Drummer Hal Blaine Literally Left His Stamp On Popular Music

from Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson · host Brady Carlson

Born today in 1929, Hal Blaine, a session drummer who played on not just some of the biggest hits of the 1960s, but hundreds of them. Plus: today in 1999, the first major online livestream, which brought something like 1.5 million users together to watch a Victoria’s Secret fashion show. Remembering Hal Blaine (Drum Magazine)February 5, 1999: First Major Webcast in Victoria’s Secret (This Day In Tech History via Archive.org) Keep this show marching to the beat of its own drummer as a backer on Patreon

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