Today's Day in Rock Stories

Foreigner's Original Lineup Looking At Possible Reunion

Over more than two hours in length, the 18-song set mixed classic tracks with tunes from the group's 2016 release, "Hardwired�To Self-Destruct." "What a summer!!," says the band. "Thank you to some of the craziest, most passionate, intense avid fans on the planet!! This has been another memorable and special summer run for us seeing so many new faces along with lots of old friends as you welcomed us back for our first tour of North America in over eight years."

Metallica launched the summer shows in support of "Hardwired�To Self-Destruct" at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, MD on May 10 after hennemusic streamed their final rehearsal for the trek from the same venue on May 9.

Directed by Dick Carruthers (Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Oasis), the project presents the last concert under the Sabbath brand by three-quarters of the original lineup - Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler.

"To bring it all back home after all these years was pretty special," says the three members. "It was so hard to say goodbye to the fans, who've been incredibly loyal to us through the years. We never dreamed in the early days that we'd be here 49 years later doing our last show on our home turf."

Drummer Bill Ward chose to sit out the Sabbath reunion in 2012 and the farewell run over contractual issues and what became a very nasty public spat with longtime friend Osbourne.

The concert was filmed for PBS series Landmarks Live In Concert that features artists performing at monumental locations around the world. The show, hosted by Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, has been given an official air date of November 10.

"We've done some crazy things over the last 20 years," Grohl said in a press release, "but I think this might be the craziest thing the Foo Fighters have ever done."

We've decided to tell the story of the song "Hippycrite" for the "Singled Out" feature. It was the dead of winter and it had been really cold for about a week. Justin and I were inside recording for several days straight. We decided it was time to take a little break, get out and blow off some steam. So we went out to dinner and then went to a local club. We ran into some people we know and met some new people. We mingled and smingled for a while and when we had had enough, we hopped in the car and headed for home.

Naturally, we started a discussion on who we had run into and the events of the evening. We both had conversations with drunken people getting "deep" about anything from the Universe, to Kharma, to animal rights, and extraterrestrials.

We both noticed that those who were preaching the loudest were the same ones who were doing the very things they were preaching against... the animal rights activist, non-meat eater who took her rescue dog back to the shelter because he wouldn't stop peeing in the house and ruined her expensive rug. The Buddhist who sabatoged a coworker to get a big promotion and the peace-loving hippie who's had several traffic incidents due to a severe case of road rage!

Justin said "That guy is a hippie hypocrite!" And I said "He's a hippycrite. We made up a word. There must be a song in that!" and so there was. We went home and wrote it on the spot.

The piano-driven tracks on Reveries Op. 1 No. 4 range from hopeful and enchanting to melancholy and tragic sounding. The scope and vibe of the piece is akin to a dramatic movie score.

Jaime addressed the project on his own website. 'Fueled by my love for the incredible Dimitri Shostakovich, of which I have cultivated over the last six months through the systematic consumption of every symphony, brooding string quartet, and whimsical piano solo, I decided to sit down with my piano and have a conversation about what we wanted out of music."

'That conversation ended with the subsequent decision to write music that simply SOUNDED good," he continued. "I purposely forced myself to stray away from any of the hard-wired academic prejudices that I had the tendency to fall back on."

The recording from a July 2, 1993 concert at the Castaic Lake Natural Amphitheater in California is featured on the third disc of the 4CD/1DVD/1LP Super Deluxe Edition, which is limited to just 15,000 copies worldwide.

The Who performed their 1969 rock opera at the prestigious London venue in its entirety for the very first time in April at an event in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust, the UK charity founded in 1990 to assist youth with support and cancer care.

The "Tommy" show was rounded out with a set of Who classics, also featured in the fall release, which adds bonus behind-the-scenes features like full screen animations of both "The Acid Queen" and "Pinball Wizard" with the accompanying live audio.

The band's most-commercially sucessful record delivered four singles - including the US No. 1 smash, "Here I Go Again", and No.2 ballad, "Is This Love" - on its way to US sales of more than 8 million copies and Top 5 chart status in several countries around the world.

The 4CD/DVD "Whitesnake: Super Deluxe Edition" includes the original album with newly remastered sound, unreleased live and studio recordings, classic music videos, concert footage, a thirty-minute documentary, a 60-page hardbound book that's filled with rare and unseen photos from the era, an extended essay based on new interviews with David Coverdale, plus a booklet of the album's lyrics, handwritten by the rocker.

The new song is the latest track that the has been released from the veteran band's forthcoming album, Pacific Daydream, which will be released October 27th.

Brand New will support the album with headlining set at the High & Low Festival on September 9 in San Bernardino, CA, followed by two-week tour that includes a stop at this year's Voodoo Festival in New Orleans on October 27-29.

The network will premiere the feature on Saturday, August 19th at 9PM ET and is part of AXS TV's special month-long Summer of Love programming that celebrated some of the most important music and artists from the iconic summer of 1967.