Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s August 8th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History!
There’s only one way to start the day because it’s Scott Stapp of Creed’s birthday today. Say it with me now: CREEEEEEEEED
Other birthdays include Dennis Drew of 10,000 Maniacs, Sam Totman of Dragonforce, Les Binks of Judas Priest, Rikki Rockett of Poison and The Edge of U2!
At a 1992 Guns N Roses show in Montreal, Metallica opened the show, but their set was cut short after James Hetfield was engulfed in flames after a pyrotechnics accident. Luckily, Hetfield survived. The band explains more down below:
We saw the release of Billy Joel’s An Innocent Man on this day in 1983
On a TOTALLY unreleated note, I feel like we should play this clip from Step Brothers:
In 1969, The Beatles shot the photo for their now iconic cover art for their album Abbey Road. It’s been recreated and parodied numerous times, but the art also fueled rumors that member Paul McCartney was dead.
In 2004, the tour bus driver for the Dave Matthews Band got into trouble after dumping the bus’s waste into the Illinois River off the Kinzie Bridge in Chicago. The waste fell onto a tour boat down below, hitting the tourists. The driver denied he did it. Surveillance video said otherwise.
In 1996, a fake leg was thrown onstage during a KISS concert when the band was on their Alive world tour at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio. All members would sign the fake appendage and gave it back to the fan.
In 1970, The Stooges played their final show with their original lineup after firing bassist Dave Alexander for forgetting how to play the songs. Alexander would die in 1975 at the age of 27.
And finally in 1999, during a Limp Bizkit show in Kansas City, a man snuck backstage and gives his band’s demo tape to Fred Durst’s security guard. Fred listened to the tape and immediately signed the band. But who was the man and his band? Well, it was Wes Scantlin of Puddle of Mudd!
This has been Today in Rock History! Keep on Rocking, keep on Rolling! Check back tomorrow for your next rock history lesson!
