Supposedly at a gig that had a low ceiling his guitar hit the ceiling and broke. In frustration he just wound up smashing it. The audience went nuts and the incident got a lot of press. Eventually Who audiences expected to see this demolition every night.

The beautiful 'Concert for Bangladesh'? ...

The funds were dwindled away in legal wranglings that lasted years, never making it to the intended oppressed ...

Jimi Hendrix was a sideman for many groups before he went to England and got successful. He played with The Isley Brothers, Little Richard, Curtis Night and the Squires...among others, but his strangest gig was backing the then famous wrestler Gorgeous George.

Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page were musical collaborators, jamming together before the inception of Led Zeppelin.

Beck's 1968 single "Beck's Bolero" was recorded by the lineup of Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, John Entwhistle and Keith Moon.

In the Zep vein, Beck most definitely gave Page some ideas.

For instance, the first Jeff Beck Group album contains a cover of the Willie Dixon song "You Shook Me."

Coincidentally (???? or not ???) ...

The first Led Zeppelin album contains the very same song ...

Jimmy Page claimed it as his own without ever giving Beck any credit.

It is fabled that Page's future band name was supplied by Keith Moon at the "Beck's Bolero" session.

Moon is said to have commented that his and Entwhistle's participation in the project would "go over like a lead zeppelin" with The Who's management.

No, you're correct, it's Moon, but he did the recordings in secret so as not to piss off the rest of the guys in The Who -- which he wound up doing anyway when they finally found out about it.

Jimmy Page asked Steve Marriott of Humble Pie to sing for Led Zeppelin before he met Robert Plant.

Didya know that Lead Belly, the 'King of the 12-string guitar' , had a very volatile temper that was known to land him into trouble with the law? It is a wonder he had a music recording career at all.

Bob Dylan once noted that Lead Belly was ... "One of the few ex-cons who recorded a popular children’s album".

His various convictions sent him to prison 3 times!

His first time was done for the carrying of a pistol.

Next, he landed in the pokey for killing one of his relatives, Will Stafford, in a fight over a woman. He only did 7 yr., on a 7 to 35 term.

The third time he was convicted for attempted homicide, as he had knifed a man in a fight. There, in Angola prison, he was 'discovered' by musicologists John Lomax and his 18-year-old son Alan Lomax, during a visit to the prison farm. They recorded hundreds of his songs on portable aluminum disc recording equipment for the Library of Congress. He was soon after released early for good behaviour, having served 4 years.

The rest is our good fortune of musical history ...

( He was also Nirvana's favourite musician ...)

Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), better known as Howlin' Wolf was one hella big man ...

One hella big voice...

At 6 feet, 6 inches (198 cm) and close to 300 pounds (136 kg), he was an imposing presence with one of the loudest and most memorable voices of all the "classic" 1950s Chicago blues singers.

Howlin' Wolf's voice has been compared to "the sound of heavy machinery operating on a gravel road".

Lil red Rooster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXrwiJEj7eg

Back Door Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyAa4Xp3sTg&feature=fvw

Spoonful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TwEYuues6Y&feature=related

The Blues is short for 'blue devils' – a term that was frequently used at the turn of the 20th century to describe sadness or depression.

The term also comes from the notes frequently used in the music – the so-called 'blue notes'.

Blue notes, also called worried notes, are played at a pitch lower than that of the major scale.

Blue notes can be created with an instrument or sung, but they are always used to give a song a haunting, melancholic tone.

Various blues sub genres use the blue notes differently and use different alterations – this is one of the main ways to distinguish between blues sub genres.

... Ah, come on all ya shy music savants ... Talk music ... I wanna know more!!! ...

I know ya are out there w/ your gems ... throw 'em down ...

Big Bill Broonzy once set a hotel on fire while touring Europe cuz' he tried to cook a rabbit in a coffee percolator.

... At once disturbingly past creepy, yet logically country dumb ...

Neil Young used to jam with Devo. Some members of Devo also worked for an ad agency and had a contract for Rustoleum spray paint. They came up with the slogan "Rust Never Sleeps".. Neil liked it so much he used it as the title for what would become one of his greatest records.

... and then what happened ... Oh! ... I know one ...

Ahhh, maybe some don't know that Neil Young owns and performs w/ THE original and senior Hank Williams' acoustic guitar ...

Hmmm...how'd ya' learn that?

Chrissy Hynde of the Pretenders was a music critic and living in London at the time (she's from Ohio) and wrote a negative review of a record. The band she wrote the negative review about contacted her and said "If you know so much about music why don't you write any songs"..attempting to ridicule her. She took up the dare and wrote Talk of The Town and formed the Pretenders. The rest is history.

No keepin' score ... and the Neil Young/Hank Williams guitar info is also on my Heart of Gold DVD ...

Need some new material here ...

Keith Richards recorded an album with Peter Tosh that remain un-released.

John Lee Hooker stuttered all his life. The only time he didn't stutter was when he'd sing.