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  An important piece of music history was lost when the doors of the fabledFillmore Eastclosed forever on June 27, 1971. The venue was opened on March 8, 1968, by promoter Bill Graham in Manhattan as a sister theater to his Fillmore West located in San Francisco. In its just over three years of operation, the Fillmore East’s stage was held by the who’s who of rock & roll royalty, including…
Read More Eric Clapton broke the record for most expensive guitar sold when he auctioned off “Brownie”, his 1956 Fender Stratocaster, for $497,500 on June 24, 1999. Purchased in 1967 second hand from London’s Sound City, the famous guitar was used during Clapton’s time with Cream, the Derek and the Domino sessions as well as his debut solo album. He parted with his beloved Fender to raise money for the drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic he founded the year prior, The Crossroads Centre, and can now be seen at…
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Buddy Guy andJunior Wells bring a helping of Chicago flavor to the Ann Arbor Blues Festival in 1969. Photo by Jim Marshall.
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Led Zeppelinplows through its furious cover of “I Can’t Quite You Baby” at London’s Royal Albert Hall on January 9, 1970. The blues classic was written by Willie Dixon and originally recorded and released by Otis Rush in 1956.
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The ever eclectic Taj Mahal performs“Come Into My Kitchen” as a tribute to the one of the most legendary blues musicians of all time, the late Robert Johnson.
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Welcome back toTribut’s This Week in Pop Culture! This time around, we’re looking at pop-culture happenings during the week of June 26 through July 2. Let’s get it started!
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