June 26
ON THIS DAY IN 1976, WITH HIS BREAKOUT ALBUM ‘LIVE BULLET’ HELPING LAUNCH BOB SEGER’S MAINSTREAM POPULARITY, HE PLAYS HIS FIRST HEADLINING STADIUM SHOW, PERFORMING TO 59,000 AT THE PONTIAC SILVERDOME JUST OUTSIDE HIS HOMETOWN DETROIT.
IN 2004, SUPERGROUP ‘VELVET REVOLVER’, FRONTED BY STP’S SCOTT WEILAND AND WITH THREE EX-GUNS N’ ROSES MEMBERS IN THE LINEUP HAVE THE #1 ALBUM IN AMERICA WITH THEIR DEBUT LP, ‘CONTRABAND’.
AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MICK JONES, GUITARIST, VOCALIST, AND CO-FOUNDER OF THE CLASH, WHO’S 69 TODAY.
