Throwback: Happy 54th Birthday, Chad Taylor!

November is here y’all! And of course, it means that the year has flown by before our eyes. 

Much like the ten months before it, November is full of birthdays. So let’s get to it, right? 

• Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ frontman Anthony Kiedis celebrated his 62nd birthday on November 1
• Nelly, one of the most commercially successful artists of the early 2000s celebrated his 50th birthday on November 2 
• Mobb Deep’s Prodigy  was born 50 years ago on November 2
• Onyx’s Sticky Fingaz celebrated his 51st birthday on November 3
• The Screaming Eagle of Soul, Charles Bradley was born 76 years ago on November 5
• Bryan Adams celebrated his 65 — holy shit, 65th! — birthday on November 5
• Radiohead‘s and The Smile‘s Jonny Greenwood celebrated his 53rd birthday on November 5
• The Eagles‘ Glenn Frey was born on this day 76 years ago on November 6
• The incomparable and legendary Joni Mitchell celebrated her 81st birthday on November 7
• Eric B and Rakim‘s Eric B celebrates his 61st birthday today 
• Scarface celebrated his 54th birthday on November 9
• Warren G. celebrated his 54th birthday on November 10
• XTC co-founder and primary songwriter Andy Partridge celebrated his 71st birthday on November 11
• The legendary Neil Young (a.k.a. God) celebrated his 79th birthday on November 12
• Run DMC‘s Rev. Run celebrated his 60th — yes, 60th! — birthday on November 15
• Wu-Tang Clan‘s Ol’ Dirty Bastard was born 56 years ago today on November 15
• Metallica‘s Kirk Hammett celebrated his 62nd birthday on November 18
• The legendary Dr. John was born 83 years ago on November 20
• The Beastie Boys’ Mike D celebrated his 59^th birthday on November 20
• Björk celebrated her 59th birthday on November 21The Talking Heads’ and Tom Tom Club’s Tina Weymouth celebrates her 74^th birthday today
• Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Karen O celebrated her 46^th birthday on November 22

Live’s Chad Taylor celebrates his 54^th birthday today. Coming of age in the 90s, I played Live’s Throwing Copper, Secret Samadhi and The Distance to Here quite a bit — with Throwing Copper and Secret Samadhi being among my favorites.

Taylor has played an important role in some of the material that served as part of the soundtrack of my life. Happy birthday, Chad! May there be many, many more!