This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 14th


1967 - The Who began their first full-scale U.S. tour as the opening act for Herman's Hermits.

1969 - Bob Dylan made a surprise appearance with The Band at the Mississippi River Rock Festival. He performed three songs.

1987 - "U Got The Look" by Prince was released.


source: onthisday

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 14th


1953 Bebe Buell is born in Portsmouth, Virginia. Though she later rejects the description, she becomes one of the most famous "groupies" of all time, hooking up with a host of stars including Todd Rundgren, to whom she is married from 1972 to 1979. Rundgren brings up her daughter Liv - later revealed to be the biological child of Aerosmith's Steven Tyler.

1965 Igor Khoroshev (keyboardist for Yes) is born in Moscow, Russia (then part of the Soviet Union).

1973 Bluegrass/country guitarist Clarence White (of The Byrds) dies at 29 after being hit by a drunk driver. He was loading equipment into his car after a gig in Palmdale, California, when he was struck.

2014 Johnny Winter plays the Cahors Blues Festival in France. It's his last performance, as he dies two days later.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: July 14th


A few albums that was released....


1986 ● Bob Dylan —— Knocked Out Loaded ► Folk-Rock

1992 ● Megadeth —— Countdown To Extinction ► Heavy Metal

2009 ● Judas Priest —— A Touch Of Evil: Live ► Heavy Metal


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 15th


1947 Guitarist Peter Banks, a founding member of Yes who is with the band until 1970, is born Peter William Brockbanks in Chipping Barnet, North London, England.

1948 Thomas Delmer Pyle is born in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1974, under the name Artimus Pyle, he joins the band Lynyrd Skynyrd. His musical career with Skynyrd earns him induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.

1952 David Pack (frontman for Ambrosia) is born in Huntington Park, California.

1952 Jeff Carlisi (guitarist for .38 Special) is born in Boston, Massachusetts.

1956 Joe Satriani is born in Westbury, New York.

2018 "November Rain" by Guns N' Roses becomes the first '90s video to pass a billion views on YouTube. The next closest '90s video is "Zombie" by The Cranberries, at 739 million.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 15th


1989 Pink Floyd appeared in Canal di San Marco, Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy on a floating stage. Over 200,000 people attended the gig (almost double the number authorities had planned for) causing damage to buildings and bridges. The cleaning of the area after the concert was said to be around £25,000 and the concert was broadcast live on TV to over 20 countries with an estimated audience of almost 100 million. Two Venice councilors were later ordered to stand trial for the costs incurred by the concert.

1998 Aerosmith were forced to cancel a forthcoming US tour after Joey Kramer was involved in a freak accident. The drummer's car set on fire and was completely destroyed as he was filling up with petrol. He was admitted to hospital with second-degree burns.


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: July 15th


A few albums that was released....


1966 ● The Yardbirds —— Roger The Engineer ► Blues Rock

1973 ● Grand Funk Railroad —— We’re An American Band ► Hard Rock

2003 ● April Wine —— Greatest Hits Live ► Arena Rock

2008 ● John Mellencamp —— Life, Death, Love And Freedom ► Roots Rock

2014 ● Loverboy —— Unfinished Business ► Arena Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 16th


1981 US singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, who had success in the 70s with 'Taxi’, ‘W-O-L-D’ and a No. 1 ‘Cat’s In The Cradle’, was killed aged 38 suffering a cardiac arrest while driving on a New York expressway. His car was hit from behind by a tractor-trailer, causing the gas tank to explode.

2012 Jon Lord, the former keyboard player with Deep Purple, died aged 71. Lord was a co-founder of Deep Purple in 1968 and co-wrote many of the group's songs including Smoke On The Water. He also played with bands including Whitesnake. He had been receiving treatment for pancreatic cancer since last August.

2014 Blues guitarist Johnny Winter died at the age of 70 in Zurich, just days after playing at the Lovely Days Festival in Austria. Winter, who was instantly recognizable by his long white hair, worked with some of the greatest bluesmen, producing several albums for his childhood hero Muddy Waters - with whom he won a number of Grammys.


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 16th


1944 Thomas Boggs (drummer for The Box Tops) is born in Wynne, Arkansas, but is raised mostly in Memphis, Tennessee.

1967 Arlo Guthrie debuts "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" at the 1967 Newport Folk Festival. The song runs 18 minutes long and tells a true (but greatly exaggerated) story about how he was arrested one Thanksgiving morning for illegal dumping. The ticket later made him ineligible for the draft, keeping him out of the Vietnam War. Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Janis Ian, and Tom Paxton also play the festival this day.

1996 Styx drummer John Panozzo dies at age 47 when his liver fails after years of drinking.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: July 16th


A few albums that was released....


1982 ● Warren Zevon —— The Envoy ► Pop-Rock

2007 ● Motörhead —— Better Motörhead Than Dead: Live At Hamersmith ► Heavy Metal


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 17th


1939 Spencer Davis (of The Spencer Davis Group) is born in Swansea, Wales.

1947 Mick Tucker (drummer for Sweet) is born in Harlesden, North West London, England.

1949 Terence "Geezer" Butler (bassist, lyricist for Black Sabbath) is born in Aston, Birmingham, England.

1991 Fourteen years after the deadly crash of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Baton Rouge-bound aircraft, the surviving members of the band, reunited under the name "Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991," return to the Louisiana city to kick off a new tour. Shirts sold for the event read, "Baton Rouge! After 14 years! We're finally here..."

1996 Chas Chandler (bassist for The Animals, Jimi Hendrix Experience) dies of an aortic aneurysm at age 57.

2009 Gordon Waller of Peter and Gordon ("A World Without Love") dies of a heart attack at age 64.


source: calendarsongfacts