TRIVIA
Today’s Question: 15 years ago today (September 30th, 1999), former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and Donna Godchaux sang the national anthem at the San Francisco Giants’ final game at Candlestick Park.
What was the name of the group Godchaux and her late husband, Keith, formed after leaving the Grateful Dead in 1980?
a) Fiddleworms
b) Truckers Favorites
c) Heart of Gold Band
d) Acid-Washed Genes
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ANNIVERSARIES
2008-James Taylor releases Covers as a Starbucks exclusive. The 12-song C-D puts J-T’s stamp on such classics as Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away,” Glen Campbell’s “Wichita Lineman,” Junior Walker’s “I’m a Road Runner” and The Drifters’ “On Broadway.”
2006-Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews headline Farm Aid 2006 in Camden, New Jersey.
1999-Former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and Donna Godchaux sing the national anthem at the San Francisco Giants final game at Candlestick Park.
1997–Bob Dylan releases Time Out of Mind, which will win him his first major Grammy, for Best Album.
1997-The Rolling Stones release Bridges to Babylon.
1994-R-E-M singer Michael Stipe signs a movie development deal with New Line Cinema.
1993-George Harrison and David Crosby make guest appearances on The Simpsons.
1991-Metallica’s single of “Enter Sandman” is certified gold.
1989-Neil Young performs “Rockin’ in the Free World” on Saturday Night Live.
1989-The Rolling Stones shoot a “Rock and a Hard Place” video at Foxboro-Sullivan Stadium near Boston.
1988-John Lennon receives a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1987-Roy Orbison films a T-V special and records the Black and White Night Live album at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles. Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Waits and Elvis Costello are his guests.
1973-Elton John’s Baltimore Civic Center concert spawns controversy. Angered over how security guards treat a fan, Elton dismisses them midway through the show. He then asks people to dance in the aisles — and hundreds storm the stage. That gets the British rocker barred from performing in Maryland for seven years.
1969-On the day the Crosby, Stills and Nash album goes gold, David Crosby’s girlfriend Christine Gail Hinton is killed in a head-on auto accident.
1967-John Lennon and Paul McCartney espouse the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s doctrine of transcendental meditation on The David Frost Show.
1961-Bob Dylan plays harmonica on three cuts on a Carolyn Hester album. Her producer, John Hammond, ends up signing Dylan to Columbia Records.
BIRTHDAYS
Marc Bolan (Mark Fedd)-Died in 1977
The singer, writer and guitarist of T. Rex was a British chart monster whose lone U.S. success was “Bang a Gong (Get It On).” He died in a car wreck in London on September 16th, 1977 two weeks before his 30th birthday. Born in 1947.
Gus Dudgeon-Died in 2002
Best known as Elton John’s producer, he engineered sessions for The Rolling Stones, The Zombies, Small Faces, (Van Morrison’s) Them and Marianne Faithfull in the ’60s. Ten Years After’s debut was the first album he produced. He also did David Bowie’s “Space Oddity.” He died in a car wreck July 22nd, 2002 at 59. Born in 1942.
Dewey Martin (Walter Midkiff)-Died in 2009
The onetime Buffalo Springfield drummer died of natural causes January 31st, 2009 at 68. Born in 1940.
TRIVIA ANSWER
c) Heart of Gold Band
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