New Releases

March 23
New
BLUESMASTERS featuring MICKEY THOMAS...Bluesmasters featuring Mickey Thomas
Various Artist...Blues Bureau's Rowdy Roadhouse
SCORPIONS...Sting In The Tail
THE WHO...Greatest Hits Live
LENNY KRAVITZ...One Night In Tokyo (2 LP vinyl)
Various Artist...The Runaways Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Various Artist...Hot Tub Time Machine soundtrack

Compilations, Reissues
ROBERT JOHNSON...King Of The Delta Blues (3 LP vinyl)
NEIL YOUNG...Dreamin' Man Live '92 (180 gram vinyl)
DISTURBED...The Sickness 10th Anniversary Edition or 2 LP's with bonus CD or a clean version
SALIVA...Moving Forward in Reverse: Greatest Hits
BLACK SABBATH...Master Of Reality (180 gram vinyl)
BLACK SABBATH...Black Sabbath (180 gram vinyl)
CHUCK BERRY...Have Mercy: His Comp Chess Recordings 1969-1974

March 30
New
.38 SPECIAL...Authorized Bootleg: Nassau Coliseum Uniondale Ny
PAT TRAVERS/CARMINE APPICE...Keep on Rocking (with bonus DVD)
HURT...Goodbye To The Machine or vinyl

Remasters, Reissues
DEEP PURPLE...Live In Montreux 1969 (Remastered)

ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR MARCH 22
John Otto of Limp Bizkit is 33;

ON THIS DATE
1943 Keith Relf of the Yardbirds is born in London. He died in 1976 at the age of 33 of electrocution
1956 While on his way to be on the "Ed Sullivan Show" Carl Perkins is injured in a car accident
1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold a 'Bed-In' for peace in Amsterdam
1971 Police find heroin and marijuana in the possession of The Allman Brothers Band so they are arrested in Jackson, Alabama
2004 Alex Lifeson of Rush is charged with two counts of battery due to an incident in Naples, Florida three months earlier on New Years Eve when he intervened when deputies were escorting his son off of a hotel property. That same day Pete Townshend of the Who admitted in an interview that he had considered suicide after he had been arrested in 2003 for suspicion of child pornography. Pete was later cleared of the charges. Still on that same day Limp Bizkit were forced to cancel a performance in Katowice, Poland due to a bomb threat
2005 Rod Price, guitarist for Foghat, dies at the age of 57 in Wilton, New Hampshire after suffering a heart attack and falling down some stairs

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