BIRTHDAYS
1942: Andy Summers (The Police)
1943: Pete Quaife (Kinks)
1947: Burton Cummings (The Guess Who)
1951: Tom Hamilton (Aerosmith)
1959: Paul Westerberg (The Replacements)
1963: Scott Ian (Anthrax)
EVENTS
1969: Jimi Hendrix introduced his new group with Billy Cox and Buddy Miles, Band of Gypsys, at their first concert at Fillmore East, New York. The concert recordings were released in 1970 as the ‘Band of Gypsys’ album.
1973: AC/DC (Angus Young / Malcolm Young / Dave Evans / Larry Van Kriedt / Colin Burgess) played their first concert, at Chequers nightclub, Sydney.
1973: Journey (Neal Schon / Gregg Rolie / Ross Valory / George Tickner / Prairie Prince) played their first concert, in San Francisco, California.
1976: The Cars gave their debut performance at Pease Air Force Base, Portsmouth, NH.
1978: Bauhaus gave their performance debut in England.
1984: Rick Allen of Def Leppard lost his left arm after a car crash in England.
1985: Ricky Nelson and six others died in a plane crash near DeKalb, TX.
2020: New Zealand musician, Dave Dobbyn was knighted. Sir Dave is now a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
Happy Birthday to bassist, Tom Hamilton of Aerosmith ~ he’s 73 today! Here’s me with Tom on 10th October, 1990. I interviewed him for Ripitup magazine, just before their concert in Sydney. Tom is a really nice joker ~ and a tall dude! This is a cool song he co-wrote for Aerosmith, entitled “Sweet Emotion”…
