This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 1st


1946 Rick Grec, bass player for Blind Faith and Traffic, is born in Bordeaux, France

1963 Rick Allen (drummer for Def Leppard) is born in Dronfield, Derbyshire, England.

2008 Jimmy Carl Black (drummer, vocalist for Mothers Of Invention) dies of lung cancer at age 70.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: November 1st


A few albums that was released....


1968 ● Canned Heat —— Living The Blues ► Folk-Rock

1972 ● Slade —— Slayed? ► Hard Rock

1974 ● Scorpions —— Fly To The Rainbow ► Heavy Metal/Kraut Rock

1974 ● Poco —— Cantamos ► Country-Rock

1979 ● Jefferson Starship —— Freedom At Point Zero ► Arena Rock

1994 ● Nirvana —— MTV Unplugged In New York ► Grunge

1994 ● The Black Crowes —— Amorica ► Southern Rock

1994 ● Aerosmith —— Big Ones ► Hard Rock

1994 ● Tom Petty —— Wildflowers ► Album Rock

2005 ● Santana —— All That I Am ► Jazz-Rock Fusion


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 2nd


1967 Cream released their second studio album Disraeli Gears which became the group's American breakthrough, becoming a massive seller in 1968, and reaching No.4 on the American charts. The album features the two singles 'Strange Brew' and 'Sunshine of Your Love'.

1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival released Willy and the Poor Boys, the third studio album that the band released in this year. The album features the songs 'Down on the Corner', from which the album got its name, and 'Fortunate Son', which is a well known protest song and their version of the Lead Belly song 'Cotton Fields'.

2018 American guitarist Glenn Schwartz the original guitar player of the James Gang died at the age of 78. He later joined the Los Angeles based blues band Pacific Gas & Electric and in 1970, scored a national top 20 hit with the song ‘Are You Ready?’


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 2nd


1938 Jay Black (lead singer of Jay and the Americans) is born David Blatt in New York City, where he'll grow up in the Boro Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.

1944 Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake & Palmer is born in Todmorden, Yorkshire, England, where his family has been evacuated during World War II. He grows up in Worthing, Sussex, learning classical piano but later expanding into rock and jazz.

1947 Dave Pegg (bassist for Jethro Tull, Fairport Convention) is born in Acock's Green, Birmingham, England.

1962 Ron McGovney (original Metallica bassist) is born in Los Angeles, California. McGovney can be heard on the first Metallica demos, Power Metal and No Life 'Til Leather.

1963 Bobby Dall (bassist for Poison) is born Robert Harry Kuykendall in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.

1998 The Rolling Stones release No Security.



source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: November 2nd


A few albums that was released....


1980 ● Rory Gallagher —— Stage Struck ► Blues-Rock

1982 ● Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers —— Long After Dark ► Album Rock

1999 ● The Lovin’ Spoonful —— Live At The Hotel Seville ► Folk-Rock

source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 3rd


1992 Bon Jovi released their fifth studio album, Keep The Faith, which spent a total of 49 weeks on the US chart. The album produced three Top 40 hits: 'Keep The Faith', 'Bed of Roses' and 'In These Arms'.

source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 3rd


1945 Original Deep Purple bass player Nick Simper is born in Middlesex, England.

1948 Lulu is born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie in Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The singer will find international fame with the title songs to the James Bond films To Sir With Love and The Man With the Golden Gun.



source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: November 3rd


A few albums that was released....


1977 ● Triumph —— Rock & Roll Machine ► Arena Rock

1980 ● Whitesnake —— Live…In The Heart Of The City ► Arena Rock

1997 ● Queen —— Queen Rocks ► Glam Rock

1998 ● Eddie Money —— Greatest Hits Live: The Encore Collection ► Album Rock

source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 4th


1967 Pink Floyd made their US live debut when they appeared at the Winterland Auditorium, San Francisco, California. Floyd shared the bill with local group Big Brother & The Holding Company, featuring singer Janis Joplin and singer / songwriter Richie Havens.

source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 4th


1965 Jeff Scott Soto (of Journey, Yngwie Malmsteen band) is born in Brooklyn, New York.

source: calendarsongfacts