FORMER UFO BASSIST PETE WAY DIAGNOSED WITH PROSTATE CANCER

peteway400 Former UFO bass player Pete Way is suffering from cancer.

He was told he has cancer of the prostate after tests this summer. He is currently undergoing treatment and feels “good, positive and determined to beat it,” he told Classic Rock.

Release of Way’s new album Walking On The Edge has been postponed until early in the New Year so he can have more treatments, specifically a month-long series of radiotherapy sessions to shrink the tumor, and more hormone medication.

Speaking to Classic Rock from the south coast, where he is recuperating, Way was upbeat and in good spirits.

“I’m lucky,” said Way, 62. “This is prostate cancer. It’s not lung cancer. It’s not pancreatic cancer. If you’re going to get cancer, this is the best one you can have – and they caught it early.”

The cancer was spotted by accident, Pete revealed. Doctors were far more concerned about the state of his battered liver, enlarged by hepatitis and years of abuse. Routine liver scans picked up the tumor on his prostate.

“My liver has been the area of most concern over the years,” he said. “But they did a scan of that whole area around my abdomen and that’s when they found it. They didn’t tell me then. I went home and a few days later they sent me a letter saying I had to see the specialist and it ‘might be an idea to bring someone with me to the hospital.’ Even then, it didn’t click, I thought they just wanted me to bring someone to drive me home.”

At the hospital, the consultant broke the news that Way had prostate cancer.

“It didn’t sink in at first, he said. “I just said: ‘Okay, just give me the pills and let me get on with it.’ I still don’t think it’s really sunk in, you know. I just carry on. I keep going day by day and I try not to think about it. People ask me how I’m coping and that’s how I’m coping. I just get on with it – you have to don’t you? There isn’t another option. I get some stomach ache at times – it feels like Mike Tyson has hit me in the stomach some days – but I feel okay, I feel good. At least when I get stomach ache, I’m allowed to have a beer or two because it relaxes my stomach!

It’s frustrating because it has put the release of the album back by a couple of months, but I can’t go out on tour if I’m having treatment. I’m going to start radiotherapy soon, which means they will blast the area with radiotherapy every day for a month to try to shrink the tumor.”

Way said he wants to speak about the cancer, the treatment and how he feels because he wants other men to do what he never thought about doing – to get themselves checked.

“I was lucky – they were checking my liver, not my prostate. They found it by accident. I didn’t think I had any symptoms but when I spoke to the doctors, and they were asking me all those questions, I did have the symptoms. I just didn’t know what they were.”

In the last big Classic Rock interview with Way – June 2013, issue 184 – references were made to him slipping off to the toilet at random, but frequent, intervals.

“I know you picked that up – but I wasn’t nipping off to the bogs to snort up a crafty line of coke. It’s because I was dying to pee. This is one of the symptoms – a constant need to urinate – and then standing there, and just doing a few drops. Ha-ha-ha – I bet you don’t write about this in Classic Rock very often do you?

Anyway, I had that for weeks, months, even. I just ignored it. I just thought it was one of those things. Just a sign of getting older. It wasn’t. It’s a classic early symptom of either prostate cancer or an enlarged prostate.

I was upset at first. It made me depressed. But I’m determined to carry on, to beat it, to get my album out and tour.

It happens a lot to men my age, 50 and over. I was telling Mike Clink about [legendary UFO and then Guns N’ Roses producer/engineer, who is twiddling the knobs for Way’s new album) and Mike said, ‘Man, more or less every man I know in California has this. Don’t worry Pete – you’ll be fine.’ Everyone has been really positive. And that makes me feel positive, too.”

It’s funny, he says. All the booze and drugs he’s taken over the year – and it’s cancer of the prostate that has stopped him in his tracks, sent him to-ing and fro-ing to the hospital.

“You couldn’t make it up, could you?”

source: classicrockmagazine.com

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ORIGINAL BLACK SABBATH DRUMMER BILL WARD ADMITS THAT HE CANNOT LISTEN TO “13”

billward300 Original Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward admits that he could not bring himself to listen to the band’s latest album, 13, and switched off the opening track after less than a minute.

He bowed out of the band’s reunion with Ozzy Osbourne ahead of recording sessions last year, stating that he had not been offered a “signable” contract. After considering a series of replacements, Sabbath recorded 13 with Rage Against The Machine drummer Brad Wilk. The resulting album went all the way to No.1 in the charts.

But Ward tells Rock Cellar, “The only thing I’ve heard from 13 is maybe forty seconds of the first song. Then I turned it off. I just said, ‘I can’t listen to this any more.’ I haven’t heard anything off that album, and to be quite honest I don’t care to either. It’s too painful. I wish them all the luck – well, they don’t need luck, but I wish them all the best in the world. But I can’t listen to it; it’s too close to home. If I want to rip my guts out I’ll put it on.”

He accepts there have been some positives from the drama, reflecting, “The fans have been brilliant. I feel like I’ve got a real close contact with them – I’ve never reached such a point of having such closeness with everybody. I’m getting letters from all over the world and they completely support me. I’m forever grateful that they’ve reacted in a really positive way. It’s been a huge endearing experience.”

Ward continues, “It tears me up. Even as I’m talking now I’m not far away from a tear.” But he insists: “I had to follow my heart under the most difficult circumstances.”

Ward revealed that he has a new album called Accountable Beasts in the works, as well as, his fine art project called Absence of Corners which was released on August 1st.

additional source: classicrockmagazine.com

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“THAT METAL SHOW” RETURNS TO NEW YORK FOR SEASON 13

Thatmetalshowlogo VH1 Classic’s centerpiece in original programming That Metal Show is returning for its 13th season this January.

The acclaimed hard rock/heavy metal talk show, hosted by Eddie Trunk, Don Jamieson and Jim Florentine, kicks off the latest season on January 18th, 2014. This season will mark some monumental changes for the show as it returns to New York City for Season 13. Previously, the show was taped over several days of one week out at Sony Studios in Los Angeles. The new season will be shot at Metropolis Studios on Tuesday nights for broadcast that Saturday. Season 13 will also consist of 12 new episodes making it the longest season in the show’s history. Fans can also catch the complete season 12 and brand new exclusive bonus clips at ThatMetalShow.VH1.com and in the new VH1 app.

Eddie Trunk declares, “I’m thrilled that the show is coming back. But I’m really excited that we’re now shooting on a weekly basis, as fans will now have the opportunity to see the new episodes as soon as they are completed.”

That Metal Show succeeds because of the interplay of the hosts with their esteemed guests who are some of the biggest names in music. The segments that fans have come to know and love from the show will return for Season 13 including TMS TOP 5, The Throw Down, Put It On The Table, and the fans favorite, Stump The Trunk. The set will also be graced by rock and metal legends that will perform as one-man house bands throughout each new episode. A list of upcoming guests for the interview and performance segments will be released in the near future.

That Metal Show premiered on VH1 Classic in November 2008 and since then has become the only place for all things hard rock/heavy metal on cable television. The show has been visited by some of the biggest names in music including members of Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, Pantera, Anthrax, Kiss, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Queensrÿche and Heart to name just a few.

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THE “FREDDIE MERCURY TRIBUTE CONCERT” FEATURING QUEEN, DEF LEPPARD, GUNS N’ ROSES, METALLICA, ROBERT PLANT AND MANY MORE ON 3DVD, BLU-RAY, AND DIGITAL VIDEO

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On September 3rd 2013, Eagle Rock Entertainment will release The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert on a triple DVD set, as an SD Blu-ray – with upscaled standard definition original material with uncompressed stereo and DTS-HD surround sound for the best possible quality – and digital formats [Pre-book order date August 9th, MSRP $29.99 DVD, $24,98 Blu-ray]. This release boasts newly remastered sound across both sections of the concert and represents the first time the opening acts’ performances have been made available on DVD or Blu-Ray.

On April 20th 1992, Roger Taylor, Brian May and John Deacon, the surviving members of Queen, took to the stage at Wembley Stadium for the start of one of the biggest events in rock history, which the band had organized to pay tribute to their former colleague – the incomparable Freddie Mercury. Queen were joined by some of the greatest musical talent in the world to celebrate Freddie’s life and work and to increase public awareness of AIDS, the disease that had prematurely ended his life the previous year.

The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert features many Queen classics in unique performances including: Bohemian Rhapsody, Hammer To Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Radio Ga Ga, I Want To Break Free, Under Pressure, Somebody To Love, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions and many more. Special guests include David Bowie, Gary Cherone, Roger Daltrey, Def Leppard, Joe Elliott, Extreme, Bob Geldof, Guns N’ Roses, James Hetfield, Ian Hunter, Tony Iommi, Elton John, Annie Lennox, Metallica, George Michael, Liza Minnelli, Robert Plant, Mick Ronson, Axl Rose, Seal, Slash, Lisa Stansfield, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Young & Zucchero.

As well as being great entertainment, the concert raised a huge and still growing sum of money for the Mercury Phoenix Trust, a charity formed at the time by Roger Taylor, Brian May and Queen’s longtime manager Jim Beach whose charter is the relief of suffering from AIDS throughout the world. Profits from this release will be donated by the Mercury Phoenix Trust to AIDS charities around the globe.

As well as being great entertainment, the concert raised a huge and still growing sum of money for the Mercury Phoenix Trust, a charity formed at the time by Roger Taylor, Brian May and Queen’s longtime manager Jim Beach whose charter is the relief of suffering from AIDS throughout the world. Profits from this release will be donated by the Mercury Phoenix Trust to AIDS charities around the globe.

The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert track listing:

Opening Acts*

1) Intro
2) Brian May/Roger Taylor/John Deacon Introduction
3) Metallica – Enter Sandman
4) Metallica – Sad But True
5) Metallica – Nothing Else Matters
6) Freddie Montage (Insert)
7) Extreme – Queen Medley including: Mustapha/Bohemian Rhapsody/Keep Yourself Alive/I Want To Break Free/Fat Bottomed Girls/Bicycle Race/Another One Bites The Dust/Stone Cold Crazy/Radio Ga Ga
8) Freddie Montage (Insert)
9) Def Leppard & Brian May – Now I’m Here
10) Queen – I’m Going Slightly Mad video (Insert)
11) Bob Geldof – Too Late God
12) Guns N’ Roses – Paradise City
13) Guns N’ Roses – Knocking On Heaven’s Door
14) Elizabeth Taylor Speech

Main Queen + Set:

1) Joe Elliott, Slash & Queen – Tie Your Mother Down
2) Roger Daltrey, Tony Iommi & Queen – I Want It All
3) Zucchero & Queen – Las Palabras De Amor
4) Gary Cherone, Tony Iommi & Queen – Hammer To Fall
5) James Hetfield, Tony Iommi & Queen – Stone Cold Crazy
6) Robert Plant & Queen – Crazy Little Thing Called Love
7) Brian May – Too Much Love Will Kill You
8) Paul Young & Queen – Radio Ga Ga
9) Seal & Queen – Who Wants To Live Forever
10) Lisa Stansfield & Queen – I Want To Break Free
11) David Bowie, Annie Lennox & Queen – Under Pressure
12) Ian Hunter, David Bowie, Mick Ronson & Queen – All The Young Dudes
13) David Bowie, Mick Ronson & Queen – Heroes
14) George Michael & Queen –’39
15) George Michael, Lisa Stansfield & Queen – These Are The Days Of Our Lives
16) George Michael, London Gospel Choir & Queen – Somebody To Love
17) Elton John, Axl Rose & Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
18) Elton John, Tony Iommi & Queen – The Show Must Go On
19) Axl Rose & Queen – We Will Rock You
20) Liza Minnelli & Ensemble – We Are The Champions

Bonus Material:

1) Rehearsal performances of Queen + David Bowie and Annie Lennox Under Pressure.
George Michael and Lisa Stansfield These Are The Days Of Our Lives
George Michael ‘Somebody To Love
2) 10th Anniversary Documentary
3) Photo Galleries
4) Mercury Phoenix Trust Facts
* Each section features on one DVD disc, all sections feature on the single Blu-ray discs

Watch a trailer below:

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EDDIE TRUNK TO EMCEE THE “WALL STREET ROCKS 2013 BATTLE OF THE BANDS BENEFIT CONCERT” ON DECEMBER 2ND

wallstreetrocks Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray will headline Wall Street Rocks’ 2013 Battle of the Bands Finale benefit concert, emceed by radio & VH1 Classic TV host Eddie Trunk on Monday, December 2nd at Irving Plaza in NYC.

Competing Wall Street bands include Riffhanger and Big Dog Party, which won previous rounds of competition. Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.wallstreetrocks.org/a>. This year’s end of year show will benefit Wounded Warrior Project, ReserveAid and Operation Finally Home, which provides wounded and disabled veterans and the widows of the fallen with mortgage-free housing across the country.

Wall Street Rocks co-founders Leslie Kirby, James Macedonio, Peter Carrara and George Chrisafis bega their third year of fundraising efforts for veterans’ charities with two sold out Battle of the Band shows at NYC’s famed Cutting Room in July and September. Riffhanger, featuring lead singer Tony Conklin from Deutsche Bank took home the top prize in July and Big Dog Party, which features musicians from JPMorgan Chase and Chase Bank, won in September to advance to the finale in December.

Wall Street Rocks is a collaboration of employees in the financial, technology and entertainment industries, who are passionate about giving support to heroic Americans who serve our nation, including military veterans and first responders. Over the last two years, Wall Street Rocks has raised over $350,000 for our nation’s heroes.

For more information about Wall Street Rocks, please visit www.wallstreetrocks.org/a>.

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GUITARIST VIVIAN CAMPBELL ANNOUNCES THAT HE IN REMISSION FROM CANCER

Viviancampbell-306 Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell has announced he’s in remission from cancer.

He reported in June that he was two months into chemotherapy after having been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a form of the disease which has a high survival rate.

His condition curtailed touring plans for Last In Line, the band he formed with fellow ex-members of Dio, although Campbell has kept working throughout his treatment, including Def Leppard’s residency in Las Vegas.

Now he says: “For anyone who gives a toss: after doing another PET scan and all the other follow-up tests, then getting a second opinion etc, I’m officially in remission from Hodgies. That’s the good news. The bad news is I no longer have an excuse to not go to the gym.”

He recently admitted he was avoiding watching Def Lep’s live movie Viva! Hysteria because he didn’t want to see how ill he looked.

source: Classic Rock Magazine.

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