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.
1987 Licensed To Ill by the Beastie Boys becomes the first rap album to top the U.S. chart.
1992 Soundgarden‘s Badmotorfinger is certified gold.
2001 Just Push Play by Aerosmith is released.
2001 Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland releases the first album from his side project Big Dumb Face.
2005 Nickelback confirms that former 3 Doors Down drummer Daniel Adair has officially joined the band, replacing Ryan Vikedal.
2005 The New York Times publishes a lengthy article reporting that after 11 years and $13 million in production costs, Chinese Democracy, the long-delayed new album from Guns N’ Roses, is still nowhere near completion.
2006 System Of A Down announces that they will headline their fourth annual Souls benefit concert, on April 23rd in Los Angeles, to raise awareness of the Armenian genocide. But the band cancels the event only a few days later.
2007 Sevendust releases its sixth studio album, called Alpha.