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ROCK BIRTHDAYS:
Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Rick Allen (Def Leppard), Bobby Dall (Poison), Nick Simper (Deep Purple), Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson), Tom Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revivial), Dennis Stratton (Iron Maiden) and others...
ROCK BIRTHDAYS
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| November 1, 1962 | Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers) |
| November 1, 1963 | Rick Allen (Def Leppard) |
| November 2, 1963 | Bobby Dall (Poison) |
| November 3, 1946 | Nick Simper (Deep Purple) |
| November 5, 1942 | Paul Simon |
| November 7, 1943 | Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson) |
| November 9, 1941 | Tom Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revivial) |
| November 9, 1954 | Dennis Stratton (Iron Maiden) |
| November 10, 1947 | Greg Lake (King Crimson/Emerson, Lake & Palmer) |
| November 12, 1945 | Neil Young |
| November 12, 1947 | Buck Dharma (Donald Roeser) (Blue Oyster Cult) |
| November 12, 1964 | Dave Ellefson (Megadeth) |
| November 14, 1949 | James Young (Styx) |
| November 18, 1962 | Kirk Hammett (Metallica) |
| November 19, 1944 | Fred Lipsius (Blood, Sweat & Tears) |
| November 19, 1960 | Matt Sorum (The Cult) |
| November 26, 1945 | John McVie (Fleetwood Mac) |
| November 27, 1962 | Charlie Benante (Anthrax) |
| November 29, 1951 | Barry Goudreau (Boston) |
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| December 1, 1944 | John Densmore (Doors) |
| December 1, 1944 | Eric Bloom (Blue Oyster Cult) |
| December 2, 1941 | Tom McGuinness (Manfred Mann) |
| December 2, 1952 | Michael McDonald (Doobie Brothers) |
| December 2, 1960 | Rick Savage (Def Leppard) |
| December 3, 1948 | Ozzy Osbourne (John Michael Osbourne) (Black Sabbath) |
| December 4, 1951 | Gary Rossington (Lynyrd Skynyrd) |
| December 8, 1942 | Bobby Elliott (Hollies) |
| December 8, 1943 | Jim Morrison (Doors) |
| December 8, 1947 | Gregg Allman (Allman Brothers) |
| December 8, 1956 | Warren Cuccurullo (Duran Duran) |
| December 8, 1957 | Phil Collen (Def Leppard) |
| December 8, 1962 | Marty Friedman (Megadeath) |
| December 11, 1958 | Nikki Sixx (Motley Crue) |
| December 13, 1948 | Ted Nugent |
| December 16, 1949 | Billy Gibbons (Z.Z. Top) |
| December 17, 1949 | Paul Rodgers (Free/Bad Company/The Firm) |
| December 18, 1943 | Keith Richards (Rolling Stones) |
| December 20, 1944 | Bobby Colomby (Blood, Sweat & Tears) |
| December 20, 1947 | Peter Criss (Peter Crisscoula) (Kiss) |
| December 21, 1940 | Frank Zappa |
| December 23, 1958 | Dave Murray (Iron Maiden) |
| December 23, 1964 | Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) |
| December 25, 1945 | Noel Redding (Jimi Hendrix Experience) |
| December 26, 1963 | Lars Ulrich (Metallica) |
| December 27, 1952 | David Knopfler (Dire Straits) |
| December 31, 1942 | Andy Summers (Police) |
| December 31, 1947 | Burton Cummings (The Guess Who) |
| December 31, 1951 | Tom Hamilton (Aerosmith) |
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K_ROCK FACTS
When “Stairway To Heaven” is played backwards, you can hear the phrase “oh here’s to my sweet satan..the one whose little path would make me sad, whose power is satan..he’ll give you give you 666 there was a little toolshed where he would make us suffer, sad in the part of if there’s a bustle...”
James Hetfield got the idea for “Nothing Else Matters” one day when he was talking on the phone and with his free hand strummed the strings in a particular order. He hung up and immediately started working on the song.
Slash’s real name is Saul Hudson (it is a good thing he changed his name...I’m not so sure he would’ve been able to inspire a whole generation of guitarists with a name like Saul).
“London Calling” was part of a catch phrase (“Good morning America, this is the London Calling!”) of a BBC show during World War II, of which the The Clash’s guitarists Joe Strummer was a fan.
One night at a gig, when The Who had just begun, Pete Townshend was experimenting with the feedback he got when he put his guitar near his amp. He accidentally hit the ceiling with the guitar, which caused an awesome sound that was cheered by the (small) audience. Pete tried to repeat that sound with such bad (or good) luck that he broke the guitar’s neck. “No one cheered. In fact there was a terrible silence, a ‘this-guy-is-an-asshole’ silence, so I finished breaking the guitar acting as if that had been my true intention”. On The Who’s next performance, there were twice as many people.
The Van Halen brothers were born in the Netherlands and trained as concert pianists. The name of the band was originally Mammoth.
Jimi Hendrix was the last act at Woodstock, but do you know who played right before him? Sha Na Na. (Now that’s something for you to show off with your hippie friends...or parents).
The Young brothers’ sister was the one who recommended the school uniform to Angus for their first gig (Angus’s age was publicized as being 15 to go with the school boy outfit).
Zepp’s “Black Dog” was named this because when they were recording the song, a huge black dog entered the studio, which was located in a rather rural setting.
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