Some Musicians Just Have All The Bad luck in the World...

Here are some rockers who had brushes with bad luck

Lynyrd Skynyrd
-Plane crash
-Crashed into the woods in Gillsburg, Mississippi, killing Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines

Allman Brothers
-Motorcycle accidents
-One Oct. 29, 1971, Allman Brothers guitarist Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle crash in Macon, Georgia. Then, bassist Berry Oakley was killed in a motorcycle crash a year later, just a few blocks away

Ace Frehley
-Bad luck everywhere
-Almost drowned on two separate occasions, one being while he was sitting by a hotel pool while on tour in Florida, drunk, only to be fished out by Gene Simmons. Other instances include being electrocuted by touching an underground metal railing while on the band's 1976 tour in Lakeland, Florida, and this inspired the 1977 Kiss song "Shock Me"

Brian Jones
-Death at 27
-It's hardly a surprise to know the members of the Rolling Stones have lived past their supposed "expiration date". But not Brian Jones. He essentially formed the band by placing an ad in a jazz newspaper and was the leader and manager in the early years, but when Jagger joined up, he saw his control go down as Mick Jagger and Keith Richards became the songwriting duo for the band. In July 1969, he was found at the bottom of his pool at his house in Sussex, with the official cause of death being "death by misadventure". He is now forever a member of the Forever 27 Club

Syd Barrett
-Psychotic breakdown
-As a founding member of Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett was best known as the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter during the band's early years. As a result of this, and his use of mind altering drugs such as LSD, this seemed to bring about severe psychological problems. This led to a psychotic breakdown in which he'd never fully recover from. In April 1968, he left the band and in 2006, died from pancreatic cancer

Pete Best
-Original Beatles drummer
-He was the original drummer for the band until Ringo Starr came along

Dave Evans
-AC/DC's first singer
-Alot of people tend to overlook the fact this band had multiple lead singers. The first was Dave Evans, who had a short career with these guys. He left the band due to clashes with management and then Bon Scott came on the scene and sang lead vocals before drinking himself to death in London

Tracii Guns
-The 'almost a Guns N' Roses' member
-He went on to form Guns N' Roses in 1985, before creating L.A. Guns. And things did not work out, so the new Guns N' Roses lineup went on to include Steven Adler on drums, Slash on guitar, Duff McKagan on guitar, and Izzy Stradlin on guitar

Def Leppard
-Twin tragedies
-This band endured a double shot of tragedy back then. In 1984, drummer Rick Allen was involved in a car crash that ultimately claimed his left arm in Sheffield, England. Since then, he's been playing a custom-made drum kit that can play for his missing left arm while he plays with his right
-The other one is the loss of Steve Clark. He battled for years with alcoholism and then found a new demon to chase: drugs. In January 1991, his girlfriend found his body in his apartment the night after heavy drinking. Large amounts of prescription drugs and alcohol were found in his system


Rick Allen



Steve Clark

Brian Jones was Born Today

Today is the day that Brian Jones, guitarist for the Stones, would have been 71 had he not died from drowning

Brian Jones
-DOB: Feb. 28, 1942
-Rolling Stones guitarist
-Died on July 3, 1969, drowning, Sussex, England

Strange Rock Deaths

Find out what rock stars died a strange rock death

Keith Relf
-The Yardbirds
-Electrocuted himself while playing guitar

Steve Peregrin
-T.Rex
-Choked on a cherry cocktail

Terry Kath
-Chicago
-Put a 9mm semiautomatic pistol to his head and pulled the trigger

Mike Edwards
-Electric Light Orchestra
-Died when a 1300 pound hay bale rolled down a hill and ran into his van

Randy California
-Spirit
-Died trying to save his 12 year old son Quinn who was caught in a riptide

'Mama' Cass Elliot
-The Mamas and the Papas
-Rumor has it she died from choking on a ham sandwich
-But the actual cause of death was a heart attack from her obesity

Brian Jones
-Rolling Stones
-Overdose on alcohol and drugs was referred to by the London Police as a "death by misadventure"

Michael Hutchence
-INXS
-Committed suicide under the influence of drugs and alcohol, instead of the rumor he had died from auto-erotic asphyixiation

Sonny Bono
-Sonny and Cher
-Hit a tree iat Lake Tahoe and died form injuries

REAL Guitar Heroes

Instead of "Dueling Banjos" from Deliverance, how about dueling guitars?
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/top-guitar-duos/

#10
-Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing
-Judas Priest
-These 2 ruled the world of hard rock with tracks like "Breaking the Law"

#9
-Eric Clapton and Duane Allman
-Derek & The Dominos

Eric Clapton

Duane Allman

#8
-Stone Gossard and Mike McCready
-Pearl Jam
-Revitalized everyone's idea of 90s grunge and restored the band to good working class, classic rock order

#7
-Neil Young and Danny Whitten
-Neil Young & Crazy Horse

#6
-Slash and Izzy Stradlin
-Guns N Roses
-Created some of the best known, down and dirty hard rock beats in the 80s and 90s

#5
-The Allman Brothers

#4
-James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett
-Metallica
-Earned the band it's nickname, the "Kings of Metal"

#3
-Angus and Malcolm Young
-AC/DC

#2
-Joe Perry and Brad Whitford
-Aerosmith
-Considered a historic duo in many eras. During the 1970s, they created some of the most music note-worthy riffs in rock history

#1
-Keith Richards and Brian Jones
-The Rolling Stones
-Their guitar playing was described as "weaving"

Forever 27 club

If you listen to music alot, especially older music, then you may know what I'm talking about. The Forever 27 club is a club that consists of all musicians who died at the age of 27, and now with the passing of British soul singer Amy Winehouse, she is now added to the list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club

Here's a list of all who died at 27 and are in the "club"

Brian Jones- July 3, 1969. Drowned

Jimi Hendrix- Sept. 18, 1970. Choked to death

Janis Joplin- Oct. 4, 1970. Heroin overdose

Jim Morrison- July 3, 1971. listed as heart failure, probable drug overdose

Kurt Cobain- April 5, 1994. ruled as suicide, most probable cause is drug overdose.

Dave Alexander- Feb. 10, 1975. heart condition

Jacob Miller- March 23, 1980. car crash

Amy Winehouse- July 23, 2011. apparent drug overdose.

Brian Jones

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0427627/bio

He looked like a real sweet guy, why did he have 2 get into drugs? I'll bet he was a real sweetie

Lewis Brian Hopkins-Jones was born on February 28, 1942 in Cheltenham, Glouchestershire, England. He died on July 3, 1969, in Hartfield, Sussex, England and the suspected cause of death was drowning. He was  5'6'' and he was the one to come up with the name for the band, by taking it from an old Muddy Waters song called Rollin' Stone Blues.

The first woman he ever truly loved was an Italian-born model named Anita Pallenberg. He composed the music for a movie she was in called Degree of Murder in 1967. He also began experimenting with alcohol and drugs. He fell even deeper into drugs and alcohol when he found out that Anita had left him for fellow Stones member Keith Richards and that they had sex in the back of a car. In November 1968, he bought Cotchford Farm, the house formerly owned by Winnie the Pooh author A.A. Milne. The Stones Rock and Roll Circus was the last time anyone saw Brian alive. In June 1969, he lost touch with the band

His trademark is his long blonde hair.

Trivia
Is interred at Priory Road Cemetery in Glouchestershire, England
Was kicked out of the Rolling Stones for heavy drug use.
Considered the original founding member and namer of the Stones
At 27 years old, he is a member of the Forever 27 club. This is a club for all musicians who died at that age, including Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Janis Joplin

Assignment for Music 101

Apparently to graduate college, I have to take a few General Education classes here at Gateway. I have chosen to take a Music 101 class because I have a fond interest in music, whether it be the history of music, all the early musicians, anything directly related to the history of music I take a fond interest in. So our first project is to do a blog post on something that we like, so I did mine on the topic of The Rolling Stones. I'm a very big fan of them, have been since 2008, when I graduated high school and my mom and stepdad married. In face, alot of the music I listen to he introduced to me, so I guess because of him I like alot of older music.

I came across this blog called Beatles Fans, and naturally with me being a Beatles fan, I just had to follow it. And the 1st post I read on there was about this girl who was doing a project on The Beatles, so that sort of inspired me to do a blog on something I'm a fan of. I would do this post on The Beatles, but she already did her post on The Beatles and I don't want to steal her idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones

The Rolling Stones

• Known as the world's greatest rock and roll band
• Formed in April 1962
• Consisted of Ian Stewart(piano), Brian Jones(guitar, harmonica), Mick Jagger(lead vocals, harmonica), Keith Richards(guitar). Bill Wyman(bass guitar), Charlie Watts(drummer)

• The Stones raised awareness for artists by the company Chess Records. How the band got it's name is Brian Jones took it from an old Muddy Waters song called Rollin' Stone
• Alot of their early stuff was American R&B and blues-rock covers
• On July 12, 1962, The Stones played their first gig at the Marquee Club in downtown London, and their then manager Giorgio Gomelsky had booked a gig for them at the Crawdaddy Club on a Sunday afternoon. Their manager had tied the club's reputation for R&B with the rise of The Beatles, and he thought that is what started the reputation of Swinging London

• During their concert at the Crawdaddy Club, former Beatles publicist Andrew Loog Oldham decided he wanted to be the manager of the Stones, and he signed the band to a management deal. the only problem was that at the time Andrew was only 19, certainly younger than the band, he was not old enough to hold a license for it, so he joined up with show biz master Eric Easton
• On June 7, 1963, the Rolling Stones released their first hit single, Come On, a cover of the Chuck Berry song, and in fact today is the anniversary of that release.
• Oldham had tried dressing the band in matching houndstooth design suits to be a little like The Beatles, but then decided to just letting them wear their own clothes. He also made a few changes within the band, he dressed them in leather jackets, insisted that lead singer Michael Jagger shorten his name to Mick. With this, they would be, for years on, considered to be the Beatles main rivals.

• In May 1963, pianist Ian Stewart was removed from the band by Oldham because he believed Ian was dead weight and that a rock band doesn't need a piano player. Ian went on to become the manager and occasional pianist for the band until his death in 1985
• When they released their first album, England's Newest Hit Makers, they weren't smiling on the front because Oldham had presented them as the almost evil opposites of the Beatles, and in the papers there was the broad headline "Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone?"
• In June 1964, they had their first US tour. Since they didn't have a record there, they thought nothing would go good for them. When they appeared on Dean Martin's show The Hollywood Palace, he mocked their appearance and haircuts.

• On January 15, 1967, the Rolling Stones were due to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show, an American variety show famed with the appearance of the Beatles in the 1960s. They were supposed to play their hit single Let's Spend the Night Together. Whenever the band got to the clean refrain "Let's spend some time together" Mick would roll his eyes up in anger. So in a form on revenge, the band went backstage and changed in to Nazi uniforms with swastikas on them. Ed was furious, he demanded the band go and change into their previous clothes. They promptly left the studio and he said they'd never be let back into the studio again. However, it would raise some questions as to why he didn't say anything about Diana Ross and the Supreme's Hit Love Child, which is about a woman who has a child out of wedlock.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ed_Sullivan_Show#The_Rolling_Stones
• If you want to hear Mick Jagger singing in his natural London accent, listen to the song Mother's Little Helper

• On June 29, 1967, after the British police found 4 amphetamine pills on him, Mick Jagger was sentenced to 3 months of prison, where as Keith was sentenced to 1 year in prison
• In 1969, Brian Jones was found dead at the bottom of the pool at his house, COD-drowning. The Stones were due to appear in concert in London's Hyde Park, and they had found a replacement named Mick Taylor. So the band had decided to make the Hyde Park concert a tribute concert to Brian. Mick had read the Adonais by Percy Shelley and released hundreds of butterflies in honor or Brian.
• On Dec. 6, 1969, the Stones gave a free concert at the Altamont Speedway in northern California. For security there, the biker gang the Hells Angels were there, and they had stabbed and beaten to death a guy named Meredith Hunter after they realized he was armed.

• During the 1970s, Mick and Keith were often referred to as the Glimmer Twins. 
• Them then, when they were the Glimmer Twins

Them now

Personally, it's looking like Mick is the better looking one.

• Towards the end of 1974, guitarist Mick Taylor quit the band. At this time, there was another band with a future Stones member. The band was called the Faces and it had Jeff Beck, Ian McLaghan, Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood. Everyone in the band agreed that he was perfect. He officially joined up with the Stones in Feb. 1975 as the Faces had broken up.

The El Mocambo Club in Toronto, Canada. This is where a good majority of their Love You Live album was recorded. And as for the cover of the album, it was done by artist Andy Warhol

• The Stones 1981 American Tour was said to be the biggest, longest, most colorful tour ever, with them playing from Sept. 25, thru Dec. 19. The movies Let's Spend the Night Together and Still Life(American Concert 1981) is of footage from both the Brendan Byrne Arena in the Meadowlands, New Jersey and the Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona.

• In the mid 1980s, the fighting between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards kept increasing. In Dec. 1985, their manager and long time friend Ian Stewart was found dead from a heart attack. At London's 100 Club in Feb. 1986. the band paid a private tribute to him, 2 days before they were given a Grammy for Lifetime Acheivement in Music
• In 1985, Mick released his first solo album, She's the Boss, in 1987, he released Primitive Cool, and in 1988, Keith released his solo album Talk is Cheap

• In early 1989, the Stones were inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. After that, that's when Mick and Keith started getting along again, and the band started work on their Steel Wheels album. The tour following this would be the last one for Bill and the Stones as in 1993 he would leave the band to pursue other interests. When Bill left, Ronnie became a fully fledged member of the Stones, nearly 20 years after joining up.

• After this tour, the band took a break. Charlie released 2 jazz albums, Ronnie released his 5th solo album, the 1st in 11 years called Slide on This, in late 1992, Keith released his 2nd solo album called Main Offender, Mick released his 3rd solo album called Wandering Spirit. At the 1995 Grammys, The Rolling Stones' Voodoo Lounge album would go on to win the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album

• In 1997, they released their Bridges to Babylon album, with the addition of a new song(Anybody Seen My Baby?). In the video, Angelina Jolie showed up and briefly appears in the video. In late 2001, Mick released his 4th solo album, Goddess in the Doorway

• How the band got it's logo is it was designed by an artist named John Pasche in 1971.

• On July 26, 2005, Mick's b-day, he announced what the name of their new album would be. It would be called A Bigger Bang, and it would be their first album in 8 years. 
• In August 2005, the group went on their A Bigger Bang tour. But it was extended into 2007 and concluded at London's O2 Theatre. During this, Keith was hospitalized for a head injury, Ronnie was in rehab for alcohol abuse, during July-September 2006, 2 of the 21 shows they were scheduled to do had to be cancelled as Mick was suffering severe throat problems. On October 29, and Nov.1 the band did 2 concerts at New York's Beacon Theatre, the subject of Martin Scorcese's movie Shine a Light. On October 27, 2002, Mick released a compilation CD called The Very Best of Mick Jagger.

• On Dec. 12, 2003, Mick Jagger was knighted for his special services to music and as a result of that, is now known as Sir Michael Philip Jagger. He was knighted by the Prince of Wales and apparently Keith was not happy, he thought that was stupid that Mick had done that, he was probably thinking "these were the same people trying to throw us in prison in the 1960s and now you're accepting a knighthood?"
• Also when Mick wasn't touring with the Stones, he was doing acting. Some of the movies he's been in include Freejack, Ned Kelly, Performance, The Man From Elysian Fields, Bent

Plays Turner, a womanizing ex-rock star

Plays the real life outlaw Ned Kelly

Plays a futuristic mercenary named Victor Vacendak

Plays a cross-dressing entertainer named Greta

Plays the owner of a male escort service named Luther Fox

• And most of the Stones' concerts have been turned into movies, like Let's Spend the Night Together, Gimme Shelter, At the Max, Shine a Light

This is about the Altamont Speedway stabbing

The American tour 1981

The Rolling Stones then

 Somehow, Mick looks almost angry in this picture

The Rolling Stones now

Them on stage

From the movie Shine a Light, which was about their A Bigger Bang tour, which ended at the O2 Theatre in London in 2007.