Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for August 5th
Stones still got it! -- Bruce comes home! -- Hoochie Koo b'day...
8/5/1978 (42 years ago today) - It was a Mick Jagger/Billy Preston jam session that led to The Rolling Stones' eighth U.S. No. 1 single: "Miss You" goes to the top of the chart one month before the "Some Girls" album release -- The Bill Wyman bass line really makes this one happen, let's be honest -- The song also features not one, not two, but three non-Stones musicians adding depth to the track: you got Sugar Blue on harmonica (discovered busking on the streets of Paris, by the way), U.K. session-man Mel Collins on sax, and Faces keyboardist Ian McLagen doing some rather nifty understated electric piano licks. One of The Stones all-time best singles...
8/5/1984 (36 years ago today) - Quite a homecoming event: It's the "Born In The U.S.A." Tour, and tonight Bruce Springsteen plays the first of ten consecutive sold-out nights at New Jersey's Meadowlands. Ten!!! We'll just let that sink in...
8/5/1947 - Happy Birthday Rick Derringer, 73 years old today -- The "Hang On Sloopy" guitar wiz has played and toured with Edgar and Johnny Winter, Steely Dan (check out his killer-diller slide solo on "Showbiz Kids", it's totally amazing), Todd Rundgren, Weird Al and Ringo's All-Starr Band -- The riffage Rick lays out on his classic "Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo" single ranks as one of our all-time Top 7 favorite guitar solo's ever!!! Seriously (starting around 1:22 'til 2:23). When he goes " Whoa!!!" and continues to rip...it never ceases to spine tingle, great stuff...
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"What's the matter with you boy?...", xoxo!