1964 - On The Ed Sullivan Show, 47 years ago today, a taped Beatles' performance was played in lieu of the band performing live on the show. Following the pre-taped interview, The Beatles performed You Can't Do That, live from the set of the movie, A Hard Day's Night. Couldn't find this video anywhere, but hey, here's a live version of the song from a TV show around the same time.
1970 - Peter Green is a British blues-rock guitarist, and best known as the founder of the band Fleetwood Mac, the band from which he resigned 41 years ago today. Green remains one of the major figures and bandleaders in the "second great epoch" of the British blues movement. Such was Green's playing, it inspired guitar virtuoso B. B. King to say, "He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats." Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page have both lauded Green's guitar playing; features idiomatic string bending and vibrato and economy of style. Though he played other guitars, he is best known for deriving a unique tone from his 1959 Gibson Les Paul. He replaced Eric Clapton in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, and has been ranked 38th in Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. His tone on the seminal song The Super-Natural was hailed as one of the fifty greatest guitar sounds of all time by Guitar Player. He was rated as the third-best guitarist of all time in the June,1996 edition of "Mojo" magazine. On the following Fleetwood Mac videos you can see a very young Mick Fleetwood on drums, prior to Greene leaving the band. Fleetwood Mac, despite their commercial success in the eighties, were never the band they were when Green departed. He WAS Fleetwood Mac. The commercial Fleetwood Mac were another band entirely. Watch the real Fleetwood Mac, starting with one of the finest, most tasteful blues rock songs of all time.
1974 - On the American TV show, Midnight Special, comedian Richard Pryor was host to Olivia Newton-John and Boz Scaggs 37 years ago today. For me, Richard Pryor was the greatest comedian of all time, and here he is with his opening monologue on this edition of the show...then a very young Olivia doing her big hit, Let Me Be There. No vids on Boz for this time unfortunately, but scroll down to 1982, and find him performing in another video.
1982 - This is the day, May 24, when Jefferson Starship, the Grateful Dead, Boz Scaggs, and Country Joe McDonald played at San Francisco's Moscone Center to raise money for the Vietnam Veterans Project. This series of shows lasted five days, and this was from the 28th of May, as there is no video memory for the 24th of May. Have a listen to Boz Scaggs here, with the Grateful Dead - amazing guitar player, brilliant blues voice, this was the outstanding Boz Scaggs, before he hit mainstream success.
1986 - We go back exactly a quarter of a century when Davy Jones, Mickey Dolenz, and Peter Tork reunited as the Monkees, today, just one time. They kicked off their reunion tour at the Concord Hotel, in New York's Catskills Mountains. This is a bootleg audience copy of their show at Greek Theatre in Los Angeles when Mike Nesmith joined them onstage for the encore.
1989 - Was there ever a singer like Mavis Staples? This is the day her album Time Waits For No One was released. Couldn't find any videos on this, but here's Mavis singing Eyes on the Prize, with some disturbing visuals here, disturbing because mankind just never learns. Following that is Mavis once again, this time with the song I'll Take You There. Look closely and you'll see Jeff Healey on guitar and Dr. John on piano.
2000 - They say he's the man, and I don 't know if he is, but this is the day when Chuck D testified to the U.S. Congress about the benefits of Napster and online music distribution. And if you have doubts about his ability too handle congress, just have a listen to the great, great Chuck D, talking here about his musical influences.
2000 - Today Puff Daddy settled the final lawsuit that had arisen from a 1991 stampede at a New York charity event. To remember, this is from the first solo album by Puff Daddy. Personally, I don't think the old puff, piff, piddy or daddy is interested in anything but the money, honey, but he's a smart businessman, able to gather great talent around him, such as Jam Master J, and Chuck D.
1970 - Peter Green is a British blues-rock guitarist, and best known as the founder of the band Fleetwood Mac, the band from which he resigned 41 years ago today. Green remains one of the major figures and bandleaders in the "second great epoch" of the British blues movement. Such was Green's playing, it inspired guitar virtuoso B. B. King to say, "He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats." Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page have both lauded Green's guitar playing; features idiomatic string bending and vibrato and economy of style. Though he played other guitars, he is best known for deriving a unique tone from his 1959 Gibson Les Paul. He replaced Eric Clapton in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, and has been ranked 38th in Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. His tone on the seminal song The Super-Natural was hailed as one of the fifty greatest guitar sounds of all time by Guitar Player. He was rated as the third-best guitarist of all time in the June,1996 edition of "Mojo" magazine. On the following Fleetwood Mac videos you can see a very young Mick Fleetwood on drums, prior to Greene leaving the band. Fleetwood Mac, despite their commercial success in the eighties, were never the band they were when Green departed. He WAS Fleetwood Mac. The commercial Fleetwood Mac were another band entirely. Watch the real Fleetwood Mac, starting with one of the finest, most tasteful blues rock songs of all time.
1974 - On the American TV show, Midnight Special, comedian Richard Pryor was host to Olivia Newton-John and Boz Scaggs 37 years ago today. For me, Richard Pryor was the greatest comedian of all time, and here he is with his opening monologue on this edition of the show...then a very young Olivia doing her big hit, Let Me Be There. No vids on Boz for this time unfortunately, but scroll down to 1982, and find him performing in another video.
1982 - This is the day, May 24, when Jefferson Starship, the Grateful Dead, Boz Scaggs, and Country Joe McDonald played at San Francisco's Moscone Center to raise money for the Vietnam Veterans Project. This series of shows lasted five days, and this was from the 28th of May, as there is no video memory for the 24th of May. Have a listen to Boz Scaggs here, with the Grateful Dead - amazing guitar player, brilliant blues voice, this was the outstanding Boz Scaggs, before he hit mainstream success.
1986 - We go back exactly a quarter of a century when Davy Jones, Mickey Dolenz, and Peter Tork reunited as the Monkees, today, just one time. They kicked off their reunion tour at the Concord Hotel, in New York's Catskills Mountains. This is a bootleg audience copy of their show at Greek Theatre in Los Angeles when Mike Nesmith joined them onstage for the encore.
1989 - Was there ever a singer like Mavis Staples? This is the day her album Time Waits For No One was released. Couldn't find any videos on this, but here's Mavis singing Eyes on the Prize, with some disturbing visuals here, disturbing because mankind just never learns. Following that is Mavis once again, this time with the song I'll Take You There. Look closely and you'll see Jeff Healey on guitar and Dr. John on piano.
2000 - They say he's the man, and I don 't know if he is, but this is the day when Chuck D testified to the U.S. Congress about the benefits of Napster and online music distribution. And if you have doubts about his ability too handle congress, just have a listen to the great, great Chuck D, talking here about his musical influences.
2000 - Today Puff Daddy settled the final lawsuit that had arisen from a 1991 stampede at a New York charity event. To remember, this is from the first solo album by Puff Daddy. Personally, I don't think the old puff, piff, piddy or daddy is interested in anything but the money, honey, but he's a smart businessman, able to gather great talent around him, such as Jam Master J, and Chuck D.
