September 2nd
1964 The Kinks unleash “You Really Got Me” in the U.S.
We’re moving from Rock n’ Roll to Hard Rock,
1968 The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s “All Along The Watchtower” is released in the U.S.
The rendition of cover of Bob Dylan’s song is considered one of the best covers of all-time and becomes the Experience’s only Top 20 hit.
2018 Pearl Jam pay tribute to late Senator John McCain (’08 Republican Presidential candidate).
During their show in Boston’s Fenway Park the band performs “Army Reserve” in honor of McCain, who died days earlier, and military veterans. The song is from the group’s self-titled eighth album. 2018
2022 U.S. District Judge in L.A. dismisses the third version of the lawsuit filed against Nirvana. 2022
Spencer Elden, who claims he was the baby featured on the cover of the Nirvana’s “Nevermind” album, is barred from filing a fourth version of his child abuse complaint.
2023 Avatar’s “The Dirt I’m Buried In” is #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.
The song is the lead single from Avatar’s ninth studio set, “Dance Devil Dance.”
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1957 Keyboardist Steve Porcaro (Toto) has a birthday.
1966 Dino Cazares, guitarist and one of the co-founders of Fear Factory, has a birthday.
1971 Ex-Grateful Dead manager Lenny Hart is arrested. He is charged with stealing $70,000 from the group leaving them broke.
1972 The Hollies “Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)” peaks at #2 on the U.S. charts.
1975 The late Huntress vocalist Jill Janus is born.
1988 Bruce Springsteen, Sting and Peter Gabriel perform on Amnesty International’s Human Rights Now tour. The trek begins at London’s Wembley Stadium.
1989 “Angel Eyes” (Jeff Healy) peaks at #5 on the singles chart.
1993 MTV Video Music Awards: Pearl Jam wins big with “Jeremy.” Best Video of the Year, Best Group Video and Best Hard Rock Video are among the trophies.
1995 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland as both a museum and shrine to Rock n’ Roll.
2007 The Rob Zombie-directed remake of the ’78 horror classic “Halloween” is #1 at the box office taking in $26 million over the Labor Day weekend. That’s better than the original or any of the sequels. “I kept the idea of the same three girls (antagonist Michael Myers terrorizes), but the events play out differently and the girls’ characters are different,” says Zombie.
2008 Melissa Etheridge and Sheryl Crow are among the female singers (and cancer survivors) heard on “Just Stand Up.” As part of the Stand Up To Cancer initiative, song proceeds help fund cancer research.
2008 Jon Bon Jovi, New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine and Newark mayor Cory Booker jointly announce that Bon Jovi’s Philadelphia Soul Charitable Foundation is partnering with Help USA to launch the Help Newark Genesis Project, which plans to build 51 houses in the city catering to homeless and low-income citizens, as well as people with special needs.
2008 Great White offers $1 million to victims and survivors of the ’03 fire at The Station in Rhode Island. 100 people perished in one of the nation’s worst nightclub fires. The group does not admit any wrongdoing as part of the settlement. The blaze started when Great White’s tour manager lit pyrotechnics that ignited the club’s soundproofing.
2015 Avril Lavigne reveals that she is separated from Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger after two years of marriage.
2017 Founding Molly Hatchet guitarist Dave Hlubek passes away.
2021 Blink-182 bassist/vocalist Mark Hoppus announces that he has finished his chemotherapy treatment for stage 4-A diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. He adds the chemo “did the trick.” Hoppus began chemo treatment five-months earlier.
2021 Vocalist Vince Neil says he is using an Emsculpt Neo toning machine in an effort to get in shape for Mötley Crüe’s “The Stadium Tour.” Following a disastrous solo show many wondered whether the Crüe singer was up for the rigors of a major tour. The machine must have done the job because the tour is a success.
2023 Arch Enemy frontwoman and long-time animal rights activist Alissa White-Gluz delivers the opening speech at the “Animal Liberation March” in New York City. The event was designed to unite the vegan community and accelerate animal liberation.
2023 Metallica cancels the second half of their M72 No Repeat Weekend concert in Glendale, AZ after frontman James Hetfield tests positive for COVID-19.
2024 Following reports that Oasis reunion concert tickets have been offered for as much as $8,000 on resale sites, the band warns any sales that turn out to be illegal will be canceled.
2024 Jelly Roll, a former inmate, takes his music the maximum security yard at Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem. “For the first time in 20 f—— years they have brought music to the prison yard,” Jelly Roll tells the prisoners from an impromptu stage. And yes, he performs a rendition of Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues.”
