This Day in Rock History - May 27th
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1989: The Beach Boys begin a national tour with Chicago. The tour is historic because Brain Wilson appears at several dates, marking his first concerts with his old band since 1975.
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1989: The Beach Boys begin a national tour with Chicago. The tour is historic because Brain Wilson appears at several dates, marking his first concerts with his old band since 1975.
One album from that great era of psychedelic rock is the self-titled album by a group that called itself The United States of America.
The group was led by an avant-garde composer intensely interested in the-then brand-new field of electronic music, Joseph Byrd. In addition to working with very early synthesizers, the band also included an electric violinist and also processed the drums through electronic equipment. The result was an album that sounded like no other.
The album starts off by layering no less than 5 tunes from the 19th century: a calliope playing "National Emblem", a ragtime piano playing "At a Georgia Camp Meeting", two marching bands playing "Marching Through Georgia" and "The Red, White and Blue" switching between left and right channels. Two other tracks of electronic sounds are also added to the mix. After just a few moments, all of this fades into the album’s first track, “The American Metaphysical Circus.” The lyrics take “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” several steps farther. In fact, many of the album’s tracks pushed the limits for rock at the time, including references to S&M and topless nightclubs as well as a little ditty called “I Won’t Leave My Wooden Wife for You” and another dedicated to mentioning as many poisonous plants as possible in 2 minutes and 39 seconds.
1967: It was 52 years ago today… Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play!
What many consider the greatest rock album of all-time, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, goes on sale in Britain. A week later it will be released in the States. It is the first Beatles LP to have the exact same track listing in the US and in the UK.
It will top the album charts during the entire Summer of Love.”
Anyone who knows TV history knows that Seinfeld pulled one of the biggest con jobs in American broadcasting history with their claim that they were “A show about nothing.” Every single episode had a main plot and secondary plot (A and B plots in TV jargon) – just like every episode of every sit-com on the air at the time.
The REAL “show about nothing?” Well, that was unquestionably The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Never has the word “adventure” been so misused!
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I'm sure we all attended one of these, right? And with the football team too!
On Gilligan's Island, what was the professor's full name
