The Current Music Blog: November 9, 2009 Archive

Today In Music History: See Ya, Dave

Posted at 6:08 AM on November 9, 2009 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History

Birthdays:

Rapper Pepa of Salt-N-Pepa is 40.

Lots of Beatles stuff today:

1953 - Brian Epstein first saw The Beatles perform at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. He soon became the band's manager.
1966 - Paul McCartney supposedly was killed in a car crash, according to the "Paul is Dead" hoax that circulated in 1969.
1967 - Rolling Stone magazine began publication, with John Lennon on the first cover.

And a non-Beatles item: Today in 1967, Roger McGuinn expelled David Crosby from The Byrds. McGuinn and Chris Hillman had become aggrivated by what they saw as Crosby's growing egotism and his attempts to control the band, not to mention his drug use and lengthy tirades onstage at such gigs as the Monterey Pop Festival (where he droned on about everything from the JFK assassination to the benefits of giving LSD to "every man, woman and child" in the country). Finally, his insistence that his song "Triad" (about the joys of a menage a trois) be included on an album proved too much for the others. "Eight Miles High" felt like an appropriate choice today given the widespread suspicion that it was a drug song ( it's not - McGuinn wrote it about a plane ride).