2019 JOHNTALKRADIO SHOWS-TIMMONS BROTHERS GUEST APPEARANCES
Remembering Live Concert Tragedies on the 50th and 40th Anniversaries:The Rolling Stones and The Who
Original air date: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at 8:00 pm
On Saturday, December 6, 1969, the Rolling Stones arranged a counterculture free rock festival at the Altamont Speedway in northern California to cap off their 1969 USA tour with a concert that would be the West Coast equivalent of Woodstock less than four months earlier in both scale and spirit. Without securing a venue for the festival until two days before the show, the hasty move resulted in numerous logistical problems including a lack of planning, of facilities, of food, and questionable security. It became be an epic event, but for all the wrong reasons when four people died.
On Monday, December 3, 1979, The Who was in Cincinnati as part of their World Tour for a sold-out concert with the majority of the seats being unassigned general admission tickets that were first-come, first-served. Although the concert was not scheduled to start until 8 p.m., a radio station announced that ticket holders would be admitted at 3:00 p.m. This resulted in confusion with an early large arriving crowd, only two unlocked arena doors, and a surge of many people who thought the concert was starting early. The event left eleven concert-goers dead and twenty-six others injured.
Tonight, the Timmons Brothers remember these two tragedies on the 50th and 40th anniversary of each and why we cannot forget these and other similar live concert tragedies.
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"THE BEATLES - 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF ABBEY ROAD (THE LAST ALBUM?)
Original air date: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 8:00 pm
In the USA, nearly every Beatles fan did not know the album Abbey Road was the group’s last album as an active band until many years later when stories began to circulate that the Let It Be album had been recorded earlier, but not released due to differences on the final production. With the benefit of hindsight, we now know Abbey Road was recorded off and on over several months from February to August of 1969 after the Let It Be sessions. In a malaise of years being together of wearing the crown as the preeminent superstars in the world of rock, the Beatles could have easily succumbed to the pressures of unrealistic expectations, negative business dealings, the death of a manager, and complex love affairs. However, they set aside their differences and reunited with producer George Martin in the studio to release an eloquent grand finale worthy of a band often called the greatest group in the world. Released on September 26, 1969 in the UK and a week later on October 3, 1969 in the USA, The Timmons Brothers will analyze and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the release of the album with one of the most recognizable and iconic covers – Abbey Road.
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“50th ANNIVERSARY OF WOODSTOCK: A LOOK BACK AT AUGUST 1969”
Original air date: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 at 8:00 pm
The Timmons Brothers are back on John Talk Radio with a special look at the 50th Anniversary of the Woodstock Festival.
Despite multiple setbacks including change of venue weeks before the festival, the organizers accidentally hired people who had no experience in food concessions, and last-minute ban on off-duty police officers from working the festival (and this does not begin to address the many setbacks during the festival), the Woodstock Music Festival of 1969 became possibly the most popular music event in history and has become a lexicon of the 1960's counterculture generation. Listed by Rolling Stone magazine as number 19 of the 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll, the performances of 32 acts before nearly 400,000 remains the core of many iconic moments. Once called “An Aquarian Exposition: Three Days of Peace and Music,” join the Timmons Brothers for the “50th Anniversary of Woodstock: A Lookback at August 1969”.
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“CHICAGO - THE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL BAND WITH HORNS: 1967-1978"
Original Air date: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 8pm
The Timmons Brothers are back on John Talk Radio with a review of the band Chicago.
As a testament to their longevity, they are the first American band to ever chart albums in Billboard’s Pop Top 40 in six consecutive decades, the highest charting American band in Billboard’s Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists, and the #4 band on Billboard’s All-Time Top Bands and Duos list. However, the focus for the Timmons Brothers is the era when the band was known for writing politically charged rock music to fulfill the group’s self-proclaimed description as a rock ‘n’ roll band with horns. Formed in 1967, the band did not lack confidence as reflected in their first name, The Big Thing. Later they changed their name to the Chicago Transit Authority before settling on the name Chicago after the release of their first album in 1969. A Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee in 2016, this is the story of Chicago 1967-1978.
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