September 17th
2003: David Lee Roth injured himself onstage during a concert in Philadelphia while performing a complicated 15th-century samurai move with a staff hit Roth in the face. Roth needed 22 stitches to his face and cancelled the seven remaining dates of his tour.
1997: Fleetwood Mac kicked off their 37-date reunion tour to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Rumours at the Meadows Music Theatre in Hartford, CT.
1991: Guns N’ Roses released both Use Your Illusion I & II with four million copies of each album shipping, at the time the largest ship-out of an album in the U.S.
1991: Rob Tyner, lead singer of the MC5 died of a heart attack in the seat of his parked car in his hometown of Berkley, MI. He was 46 years old.
1983: Def Leppard ended the North American leg of their tour in support of Pyromania at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego headlining a bill that also included Eddie Money, Uriah Heep & Motley Crue.
1976: The Sex Pistols performed a concert for inmates at the Chelmsford Maximum Security Prison in Essex, U.K.
1967: The Doors appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show & were banned from future appearances on the program due to Jim Morrison singing the original lyric “Girl, we couldn’t get much higher” in Light My Fire.
1967: The Who appeared on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, where Keith Moon rigged his drum set to explode at the end of My Generation, which did cut Moon’s leg & singed Pete Townshend’s hair, along with doing damage to Townshend’s hearing.
Birthdays:
Hank Williams born in 1923
