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Today in Rock (Jul 2)

I guess this will be the last “Today In Rock” entry until they come back from vacation.

• 1949 - Roy Britten (Bruce Springsteens’s “E Street Band”) was born.
• 1952 - Johnny Colla (Huey Lewis and the News - guitar and sax) was born.
• 1962 -Jimi Hendrix is discharged from the army. The original story claims Jimi broke his ankle on a parachute jump. However, evidence suggests Hendrix faked being gay to get out. It was the very same ploy Doors singer Jim Morrison used a few years later to avoid the draft. (I guess they didn’t have don’t ask, don’t tell back then?).
• 1965 - Dave Parsons (Bush) was born.
• 1969 - Noel Redding (bass) leaves the Jimi Hendrix Experience to start his own group, Fat Mattress. (We all make bad decisions).
• 1973 - Brian Eno quits Roxy Music.
• 1981 - Bruce Springsteen plays the first (of six sold out shows) gig at the Meadowlands Arena in New Jersey (is there anything big in NJ he isn’t involved with?).
• 1990 - MTV and Chauncey Street Productions launch “Turn It Up,” a new rock & roll game show.
• 1991 - Guns ‘n’ Roses lead singer Axl Rose jumped off the stage and attacked a fan who was videotaping a concert outside of St. Louis. In the ensuing riot, 60 people were hurt and the venue was wrecked.

QUESTION NUMBER TWO HAS BEEN ANSWERED!

Today Jake got question #2 correct:

On average, this takes 26 minutes.

The average commute time to work from Weston, FL.

Question #3 is:
What do the Dukes of Hazard, The A Team, and MacGyver have in common?

Today in Rock (June 30)

YCW tomorrow will be late - I will not be able to update that page while the show is on.

• 1949 - Andrew Scott (Sweet) was born.
• 1953 - Hal Lindes (Dire Straights - lead guitar) was born.
• 1953 - Don Dokken (Dokken - vocals) was born.
• 1969 - Tom Drummond (Better than Ezra - bass) was born. He was the first person to respond to their “bassist wanted” ad at the age of 17. (They were around in 1986?)
• 1975 - The Eagles album, “One of These Nights” goes gold.
• 1977 - The KISS comic book is released. Legend has it that the red ink was mixed with some blood from each member.
• 1994 - Pearl Jamss Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament testify at a congressional hearing regarding escalating concert ticket prices
• 1999 - Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst is appointed senior VP of Interscope Records.
• 2000 - Nine people are crushed to death at a Copenhagen Pearl Jam concert. People push forward because they can’t hear due to broken speakers. Eddie Vedder tells the audience to move back but to no avail.
• 2005 - The record industry says Led Zeppelin has sold 107.5 million albums in the U.S. That secures the #3 spot on the all-time list. Only The Beatles (168.5 million) and Elvis Presley (116.5 million) have done better.
• 2006 - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are honored in an exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. “Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Thirty Years of Rock and Roll,” displays the flowered shirt Petty wore for the “Free Fallin’” video and a gray jacket from his time in the Traveling Wilburys.
• 2007 - The Classic Rock Cares charity tour kicks off in Fort Myers, FL. The jaunt features AC/DC members Brian Johnson and Cliff Williams, Joe Lynn Turner (Rainbow, Deep Purple) and Grand Funk Railroad singer-guitarist Mark Farner.
• 2008 - A long lost 1964 interview with John Lennon and Paul McCartney is broadcast on the BBC. In the interview McCartney expounds on their songwriting technique. “Normally, we sit down and try and bash one out,” says The Beatles’ bassist. He adds that sometimes each writes a complete song on his own though they both take credit for it

Today in Rock (June 29)

• 1888 - First musical recording in UK made at Crystal Palace on the occasion of Handel Festival, using Edison equipment.
• 1948 - Ian Paice (Deep Purple / Whitesnake - drummer) was born.
• 1953 - Colin Hay (Men at Work) was born.
• 1968 - Pink Floyd appear with Roy Harper and Jethro Tull at the first Hyde Park free concert.
• 1969 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience plays the final date on its last American tour at the Denver Pop Festival. At the height of its popularity, the group breaks up.
• 1973 - Singer Ian Gillian quits Deep Purple after less than four years with the group. However, he sings on the group’s most memorable songs including “Smoke On The Water“. Gillan bails at the end of a tour of Japan (in Osaka) citing exhaustion. That would have been a good time to pull the plug but instead Gillan is eventually replaced by David Coverdale.

Today in Rock (June 26)

• 1949 - John Illsley (Dire Straits) was born.
• 1955 - Mick Jones (Clash - guitarist) was born.
• 1957 - Egypt bans Rock & Roll claiming the music is “against public morals” and is an “imperialist plot.”
• 1964 - The Moody Blues form.
• 1961 - Terri Nunn (Berlin - vocalist) was born.
• 1968 - Colin Greenwood (Radiohead - bass) was born.
• 1973 - Mick Jagger takes a blood test to prove his “innocence” in a paternity suit.
• 1977 - Elvis Presley delivers his last live performance, at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana.
• 1996 - Sammy Hagar splits from Van Halen after the group (sans Hagar) offers a return engagement to former lead singer David Lee Roth.
• 2004 - One of Eric Clapton`s prize guitars, “Blackie,” a black-and-white Fender Stratocaster, sells for $959,500 at an auction that raises more than $7.4 million for Crossroads Centre, a drug treatment facility. “Lenny,” the guitar Stevie Ray Vaughan played from the 1970s until his death in 1990, sells for $623,500. The guitar was donated by Vaughan`s estate.
• 2009 - Yes and Asia launch a joint North American tour. Steve Howe performs with both bands. “This is a monumental event and even though it will be a challenge, I am up for it,” says the guitarist. Indio, CA, is the first stop.
• 2009 - Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd launch a six-week edition of their Rock and Rebels tour in West Palm Beach, FL. The two acts toured together in 2008
• 2009 - It’s Def Leppard Day in Hamburg, NY. The proclamation urges locals to enjoy the group’s music “today and for years to come.” Def Leppard is performing in town that evening with Cheap Trick and Poison.

Today in Rock (June 25)

• 1946 - Allen Lanier (Blue Oyster Cult - keyboards and guitar) was born.
• 1962 - George Michael was born.
• 1963 - The Beatle’s hit “Twist and Shout” was released.
• 1983 - Talking Heads’ fifth album, ‘Speaking in Tongues,‘ is released. It becomes their highest-charting album, rising to #15 and launching the Top Ten hit “Burning Down the House”.
• 1999 - Matchbox Twenty’s Dave Thomas fronts Santana for a performance of their hit “Smooth” on Late Night With David Letterman.
• 2009 - Michael Jackson died.

Today in Rock (June 24)

• 1944 - Jeff Beck was born.
• 1947 - Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac - drummer) was born.
• 1948 - Patrick Moraz (Yes & Moody Blues) was born.
• 1957 - Astro (UB40) was born.
• 1957 - Jeff Cease (Black Crowes - guitarist) was born.
• 1961 - Curt Smith (Tears for Fears) was born.
• 1973 - Mario Claire (The Wallflowers - drummer) was born.
• 1995 - Not feeling well, Eddie Vedder steps out of a concert in San Fransisco. Neil Young covers for him to finish the show.
• 1999 - Eric Clapton auctions off 100 guitars including “Brownie“, the guitar used to record “Layla“, to raise $5 mil for the Crossroads Center, a drug rehab clinic.
• 2000 - Cub Koda (Brownsville Station - guitarist & vocals) died from “complications due to kidney failure”.
• 2006 - Frampton goes Classical. Peter Frampton performs his songs with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra at the city’s Riverbend Music Center. “It’s every musician’s dream to stand up there in front of an orchestra one day,” says the guitarist.

Mike’s “Trial”

I think OMG is not guilty. He told the cashier about the beer and she chose NOT to ring it up. I think we’ve all been in the situation where someone forgot to charge us for something and we didn’t say anything. The cashier didn’t ring it up so why is Mike guilty?

Despite what Paul is saying - no one is going to get fired over this, the store will write off the case of beer as “shrink”. I spent many years working in grocery stores (bagger up to department management), I know for a fact that unless they suspect it is someone doing it over and over, they will only write off the case of beer. I double OMG is going in there every week to steal beer.

Today in Rock (June 23)

• 1962 - Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth - drummer) was born.
• 1973 - Pink Floyd debuts on the US top 40 chary with “Money” from “Dark Side of the Moon“.
• 1990 - Actor Gary Busey (who played Buddy Holly in the movie, “The Buddy Holly Story“) pays $242K for a Buddy Holly guitar.
• 2006 - Carlos Santana is inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame.
• 2009 - R.E.M. released a remastered version of their sophomore album, “Reckoning“.
• 2009 - Def Leppard, Cheap Trick and Poison hit the road for a summer tour. The first stop on the 40-city romp is Camden, NJ. It’s also the day Cheap Trick’s “The Latest” is available on the band’s web site and Amazon.com. “We wanted to make a record that sounded like 2009 . . . like us this year,” says drummer Bun E. Carlos.