On This Date in Music History

While the Will Ferrell/Chad Smith Drum Off was fun, it didn’t reach the heights of the Adam Deitch/Stanton Moore Drum Off on Jam Cruise 12.

Watch Nigel Hall and The Shady Horns steal the show on a performance of “Stay (Wasting Time” with the Dave Matthews Band.

Gov’t Mule played their first show 20 years ago tonight.

Watch Frank Zappa and his band perform the instrumental “Black Napkins” during a 1976 visit to The Mike Douglas Show.

A look back at one of the few shows Phish played as a five-piece.

JamBase editor ScottyB shares a remembrance of his first Phish show, which took place 26 years ago today.

Watch the first CSNY performance in over two years at San Francisco’s Winterland on October 4, 1973.

JamBase’s ScottyB looks back on what we lost when Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain committed suicide 20 years ago, including rare video of one of the band’s finest performances.

Watch Talking Heads perform “Burning Down The House” and “Psycho Killer” at the 2002 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony.

Watch most of Beck and the Flaming Lips appearance on long-running music television show Austin City Limits.

Listen to The Slip perform “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)” by Michael Jackson on Halloween ’02.

Famed drummer Walfredo Reyes discusses the Phish song bearing his name.

Watch a 1993 MTV News report on that summer’s H.O.R.D.E. tour featuring Widespread Panic, The Samples, Big Head Todd & more.

Fifteen years ago tonight Trey Anastasio debuted a trio referred to as the Trey Anastasio Band at a benefit at Higher Ground.

Mickey “Dean Ween” Melchiondo recalls the night Ween opened for and met rap star Busta Rhymes.

We present an Allman Brothers Band video a year from 1980 – 1982 and 1989 – 1995 as the second installment of our Through The Years feature.

We’ve compiled a handful of YouTube clips featuring the Allman Brothers Band that were filmed in the ’70s.

Watch Richie Havens sit in with The Band on “I Shall Be Released” at Arrowhead Ranch in the Summer of 1991.