38 YEARS AGO AC/DC RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘BACK IN BLACK’. THE SONG WAS THE BAND’S TRIBUTE TO FORMER LEAD SINGER BON SCOTT . ACCORDING TO HIS REPLACEMENT BRIAN JOHNSON, THE BAND ASKED HIM TO WRITE LYRICS FOR THE BACK IN BLACK RIFF. THE CRITERIA WAS ‘IT COULDN’T BE MORBID, IT HAD TO BE FOR BON AND IT HAD TO BE A CELEBRATION. VH1 RANKS THIS #4 ON THEIR LIST OF THE 40 GREATEST METAL SONGS.
TEN YEARS AGO THE ‘DEATH MAGNETIC’ TOUR INVADED THE OAKLAND ARENA. METALLICA WAS ON FIRE ! THE SHOW WAS OVER 2 HOURS LONG, WITH THE SET LIST COMPRISED OF A GREAT MIX OF TRACKS FROM ‘DEATH MAGNETIC’ AND VINTAGE METALLICA SONGS. LET ME ADD ONE OTHER ELEMENT TO THE SHOW. THE FREAKIN’ LASER SHOW METALLICA ROLLED OUT WOULD HAVE MADE PINK FLOYD PROUD ! IT WAS A KILLER CONCERT.
AFTER THE FINAL SONG OF THE NIGHT, ‘SEEK AND DESTROY’ , LARS WAS PIED ONSTAGE. IT WAS 6 DAYS BEFORE HIS 45TH BIRTHDAY AND MEMBERS OF THE CREW CHASED HIM OFFSTAGE WITH PIES AND SILLY STRING. GOOD TIMES !
HERE’S SOME GREAT VIDEO OF THE BOYS PERFORMING ‘UNFORGIVEN’
AND HERE’S ‘ONE’ FROM THE PIT IN FRONT OF THE STAGE
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PETER CRISS, THE ORIGINAL DRUMMER OF KISS. TODAY CRISS IS 73 YEARS YOUNG. BORN PETER CRISCUOLA , HE WAS KNOWN AS ‘THE CATMAN”. CRISS CAME UP WITH THE MAKE UP CONCEPT BECAUSE HE FELT HE HAD 9 LIVES SURVIVING HIS ROUGH BROOKLYN UPBRINGING. HE LEFT KISS IN 1980. HE MAINTAINS HE QUIT, GENE SIMMONS SAYS THAT HE WAS FIRED.
CHRIS ROBINSON OF ‘THE CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD’ AND THE BLACK CROWES, TURNS 52 TODAY. NOW I HAVE TO STATE THAT I MIGHT BE THE WORLD’S BIGGEST CHRIS ROBINSON FAN. MUSICALLY THIS GUY IS A FREAKIN’ STUD. HE CURRENTLY LIVES IN MARIN COUNTY WITH HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER. IF ONLY HE AND HIS BROTHER COULD GET ALONG !
HERE’S A FANTASTIC LIVE VERSION OF “JEALOUS AGAIN” FROM THE CROWES
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IT WAS ON THIS DATE IN 1975 JOE WALSH OFFICIALLY JOINED ‘THE EAGLES’.
PRIOR TO JOINING THE EAGLES, WALSH ENJOYED GREAT SUCCESS WITH THE BAND ‘JAMES GANG’ AND SOLO PROJECTS. WALSH ALSO TURNED DOWN A CHANCE TO JOIN ‘HUMBLE PIE’ AS PETER FRAMPTON’S REPLACEMENT.
IN 1975 HE WAS ASKED TO JOIN THE EAGLES TO REPLACE BERNIE LEADON.
HOTEL CALIFORNIA WAS GROUP’S 5TH ALBUM, THE FIRST ALBUM TO FEATURE JOE WALSH. IS THERE ANYTHING BETTER THAN THE DUELING LEADS WITH FREY AND WALSH AT THE END OF HOTEL CALIFORNIA ?
HERE’S WALSH AND THE EAGLES IN CONCERT
HERE’S SOME GREAT SOLO WALSH FEATURING GREAT SLIDE GUITAR AND TALKBOX !!
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