Re:Chas's Music Column - Bumber December Issue W/E 15th, 22nd & 29thr
thereshopeyet wrote:
Thanks Thereshopeyet
Wow and Double Ouch!! If anyone can add to the snippets of info feel free to add them in this column.Hey Chas
I was reading page one by accident....
I know why he needed the replacements.Page 1 Quote
2008, E Street Band axeman Nils Lofgren undergoes double hip replacement surgery …
I saw him in concert at Glasgow when Tom Petty was his supporting act.
He used to jump on a trampoline and somersault on to the stage.... only the evening I went he bounced off it at an angle Splat on to the stage!!!! He didn't reappear for a few minutes... Ouch
:woohoo:
Thanks Thereshopeyet
Week In Review
June 17, 2010
The Twist Debuted … Dan and John Blued … Mötley Süed …
This is the week that was in matters musical…
1948, 33-1/3 rpm records are introduced by Columbia …
1955, Sun Records releases Johnny Cash's first single, "Cry Cry Cry" … it is the first in a line of well over 100 hit singles by Cash to appear on the country, rock, and pop charts …
1956, Paul McCartney receives a trumpet for his birthday … when he realizes he can't sing and play the horn at the same time, he promptly trades it in on a Zenith acoustic guitar …
1962, Hank Ballard and The Midnighters who wrote and first recorded "The Twist" are scheduled to perform the song for American Bandstand but have to cancel the date … Chubby Checker is hired as a replacement to perform his version of "The Twist," which will climb higher on the pop chart than Ballard's original, twice … it will hit number one, and then do it again a year later …
1963, 13-year-old Stevie Wonder's "Fingertips Pt. 2" becomes his first of 61 singles to chart …
1965, The Byrds' folk-rock version of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" spends a week at the top of the charts …
1967, what's now considered the launch of the Summer of Love occurs when hippies gather in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood to celebrate the summer solstice … as an ominous harbinger of more troubling times, dozens are carted off to psycho wards after ingesting STP, a newly-developed psychedelic that produces scary three-day trips …
1969, Jimi Hendrix earns what is in its day the largest paycheck ever paid to a performer for a single show: $125,000 for a single set at the Newport Jazz Festival … the three-day music fest gathers 150,000 people in Northridge, California, to hear and see Hendrix, Steppenwolf, Jethro Tull, Joe Cocker, CCR, Ike and Tina Turner, and more …
1970, the cops in Niagara Falls discover Chubby Checker packing pot and some other illegal substances … "Cinnamon Girl" by Neil Young goes gold …
1973, The Rocky Horror Picture Show opens for the first time in London … two years later Tim Curry will reprise his role for the movie version …
1980, Led Zeppelin begins a three-week tour with a concert in Dortmund, Germany … held at the Westfalenhalle, it is their first concert on the European continent since 1973 … due to John Bonham's death the following September, it will be the group's last European tour … they open the show with "Train Kept A Rollin'," a song they haven't played since 1969 and which Page also performed with the original Yardbirds … The Blues Brothers, starring Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi, premieres in New York City … the movie's rife with musician cameo appearances that include James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Murphy "Murph" Dunne, Aretha Franklin, Willie "Too Big" Hall, John Lee Hooker, Chaka Khan, Tom Malone, "Blue" Lou Marini, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Pinetop Perkins, and Joe Walsh … the film also boasts the biggest car-crash sequence ever shot …
1987, Mötley Crüe is sued by a Florida real estate agent who claims she lost her hearing while sitting in the front row at a Crüe concert … the band's insurance company eventually pays her $30,000 …
1990, Little Richard receives his star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame …
1996, the Furthur Festival kicks off in Atlanta … the surviving members of The Grateful Dead perform together for the first time since the death of Jerry Garcia the previous August …
1997, Brooks & Dunn perform a special show at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium for their fan club members … the country duo stick around after the show to sign autographs for all 2,000 fans … the signing session starts at 9 p.m. and doesn't end until the last fan is obliged at 5 a.m. the following morning …
1999, Pantera ride a float in the Dallas Stars Stanley Cup victory parade in downtown Dallas … the honor is bestowed upon the band because Pantera, in addition to being huge Stars fans, wrote the team's theme song which is played multiple times at every home game … Paul McCartney personally selects and arranges the flowers—45,000 of them—at Manhattan Riverside Church where friends and family gather to say farewell to his wife Linda …
2004, faced with anemic ticket sales, the promoters of the Lollapalooza Festival pull the plug on the tour … organizers say they will lose millions if the tour goes ahead as scheduled … according to promoters the festival's problem lies with the death of the alternative music market …
2006, when singer Jonathan Davis comes down with a blood disorder, Korn is obliged to pull the plug on its European tour … Davis posts a note on the band's website saying that headbanging with his condition could lead to instant death by brain hemorrhage … in an ironic twist, the New Cars' "Road Rage" tour comes to an abrupt halt when the band's tour bus suddenly swerves to avoid a head-on … guitarist Elliot Easton breaks a clavicle in the incident … while traveling in the Middle East with his Dark Side of the Moon world tour, Roger Waters visits a concrete wall built by the Israeli government in the East Bank to keep out Palestinian suicide bombers … Waters scribbles sentiments on the structure such as "Tear Down the Wall!" … the next day the Pink Floyd founder decides to play in a community called Neveh Shalom where Israelis and Arabs peacefully live together instead of in Tel Aviv as originally planned … it's reported that those opposed to the barrier have adopted Waters' song "Another Brick in the Wall" as a rallying cry …
2007, after months of speculation, New Order finally confirms that they have split …
2008, presidential contender Barack Obama continues to rack up support in the rock community with Michael Stipe, Pete Wentz, Billy Joe Armstrong, Bob Weir, Dave Matthews, Jeff Tweedy, and Conor Oberst all signing on to give his campaign support … commenting on the candidate, the Dead's Weir says, "The contagion of hope is real" … bucking slumping CD sales, Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III moves over a million shiny discs in its first week of release … Celine Dion's rendition of AC/DC's "You Shook Me" is given the dubious distinction of being the "Worst Ever Cover Song" in a Total Guitar magazine survey … editor Steven Lawson decries Dion's version as "sacrilege" … the Canadian singer's never released the song as a single, but performed it as a duet with Anastacia during the Live Divas Las Vegas concert six years ago … runner-up in the worst-cover category is Sugababes and the Bees' version of "Walk This Way" … among the best covers named are the Jimi Hendrix Experience version of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" and The Beatle's rendition of "Twist and Shout" …
…and that was the week that was.
Arrivals:
June 17: Igor Stravinsky (1882), guitarist Cliff Gallup of Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps (1930), Norman Kuhlke of The Swinging Blue Jeans (1942), Chris Spedding (1944), Barry Manilow born Barry Alan Pinkus (1946), Paul Young (1956), Kevin Thornton of Color Me Badd (1969)
June 18: Jeanette MacDonald (1907), lyricist Sammy Cahn (1913), Paul McCartney (1942), bassist Carl Radle (1942), pop singer Sandy Posey (1944), Jerome Smith of KC and The Sunshine Band (1953), Tom Bailey of The Thompson Twins (1957), West Arkeen (1960), Alison Moyet (1961), Guns N' Roses keyboardist Dizzy Reed (1963), Nathan Morris of Boyz II Men (1971)
June 19: bandleader Guy Lombardo (1902), Tommy Devito of The Four Seasons (1936), rockabilly bad boy Robert Gordon (1945), singer-songwriter Nick Drake (1948), Ann Wilson of Heart (1950) Paula Abdul (1962), Brian Vander Ark of The Verve Pipe (1964), Brian Welch of Korn (1969)
June 20: producer Mickie Most (1938), Brian Wilson (1942), singer Anne Murray (1945), Lionel Richie (1949), Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony (1955), John Taylor of Duran Duran (1960), Murphy Karges of Sugar Ray (1968), Twiggy Ramirez of Marilyn Manson (1972)
June 21: Ray Davies of The Kinks (1944), Joey Molland of Badfinger (1948), Joey Kramer of Aerosmith (1950), Nils Lofgren (1951), Mark Brzezicki of Big Country (1957), country singer-songwriter Kathy Mattea (1959), Marcella Detroit of Shakespears Sister (1959), British singer and DJ Sonique, born Sonia Clarke (1968), Mike Einziger of Incubus (1976)
June 22: jazz guitarist Johnny Smith (1922), Kris Kristofferson (1936), Peter Asher of Peter & Gordon (1944), singer Howard Kaylan of The Turtles (1947), Todd Rundgren (1948), Alan Osmond of The Osmonds (1949), Cyndi Lauper (1953), Derek Forbes, bassist with Simple Minds (1956), bassist Garry Gary Beers of INXS (1957), Cowboy Junkies' bassist Alan Anton (1959), singer Jimmy Somerville of Bronski Beat and The Communards (1961), Mike Edwards of Jesus Jones (1964), Tom Cunningham of Wet Wet Wet (1965), singer-guitarist-songwriter Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies (1970)
June 23: saxophone inventor Adolphe Sax (1846), June Carter, singer-songwriter, actor, comedienne, and wife of Johnny Cash (1929), Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter (1938), British singer and actor, Adam Faith (1940), Paul Goddard of Atlanta Rhythm Section (1945), Richard Coles of The Communards (1962), Steve Shelley, drummer with Sonic Youth (1962)
Departures:
June 17: Karl Mueller of Soul Asylum (2005), jazz singer Jackie Paris (2004), songwriter Mark Cherron (1994)
June 18: sarod master Ali Akbar Khan (2009), Luther Tucker (1993), "Rock Around The Clock" guitar soloist Danny Cedrone (1954)
June 19: mariachi singer-actor Antonio Aguilar (2007), Bobby Helms of "Jingle Bell Rock" fame (1997), composer Vivian Ellis (1996), R&B artist Walter Jackson (1983)
June 20: British bassist-vocalist Tony Dangerfield (2007), Kool & The Gang co-founder and guitarist, Claydes Charles Smith (2006), Canadian one-hit-wonder, Bobby Gimby (1998), Lawrence Payton of The Four Tops (1997), Jim Ellison, lead singer and guitarist with Material Issue (1996)
June 21: Mississippi bluesman John Lee Hooker (2001), jazz and R&B crooner Arthur Prysock (1997), gospel singer Thomas Whitfield (1992), bandleader Bert Kaempfert (1980)
June 22: Kripp Johnson, born Corinthian Johnson, lead singer for The Del Vikings (1990), Jesse "Ed" Davis, session guitarist with Taj Mahal (1988), singer-radio personality Dennis Day (1988), Fred Astaire (1987), Warren Corbin, bass vocalist with the Cleftones (1978), Pere Ubu guitarist Peter Laughner (1977), composer Darius Milhaud (1974)
June 23: John Novarese, owner of Hi Records (1996), Tony Romeo, producer of the Cowsills and Partridge Family (1995), country yodeler Elton Britt (1972)
June 17, 2010
The Twist Debuted … Dan and John Blued … Mötley Süed …
This is the week that was in matters musical…
1948, 33-1/3 rpm records are introduced by Columbia …
1955, Sun Records releases Johnny Cash's first single, "Cry Cry Cry" … it is the first in a line of well over 100 hit singles by Cash to appear on the country, rock, and pop charts …
1956, Paul McCartney receives a trumpet for his birthday … when he realizes he can't sing and play the horn at the same time, he promptly trades it in on a Zenith acoustic guitar …
1962, Hank Ballard and The Midnighters who wrote and first recorded "The Twist" are scheduled to perform the song for American Bandstand but have to cancel the date … Chubby Checker is hired as a replacement to perform his version of "The Twist," which will climb higher on the pop chart than Ballard's original, twice … it will hit number one, and then do it again a year later …
1963, 13-year-old Stevie Wonder's "Fingertips Pt. 2" becomes his first of 61 singles to chart …
1965, The Byrds' folk-rock version of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" spends a week at the top of the charts …
1967, what's now considered the launch of the Summer of Love occurs when hippies gather in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood to celebrate the summer solstice … as an ominous harbinger of more troubling times, dozens are carted off to psycho wards after ingesting STP, a newly-developed psychedelic that produces scary three-day trips …
1969, Jimi Hendrix earns what is in its day the largest paycheck ever paid to a performer for a single show: $125,000 for a single set at the Newport Jazz Festival … the three-day music fest gathers 150,000 people in Northridge, California, to hear and see Hendrix, Steppenwolf, Jethro Tull, Joe Cocker, CCR, Ike and Tina Turner, and more …
1970, the cops in Niagara Falls discover Chubby Checker packing pot and some other illegal substances … "Cinnamon Girl" by Neil Young goes gold …
1973, The Rocky Horror Picture Show opens for the first time in London … two years later Tim Curry will reprise his role for the movie version …
1980, Led Zeppelin begins a three-week tour with a concert in Dortmund, Germany … held at the Westfalenhalle, it is their first concert on the European continent since 1973 … due to John Bonham's death the following September, it will be the group's last European tour … they open the show with "Train Kept A Rollin'," a song they haven't played since 1969 and which Page also performed with the original Yardbirds … The Blues Brothers, starring Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi, premieres in New York City … the movie's rife with musician cameo appearances that include James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Murphy "Murph" Dunne, Aretha Franklin, Willie "Too Big" Hall, John Lee Hooker, Chaka Khan, Tom Malone, "Blue" Lou Marini, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Pinetop Perkins, and Joe Walsh … the film also boasts the biggest car-crash sequence ever shot …
1987, Mötley Crüe is sued by a Florida real estate agent who claims she lost her hearing while sitting in the front row at a Crüe concert … the band's insurance company eventually pays her $30,000 …
1990, Little Richard receives his star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame …
1996, the Furthur Festival kicks off in Atlanta … the surviving members of The Grateful Dead perform together for the first time since the death of Jerry Garcia the previous August …
1997, Brooks & Dunn perform a special show at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium for their fan club members … the country duo stick around after the show to sign autographs for all 2,000 fans … the signing session starts at 9 p.m. and doesn't end until the last fan is obliged at 5 a.m. the following morning …
1999, Pantera ride a float in the Dallas Stars Stanley Cup victory parade in downtown Dallas … the honor is bestowed upon the band because Pantera, in addition to being huge Stars fans, wrote the team's theme song which is played multiple times at every home game … Paul McCartney personally selects and arranges the flowers—45,000 of them—at Manhattan Riverside Church where friends and family gather to say farewell to his wife Linda …
2004, faced with anemic ticket sales, the promoters of the Lollapalooza Festival pull the plug on the tour … organizers say they will lose millions if the tour goes ahead as scheduled … according to promoters the festival's problem lies with the death of the alternative music market …
2006, when singer Jonathan Davis comes down with a blood disorder, Korn is obliged to pull the plug on its European tour … Davis posts a note on the band's website saying that headbanging with his condition could lead to instant death by brain hemorrhage … in an ironic twist, the New Cars' "Road Rage" tour comes to an abrupt halt when the band's tour bus suddenly swerves to avoid a head-on … guitarist Elliot Easton breaks a clavicle in the incident … while traveling in the Middle East with his Dark Side of the Moon world tour, Roger Waters visits a concrete wall built by the Israeli government in the East Bank to keep out Palestinian suicide bombers … Waters scribbles sentiments on the structure such as "Tear Down the Wall!" … the next day the Pink Floyd founder decides to play in a community called Neveh Shalom where Israelis and Arabs peacefully live together instead of in Tel Aviv as originally planned … it's reported that those opposed to the barrier have adopted Waters' song "Another Brick in the Wall" as a rallying cry …
2007, after months of speculation, New Order finally confirms that they have split …
2008, presidential contender Barack Obama continues to rack up support in the rock community with Michael Stipe, Pete Wentz, Billy Joe Armstrong, Bob Weir, Dave Matthews, Jeff Tweedy, and Conor Oberst all signing on to give his campaign support … commenting on the candidate, the Dead's Weir says, "The contagion of hope is real" … bucking slumping CD sales, Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III moves over a million shiny discs in its first week of release … Celine Dion's rendition of AC/DC's "You Shook Me" is given the dubious distinction of being the "Worst Ever Cover Song" in a Total Guitar magazine survey … editor Steven Lawson decries Dion's version as "sacrilege" … the Canadian singer's never released the song as a single, but performed it as a duet with Anastacia during the Live Divas Las Vegas concert six years ago … runner-up in the worst-cover category is Sugababes and the Bees' version of "Walk This Way" … among the best covers named are the Jimi Hendrix Experience version of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" and The Beatle's rendition of "Twist and Shout" …
…and that was the week that was.
Arrivals:
June 17: Igor Stravinsky (1882), guitarist Cliff Gallup of Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps (1930), Norman Kuhlke of The Swinging Blue Jeans (1942), Chris Spedding (1944), Barry Manilow born Barry Alan Pinkus (1946), Paul Young (1956), Kevin Thornton of Color Me Badd (1969)
June 18: Jeanette MacDonald (1907), lyricist Sammy Cahn (1913), Paul McCartney (1942), bassist Carl Radle (1942), pop singer Sandy Posey (1944), Jerome Smith of KC and The Sunshine Band (1953), Tom Bailey of The Thompson Twins (1957), West Arkeen (1960), Alison Moyet (1961), Guns N' Roses keyboardist Dizzy Reed (1963), Nathan Morris of Boyz II Men (1971)
June 19: bandleader Guy Lombardo (1902), Tommy Devito of The Four Seasons (1936), rockabilly bad boy Robert Gordon (1945), singer-songwriter Nick Drake (1948), Ann Wilson of Heart (1950) Paula Abdul (1962), Brian Vander Ark of The Verve Pipe (1964), Brian Welch of Korn (1969)
June 20: producer Mickie Most (1938), Brian Wilson (1942), singer Anne Murray (1945), Lionel Richie (1949), Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony (1955), John Taylor of Duran Duran (1960), Murphy Karges of Sugar Ray (1968), Twiggy Ramirez of Marilyn Manson (1972)
June 21: Ray Davies of The Kinks (1944), Joey Molland of Badfinger (1948), Joey Kramer of Aerosmith (1950), Nils Lofgren (1951), Mark Brzezicki of Big Country (1957), country singer-songwriter Kathy Mattea (1959), Marcella Detroit of Shakespears Sister (1959), British singer and DJ Sonique, born Sonia Clarke (1968), Mike Einziger of Incubus (1976)
June 22: jazz guitarist Johnny Smith (1922), Kris Kristofferson (1936), Peter Asher of Peter & Gordon (1944), singer Howard Kaylan of The Turtles (1947), Todd Rundgren (1948), Alan Osmond of The Osmonds (1949), Cyndi Lauper (1953), Derek Forbes, bassist with Simple Minds (1956), bassist Garry Gary Beers of INXS (1957), Cowboy Junkies' bassist Alan Anton (1959), singer Jimmy Somerville of Bronski Beat and The Communards (1961), Mike Edwards of Jesus Jones (1964), Tom Cunningham of Wet Wet Wet (1965), singer-guitarist-songwriter Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies (1970)
June 23: saxophone inventor Adolphe Sax (1846), June Carter, singer-songwriter, actor, comedienne, and wife of Johnny Cash (1929), Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter (1938), British singer and actor, Adam Faith (1940), Paul Goddard of Atlanta Rhythm Section (1945), Richard Coles of The Communards (1962), Steve Shelley, drummer with Sonic Youth (1962)
Departures:
June 17: Karl Mueller of Soul Asylum (2005), jazz singer Jackie Paris (2004), songwriter Mark Cherron (1994)
June 18: sarod master Ali Akbar Khan (2009), Luther Tucker (1993), "Rock Around The Clock" guitar soloist Danny Cedrone (1954)
June 19: mariachi singer-actor Antonio Aguilar (2007), Bobby Helms of "Jingle Bell Rock" fame (1997), composer Vivian Ellis (1996), R&B artist Walter Jackson (1983)
June 20: British bassist-vocalist Tony Dangerfield (2007), Kool & The Gang co-founder and guitarist, Claydes Charles Smith (2006), Canadian one-hit-wonder, Bobby Gimby (1998), Lawrence Payton of The Four Tops (1997), Jim Ellison, lead singer and guitarist with Material Issue (1996)
June 21: Mississippi bluesman John Lee Hooker (2001), jazz and R&B crooner Arthur Prysock (1997), gospel singer Thomas Whitfield (1992), bandleader Bert Kaempfert (1980)
June 22: Kripp Johnson, born Corinthian Johnson, lead singer for The Del Vikings (1990), Jesse "Ed" Davis, session guitarist with Taj Mahal (1988), singer-radio personality Dennis Day (1988), Fred Astaire (1987), Warren Corbin, bass vocalist with the Cleftones (1978), Pere Ubu guitarist Peter Laughner (1977), composer Darius Milhaud (1974)
June 23: John Novarese, owner of Hi Records (1996), Tony Romeo, producer of the Cowsills and Partridge Family (1995), country yodeler Elton Britt (1972)
Week In Review
June 24, 2010
Cher Holders … You Gotta Lovett … Macca Reign On …
This is the week that was in matters musical…
1888, the first noted use of mobile recording equipment occurs at the Crystal Palace in London, when a recording machine is set up in the press gallery to record a performance of "Israel in Egypt" during a Handel Festival …
1967, a worldwide audience of 40 million witnesses a satellite broadcast of The Beatles performing "All You Need is Love" … chiming in on backing vocals are Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Graham Nash, and Keith Moon …
1968, the Small Faces album Ogden's Nut Gone Flake hits #1 on the U.K. album chart … the original album comes in a circular sleeve that is a parody of "Ogdens' Nut-brown Flake," a brand of tobacco produced in Liverpool … the B-side features an original fairy tale about a boy called Happiness Stan, with narration in "Unwinese," by gobbledygook expert Stan Unwin, who incorporates modern slang into his surreal narrative … this proves to be the group's last album with Steve Marriott, who quits to form Humble Pie with Peter Frampton …
1969, The Jimi Hendrix Experience plays at the Denver Pop Festival, after which Hendrix makes the infamous announcement: "This is the last gig we'll be playing together" … bassist Noel Redding quits the band … Mick Taylor makes his stage debut with The Rolling Stones at a concert in Rome … replaced by Ron Wood after his retirement in 1975, he holds the distinction of being the only Stones guitarist to quit the band and live …
1975, Greg Allman ties the knot with pop diva Cher just four days after her divorce from Sonny Bono is final … the new union lasts only nine days before Cher files for yet another divorce, but the birth of their son Elijah keeps them together … the marriage will end two years later …
1977, Elvis makes his last public appearance at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis … "Can't Help Falling In Love" is the last song he sings …
1978, Peter Frampton suffers a broken arm and cracked ribs in a Bahamian auto wreck … perhaps this provided the inspiration for the lyric, "Oh won't you show me the way" …
1983, the Everly Brothers reunite after a 10-year estrangement …
1985, John Lennon's 1965 Rolls Phantom V limo sporting a psychedelic paint job fetches $3,006,385 at a Sotheby's auction in New York …
1993, in what could easily be construed as a mercy marriage, the very beautiful Julia Roberts marries the not-quite-so-beautiful Lyle Lovett … like Cher and Greg Allman's marriage, this one also tanks after two years … perhaps a pattern is emerging …
1996, Neil Young's new album Broken Arrow debuts via the Internet …
1998, Johnny Cash returns to the stage for the first time since being diagnosed with Shy-Drager Syndrome months earlier … he walks onstage surprising Kris Kristofferson who is singing "Sunday Morning Coming Down" at a Cash and Waylon Jennings tribute concert at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville … the song was the one a young and unknown Kristofferson had hand-delivered to Cash after landing a helicopter on his lawn in a creative attempt to get his music into the hands of someone who could help him gain recognition as a songwriter …
1999, Eric Clapton auctions off 100 of his guitars to raise funds for his Crossroads Center, a drug and alcohol addiction treatment center in Antigua … among the guitars sold is his famous "Brownie," which fetches a cool $497,500 … Damn I just missed out by $497000
2000, in a phenomenally belated ruling, a San Francisco court decides that The Rolling Stones should give the devil his due in the form of credit for the songs "Stop Breakin' Down" and "Love in Vain," both of which were written by Robert Johnson, the legendary bluesman who supposedly sold his soul to the devil … The Stones' former record label claims that to its knowledge, the songs were in the public domain … the hell you say? … nine people die and 24 are injured at a Pearl Jam concert at Denmark's Roskilde Festival … but this time it's not the fault of the band … the fatalities occur as the crowd surges toward the stage because the PA isn't getting enough sound to the back …
2001, Liverpool renames the city's airport after John Lennon … it's the first time in U.K. history that an airport is named after a famous person … the new logo for the airport included the famous self-portrait by John Lennon and the strapline "above us only sky," taken from the lyrics of Lennon's "Imagine," one of the most popular songs of all time …
2004, pop vixen Britney Spears and her boyfriend, dancer Kevin Federline, announce their engagement … the engagement comes about six months after Spears is granted an annulment to dissolve her Las Vegas marriage to a childhood friend … following the tradition established by Cher, Spears and Federline untie the knot after two years … you see, a pattern … we said so … something about actors and musicians not being good marriage material is our theory … rapper turned actor DMX is arrested at New York's Kennedy Airport for allegedly attempting to steal a car and identifying himself as a federal agent … he is charged with possession of a weapon and crack … it must be some sort of misunderstanding … he was probably just researching a part where he plays a crack federal agent commandeering a vehicle …
2006, Yoko Ono joins Ringo Star and Paul McCartney in Las Vegas for the debut of Cirque du Soleil's Beatle-based extravaganza LOVE
2007, James Blunt's multimillion-selling ballad "You're Beautiful" is voted the most irritating song of all time … Despite reaching number one in 11 countries and making the singer a star around the world, the track polled more votes than "Axel F" by Crazy Frog … other tracks in the top 10 included "Mmm Bop" by Hanson, "Mr. Blobby" by Mr. Blobby, and "The Birdie Song" by the Tweets … Hollywood music emporium Amoeba Records is paid a visit by none other than Sir Paul McCartney … the legendary former Beatle makes a rare appearance at the shop to play an intimate live gig … flying in from as far away as Japan to attend the free "secret" show, diehard Macca-maniacs camp out on Sunset Boulevard for three days… Sir Paul rewards their devotion with 90 minutes of Fab Four classics, songs off his hot-selling new Memory Almost Full album, and plenty of amusing stage banter and audience interaction … the Spice Girls, following a calculated publicity buildup, announce an agreement to get together for 11 concerts around the world … the shows will be their first concerts since breaking up in 2001, and the first with all five of the original group since Geri "Ginger Spice" Halliwell quit to pursue a solo career … two stage hands die after part of the set from a Rolling Stones concert collapses on top of them while dismantling it …
2009, guitar virtuoso Eddie Van Halen is no longer a solo act … he marries Janie Liszewski, his girlfriend of three years … the 54-year-old groom's 18-year-old son Wolfgang serves as best man, while brother Alex Van Halen, an ordained minister, officiates at the 20-minute, nondenominational service … among the 100 guests is Van Halen's ex-wife, Valerie Bertinelli, whom he divorced after 25 years of marriage … way to rub it in, Eddie … oh, and thanks for screwing up our two-year marriage theory …
…and that was the week that was.
Arrivals:
June 24: jazz and R&B sax player Jimmy Forest (1920), multi-instrumentalist Chris Wood of Traffic (1944), Jeff Beck (1944), theatrical rocker Arthur Brown (1944), singer-songwriter Carly Simon (1945), Colin Blunstone of The Zombies (1945), Mick Fleetwood born Michael John Kells Fleetwood (1947), Dire Straits bassist John Illsley (1949), Terry Wilson AKA Astro of UB40 (1957), Curt Smith of Tears for Fears (1961), pop singer Glenn Madeiros (1970), Mario Calires of The Wallflowers (1973)
June 25: Clifton Chenier, King of zydeco accordion (1925), soul singer Eddie Floyd of "Knock on Wood" fame (1935), Bobby Nunn of The Coasters (1936), Harold Melvin of The Blue Notes (1939), Johnnie Richardson, female half of R&B duo Johnnie & Joe (1940), Harry Womack of The Valentinos (1945), Ian McDonald, founding member of King Crimson and Foreigner (1946), Allen Lanier of Blue Oyster Cult (1946), Clint Warwick of The Moody Blues (1949), multi-instrumentalist Brian Macleod of Chilliwack (1952), Tim Finn of Split Enz (1952), David Paich of Toto (1954), George Michael (1963)
June 26: influential and prolific bluesman Big Bill Broonzy (1893), Elvis Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker, born Andreas Cornelius Van Kuijk (1909), The 5th Dimension's Billy Davis Jr. (1940), Canned Heat's Larry Taylor (1942), keyboardist-singer Georgie Fame, born Clive Powell (1943), Rindy Ross of Quarterflash (1951), The Clash's Mick Jones (1955), singer-songwriter Chris Isaak (1956), Patty Smyth, lead singer of Scandal (1957), Terri Nunn of Berlin (1959), Colin Greenwood of Radiohead (1968), EMF drummer Mark Decloedt (1969), country singer Gretchen Wilson (1973)
June 27: hit songwriter Doc Pomus, born Jerome Solon Felder (1925), Squeeze drummer Gilson Lavis (1951), Jeffery Lee Pierce of The Gun Club (1958), country singer Lorrie Morgan (1959), Margo Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies (1961), bassist Andy Couson of All About Eve (1963), pop singer Beverly Craven (1963), vocalist Ray Slijngaard (1971)
June 28: pianist-writer Arnold Shaw (1909), bluegrass guitarist Lester Flatt of The Foggy Mountain Boys a.k.a. Flatt and Scruggs (1914)
June 29: Frank Kirkland, drummer with Bo Diddley (1927), Leonard Lee, of the pop duo Shirley and Lee (1936), singer Little Eva, born Eva Narcissus Boyd (1943), twins Derv and Lincoln Gordon of The Equals (1948), Five Star singer Stedman Pearson (1964), Nicole Scherzinger of Eden's Crush (1978)
June 30: pop songwriter Guy Hemric (1931), songwriter-producer Mike Leander (1941), Florence Ballard of The Supremes (1943), neo-classical metal guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen (1963), Cheryl Tweedy of Girls Aloud (1983)
Departures:
June 24: Ira Tucker Sr., lead singer of The Dixie Hummingbirds (2008), Hank Medress, lead singer of The Tokens (2007), Carlos "The King of Tango" Gardel (1935), opera singer Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones a.k.a. "Black Patti" (1933)
June 25: Michael Jackson (2009), Sky Saxon, lead singer and founder of The Seeds, born Richard Marsh (2009), legendary producer Arif Mardin (2006), guitarist Bob Sanderson of The Royaltones (1994), Jimmy Soul, born James McCleese, of "If You Want To Be Happy" fame (1988), songwriter Boudleaux Bryant (1987), blues guitarist Pee Wee Crayton (1985), lyricist-composer-singer Johnny Mercer (1976)
June 26: songwriter Brandon Chase (1996), Pink Fairies guitarist Mick Wayne (1994), bebop trumpeter Clifford Brown (1956)
June 27: singer-actress Gale Storm (2009), bassist John Entwistle of The Who (2002), guitarist Stefanie Sargent of 7 Year Bitch (1992), opera diva Carlotta Patti (1989), Hillel Slovak, original guitarist of The Red Hot Chili Peppers (1988), Steve Peregrine Took of T-Rex, born Stephen Ross Porter (1980)
June 28: punk rocker G.G. Allin (1993), punk rocker Rob Graves (1990), Harry Mills of The Mills Brothers (1982)
June 29: George McCorckle of The Marshall Tucker Band (2007), jazz-blues organist Richard "Groove" Holmes (1991), Lowell George, slide guitarist and founder of Little Feat (1979), C&W singer Johnny Bond (1978), pianist Shorty Long of The Ink Spots (1969), revolutionary alto sax and bass clarinet player Eric Dolphy (1964)
June 30: tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson (2001), jazz and R&B singer Phyllis Hyman (1995)
June 24, 2010
Cher Holders … You Gotta Lovett … Macca Reign On …
This is the week that was in matters musical…
1888, the first noted use of mobile recording equipment occurs at the Crystal Palace in London, when a recording machine is set up in the press gallery to record a performance of "Israel in Egypt" during a Handel Festival …
1967, a worldwide audience of 40 million witnesses a satellite broadcast of The Beatles performing "All You Need is Love" … chiming in on backing vocals are Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Graham Nash, and Keith Moon …
1968, the Small Faces album Ogden's Nut Gone Flake hits #1 on the U.K. album chart … the original album comes in a circular sleeve that is a parody of "Ogdens' Nut-brown Flake," a brand of tobacco produced in Liverpool … the B-side features an original fairy tale about a boy called Happiness Stan, with narration in "Unwinese," by gobbledygook expert Stan Unwin, who incorporates modern slang into his surreal narrative … this proves to be the group's last album with Steve Marriott, who quits to form Humble Pie with Peter Frampton …
1969, The Jimi Hendrix Experience plays at the Denver Pop Festival, after which Hendrix makes the infamous announcement: "This is the last gig we'll be playing together" … bassist Noel Redding quits the band … Mick Taylor makes his stage debut with The Rolling Stones at a concert in Rome … replaced by Ron Wood after his retirement in 1975, he holds the distinction of being the only Stones guitarist to quit the band and live …
1975, Greg Allman ties the knot with pop diva Cher just four days after her divorce from Sonny Bono is final … the new union lasts only nine days before Cher files for yet another divorce, but the birth of their son Elijah keeps them together … the marriage will end two years later …
1977, Elvis makes his last public appearance at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis … "Can't Help Falling In Love" is the last song he sings …
1978, Peter Frampton suffers a broken arm and cracked ribs in a Bahamian auto wreck … perhaps this provided the inspiration for the lyric, "Oh won't you show me the way" …
1983, the Everly Brothers reunite after a 10-year estrangement …
1985, John Lennon's 1965 Rolls Phantom V limo sporting a psychedelic paint job fetches $3,006,385 at a Sotheby's auction in New York …
1993, in what could easily be construed as a mercy marriage, the very beautiful Julia Roberts marries the not-quite-so-beautiful Lyle Lovett … like Cher and Greg Allman's marriage, this one also tanks after two years … perhaps a pattern is emerging …
1996, Neil Young's new album Broken Arrow debuts via the Internet …
1998, Johnny Cash returns to the stage for the first time since being diagnosed with Shy-Drager Syndrome months earlier … he walks onstage surprising Kris Kristofferson who is singing "Sunday Morning Coming Down" at a Cash and Waylon Jennings tribute concert at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville … the song was the one a young and unknown Kristofferson had hand-delivered to Cash after landing a helicopter on his lawn in a creative attempt to get his music into the hands of someone who could help him gain recognition as a songwriter …
1999, Eric Clapton auctions off 100 of his guitars to raise funds for his Crossroads Center, a drug and alcohol addiction treatment center in Antigua … among the guitars sold is his famous "Brownie," which fetches a cool $497,500 … Damn I just missed out by $497000
2000, in a phenomenally belated ruling, a San Francisco court decides that The Rolling Stones should give the devil his due in the form of credit for the songs "Stop Breakin' Down" and "Love in Vain," both of which were written by Robert Johnson, the legendary bluesman who supposedly sold his soul to the devil … The Stones' former record label claims that to its knowledge, the songs were in the public domain … the hell you say? … nine people die and 24 are injured at a Pearl Jam concert at Denmark's Roskilde Festival … but this time it's not the fault of the band … the fatalities occur as the crowd surges toward the stage because the PA isn't getting enough sound to the back …
2001, Liverpool renames the city's airport after John Lennon … it's the first time in U.K. history that an airport is named after a famous person … the new logo for the airport included the famous self-portrait by John Lennon and the strapline "above us only sky," taken from the lyrics of Lennon's "Imagine," one of the most popular songs of all time …
2004, pop vixen Britney Spears and her boyfriend, dancer Kevin Federline, announce their engagement … the engagement comes about six months after Spears is granted an annulment to dissolve her Las Vegas marriage to a childhood friend … following the tradition established by Cher, Spears and Federline untie the knot after two years … you see, a pattern … we said so … something about actors and musicians not being good marriage material is our theory … rapper turned actor DMX is arrested at New York's Kennedy Airport for allegedly attempting to steal a car and identifying himself as a federal agent … he is charged with possession of a weapon and crack … it must be some sort of misunderstanding … he was probably just researching a part where he plays a crack federal agent commandeering a vehicle …
2006, Yoko Ono joins Ringo Star and Paul McCartney in Las Vegas for the debut of Cirque du Soleil's Beatle-based extravaganza LOVE
2007, James Blunt's multimillion-selling ballad "You're Beautiful" is voted the most irritating song of all time … Despite reaching number one in 11 countries and making the singer a star around the world, the track polled more votes than "Axel F" by Crazy Frog … other tracks in the top 10 included "Mmm Bop" by Hanson, "Mr. Blobby" by Mr. Blobby, and "The Birdie Song" by the Tweets … Hollywood music emporium Amoeba Records is paid a visit by none other than Sir Paul McCartney … the legendary former Beatle makes a rare appearance at the shop to play an intimate live gig … flying in from as far away as Japan to attend the free "secret" show, diehard Macca-maniacs camp out on Sunset Boulevard for three days… Sir Paul rewards their devotion with 90 minutes of Fab Four classics, songs off his hot-selling new Memory Almost Full album, and plenty of amusing stage banter and audience interaction … the Spice Girls, following a calculated publicity buildup, announce an agreement to get together for 11 concerts around the world … the shows will be their first concerts since breaking up in 2001, and the first with all five of the original group since Geri "Ginger Spice" Halliwell quit to pursue a solo career … two stage hands die after part of the set from a Rolling Stones concert collapses on top of them while dismantling it …
2009, guitar virtuoso Eddie Van Halen is no longer a solo act … he marries Janie Liszewski, his girlfriend of three years … the 54-year-old groom's 18-year-old son Wolfgang serves as best man, while brother Alex Van Halen, an ordained minister, officiates at the 20-minute, nondenominational service … among the 100 guests is Van Halen's ex-wife, Valerie Bertinelli, whom he divorced after 25 years of marriage … way to rub it in, Eddie … oh, and thanks for screwing up our two-year marriage theory …
…and that was the week that was.
Arrivals:
June 24: jazz and R&B sax player Jimmy Forest (1920), multi-instrumentalist Chris Wood of Traffic (1944), Jeff Beck (1944), theatrical rocker Arthur Brown (1944), singer-songwriter Carly Simon (1945), Colin Blunstone of The Zombies (1945), Mick Fleetwood born Michael John Kells Fleetwood (1947), Dire Straits bassist John Illsley (1949), Terry Wilson AKA Astro of UB40 (1957), Curt Smith of Tears for Fears (1961), pop singer Glenn Madeiros (1970), Mario Calires of The Wallflowers (1973)
June 25: Clifton Chenier, King of zydeco accordion (1925), soul singer Eddie Floyd of "Knock on Wood" fame (1935), Bobby Nunn of The Coasters (1936), Harold Melvin of The Blue Notes (1939), Johnnie Richardson, female half of R&B duo Johnnie & Joe (1940), Harry Womack of The Valentinos (1945), Ian McDonald, founding member of King Crimson and Foreigner (1946), Allen Lanier of Blue Oyster Cult (1946), Clint Warwick of The Moody Blues (1949), multi-instrumentalist Brian Macleod of Chilliwack (1952), Tim Finn of Split Enz (1952), David Paich of Toto (1954), George Michael (1963)
June 26: influential and prolific bluesman Big Bill Broonzy (1893), Elvis Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker, born Andreas Cornelius Van Kuijk (1909), The 5th Dimension's Billy Davis Jr. (1940), Canned Heat's Larry Taylor (1942), keyboardist-singer Georgie Fame, born Clive Powell (1943), Rindy Ross of Quarterflash (1951), The Clash's Mick Jones (1955), singer-songwriter Chris Isaak (1956), Patty Smyth, lead singer of Scandal (1957), Terri Nunn of Berlin (1959), Colin Greenwood of Radiohead (1968), EMF drummer Mark Decloedt (1969), country singer Gretchen Wilson (1973)
June 27: hit songwriter Doc Pomus, born Jerome Solon Felder (1925), Squeeze drummer Gilson Lavis (1951), Jeffery Lee Pierce of The Gun Club (1958), country singer Lorrie Morgan (1959), Margo Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies (1961), bassist Andy Couson of All About Eve (1963), pop singer Beverly Craven (1963), vocalist Ray Slijngaard (1971)
June 28: pianist-writer Arnold Shaw (1909), bluegrass guitarist Lester Flatt of The Foggy Mountain Boys a.k.a. Flatt and Scruggs (1914)
June 29: Frank Kirkland, drummer with Bo Diddley (1927), Leonard Lee, of the pop duo Shirley and Lee (1936), singer Little Eva, born Eva Narcissus Boyd (1943), twins Derv and Lincoln Gordon of The Equals (1948), Five Star singer Stedman Pearson (1964), Nicole Scherzinger of Eden's Crush (1978)
June 30: pop songwriter Guy Hemric (1931), songwriter-producer Mike Leander (1941), Florence Ballard of The Supremes (1943), neo-classical metal guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen (1963), Cheryl Tweedy of Girls Aloud (1983)
Departures:
June 24: Ira Tucker Sr., lead singer of The Dixie Hummingbirds (2008), Hank Medress, lead singer of The Tokens (2007), Carlos "The King of Tango" Gardel (1935), opera singer Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones a.k.a. "Black Patti" (1933)
June 25: Michael Jackson (2009), Sky Saxon, lead singer and founder of The Seeds, born Richard Marsh (2009), legendary producer Arif Mardin (2006), guitarist Bob Sanderson of The Royaltones (1994), Jimmy Soul, born James McCleese, of "If You Want To Be Happy" fame (1988), songwriter Boudleaux Bryant (1987), blues guitarist Pee Wee Crayton (1985), lyricist-composer-singer Johnny Mercer (1976)
June 26: songwriter Brandon Chase (1996), Pink Fairies guitarist Mick Wayne (1994), bebop trumpeter Clifford Brown (1956)
June 27: singer-actress Gale Storm (2009), bassist John Entwistle of The Who (2002), guitarist Stefanie Sargent of 7 Year Bitch (1992), opera diva Carlotta Patti (1989), Hillel Slovak, original guitarist of The Red Hot Chili Peppers (1988), Steve Peregrine Took of T-Rex, born Stephen Ross Porter (1980)
June 28: punk rocker G.G. Allin (1993), punk rocker Rob Graves (1990), Harry Mills of The Mills Brothers (1982)
June 29: George McCorckle of The Marshall Tucker Band (2007), jazz-blues organist Richard "Groove" Holmes (1991), Lowell George, slide guitarist and founder of Little Feat (1979), C&W singer Johnny Bond (1978), pianist Shorty Long of The Ink Spots (1969), revolutionary alto sax and bass clarinet player Eric Dolphy (1964)
June 30: tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson (2001), jazz and R&B singer Phyllis Hyman (1995)
Week In Review
July 1, 2010
Marshall Opens For Business … Zeppelin Plays Its Swan Song … Sir Paul Goes Postal …
This is the week that was in matters musical…
1956, Elvis Presley appears on The Steve Allen Show … ol' Steverino, being sensitive to criticism that the hip-swiveling teen sensation is unduly arousing the youth of America, decrees that Elvis will not rock out but instead croon "Hound Dog" to an actual hound dog … a basset wearing dress tails … get it? … Johnny Cash appears for the first time on the Grand Ole Opry …
1957, setting off a chain of events that will change the face of modern music, John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time … the encounter takes place at the Woolton Parish Church Garden show at Liverpool's St. Peter's Church … recalling the meeting years later, McCartney says Lennon was drunk … Ray Charles' self-titled debut album is released on Atlantic …
1960, Jim Marshall & Son Musical Instruments has its grand opening at 76 Uxbridge Road, Hanwell, a West End suburb of London … Jim would make his first Marshall JTM 45s here …
1968, following a concert in New York, the Yardbirds break up … shortly thereafter, to fulfill contractual obligations, Jimmy Page forms The New Yardbirds … after finishing up the final Yardbirds tour dates, the band changes its name to Led Zeppelin …
1976, pioneering punk outfit The Damned make their live debut at London's 100 Club …
1980, Led Zeppelin plays the last show of its European tour at the Eissporthalle in West Berlin … the show turns out to be the band's swan song when a couple of months later John Bonham is found dead … the band had been planning to tour North America next …
1982, Ozzy Osbourne marries his manager Sharon Arden, laying the groundwork for MTV's future entry into the sitcom market …
1984, Epic sets a record by shipping two million copies of The Jacksons album Victory to record stores … the release is the group's only album to feature all six Jackson brothers and is the last to feature Michael, whose solo career is burning brightly …
1990, 2 Live Crew releases the single "Banned in the U.S.A." in response to bluenoses who have targeted the rap group's albums … "Born in the U.S.A." composer Bruce Springsteen gives his blessings to the parody …
1991, over 60 audience members are injured during a Guns N' Roses show in Maryland Heights, Missouri … singer Axl Rose is charged with property damage and third-degree assault for jumping off the stage and attacking a videotaping fan, starting the fracas … a year later he surrenders to authorities …
1993, Mia Zapata, lead singer of Seattle punk band The Gits, is brutally raped and murdered … her case remains unsolved until 2 Seattle Cold Case Squad detectives find a DNA match 10 years later … Cuban-born fisherman Jesus Mazquia, a former Seattle resident living in the Florida Keys is convicted of the crime and sentenced to 37 years in prison …
1998, in a successful effort to prevent reporters from eavesdropping on their wedding ceremony, Barbra Streisand and James Brolin arrange to have the White Zombie album La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One blasted from a van parked outside their Malibu villa at an earsplitting volume …
2001, New Orleans R&B singer Ernie K-Doe dies … he had scored a big hit in 1961 with the song "Mother-in-Law" … ironically, he's laid to rest in a family plot right next to—you guessed it—his mother-in-law …
2002, six postage stamps designed by Paul McCartney go on sale in the Isle of Man … proceeds will go to the Adopt-A-Minefield charity … Bet that went off with a Bang!
2004, excerpts from a forthcoming Record Collector magazine interview with Dave Mustaine reveal his anger over a scene in the Metallica docu-drama Some Kind of Monster … the scene is a confrontation between Mustaine and his former Metallica bandmate, drummer Lars Ulrich … Mustaine maintains that the band agreed to keep the scene out of the final cut of the film, and calls its inclusion a "final betrayal" by his former band … in an interview with mtv.com, Slipknot singer Corey Taylor explains his penchant for incorporating big words into his lyrics … "I'm sorry, but there aren't a lot of smart people out there … I try to throw in as many polysyllabic words (A polysyllabic word has three or more syllables-) as possible … it's very cool to be able to do that and pass down the knowledge" …
2006, the world's biggest concert operation, Live Nation, a former Clear Channel property that spun off in 2005, announces that it will buy out its largest competitor, House of Blues, for $350 million … the resulting merger will pretty much force major touring acts to deal with them … Courtney Love is charged with assault after she belts Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna at a Lollapalooza show in George, Washington … the tempestuous singer is given a one-year suspended sentence and ordered to take anger-management classes … a painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat collectively owned by the members of U2 is auctioned for $10.1 million in London … the painting, titled "Untitled (Pecho/Oreja)" had hung in U2's Dublin studio since 1989 when the band bought it … canny investment lads …
…and that was the week that was.
Arrivals:
July 1: father of gospel music Thomas Dorsey (1899), Alvino Rey (1911), Imperial Records founder Lew Chudd (1911), saxman Earle Warren (1914), Willie Dixon (1915), flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal (1922), singer Bobby Day (1930), harp man James Cotton (1935), Delaney Bramlett (1939), Andraé Crouch (1942), Deborah Harry (1945), June Monteiro of The Toys (1946), Marc Benno (1947), Fred Schneider of The B-52's (1951), Dan Aykroyd (1952), Keith Whitley (1955), Roddy Bottum of Faith No More (1963), Missy Elliott (1971)
July 2: Marvin Rainwater (1925), R&B saxophonist Lee Allen (1926), The Temptations' Paul Williams (1939), Roy Bittan of the E Street Band (1949), Johnny Colla of Huey Lewis and The News (1952), Pete Briquette of The Boomtown Rats (1954), Mike Anger of The Blow Monkeys (1957), Dave Parsons of Bush (1965), Monie Love (1970), Michelle Branch (1983)
July 3: Mississippi John Hurt (1893), David Lynch of The Platters (1929), session guitarist Tommy Tedesco (1930), Fontella Bass (1940), Matthew Fisher of Procol Harum (1946), Betty Buckley (1947), Paul Barrere of Little Feat (1948), Mike Corby of The Babys (1955), Laura Branigan (1957), Stephen Pearcy of Ratt (1956), Vince Clarke of Depeche Mode (1961), Kevin Hearn of Barenaked Ladies (1969), Shane Lynch of Boyzone (1976)
July 4: Louis Armstrong (1900), Champion Jack Dupree (1910), Dave Patillo of The Red Caps (1914), Bill Withers (1938), Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson of Canned Heat (1943), Jeremy Spencer of Fleetwood Mac (1948), Ralph Johnson of Earth, Wind & Fire (1951), John Waite (1955), Kirk Pengilly of INXS (1958), Matt Malley of Counting Crows (1963), Andrew Creeggan of Barenaked Ladies (1971), Stephen McNally of BBMak (1978)
July 5: R&B singer Smiley Lewis (1913), songwriter Ronnie Self who wrote "I’m Sorry," "Sweet Nothings," and "The Letter" (1938), Jaime "Robbie" Robertson of The Band (1944), Huey Lewis (1950)
July 6: Bill Haley (1925), Della Reese (1932), Gene Chandler of "Duke of Earl" fame (1937), country singer-songwriter Jeannie Seely (1940), soul singer Jan Bradley (1943), Rik Elswit of Dr. Hook (1945), Nanci Griffith (1953), Kenny "G" Gorelick (1956), 50 Cent (1976)
July 7: Gustav Mahler (1860), blues pianist Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins (1913), Tiny Grimes (1916), Doc Severinsen (1927), Mary Ford (1928), Joe Zawinul (1932), Ringo Starr (1940), David Hodo of the Village People (1947), Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt of Iron Butterfly (1948), Mark White of Spin Doctors (1962)
Departures:
July 1: Whitesnake guitarist Mel Galley (2008), jazz flutist Herbie Mann (2003), reggae singer Dennis Brown (1999), DJ Wolfman Jack (1995), Phil "Snakefinger" Lithman of The Residents (1987), Rushton Moreve of Steppenwolf (1981), Claude Thornhill (1965), Erik Satie (1925)
July 2: opera diva Beverly Sills (2007), songwriter Hy Zaret (2007), Mark Sandman of Morphine (1999), Marion Williams (1994), Justin Adams (1991), Snooky Lanson (1990), Eddie "Cleanhead" Vincent (1988), Jimmy Ricks of The Ravens (1974)
July 3: saxophonist (Boots Randolph), songwriter-producer Skip Scarborough (2003), Merle Haggard’s long-time guitarist Roy Nichols (2001), country songwriter Johnny Russell (2001), Steve Walsh (1988), Rudy Vallee (1986), R&B pianist Monk Higgins (1986), R&B balladeer Larry Darnell (1983), Mississippi Fred McDowell (1972), Jim Morrison (1971), Brian Jones (1969)
July 4: G&L Guitars co-founder George Fullerton (2009), Bill Pinkney of The Drifters (2007), Barry White (2003), R&B guitarist "Lightning Bug" Rhodes (1990), Donald McPherson of The Main Ingredient (1971)
July 5: jazz/blues singer George Melly (2007), rock critic and Mercury Records executive Paul Nelson (2006), Motown singer and former wife of Stevie Wonder, Syreeta Wright (2004), Houston blues guitar slinger Johnny "Clyde" Copeland (1997), New Orleans R&B singer Ernie K-Doe (2001)
July 6: Byrds bassist Clyde "Skip" Batten (2003), Roy Rogers (1998), jazz bassist Scott LaFaro (1961), "The Hustle" composer Van McCoy (1979), Louis Armstrong (1971)
July 7: Syd Barrett, founder of Pink Floyd, born Roger Keith Barrett (2006), folk singer Fred Neil (2001), Mia Zapata of The Gits (1993)
July 1, 2010
Marshall Opens For Business … Zeppelin Plays Its Swan Song … Sir Paul Goes Postal …
This is the week that was in matters musical…
1956, Elvis Presley appears on The Steve Allen Show … ol' Steverino, being sensitive to criticism that the hip-swiveling teen sensation is unduly arousing the youth of America, decrees that Elvis will not rock out but instead croon "Hound Dog" to an actual hound dog … a basset wearing dress tails … get it? … Johnny Cash appears for the first time on the Grand Ole Opry …
1957, setting off a chain of events that will change the face of modern music, John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time … the encounter takes place at the Woolton Parish Church Garden show at Liverpool's St. Peter's Church … recalling the meeting years later, McCartney says Lennon was drunk … Ray Charles' self-titled debut album is released on Atlantic …
1960, Jim Marshall & Son Musical Instruments has its grand opening at 76 Uxbridge Road, Hanwell, a West End suburb of London … Jim would make his first Marshall JTM 45s here …
1968, following a concert in New York, the Yardbirds break up … shortly thereafter, to fulfill contractual obligations, Jimmy Page forms The New Yardbirds … after finishing up the final Yardbirds tour dates, the band changes its name to Led Zeppelin …
1976, pioneering punk outfit The Damned make their live debut at London's 100 Club …
1980, Led Zeppelin plays the last show of its European tour at the Eissporthalle in West Berlin … the show turns out to be the band's swan song when a couple of months later John Bonham is found dead … the band had been planning to tour North America next …
1982, Ozzy Osbourne marries his manager Sharon Arden, laying the groundwork for MTV's future entry into the sitcom market …
1984, Epic sets a record by shipping two million copies of The Jacksons album Victory to record stores … the release is the group's only album to feature all six Jackson brothers and is the last to feature Michael, whose solo career is burning brightly …
1990, 2 Live Crew releases the single "Banned in the U.S.A." in response to bluenoses who have targeted the rap group's albums … "Born in the U.S.A." composer Bruce Springsteen gives his blessings to the parody …
1991, over 60 audience members are injured during a Guns N' Roses show in Maryland Heights, Missouri … singer Axl Rose is charged with property damage and third-degree assault for jumping off the stage and attacking a videotaping fan, starting the fracas … a year later he surrenders to authorities …
1993, Mia Zapata, lead singer of Seattle punk band The Gits, is brutally raped and murdered … her case remains unsolved until 2 Seattle Cold Case Squad detectives find a DNA match 10 years later … Cuban-born fisherman Jesus Mazquia, a former Seattle resident living in the Florida Keys is convicted of the crime and sentenced to 37 years in prison …
1998, in a successful effort to prevent reporters from eavesdropping on their wedding ceremony, Barbra Streisand and James Brolin arrange to have the White Zombie album La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One blasted from a van parked outside their Malibu villa at an earsplitting volume …
2001, New Orleans R&B singer Ernie K-Doe dies … he had scored a big hit in 1961 with the song "Mother-in-Law" … ironically, he's laid to rest in a family plot right next to—you guessed it—his mother-in-law …
2002, six postage stamps designed by Paul McCartney go on sale in the Isle of Man … proceeds will go to the Adopt-A-Minefield charity … Bet that went off with a Bang!
2004, excerpts from a forthcoming Record Collector magazine interview with Dave Mustaine reveal his anger over a scene in the Metallica docu-drama Some Kind of Monster … the scene is a confrontation between Mustaine and his former Metallica bandmate, drummer Lars Ulrich … Mustaine maintains that the band agreed to keep the scene out of the final cut of the film, and calls its inclusion a "final betrayal" by his former band … in an interview with mtv.com, Slipknot singer Corey Taylor explains his penchant for incorporating big words into his lyrics … "I'm sorry, but there aren't a lot of smart people out there … I try to throw in as many polysyllabic words (A polysyllabic word has three or more syllables-) as possible … it's very cool to be able to do that and pass down the knowledge" …
2006, the world's biggest concert operation, Live Nation, a former Clear Channel property that spun off in 2005, announces that it will buy out its largest competitor, House of Blues, for $350 million … the resulting merger will pretty much force major touring acts to deal with them … Courtney Love is charged with assault after she belts Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna at a Lollapalooza show in George, Washington … the tempestuous singer is given a one-year suspended sentence and ordered to take anger-management classes … a painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat collectively owned by the members of U2 is auctioned for $10.1 million in London … the painting, titled "Untitled (Pecho/Oreja)" had hung in U2's Dublin studio since 1989 when the band bought it … canny investment lads …
…and that was the week that was.
Arrivals:
July 1: father of gospel music Thomas Dorsey (1899), Alvino Rey (1911), Imperial Records founder Lew Chudd (1911), saxman Earle Warren (1914), Willie Dixon (1915), flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal (1922), singer Bobby Day (1930), harp man James Cotton (1935), Delaney Bramlett (1939), Andraé Crouch (1942), Deborah Harry (1945), June Monteiro of The Toys (1946), Marc Benno (1947), Fred Schneider of The B-52's (1951), Dan Aykroyd (1952), Keith Whitley (1955), Roddy Bottum of Faith No More (1963), Missy Elliott (1971)
July 2: Marvin Rainwater (1925), R&B saxophonist Lee Allen (1926), The Temptations' Paul Williams (1939), Roy Bittan of the E Street Band (1949), Johnny Colla of Huey Lewis and The News (1952), Pete Briquette of The Boomtown Rats (1954), Mike Anger of The Blow Monkeys (1957), Dave Parsons of Bush (1965), Monie Love (1970), Michelle Branch (1983)
July 3: Mississippi John Hurt (1893), David Lynch of The Platters (1929), session guitarist Tommy Tedesco (1930), Fontella Bass (1940), Matthew Fisher of Procol Harum (1946), Betty Buckley (1947), Paul Barrere of Little Feat (1948), Mike Corby of The Babys (1955), Laura Branigan (1957), Stephen Pearcy of Ratt (1956), Vince Clarke of Depeche Mode (1961), Kevin Hearn of Barenaked Ladies (1969), Shane Lynch of Boyzone (1976)
July 4: Louis Armstrong (1900), Champion Jack Dupree (1910), Dave Patillo of The Red Caps (1914), Bill Withers (1938), Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson of Canned Heat (1943), Jeremy Spencer of Fleetwood Mac (1948), Ralph Johnson of Earth, Wind & Fire (1951), John Waite (1955), Kirk Pengilly of INXS (1958), Matt Malley of Counting Crows (1963), Andrew Creeggan of Barenaked Ladies (1971), Stephen McNally of BBMak (1978)
July 5: R&B singer Smiley Lewis (1913), songwriter Ronnie Self who wrote "I’m Sorry," "Sweet Nothings," and "The Letter" (1938), Jaime "Robbie" Robertson of The Band (1944), Huey Lewis (1950)
July 6: Bill Haley (1925), Della Reese (1932), Gene Chandler of "Duke of Earl" fame (1937), country singer-songwriter Jeannie Seely (1940), soul singer Jan Bradley (1943), Rik Elswit of Dr. Hook (1945), Nanci Griffith (1953), Kenny "G" Gorelick (1956), 50 Cent (1976)
July 7: Gustav Mahler (1860), blues pianist Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins (1913), Tiny Grimes (1916), Doc Severinsen (1927), Mary Ford (1928), Joe Zawinul (1932), Ringo Starr (1940), David Hodo of the Village People (1947), Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt of Iron Butterfly (1948), Mark White of Spin Doctors (1962)
Departures:
July 1: Whitesnake guitarist Mel Galley (2008), jazz flutist Herbie Mann (2003), reggae singer Dennis Brown (1999), DJ Wolfman Jack (1995), Phil "Snakefinger" Lithman of The Residents (1987), Rushton Moreve of Steppenwolf (1981), Claude Thornhill (1965), Erik Satie (1925)
July 2: opera diva Beverly Sills (2007), songwriter Hy Zaret (2007), Mark Sandman of Morphine (1999), Marion Williams (1994), Justin Adams (1991), Snooky Lanson (1990), Eddie "Cleanhead" Vincent (1988), Jimmy Ricks of The Ravens (1974)
July 3: saxophonist (Boots Randolph), songwriter-producer Skip Scarborough (2003), Merle Haggard’s long-time guitarist Roy Nichols (2001), country songwriter Johnny Russell (2001), Steve Walsh (1988), Rudy Vallee (1986), R&B pianist Monk Higgins (1986), R&B balladeer Larry Darnell (1983), Mississippi Fred McDowell (1972), Jim Morrison (1971), Brian Jones (1969)
July 4: G&L Guitars co-founder George Fullerton (2009), Bill Pinkney of The Drifters (2007), Barry White (2003), R&B guitarist "Lightning Bug" Rhodes (1990), Donald McPherson of The Main Ingredient (1971)
July 5: jazz/blues singer George Melly (2007), rock critic and Mercury Records executive Paul Nelson (2006), Motown singer and former wife of Stevie Wonder, Syreeta Wright (2004), Houston blues guitar slinger Johnny "Clyde" Copeland (1997), New Orleans R&B singer Ernie K-Doe (2001)
July 6: Byrds bassist Clyde "Skip" Batten (2003), Roy Rogers (1998), jazz bassist Scott LaFaro (1961), "The Hustle" composer Van McCoy (1979), Louis Armstrong (1971)
July 7: Syd Barrett, founder of Pink Floyd, born Roger Keith Barrett (2006), folk singer Fred Neil (2001), Mia Zapata of The Gits (1993)
Week In Review
July 8, 2010
Jimi Joins Monkees … "Born To Be Wild" Born … NY in Bon Jovial Mood …
1954, Elvis Presley's career comes to a crashing end—his career as a truck driver that is … he signs his first contract with Sun Records …
1955, "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets becomes the first rock-and-roll record to hit #1 on the national pop charts …
1962, The Rolling Stones play out for the first time at the Marquee Club in London … Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Ian Stewart, Mick Avory, and Dick Taylor constitute the lineup …
1967, in one of the strangest rock and roll pairings ever, the Jimi Hendrix Experience joins The Monkees' North American tour in Jacksonville, FL … the teenybopper crowds don't know what to make of Hendrix's wild performances, resulting in the Experience leaving the tour after only a few dates …
1968, Steppenwolf releases the ultimate biker anthem "Born To Be Wild" …
1969, Blind Faith makes their American concert debut at Madison Square Garden in New York City … Elvis Presley's cool comes to a crashing end as the heavily sequined King plays to a packed house at the International Hotel in Vegas … not being one to let an opportunity pass, manager Colonel Parker works out a multi-year, multimillion-dollar contract covering return engagements … the terms are jotted down on a tablecloth in the hotel's coffee shop …
1973, The Everly Brothers arrive at an ignominious career low when the sweet-harmonizing siblings' set at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, is stopped by the theme park's entertainment director who feels Don is doing a poor job … brother Phil sees red, smashes his guitar, and stalks offstage … ironically, Don performs the third set as a solo and announces that the Everly Brothers are history … Clarence White, singer and guitarist for the Byrds, is run down and killed by a drunk driver while loading equipment after a gig in Palmdale, California …
1974, Crosby, Stills, and Nash start their reunion tour in Seattle …
1977, just like his namesake, Elvis Costello's career comes to a crashing end—his career as a computer operator at a cosmetic factory, that is … ignoring the advice given to all rock star hopefuls, Elvis quits his day job to enter rock history …
1985, more than 50 acts perform to raise money for starving Africans in two simultaneous events named Live Aid … one is broadcast from Philadelphia, the other from London … the lineup includes such luminaries as Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Ozzy Osbourne, Elton John, David Bowie, The Who, Queen, Joan Baez, Tina Turner, Patti LaBelle, The Pretenders, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Black Sabbath, and many more …
1995, Jerry Garcia plays his final show with The Grateful Dead … the guitarist, vocalist and founder of the band will die of a heart attack a month later while in a California rehab center …
1998, a Los Angeles judge issues a bench warrant for Scott Weiland when the Stone Temple Pilots singer fails to appear in court for a second time on drug possession charges … in what's becoming a bad week for Weiland, he's sentenced to three years' probation and a stint in rehab this same week in 2004 for a DUI arrest the previous October …
1999, Limp Bizkit leader Fred Durst is arrested in St. Paul, MN, for suspicion of aggravated assault following the band's show at the Roy Wilkins Auditorium … during the performance, Durst's bodyguard attempts to remove a fan who had jumped onstage … venue security mistook the bodyguard for an unruly fan and attempted to remove him from the stage … at this point Durst allegedly kicked one of the guards in the head …
2002, the surviving members of The Doors announce that they will be joined by The Cult singer Ian Astbury at an upcoming concert at the California Motor Speedway …
2003, Jack White of The White Stripes breaks his finger in a car wreck in his hometown of Detroit … as a result of the injury, the band must cancel two European performances and reschedule their North American tour … White spends his recuperation time producing an album for country star Loretta Lynn and posts a video clip of his finger surgery on the band's website to prove the injury's not a publicity stunt …
2006, in a sorry commentary on the state of pop music sales and the vapidity of the product being crammed down the throats of the music-buying public, the soundtrack to Disney's High School Musical scores top-seller status through the first half of 2006 with 2.6 million discs sold, while the industry continues to struggle with overall CD sales down four percent … rap and rock are the biggest losers while digital downloads offer a ray of hope with a 77-percent increase … but the online business consists mostly of sales of singles and the profit margins for the record companies and artists are much slimmer … country music is an exception posting a 17-percent increase in disc sales … The Grateful Dead cut a long-term deal with Rhino Records to handle the band's vast archive of live-show recordings and market Dead-related merch … Rhino executive vice president Gregg Goldman promises the label will be selective in the deals it makes with potential advertisers averring that, "We are sensitive to the legacy. We would never pitch to The Grateful Dead that they should do a deal with a fast food company or a soda company." …
2008, Bon Jovi treats a crowd of 60,000 to a two-hour set of hits on Central Park's Great Lawn … three days later, the Jersey band wraps up its Lost Highway tour after grossing $56 million, making it the biggest money-maker of the festival season … the drumhead from the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band brings in $1.1 million at an auction in London … other items sold at Christie's include the guitar on which Pete Townshend composed "Behind Blue Eyes" that fetches $27,000; some multicolored pants worn by Jimi Hendrix go for $40,000; and John Lennon's tinted prescription sunglasses fetch $78,000 …
…and that was the week that was.
Arrivals:
July 8: Louis Jordan (1908), Billy Eckstein (1914), pioneering rock 'n' roll pianist Johnnie Jones (1924), Earl Van Dyke (1930), Big Dee Irwin of The Pastels (1939), Jai Johnny Johanson of the Allman Brothers Band (1944), Prince (1958), Andy Fletcher of Depeche Mode (1961), Toby Keith (1961), Joan Osborne (1962), Beck (1970)
July 9: jump blues singer Joe Liggins (1916), producer Lee Hazelwood (1929), Phil Leavitt of The Diamonds (1935), Donald McPherson of the Main Ingredient (1941), drummer Mitch Mitchell of The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1946), Bon Scott of AC/DC (1946), Debbie Sledge of Sister Sledge (1954), Soft Cell's Marc Almond (1959), Jim Kerr of Simple Minds (1959), singer-songwriter Courtney Love (1965)
July 10: composer-music educator Carl Orff (1895), Arkansas blues slide guitarist Casey Bill Weldon (1909), heavy metal shrieker Ronnie James Dio (1942), Jerry Miller of Moby Grape (1943), Arlo Guthrie of "Alice’s Restaurant" fame and son of Woody Guthrie (1947), Dave Smalley of The Raspberries (1949), Greg Kihn, singer-songwriter-guitarist and frontman of the Greg Kihn Band (1950), Neil Tennant of The Pet Shop Boys (1954), banjo-meister Bela Fleck of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (1958), Peter DiStefano of Porno for Pyros (1965), pop singer Jessica Simpson (1980)
July 11: blues guitarist Blind Lemon Jefferson (1897), actor-singer Tab Hunter (1931), R&B singer Thurston Harris (1931), Jeff Hanna of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1947), Bonnie Pointer of The Pointer Sisters (1950), Benny DeFranco of The DeFranco Family (1954), singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega (1959), Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi (1960), rapper Li'l Kim (1975)
July 12: lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895), Barbara Cowsill, mother and member of The Cowsills (1928), concert pianist Van Cliburn (1934), KISS drummer Eric Carr (1950), Chicago electric blues guitarist Sammy Lawhorne (1935), singer-keyboardist Christine VcVie of Fleetwood Mac (1943), Liz Mitchell of Boney M (1952), Phillip Taylor Kramer, bassist with Iron Butterfly (1952), singer Sandi Patti (1956), Soul Asylum's Dan Murphy (1962), UB40's Alan Duval (1963), John Petrucci of Dream Theater (1967)
July 13: Cajun artist Joe Berry, born Joseph Barrios (1939), drummer Steven Jo Bladd of the J. Geils Band (1942), Roger McGuinn of The Byrds (1942), comedian Cheech Marin (how’d he get in here?), who sang on the hidden track of Korn’s Follow the Leader (oh, that’s how) (1946), country singer and multi-instrumentalist, Louise Mandrell (1954), Mark Mendoza of Twisted Sister (1956), rock journalist and movie maker Cameron Crowe (1957), R&B singer Gerald Levert, son of O’Jays lead singer Eddie Levert (1966), Coldplay's Will Champion (1978)
July 14: American folk legend Woody Guthrie (1912), influential Atlanta DJ Zenas "Daddy" Sears (1913), Cliff Trenier of ’50s doo-wop group, The Treniers (1919), Lowman Pauling of The "5" Royales (1926), Bob Scholl, member of The Mello-Kings (1938), expatriate British rocker Vince Taylor, role model for Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust (1939), Detroit soul singer Ty Hunter (1940), Trevor Horn of Buggles and Yes (1949), singer-songwriter Christopher Cross (1952), singer, songwriter, and guitarist Tanya Donelly of Belly (1966), keyboardist-vocalist Ellen Reid of Crash Test Dummies (1966), singer-songwriter Tameka "Tiny" Cottle of Xscape (1975), rapper Taboo of Black Eyed Peas, born Jaime Luis Gómez (1975)
Departures:
July 8: drummer Chaino (1999), Shiva singer Louise Dean (1995), Nico of The Velvet Underground (1988)
July 9: for one day in rock history, everybody lives!
July 10: music journalist, producer, and talent scout who discovered Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Hammond Sr. (1987), Boston Pops Orchestra conductor Arthur Fiedler (1979), "Jelly Roll" Morton, born Ferdinand Joseph Lemott (1941)
July 11: James Hill of The Fairfield Four (2000), Helen Forrest, popular big band jazz vocalist who worked with Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Harry James (1999), Louis Gottlieb, bassist and lofty comic spokesman for The Limeliters (1996), Afro-Cuban jazz maestro Mario Bauza (1993), Hubert Johnson of The Contours (1981), composer George Gershwin (1937)
July 12: rapper Luis "Papo" Deschamps of Sandy Y Papo (1999), Jimmie Driftwood, born James Corbett Morris, the "Father of Arkansas Folk Music" (1998), Jonathan Melvoin of the Smashing Pumpkins (1996), Chris Wood of Traffic (1983), singer-songwriter Minnie Riperton, known for her 5-1/2 octave range (1979)
July 13: Arthur "Killer" Kane, New York Dolls bassist (2004), Compay Segundo, Cuban musician featured on the Buena Vista Social Club CD (2003), Chicago blues pianist Eddie Boyd (1994)
July 14: Beryl Bryden, dubbed the "British Queen of the Blues" (1998), Phillippe Wynne of the Spinners (1984), Malcolm Owen of the Rutts (1980), progressive country guitarist Clarence White of The Byrds (1973)
July 8, 2010
Jimi Joins Monkees … "Born To Be Wild" Born … NY in Bon Jovial Mood …
1954, Elvis Presley's career comes to a crashing end—his career as a truck driver that is … he signs his first contract with Sun Records …
1955, "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets becomes the first rock-and-roll record to hit #1 on the national pop charts …
1962, The Rolling Stones play out for the first time at the Marquee Club in London … Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Ian Stewart, Mick Avory, and Dick Taylor constitute the lineup …
1967, in one of the strangest rock and roll pairings ever, the Jimi Hendrix Experience joins The Monkees' North American tour in Jacksonville, FL … the teenybopper crowds don't know what to make of Hendrix's wild performances, resulting in the Experience leaving the tour after only a few dates …
1968, Steppenwolf releases the ultimate biker anthem "Born To Be Wild" …
1969, Blind Faith makes their American concert debut at Madison Square Garden in New York City … Elvis Presley's cool comes to a crashing end as the heavily sequined King plays to a packed house at the International Hotel in Vegas … not being one to let an opportunity pass, manager Colonel Parker works out a multi-year, multimillion-dollar contract covering return engagements … the terms are jotted down on a tablecloth in the hotel's coffee shop …
1973, The Everly Brothers arrive at an ignominious career low when the sweet-harmonizing siblings' set at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, is stopped by the theme park's entertainment director who feels Don is doing a poor job … brother Phil sees red, smashes his guitar, and stalks offstage … ironically, Don performs the third set as a solo and announces that the Everly Brothers are history … Clarence White, singer and guitarist for the Byrds, is run down and killed by a drunk driver while loading equipment after a gig in Palmdale, California …
1974, Crosby, Stills, and Nash start their reunion tour in Seattle …
1977, just like his namesake, Elvis Costello's career comes to a crashing end—his career as a computer operator at a cosmetic factory, that is … ignoring the advice given to all rock star hopefuls, Elvis quits his day job to enter rock history …
1985, more than 50 acts perform to raise money for starving Africans in two simultaneous events named Live Aid … one is broadcast from Philadelphia, the other from London … the lineup includes such luminaries as Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Ozzy Osbourne, Elton John, David Bowie, The Who, Queen, Joan Baez, Tina Turner, Patti LaBelle, The Pretenders, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Black Sabbath, and many more …
1995, Jerry Garcia plays his final show with The Grateful Dead … the guitarist, vocalist and founder of the band will die of a heart attack a month later while in a California rehab center …
1998, a Los Angeles judge issues a bench warrant for Scott Weiland when the Stone Temple Pilots singer fails to appear in court for a second time on drug possession charges … in what's becoming a bad week for Weiland, he's sentenced to three years' probation and a stint in rehab this same week in 2004 for a DUI arrest the previous October …
1999, Limp Bizkit leader Fred Durst is arrested in St. Paul, MN, for suspicion of aggravated assault following the band's show at the Roy Wilkins Auditorium … during the performance, Durst's bodyguard attempts to remove a fan who had jumped onstage … venue security mistook the bodyguard for an unruly fan and attempted to remove him from the stage … at this point Durst allegedly kicked one of the guards in the head …
2002, the surviving members of The Doors announce that they will be joined by The Cult singer Ian Astbury at an upcoming concert at the California Motor Speedway …
2003, Jack White of The White Stripes breaks his finger in a car wreck in his hometown of Detroit … as a result of the injury, the band must cancel two European performances and reschedule their North American tour … White spends his recuperation time producing an album for country star Loretta Lynn and posts a video clip of his finger surgery on the band's website to prove the injury's not a publicity stunt …
2006, in a sorry commentary on the state of pop music sales and the vapidity of the product being crammed down the throats of the music-buying public, the soundtrack to Disney's High School Musical scores top-seller status through the first half of 2006 with 2.6 million discs sold, while the industry continues to struggle with overall CD sales down four percent … rap and rock are the biggest losers while digital downloads offer a ray of hope with a 77-percent increase … but the online business consists mostly of sales of singles and the profit margins for the record companies and artists are much slimmer … country music is an exception posting a 17-percent increase in disc sales … The Grateful Dead cut a long-term deal with Rhino Records to handle the band's vast archive of live-show recordings and market Dead-related merch … Rhino executive vice president Gregg Goldman promises the label will be selective in the deals it makes with potential advertisers averring that, "We are sensitive to the legacy. We would never pitch to The Grateful Dead that they should do a deal with a fast food company or a soda company." …
2008, Bon Jovi treats a crowd of 60,000 to a two-hour set of hits on Central Park's Great Lawn … three days later, the Jersey band wraps up its Lost Highway tour after grossing $56 million, making it the biggest money-maker of the festival season … the drumhead from the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band brings in $1.1 million at an auction in London … other items sold at Christie's include the guitar on which Pete Townshend composed "Behind Blue Eyes" that fetches $27,000; some multicolored pants worn by Jimi Hendrix go for $40,000; and John Lennon's tinted prescription sunglasses fetch $78,000 …
…and that was the week that was.
Arrivals:
July 8: Louis Jordan (1908), Billy Eckstein (1914), pioneering rock 'n' roll pianist Johnnie Jones (1924), Earl Van Dyke (1930), Big Dee Irwin of The Pastels (1939), Jai Johnny Johanson of the Allman Brothers Band (1944), Prince (1958), Andy Fletcher of Depeche Mode (1961), Toby Keith (1961), Joan Osborne (1962), Beck (1970)
July 9: jump blues singer Joe Liggins (1916), producer Lee Hazelwood (1929), Phil Leavitt of The Diamonds (1935), Donald McPherson of the Main Ingredient (1941), drummer Mitch Mitchell of The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1946), Bon Scott of AC/DC (1946), Debbie Sledge of Sister Sledge (1954), Soft Cell's Marc Almond (1959), Jim Kerr of Simple Minds (1959), singer-songwriter Courtney Love (1965)
July 10: composer-music educator Carl Orff (1895), Arkansas blues slide guitarist Casey Bill Weldon (1909), heavy metal shrieker Ronnie James Dio (1942), Jerry Miller of Moby Grape (1943), Arlo Guthrie of "Alice’s Restaurant" fame and son of Woody Guthrie (1947), Dave Smalley of The Raspberries (1949), Greg Kihn, singer-songwriter-guitarist and frontman of the Greg Kihn Band (1950), Neil Tennant of The Pet Shop Boys (1954), banjo-meister Bela Fleck of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (1958), Peter DiStefano of Porno for Pyros (1965), pop singer Jessica Simpson (1980)
July 11: blues guitarist Blind Lemon Jefferson (1897), actor-singer Tab Hunter (1931), R&B singer Thurston Harris (1931), Jeff Hanna of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1947), Bonnie Pointer of The Pointer Sisters (1950), Benny DeFranco of The DeFranco Family (1954), singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega (1959), Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi (1960), rapper Li'l Kim (1975)
July 12: lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895), Barbara Cowsill, mother and member of The Cowsills (1928), concert pianist Van Cliburn (1934), KISS drummer Eric Carr (1950), Chicago electric blues guitarist Sammy Lawhorne (1935), singer-keyboardist Christine VcVie of Fleetwood Mac (1943), Liz Mitchell of Boney M (1952), Phillip Taylor Kramer, bassist with Iron Butterfly (1952), singer Sandi Patti (1956), Soul Asylum's Dan Murphy (1962), UB40's Alan Duval (1963), John Petrucci of Dream Theater (1967)
July 13: Cajun artist Joe Berry, born Joseph Barrios (1939), drummer Steven Jo Bladd of the J. Geils Band (1942), Roger McGuinn of The Byrds (1942), comedian Cheech Marin (how’d he get in here?), who sang on the hidden track of Korn’s Follow the Leader (oh, that’s how) (1946), country singer and multi-instrumentalist, Louise Mandrell (1954), Mark Mendoza of Twisted Sister (1956), rock journalist and movie maker Cameron Crowe (1957), R&B singer Gerald Levert, son of O’Jays lead singer Eddie Levert (1966), Coldplay's Will Champion (1978)
July 14: American folk legend Woody Guthrie (1912), influential Atlanta DJ Zenas "Daddy" Sears (1913), Cliff Trenier of ’50s doo-wop group, The Treniers (1919), Lowman Pauling of The "5" Royales (1926), Bob Scholl, member of The Mello-Kings (1938), expatriate British rocker Vince Taylor, role model for Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust (1939), Detroit soul singer Ty Hunter (1940), Trevor Horn of Buggles and Yes (1949), singer-songwriter Christopher Cross (1952), singer, songwriter, and guitarist Tanya Donelly of Belly (1966), keyboardist-vocalist Ellen Reid of Crash Test Dummies (1966), singer-songwriter Tameka "Tiny" Cottle of Xscape (1975), rapper Taboo of Black Eyed Peas, born Jaime Luis Gómez (1975)
Departures:
July 8: drummer Chaino (1999), Shiva singer Louise Dean (1995), Nico of The Velvet Underground (1988)
July 9: for one day in rock history, everybody lives!
July 10: music journalist, producer, and talent scout who discovered Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Hammond Sr. (1987), Boston Pops Orchestra conductor Arthur Fiedler (1979), "Jelly Roll" Morton, born Ferdinand Joseph Lemott (1941)
July 11: James Hill of The Fairfield Four (2000), Helen Forrest, popular big band jazz vocalist who worked with Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Harry James (1999), Louis Gottlieb, bassist and lofty comic spokesman for The Limeliters (1996), Afro-Cuban jazz maestro Mario Bauza (1993), Hubert Johnson of The Contours (1981), composer George Gershwin (1937)
July 12: rapper Luis "Papo" Deschamps of Sandy Y Papo (1999), Jimmie Driftwood, born James Corbett Morris, the "Father of Arkansas Folk Music" (1998), Jonathan Melvoin of the Smashing Pumpkins (1996), Chris Wood of Traffic (1983), singer-songwriter Minnie Riperton, known for her 5-1/2 octave range (1979)
July 13: Arthur "Killer" Kane, New York Dolls bassist (2004), Compay Segundo, Cuban musician featured on the Buena Vista Social Club CD (2003), Chicago blues pianist Eddie Boyd (1994)
July 14: Beryl Bryden, dubbed the "British Queen of the Blues" (1998), Phillippe Wynne of the Spinners (1984), Malcolm Owen of the Rutts (1980), progressive country guitarist Clarence White of The Byrds (1973)