On this day in music history…

In 1965, The Myddle Class headlined a concert in the auditorium at Summit High School in Summit, New Jersey. The opening slot went to an unknown band that had never played a show before. They played three songs to a somewhat bewildered crowd: “There She Goes Again,” “Venus in Furs,” and “Heroin.” All three of those songs would end up on their debut album 15 months later. That band was The Velvet Underground.
 

In 1972, Genesis performed live in concert for the first time in the U.S., at Cholmondeley’s Coffee House on the campus of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. The show was a warm-up for two days later, when they’d play the Philharmonic Hall in New York. The band’s lineup consisted of Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, and Steve Hackett.
 

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