Re:Chas's Music Column - Bumber December Issue W/E 15th, 22nd & 29thr

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Wed Feb 08, 2012 3:11 pm

Ok this has now run for 2 years and is getting repetitive as such I shall now mainly post when significant changes occur


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Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:33 pm

Yeah, yeah, yeah....get back to work on the column! :)


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Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:25 pm

haoli25 wrote:
Yeah, yeah, yeah....get back to work on the column! :)
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Tue Apr 24, 2012 6:01 am

Hmmm sorry my sources have dried up?


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Tue Apr 24, 2012 6:06 am

Additionally I can't find on the site my daily history column anymore any ideas team?


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Fri Jul 25, 2014 11:19 pm

Back by popular demand !! Actually got more time on my hands now again lol and also found a new site that has this stuff.

This Week in Music History: Troubled Tours…Curse of the Dead Keyboardists…Beyonce’s Blunders

The Events That Rocked Music—The Week of July 21

1958: Esso Oil puts out a report warning that tuning into rock ‘n’ roll on the car radio can cost you money…their researchers claim that listening to that syncopated beat turns drivers into leadfoots…

1963: The Beatles make their U.S. album debut with Introducing The Beatles distributed by Vee-Jay, a small Midwest label known for its blues, R&B, and doo-wop acts…

1964: In a sign of things to come, a riot breaks out after Keith Richards aims a kick at a yahoo in the crowd who’s spitting at the band during a Blackpool, UK Rolling Stones show…two policemen and 30 fans are injured in the fracas…

1965: Some of the crowd at the Newport Folk Festival turns surly when Bob Dylan, backed by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, delivers an abbreviated electrified set...the performance is met with a mixture of applause and booing...Dylan promptly leaves the stage only to be coaxed back to perform a couple of acoustic tunes ... the audience’s hostility is the subject of dispute...some say that folks purists in the crowd were put off by Dylan’s conversion to rock while others maintain that a crappy, highly distorted PA was to blame...Pete Seeger recalls how went to the sound booth and told the technicians, "Get that distortion out of his voice ... It's terrible. If I had an axe, I'd chop the microphone cable right now"...

1968: The Byrds begin a tour of South Africa minus Gram Parsons who quit the band in protest of its playing in a country that promotes state-sponsored segregation…

1969: Neil Young joins Crosby, Stills, and Nash onstage at the Fillmore East in New York leading to an an on-and-off membership in the group over the next three decades…

1971: John and Yoko work on video footage for Lennon’s “Imagine”…scenes include the couple taking a misty walk on their estate’s grounds and Lennon playing the song accompanying himself on a white piano in an all-white room…

1972: Drummer Bobby Ramirez of the Edgar Winter backing band, White Trash, dies in a Chicago bar fight that’s triggered by jeers about his long hair…

1973: The Buxton Festival in Derbyshire, England draws a big crowd including hundreds of Hell’s Angels…the bikers shake down the crowd for booze money and one Angel gets up onstage where he receives a tutorial on how to do the duck-walk by Chuck Berry who’s about 20 minutes into his set…demonstrating the technique, Berry performs the move across the entire stage and into the wings, then keeps going all the way to his car in which he high-tails it off of the festival grounds at speed…

1974: Graffiti artists are hired to tag sites all over London advertising the Stone’s new single, “It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll”…

1976: John Lennon receives his green card from U.S. immigration authorities more than three years after he was ordered to leave the country…Tina Turner files for divorce against her husband and violent svengali, Ike, after 16 punishing years of marriage…

1977: Judas Priest begins its first U.S. tour in Oakland, CA as the opening act for Led Zeppelin…that same week Led Zep drummer John Bonham along with manager Peter Grant and a bodyguard are charged with assault on a security employee at the Oakland Coliseum…the trio pleads guilty to a misdemeanor and the civil suit that follows is settled out of court to the tune of $2 million…the ill-fated tour ends soon after when Robert Plant’s son dies of a viral illness in England…

1978: The film version of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band featuring the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton opens to unanimously hostile reviews…the celluloid stinker ends up losing a pile…

1979: Little Richard, who for the time-being has given up the stage for a ministerial career, tells his congregation,”If God can save an old homosexual like me, he can save anybody”…

1980: Back In Black, the new album from AC/DC is released...it is the band’s first album with new singer Brian Johnson...Johnson joined the band after the untimely, alcohol-driven death of singer Bon Scott, and the album is a Scott tribute of sorts...released just five months after Scott’s death, the disc races up the charts...by 1997 it had sold 16 million copies in the U.S. alone…

1986: Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer” is No 1 on the singles chart…the song’s eye-popping video is an equally big hit and remains the all time most-aired video on MTV…

1987: Guns N’ Roses debut album, Appetite For Destruction, is released…while it’s considered a landmark album now, it won’t start selling well or receiving much airplay until MTV puts the video for “Sweet Child o’ Mine” into heavy rotation nearly a year later… after the ballad shoots to the top of the charts, the original lead single from the album “Welcome to the Jungle” is re-released and hits the top ten…the single “Paradise City” soon follows, as do sold-out arena tours, rock star excess, and large helpings of intra-band conflict…

1989: Ringo Starr embarks on his first post Beatle-breakup tour…ace backup includes Billy Preston on keys, guitarist Joe Walsh, and the Springsteen band’s Clarence Clemons on sax…

1990: Grateful Dead keyboard player Brent Mydland dies of an overdose at age 38…the keyboard slot for the Dead is proving to be as dangerous an occupation as that of drummers in Spinal Tap…Mydland replaced Keith Godchaux who died in an auto wreck in 1979, who had replaced original Dead keyboardist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan in 1973 who died of alcoholism…

1992: Bruce Springsteen opens his first U.S. tour since 1988 in New Jersey (natch) at The Meadowlands...he and the E-Street boys will play 11 sold-out shows with some going until one in the morning...it’s good to be the Boss…

1993: a bullet grazes singer Eric Tallman’s head as he performs with his band Erotic Exotic at New York night club Danceteria...no motive or suspect is ever found…this same week British reggae band UB40 enjoys the start of a seven-week run at the top of the pop chart with their single “Can’t Help Falling in Love”…the much-covered tune was a hit for Elvis in 1960…

1994: The late Frank Zappa has an asteroid that orbits between Mars and Jupiter named after him…

1995: The Ramones release their fourteenth and final studio album, Adios Amigos…

1996: Scots singer-songwriter Donovan is forced to scrap his U.S. comeback tour when a 30-year-old pot conviction comes back to bite him…the bust prevents him from getting a work permit and visa…

1998: This is a week for troubled rock tours: Iron Maiden announces it will cancel the remainder of its U.S. tour because vocalist Blaze Bayley is suffering from shredded vocal chords and has been advised by a doctor to keep his mouth shut for the next month...Aerosmith cancels the first 13 dates of its U.S. tour after drummer Joey Kramer suffers second-degree burns in a freak gas-station fire...this is the second crimp in the band’s tour plans...in April dates had to be scrapped on account of Steven Tyler’s knee injury…

1999: All hell breaks loose at Woodstock 99, the ill-fated revival of the '60 rock festival…during a set by the Red Hot Chili Peppers bonfires fueled by paper plates and pizza boxes incinerate a remote sound tower…ironically, many of the fires are touched off by candles distributed by a peace advocacy group…sexual assaults, looting, water shortages, and overflowing portable toilets contribute to a horrific rock 'n' roll weekend…

2000: The Aiken County, South Carolina sheriff's office finally catches up with James Brown who's been touring overseas ...utility worker Russell Eubanks had filed a complaint that Brown threatened him while brandishing a steak knife when Eubanks came to Brown's home to respond to a power outage report...after two hours of questioning, the sheriff's office reports that Brown was "very cooperative" and was not arrested...police records reveal Brown thought Eubanks was an intruder and that racial slurs were exchanged…

2002: Former members of R&B group Destiny’s Child, LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson who left the group in 2000, settle their libel case against the group out of court…the suit revolves around an agreement after their parting that prohibits “any public comment of a disparaging nature concerning one another”…the legal beef is based on the song “Survivor” that includes the lyrics, “You thought that I'd be stressed without you, but I'm chillin/You thought I wouldn't sell without you, sold nine million”…

2003: In typically flamboyant fashion, Godfather of Soul James Brown announces his separation from his fourth wife by taking out an ad in Variety that features the soul singer, his estranged wife, and two-year-old son posing with Goofy in a photo taken at Disneyland… this same week Coldplay frontman Chris Martin is charged with malicious damage in Australia after he smashes the windshield and deflates the tires of a car of a journalist who’s been shadowing him…

2005: After being scratched in 2004, a revived Lollapalooza reincarnated as a two-day festival with corporate sponsorship pulls in 66,000 fans at Grant Park in Chicago...this same week, In a settlement over payola charges brought by crusading New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Sony BMG Music Entertainment coughs up $10 million...Spitzer’s investigation reveals the label had plied major stations with cash and gifts in return for airplay…evidence includes emails in which the record company solicited airplay in return for cash...one particularly damning message from an Epic record plugger to a Clear Channel programmer reads, “What do I have to do to get Audioslave on WKSS this week?!!?. Whatever you can dream up, I can make it happen!!!”...

2006: Johnny Cash’s album American V: A Hundred Highways places at No 1 on the U.S. album chart…the record was released posthumously on July 4…

2007: A video clip of Beyonce tripping head-first down a flight of stairs during an Orlando, Florida show goes viral on YouTube within hours of the concert…

2008: Rapper 50 Cent sues Taco Bell for $4 million after the fast-food chain uses his name in an ad offering him $10,000 to change his name to 79, 89, or 99 Cent...this same week Rapper Lil Wayne is sued by Abkco Music who owns the rights to the Stones’ song “Play With Fire” after he releases his mashup “Playing With Fire” without the publishers consent...meanwhile this week, Kid Rock’s album Rock N Roll Jesus is riding high at #4 on the pop chart, but it took a while to get there...the record was released the previous October but didn’t catch fire until the following summer with its radio-friendly single “All Summer Long,” a sort of mashup of Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London” and Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama”...one of the few holdouts who has refused to sell his music as digital downloads, Rock’s strategy seems to be paying off with fans snapping up the CD in order to get the single…this same week Rock draws a $1000 fine and year’s probation for getting into a fight with a waffle restaurant patron in 2007…

2009: Brad Paisley, Alison Krauss, and Charley Pride pay a call on the Obama White House for a country concert…recalling the visit Paisley says, “I just wandered around looking at the paintings. Then I went into the bathroom and swiped the paper towels with the White House insignias”…that same week Bob Dylan goes for a pre-show stroll in Lakewood, New Jersey and is collared by a policewoman after callers say he’s acting suspiciously…because he has no ID on him and the cop hasn’t a clue who he is, hotel employees end up identifying America’s most important singer-songwriter…

2010: Kings of Leon are forced to end a concert in St. Louis after playing just three songs when a pigeon poops in bassist Jared Followill's mouth…

2013: Like a trouper, Beyonce keeps the show rolling in Montreal after her long tresses become entangled in a fan at the side of the stage…she keeps singing while venue staff work to get her freed…

This Week’s Hatches...

July 21: jazz and blues artist Floyd McDaniel (1915), pop singer Kay Starr (1922), R&B saxophonist Plas Johnson (1931), offbeat pop producer and impresario Kim Fowley (1939), Herman’s Hermits drummer Barry Whitwam (1946), singer-songwriter Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam (1947), Howie Epstein of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1955), Emerson Hart of Tonic (1969), Faith No More guitarist Jim Martin (1969), East 17 vocalist Terry Caldwell (1974)

July 22: producer Bob Thiele (1922), pop singer Margaret Whiting (1924), jazz bassist Keter Betts (1928), pop singer Thomas Wayne (1940), funk pioneer George Clinton (1940), singer Keith Sweat (1941), Estelle Bennett of The Ronettes (1944), teen idol Bobby Sherman (1944), Supertramp singer and keyboardist Rick Davies (1944), Don Henley of The Eagles (1947), drummer Roger Taylor of Queen (1949), jazz and fusion guitarist Al Di Meola (1954), Indigo Girls’ Emily Saliers (1963), bassist Pat Badger of Extreme (1967), singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright (1973), Daniel Jones of Savage Garden (1973)

July 23: Cleve Duncan of The Penguins (1935), Joe Santolio of The Duprees (1943), swamp rocker Tony Joe White (1943), Dino Danelli of The Young Rascals (1945), reeds player Andy Mackay of Roxy Music (1946), Fabulous Thunderbirds bassist Keith Ferguson (1947), UK singer David Essex (1947), Blair Thornton of Bachman Turner Overdrive (1950), Manhattan Transfer singer Janis Siegel (1952), Depeche Mode's Martin Gore (1961), Tim Kellett of Simply Red (1964), Megadeth drummer Nick Menza (1964), rock guitarist Slash born Saul Hudson (1965), Sam Watters of Color Me Badd (1970), Alison Krauss (1971), Chad Gracey of Live (1973), Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child (1980), drummer Steve 'Stevo 32' Jocz of Sum 41 (1980)

July 24: Rudy Collins of The Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (1934), Tornados singer/bassist Heinz Burt (1942), Jim Armstrong of Them (1944), Marmalade drummer Alan Whitehead (1947), country singer Pam Tillis (1957), Jennifer Lopez (1970), Mecca of Digable Planets (1973)

July 25: Rudy West of The Five Keys (1932), Manuel Charlton of Nazareth (1941), drummer Jim McCarty of The Yardbirds (1943), Tom Dawes of Cyrkle (1944), percussionist Jose Chepito Areas of Santana (1946), singer-songwriter Steve Goodman (1947), Mark Clarke of Uriah Heep (1950), singer/bassist Verdine White of Earth, Wind & Fire (1951), session guitarist Hiram Bullock (1955), Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth (1958)

July 26: jazz drummer Louis Bellson (1924), Darlene Love of The Crystals (1938), pop-soul singer Bobby Hebb (1938), Sir Mick Jagger (1943), singer Dobie Gray (1943), Gary Cherone of Extreme (1961), Andy Connell of Swing Out Sister (1961), Miranda Joyce of The Belle Stars (1962), session drummer Scott Crago (1963), Sum 41 guitarist Dave 'Brown Sound' Baksh (1980)

July 27: country yodeler Elton Britt (1912), Harvey Fuqua of The Moonglows (1928), Nick Reynolds of The Kingston Trio (1933), Elsberry Hobbs of The Drifters (1936), country singer Bobbie Gentry (1944), Al Ramsey of Gary Lewis and the Playboys (1946), singer Maureen McGovern (1949), drummer Simon Kirke of Bad Company (1949), bassist Conway Savage of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds (1960), Karl Mueller of Soul Asylum (1963), bassist Rex Brown of Pantera (1964), Headliner of Arrested Development (1967), singer-songwriter and guitarist Juliana Hatfield (1967), singer-songwriter Pete Yorn (1974)

This Week’s Dispatches

July 21: songwriter and arranger Bert Keyes (1980), Frankie “Cannibal” Garcia of Cannibal and The Headhunters (1996), Elvis manager Colonel Tom Parker (1997), gospel singer O'Landa Draper (1998), producer Gus Dudgeon (2002), composer Jerry Goldsmith (2004), British blues pioneer Long John Baldry (2005), co-founder of New Riders of the Purple Sage John “Marmaduke” Dawson (2009)

July 22: country-pop entertainer Larry Finnegan (1973), jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt (1982), Jimmy Keyes of The Chords (1995), jazz and blues artist Floyd McDaniel (1995), Charlatans keyboardist Rob Collins (1996), singer Tamara Danz (1996), Megadeth drummer Gar Samuelson (1999), jazz tenor saxman Illinois Jacquet (2004), French singer and guitarist Sacha Distel (2004), singer-songwriter Arthur Crier (2004), Chi-Lites singer Eugene Record (2005), jazz guitarist Joe Beck (2008),

July 23: Grateful Dead keyboard player Keith Godchaux (1980), singer Bert Summer (1990), bluesman Otis “Big Smokey” Smothers (1993), Ozark Mountain Daredevils guitarist Bill Brown (2004), English agent and band manager Don Arden (2007), songwriter Ron Miller (2007), neo-soul singer Amy Winehouse (2011)

July 24: drummer Bobby Ramirez of White Trash (1972), R&B singer Priscilla Bowman (1988), singer-songwriter Jerry Lordan who wrote “Apache” (1995), America co-founder Dan Peek (2011)

July 25: blues singer Big Mama Thornton (1984), blues pianist Piano Red (1985), producer Alex Sadkin (1987) rockabilly and country star Charlie “The Silver Fox” Rich (1995), jazz guitarist Tal Farlow (1998), Iron Butterfly guitarist Erik Brann (2003), jazz saxophonist Johnny Griffin (2008)

July 26: jump blues singer, multi-instrumentalist, and leader of The Honeydrippers Joe Liggins (1987), Grateful Dead keyboard player Brent Mydland (1990), Motown singer Mary Wells (1992), composer Evelyn Levine (1996), Sha-Na-Na bassist Chico Ryan (1998), Larry Hoppen of Orleans (2012), singer-songwriter JJ Cale (2013)

July 27: bluesman Lightnin Slim (1974), Cliff Burton of Metallica (1986), jazz trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison (1999), South African singer Simon "Mahlathini" Nkabinde (1999), jazz saxophonist Harold Land (2001), Lynyrd Skynyrd bassist Leon Wilkeson (2001) jazz composer George Russell (2009), songwriter/producer Jerry Ragovoy (2011), singer Tony Martin (2012)


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This Week in Music History: Concert Collapses…Dylan Damaged…McGraw Groped

Posted on Sunday, 27 July 2014 19:32.

The Events That Rocked Music—The Week of July 28

1955: Ted McCarty of Gibson receives a patent for his one-piece adjustable bridge/tailpiece used on the Les Paul guitar, a design still popular today…

1956: The Platters become the first black group to have a number one pop hit when “My Prayer” reaches the top spot on the Billboard chart…

1958: The Teddy Bears' aching teen ballad "To Know Him is To Love Him" is released…a singer in the group, Phil Spector, produces the session…the song title is reportedly taken from his late father's headstone…

1959: Seth Lover of Gibson receives patent #2,896,491 for his humbucking pickup…in 1962 Gibson changes the pickup decal to read, "PATENT NO 2,737,842"—the number listed is actually for Les Paul's trapeze tailpiece…

1960: When the scheduled vocalist fails to show up at the studio, producer Ike Turner presses his wife Tina into service on the track, "A Fool in Love"…much sampled by modern hip-hop and R&B acts, the single will be the first of 20 Hot 100 singles produced by the contentious couple…this same day future soul star Aretha Franklin cuts her first non-gospel sides…

1963: The Beatles collect a fee of £300 for their last-ever show at Liverpool’s Cavern Club…their first gig there had brought in a lordly £5…meanwhile in California, The Beach Boys record “Surfer Girl”—the first song Brian Wilson wrote—it also marks his first stab at being a record producer…

1964: Country singer Jim Reeves dies along with his keyboardist-manager Dale Manuel when their plane goes down in thick fog en route to Nashville…

1965: The Beatles second feature film, Help, debuts in London with that pretty nice girl Queen Elizabeth in attendance…this same week Bob Dylan records the 11-minute epic “Desolation Row” for his album Highway 61 Revisited...it’s the only acoustic tune on the otherwise rock-flavored record... after ten verses of sometimes disturbing imagery, featuring a cast of characters including Einstein, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Romeo, Cain and Abel, and the Hunchback of Notre Dame, the song comes to a graceful conclusion that ends the album with the only song that doesn’t fade out…

1966: Bob Dylan suffers major injuries when the brakes on his Triumph motorcycle lock up near his home in Woodstock, New York…though the exact nature of his injuries are never disclosed, it is clear that he suffered a broken neck and used his lengthy convalescence to reassess his career…reflecting on the wreck later, Dylan says, "When I had that motorcycle accident ... I woke up and caught my senses, I realized that I was just workin' for all these leeches. And I really didn't want to do that."…

1967: Pandora’s Box, the hippie nightspot on the Sunset Strip, feels the wrath of the wrecking ball in the wake of teenage riots the previous year...local politicos say the club played a big role in turning West Hollywood into a teenage wasteland…

1968: After sustaining heavy losses and being forced by neighboring businesses to remove the psychedelic mural adorning its exterior, The Beatles shutter their Apple Boutique in London…a near riot ensues when the shop’s stock is given away to the public…

1969: Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys is indicted for draft-dodging after he fails to show up for work as a hospital orderly in lieu of military service…this same week Moscow police report that Russian teenagers are vandalizing pay phones by stealing parts to make pickups for their acoustic guitars…the rash of phone trashing is triggered by an article in a Russian youth magazine showing how to make the mod…

1970: The Nicolas Roeg film Performance makes its debut in London…it stars Mick Jagger playing a washed-up, bisexual rock star…

1971: George Harrison organizes the Concert for Bangladesh to help victims of the war-torn South Asian country…the stellar lineup includes Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Eric Clapton, Ravi Shankar, and members of Badfinger …

1973: a rock festival held at the Watkins Glen race track in upstate New York pulls in a record-shattering 600,000 fans to see The Band, The Allman Brothers, and The Grateful Dead…meanwhile, in New York City, the proceeds of two Led Zeppelin shows at Madison Square Garden totalling $203,000 are stolen from a hotel safe…tour manager Richard Cole is briefly held as a suspect then released…

1974: Singer Cass Elliot of The Mamas & The Papas dies…contrary to popular rumor, she did not choke to death on a ham sandwich…her death is caused by a massive heart attack, possibly brought on by her roller-coastering weight…she coincidentally dies in the same London apartment owned by Harry Nilsson in which Who drummer Keith Moon will succumb four years later…

1980: The FBI arrests John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas on cocaine charges…he is later sentenced to five years hard time but dodges prison by delivering 250 hours of anti-drug lectures as an alternative sentence…

1981: MTV bursts onto the airwaves by broadcasting The Buggles' prophetic "Video Killed the Radio Star"…

1987: MTV launches its European cable service by broadcasting the video for Dire Straits “Money for Nothing” that includes the line “I want my MTV”…

1989: R&B sax man and vocalist Bill Moose Jackson dies…born Benjamin Clarence Jackson, the nickname stems from his disproportionately large head…he enjoyed a series of hits on King Records during the 1940s and ‘50s, most notably with racy jump blues such as “Big Ten Inch Record”…

1992: In Warwick, Rhode Island, Patti Labelle abruptly pulls the plug on a concert after complaining that the food backstage isn't up to snuff…

1996: Aerosmith can their manager Tim Collins saying they're tired of constant pressure to get involved in social causes he's committed to…

1998: After 12 years and six albums, Toad The Wet Sprocket croaks…

2001: 300 fortunate Foo Fighters fans are treated to a rare club gig when the band plays the legendary Troubadour in LA...attendees are chosen from entries emailed to the Fighters’ website…

2002: Following an absence of 37 years, Bob Dylan plays a two-hour set at the Newport Folk Festival wearing a fake beard and wig…this time he draws no heat for going electric…

2004: Simon and Garfunkel play a free concert in Rome for 600,000 lucky Italians…

2005: An unnamed bidder coughs up $1.1 million for a scrap of paper on which John Lennon had scrawled the lyrics for “All You Need is Love” in preparation for the Beatles’ 1966 BBC satellite broadcast...Lennon had tossed the sheet following the show and it was retrieved by a BBC employee...during the same auction a pair of Lennon’s specs go for $98,000...this same week, newly unearthed documents relating to Mick Jagger’s drug bust in 1969 reveal that the Stones singer had alleged being framed and that a cop had planted heroin in his home then offered to quash the charges if Jagger paid £1,000...at the time Jagger’s allegations were swept aside and he was ultimately fined £200 for pot possession…

2006: A court awards Jimi Hendrix’s stepsister control of the guitarist’s estate cutting out his brother Leon...this comes after years of legal wrangling among family members…

2007: When a female concertgoer reaches out and grabs Tim McGraw's nether region at the Cajundome in Lafayette, Louisiana, his missus, singer Faith Hill, tells the errant fan in no uncertain terms that this sort of behavior is frowned upon in them there parts…this same week at a Kiss show in California, paramedics reboot Paul Stanley’s heart after it begins racing at 190-plus beats per minute…

2008: Audiobook publishers, the last bastion of audio cassettes, finally declare the format is dead…

2009: Procol Harum organist Matthew Fisher wins his long battle to be recognized as co-writer of the band's hit “A Whiter Shade of Pale”…it’s ruled that Fisher, who claimed he wrote the song's organ melody, was entitled to a share of future royalties for the 38-year-old song…coincidentally, this is the birth week of J.S. Bach, the German composer who it could be argued really wrote the organ part…

2011: Singer Meatloaf passes out during a Pittsburgh show from an apparent asthma attack…10 minutes later he bounces back and finishes the set…

2012: In his ongoing effort to give fans their money's worth, Bruce Springsteen ends his European tour with a four-plus hour show in Finland—his longest ever…

2013: After singer Kelly Clarkson buys a turquoise and gold ring that once belonged to Jane Austen at auction for more than £150,000, the British government puts an export ban on the bauble saying it’s a national treasure…

This Week’s Hatches

July 28: J.S. Bach (1750), singer, actor, bandleader Rudy Vallee (1901), flamenco singer Dolores Alcantara (1909), bluesman Junior Kimbrough (1930), George Cummings of Dr. Hook (1938), influential blues and rock guitarist Mike Bloomfield (1943), keyboardist Rick Wright of Pink Floyd (1943), singer-songwriter Jonathan Edwards (1946), drummer Simon Kirke of Free (1949), guitarist Steve Morse of Dixie Dregs and Deep Purple (1954), singer Rachel Sweet (1962), Pulp drummer Nick Banks (1965), rapper DeAndre Cortez Way of Soulja Boy (1990)

July 29: revolutionary jazz guitarist Charlie Christian (1916), amp builder Jim Marshall (1923), Neal Doughty of REO Speedwagon (1946), Steve Peregrine-Took of T-Rex (1949), Geddy Lee of Rush (1953), Patti Scialfa of the E Street Band (1953), John Sykes of Whitesnake (1959), country singer Martina McBride (1966), Chris Gorman of Belly (1967), The Verve bassist Simon Jones (1972), Wanya Morris of Boyz II Men (1973)

July 30: fiery blues guitarist Buddy Guy (1936), singer-songwriter Paul Anka (1941), alto saxophonist David Sanborn (1945), Jethro Tull bassist Jeffrey Hammond (1946), former Peter Frampton drummer John Siomos (1947), guitarist and songwriter Hugh Nicholson of Marmalade and Blue (1949), Sweet guitarist Andy Scott (1949), Rat Scabies of The Damned, born Chris Miller (1957), singer-songwriter Kate Bush (1958), guitarist Craig Gannon of Aztec Camera and The Smiths (1966), Manic Street Preachers drummer Sean Moore (1968), drummer Brad Hargreaves of Third Eye Blind (1971), singer Ian Watkins of Lostprophets (1979), Seth Avett of the Avett Brothers (1980)

July 31: R&B jump blues singer Roy Milton (1907), producer and founder of Atlantic records Ahmet Ertegun (1923), Gary Lewis of Gary Lewis & the Playboys (1946), Karl Green of Herman's Hermits (1947), ELO cellist Hugh MacDowell (1953) Daniel Ash of Love and Rockets (1957), drummer Bill Berry of R.E.M. (1958), UK DJ Fatboy Slim (1963), Norman Cook of The Housemartins (1963), guitarist Jim Corr of The Corrs (1963), Marilyn Manson guitarist John 5 born John Lowery (1971), Coldplay's Will Champion (1978)

August 1: Francis Scott Key (1799), bluesman Piano Slim born Robert T. Smith (1928), folk singer Ramblin' Jack Elliott, born Elliott Charles Adnopoz (1931), Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead (1942), producer Denny Cordell (1943), Geoff Britton of Wings (1943), Boz Burrell of Bad Company (1946), Rick Coonce of The Grass Roots (1946), guitarist and vocalist Linn Phillips of Flash Cadillac (1947), bassist Rick Anderson of The Tubes (1947), punk musician and author Jim Carroll (1949), James Gang and Deep Purple guitarist Tommy Bolin (1951), BTO's Tim Bachman (1951), bluesman Robert Cray (1953), vocalist Joe Elliott of Def Leppard (1959), Public Enemy's Chuck D (1960), rapper Coolio (1963), Adam Duritz of Counting Crows (1964), metal guitarist Dan Donegan of Disturbed (1968), Ashley Angel of O-Town (1981)

August 2: big band singer Helen Morgan (1900), blues singer-pianist Big Walter Price (1914), country singer Hank Walters (1933), country star Hank Cochran (1935), keyboardist Garth Hudson of The Band (1937), Edward Patten of Gladys Knight and The Pips (1939), Doris Coley Kenner of The Shirelles (1941), Andrew Malcolm of The Herd (1941), steel guitarist Hank DeVito (1948), funk bandleader “Fat” Larry James (1949), Ted Turner of Wishbone Ash (1950), Andy Fairweather-Low of Amen Corner (1950), singer-songwriter Andrew Gold (1951), singer Joe Lynn Turner of Rainbow and Deep Purple (1951), Clive Wright of Cock Robin (1953), singer Mojo Nixon (1957), alt rock producer Butch Vig (1957), singer-actress Apollonia Kotero (1959), Echo and the Bunnymen drummer Pete DeFreitas (1961), Zelma Davis of C+C Music Factory (1970)

August 3: Bahamian guitarist Joseph Spence (1910), singer Tony Bennett (1926), blues harp player Alex Randall (1934), Gordon Stoker of The Jordanaires (1935), Roscoe Mitchell of The Art Ensemble of Chicago (1940), Beverly Lee of The Shirelles (1941), former Byrds bassist John York (1946), B.B. Dickerson of War (1949), Johnny Graham of Earth, Wind and Fire (1951), Spear of Destiny guitarist-vocalist Kirk Brandon (1956), Robert Buck of 10,000 Maniacs (1958), Martin Atkins of Public Image Ltd (1959), Metallica singer/guitarist James Hetfield (1963), Ed Roland of Collective Soul (1963), South African reggae star Lucky Dube (1964), Lonestar keyboard man Dean Sams (1966), Stephen Carpenter of Deftones (1973)

This Week’s Dispatches

July 28: Muscle Shoals session guitarist Eddie Hinton (1995), Marge Ganser of The Shangri-Las (1996), singer George Williams of The Tymes (2004)

July 29: “Mama” Cass Elliot of The Mamas & The Papas (1974) George Clinton guitarist and vocalist Glenn Goins (1978), The Who’s first manager Pete Meaden (1978), bandleader and blender tycoon Fred Waring (1984), manager and songwriter for Tom Jones, Gordon Mills (1986), pedal steel guitarist Pete Drake (1988), Rare Earth percussionist Bobby Guzman (1993), Anita Carter of the Carter Sisters (1999), jazz bassist Al McKibbon (2005), guitarist George McCorkle of The Marshall Tucker Band (2007), jazz bassist Art Taylor (2007)

July 30: sax player Donald Myrick (1993) Sun Records founder Sam Phillips (2003), saxman Eli “Lucky” Thompson (2004)

July 31: country singer Jim Reeves (19640, country pianist Dean Manuel (1964), jazz pianist Bud Powell (1966), jazz pianist Teddy Wilson (1986), R&B star Bull Moose Jackson (1989) bassist Rob Jones of Wonder Stuff (1993), pop conductor/arranger Mitch Miller (2010), singer Bill Doss (2012)

August 1: pianist Sviatoslav Richter (1997), gospel star Sandra Crouch (1998), Tommy Makem of The Clancy Brothers (2007)

August 2: Brian Cole of The Association (1972), legendary Motown bassman James Jamerson (1983), Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs bassist David Martin (1987), Afrobeat star Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (1997), KC and the Sunshine band guitarist Jerome Smith (2000), Ron Townson of The 5th Dimension (2001), rockabilly musician Billy Lee Riley (2009)

August 3: Richard Nickens of The El Dorados (1991), Don Lang of The Frantic Five (1992), reed player Bob Tate (1993), jazz bassist Leroy Vinnegar (1999), Love leader and guitarist Arthur Lee (2006), folk singer Erik Darling (2008), Lou Teicher of piano duo Ferrante and Teicher (2008), John Mayall guitarist Roger Dean (2008), pop-soul singer Bobby Hebb (2010)


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The Events That Rocked Music—The Week of August 4

1937: The legendary Golden Gate Quartet cuts a mind-blowing 14 gospel tracks in two hours during a Charlotte, North Carolina recording session...are you listening, Axl Rose?…this same week Bunny Berigan and his orchestra record the jazz standard, “I Can’t Get Started”...the chord changes from this oft-covered tune become a staple for be-bop musicians a decade later…also this week, George Beauchamp is granted a patent for an “Electrical Stringed Musical Instrument”—the original “frying pan” electric guitar...Beauchamp is a Hawaiian musician living in Los Angeles…

1949: Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five record “Saturday Night Fish Fry” one of the earliest R&B songs cited as a forerunner to rock ‘n’ roll…

1957: ABC TV’s American Bandstand with its forever-young DJ, Dick Clark, makes its national TV debut…getting songs played on the show will have a huge impact on top 40 sales in coming decades…this same week John Lennon and his band The Quarrymen play their debut date at Liverpool’s Cavern Club, a venue devoted to jazz and skiffle...after the band performs “Come Go With Me,” Hound Dog,” and “Blue Suede Shoes,” irate club owner Alan Sytner sends a note up to the stage reading, “Cut out the bloody rock!”…

1958: Billboard publishes its first Hot 100 chart...Ricky Nelson’s “Poor Little Fool” nails the top spot…

1960: 25,000 copies of the death-rock single “Tell Laura I Love Her” by Ray Peterson are destroyed by England’s Decca Records after a critic deems the song “too tasteless and vulgar for English sensibility”...it’s interesting to speculate what that critic may have made of Ozzy Osbourne or The Sex Pistols a little later on…

1964: The Rolling Stones know they have arrived when they get the chance to hang with two of their idols, Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon while recording at Chicago's Chess studios...the band's name was taken from a tune by Muddy…

1965: Mike Smith of The Dave Clark Five suffers two fractured ribs when he’s pulled off the stage by an enthusiastic fan…

1967: A fan stows away on The Monkees’ tour plane … the girl’s father vows to have charges brought against the band for transporting a minor across state lines … this same week Beatle George Harrison hangs out at a love-in at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park...he’s less than enchanted, recalling “It was full of hideous, spotty little teenagers. It turned me off to the whole thing.”...

1968: Performing at the Sunbury Jazz and Blues Festival in England, Jerry Lee Lewis whips the crowd into a frenzy that turns ugly … three injured rockers leave the stage, an assistant loses four teeth, and a six-inch scaffold coupling pin is thrown through the bass drum of British rockers The Herd causing them to go unheard…

1969: Photographer Iain Macmillan catches four lads from Liverpool in mid-stride as they traverse a London crosswalk...the photo will become the cover for Abbey Road…

1970: Janis Joplin springs for a headstone to mark Bessie Smith’s grave...the blues singer was one of her idols…

1972: Paul and Linda McCartney are busted for pot possession following a Wings show in Gothenburg, Sweden...the couple is fined and released…

1973: Stevie Wonder is seriously injured in North Carolina when the auto in which he’s riding is struck by logs rolling off a truck...he emerges from a coma after four days minus his sense of smell…

1975: Stevie Wonder inks a $13 million, seven-year contract, a record-setter for its time…this same week Hank Williams Jr. tumbles 500 feet down a Montana mountain...after two year’s worth of surgeries he’ll resumes his career…

1979: A benefit is held for the widow and children of late Little Feat singer-guitarist Lowell George... members of Little Feat, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Nicolette Larson, Emmylou Harris, and Bonnie Raitt are among the performers…

1983: David Crosby gets a wakeup call when he is sentenced to five years in prison on cocaine and firearms charges…he had dozed through much of the trial…he’ll be released this same week in 1986…

1984: Prince’s album, Purple Rain, begins a 24-week run at the top of the album charts selling l ten million copies…this same week “Ghostbusters” by Ray Parker Jr. is the Billboard #1 pop hit...Parker is later sued by Huey Lewis who claims the tune is a ripoff of his “I Want a New Drug”...the case is settled out of court with the proviso neither party talks about the deal...in 2001, during an episode of VH1’s Behind the Music, Lewis reveals that Parker paid up to settle the case...Parker then sues Lewis for violating the settlement terms…

1985: Introduced to the benefits of owning publishing rights by friend Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson purchases the ATV music catalog that includes 251 Lennon/McCartney songs at auction for $47.5 million...McCartney and Yoko Ono had attempted to purchase the songs only to be outbid by Jackson...McCartney and Jackson's friendship comes to an abrupt end…

1990: During a New Kids on the Block concert in Montreal, armed robbers make off with souvenir stand proceeds totaling $260,000…that’s a lot of tee shirts!…

1992: Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro dies from cardiac arrest triggered by an allergic reaction to an insecticide he is spraying in his garden…this same week, citing a sore throat, Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses cuts short the band’s set in Montreal...many of the 55,000 fans in attendance riot...this is a fitting end to a concert in which Metallica had also cut short their set after singer James Hetfield suffered third-degree burns from a pyro effect…

1996: former Motley Crue singer Vince Neil runs into trouble at an Indiana club date...after starting the show four hours late, Neal pulls the plug after just three songs saying he is feeling ill and suggesting that the audience of “rednecks” doesn’t appreciate his talent...a riot by 500 surly ticket holders is narrowly averted by the prompt arrival of the cops…

1999: After running into legal roadblocks, the leading record labels drop their suit against Diamond Multimedia, makers of the Rio MP3 music player...they had charged that the device would encourage online piracy…

2000: The Jimi Hendrix estate successfully evicts the holder of the web domain jimihendrix.com…

2004: The Dave Matthews Band is sued for dumping waste from its tour bus into the Chicago River and onto a sightseeing boat that happened to be passing below…the bus driver is ultimately convicted of the heinous deed…

2005: FCC chairman Kevin Martin announces that his agency is investigating payola by record labels in the wake of Sony BMG Music Entertainment’s settlement of $10 million with New York over charges that the company plied key radio stations with lavish gifts and money to get its releases played...the list of artists who benefitted from Sony’s generosity include Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson, Avril Lavigne, Maroon 5, Franz Ferdinand, Good Charlotte, Gretchen Wilson, Audioslave, and Celine Dion...this same week Leonard Cohen files a suit against his former business manager charging that Kelley Lynch ripped him off for $5 million from 1994 through 1999 while Cohen was chilling in a Buddhist center…

2007: During Pearl Jam’s set at Lollapalooza, Eddie Vedder sings, “George Bush, leave this world alone” to rousing cheers from the crowd...however the audience viewing at home on AT&T’s Blue Room website are treated to 16 seconds of silence when the company providing AT&T’s feed pulls the plug on the audio stream...later AT&T is apologetic...commenting on the censorship, guitarist Mike McCready writes, “When one person or company decides what others can hear, that is totalitarian thinking”...

2008: The Police cap their 150-show world tour with a two-hour tour de force at Madison Square Garden...the first Police tour in 20 years, it starts shakily then gains momentum as it goes along...reflecting on the early shows, drummer Stewart Copeland says, “At the beginning, we were crap. Each one of us had our own opinion of what was wrong, which could be summed up as ‘the other two guys’”…this same week Jackson Browne sues Senator John McCain for unauthorized use of his song “Running on Empty” during the 2008 presidential campaign…the following July, McCain settles with Browne for an undisclosed sum plus an apology…the singer relishes the moment remarking, “Getting a politician to admit they made a mistake is one the hardest things in the world” …

This Week’s Hatches

August 4: jazz titan Louis Armstrong (1901), Elsbeary Hobbs of The Drifters (1936), Louisiana swamp rocker Frankie Ford (1939), David Carr of The Fortunes (1940), pop singer Timi Yuro (1940), session keyboard and bass player Larry Knechtel (1940), Klaus Schulze of Tangerine Dream (1947), Paul Layton of The New Seekers (1947), Maire Ni Bhraonain of Clannad (1952), Ratt guitarist Robbin Crosby (1959), Paul Reynolds of A Flock of Seagulls (1962), Marques Houston of Immature (1981)

August 5: jazz singer Jeri Southern (1926), country singer Vern Gosdin (1934), jazz and R&B singer Damita Jo (1940), jazz percussionist Airto Moreira (1940), jazz guitarist Lenny Breau (1941), Rick Huxley of The Dave Clark Five (1942), country singer Sammi Smith (1943), guitarist Rick Derringer (1947), Eddie Ojeda of Twisted Sister (1955), Pat Smear of X and Foo Fighters (1959), Pete Burns of Dead or Alive (1959), violin prodigy Mark O’Connor (1961), Adam Yauch of The Beastie Boys (1964)

August 6: Delta bluesman Willie Brown (1900), Jimmy Ricks of The Ravens (1924), soul man Isaac Hayes (1938), Judy Craig of The Chiffons (1943), fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth (1946), Pat McDonald of Timbuk 3 (1951), soul singer and bassist Randy DeBarge (1958), singer-songwriter Elliott Smith (1969), Geri Halliwell aka Ginger Spice of The Spice Girls (1972)

August 7: swing bandleader Freddie Slack (1908), jazz and blues pianist Mose Vinson (1917), songwriter Felice Bryant (1925), Herb Reed of The Platters (1931), titanic jazz multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1937), blues singer and guitarist Magic Slim born Morris Holt (1937), singer Ron Holden (1939), pop singer B.J. Thomas (1942), Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden (1958), Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses (1964), Ian Dench of EMF (1966)

August 8: jazz bandleader Lucky Millinder (1900), jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader Benny Carter (1907), country music pioneer Webb Pierce (1921), jazz and blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon (1923), Sonny Til of The Orioles (1925), country star Mel Tillis (1932), soul singer Joe Tex (1933), pop singer and actress Connie Stevens (1938), Philip Balsley of The Statler Brothers (1939), John “Jay” David of Dr. Hook (1942), Airrion Love of The Stylistics (1949), Ali Score of A Flock of Seagulls (1956), Dennis Drew of of 10,000 Maniacs (1957), Chris Foreman of Madness (1958), Rikki Rockett of Poison (1959), U2’s The Edge aka David Evans (1961), rapper Kool Moe Dee (1962), JC Chasez of *NSYNC (1976), Drew Lachey of 98 Degrees (1976), singer-songwriter Marsha Ambrosius (1977)

August 9: barrelhouse pianist Robert Shaw (1908), country blues guitarist Odell Thompson (1911), Bill Henderson of The Spinners (1939), jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette (1942), Rinus Gerritsen of Golden Earring (1946), singer Barbara Mason (1947), Cars bassist Benjamin Orr (1955), rap pioneer Kurtis Blow (1959), singer Whitney Houston (1963), Arion Salazar of Third Eye Blind (1970), film composer David Raksin (2004)

August 10: guitar designer Leo Fender (1909), bluegrass ace Jimmy Martin (1927), country crooner/sausage mogul Jimmy Dean (1928), country-pop singer Larry Finnegan (1938), Righteous Brother Bobby Hatfield (1940), singer Ronnie Spector (1943), Bread co-founder Jimmy Griffin (1943), Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull (1947), jazz and pop singer Patti Austin (1950), INXS drummer Jon Farriss (1961), singer-songwriter Neneh Cherry (1964), Todd Nichols of Toad The Wet Sprocket (1967), Michael Bivins of New Edition and Bel, Biv, Devoe (1968), Aaron Kamin of The Calling (1977)

This Week’s Dispatches

August 4: jazz reed player Johnny Dodds (1980), jazz singer Jeri Southern (1991), gifted R&B/blues singer and guitarist “Little” Milton Campbell (2005), classical and rock violinist Monroe Clark (2006), singer/songwriter/producer Lee Hazlewood (2007), bluesman Johnny Bassett (2012)

August 5: blues guitarist and harp player Joe Hill Louis (1957), Johnny Cash guitarist Luther Perkins (1968), bassist George Scott (1980), influential New Orleans pianist Tuts Washington (1984), Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro (1992), McCoys and Johnny Winter bass player Randy Hobbs (1993), singer-songwriter Robert Hazard (2008)

August 6: legendary trumpeter Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke (1931), blues singer and guitarist Memphis Minnie (1973), singer Klaus Nomi (1983), trumpeter Nat Gonella (1998), singer Rick James (2004), guitarist Tony Mottola (2004), journeyman jazz bassist and session player Keter Betts (2005), legendary Cuban vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer (2005), opera legend Luciano Pavarotti (2007), singer Willy DeVille (2009), funk musician Phelps ‘Catfish’ Collins (2010), composer Marvin Hamlisch (2012)

August 7: Henry “Homer” Haynes of country duo Homer and Jethro (1971), R&B singer Esther Phillips (1984), music store mogul Sam Goody (1991), country guitarist William “Billy” Bird (2001), harmonica virtuoso Larry Adler (2001), singer-songwriter Marc Cohn (2005), folk musician/folklorist Mike Seeger (2009), Johnny Cash bassist Marshall Grant (2011), Marshall Tucker Band guitarist Stuart Swanlund (2012), reggae toaster Ranking Trevor (2012)

August 8: masterful alto sax player and bandleader Julian “Cannonball” Adderley (1975), jazz pianist Duke Jordan (2006)

August 9: Joe Gilbert of vocal duo Joe and Eddie (1966), trumpeter Bill Case (1974), Wreckx-N-Effects rapper Brandon Mitchell (1990), New Orleans session sax man Clarence Ford (1994), Grateful Dead guitarist and singer Jerry Garcia (1995), producer Bob Herbert (1999), conguero Miguel “Anga” Diaz (2006), R&B producer Carl Davis (2012)

August 10: blues diva Lucille Bogan of "Shave 'em Dry" infamy (1948), bandleader Freddie Slack (1965), rock critic Lillian Roxon (1973), jazz singer Ernestine Allen (1992), Ruby and The Romantics singer Ed Roberts (1993), Bill Baker of The Five Satins (1994), Widespread Panic guitarist Mikey Houser (2002), soul singer Isaac Hayes (2008), country artist Billy Grammer (2011)


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This Week in Music History: Wonder Struck & Signed…Crosby Caged…Pearl Jam Silenced


The Events That Rocked Music—The Week of August 11


1937: The legendary Golden Gate Quartet cuts a mind-blowing 14 gospel tracks in two hours during a Charlotte, North Carolina recording session...are you listening, Axl Rose?…this same week Bunny Berigan and his orchestra record the jazz standard, “I Can’t Get Started”...the chord changes from this oft-covered tune become a staple for be-bop musicians a decade later…also this week, George Beauchamp is granted a patent for an “Electrical Stringed Musical Instrument”—the original “frying pan” electric guitar...Beauchamp is a Hawaiian musician living in Los Angeles…

1949: Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five record “Saturday Night Fish Fry” one of the earliest R&B songs cited as a forerunner to rock ‘n’ roll…

1957: ABC TV’s American Bandstand with its forever-young DJ, Dick Clark, makes its national TV debut…getting songs played on the show will have a huge impact on top 40 sales in coming decades…this same week John Lennon and his band The Quarrymen play their debut date at Liverpool’s Cavern Club, a venue devoted to jazz and skiffle...after the band performs “Come Go With Me,” Hound Dog,” and “Blue Suede Shoes,” irate club owner Alan Sytner sends a note up to the stage reading, “Cut out the bloody rock!”…

1958: Billboard publishes its first Hot 100 chart...Ricky Nelson’s “Poor Little Fool” nails the top spot…

1960: 25,000 copies of the death-rock single “Tell Laura I Love Her” by Ray Peterson are destroyed by England’s Decca Records after a critic deems the song “too tasteless and vulgar for English sensibility”...it’s interesting to speculate what that critic may have made of Ozzy Osbourne or The Sex Pistols a little later on…

1964: The Rolling Stones know they have arrived when they get the chance to hang with two of their idols, Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon while recording at Chicago's Chess studios...the band's name was taken from a tune by Muddy…

1965: Mike Smith of The Dave Clark Five suffers two fractured ribs when he’s pulled off the stage by an enthusiastic fan…

1967: A fan stows away on The Monkees’ tour plane … the girl’s father vows to have charges brought against the band for transporting a minor across state lines … this same week Beatle George Harrison hangs out at a love-in at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park...he’s less than enchanted, recalling “It was full of hideous, spotty little teenagers. It turned me off to the whole thing.”...

1968: Performing at the Sunbury Jazz and Blues Festival in England, Jerry Lee Lewis whips the crowd into a frenzy that turns ugly … three injured rockers leave the stage, an assistant loses four teeth, and a six-inch scaffold coupling pin is thrown through the bass drum of British rockers The Herd causing them to go unheard…

1969: Photographer Iain Macmillan catches four lads from Liverpool in mid-stride as they traverse a London crosswalk...the photo will become the cover for Abbey Road…

1970: Janis Joplin springs for a headstone to mark Bessie Smith’s grave...the blues singer was one of her idols…

1972: Paul and Linda McCartney are busted for pot possession following a Wings show in Gothenburg, Sweden...the couple is fined and released…

1973: Stevie Wonder is seriously injured in North Carolina when the auto in which he’s riding is struck by logs rolling off a truck...he emerges from a coma after four days minus his sense of smell…

1975: Stevie Wonder inks a $13 million, seven-year contract, a record-setter for its time…this same week Hank Williams Jr. tumbles 500 feet down a Montana mountain...after two year’s worth of surgeries he’ll resumes his career…

1979: A benefit is held for the widow and children of late Little Feat singer-guitarist Lowell George... members of Little Feat, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Nicolette Larson, Emmylou Harris, and Bonnie Raitt are among the performers…

1983: David Crosby gets a wakeup call when he is sentenced to five years in prison on cocaine and firearms charges…he had dozed through much of the trial…he’ll be released this same week in 1986…

1984: Prince’s album, Purple Rain, begins a 24-week run at the top of the album charts selling ten million copies…this same week “Ghostbusters” by Ray Parker Jr. is the Billboard #1 pop hit...Parker is later sued by Huey Lewis who claims the tune is a ripoff of his “I Want a New Drug”...the case is settled out of court with the proviso neither party talks about the deal...in 2001, during an episode of VH1’s Behind the Music, Lewis reveals that Parker paid up to settle the case...Parker then sues Lewis for violating the settlement terms…

1985: Introduced to the benefits of owning publishing rights by friend Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson purchases the ATV music catalog that includes 251 Lennon/McCartney songs at auction for $47.5 million...McCartney and Yoko Ono had attempted to purchase the songs only to be outbid by Jackson...McCartney and Jackson's friendship comes to an abrupt end…

1990: During a New Kids on the Block concert in Montreal, armed robbers make off with souvenir stand proceeds totaling $260,000…that’s a lot of tee shirts!…

1992: Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro dies from cardiac arrest triggered by an allergic reaction to an insecticide he is spraying in his garden…this same week, citing a sore throat, Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses cuts short the band’s set in Montreal...many of the 55,000 fans in attendance riot...this is a fitting end to a concert in which Metallica had also cut short their set after singer James Hetfield suffered third-degree burns from a pyro effect…

1996: former Motley Crue singer Vince Neil runs into trouble at an Indiana club date...after starting the show four hours late, Neal pulls the plug after just three songs saying he is feeling ill and suggesting that the audience of “rednecks” doesn’t appreciate his talent...a riot by 500 surly ticket holders is narrowly averted by the prompt arrival of the cops…

1999: After running into legal roadblocks, the leading record labels drop their suit against Diamond Multimedia, makers of the Rio MP3 music player...they had charged that the device would encourage online piracy…

2000: The Jimi Hendrix estate successfully evicts the holder of the web domain jimihendrix.com…

2004: The Dave Matthews Band is sued for dumping waste from its tour bus into the Chicago River and onto a sightseeing boat that happened to be passing below…the bus driver is ultimately convicted of the heinous deed…

2005: FCC chairman Kevin Martin announces that his agency is investigating payola by record labels in the wake of Sony BMG Music Entertainment’s settlement of $10 million with New York over charges that the company plied key radio stations with lavish gifts and money to get its releases played...the list of artists who benefitted from Sony’s generosity include Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson, Avril Lavigne, Maroon 5, Franz Ferdinand, Good Charlotte, Gretchen Wilson, Audioslave, and Celine Dion...this same week Leonard Cohen files a suit against his former business manager charging that Kelley Lynch ripped him off for $5 million from 1994 through 1999 while Cohen was chilling in a Buddhist center…

2007: During Pearl Jam’s set at Lollapalooza, Eddie Vedder sings, “George Bush, leave this world alone” to rousing cheers from the crowd...however the audience viewing at home on AT&T’s Blue Room website are treated to 16 seconds of silence when the company providing AT&T’s feed pulls the plug on the audio stream...later AT&T is apologetic...commenting on the censorship, guitarist Mike McCready writes, “When one person or company decides what others can hear, that is totalitarian thinking”...

2008: The Police cap their 150-show world tour with a two-hour tour de force at Madison Square Garden...the first Police tour in 20 years, it starts shakily then gains momentum as it goes along...reflecting on the early shows, drummer Stewart Copeland says, “At the beginning, we were crap. Each one of us had our own opinion of what was wrong, which could be summed up as ‘the other two guys’”…this same week Jackson Browne sues Senator John McCain for unauthorized use of his song “Running on Empty” during the 2008 presidential campaign…the following July, McCain settles with Browne for an undisclosed sum plus an apology…the singer relishes the moment remarking, “Getting a politician to admit they made a mistake is one the hardest things in the world”…

This Week’s Hatches


August 4: jazz titan Louis Armstrong (1901), Elsbeary Hobbs of The Drifters (1936), Louisiana swamp rocker Frankie Ford (1939), David Carr of The Fortunes (1940), pop singer Timi Yuro (1940), session keyboard and bass player Larry Knechtel (1940), Klaus Schulze of Tangerine Dream (1947), Paul Layton of The New Seekers (1947), Maire Ni Bhraonain of Clannad (1952), Ratt guitarist Robbin Crosby (1959), Paul Reynolds of A Flock of Seagulls (1962), Marques Houston of Immature (1981)

August 5: jazz singer Jeri Southern (1926), country singer Vern Gosdin (1934), jazz and R&B singer Damita Jo (1940), jazz percussionist Airto Moreira (1940), jazz guitarist Lenny Breau (1941), Rick Huxley of The Dave Clark Five (1942), country singer Sammi Smith (1943), guitarist Rick Derringer (1947), Eddie Ojeda of Twisted Sister (1955), Pat Smear of X and Foo Fighters (1959), Pete Burns of Dead or Alive (1959), violin prodigy Mark O’Connor (1961), Adam Yauch of The Beastie Boys (1964)

August 6: Delta bluesman Willie Brown (1900), Jimmy Ricks of The Ravens (1924), soul man Isaac Hayes (1938), Judy Craig of The Chiffons (1943), fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth (1946), Pat McDonald of Timbuk 3 (1951), soul singer and bassist Randy DeBarge (1958), singer-songwriter Elliott Smith (1969), Geri Halliwell aka Ginger Spice of The Spice Girls (1972)

August 7: swing bandleader Freddie Slack (1908), jazz and blues pianist Mose Vinson (1917), songwriter Felice Bryant (1925), Herb Reed of The Platters (1931), titanic jazz multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1937), blues singer and guitarist Magic Slim born Morris Holt (1937), singer Ron Holden (1939), pop singer B.J. Thomas (1942), Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden (1958), Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses (1964), Ian Dench of EMF (1966)

August 8: jazz bandleader Lucky Millinder (1900), jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader Benny Carter (1907), country music pioneer Webb Pierce (1921), jazz and blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon (1923), Sonny Til of The Orioles (1925), country star Mel Tillis (1932), soul singer Joe Tex (1933), pop singer and actress Connie Stevens (1938), Philip Balsley of The Statler Brothers (1939), John “Jay” David of Dr. Hook (1942), Airrion Love of The Stylistics (1949), Ali Score of A Flock of Seagulls (1956), Dennis Drew of of 10,000 Maniacs (1957), Chris Foreman of Madness (1958), Rikki Rockett of Poison (1959), U2’s The Edge aka David Evans (1961), rapper Kool Moe Dee (1962), JC Chasez of *NSYNC (1976), Drew Lachey of 98 Degrees (1976), singer-songwriter Marsha Ambrosius (1977)

August 9: barrelhouse pianist Robert Shaw (1908), country blues guitarist Odell Thompson (1911), Bill Henderson of The Spinners (1939), jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette (1942), Rinus Gerritsen of Golden Earring (1946), singer Barbara Mason (1947), Cars bassist Benjamin Orr (1955), rap pioneer Kurtis Blow (1959), singer Whitney Houston (1963), Arion Salazar of Third Eye Blind (1970), film composer David Raksin (2004)

August 10: guitar designer Leo Fender (1909), bluegrass ace Jimmy Martin (1927), country crooner/sausage mogul Jimmy Dean (1928), country-pop singer Larry Finnegan (1938), Righteous Brother Bobby Hatfield (1940), singer Ronnie Spector (1943), Bread co-founder Jimmy Griffin (1943), Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull (1947), jazz and pop singer Patti Austin (1950), INXS drummer Jon Farriss (1961), singer-songwriter Neneh Cherry (1964), Todd Nichols of Toad The Wet Sprocket (1967), Michael Bivins of New Edition and Bel, Biv, Devoe (1968), Aaron Kamin of The Calling (1977)

This Week’s Dispatches

August 4: jazz reed player Johnny Dodds (1980), jazz singer Jeri Southern (1991), gifted R&B/blues singer and guitarist “Little” Milton Campbell (2005), classical and rock violinist Monroe Clark (2006), singer/songwriter/producer Lee Hazlewood (2007), bluesman Johnny Bassett (2012)

August 5: blues guitarist and harp player Joe Hill Louis (1957), Johnny Cash guitarist Luther Perkins (1968), bassist George Scott (1980), influential New Orleans pianist Tuts Washington (1984), Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro (1992), McCoys and Johnny Winter bass player Randy Hobbs (1993), singer-songwriter Robert Hazard (2008)

August 6: legendary trumpeter Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke (1931), blues singer and guitarist Memphis Minnie (1973), singer Klaus Nomi (1983), trumpeter Nat Gonella (1998), singer Rick James (2004), guitarist Tony Mottola (2004), journeyman jazz bassist and session player Keter Betts (2005), legendary Cuban vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer (2005), opera legend Luciano Pavarotti (2007), singer Willy DeVille (2009), funk musician Phelps ‘Catfish’ Collins (2010), composer Marvin Hamlisch (2012)

August 7: Henry “Homer” Haynes of country duo Homer and Jethro (1971), R&B singer Esther Phillips (1984), music store mogul Sam Goody (1991), country guitarist William “Billy” Bird (2001), harmonica virtuoso Larry Adler (2001), singer-songwriter Marc Cohn (2005), folk musician/folklorist Mike Seeger (2009), Johnny Cash bassist Marshall Grant (2011), Marshall Tucker Band guitarist Stuart Swanlund (2012), reggae toaster Ranking Trevor (2012)

August 8: masterful alto sax player and bandleader Julian “Cannonball” Adderley (1975), jazz pianist Duke Jordan (2006)

August 9: Joe Gilbert of vocal duo Joe and Eddie (1966), trumpeter Bill Case (1974), Wreckx-N-Effects rapper Brandon Mitchell (1990), New Orleans session sax man Clarence Ford (1994), Grateful Dead guitarist and singer Jerry Garcia (1995), producer Bob Herbert (1999), conguero Miguel “Anga” Diaz (2006), R&B producer Carl Davis (2012)

August 10: blues diva Lucille Bogan of "Shave 'em Dry" infamy (1948), bandleader Freddie Slack (1965), rock critic Lillian Roxon (1973), jazz singer Ernestine Allen (1992), Ruby and The Romantics singer Ed Roberts (1993), Bill Baker of The Five Satins (1994), Widespread Panic guitarist Mikey Houser (2002), soul singer Isaac Hayes (2008), country artist Billy Grammer (2011)


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Tue Aug 12, 2014 6:55 pm

Wow Chas

I love hearing all of the back stories about all of these famous musicians from way back when. Some of them are gone now but not forgotten. Thanks

Sandy


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