Gene Vincent In 1956 “Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps” recorded and released “Be-Bop-A-Lula” which went on to sell over 200,000 copies and eventually became a fifties rock-n-roll classic and

Sid Vicious Perhaps the most controversial musician of the punk movement (If you can really call him a musician, because it has been debated if he actually knew how to

Henry “The Sunflower” Vestine Henry Vestine was born in Tacoma Park, Maryland on Christmas day 1944. In 1966 he joined “Canned Heat” as their lead guitarist. Newly christened as “The

Dino Valenti Originally slated to be the bands lead singer Dino Valenti joined Quicksilver Messenger Service after he got out of jail in the late sixties. Abandoning the loose-knit jam

Rob Tyner Fred “Sonic” Smith Rob Tyner and Fred “Sonic” Smith were members of the group “MC5” (Motor City Five). The “MC5” were radical rock-n-roll revolutionaries who took left-wing politics

Peter Tosh Peter Tosh was a reggae musician who once played with Bob Marley and the Wailers. In the mid-seventies he went solo and released “Legalize It”. The album cover

Steve Took Steve Took was Marc Bolan’s right hand man providing percussion for “T. Rex” who enjoyed brief superstardom in the early 70’s. Steve Took had just gotten a healthy

Johnny Thunders Billy Murcia Johnny Thunders and Billy Murcia were members of the early seventies “glitter rock” group “The New York Dolls”. The group dared to go were no band

Gary Thain David Byron David Byron was lead singer and Gary Thain bass player for “Uriah Heep” (named after a Charles Dickens character in “Tales of Two Cities”) , who

Joe Tex Joe Tex was a journeyman “soul singer” thru-out the sixties who hit in 1972 with the single “I Gotcha”. He eventually became a muslim and converted his last