APRIL 11
IN 1981, IT WAS WEDDING BELLS FOR GUITARIST EDDIE VAN HALEN AND VALERIE BERTINELLI, CO-STAR OF THE 1980’S TELEVISION HIT, ‘ONE DAY AT A TIME’. THE TWO MET EIGHT MONTHS EARLIER AT A VAN HALEN CONCERT IN LOUISIANA. THEIR MARRIAGE WOULD LAST 25 YEARS.
DAVE MUSTAINE IS KICKED OUT OF METALLICA BECAUSE OF HIS DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTIONS TODAY IN 1983. HE WAS IMMEDIATELY REPLACED BY GUITARIST KIRK HAMMETT OF EXODUS. DAVE LATER FORMS MEGADETH.
AND ON THIS DAY IN 2017, GUITARIST JOHN GEILS, THE NAMESAKE OF THE J. GEILS BAND DIES AT AGE 71