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2007 – Stu Sweatman begins prototyping the idea for “THIS DAY IN ROCK” website, where you can find many facts about musicians and what happend on a given day in history!
He joined forces with John Myer’s to create the information base you see. Although the site contains facts from all genres, we tried to focus in on Rock in all forms.
2005 – Brian Wilson issues a desperate plea for any information on the whereabouts of Markus Sandlund, a cellist from the Stockholm Strings & Horns who played on his recently released recreation of the lost Beach Boys album “SMiLE.” Sandlund had been vacationing in Thailand when the area was battered by a tsunami following a Dec. 26 earthquake in the Indian Ocean.
2002 – Dorothy Delay, a Julliard School violin teacher and musical powerhouse whose students over a half-century include such luminaries as Itzhak Perlman and Midori, dies of cancer at her home in Upper Nyack, N.Y. She is 84.
2002 – The No.1 album in America is the soundtrack to O Brother Where Art Thou?, with performances by bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley and vocalist-fiddler Alison Krauss.
1998 – Puff Daddy and Jimmy Page are musical guests on “Saturday Night Live.” The two perform their collaboration “Come To Me,” which borrows heavily from Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir.”
1994 – Papa John Creach, the 76-year-old violinist with Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, dies of heart failure.
Name:
John Henry Creach
Born:
May 28, 1917, Beaver Falls, PA
Died:
Feb 22, 1994, Midway Hospital, Los Angeles, CA. (Pneumonia following heart attack)
Siblings:
4 Sisters, 5 Brothers.
Spouse:
Gretchen, (1964 or 1966 – 1994)
Children:
None
Biography:
Born in Beaver Falls, PA, the 18-year-old John Creach began playing violin in Chicago bars when the family moved there in 1935, and eventually joined a local cabaret band, the Chocolate Music Bars. Moving to L.A. in 1945, he played in the Chi Chi Club, spent time working on an ocean liner, appeared in “a couple of pictures”, and performed as a duo with Nina Russell.
In 1967, while playing at the Parisian Room, he was “discovered” by drummer Joey Covington. When Covington joined the Airplane in 1970, he introduced them to Creach, who was invited to join Hot Tuna. The audience reaction to his tune-up alone convined the rest of the Airplane that he was a worth-while addition to the bands line-up. He would remain with the band, although legally regarded as a hired hand, for the next five years, before leaving in August 1975 to concentrate on his solo career. Despite this, he returned as a guest performer on the spring 1978 Jefferson Starship tour. A year later, he renewed his working relationship with Joey Covington as a member of the San Francisco All-Stars (1979-84), and also Covington’s Airplane predecessor, Spencer Dryden, as a member of the Dinosaurs (1982-89). He also continued with occasional guest appearances with Hot Tuna, and was on stage at the Fillmore West that night in 1988 when Casady and Kaukonen were reunited with Kantner and Slick for the first time since the end of the Airplane.
In 1992, he became one of the original members of Jefferson Starship – The Next Generation, and performed with them until suffering a heart attack during the 1994 L.A. earthquake. This led to him contracting pneumonia, from which he died at the age of 76.
Select Discography:
All Jefferson Airplane releases, 1970-72
“Papa John Creach.” (1971)
“Filthy.” (1972)
“Playing My Fiddle For You.” (1974)
“Dragonfly.” – Jefferson Starship (1974)
“I’m the Fiddle Man.” (1975)
“Red Octopus.” – Jefferson Starship
“The Cat and the Fiddle.” (1977)
“Papa Blues.” (1992)
Trivia:
His nick-name of “Papa” John was given to him by Joey Covington.
1991 – “Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio” debuts at Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral. McCartney co-writes the 90-minute work with American-born composer Carl Davis to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Liverpool’s Royal Philharmonic.
1972 – Electric Light Orchestra makes its live debut at the Greyhound Club in Surrey, England. The group has seven top 10 hits, the biggest of which is “Don’t Bring Me Down” in 1979.
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