Join Gunner has he goes over all the important Rock dates in history weekdays at 3:50. Relive all the chart-topping moments, milestones, bad breakups and first times again.
There will be no hall pass today. Here’s what happened today in Rock N’ Roll.
1967, The Jimi Hendrix Experience opens for the Soft Machine at the Roundhouse in London.
1968, “The Silent Sun” by Genesis is released. It’s the group’s debut single.
1989, Metallica becomes the first metal band to ever perform at the Grammy Awards, when they play their song “One.”
1997, “Discotheque” by U2 enters the pop chart at its peak position of Number 10.
1999, Kiss shoot the photos for their Got Milk? ad campaign.
2000, Bono and Sting are both given the Rock The Vote Patrick Lippert Award during a ceremony at the House Of Blues in Los Angeles.
2002, Queen Of The Damned, based on the novel by Anne Rice and starring Stuart Townsend and the late Aaliyah, opens nationwide. Korn singer Jonathan Davis writes and provides the vocals for the songs performed in the film by Townsend’s character, the vampire rock star Lestat.
2003, Bush‘s Gavin Rossdale, former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider, Fuel singer Bret Scallions, and surprise guest Kid Rock all take the stage to jam together at a Rock The Vote event in New York City.
2005, Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme begins coughing up blood in his Paris hotel room, forcing the band to cancel the rest of their European tour. Homme is diagnosed with a serious lung infection.
2005, Following several days of rumors that Blink-182 had broken up, the band announces that they’re going on “indefinite hiatus.”
2005, Korn officially announces that founding guitarist Brian “Head” Welch has left the band after 13 years to devote his life to Christianity.
2007, Godsmack singer Sully Erna publishes a memoir titled The Paths We Choose.
2017, Eddie Van Halen donates 75 guitars from his personal collection to the music education non-profit Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation.