Today in rock history September 1st

1953 – The Texas duo of Buddy Holly and Bob Montgomery auditioned for radio station KDAV’s Sunday Party 1955 – Bruce Foxton, bassist with the Jam, is born 1956 – 19 year old Jerry Lee Lewis arrived at Sun Records hoping for an audition, only to find that owner Sam Phillips was on vacation in Florida. 1967 – Boz Scaggs joins the Steve Miller Band on guitar. After recording two albums with the group, Scaggs left in 1968 1972 – David Bowie releases “John, I’m Only Dancing” in the U.K. 1973 – Born on this day, J.D. Fortune, (Jason Bennison) Canadian singer, INXS, winner of the 2005 CBS reality television series Rock Star: INXS. 1979 – U2 release their first record, the U2-3 EP 1979 – INXS makes its performance debut in Sydney, Australia. 1980 – Fleetwood Mac wrap up a nine-month tour at the Hollywood Bowl, with Lindsey Buckingham telling the audience, “This is our last show for a long time.” 1984 – Born on this day, Joseph Mark Trohman, guitarist, Fall Out Boy 1989 – U2 bassist Adam Clayton pleads guilty to a charge of marijuana possession, but an Irish judge lets him off the hook in return for a donation to a Dublin women’s centre. 1998 –David Bowie unveils his online community. 1998 – Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan is charged with assault and battery for allegedly hitting a security guard in the head with a microphone during a concert in August. The guard, Michael Kennedy, was trying to move an unruly fan from near the stage. 2003 – Heavily hyped Australian rockers Jet deny they’ve signed to Elektra for a whopping $3 million. 2004 – Former Libertines frontman Pete Doherty was given a suspended four month jail sentence after admitting possession of a flick knife. 2010 –Chickenfoot is four songs and “seven pieces of new music” into its second album, according to frontman Sammy Hagar.

Rock Talk - The Babys

To hear it, go to the website and select a station and a time to suit. 1. The Babys - Back on my feet again 2. The Babys - If you've got the time 3. The Babys - Too far gone 4. The Babys - Grass is greener 5. The Babys - I see you there 6. The Babys - Not ready to say goodbye Part 2 1. The Babys - Isn't it time 2. The Babys - Every side of you 3. The Babys - Everytime I think of you 4. The Babys - You saved my life 5. The Babys - I'll have some of that

Timesweep 3rd September

To hear it, go to the website and select a station and a time to suit. dominicforbes.org Part 1 We start in 1988 1. David Lee Roth - Just like paradise 2. Lita Ford - Kiss me deadly 3. Bon Jovi - Lay your hands on me 4. Melissa Etheridge - Bring me some water 5. The Waterboys - Fisherman's blues 6. Europe - Superstitious Part 2 We continue in 1992 1. Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit 2. Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle emptiness 3. INXS - Beautiful girl 4. Extreme - Rest in peace 5. Tom Cochrane - Life is a highway Part 3 Now is the time to say goodnight 1. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Hollywood nights 2. Graham Bonnet - Night games 3. Paul McCartney - Every night 4. Moody Blues - Nights in white satin 5. ACDC - You shook me all night long Part 4 It's this week in rock history 1. Bob Dylan - Positively 4th street 2. The Who - Who are you 3. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Mary Jane's last dance Part 5 1. Guns 'N' Roses - Sweet child of mine 2. Green Day - Good riddance (time of your life) 3. Johnny Cash - Hurt Part 6 Back to 1957 1. Elvis Presley - You're so square 2. Buddy Holly - Not fade away 3. Little Richard - Long tall Sally 4. Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole lotta shaking 5. Fats Domino - Blueberry hill 6. Beach Boys - Sail on sailor 7. Paul McCartney & Wings - Live and let die Part 7 This week's birthdays 1. Pretenders - Brass in pocket 2. Queen - Good old fashioned lover boy 3. Aerosmith - Cryin' 4. Styx - Renegade Part 8 1. Rush - Time stand still 2. Megadeath - No more Mr Nice Guy 3. Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4 4. Billy Idol - White wedding Part 9 Back to 1971 1. T-rex - Jeepster 2. Curved Air - Back streetr luv 3. Santana - Black magic woman 4. Badfinger - No matter what Part 10 1. Jethro Tull - Aqualung 2. Black Sabbath - Iron man 3. David Bowie - Oh you pretty things Part 11 1. Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz 2. CCS - Walking 3. The Who - Won't get fooled again 4. The Move - Tonight

Brit Rock 3rd September

It's an all '90's show this week. To hear it, go to the website and select a station and a time to suit. dominicforbes.org 1. Blur - Song 2 2. Greenday - Good riddance (time of your life) 3. Aerosmith - Pink 4. Radiohead - Karma police 5. Bush - Swallowed 6. Placebo - Nancy boy 7. Reef - Place your hands 8. Genesis - Shipwrecked 9. Sheryl Crow - Everyday is a winding road 10. Foo Fighters - Everlong 11. Pulp - Help the aged 12. Kula Shaka - Hush 13. Lenny Kravitz - Believe 14. INXS - Beautiful girl 15. Oasis - Cigarettes and alcohol 16. Beck - Loser 17. Weezer - Buddy Holly 18. Soundgarden - Black hole sun 19. The Cranberries - Zombie 20. REM - What's the frequency Kenneth? 21. Jeff Buckley - Grace 22. Nirvana - The man who sold the world 23. Stiltskin - Inside 24. Pink Floyd - Keep talking 25. Quireboys - 7 'o clock 26. Faith No More - From out of nowhere 27. Billy Idol - Cradle of love 28. They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in your soul 29. Depeche Mode - Enjoy the silence 30. Living Colour - Love rears its ugly head It's an hour of American AOR for hour three 1. Steve Miller Band - Jet airliner 2. Jackson Browne - Somebody's baby 3. Billy Joel - River of dreams 4. Doobie Bros - The doctor 5. Michael McDonald - I keep forgetting 6. Jefferson Starship - Jane 7. Christopher Cross - All right 8. Hall & Oates - Kiss on my list 9. Heart - Never 10. Beach Boys - Sail on sailor 11. Bon Jovi - Never say goodbye 12. Dean Friedman - Woman of mine 13. Michael Penn - No myth 14. Rober Palmer - Every kind of people 15. Whitesnake - Is this love

Today in rock history 31st August

1944 – Roger Dean, English artist is born. Designed album covers for Yes, Atomic Rooster, Uriah Heep, Gentle Giant, Greenslade, Steve Howe, Asia. 1945 – Van Morrison is born in Belfast, Ireland. 1948 - Rudolf Schenker-guitarist for The Scorpions is born 1965 – The Beatles’ current American tour winds up at San Francisco’s Cow Palace. 1967 – Four days after the death of Brian Epstein, the Beatles announce that they will now be handling their own managerial affairs. 1969 – During a North American tour Led Zeppelin appeared at the Texas International Pop Festival in Lewisville. Also on the bill: BB King, The Incredible String Band, Sam & Dave and Janis Joplin. 1974 – Rolling Stone Keith Richards was quoted as saying; ‘I gave up drugs when the doctor told me I had six months to live.’ 1974 – John Lennon testifies that President Richard Nixon tried to have him deported after he joined anti-war demonstrations outside the 1972 Republican National Convention. 1974 – The Rolling Stones release Goat’s Head Soup. It’s not remembered as one of their classics, but goes to No. 1 on the back of the hit single “Angie.” 1976 – A judge says George Harrison is guilty of “unconscious plagiarism.” The melody of his hit “My Sweet Lord” was deemed to be a little too close to the Chiffons’ “He’s So Fine” for comfort. 1991: Metallica’s self-titled album, also known as the Black Album entered the Billboard 200 Album Chart at number one for the first of four weeks on top of the chart. 1995 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opens in Cleveland. 2003 – Poison vow to carry on with their tour after a fire in a transport trucks destroys their instruments and stage equipment. 2005 – Blondie and Public Enemy perform at a rally to save punk landmark CBGB, whose lease expires today. 2006 – The Times ran a story on the demands of rock stars when on tour. Ozzy Osbourne insists on an eye, ear, nose and throat doctor at each venue. The Beach Boys require a licensed masseur, Meat Loaf a mask and one small tank of oxygen. David Bowie requests that the dressing room temperature is between 14c and 18c and Paul McCartney must have a large arrangement of white Casablanca lilies in his dressing room. Mick Jagger must have an onstage autocue with the lyrics to all the songs, it would also tell him the name of the city in which they were performing. 2006 – Emo pin-ups Panic! at the Disco win Video of the Year at the MTV VMAs for “I Write Sins Not Tragedies.

Today in rock history 30th August

1938 – Rockabilly star Dale Hawkins, who recorded the immortal hit “Suzie Q,” is born in Goldmine, La. 1939 – British DJ John Peel, a tireless supporter of the (Mighty) Fall and the Undertones, is born in Liverpool. 1965 – Bob Dylan releases his all-electric album Highway 61 Revisited and subsequently raises the bar for intelligent rock 1969 – If you’re near the Dallas International Motor Speedway today, check out the Texas International Pop Festival. Headliners include the Chicago Transit Authority and Led Zeppelin. 1972 – Following two concerts at Madison Square Garden earlier this month, John Lennon plays what many consider to be his first true solo show there today to benefit the One to One charity. 1973 – The Doors finally break up. Following Jim Morrison’s death in July 1971, the band had released two more albums, which absolutely no one owns. 1981 – The Rolling Stones release Tattoo You. 1984 – David Lee Roth hits #16 with “Yankee Rose” 1989 – Izzy Stradlin of Guns N’ Roses is arrested for creating a disturbance on an airline flight. 1995 – Sterling Morrison, a founding member of the Velvet Underground, dies at his home in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., after a lengthy battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 53. 2000 – The National Parents Council of Ireland makes a formal complaint against Slipknot’s show tonight at Dublin’s the Point. The gig is subsequently called off. 2002 – Bruce Springsteen fans flock to stores for the release of “The Rising,” the Boss’ first album with the E Street Band since 1987. 2010 –Carlos Santana‘s new album “GUITAR HEAVEN” will feature his version of Leppard’s “PHOTOGRAPH”, with Chris Daughtry on vocals. 2010 – Axl Rose declares ‘war’ on promoters as Guns N’ Roses headline Leeds Festival 2010 – Due to illness and under doctor’s orders, Jackson Browne will not be able to perform his show in Buffalo, NY at the Shea Performing Arts Center scheduled for tonight 2011 – Chickenfoot, featuring guitar hero Joe Satriani, frontman Sammy Hagar, former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and world renowned drummer Chad Smith, have confirmed multiple UK release dates and formats for their highly anticipated second album Chickenfoot II.

Today in rock history 29th August

1942 – Born on this day, Sterling Morrison, guitar, Velvet Underground 1943 – Born on this day, Dick Halligan Keyboards, flute, vocals, Blood Sweat & Tears 1945 – Born on this day, Chris Copping, Procol Harum 1959 – The Quarry Men (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ken Brown) performed at the Casbah Coffee Club, Hayman’s Green, West Derby, Liverpool. This is the opening night of a new teen club in a large Victorian house that is owned by Mrs. Mona Best. 1969 – During a North American tour Led Zeppelin played the first of two nights at the Singer Bowl Music Festival in Flushing Meadow Park. 1980: Eddie Van Halen met future wife Valerie Bertinelli for the first time at a Van Halen concert in Shreveport, LA. They would get married eight months later. 1981: Electric Light Orchestra reached number one on the U.K. Album Chart for the second time with Time which spent two weeks on top of the chart. 1995 – While shooting the music video for Meat Loaf’s “I’d Lie for You (And That’s The Truth,” a pilot and cameraman are killed in a helicopter crash in the Sequoia National 2003 – Radiohead’s Thom Yorke joins R.E.M. onstage in Vancouver to perform “E-Bow the Letter” and “‘It’s The End Of The World As We Know It.” 2003 – Appearing on New York radio station Q104.3, Mets catcher Mike Piazza plays “IRS,” a new Guns N’ Roses tune from their long awaited Chinese Democracy. The band’s management immediately demand the track be retrieved. 2003 – Songs from Kill ‘Em All and “The Thing That Should Not Be” get a rare live outing as Metallica play a fan club only show at New York’s tiny Bowery Ballroom. 2005 – Already battling an injured knee, Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme collapses after a show in Hamburg, forcing the cancellation of the next evening’s concert in Stuttgart.