This Day In Rock History

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This Day In Rock History: May 28th


A few albums that was released....


1971 ● Rod Stewart —— Every Picture Tells a Story ► Blues-Rock

1971 ● Graham Nash —— Songs For Beginners ► Folk-Rock

1977 ● Peter Frampton —— I’m In You ► Arena Rock

2012 ● The Who —— Pinball Wizard: The Collection ► British Rock


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 29th


1945 Gary Brooker (lead singer of Procol Harum) is born in Hackney, East London, England.

1947 Pop musician Joey Levine (of Ohio Express, Third Rail, and Reunion) is born in New York City.

1949 Status Quo frontman Francis Rossi is born in Forest Hill, London, England.

1955 Mike Porcaro, who will replace David Hungate as bassist for Toto, is born in Windsor, Connecticut.

1961 Melissa Etheridge is born in Leavenworth, Kansas.

1989 John Cipollina (lead guitarist of Quicksilver Messenger Service) dies at age 45 from Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, a genetic disorder that can lead to several diseases including emphysema, liver disease, lung cancer and COPD.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 29th


2019 - Tony Glover, the influential blues harmonica player who was a longtime peer of Bob Dylan and helped teach Mick Jagger how to play, died of natural causes at age 79. He also worked as a writer and critic, contributing to magazines Crawdaddy and Cream, while also writing extensively for Rolling Stone between 1968 and 1973.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 29th

1967, The Move, Cream, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Zoot Money and Pink Floyd all appeared at the Tulip Bulb Auction Hall in Spalding, Lincs, England. Tickets cost £1.

1969, Crosby, Stills & Nash released their self-titled debut on Atlantic Records label. It spawned two top 40 hits, “Marrakesh Express” and “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.” The photo was taken by their friend and photographer Henry Diltz before they came up with a name for the group. They found an abandoned house in West Hollywood with an old, battered sofa outside, that they thought would be a perfect fit for their image. A few days later they decided on the name “Crosby, Stills, and Nash”, but when they went back to the house a day or so later to re-shoot the cover in the correct order, but when they got there they found the house had been demolished.






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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 29th


1999, Skeletal remains were found by photographers looking for old car wrecks to shoot at the bottom of Decker Canyon near Malibu, California. Based on forensic evidence the remains were Philip Kramer former bassist with rock group Iron Butterfly, who had disappeared on his way home from work on February 12, 1995. His death was ruled as a probable suicide.


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[CrazyConnie]

Music History Today Podcast May 29

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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: May 29th


A few albums that was released....


1984 ● Tina Turner —— Private Dancer ► Pop-Rock

1989 ● Trooper —— The Last Of The Gypsies► Hard Rock


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 30th


1944 Lenny Davidson (guitarist for The Dave Clark Five) is born in Enfield, Middlesex, England.

1996 John Kahn (bass guitarist for The Jerry Garcia Band) dies of a heart attack at age 48.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 30th


1987 David Bowie kicked off his 87-date Glass Spider world tour at the Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam, Holland. The tour's set, described at the time as "the largest touring set ever," was designed to look like a giant spider. It was 60 feet (18.3m) high, 64 feet (19.5m) wide and included giant vacuumed tube legs that were lit from the inside with 20,000' (6,096m) of color-changing lights. A single set took 43 trucks to move.

2009 Mick Jagger offered to buy an ice cream van but was turned down by its owner - who'd promised his daughter he would drive her to her wedding in it. Guiseppe Della Camera, had spent ten years restoring the rusting van to perfection after he spotted it on a farm - being used as a chicken shed. The restoration was such a success Sir Mick offered to buy the vehicle when he saw it at a show on Wandsworth Common. Camera said, 'Jagger told me he'd really fallen in love with my van and asked me if I would consider selling it. I was stunned when he offered me £100,000.

2019 Singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor Leon Redbone died age 69. Redbone rose to fame in the '70s folk scene when Bob Dylan sought him out at a Canadian music festival. He later performed in several TV commercials, including Budweiser beer, in which he lay on a surfboard singing "This Bud's for You.”


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 30th


1980 Carl Radle, bass guitarist for Derek And The Dominos, died of kidney failure at the age of 37. After The Dominos split he continued to work with other artists such as George Harrison, Joe Cocker and J.J. Cale. His first taste of success was as the bassist for Gary Lewis & the Playboys from 1965 to 1967.


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