10/30/2022 0 Comments Happy birthday iggy pop![]() “ Back In Black” is the bee’s knees.Ġ4.20: On this day in 1992 the three remaining members of Queen held a tribute concert in memory of their late front man Freddie Mercury, who passed away in 1991. Though Johnson isn’t as edgy as Scott and we aren’t as afraid of meeting Johnson in a dark alley, after ten pints, than Scott, he still rocks. Enormous shoes to fill, Johnson more than made up for the loss of Scott, when the band released the phenomenal Back In Black, one of the greatest pure rock albums of all time and a fitting hard rock tribute to the sounds Scott had helped pioneer the years prior. ![]() Scott had passed away a few months earlier from “acute alcoholic poisoning” and “death by misadventure” (so says the medical examiner). We’re damn glad they got back together, though, because we wouldn’t have their comeback album, 90125, and the great ’80s song “ Owner Of A Lonely Heart.”Ġ4.19: On this day in 1980, AC/DC announced Brian Johnson would replace Bon Scott as the band’s singer. YES got back together a little over 2 years later, so we’ll never know. That either would’ve been the end of civilization or one of the best supergroups ever, we’re not sure. The group temporarily disbanded and rumors of bass player Chris Squire and drummer Alan White forming a supergroup with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page never materialized. They met again a year later and became inseparable, a real rock ‘n’ roll fairy tale.Ġ4.18: On this day in 1981, YES called it quits. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band before she returned to the States. They took in a Procol Harum show (“ Whiter Shade Of Pale“, kiddos) and hung out at a party for the release of Sgt. Paul McCartney’s wife of 26 years and a gifted photographer, the Yank Linda met the Brit Paul in London in 1967 while she was on assignment, photographing the city’s musicians and music scene. Ġ4.17: On this day in 1998, Linda McCartney lost her battle with breast cancer. Instead, Cash sang a couple of his own tunes and a cover song about a mistreated Native-American WWII veteran. Nixon requested that Cash play Merle Haggard’s “Okie From Muskogee” (a satire, though Nixon didn’t know this, of small town mores and one of the most misunderstood songs out there) and “Welfare Cadillac” (a deeply derisive song about welfare recipients), but Cash declined, citing his unfamiliarity with the songs. Apparently, having just given a name to the “War On Drugs,” Nixon wasn’t aware of Cash’s heavy drug use or the deep contrasts between Cash’s left-leaning politics and Nixon’s right wing stances. Happy birthday, Maynard!Ġ4.17: On this day in 1970, Johnny Cash performed at the White House at the request of President Nixon. ![]() We love Maynard because he’s been known to show up on stage in his birthday suit, singing his little heart out, and he also owns a winery in Arizona. Just compare Tool’s “Sober” with A Perfect Circle’s “ Judith” and you get a hint of what we’re babbling about. While A Perfect Circle isn’t exactly light listening, it’s darkness doesn’t run quite as dark as Tool, and the melodies are a bit more prevalent, a little more at the front. With A Perfect Circle, Maynard found a group with whom he could loosen up a little bit, with a little bit being the operative words. We first took notice when MTV started playing the disturbingly awesome video (remember when they played videos?) for Tool’s masterpiece “ Sober,” a stop-motion animated romp through a landscape of tortured souls and nightmares. ![]() With Tool, Maynard melded arty prog rock with a vibrant and intense metal soul. If you’re not a fan, then you probably can’t place the name, but Maynard is the lead singer for two of the most popular rock bands of the past 20 years, from the tribal art metal of Tool to the tight rock production of A Perfect Circle. 04.17: On this day in 1964, Maynard James Keenan was born. ![]()
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