Real Rock and Blues

1846 was a Good Year

Jun 22, 2010 On This Day

The sexiest instrument (apart from the electric guitar) was patented on this day in 1846 by Adolphe Sax.  What do you think he called it?

- Anyone else finds it strange to find out that you can patent a musical instrument?  I know that he disigned it but even so.

You will not be surprised to know that his paptent was challenged by other instrument makers.

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On This Day – Stones Bombed!

Jul 17, 2009 On This Day

During he Exile on Main Street tour There was the usual madness, Forged tickets, riots, ticket-less fans trying to get in to venues (2000 in Detroit), drug arrests, the band being unable to book hotel rooms to their standard in Chicago (OK they did decamp to Hugh Hefner’s place, which ain’t too shabby a hang out).

The kicker though was in Montreal on 17th July 1972. A bomb went off under the equipment van. No injuries but the equipment inside the van was badly damaged. The show went on, after a riot by the 3,000 fans who had bought forged tickets. As far as I am aware, no one ever claimed responsibility for planting the bomb.

I think that this was the tour that Keef came up with his famous quotation “Heroin isn’t a problem, policemen are.”

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