Vinnie Vincent Singer Pulls Out Of Comeback Shows

The band took to social media last week and posted the following message "Happy Thanksgiving Hellions!! See you all next year and with a new record that is going to blow you away!!"

Bassist Kyle Sanders revealed some details about the new studio effort during a SiriusXM interview shortly before Vinnie Paul's death. Kyle said,
"We're in the middle of huge things right now. This is the last thing you expect to hear. We're in the studio right now, man. We're doing a record, [this is] everything that Vinnie lives for. It's devastating, man.

"The music that I'm sitting on right now, it makes me so happy to hear it, to have all the music done. We're doing vocals now, we're like 75 percent done with this record. [The] tour's starting in September, all these festivals [are booked]. We just were on the phone with Vinnie talking about the game plan."

Written by Barrett and filmed in December of 1967, the tune was the singer's sole compositional contribution to the project, as well as his last song published by the group before his departure a few months later as David Gilmour joined the lineup.

The group's transitional record from the original Barrett-led era to the Gilmour years reached No. 9 on the UK charts, with drummer Nick Mason later declaring it his favorite Pink Floyd album.

The rocker recently returned to live performances with Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets, with a lineup that strictly performs material from the group's pre-"The Dark Side Of The Moon" era.

"With the help of some like-minded friends, I have embarked on a voyage of discovery of the music that was the launchpad of Pink Floyd and my working life," says Mason. "It seems too early to retire, and I missed the interaction with other musicians."

The 2018 series began with a 27-date North American leg that opened in Tulsa, OK in May and wrapped up in Uncasville, CT in early July while taking home $61.5 million; a 32-show European run that followed from August to mid-November brought in another $64.7 million.

The show will be taking place at the Debonair Music Hall in Teaneck, New Jersey on St Patrick's Day according to a social media post by Corabi. But it looks like there may be additional shows with John and Mike Tramp.

Saigon Kick guitarist Jason Bieler announced on Facebook that he will be playing with the two singers at a show on March 4th in Georgia. He wrote, "I'm uber-jazzed and excited to announce that I will be playing with Mike Tramp and John Corabi on March 4th at 37 Main - A Rock Cafe - which I'm told is very close to Atlanta.

The pair of festival events over the August 23-25 weekend - alongside fellow headliners Twenty One Pilots, The 1975 and Post Malone - will be preceded by another new tour addition: an August 17 appearance at Summer Sessions at Bellahouston Park in Glasgow.

While the Foo Fighters are enjoying a break for the upcoming holiday season, Dave Grohl will deliver the debut live performance his epic solo recording "Play" at Warren Haynes' Christmas Jam 30 benefit concert in Asheville, NC on December 8.

Grohl will be accompanied by other rockers - to be announced - to recreate the recently-released film and audio project that documents the live recording of a solo 23-minute composition that sees the multi-instrumentalist Foo Fighter perform the song on seven instruments over the course of three days in the studio.

S Englund had this to say about the new studio effort, "This is album number 11 and it's also the third album of a concept that might have reached its destination, or at least one conclusion.

"It might also have been something that some of you saw coming or anticipated? We've fought through giant private obstacles as well as an extremely complicated break-in at our studio to bring this album to you. So at the same time as it's certainly not been painless or at all easy, it's been rewarding in new ways and our creativity has been painted in colours of honesty and sincerity.

He continued, "This is our heaviest, darkest, and perhaps also our most diverse album to date. It's everything we wanted to compose and the written words come straight from a place of transparency and never before experienced lucidity.

Already set to appear at a pair of Australia's Download Festivals in Sydney and Melbourne in March, the band have added a March 13 headline show at the Eatons Hill Hotel in Brisbane.

The Seattle rockers have also added two nights to a recently-announced European trek with stops in Oulu and Helsinki, Finland in June. Tickets for the new shows are now on sale.

Recorded with producer Nick Raskulinecz at studios in Seattle, Nashville and Los Angeles, "Rainier Fog" recently debuted at No. 12 on the US Billboard 200.

While it might not sound like it at first, "Semi Kinda Right" is a song that was born out of a feeling of frustration and total hopelessness. When I first started writing the song, we were in a place with the band where it felt like we were going absolutely nowhere, and I was honestly questioning whether there was even a point in doing this anymore.

Even though we had a really successful and busy summer with the band, I still felt like we somehow weren't living up to the expectations that everyone else had for us and at a certain point, I realized that I just had to say f*** that...and that's when I started writing the song.

The writing process for "Semi Kinda Right" pretty much ended up being a self-help session for myself. I figured that just sitting back and having fun with what I'm doing is a hell of a lot more productive than stressing out about what other people think of me. At the end of the day, I just want to make some waves In my industry and do what makes me happy no matter how "successful," we are and this song really helps hammer that home for me.