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Ok I am gonna call it a night, was a long day
Thank you to everyone for playin today
Have a good night, see you tomorrow
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Jimi

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September 16th
Born on this day in Music History
Janis Paige (1922), BB King (1925), Joe Butler - The Lovin Spoonful (1941), Bernie Calvert - The Hollies (1942), Betty Kelly - Martha and The Vandellas (1944), Kenney Jones - Small Faces (1948), David Bellamy - Bellamy Brothers (1950), Ron Blair - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, (1948), Alan Barton - Black Lace (1953), Earl Klugh (1953), Colin Newman - Wire (1954), Frank Reid - The Chi-Lites (1954), Rodney Franklin (1958), Charles Julian Flaring (1958), Bilinda Butcher - My Bloody Valentine(1961), Stephen Jones - Babybird (1962), Richard Marx (1963), Dave Sabo - Skid Row (1964), Marc Anthony (1968), Justine Frischmann - Elastica (1969), Shannon Noll (1975), Tina Barrett - S Club 7 (1976), Jarrod Lawson (1976), Musiq Soulchild (1977), Katie Melua (1984), Nick Jonas - Jonas Brothers (1992)
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Chart News
1956 Anne Shelton at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Lay Down Your Arms.'
1967 Petula Clark at No.1 in Australia with ‘Don’t Sleep in the Subway’
1972 Rod Stewart at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Never A Dull Moment.'
1972 Three Dog Night at No.1 on the US chart with 'Black and White'
1978 Boston at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Don't Look Back'.
1989 Gloria Estefan at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Don't Wanna Lose You'
2001 DJ Otzi at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Hey Baby',
2006 Bob Dylan at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Modern Times.’
2011 Pixie Lott at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'All About Tonight'
2023 Doja Cat at No.1 on the US singles chart 'Paint the Town Red'
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Gig News
1970 Jimi Hendrix joined Eric Burdon on stage at Ronnie Scott’s in London for what would become the guitarist's last ever public appearance.
1971 Led Zeppelin played at Honolulu Civic Auditorium.
1972 Wishbone Ash, Family, Steppenwolf, John Kay Band, Slade, Uriah Heep, Roy Wood and Wizzard, Wild Angels, Glencoe, Sunshine and Cold Comfort Farm played at the Buxton Festival in Derbyshire, England.
1978 Blondie played at London's Hammersmith Odeon, with guests The Boyfriends.
1983 The Smiths played at The Moles Club, Bath, England.
1996 Pearl Jam played at the Key Arena in Seattle, Washington
2004 Babyshambles played at Concorde 2, Brighton, England
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Music News
1977 Marc Bolan was killed in a car crash.
 
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MUSIC HISTORY: 9.16
1963 - While the other three Beatles vacationed in Europe, George Harrison, along with his brother, Peter, traveled to Benton, Illinois to visit their sister, Louise Harrison (Caldwell). Although they were rising stars in England, no one the area had heard of George's band at that point. During the trip he visited record stores in New York and St Louis where he bought albums by Booker T And The MGs and Bobby Bland. He also picked up James Ray's single, "I've Got My Mind Set on You", that he covered and took to number one in America in 1987.
1970 - Jimi Hendrix jams with Eric Burdon and War at the London club Ronnie Scott's two days before his death. It's the last time he would play music.
1977 - Talking Heads release their debut studio album, Talking Heads: 77. If their debut album, 1977's Talking Heads: 77, doesn't sound like punk rock from a remove of over four decades, that has more to do with how "punk" was soon codified as a genre rather than a way of approaching their art, and underestimates how striking and groundbreaking they truly were. Talking Heads clearly had musical antecedents in 1960s pop and rock, classic soul, and folk-rock, though it was obvious from the first they were mixing those ingredients in a unique way, and adding the edgy, nervous energy of David Byrne's songs and vocals truly set them apart. Byrne was fortunate to have a band that was both talented and simpatico -- Tina Weymouth's bass and Chris Frantz's drums give the tunes a churning groove, sometimes funky and sometimes motoric, and though Jerry Harrison was still growing into his role as the group's utility man, his guitar and keyboards give the performances a depth and texture they need. That said, Byrne was the wild card who made Talking Heads something different; the nervous gulp of his vocals, his lyrical voice that took a quizzical look at the world around him and the emotions moving within him, and the melodies that managed to be both herky-jerky and inviting at the same time were all fresh and intriguing, and they still sound that way all these years later. Essential songs "Psycho Killer" and "Pulled Up," point to the brilliant music they would make in the years to come. Talking Heads: 77 was a striking debut that sounds even better now than when it first arrived. (Photo by Lawrence Lucier/Getty Images)
1977 - Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane release Rough Mix. This collaboration with former Small Faces and Faces songwriter and bass player Ronnie Lane, combines the loose, rollicking folk-rock of Lane's former band, Slim Chance, with touches of country, folk, and New Orleans rock & roll, along with Townshend's own trademark style. Lane's tunes, especially the beautiful "Annie," possess an understated charm, while Townshend, with songs such as "Misunderstood," the Meher Baba-inspired "Keep Me Turning," and the strange love song "My Baby Gives It Away," delivers some of the best material of his solo career. Rough Mix stands as a minor masterpiece and an overlooked gem in both artists' vast bodies of work. Eric Clapton, John Entwistle, and Charlie Watts guest.
1979 - The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" was released. Although it was not the first single to feature rapping, it is generally considered to be the song that first popularized hip hop in the United States and around the world. The song's opening lyric, "I said a hip hop, the hippie, the hippie to the hip-hip-hop and you don't stop," is world-renowned.
1984 - The TV series Miami Vice makes its debut with a two-hour episode that includes a scene featuring the Phil Collins hit "In The Air Tonight."
Embracing the MTV era, the show incorporates lots of contemporary music and features appearances by many popular musicians, including Glenn Frey, Sheena Easton, Frankie Valli and Miles Davis (Collins appears in a Season 2 episode).
The series pervades popular culture, influencing fashion (lots of white, no socks) and music; the theme song, written and performed by Czech keyboard wizard Jan Hammer, rises to #1 in America in November 1985.
The show lasts for five seasons, leaving an indelible imprint. In 2006, it is revived as a movie starring Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell.
1985 - Kate Bush released her fifth studio album, Hounds of Love. The previous LP, The Dreaming, had been roundly criticized for being too ambitious and complex. But Hounds of Love was more carefully crafted as a pop record, and it abounded in memorable melodies and arrangements, the latter reflecting idioms ranging from orchestrated progressive pop to high-wattage traditional folk; and at the center of it all was Bush in the best album-length vocal performance of her career, extending her range and also drawing expressiveness from deep inside of herself, so much so that one almost feels as though he's eavesdropping at moments during "Running Up That Hill." Hounds of Love is actually a two-part album (the two sides of the original LP release being the now-lost natural dividing line), consisting of the suites "Hounds of Love" and "The Ninth Wave." The former is steeped in lyrical and sonic sensuality that tends to wash over the listener, while the latter is about the experiences of birth and rebirth. If this sounds like heady stuff, it could be, but Bush never lets the material get too far from its pop trappings and purpose.
2023 - A representative from Cleveland's Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame announced that Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner had been removed from his position on the Board of Directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation after he had made disparaging remarks about Black and female musicians.
Birthdays:
B.B. King was born today in 1925. He passed in 2015. Universally hailed as the king of the blues, the legendary B.B. King was without a doubt the single most important electric guitarist of the last half of the 20th century. His bent notes and staccato picking style influenced legions of contemporary bluesmen, while his gritty and confident voice -- capable of wringing every nuance from any lyric -- provided a worthy match for his passionate playing. Photo by RAPH GATTI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Kenney Jones — drummer for Small Faces, Faces, and the Who — is 77. At the tender age of just 15, being part of a band had become a way of life. Kenney was 16 he had his first hit record when he shot to fame with The Small Faces, who were at the heart of the Mod revolution which swept Britain at the time and a band who have been cited as a major influence on musicians during the 50 years which have followed.
When The Small Faces split Kenney was instrumental in forming The Faces and inviting Rod Stewart to feature as lead singer in a line-up which also included Ronnie Wood, Ian McLagan, and Ronnie Lane. The Faces took the rock world by storm in the early 1970’s on both sides of the Atlantic and became one of the most raucous, fun-loving bands of the time, with a fanatical following.
He was the Who's choice to join the band after the death of Keith Moon. Once again Kenney found himself part of a hugely successful band as The Who toured the world and recorded new albums, ‘Face Dances’ and ‘It’s Hard.’
R.I.P.:
1977 - Marc Bolan of T. Rex died in an automobile crash in England.
An investigation would later blame the accident on mechanical failure. Bolan was just weeks away from his 30th birthday.
T. Rex were the creation of Marc Bolan and played amped-up rock & roll with boogie rhythms, flights of lyrical fancy, and crunching guitars. The band, and Bolan's, lifespans were tragically short, but it was massively influential and inspired many of the best metal, punk, new wave, and alternative rock bands who followed in their glittery wake. (Photo by Cate Gillon/Getty Images)
2013 - Jackie Lomax died at his home in England at age 69. He first gained notice as the vocalist and bass player with The Undertakers and was later one of the first artists to sign with The Beatles label, Apple, with George Harrison penning his single "Sour Milk Sea".
2016 - Jerry Corbetta, keyboard player and lead vocalist for Sugarloaf, passed away at the age of 68. He had earlier been diagnosed with Pick's disease, which slowly destroys the nerve cells in the brain similarly to Alzheimer's. The band is most often remembered for "Green-Eyed Lady", #3 in 1970, and 1975's #9 hit "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You". Sugarloaf is in the Colorado Music Hall Of Fame.
On This Day In Music History was sourced, curated, copied, pasted, edited, and occasionally woven together with my own crude prose, from This Day in Music, Allmusic, Music This Day, Classic Bands, Song Facts and Wikipedia.
 
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