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.
