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.
1977 Van Halen is offered a contract by Warner Bros. Records executives Mo Ostin and Ted Templeman at the Starwood in Los Angeles.
1992 Nirvana‘s “Come As You Are” peaks at Number 32 on the pop chart.
1996 Everclear‘s Sparkle And Fade album is certified platinum.
2000 AC/DC‘s Stiff Upper Lip and Pantera‘s Reinventing The Steel are both certified gold.
2006 Pearl Jam releases their self-titled eighth studio album.
2006 Tool releases 10,000 Days, their first new effort in five years.
2006 Australian trio Wolfmother releases their self-titled debut album.
2006 Through his Big Vin label, former Pantera and Damageplan drummer Vinnie Paul releases Rebel Meets Rebel, an album featuring the last completed recordings by his late brother and bandmate, guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott.
2006 Shinedown spends the day in New Orleans assisting Habitat For Humanity in rebuilding homes that were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, playing an acoustic set for the workers at the end of the day before playing at the House of Blues that night.
2006 White Stripes / Raconteurs singer and guitarist Jack White and his then-wife, model Karen Elson, welcome their first child, a daughter named Scarlett.
2013 Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman passes away from liver failure at the age of 49. He had not played with the band for more than two years since contracting necrotizing fasciitis, also known as flesh-eating disease, from a spider bite in his backyard in January 2011.
Today’s Birthdays
Steve Bays (lead singer, Hot Hot Heat) (40)
Donatella Versace (Italian fashion designer) (63)
Lou Gramm (former singer, Foreigner) (68)