Happy Birthday to Izzy Stradlin Born on April 8, 1962
https://youtu.be/TKBgbbFaF2U Izzy Stradlin And The Ju Ju Hounds - Shuffle It All
Happy Birthday to Steven Tyler born on March 26, 1948
https://youtu.be/fRUruZn4H_Y Steven Tyler MTV interview (1985) https://youtu.be/dacZjjkUFx8 Aerosmith - Let The Music Do The Talking
Happy Birthday to Elton John Born on March 25, 1947
https://youtu.be/JtL_w62Y2RU Elton John John Lennon Live at Madison Square Gardens in 1974 https://youtu.be/a2MYQr6a4O0 Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - 1973
Happy Birthday to Ric Ocasek Born March 23, 1950
https://youtu.be/KXpJ0bM5zbM The Cars - "Hello Again". The song was released in 1984 as the fourth single from the album Heartbeat City.
Happy Birthday to Eddie Money Born March 21, 1949
https://youtu.be/uCacbNlrqYk Eddie Money performs "Two tickets to Paradise" on the MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (1978)
Happy Birthday to Carl Palmer of ELP -Born March 20, 1950
Carl Palmer started playing drums at the age of 11 years old. He comes from a long line of musicians in his family going all the way back to his great grandmother who was a classical guitar player. While in school, he left school played in numerous orchestras. He could read music very well & found too easy. He desired a path more exciting and was invited to join a rhythm and blues band called the King Bees, which he…
Happy Birthday to JASON FLOM – CEO OF LAVA RECORDS BORN FEBRUARY 17, 1961
Record executive Jason Flom talks about his career in A&R at Atlantic Records in New York in the early 80’s. His first signing was a band from Long Island called Zebra, they played a show with Twisted Sister Jason reflects on seeing Twisted Sister in front of 3000 kids at the Mid Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, NY. After singer Dee Snider riled up the audience, everyone in the audience had Twisted Sister t-shirts on and were chanting “TWISTED FUCKIN’…
Happy Birthday to Rickey Medlocke Born February 17, 1950
Watch this exclusive Rock Scene interview from 2013 with Rickey Medlocke of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Blackfoot talking about how he learned to play many instruments during his childhood. He learned a lot from his grandfather, who was a professional musician. He started playing the banjo when he was three years old, started playing guitar at the age of five, and even learned drums when he was eight. Rickey was involved with Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1971 to 1972, then left right…
Meet Van Halen – July 1978
Van Halen's self titled first record was released on February 10, 1978. Check out the article in the July 1978 issue of Rock Scene magazine https://youtu.be/jXZnB2xJ26s Van Halen "Zero" demos 1976 From Wikipedia: "According to a January 4, 1977, L.A. Times article entitled HOMEGROWN PUNK by Robert Hilburn, Rodney Bingenheimer saw Van Halen at the Gazzarri club in the summer of 1976, so he took Gene Simmons of Kiss to see them. Gene Simmons then produced a Van Halen…
Happy Birthday to Rachel Bolan Born February 9, 1966
https://youtu.be/Pfd5Tx67Gp8 Rachel Bolan sings the Ramones "Pshycho Therapy" from the 1992 Skid Row release "B-Side Ourselves"