Happy Birthday today (April 29) to Great White guitarist Mark Kendall. He's 59. Other rockers celebrating include former Testament bassist Greg Christian (50) and former Trivium drummer Travis Smith (34).

Great White formed out of Los Angeles in 1977 and gained success in the 1980’s with exposure on MTV and the 1989 album …Twice Shy with songs like “Once Bitten, Twice Shy”. The cover of the Ian Hunter single earned the band a Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance. The album went platinum in the summer of 1989 and double platinum by the fall of that same year. Sadly, the band made headlines many years later with the tragic Station Nightclub fire of 2003 which took the lives of around 100 people in West Warwick, Rhode Island. Check out the official Great White website here.

Greg Christian
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Travis Smith
Paolo Gregoletto,Travis Smith, Matt Heafy and Corey Beaulieu of Trivium. Jo Hale/Getty Images
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