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 Jimi Hendrix Experience appears on the BBC TV show Top Of The Pops to lip-sync “Purple Haze.” When a technician accidentally puts in a tape of Alan Price‘s “Simon Smith And His Amazing Dancing Bear,” Hendrix remarks, “I don’t know the words to that one, man.”
1974 The Ramones — a trio consisting of Johnny Ramone on guitar, Dee Dee Ramone on bass, and Joey Ramone on drums — make their live debut in front of about 30 people at the Performance Studio in New York City.
1978 While still in school, U2 wins 500 British pounds and an audition for CBS Records at a talent contest in Limerick, Ireland.
1981 U2 demands cash for a concert in Lubbock, Texas, at which point the club owner takes out a gun and tells them they’ll take a check like everyone else.
1994 Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain leaves the Exodus Recovery Center rehab program in Marina Del Ray, California, and returns home to Seattle. There, he talks his friend Dylan Carlson into buying him a 20-gauge shotgun, claiming he needs it for “protection.” Carlson agrees, purchases the gun, and gives it to Cobain, whom he never sees alive again.
1995 U2 accuses a pirate condom company of exploiting their image on packs of condoms sold in pub vending machines throughout Britain. The bootlegs quickly become collector’s items.
1995 Members of Rage Against The Machine reportedly come to blows while working on their second album.
1999 Kiss cancels three concert dates in Russia because of anti-American feelings spurred by the bombing of Yugoslavia
2004 3 Doors Down bass player Todd Harrell is found innocent of assault after being accused of punching and kicking a 53-year-old newspaper carrier who claimed Harrell was stealing papers from a Mississippi gas station.
2005 Ozzy Osbourne appears on Last Call With Carson Daly.
2005 Queens Of The Stone Age‘s fourth album, Lullabies To Paralyze, debuts at Number Five on the Billboard 200 album chart. The disc sells nearly 97,000 copies in its first week of release, making it the best debut in the group’s history.
2007 Former Creed vocalist Scott Stapp settles an invasion of privacy suit against the distributors of a homemade sex video that Stapp and Kid Rock made in 1999, which featured Stapp and Rock engaging in explicit sex acts with four women on a tour bus. Terms of the settlement are not disclosed.
2008 Ex-Soundgarden and Audioslave singer Chris Cornell announces that he has enlisted hip hop/R&B heavyweight Timbaland to produce his third solo album.