Today is the 28th Anniversary of the 1983 US Festival. The US Festivals (US pronounced like the pronoun, not as initials) were two early 1980s music and culture festivals sponsored by Steve Wozniak, formerly of Apple Computer....
Bobbie Brown has posted a hand written biography on her facebook page written by her late ex-husband Jani Lane. Apparently dated July 2011, it was written just weeks before Jani’s death on August 11th, 2011. In the...
Rock Birthdays Jan. 1 Country Joe McDonald (Country Joe and the Fish) – 78 Morgan Fisher (Mott The Hoople, Love Affair, Hybrid Kids, Morgan) – 70 David Wayne (Metal Church, Reverend, Wayne, Intrinsic) – b. 1958...
Rock Birthdays Jan. 1 Country Joe McDonald (Country Joe and the Fish) – 78 Morgan Fisher (Mott The Hoople, Love Affair, Hybrid Kids, Morgan) – 70 David Wayne (Metal Church, Reverend, Wayne, Intrinsic) – b. 1958...
Read MoreRock Birthdays Dec. 1 Sandy Nelson (session drummer on such tunes as the Teddy Bears’ ‘To Know Him Is To Love Him,’ he releases a string of Top 40 instrumental hits, including ‘Teen Beat’ at #4 in...
Read MoreRock Birthdays: November 1 Ric Grech (Family, Blind Faith, Ginger Baker’s Air Force, Traffic, KGB, Gram Parsons, The Crickets) – b. 1946 – d. 3/17/90 Jim Steinman (Producer, composer, lyricist, Meat Loaf)...
Read MoreOctober 1 Albert Collins – b. 1932 – d. 11/24/93 Jerri Martini (Sly & The Family Stone, Graham Central Station, Rubicon + more) – 76 Michael “Cub” Koda (Brownsville Station, solo) – b....
Read MoreSeptember Rock Birthdays September 1 Marshall Lytle (Bill Haley & His Comets, The Jodimars) – b. 1933 – d. 5/25/13 Greg Errico (Sly and the Family Stone, Weather Report, David Bowie, Santana, Grateful Dead, Jerry...
Read MoreRock Birthdays: August August 1 Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Jerry Garcia Band, Old and in the Way, Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Merle Saunders) – b. 1942...
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