Arctic Monkeys were formed in mid-2002 by friends Alex Turner , Matt Helders , and Andy Nicholson (who left the band shortly after their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not , was released). Turner and Helders were neighbours and close friends, and they met Nicholson…
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The same year, Q magazine named the Rolling Stones one of the 50 Bands To See Before You Die.
The live album What You and I Have Been Through and the compilation Travelogue: Blues Traveler Classics were both released in 2002.
Another live record and DVD A Long Day’s Night followed in 2002, both drawn from one concert in Chicago. This album also featured the Bloom, Roeser, Lanier, Miranda, Rondinelli lineup.
Guitarist/vocalist Charlie Marinkovich joined the band in 2002. Originally from Seattle, Marinkovich had played with Randy Hansen and others.
Harrison died from metastatic lung cancer in November 2001.
In 2000, the band hired Nathan Calhoun as bassist. Having resolved their dispute with Capitol, Butthole Surfers re-recorded most of After the Astronaut’ s songs for Weird Revolution , on the Hollywood Records / Surfdog Records imprint. The album was released in August 2001, and reached number 130 on the…
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The greater resources afforded them by Epic were apparent in their first album for the label, Rings Around the World , an album that recaptured the cohesive, experimental feel of Guerrilla but more song-driven and sonically expansive. It is cited by many critics and fans alike as their most polished…
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By May 2001, Cornell had joined the platinum-selling supergroup Audioslave with Tom Morello , Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk , then-former members of Rage Against the Machine
Cooper made a guest appearance in 2001 on a third-season episode of That ’70s Show titled “Radio Daze”, in which he partook in a game of Dungeons & Dragons .