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12/14/1992 Bruce Springsteen and Peter Wolf get together in Boston

 

 

December 14 was a relatively quiet day in Rock's past, but this night in 1992 fans of the J. Geils Band and Bruce Springsteen lucky enough to be at the E Street Band's Boston Garden concert witnessed The Boss and Geils front man Peter Wolf do In the Midnight Hour together.

 

The invite to join forces on the Wilson Pickett classic that night came during a pre-concert backstage get together of Peter and Bruce during which The Boss, long an admirer of the energy an stage presence of Wolf, inspired Peter to get out and do more concerts. Since the demise of the Geils Band some 8 years earlier, Wolf had done a trio of solo albums but did not tour and was sour over some record label issues. Springsteen encouraged him to put those aside and reconnect with his fans. By spring of '93, Peter had put together a band and was back on stage doing what makes him one of the great front men in Rock.

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on December 14 include...

1949 AC/DC bassist Cliff Williams is born.

1962 Bill Wyman plays his first gig with the Rolling Stones.
1967 Rolling Stones' Brian Jones hospitalized for exhaustion.

1974  Mick Taylor leaves the Rolling Stones.

1980 Yoko Ono calls for  a 10 minute period of silence in memory of John Lennon.

1984 George Harrison plays with Deep Purple in Sydney, Australia.

1986 Elton John records Live With he Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

1995 FBI files on John Lennon are released.

1997 Guess Who lead guitarist (1970-1974) Kurt Winter dies of kidney failure

1999 Paul McCartney does webcast from the Cavern Club.

2005 Jimmy Page knighted by Queen at Buckingham Palace for his efforts to help poor children in Brazil.

2006 Atlantic Records Ahmet Ertegun dies six weeks after sustaining a head injury in a backstage fall during a Rolling Stones concert at the Beacon Theater…