Today's Day in Rock Stories

Metallica Frontman Was Livid About Grammy Mess-Up

Issued last November, the original 27-disc package delivered 130 tracks from the band's formative years, including TV recordings, BBC Sessions, outtakes and demos and more than 20 unreleased songs. Also featured were 7 hours of previously unreleased live audio and more than 5 hours of rare concert footage.

Next month, Pink Floyd are releasing six individual volumes from the box set, breaking down the massive project into bite-sized chunks by years to give fans the opportunity to hear the sonic evolution of the group - from the mid-1960s with original member Syd Barrett to the growth shown by 1972 as the band prepared "The Dark Side Of The Moon" album.

The Slayer guitarist was recently asked about the possibility of the Big 4 of Thrash (Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax) teaming up again and he responded, "I would be all for. I just don't think there's ever going to be a moment in time to where four headline bands with the same time free to make it happen."

His counterpart in Metallica has a different take on the possibility. Kirk Hammett appeared on Scott Ian's show "Never Meet Your Heroes" on SiriusXM Volume where he said, "Even though we haven't announced any 'Big Four' dates in the future of anything like that, I personally see it happening again in the future," he said. "I don't know when, but I do see it happening in the future.

When asked by Radio.com about the snafu of the house band playing Metallica's "Master of Puppets," Mustaine replied, "You know what? I didn't even notice it. It just sounded like some music in the background. The funny thing is that when I went back and listened to my acceptance speech, and I heard the song, I was like, 'Wow!'

"Everyone was asking me, 'What about the Metallica thing?' And I said, 'I didn't hear it, I just saw it.' 'How could you not have heard it?' I didn't know what they were talking about. I thought that they were talking about Metallica's performance. Because we split. By the time they did their thing with Lady Gaga, we were across the street eating dinner.

"So I went back and listened to my acceptance speech and I went, 'Wow!' I didn't mind them playing it at all, it's a house band, and they're doing cover songs. They were probably saying, 'We don't know any Megadeth songs, how about if we do a Metallica song?'

The band announced that a benefit show will be taking place at Revolution Hall in Portland, Or on March 16th which will be headlined by Red Fang and will feature performances from Danava and Norska.

A GoFundMe campaign has also been started to help raise funds for Scheidt to offset some of his medical costs, including a surgery that he will reportedly have next month.

At press time the campaign had raised almost half of the $25K goal. The campaign page says in part, "Mike is a humble man, and not one to ask for help. That made his recent hospitalization all the more dire, because he fought against the pain and resisted a sense of weakness. But after a certain point, the only intervention that could save his life was a painful and costly surgery that removed a part of his intestines. Mike was literally within hours of death. Miraculously, he is still with us.

The new track can be streamed here. The album marks the band's sixth studio release and was produced by Sam Bell (The Cribs, Weezer, Bloc Party, Two Door Cinema Club). Guitarist David Knudson had this to say about the effort, "There was a lot of change and uncertainty. I think the general vibe of emptiness, replacement, lacking, and longing to fill in the gaps was very present in everyones' minds."

The band will be hitting the road next month for a North American tour to promote the new album and they have recruited Beach Slang and Bayonne to support them at most of the dates.

Hackett kicked off his Genesis Revisited with Classic Hackett North American tour earlier this week with a two night stand in Nashville and will wrap up with trek with the orchestra show on March 3rd in Buffalo at the Kleinhans Music Hall.

She reportedly claims in her book "Sweet Child of Mine: How I Lost My Son to Guns N' Roses" that Dr. Howard Kornfeld was prescribing Steven with over $2,000.00 in prescription drugs per month, according to Radio.com [they reported his last name as Kornfield].

The new run of dates will include both headline dates as well as Devin Townsend Project added as a new support act for stops on the upcoming Opeth and Gojira tour.

"Whiskey And Wimmen: John Lee Hooker's Finest" will hit stores on March 31st and will feature songs from the music icon's Vee-Jay, Specialty, Riverside and Stax Records releases. It's available for pre-order on CD and vinyl formats here.

The Danish band performed a medley of their song "You're Not There" with "Take The World By Storm," during the television broadcast, which can be viewed here.

They also played "Drunk In The Morning" which has been released by the late night talk show as a web exclusive. Check it out here. The appearance on the show followed the group's performance with Kelsea Ballerini during the Grammy Awards this past weekend.

Frontman Will Gould had this to say about single "Black Rain is the third single from the album Eternity, In Your Arms and one of our favorites. A progression again from the singles released so far, this song shows the full range of the band on this album.

Directed by Beyonce collaborator Dikyal Rimmasch, the clip lives up to the song's title, featuring the band in a space ship, wandering another planet and animated footage of galactic travel contrasted with performance shots and images of people partying on the dance floor.

Guitarist Chris Stein said the interstellar theme was an effort to escape the stress and turmoil of modern day events. 'Quoting Emma Goldman, 'If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution.' In these trying times we need some fun. We're very serious about fun," he told NME.

The "Flashback" video was directed by Matt Zane and showcases Martin along with his bandmates Kilian Duarte and Victor A. Carracedo. Felix had this to say about the track, "I wanted this song to sound like thunder, fast cars, flashes... really fast stuff, that sort of thing. The idea came to me after a really stressful day in Los Angeles.

"All of the traffic congestion and warm weather, and then the relief I felt when I got home. I wrote almost the whole song right as I returned home that day. For this video, we wanted to have the band play around bright lights and flashes, as it reflects the mood of the track.

As the band was working on new material, we were at rehearsal when Bubba (Singer, Guitar) came in with a riff that he had been working on for quite awhile. He explained that he could not find the right song to incorporate this riff. So we decided to try to write a song out of this riff.

So, once he started playing the riff, Larry (Bass), Sammy (Drummer), and Stevie (Lead Guitar) started to add their ideas as well. After 3 or 4 times of this cycle, the music was completed in about 30 minutes. It was now up to Bubba to work on the lyrics.

The song is about the ups and downs of a relationship. In the first part of the song the girl breaks up with the guy, as she feels he is going nowhere in life.
As the song progresses ,the guy moves on in his life and becomes successful and has a new girlfriend. He then runs into the OLD girlfriend one day, and she realizes she made a mistake, but it is too late.