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Happy Birthday to Vini “Mad dog” Lopez – Born on January 22, 1949

https://youtu.be/nqRS-nkSdYc played on Springsteen’s first two albums, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle. Lopez started out in a drum & bugle corps. as a bugel player until the 8th grade. He attended a show at the U.S.O. club in Asbury Park NJ. Walking up to the club, he heard some great music coming from inside. He turned to his friend and said, “there’s a good band in here tonight.” His friend told…

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Happy Birthday to Tracii Guns – Born January 20, 1966

https://youtu.be/JDKq5ez9eSM In this exclusive interview with Rock Scene, Tracii Guns looks back on his early experiences with music. He remembers being a young boy and sitting in the back of his mother’s boyfriend’s car in 1971 and hearing Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” for the first time. “It was overwhelming audio fear,” he recalls. “I remember thinking, I have to recreate that noise right now!” On the way to the airport, they stopped by a newsstand. Tracii saw Jimmy Page,…

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Happy Birthday to Zakk Wylde – Born on January 14, 1967

https://youtu.be/bki7VAKet4U https://youtu.be/St2ku1I3kQE  Zakk Wylde and Mark “WEISSGUY” Weiss perform “Born To Be Zakk Wylde” at Mark’s 60th birthday party in Rumson, New Jersey. Three decades ago Zakk was playing in a small club in New Jersey when Dave Feld aka “Face” approached the guitar player after the first set was over. Dave told Zakk that he was with Ozzy and Sharon the night before looking at a guitar player with his good friend Mark Weiss who was Ozzy’s photographer. Face continues…

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Happy Birthday to Mike Tramp – Born on January 14, 1961

https://youtu.be/NN2Z9QDp31k Mike Tramp grew up in Denmark in a musical house—he recalls being a young boy and wrestling with his two brothers over who would get to play their mom's acoustic guitar. He got his foot in the door in the music industry at the age of 14 when he began working for a man who published teen music magazines in the basement of the apartment building where he lived. The next year, 1976, Tramp went to his first concert—the…

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