November 30

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 30
Roger Glover from Deep Purple is 63; Billy Idol is 53; Mike Stone, formerly with Criss and currently with Queensryche, is 39;

George Harrison

A very sad anniversary falls on this date in Rock 'N' Roll History. George Harrison passed away on this date, November 29, 2001. He was 58. But George's memory still lives within us Rock 'N' Rollers with his sweet love songs, his awesome slide guiter, his gentle soul and his brilliant songwriting. Harrison purposely explored into areas with his music that always intrigued his fans but seemed to annoy music critics. Put on a Beatles or George Harrison solo CD today and enjoy.

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 29:
Blues singer-musician John Mayall is 75; Ringo Garza from the Los Lonely Boys is 27;

November 28

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 28:
Matt Cameron, currently with Pearl Jam, is 46;

Top 10 CD's/Downloads For This Week

TOP 10 ABSOLUTE ROCK CD'S/DOWNLOADS FOR THIS WEEK:
1. Nickelback...Dark Horse
2. AC/DC...Black Ice
3. MUDVAYNE...The New Game
4. KID ROCK...Rock 'N' Roll Jesus
5. HINDER...Take It To The Limit
6. METALLICA...Death Magnetic
7. ROD STEWART...The Definitive Rod Stewart
8. SAVING ABEL...Saving Abel
9. SLIPKNOT...All Hope Is Gone
10. SAMMY HAGAR...Cosmic Universal Fashion

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 27
Charlie Burchill from Simple Minds is 49; Charlie Benante from Anthrax is 46; Mike Bordin from Faith No More is 46;

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die - #30. Bill Evans - Sunday At The Village Vanguard (1961)

Bill Evans - Sunday At The Village Vanguard (1961)


Track Listing (standout tracks listed in bold)

1. Gloria's Step (Take 2)
2. Gloria's Step (Take 3)
3. My Man's Gone Now
4. Solar
5. Alice In Wonderland (Take 2)
6. Alice In Wonderland (Take 1)
7. All Of You (Take 2)
8. All Of You (Take 3)
9. Jade Visions (Take 2)
10. Jade Visions (Take 1)

And yet another jazz album. This one I didn’t really care for that much. Sunday at the Village Vanguard is the initial volume of a huge recording session by the Bill Evans Trio recorded in June of 1961 at New York's Village Vanguard. This trio is widely regarded as his finest. Tragically, the bassist Scott LaFaro was killed in an automobile accident just ten days after this session was recorded!
If you were to want to get into Bill Evans I suppose this is a great place to begin with, but it doesn’t have that good ‘feel’ to the music that the jazz albums that I have been playing recently have had. It is a very demanding album to listen to and asks a lot of the listener – a commitment if you will – to understand the music and what’s going on. Sadly, the music just isn’t good enough to do that.
Not recommended

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die - #29. Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters at Newport (1960)

Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters at Newport (1960)

Track Listing (standout tracks in bold

1. I Got My Brand on You
2. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
3. Baby Please Don't Go
4. Soon Forgotten
5. Tiger in Your Tank
6. I Feel So Good
7. I've Got My Mojo Working
8. I've Got My Mojo Working, Pt. 2
9. Goodbye Newport Blues

A live blues recording. I was apprehensive when I started this record. Could they capture the thrill of a live blues setting on a festival recording. This is pretty impressive stuff – even 40-plus years down the line. The version I played is the March 2001 remastering from MCA. Reading about the transfer they used high-resolution digital audio, and brought up the bass overall and the details of just about every aspect of the playing, as well as moving Muddy's singing several layers forward in the mix, creating a vivid stage ambience, making you feel like you are there!
Muddy, with a band featuring Otis Spann, James Cotton, and guitarist Pat Hare, are a great unit playing awesome versions of "Got My Mojo Working," (with a reprised again in a short encore version), a version of "I've Got My Brand on You" that just smokes. With impressive versions of "Hoochie Coochie Man," Big Bill Broonzy's "Feel So Good," and "Tiger in Your Tank.", this record was a breakthrough moment in blues history, where the jazz audience at Newport opened its ears and embraced dirty Chicago blues.
Supposedly a film of this performance exits. Now THAT would be something to see!
Highly recommended

November 25

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 25
Mark Lanegan from the Screaming Trees is 44;

Guns And Roses - Chinese Democracy - *1/2

Axl Rose finally got around to releasing his epic 'Chinese Democracy'. It's the audio equivalent of Axl erecting a monument to himself. He calls the band Guns N' Roses, but it's an Axl Rose solo album - an Axl Rose self-portrait. When he tries to recall the glory days of his former band, the music sounds forced, imitative. But mostly he tries to erase the aura of the old group, which is another kind of mistake. As a whole, there's no direction, no theme, no focus. And after 15 years, well, that's bound to happen.
At times bewildering and frequently exhausting, it's easy to imagine that Chinese Democracy took 10 years just to mix.
There ARE flashes of real promise in some of the melodies here but all too often they are mired in bombast and misguided arrangements. None of the team of lead guitarists Rose has recruited are any substitute for Slash, but ultimately this album is conclusive proof that Izzy Stradlin was the genuine songwriting talent in Guns N' Roses.
There's talented people here of course but they've missed the mark. Fifteen years? It will be another 15 years before I listen to this album again. Now that he has this epic out and behind him, let's hope that maybe he will now get back to his roots, strip away the gloss and make a rock and roll record soon.
Not recommended.

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die - #28. The Incredible Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack (1960)

The Incredible Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack (1960)

Track Listing (standout tracks listed in bold)

1. Back At The Chicken Shack
2. When I Grow Too Old To Dream
3. Minor Chant
4. Messy Bessy
5. On The Sunny Side Of The Street

Another jazz album. Another cool one. It’s closer to funk than to jazz. Again -
I had never heard of Jimmy Smith until I went to play this record. Doing some research I found that he ruled the Hammond organ in the '50s and '60s. He is considered to be the one who revolutionized the instrument, showing it could be creatively used in a jazz context and popularized it in the process. His Blue Note sessions from 1956 to 1963 (which includes this 1960’s release) were extremely influential and are considered classics. In the jazz world.
I don’t know about all of that – but the music is – well – COOL. Recorded in 1960 with Kenny Burrell on guitar, Donald Bailey on drums, and Turrentine, the group is tight and as I say it’s ‘funky’ it’s ‘soul-jazz’ it’s ‘relaxed’. It’s a pleasure to listen to.

November 23

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 23:
Bruce Hornsby is 54; Ken Block from Sister Hazel is 42; Charlie Grover, formerly with Sponge, is 42;

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die - #27. Everly Brothers - A Date With the Everly Brothers (1960)

Everly Brothers - A Date With the Everly Brothers (1960)



Track Listing (standout tracks in bold)



1. Made To Love

2. That's Just Too Much

3. Stick With Me Baby

4. Baby What You Want Me To Do

5. Sigh Cry Almost Die

6. Always It's You

7. Love Hurts

8. Lucille

9. So How Come

10. Donna Donna

11. Change Of Heart

12. Cathy's Clown



Just a fine album. Great material and some very fine songs on the Everly Brothers (Phil and Don) on their second Warner LP released in 1960. It includes one of their best known songs "Cathy's Clown". It also includes their rocking cover of Little Richard's "Lucille," "Love Hurts" (which preceded Roy Orbison's hit version and of course later hit by Nazareth in the 70's), and "So How Come" (covered by the Beatles in 1963 on the BBC). In fact - you can hear the influences that the Everly Brothers had on the Beatles listening to this album. There is a nice innocence to this music. It's like they want to break loose but keep it clean and close to the vest. The very thing that Beatles did with this material.
Some of the songs are written by one or both of the brothers: "Cathy's Clown", "Made To Love" (a hit for Eddie Hodges), "Sigh, Cry, Almost Die", and"That's Just Too Much" but most of the songs are written by Boudleaux Bryant and his wife Felice Bryant who wrote most of the hits for The Everly Brothers. Add in a an early Mel Tillis song, "Stick With Me Baby", and you have a collection of songs that while nonessential to collectors are very good examples of well crafted sometimes not often heard songs that are hard not to listen to and well worth the time.
Highly recommended.

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 22:
Steve Van Zandt (AKA Little Steven) is 58; Tina Weymouth from the Talking Heads is 58; Lawrence Gowan, currently with Styx, is 52;

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die - #26. Miriam Makeba - Miriam Makeba (1960)

Miriam Makeba - Miriam Makeba (1960)

Track Listing (standout tracks listed in bold)

1. The Retreat Song (Jikele Maweni)
2. Suliram
3. The Click Song
4. Umhome
5. Olilili
6. Lakutshn, Ilanga
7. Mbube
8. The Naughty Little Flea
9. Where Does It Lead?
10. Nomeva
11. House Of The Rising Sun
12. Saduva
13. One More Dance - Charles Coleman

I must admit, I had never heard of Miriam Makeba before hearing this album, and to tell you the truth, I was not looking forward to listening to it. While I was not overly impressed with the record, I was pleasantly surprised.
Miriam’s mentor was Harry Belafonte, who accompanies her on some of the tracks – and wrote the liner notes for the lp. No wonder RCA Victor Records snapped her up and recorded this her first album in May 1960. Clearly, the label was hoping to repeat the success of Harry Belafonte. "The Naughty Little Flea," sounds like a Belefonte number . She too turns in a version of "House of the Rising Sun.", but unlike the dismal treatment given to the track by Joan Baez – reviewed early this week – this isn’t half bad. Such familiar type English material offset the songs sung in her native South African tongue of Xhosa. (I had to look it up). Makeba has a smooth voice and she uses it to its limit with the different range of material she recorded. This ever includes “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” which is here called “Mbube” sung in the original language.
Again not overly impressed with the record – but can recommend it – with reservations

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 21:
Dr. John is 68;

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die - #25. Elvis Presley - Elvis is Back! (1960)

Elvis Presley - Elvis is Back! (1960)




Track Listing (standout tracks listed in bold)


1. Make Me Know It

2. Fever

3. Girl Of My Best Friend

4. I Will Be Home Again

5. Dirty Dirty Feeling

6. Thrill Of Your Love

7. Soldier Boy

8. Such A Night

9. It Feels So Right

10. Girl Next Door

11. Like A Baby

12. Reconsider Baby



Fresh out of the Army Elvis Presley stepped into the studio looking to regain the status he had held before he left to serve our country. He turned in what may be his bet set of recordings of his entire career. I have always been fascinated with these sessions – 18 songs recorded in all with 12 selected for the album. . It's a slightly different Elvis here than the one who was drafted, still in fine voice yet slightly tamer. He jumps from style to style--from R&B (Such a Night) to pure pop (The Girl of My Best Friend) to doo-wop (Soldier Boy) to some of the hardest blues of his career (Reconsider Baby). He even makes transforms Peggy Lee’s "Fever" into his own. No hit singles, (, "It's Now or Never" and "Are You Lonesome Tonight" from these sessions were released as singles) just a great record and thankfully no indication of the "movie years" songs that was soon to follow. Highly recommended.
[Note - The 1999 remaster of this album features the complete sessions for a total of 18 songs, including the three singles and their B-sides from those sessions. I would seek this version out]

ABSOLUTE ROCK TOP 10 CD'S/DOWNLOADS FOR THIS WEEK
1. AC/DC...Black Ice
2. HINDER...Take It To The Limit
3. KID ROCK...Rock 'N' Roll Jesus
4. METALLICA...Death Magnetic
5. SLIPKNOT...All Hope Is Gone
6. SAVING ABEL...Saving Abel
7. DISTURBED...Indestructible
8. LINKIN PARK...Minutes To Midnight
9. 3 DOORS DOWN...3 Doors Down
10. SHINEDOWN...The Sound Of Madness

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 20:
Norman Greenbaum is 66; Joe Walsh is 61;

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die - #24. Joan Baez - Joan Baez (1960)

Joan Baez - Joan Baez (1960)

Track Listing (standout tracks listed in bold)

1. Silver Dagger
2. East Virginia
3. Fare Thee Well (Or Then Thousand Miles)
4. House Of The Rising Sun
5. All My Trials
6. Wildwood Flower
7. Donna Donna
8. John Riley
9. Rake and Rambling Boy
10. Little Moses
11. Mary Hamilton
12. Henry Martin
13. El Preso Numero Nueve

The female version of Bob Dylan. The main difference is Joan Baez didn’t write her own material, where as Dylan did. These are stark bare recordings of a young girl and her guitar letting the songs stand on their own merit – which they do for the most part. Unfortunately like Dylan – Joan cannot sing. Just 19 at the time she recorded the album, it was made up of mostly traditional songs. Including a dismal version "House of the Rising Sun". This record was difficult to get all the way through and I cannot recommend it.

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 19:
Matt Sorum from Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver is 48; Travis McNabb from Better Than Ezra is 39;

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die - #23. Dave Brubeck - Time Out (1959)

Dave Brubeck - Time Out (1959)

Track Listing (standout tracks in bold)

1. Blue Rondo A La Turk
2. Strange Meadow Lark
3. Take Five
4. Three To Get Ready
5. Kathy's Waltz
6. Everybody's Jumpin'
7. Pick Up Sticks

Another jazz album. Good thing that I’m liking the jazz albums that have been coming along as there have been quite a few. Considered Dave Brubeck's defining masterpiece, Time Out is said to be one of the most rhythmically innovative albums in all of jazz history! From what I read it is the the first jazz album to consciously explore time signatures outside of the standard 4/4 beat or 3/4 waltz time. It was considered a very risky move at the time. So much so the record company didn’t want to release it!
Time Out became an unexpectedly huge success, and you see it listed on all of the major ‘must have’ jazz lists – and is considered by many as one of the most popular jazz albums ever.
It is a nice listen and I can see where it belongs in even the most rudimentary jazz collection. Recommended.

November 18

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 18:
Herman Rarebell, formerly with the Scorpions, is 59; Kirk Hammett from Metallica is 46;

UPCOMING NEW RELEASES

UPCOMING ABSOLUTE ROCK NEW RELEASES:

November 18
Nickelback...Dark Horse;
Twisted Sister...Live At The Astoria;
Asia...Live In Moscow 1990
The Who...The Who At Kilburn 1977 (DVD)
Sammy Hagar...Cosmic Universal Fashion
Cinderella...Live At The Key Club 1998
The Doors...Live At The Matrix, San Francisco, March 10, 1967
Foo Fighters...Live At Wembley Stadium (DVD & BluRay)
Mudvayne...The New Game
Rod Stewart...The Definitive Rod Stewart (CD or CD/DVD Deluxe Edition)

November 23
Guns 'N' Roses...Chinese Democracy

November 25
Linkin Park...Road To Revolution (CD/DVD);
The Fireman...Electric Arguments;
Ian Gillan...The Difinitive Ian Gillan Live
Asia...Progressive Rock Friends
Asia...Live In Nottingham (extra tracks)

December 2
Queen...The Singles Collection (13 CD Box Set)

December 9
White Lion...La Nueva Kamada;
Bob Dylan...Changing Tracks (DVD);
Asia...Quadra (Box Set);

December 16
Bob Dylan...Playlist: The Very Best of Bob Dylan 1960's;

January 13
Stevie Nicks...The Soundstage Sessions;
Stevie Nicks...Live in Chicago (DVD);

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 17
Jim Babjak The Smithereens is 51; Ben Wilson from the Blues Traveler is 41;

November 16

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 16:
Dave Kushner from Velvet Revolver is 42;

November 15

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 15:
Chad Kroeger from Nickelback is 34;

November 14

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 14:
James Young from Styx is 59; Brian Yale from Matchbox 20 is 40; Tobin Esperance from Papa Roach is 29;

Top 10 CD's/Downloads For This Week

ABSOLUTE ROCK TOP 10 CD'S/DOWNLOADS FOR THIS WEEK:
1. AC/DC...Black Ice
2. HINDER...Take It To The Limit
3. METALLICA...Death Magnetic
4. KID ROCK...Rock 'N' Roll Jesus
5. SLIPKNOT...All Hope Is Gone
6. SAVING ABEL...Saving Abel
7. BUCKCHERRY...Black Butterfly
8. DISTURBED...Indestructible
9. LINKIN PARK...Minutes To Midnight
10. THEORY OF A DEADMAN...Scars And Souvenirs

Novembere 12

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 12:
Neil Young is 63; Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser from Blue Oyster Cult is 61; David Ellefson, formerly of Megadeth, is 44;

November 11

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 11:
Vince Martell from Vanilla Fudge is 63; Scott Mercado from Candlebox is 44;

UPCOMING ABSOLUTE ROCK NEW RELEASES

UPCOMING ABSOLUTE ROCK NEW RELEASES:

November 11 -
Stephen Stills...Just Roll Tape: April 26th,1968 (LP record);
J.D. Souther...If The World Was You (LP record release);
Justin Hayword & Friends...Sing Moody Blues Classics;
Living Colour...The Paris Concert (DVD);
Johnny Winter...Live Through The 70's (DVD);
Pink Floyd - Meddle (DVD);
Pink Floyd...Great Gig in the Sky: Album by Album Guide (DVD);
Deep Purple...Speed King (DVD);
Eric Johnson...Anaheim Live (DVD);
Cheap Trick...Budokan!(30th Anniversary DVD+3CDs) (Box Set);
AC/DC...Collector's Box
Live...Live at the Paradiso Amsterdam (CD or DVD);
Mudcrutch...Extended Play Live EP;
Slipknot...Rank Outsiders (DVD);
Smashing Pumpkins...If All Goes Wrong (DVDS);
Peter Green/Nigel Watson...The Robert Johnson Sogbook;
Warrant...They Came From Hollywood (DVD)

November 18
Nickelback...Dark Horse;
Twisted Sister...Live At The Astoria;

November 23
Guns 'N' Roses...Chinese Democracy

November 25
Linkin Park...Road To Revolution (CD/DVD);
The Fireman...Electric Arguments;
Ian Gillan...The Difinitive Ian Gillan Live

December 9
White Lion...La Nueva Kamada;
Bob Dylan...Changing Tracks (DVD);

December 16
Bob Dylan...Playlist: The Very Best of Bob Dylan 1960's;

January 13
Stevie Nicks...The Soundstage Sessions;
Stevie Nicks...Live in Chicago (DVD);

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 10:
Greg Lake from Emerson, Lake and Palmer is 61; Chris Jannou from Silverchair is 29;

November 8

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 8:
Bonnie Raitt is 59;

November 7

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 7:
Greg Tribbett from Mudvayne is 40; Zach Myers from Shinedown is 25;

Top 10 CD's/Downloads For This Week

TOP 10 CD'S/DOWNLOADS FOR THIS WEEK:
1. AC/DC...Black Ice
2. METALLICA...Death Magnetic
3. KID ROCK...Rock 'N' Roll Jesus
4. SLIPKNOT...All Hope Is Gone
5. QUEEN + PAUL RODGERS...The Cosmos Rocks
6. SAVING ABEL...Saving Abel
7. BOB DYLAN...The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs - Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006
8. DISTURBED...Indestructible
9. JOURNEY...Revelation
10. STAIND...The Illusion Of Progress

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 6:
Glenn Frey from The Eagles is 60; Corey Glover from Living Colour is 44;

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die - #22. Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959)

Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959)


Track Listing

1. Big Iron
2. Cool Water
3. Billy The Kid
4. Hundred And Sixty Acres
5. They're Hanging Me Tonight
6. Strawberry Roan
7. El Paso
8. In The Valley
9. Master's Call
10. Running Gun
11. Little Green Valley
12. Utah Carol

Marty Robbins has a pretty smooth voice. Other than that it’s hard to say a lot good about this album. It’s not that I HATED it – it just seemed like it was the same song – over and over and over!! I read that it is the “single most influential album of Western songs in post-World War II American music”. That very well may be – but it’s just not my kinda thing. "El Paso" is a time worn classic that really just drags on and on. Actually kind of hard to believe radio would actually play such a long track in 1959! Not recommended.

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 5:
Art Garfunkel is 67; Bryan Adams is 49;

November 4

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 4:
Delbert McClinton is 68;

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die - #21. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)

Track Lisiting (standout tracks in bold)

1. So What
2. Freddie Freeloader
3. Blue In Green
4. All Blues
5. Flamenco Sketches

This is a record generally considered as the definitive jazz album of all time. EVER. A universally acknowledged standard of jazz music excellence. And it truly is a ‘beautiful’ album to listen to. Each of the tracks (there are only 5) is simple, to the point. Each tune has a similar relaxed feel to it, and the music flows easily like a crisp stream on a cool winters day. The musicians read like a whose who of jazz greats: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, etc.., how could they go wrong. Reading the liner notes one finds that the band never played any of the selections through prior to recording them. Miles provided the basic layouts for the songs and then the band just improvised. When researching a bit about the album a line that stood out was “if you don’t like ‘Kind of Blue’ – you don’t like jazz.” That DOES pretty much sum it up!
Highly recommended

New Releases

UPCOMING ABSOLUTE ROCK NEW RELEASES:

November 4 - Hinder...Take It To The Limit (CD/DVD Combo); Canned Heat...Boogie House Tapes, Vol. 3: Recorded Electrically; George Lynch...Let The Truth be Known; ZZ Top...Live From Texas (CD or CD/DVD Combo); Steve Walsh...Shadowman; Jackson Browne...Solo Acoustic 1 & 2;
November 11 - Stephen Stills...Just Roll Tape: April 26th,1968 (LP record); J.D. Souther...If The World Was You (LP record release); Justin Hayword & Friends...Sing Moody Blues Classics; Living Colour...The Paris Concert (DVD); Johnny Winter...Live Through The 70's (DVD); Pink Floyd - Meddle (DVD); Pink Floyd...Great Gig in the Sky: Album by Album Guide (DVD); Deep Purple...Speed King (DVD);
November 18 - Nickelback...Dark Horse;
November 25 - Linkin Park...Road To Revolution (CD/DVD); The Fireman...Electric Arguments;
December 9 - White Lion...La Nueva Kamada; Bob Dylan...Changing Tracks (DVD);
January 13 - Stevie Nicks...The Soundstage Sessions; Stevie Nicks...Live in Chicago (DVD);

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 3:
Adam Ant is 54; C.J. Pierce from Drowning Pool is 36;

November 2

ABSOLUTE ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 2:
Keith Emerson from Emerson, Lake and Palmer is 64; J.D. Souther is 63; Carter Beauford from The Dave Matthews Band is 51; Bobby Dall from Poison is 45; Fieldy from Korn is 39;