By Jeff K
Mar 5, 2021
It was on this day, March 5, 2002, when the first season of the reality series
The Osbournes premiered on MTV. The series followed the lives of Ozzy Osbourne and his family and would wind up winning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program.
In honor of the 19th anniversary, YOU get to pick the Ozzy song I play today at 4:20 pm with
In the meantime, watch Season 1 - Episode 1 There Goes The Neighborhood in its entirety above. NSFW of course.
Mar 6, 2021
Born on this day in 1946, David Jon Gilmour, the English guitarist, singer-songwriter, best known as a longtime member of Pink Floyd, turns 75. Gilmour joined Pink Floyd in 1968, replacing founder member Syd Barrett. Following the departure of another founder member, Roger Waters, Gilmour assumed leadership of Pink Floyd in 1985. As a member of Pink Floyd, Gilmour was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. In 2011,
Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 14 in their list of the greatest guitarists of all time.
In his honor, check out the 2015 BBC Two documentary on David called
By Jeff K
Mar 5, 2021
It was on this day, March 5, 2002, when the first season of the reality series
The Osbournes premiered on MTV. The series followed the lives of Ozzy Osbourne and his family and would wind up winning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program.
In honor of the 19th anniversary, YOU get to pick the Ozzy song I play today at 4:20 pm with
In the meantime, watch Season 1 - Episode 1 There Goes The Neighborhood in its entirety above. NSFW of course.
By Jeff K
Mar 3, 2021
On this day in 1978, Van Halen kicked off their first tour at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom. The group’s standard concert contract called for them to be provided with a bowl of M&Ms backstage, but with the provision that all the brown ones must be removed. And indeed, a copy of a contract rider from Van Halen’s 1982 world tour, under the “Munchies” section, does document that the band specified they be provided with “M&M’s (WARNING: ABSOLUTELY NO BROWN ONES)”. You can see the contract image above. This was a very smart way to see if promoters were actually reading the band s contract/rider. David Lee Roth said If I came backstage, having been one of the architects of this lighting and staging design, and I saw brown M&Ms on the catering table, then I guarantee the promoter had not read the contract rider, and we would have to do a serious line check of the entire stage setup.
By Jeff K
Mar 3, 2021
On this day in 1978, Van Halen kicked off their first tour at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom. The group’s standard concert contract called for them to be provided with a bowl of M&Ms backstage, but with the provision that all the brown ones must be removed. And indeed, a copy of a contract rider from Van Halen’s 1982 world tour, under the “Munchies” section, does document that the band specified they be provided with “M&M’s (WARNING: ABSOLUTELY NO BROWN ONES)”. You can see the contract image above. This was a very smart way to see if promoters were actually reading the band s contract/rider. David Lee Roth said If I came backstage, having been one of the architects of this lighting and staging design, and I saw brown M&Ms on the catering table, then I guarantee the promoter had not read the contract rider, and we would have to do a serious line check of the entire stage setup.