Alice Sues KISS... Baez Busted... Chuck Berry's Thing
This is the week that was in matters musical...
1967, Joan Baez puts
her tush where her mouth is and gets a free ride to the pokey with
123 others when they block the entrance to the Armed Forces Induction
Center in Oakland...she spends 10 days behind bars for her anti-draft
activities...
1966, at the Fillmore West in San Francisco Grace Slick
hits the stage for her first gig with the Jefferson Airplane bringing
with her "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love" from her previous
band, Great Society... the Airplane's previous singer, Signe Anderson,
had quit due to new motherhood... also in 1966, the Yardbirds hit the Big
Apple to kick off their first U.S. tour... Jeff Beck flakes after a
couple of gigs, leaving bandmate Jimmy Page to handle lead guitar...
1968, The New Yardbirds meet the public for the first time at a
concert in London... they later decide on the way-cooler name Led
Zeppelin... also in 1968, Peter Frampton joins the Small Faces on a London
gig, setting the stage for his later collaboration with Small Faces
singer/guitarist Steve Marriot in the formation of Humble Pie...
1961,
for a whopping studio tab of $400, 20-year-old Bob Dylan lays down
the tracks for his self-titled debut album for Columbia...
1979, after
spending a reported cool million in the studio, Fleetwood Mac
releases its 2-record set, "Tusk," earlier than planned because it's
been leaked to radio stations too soon...
1972, after 17 years of rock
'n' roll showmanship, Chuck Berry finally hits No. 1 with "My
Dingaling," a song about-- well, we won't go into it...
1992, in a $35
million lawsuit filed against "Hard Copy," Elton John claims that the
tabloid TV show falsely cited his desire to be near an AIDS clinic as
a reason for moving to Atlanta...
1976, everybody's sweetheart Joan
Armatrading first appears on the UK charts with "Love and Affection"
...
1969, Bobbie Gentry tops out on the UK charts with "I'll Never
Fall in Love"...
this week in 1966 The Jimi Hendrix Experience plays
out for the first time to 14,500 people at the Olympia in Paris,
opening for Johnny Halliday...
1992, Elvis' record of 11 weeks at No.
1 for "Don't Be Cruel" is beaten by Boyz II Men with "End of the
Road"...
Lynyrd Skynyrd fans take a gut shot this week in 1977 when
they learn that band members Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, and Ronnie
Van Zant have died along with three members of their entourage in a
plane crash...the crash marks the end of Lynyrd Skynyrd until the
survivors reform the band a decade later...
1967, the hippie musical
"Hair" opens at the Public Theater in New York, the first of 1,758
performances...a young Diane Keaton refuses to participate in the
finale, which features naked cast members wandering through the
audience...
1922, the BBC is founded...
1971, Isaac Hayes releases
"Theme From Shaft"...
1969, the Jackson 5 are seen on the electronic
babysitter for the first time on ABC's "Hollywood Palace"...
1998,
the company with publishing rights to Alice Cooper's "Eighteen" files
suit against Cooper's primary make-up rock emulators, KISS, claiming
they ripped off his song "Eighteen" for their song, "Dreamin"...
Cooper has nothing to do with it and hasn't even heard "Dreamin"
when the suit is filed...asked about the outcome years later, Cooper
says, "I think we all forgot to show up at court. Paul Stanley bought
me a cheeseburger to make up for the whole thing"...
and that was the week that was.
Birthdays
October 16: Nico of the Velvet Underground (1938), Fred Turner of BTO
(1943), Bob Weir (1947), Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers (1962)
October 17: Jazz drummer Cozy Cole (1909), trombonist Rico Rodriguez
of The Specials (1934), Jim Seals of Seals and Crofts (1941), Gary
Puckett (1942), James Tucker of The Turtles (1946), Mike Hossack of
the Doobie Bros. (1948), Ziggy Marley (1968), Chris Kirkpatrick of
'N Sync (1971)
October 18: Chuck Berry (1926), Ronnie Bright of the Coasters (1938),
The Association's Russ Giguere (1943), Laura Nyro (1947), Gary
Richrath of REO Speedwagon (1949), Doobie Brother Keith Knudson
(1952), Wynton Marsalis (1961)
October 19: Dave Guard of The Kingston Trio (1934), Peter Tosh
(1944), George McCrae (1944), Jeannie C. Riley (1945), Wilbert Hart
of The Delfonics (1947), Patrick Simmons of the Doobie Brothers
(1948), Jennifer Holliday (1960), Dan "Woody" Woodgate of Madness
(1960), Pras Michel of the Fugees (1972)
October 20: Jellyroll Morton AKA Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe (1890),
Rockabillyette Wanda Jackson (1937), Ric Lee of Ten Years After
(1945), Al Greenwood of Foreigner (1951), Tom Petty (1953), Mark King
of Level 42 (1958), James George "Soni" Sonefeld of Hootie and The
Blowfish (1964), Snoop Doggy Dog (1971)
October 21: Dizzy Gillespie (1917), Manfred Mann AKA Michael Lubowitz
(1940), Memphis guitarist and producer Steve Cropper (1941), Elvin
Bishop (1942), Lee Loughnane of Chicago (1946), Go-Go's guitarist
Charlotte Caffey (1953), Eric Faulkner of the Bay City Rollers
(1955), Julian Cope of Teardrop Explodes (1957), studio six-string
slinger Steve Lukather (1957)
October 22: master composer/pianist Franz Liszt (1811), Annette
Funicello (1942), Bobby ("I Fought The Law") Fuller (1943), Doobie
Brother Patrick Simmons (1945), Leslie West of Mountain (1945), Eddie
Brigati of The Rascals (1945), Dean Kastran of The Ohio Express
(1948), Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets (1960)
Departures
October 16: Leonard Chess, cofounder of Chess Records (1969)
October 17: Tennessee Ernie Ford (1991)
October 20: Henry "The Sunflower" Vestine of Canned Heat (1997),
Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, and Cassie Gaines, all of Lynyrd
Skynyrd (1977)
October 21: Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon (1995), Bill Black (1965)
October 22: Folk singer Ewan McColl (1989)
