2) Peter Noone / Herman's Hermits at City Winery, Boston
3 pm and 7 pm July 28 2024 Sunday
July 23, 1998 interview https://youtu.be/ou7gwFZArUM July 23, 1998 the legendary Peter Noone appeared at the Hampton Beach Casino in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire.
Visual Radio was there with Chris Warden helping out on the camera and directing this interview. I am not a Fox News fan but - heck - they were mailing out free T shirts back in the day...Peter is a gentleman and...my band opened up for his Tremblers back in 1980 or so at the Paradise Theater in Boston...so it was a nice reunion after 18 years! Copyright (C) 2011 Joe Viglione all rights reserved. COPYRIGHT 2011 Joe Viglione, all rights reserved.
3)AXEL F Beverly Hills Cop 4
4)I AM CELINE
5)Scenester Jo Jo Laine would have been 72 today, July 13, same day as J Geils drummer Stephen Joe Bladd, Julius Caesar and fictional Star Trek character Jean Luc Picard: My bio on Stephen and a photo I snapped of Jo Jo and Rod Stewart at the 4 Seasons. Jo Jo dated Rod for awhile before she married Denny Laine and he gave us tickets to his show. 1942 Stephen Jo Bladd, American drummer (J Geils Band - "Centerfold"; "Freeze Frame"), born in Boston, Massachusetts
Julius Caesar(100-44 BC)
Roman military and political leader [or July 12], born in Rome https://www.onthisday.com/today/birthdays.php
Stephen Bladd Biography by Joe Viglione https://www.allmusic.com/.../stephen-bladd-mn0000111796...
The only native Bostonian in the J.Geils Band, Stephen Jo Bladd was born on July 13, 1942, hailing from the Dorchester/Mattapan area of the capital of Massachusetts. Drummer with Peter Blankfield -- better known as Peter Wolf -- in the Boston area band the Hallucinations, they are both said to have worked at a framing shop on Newbury Street along with Hallucinations member Doug Slade. Former WBCN disc jockey Buffalo used to air "rare tapes" on 104.1 FM and told AMG that there were early recordings made by Bladd and Blankfield known as "The Bathroom Tapes" produced at Wolf's apartment in the Queensberry St./Newbury St. section of the Back Bay of Boston. Barry Tashian of the Remains lived in the same building and as more urban legend has it, was in the room at the time of the recordings. They were called "The Bathroom Tapes" because of the echo utilized off the walls in the bathroom of Wolf's apartment, and they are said to contain four songs. More material was allegedly recorded in an M.I.T. classroomon with Wolf's reel-to-reel WebcoTape recorderer. These are the first known tapes of Bladd, legendary drummer for the J.Geils Band. One tune was played on 93.7 WCGY in 1992 when Wolf appeared on "The Demo That Got The Deal" radio show
1941 Robert Forster [Foster], American actor (Medium Cool, Jackie Brown), born in Rochester, New York (d. 2019)
1941 Steve Gibbons, British singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (The Ugly's - "Wake Up My Mind"; solo - "Tulane"), born in Harbourne, Birmingham, England
1942 (Jim) "Roger" McGuinn, American folk-rock guitarist, and singer-songwriter (The Byrds - "Turn! Turn! Turn!"; "Eight Miles High"), born in Chicago, Illinois
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1942 American actor (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Blade Runner), born in Chicago, Illinois
1957 Cameron Crowe, American journalist (Rolling Stone), film director (Almost Famous; Jerry Maguire), and screenwriter (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), born in Palm Springs, California 1961 Lawrence Donegan, Scottish rock bassist (Lloyd Cole and the Commotions) and author, born in Stirling, Scotland
2305 Jean-Luc Picard, fictional captain on Star Trek Next Generation, born in La Barre, France
9)Constrictor Alice Cooper
10)B.F. Raid (Boston's Final Raid) - Hollywood With Snakes
This is the first track from B.F. Raid (Boston's Final Raid) for their upcoming album due summer of 2024 is "Hollywood with Snakes." Probably written for Harvey Weinstein with lines like " Find yourself on the casting couch."
It's too funny how I'm currently reading - actually in the middle of the book The Fox that Got Away by Stephen M. Silverman! All they were doing in the early days of Hollywood was the casting couch. And here you have producer Bob Ezrin - who created those masterpiece Alice Cooper albums, working on the current Deep Purple if you look above on this list at #1. Alice's pet snake sure made the round, and over all these years it must be multiple snakes! This song seems to lean into inspiration from Ezrin's work, it is hard driving, think Ozzy solo or Sabbath itself. Well produced, bold vocals and that special something that makes for repeated spins.
11)The Fox that Got Away by Stephen M. Silverman
This is an extraordinary album from the drummer of Black Sabbath, released on the California label Chameleon. The music is expertly defined, produced, and engineered by Peter R. Kelsey, while "lyrics and musical arrangement" by Bill Ward is the hint that this is Ward's baby all the way. It opens with Kiss/Black Sabbath/Alice Cooper substitute drummer Eric Singer on the skins and Ward on vocals. That tune, "Shooting Gallery," has a riff that you can't place and an overwhelming presence; it gives way to another Ward vocal on "Short Stories," which blends nicely into "Bombers (Can Open Bomb Bays)," with Ozzy Osbourne on lead vocals. The track is tremendous. "Pink Clouds an Island" brings Ward back to the lead vocals, and it is as strange as it sounds. It is a bridge to another gem with another guest star: The distinctive voice of Cream's Jack Bruce adds a haunting element to the sparse guitar excursion that is "Light Up the Candles (Let There Be Peace Tonight)." There is not a bad track on this disc -- it is heavy, it is well-produced, and creative ideas flow all over the place. Ward returns to center stage for a metallic stomp called "Snakes and Ladders," complete with Keith Lynch and Rue Phillips damaging guitars. Where progressive rock and metal fans alike found Phil Collins leaving the drums for the microphone sacrilege, Ward proves that he, not Ian Gillan, and not a thousand other faceless vocalists, had the charm to front Black Sabbath during the days without Ozzy. "Snakes and Ladders" is relentless, a stomp with guitar textures that would make Tony Iommi proud. Ozzy returns for his second and final track, "Jack's Land": "It's a simple enough task, boys, to find a living miracle." This is classic Ozzy, maybe a bit more refined. Ward strikes many poses, but the gentleman on page two of the booklet seems like the clever chap who concocted this incredible brew. The fact is, Ward One: Along The Way is stronger than many discs put out by all the people involved with it. Chameleon has to be commended, on one hand, for allowing it to see the light of day, and chastised for letting Ward's superb solo disc get lost in the shuffle. "Jack's Land" and Ozzy's vocal fade out and metallic riffs move in as Ward takes the drums, keyboards, and vocals back. Phil Collins again comes to mind -- as a producer, his drum sound on the hit "Easy Lover" for Philip Bailey was something that saved Collins from eternal damnation, but Ward gets equally significant drum sounds and a perfectly eerie vocal on "Living Naked"; "Music for a Raw Nerve Ending" adds early Who sounds to the quasi-Iron Maiden sludge. Bruce returns for a strange "Tall Stories," and Ward closes it out with "Sweep" and the title track, "Along the Way." Absolutely excellent stuff.
Kentucky born and bred, OTIS, which formed in 2015, is a young, hard rocking quartet who performs and plays their exciting music like they’ve been around for 40 years.