Tutti Frutti.’ With only fifteen minutes left in the session, Richard recorded the song and coined the phrase, ‘a-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bam-boom.’

2005, The newly refurbished Grateful Dead's original tour bus went on display at the Volo Auto Museum in Volo, Illinois. The 1965 Gillig bus, which Jerry Garcia and the rest of the Dead dubbed ‘Sugar Magnolia’ was used by the band on their frequent tours across the US between 1967 and 1985. The ceiling was lined with hundreds of vintage rock posters featuring The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Janice Joplin and others who had visited the bus.

source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Sept 14th


1946 Pete Agnew (bassist for Nazareth) is born in Dunfermline, Scotland.

1950 Rock guitarist Paul Kossoff (of Free) is born in Hampstead, London, England.

1955 Keyboardist/saxophonist Steve Berlin (of Los Lobos) is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: Sept 14th

A few albums that was released....


1970 ● The Byrds —— (Untitled) ► Country-Rock

1975 ● Supertramp —— Crisis? What Crisis? ► Prog/Art Rock

1979 ● Jethro Tull —— Stormwatch ► Prog Rock

1993 ● Counting Crows —— August And Everything After ► AA Pop-Rock

1993 ● Earth, Wind & Fire —— Millennium ► Soul-Funk

2004 ● Alice Cooper —— School’s Out And Other Hits ► Hard Rock

2004 ● Gov’t Mule —— Deja Voodoo ► Southern Rock/Jam Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll