September 17, 1967 ~ Appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Doors are asked to change the line “Girl, we couldn’t get much higher” in their hit “Light My Fire” to “Girl, we couldn’t get much better.” They agree, then Morrison sings the offending line anyway, pissing-off the host and earning a lifetime ban from the show.
September 17, 1967 ~ Keith Moon of The Who rigs his bass drum to explode at the end of “My Generation” during their appearance on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, but he doesn’t realize that the stage crew has already done the deed. The resulting explosion cuts Moon’s leg, singes Pete Townshend’s hair and an eardrum, and scares the shit out of fellow guests Bette Davis and Mickey Rooney.
John Sebastian with Stephen Stills – Mobile Line & Bullfrog Blues Celebration at Big Sur 50 years ago today, September 13, 1969 …
50 years ago today ~ September 13, 1969 ~
At the Toronto Rock ‘n Roll Revival festival, host Kim Fowley starts a rock tradition when he asks the crowd to hold up lighters for Eric Clapton and John Lennon.
Clapton and Lennon are playing in The Plastic Ono Band, a group Lennon put together for the show. When Fowley gets word that Lennon is nervous and chain smoking backstage, Fowley comes up with the idea as a way to put him at ease. He tells the crowd:
Everyone get out your matches and lighters please. In a minute I’m going to bring out John Lennon and Eric Clapton and when I do I want you to light them and give them a huge Toronto welcome.
Well, we all need an album we can lean on …
The Rolling Stones will celebrate the golden anniversary of one of their best albums with a Let It Bleed (50th Anniversary Edition) box. The limited-edition set features two LPs and two HybridSuper Audio CDs, newly remastered in stereo and mono by Bob Ludwig.
Source: Rolling Stones Announce ‘Let It Bleed’ 50th-Anniversary Edition
Herb Alpert’s ‘Whipped Cream Lady’ is a lovely 82 Years Old….
Source: Herb Alpert’s ‘Whipped Cream Lady’ is a lovely 82 Years Old…. « Cool Album of the Day
b. September 9, 1941
Who knew it was a saratorial concern that would lead The Father of Rock n’ Roll to introduce us all to his trademark move?
September 8, 1955 ~
Chuck Berry does the duck walk for the first time in an effort to conceal wrinkles in his suit. It’s at the Paramount Theatre in Brooklyn and Alan Freed’s “Rock n’ Roll Spectacular. It’s one of the first times Chuck and his band had performed outside of his hometown of St. Louis and, on the way to Brooklyn, their suits wrinkle badly. Chuck crouches on the stage to hide them while “hopping” across the stage — improvising his duckwalk along the way. The crowd at The Paramount goes crazy and the rest is history.
You know him as Buddy Holly ~ born September 7, 1936 …
