This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: September 8th


A few albums that was released....


1972 ● Mott The Hoople —— All The Young Dudes ► Hard Rock

1987 ● Rush —— Hold Your Fire ► Arena Rock

2003 ● Iron Maiden —— Dance Of Death ► Heavy Metal

2014 ● Queen —— Queen: Live At The Rainbow ’74 ► Glam Rock


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 9th



1946 Bruce Palmer (bassist for Buffalo Springfield) is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

1945 Doug Ingle (vocalist/organist for Iron Butterfly) is born in Omaha, Nebraska.

1947 Freddy Weller (guitarist for Paul Revere and the Raiders) is born Wilton Frederick Weller in Atlanta, Georgia. Co-wrote Tommy Roe's 1970 hit, "Jam Up and Jelly Tight."

1948 Pamela Des Barres, perhaps the most famous groupie of all time, is born. She boasts liaisons with Jimmy Page, Mick Jagger and Keith Moon, and even joins a band made up of groupies, The GTO's, in 1969. In 2013 she starts her own fashion label: "Groupie Couture."

1950 John McFee (guitarist, violinist for The Doobie Brothers) is born in Santa Cruz, California.

2007 Rock guitarist Hughie Thomasson (of The Outlaws and Lynyrd Skynyrd) dies of a heart attack in Brooksville, Florida, at age 55.

source: calendarsongfacts

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: September 9th


A few albums that was released....


1982 ● Rush —— Signals ► Arena Rock

1997 ● Whitesnake —— Starkers In Tokyo ► Arena Rock


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 10th


1942 Danny Hutton of Three Dog Night is born in Buncrana, Donegal, Ireland.

1945 José Feliciano is born José Montserrate Feliciano García in Lares, Puerto Rico. Known for the Christmas classic "Feliz Navidad."

1946 Don Powell (drummer for Slade) is born in Bilston, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England. He would become interested in drums as a Boy Scout.

1950 Joe Perry (lead guitarist for Aerosmith) is born Anthony Joseph Perry in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

1996 Neil Peart employs some jazz-influenced traditional drum grips on Rush's 16th studio album, Test for Echo. It's the last album the band releases before the death of Peart's daughter, followed ten months later by the passing of his wife, leads the band to take a six-year recording hiatus.

source: calendarsongfacts

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: September 10th


A few albums that was released....


1973 ● Eric Clapton —— Eric Clapton’s Rainbow Concert ► Blues-Rock

1975 ● Kiss —— Alive! ► Hard Rock

1991 ● Jethro Tull —— Catfish Rising ► Prog Rock

1996 ● John Mellencamp —— Mr. Happy Go Lucky ► Roots Rock



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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 11th


1943 Mickey Hart (one of the drummers for Grateful Dead) is born Michael Steven Hartman in Brooklyn but would be raised in Long Island, New York.

1953 Tommy Shaw of Styx is born in Montgomery, Alabama.

1982 John Mellencamp becomes the first male solo artist with a #1 album (American Fool) and two Top 10 singles, all at the same time ("Hurts So Good" at #8; "Jack & Diane" at #4)

source: calendarsongfacts

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: September 11th


A few albums that was released....



1986 ● Triumph —— The Sport Of Kings ► Arena Rock

1987 ● Jethro Tull —— Crest Of A Knave ► Prog Rock

1990 ● Warrant —— Cherry Pie ► Hard Rock

2001 ● Nickelback —— Silver Side Up ► Alt Rock/Post-Grunge

2001 ● Boz Scaggs —— Dig It ► Pop-Rock

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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: September 12th


2003 Johnny Cash, "The Man in Black" who became a towering figure in American music with such hits as "Folsom Prison Blues", "I Walk the Line", and "A Boy Named Sue", died at the age of 71. During his career, Cash won 11 Grammys, most recently in 2003, when "Give My Love To Rose" earned him honors as Best Male Country Vocal Performance. He also notched fourteen number 1 Country music hits. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980 and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. Two of his most popular albums were recorded live at Folsom Prison in 1968 and at San Quentin in 1969. Many people wrongly thought he had served prison time himself. He never did, although he did spend the odd night in jail during his youth and battled addictions to pills on and off throughout his life.


source: classicbands

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 12th


1944 R&B singer Barry White is born Barry Eugene Carter in Galveston, Texas. He would be raised in South Central Los Angeles, California.

1946 Blue Cheer singer/bassist Dickie Peterson is born in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

1952 Neal Peart (drummer/lyricist for Rush) is born near Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

1969 The Rolling Stones release Through The Past, Darkly.

1975 Pink Floyd release the album Wish You Were Here.

2008 Metallica release Death Magnetic, produced by Rick Rubin.

source: calendarsongfacts

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: September 12th


A few albums that was released....


1975 ● Thin Lizzy —— Fighting ► Hard Rock

1977 ● Chicago —— Chicago XI ► Jazz-Rock

1980 ● David Bowie —— Scary Monsters ► Glam Rock

1989 ● Aerosmith —— Pump ► Hard Rock

2000 ● Lynyrd Skynyrd —— Christmas Time Again ► Southern Rock

2006 ● Peter Frampton —— Fingerprints ► Arena Rock

2006 ● Bob Seger —— Face The Promise ► Heartland Rock


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 13th



2019 Eddie Money, whose eleven Billboard Top 40 hits included "Take Me Home Tonight" (#4 in 1986) and "Walk On Water" (#9 in 1988) passed away at the age of 70 after a battle with cancer.


source: classicbands

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 13th


1941 David Clayton-Thomas is born in England. He would grow up in Canada and become the lead singer in Blood, Sweat, Tears, bringing with him their biggest hit, "Spinning Wheel."

1943 Ray Elliot (keyboardist/saxophonist/flautist for Them) is born in Belfast, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland.

1944 Peter Cetera (bassist/vocalist for Chicago) is born in Chicago, Illinois.

1961 Dave Mustaine (lead singer/guitarist for Megadeth) is born in La Mesa, California.

1976 Lynyrd Skynyrd releases their first live album, One More from the Road. It's the only live album the band releases before a 1977 plane wreak ends the original lineup and puts the band out of commission entirely for fourteen years.

2000 Almost Famous is released in theaters across the US. The film is a semi-autobiographical account of writer and director Cameron Crowe's time spent interviewing rock bands for Rolling Stone in the '70s, when he was just a teenager. The film centers around a fictional band called Stillwater, and rather than being based on one band in particular, Stillwater feels like every '70s arena band rolled into one.

2015 REO Speedwagon guitarist Gary Richrath, who wrote their hits "Ridin' the Storm Out" and "Take It On The Run," dies at age 65.


source: calendarsongfacts

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: September 13th


A few albums that was released....



1972 ● Yes —— Close To The Edge ► Prog Rock

1974 ● Supertramp —— Crime Of The Century ► Prog/Art Rock

1974 ● Fleetwood Mac —— Heros Are Hard To Find ► Pop-Rock

1977 ● Elton John —— Elton John’s Greatest Hits Volume II ► Pop-Rock

1984 ● Dokken —— Tooth And Nail ► Heavy Metal

1984 ● Kiss —— Animalize ► Hard Rock

1988 ● Jeff Healey Band —— See The Light ► Blues-Rock

1994 ● Eric Clapton —— From The Cradle ► Blues-Rock

2011 ● Alice Cooper —— Welcome 2 My Nightmare ► Hard Rock



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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 14th



2005 The newly refurbished Grateful Dead's original tour bus went on display at the Volo Auto Museum in Volo, Illinois. The 1965 Gillig bus, which Jerry Garcia and the rest of the Dead dubbed ‘Sugar Magnolia’ was used by the band on their frequent tours across the US between 1967 and 1985. The ceiling was lined with hundreds of vintage rock posters featuring The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and others who had visited the bus.


2008 Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson was one of the pilots who flew specially chartered flights after 85,000 tourists were stranded in the US, the Caribbean, Africa and Europe after Britain's third-largest tour operator went into administration. The singer, who had worked for the airline Astraeus for nine years, took up flying during a low point in his solo career after he quit the band in 1993.


source: thisdayinmusic

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 14th



1946 Pete Agnew (bassist for Nazareth) is born in Dunfermline, Scotland.

1949 Steve Gaines (guitarist/songwriter for Lynyrd Skynyrd) is born in Seneca, Missouri, but would be raised in Miami, Oklahoma.

1950 Rock guitarist Paul Kossoff (of Free) is born in Hampstead, London, England.


source: calendarsongfacts

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: September 14th


A few albums that was released....


1975 ● Supertramp —— Crisis? What Crisis? ► Prog/Art Rock

1979 ● Jethro Tull —— Stormwatch ► Prog Rock

2004 ● Alice Cooper —— School’s Out And Other Hits ► Hard Rock


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 15th




2008 Pink Floyd keyboard player and founder member Richard Wright died aged 65 from cancer. Wright appeared on the group's first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, in 1967 alongside Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason. David Gilmour who joined the band at the start of 1968 said: "He was such a lovely, gentle, genuine man and will be missed terribly by so many who loved him." In 2005, the full band reunited - for the first time in 24 years - for the Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park. Wright had also contributed vocals and keyboards to Gilmour's 2006 solo album On An Island.

2019 Ric Ocasek the former lead singer with The Cars was found dead in his New York City apartment, he was 75. The Cars formed in Boston in the mid-1970s by Ocasek and band-mate Benjamin Orr after they met at high school. Their early hits included 'Just What I Needed', 'My Best Friend's Girl' and 'Good Times Roll'. Their 1984 ballad 'Drive' was used as background music for footage of the Ethiopian famine, and its re-release as a single after Live Aid helped raise money for the cause. After the band broke up in the late 1980s, Ocasek embarked on a solo career as well as working as a producer for artists including Weezer, Bad Religion and No Doubt.

source: thisdayinmusic

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: September 15th


A few albums that was released....


1960 ● Johnny Cash —— Sings Hank Williams ► Classic Country

1971 ● The Band —— Cahoots ► Folk-Rock

1972 ● Grand Funk Railroad —— Phoenix ► Hard Rock

1973 ● Poco —— Crazy Eyes ► Country-Rock

1975 ● David Crosby & Graham Nash —— Wind On The Water ► Folk-Rock

1984 ● Motörhead —— No Remorse ► Heavy Metal

1986 ● Ric Ocasek —— This Side Of Paradise ► Pop-Rock

1987 ● The Ramones —— Halfway To Sanity ► Punk-Rock

2006 ● Elton John —— The Captain & The Kid ► Pop-Rock

2009 ● Ace Frehley —— Anomaly ► Pop-Metal


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