Rock and Metal history, December 6
1955: Rick Buckler (drummer for The Jam) is born in Woking, Surrey, England.
1956: Randall William Rhoads was born. He was an American heavy metal guiarist who played with Quiet Riot and Ozzy Osbourne.He died in a plane crash while on tour with Osbourne in Florida in 1982. Despite his short career, Rhoads is regarded as a pivotal figure in metal music, credited with pioneering a fast and technical style of guitar soloing that largely defined the metal scene of the 1980s.
1956: Peter Buck (lead guitarist for R.E.M.) is born in Berkeley, California. While attending the University of Georgia, he works at Wuxtry Records and meets future bandmate Michael Stipe.
1962: Bob Dylan records "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" in Studio A at Columbia Recording Studios.
1965: The Rolling Stones record "19th Nervous Breakdown" and "Mother's Little Helper" at RCA's Hollywood Studios in Los Angeles.
1965: The Beatles release "We Can Work It Out," with "Day Tripper" on the flip side.They also release the album Rubber Soul in the US. Songs include "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)," "Michelle" and "I'm Looking Through You."
1968: The Rolling Stones releas Beggars Banquet , the 7th British and 9th American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released by Decca Records in the United Kingdom and London Records in the United States. It was the first Rolling Stones album produced by Jimmy Miller, whose production work formed a key aspect of the group's sound throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s.
1969: Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" enters the Billboard Pop chart. It went on to reach #4 and was the first of six Top 40 singles for the group.
1971: Deep Purple record the track to "Smoke On The Water" at a Montreux nightclub called the Pavilion, where they've been relocated after the Montreux Casino, where they planned to record, burned down. They get kicked out the next day because of noise complaints and complete the Machine Head album at their hotel, using the Rolling Stones' mobile unit to record.
1988: After spending the day flying model airplanes with his sons and eating dinner at his mother's home, Roy Orbison suffered a fatal a heart attack at the age of 52. Since his recording career took off in 1960 he had achieved 23 Billboard Top 40 hits and had recently regained a huge fan following with a million selling album as a member of The Traveling Wilburys in 1987.
1988: Guitarist Bill Harris (of The Clovers) dies of pancreatic cancer in Washington, DC, at age 63.
1994: Bush released their classic album, which featured hits like “Glycerine” and “Comedown.”
2005: Korn released their seventh album, See You on the Other Side. It was the band’s first without long-time guitarist Brian “Head” Welch.
2006: Incubus had the number one album in the country with Light Grenades, their first record to top the charts.
2011: Korn released the album "The Path Of Totality. "On April 11, 2012, The Path of Totality won "Album of the Year" at the 2012 Revolver Golden Gods Awards.
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