The Jimi Hendrix Experience released it's second album in the UK on this day in the UK.  Reprise Records would elect to delay the US release until the middle of January because sales of the debut album that came out the previous May were still going strong in the States.  Jimi and the band capped off the release day by playing on a bill that included Pink Floyd, The Move and Nice at Central Hall in Chatham that night. 

 

1944 Doors drummer John Densmore born.

1944 Blue Oyster Cult lead singer Eric Bloom born.

1964 The Who do the opening set of a 22 consecutive Tuesday nights at London's Marquee Club.

1968 Janis Joplin does her last concert with Big Brother and the Holding Company.

1977 Aerosmith releases Draw The Line.  The album failed to impress fans, critics and the band members themselves. Joe perry would attribute the relatively lackluster material and performance to group members having turned into, "...drug addicts dabbling in music, rather than musicians dabbling in drugs."

1983 Neil Young sued by Geffen Records for releasing un-commercial albums.

1996 Former Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dickey Betts arrested on golf course, accused of  threatening wife with a pistol.

2017 Neil Young does a 90 minute solo concert live webcast from Coronation Hall in his childhood hometown of Omemee, Ontario on the same day he oepns his entire catalog of recorded material for free online streaming.

2017 U2 releases Songs Of Experience.

2017 Van Morrison releases Versatile.

2023 Peter Gabriel releases i/0, his first album in 21 years...