First Last Performance
Saturday July 4, 2009
Classic Rock Almanac - July 4
• 1969 - A performance at the Atlanta Pop Festival lands Grand Funk Railroad a record deal
• 1974 - Steely Dan (Walter Becker, Donald Fagan) perform in Santa Monica - they won't perform together again until 1992
• 1977 - Blondie bassist Gary Valentine quits the band
• 1980 - 500,00 attend a free Beach Boys concert in Washington DC
• 1982 - Wedding day: Ozzie Osbourne and his manager, Sharon Arden
• 1992 - John Phillips (Mamas & the Papas) undergoes a liver transplant
Born on the 4th of July:
Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson - Canned Heat - 1943
Jeremy Spencer - Fleetwood Mac - 1948
John Waite - The Babys, Bad English - 1951
Comments
Thanks for remembering Grand Funk’s debut in 1969’s Atalanta Pop Festival…that’s where it started for Mark Farner’s “40 Year’s Funkin’”