Hope everyone had a great week. @Cris_Ard one to start off just for you. And I believe one of the best albums ever made. I remember buying the album at the record store in the old Bell Tower mall in Greenville.
Dio released their debut LP "Holy Diver" on May 25, 1983. The album has been hailed by critics as Dio's best work and a classic staple in the heavy metal music. The album was certified Gold in the US on September 12, 1984, and Platinum on March 21, 1989. In the UK it attained Silver certification (60,000 units sold) by the British Phonographic Industry in January 1986.
There are those that think this was one of the greatest heavy metal LP’s ever. Ronnie James Dio's vocals and his ability to write songs about the fantasy of good vs. evil found a very large audience.
The song "Rainbow In The Dark" became a fairly successful song on FM radio and also one of the bands most popular tunes.
Happy 39th Birthday to "Holy Diver"!!! RIP Ronnie.
Today we are remembering the late Robert Albert "Bob" Moog, who was born 88 years ago today. Bob was the founder of Moog Music. He was a pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
Moog's innovative electronic design is employed in numerous synthesizers including the Minimoog Model D, Minimoog Voyager, Little Phatty, Moog Taurus Bass Pedals, Moog Minitaur, and the Moogerfooger line of effects pedals.
The Moog synthesizers allowed musician to create various sounds both in the studio and live in concert. The original synthesizer he created was a little large and took a few patch cables. The picture below is of Keith Emerson during a sound check getting his synthesizer ready.
Bob passed away on Aug. 21, 2005 from a brain tumor.
Happy Birthday Mr. Moog. RIP
Bumps is really one of the most important people in the beginning of Rock and Roll.
Robert Blackwell would have turned 104 years old today. Robert was much better known as "Bumps" Blackwell. Bumps kind of did it all, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, and record producer, and was best known for his work overseeing the early hits of Little Richard, as well as grooming Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, Lloyd Price, Sam Cooke, Herb Alpert, Larry Williams, and Sly and the Family Stone at the start of their music careers.
Bumps led a jazz group in the late 1940s that included pianist Ray Charles and trumpeter Quincy Jones. He moved to Hollywood and took a job at Art Rupe's Specialty Records as an arranger and producer. He worked with Sam Cooke, Larry Williams, Lloyd Price and Guitar Slim, as well as producing Little Richard during his rise to stardom in 1955 and 1956.
In addition to producing Little Richard's breakthrough hit "Tutti Frutti" following hearing him sing the song in the studio, Blackwell also produced Little Richard's other mid-50s hits, co-writing some as them as well, including: "Long Tall Sally"; "Good Golly Miss Molly"; "Ready Teddy"; and "Rip It Up". He became Richard's manager and continued to work with him into the 1970s.
He also produced Sam Cooke's hit "You Send Me".
In 1981 Blackwell produced some songs for Bob Dylan's album, Shot of Love, including the title track.
Bumps Blackwell was one of the first to have the vision and be able to use it to bring Rock and Roll to the world.
Happy Birthday Bumps. RIP and Thank you for so much music.
On May 23, 1957, The Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group played at Wilson Hall, Speke Rd., Garston, Liverpool, England. Our reason for posting this is because this one of the earliest known, if not the earliest known picture of The Beatles drummer, Ringo Starr playing. Pictured left to right: Ritchie Starkey (drums), Frank Walsh (guitar), Roy Trafford (tea-chest bass), John Dougherty (washboard), Eddie Miles (using the name Eddie Clayton) (guitar, vocals).
This picture was taken 65 years ago today.
It had to start somewhere.
Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin on the same concert bill?
We'll let the good Professor Poster explain:
The Northern California Folk Rock Festival 2, at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, and the Aquarian Family Festival, at the Spartan Stadium practice field, both were held on Memorial Day weekend. These festivals had all the elements of the better-known shows…..80,000 people were said to have attended either one or the other. As at Woodstock, Jimi Hendrix headlined the Folk Festival. Just as at Altamont, the Aquarian Festival hired Hells Angels for security with disastrous results…. no surprise there!
Both festivals were infused with 1960s counter cultural values, peace, love, drugs, sex.....but lacking famous films to commemorate them, they have been all but lost to memory. It's worth peering back into the past to see how these unique events in San Jose that predated the two most important rock concerts in history.
On this day in May, 53 years ago back in 1969, the Northern California Folk-Rock Festival with Jimi Hendrix Experience, Jefferson Airplane, The Chamber Brothers, Led Zeppelin, Eric Burdon, Spirit, Canned Heat, Buffy Sainte-Maire, The Youngbloods, Steve Miller, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters Taj Mahal, Noel Redding, Lee Michaels, Blues Image, Santana, Aum, Elvin Bishop and more at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds. This is the only poster that I have ever seen with Jimi Hendrix & Led Zeppelin on the same billing.
The poster was created by rock artist Linda Segul., and it is indeed, a great "Poster From The Past" !
A historical piece t'share with a friend!
Approved in the festival mood by Professor Poster.
"Dave's not here"….. so he must be at Tommy Chong's 84th brirthday party.
Tommy has been in movies, recorded records both as a singer and a comedian and was possibily the first person to discover The Jackson 5…… Some people think he just likes to get high...
Happy Birthday Tommy!! Thanks for the laughs. Please keep ‘em coming!
A founding member of the Traveling Wilburys, Bob Dylan has 81 candles on his birthday cake today.
Now before you get all worked up about the way we introduced Mr. Dylan here, yes we know he is one of the most influential songwriters ever, has performed as an outstanding solo artist for over 50 years and has won just about every award there is to win for his music.
We could go on for days about Bob but it is probably easiest to sum him up in just 4 words. He is Bob Dylan.
Happy Birthday Bob!!! We got nothing but respect for you.
The Small Faces released their third LP "Odgens' Nut Gone Flake" on May 24, 1968. The title and the design of the distinctive packaging was a parody of Ogden's Nut-brown Flake, a brand of tobacco that was produced in Liverpool from 1899 onwards by Thomas Ogden.
(from wikipedia)
Side two of the record is based on an original fairy tale about a boy called Happiness Stan, narrated in his unique "Unwinese" gobbledegook by Stanley Unwin, who picked up modern slang from the band and incorporated it into the surreal narrative.
The fairy tale follows Stan in his quest to find the missing half of the moon, after seeing a half-moon in the sky one night. Along the way, he saves a fly from starvation, and in gratitude the insect tells him of someone who can answer his question and also tell him the philosophy of life itself. With magic power, Stan intones, "If all the flies were one fly, what a great enormous fly-follolloper that would bold," and the fly grows to gigantic proportions. Seated on the giant fly's back, Stan takes a psychedelic journey to the cave of Mad John the Hermit, who explains that the moon's disappearance is only temporary, and demonstrates by pointing out that Stan has spent so long on his quest that the moon is now full again. He then sings Stan a cheerful song about the meaning of life.
Because of the album's complexities, it was never performed live.
The album was originally released on vinyl in a circular novelty package of a metal replica of a giant tobacco tin, inside which was a poster created with five connected paper circles with pictures of the band members. This proved too expensive and not successful as the tins tended to roll off of shelves and it was quickly followed by a paper/card replica with a gatefold cover.
To promote the album, Immediate Records issued an advertisement that parodied the Lord's Prayer. This caused an uproar in the British press, and outraged readers wrote in to voice their anger. It read:
Small Faces
Which were in the studios
Hallowed by thy name
Thy music come
Thy songs be sung
On this album as they came from your heads
We give you this day our daily bread
Give us thy album in a round cover as we give thee 37/9d
Lead us into the record stores
And deliver us Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
For nice is the music
The sleeve and the story
For ever and ever, Immediate
Regarding the advert, Steve Marriott said, "We didn't know a thing about the ad until we saw it in the music papers. And frankly we got the horrors at first. We realize that it could be taken as a serious knock against religion. But on thinking it over, we don't feel it is particularly good or bad. It's just another form of advertising. We're not all that concerned about it. We're more concerned in writing our music and producing our records."
Happy 54th Birthday to The Small Faces LP "Odgens' Nut Gone Flake"!!
American musician, composer and record producer Robert "Waddy" Wachtel has 75 candles on his birthday cake today.
Wachtel has worked as session musician for other artists such as Linda Ronstadt, Stevie Nicks, Kim Carnes, Randy Newman, Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones, Jon Bon Jovi, James Taylor, Iggy Pop, Warren Zevon, Bryan Ferry, Michael Sweet, Jackson Browne, and Andrew Gold, both in the studio and live.
Production credits include albums by Stevie Nicks, Keith Richards, Jackson Browne, Bryan Ferry, The Church, Sand Rubies, George Thorogood and the Destroyers and Warren Zevon. Wachtel co-wrote several songs with Zevon including "Werewolves of London". He also co-wrote the Warren Zevon song "Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead" from the album Mr. Bad Example. He performed on and co-produced the first two Zevon albums.
Wachtel also shares co-writing credits with Stevie Nicks on a few tracks such as "Annabel Lee", and "I Don't Care".
Wachtel performs regularly with the Waddy Wachtel Band in the Los Angeles area, notably at The Joint from 2000 through 2013. The band at that time included Phil Jones, Rick Rosas, Bernard Fowler and Blondie Chaplin, among others. He continues to gig with his band, with some personnel changes, while retaining Fowler and Chaplin.
As of 2020, Wachtel is performing with a group of other Southern California classic rock veterans in a group called The Immediate Family along with Danny Kortchmar, Leland Sklar, Russ Kunkel, and Steve Postell.
Happy Birthday, Waddy!!
On May 25, 1967, John Lennon of The Beatles had his Roll Royce Phantom V returned to him. It had been out getting a new paint job.
The inspiration for the design came from Marijke Koger, one of the design collective ‘The Fool’ who were responsible for numerous pieces of the period and were very influential in the psychedelic art movement. Marjke has said “I was staying at John’s house to paint his piano and he had a painted gypsy wagon in is garden. I suggested to him that he paint the Rolls like the gypsy wagon, which he thought was a great idea…”
The Rolls is currently stored off-site in a secret location for most of the year, and displayed briefly—and without charge—in the Royal BC Museum’s glass lobby during the quieter winter months. It is sometimes also loaned to other museums and galleries. Details on how Lennon’s Rolls-Royce ended up in B.C. can be found here: https://montecristomagazine.com/transportation/how-john-lennons-rolls-royce-ended-up-in-b-c
Look at that cute young man standing with his Daddy...
Dio released their debut LP "Holy Diver" on May 25, 1983. The album has been hailed by critics as Dio's best work and a classic staple in the heavy metal music. The album was certified Gold in the US on September 12, 1984, and Platinum on March 21, 1989. In the UK it attained Silver certification (60,000 units sold) by the British Phonographic Industry in January 1986.
There are those that think this was one of the greatest heavy metal LP’s ever. Ronnie James Dio's vocals and his ability to write songs about the fantasy of good vs. evil found a very large audience.
The song "Rainbow In The Dark" became a fairly successful song on FM radio and also one of the bands most popular tunes.
Happy 39th Birthday to "Holy Diver"!!! RIP Ronnie.
Today we are remembering the late Robert Albert "Bob" Moog, who was born 88 years ago today. Bob was the founder of Moog Music. He was a pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
Moog's innovative electronic design is employed in numerous synthesizers including the Minimoog Model D, Minimoog Voyager, Little Phatty, Moog Taurus Bass Pedals, Moog Minitaur, and the Moogerfooger line of effects pedals.
The Moog synthesizers allowed musician to create various sounds both in the studio and live in concert. The original synthesizer he created was a little large and took a few patch cables. The picture below is of Keith Emerson during a sound check getting his synthesizer ready.
Bob passed away on Aug. 21, 2005 from a brain tumor.
Happy Birthday Mr. Moog. RIP
Bumps is really one of the most important people in the beginning of Rock and Roll.
Robert Blackwell would have turned 104 years old today. Robert was much better known as "Bumps" Blackwell. Bumps kind of did it all, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, and record producer, and was best known for his work overseeing the early hits of Little Richard, as well as grooming Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, Lloyd Price, Sam Cooke, Herb Alpert, Larry Williams, and Sly and the Family Stone at the start of their music careers.
Bumps led a jazz group in the late 1940s that included pianist Ray Charles and trumpeter Quincy Jones. He moved to Hollywood and took a job at Art Rupe's Specialty Records as an arranger and producer. He worked with Sam Cooke, Larry Williams, Lloyd Price and Guitar Slim, as well as producing Little Richard during his rise to stardom in 1955 and 1956.
In addition to producing Little Richard's breakthrough hit "Tutti Frutti" following hearing him sing the song in the studio, Blackwell also produced Little Richard's other mid-50s hits, co-writing some as them as well, including: "Long Tall Sally"; "Good Golly Miss Molly"; "Ready Teddy"; and "Rip It Up". He became Richard's manager and continued to work with him into the 1970s.
He also produced Sam Cooke's hit "You Send Me".
In 1981 Blackwell produced some songs for Bob Dylan's album, Shot of Love, including the title track.
Bumps Blackwell was one of the first to have the vision and be able to use it to bring Rock and Roll to the world.
Happy Birthday Bumps. RIP and Thank you for so much music.
On May 23, 1957, The Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group played at Wilson Hall, Speke Rd., Garston, Liverpool, England. Our reason for posting this is because this one of the earliest known, if not the earliest known picture of The Beatles drummer, Ringo Starr playing. Pictured left to right: Ritchie Starkey (drums), Frank Walsh (guitar), Roy Trafford (tea-chest bass), John Dougherty (washboard), Eddie Miles (using the name Eddie Clayton) (guitar, vocals).
This picture was taken 65 years ago today.
It had to start somewhere.
Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin on the same concert bill?
We'll let the good Professor Poster explain:
The Northern California Folk Rock Festival 2, at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, and the Aquarian Family Festival, at the Spartan Stadium practice field, both were held on Memorial Day weekend. These festivals had all the elements of the better-known shows…..80,000 people were said to have attended either one or the other. As at Woodstock, Jimi Hendrix headlined the Folk Festival. Just as at Altamont, the Aquarian Festival hired Hells Angels for security with disastrous results…. no surprise there!
Both festivals were infused with 1960s counter cultural values, peace, love, drugs, sex.....but lacking famous films to commemorate them, they have been all but lost to memory. It's worth peering back into the past to see how these unique events in San Jose that predated the two most important rock concerts in history.
On this day in May, 53 years ago back in 1969, the Northern California Folk-Rock Festival with Jimi Hendrix Experience, Jefferson Airplane, The Chamber Brothers, Led Zeppelin, Eric Burdon, Spirit, Canned Heat, Buffy Sainte-Maire, The Youngbloods, Steve Miller, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters Taj Mahal, Noel Redding, Lee Michaels, Blues Image, Santana, Aum, Elvin Bishop and more at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds. This is the only poster that I have ever seen with Jimi Hendrix & Led Zeppelin on the same billing.
The poster was created by rock artist Linda Segul., and it is indeed, a great "Poster From The Past" !
A historical piece t'share with a friend!
Approved in the festival mood by Professor Poster.
"Dave's not here"….. so he must be at Tommy Chong's 84th brirthday party.
Tommy has been in movies, recorded records both as a singer and a comedian and was possibily the first person to discover The Jackson 5…… Some people think he just likes to get high...
Happy Birthday Tommy!! Thanks for the laughs. Please keep ‘em coming!
A founding member of the Traveling Wilburys, Bob Dylan has 81 candles on his birthday cake today.
Now before you get all worked up about the way we introduced Mr. Dylan here, yes we know he is one of the most influential songwriters ever, has performed as an outstanding solo artist for over 50 years and has won just about every award there is to win for his music.
We could go on for days about Bob but it is probably easiest to sum him up in just 4 words. He is Bob Dylan.
Happy Birthday Bob!!! We got nothing but respect for you.
The Small Faces released their third LP "Odgens' Nut Gone Flake" on May 24, 1968. The title and the design of the distinctive packaging was a parody of Ogden's Nut-brown Flake, a brand of tobacco that was produced in Liverpool from 1899 onwards by Thomas Ogden.
(from wikipedia)
Side two of the record is based on an original fairy tale about a boy called Happiness Stan, narrated in his unique "Unwinese" gobbledegook by Stanley Unwin, who picked up modern slang from the band and incorporated it into the surreal narrative.
The fairy tale follows Stan in his quest to find the missing half of the moon, after seeing a half-moon in the sky one night. Along the way, he saves a fly from starvation, and in gratitude the insect tells him of someone who can answer his question and also tell him the philosophy of life itself. With magic power, Stan intones, "If all the flies were one fly, what a great enormous fly-follolloper that would bold," and the fly grows to gigantic proportions. Seated on the giant fly's back, Stan takes a psychedelic journey to the cave of Mad John the Hermit, who explains that the moon's disappearance is only temporary, and demonstrates by pointing out that Stan has spent so long on his quest that the moon is now full again. He then sings Stan a cheerful song about the meaning of life.
Because of the album's complexities, it was never performed live.
The album was originally released on vinyl in a circular novelty package of a metal replica of a giant tobacco tin, inside which was a poster created with five connected paper circles with pictures of the band members. This proved too expensive and not successful as the tins tended to roll off of shelves and it was quickly followed by a paper/card replica with a gatefold cover.
To promote the album, Immediate Records issued an advertisement that parodied the Lord's Prayer. This caused an uproar in the British press, and outraged readers wrote in to voice their anger. It read:
Small Faces
Which were in the studios
Hallowed by thy name
Thy music come
Thy songs be sung
On this album as they came from your heads
We give you this day our daily bread
Give us thy album in a round cover as we give thee 37/9d
Lead us into the record stores
And deliver us Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
For nice is the music
The sleeve and the story
For ever and ever, Immediate
Regarding the advert, Steve Marriott said, "We didn't know a thing about the ad until we saw it in the music papers. And frankly we got the horrors at first. We realize that it could be taken as a serious knock against religion. But on thinking it over, we don't feel it is particularly good or bad. It's just another form of advertising. We're not all that concerned about it. We're more concerned in writing our music and producing our records."
Happy 54th Birthday to The Small Faces LP "Odgens' Nut Gone Flake"!!
American musician, composer and record producer Robert "Waddy" Wachtel has 75 candles on his birthday cake today.
Wachtel has worked as session musician for other artists such as Linda Ronstadt, Stevie Nicks, Kim Carnes, Randy Newman, Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones, Jon Bon Jovi, James Taylor, Iggy Pop, Warren Zevon, Bryan Ferry, Michael Sweet, Jackson Browne, and Andrew Gold, both in the studio and live.
Production credits include albums by Stevie Nicks, Keith Richards, Jackson Browne, Bryan Ferry, The Church, Sand Rubies, George Thorogood and the Destroyers and Warren Zevon. Wachtel co-wrote several songs with Zevon including "Werewolves of London". He also co-wrote the Warren Zevon song "Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead" from the album Mr. Bad Example. He performed on and co-produced the first two Zevon albums.
Wachtel also shares co-writing credits with Stevie Nicks on a few tracks such as "Annabel Lee", and "I Don't Care".
Wachtel performs regularly with the Waddy Wachtel Band in the Los Angeles area, notably at The Joint from 2000 through 2013. The band at that time included Phil Jones, Rick Rosas, Bernard Fowler and Blondie Chaplin, among others. He continues to gig with his band, with some personnel changes, while retaining Fowler and Chaplin.
As of 2020, Wachtel is performing with a group of other Southern California classic rock veterans in a group called The Immediate Family along with Danny Kortchmar, Leland Sklar, Russ Kunkel, and Steve Postell.
Happy Birthday, Waddy!!
On May 25, 1967, John Lennon of The Beatles had his Roll Royce Phantom V returned to him. It had been out getting a new paint job.
The inspiration for the design came from Marijke Koger, one of the design collective ‘The Fool’ who were responsible for numerous pieces of the period and were very influential in the psychedelic art movement. Marjke has said “I was staying at John’s house to paint his piano and he had a painted gypsy wagon in is garden. I suggested to him that he paint the Rolls like the gypsy wagon, which he thought was a great idea…”
The Rolls is currently stored off-site in a secret location for most of the year, and displayed briefly—and without charge—in the Royal BC Museum’s glass lobby during the quieter winter months. It is sometimes also loaned to other museums and galleries. Details on how Lennon’s Rolls-Royce ended up in B.C. can be found here: https://montecristomagazine.com/transportation/how-john-lennons-rolls-royce-ended-up-in-b-c
Look at that cute young man standing with his Daddy...
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