I ended up with a copy Ani's first cassette when it came out out towards the end of my senior year of high school. Freshman year of college, I somehow ended up in charge of the daytime coffeehouse concert budget at my college, and booked her for a gig in late March of 1992. Her early performances were just unbelievable.

Quote from: Nova Constellatio on September 23, 2026, 08:04:13 AMI ended up with a copy Ani's first cassette when it came out out towards the end of my senior year of high school. Freshman year of college, I somehow ended up in charge of the daytime coffeehouse concert budget at my college, and booked her for a gig in late March of 1992. Her early performances were just unbelievable.

My connection to today's list is one name up.  When I first went to college in '74, I quickly became close friends with a guy from Freehold, NJ (the one who dubbed me "Cozmik Cowboy"; I named my youngest after him, and we're still in occasional contact).  He turned me on to this guy he'd gone to high school with, and whose little sister he'd dated for a while; said the guy's 3rd album had just come out.  So I ran out & bought all 3.
A few weeks later, Born To Run hit massively.
I was 18, and Bruce was writing songs that spoke directly to me.
He kept writing like that - but I haven't been 18 for more than a week now......

On a side note, my friend ended up teaching at that college for 40 years - and has 2 self-issued albums of originals.

Peter (who will still claim hipness points for being into Bruce before most had heard of him)

Quote from: cozmik_cowboy on September 23, 2026, 07:39:04 AMSteve Boone (1943)

Starting back down the Lovin' Spoonful rabbit hole.

"Blind Lemon" Jefferson (1893)
Gerry Marsden (1942)
Jerry Donahue (1946)

Lemon was actually Mr. Jefferson's given name.

Peter

Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes (1936)
Jerry Penrod (1946)

Peter

Marty Robbins (1925)
Tiran Porter (1948)

Peter

Mighty Joe Young (1927)
Don Nix (1941)
Randy Bachman (1943)

Peter

Mighty Joe Young was 1949. 

hehehehe

Bill, tgo

Quote from: lbpesq on September 27, 2026, 09:08:55 AMMighty Joe Young was 1949. 

hehehehe

Bill, tgo

Nyuk nyuk

The last drummer I worked for full-time spent a number of years in the elder Mighty Joe's band.

Peter

 Klaus Karl Kassbaum, AKA Nick St. Nicholas (1943)

Peter

Franny Beecher (1921)
Mike Pinera (1948)
Alex Skolnick (1968)

Peter

Marc Bolan (1947)
Marty Stuart (1958)

There have been comments ruing the posting of kids who were born after us; that isn't nearly as hard to swallow as a white-haired elder statesmen like Mr. Stuart being born after.......

Peter

Albert Collins (1932)
Lou Pallo (1934)
Martin Turner (1947)
Earl Slick* (1952)

*Not related to Jerry & Darby; Earl's government name is Frank Mondeloni.

Peter

Don McLean (1945)
Mike Rutherford (1950)

Peter

Eddie Cochran (1938)
Lindsey Buckingham (1949)
Kevin "Keb' Mo" Moore (1951)
Stevie Rave On (1954)
Allen Woody (1955)

Peter