Today in music history 9-29

[johnnie]

1935 - Happy Birthday to Jerry Lee Lewis. 13 years later, to the day, Jerry Lee marries 3 month old Tammy Sue Johnson. Tammy Sue files for divorce the following week stating "irreconcilable differences" and is rewarded Jerry Lee's beer can collection, cap pistol and two shiny new nickels in the divorce settlement.




Happy birthday also to Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad (1948). Farner also goes by the name "that shitty guitar playin' dude with no shirt".





2003 - City officials in St. Petersburg, Fla., pass a law banning public suicides after rock band Hell on Earth reveal a fan will kill himself during a concert to be Webcast in October. So far the ban has been successful, there has not been one arrest.






1967 - Drummer Mickey Hart joins the Grateful Dead. 1968 - Jerry Garcia asks, "Is that a new drummer man?"






19600 - Chubby Checker performs "The Twist" on "American Bandstand." Chubby will follow up the song with "Let's Twist Again", "Slow Twistin'", "Twist It Up", "Let's Twist Again Again", "Slow Twistin' Fast", "Slow Twistin' Faster", "Twist a fat one", "Let's play Twister", "Did you see the movie "Twister?" and "Limbo Rock".






1977 - James Brown's band, complaining that the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business has been underpaying them, walk out on him in Hallendale, Florida. Brown releases this statement "Free-basing ain't cheap dammit!".




1986 - A line of Michael Jackson children's clothes is launched at the Palladium nightclub in New York. Do I really need to go there?




1976 - Boy George expelled from school. School superintendent comments "George was warned three times that stiletto heals are strictly forbidden during school hours".





2005 - Kanye West's "Gold Digger" tops the U.S. singles chart for a fourth week. Kanye exclaims "I fucking rich bitch!"





2004 - U2's singer Bono addresses the Labour Party Conference in Brighton, England. He tells the delegates to "get real" about AIDS and world poverty. Bono then takes his limousine to his private jet, flies to Paris in time for dinner of Beluga caviar, moose tar tar and washes it down with a few bottles of Krug Clos du Mesnil.






And a happy birthday (1968) to twin brothers Luke & Matt Goss of the band Bros. This beckons the question "Who the hell is that" and also gives us all twice as much reason not to give a shit.




And finally, in 1963 - The Rolling Stones start their 1st tour opening for Bo Diddley and Everly Bros. This is said to be the last tour Keith will ever remember.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear johnnie!

What an eclectic mix!

I'm finding these very enjoyable to read, and I look forward to your daily contribution!

Did you really mean to say three month old? In the one about Jerry Lee Lewis?

Seems odd to me, to say the least!

Thanks for doing this! :hug:

[johnnie]

2. Yeah, 3 month old..lol

Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13 year old cousin at one time and pretty much ruined his career for a while. I was just doing a take off on that.

[wildhorses]

3. ...........

:yourock:

[asthmaticeog]

4. Kicking the funny.

:kick:

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. This has quickly become one of my faves

Funny stuff, dØØd! :rofl: :yourock:




However... I think Farner's nick should be "That really shitty guitar-playin' dude. I mean, he lost a shit-off against Gary Richrath!"

[johnnie]

6. LOL...Gary Richrath

That dude's face makes me laugh.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. I know

He looks like Alfred E. Newman with longish hair.

:rofl:

[driver8]

8. I have a Gary Richrath story.

I used to work with a guy named Gary Usher, Jr. His father was Gary Usher, who was a pretty big music producer in his day.
Gary Jr. played in a band and used to play around Los Angeles...he was (is) a guitar player. So one night he is playing at the Troubadour and he has this beautiful Les Paul that he has had for years. He thought it was his father's and, when his father died, Gary claimed it.

Gary finishes his set and is packing up his gear and this guy comes up and starts talking to him. The guy says to him, "Where did you get that Les Paul? That's my guitar...and I want it back." Gary looked up and new immediately who he was talking to -- it was Gary Richrath.

Apparently, during his druggie days, Richrath was doing some work in Gary Usher Sr.'s home studio. He was so coked out that he forgot his guitar, and then could not remember where he had left it. When he saw Gary Jr. playing it (I guess he recognized him), he suddenly remembered where he had left the guitar years ago.

Gary Usher Jr. told me that he thought Richrath would sell the guitar for drugs, but there was nothing he could do. It was Richrath's guitar.

[johnnie]

9. He should have offered to buy him a gram

That's one good thing I liked about the druggies I knew, I always got cheap shit from them..LOL

[johnnie]

10. Night kick

[Callalily]

11. Very entertaining thread! n/t

[idgiehkt]

12. lol johnnie

where did you get that pic of michael jackson...

[johnnie]

13. Lol

I just found it out there searching for a pic. I laughed my ass off.