Great radio interviews tonight with Michael Schenker and Joe Lynn Turner. The best interviews are when artists are honest and open and these guys didn’t hold back at all! Michael’s issues with his brother were discussed and generated a bunch of calls. Joe Lynn discussed Purple, Yngwie and more and was also great. I’ll get full audio as podcasts in the near future. Thanks to both guests and all of Trunk Nation for the kind words on the interviews.
All new podcast exclusive with all of Twisted Sister from Vegas on this week’s 101st episode of The Eddie Trunk Podcast! Free starting this Thursday on www.podcastone.com and Itunes. Also have a great podcast coming with Jamey Jasta soon.
Headed to S FL tomorrow. I’ll be at the Hard Rock in Hollywood hosting Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience this Wednesday. Tickets still avaiable, hope to see you.
GRAMMY Award®-nominated, gold-certified Danish hard rock outfit VOLBEAT unleashed their anxiously awaited sixth full-length album, Seal The Deal & Let’s Boogie [Republic Records], this past Friday in stores and at all digital retailers and can be ordered here. Upon release, the record stormed up the charts hitting #1 in over 15 countries, #1 on the U.S. Rock Albums Chart, and U.S. Metal Albums Chart.
In addition, Volbeat just announced a massive North American tour kicking off at Rise Above Festival in Bangor, ME and including appearing with Metallica and Avenged Sevenfold at the first ever rock show in the brand new U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, MN as well as appearances at Heavy MTL in Montreal, High Elevation Fest in Denver, CO and Rock Allegiance Festival in Philadelphia, PA.
Special guests Killswitch Engage and Black Wizard will be supporting the band throughout the tour. Additionally, the tickets for the Volbeat headline dates will include a copy of Seal The Deal & Let’s Boogie in your choice of digital download or CD (plus postage). If you’ve already purchased the album, you’ll also have the option of gifting your free copy. Pre-sales begin tomorrow at 10AM local time at volbeat.dk/us/. See the full itinerary below.
Seal The Deal & Let’s Boogie track listing:
1. The Devil’s Bleeding Crown
2. Marie Laveau
3. The Bliss
4. The Gates of Babylon
5. Let It Burn
6. Black Rose
7. Rebound
8. Mary Jane Kelly
9. Goodbye Forever
10. Seal The Deal
11. Battleship Chains
12. You Will Know
13. The Loa’s Crossroad
2016 U.S. and Canada Tour Dates:
8/6 Bangor, ME Rise Above Festival
8/7 Montreal, QC Heavy MTL
8/8 Brooklyn, NY The Amphitheater At Coney Island Boardwalk*
8/11 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE*
8/12 Detroit, MI Masonic Temple#
8/13 Columbus, OH LC Pavilion – Blitz Summer Smoke Out
8/15 Tulsa, OK Brady Theater*
8/16 Dallas, TX Bomb Factory*
8/18 Springfield, IL Illinois State Fair*
8/19 Omaha, NE Westfair Amphitheater*
8/20 Minneapolis, MN U.S. Bank Stadium^
8/21 Madison, WI Expo Hall*
8/23 Des Moines, IA 7 Flags Event Center*
8/24 Brookings, SD Swiftel Center*
8/25 Fargo, ND Scheels Arena*
8/27 Edmonton, AB Rexall*
8/28 Regina, SK Evraz Place*
8/30 Calgary, AB Grey Eagle Event Center*
9/2 Palmer, AK Alaska State Fair
9/5 Seattle, WA WaMu Theater*
9/6 Spokane, WA Star Theater at Spokane Arena*
9/7 Boise, ID Taco Bell Arena*
9/9 Salt Lake City, UT The Complex*
9/10 Denver, CO High Elevation Festival
9/18 Chester, PA Rock Allegiance Festival
^With Metallica and Avenged Sevenfold
*Support from Killswitch Engage and Black Wizard
#Support from Black Wizard
Assembling as a politically-charged response to 2016’s tumultuous election year, the newly-formed Prophets Of Rage, features Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, Brad Wilk, Chuck D, B-Real and DJ Lord.
Best described by Morello as an, “elite task force of revolutionary musicians determined to confront this mountain of election year bullshit,” the group combines the sonic firepower of Rage Against The Machine, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill. The band has said that “dangerous times demand dangerous songs” and has fans using #MakeAmericaRAGEAgain and #TakeThePowerBack to engage across social media. In what the LA Times headlined simply as “Revolutionary,” the band’s mission is clear, promising “No Sleep till Cleveland,” the home of the 2016 Republican National Convention this July, where they have a planned performance on July 19th.
Following two sold-out shows at The Whisky and The Hollywood Palladium that had thousands of hopeful fans lined up in Los Angeles this week, and a sold-out show in Brooklyn at Warsaw Ballroom, the group has announced a national 35+ city North American tour, bringing their raging messages to the masses. The Make America Rage Again Tour, will begin in Cleveland, OH on July 19th, in tandem with the Republican National Convention. From there the tour will include stops in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Chicago, Nashville and Atlanta before concluding in San Diego, mere weeks before 2016 Election Day. A portion of the proceeds from each show will benefit a local homeless charity.
Ticket on-sales begin Friday, June 10th at Live Nation (www.livenation.com), check local listings for timing.
Prophets Of Rage tour dates:
July 19 Cleveland, OH TBD
Aug. 19 Fairfax, VA EagleBank Arena
Aug. 20 Camden, NJ BB&T Pavilion
Aug. 21 Mansfield, MA Xfinity Center
Aug. 23 Hartford, CT The Xfinity Theatre
Aug. 24 Toronto, ON Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
Aug. 26 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
Aug. 27 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center
Aug. 28 Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Aug. 30 Noblesville, IN Klipsch Music Center
Aug. 31 Burgettstown, PA First Niagara Pavilion
Sept. 1 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
Sept. 3 Tinley Park, IL Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Sept. 4 St. Louis, MO Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Sept. 5 Kansas City, MO Providence Medical Center Amphitheater
Sept. 7 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Sept. 10 Auburn, WA White River Amphitheatre
Sept. 11 Ridgefield, WA Sunlight Supply Amphitheatre
Sept. 13 Mt. View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
Sept. 15 Los Angeles, CA The Forum
Sept. 17 Phoenix, AZ Ak-Chin Pavilion
Sept. 25 Dallas, TX Gexa Energy Pavilion
Sept. 27 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena
Sept. 29 VA Beach, VA Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater
Oct. 1 Tampa, FL MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheater at Encore Park
Oct. 2 West Palm Beach, FL Perfect Vodka Amp
Oct. 4 Alpharetta, GA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Oct. 5 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
Oct. 7 Tulsa, OK BOK Center
Oct. 8 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Oct. 9 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center
Oct. 11 El Paso, TX El Paso County Coliseum
Oct. 12 Albuquerque, NM Isleta Amphitheatre
Oct. 14 Las Vegas, NV Mandalay Bay Event Center
Oct. 16 Chula Vista, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre
Melinda Newman of Billboard spoke with Christopher Duddy, who directed Duff McKagan’s documentary, It’s So Easy and Other Lies. Portions of the interview appear below.
Billboard: You and Duff met in the least rock and roll way possible: walking your kids to school.
Duddy: We had moved in to a nice neighborhood in Sherman Oaks [in Los Angeles], and unbeknownst to me, Duff lived about three houses up from us. We became fast friends. We’d watch NFL games together. We saw each other every day. It was cool to see somebody like that was super down to earth, a guy you’d want to hang out with.
Billboard: How did you go from friends to helming the documentary?
Duddy: We all know Duff from Guns N’ Roses forward. I didn’t know much about his backstory. The book struck a chord with me so I approached him [about] a documentary. He said no, he didn’t want to do that, he thought the book was good enough. I just didn’t give up on it.
Billboard: The documentary spends little time on Guns N’ Roses. Duff talks about the first time he hears Axl sing, but there’s no footage of them in the studio or mention of their breaking up. Why?
Duddy: Duff was real adamant from the beginning that he didn’t want this to be a Guns N’ Roses documentary. I didn’t either, because it’s a story about his journey through life and successes and darkness. During the course of us making the movie, the talks started about the reunion tour and Duff wanted to be real sensitive about that and not convolute anything with that going on.
Billboard: Guns N’ Roses members Slash and Matt Sorum are in it. Did you ask Axl to participate?
Duddy: We reached out gently. He can be a volatile guy, so we really didn’t want to disrupt anything with his camp and with the talk of this reunion tour. I sent his manager a rough cut of the movie. I didn’t want to push too hard on that. It is what it is.
Billboard: This was shot over a three-year period?
Duddy: It was shot in spurts over three years. Before the [Guns N’ Roses] reunion, Duff’s been in like five bands. He was constantly going on tour and I would lose him for a month at a time. I’ve never seen anybody as busy as that guy.
Billboard: Are you tying in with the Guns N’ Roses reunion tour or is this timing just coincidence?
Duddy: It’s pretty much lucky coincidence for the filmmakers and producers. This movie was done a year ago. Not in our wildest dreams did we know this movie was going to hit the same summer they’re doing this monster tour. That was just luck of the draw. That’s the silver lining at the end of this very long process.
Busy week doing press for the new series I am hosting for AXS TV Reel To Real. The series debuted this past Tuesday with the Green Day documentary. There are new music docs on a wide variety of topics every Tuesday I’ll be hosting at 9P ET with many repeats as well. Hope you guys enjoy this new series which I am thrilled to be a part of. I hope to have more news on other upcoming TV projects to share soon, and of course as soon as I have TMS news I’ll let you know! In the meantime TMS repeats continue on VH1C.
As part of the press I did during the week I appeared on the Howard Stern Wrap Up show for the first time live on Thursday. As a lifelong Stern fan that was a huge thrill and I got a ton of response. Appreciate them having me and hope to one day make it on to the main show to talk music, radio and more. Was also great to be on again with my old friend Ron Bennington for the first time on his show with his daughter Gail. Appreciate all my fellow radio broadcasters for having me.
Speaking of radio, join me tonight 11P-2A ET on Q104.3 NYC and WAAF Boston for new and classic hard rock and metal on Eddie Trunk Rocks. Both stations stream free. Full list of stations airing over the weekend on this site.
Back live on SiriusXM Trunk Nation this Monday 6-10P ET on channel 39. Guests will include Michael Schenker and Joe Lynn Turner.
New podcast up now with Carmine Appice talking about his new book and more. Free on www.PodcastOne.com and Itunes.
Next live appearance is this Wednesday at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood FL hosting Jason Bonham. Tickets here: http://bit.ly/JasonBonham2016
As previously reported, AC/DC singer, Brian Johnson, was scheduled to meet with hearing technology expert Stephen Ambrose of Asius Technologies, to see if his product could assist Johnson with his hearing issues.
Johnson has since issued an update on the meeting stating, he’s “moved and amazed” by the technology Ambrose is pioneering.
Johnson writes on Ambrose’s Facebook page, “It works. It just totally works and you can’t argue with that. I was really moved and amazed to be able to hear music again like I haven’t heard for several years now. I can’t wait for it to be miniturised so I can use it in every situation from normal communication, going out to noisy restaurants, to performing live music on stage.”
AC/DC hired Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose to complete their Rock Or Bust tour and recently announced their rescheduled dates in the U.S. which will take place in August. Click here for more information.
additional source: Classic Rock Magazine via teamrock.com/news
