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RUSH TO SCREEN THEIR “TIME STAND STILL” DOCUMENTARY IN MOVIE THEATERS ON NOVEMBER 3RD, CLIP POSTED ONLINE

Rush will be bringing their documentary, Time Stand Still, to movie screens, for one night only, on November 3rd.

This special event, which is scheduled before the DVD release on November 18th, features additional material that won’t appear elsewhere.

The film was shot during the band’s R40 tour last year – widely thought to have been the last large-scale road trip of their career.

The two-hour presentation includes 20-minute short A Salute To Kings, in which Gene Simmons of KISS, Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Taylor Hawkins of Foo Fighters, Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart, Scott Gorham of Thin Lizzy and Rush producer Nick Raskulinecz discuss their experiences of the Canadian trio.

Producers Fathom Events state, “The popularity of a rock band can often be built on the road. That is how Rush did it over their 40-year history. But what happens if this unique relationship may be severed?

Exclusive access to the band and crew throughout the tour provide the raw and vivid emotional undertones. At the core of the event are Rush’s devoted fans. Their undying devotion and their quirky sense of ownership are on full display as the R40 tour comes to a crescendo in Los Angeles.

Candid interviews with Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart bring Time Stand Still to an emotional conclusion for a band who built their career the old-fashioned way –one show at a time.”

Rush’s future remains in doubt, with drummer Peart believed to have retired, at least from touring. Guitarist Lifeson said last month, “I feel very confident about a lot of things, and music is definitely one of them. I’m sure we’ll do something in the future. We can’t just stop playing and writing music together.”

Tickets go on sale on October 7th. For more information, please visit fathomevents.com. Watch a clip from the documentary, posted below.

source: teamrock.com

GUITARIST JASON BECKER CREATES NEW MUSIC, BE A PART OF THE RECORDING BY JOINING HIS INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN

Jason Becker is a guitarist/composer who has had ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) for over 27 years. He started making albums when he was 17 years old; Cacophony, his band with Marty Friedman (Megadeth), and his solo albums have been extremely influential in the guitar, metal and rock music world. He joined David Lee Roth’s band when he was 20 and they put out A Little Ain’t Enough, Dave’s fourth solo album, which went Gold.

Currently, Becker has written a full album of amazing music which will be performed and recorded by many of his peers. This album will comprise a few compositions that have been waiting for this moment to be recorded, with many new pieces recently written. In order to accomplish this goal, Becker needs your support, please be a part of making this album a real possibility. Please visit indiegogo.com/projects/jason-becker to donate to this campaign.

Becker is giving out some perks from T-shirts, signed CD’s, a signed guitar from Joe Bonamassa, to your name credited on the album.

Becker is considered a virtuoso guitarist and one of the top players of his time. He studied the works of violinist Niccolò Paganini and rearranged Paganini’s 5th Caprice, which Becker then performed this masterpiece during an instructional guitar video. Becker’s compositions often include high speed scalar and arpeggio passages—trademarks of his “shred” style of guitar playing.

This project is exactly the kind of record that the Jason Becker fans have been waiting for. Now YOU can be a part of his new project with just one click!

For more information about Jason Becker, please visit jasonbecker.com or facebook.com/jason.becker.1253.

FANS UPLOAD VIDEO OF DOKKEN’S CLASSIC LINEUP PERFORMING IN SIOUX FALLS, FOOTAGE POSTED HERE

Some fan filmed footage of the reunited classic lineup of Dokken’s only show American show, in Sioux Falls, SD on September 30th, has surfaced online. Watch some of the videos, below.

The band will be heading to Japan on October 5th, where they will be performing six shows. Guitarist George Lynch confirmed that these shows will be recorded for a live album and “a DVD as well.”

Dokken Unleashed In The East dates:

Oct 5 – Osaka, Japan (Namba Hatch)
Oct 6 – Fukuoka, Japan (Fukuoaka Civic Hall)
Oct 8 – Tokyo, Japan (Loud Park Festival)* on sale now http://www.loudpark.com/16/
Oct 10 – Hiroshima, Japan (Blue Live Hiroshima)
Oct 11 – Aichi, Japan (Zepp Nagoya)
Oct 12 – Tokyo, Japan (Zepp Divercity, Tokyo)

EXTREME POST PERFORMANCE CLIP OF “MONEY (IN GOD WE TRUST)” FROM “PORNOGRAFFITTI LIVE 25/METAL MELTDOWN”

Last year marked the 25th anniversary of Extreme’s classic multi-Platinum, Grammy® nominated, Pornograffitti, the definitive album of the band’s career. To mark the anniversary, Pornograffitti Live 25/Metal Meltdown will be released October 14th.

The band has released, Money (In God We Trust), performance clip from the release. Watch it below.

“It was a great thrill to perform Pornograffitti in its entirety,” says singer Gary Cherone. “Some of these songs were never played live before so we had to go back and relearn them for the tour. The album was a watershed moment in the bands career…it’s when we came in to our own and it will always be special.”

As guitar virtuoso Nuno Bettencourt continues, “The band always prided itself on its live performance. Over the years, some of these songs have evolved where the band actually plays them better now than when we had recorded them. Hope you enjoy it.”

To read more about this release, please click here.

METALLICA PERFORM “MOTH INTO FLAME” LIVE ON “THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JIMMY FALLON”

Metallica performed, Moth Into Flame, on The Late Show with Jimmy Fallon last night (September 29th). Watch the performance below.

The song appears on Metallica’s new album, Hardwired… To Self-Destruct, scheduled to be released November 18th. To read more about this release, and to view a video for Hardwired, go here. To watch the official video of Moth Into Flame, please click here.

DAVID LEE ROTH HAS A STALKER

Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth has posted the following account called, My Stalker, on his blog. Excerpts appear below:

“Stalker blog. Part 1.

Help! I have a stalker. A very real one.
75 stalker phone calls in the last 4 months.
All of them at 5:30-6:00 in the morning.
All 917 and 301 area codes.
Every now and then at 2 in the afternoon.
Never on the weekend.
The phone calls show up on my old phone but they don’t show up on the phone bill.

Somebody knows a little bit about tech. They even know how to remove the number out of my phone when they want to…here is a list of unhappy ex-colleagues, as there always is in show biz, but this stalker is particularly obsessed. They’re no longer prank calls. Having been through the process with the private detectives, lawyers, FBI and ex-FBI, I can speak with some authority. These stalker calls come under the heading of “Domestic Terrorism.” This is all news to me, so let me share it with you. I grew up thinking prank calls were the equivalent to toilet papering the old Coach’s house once a season. Just this season alone, I’ve had my house toilet papered four dozen times.

As it was explained to me by the professionals, these calls are designed to make you terrified, nervous, afraid, upset and ruin your day which is exactly what happened to me during my first stalker experience in 1977. I went through the phases of anger, fear, denial, etc. Van Halen was instantly successful. We sold 10 million records in weeks. With that success comes trolls and more. I’ve always supported trolling on the internet. You know that. It’s one of my favorite parts. If I was more digitally literate, I would be a critic as well. Having been through the stalker experience one time curiously made the second time even worse. I was more afraid and more intimidated the second time around. It really threw me off in the way where you stop eating or you eat too much and you sleep all the time. I’ve also experienced stalker calls from groups of people. There was a biker group in Florida while we were recording out of Gloria Estefan’s studio (highly recommend it). They got up to 40 calls and started physically following me around. Somebody tried to kidnap my father at gunpoint too. That’s an extreme version of bad news looking to ruin your day. Perhaps these scenarios are a bit more familiar to me than others.

…If I have a heart attack because of that phone call, it’s assault and battery plus felony manslaughter…Getting somebody’s heart rate up and distracting them to the point where they crash their car– that’s violent assault and battery with intent to commit mayhem. Just one call. I’m up to 75 of them in one season.

… Whoever is doing this knows that it’s a felony and he’s hiding. It may be a woman but I’ll characterize it for the sake of the article as a “he.” I haven’t pursued it beyond all the normal channels. What can I do? But I certainly invite anyone who speaks tech to weigh in here because it’s pretty rare that just one person does this much obsessive conduct and nobody else knows about it. Whoever is doing this works somewhere, they eat lunch somewhere, they sleep somewhere and probably with someone…9 times out of 10 I’m told you get a shot of tequila or espresso in the belly of whoever is dialing that phone they’ll tell you, “I don’t know. I’ve always hated the guy” or “I don’t know he went somewhere I wanted to visit and I didn’t go so I thought I’d fuck him up.” Usually that’s all this is but there’s somebody out there who knows who’s doing this. Give me a call…”

David Lee Roth left Van Halen in 1985 and rejoined the band in 2007. The band wrapped up their last tour on on October 4th, 2015 at the Hollywood Bowl. The band’s latest release was Tokyo Dome In Concert.