"Aerosmith does two shows a week, but we were on our eighth show in nine days, and I'm used to working like that," Cooper tells Rolling Stone. "I'm used to working an hour and 40 minutes or two hours, five nights a week. I was in shape and so was Johnny [Depp] and everybody else. I think Joe was not ready for that kind of pace."
"We were doing 25 to 30 songs with no break," he continues. "You're in fourth gear, and there's no 24-hour resting period. I think it just caught up with him. He finally got up there onstage, dehydrated. And I think he was exhausted. He told me the night before he hadn't eaten in two days."
"I said, 'Man, you've got to know when to sleep. You've got to know when to eat on a tour.' I think it just finally got to him. It was not a heart attack; it was pure exhaustion. They checked his heart and said his heart was actually very strong."
Cooper recalls his reaction to seeing his bandmate collapse during the second song of the concert. "It scared the hell out of me," he says. "The lyrics to ['Raise the Dead'], the first song we played that night, go, 'Cardiac, heart attack � they never feared the reaper,' and I look around the stage and he's gone. He was lying behind an amp on his back, and I went, 'Oh, my God.' We didn't know what happened until after the show." Read more and watch video of the incident
here.
Rudd, who's appeared on all but three of AC/DC's studio albums, was charged with attempting to procure a murder in 2014, after becoming frustrated with the handling of Head Job's initial launch.
Although that charge was dropped, he was later found guilty of threatening to kill and drugs possession, and sentenced to eight months of home detention in New Zealand. That led AC/DC to replace him with Chris Slade for their Rock Or Bust world tour.
Head Job will be relaunched on September 30 via Wave 365 media, and Rudd will undertake a media tour to promote it. He says: "My hellraising days are over. I see a psychiatrist once a week and I'm closer than ever to my children." Read more
here.
Draiman also sang Simon & Garfunkel's The Sound Of Silence with Alter Bridge vocalist and guitarist Myles Kennedy at their Houston show last night - a cover which earned Disturbed chart success on both sides of the Atlantic after it was released earlier this year. Both videos can be viewed below.
When asked how he felt about seeing their version of The Sound Of Silence do well, Draiman said: "It feels great. Everyone and anyone is welcome to come on board. Music is meant to cross boundaries.
"I think that people have become genre snobs. Many people have eclectic tastes. Many people like to listen to all kinds of different music. I mean, I do - I'll listen to many different styles inside a day, a week, a month, a year. It doesn't matter. So why not?" Watch the video
here.
erry has worked with several bands over his career, including Talas, Heaven and Lita Ford, while Lang performs in hard rock band Y&T. The new lineup also includes Blotzer's friend, LA Guns ex Stacey Blades, who stepped in on guitar duties for their festival shows last weekend.
In the meantime, longtime drummer Blotzer has temporarily recruited Slash bassist Todd Kerns for August shows. Blotzer says: "Starting September 3 and 4 onward will be the great Mitch Perry on lead guitar, Stacey Blades on rhythm and lead guitar, Brad Lang on bass, the awesome Joshua Alan still fronting and yours truly chopping wood behind the kit." Read more
here.
We were sent the following details: The album will be available on a limited edition translucent red vinyl and housed in a gatefold jacket accompanied by an 11x11 insert.
Additionally, this double LP pressing will include all six bonus tracks originally released only through the "Red Plane, Yellow Pants and Green Jacket" CD and 7"vinyl singles.
See the tracklisting here.
Due September 9, the package - which marks the group's first official live album after 45 years - presents material recorded over the course of several tours in cities all around the world.
"We spend the biggest stretch of every year out on the road, whippin' wire, poundin' skin, and rockin' it way up," says Billy F. Gibbons. "This is the true document of life de la ZZ. In an abstract surrealism style, this collection is a definitive chronicle of the band hangin' together for four plus deluxe decades, getting down to do what we get to do. Enjoy and listen to loudness!"
"Sixteen Tons" was first written and recorded by Merle Travis in 1947 and went on to become a No. 1 US hit for Tennessee Ernie Ford in 1955. Check out the Beck, ZZ Top jam
here.
Stephen Flintoft, specialist music valuer and auctioneer at the Sheffield Auction Gallery, tells The Antique Trades Gazette: "Perhaps the most interesting item, among so many, is the handwritten lyrics headed 'by Earth' to the song Changing Phases, a title later changed to Solitude, which featured on the 1971 double platinum Black Sabbath album Master of Reality."
The sale room says the collection was saved by a Sheffield resident from a London Docklands property which was being demolished in the 1980s. Photographs of the items to go on auction can be viewed
here.
He adds: "I think I never really got out of writing mode for the last record. There's so much extra material already recorded. There are seven, eight or nine extra songs with guitar, drums and bass.
"They are just sitting there and as long as lyrics don't change them musically, they're done. Slayer's never been in that position, but I wrote so much stuff." Read more
here.
Singer Kim Benzie says of the video: "We got our Scorsese on during the Aesthesis tour throughout Australia and the US earlier in the year to try and document the incredible vibe at the shows.
"When it came time for a clip for our new single The Burning Number, it just felt right that it be this footage and include the faces of all the amazing people in the crowd who make this the experience it is for us."
The single launch comes just days before Benzie, bassist Stewart Hill, drummer Luke Williams and guitarists Clint Vincent and Luke Palmer head out on tour. Watch the video and read more
here.
Snider and Twisted Sister headlined the Bloodstock festival in England last Friday as part of their farewell Forty And F*** It tour and the flamboyant frontman says the metal community must work harder to work together.
Recalling how he first started noticing splits in the metal fanbase in the 1980s, Snider says it has only got worse. He tells Metal Hammer: "That's been going on for way too long. I'm an original headbanger - an OHB. I had the first Sabbath album when it came out, the first Zeppelin album, Deep Purple album - it wasn't even called metal, it was hard rock.
"I was in a Black Sabbath tribute band. There was a unity, a Woodstock nation and the heavy bands came together and you supported them. Then all of a sudden in the early 80s it started to faction and you had this kind of metal and that kind of metal. I always fought for unity because I said we were so oppressed and were such a small section of the music world that to further cut it into smaller and smaller pieces and fight among ourselves weakens us, it doesn't strengthen us.
"While you don't have to be a supporter of all different kinds of metal, at least be supportive. Recognise that we are all part of a sort of dysfunctional family. Strength in numbers. If we try to break it down the way some people want to break it down, then all you're gonna have is a bunch of club shows." Read more
here.
The three bands will also appear at festival Unify Gathering in South Gippsland, Southern Australia on January 13 along with Alexisonfire, I Killed The Prom Queen, Thy Art Is Murder and many more acts.
Letlive say: "You've asked us to come back. We heard you. Now we're going to do so on a co-headline tour with the almighty Every Time I Die - hold for applause.
"We will also have with us the wonderfully talented Canadian hardcore outfit known as Counterparts. All in all, this will be an amazing tour. All that's left now is you letting us know which shows you'll be at." Read more
here.
The new U.S. fall tour is scheduled to kick off on October 26th in Boise, ID at the Revolution Center and will be concluding on December 10th in Indio, Ca at Fantasy Springs.
The Goo Goo Dolls have been on the road since July with Collective Soul and Tribe Society. That trek will wrap up on September 18th in Del Mar, CA.
See the tour dates here.
Few rock fans realize that immediately prior to the album Tommy's 1969 release, the British quartet The Who were on the brink of breaking up. They were hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and had yet to score a Top 10 hit in America. The album Tommy changed all that for The Who, and they spent the remainder of 1969 and most of 1970 touring the world while critics lauded composer Pete Townshend as a genius.
As 1970 waned, Townshend found himself no doubt encouraged by the universal acclaim he received for his rock opera Tommy. Townshend decided to do home demos for another audio/visual high concept piece in late 1970 entitled Lifehouse. Townshend shares with In The Studio host Redbeard the dilemma Tommy had put The Who in.
Pete Townshend says, " Tommy was incredibly difficult to follow. It was huge, it kind of existed outside of The Who. It challenged The Who, it challenged what we were. It changed us, but didn't tell us what to do next."
What eventually came next was Who's Next , an album produced by Glyn Johns that rose out of the ashes of the abandoned Lifehouse project while managing to deliver some of the most iconic Who songs of all time including, "Behind Blue Eyes", "Bargain", "Baba O'Riley" and the anthem for the ages, "Won't Get Fooled Again". Stream the episode
here.
"Lyrically," explains singer the band's frontman Myles Kennedy, "it reflects the frustrations that a lot of people are feeling with the current state of things."
"I threw out that 'show me a leader' line and Myles ran with it lyrically," adds guitarist Mark Tremonti. "I think it's really good for this time and this climate in the world right now, with all the chaos, and all the circus that is politics."
Due October 7, "The Last Hero" was recorded earlier this year with longtime producer Michael 'Elvis' Baskette. Watch the video
here.
Speaking about I Felt A Change, singer Elin Larsson reveals that the song came straight from the heart when she was writing it. She says: "This is the only ballad we have on our record. This song is the most personal song I've ever written - that's why it's so stripped down on instruments.
"I want the listener to make up their own mind about it just like our producer of the video made up his. Mine will be a secret. Sometimes we get to make hard decisions that we are too young to actually decide on, we deal with guilt and sadness and regrets. This is my photograph of a memory that I will always have to deal with. And I don't want to forget it."
She continues: "The video is an artistic video that shows a person struggle with her past and letting go. She releases it to find herself back where she started. The ghost of her past, she becomes a ghost of her present." Watch the video
here.
They'll also return to the fourth annual Cruise To The Edge festival next February, alongside bands such as Yes, Steve Hackett, Spock's Beard and Haken.
The band released a video for track Insomnia in December, which was lifted from their latest album New World. The announcement comes after IO Earth were nominated for the Vanguard Award at the 2016 Progressive Music Awards. Other nominees in the category include Bent Knee, The Mute Gods and Shearwater. Read more
here.
The new run of dates is scheduled to kick off at Cologne's Euroblast festival, Germany, on October 1 and will wrap up in Aarau, Switzerland, on October 15.
The band say in a statement: "Europe and the UK, we're delighted to be prancing across your beautiful continent once again this October with our dear friends Sithu Aye and Modern Day Babylon.
"It's been a while, and we have some surprises up our sleeves for you guys. See you on the road." See the dates and read more
here.
Speaking to TeamRock after their appearance at the UK's Bloodstock festival, he says: "After this we do a couple more shows with The Black Dahlia Murder and Dying Fetus and then we have about two weeks of shows around Europe.
"As soon as we get back, we have a one week break - then we do the east coast in the US. After that, we're going into the studio and there's nothing else planned for the end of the year - so expect something new probably next year."
As for the direction of the next album, Nameless continues: "I had it written for about a year, a year and a half. I wrote it before I even started talking to any labels, so it's sort of pure in that way and it's the next part of the trilogy. That's all I want to say about it." Read more
here.
Although widely described as a thrash metal band, DiSanto embraces his prog influences and says Vektor is simply a melting pot of his various influences - most notably 80s sci-fi films.
Speaking before his band's appearance on the Sophie Lancaster stage at Bloodstock (Sunday), Di Santo tells TeamRock: "My dad got me into sci-fi way younger than most parents would let kids watch those movies!
"I loved The Thing and Mad Max, but my favourite was Spacehunter. I loved the post apocalyptic movies. It's like that - but in space. The planet is a very harsh environment and I just loved it.
"So the sci-fi is a big influence on me, along with bands like Kreator and Destructor. A lot of prog records too - it's just throwing all that stuff into a blender." Read more
here.
The records were originally issued in the years following the success of 1972's "Harvest", which delivered Young his first and only US No.1 album. "Time Fades Away" was recorded live with Neil Young and The Stray Gators while touring in support of "Harvest" in 1972.
1974's "On The Beach" was recorded after "Tonight's The Night", but released before the latter, which surfaced in 1975. "Zuma" marked the rocker's first project to deliver a co-credit to his band Crazy Horse and features their "classic" line-up of bassist Billy Talbot, drummer Ralph Molina and guitarist Frank Sampedro. Read more
here.
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