The Day In Rock 6/29

1965 – The Red Dog Saloon, one of America’s earliest important rock clubs opens in San Francisco
1966 – The Beatles are awarded a Gold Record for the LP Yesterday…and Today.
1967 – Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are both found guilty on drug charges stemming from a February 27 1967 bust at Keith’s home in West Wittering, England. Mick is sentenced to three months in jail and is sent to Brixton Prison. Keith is sentenced to a year. Fans are shocked and outraged.
1968 - Pink Floyd organizes and head lines a free concert in London’s Hyde Park with Roy Harper and Jethro Tull as opening acts. The same day. Pink Floyd’s second LP A Saucerful Of Secrets is released.
1968 – The Amboy Dukes “ Journey To The Center Of Your Mind “ with Ted Nugent on guitar is released.
1974 – Ted Turner quits Wishbone Ash to form his own group and is replaced by Laurie Wisefield.
1975 – Singer song writer, Tim Buckley dies of a morphine-heroin overdose in a Los Angeles hospital. Ten days later a research assistant at UCLA is charged with second-dergree murder for furnishing Buckley with drugs that caused his death
1978 - Peter Frampton suffers a broken arm, cracked ribs and scalp cuts when his cars skids and crashes in the Bahamas.
1979 – Lowell George, the prolific singer, songwriter, gutarist and founder of Little Feat dies of a heart attack in Washington DC while touring with his own new group.

BIRTHDAYS
Ian Paice, Nottingham England 1948, Drummer and founding member of Deep Purple, then Whitesnake.
Little Eva, born Eva Boyd, Belhaven, North Carolina, 1945. Carole King’s baby sitter before becoming popular with a recording of Kings “Locomotion”