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.
1969 Jimi Hendrix, accompanied by bassist Billy Cox and percussionists Jerry Velez and Juma Sultan, performs “Lover Man” on The Tonight Show.
1979 Kiss‘s Dynasty is certified triple platinum.
1991 The owners and promoters of a suburban St. Louis amphitheater sue Guns N’ Roses, claiming that actions by the band led to a July 2nd riot that injured 75 people. The band says that poor security was to blame.
1993 Pearl Jam supports Neil Young at a concert at a 200-year-old castle in Dublin, Ireland. The crowd breaks through the crash barriers and dozens of semi-conscious fans have to be ferried to the first-aid tent.
1995 The Offspring‘s Smash album is certified quintuple platinum.
2002 Eddie Van Halen and wife Valerie Bertinelli confirm that they are divorcing after 21 years of marriage.
2004 OzzFest kicks off in Hartford, Connecticut. Judas Priest and Black Sabbath co-headline the tour.
2007 The Smashing Pumpkins release Zeitgeist, the first new album under the Pumpkins banner since frontman Billy Corgan disbanded the group in late 2000.
2013 Hinder vocalist Austin Winkler leaves the band’s current tour due to unspecified personal reasons. He never returns to the group.
2016 Blink-182‘s seventh album, California, lands at Number One on the Billboard 200 album chart, selling 186,000 copies in its first week of release. It is the band’s second chart-topper following 2001’s Take Off Your Pants And Jacket, and first without singer/guitarist Tom DeLonge.
Today’s Birthdays
- Sofia Vergara (actress, Gloria on Modern Family) (46)
- Jessica Simpson (pop singer, former wife of Nick Lachey) (38)
- Adrian Grenier (actor, “Vincent Chase” on Entourage) (42)
- Elijah Blue Allman (Cher and Gregg Allman’s son, lead singer of the band Deadsy) (42)
- Peter DiStefano (guitar, Porno For Pyros) (53)
- Ron Glass (actor, played Detective Ron Harris on TV’s Barney Miller) (73)