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When I was a kid, like most I was fearless.  Well, that is until I was around six years old when, thinking I was all that, I said, "I can watch that movie, it won't scare me".  Famous last words.  The movie?  Kingdom of the Spiders and to this day, I'm beyond HIGHLY arachnophobic.  I can't to see or hear anything about spiders without getting freaked out.  Snakes?  Nahhh, I'm ok w/ snakes, so it is in half fear and half bravery that I offer up this happy birthday to you.  Does anyone out there remember the song Spiders & Snakes?  It's filed in the same music file as the song Sneaky Snake in my memory bank of music.  Jim Stafford, who is famous for the creepy crawly song turns 65 today.



As I was older, I used the same phrase about another movie that should have probably scared me, as it stared the Bee Gees, George Burns and the singer/songwriter that this fact is actually going to be about.  Any guesses as to what movie I'm talking about? If you hven't guessed, it was Sergeant Pepper, starring Peter Frampton.  An on this day in rock, in 1976, he released Frampton Comes Alive.  It went to gold within 5 weeks and went to platinum in fewer than 3 months.  In the first year the album sold 19 million copies.  With that success, I guess the answer to that question is, "No, I don't feel like you do".  (OH, and for the record I LOVED the movie.)

How would you like to be flying your seaplane, minding your own business, when all of a sudden Jamaican authorities open fire on your plane?  In 1996, this very thing happened to Jimmy Buffett and his passenger Bono of U2.  The authorities mistook Buffett's plane for a drug trafficker's plane.  Neither Buffett nor Bono were injured.  Do you think that one of the guys on the ground pointed at the sky and said, "Boss, the plane, the plane"?  Ok, I know, bad joke, but as I loved Fantasy Island I had to throw a small tidbit out there in honor of Ricardo Montalban who passed away at the age of 88 on Wednesday.

And fianlly, on this day in 1999 famous Los Angeles night club the Whiskey A Go-Go celebrated their 35th anniversary and had a week long celebration of concerts featuring artists who had previously performed there, including:  Grass Roots, the Robby Krieger Band, Johnny Rivers, Nancy Sinatra, Randy Bachman, Jan & Dean, and Martha Reeves.  When I think of the Whiskey, I think of Motley Crue.  Maybe they'll get invited to play at the next celebration.

Well, this brings another edition of This Day In Rock to a close for this week.  Be sure to check back on Monday, as it will be a new day, a new week, with new (well, really, old since we're looking into the past) facts.  Have a great weekend!!!