http://bestofclassicrock.com The Best of Classic Rock news, interviews, concert tours, birthdays and more. Huge directory of Classic Rock websites. Make the Best of Classic Rock your news source. Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:13:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Its March 12th....and 60 years ago today Little Feat's co-founder and keyboardist extraordinaire Bill Payne was born. That's Bill in the picture above on the right, and on the left we have the band in a recent photo, and another from their early days in the 1970's. This amazing group (I ... http://bestofclassicrock.com/bill-paynes-60th-birthday-little-feat-all-that-you-dream/ A happy 62nd birthday to Tom Scholz, founder, guitarist and guiding light of Boston, the legendary band he founded in 1975, and signed to Epic Records after the company heard demos submitted by Scholz.Tom had a day job at Polaroid as an engineer, and moonlighted as a guitarist in a ... http://bestofclassicrock.com/tom-scholz-62-today-boston-dont-look-back/ The great voice and guitarist of Pink Floyd David Gilmour turns 63 today, still as brilliant a musician and artist as ever.His website goes into more detail and has samples of some of his new original compositions. But below, from that same collection recorded live in Gdansk, comes the song ... http://bestofclassicrock.com/happy-63rd-birthday-david-gilmour/ Today singer/bassist Chris Squire of the legendary band Yes turns 61. Chris has the distinction of being the only member of Yes to appear on every one of their records, and be the only "Yes Man" to be in everyone of their many lineups. On February 11th of this year ... http://bestofclassicrock.com/chris-squires-61st-birthday/ Singer, musician, actor, entrepreneur, humanitarian, all around good guy, and the pride of Sayreville, NJ, happy birthday Jon Bon Jovi!Here's a message from Jon and the guys.........And a live performance of I Love This Town recorded in Chicago.BONUS VIDEO!In early December Rutgers destroyed Louisville in football, 63-14. With about four ... http://bestofclassicrock.com/happy-47th-birthday-jon-bon-jovi/ Geesh!!!! I almost blew it- its George Thorogood's 59th birthday (time sure flies, doesn't it?)Here's one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer (make mine Sam Adams Winter Lager).....For a guy who's Bad To The Bone http://bestofclassicrock.com/happy-birthday-george-thorogood-bad-to-the-bone/ Its a Happy 57th birthday for Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford, one rare American who's had the same job for nearly 40 years....with a couple of notable breaks along the way. There's such a back catalogue of Aerosmith material that sometimes its hard to make a choice on what video to put ... http://bestofclassicrock.com/happy-birthday-brad-whitford-aerosmith-sweet-emotion/