Sir Paul Popped...Metal On The Map...Dylan Juiced...Bowie's Snout
This is the week that was in matters musical...
1969, Neil Young
appears with Crosby, Stills, and Nash for the first time at the
Fillmore East in New York, beginning an amazingly fruitful 30-year
association...
1970, Hendrix plays his home town of Seattle for the
last time...
1967, the Beatles and a bunch of other rockers put their
signatures on a London newspaper ad calling for the legalization of
the evil weed...five years later to the week Sir Paul (well prior to
receiving that title) goes down for possession, one of a handful of
times the august songsmith will be detained for his herbal
predilections...
1987, "LaBamba," the movie biography of Latino rocker
Ritchie Valens, opens...
1990, Pantera releases "Cowboys From Hell,"
their first release on a major label...1990, parents in Reno file
suit claiming that Judas Priest’s album "Stained Class" contains
sick subliminal messages that drove a pair of troubled youths to off
themselves...the judge dismisses the suit...
1965, Dylan makes his
first plugged-in appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival
...
1939, Judy Garland records "Over the Rainbow"...three years later
to the week, she’s back in the studio, this time with Gene Kelly
recording "For Me and My Gal"...
1992 Kiss guitarist/singer Paul Stanley
weds model Pamela Bowen...
2000, Internet cowboy music rustler
headquarters, Napster, is ordered to cease trade in music covered by
RIAA member copyrights...a stay of execution buys a little more time
...
1983, Metallica begins their first tour, the "Kill ‘em All for
One" tour...
1959, The Isley Brothers record "Shout"...
1968, Gram
Parsons boycotts the Byrds’ tour of South Africa, choosing to avoid
the racist regime...
1966, Beatles cocoon, The Cavern Club, in
Liverpool reopens with prime minister Harold Wilson on hand after
public outcry denounced its closure due to financial duress...
1964,
The Animals break out with "House of the Rising Sun," a traditional
tune that can be traced as far back as the 17th century...the
Animals’ great success with the tune makes it required learning for
budding guitarists in garages everywhere for the next decade...
1968,
the Stones continue their tradition of trouble-making record covers
by picturing a graffiti-covered bathroom wall on "Beggar’s Banquet"
...Sir Mick is righteously riled when sanctimonious record label
execs delay its release...
1980, David Bowie makes his theatrical
debut as "The Elephant Man," on a stage in Denver...Bowie eventually
takes the title role in the Broadway production as well...
and that was the week that was.
Birthdays
July 24: Rudy Collins of the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (1934), Jennifer
Lopez (1970)
July 25: Jim McCarty of the Yardbirds (1943), Verdine White of Earth,
Wind & Fire (1951), Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth (1958)
July 26: Louie Bellson (1924), Sir Mick Jagger (1943), Jim McCarty of
The Yardbirds (1943), Roger Taylor of Queen (1949), Gary Cherone of
Van Halen (1961)
July 27: Nick Reynolds of the Kingston Trio (1933), Bobby Gentry
(1944), Al Ramsey of Gary Lewis and the Playboys (1946), Karl Mueller
of Soul Asylum (1963), Rex Brown of Pantera (1964), Peter Yorn (1974)
July 28: George Cummings of Dr. Hook (1938), Mike Bloomfield (1944),
Rick Wright (1945), Steve Morse (1954)
July 29: Charlie Christian (1916), Neal Doughty of REO Speedwagon
(1946), Geddy Lee (1953), Patti Scialfa of the E Street Band (1956),
John Sykes of Whitesnake (1959), Wanya Morris of Boyz II Men (1973)
July 30: Buddy Guy (1936), Paul Anka (1941), David Sanborn (1945),
Marc Bolan (1947), Kate Bush (1958), Stewart Copeland (1952)
Departures
July 26: Mary Wells (1992), Brent Mydland of the Grateful Dead (1990)
July 27: Harry "Sweets" Edison (1999), Lightnin’ Slim (1974)
July 28: Simon "Mahlathini" Nkabinde (1999)
July 29: Anita Carter of the Carter Sisters (1999), "Mama" Cass
Elliot (1974)
