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"I wrote them a letter, I tried to get in contact with Angus... I've had no contact with anybody," Rudd tells Australia's A Current Affair. "I'm very disappointed, yeah. But that's life," adding, "You know who your friends are, really."

After Rudd recorded "Rock Or Bust" with AC/DC in Vancouver last year, the band hired former member Chris Slade to handle drum duties in his place for the group's world tour, which launched on April 10 at Coachella. "I'm sure they're having a great old time," says Rudd. "I'm sure they're really enjoying playing. I'm sure it really sounds great."

Last month, Rudd pleaded guilty to drug charges and threatening to kill a former assistant at a hearing in Tauranga District Court; he could face up to seven years in jail when he returns for his June 26 sentencing.

Having wrapped up the first leg of a tour with his latest supergroup, The Circle - featuring Michael Anthony, Jason Bonham and Vic Johnson - Hagar says he recently filmed footage at the band's May 2 show at Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina.

"We also filmed the Rebellion show and hanging out backstage, warm-up routine, etc. for my upcoming AXS TV show called 'Sammy Hagar's Rock 'n Roll Road Trip'", writes Hagar on his blog. "The concept is that I go to people's hometown and interview them, jam with them etc., or you go with me on a rock 'n roll road trip and see my routine. I can't tell you when it's going to start being shown yet, but I will keep you up and current."

Publisher Jan Wenner serves as the chairman of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Foundation, which oversees all elements of the organization. Rolling Stone says: "You can't blame the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame nominating committee for not bringing Deep Purple in. They've put them on the ballot several times over the past few years. It probably has something to do with the fact that the vast, vast majority of voters are American. If the people of Europe had the chance to vote, Deep Purple would have been in years ago."

The lyrics include the paragraph: "Student bodies lying dead in the halls, a blood splattered treatise of hate. Class dismissed is my hypothesis, gun fire ends in debate."

The case against him was later dropped and the charges erased from his record, while Exodus guitarist Gary Holt described the incident as a paranoid over-reaction.

Due June 8 (June 9 in North America), the remastered album will be available on CD, 2CD, LP, 2LP, a Deluxe Edition Boxet, Super Deluxe Edition Boxset and via digital download.

The Deluxe and Super Deluxe Editions feature previously unreleased material and alternative takes of a selction of album tracks, including an alternative version of "Brown Sugar" featuring Eric Clapton; unreleased versions of "Bitch", "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" and "Dead Flowers"; an acoustic take on "Wild Horses", and five tracks recorded live at The Roundhouse in 1971 including "Honky Tonk Women" and "Midnight Rambler."

The Super Deluxe edition will also present "Get Yer Leeds Lungs Out!", a 13-track audio recording of the Stones March 1971 show in Leeds, shortly before they began their self-imposed UK 'exile' period in France over tax issues. A DVD includes two tracks from the band's Marquee Club show in London on March 26, 1971.

It's the fourth tune issued in advance of the record, following "Stormbringer", "Burn" and "Lay Down Stay Down." The group's 12th album sees frontman David Coverdale re-recording classic songs from the Deep Purple Mark 3 and Mark 4 records he appeared on: "Burn" (1974), "Stormbringer" (1974) and "Come Taste The Band" (1975).

In addition to Coverdale, Whitesnake's current lineup includes guitarists Reb Beach and Joel Hoekstra, bassist Michael Devin, keyboardist Michele Luppi and drummer Tommy Aldridge.

Rob played and sang the song backwards (which isn't easy) then reversed the footage so the song plays forwards AND IT WORKS. Plus there's a load of silly string, apples, pretzels, polystyrene and more to keep your eyes occupied while your ears are confused.

Smith declares: "It's not a reformation, it's a reboot." He adds: "I tried to put the old lineup back together but the guys were unable to do it for differing reasons. Then, in the summer of 2014, I started toying with the idea of a new lineup and it came together quite quickly. We're taking it slowly, learning the old stuff and playing with new ideas too.

Root tells The Des Moines Register, "When you're sort of blindsided by something like that, it kind of makes you wonder what the motivations or intentions are, or why it has to be like that, when really all that needs to happen is a Slipknot record, then we could go back to business as usual later."

He adds, "For whatever reason, it happened and it sort of lit a fire under my a** to realize that it doesn't really matter who you are or what your role is in any particular thing that you do. You always have to be on top of your game, because you never know what is going to happen.

"It definitely made me want to put my nose to the grindstone and hone my skills a little more. When something like that happens, it's like getting dumped."

Nolan issued this statement, "We are saddened to announce the untimely passing of Oakland musician extraordinaire, Drew Cook, of the bands Dimesland and Wild Hunt.

"Drew was a special guitarist and a wonderful individual who will be deeply missed by the Bay Area music scene and by the many who were fortunate enough to have collaborated with or otherwise known him. We have lost an incredibly kind, funny, and talented human being."

Celebrating his 67th birthday on his Rock 50 radio show, Ward says: "On a personal note, when I was having some problems in the hospital in November and December - I'd gone through the operations, the first of the operations I had in November and December of 2013.

Morgen says: "Prior to anyone seeing this film, the 'Holocaust deniers,' as I like to refer to them, started writing conspiracy theories about my movie. Now this is before anyone's seen a frame.

"These are people who supposedly like Kurt, I would think, and here's a movie I'm making in which we're gonna share with the world all this material about Kurt, and in fact we're not even going into the last month of his life.

They said on Facebook: "It was determined by the building engineer that the building infrastructure was not adequate to support the requirements of the show. In order to ensure the safety of the fans and band, it was decided by the building not to proceed with the show."

"We are very proud to announce our new lyric video for Sing To Me featuring Marco Hietala of Nightwish," say the band. "It's only fitting as we're currently having a blast touring the US with Nightwish!"

New World is the band's first studio recording with vocalist Linda Odinsen who joined the group in 2013. And guitarist Dave Cureton says it shows just how far their sound has progressed.

The veteran rockers will bring the curtain down on the Worthy Farm event as they headline on Sunday, June 28 - eight years after their first appearance at the festival.

Downing tells VH1's That Metal Show: "Those guys have been pretty busy since I left the band. I'm glad that the Priest machine is still rolling, because it would be hard to imagine a world without Priest. And I think that's good. And I'm glad Richie has taken up the baton and has allowed the band to carry on."

Their new album ARK is the follow-up to 2012's Maybe Today, Maybe Tomorrow and was produced by Peter Miles at Devon's Middle Farm Studios.

Frontman Liam Cromby had this to say, "We came to the album like a blank canvas. We set ourselves up to really experiment and try and go somewhere else."

The band are in the studio recording Fallen - the follow-up to 2013's No More Hell To Pay. But Sweet has asked his Facebook followers how they would feel if he was to take a back seat on live vocal duties in the future.

He says: "So I can't hit all the high notes like I used to. I try and choose my battles but unfortunately, gravity has taken its toll. How would it go over if we found some young lad who can hit all the high notes and I just play guitar and sing from time to time? Don't go crazy, just wanted to ask out of curiosity."

Quo have just completed an acoustic tour - now Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt, Andy Bown, John 'Rhino' Edwards and Leon Cave say they'll return to their "full-throttle, no-nonsense thunderous electric" ways.

Cadillac Ranch� Damn, where to start? Cadillac Ranch was one of two songs from our new album co-written by my good friend Jacob Quesenberry and myself. We've known each other for many years now and spent the greater part of that time writing and swapping sad song ideas. However, more specifically I met Jake during the transition period most young men go through, when they're thrown out into the real world for the first time. Yeah, you know the one. The one where you split with your high school sweetheart for the first time, sully in the comfort of sad Lucero songs and try to drink yourself into oblivion. Yeah, the glory years.

Jake had originally written it as a whimsical ode to my infamous younger days. The song was different every time he played it and didn't necessarily ever have a finished version. When I was writing for this album I had a melody stuck in my head I just knew I had heard before...BAM, all of sudden his chorus came rushing back. Nearly 10 years after he jokingly played it for all our friends, I was strumming it in my living room trying to piece it all back together.

When I was 18 and freshly single, me and one of my oldest friends decided to get an apartment together. We had no clue how to do anything, no sense of responsibility and barely enough money between the both of us to eat. We must have been in the right place at the right time, because somehow or another we were accepted to a low income apartment complex directly in the middle of our town. We moved in and continuously celebrated like any teen would...by binge drinking case after case of Natural Light. I think we were able to keep it together for roughly 3 months till the parties started happening. Everyone in our age group either knew about our place or had already participated in the debauchery. We were living the college dream without the dreaded college part. The two bedroom apartment was a cesspool. Beer cans were stacked to the ceiling, dishes left unwashed, cigarette burns on anything and everything that could be burned, and a full size ping pong table that spanned the entire living room(which was more often than not the perfect bed for weary guest). Yeah, we were classy fellows.

Somewhere in the middle of those unforgettable months I had totaled my only means of transportation. Within a week I found an old blue Cadillac Coupe Deville for $600 cash. I knew nothing about cars, but I knew this Cadillac had gold trim, so I handed over the cash without hesitation. I was 18, I had my own place and I owned a beat up Cadillac Coupe Deville that half-ass ran. Life was good. I had always been a fan of classic country music. Many nights in that apartment were spent getting piss drunk and singing along to all the greats. Since I was now the proud owner of a Cadillac, Chris Ledoux's song Cadillac Ranch became our drunken anthem. We just started referring to the place as the Cadillac Ranch and it took off. Anyone and everyone knew it as the Cadillac Ranch, hell, there was even a sign that said so.

There are way too many events that happened in that place to even begin to describe. Long story short, we were two ignorant guys trying to get our sh*t together but failed miserably. But, I think you need that at least at one point in your life. We made it about 9 months and 2 police visits before we were evicted due to complaints. I came out of it with a bruised liver, a depression beard and a new insight on life. It was for the best. I was done. I had never been so happy to leave a place. However, I wouldn't trade the memories made in that place for anything. To this day, the Cadillac Ranch was the best and worst time of my life.