The Current Music Blog: October 15, 2009 Archive

Today in Music History: My Name is Not Bryan!

Posted at 8:01 AM on October 15, 2009 by Jill Riley
Filed under: Music History

Birthdays:
Tito Jackson (The Jackson 5) is 56
Richard Carpenter (the Carpenters) is 63
Don Stevenson (Moby Grape) is 67
Barry McGuire is 74

On this day in 1955, "Grand Ole Opry" made its TV debut on ABC.
In 1971, Rick Nelson was booed when he performed new material at an oldies show in New York. It inspired him to write the song "Garden Party."
In 1976, Ike and Tina Turner split up as a musical act.
In 1977, Fleetwood Mac released "Rumours," one of the best-selling albums of all time.
In 1987, Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia opened a sold-out two-week run of solo shows on Broadway.
In 1996, drummer Tommy Lee of Motley Crue was charged with attacking a tabloid TV cameraman. The photographer was trying to take pictures of Lee and his wife, actress Pamela Anderson Lee, outside a nightclub in suburban Los Angeles.

It was on this day in 2002, musician Ryan Adams jumped into the audience at a show in Nashville to find a fan who had yelled out a request for "Summer of '69," a Bryan Adams song. Adams gave the fan $30 as a refund and refused to continue the show until the man left. I have a nagging feeling that joke was unfunny the first 500 times Ryan heard it. This morning, we played a tune from his 2002 release Demolition called, "Starting to Hurt."