This Day in History: 2025-01-01
JANUARY 1st
Jimi Hendrix’s Band Of Gypsys (with bassist Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles) debuts at New York’s Fillmore East. A live album results. 1969
Guitar World readers name Limp Bizkit the “worst band of 2003” in the magazine’s annual poll. Creed and The Strokes check in at #2 and 3, respectively. 2004
Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell confirms, via Twitter, that the band is reuniting. “The 12-year break is over & school is back in session,” writes Cornell. The group disbanded in ’97. 2010
MORE TODAY IN ROCK…
Country Joe McDonald (Country Joe & The Fish) is born. 1941
The late Metal Church frontman David Wayne is born in Renton, WA. 1958
Johnny Cash plays the first of several shows (over the years) at San Quentin Prison in CA. He later records a live album there. 1959
The Doors make their TV debut in L.A. on KTLA’s Shebang. They perform their first single, “Break On Through (To The Other Side).” 1967
Following a New Year’s Eve concert featuring the Grateful Dead, the Winterland Theatre closes. The San Francisco venue, run by Bill Graham, featured The Dead no less than 48 times. 1969
The Clash officially open the Roxy Club in London’s Covent Garden. 1977
Brody Dalle, former vocalist for The Distillers, is born in Australia with the name Bree Joanna Alice Robinson. 1979
Poppy has a birthday. 1995