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Remembering Marc Johnson (January 6, 1977 - May 26, 2026)...

May 12, 1971 - The self titled, debut studio album by the jazz-fusion band Weather Report is released by Columbia Records...

May 12, 1967 - Are You Experienced, the debut studio album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, is released in the UK on the Track label...

May 11, 1981 - Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More & Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, a series of guitar solo albums by Frank Zappa, are originally released as mail-order, individual albums through Barking Pumpkin. They were subsequently reissued as a triple album box set in 1982...

May 11, 1981 - Frank Zappa's live double album, Tinsel Town Rebellion is released on the Barking Pumpkin label...

May 11, 1981 - Frank Zappa's live double album, Tinsel Town Rebellion is released on the Barking Pumpkin label...

April 30, 1900 - Casey Jones dies heroically in a train wreck at Vaughn, Mississippi, while driving the Cannonball Express (immortalized in the "Ballad of Casey Jones")...

April 24, 1970 - Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane was inadvertently invited to Tricia Nixon's White House party. Guards stop her escort, Chicago Seven defendant Abbie Hoffman, and both leave without incident...(Or, that time Grace Slick tried to slip LSD to President Nixon)...

April 23, 1969 - With a Little Help from My Friends, the debut album by the great Joe Cocker, is released on A&M Records...

April 21, 1969 - Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention release their album, Uncle Meat, on the Bizarre/Reprise label. It's their their first album for Warner Brothers after leaving Verve...

April 21, 1962 - Dick Dale And The Del-Tones release their single, Miserlou, on the Deltone label...

April 18, 1998 - Panic in the Streets: Widespread Panic holds a massive free concert in downtown Athens, Georgia, to celebrate the release of their first live album, Light Fuse, Get Away. The concert drew an estimated 80,000 to over 100,000 people, widely cited as the largest CD-release party in history...

April 16, 1964 - The Rolling Stones' self-titled, debut album is released in Great Britain. Six weeks later it will be issued in America...

April 15, 1969 - Johnny Winter, Johnny Winter's second studio album, & his first for Columbia Records, is released. Columbia signed Winter to the label for a reported $600,000...

April 15, 1969 - Johnny Winter, Johnny Winter's second studio album, & his first for Columbia Records, is released. Columbia signed Winter to the label for a reported $600,000...

April 15, 1941 - Lev Gleason's Daredevil Battles Hitler #1 hits the stands!

March 28, 1973 - Led Zeppelin's fifth studio album, Houses of the Holy, is released on the Atlantic label...