January 4, 2012

R.I.P. Larry Reinhardt

THE ALBUM OF THE DAY
BONHAM...The Disregard Of Timekeeping (1989)
(CD, vinyl, Allmusic review)

ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR JANUARY 4
Michael Stipe from R.E.M. is 52; Benjamin Darvill of the Crash Test Dummies is 45;

ON THIS DATE
1967 The Doors by the Doors is released
1968 Jimi Hendrix is arrested and jailed in Scandinavia after he and his bassist Noel Redding got into a fight and damaged a hotel room
1973 The Allman Brothers Band announced that Lamar Williams would be their bassist, replacing Berry Oakley who had died in 1972 after a motorcycle accident
1986 Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy dies in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, of pneumonia and heart failure due to a drug overdose. Lynott was 36
2010 Sully Erna of Godsmack reaches a multi-million dollar settlement with an individual who was in the back seat of a vehicle that Sully's Hummer rear-ended three years earlier
2011 Gerry Rafferty dies in London from liver failure after a long battle with alcoholism. Rafferty was 63