Rock Source Music Facts Day by Day


May 22 1936	Blues vocalist Alice Moore records Telephone Blues with Peetie Wheatstraw on piano and Kokomo Arnold on guitar, for Decca Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1936)
May 22 1950	Popular country music vocalist and guitarist Buddy Bishop sets off with The Great Levant Show, on a tour of Queensland, Australia. (1950)
May 22 1961	Jimmy Rogers plays the eleventh night of two weeks in the Camellia house Lounge at The Drake Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1961)
May 22 1961	Aspiring rock guitarist Jeff Beck leaves Wimbledon School of Art in the UK. (1961)
May 22 1962	Guitarist Bruce Welch collapses during a show by The Shadows in Blackpool, UK. He is diagnosed as suffering from a septic throat and told to rest for a week. (1962)
May 22 1962	Jesse Valenzuela, guitarist of The Gin Blossoms, is born in the USA. (1962)
May 22 1964	The Yardbirds, with Eric Clapton on lead guitar, play at The Marquee Club, Wardour Street, Soho, London, UK. (1964)
May 22 2002	Alien Ant Farm are involved in a tour bus crash in Spain, Europe. Their driver is killed, vocalist Dryden Mitchell suffers serious back injuries, guitarist Terry Corso breaks his ankle, bassist Tye Zamora injures his foot and drummer Mike Cosgrove is treated for cuts and bruises. (2002)
May 22 2011	Four dead dogs are discovered in 'sealed containers' at the Tennessee, USA, home of Vinnie Vincent, a former Kiss guitarist, during an investigation into charges of assault against his wife. Vincent is arrested by the Rutherford County Sheriff's Department but is released after posting $10,000 bond. (2011)
May 22 2011	Taj Mahal receives an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA. (2011)
May 22 2012	The Wine Of Silence, recorded live at The Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland, Europe, in 2003 by avant-grade rock guitarist Robert Fripp, Andrew Keeling, David Singleton and The Metropole Orkest conducted by Jan Stulen, is finally released as a CD on Discipline Global Mobile Records. (2012)
May 22 2012	Slash releases his second album, Apocalyptic Love, on Dik Hayd International Records. (2012)