David Bowie would've turned 73 today. He called his song: "Let's Dance" "a great blues song." With its Stevie Ray Vaughan guitar solo, its no wonder the late David Bowie described "Let's Dance" the way he did in this interview done shortly after he’d played a stripped-down version of it at Neil Young’s 1996 Bridge School Benefit:
“A really good blues song — that did me in. [Laughs] Funnily enough we did that at the Neil Young show, “Let’s Dance,” as a city blues, with bottle caps on the bottom of me shoes and used that as the rhythm source, like the old blues guys used to play up in Chicago. And, uh, it sounded really cool as a blues. It’s a great blues song.”
Stephen Stills celebrates his 75th birthday today (January 3rd). The first song you heard from Crosby, Stills and Nash was "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" Stills took three songs he'd just played for Crosby and Nash and put them together into a suite "on the spot." Its appearance on the first album and in the movie Woodstock helped launch the band to stardom. David Crosby recalls his reaction when Stills first played it for him, and Stills tells what happened next.
Crosby: “What would you do it somebody came up and played you that song? He played it for me and Nash and we went ‘Ah.’”
Stills: “Actually, I played you one verse of each movement of it and then said, ‘Hey guys, what if I just put them together?’ And they went, ‘What? They’re all different.’ And I said, ‘Try this, look,’ and literally did it on the spot.”
AC/DC rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young would have turned 67 years old today (January 6th). When Bon Scott died the band wanted a to do a tribute but many disagreed with what they came up with. The song and album was to be called "Back in Black" but guitarist Angus Young says they had to stick to their guns when it came to using "Back in Black" as a title for a song -- and an album -- that saluted their late singer Bon Scott.
“That was our way of saluting Bon’s thing. We didn’t want to drudge out a tragedy, so we figured that was the best tribute we could do. So we made it black as the mark of respect when somebody passes away. That was the idea of it. There was a lot of people, actually, at the time, when we first said what we wanted, y’know, they were all saying, ‘You can’t do that. People don’t like that. Black, it’s negative thing.’ But for us it meant something and that’s what we stuck by.
8 years ago today Van Halen announced their 2012 tour with David Lee Roth. In the song: "So This Is Love?" from "Fair Warning" there is a question mark at the end of the title. According to David Lee Roth, "When someone says, 'I love you,' that's actually a question," David Lee Roth explains (through him laughing) why the song's title ends in a question mark.
“Well, love is a collect call [laughs]. And just remember that when someone says, ‘I love you,’ that’s actually a question [laughs]. And with that firmly in mind [laughs], a lot of us arrive at some point in a relationship going, ‘So this is love?’"
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