1965, The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane played at the opening night of San Francisco”s Fillmore West. 1965, The Rolling Stones started a two week run at number one on the singles chart with “Get Off Of My Cloud,” the group’s second chart topper. The song knocked The Beatles “Yesterday” from the top spot. 1966, […]
Today in Rock History – November 2
1965, The Who perform at The Marquee in London where they break box office records for the venue. 1966, “Mississippi” John Hurt, country blues singer and guitarist, died of a heart attack in his home state of Mississippi. Material recorded by him has been re-released by many record labels over the years and his songs […]
Today in Rock History – October 28
1964, the first of two nights billed as the “T.A.M.I. Show” took place at the Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, and The Rolling Stones all performed. The best footage from each of the two concert dates was edited into a 123-minute film, […]
Beyond Beyond 3D
I’m Uncle Marty, this is our 503rd get together on The 3D RadioActivity, and since we went ABOVE HIGH last time, our next stop is to look at borderlines and perimeters as we go BEYOND BEYOND. Going BEYOND is fun, next time we’ll give you plenty of REASONS to have more. Don’t forget to send me your fun suggestions by email or leave […]
Above High RadioActivity 🎼☢️
I’m your Uncle Marty, as The 3D RadioActivity hits the 502 mark as this time our aim is to see how far we can get ABOVE HIGH RadioActivity! ☢️ 🎶 😎 Some people aim low, we were positive by going HIGH in the show, after we passed ABOVE too, so BEYOND will be the natural segueway for us on our next sonic celebration. What’s on […]
Concert Review: Three Dog Night at the Genesee Theatre
“Lots of bands play deep album cuts on tour,” said Three Dog Night founding member Danny Hutton wryly. “We’re going to play deep album hits.” The seventeen-song, ninety minute set was well received by the sold out crowd of 2400 at the restored 1920’s era movie palace in Waukegan, Illinois. Our music guru Eric Berman […]
AfteRadioactivity
I’m your Uncle Marty, we have made it to 501st edition of The 3D RadioActivity, this time pursuing artists and tracks while spotlighting a subsequent following is what we’re going AFTER. ☢️ 🎵 😎 We’re nearly done with looking AFTER your musical thirst, as we try to continue to go ABOVE and BEYOND your anticipation. Got any suggestions for either of those? Tell me by […]
500 B43D
Welcome to the Quincentennial of The 3D RadioActivity! Your Uncle Marty never imagined that we would achieve 500 regular episodes, 67% of them with unique features; containing over 9100 songs, with 679 hours of programming, while not repeating a track for well over 300 adventures… That’s nearly six and a half years! You won’t hear something […]
Boogie Takes the Fifth!
This is the 499th edition of The 3D RadioActivity with your Uncle Marty as we finish up our Summertime Seconds Series of Selections, looking at earlier episodes that simply had too much good music for one or two… And in this case, the fifth feature, although we did touch on the theme enough to do […]
Today in Rock History – September 8
1966, The Who appeared at the Locarno Ballroon in Stevenage, England. This UK tour was notable for the addition of the single, “I’m A Boy” to the band’s repertoire. 1968, Pink Floyd were forced to cancel a performance at the Chatelet Teenage Festival in Belgium due to work permit problems. There were some violent reactions […]
