Dave Grohl Reveals Surprise Jam With Prince

He tells Rolling Stone: "I go to the first show in a party bus with all my friends, boozing it up. I walk into the Forum Club and bump into somebody from a road crew I'd work with before. He says, 'Prince knows you're here and he wants to jam.'

"At the end of the night, I'm standing next to this black curtain. I pull it back and there's Prince with Sheila E. I go, 'Hey, man, great show.' He says, 'When do you want to jam? How about Friday?'

And Grohl says when he returned to The Forum for the jam session, Prince had assembled his whole band specially for the occasion. Read more here.

AC/DC Singer Reveals You Shook Me All Night Long Inspiration

"The boys had a title," Johnson tells Absolute Radio [transcribed by hennemusic]. "Malcolm and Angus said, 'listen, we got this song, it's called Shook Me All Night Long. That's what we want the song to be called.' And if you listen to the chords, [the chorus] just fell into place so I can't claim any credit on that thing."

"It was as quick as it had to be, which was that night," said Johnson about the first song he wrote with the band. "I guess I had to try and impress somebody."

"It was just a thing that came at the time," he added, "and I still think it's one of the greatest rock and roll riffs I've ever heard in my life." Stream the interview here.

Tremonti Tried To Help Scott Stapp

And said he was "under attack." His comments were made after his wife Jaclyn filed for divorce citing his heavy drug use, violent episodes and even a suicide attempt.

Tremonti reveals he's been inundated with social media requests from Creed fans, and confirms he's seen Stapp's video. The guitarist says via Facebook: "I know everyone is very worried about Scott - I am as well.

"I tried reaching out but didn't have any success. I will keep trying, but I think it would be best to keep such personal matters off social media." Read more here.

Linkin Park Preview Upcoming TV Special

Fans can preview some behind-the-scenes footage from the event as well as a performance of their 2003 hit, "Numb." "We're honored to be part of Guitar's Center's anniversary celebration," said Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington, "and excited to share this special performance with the world on Guitar Center Sessions."

Guitar Center Sessions with Linkin Park will be broadcast on December 5 at 9pm on DIRECTV's AUDIENCE (channel 239). Watch both of the preview videos here.

Queen's Brian May Talks The Making Of Love Kills

"We all played on the original," says May, "but you wouldn't know it because it's disco. The strange thing is that it was just a quick one, and you think, 'Freddie just tossed it off,' but I took it into the studio about a year ago and took everything off apart from Freddie's vocal, expecting to hear all sorts of interference coming from his headphones, and there was nothing: just a clean, beautifully pure vocal.

"He sang 'love kills', and it's nothing trivial. He wasn't just delivering to requirement. He was writing something that he felt in his heart. And he did find that love kills."

Stream the full part 1 of the interview here.

Nickelback's Chad Kroeger Struggled With Savin' Me

The track is taken from the band's album All The Right Reasons and went on to become one of their biggest hits. Kroeger and guitarist Ryan Peake took part in a fans' Q&A for Bandit Rock Radio where they mainly discussed new album No Fixed Address - interrupted at one point by a phone call from Kroeger's wife, Avril Lavigne.

"The one song that we have that was the hardest song we've ever written is off of All The Right Reasons, and it was Savin' Me," Kroeger says. "We were like, 'The verses are so good. This is good.' And the chorus was just sh*t.

"I kept just coming up with sh*tty chorus after sh*tty chorus. Until I sat there the one day and just played it, 'Show me what it's like.' And then all of a sudden it went boom." Read more here.

Jimmy Page Sings Young Band's Praises

Page tells the NME: "I went to hear them in New York. They were fantastic. Absolutely riveting. They're such fine musicians. It's music of tremendous quality.

"However long the set was, I could have heard twice as much. Their album has taken the genre up a serious few notches. It's so refreshing to hear, because they play with the spirit of the things that have preceded them, but you can hear they're going to take rock into a new realm - if they're not already doing that." More including a video from the band here.

Dolenz Approached About The Hollywood Vampires Documentary

Earlier this year, Cooper asked fans to send memorabilia from the venue as he wanted to document the club. Now Dolenz says he's been approached to contribute to the project.

"They've talked to me about that," He tells Huffington Post Live. "The Hollywood Vampires were started by myself and Alice Cooper and a couple of others.

"It started out as a softball team and we played every weekend. We would raise money for charity, going out playing other local teams, corporate teams or the local police department or fire department. Of course, they always won! We were a bunch of Hollywood weirdos, running around.

"Then we would go back to the Rainbow and that's where would recuperate and lick our wounds after the games." Read more here.

David Bowie Releases Sue Video

The new song is backed with a home demo of Tis a Pity She Was a Whore. "If Vorticists wrote rock music it might have sounded like this", says Bowie. Vortism was a British art and poetry movement of the early 20th century that was inspired by Cubism.

Sue is taken from Bowie's new Nothing Has Changed collection, and the singer has released two trailers to accompany the release. The collection covers Bowies entire career, and features several unreleased tracks. Watch the video and the trailers here.

Blackberry Smoke Frontman Explains New Album Cover

He explains in the video: "It was a stroke of genius on drummer Brit Turner's part. We were discussing the meaning in the lyrics of Holding All The Roses. The song's about in a race or a contest - if there's a feeling of competition and you feel like you're winning, what is it that you actually win? We're all winners - but if we all win, who cares?"

Blackberry Smoke released a video for their track Let Me Help You (Find The Door) earlier this week. Holding All The Roses will be launched on February 9 via Earache Records. Stream the full video interview here.

How the Blues Supergroup The Boom Band Was Formed

It's the subject of an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, which has secured nearly a third of its funding target with 25 days remaining. The outfit was formed last year by guitarist Matt Taylor and drummer Steve Rushton, who set about building a hand-picked band. Alongside frontman Bonfanti they've recruited guitarists Jon Amor and Mark Butcher, pianist Paddy Milner and bassist Jon Noyce.

Between them they have experience with Jeff Beck, Jack Bruce, Gary Moore, Jethro Tull and many other acts. Their debut album was originally released in a limited-edition run of 200 vinyl editions.

They're planning to launch the CD version in March next year. Read more and watch the video here.

Singled Out: Arcade Messiah (KingBathmat's John Bassett)

Arcade Messiah is my new metal instrumental project, and from the beginning I set myself some guidelines, I wanted to make the heaviest album I could yet retaining a musically cohesive with a melodic structure. I wanted the music and imagery to reflect an apocalyptic and nihilistic feel. I wanted to create heavy riffs with unusual time signatures that didn't fall into the trap of sounding overcomplicated and sounded natural. I also didn't want any traditional guitar solo's, as I feel it can be very easy, when writing music to just say, "lets throw a guitar solo in there to fill that bit out". I wanted to remove that possibility, so that I could focus more on the key structures of the songs and make them strong so they didn't need any additional guitar solo decoration.

The name for the song "Your Best Line Of Defence Is Obscurity" was a line taken from a fictional book, which was made up of notes and instructions sent from a Father to his Daughter, they were written to guide the daughter on how to survive an apocalypse. And one of those survival tips was to always remain obscure and remote and to not draw attention to yourself as everyone in that situation of panic would be out to get whatever they can from whoever they meet. Musically as with all of the album, I wanted to create an ominous climate, an epic heavy sound, crunching guitars, big riffs over odd meter time signatures whilst interlaced with moments of psychedelic calm. As it was the second song on the album and following a fast opening track, I wanted a melodic opening that was calm and sedate and that would explode suddenly, with that wall of guitar sound but also playing the same melody as the intro.

The song went through many different stages before it was finished, and the most trouble I had was the opening wall of guitar sound and getting it to sound suitably heavy. Combining the right sounds of heavy riffs and picked guitar arpeggio parts and getting them to sound the way I wanted took some time for this track. There were numerous guitar tracks recorded, in different ways with different tones, through different amps, all layered together and panned to fill up the stereo field. I think well over 12 distinct parts for guitar, both a standard electric guitar and a baritone guitar tuned to B were used on all tracks on the album. In my mind I wanted to create a heavy slow motion soundtrack to accompany someone watching the horizon of a city in flames. Something dramatic and heavy but moved in slow motion. Does that make any sense? I'm not sure, but in my mind it does.

Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself here and learn more about the album and how you can get it for a "pay what you want) download right here!

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