Monday, June 30, 2014

June 30, 2014

THE ALBUM OF THE DAY
JOHN MELLENCAMP...Dance Naked
Released: 20 years ago, June 21, 1994
Highest Chart Position: #13 U.S. Billboard Album Charts
Track Highlights: Wild Night, Dance Naked
(CD, Allmusic review)

ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR JUNE 30
Hal Lindes of Dire Straits is 61; Tom Drummond of Better Than Ezra is 45;

ON THIS DATE

1975 Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers marries Cher
1981 Jerry Lee Lewis is hospitalized with a hole in his stomach. He is given a 50/50 chance to live but leaves the hospital 2 weeks later
1994 Steve Gossard and Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam both testify at a congressional hearing regarding escalating concert ticket prices
1999 Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit becomes senior vice-president of Interscope Records
2000 Nine people are crushed to death at a Copenhagen Pearl Jam concert
2001 Guitarist Chet Atkins died in Nashville at age 77
2004 Dave Davies of the Kinks collapses from a stroke that leaves him paralyzed on the right side of his body
2005 Joe Loeffler is fired from Chevelle. That same day Scott Weiland of Velvet Revolver injures his ankle badly at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark
2006 The Cirque du Soleil presentation of "Love" featuring the music of the Beatles opens in Las Vegas, Nevada. Paul and Ringo attend
2007 In an Albuquerque, New Mexico court room Devon Townsend pleads guilty to stalking Linkin Park's Chester Bennington

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