This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In rock History: August 29th


1953 Rick Downey (drummer for Blue Oyster Cult) is born.

1958 Michael Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana.

1970 The Isle of Wight Festival hits its stride on Day 4 (of 5), with performances by Miles Davis, The Doors and The Who. Joni Mitchell's set is interrupted by a hippie named Yogi Joe who has to be removed by security. It also features Emerson, Lake And Palmer in only their second live performance, which is later released as the album Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970.

2005 Hurricane Katrina pounds New Orleans. One of the victims is Barry Cowsill of The Cowsills, who dies by drowning at age 50.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 29th


1942 Velvet Underground founding member Sterling Morrision has a birthday.

1945 Chris Copping has a birthday. He played organ, piano and bass with Procol Harum.

1970 "I am a man and so's Lola." The Kinks release their gender-bending hit "Lola."

1976 A Spirit reunion concert in Santa Monica gets spirited during the encore when bassist Mark Andes invites Neil Young on to the stage. Guitarist Randy California has an objection to Young's presence and tries to push him off the stage. Soon the problem is resolved and Young plays "Like A Rolling Stone" with the group.

2008 Foo Fighters headline the Harley-Davidson motorcycle company's 105th Anniversary Celebration in Milwaukee. Three Days Grace is the opening act.

2013 Carlos Santana, Neal Schon and Gregg Rolie share the stage for the first time in over 40 years. The Santana veterans perform at the end of Journey's concert at the Pearl Theater at the Palms Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Schon and Rollie were also Journey founding members. Schon stayed; Rollie left.


source: rockintown

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 30th


1969, Two weeks after the Woodstock festival, the second Isle Of Wight festival took place. Over 150,000 turned up over the two days to see Bob Dylan, The Band, Blodwyn Pig, Blonde On Blonde, Bonzo Dog Dooh Dah Band, Edgar Broughton Band, Joe Cocker, Aynsley Dunbar, Family, Fat Mattress, Julie Felix, Free, Gypsy, Richie Havens, The Moody Blues, The Nice, Tom Paxton, Pentangle, The Pretty Things, Third Ear Band and The Who. Tickets 25 shillings, ($3.00). Celebrities who attended include Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, John & Yoko, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Jane Fonder, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton.

1969, The three day Texas Pop Festival took place featuring Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Sam & Dave, Santana, Johnny Winter, Grand Funk Railroad, Delaney & Bonnie, Nazz, Spirit, B.B. King, Canned Heat and Chicago. Over 120,000 fans attended the festival.

1975, Paul Kossoff guitarist with Free and Back Street Crawler, 'died' for 35 minutes in hospital after being taken ill. (Kossoff died on 19th March 1976 of heart failure after a history of drug abuse).

1995, Sterling Morrison founder member of the Velvet Underground died of cancer at his home in New York City two days after his 53rd birthday. The guitarist left the group in August 1971 and re-joined in 1992 for a European tour. During the 80's he became the Captain of a Houston tugboat.

source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 30th


1965 - Bob Dylan's album "Highway 61 Revisited" was released.

1968 - The Byrds' "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" album was released in the U.S.

1994 - Oasis' first studio album, entitled "Definitely Maybe," was released.

source: onthisday

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 30th


1935 "Papa" John Phillips (of The Mamas & The Papas) is born in Parris Island, South Carolina. He would be raised in Alexandria, Virginia.

1935 "Papa" John Phillips (of The Mamas & The Papas) is born in Parris Island, South Carolina. He would be raised in Alexandria, Virginia.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 31st


1974: The Rolling Stones released “Goat’s Head Soup.”

1989: The Rolling Stones began their first concert tour in eight years at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, PA.

source: noiseaddicts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 31st


1968, Decca Records released what has been called The Rolling Stones most political song, 'Street Fighting Man', written after Mick Jagger attended a March 1968 anti-war rally at London's US embassy, during which mounted police attempted to control a crowd of 25,000. The single was kept out of the US Top 40 (reaching No.48) because many radio stations refused to play it based on what were perceived as subversive lyrics.

1974, Traffic made their last live performance at the annual UK Reading Festival. Other acts appearing included; Alex Harvey, 10cc, Focus, Steve Harley and Procol Harum. £5.50 for a weekend ticket.

2006, The Times ran a story on the demands of rock stars when on tour. Ozzy Osbourne insists on an eye, ear, nose and throat doctor at each venue. The Beach Boys require a licensed masseur, Meat Loaf a mask and one small tank of oxygen. David Bowie requests that the dressing room temperature is between 14c and 18c and Paul McCartney must have a large arrangement of white Casablanca lilies in his dressing room. Mick Jagger must have an onstage auto cue with the lyrics to all the songs, it would also tell him the name of the city in which they were performing.

2014, Jimi Jamison, the lead singer for US rock band Survivor, who sang and co-wrote 'I'm Always Here' the theme tune for hit TV series Baywatch, died aged 63. The band are best known for their 1982 hit 'The Eye of the Tiger' which predated Jamison joining the group.

source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 31st


1945 Van Morrison is born George Ivan Morrison in Bloomfield, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1948 Guitarist Rudolf Schenker (founder of Scorpions) is born in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany.

2004 Green Day release the title track of their new album American Idiot as a single three weeks before the album is issued. Both the song and the album are wildly successful and highly acclaimed, with each nominated for multiple Grammy Awards (winning for Best Rock Album). American Idiot later becomes a successful stage musical.

source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 31st


1968: Vanilla Fudge peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with their cover of “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” which was their only top ten single in the U.S.

1991: The Scorpions peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “Wind of Change” which was their only top ten single in the U.S.

1991: Metallica’s self-titled album, also known as the Black Album entered the Billboard 200 Album Chart at number one for the first of four weeks on top of the chart. The album cost $1 million to record, was remixed three times, three members of Metallica were divorced after the album was completed & would be Metallica’s commercial breakthrough, selling over 15 million copies in the U.S.

source: paulshaffersdayinrock

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 1st


1967: Boz Scaggs joined the Steve Miller Band.

1987: Mick Jagger’s “Let’s Work” single was released.

1998: Ian Gillan (Deep Purple) was charged with assault and battery for allegedly hitting a security guard in the head with a microphone during a concert in August.

source: noiseaddicts