42 Years Ago Today – AC/DC Perform First Ever Live Show (Watch “Can I Sit Next To You Girl”)
42 years ago today (12/31/73), AC/DC performed their first ever live show, although the band was still in its true “school boy” stage and featured only Angus and Malcom Young as players that would last into their more recognizable eras. In November 1973, Malcolm and Angus Young formed AC/DC and…
Happy Birthday Rick Danko of The Band, Watch Danko Perform “Sip The Wine” Off Debut Solo Album In 1978
On December 29th, 1943 Canadian musician and songwriter Rick Danko was born. He would have turned 72 but passed away all too young just 19 days shy of his 56th birthday on December 10th, 1999 from heart failure related to years of drug and alcohol problems. Danko is best known…
37 Years Ago Today Big Star’s Chris Bell Passes Away, Watch Big Star Footage From 1971
37 years ago today the music community suffered a major loss at the unfortunate death of Chris Bell. On December 27th, 1978 the young musician died after crashing his sports car into a light pole, which fell on the car and killed Bell. He was on the way home from…
6 Years Ago Today – Vic Chesnutt Passes Away (Watch “Flirted With You All My Life” Live ’09)
6 years ago today (12/25/09), Athens based singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt died from an overdose of muscle relaxants that had left him in a coma in an Athens hospital. In his final interview, which aired on National Public Radio 24 days before his death, Chesnutt said that he had “attempted suicide…
Happy 51st Birthday Eddie Vedder – (Watch “Hard Sun” Live)
51 years ago today Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder was born in Evanston, IL, with the name Edward Louis Severson III. 1964. Late in 1990, Vedder recorded vocals for the three songs to music he received via friend Jack Irons from a Seattle band who was looking for a lead…
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75 Years Ago Today – The Late/Great Frank Zappa Was Born (Watch Full Concert 10/13/78, Passaic, NJ)
75 years ago today, Frank Zappa was born in Baltimore, MD and would have been 75 today. Zappa died on 12/4/93 but had an unparalleled career as a musician, songwriter, composer, record producer, actor and filmmaker. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the…
Keith Richards Outlives Em All! Happy 72nd Birthday Keef! (Watch “Happy” Live with the X-Pensive Winos)
72 years ago today (12/18/43, Keith Richards was born. The iconic and legendary bad ass guitarist for the Rolling Stones and was credited by the magazine of the same name for “rock’s greatest single body of riffs” on guitar. Check out Richards in 1993 tackling “Happy” Exile on Main St.…
44 years Ago Today – David Bowie Releases Classic ‘Hunky Dory’ LP (Watch “Oh You Pretty Things”)
44 years ago to day (12/17/71), David Bowie released arguably his strongest recorded effort to date Hunky Dory. Bowie’s fourth album was the first production featuring all the members of the band that would become known the following year as Ziggy Stardust’s Spiders From Mars which consisted of consisted of…
45 Years Ago Today- Creedence Clearwater Revival Hit Gold With Four Classic Albums (Watch “Born on the Bayou” Live)
45 years ago today (12/16/70), Creedence Clearwater Revival it gold with four albums Bayou Country (1969), Green River (1969), Willy and the Poor Boys (1969) and Cosmo’s Factory (1970). Watch the boys take us to school with this hard rocking version of “Born on the Bayou” from Bayou Country.
Happy 60th Birthday Paul Simonon (Born 12/15/55) (Watch “Guns of Brixton” Live ’83)
Happy 60th birthday to Paul Simonon born 12/15/55. The founder and bass player for the Clash most recent work includes his involvement in the project The Good, the Bad & the Queen in 2007 with Damon Albarn, Simon Tong and Tony Allen and the Gorillaz album, Plastic Beach in 2010,…