This Day In Rock History

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This Day In Rock History: July 11th

1979 - The space station Skylab crashed to Earth after six years in space. Leading up to the event, Electric Light Orchestra took out ads in trade magazines dedicating their new single, "Don't Bring Me Down", to Skylab.

2002 - The funeral of The Who's bass player John Entwistle took place at a church in The Cotswolds. More than 200 mourners filed into the 12th century church of St Edward.


source: thecurrent

 

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Music History Today Podcast July 11

 

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This Day In Music History: July 11th


A few albums that was released....


2000 ● Atlanta Rhythm Section —— Live At The Savoy, New York October 27, 1981 ► Southern Rock

2000 ● Mötley Crüe —— New Tattoo ► Heavy Metal

2000 ● Kansas —— Somewhere To Elsewhere ► Prog/Arena Rock

2012 ● The Rolling Stones —— Live At The Tokyo Dome (Live 1990) ► Blues-Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

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This Day In Rock History: July 12th


1950 Eric Carr (drummer for KISS) is born in Brooklyn, New York.

1952 Philip Taylor Kramer (bass guitarist for Iron Butterfly) is born in Youngstown, Ohio.

1967 John Petrucci, guitarist for the progressive metal band Dream Theater, is born in Long Island, New York.

1992 After a European tour, Axl Rose is arrested at JFK airport in New York, charged with inciting a riot at a Guns N' Roses show in St. Louis the previous year. He gets two years' probation and a $50,000 fine.

2000 London's Trafalgar Square unveils a sculpture of John Lennon, created by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reutersward, which also features a handgun twisted into an unusable shape.

source: calendarsongfacts

 

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This Day In Rock History: July 12th


1970 - The local band Fritz opens for Janis Joplin at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds in California. The lead singer in Fritz is Stevie Nicks, who is awestruck watching Joplin perform. Nicks credits Joplin for showing her how to connect with an audience from the stage.

2020 - English singer-songwriter Judy Dyble died age 71. She was a founding member of Fairport Convention and Trader Horne. In addition, she and multi-instrumental Ian McDonald joined and recorded several tracks with Giles, Giles and Fripp, who later became King Crimson. During Fairport's early live shows in London in the late 1960s Dyble shared stages with acts such as Jimi Hendrix, and Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd.


source: thecurrent

 

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This Day In Rock History: July 12th


1969 Billed as "The Ultimate Supergroup", Blind Faith begin their one and only US tour with a sold-out show at New York's Madison Square Garden. The band consisted of Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood, and Ric Grech.

1969 After being released just three weeks earlier, the futuristic ballad "In The Year 2525" was Billboard's number one song. After getting a lot of requests to sing the song that they included in their live act, Denny Zager and Rick Evans had invested just $500 to press 1000 copies of the tune. After a Texas radio station added it their play list, RCA signed the duo, but the record would prove to be their only US chart entry. It did however stay at #1 in the US for 6 weeks, which was longer than any other song that year and earned it the distinction of #1 record of the year 1969.

1970 Janis Joplin debuted with her new group, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, before 4,000 people in Louisville, Kentucky. Less than three months later, she would be dead from a heroin overdose

1983 Chris Wood, sax and flute player with Stevie Winwood's band Traffic, died in London of liver failure after a long illness. He was 39.


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This Day In Rock History: July 12th


1970, Pink Floyd headlined on the third and final day of the 1st Open Air Pop Festival, at Reiterstadion Soers, in Aachen, West Germany. Among the other acts on the bill were Deep Purple, Amon Duul II, Traffic, and Tyrannosaurus Rex.

1979, Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice joined Whitesnake. He would stay with the band until late 1981.

1979, Chicago Radio Station WLUP’s morning DJ Steve Dahl hosts Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park. Between games of a double header, a bonfire is started into which disco records are pitched while the crowd chants “Disco sucks.” The promoters expected a crowd of a few thousand fans. Instead, 40,000 people showed up to take advantage of the 98 cent admission, if they brought a disco record. Dahl’s fans stormed the field and started a small riot. While broadcasters tried to calm the crowd and get them back to their seats, fans paid no heed and tore up the field. The White Sox had to forfeit the second game of the double header.


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This Day In Rock History: July 12th


1962: The original Rolling Stones lineup played their first gig at London’s Marquee Jazz Club. Vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarists Keith Richards and Brian Jones were joined by bass player Dick Taylor, pianist Ian Stewart, and future Kinks drummer Mick Avory. Their material included Chicago Blues as well as Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley songs. Bassist Bill Wyman joined the following December and drummer Charlie Watts was added to the group in January.

1988: Gregg Allman released Just Before the Bullets Fly, his fifth solo studio album and third released under the Gregg Allman Band moniker.


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This Day In Rock History: July 12th


1943: Christine McVie, vocalist and songwriter for Fleetwood Mac, was born on this day in Greenodd, Lancashire, England. She was initially a session player for the band before joining them full-time in 1970. She would then go on to be the main creative force behind the band's biggest hits in the '70s and '80s.

1994: Alice Cooper released his thirteenth solo album, and twentieth overall, The Last Temptation, via Epic Records. It included the single "Lost in America" and featured a few famous collaborations, such as Soundgarden's Chris Cornell and Derek Sherinian from Dream Theater.


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