Today in Rock October Twenty Fourth Featured Artist Rolling Stones Rolling Stones’ bass player, the stoic Bill Wyman (far left, standing in the shadows, baby), is born. 1936 1940s Steppenwolf Jerry Edmonton (rear center), Steppenwolfs drummer, has a birthday. 1946 1960s The Beatles leave for their first tour outside of England. It begins in Kalstad, Sweden, the next day. 1963 The Rolling Stones begin their second U.S. tour at New York’s Academy of Music. The groups first tour had ended less than four months earlier. 1964 1970s President Richard Nixon encourages broadcasters to ban Rock lyrics with drug references. 1970 Santana’s sophomore album, “Abraxas,” begins a six week run at #1 in the U.S. 1970 Keith Richards gets fined (once again) and a slap on the wrist (a conditional discharge) after being convicted on four drug charges and three firearm offenses resulting from a June 26th police raid of his home. 1973 John Lennon sues the U.S. government for wiretapping his phone. Lennon’s anti-Vietnam War activities led the feds to conduct a surveillance program. 1973 KISS unfurls “Alive II” (the follow-up to ‘75’s “Alive!”). The double platinum album is originally distributed with KISS rub-off tattoos and an eight page booklet. 1977 Silverchair’s drummer, Ben Gillies, enters the world. 1979 1980s Fantasy Records, Creedence Clearwater Revivals label, and former CCR leader John Fogerty begin totally ridiculous court proceedings to determine whether Fogerty ripped off his own “Run Through The Jungle” to create “Old Man Down The Road.” Fantasy, who owns CCR`s song publishing, brought the suit. Fogerty wins but at a cost. 1988 1990s Smashing Pumpkins The double album “Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness is released. The Smashing Pumpkins set contains Bullet With Butterfly Wings, which becomes the bands first Top 40 U.S. hit, peaking at #22 on the Billboard Hot 100. 1995 2000s Selling over one-million copies in the first week of its release, Limp Bizkit’s “Chocolate St*rfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water” is the #1 album in the U.S. 2000 Linkin Park issues their debut album, Hybrid Theory. Over the next dozen years, the album moves over 10 million copies in the U.S., enough to earn the group a diamond certification. 2012 Songs by Def Leppard, Queens Of The Stone Age, Avenged Sevenfold, Dio, the Scorpions and Iron Maiden are heard on the soundtrack of the snowboarding-themed video game SSX On Tour. 2005 The show must go on! Sao Paulos mayor agrees to allow Pearl Jam to perform December 2nd-3rd in the Brazilian citys Pacaembu stadium. Mayor Jose Serra had suspended shows after complaints from nearby wealthy residents about noise and the potential mess. Hey, Rock concerts are rarely sedate and tidy. At least the good ones arent. 2005 Kurt Cobain goes to #1 but this time it’s without Nirvana. Cobain tops Forbes.sixth annual Top-Earning Dead Celebrities list. Cobains music earned $50 million over the previous year. During that time, the singers widow, Courtney Love, sold 25 percent of her stake in Nirvanas publishing rights. One licensing agreement allows Nirvana songs to be used on CSI: Miami. 2006 My Chemical Romance unfurl “The Black Parade.” The album almost didn’t get completed because singer Gerard Way was suffering from crippling depression. I went through a crisis. I was examining every awful thing about myself, says the singer. I was living inside the record. It was a dark time. 2006 Billy Idol, Velvet Revolvers Duff McKagan and Alice In Chains Mike Inez, appear on the tribute album Butchering The Beatles. As the name implies, the disc contains Hard Rock renditions of 12 Beatles songs. Among those adding to the din are Motörheads Lemmy Kilmister, Queensrÿches Geoff Tate, Def Leppards Vivian Campbell, Whitesnakes Doug Aldrich and ex-AC/DC drummer Chris Slade. Alice Cooper, KISS drummer Eric Singer, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, and Styx’s Tommy Shaw represent the “older” or more sedate side. 2006 KISS singer-guitarist Paul Stanley presents his second solo album, Live To Win. Stanley produced and co-wrote nine of the CDs 10 tracks with a variety of collaborators. However, Loving You Without You Now is exclusively his own creation. 2006 Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong urges fans to sign a petition challenging Toyota over its green credentials. The automaker produces environmentally friendly models but is part of an industry lobby opposing a bill that would make 35 miles per gallon the fuel-efficiency standard for new cars by 2020. Tell Toyota to stop fighting progress and start fighting global warming, writes Armstrong. 2007 Jackson Browne, Graham Nash and Bonnie Raitt visit Capitol Hill to protest the passage of bill that allocates additional federal funds to build nuclear power facilities. The trio speaks with members of Congress and present a petition on behalf of the anti-nuclear group NukeFreeThe American people are paying attention, says Browne. 2007 Springsteen is #1 – again. Bruce Springsteens Magic album made its debut as the best selling album on the Billboard 200 chart but dropped to second a week later (behind Kid Rock’s Rock N Roll Jesus”) only to return to the top slot again. The sales margin between the two albums is in the hundreds – close, real close. 2007 For reasons known only to them, Vanity Fair magazine announces their Top 10 of the 50 greatest movie soundtracks. The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night is placed at #2 behind Prince’s Purple Rain. Kidding, right? Nope. The Harder They Come (Reggae), Pulp Fiction, The Graduate (Simon & Garfunkel) Superfly, Trainspotting and Saturday Night Fever (disco), American Graffiti (oldies) and The Big Chill (more oldies) make the cut (in VF’s opinion). The full list is published a few weeks later. 2007 Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Jimi Hendrixs appearance at the Monterey International Pop Festival ex-Hendrix sidemen, bassist Billy Cox and drummer Mitch Mitchell, play a special tribute concert in London (oddly enough). Ex-Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore also performs. When the hour-long show is over theres a screening of Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey DVD. 2007 A Night for Vets: An MTV Concert for the BRAVE is broadcast with taped performances by Kid Rock, Fall Out Boy, Angels & Airwaves and Saving Abel. The program calls attention to the heroism and struggles of young veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 2008 It’s announced that Kid Rock has founded a scholarship for Detroit residents studying music business or music technology at Wayne State University. I truly believe that a major part of Detroits healing and moving forward will come through education, says Rock. 2008 One-time Grateful Dead keyboardist Merl Saunders dies in San Francisco of complications from a stroke he suffered in ‘02. Saunders performed on the groups Europe 72 live set, but was known primarily for his side project collaborations with Dead singer-guitarist Jerry Garcia. 2008 Coldplays Chris Martin, Wolfmother, No Doubt and Gavin Rossdale (Bush) perform at Neil Youngs 23rd annual Bridge School Benefit concerts at Shoreline Amphitheatre near San Jose, CA. The concerts raise money for Californias Bridge School, which helps students with severe speech and physical impairments. 2009 The two surviving members of Sublime perform under that name at Cypress Hills SmokeOut Festival in San Bernardino, CA, despite legal action from the family of the bands deceased founder, Bradley Nowell (who died from a drug overdose in ‘96 just as the band was achieving mainstream success). Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson, both original members, are augmented by singer Rome Ramirez. 2009 The documentary Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful, makes its debut on Showtime. The film, directed by Paul Griffin, chronicles Bon Jovi’s ‘08 Lost Highway World Tour. 2009 2010s U2 U2 is named The Greatest Act of the Last 25 Years at the Q Awards in London. 2011
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