Fans of Live Music

02/18/2025

Ritchie Blackmore Cal Jam 1973

02/17/2025

Yes recording their album 'Fragile' at Advision Studios in London, September 1971. Left to right: guitarist Steve Howe, bassist Chris Squire, drummer Bill Bruford, singer Jon Anderson and keyboard player Rick Wakeman. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)

02/17/2025

Kayleigh
Do you remember?
Chalk hearts melting on a playground wall
Do you remember?
Dawn escapes from moon washed college halls
Do you remember?
The cherry blossom in the market square
Do you remember?
I thought it was confetti in our hair

02/16/2025

Happy birthday Jake E Lee
Ozzy and many more bands.

02/15/2025

Name them left to right

02/13/2025

Keith Richards with his Doctors bag and Mick Jagger

02/12/2025

Grand Funk Railroad circa 1973 with producer Todd Rundgren, who was responsible for buffing up the band’s sound to where they had a breakthrough hit “We’re An American Band”! Note the appropriate hat on Todd! Todd was a friend of Tommy Bolin and of course Max Carl is now in Grand Funk.
We're an American Band was the group's first collaboration with producer-engineer Todd Rundgren. Rundgren and the band recorded the album at Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida on June 13–15, 1973. Rundgren would go on to produce the band's next album, Shinin' On (1974).

02/12/2025

Blind Faith

02/11/2025

John “Ozzy” Osbourne was invited to join the band that became Black Sabbath because he had his own PA system. Guitarist Tony Iommi was looking for a singer for his new band, and saw a flyer in the local music shop that said:

OZZY ZIG REQUIRES GIG! HAS OWN PA

Tony knew Ozzy from school, and strongly disliked him. In fact, Tony used to bully him in school, and generally thought he was a useless twerp. Tony thought it couldn’t possibly be the same Ozzy - Ozzy Osbourne was no singer, and where would a family as poor as the Osbournes get the money to buy a PA system, anyway? Where would anyone in that section of Birmingham get the money for that?! That was a very expensive piece of musical equipment relatively speaking.

As it turns out, it was the same Ozzy, and his father had, incredibly, spent a small fortune to finance the purchase of a PA system for his non-musician, ne’er do well son John. This is pretty outlandish since the Osbourne family was indeed poor, and John was just one of many siblings. Why the elder Mr. Osbourne decided to go into serious hock to buy Ozzy a PA is a mystery to this day, even to Ozzy.

However, there it was. A singer with his own PA? Tony couldn’t say no at that point, and overcame his dislike of Ozzy to invite both him and Ozzy’s friend Terry “Geezer” Butler to join his nascent band. And the rest is history.

02/11/2025

“Although I assumed she had eyes, I never saw them”…Billy Idol.

02/11/2025

The Rolling Stones at Madison Square Garden, 1969. Tour photography by Ethan Russell.

02/11/2025

On the way out with an armfull already🤔

02/04/2025

Pink Floyd, Steve O’Rourke, Rick Wright w Juliette and Nick Mason w Lindy in Japan in March 1972.Pink Floyd, Steve O’Rourke, Rick Wright w Juliette and Nick Mason w Lindy in Japan in March 1972.

02/04/2025

Robert Plant and Jimmy Page

02/04/2025

02/02/2025

Tony Iommi

02/02/2025

So young Lynyrd Skynyrd 😍

01/31/2025

Lynyrd Skynyrd. Who's missing from this picture from previous years?