The 28-year-old told officers from Oroville Police Department, Butte County, California, that he "needed a ride to a lot of places," and discussed his belief the world was about to end.

Nelson was named the thrash act's replacement frontman in 2007 after John Bush was sidelined in favour of classic-era singer Joey Belladonna. The reunion fell apart but Bush refused to return.

Anthrax recorded an album with Nelson, but on the verge of its release they announced he'd resigned saying he was too ill to tour. The singer retaliated with a statement saying he'd been dumped while he made arrangements to fly to Europe with the band.

Advance previews of the record, due November 21, say the track "Red Lipstick" features a sample of Metallica's "Wherever I May Roam," with the tune's heavy guitar riff featured at the beginning of the Rihanna song.

"I've come back from a lot of major stuff," Wagner now tells The Detroit Free Press with bluntness. Wagner is the guitar player on Lou Reed's Rock 'n' Roll Animal and many Alice Cooper staples such as Welcome to My Nightmare. He's also played with Aerosmith, Lou Reed, KISS, Meat Loaf, Steve Perry, Peter Gabriel, Rod Stewart, Little Richard and many more.

In recent years, Wagner had to re-teach himself how to play guitar. "It was so terrible at first," he admits. "It was a lot of work, a lot of stress, but I came through it with sheer determination and some brilliant doctors."

Ronnie Wood says he's having a long overdue operation next month to fix a cracked bone in his foot "so I'm ready for action next year, just in case." In case of a tour? "Fifty years!" he shrieks. "It's got to be done."

"I would like to think we'd do a tour," says Charlie Watts. "Um, if we don't, we don't. I mean, I've felt like that for the last 50 years. It's never bothered me if the Rolling Stones stopped tomorrow."

They recently performed with Ours frontman Jimmy Gnecco at a benefit concert, of which McKagan says: "There was a singer there we might write some songs with.

Here is just an excerpt from the interview: Iron Man is full of fascinating anecdotes, but I certainly didn't know about Led Zeppelin's John Bonham jamming with Black Sabbath.

No, very few people knew that. As I say, this is my private life that I've never laid bare before. Are there tapes of that jam? I really don't know. They might exist on the end of some master-tapes we had, but I certainly don't have them. John was a good friend, best man at my first wedding, and he liked us. We jammed through "Supernaut" [from 1972 Sabbath album Vol. 4]. John loved that track.

In his recent interview with UWeekly, the former Ozzy axeman revealed that the two previously mentioned projects are just the beginning of Black Label's exploration with their lighter tendencies:

Hagar tells RS that any VH reunion won't include him. "If Van Halen play, it will be Dave, Eddie, Alex, and Wolfie [Wolfgang Van Halen], his kid � it wouldn't be Mike [Anthony] and I.

The award honors groups or individuals who have made significant and lasting contributions to live music and the touring business, and acknowledges the recipients' commitment to the art of performing live and reaching fans through the concert experience.

According to Erna's website, the hometown show will take place at on December 16 at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston, MA.

Durbin shared the news in a recent interview withNoisecreep... "I'm really excited about the guys I have playing with me," said James. "My lead guitarist, Dylan, also plays in a metal band called Archer - who you might know from them opening for bands like Black Label Society. Our bassist, Tyle, played in a glam band called Dirty Penny. Our rhythm guitarist Blake Bunzel and drummer Jeff Fabb left the band In This Moment and are now doing this with me full time."

He admits he's suffered from poor-timekeeping all his life, and regrets touring with Guns N' Roses in 1991 as the classic lineup began to disintegrate. But in a candid interview with That Metal Show he finds time to laugh at himself and joke about what he does in his downtime.

"It's like two decades of people talking and most of the time they're talking about things somebody who had a bias started. They could have said them jokingly," Rose says on That Metal Show. "'Axl's a dictator' � I know exactly where that started. It started with a woman who was interviewing us and Izzy called me 'the Ayatollah' in the interview. It just rolled from there. It didn't hit me I should nip this in the bud."

Jonathan Davis is did some heavy anti-promotion for the band's new album 'The Path of Totality,' when speaking with Kerrang! recently. Davis forewarned hardcore fans that the album they made with a barrage of different dubstep artists is most likely not for them:

According to the band's website, Casagrande is from Sao Paulo, Brazil and he won the Modern Drummer Undiscovered Drummer Contest as a teenager in 2006. "When I got the invitation to join Sepultura, I was in shock," said Casagrande. "I'm a fan of the band for years; it'll be an honor to play with them.""

Ultimate Classic Rock reports: Schmit told VH1 Classic Radio that while 2012 looks "very slow" for The Eagles at this point, there are other things in the works, such as "a documentary of the history of the Eagles. There's talk about a musical. You know, Broadway."

According to Yahoo News, the band's manager told Reuters that the plan is for Cheap Trick to play a key role as an anchor tenant in a new entertainment district being developed on South Michigan Avenue, where Chess, Brunswick and Vee-Jay Records were once based.

Guitarist Peter Buck reckons global success changed the dynamic of R.E.M. "Once we had a hit single, things changed a little bit," Buck admits. "We were, like: Wow, there's so many young people out there. Like, teenage girls. One show, while Michael was talking [to the audience], Mike says to me: Look how many people there are. I think at least one person in this place has murdered somebody. And, well, yeah � if you've got 56,000 people in a place, I guess there is a murderer out there. I would like to think that we don't draw an extra number of them, but you never know."

The Hindustan Times reports Rajesh Kumar (General Manager, DNA Entertainment Networks) and his colleagues Umesh Chinara, Ashok Singh and Savio Faleiro were granted bail against surety bonds of Rs 30,000 each.

The frontman was fired from the band in 1996 after refusing to sing new material that he did not like, which he states has since appeared on Skid Row's albums featuring replacement vocalist Johnny Solinger.