HEAVY BIRTHDAYS

Happy 75th  
Robert Troy "Bobby" Kimball (TOTO) - March 29th, 1947

The 19 year-old guitarist on the song was the legendary Steve Lukather and he told BraveWords recently that: “The first hit always has a special memory. David Paich wrote a great song, put us on the map. But we knew what we wanted. We had all been working with other people and making records for other people at that point. I had just started becoming a studio musician, really. I was out with Boz Scaggs for that summer tour, Silk Degrees, one of his biggest tours. Seven nights at the Greek sold out, it was a magical time for me as a young kid at that time to jump in at such a high level. We had already been doing some demos for Toto in January of that year and we went out in the summer with Boz. Jeff (Porcaro; drums) and I were on that tour, and Steve Porcaro (keyboards) was on that tour. We just had the greatest time, and when we got back, Sony offered us a deal. It was Columbia at the time. We didn't really have anything, we were just doing demos, and so David had this trick bag of songs that could go no wrong, so we went in and started cutting. And what you got was the first album. Then we had to figure out how to play it live."

Happy 63rd  
Peretz Bernstein (aka Perry Farrell) (JANE'S ADDICTION, PORNO FOR PYROS) - March 29th, 1959

Happy 58th  
DONNIE VIE (ENUFF Z’NUFF) – March 29th, 1964

HEAVY RELEASES

Happy 47th  
JEFF BECK’s Blow By Blow - March 29th, 1975 

Happy 40th  
SCORPIONS’ Blackout - March 29th, 1982

Happy 38th
GWAR’s This Toilet Earth - March 29, 1994

Happy 23rd
GAMMA RAY’s Power Plant - March 29, 1999 

Happy 14th  
DREAM THEATER's Greatest Hit (...and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs) - March 29th, 2008

Happy 11th  
AMON AMARTH’s Surtur Rising – March 29th, 2011

BECOMING THE ARCHETYPE’s Celestial Completion – March 29th, 2011
BLACKGUARD’s Firefight – March 29th, 2011
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME’s Best Of – March 29th, 2011
CAVALERA CONSPIRACY’s Blunt Force Trauma – March 29th, 2011
OBSCURA’s Omnivium – March 29th, 2011
ALEX SKOLNICK’s Alex Skolnick Trio – March 29th, 2011

Happy 9th
PERSEFONE’s Spiritual Migration – March 29th, 2013

Happy 3rd  
ANTHEM's Nucleus (compilation album) - March 29th, 2019
DEVIN TOWNSEND's Empath - March 29th, 2019
FOREVER STILL's Breathe in Colours - March 29th, 2019
I PREVAIL's Trauma - March 29th, 2019
L.A. GUNS' The Devil You Know - March 29th, 2019

MANOWAR's The Final Battle I (EP) - March 29th, 2019
NIGHTRAGE's Wolf to Man - March 29th, 2019
OKILLY DOKILLY's Howdilly Twodilly - March 29th, 2019
WHITECHAPEL's The Valley - March 29th, 2019