This Day In Music

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October 19

1968, 18 year old Peter Frampton



meets Steve Marriott at a Small Faces show in London. After striking up a friendship, the two started planning a new group which emerged as Humble Pie the next April.

1980, AC/DC



kicked off a 20-date UK tour at Bristol Colston Hall. The band's first gigs since the death of singer Bon Scott.

2005, A survey concluded that the average person spent around £21,000 ($42,000) on music during their lives, the figure included the amount spent on Hi-Fi equipment, concerts and CDs. Music enthusiasts were likely to spend more than double that, parting with just over £44,000 ($89,000), in a lifetime, according to the survey conducted by UK company Prudential.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I wonder if that survey included travel and drugs for concerts?

[glatt]

$42K seems way too high. That would be 420 concerts at $100 each. The average person hasn't even come close to seeing that many shows.

I expect I have spent around $5k, including record and CD sales, equipment, and the shows I have seen.

Maybe if you count my mortgage payments for the month each time I bought a CD or saw a show, that would get me over $42k.

[xoxoxoBruce]

But you're more frugal than average. It's easy to spend a fortune on Stereo equipment, sound upgrades in subsequent vehicles, concert dating, and if you buy instruments it can go through the roof.

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...the figure included the amount spent on Hi-Fi equipment, concerts and CDs.

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October 20

On October 20, 1977, a Convair CV-240 chartered by the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from L&J Company of Addison, Texas, ran out of fuel and crashed in Gillsburg, Mississippi, near the end of its flight from Greenville, South Carolina, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Lead vocalist/founding member Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist/vocalist Steve Gaines, backing vocalist Cassie Gaines (Steve's older sister), assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary, and co-pilot William Gray all died as a result of the crash. Twenty others survived.

~Wiki

Forty years.

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November 15



1992 - Ozzy Osbourne announced his retirement from touring after a gig in California, saying "Who wants to be touring at 46?"

Behold, the now-68-year-old Osbourne's tour schedule.

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On this date in 1991 the music world lost both Freddie Mercury (age 45), lead singer for Queen, and Eric Carr (age 41), drummer, at the time, for KISS.

Mercury died from complications from AIDS, while Carr passed from cancer, with tumors invading his heart and lungs.

Also dying on this date, in 1993, was Albert Collins, blues guitarist times 10, also from cancer.