Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for January 17th

A most expensive trumpet... -- A most awesome killer debut record... -- The Stones best stuff was with this birthday rocker...

1/17/1967 (53 years ago today) - 40-year-old musician David Mason recorded the legendary piccolo trumpet solo for The Beatles' "Penny Lane" at London's Abbey Road Studios. He received the standard union session fee for his work; in August, 1987, the trumpet he used was sold at a Sotheby's auction for $10,846!!!

1/17/1969 (51 years ago today) - It's sold over 10 million copies in the U.S. alone!: Led Zeppelin release their self-titled debut album here in America, coinciding with their first headlining U.S. concert tour. The rules of the game have now been re-written forevermore...

1/17/1949 - Happy Birthday to guitarist Michael Kevin "Mick" Taylor, 71 years old today -- Played with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (1966-69) before joining The Rolling Stones for their pinnacle glory days run from 1969-74, starting with the "Honky Tonk Women" single, followed by that amazing-beyond-belief catalog of LP's: "Let It Bleed" (1969), "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!" (1970), "Sticky Fingers" (1971), "Exile On Main Street" (1972), "Goats Head Soup" (1973) and "It's Only Rock 'n Roll" (1974). Hey, we love Ronnie Wood too, but this Mick Taylor stuff is impossible to over-rate, I mean, you just run out of words to describe it...

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"Kick me like you've kicked before/I don't even feel the pain no more...", xoxo!