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On this day… The Allman Brothers Band played their final show, appropriately, at the Beacon Theatre in New York City where the band had an annual residency – they performed at the venue 238 times since ’89. The show came a day before the 43rd anniversary of guitarist Duane Allman’s death (in ’71) with Derek…
On this day… Pearl Jam play their first show. It’s at the Off-Ramp in Seattle. Here’s how it happened. Guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament were members of Seattle-based Grunge band Green River during the mid-1980s. In late 1987, Gossard and Ament were in Malfunkshun with vocalist Andrew Wood. They morphed into Mother Love Bone….
On this day thirty years ago… R.E.M.’s “Monster” was #1 on the Billboard 200 (on first week sales of 344,000 copies). The band’s ninth studio album featured the song “What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?” – the first of five singles from the album. Drummer Bill Berry was eager to tour (for the first time since 1989) and…
To Vote for Oasis or Another Nominee Go To RockinTown.com Hall of Fame. Nobody really expects brothers to get along. From the time the younger is born to the time one kicks the bucket there’s competition and usually some bickering. But the Gallagher brothers, Noel (guitar) and Liam (vocals) raised the bar (or lowered it)….
To Vote for Foo Fighters or Another Nominee Go To RockinTown.com Hall of Fame. Foo Fighter: A World War II term used to refer to mysterious aerial phenomena. Following Kurt Cobain’s death and the demise of Nirvana, the band’s drummer David Grohl, a multi-talented musician, locked himself away as he recorded the entire Foo Fighters’…
Alice In Chains did everything a Grunge group should do. They formed in Seattle, landed a recording contract (Columbia Records), had drug problems, released an Unplugged set (in ’96), had a hit ballad (“No Excuses”) and did a Lollapalooza tour (’93). The band’s first release was the five song EP “We Die Young.” Their third…
On this day… Creed gets credit for helping lift the Texas Rangers to the major league baseball playoffs. The Rangers see their season turn around when they start playing Creed in the clubhouse prior to games. According to Rangers’ pitcher Andrew Heaney listening to Creed was a way of “having fun” while dealing with the “rollercoaster of the second…
On this day, twenty years ago… Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee, a high school dropout, begins classes in chemistry, literature and the history of Rock n’ Roll (should get an ‘A’) at the University of Nebraska. NBC gleaned enough footage for “Tommy Lee Goes To College,” a six-segment series. But all was not as it appeared….
On this day… John Lennon recorded his blistering “Cold Turkey.” Offered to The Beatles, who passed on it, the song was credited to the Plastic Ono Band – which consisted of Lennon, Eric Clapton (guitar), fellow Beatle Ringo Starr (drums), and Manfred Mann’s Klaus Voorman (bass). Yoko Ono was in there as well. ‘Cold turkey’ refers…
On this day thirty-six years ago… John Lennon gets a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. As a crowd of 1,500 spontaneously broke into the chorus of “Give Peace a Chance,” a star for John Lennon was unveiled by his widow, Yoko Ono, on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. As a crowd of…