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That was the week that was; in the music world
Topic Started: Apr 2 2009, 06:39 AM (77 Views)
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Yngwie Burns Up … Cornell Goes Polka … The Nuge Goes Left Of Center …
This is the week that was in matters musical …

1757, playing clavier for an awestruck Salzburg salon, 11-month old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart stuns listeners with his flawless virtuosity … the performance is interrupted in the final movement by Wolfgang's own little movement …

1979, wearing disguises, The Rolling Stones appear on TVs The Gong Show as the group named Gross Tone, Then Ill (an anagram of The Rolling Stones) … the group gets the highest combined score and walks off with the prize of $516.32 …

1977, RCA releases the latest Elvis album, The King Requests, which consists of taped phone calls Elvis made to a Memphis deli over the years to order sandwiches, pizza, and other snacks for delivery to Graceland … the calls were recorded over a span of 12 years on 37 cassettes by the enterprising deli owner who sold them to RCA for $385,000 … and yes, every call ended with Elvis saying "thang-you-very-much" … the remastered CD version from 1983 contains some hilarious outtakes including the time Elvis called and couldn’t remember what he wanted, or the time he called three times in five minutes with the exact same order …

1984, William Shatner releases an album of all-original songs inspired by his experiences playing a police officer on the popular TV program T.J. Hooker … song titles include "Book 'Em Hooker," "The Sergeant and the Lady," "Flashing Lights," and "Hot Pursuit" …

1987, sultry country songstress Crystal Gayle marries maker of premium guitar strings, Ernie Ball … music industry officials refuse to prognosticate on the singer’s future were she to tour under her married name, Crystal Ball …

1988, during a show in Throckmorton, Vermont, guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen suffers second- and third-degree burns to his fingers in the midst of an extended solo when his fretboard bursts into flames …

1989, Miles Davis gets his name into the Guinness Book of Records … his autobiography sets the all-time world record for the number of times the word "motherf***er" is repeated in a single work …

2004, ex-Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighter Dave Grohl sets a new record by playing on every single album released in the past year …

2005, pop music sustains a stunning setback when Antares, maker of the pitch-correcting wunderware AutoTune, announces they are closing their doors … panicking pop performers flood therapists' offices suffering from what is coined "Milli Vanilli Syndrome" …

2010, after Scream—his 2009 collaboration with hip-hop producer Timbaland—tanks commercially and critically, former Soundgarden/Audioslave singer Chris Cornell decides on yet another genre change … he steps into the studio to record a lively collection of polka favorites … jealous of the rabid success of Chickenfoot—a supergroup consisting of ex-Van Halen members Michael Anthony and Sammy Hagar along with Joe Satriani and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers—dejected rockers Flea, David Lee Roth, Alex Van Halen, and John Frusciante form a supergroup of their own, the mighty Chickenbutt …

2012, Ted Nugent shows up at a re-election rally for President Barack Obama to show his support …

… and that was the foolish week that was in matters musical.

[Compiled by the Musician’s Friend copywriting staff]



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