Today in Rock (June 30)
YCW tomorrow will be late - I will not be able to update that page while the show is on. 
- 1949 - Andrew Scott (Sweet) was born.
- 1953 - Hal Lindes (Dire Straights - lead guitar) was born.
- 1953 - Don Dokken (Dokken - vocals) was born.
- 1969 - Tom Drummond (Better than Ezra - bass) was born. He was the first person to respond to their “bassist wanted” ad at the age of 17. (They were around in 1986?)
- 1975 - The Eagles album, “One of These Nights” goes gold.
- 1977 - The KISS comic book is released. Legend has it that the red ink was mixed with some blood from each member.
- 1994 - Pearl Jamss Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament testify at a congressional hearing regarding escalating concert ticket prices
- 1999 - Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst is appointed senior VP of Interscope Records.
- 2000 - Nine people are crushed to death at a Copenhagen Pearl Jam concert. People push forward because they can’t hear due to broken speakers. Eddie Vedder tells the audience to move back but to no avail.
- 2005 - The record industry says Led Zeppelin has sold 107.5 million albums in the U.S. That secures the #3 spot on the all-time list. Only The Beatles (168.5 million) and Elvis Presley (116.5 million) have done better.
- 2006 - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are honored in an exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. “Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Thirty Years of Rock and Roll,” displays the flowered shirt Petty wore for the “Free Fallin’” video and a gray jacket from his time in the Traveling Wilburys.
- 2007 - The Classic Rock Cares charity tour kicks off in Fort Myers, FL. The jaunt features AC/DC members Brian Johnson and Cliff Williams, Joe Lynn Turner (Rainbow, Deep Purple) and Grand Funk Railroad singer-guitarist Mark Farner.
- 2008 - A long lost 1964 interview with John Lennon and Paul McCartney is broadcast on the BBC. In the interview McCartney expounds on their songwriting technique. “Normally, we sit down and try and bash one out,” says The Beatles’ bassist. He adds that sometimes each writes a complete song on his own though they both take credit for it
