In The Rock 11/17/1984: The Los Angeles Police Department Riot Squad welcome The Ramones, Black Flag and The Minutemen to The L.A. Palladium. Photo by Edward Plover

In The Rock 11/17/1971: The Faces release their third album, ‘A Nod Is as Good as a Wink to a Blind Horse’. Scholars debate the meaning of that title to this day. #TheFaces #RodStewart #RonWood #RockHonorRoll

Happy Birthday to Raymond John Pepperell, better known as East Bay Ray, founding guitarist for the Dead Kennedys, born 11/17/1948. #EastBayRay #DeadKennedys #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/17/1980: John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Grammy-winning ‘Double Fantasy’ hits the racks in record stores. #JohnAndYoko #RockHonorRoll

Born In The Rock 11/17/1966: The late, great Jeff Buckley, singer, songwriter, guitarist, gone far too soon. #JeffBuckley #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/17/1967: A 16 date UK package tour with Jimi Hendrix, The Move, The Nice, Amen Corner and Pink Floyd plays City Hall, Sheffield. #PinkFloyd #JimiHendrix #RockHonorRoll

Happy Birthday to Martin Lancelot Barre, longtime lead guitarist for Jethro Tull, “Aqualung”, “Locomotive Breath”, “Thick as a Brick”, plus Grammy winner for best Heavy Metal Performance with JT in 1987. Born in the rock 11/17/1946. #JethroTull #MartinBarre #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/17/1971: The Faces release “Stay With Me”; it’s a master class on 5 piece boogie-woogie rock & roll. 50+ years on, it gets better every time it’s played. An artifact of an era that’s gone, it landed at #10 on Cashbox for 2 weeks. #TheFaces #RockHonorRoll

Happy Birthday Jim Babjak, singer, songwriter, composer, and coffee impresario perhaps best known as co-founder and lead guitarist for The Smithereens, born 11/17/1957. #JimBabjak #TheSmithereens #CollegeRock #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/17/1963: Mick and Keef meet singer Gene Pitney on Thank Your Lucky Stars. Pitney hits big with the song “That Girl Belongs To Yesterday”. #RollingStones #GenePitney #RockHonorRoll

Born In The Rock 11/17/1944: The late, great Gene Clark, founding member & one-time chief songwriter for The Byrds, penning “Eight Miles High”, “I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better” and many others. Clark brought the country influence to The Byrds, and to the world.

Bummerversary 11/16/1985: Starship’s “We Built This City”, tops the Hot 100 chart. Purportedly a screed against corporate rock, but created by SIX major league music writers and producers. GQ, Rolling Stone and Blender called shenanigans: “[It] reeks of '80s corporate-rock commercialism."

In The Rock 11/16/1973: NBC airs David Bowie’s ‘1980 Floor Show’, taped at The Marquee Club in London. Marianne Faithful and The Troggs guest star. It confuses, underwhelms, and fails to launch his post Ziggy persona. #DavidBowie #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/16/1971: Led Zeppelin’s self titled debut goes gold, 2 years after its’ release. #LedZep #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/16/2005: CBS airs ‘I Walk The Line: A Night For Johnny Cash’ featuring tribute performances from U2, Sheryl Crow, Foo Fighters, Kris Kristopherson and Jerry Lee Lewis, among others. #JohnnyCash #ManInBlack #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/16/1979: Aerosmith’s sixth studio LP ‘Night in the Ruts’ hits the racks. The band was hurting, and this record shows it. Joe left the band midway through recording, and critics were not kind. The band claims to love the record despite its flaws; it goes platinum in 1994.

This Week On The Chart 11/16/1968: The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s ‘Electric Ladyland’ hits the top of the Album Chart, spending two weeks at number one. #JimiHendrix #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/16/1960: Patsy Cline records “I Fall to Pieces” her first crossover hit, No.1 hit on the country and #12 on the pop chart.

This Week On The Chart 11/16/1974: John Lennon reaches the top of the Hot 100 Singles Chart for the first time as a solo artist with “Whatever Gets You thru the Night”. Elton John played piano & sang backup vocals, Bobby Keys supplied the sax. #JohnLennon #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/16/1993: Blur drop their second release in America. ‘Modern Life is Rubbish’ is hitless in the US, but sets the table for growth to come. Much like The Who and The Kinks, they’re broadly perceived as being “too British” for the States. #Blur #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/16/1981: New Orleans’ based Red Rockers release their debut LP ‘Condition Red’. #RedRockers

Rock In Peace Todd Snider, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, storyteller and all around alright guy - gone on that big beer run in the sky, way before his time.

In The Rock 11/15/1986: The Beastie Boys’ first full length record, ‘Licensed To Ill’, drops and changes what the world thought it knew about hip hop. #BBoys #BeastieBoys #RickRubin #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/15/1965: The Rolling Stones make the scene on NBC’s Hullabaloo, performing “Get Off Of My Cloud”. #RollingStones #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/15/1992: Ozzy Osbourne announces his retirement from touring after a gig in California, saying “Who wants to be touring at 46?” Well, Ozzy is finally off the road, and it only took eternity to make it happen. #Ozzy #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/15/1971: Grand Funk Railroad release ‘E Pluribus Funk’. The critics bash the album, but the fans buy it. #GrandFunkRailroad #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/15/1974: The Faces release “You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything,” their last single. #TheFaces #RodStewart #RockHonorRoll

Happy Birthday to Andrew Scott, drummer, guitarist, singer/songwriter to the Amazing yet under appreciated Nova Scotian band, Sloan. Born 11/15/1967. #AndrewScott #Sloan #CanadianContent #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/15/1977: NYC Max’s Kansas City - Devo blast the crowd with a spud-infused, art damaged brilliance. David Bowie introduces the band, they do the rest. This gig was the beginning of the end, the pinnacle of success before mounting the precipice of fame and fortune. Photo Ebet Roberts

In The Rock 11/15/1983: Ozzy releases ‘Bark at the Moon’ in the States. It’s Jake Lee’s first record on lead guitar, mixed by JBJ’s cousin Tony. It’s sold over 3 million copies. #Ozzy #RockHonorRoll uk 12/2

This Week On The Charts 11/15/1986: Eddie Money peaks at number four on the Hot 100 Singles Chart with “Take Me Home Tonight” which was Money’s first top ten single in the U.S. #EddieMoney #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/15/1956: Elvis makes his film debut in the cowboy flick, Love Me Tender. #Elvis #RockHonorRoll

Happy birthday to Nina Rachel Gordon Shapiro, aka Nina Gordon, vocalist, guitarist and co-founder of Veruca Salt, solo artist, rocker, born in the rock 11/14/1967. #Ninagordon #VerucaSalt

This Week On The Charts 11/14/2009: Foo Fighters start a 2 week run on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart with “Wheels,” from their Greatest Hits set. #FooFighters #RockHonorRoll

This Week On The Chart 11/14/1967: “Incense and Peppermints” hits #1 the Cashbox singles chart, Strawberry Alarm Clock’s only trip to the top. #StrawberryAlarmClock #Nuggets #GarageRockHonorRoll

Born In The Rock 11/14/1951: the late, great Frankie Banali, drummer for Quiet Riot, W.A.S.P. & Billy Idol and more. #FrankieBanali #RockHonorRoll #QuietRiot

In The Rock 11/14/1977: Kiss kick off their tour in support of ‘Alive II’ at the Myriad Convention Center in Oklahoma City. Major tour to support a live album? Only Kiss could make this happen. #kiss #kissalive #rockhonorroll

Happy Birthday James ‘JY’ Young, mainstay lead guitar, songwriter for Styx, JY is the only member to have played on every Styx album - he is the hard rocking, still rocking, beating heart of the band. Born 11/14/1949. #JY #JamesYoung #Styx #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/14/81: The Go Go’s make their national TV debut when they are the musical guest on SNL. #GoGos #SNL #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/14/1989: Ministry release ‘The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste’, helping push Industrial Metal into the forefront of the nascent alt rock scene. #Ministry

Happy Birthday Brendan Benson, Detroitish born Racontuer, solo artist, singer/songwriter, power popper, multi-instrumentalist, rocker, born 11/14/1970. #BrendanBenson #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/14/1956: Jerry Lee Lewis cuts his first sessions for Sun Records, the tracks include “Crazy Arms”. #SunRecords #JerryLeeLewis #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/13/1968: Yellow Submarine Sandwich, the non-acclaimed animated movie based on the music of The Rutles premieres in U.S. theaters to mild non-acclaim. #Rutles #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/13/1964: The Rolling Stones bring their brand of noise to Dayton, Ohio’s Hara Arena. Fewer than 1000 seats were sold, and the reviews were not kind. #RollingStones #haraarena #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/13/1992: EA drops Crue Ball, a video pinball game for Sega Genesis “based” on Mötley Crüe, featuring three of their songs, ‘Dr. Feelgood’, ‘Live Wire’ & ‘Home Sweet Home. #MötleyCrüe #Sega #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/13/1968: Yellow Submarine, the animated movie based upon the music of The Beatles, premieres in U.S. theaters. #Beatles #RockHonorRoll

This Week On The Charts 11/13/1971: Santana reach the top of the Album Chart for the second time with ‘Santana 3’, which spends five weeks at number one. Santana won’t return to the top of the chart again until 1999 with Supernatural. #Santana #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/13/1965: The Castiles, with a young Bruce Springsteen on guitar, harmonica and vocals, headline at The Fire House in Hazlet, New Jersey. #BruceSpringsteen #NewJerseyRocks #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 11/13/1964: Decca Records releases “Little Red Rooster” by The Rolling Stones, in England. Written by Willie Dixon, it was the only time a blues song has ever topped the UK pop charts. #RollingStones #WillieDixon #RockHonorRoll

This Week On The Charts 11/13/1976: Peter Frampton peaks at number ten on the Hot 100 Singles Chart with ‘Do You Feel Like We Do’, making it Frampton’s second top ten single in the U.S. #PeterFrampton #RockHonorRoll