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.
1996 The Sex Pistols play their first U.S. gig in 18 years in Colorado. Reuters reports that Johnny Rotten was using an oxygen tank between songs. Rotten does an interview with USA Today, criticizing bands like Soundgarden and Pearl Jam for being too depressing and also calling former Sex Pistol bassist Sid Vicious “useless.”
2001 R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck goes on trial in London stemming from an alleged air rage incident. Buck was arrested after an April 21st flight from Seattle to London and charged with drunkenness on an aircraft, disobeying an aircraft commander, two counts of assault on aircrew, threatening behavior, and criminal damage, including breaking airline crockery.
2005 Black Sabbath has to sit out its second OzzFest appearance in a week, in Noblesville, Indiana, after singer Ozzy Osbourne falls ill.
2006 The Red Hot Chili Peppers land seven nominations for the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards, including Best Group Video and Best Rock Video. Other nominees include Panic! At The Disco, A.F.I., Gnarls Barkley, Fall Out Boy, Avenged Sevenfold, Angels And Airwaves, 30 Seconds To Mars and Green Day.
2007 Korn performs a free show at New York City’s South Street Seaport to celebrate the release of the band’s new, untitled album, which comes out that day.
2008 “Motley Crue Saints of Los Angeles Day” is declared by a representative of Los Angeles at a press conference taking place at Guitar Center in Hollywood.
Today’s Birthdays
- Will Champion (drummer, Coldplay) (40)
- M. Shadows (a.k.a. Matthew Sanders; lead singer, Avenged Sevenfold) (37)
- John 5 (a.k.a. John Lowery; guitarist, Rob Zombie) (47)
- Bill Berry (former drummer, R.E.M.) (60)
- Dean Cain (actor, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman, The Division, Perfect Husband: the Lacy Peterson Story) (52)
- J.K. Rowling (author, the Harry Potter series) (53)
- Wesley Snipes (actor, White Men Can’t Jump, Demolition Man, Murder At 1600, the Blade movies) (56)