In The Rock 5/29/1990: ‘Pod’, the debut LP from The Breeders is released in the UK. Kim Deal, Tanya Donnelly, Josephine Wiggs and drummer Shannon Doughton, aka Mike Hunt, aka Britt Walford, recorded this alt rock masterpiece in Edinburgh, Scotland with Steve Albini behind the boards. Highly anticipated, it peaks at #22 on the charts in England. #TheBreeders #RockHonorRoll
Happy birthday to Per "Howlin' Pelle" Almqvist co-founder and long-running vocalist and frontman of The Hives, "The best live band in the world"! Born in the Rock 5/29/1978. #TheHives)
Happy birthday to Noel Gallagher singer, songwriter and guitarist best known as co-founder of Oasis, and for his band Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. Gallagher’s one of the most successful and influential songwriters in British music history. Born In The Rock 5/29/1967. #Oasis
In The Rock 5/30/1965: The Rolling Stones play the final night of a US tour at the New York Academy of Music. During the afternoon the band records six songs for the Clay Cole TV show. #RollingStones #ClayCole
Happy birthday Tom Morello, founding guitarist of Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave, Prophets of Rage, solo artist as the Nightwatchman, touring guitarist with The E Street Band, XM Radio host along with his wonderful mom, activist for social justice and all around rock dude extraordinaire, born in the rock 5/30/1964. #TomMorello #RATM #RockHonorRoll
In The Rock 5/30/1992: The Black Crowes debut at number one on the Album Chart with ‘The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion’. #BlackCrowes #RockHonorRoll
Born in the rock 5/30/1945: The late, great Gladys Horton, founder and lead singer of Motown’s The Marvelettes, with hits including “Please Mr. Postman”, “Playboy”, “Beechwood 4-5789” and “Too Many Fish in the Sea”. #Marvelettes #RockHonorRoll #GreatWomenOfRock
In The Rock 5/30/1971: 36 people are hospitalized during a Grateful Dead concert at the Winterland Auditorium in San Francisco, CA after drinking apple cider spiked with LSD. #GratefulDead
Bummerversary 5/30/2003: Mickie Most, super groovy producer of artists such as the Animals, Herman’s Hermits, the Nashville Teens, Donovan, Lulu, Suzi Quatro, Hot Chocolate and the Jeff Beck Group, heads for the big control room in the sky. #MickieMost #RockHonorRoll
Bummerversary 5/31/2019: Roky Erickson, singer, songwriter, guitarist and bandleader, catches that elevator way past the 13th floor, all the way to that big band in the sky.
In The Rock 5/31/1993: Alan McGee, exec with Creation Records, misses a train in Glasgow. With some time to spare, he pops into King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, and sees a set from Oasis, a group of lads from Manchester. They amaze him, and soon, Creation is their new home. #Oasis #rockhonorroll