This Day In Rock History

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This Day In Music History: July 12th


A few albums that was released....


1978 ● Kenny Loggins —— Nightwatch ► Pop-Rock

1994 ● Kansas —— The Kansas Boxed Set ► Prog/Arena Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 13th


1935 Latin jazz percussionist Pete Escovedo (of Santana) is born in Pittsburg, California.

1942 Stephen Bladd (drummer for The J. Geils Band) is born in Boston, Massachusetts.

1942 Roger McGuinn of The Byrds is born in Chicago, Illinois.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 13th


1969, New York’s Flushing Meadows Singer Bowl plays host to a festival including sets from the Jeff Beck Group, Vanilla Fudge, Jethro Tull, Ten Years After, and Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin literally play a set that no one can follow, and Vanilla Fudge pull out of the lineup rather than try to top the heavy metal quartet. During the Jeff Beck Group’s set, John Bonham strips off his clothes and has to be bundled off stage. The evening ends with various musicians performing “Jailhouse Rock.”

1969, Iron Butterfly played at Musicarnival in Warrensville Heights, Ohio. Musicarnival was a music “tent” theater, among the first of its kind. The theater was used for performances of musicals, operettas and operas, but also hosted a number of famous musicians and rock bands, and had a capacity of 2,563.

1985 At 12.01 Status Quo started the Live Aid extravaganza, held between Wembley Stadium, London and The JFK Stadium, Philadelphia. The cream of the world’s biggest rock stars took part in the worldwide event, raising over $60 million (£40million.) TV pictures beamed to over 1.5 billion people in 160 countries made it the biggest live broadcast ever known. Artists who appeared included Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, The Who, U2, David Bowie and Mick Jagger, Queen, Tina Turner, The Cars, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Bryan Adams, Hall and Oates, Lionel Richie and Led Zeppelin.

2004, Arthur “Killer” Kane, bass player with The New York Dolls, died aged 55 after checking himself in to a Los Angeles emergency room, complaining of fatigue. He was quickly diagnosed with leukemia, and died within two hours. The influential American band formed in 1972 and made just two albums, the 1973’s New York Dolls and 1974’s Too Much Too Soon.


source: internetfm

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 13th


1985: The Live Aid concerts, organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, were held simultaneously at the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia and Wembley Stadium in London. The benefit’s performances were broadcast live via satellite for 18 consecutive hours and helped raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. One of the largest-scale satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time, the concerts reached an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion, across 150 nations. Both concerts’ numerous acts included Elton John, Elvis Costello, Sting, Phil Collins, the Who, the Four Tops, Crosby, Still, and Nash, the Beach Boys, Santana, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, and many others. Queen, who had lost momentum by the early 1980s, delivered a fast-paced 20-minute set that drew from their entire catalog, and is widely considered to be the band’s greatest performance. Building off their success at Live Aid, Queen set off on what ended up being their final world tour the following year.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 13th


1968 Black Sabbath played their first gig at a small back street Blues club in Birmingham, England. The group would develop into one of the biggest Heavy Metal bands of the 1970s with such albums as "Paranoid", "Masters of Reality" and "Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath".

1968 Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild" is released in the US, where it will reach #2. A line from the song which includes the words "heavy metal thunder" is often credited with popularizing a new term for loud, guitar dominated music.


source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

Music History Today Podcast July 13

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: July 13th


A few albums that was released....


1964 ● The Beach Boys —— All Summer Long ► Sunshine Pop

1973 ● Bob Dylan —— Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid ► Folk-Rock

1973 ● Grateful Dead —— History Of The Grateful Dead, Vol. 1 (Bear’s Choice) ► Country-Rock

1973 ● Queen —— Queen [UK] ► Prog Rock

1999 ● The Zombies —— Absolutely The Best ► Art Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[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 Rock History: July 14th


1969 The film Easy Rider, starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson, premiers in New York City. The soundtrack to the movie, which features performances by The Band, The Byrds, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Steppenwolf, peaked at #6 on the Billboard album chart the following September and was certified Gold in January 1970.

1973 An Everly Brothers' concert at Knott's Berry Farm is the last that the duo will perform for nearly ten years. The show is stopped by entertainment director Bill Hollingshead because he felt Don was giving a poor performance. Phil smashed his guitar and walked off the stage, leaving Don to perform the third set by himself. The pair announced their break-up on the spot and they would not get together again until September of 1983.


source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 14th


1969, At the Mississippi River Rock Festival, The Band find themselves upstaged when their boss, Bob Dylan, joins them on stage for three songs. He’s introduced as “Elmer Johnson.”


source: internetfm