Today in Rock n' Roll History

[WalshFan88]

Man, there are some really sick humans in this world of ours!

Definitely. I like a lot of Marvin's music too.

[Annabel]

I saw him in concert when I lived in Brighton. Just fab. Was a sad day when he died.

[Koala]

1965 The Who made their first radio appearance on the UK BBC's 'Joe Loss Pop Show.'

1967 154 Austrian Rolling Stones fans were arrested when a riot broke out at a 14,000-seated Town Hall gig; a smoke bomb was thrown on the stage.

1969 Bruce Springsteen’s new group Child made their live debut at the Pandemonium Club in Wanamassa, New Jersey.

1971 Janis Joplin was at No.1 on the US album charts with 'Pearl.'
1977 Fleetwood Mac went to No.1 on the US album chart with 'Rumours.' Also on this day Fleetwood Mac kicked off a 7-date UK tour at the Odeon, Birmingham, England.

1977 Abba were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their fifth No.1 'Knowing Me, Knowing You.' The song was also a Top 10 hit in over 15 countries.

1983 Pink Floyd scored their third UK No.1 album with 'The Final Cut.'

1990 Eric Clapton was fined £300 with £10 costs by Walton-on- Thames Magistrates court, after being booked for speeding at 105mph; Clapton was also banned from driving for three months.

1998 Rob Pilatus, one half of pop duo Milli Vanilli was found dead in a Frankfurt Hotel room after taking a lethal combination of drugs and alcohol. Milli Vanilli won the 1989 best new artist Grammy after hits like 'Blame it on the Rain' and 'Girl, You Know It's True,' selling 30 million singles and 14 million albums. But in late 1990, the performers were stripped of the award after it was revealed that neither actually sang on the Milli Vanilli album.

[Koala]

1964 Bob Dylan made his first entry on the UK charts with 'The Times They Are A-Changin'.

1969 The Doors' Jim Morrison turned himself in to the FBI in Los Angeles. He was charged on six charges of lewd behavior and public exposure at a concert in Miami on March 2nd, 1969. He was later released on $2000 bail.

1975 Steve Miller was charged with setting fire to the clothes of a friend, Benita Diorio. When police arrived at Miller's house, Diorio was putting out the flames, Miller then got into a fight with some of the policemen and was charged with resisting arrest.

1979 Kate Bush kicked off the 28-date 'Tour Of Life' trek making her concert debut at Liverpool's Empire Theatre, England. Bush never set out on another tour again.

[MikeA]

1964 Bob Dylan made his first entry on the UK charts with 'The Times They Are A-Changin'.

Ya know, I was never a huge fan of Bob Dylan as a performer, but was always a devout follower of his ground breaking abilities as a poet, songwriter and just all round innovator.

And one of the songs I like best of his is "The Times, They Are A-Changing". I liked his version of that but also liked Peter, Paul & Mary's version. It was one of the first songs I learned to play on an acoustic guitar and I wore out strings playing it!

A couple of years ago, my Mother asked me to record that song I used to play and sing when I lived at home...you know the one, the one about "Brothers and Sisters". Something about times changing and singing about love between brothers and sisters.

Mother always saw what she wanted to see and she heard what she wanted to hear! Mother isn't captivated about any music unless it is a Church Hymn and her request really threw me! I thought at first she was talking about "Times" but the closest thing that came to what she was asking for in that song was:

Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
And don't criticize what you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a' changin'!

I don't she ever really listened to the entire song nor did she ever grasp the meaning of the protest and warning that song held. To some of us, it was and anthem of the mid-sixties.

Finally, I did figure out what she was asking for:

I'd hammer out danger,
I'd hammer out a warning,
I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters,
All over this land.

"If I Had A Hammer" also by PP&M (commonly known as "The Hammer Song". That lyric was the chorus and I played and sang that one almost as much as "Times".

Dylan didn't write that one...written by Pete Seeger in 1949. But it was so "Dylan" that for a long time, I thought he'd written it!

[Freypower]

I will be seeing Bob at the end of this month. I don't really talk about him here as I'm really the only devoted fan he has here.

Re the 1979 entry on Kate Bush: my husband saw her on that one tour she did; at Sunderland's Empire Theatre.

[tequila girl]

[quote=Freypower;143927]I will be seeing Bob at the end of this month. I don't really talk about him here as I'm really the only devoted fan he has here.
Hey FP, Maybe not a devoted fan, but I grew up with him....and love him - as i'm sure many others do.....Talk away!!

[tequila girl]

I've always liked his quirky songs. Favorite one is You Ain't Goin' Nowhere by the Byrds, doesn't make much sense but it rythmes

you crack me up!

[Koala]

1964 The top five slots on the 'Billboard' chart are held by the Beatles, a feat never before or since matched.

1968 Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Joni Mitchell, Al Kooper and Ted Nugent met up for an all night blues, folk and rock session at The New Generation Club, New York after hearing the news of Martin Luther King's assassination.

1970 Crosby Stills Nash & Young went to No.1 on the US album chart with Deja Vu. The first album which saw Neil Young joining Crosby, Stills and Nash featured three US Top 40 singles: 'Teach Your Children', 'Our House' and 'Woodstock.'

1981 Styx went to No.1 on the US album chart with 'Paradise Theatre'.

1987 The charity record by Ferry Aid 'Let It Be' was at No.1 on the UK singles chart. The single was recorded in aid of the 1986 Zeebrugge Ferry disaster, which killed almost 200 people. The song featured Paul McCartney, Boy George, Mark Knopfler, Kim Wilde, Nik Kershaw, Kate Bush and others.

1987 Genesis hits #3 in the US with "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight".

1992 Bruce Springsteen scored his third UK No.1 album with 'Human Touch.'

1992 The film soundtrack from 'Wayne's World' started a two-week run at No.1 on the US album chart.

[MikeA]

1968 Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Joni Mitchell, Al Kooper and Ted Nugent met up for an all night blues, folk and rock session at The New Generation Club, New York after hearing the news of Martin Luther King's assassination.

Now THAT'S a diverse group of musicians! And Ted Nugent! This is about the third time in the last few weeks his name has popped up here on the Border. Except for this time, it was ME mentioning him and it seemed logical at the times and I don't particularly like him.

Mentioned here in that quote from today's "History" thread. Mentioned in the thread about over the top stage props. And I think I mentioned him in conjunction with a discussion about Phil Keaggy (Nugent sought Keaggy out to learn a guitar lick from him but Keaggy would show him ONLY if he would allow Phil to "witness" to him about Jesus!)

Nugent IS a character!