Join Gunner as 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 first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published in San Francisco, with John Lennon on the cover. A free roach clip was included in the first issue.
1990 Kiss closes its Hot In The Shade tour at Madison Square Garden in New York City. It’s the last show drummer Eric Carr plays with the band, as he is soon diagnosed with cancer and dies a year later.
1993 Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee is arrested for trying to conceal a gun on an airplane.
1994 Hole singer Courtney Love chases singer-songwriter Mary Lou Lord down Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, shouting, “You killed my husband and I’m going to kill you.” Lord claimed to have had an affair with Love’s husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, before his death in April 1994.
1995 The Red Hot Chili Peppers are forced to cancel several tour dates when drummer Chad Smith breaks his wrist.
1996 Best Of Volume 1 by Van Halen enters the album chart at Number One.
2000 Godsmack‘s second album, Awake, debuts at Number Five on the Billboard 200, with first-week sales of over 260,000 copies.
2003 Disturbed announces on its web site that it’s parted ways with original bassist Steve “Fuzz” Kmak. He is later replaced by John Moyer.
2004 Green Day‘s major label home, Reprise Records, reissues the debut album from the Network, a mysterious group rumored — but never confirmed — to actually be Green Day in disguise.
2005 Although the band is defunct at the time, Blink-182‘s Greatest Hits debuts at Number Six on the Billboard 200 with close to 72,000 copies sold.
2007 Korn singer Jonathan Davis kicks off his first-ever solo tour in Hartford, Connecticut.
2007 Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx‘s ex-wife, model and actress Donna D’Errico, collapses in the restroom of a Los Angeles courthouse during their divorce proceedings. Although paramedics are called to the scene, D’Errico eventually leaves the courthouse on her own, saying she’s suffering from asthma.
2011 Metallica‘s collaborative album with former Velvet Underground singer Lou Reed, Lulu, sells just 13,000 copies in the U.S. in its first week of release to debut at Number 36 on the Billboard album chart. This is the lowest sales number and chart position of Metallica’s career since SoundScan began tracking album sales in 1991.
Today’s Birthdays
- Nick Lachey (singer, ex-husband of Jessica Simpson) (45)
- Vanessa Minnillo (former host, TRL; married to Nick Lachey) (38)
- Eric Dane (actor, Grey’s Anatomy) (46)
- Lou Ferrigno (bodybuilder-actor, The Incredible Hulk) (67)
- <align=left>Bob Gibson (Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher) (83)</align=left>
- Dee Plakas (drummer, L7) (58)
- Joe Bouchard (original bassist, Blue Oyster Cult) (70)