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This Day In Rock History: August 25th


1970: Emerson, Lake & Palmer made their live debut at The Guildhall in Plymouth, England.

1970: Elton John made his U.S. live debut at the Troubadour in Los Angeles where he was booked for a full week.

2004: Judas Priest singer Rob Halford was the guest vocalist for Black Sabbath at an Ozzfest date in Camden, NJ as Ozzy Osbourne had come down with bronchitis. This was Halford’s third time singing for Black Sabbath as he sang for them during two concerts in 1992.

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A few albums that was released....


1972 ● The Kinks —— Everybody’s In Show Biz ► British Rock

1982 ● Alice Cooper —— Zipper Catches Skin ► Heavy Metal

1987 ● The Cars —— Door To Door ► New Wave Pop-Rock

1997 ● Gamma Ray —— Somewhere Out In Space ► Heavy Metal/Power Metal

1998 ● Heart —— Greatest Hits ► Album Rock

1998 ● Lynyrd Skynyrd —— The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd ► Southern Rock

2009 ● Cheap Trick —— Sgt. Pepper Live ► Hard Rock/Power Pop

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This Day In Rock History: August 26th



1967 Small Faces, Move, The Gass, Tomorrow, Denny Laine, Jeff Beck, Eric Burdon and Marmalade all appeared on the first day of the 3-day non-stop happening 'Festival of the Flower Children' at Woburn Abbey, England. Plus DJ's John Peel and Tommy Vance, day tickets cost £1.

1970 Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, (his last ever UK appearance), Donovan, Jethro Tull, Miles Davis, Arrival, Cactus, Family, Taste, Mungo Jerry, ELP, The Doors, The Who, Spirit, The Moody Blues, Chicago, Procol Harum, Sly and the Family Stone and Free all appeared over three days at the third Isle Of Wight Festival. Weekend tickets, £3.

1977 Uriah Heep, Thin Lizzy, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Golden Earing, Aerosmith, Doobie Brothers, Hawkwind, Racing Cars, John Miles, Graham Parker, The Enid, No Dice and Frankie Miller's Full House all appeared at the 17th three day Reading Festival, England. A three day ticket cost £7.95.

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1978 A crowd of 80,000 people attended the first Canada Jam Festival held at Mosport Park, just north of Bowmanville Ontario. The show featured sets by The Doobie Brothers, Dave Mason, The Commodores, Kansas and The Atlanta Rhythm Section.

2003 Rolling Stone Magazine named Jimi Hendrix as the greatest guitarist in Rock history. Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Chuck Berry, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Ry Cooder also made the top 10.

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1940 Rocker Nik Turner (of Hawkwind) is born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.

1942 Maureen "Moe" Tucker (drummer for The Velvet Underground) is born in Levittown, New York.

1952 Rock guitarist Billy Rush (of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes) is born.

1966 Dan Vickrey (lead guitarist for Counting Crows) is born in Walnut Creek, California.

1968 Mary Hopkin releases "Those Were The Days" in the US.

1968 The Beatles release "Hey Jude" with the B-side "Revolution."

2000 Allen Woody (bass guitarist for The Allman Brothers Band and Gov't Mule) dies in Queens, New York, from an indeterminate cause at age 44.

2004 "Gloria" singer Laura Branigan dies from a cerebral aneurysm in East Quogue, New York, at age 52.

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1978: The World Series of Rock took place at Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium with Fleetwood Mac headlining. Other acts on the bill included Todd Rundgren, The Cars and Eddie Money.

1990: Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble performed their last show at Alpine Valley in East Troy, WI. During their encore, Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy & Jimmy Vaughan joined them onstage for a jam.


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A few albums that was released....


1966 ● Donovan —— Sunshine Superman [US] ► Folk-Rock

1970 ● Otis Redding —— Historic Performances Recorded At The Monterey International Pop Festival ► Memphis Soul

1981 ● Grateful Dead —— Dead Set ► Folk-Rock

1997 ● Creed —— My Own Prison ► Alt Rock/Post-Grunge

1997 ● Eddie Money —— Super Hits ► Album Rock

2003 ● Peter Frampton —— Now ► Arena Rock

2003 ● Styx —— Rockers ► Prog/Art Rock

2003 ● Warren Zevon —— The Wind ► Pop-Rock

2008 ● Motörhead —— Motörizer ► Heavy Metal

2016 ● Kiss —— Kiss Rocks Las Vegas ► Hard Rock


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1990: Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble performed their last show at Alpine Valley in East Troy, WI. During their encore, Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy & Jimmy Vaughan joined them onstage for a jam.

The jam was about a 15 minute rendition of Sweet Home Chicago. There's audio of it out on the web if anyone is interested.

I should have been at that concert, but refused the tickets (ex-GF owed me money and offered me 4 tickets to that show as partial payment).
 

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This Day In Rock History: August 27th



1967 British music entrepreneur and the manager of The Beatles, Brian Epstein was found dead, locked in a bedroom at his London home. A coroner's inquest concluded that Epstein died from an overdose of the sleeping pill Carbitrol. He also managed several other artists including Gerry & The Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Cilla Black and The Remo Four. The first contract between The Beatles and Epstein was auctioned in London in 2008, and was sold for £240,000.

1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed when the helicopter he was flying in, hit a man-made ski slope while trying to navigate through dense fog. Vaughan had played a show at Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, Wisconsin with Robert Cray & His Memphis Horns, and Eric Clapton. Vaughan was informed by a member of Clapton's crew that three seats were open on a helicopter returning to Chicago with Clapton's crew, it turned out there was only one seat left; Vaughan requested it from his brother, who obliged. Three members of Eric Clapton's entourage were also killed.



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