By Marvin Marks on Dec 22, 2008 in Music Trivia | 0 Comments
Maurice & Robin Gibb were born on December 22nd of 1949 in Douglas, Isle of Man. They moved to Brisbane, Australia when they were children. They grew up in Brisbane. These two twin brothers are best known as being two of the three members of the Bee Gees. The third member was their older brother [...]
By Marvin Marks on Dec 21, 2008 in Music Trivia | 1 Comment
Frank Zappa was born on December 21st of 1940 in Baltimore, Maryland. Zappa died on December 4, 1993 at the age of 52. While Zappa was never overwhelmingly commercially successful (his career best showing on the US album charts was 1974′s Apostrophe (‘) which reached #10) he did create, and has maintained since his death, [...]
By Marvin Marks on Dec 20, 2008 in Music Trivia | 0 Comments
Alan Parsons was born on December 20th of 1948 in London, England. Parsons began his career in music as an audio engineer at Abbey Road Studios in 1967 at just 18 years of age. He was involved in recording of The Beatles final album, 1969′s Abbey Road. He he received a Grammy Award nomination for [...]
By Marvin Marks on Dec 20, 2008 in Gear Reviews | 0 Comments
For anyone and everyone that needs some musical equipment I wanted to share the current deal at GuitarCenter.com – You can get 10% off your order by using the discount code “TENOFF” at checkout through December 24th. If you’re not familiar with the Guitar Center store, it’s not just a guitar store. They pretty much [...]
By Marvin Marks on Dec 19, 2008 in Music Trivia | 0 Comments
The Beatles fourth album Beatles For Sale hit #1 on the UK album charts on December 19th of 1964. It stayed at #1 for seven weeks before being knocked off the top spot by The Rolling Stones second album (aptly named Rolling Stones No. 2) but it would return to #1 for two more times [...]
By Marvin Marks on Dec 18, 2008 in Music Trivia | 0 Comments
Keith Richards was born on December 18th of 1943 in England. He is best known as the lead guitarist and co-songwriter (with Mick Jagger) of The Rolling Stones. Richards also occasionally sings lead vocals on Rolling Stones songs; He sang the first verse of “Salt of the Earth” from Beggars Banquet (1968), he sang “You [...]
By Marvin Marks on Dec 17, 2008 in Music Trivia | 0 Comments
Paul Rodgers was born on December 17th of 1949 in England. Rodgers first gained rock n roll fame as a singer & songwriter for the band Free in 1968. In 1970 Free had a huge hit with the song “All Right Now” which Rodgers co-wrote with the band’s bassist Andy Fraser. Rodgers’ next band was [...]
By Marvin Marks on Dec 16, 2008 in Music Trivia | 0 Comments
Ludwig van Beethoven was born on December 16th of 1770. He died on March 26, 1827 at the age of 56. He is one of the most famous figures in the history of music. His nine symphonies, piano sonatas, violin sonatas, and other compositions are among the most well respected pieces in the history of [...]
By Marvin Marks on Dec 15, 2008 in Music Trivia | 0 Comments
Dave Clark was born on December 15th of 1942 in London. He is most well known as the drummer (and leader) of the 1960s British pop band The Dave Clark Five. The lead singer of the band was Mike Smith (who also played keyboards.) The Dave Clark Five are one of the bands most closely [...]
By TheRoboticMushroom on Dec 14, 2008 in Features | 2 Comments
The forum that has been a part of this site for most of it’s existence of is no longer with us (going there will just redirect you to the homepage.) Unfortunately some evil spamming bastards attacked the forum and basically brought down my entire site so I’ve had to delete it to get things running [...]