Pocket Full of Kryptonite released

Spin Doctors’s debut studio album, Pocket Full of Kryptonite , was released in August 1991. The band continued to play extensive live shows, gaining grassroots fans, as the album was mostly ignored commercially. In the summer of 1992, the band toured with the first lineup of the H.O.R.D.E. festival, sharing the stage with fellow jam bands Widespread Panic , Blues Traveler , and Phish . That summer, commercial popularity heated up , as radio and MTV began playing “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong” and “Two Princes”, with the videos directed by filmmaker Rich Murray (who would direct many of the band’s videos). The album went Gold in September 1992, and then received another boost in sales after the band’s appearance on Saturday Night Live in October 1992. Additional videos and singles followed for “What Time Is It”, “How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Could Have Me?)”, and “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues”. By June 1993, the album went Triple Platinum. Ultimately it sold over five million copies in the U.S. and another five million overseas, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.