Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s February 15th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History!
Starting the day off with releases. We have Burn from Deep Purple in 1974 and the debut album from Godsmack: All Wound Up… in 1997
Moving onto birthdays, we have Ronnie Vannucci Jr of The Killers, Billy Ficca of Television, Gary Clark Jr, Mick Avory of The Kinks, David Brown of Santana, Brooks Wackerman of Avenged Sevenfold and formerly of Bad Religion, and Brandon Boyd of Incubus.
In 1988, a Def Leppard show as cancelled in El Paso after receiving threats from the locals because singer Jo Elliot used some really derogatory language about the city and Mexicans. Yeah it was rough.
In 1969, the first known use of the word “groupies” appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine for an article about groupie culture.
In 1987, Ben & Jerry’s introduces their new ice cream flavor Cherry Garcia. The ice cream was named after Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia.
In 2003, alongside director Michael Moore, System Of A Down shoot the video for their song Boom while at a march for peace.
And finally in 1977, Glenn Matlock was fired as bass player for the Sex Pistols and was replaced by Sid Vicious. He would later rejoin the band in the 90’s when they reformed.
This has been Today in Rock History! Keep on Rocking, keep on Rolling! Check back tomorrow for your next rock history lesson!
