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Today In Music History: The First Supergroup?

Posted at 6:06 AM on February 8, 2012 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History

Birthdays:

Singer Vince Neil of Motley Crue is 51.

Today in:

1960 - The House of Representatives' Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight began its investigation into disc jockey payola. Deejays from Boston and Cleveland were called to testify.
1964 - Max Firetag, who had published "Louie, Louie" as recorded by The Kingsmen for Wand Records, refuted Indiana Governor Matthew Welsh's assertion that the song was "pornographic." Firetag offered $1,000 to anyone who could detect anything objectionable in the song's lyrics. No one stepped up.
1971 - The Bob Dylan film "Eat The Document" was shown at the New York Academy of Music. Dylan had wanted the documentary to appear on TV, but it didn't until ten years later.
2006 - Sly and the Family Stone reunited for a performance at the Grammys. Stone had not performed live in 19 years. However, Sly's microphone didn't work.

History Highlight:

Today in 1969, ex-Cream guitarist Eric Clapton and drummer Ginger Baker, and ex-Traffic keyboardist and singer Steve Winwood revealed that they were putting together a new band and auditioning for a bassist. They settled on ex-Family bassist/violinist Rick Grech, and Blind Faith, arguably the first rock supergroup, was born. Off of Blind Faith's one and only release, we played "Can't Find My Way Home."

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