DeLonge tweeted at Barker requesting the two get together at a new and massive water park in Garden Grove, CA, located about half way between their respective homes in San Diego and Los Angeles. "Let's go to Great Wolf Lodge in OC and do water slides together and post it for fans.." said DeLonge.
Barker responded positively with, "Ha Ha, I'm in 100." The offer to meet comes just days after DeLonge took to Facebook to remind fans he hadn't actually quit the band. "I'm actually talking to Travis about us right now� Never did quit, remember?" he said in a post last Tuesday (June 21). DeLonge's response appeared to be provoked by an article that stated he left the band to "focus on UFOs." Read more
The super deluxe edition box set of the Pink Floyd concert film was announced last October and contains four 180g colored vinyl records, a book, two CDs and three Blu-ray discs - retailing at �360 each.
Iconic Hammond organ player Jimmy Smith performed with influential soul band The Young Rascals, while New Orleans-based saxophonist and clarinet player Johnny Dodds rose to fame in the 1920s. Read more
here.
Heritage Auctions in Beverly Hills auctioned off two music-related pieces on Saturday (June 25). In addition to Bowie's hair, the company also sold Prince's iconic Yellow Cloud guitar for $137,500, Yahoo reported.
Garry Shrum, the director for the auction house's music memorabilia, said, "As celebrity stage-used instruments go, this piece is as unique as Beethoven's piano or John Coltrane's saxophone." Read more
here.
Cesario's daughter Rosie Skripkunis tells NBC Philadelphia that she was contacted by Bon Jovi's management team after she shared a photo of her mother, who is suffering from stage four lung cancer, holding a sign expressing her desire to meet the singer.
Bon Jovi reportedly spent multiple hours with the family, previewing new music for them and giving Carol an autographed book and a guitar. Check out the video
here.
What they probably don't expect is for the Piano Man himself to take the stage. But that's exactly what happened June 24 in Huntington, New York, on Joel's beloved Long Island.
The icon's set featured "You May be Right" and covers of songs by the Rolling Stones, the Beatles (via Joe Cocker) and Led Zeppelin. Joel shared the stage with Big Shot, a band that has long idolized and devoted their musical careers to bringing Joel's hits to life.
As shocked as the audience was, the surprise might not have been all that surprising to Joel obsessives. Guitarist and singer Mike DelGuidice, guitarist Tommy Byrnes and drummer Chuck Burgi are all members of Joel's touring group and are currently working as part of the backing band for his Madison Square Garden shows. Watch the Piano Man's set
here.
The album will be reissued next month to mark its 20th anniversary using the band's original tapes - which weren't used at the time due to a legal battle with Cradle Of Filth's label, Cacophonous Records.
Filth says of Birmingham's Zellar Studio: "It was owned by the guys in Magnum. It was actually half-studio, half-rendezvous for the Boy Scouts every Wednesday afternoon.
"There were also ballet lessons on Monday afternoons, so we had to stop making music. It was quite ironic really - the fact that this huge, epic black metal record was brought to ground by little girls in ballet shoes and their mums."
In the promo, the vocalist also recalls getting "horrendously drunk" with Venom frontman Cronos who was brought in as a guest on Haunted Shores Of Babylon. Read about the and watch the video
here.
But Leach now says it's "fun" to get out of the tour bus and socialize with the general public. He tells German festival Rock Am Ring: "I'm all about just going away and escaping. If I'm in a nice city or there's a park nearby, I just go and get lost in the city. That's one of my favorite things to do on tour.
"I really enjoy going to a pub by myself and striking up a conversation with a stranger, making a new friend. That excites me. It's something that I use to help inspire me to write as well - just interacting or even just observing people in general. It's fun, people watching - going to a place and just sitting outside and watching people walk by. I love that kind of stuff." Read more
here.
Hval says of the promo: "What does eternity feel like? How do you 'live' when there is no death? Usually, the vampire is depicted as a lonesome, all-knowing and ancient creature combining violence, aggressive sexuality and deceitful youth.
"The pack behind the video for Female Vampire wanted to explore vampiric eternity in a different narrative: in a group of romancing friends. The vampire friends move through their hometown of Oslo, partaking in public and private rituals of moving together.
"We also wanted to combine ideas from old vampire trash movies and modern trashy iPhone videos, resulting in an enigmatic world of time-lapse like slow motion where everything is always moving, or moving on. Not there, or not there yet." Watch the video
here.
Also appearing on Cultura Cura are Anna Murphy from Eluveitie, Tommy Vetterli of Coroner, Moonsorrow's Henri Sorvali, Joza Tadic of Then as well as Chris Neary, Manu Rindlisbacher and Ingrid Lukas.
Tadic says: "Needless to say I'm happy as one can be and hope you stay tuned for a sinful journey. Not long now." The artwork and tracklist for the 12-song record can be viewed
here.
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