This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 28th


1943 Nick St. Nicholas (of Steppenwolf) is born Klaus Karl Kassbaum is born in Plön, Germany. Nick's family will flee to Toronto, Canada, after his father's involvement in Operation Valkyrie, the failed mission to overthrow Adolf ******, makes his dad an assassination target.

1954 George Lynch (guitarist for Dokken) is born in Spokane, Washington, but will be raised in Auburn, California.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 28th


1991 American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Miles Davis died of a s.t.r.o.k.e and pneumonia. His 1959 album 'Kind of Blue', is a major influence on jazz music. Davis is considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 28th


2009 Lucy Vodden, the childhood pal of John Lennon's son Julian, passed away at the age of 46 after battling lupus. She was the inspiration for The Beatles' track, "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," written mostly by John after Julian showed his father a nursery-school drawing he made and called "Lucy - in the sky with diamonds," depicting his classmate.


source: thecurrent

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: September 28th


A few albums that was released....


1973 ● Slade —— Sladest ► Glam Rock

1973 ● Status Quo —— Hello! ► British Rock

1978 ● Black Sabbath —— Never Say Die! ► Hard Rock

1983 ● Alice Cooper —— DaDa ► Art Rock

1999 ● ZZ Top —— XXX ► Blues-Rock

2009 ● Slade —— Live At The BBC ► Hard Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 29th


1948 Mark Farner (lead singer/guitarist for Grand Funk) is born in Flint, Michigan.

1948 Guitarist Mike Pinera (of Iron Butterfly) is born in Tampa, Florida.

1968 Bassist Brad Smith (of Blind Melon) is born in West Point, Mississippi.

1973 Grand Funk Railroad hit #1 in America with "We're An American Band," a song about their adventures on tour, including encounters with "Sweet Connie" and "four young chiquitas in Omaha."



source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 29th


2020 Helen Reddy, the Australian singer behind the feminist anthem "I Am Woman", died at the age of 78. Along with fourteen other Billboard Top 40 hits, she hosted a season of The Helen Reddy Show on NBC TV in 1973, and a year later was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Late in life she was rumored to be suffering from health problems and spent her last years in a celebrity care home in Los Angeles.

2020 78-year-old singer/songwriter Mac Davis passed away following heart surgery. Along with his own hit records, which included the chart topping "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me" in 1972, Mac also wrote "In the Ghetto" and "A Little Less Conversation" for Elvis Presley. He hosted his own NBC variety series in 1974, the same year the Academy of Country Music named him entertainer of the year.


source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 29th



1989 While on a motorcycle trip from Los Angeles to the Grand Canyon, Bruce Springsteen stopped in at a small saloon in Prescott, Ariz., and wound up jamming with the house band. The Boss and The Mile High Band burned through "Don't Be Cruel," "I'm On Fire," "Route 66" and a couple of other songs. One of the bartenders, Brenda Techanec, was talking about her problems paying her hospital bills. Springsteen overheard her and a week later she received $100,000 from Springsteen.


source: thecurrent

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: September 29th


A few albums that was released....


1976 ● Rush —— All The World’s A Stage ► Arena Rock

1986 ● Iron Maiden —— Somewhere In Time ► Heavy Metal

1986 ● Chicago —— Chicago 18 ► Jazz-Rock

1992 ● Alice In Chains —— Dirt ► Heavy Metal/Grunge Metal

1997 ● The Rolling Stones —— Bridges To Babylon ► Blues-Rock

1998 ● Judas Priest —— 98 Live Meltdown ► Heavy Metal

2009 ● Alice In Chains —— Black Gives Way To Blue ► Heavy Metal/Grunge Metal

2009 ● Lynyrd Skynyrd —— God & Guns ► Southern Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 30th


1940 Dewey Martin (drummer for Buffalo Springfield) is born Walter Milton Dwayne Midkiff in Chesterville, Ontario, Canada.

1947 Marc Bolan (frontman for T. Rex) is born Mark Feld in Stoke Newington, London, England.

1971 Isaac Hayes releases "Theme From Shaft."

1982 Bruce Springsteen releases Nebraska, an album made up of tunes Bruce recorded on a 4-track tape machine in his home studio.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 30th


2016 A schoolboy from Philadelphia who skipped class to meet his musical hero handed his teacher an absence note with a difference. The typewritten note was signed by Bruce Springsteen. Fifth-grader Michael Fenerty met the star at a "meet-and-greet" in the Free Library of Philadelphia when Springsteen was in town signing copies of his new autobiography, Born to Run.


source: thisdayinmusic