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.
1992 The Lemonheads release It’s A Shame About Ray.
1993 The Kiss album Alive III is released, the same day the band is inducted into the Hollywood Rock Walk.
1999 Radiohead releases its tour documentary, Meeting People Is Easy, on home video.
2003 Metallica plays the first of four hometown club shows at San Francisco’s Fillmore Theatre, focusing on material from the band’s earliest albums.
2004 Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood is hired as composer-in-residence by the BBC in England, assigned to write and produce modern classical pieces for the BBC Concert Orchestra.
2004 Black Sabbath is announced as the headlining act for that summer’s Ozzfest for the first time in three years.
2004 Metallica is given the first-ever ASCAP Creative Voice Award.
2006 Alice In Chains is joined onstage by Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, Screaming Trees/Queens Of The Stone Age singer Mark Lanegan and Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan in Los Angeles at the official kick-off of the reunited band’s five-date U.S. mini-tour.
2006 Guns N’ Roses plays an ultra-secret acoustic gig in New York City at a small club called Plum, as part of a birthday party for actress Rosario Dawson.
2007 The White Stripes play an intimate show at the Cannery Ballroom in Nashville, Tennessee, marking their first performance since December of 2005.
2014 Stone Sour officially announces that it has fired guitarist Jim Root. Root and singer Corey Taylor continue to work together in Slipknot.
2015 Pearl Jam‘s Eddie Vedder performs as one of the final musical guests for David Letterman‘s run as host of Late Show, delivering a powerful version of the band’s “Better Man” two nights before Letterman signs off.
Today’s Birthdays
Page Hamilton (singer/guitarist, Helmet) (58)
Mark Mothersbaugh (frontman, Devo) (68)
Rick Wakeman (keyboardist, Yes) (69)