On this day in 1968 the Band released Music From Big Pink.  The debut album from the musicians that had backed Bob Dylan was titled in recognition of the house in West Saugerties, New York that Rick Danko rented and became the site that many early songs were written and worked on by the group before booking time in New York and LA studios to record the eventual album versions.  The house was also the site many of the songs on the 1975 Bob Dylan and The Band Basement Tapes double album were recorded in.

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on July 1 include...

 

1915 Willie Dixon born.

1935 James Cotton born.

1939 Delaney Bramlett born.

1945 Blondie’s Deborah Harry born.

1948 Strawbs John Ford born.

1951 Fred Schneider of the B-52's born.

1952 Blues Brother Dan Ackroyd born.

1965 John Lennon publishes  A Spaniard In The Works.

1968 John Lennon’s first art exhibit opens in London.

1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono family injured in Scotland car wreck.

1970 Jimi Hendrix records at Electric Ladyland Studio for the first time.

1972 Doobie Brothers release Toulouse Street.

1973 Jesus Christ Superstar ends 720 performance Broadway run.

1975 Ringo Starr and Maureen Cox divorce.

1976 Peter Frampton cracks ribs in fall from stage during Hartford, Connecticut concert.

1981 Steppenwolf bassist John Morey killed in car wreck.

1983 Jon Bon Jovi signs with Mercury Records.

1984 Steven Tyler jumps from stage and breaks an ankle during Aerosmith concert in Grayslake, Illinois. Finishes set from a wheel chair.

1987 Grateful Dead release In the Dark.
1990 Dire Straits reunites for  an album and tour.

1995 Wolfman Jack dies of heart attack.

1999 Blues Traveler's John Popper undergoes angioplasty to address chest pain.

2000 Bruce Springsteen closes out his E Street Band reunion tour on the group's 10th night at Madison Square Garden.

2009 Aerosmith cancels Ohio concert on short notice, the first in a series of canceled shows on the ill-fated tour that would end with Steven Tyler falling off the stage in Sturgis, SD in August.

2019 Gary Duncan of Quicksilver Messenger Service dies at 72.