Today in Rock History – 4th MAY:

BIRTHDAYS
1923: Ed Cassidy (Spirit)
1937: Ron Carter (The most recorded jazz bassist in history, including 4 years with Miles Davis Quintet)
1937: Richard Anthony Monsour a.k.a. Dick Dale
1942: Ronnie Bond (The Troggs)
1951: Bruce Day (Santana)
1951: Colin Bass (Camel)
1951: Robert Deal a.k.a. Mick Mars (Motley Crue)
1958: Robb Weir (Tygers of Pan Tang)
1962: Oleta Adams
1972: Mike Dirnt (Green Day)

EVENTS
1967: The Jimi Hendrix Experience appeared on UK TV’s Top of the Pops’.
1973: Led Zeppelin opened their 1973 North American tour, which was billed as the “biggest and most profitable rock & roll tour in the history of the United States”.
1987: Death of American blues harmonica player / singer, Paul Butterfield [aged 44].
1990: Death of American guitarist, Emily Remler [aged 32].

Big respect to the man with the guitar ~ Dick Dale! He was born on this day in 1937 and passed away on 16th of March, 2019. Dick was way ahead of his time, doing surf guitar about 30 years before the Alien came along. Remember this from ‘Pulp Fiction’? Well, it goes back to 1963…