Now the challenge might actually produce a welcome side effect - helping to restore the working relationship between two of rock's biggest icons - Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora. Jon recently took the Ice Bucket Challenge. The participant in the challenge is called to nominate three new participants, and Jon decided to challenge Bon Jovi bandmates Tico Torres, David Bryan, and also estranged guitarist Sambora.

The challenge might be the crucial first step towards repairing Jon and Richie's working relationship, and bring the guitarist back to the band. Sambora left the group abruptly early last year at the start of the band's latest world tour in support of the album What About Now.

The announcement comes after he spent years saying it would never happen following their split in 2004, due to a disagreement between the frontman and drummer Joe Fazzio.

"I don't think he makes any sense," Ace tells Artisan News Service. "He prides himself on being such an intellectual, he brags about being able to speak 7 languages, but when it comes to being knowledgeable about the human condition�y'know, depression is a very serious disease - I've suffered from it in my lifetime, I know my daughter suffers from it.

The Wall Live tour brought the famed 1979 Pink Floyd album to arenas and stadiums around the world between 2010 and 2013. Waters played 219 dates that brought in a total of approximately $458 million dollars in box office revenue.

Seven other crew members were injured in the incident, which took place on the first day of filming in February, and is reported to have taken place while filming a dream sequence that involved a bed being placed on railway tracks.

U2 fan blog @U2 recently posted an email exchange with an anonymous source from Universal (his or her name was blurred out of the screen shot of the exchange) who said that the new album would come out "this year." But there's been no verification that that exchange is legitimate (nor is there likely to be any such verification).

But there has been some verified recent U2 activity. Last week, French newspaper Nice Martin reported that the group were shooting a video under high security at Rivera Studios in Nice.

The article notes that cell phones were strictly prohibited and one local commented that the security was akin to when President Obama was in France for the G20 summit in 2011.

However, an August video shoot doesn't necessarily point to a 2014 release; the band could be working months ahead of time on a video for a 2015 release.

Still, other signs seem to indicate that a U2 album is getting closer and closer to release. In a recent article, The Irish Times reported that Bono has been playing songs from the new, as-yet-untitled album, loudly, from his beachfront home in the south of France; fans often record the songs and post them online, before getting cease-and-desist orders from lawyers from Universal Music, the band's record label.

The Irish Times also cites a music industry source who predicts that there'll be a "single in September, album September-October, tour announced December, first date April next year," and that "the album has been actually been finished for a few months, but a decision was taken not to release during the summer months because of holidays� There was one last, frantic scramble earlier this year to get a big single, so they got Adele's writer-producer, Paul Epworth, into the studio."

Speaking months before his death on tour in July, Winter said: "Step Back is to bring it to the people of today who haven't listened to the old music. It's better than anything they'll hear today. If there's good people, other good musicians, people enjoy it. I just love it."

Harper says: "I play the way I play because I couldn't play like Johnny Winter. He was one of the ordained architects who went on to define the blues - not only for generations, but for an entire genre. Johnny was the gospel truth."

Four dates have been revealed so far for the signing tour, including a stop at Barnes & Noble's Union Square location in New York City on the day the book is published.

Perry describes the books as "the loner's story, the band's story, the recovery story, the cult story, the love story, the success story, the failure story, the rebirth story, the re-destruction story, the post-destructive rebirth story."

"It" refers to fans using their cell phones to take pictures and video of concerts. "Deal with it" at a recent show in Carmel, Ind., meant grabbing an attendee's phone and lofting it to the rafters.

Two other vinyl formats are available for pre-order via Amazon and a remastered version of the single A Favor House Atlantic has been made available to stream.

In an interview with Journey Of A Frontman, Lombardo says: "It felt like a rejuvenation when I first got the band together in 2010. When you're in a band for more than 20 years, it becomes a job.

"There's hardly any communication with band members - you rehearse with the band a couple of days before the tour, then fly back and that's it. You see them on stage but there's really not much to it."

There's handwritten lyrics to "Glycerine," the band's hit fourth single, "written out by Gavin just for you," as the description reads, available for $2,000. (Better act fast because there's only one left.)

Or, for a relative bargain, you can buy handwritten lyrics to "The Sound of Winter," the band's 2011 single from The Sea of Memories, priced at $1,000.

Bush had offered signed Fender guitars, a signed drum head, and a guitar lesson with Chris Tray - "Learn your favorite BUSH song or just get some guitar tips on a half hour Skype call" - but those have already sold out.

However, if bass is your thing, there's still a Skype lesson available with bassist Corey Britz for $500.

In a statement, the group say: "With close to 20 years of touring experience and a reputation as one of the best live bands in the world, it would have been wrong not to at least try and capture the energy of a Danko Jones live show on tape.

As the first gig approaches, Bush says in a post on her website: "We're all very excited about the upcoming shows and are working very hard in preparation. It's going very well indeed.

Neil, 53, tells the Tampa Tribune: "We certainly lived the life, and it was all there on the albums. This is a brotherhood that has had its up and downs. There's no doubt about that. But I think there were many more good times than bad.

The band was formed with the aim of seeing what would happen when Mike Portnoy and Neal Morse of Transatlantic joined forces with Deep Purple's Steve Morse and Dave LaRue of Dixie Dregs, then added the talents of singer Casey McPherson to the mix.

Saxophonist Walter Fancourt says the follow-up to 2012's Separate Realities is a much more deliberate affair. He explains: "For the first record, we came together to write music, not really knowing we were writing for an album. After hearing the debut, that was the first time I felt like we knew what we sounded like."

Sanders says the line-up changes helped focus everyone on the job at hand and he insists Blood For Blood is their best work to date. He tells PMTV: "Things were kind of falling apart with other members in the past and on this record everyone had something to prove. This is the most focused record of every one. It's the best record yet.

"We're glad to be playing six or seven songs off that record right now. Before we were only playing two or three which was killing us. Now we're playing pretty much the whole thing."

"I made this huge bass sound and we kind of laughed at first and thought, 'What if we could do this? What if we could be a two-piece and sound like a four-piece and be a rock band?'" singer/bassist Mike Kerr told Radio.com of the band's early beginnings. "I kinda feel like rock's really the only thing I've done," Kerr added. "Every time I've gone to write a song, it's just always come out that way."

But Bob Catley and co are also putting songs together for their 18th title. Bassist Al Barrow says: "We've been back in the studio recording material. Plans are going well, and part one of the project is almost complete.

But before embarking on the cinematic role of a lifetime, Dave Grohl passes the challenge along to Jack Black, John Travolta and appropriately enough, King himself.

The Foos' three-minute remake finds Grohl playing Sissy Spacek's prom queen character from the 1976 film, with drummer Taylor Hawkins filling the roll of the prom king in order to reenact the movie's pivotal scene when a reprehensible prank is pulled on Carrie (Spacek's character). Gallons of blood are poured over her head in order to embarrass the teenager.

Pat Smear and Nate Mendel assist in the prank, hiding behind the curtain, letting go of the ice bucket just at the right moment. Grohl's footage is brilliantly cut together with shots from the original film.

In theaters this Friday, August 22, "Sin City- A Dame to Kill For" is the highly anticipated sequel to the 2005 international smash, "Sin City." The first film grossed 74 million dollars in the U.S. and 158 million dollars worldwide.

The album will be the group's first for Republic Records, after many years on Roadrunner. "I've been a fan of the band since their inception," says Republic Records co-founder and CEO Monte Lipman. "Unfortunately, like many people, I had the opportunity to sign them and blanked, and missed one of the biggest opportunities of my career."

"For me, on behalf of Republic and this company, it's about how we can make a difference in their career," he added. "And that's what I convinced these guys -- I said, 'You're a legacy act, and as far as I'm concerned, your trajectory is right into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and I want to be a part of that.'"

Due September 16, the guitarist recorded "World On Fire"with his touring band, Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators, and producer Michael Baskette.

A week after the album's release, Slash will promote "World On Fire" and mark the Guitar Center's 50th anniversary with a series of three concerts in Hollywood's most legendary clubs.

KISS are following in the footsteps of several other rockers who paved the way with successful extended Vegas runs, including Carlos Santana, Guns N' Roses, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Rod Stewart and Meat Loaf, among others.

Jim James of My Morning Jacket takes the lead on the song, and even though he and the others on the track are very much modern, he manages to make the song very much retro-sounding, particularly in the chorus.

"I knew I was young enough," he sings. "And I knew there was nothing to it / For I'd already seen it done enough." There's fuzzed-out guitar as well, perhaps either a contribution from James or Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith, from the sound of it.

James and Goldsmith are joined on the song - and the entire album - by Mumford & Sons' Marcus Mumford, Elvis Costello and Carolina Chocolate Drops' Rhiannon Giddens, plus producer T Bone Burnett.

The song appears on The Paradigm Shift: World Tour Edition, which is a reissue of the 2013 album and includes three new studio tracks and six live ones.

Speaking about the album to USA Today, frontman Ryan Key says: "We've always had a burning desire to be a rock band - we've explored it in different ways along the path.

"We don't want to keep writing the same record over and over. We've always tried to make each record independent of the others, but on Lift A Sail we really went for it."

So how did "Come Out and Play" come about? Yeah, that was the last song I wrote for that album, and I was trying to figure out how to put it together. I liked the main riff, but musically it bounces around a lot. The verses are kind of like a rap almost, more spoken than sung. And then there's that Middle Eastern riff or whatever you want to call it, which is very Southern California, going all the way back to Dick Dale, and we'd messed with some of that stuff in previous records. I guess I was trying to come up with something in a different way, that would grab you with all these elements. The "keep 'em separated" element was just because I wanted it so there was a stop, with something fun to say in the middle. That just kind of came to me at school one day. So all those things, but you never know if it's gonna work. You just have to go into the studio like "this might sound weird but let's try it anyway."

And it was your roadie that said that part? It was actually a friend of ours, who was more like a fan, from a very Latin, gang-related neighborhood. We became friends because he was in our face always yelling for certain songs - he always wanted us to play stuff from our first album. He would come to the T-shirt stand afterward - back then you had easy access to the band. We were gonna hire a voiceover guy but he had that accent so I thought we should give him a shot, his name's Blackball. He did a take, that was pretty much it. Did it a second time and that's the one you hear.

That brings us to "Self-Esteem," which didn't really sound like anything you'd done before that. Is there a true story behind that or a person who inspired it? Sort of. When I talk to people it's interesting how they think that anything a guy writes is autobiographical, which of course it's not, it could be something you've made up off the top of your head, or combined stories.

Were any of the images taken from real life, like taking her back and making dessert? The thing where late at night she knocks on my door was real, and practicing all the things you would say was a funny thing that had happened before.

Guitarist Sel Balamir recently said of the record: "It doesn't aspire to emulate any of its predecessors. We've gone back to just trying to write great songs and melodies, and that's where we've decided to stay."

They launch a European tour in October, which includes two UK dates alongside Kerbdog and others - one at the Ritz in Manchester on November 15, and the other at the Forum in London on November 16.

VHF is a band I put together with Joel Hoekstra (Night Ranger, Trans Siberian Orchestra, Rock of Ages Broadway) on guitar and The Fretless Monster, Tony Franklin (The Firm, Blue Murder, Kenny Wayne Sheppard) on bass.

I would like to talk about how our debut song/video "Whispers of the Soul" came to be. When I decided to put this band together my vision was that the music would be based on the groove and built from the drums up. I was going for the style of music that I grew up on�.Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, especially their "Animals" album. It is all about the groove; add a little improvisation and creativity on each musician's part and you get a final piece. I equate it to painting a picture�. you start with a blank canvas� then I add a few brush strokes, and set the underlying foundation with the drum groove and arrangement. Next comes Tony on bass where he adds a few more layers and brush strokes with the chord progression and underlying tone. Finally, Joel on guitar to pulls it all together� The video really makes my vision come to life, especially the visual effects and color treatments demonstrate the "painting a picture" metaphor �. Remember we never jammed together in the studio or during the recording process, we created independent parts to make each song whole.

Once all of the songs were recorded by each of us, Engineer/Producer Joe Floyd and I added the basic effects, panning, echoes etc. When we had a 90% sound, we brought it to Tommy Kessler of Blondie to help with the separation of frequencies and to add ear candy. We did not want to release a typical instrumental CD, our approach was to allow the engineers to have freedom to experiment sonically. So while the songs may follow ababcab structures, the song can vary with each pass through the "a" section. We were lucky to have engineers like Joe Floyd and Tommy on board and willing to push the envelope. I wanted to make sure the music is headphone friendly�.. Hope you enjoy!