Time to take a look back into this day in rock history: February 17
Brian Wilson’s opus, “Good Vibrations”, gets it’s first takes in the studio, the first of eleven sessions. It will be for the time the most expensive single ever recorded. It will also be the last Beach Boys’ single to hit the top ten for a decade.
James Taylor joins Linda Ronstadt, Tony Joe White and Neil Young on The Johnny Cash Show.
1973
Notice the opening act for the Mahavishnu Orchestra’s Case Western Reserve University gig.
Poster courtesy of Raw Sugar Studio
1978
An explosive set by the Patti Smith Group at Oberlin’s Finney Chapel.
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Akron’s Bob Casale, guitarist for Devo, dies of heart failure at the age of 61.
