Today's Day in Rock Stories

Eyehategod Frontman Mike Williams Receives Liver Transplant

Apart from Gramm and Jones, Al Greenwood (keyboards), and Ian McDonald (rhythm guitar, keyboards, saxophone, flute, backing vocals) were also on hand for the platinum plaque presentation by Atlantic Records Chairman & CEO Craig Kallman on December 5th.

Since then frontman Brian Johnson and bassist Cliff Williams have left the band, with mainman Malcolm Young having bowed out previously. But Rudd - who recently stated his "hellraising days are over" - remains optimistic that guitarist Angus Young will return, and he wants to take part.

Rudd says via the Belfast Telegraph: "I'd dearly love to play on anything that Angus does. Anything that might be - it's never over. I have great stories with all the guys from AC/DC.

We've gone through a lot together. Done a lot together, done a lot of damage together. I have great memories with AC/DC. Even though some of us might not be very well, we're not dead yet."

Speculation has increased in recent months that Frehley will return to take part in a farewell tour that's thought to be pencilled in for 2018. The rumours were fuelled by frontman Paul Stanley's guest appearance on Frehley's solo album.

The original Space Ace said earlier this month that it was a "possibility" and added that, despite media reports, he'd remained friends with his former colleagues through thick and thin.

Asked about 2018, Frehley tells Talking Metal: "I haven't heard anything from Paul and Gene - although I did get a text from Gene the other day, wanting to come see me perform this January. Maybe he'll pop the big question. Who knows?"

Appearing in support of "Hardwired�To Self Destruct", the band played a game of "Who Knows Metallica?" trivia with a superfan from Cleveland, OH before sitting down with the host to discuss their first album in 8 years.

"It was my day off and I was drunk at Mars Bar, the beautiful, nasty dive bar that was nearby," Bushong recalled, in an interview with auction house Sotheby's. "I think it was about 2004. I walked over to CB's to see if anyone was around and there was this box in the dumpsters outside. I had seen it before above [owner] Hilly [Krystal's] desk for a year or so. I remember thinking, 'Why is this in the trash?'"

Drummer Michael Miley says: "We've released our entire set from Download Paris 2016. The rain had stopped and we kept playing, it was a pretty amazing show."

Doyle says: "When Dave came to me with an offer for our new CD As We Die, it was a no-brainer. He has been a good friend of mine for more than 20 years, and has never done me wrong, and in this business that's unheard of.

"We didn't want to release it ourselves on Monster Man, we wanted a bigger push and EMP has a lot of exciting things happening in 2017 that will do that for us."

The murder of guitarist Dimebag in 2004 put an end to any chance of a reunion, and the bad feeling between Anselmo and Paul remains unresolved. Brown tells Loudwire: "There's a bunch of stuff that went back and forth between Vinnie and Philip in the press, and I wasn't very thrilled with it.

"At the time I didn't feel that was necessary. We could have taken care of those problems, like we always have. At that point we needed to take a serious break. We'd been going for 12 years straight. I was caught in the middle and I didn't like the way it went down.

McCartney co-wrote one third of the album with Elvis Costello, while David Gilmour played guitar on "We Got Married" and George Martin arranged the strings on "Put It There." Preorder it here.

The 13-track album has been remastered at Abbey Road Studios, and will be available in a Deluxe Edition, which comes with two discs featuring 18 additional audio tracks that include previously unreleased demos.

Songs Of Darkness And Despair features guest appearances by Superjoint guitarist Kevin Bond, King Parrot bassist Squizzy Squires and Superjoint's Jose Gonzalez on percussion.

The plant is found only in a small area of Baja California, Mexico., according to San Diego State University. Dudleya hendrixii is described as a thin, stalky plant less than a foot tall with succulent leaves and brilliant pinkish white flowers. It dies in the summer and then re-sprouts again in the fall.

Frontman Claudio Sanchez says: "Colors brings us to the end of our album cycle, a tribute to all the fans that made it a successful one." Drummer Josh Eppard recently said Coheed And Cambria have forged their own path throughout their career - and it means they are free to "do anything" they want in the studio.

He said: "Even when we were kids, before record deals or tours, it has always been such a wide net. It has always been such an eclectic mix of music. I'm still not sure what kind of band we are.

"As far as genre splitting, or having to define things, I'm really not sure. I'm 36 years old, I don't know what's hot on the streets anymore. I know when I hear music and it speaks to me, that it speaks to me. I could care less if it's cool or hip or what genre it is.

Frontman Rou Reynolds says: "We're glad we were able to include North America in the plans for the 10th anniversary shows, as we've been making the track across the Atlantic regularly since the album's release, and there's a lot of people still coming to shows today that have been with us since the very start."

He adds: "We'll never write another album like Take To The Skies as Enter Shikari isn't really a band that looks backwards, but to be celebrating the decade anniversary of our debut album feels insane.

Hackett says: "This latest waxing represents a bird's eye view of the world of a musical migrant ignoring borders and celebrating our common ancestry with a unity of spirit, featuring musicians, singers and instruments from all over the world.

He tells Kaaos TV: "When you run that risk, you kind of know it's gonna happen. For us, it wasn't so important where we started but, 'Let's see where we finish' kind of feel. We wanted to do something cool and different, and we were able to accomplish that.

We were well aware of the risk going into it, and now that it's happened, and now that we've seen pretty much where we ended up after the first couple of weeks, now we're ready to go out there and kick some ass on the road and see where we finish with this thing.

"We had that plan in motion when we were writing the record, pretty much. We wanted to do something different and have a surprise release.

"It went off really well - better than we could have hoped. And there was no leaks. We got to do the surprise release, which I think was an exciting thing for our fans."

But Muir and his bandmates were never interested in conforming, he says, and he recalls one 'rock star' trying to offer wardrobe advice. Muir tells Alt Press: "We didn't dress the way other people did. It's funny that with punk rock, they talk about non-conformity, but they want you to conform.

"I remember someone that was in one of the 'big bands' back in the day saying, 'Mike, you're actually pretty good, but you'll never do anything looking like that.'