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Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 8:55AM Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 11:39PM Mike Battaglia's Picks for October 29
8th Race
OCEAN COLORS (#10) won her only start on the turf at Churchill back in June. Her only two bad races have come in the slop and she rates the edge in this turf sprint. STEALIN' KISSES (#1) drops in class after hooking much better in recent races. She prefers more distance but figures to run well for trainer D. Wayne Lukas and jockey Terry Thompson. OVERANDBEAUTY (#9) has the speed to be dangerous. Read Mike's Analysis of the Entire Card.
Bill Howard's Bankroll Bets
$25 Players:
$2 Win/place/show on Stream Cat in Race 5 cost: $6.00
$1 Pick 3 in races 2, 3, 4 cost: $12.00
2--Tally Up, Joe Six Pack
3--Pinpoint, Kemp, Da Da Da Dum
4--Forest Trail, Clear Pond
$1 Daily Double in races 1 & 2 cost: $4.00
1--Metro Devil, Miss Marple
2--Tally Up, Clear Pond
10-cent Superfecta box in race 4 cost: $2.40
Forest Trail, Clear Pond, Pari, Omega Cat
Total cost: $24.40
To view more of Bill's Bankroll Bets, go here and select Bill Howard under the "Select Handicapper" category.
Clocker's In Today Report
Read the Clocker's In Today Report for valuable workout comments on horses entered at Keeneland on Thursday and Friday.
Current Meet Stats
Be sure to check out these stats when you're handicapping the day's card. You might be able to glean some useful handicapping information, such as which jockeys are finding the most success at Keeneland, the average win payoff for a trainer, and the win percentage for various post positions. View the Current Meet Stats.
Join Keeneland for the 2009 Breeders' Cup Simulcast
Keeneland is the place to be in Lexington to watch and wager on this year's Breeders' Cup World Championships. Keeneland will simulcast the Breeders' Cup races on Friday, November 6th and Saturday, November 7th. General admission and parking are free both days. If you would like to request a dining reservation for either day, please call (859) 288-4880.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 3:49PM EKU will face OVC foe Southeast Missouri this Saturday. All kids 12-and-under will be admitted free as part of the “Take a Kid to the Game” promotion. Kick-off is set for 1 p.m.
Eastern Kentucky (4-3, 4-2 OVC) is coming off a disappointing loss at Austin Peay last weekend. The Colonels surrendered a season-high 263 rushing yards in the 24-20 defeat. EKU’s offense posted all 20 of its points in the second quarter, but was unable to score in the second half for the first time this year. A win over Southeast Missouri (1-6, 0-5 OVC) would ensure Eastern a winning OVC record for the ninth straight year.
Following the game against Southeast Missouri, Eastern Kentucky steps away from OVC action for games against Kentucky (Nov. 7) and Western Carolina (Nov. 14)
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 8:18AM Shinedown and Papa Roach will be rolling into Kentucky on December 5th.
Tickets go onsale to the public Fri, 10/30/09 12:00 PM EDT
However you can get presale tickets today!
Simply click here and enter password GLITTER in the Live Nation Box.
Shinedown and Papa Roach
The Bank of Kentucky Center
Highland Heights, KY
Sat, Dec 5, 2009 07:30 PM
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 8:10AM "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
Vincent Van Gogh
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 7:40PM
See CHICAGO and save! All seats, all performances, just $22.50 when you use the promotion code "DAZZLE."
"CHICAGO still GLITTERS HYPNOTICALLY." - Ben Brantley, The New York Times
PNC Broadway Across America presents
CHICAGO
Thursday, October 29 - Sunday, November 1
The Kentucky Center, Whitney Hall
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Description: There's never been a better time to experience CHICAGO, Broadway's razzle-dazzle smash.
This triumphant hit musical is the recipient of six Tony Awards®, two Olivier Awards, a Grammy® and thousands of standing ovations.
A sensational tale of sin, corruption and all that jazz, it's no surprise that CHICAGO has wowed audiences from Mexico City to Moscow, from Sao Paulo to South Africa. And now it's coming to your town!
If you're looking for your first Broadway musical, CHICAGO has everything you could want: knockout dancing, an edge-of-your-seat story and one showstopper after another.
If you loved the Academy Award®-winning film, nothing beats the live show, and if you are already intimately acquainted with the musical, experience that sizzle again. CHICAGO always delivers!
Special Ticket Offer! Use the promotion code DAZZLE online, by phone (502-584-7777, 502.562.0730 TTY) or in-person at The Kentucky Center box office for $22.50 tickets (all seats, all performances).
Click here to unlock the promotion code online. You will not be asked to enter it a second time.
Access Services: Accessible Seating and hearing amplification available for all performances. Audio Description is available for the Saturday, 10/31, 2 p.m. performance. Caption Theater is available for the Saturday, 10/31, 8 p.m. performance. Please reserve your Access Services when purchasing your tickets via The Kentucky Center box office.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 3:33PM Last Weekend For Halloween Haunt!
BUY HALLOWEEN HAUNT TICKETS ONLINE AND SAVE!
Buy four or more tickets online NOW for either of the two remaining Halloween Haunt nights this weekend and save big off the regular gate price!
Groups of four or more can buy Friday night Halloween Haunt tickets online for just $19.75 per person - an average of just $19.75 per ticket - or all day Saturday admission for just $24.75 per person.
Take advantage of this exclusive online offer and find out why everyone's talking about the new Slaughter House maze and Hot Blooded "live" show. Visit Kings Island this weekend for Halloween Haunt and scream on some of the most hair-raising rides on the planet such as the new Diamondback and Beast roller coasters!
BUY A 2010 SEASON PASS AND EXPERIENCE HALLOWEEN HAUNT FOR FREE THIS WEEKEND
Only two nights of Halloween Haunt left. Buy a 2010 Gold Season Pass online NOW and take advantage of your one free visit this season to experience Halloween Haunt this Friday night or Saturday.
Upgrade to a 2010 Gold or Platinum Pass and get FREE season-long parking (a $39.99 savings), early rides on Diamondback and The Beast every day, early access to Boomerang Bay every day, a reserved parking area, unlimited admission to next year's Halloween Haunt, and a long list of other VIP perks at Kings Island!
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PASSHOLDERS ONLY: BRING A FRIEND FOR $9.99
Sunday, November 1 is the last day of the 2009 operating season at Kings Island. All 2009 (and 2010 season pass holders that have not used their one free visit this season) can bring a friend to the park Sunday for just $9.99!
Take advantage of this exclusive season pass offer and enjoy thrilling last rides of the season on the new Diamondback and Beast roller coasters. Visit the family-friendly HOWL-O-FEST area. Have your camera ready to snap pictures of Scooby-Doo and your favorite pals from Nickelodeon TV shows before Kings Island's nine-time, award-winning kids' area receives a fresh new look with a timeless classic in 2010 with the arrival of Planet Snoopy.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 8:41AM Taylor Swift Presales continue today. Not knowing where all of you are willing to travel to see taylor we have listed all the presales today along with the passwords.
To take part in the presales simply click on the link below and use the password located next to taylor's name.
There are two presales for most shows today, one is for American express and one is for her fan club. The fan club passwords start with TS.
Taylor Swift 8003272177, TS4598
Sunday
03/28/10
7:00 PM
U.S. Bank Arena
Taylor Swift 8003272177, TS5589
Saturday
04/10/10
7:00 PM
Save Mart Center Fresno
Taylor Swift TS6245
Friday
04/16/10
7:00 PM
STAPLES Center
Taylor Swift 8003272177, TS3876
Sunday
04/11/10
7:00 PM
HP Pavilion At San Jose
Taylor Swift TS0921
Tuesday
04/06/10
7:00 PM
Pepsi Center
Taylor Swift 8003272177, TS2601
Friday
05/07/10
7:00 PM
Xcel Energy Center
Taylor Swift 8003272177, TS8845
Thursday
03/04/10
7:00 PM
St Pete Times Forum
Taylor Swift 8003272177, TS5910
Saturday
05/01/10
7:00 PM
RBC Center
Taylor Swift 8003272177,TS9477
Friday
03/05/10
7:00 PM
Amway Arena
Taylor Swift 8003272177, TS0924
Saturday
05/22/10
7:00 PM
Air Canada Centre
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 8:33AM I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 3:03PM
Free Event This Wednesday at 6:00 p.m.
NKU Athletics will host Halloween Hoopla this Wednesday, October 28th beginning at 6:00 p.m. at The Bank of Kentucky Center.
The event is FREE and open to the general public. All NKU teams will be at the event helping with games and trick-or-treating.
Kids and adults alike are encouraged to attend in their best Halloween costumes!
Jumping Jack's Inflatables will be in the building, and free food and drink will be provided courtesy of Gold Star Chili and Pepsi.
This event will mark the first time the public will see the NKU women's and men's basketball teams participate in a Slam Dunk and 3-Point Shooting Contest, as well as intra-squad scrimmages.
For more information on all the upcoming events held at The Bank of Kentucky Center, please visit: www.bankofkentuckycenter.com
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 2:36PM
Age of 27
* JIMI HENDRIX (SEE "BARBITUATES") (1970)
* JANIS JOPLIN (SEE "HEROIN") (1970)
* JIM MORRISON (SEE "ALCOHOL") (1971)
* BRIAN JONES (SEE "DROWNING") (1969)
* KURT COBAIN (SEE "HEROIN") (1994)
* ROBERT JOHNSON (SEE "POISON") (1938)
* AL "BLIND OWL" WILSON (SEE "HEROIN") (1970)
* GRAM PARSONS (SEE "BARBITUATES") (1973)
* RON "PIGPEN" MCKERNAN (SEE "ALCOHOL") (1973)
Aids
FREDDIE MERCURY (FLAMBOYANT "QUEEN" FRONT MAN/"BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY", "WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS") (1991)
LIBERACE (FLAMBOYANT CONCERT PIANIST, ONCE WAS "HIGHEST PAID PERFORMER IN LAS VEGAS") (1987)
ROBIN CROSBY ("RATT" GTRST.) (2002))
RAY GILLEN (VOCALIST: BLACK SABBATH, BADLANDS) (1993)
Alcohol
PIGPEN (REAL NAME: "RON MCKERNAN") ("GRATEFUL DEAD" KEYBOARDIST/SINGER, 3 "GRATEFUL DEAD" KYBRDSTS. DIED UN-NATURAL DEATHS) (1973)
KEITH MOON (FANTASTIC "WHO" DRUMMER AND WILD MAN, HE O.D.'ED ON MEDICATION HE WAS TAKING TO COMBAT HIS ALCOHOLISM) (1978 )
JIM MORRISON (OUTRAGEOUS LEAD SINGER AND FRONTMAN FOR "THE DOORS", ALSO A WILD MAN...IT WAS A HEART ATTACK THAT REALLY KILLED THE LIZARD KING, BUT IT WAS DUE TO ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF ALCOHOL CONSUMED DURING HIS SHORT LIFE) (1971)
BON SCOTT (REAL NAME: RONALD BELFORD..."AC/DC" LEAD SINGER BEFORE THE "BACK IN BLACK" DAYS, BON SANG "HIGHWAY TO HELL", "WHOLE LOTTA ROSIE", "DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP" AND "ITS A LONG WAY TO THE TOP" AMONG MANY OTHERS) (1980)
PAUL BUTTERFIELD (CHICAGO ROCK/BLUES HARP PLAYER AND SINGER FROM THE '60'S & '70'S/"BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND"(INCLUDING "ELVIN BISHOP" AND "MIKE BLOOMFIELD"), THEY PLAYED AT THE ORIGINAL "WOODSTOCK" FESTIVAL IN '69) (1987)
STEVE CLARK (GUITARIST FOR "DEF LEPPARD") (1991)
HANK WILLIAMS (THE FATHER OF COUNTRY MUSIC,/"JAMBALAYA", "YOUR CHEATIN HEART", "LOVESICK BLUES" AND MANY, MANY OTHERS) (1953)
BRIAN CONNELLY ("SWEET" LEAD SINGER /"BALL ROOM BLITZ", "LOVE IS LIKE OXYGEN") (1997)
RORY GALLAGHER (IRISH ROCK/BLUES GTRST.) (1995)
JOHN BONHAM (THUNDERING DRUMMER FOR "LED ZEPPELIN") (1980)
JAMES JAMERSON (LEGENDARY MOTOWN BASS PLAYER/"THE FUNK BROTHERS", THE SESSION MUSICIANS WHO PLAYED ON ALL THE MOTOWN HITS) (1983)
JOHN PANOZZO ("STYX" DRUMMER) (1996)
FRANK O'KEEFE (ORIGINAL "OUTLAWS" BASS PLAYER/"GREEN GRASS & HIGH TIDES", "THERE'S GOES ANOTHER LOVE SONG") (1995)
BOB STINSON (ORIGINAL "REPLACEMENTS" GUITARIST...HE WAS FIRED FROM THE BAND A FEW YEARS BEFORE HE DIED) (1995, A COMBO OF BOOZE AND DRUGS)
GENE VINCENT (REAL NAME: VINCENT EUGENE CRADDOCK/"BE BOP A LULA" THE HUGE HIT FROM '56, HE WAS IN THE CAR ACCIDENT IN ENGLAND IN 1960 THAT KILLED "EDDIE COCHRAN"["SUMMERTIME BLUES"]) (1971)
CLYDE MCPHATTER (ORIGINAL LEAD SINGER FOR "THE DRIFTERS" IN THE '50'S, BEFORE THEY RECORDED "ON BROADWAY" AND "UNDER THE BOARDWALK", SUCCESSFUL SOLO PERFORMER TOO) (1972)
BILLY MURCIA (ORIGINAL DRUMMER FOR THE "NEW YORK DOLLS", GLAM-PUNK PIONEERS FROM THE EARLY '70'S) (1972)
JACK KEROUAC (LEGENDARY "BEAT" GENERATION WRITER/POET FROM THE '50'S AND '60'S, THOUGH HE WAS BORN IN 1922...HIS EPIC "ON THE ROAD" IS ONE OF THE CLASSIC NOVELS OF ALL TIME...HE WAS COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY/N.Y.C. PALS WITH FELLOW "BEAT" WRITERS/CHARACTERS "ALLEN GINSBERG" AND "NEAL CASSADY") (1969)
Almost Killed by Heroin
*KEITH RICHARDS ("ROLLING STONES") AND ANITA PALLENBERG AND MARIANNE FAITHFUL (KEITH'S AND MICK'S GROUPIES IN THE ', 60'S)
*BRIAN JONES ("ROLLING STONES")
*MICK TAYOR("ROLLING STONES" GTRST. AFTER "BRIAN JONES" DIED)
*JAMES TAYLOR (FOLK-POP SINGER/SONGW, , RIT, , , ER/"FIRE AND RAIN", "COUNTRY ROADS")
*JOHN LENNON ("BEATLES")
*JIMI HENDRIX (ULTIMATE GUITAR GOD)
*ERIC CLAPTON , (GUITAR GOD, "JOHN MAYALL'S BLUESBREAKERS", "YARDBIRDS", "CREAM", "BLIND FAITH", "DEREK & DOMINOES")
*GINGER BAKER ("CREAM" DRUMMER)
*LOU REED, , ("VELVET UNDERGROUND" SINGER/SONGWRITER/GTRST.)
*DAVID CROSBY ("CROSBY STILLS AND NASH")
JOHNNY WINTER (ALBINO TEXAS BORN BLUES/ROCK GTRST, BROTHER OF EDGAR)
SCOTT WEILAND (FORMER "STONE TEMPLE PILOTS" LEAD SINGER AND FULL TIME ADDICT)
*AEROSMITH (THE WHOLE BAND APPARENTLY)
PERRY FARRELL ("JANE'S ADDICTION" FRONT MAN)
ANTHONY KEIDIS ("RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS'" GTRST.)
AL "BLIND OWL" WILSON" (SINGER FOR "CANNED HEAT")
BOB "THE BEAR" HITE (SINGER & HARP/"CANNED HEAT")
RICK JAMES (FUNK PERFORMER/"SUPERFREAK", ALSO PLAYED W/"NEIL YOUNG AND THE MYNAH BIRDS" IN THE MID '60'S)
SLASH (EX-"GUNS & ROSES" GTRST.)
STEVEN ADLER (EX-"GUNS & ROSES" DRUMMER )
STEVE EARLE (COUNTRY-ROCK SINGER/SONGWRITER/"COPPERHEAD ROAD")
MARC BOLEN ( HE WAS "T. REX")
SKIP SPENCE ("MOBY GRAPE" FOUNDER, , DRUMMER FOR "JEFFERSON AIRPLANE" ON THEIR DEBUT ALBUM)
*JOHN PHILLIPS ("MAMAS AND PAPAS" FOUNDER/SINGER/SONGWRITER)
*SLY STONE ("SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE" FOUNDER, REAL NAME: SYLVESTER STEWART..FORMER RADIO DJ IN SAN FRAN.)
BILLY IDOL (BRITISH PUNK ROCKER, FORMERLY W/"GENERATION X")
NIKKI SIXX ("MOTLEY CRUE'S" BASSIST)
TOMMY LEE ("MOTLEY CRUE" DRUMMER/PAM ANDERSON'S EX)
3 DOG NIGHT (THE WHOLE BAND, APPARENTLY)
*JIMMY PAGE ("LED ZEPPELIN" FOUNDER/GTRST, TOP LONDON SE, , SSION GTRST. IN '60'S. "YARDBIRDS" TOO, AFTER "JEFF BECK" LEFT)
JOHN FRUSCIANTE ("RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS" GTRST.)
MIKE NESS ("SOCIAL DISTORTION" LEAD SINGER)
DALLAS TAYLOR ("CSN&Y" DRUMMER)
*RAY CHARLES (LEGENDARY BLIND R&B, GOSPEL, JAZZ, POP PIANIST/SINGER)]
Aviation Accidents
JOHN DENVER (FOLK/POP SINGER/SONGWRITER, "TAKE ME HOME COUNTRY ROADS", "ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH") (1997) (EXPERIMENTAL AIRPLANE HE WAS PILOTING CRASHED IN PACIFIC)
STEVIE RAY VAUGHN (LEGENDARY TEXAS BLUES-ROCK GTRST.) (1990) (HELICOPTER)
BUDDY HOLLY (LEGENDARY POP/ROCK PIONEER/SONGWRITER/GTRST./PERFORMER, "THAT'LL BE THE DAY", "PEGGY SUE"), THE BIG BOPPER ("CHANTILLY LACE"), AND *RICHIE VALENS ("LA BAMBA")... (THIS WAS REFERRED TO, WHEN ALL 3 OF THESE GUYS DIED TOGETHER, IN DON MCCLEAN'S "AMERICAN PIE" AS "THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED") (1959) (PLANE CRASH)
OTIS REDDING (LEGENDARY R & B PERFORMER WHO PLAYED AT "THE MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL" IN "67 AND KNOCKED OUT ALL THE WHITE HIPPIES WITH HIS POWERFUL PERFORMANCE/"SITTIN ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY") AND ALMOST OF ALL HIS BAND "THE BARKAYS" (1967) (PLANE CRASH)
RICKIE NELSON (POP/COUNTRY STAR, TEEN IDOL/CHILD TV STAR IN THE '50'S, "HELLO MARY LOU", "GARDEN PARTY", "TRAVELIN MAN", MANY, MANY OTHERS (1985) (PLANE CRASH)
BILL GRAHAM (LEGENDARY CONCERT PROMOTER/ENTREPENEUR IN SAN FRANCISCO AND NEW YORK IN THE '60'S, OWNER OF THE FILLMORES, EAST AND WEST) (1991) (HELICOPTER)
JIM CROCE (CHART TOPPING SINGER/SONGWRITER FROM THE EARLY '70'S/ "BAD BAD LEROY BROWN", "DON'T MESS AROUND WITH JIM", "TIME IN A BOTTLE") (1973) (PLANE CRASH)
RONNIE VAN ZANDT (FOUNDER, SINGER/SONGWRITER FOR "LYNYRD SKYNYRD" (PLANE CRASH) (1977)
TEVE GAINES (GTRST. FOR "LYNYRD SKYNYRD") (PLANE CRASH) (1977)
CASSIE GAINES (STEVE'S SISTER, BACK-UP SINGER FOR "LYNYRD SKYNYRD" (PLANE CRASH)(1977)
RANDY RHOADS ("OZZIE OSBOURNE" GTRST. ON OZZIE'S BIGGEST HITS FROM THE EARLY '80'S LIKE "CRAZY TRAIN", AND "FLYING HIGH AGAIN") (1982) (PLANE CRASH)
GLENN MILLER (BIG BAND/JAZZ/SWING KING-PIN FROM '20'S ,'30'S & '40'S, "TUXEDO JUNCTION", "IN THE MOOD") (1944) (PLANE CRASH DURING WWII, THE PLANE JUST DISAPPEARED AND GLENN AND THE PLANE AND CREW WERE NEVER FOUND)
THE WHOLE BAND "CHASE" (BRASS BAND ROCKERS FROM EARLY '70'S/"GET IT ON") (1974) (PLANE CRASH)
PATSY CLINE (REAL NAME: VIRGINIA HENSLEY) (COUNTRY DIVA FROM LATE '50'S AND EARLY '60'S/"CRAZY") (1963) (PLANE CRASH)
Barbituates
BRIAN EPSTEIN ("BEATLES" MGR. AND THE GUY WHO DISCOVERED THE FAB 4, AND THEY WERE NEVER THE SAME WITHOUT HIM EITHER) (WAS PROBABLY A SUICIDE) (1967)
JIMI HENDRIX (GUITAR GOD/"PURPLE HAZE", "LITTLE WING", "ANGEL", FORMER ARMY PARATROOPER W/101ST AIRBORNE) (1970)
GRAM PARSONS (LEGENDARY COUNTRY ROCK PIONEER, MEMBER OF "THE BYRDS" [FOR LESS THAN 1 YEAR], FOUNDER OF "FLYING BURRITO BROS.", MUCH-ADMIRED SOLO CAREER, HEROIN-COKE PALS W/"KEITH RICHARDS") (MORPHINE & TEQUILA) (1973)
ROB PILATUS (1/2 OF "MILLI VANILLI", THE LIP-SYNCHING, GRAMMY WINNING PHONIES [THE GRAMMYS, 'BEST NEW ARTIST'-1990, WERE RETURNED AFTER IT WAS DISCOVERED THE 2 GUYS IN "MILLI VANILLI" DIDN'T ACTUALLY SING THE LYRICS THEMSELVES] (ALCOHOL AND PREscriptION PILLS IN A GERMANY HOTEL ROOM, PROBABLE SUICIDE) (1998)
DAVE BLOOD ( PUNK ROCKERS "DEAD MILKMEN" BASSIST, IT HASN'T BEEN CONFIRMED YET PUBLICLY, AS OF 3/17/04, BUT WE SUSPECT IT WAS A BARBITUATES SUICIDE...SADLY, IT WAS DEFINATELY A SUICIDE, WE JUST DON'T KNOW HOW HE DID IT...YET...) (2004)
RORY STORM, OF "THE HURRICANES" (REAL NAME: ALAN CALDWELL...THE LIVERPOOL BAND "RINGO STARR" PLAYED WITH BEFORE JOINING "THE BEATLES" IN '62...HE WAS FOUND DEAD W/HIS MOTHER, A COMBO OF BOOZE AND SLEEPING PILLS IN A SUICIDE PACT) (1972)
NICK DRAKE (MYSTERIOUS, TROUBLED BRITISH FOLK SINGER, ONLY RECORDED 4 ALBUMS, NONE SOLD WELL, HE DIED AT HIS PARENTS' HOME IN ENGLAND, O.D.'ING ON ANTI-DEPRESSANTS) (1974)
Car/Motorcycle/Skiing/Falling Down Stairs
DAVE PRATER ("SAM AND DAVE", LEGENDARY MEMPHIS/"STAX" RECORDS STARS/"SOUL MAN", "HOLD ON I'M COMIN") (1988) (CAR)
SAM KINNESON (CUTTING EDGE COMEDIAN) (1992) (CAR)
EDDIE COCHRAN (LEGENDARY LATE '50'S PERFORMER/"SUMMERTIME BLUES", "C'MON EVERYBODY") (1960) (CAR)
HARRY CHAPIN ("CAT'S IN THE CRADLE", "TAXI") (1981) (CAR)
KEITH GODCHEAUX ("GRATEFUL DEAD" KEYBOARDIST, 3 "GRATEFUL DEAD" KYBRDSTS. DIED UN-NATURAL DEATHS) (1980) (CAR)
DUANE ALLMAN (LEGENDARY SLIDE GTRST., SESSION GTRST. AT "MUSCLE SHOALS STUDIOS", GTRST. FOR "THE ALLMAN BROS." (1971) (MOTORCYCLE)
BERRY OAKLEY (BASS PLAYER FOR "THE ALLMAN BROS.", HE WAS KILLED 3 BLOCKS FROM WHERE DUANE DIED A YEAR EARLIER) (1972) (MOTORCYCLE)
BILLY STEWART (HUGE BLACK GUY, INCREDIBLE SINGER, ONE HIT WONDER WITH "GEORGE GERSHWIN'S" CLASSIC "SUMMERTIME" FROM '66) (1970) (CAR)
CLARENCE WHITE (GTRST. FOR "THE BYRDS") (1973) (HIT BY DRUNK DRIVER WHILE LOADING EQUIPMENT AFTER A GIG)
CLIFF BURTON (FORMER "METALLICA" BASS PLAYER) (1986) (FATAL "METALLICA" VAN WRECK IN EUROPE)
MARC BOLAN (HE WAS "T-REX"/"GET IT ON, BANG A GONG") (1977) (CAR)
ALLEN COLLINS (GTRST. FOR "LYNARD SKYNARD", ULTIMATELY, A CAR CRASH BOTH DISABLED AND KILLED ALLEN) (1990)
COZY POWELL ("JEFF BECK GROUP"/"BLACK SABBATH"/BRITISH SESSION DRUMMER) (1998) (CAR)
JAMES DEAN (THE ORIGINAL REBEL, ONLY MADE 3 MOVIES IN HIS WHOLE CAREER) (1955) (CAR)
SONNY BONO ("SONNY AND CHER"/"I GOT YOU BABE", "THE BEAT GOES ON", SONNY STARTED AS A SONGWRITER/GOPHER FOR PHIL SPECTOR IN L.A. IN EARLY '60'S) (1998) (SKIIED INTO A TREE)
FALCO (REAL NAME: HANS HOLZEL) ("DER KOMMISAR", "ROCK ME AMMADEUS") (1998) (CAR CRASH IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)
SANDY DENNY (SANG B.G. VOCALS ON "THE BATTLE OF EVERMORE" W/ "LED ZEPPELIN," MEMBER OF BRITISH OUTFIT "FAIRPORT CONVENTION") (1978) (FELL DOWN STAIRS)
KIT LAMBERT (ORIGINAL "WHO" MANAGER) (1981) (FELL DOWN STAIRS)
TOMMY CALDWELL ("MARSHALL TUCKER" BASS PLAYER, BROTHER OF TOY, LEAD SINGER IN THE BAND) (1980) (CAR)
PATTI SANTOS (CHICK SINGER ON SONG "WHITE BIRD", BY "ITS A BEAUTIFUL DAY") (1989) (CAR)
TIM KELLY (GTRST./"SLAUGHTER") (1998) (CAR)
LYNN STRAIT ("SNOT" LEAD SINGER) (1998) (CAR)
"RAZZLE" (REAL NAME: NICHOLAS DINGLEY)("HANOI ROCKS" DRUMMER, VINCE NEIL OF "MOTLEY CRUE" WAS DRIVING THAT CAR THAT CRASHED AND KILLED RAZZLE TOO) (1984) (CAR)
Cocaine
JOHN ENTWISTLE ("WHO" BASSIST, KNOWN AS "THE OX", POSSIBLY THE GREATEST ROCK BASSIST OF 'EM ALL, SANG "BORIS THE SPIDER") (2002)
JEFF PORCARO (MEMBER OF "TOTO" AND TOP SESSION DRUMMER/"STEELY DAN" AND "BOZ SCAGGS"...HE SUFFERED A FATAL REACTION TO A GARDENING CHEMICAL THAT HE WAS USING ON HIS LAWN BUT TOXICOLOGY REPORTS ALSO LINKED HIS DEATH TO PAST HEAVY COCAINE ABUSE, WHICH HAD CONSTRICTED AND HARDENED HIS ARTERIES... ) (1992)
SHANNON HOON ("BLIND MELON" LEAD SINGER/"NO RAIN") (1995)
LOWELL GEORGE ("LITTLE FEAT" GTRST./SINGER/SONGWRITER/PRODUCER/FOUNDER/"DIXIE CHICKEN", "FAT MAN IN THE BATHTUB") (1979)
CHRIS FARLEY ("SAT.NITE LIVE" ALUM) (COCAINE & MORPHINE) (1997)
DAVID RUFFIN ("TEMPTATIONS" LEAD SINGER/"AIN'T TOO PROUD TO BEG", "BEAUTY'S ONLY SKIN DEEP","MY GIRL"... LOWER VOICE) (1991) (CRACK COCAINE)
TOY CALDWELL (LEAD SINGER/GTRST. "CAN'T YOU SEE"/ "MARSHALL TUCKER BAND") (1993)
BRENT MYDLAND ("GRATEFUL DEAD" KYBRDST., 3 "GRATEFUL DEAD" KYBRDSTS. DIED UN-NATURAL DEATHS) (COCAINE & MORPHINE) (1990)
BOBBY HATFIELD (THE SHORTER, HIGHER-VOICED MEMBER OF "THE RIGHTEOUS BROS."/"YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN FEELIN", "SOUL AND INSPIRATION", BOBBY SANG "UNCHAINED MELODY") (2003)
Drowning
DENNIS WILSON ("BEACH BOYS" DRUMMER, BROTHER OF BRIAN AND CARL) (SWIMMING IN MARINA WHILE BOATING) (1983)
BRIAN JONES (ORIGINAL WHACKED-OUT GTRST./SITARIST/ SINGER/SONGWRITER FOR THE "ROLLING STONES") (SWIMMING POOL) (1969)
RANDY CALIFORNIA (GIVEN HIS NAME BY "JIMI HENDRIX"/PLAYED W/HENDRIX IN '60'S IN GREENWICH VILLAGE/GTRST FOR L.A.ROCKERS "SPIRIT" /"NATURE'S WAY, "MR. SKIN") (1997) (SWIMMING IN OCEAN IN HAWAII, TRYING TO SAVE HIS SON FROM ALSO DROWNING)
SCOTT SMITH ("LOVERBOY" BASSIST/"WORKIN FOR THE WEEKEND", "TURN IT LOOSE") (BOATING ACCIDENT/DROWNED) (2000)
JEFF BUCKLEY (TIM'S SON/SINGER & PERFORMER JUST LIKE DAD) (1997) (DROWNED IN MISSISSIPPI RIVER IN MEMPHIS WHILE SWIMMING)
JIM HODDER ("STEELY DAN" DRUMMER ON 1ST 2 ALBUMS) (DROWNED IN HIS POOL) (1990)
Electrocution
KEITH RELF ("YARDBIRDS" ,"RENAISSANCE" LEAD SINGER, ACCIDENT AT HOME) (1976)
LES HARVEY (GTRST. FOR SCOTTISH ROCKERS "STONE THE CROWS", 'LATE '60'S, EARLY '70'S ACT, ELECTROCUTED ON STAGE) (1972)
Fire
STEVE MARRIOTT ("HUMBLE PIE"/"SMALL FACES" LEAD SINGER,/"30 DAYS IN THE HOLE", "ITCHYKOO PARK")( FIRE AT HOME) (1991)
TY LONGLEY ("GREAT WHITE" GTRST. DIED IN RHODE ISLAND CLUB FIRE) (2003)
Food....Too Much or Too Little
MAMA CASS ("MAMAS AND PAPAS", REAL NAME: NAOMI COHAN... IT WAS A HEART ATTACK THAT REALLY KILLED HER AND SHE DIED IN THE SAME APARTMENT THAT "KEITH MOON" FROM "THE WHO" WOULD DIE IN 4 YEARS LATER, AN APARTMENT OWNED BY THE LATE "HARRY NILSSON") (1974)
JOHN CANDY (HUGE AND HILARIOUS ACTOR) (1994) (HE DIED ON LOCATION FILMING A MOVIE IN MEXICO)
NOT ENUFF FOOD:
KAREN CARPENTER (DRUMMER/SINGER FOR "THE CARPENTERS" W/HER BROTHER RICHARD/"CLOSE TO YOU", "RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS") (1983) (CHRONIC ANOREXIA NERVOSA)
Gunshot / Suicide
DIMEBAD DARRELL ABBOTT (PANTERA AND DAMAGEPLAN) GUITARIST WAS KILLED ON STAGE BY CRAZED FAN IN COLUMBU, OHIO ON 12/8/04.
DONNIE HATHAWAY (SINGER FROM THE '70'S, KNOWN FOR HIS WORK WITH "ROBERTA FLACK"/"WHERE IS THE LOVE", "THE CLOSER I GET TO YOU") (FELL FROM A HOTEL WINDOW IN N.Y.C., PROBABLE SUICIDE) (1979)
GUS DUDGEON (LEGENDARY ROCK PRODUCER, PRIMARILY FOR "ELTON JOHN",BUT HE ALSO WORKED W/"DAVID BOWIE" AND "THE ZOMBIES" AND OTHERS...HE PRODUCED ALL OF "ELTON'S" BIGGEST HITS FROM ALL OF HIS BIGGEST ALBUMS FROM THE '70'S) (2002) (CAR)
CHRIS BELL (SINGER/SONGWRITER/GTRST. FOR EARLY '70'S MEMPHIS ACT "BIG STAR", FEATURING "ALEX CHILTON" OF THE "BOX TOPS") (1978)
JOHN LENNON ("BEATLES" SINGER/SONGWRITER) (SHOT BY A DERANGED FAN) (1980)
SAM COOKE (INCREDIBLE SINGER/SONGWRITER FROM LATE '50'S, EARLY '60'S/"ANOTHER SATURDAY NITE", "TWISTIN THE NITE AWAY", "CUPID", MANY, MANY OTHERS) (SHOT BY A HOTEL MGR.IN L.A.) (1964)
BOBBY FULLER (SHOT, BUT UNDER MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES) (" I FOUGHT THE LAW...") (1966)
FELIX PAPPALARDI ("MOUNTAIN" SINGER AND BASSIST/"NANTUCKET SLEIGHRIDE"/"CREAM" SONGWRITER AND PRODUCER) (1983) (SHOT BY HIS WIFE)
AL JACKSON ("BOOKER T. AND MG'S" DRUMMER/"TIME IS TIGHT" HANG 'EM HIGH", "GREEN ONIONS") (1975) (SHOT IN HIS HOME BY AN ARMED INTRUDER)
TERRY KATH ("CHICAGO" GTRST., SINGER, HE AND "JIMI HENDRIX" WERE PALS/KATH SANG ON "MAKE ME SMILE", AND "COLOUR MY WORLD" AND OTHER "CHICAGO" HITS) (1978) (ACCIDENT WHILE ALLEGEDLY PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE)
KURT COBAIN (MUCH WORSHIPPED AND MISUNDERSTOOD "NIRVANA" SINGER/GTRST.) (1994) (SUICIDE BY SHOTGUN)
MARVIN GAYE (LEGENDARY SUPERSTAR MOTOWN SINGER/SONGWRITER/"WHAT'S GOIN ON", "YOU'RE ALL I NEED TO GET BY", "HEARD IT THRU THE GRAPEVINE","SEXUAL HEALING", MANY, MANY OTHERS) (1984) (SHOT BY HIS FATHER)
PETER TOSH (REGGAE SUPERSTAR, ORIGINAL MEMBER OF "THE WAILERS"W/"BOB MARLEY") (1987) (MURDERED BY BURGLERS IN HIS HOME)
PHIL HARTMANN (BRILLIANT AND MUCH LOVED "SAT.NITE LIVE" ALUM) (SHOT BY HIS WIFE) (1998)
WENDY O. WILLIAMS (BIZARRE "PLASMATICS" FRONT PERSON) (1998) (SUICIDE BY GUN)
JACO PASTORIUS (REKNOWNED SESSION BASS PLAYER FOR "WEATHER REPORT", "JONI MITCHELL", OTHERS) (1987) (BEATEN TO DEATH OUTSIDE FT.LAUDERDALE CLUB)
MAL EVANS ("BEATLES" ORIGINAL ROAD MGR., WAS W/THE FAB 4 TILL THE VERY END, MAL CAN BE HEARD TALKING OR PLAYING A GOOFY INSTRUMENT ON SEVERAL "BEATLES" SONGS, HE CAN BE SEEN AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF FILM "LET IT BE") (1976) (SHOT BY POLICE IN LOS ANGELES DURING A SERIOUS MISUNDERSTANDING)
DEL SHANNON (REAL NAME: CHARLES WESTOVER...GREATLY INFLUENTIAL EARLY '60'S ROCKER/SINGER/UNDERRATED GTRST., WAS 1ST TO RECORD "BOB SEGER" IN A STUDIO BACK IN THE '60'S/"RUNAWAY", "LITTLE TOWN FLIRT") (1990) (SUICIDE BY GUN)
TOMMY BOYCE (1/2 OF TOP SONGWRITING TEAM FROM '60'S, W/"BOBBY HART", THEY WROTE "THE MONKEES" BIG HITS LIKE" LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE" AND "VALERIE" AND OTHERS...) (1994) (SUICIDE BY GUN)
LARRY WILLIAMS (SINGER-SONGWRITER FROM NEW ORLEANS ORIGINALLY, "THE BEATLES" COVERED 2 OF LARRY'S SONGS: "DIZZY MISS LIZZY" AND "SLOWDOWN") (1980) (SUICIDE BY SHOTGUN)
LITTLE WALTER (REAL NAME: MARION WALTER JACOBS) (LEGENDARY HARP PLAYER WITH THE GREAT "MUDDY WATERS", IT WAS LITTLE WALTER WHO 1ST AMPLIFIED THE HARMONICA IN CONCERT) (1968) (HE DIED AS A RESULT OF A STREET FIGHT IN CHICAGO)
JOHN LEE "SONNY BOY" WILLIAMSON (THE ORIGINAL "SONNY BOY" WILLIAMSON, FROM THE '30'S AND '40'S... THERE WERE 2 "SONNY BOY" WILLIAMSON'S AND THEY WERE BOTH LEGENDARY BLUES HARP PLAYERS! JOHN LEE WAS THE OLDER OF THE 2, THEY WEREN'T RELATED...JOHN LEE PLAYED WITH "BIG BILL BROONZY", LEGENDARY BLUES GTRST.) (MUGGED ON THE WAY HOME FROM A CHICAGO CLUB, HE DIED FROM HIS INJURIES) (1948)
BOBBY BLOOM (ONE HIT WONDER/"MONTEGO BAY" FROM '60'S) (IT WAS REPORTED THAT HE ACCIDENTALLY SHOT HIMSELF SOMEHOW IN L.A.) (1974)
CORNELL GUNTER (SINGER W/"THE COASTERS"/"YAKKITY YAK", "CHARLIE BROWN", "POISON IVY") (SHOT TO DEATH IN LAS VEGAS) (1990)
KING CURTIS (REAL NAME: CURTIS OUSLEY, TOP SESSION TENOR SAX MAN, PLAYED WITH ALL THE "50'S AND '60'S STARS LIKE "BUDDY HOLLY", "COASTERS", "DRIFTERS", "WILSON PICKETT" & "SAM COOKE" AND MANY OTHERS) (STABBED TO DEATH IN N.Y.C.) (1971))
PAUL WILLIAMS (ORIGINAL MEMBER OF "THE TEMPTATIONS", HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR "THE TEMPS" MESMERIZING DANCE MOVES IN CONCERT) (ALLEGED SUICIDE BY GUN IN HIS CAR) (1973)
GRAHAM BOND (EARLY '60'S BRITISH BLUES PIONEER["GRAHAM BOND ORGANIZATION"], "JACK BRUCE", AND "GINGER BAKER" PLAYED W/BOND BEFORE FORMING "CREAM") (JUMPED IN FRONT OF A TRAIN) (1974)
DANNY RAPP (LEAD SINGER FOR "DANNY & THE JUNIORS"/2 MILLION SELLING "AT THE HOP" AND ALSO "ROCK AND ROLL IS HERE TO STAY", LATE '50'S PHILLY DOO-WOP POP BAND DISCOVERED BY "DICK CLARK" OF 'AMERICAN BANDSTAND') (SUICIDE BY GUN) (1983)
JOHN WHITEHEAD (1/2 OF "MCFFADEN & WHITEHEAD", PHILLY R & B PERFORMERS/SONGWRITERS, THEY SANG 'AIN'T NO STOPPIN US NOW' IN '79, AND WROTE FOR "THE O'JAYS": 'BACK STABBERS' AND 'FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY', AND MANY OTHER SONGS FOR OTHER ARTISTS..."MCFADDEN & WHITEHEAD" WERE DISCOVERED BY "OTIS REDDING" BACK IN THE '60'S) (SHOT TO DEATH BY 2 GUNMAN ON THE STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA) (2004)
Hanging
MICHAEL HUTCHENCE ("INXS" FRONT MAN, SINGER/"WHAT YOU NEED", "THE ONE THING") (1997)
ROY BUCHANAN (LEGENDARY BLUES-ROCK GTRST./WAS OFFERED GIG W/"ROLLING STONES" IN THE '70'S) (1988) (SUICIDE IN JAIL)
RICHARD MANUEL (KYBRDS. FOR "THE BAND")(1986)
PETE HAM (SINGER/GTRST./KYBRDS)(1975) AND TOM EVANS (BASS) (1983) (BOTH WITH "BADFINGER"/"NO MATTER WHAT", "DAY AFTER DAY", IT WAS HAM AND EVANS WHO WROTE "WITHOUT YOU" WHICH WAS A HUGE HIT FOR "HARRY NILSSON" IN '71)
PHIL OCHS ('60'S FOLK/PROTEST SINGER/ "DRAFT DODGER RAG," "I AIN'T MARCHING ANYMORE") (1976)
STUART ADAMSON (SCOTTISH ROCKERS "BIG COUNTRY" LEAD SINGER) (2001)
IAN CURTIS (LEAD SINGER FOR BRITISH PUNK/TECHNO LATE 70'S ROCKERS "JOY DIVISION") (1980)
Heart Attack/Cancer/Natural Causes
SYD BARRETT (ORGINAL MEMBER OF PINK FLOYD) DIED OF FROM COMPLICATIONS OF DIABETES. DIED JULY 11,2006.
BOB MARLEY ("BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS") DIED OF CANCER THAT SPREAD TO HIS BRAIN, LUNGS AND LIVER. DIED MAY 11, 1981
NICKY HOPKINS ("QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE" MEMBER AND THE TOP SESSION KEYBOARDIST IN BRITISH ROCK IN THE "60'S AND '70'S, PLAYED W/"THE BEATLES", "THE STONES", "JEFF BECK", "THE WHO", YOU NAME 'EM) (1994)
NOEL REDDING ("JIMI HENDRIX" BASS PLAYER, ORIGINAL MEMBER OF "THE EXPERIENCE") (2003)
DINO VALENTI ("QUICKSILVER" LEAD SINGER,/"FRESH AIR", REAL NAME "CHESTER POWERS", HE WROTE "GET TOGETHER", IT WAS A HUGE HIT FOR "THE YOUNGBLOODS" IN '69) (1994)
MICK RONSON ( "DAVID BOWIE" AND "IAN HUNTER" GTRST., TOURED WITH "DYLAN" ON THE "ROLLING THUNDER REVUE" TOUR OF '75) (1993)
TOM FOGERTY ("C.C.R." GTRST./"DOWN ON THE CORNER", "BORN ON THE BAYOU", "FORTUNATE SON"... AND JOHN'S OLDER BROTHER) (1990)
JOHN PHILLIPS (LEGENDARY "MAMAS AND PAPAS" FOUNDER AND SONGWRITER/ "CALIFORNIA DREAMIN","MONDAY, MONDAY", UNDERWENT LIVER TRANSPLANT IN "92 BECOZ OF SERIOUS SUBSTANCE ABUSE OVER THE YEARS) (2001)
CURTIS MAYFIELD (LEGENDARY FOUNDER OF "THE IMPRESSIONS" AND SUPERSTAR R & B SINGER AND PERFORMER AND SONGWRITER/"SUPERFLY", "PEOPLE GET READY", MANY OTHERS...WAS PARALYZED FROM NECK DOWN IN BIZARRE STAGE ACCIDENT IN N.Y.C. IN 1990, DIED 9 YEARS LATER) (1999)
GLENN BUXTON (ORIGINAL GTRST. FOR "ALICE COOPER" ON FIRST 3 ALBUMS INCLUDING "KILLER") (1997)
ANDY GIBB (ONE OF THE GIBB BROS./ THE "BEE GEES" WERE HIS OLDER BROS. (1998)
MAURICE GIBB ("BEE GEES", "SAT. NITE FEVER" STARS) (2003)
JOE STRUMMER (SINGER/GTRST. FOR "THE CLASH") (2003)
JOEY RAMONE (SINGER "THE RAMONES") (2001)
NICOLETTE LARSON (COUNTRY/ROCK VOCALIST, FRIEND OF "NEIL YOUNG'S", HAD A BIG HIT W/NEIL'S SONG "LOTTA LOVE" BACK IN THE '70'S, MARRIED TO SESSION DRUMMER STAR "RUSS KUNKEL") (1997)
FRANK ZAPPA (LEGENDARY AND OUTRAGEOUS GTRST./COMPOSER/CUTTING EDGE POP-ROCK ICON) ("YELLOW SNOW", "GOIN TO MONTANA", MANY MANY OTHERS) (1993)
BOB "THE BEAR" HITE (SINGER/HARP FOR "CANNED HEAT"/"GOIN UP THE COUNTRY", "ON THE ROAD AGAIN") (1981)
ZAL YANOVSKI (GTRST/CO-FOUNDER OF "LOVIN SPOONFUL"/"SUMMER IN THE CITY", "DAYDREAM") (2003)
JAMES DEWAR ("ROBIN TROWER" BASSIST/VOCALIST, THE GUY WHO SANG "BRIDGE OF SIGHS" AND "TOO ROLLING STONED", HE ALSO BELONGED TO "STONE THE CROWS" TOO, SCOTTISH ROCKERS FROM THE EARLY '70'S) (2002)
CARL RADLE (BASS PLAYER, "DEREK & THE DOMINOES", "ERIC CLAPTON", "DELANEY AND BONNIE", "GEORGE HARRISON") (1980)
ERIC CARR ("KISS" DRUMMER AT ONE TIME) (1991)
JOHN LEE HOOKER (BLUES LEGEND/"BOOM, BOOM, BOOM", "ONE BOURBON, ONE SCOTCH...") (2001)
HOWLIN WOLF (REAL NAME: "CHESTER BURNETTE"-CHICAGO "CHESS RECORDS" BLUES LEGEND/"SMOKESTACK LIGHTNING", "KILLIN FLOOR", MANY OTHERS) (1976)
WILLIE DIXON (CHICAGO "CHESS RECORDS" BLUES LEGEND, MAYBE THE GREATEST BLUES SONGWRITER IN HISTORY, "HOOTCHIE KOOTCHIE MAN", "BACK DOOR MAN", "SPOONFUL", MANY, MANY OTHERS...IF IT WASN'T FOR WILLIE, "LED ZEPPELIN" WOULDN'T HAVE HAD ENOUGH SONGS FOR THEIR 1ST 2 ALBUMS!) (1992)
MUDDY WATERS (REAL NAME: "MCKINLEY MORGANFIELD"-CHICAGO "CHESS RECORDS" BLUES LEGEND, THE "ROLLING STONES" NAMED THEMSELVES AFTER ONE OF MUDDY'S SONGS) (1983)
BOB MARLEY (REGGAE LEGEND) (1981)
CHAS CHANDLER (ORIGINAL "JIMI HENDRIX" MANAGER, DISCOVERED HENDRIX IN N.Y.C. IN '66/"ANIMALS" BASS PLAYER TOO) (1996)
PETER GRANT (ORIGINAL "LED ZEPPELIN" MANAGER, MANAGED "THE YARDBIRDS" TOO AND "THE ANIMALS" AND "JEFF BECK GROUP") (1995)
MICKIE MOST (PRODUCER FOR "HERMAN'S HERMITS"/"MRS. BROWN YOU'VE GOT A LOVELY DAUGHTER"), "THE ANIMALS"/"HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN") AND "DONOVAN"/"SUNSHINE SUPERMAN", "MELLOW YELLOW") (2003)
DAN HARTMANN (MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST, PLAYED WITH "EDGAR WINTER" ON "THEY ONLY COME OUT AT NITE", SANG ON "FREE RIDE"/SOLO PERFORMER -"I CAN DREAM ABOUT YOU") (1994)
BENJAMIN ORR (BASSIST FOR "THE CARS", SANG ON "JUST WHAT I NEEDED") (2000)
LINDA MCCARTNEY (PAUL'S WIFE, MEMBER OF "WINGS", REKNOWNED ROCK PHOTOGRAPHER OF '60'S ROCK STARS) (1998)
RONNIE LANE (BASSIST FOR "SMALL FACES" /"ITCHYKOO PARK", AND "FACES" W/ ROD STEWART) (1997)
DAVE ROWBERRY (KYBRDST. FOR "THE ANIMALS") (2003)
DEE MURRAY ("ELTON JOHN" BASS PLAYER ON ELTON'S BIGGEST '70'S HITS) (1992)
LAMAR WILLIAMS ("ALLMAN BROS." BASS PLAYER AFTER BERRY OAKLEY, "SEA-LEVEL" TOO) (1983)
RANDY CASTILLO ("OZZY'S" DRUMMER IN MID '80'S TO EARLY '90'S AND "MOTLEY CRUE'S" TOO FOR AWHILE) (2002)
DAVID BRIGGS (LEGENDARY AND IRRASCIBLE PRODUCER FOR "NEIL YOUNG", HE PRODUCED ALL OF NEIL'S ALBUMS IN THE '70'S AND LATE '60'S, L.A. ROCK BAND "SPIRIT" TOO) (1995)
JACK NEITZSCHE (LEGENDARY PRODUCER AND ARRANGER, MOVIE SOUNDTRACK COMPOSER ..."ROLLING STONES", "NEIL YOUNG", "PHIL SPECTOR" (WORKED W/SPECTOR IN EARLY '60'S AS STAFF SONGWRITER, HIM AND "SONNY BONO", PLAYED KEYBOARDS ON MANY OF THE "STONES" MID '60'S RECORDINGS DONE IN L.A.) (2000)
LAURA NYRO (LEGENDARY SONGWRITER.."AND WHEN I DIE"["BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS"], "ELI'S COMING"["3 DOG NIGHT"], "STONED SOUL PICNIC [5TH DIMENSION"]", "WEDDING BELL BLUES" ["5TH DIMESNION"]) (1997)
ALAN FREED (THE ORIGINAL ROCK AND ROLL DISC JOCKEY[BASED OUT OF CLEVELAND] FROM THE '50'S, COINED THE PHRASE "ROCK AND ROLL" AND PROMOTED THE FIRST EVER 'ROCK CONCERT" IN CLEVELAND IN THE '50'S, WAS THE FIRST DJ TO BE INDICTED FOR PAYOLA) (1965)
WOLFMAN JACK (MAYBE THE MOST FAMOUS '50'S AND '60'S ROCK AND ROLL DJ EVER, MOST DISTINCTIVE ON-AIR VOICE OF 'EM ALL CERTAINLY...REAL NAME: BOB SMITH) (1995)
BARRY WHITE (LEGENDARY SOUL MAN AND LOVE SONG SINGER, KNOWN AS "THE WALRUS OF LOVE"... "LOVE UNLTD. ORCHESTRA" WAS BARRY'S BAND) (2003)
PATTY DONAHUE (LEAD SINGER FOR "THE WAITRESSES"/ "I KNOW WHAT BOYS LIKE") (1996)
EDDIE KENDRICK (LEAD SINGER-HIGHER VOICE- FOR "THE TEMPTATIONS") ( 1992)
GENE CLARK (SINGER/SONGWRITER & ORIGINAL MEMBER OF "THE BYRDS") (1991)
CHRIS WOOD ("TRAFFIC" FLUTIST AND SAX MAN, "LOW SPARK OF HIGH HEELED BOYS", "DEAR MR. FANTASY") (1983)
EDWIN STARR (MOTOWN STAR/"25 MILES" AND "WAR") (2003)
JOHN GLASCOCK (BASSIST FOR "JETHRO TULL", THERE HAVE BEEN MANY OVER THE YEARS, HE WAS ONE OF 'EM) (1979)
TOM DOWD (LEGENDARY PRODUCER/ENGINEER FOR "THE ALLMAN BROS.", "LYNARD SKYNARD", "ARETHA FRANKLIN" AND "CREAM" AND MANY OTHERS, WAS "ATLANTIC RECORDS" CHIEF ENGINEER IN '60'S) (2003)
WAYLON JENNINGS (LEGENDARY CUTTING EDGE COUNTRY MUSIC STAR ,"WILLIE AND WAYLON & THE BOYS...") (2002)
SKIP SPENCE ("MOBY GRAPE" FOUNDER AND TEMPROARY MEMBER OF "JEFFERSON AIRPLANE", HE PLAYED DRUMS ON THE "AIRPLANE'S" 1ST ALBUM) (1999)
MARY WELLS (LEGENDARY MOTOWN STAR/"MY GUY", "TWO LOVERS", KNOWN AS THE "QUEEN OF MOTOWN") (1992)
ERIK BRAUNN (GTRST. FOR "IRON BUTTERFLY", PLAYED ON "IN- A-GADDA...", AT THAT TIME IN '68, HE WAS 17 YRS. OLD) (2003)
SAM PHILIPPS (ONE OF THE ARCHITECTS OF ROCK AND ROLL, LAUNCHED THE CAREERS OF "ELVIS," "JERRY LEE LEWIS", "JOHNNY CASH" AND "CARL PERKINS" ("THE MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET") ,OWNED SUN STUDIOS AND SUN RECORDS IN MEMPHIS AND WAS THE 1ST TO RECORD "ELVIS PRESLEY" IN A STUDIO) (2003)
FLO BALLARD (ORIGINAL MEMBER OF "THE SUPREMES", LEGENDARY MOTOWN STARS, THE BIGGEST CHICK BAND IN HISTORY, SADLY SHE DIED BROKE AND ADDICTED) (1976)
TAMMY TERRELL (CO SINGER WITH "MARVIN GAYE" ON MANY OF MARVIN'S BIG HITS/"YOU'RE ALL I NEED TO GET BY", "YOUR PRECIOUS LOVE", SHE DIED VERY YOUNG OF A BRAIN HEMMORAGE/TUMOUR AT AGE 24) (1970)
BOB HOPE (NO ROCK HERITAGE, BUT MAYBE THE GREATEST OVERALL ENTERTAINER IN HISTORY) (2003)
MIKE "SMITTY" SMITH (ORIGINAL DRUMMER FOR "PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS"/"KICKS", "HUNGRY", "ITS JUST LIKE ME") (2001)
ALLAN WOODY ("GOV.T MULE" BASSIST) (2000)
TONY JACKSON ("SEARCHERS" BASSIST/"NEEDLES AND PINS", "LOVE POTION #9") (2003)
DENNIS DANELL ("SOCIAL DISTORTION" GTRST.) (2000)
SKIP BATTEN ("BYRDS", "FLYING BURRITO BROS.", "NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE" BASSIST) (2003)
JOHNNY CASH (LEGENDARY COUNTRY STAR, KNOWN AS "THE MAN IN BLACK"/"FOLSOM PRISON BLUES","I WALK THE LINE", MANY, MANY OTHERS)(2003)
ROBERT PALMER (BRITISH BLUE EYED SOUL PERFORMER/"EVERY KINDA PEOPLE", "SNEAKIN SALLY THRU THE ALLY", REMADE "T-REX'S" 'BANG A GONG' W/"POWER STATION) (2003)
ARTHUR CONLEY (SOUL SINGER FORM '60'S, "SWEET SOUL MUSIC" PALS W/"OTIS REDDING") (2003)
TONY THOMPSON (DRUMMER FOR "CHIC", "POWER STATION" AND SESSION DRUMMER FOR "D. BOWIE", "MADONNA" AND "M. JAGGER") (2003)
DOUG SAHM (SINGER/FOUNDER/KYBRDS. FOR "SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET"/"MENDECINO", "SHE'S ABOUT A MOVER") (1999)
DAVE WILLIAMS (SINGER FOR "DROWNING POOL") (2002)
STEVE DOUGLAS (TOP SESSION SAX MAN IN L.A. IN THE '60'S AND '70'S, WORKED W/"DUANE EDDY", R.R. HALL OF FAME MEMBER TOO) (1993)
JOHN HARTFORD (FOLK SINGER/SONGWRITER /"GENTLE ON MY MIND") (2001)
WOODIE GUTHRIE (GRANDADDY OF ALL FOLK SINGERS,"THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND", BOB DYLAN'S HERO, ARLO'S FATHER) (1967)
TOMMY TEDESCO (THE MOST RECORDED STUDIO SESSION GTRST. OF ALL TIME, WORKED IN L.A. IN THE '60'S, THAT'S TOMMY'S GUITAR ON THE TV SOUNDTRACKS OF M*A*S*H, "BATMAN", "GREEN ACRES", SO MANY OTHERS, ALSO THAT'S HIM ON ALL THE "BEACH BOYS" STUFF, "SINATRA", "STREISAND", ALL THE "PHIL SPECTOR" STUFF TOO, "MONKEES"...HE WAS THE #1 TOP SESSION GTRST. OF 'EM ALL IN L.A.... IF IT WAS RECORDED IN L.A. IN THE '60'S AND '70'S, MORE THAN LIKELY, TOMMY PLAYED GUITAR ON IT) (1997)
BOBBY DARRIN ('50'S, EARLY '60'S TEEN POP IDOL/"MACK THE KNIFE", "SPLISH SPLASH", HE LEFT HIS BODY TO THE MEDICAL SCHOOL AT U.C.L.A.) (1973)
BOUDLEAUX AND FELICE BRYANT (SONGWRITERS, WROTE ALL OF "THE EVERLY BROS". BIG HITS, ALSO WROTE "LOVE HURTS" COVERED BY "NAZARETH") (HIM: 1987, HER: 2003)
DOC POMUS (SONGWRITER, WROTE SEVERAL OF ELVIS'S BIGGEST HITS,"VIVA LAS VEGAS", "LITTLE SISTER", "SUSPICION" ; ALSO WROTE, FROM THE FAMED "BRILL BLDG." IN N.Y.C., "SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME" ["THE DRIFTERS"] AND "THIS MAGIC MOMENT" ["THE VOGUES"]) (1991)
RICHARD "PISTOL" ALLEN (DRUMMER, LEGENDARY "FUNK BROS.", MOTOWN SESSION PROS, THE GUYS WHO PLAYED ON ALL OF MOTOWN'S HITS) (2002)
ROBERT WHITE (1994) (GTRST. LEGENDARY "FUNK BROS.", MOTOWN SESSION PROS, THE GUYS WHO PLAYED ON ALL OF MOTOWN'S HITS)
JOHNNY GRIFFITH (2002) (KYBRDST., LEGENDARY "FUNK BROS.", MOTOWN SESSION PROS, THE GUYS WHO PLAYED ON ALL OF MOTOWN'S HITS)
EARL VAN DYKE (1992) (KYBRDST., LEGENDARY "FUNK BROS.", MOTOWN SESSION PROS, THE GUYS WHO PLAYED ON ALL OF MOTOWN'S HITS)
EDDIE "BONGO" BROWN (1983) (PERCUSSIONIST, LEGENDARY "FUNK BROS.", MOTOWN SESSION PROS, THE GUYS WHO PLAYED ON ALL OF MOTOWN'S HITS)
"LONESOME" DAVE PEVERETT (SINGER/SONGWRITER/FOUNDER OF "FOGHAT"/"SLOW RIDE", "FOOL FOR THE CITY") (2000)
MELVIN FRANKLIN (DEEP BASS SINGER FOR "THE TEMPTATIONS") (1995)
ROY ORBISON ("ELVIS" REFERRED TO HIM AS THE BEST SINGER THAT EVER WAS, "PRETTY WOMAN", "ONLY THE LONELY", "BLUE BAYOU" [HUGE HIT FOR "LINDA RONSTADT"]...ALSO MEMBER OF "THE TRAVELING WILBURYS" W/"DYLAN, "T. PETTY", "G. HARRISON" & OTHERS) (1988)
JR WALKER (OF "THE ALL-STARS", REAL NAME: AUTRY DEWALT LLL) (MOTOWN SAX BLOWING STAR/"SHOTGUN". "WHAT DOES IT TAKE", "I'M A ROADRUNNER"", PLAYED SAX ON "FOREIGNER'S" 'URGENT' TOO) (1995)
IAN DRURY (OF "THE BLOCKHEADS") (MID-LATE '70'S BRITISH PUNK ROCKER ON "STIFF RECORDS"/"HIT ME WITH YOUR RHYTHM STICK") (2000)
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IAN STEWART (KNOWN AS THE "5TH ROLLING STONE", "STU" PLAYED KEYBOARDS ON JUST ABOUT ALL THE STONES BIGGEST HITS UP UNTIL THE '80'S [IT WAS HIM OR "NICKY HOPKINS"], WITH THE BAND SINCE EVEN BEFORE "KEITH RICHARDS" WAS AND WAS THEIR ROAD MANAGER IN THE '60'S) (1985)
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD (BRITISH WHITE SOUL CHICK SINGER FROM '60'S/"YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME", "SON OF A PREACHER MAN", "WISHIN AND HOPIN") (1999)
DUKE ELLINGTON (LEGENDARY COMPOSER/BIG BAND LEADER/PIANIST, CONDUCTED "COTTON CLUB" HOUSE BAND IN HARLEM DURING '20'S, '30'S, 40'S, ETC...) (1974)
LOUIE ARMSTRONG (LEGENDARY NEW ORLEANS-BRED JAZZ/DIXIELAND HORN MAN/VOCALIST DURING '20'S, '30'S, '40'S, '50'S, ETC., KNOWN AS "SATCHMO"/"HELLO DOLLY", "WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD") (1971)
ELLA FITZGERALD (ICONIC BLACK JAZZ/POP/SWING/SCAT SINGER-PERFORMER-DIVA, "THE 1ST LADY OF SONG", WORKED W/"COUNT BASIE", "LOUIE ARMSTRONG", "DUKE ELLINGTON" AND OTHERS DURING THE '30'S, '40'S, '50'S, ETC.) (1996)
HOYT AXTON (PROLIFIC SONGWRITER FROM '60'S AND '70'S, PENNED "THE PUSHER" FOR "STEPPENWOLF", "THE NO-NO SONG" FOR "RINGO STARR", "JOY TO THE WORLD" AND "NEVER BEEN TO SPAIN"FOR "3 DOG NITE", MANY OTHERS) (1999)
LIONEL HAMPTON (LEGENDARY JAZZ/BIG BAND LEADER,"KING OF THE VIBES", COMPOSER/ARRANGER FROM '30'S, '40'S AND '50'S, ETC.) (2002)
COUNT BASIE (LEGENDARY BIG BAND/SWING ORCHESTRA LEADER AND COMPOSER/PIANIST FROM '20'S, '30'S, '40'S, ETC.) (1984)
BILL BLACK ("ELVIS" ORIGINAL BASS PLAYER, STAFF BASSIST FOR "SUN RECORDS" IN MEMPHIS, HE AND "SCOTTY MOORE" (GTRST.) PLAYED ON "ELVIS' 1ST BIG HIT: "THAT'S ALLRIGHT MAMA") (1965)
MICHAEL KAMEN (CONDUCTOR/MOVIE SOUNDTRACK COMPOSER: "LETHAL WEAPON", "101 DALMATIONS", "MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS", "DIE HARD", ALSO SCORED ORCHESTRATION FOR "PINK FLOYD'S" 'THE WALL') (2003)
HARRY NILSSON (SINGER/SONGWRITER/PIANIST: "COCONUT", "JUMP INTO THE FIRE", "SPACEMAN", WROTE "ONE" FOR "3 DOG NITE" WAS A DRINKING BUDDY OF JOHN LENNON'S IN THE '70'S) (1994)
COUNTRY DICK MONTANA (DRUMMER, DEEP THROATED SINGER FOR "THE BEAT FARMERS"/"HAPPY BOY", DIED ON STAGE IN VANCOUVER IN 1995, THE BAND CALLED IT QUITS IMMEDIATELY)
VICKIE SUE ROBINSON (DISCO DIVA, ONE HIT WONDER/"TURN THE BEAT AROUND") (2000)
VAN MCCOY ("THE HUSTLE"...VAN WAS A SONGWRITER/PERFORMER, "THE HUSTLE" WAS A HUGE [INSTRUMENTAL] DANCE HIT IN THE DISCO YEARS OF THE '70'S) (1979)
TIMOTHY LEARY (L.S.D. GURU, HARVARD EDUCATED,W/A PH.D., HE COINED THE PHRASE, "TUNE IN, TURN ON, DROP OUT", ALL HIS LIFE HE ADVOCATD THE USE OF L.S.D. FOR GREATER PERSONAL ENLIGHTENMENT, HE WAS A PART OF THE "1ST HUMAN BE-IN" IN GOLDEN GATE PARK, SAN FRANCISCO IN JANUARY OF 1967 W/"THE GRATEFUL DEAD", "QUICKSILVER" AND "THE JEFFERSON AIRPLANE", IT WAS THE INITIAL EVENT OF "THE SUMMER OF LOVE", "THE BEATLES" QUOTED LEARY IN THEIR SONG 'TOMMORROW NEVER KNOWS' :'TURN OFF YOUR MIND, RELAX AND FLOAT DOWNSTREAM') (1996)
KEN KESEY (NOVELIST: 'ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST', ORGANIZER OF THE "ACID TESTS" IN THE MID '60'S IN CALIFORNIA, WHEN L.S.D. WAS STILL LEGAL, HE WAS THE FOUNDER OF "THE MERRY PRANKSTERS," A BUNCH OF L.S.D. SWILLING PARTIERS WHO DROVE FROM CITY TO CITY ON A SCHOOL BUS, SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT L.S.D., AGAIN, WHILE IT WAS STILL LEGAL, AND THROWING HUGE BIZARRE PARTIES..."THE GRATEFUL DEAD" WAS THE HOUSE BAND FREQUENTLY FOR "THE ACID TESTS" AND "THE HELL'S ANGELS" MOTORCYCLE CLUB USUALLY ATTENDED TOO) (2001)
FREDDIE KING (LEGENDARY BLUES GTRST, CONTEMPORARY OF "OTIS RUSH", "BUDDY GUY", "ERIC CLAPTON" COVERED 2 OF FREDDIE'S TUNES: "I'M TORE DOWN" AND "HAVE YOU EVER LOVED A WOMAN") (1976)
ALBERT KING (LEGENDARY, GRAMMY NOMINATED BLUES GTRST, OPENED FOR "JIMMY HENDRIX" AT THE FILLMORE WEST IN "68) (1992)
DEREK TAYLOR (PRESS AGENT IN THE '60'S FOR 'THE BEATLES", "BYRDS", "BEACH BOYS", "HARRY NILSSON", AND "PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS", HELPED TO ORGANIZE THE "MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL" IN '67 [ROCK/POP'S 1ST FESTIVAL], WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN CREATION OF "BEATLES ANTHOLOGY" PROJECT) (1997)
JIMMY REED (LEGENDARY HARP PLAYER/BLUES MAN, "ROLLING STONES," "GRATEFUL DEAD", "STEVE MILLER" ALL COVERED JIMMY REED SONGS LIKE "BIG BOSS MAN" AND "BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY") (1976)
JIMMY MILLER (LEGENDARY RECORD PRODUCER: "SPENCER DAVIS GROUP", BOTH THEIR BIG HITS 'I'M A MAN' AND 'GIMME SOME LOVIN', THE "ROLLING STONES" ALBUMS 'BEGGAR'S BANQUET', LET IT BLEED" [JIMMY PLAYS DRUMS ON 'YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT'], 'EXILE ON MAIN STREET', 'STICKY FINGERS', AND HE PRODUCED THE 1ST 2 "TRAFFIC" ALBUMS) (1994)
FRED "SONIC" SMITH (GTRST. FOR INCENDIARY '60'S DETROIT ROCKERS "THE MC5", HUSBAND OF PUNK ROCKER "PATTI SMITH") (1994)
LITTLE EVA (REAL NAME: EVA NARCISSUS BOYD, SHE WAS "CAROLE KING" AND "GERRY GOFFIN'S" BABYSITTER, KING AND GOFFIN WERE TOP NOTCH BRILL BLDG. SONGWRITERS IN N.Y.C. AT THAT TIME, LITTLE EVA SANG "LOCO-MOTION" AT THE AGE OF 16 IN 1962) (2003)
DIZZY GILLESPIE (FAMOUS BE-BOP PIONEER, LEGENDARY JAZZ TRUMPET MASTER, '30'S, '40'S, '50'S, '60'S, ETC., WORKED W/"ELLA FITZGERALD", "DUKE ELLINGTON", "CHARLIE 'BIRD' PARKER") (1993)
CHARLIE "BIRD" PARKER (POSSIBLY THE GREATEST JAZZ/BE-BOP SAXOPHONIST OF ALL TIME, FROM THE '30'S '40'S AND '50'S) (1955)
JOHN GUERIN (ONE OF THE TOP SESSION DRUMMERS IN L.A. IN THE '60'S AND '70'S, "JONI MITCHELL'S" 'COURT AND SPARK" ALBUM HE PLAYED ON, "HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS" TOO AND WAS MARRIED TO HER FOR A BIT AS WELL) (2004)
RANDY VAN WARMER (SINGER/SONGWRITER: "JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST", HE WAS 18 WHEN HE WROTE THAT SONG IN 1979) (2004)
JACKIE WILSON (R & B SINGER/SOMGWRITER/PERFORMER FROM '50'S AND '60'S AND EARLY '70'S/ "YOUR LOVE HAS LIFTED ME HIGHER", "LONELY TEARDROPS"...JACKIE SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK ON STAGE IN '75, HE WENT INTO A COMA AND NEVER RECOVERED) (1984)
"COLONEL" TOM PARKER (CROOKED MANAGER OF "ELVIS PRESLEY", THE "COLONEL" WITHHELD AND MISMANAGED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT BELONGED TO THE KING) (1997)
FRANCISCO GARCIA (SINGER/FOUNDER OF "CANNIBAL & THE HEADHUNTERS"/"LAND OF 1000 DANCES") (1996)
RICHARD BERRY (THE GUY WHO WROTE THE BIGGEST "FRAT-ROCK" SONG IN POP/ROCK HISTORY: "LOUIE, LOUIE"...IT WAS A HUGE HIT FOR "THE KINGSMEN" IN 1963, BUT "PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS" ACTUALLY RELEASED THEIR VERSION OF THE SONG AT THE SAME TIME WHICH WASN'T A HIT) (1997)
JUNIOR WELLS (REAL NAME: AMOS BLACKMORE...LEGENDARY BLUES HARMONICA PLAYER, PLAYED WITH "MUDDY WATERS" AND "BUDDY GUY", "JOHN BELUSHI" IN THE FILM "THE BLUES BROS." PATTERNED HIS CHARARCTER "JAKE" AFTER JUNIOR WELLS) (1998)
SLIM HARPO (REAL NAME: JAMES MOORE... R&B/BLUES GTRST. SONGWRITER/PERFORMER FROM LATE '50'S AND '60'S..."ROLLING STONES" "YARDBIRDS" , "THE KINKS" ALL COVERED SLIM'S SONGS LIKE "I'M A KINGBEE" AND "BABY SCRATCH MY BACK") (1970)
PROFESSOR LONGHAIR (REAL NAME: HENRY ROELAND BYRD, LEGENDARY AND INFLUENTIAL NEW ORLEANS PIANIST/SINGER/SONGWRITER, ONE OF THE BOOGIE WOOGIE KEYBOARD KINGS OF ALL TIME) (1980)
SAM "LIGHTNING" HOPKINS (LEGENDARY AND INFLUENTIAL TEXAS R & B/BLUES GTRST.) (1982)
JOHN SIOMOS (DRUMMER FOR "PETER FRAMPTON" ON "FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE" ALBUM IN '76) (2004)
BILLY JONES (ORIGINAL GTRST. FOR "OUTLAWS"/"GREEN GRASS & HIGH TIDES", "THERE GOES ANOTHER LOVE SONG") (1995)
GENE HUGHES (LEAD SINGER FOR 'THE CASINOS"/"THEN YOU CAN TELL ME GOODBYE", THEY WERE A DOO WOP BAND FROM '50'S AND '60'S) (2004)
CORNELIUS BUMPUS (SAX MAN FOR "THE DOOBIE BROS." AND ALSO A MEMBER OF "STEELY DAN'S" TOURING BAND) (2004)
BIG MAMA THORNTON (POWERFUL BLUES SINGER, BASED OUT OF TEXAS, SHE WAS THE 1ST TO RECORD THE "LEIBER/STOLLER" SONG "HOUND DOG", BUT IT WAS "ELVIS" WHO HAD THE BIG HIT WITH IT 3 YEARS LATER...SHE ALSO RECORDED "BALL AND CHAIN" BUT "JANIS JOPLIN" HAD A HIT WITH THAT LATER INSTEAD OF BIG MAMA) (1984)
BROOK BENTON (REAL NAME: BENJAMIN FRANK PEAY) (SLIVER-THROATED BLACK SINGER FROM '50'S, '60'S AND '70'S, STYLED AFTER "NAT KING COLE", HIS BIGGEST HIT WAS A COVER OF "RAINY NIGHT IN GEORGIA" IN '70 [WRITTEN BY TONY JOE WHITE-"POLK SALAD ANNIE"]) (1988)
STU SUTCLIFF (ORIGINAL "BEATLES" BASS PLAYER, AS PAUL AT THAT TIME, LATE '50'S, WAS PLAYING GUITAR...SUTCLIFF LEFT THE BAND ON HIS OWN AND DIED OF A BRAIN HEMORRAGE LESS THAN A YEAR LATER) (1962)
ALEXIS KORNER (THE EARLY '60'S BANDLEADER IN ENGLAND WHO HELPED LAUNCH THE CAREERS OF ROCK STARS LIKE "JACK BRUCE/CREAM", "CHARLIE WATTS/STONES", "GINGER BAKER/CREAM", "ROBERT PLANT/LED ZEPPELIN", "STEVE MARRIOT/HUMBLE PIE" AND OTHERS) (1984)
LEADBELLY (REAL NAME: HUDDLE LEDBETTER) (LEGENDARY LOUISIANA/TEXAS TRADITIONAL BLUES/FOLKS SINGER/GTRST., ALWAYS IN AND OUT OF PRISON, CREDITED WITH WRITING "THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL" ["CREEDENCE" HAD A HIT WITH THAT] AND "GOODNIGHT IRENE"..IN THE LAST YEARS OF HIS LIFE, HE PERFORMED WITH FOLK LEGENDS "PETE SEEGER" AND "WOODY GUTHRIE") (1949)
RICE MILLER (THE MUCH BETTER KNOWN 'SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON'...RICE MILLER, A LEGENDARY AND TALENTED BLUES HARP PLAYER AND COLORFUL PERFORMER & STORYTELLER, STOLE THE NAME "SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON" FROM AN OLDER BLUES HARP PLAYER, THOUGH RICE MILLER ACTUALLY HAD MUCH MORE SUCCESS AS A BLUES MUSICIAN THAN THE ORIGINAL "SONNY BOY" DID...RICE MILLER WROTE "ONE WAY OUT" [COVERED BY THE "ALLMAN BROS."] AND "EYESIGHT TO THE BLIND" [COVERED BY "THE WHO"] AND OTHER INFLUENTIAL BLUES CLASSICS..IT WAS RICE MILLER WHO WAS WORSHIPPED BY UP AND COMING BRITISH ROCK MUSICIANS, ["ANIMALS" & "YARDBIRDS", IN FACT "THE YARDBIRDS" W/ERIC CLAPTON" RECORDED AN ALBUM W/RICE MILLER IN '65] IN THE '60'S AS A BLUES GOD...RICE MILLER PERFORMED RADIO WORK BACK IN THE '40'S FOR "KING BISCUIT FLOUR", AN ARKANSAS FLOUR COMPANY, THUS, YEARS LATER, "THE KING BISCUIT FLOWER HOUR" CAME TO BE..."ELMORE JAMES" PLAYED WITH RICE MILLER AT ONE TIME) (1965)
BIG BILL BROONZY (REAL NAME: WILLIAM LEE CONLEY BROONZY...LEGENDARY TRADITIONAL, STANDARD CHICAGO BLUES GTRST. FROM THE '30'S AND '40'S, '50'S, THE BRITISH UP AND COMING ROCK STARS IN THE '60'S WORSHIPPED THIS GUY) (1958)
SON HOUSE (LEGENDARY DELTA BLUESMAN/GTRST. FROM '30'S AND '40'S, '50'S AND '60'S, BOTH THE MYTHICAL "ROBERT JOHNSON" AND "MUDDY WATERS" ACTUALLY WERE SCHOOLED BY SON HOUSE, THAT'S HOW LEGENDARY HE WAS) (1988)
DORIS TROY (SINGER/PERFORMER FROM '60'S AND '70'S/"JUST ONE LOOK" WAS HER BIGGEST HIT, BUT SHE SANG BACK-UP VOCALS ON "PINK FLOYD'S" 'DARK SIDE' ALBUM AND ON THE "ROLLING STONES" ALBUM 'LET IT BLEED' TOO...SHE WAS AMERICAN-BORN, BUT RELOCATED TO ENGLAND IN LATE '60'S WHERE SHE WAS A MUCH SOUGHT-AFTER STUDIO SESSION VOCALIST W/ VARIOUS BRITISH ROCK BANDS) (2004)
RON TOWSON (ORIGINAL "5TH DIMENSION" MEMBER/"AQUARIUS-LET THE SUN SHINE", "STONED SOUL PICNIC", "WEDDING BELL BLUES") (2001)
FRED ROGERS ("MR. ROGERS NEIGHBORHOOD"... NO ROCK OR POP OR MUSIC HERITAGE AT ALL BUT ONE OF THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE AND RESPECTED POP-CULTURE ICONS OF ALL TIME...AND BY THE WAY, MR. ROGERS WAS NOT A DECORATED WAR HERO, AS INTERNET RUMORS ALLEGE...) (2003)
BOB KEESHAN ("CAPT. KANGAROO"...AGAIN, NO ROCK OR POP MUSIC HERITAGE AT ALL BUT ONE OF THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE AND RESPECTED POP-CULTURE ICONS OF ALL TIME...AND BY THE WAY, KEESHAN WAS NOT A WWII COMBAT VETERAN /HERO, AS INTERNET RUMORS ALLEGE...) (2004)
BOB MAYO ("PETER FRAMPTON" KYBRDST. ON 'FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE'...DURING THE SONG 'DO YOU FEEL LIKE WE DO", PETER FRAMPTON YELLS, "BOB MAYO ON KEYBOARDS, BOB MAYO!" MAYO PLAYED W/FRAMPTON FOR 25 YEARS...) (2004)
ESTELLE AXTON (CO-FOUNDER OF "STAX RECORDS", THE LEGENDARY RECORD LABEL OUT OF MEMPHIS, HOME TO "SAM AND DAVE", "BOOKER T. AND THE M.G'S."[THEY WERE THE HOUSE BAND AT STAX] AND "OTIS REDDING"...ESTELLE AXTON'S BROTHER, JIM STEWART, WAS THE OTHER CO-FOUNDER OF "STAX RECORDS", THE 2 COMBINED THEIR LAST NAMES TO COME UP WITH "STAX": THE 'ST' FROM STEWART AND THE 'AX' FROM AXTON) (2004)
OLIVER (REAL NAME: WILLIAM OLIVER SWOFFORD) ( SANG THE 1969 SONG "GOOD MORNING STARSHINE" FROM THE BROADWAY MUSICAL "HAIR" AND HAD ANOTHER HIT WITH "JEAN" SHORTLY AFTERWARDS) (2000)
PAPA JOHN CREACH (ELECTRIC VIOLINIST FROM "THE JEFFERSON AIRPLANE/STARSHIP" AND "HOT TUNA"...HE WAS ALREADY IN HIS 50'S WHEN HE JOINED THE "AIRPLANE" AND PLAYED ON "THE STARSHIP'S" BIGGEST HITS LIKE 'MIRACLES" AND "RIDE THE TIGER") (1994)
RUST EPIQUE (FORMER GTRST. FOR "CRAZY TOWN" AND "PRE)THING") (2004)
JOHN MCGEOCH (FORMER GTRST. FOR CUTTING-EDGE PUNK ROCKERS "SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES") (2004)
AARON 'T-BONE' WALKER (LEGENDARY BLUES GTRST., KNOWN AS ONE OF THE FATHERS OF ELECTRIC BLUES, /"THEY CALL IT STORMY MONDAY"[ THE "ALLMANS BROTHERS" HAD A HIT WITH THIS T-BONE SONG]) (1975)
ALF BICKNELL (CHAUFFEUR, BODYGUARD AND GENERAL "GOFER" FOR "THE BEATLES", HE ALSO APPEARED ON ON THE SONG "YELLOW SUBMARINE", PROVIDING THE ANCHOR NOISE...HE WROTE A BOOK IN 1989 "BABY YOU CAN DRIVE MY CAR", DETAILING HIS ADVENTURES DRIVING "THE BEATLES" AROUND) (2004)
BIG JOE TURNER (LEGENDARY BLUES SINGER/SHOUTER FROM KANSAS CITY, A MAJOR INFLUENCE ON "CHUCK BERRY", "BO DIDDLEY", "ELVIS", HE WON A GRAMMY IN '83...HAD A HUGE HIT W/"SHAKE RATTLE AND ROLL" IN THE '50'S) (1985)
J.J. JACKSON (ONE OF THE PIONEERING ORIGINAL "MTV" VEE-JAYS, AND RADIO D.J. IN L.A., BUT NOT THE SAME GUY WHO SANG "BUT ITS ALLRIGHT" BACK IN THE '60'S) (2004)
EDMUND SYLVERS (LEAD SINGER & MEMBER OF THE FAMILY R&B/DANCE ACT FROM THE '70'S "THE SYLVERS"/"BOOGIE FEVER") (2004)
DON MURRAY (ORIGINAL "TURTLES" DRUMMER, PLAYED ON "IT AIN'T ME BABE", "LET ME BE", "YOU BABY" AND OTHER "TURTLES" EARLY HITS) (1996)
MARK DINNING (ONE HIT WONDER PRETTY MUCH WHO SANG "TEEN ANGEL", A TYPICALLY MORBID TEEN DEATH TUNE, INVOLVING A CAR ACCIDENT, IN 1959) (1986)
JOHNNY BRISTOL ("MOTOWN" PRODUCER AND SONGWRITER, HE WROTE HITS W/ "HARVEY FUQUA", {ANOTHER "MOTOWN" SONGWRITER}, FOR "THE SUPREMES", "STEVIE WONDER" "MARVIN GAYE" AND "JUNIOR WALKER" [FOR JUNIOR AND MARVIN:" HOW SWEET IT IS TO BE LOVED BY YOU", AND FOR MARVIN AND "TAMMI TERRELL: "AIN'T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENUFF"]) (2004)
JOSH CLAYTON-FELT (SINGER/SONGWRITER, FORMER FRONT MAN/LEAD SINGER FOR "SCHOOL OF FISH"/"3 STRANGE DAYS") (2000)
HAROLD MELVIN (LEADER OF LEGENDARY PHILLY SOUL OUTFIT "HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUE NOTES"/"IF YOU DON'T KNOW ME BY NOW", HELPED LUANCH THE CAREERS OF "BILLY PAUL" ["ME & MRS. JONES"] AND TEDDY PENDERGRASS TOO) (1997)
TOM DONAHUE (THE FATHER OF "FM ROCK/UNDERGROUND" RADIO...IN '67, DONAHUE LAUNCHED SAN FRAN RADIO STATION "KMPX", BY PLAYING ALBUM CUTS, FEATURING BANDS LIVE IN THE STUDIO, MAKING POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS, THINGS NO OTHER RADIO STATION HAD DONE BEFORE, AND THIS WAS ON FM RADIO, NOT AM! THE FORMAT CAUGHT ON QUICKLY NATIONALLY, DONAHUE MOVED TO SAN FRAN STATION "KSAN" A YEAR LATER...HE WAS 46 WHEN HE DIED OF A HEART ATTACK...HE IS IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME) (1975)
BILL HALEY (OF "THE COMETS", PROBABLY THE 1ST "ROCK AND ROLL BAND" W/"ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK", THE SMASH HIT AND REGARDED AS THE 1ST MAINSTREAM "ROCK AND ROLL" SONG EVER FROM 1954) (1981)
LEONARD CHESS (CO-FOUNDER, WITH HIS BROTHER PHIL, OF THE LEGENDARY "CHESS STUDIOS" IN CHICAGO, WHERE BLUES GREATS "WILLIE DIXON", "MUDDY WATERS", "HOWLIN WOLF" AND MANY OTHERS RECORDED THEIR CLASSICS, INCLUDING "CHUCK BERRY" TOO, THE "ROLLING STONES", THE "YARDBIRDS" AND STILL MANY OTHERS...) (1969)
CARL PERKINS (WRITER OF THE SMASH HIT "BLUE SUEDE SHOES" IN 1956, ONE OF THE FAMOUS "SUN RECORDS" PERFORMERS, PERKINS WAS LEGENDARY AS A ROCKABILLY SINGER, HE WAS ONE OF THE "MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET" GUYS AT "SUN" W/"ELVIS", "JOHNNY CASH" AND "JERRY LEE LEWIS"..."THE BEATLES" COVERED "HONEY DON'T" FROM PERKINS AND ALSO "EVERYBODY'S TRYING TO BE MY BABY") (1998)
JAN BERRY (OF "JAN AND DEAN", SURF MUSIC PIONEERS/"DEADMAN'S CURVE", "LITTLE OLD LADY FROM PASADENA" AND "SURF CITY"..."BRIAN WILSON" OF THE "BEACH BOYS" CO-WROTE "SURF CITY" AND "DEADMAN'S CURVE" W/BERRY...IN 1966, HE WS IN A SERIOUS CAR ACCIDENT THAT LEFT HIM BRAIN DAMAGED AND PARTIALLY PARALYZED...HE RECOVERED SOMEWHAT BUT WAS NEVER REALLY THE SAME) (2004)
GENE ALLISON (R&B/GOSPEL SINGER OUT OF NASHVILLE, HAD THE HIT WITH "YOU CAN MAKE IT IF YOU TRY" IN 1957, THE LEGENDARY "SAM COOKE" ONCE SAID, "I WISH I COULD SING LIKE GENE ALLISON..") (2004)
ELMORE JAMES (LEGENDARY "KING OF THE SLIDE GUITAR", HE WAS A CONTEMPORARY OF THE MYTHICAL "ROBERT JOHNSON" AND "SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON II), COMPOSER OF BLUES CLASSICS LIKE "DUST MY BROOM"[ACTUALLY CO-WRITTEN W/"ROBERT JOHNSON", COVERED BY "ZZ TOP"], "IT HURTS ME TOO" [COVERED BY THE "GRATEFUL DEAD"], "THE SKY IS CRYING" [COVERED BY "STEVIE RAY VAUGHN"] AND "DONE SOMEBODY WRONG" [COVERED BY THE "ALLMAN BROS."] AND "SHAKE YOUR MONEY MAKER" ["THE BLACK CROWES" NAMED THEIR DEBUT ALBUM AFTER THAT SONG]) (1963)
ALLEN GINSBERG (HOMOSEXUAL COUNTERCULTURE "BEAT" POET, CONTEMPORARY OF "JACK KEROUAC" AND "WILLIAM BURROUGHS" AND LOVER OF "NEAL CASSADY"...SCHOOLED AT COLUMBIA UNIV. IN N.Y.C....EXPERIMENTED W/POT AND SPEED YEARS BEFORE SOCIETY HAD AWARENESS OF SUCH SUBSTANCES, HE WAS PART OF THE INSPIRATION FOR "KEROUAC'S" LEGENDARY 'ON THE ROAD'..HE CREATED THE POEM "HOWL", A COUNTERCULTURE CLASSIC...HE HELPED TIMOTHY LEARY SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT LSD, HE PARTICIPATED IN HISTORIC ROCK EVENTS LIKE THE "1ST HUMAN BE-IN", IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 1/67 AND THE "KOOL AID ACID TESTS" CONDUCTED BY "KEN KESEY" IN '66 AND '67...IN THE '80S HE APPEARED ON "THE CLASH'S" "COMBAT ROCK" ALBUM...) (1997)
HANK BALLARD (OF "THE MIDNIGHTERS", HE WROTE "THE TWIST" IN 1958, MADE INTO A HUGE HIT BY "CHUBBY CHECKER", ALSO "FINGER POPPIN TIME" AND "LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO" (2003)
LEO FENDER (CREATOR OF THE LEGENDARY "TELECASTER"[1951] AND "STRATOCASTER" [1954] ELECTRIC, SOLID BODY, MASS PRODUCED GUITARS) (1991)
O'KELLY ISLEY (ONE OF THE "ISLEY BROS."/"TWIST & SHOUT", "SHOUT", "ITS YOUR THING") (1986)
WILL "DUB" JONES (ONE OF THE ORIGINAL "COASTERS"/"YAKKITY YAK", "CHARLIE BROWN", "POISON IVY") (2000)
BILLY GUY (ONE OF THE ORIGINAL "COASTERS"/"YAKKITY YAK", "CHARLIE BROWN", "ITS YOUR THING") (2000)
GUY LOMBARDO (BIG BAND KINGPIN, KNOWN AS "MR. AULD LANG SYNE" AS A RESULT OF HIS NEW YEAR'S EVE RADIO SHOW WHICH RAN FROM 1929-1976, HE WAS ALSO A CHAMPION SPEEDBOAT RACER!) (1977)
STERLING MORRISON ("VELVET UNDERGROUND" GTRST./"SWEET JANE", "HEROIN") (1995)
"MISSISSIPPI" FRED MCDOWELL (LEGENDARY BOTTLENECK SLIDE GUITARIST/BLUES MAN, THE "ROLLING STONES" COVERED "YOU GOT TO MOVE" FROM MCDOWELL, HE WAS A HUGE INFLUENCE ON BONNIE RAITT TOO) (1972)
JERRY NOLAN (REPLACEMENT DRUMMER FOR THE "NEW YORK DOLLS", AFTER ORIGINAL DRUMMER "BILLY MURCIA" DIED IN '72..."THE DOLLS" WERE GLAM-PUNK PIONEERS IN THE EARLY '70'S) (1992)
BUDDY RICH (POSSIBLY BEST JAZZ/BIG BAND DRUMMER EVER, PLAYED W/ "TOMMY DORSEY", "DIZZY GILLESPIE" AND "LOUIS ARMSTRONG" DURING '40'S AND '50'S AND '60'S, SEEN FREQUENTLY ON THE "TONITE SHOW" W/"JOHNNY CARSON") (1987)
GENE KRUPA (LEGENDARY JAZZ/BIG BAND DRUMMER DURING '30'S, '40'S AND '50'S, A CONTEMPORARY OF "BUDDY RICH'S", KRUPA WAS THE 1ST DRUMMER TO "SOLO" DURING PERFORMANCES, HE HELPED TO DEVELOP TUNE-ABLE TOM-TOMS [FOR SLINGERLAND DRUMS] AND ALSO THE "HI-HAT" [FOR ZILDJIAN CYMBALS], PLAYED W/"BENNY GOODMAN" AND "TOMMY DORSEY") (1973)
AL HIRT (LEGENDARY NEW ORLEANS TRUMPET GUY, HEADLINED 1ST HALFTIME SUPER BOWL SHOW EVER IN 1967, PLAYED WITH "TOMMY DORSEY" AND "BENNY GOODMAN") (1999)
WOODY HERMAN (BIG BAND KINGPIN DURING THE '40'S & 50'S, WITH HIS "HERD", HE PLAYED CLARINET & SAXOPHONE TOO) (1987)
THE DORSEY BROTHERS (TOMMY AND JIMMY, BOTH WERE BIG BAND KINGPINS DURING '30'S '40'S AND '50'S, MOSTLY TOMMY, THE YOUNGER OF THE 2, THE "DORSEY BROS. ORCHESTRA", WITH BOTH OF THEM, FEATURED ARTISTS LIKE "GLENN MILLER" AND "FRANK SINATRA"...TOMMY'S ORCHESTRA WAS MORE WELL KNOWN) (TOMMY-1956 JIMMY-1957)
PAUL ATKINSON (ORIGINAL GRTST. FOR "THE ZOMBIES", BRITISH POP BAND FROM MID '60'S/"SHE'S NOT THERE",[THE SCAT-LIKE KEYBOARD SOLO IN THAT SONG WAS THE INSPIRATION FOR "ROGER MCGUINN'S" SCAT-LIKE GUITAR WORK ON "THE BYRDS" 'EIGHT MILES HIGH" IN '66] "TIME OF THE SEASON" AND "TELL HER NO"...AFTER THEY BROKE UP IN '67, ATKINSON WENT TO BE A RECORD LABEL EXEC, DISCOVERING AND SIGNING, AMONG OTHERS, "BRUCE HORNSBY"/"THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT IS") (2004)
ARTHUR "BIG BOY" CRUDUP (LEGENDARY BLUES SINGER AND SONG WRITER FROM '20'S, '30'S, '40'S THRU THE EARLY '70'S, TOURED WITH BLUES GREATS "SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON [RICE MILLER]" AND "ELMORE JAMES", HE WROTE FOR "ELVIS" 'THAT'S ALL RIGHT MAMA" AND 'MEAN OLD FRISCO BLUES' COVERED BY "ERIC CLAPTON") (1974)
STEVE GOODMAN (FAMED SONGWRITER/"CITY OF NEW ORLEANS", A HUGE HIT FOR "ARLO GUTHRIE", BUT MANY OF HIS OTHER LESSER KNOWN SONGS HAVE BEEN COVERED BY A MULTITUDE OF MAJOR ARTISTS) (1984)
IVORY JOE HUNTER (R&B KEYBRDST./SINGER/SONGWRITER FROM TEXAS DURING '20'S THUR 'EARLY '70'S, HE PERFORMED "BLUES AT SUNRISE" COVERED BY "STEVIE RAY VAUGHN", HE HAD A BIG HIT WITH HIS SONG "I ALMOST LOST MY MIND" IN THE MID-50'S, THEN HE CROSSED OVER TO THE COUNTRY CHARTS AND WAS SUCCESSFUL THERE..HE ALSO WROTE SONGS FOR "ELVIS") (1974)
NIKI SULLIVAN (ORIGINAL RHYTHM GTRST. FOR THE LEGENDARY "CRICKETS", "BUDDY HOLLY'S" BAND...SULLIVAN PLAYED ON "THAT'LL BE THE DAY", "MAYBE BABY" AND "NOT FADE AWAY", BUT HE QUIT THE BAND BEFORE THE FATAL PLANE CRASH IN '59!...HE QUIT IN '57) (2004)
MICHAEL THOMAS TUCKER (ORIGINAL DRUMMER FOR "SWEET"/"BALLROOM BLITZ", "FOX ON THE RUN", "LOVE IS LIKE OXYGEN") (2002)
GEORGE GERSHWIN (LEGENDARY "TIN PAN ALLEY", BROADWAY AND HOLLYWOOD SONGWRITER/COMPOSER/"RHAPSODY IN BLUE", "PORGY AND BESS", "SUMMERTIME"[COVERED BY "JANIS JOPLIN" AND "BILLY STEWART"] (1937)
COLE PORTER (LEGENDARY BROADWAY SONGWRITER/COMPOSER DURING THE "ROARING '20'S"..."I GET A KICK OUTTA YOU"[COVERED BY "FRANK SINATRA"] "NIGHT AND DAY") (1964)
BENNY GOODMAN (LEGENDARY BIG BAND/JAZZ/SWING CLARINETIST/BAND LEADER) (1986)
RONNIE WHITE (ORIGINAL MEMBER OF "THE MIRACLES WITH SMOKEY ROBINSON"/"2ND THAT EMOTION","GOIN TO A GO-GO", "TEARS OF A CLOWN") (1995)
JELLY ROLL MORTON (LEGENDARY COMPOSER AND PIANO PLAYER FROM EARLY 1900'S, THE 1ST GREAT PIANIST IN "HOT JAZZ"...HE WORKED IN NEW ORLEANS [HIS BIRTHPLACE], THE WEST COAST AND NEW YORK...HIS BAND WAS CALLED THE "RED HOT PEPPERS") (1941)
WARREN ZEVON (EDGY L.A. SINGER/SONGWRITER/"WEREWOLVES OF LONDON", "LAWYERS GUNS AND MONEY", "POOR POOR PITIFUL ME"[A HUGE HIT FOR "LINDA RONSTADT"], HE ALSO WROTE SONG FOR "THE TURTLES" BACK IN THE '60'S) (2003)
MARK SANDMAN (LEAD SINGER, GTRST. FOR 3-MAN BOSTON OUTFIT "MORPHINE") (DIED ON STAGE OF A HEART ATTACK) (1999)
MEMPHIS SLIM (REAL NAME: PETER CHATMAN...LEGENDARY BLUES PIANIST, MAYBE THE BEST EVER, WORKED WITH "BIG BILL BROONZY", HE WROTE, AMONG MANY MANY OTHER SONGS,"EVERYDAY I HAVE THE BLUES", A HIT FOR "B.B.KING"...MEMPHIS SLIM SPENT THE LAST 26 YEARS OF HIS LIFE LIVING IN PARIS) (1988)
CHARLES MINGUS (LEGENDARY JAZZ BASSIST, COMPOSER/ARRANGER, PLAYED W/"LOUIS ARMSTRONG'S" BAND IN EARLY '40'S, WORKED INTO THE '70'S, WAS AND IS DEEPLY RESPECTED WORLD WIDE) (1979)
NEIL BOGART (FOUNDER OF LEGENDARY "CASABLANCA" RECORDS, LABEL FROM THE '70'S, 1ST ACT TO BE SIGNED: "KISS", BOGART ALSO SIGNED "DONNA SUMMER", "THE VILLAGE PEOPLE" AND "PARLIMENT"..."CASABLANCA" WAS THE ORIGINAL DISCO RECORD LABEL...BOGART SOLD IT TO POLYGRAM RECORDS IN 1980) (1982)
DARRELL SWEET (DRUMMER FOR "NAZARETH"/"HAIR OF THE DOG", "LOVE HURTS") (1999)
NEAL CASSADY ("BEAT" GENERATION CULT FIGURE; THOUGH HETERO, HE HAD A HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH "ALLEN GINSBERG", WAS A PART OF THE 'ELECTRIC KOOL AID ACID TESTS' WITH "KEN KESEY" AND WAS VERY CLOSE WITH "JACK KEROUAC", LEGENDARY "BEAT" WRITER ['ON THE ROAD', IN FACT, CASSADY'S CHARACTER IN THAT BOOK WAS 'DEQN MORIARITY'], THE "GRATEFUL DEAD" WROTE A SONG FOR NEAL CASSADY: "CASSADY") (1968)
RUDY MAUGERI (BARITONE SINGER FOR WORLD FAMOUS DOO-WOP QUARTET FROM THE '50'S "THE CREW CUTS"/"SH-BOOM", AND OTHER COVERS THEY HAD HITS WITH...THEY WERE ONE OF THE 1ST WHITE GROUPS TO RECORD ROCK AND ROLL VERSIONS OF BLACK R&B SONGS..."PAUL MCCARTNEY" AND "GEORGE HARRISON" AS YOUNG BOYS WERE BOTH FANS OF "THE CREW CUTS") (2004)
ALAN KING (LEGENDARY COMIC/ACTOR, BORSCHT BELT VETERAN, APPEARED ON THE "ED SULLIVAN SHOW" 93 TIMES, OPENED FOR ARTISTS LIKE "LENA HORNE" AND JUDY GARLAND" IN NITECLUBS AND THEATRES AROUND THR WORLD, APPEARED IN HOLLYWOOD MOVIES ('CASINO' W/"ROBT. DENIRO") AND BROADWAY PLAYS, WAS THE HOST OF THE "FRIAR'S CLUB" CELEBRITY ROASTS IN N.Y.C.) (2004)
BOB WILLS (LEGENDARY "KING OF WESTERN SWING", FROM TEXAS, "BOB WILLS & HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS" FROM THE '30'S, '40'S, '50'S AND '60'S.../"SAN ANTONIO ROSE", "FADED LOVE" AND MANY OTHERS) (1975)
BILL MONROE (LEGENDARY "FATHER OF BLUGRASS", "BILL MONROE & THE BLUE GRASS BOYS" FROM THE '30'S, '40'S, '50'S AND '60'S, THE BAND INCLUDED "LESTER FLATT" AND "EARL SCRUGGS", EQUALLY LEGENDARY BLUEGRASS SUPERSTARS/"BLUE MOON OF KENTUCKY", "UNCLE PEN" AND MANY, MANY OTHERS...BILL MONROE INFLUENCED COUNTLESS MUSICIANS, FROM BLUEGRASS TO COUNTRY TO ROCK) (1996)
JOHNNY 'GUITAR' WATSON (LEGENDARY INFLUENTIAL GTRST. SAX MAN, HE PLAYED GTR. W/HIS TEETH AND OVER HIS HEAD BEFORE "JIMI HENDRIX" DID, HE WAS THE FUNKSTER INSPIRATION FOR "SLY STONE" AND "GEORGE CLINTON", "STEVE MILLER' COVERED WATSON'S "THE GANGSTER OF LOVE"...HE DIED ON STAGE OF A HEART ATTACK IN JAPAN) (1996)
LAWRENCE WELK (SCHMALTZY BUT EXTREMELY SHREWD BUSINESSMAN/ ORCHESTRA LEADER, HOST OF A NATIONALLY BROADCAST TV SHOW FROM THE '50'S TO THE '70'S, ENORMOUSLY POPULAR WITH THE OLDER GENERATION OF AMERICANS, "...AND A ONE, AND A TWO..." HE DIDN'T LEARN TO SPEAK ENGLISH TILL HE WAS 21 THOUGH HE WAS BORN IN NORTH DAKOTA!) (1992)
BRUCE FAIRBAIRN (TOP NOTCH RECORD PRODUCER, HE WORKED WITH "KISS" AND "AC-DC" AND "AEROSMITH" AND "YES" OUT OF VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA...HIS BODY WAS DISCOVERED IN HIS HOME BY "JON ANDERSON" OF "YES", AS FAIRBAIRN WAS PRODUCING A NEW "YES" ALBUM AT THE TIME) (1999)
Heroin
LAYNE STALEY ("ALICE IN CHAINS" SINGER/"MAN IN THE BOX", "ROOSTER", HE O.D.'ED EXACTLY 8 YEARS TO THE DAY AFTER KURT COBAIN KILLED HIMSELF) (2002)
JANIS JOPLIN (LEGENDARY BLUES-ROCK CHICK SINGER FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO SCENE OF THE '60'S [THOUGH SHE WAS BORN IN TEXAS], WITH "BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING CO."/"DOWN ON ME", "PIECE OF MY HEART", "ME AND BOBBY MCGEE" [WRITTEN BY KRIS KRISTOFFERSON]) (1970)
PHIL LYNOTT (BASS AND SINGER FOR "THIN LIZZY"/"JAILBREAK", "THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN") (1986)
DANNY WHITTEN (GTRST. FOR "CRAZY HORSE", NEIL YOUNG'S BAND, DANNY CAN BE HEARD ALL OVER THE ALBUM "EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE", THERE'S A PICTURE OF HIM TOO IN THE LINER NOTES FOR THAT ALBUM/CD) (1972)
JERRY GARCIA (LEGENDARY CO-FOUNDER AND GTRST./SINGER/SONGWRITER FOR THE "GRATEFUL DEAD"/"TRUCKIN", "SUGAR MAGNOLIA", JERRY DIED IN A DE-TOX CENTER OF A HEART ATTACK, DE-TOXING FROM HEROIN) (1995)
KURT COBAIN (MUCH WORSHIPPED AND MISUNDERSTOOD SINGER/SONGWRITER/GTRST. FOR "NIRVANA"/"SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT") (HE'S ON 2 LISTS HERE) (1994)
JOHN BELUSHI (BRILLIANT BUT DRUG CRAZED "SAT. NITE LIVE" ALUM) (SPEEDBALL:COCAINE AND HEROIN) (1982)
LENNY BRUCE (CUTTING EDGE COMEDIAN, THE 1ST GUY TO INCORPORATE PROFANITY INTO HIS ACT BACK IN THE LATE '50'S AND EARLY '60'S/FUNERAL PAID FOR BY PHIL SPECTOR) (1966)
RICK DANKO (BASS PLAYER AND SINGER FOR "THE BAND"/"THE WEIGHT", "THE NITE THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN") (1999)
DEE DEE RAMONE (BASSIST FOR "THE RAMONES") (2002)
TOMMY BOLIN ("DEEP PURPLE" GTRST. AFTER "RITCHIE BLACKMORE" LEFT IN MID-70'S) (1976)
HOWIE EPSTEIN ("TOM PETTY/HEARTBREAKERS" BASSIST) (2003)
FRANKIE LYMON (OF "THE TEENAGERS") ('50'S SINGER/ TEEN IDOL,/"WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE") (1968 )
IC GRECH (BASS PLAYER FOR "BLIND FAITH" AND ANOTHER BRITISH BAND "FAMILY" AND "TRAFFIC" TOO....HE ALSO DID SOME PRODUCTION WORK FOR "GRAM PARSONS"/"CAN'T FIND MY WAY HOME", "PRESENCE OF THE LORD") (1990)
HILLIEL SLOVAK (ORIGINAL "RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS" GTRST. BEFORE THE BAND BECAME POPULAR) (1988)
SID VICIOUS (REAL NAME: JOHN SIMON RITCHIE...BASSIST FOR THE "SEX PISTOLS") (1979)
ROBBY MACINTOSH (DRUMMER FOR "AVERAGE WHITE BAND"/"PICK UP THE PIECES") (1974)
PETE FARNDON (1983) AND JAMES HONEYMAN-SCOTT (1982) (BOTH GTRSTS. FOR "THE PRETENDERS"/"MIDDLE OF THE ROAD", "BRASS IN POCKET")
BRIAN COLE (SINGER/BASS PLAYER FOR "THE ASSOCIATION"/ "ALONG COMES MARY", "WINDY", "CHERISH") (1972)
BENNY BENJAMIN (LEGENDARY MOTOWN DRUMMER/"THE FUNK BROTHERS", THE SESSION MUSICIANS WHO PLAYED ON ALL THE MOTOWN HITS) (1968)
PAUL KOSOFF (GTRST. FOR "FREE" W/PAUL RODGERS/"ALLRIGHT NOW") (1976)
ANDREW WOOD (SINGER FOR "MOTHER LOVE BONE", SEATTLE GRUNGE PIONEERS BEFORE "PEARL JAM" AND "NIRVANA") (1990)
MIKE BLOOMFIELD (BLUES GTRST., SESSION GUY W/"BOB DYLAN" ON 'HIGHWAY 61 REVISTED', ALSO WAS IN THE BAND THAT BACKED UP "DYLAN" THE 1ST TIME HE WENT "ELECTRIC" IN 1965 AT THE 'NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL', RHODE ISLAND/MEMBER OF '60'S ROCKERS "PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND" AND "ELECTRIC FLAG", A PART OF THE "SUPER SESSIONS" ALBUM W/"AL KOOPER" BACK IN '68) (1981)
TIM BUCKLEY ('60'S FOLK ROCK/PROTEST SINGER) (1975)
AL "BLIND OWL" WILSON (SINGER FOR "CANNED HEAT"/ "GOIN UP THE COUNTRY", "ON THE ROAD AGAIN") (1970)
BILLY HOLIDAY (LEGENDARY JAZZ SINGER, WORKED W/"COUNT BASIE", "BENNY GOODMAN", DURING '30'S, '40'S, '50'S, WAS ARRESTED ON HER DEATH BED FOR HEROIN POSSESSION) (1959)
JIMMY MCCULLOUGH ("WINGS" GTRST.{THERE WERE A FEW OF THEM, HE WAS ONE OF 'EM}, ALSO "THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN" GTRST.) ("THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN" HAD THE HIT "SOMETHING IN THE AIR" IN THE EARLY '70'S)) (1979)
BRAD NOWELL (SINGER FOR "SUBLIME") (1996)
GARY THAIN (BASS PLAYER FOR"URIAH HEEP"/"SWEET LORRAINE","EASY LIVIN","STEALIN") (1975)
JOHNNY THUNDERS (CO-FOUNDER/GTRST./FRONT MAN FOR THE "NEW YORK DOLLS", GLAM-PUNK PIONEERS IN EARLY '70'S) (1991)
VINNIE TAYLOR (GTRST. FOR "SHA-NA-NA", GOOFY BUT SLICK '50'S TRIBUTE BAND FROM LATE '60'S...THEY PLAYED THE ORIGINAL "WOODSTOCK" FESTIVAL IN '69) (1974)
TIM HARDIN (LEGENDARY BUT TROUBLED GREENWICH VILLAGE FOLK SINGER WHO WROTE 2 SMASH HITS, THAT OTHERS HAD HITS WITH, NOT HIM! "IF I WERE A CARPENTER", "BOBBY DARIN" COVERED THAT IN '67 AND "REASON TO BELIEVE", "ROD STEWART" COVERED THAT IN '71) (1980)
Tobacco
"THE RAT PACK"-(FRANK SINATRA, (1998), SAMMY DAVIS JR.(1990) AND DEAN MARTIN) (1995) (ALL OF 'EM DIED FROM SMOKING RELATED DISEASES)
GEORGE HARRISON ("BEATLES" LEAD GTRST./SINGER/SONGWRITER) (2001)
CARL WILSON ("BEACH BOYS" BASSIST/SINGER, "GOD ONLY KNOWS") (1998)
NAT KING COLE (LEGENDARY CROONER FROM "50'S AND '60'S/"UNFORGETTABLE", "RAMBLIN ROSE") (1965)
MICHAEL CLARKE (ORIGINAL DRUMMER FOR "THE BYRDS") (1993)
LEON WILKERSON (ORIGINAL BASS PLAYER. FOR "LYNYRD SKYNYRD") (2002)
JOHN CIPPOLINA ("QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE" GTRST./"FRESH AIR") (1989
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 8:09AM There once were two Irishmen, named Shawn and Pat, who were the best of friends. During one particular night of revelry, the two agreed that when one passed on, the other would take and spill the contents of a bottle of fine, Irish whiskey over the grave of the fondly missed and recently dead friend.
And as fate would have it, Shawn would be the first to pass.
Pat, hearing of his friend's illness, came to visit his dear friend one last time.
"Shawn," said Pat, "can you hear me?"
Faintly, Shawn replied, "Yes, Paddy, I can."
Bashfully, Pat started, "Do you remember our pact, Shawn?"
"Yes, I do Patty," Shawn strained.
"And, you'll also remember that I was to pour the contents of a fine, old bottle of whiskey over your grave, which we have been saving for, going on 30 years now?" said Pat.
"Yes Patty, I do," whispered Shawn.
''It's a very ?old' bottle now, you know," urged Pat.
"And what are you gettin' at Pat?" asked Shawn, briskly.
"Well Shawn, when I pour the whiskey over your grave, would ya mind if I filter it through my kidneys first?"
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 7:14AM Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Dr. David M. Burns
Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 11:16AM Looking For Something To Do Today? Here are a few things you can do this Sunday, tickets are still available for all the following events.
Sunday
10/25/09
3:00 PM
Hello Dolly
Lexington Opera House
Sunday
10/25/09
3:00 PM
Louisville Cardinals Mens Basketball
Freedom Hall
Sunday
10/25/09
1:00 PM
Sesame Street Live : When Elmo Grows Up
Rupp Arena
Sunday
10/25/09
4:30 PM
Sesame Street Live : When Elmo Grows Up
Rupp Arena
Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 10:44AM 2009 - 2010 University of Kentucky Wildcats Men's Basketball Schedule
2009-10 Kentucky Wildcats Men's Basketball Tickets Onsale Dates and Times
Kentucky Basketball 2009-10 Schedule and Roster with player's numbers
Single-game tickets for UK's 17 exciting home games, including eight against Southeastern Conference opponents, go on sale Monday, Oct. 26. Single-game general admission and reserved tickets are available at a cost of $5 for adults and $2 for seniors and children ages 6-18. Age five and under are admitted free. Season tickets also are available at a cost of just $45.
Reserved - Chair back (Sections A-J and AA-JJ) and lower level bleachers (Sections R-Z)
* Reserved Seats: $5 (Adults and Youth)
General Admission - Upper level bleachers (Sections RR-ZZ)
* Adults: $5
* Youth (18-6 years old): $2
* Senior Citizens: $2
After a free exhibition game vs. Bellarmine on Nov. 9, the Wildcats open the 2009-10 schedule with back-to-back home games, playing host to first-time opponent Boston University on Friday, Nov. 13 at 11 a.m. ET, and Butler on Sunday, Nov. 15 at 1 p.m. ET. Other highlights of the home slate include a matchup against intrastate rival Louisville on Dec. 20 for the "Pack the House" game at 1 p.m. ET and a Jan. 24 contest vs. Auburn on National Women in Sports and Alumni Day at 2 p.m. ET. The WBCA Pink Zone game is Feb. 18 at 7 p.m. ET vs. Florida and Senior Day will be held Feb. 21 at 2 p.m. ET vs. South Carolina.
Buy Tickets to all homes games here
2009-2010 SCHEDULE for Kentucky Wildcats Women's Basketball
Date Opponent / Event Location Time / Result
10/16/09 Big Blue Madness # TV Lexington, Ky. NTS
11/09/09 Blue & White Scrimmage # Lexington, Ky. TBA
11/13/09 vs. Boston University Lexington, Ky. 11:00 a.m. ET
11/15/09 vs. Butler TV Lexington, Ky. 1:00 p.m. ET
11/17/09 at Morehead State Morehead, Ky. 7:00 p.m. ET
11/22/09 vs. UT Chattanooga Lexington, Ky. 6:00 p.m. ET
11/25/09 at UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, Calif. 3:00 p.m. ET
11/28/09 vs. McNeese State Lexington, Ky. TBA
12/01/09 vs. Miami (OH) Lexington, Ky. 7:00 p.m. ET
12/04/09 at Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio 11:00 a.m. ET
12/13/09 vs. Florida A&M TV Lexington, Ky. 1:00 p.m. ET
12/20/09 vs. Louisville TV Lexington, Ky. 1:00 p.m. ET
12/22/09 vs. UT Martin Lexington, Ky. 7:00 p.m. ET
12/28/09 at Middle Tennessee State Murfreesboro, Tenn. 8:00 p.m. ET
01/01/10 vs. Mississippi Valley State Lexington, Ky. 7:00 p.m. ET
01/07/10 at Georgia * Athens, Ga. 7:00 p.m. ET
01/10/10 vs. Vanderbilt * TV Lexington, Ky. 1:00 p.m. ET
01/14/10 at South Carolina * Columbia, S.C. 7:00 p.m. ET
01/17/10 vs. Alabama * TV Lexington, Ky. 2:00 p.m. AT
01/21/10 vs. Arkansas * Lexington, Ky. 7:00 p.m. ET
01/24/10 vs. Auburn * TV Lexington, Ky. 2:00 p.m. ET
01/28/10 at LSU * Baton Rouge, La. 8:00 p.m. ET
01/31/10 at Mississippi State * Starkville, Miss. 3:00 p.m. ET
02/04/10 vs. Ole Miss * TV Lexington, Ky. 7:00 p.m. ET
02/07/10 at Arkansas * Fayetteville, Ark. 3:00 p.m. ET
02/11/10 vs. Georgia * TV Lexington, Ky. 7:00 p.m. ET
02/14/10 at Vanderbilt * TV Nashville, Tenn. 6:00 p.m. ET
02/18/10 vs. Florida * Lexington, Ky. 7:00 p.m. ET
02/21/10 vs. South Carolina * Lexington, Ky. 2:00 p.m. ET
02/25/10 at Tennessee * TV Knoxville, Tenn. 7:00 p.m. ET
02/28/10 at Auburn * Auburn, Ala. 3:00 p.m. ET
SEC Tournament
03/04/10 SEC Tournament Duluth, Ga. TBA
03/05/10 SEC Tournament Duluth, Ga. TBA
03/06/10 SEC Tournament Duluth, Ga. TBA
03/07/10 SEC Tournament Duluth, Ga. TBA
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