VAN HALEN FRONTMAN DAVID LEE ROTH SAYS NEW SONG “AIN’T NO CHRISTMAS” COULD BE ABOUT THE BAND

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David Lee Roth says that his new song, in which he offers a sad goodbye against a low-key guitar accompaniment, could be about Van Halen reports blabbermouth.net.

Lyrically, Ain’t No Christmas sounds like Roth is closing the door on the current Van Halen reunion, with lines that include, “Sure looked good on paper, once upon a lie. Happily never after, and I’m not okay to drive.

Let’s put the pin back in this one, and say we both survived. Last blank space on the map I think we’ve arrived…

“Quittin’ while you’re ahead ain’t quittin’, and I’m quittin’.”

After initially denying that the song was about Van Halen — telling the Van Halen News Desk that “It’s poetry. It has nothing to do with Van Halen.” Roth has since released a follow-up message, saying, “On second thought, if all work is autobiographic, maybe this song is about Van Halen…”

Greg Renoff, author of the new book Van Halen Rising, was one of many fans who thought Ain’t No Christmas was the singer’s goodbye message to Van Halen. Renoff said, “Roth’s vocal performance here is mournful and somber. His lyrics express feelings of bitterness and regret. My take is that the lyrics provide a commentary on Roth’s recent months with Van Halen and perhaps a window into the future of Van Halen.”

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BASSIST MICHAEL ANTHONY AND WARRANT SINGER ROBERT MASON COVER VAN HALEN SONGS, FAN FILMED FOOTAGE POSTED ONLINE

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Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony was joined by several musicians, including Warrant singer Robert Mason, to perform three Van Halen songs — Panama, I’m The One and their cover of The Kinks’ You Really Got Me — during the Mark In The Morning first-anniversary show on February 26th at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, California. Watch video footage, filmed by fans, of the concert can be seen below.

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DEF LEPPARD ANNOUNCE NIKON AT JONES BEACH THEATER & PNC BANK ARTS CENTER PERFORMANCES

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Def Leppard have just announced they will return to the road this summer for an extensive tour across North America due to overwhelming demand. The Live Nation promoted outing will storm through 55 cities across all parts of the U.S. and Canada. It is set to hit Nikon at Jones Beach Theater on July 11th and PNC Bank Arts Center on July 13th. Joining Def Leppard on their mighty summer outing are REO Speedwagon and Tesla. Tickets will go on sale on March 5th at 10am through Live Nation.

Def Leppard–Joe Elliott (vocals), Vivian Campbell (guitar), Phil Collen (guitar), Rick “Sav” Savage (bass) and Rick Allen (drums)—continues to be one of the most important forces in rock music. With 100 million records sold worldwide and two prestigious Diamond Awards to their credit, the group’s spectacular concerts, filled with powerful melodic rock anthems, continue to sell out venues worldwide. For the past thirty years the band’s epic live shows and arsenal of hits have become synonymous with their name, leading Def Leppard to be heralded as an institution in both the music and touring industry.
Def Leppard’s influential career includes numerous hit singles and ground-breaking multi-platinum release’s—including two of the best-selling albums of all time, Pyromania and Hysteria. The band’s 2015 US tour was one of the year’s highest grossing, hitting 70+ cities nationwide. In addition to the tour, Def Leppard debuted their self titled new album in October 2015. The album secured the #1 slot on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart. It features the #1 Classic Rock chart single Let’s Go and their new single Dangerous out now.

Def Leppard 2016 Tour Dates:

May 1—Orlando, FL Moonstone Festival
May 4—Lafayette, LA Lafayette Cajundome*
May 5—Corpus Christi, TX American Bank Center Arena*
May 7—Hidalgo, TX State Farm Arena*
May 10—Bossier City, LA CenturyLink Center
May 11—Little Rock, AR Verizon Arena
May 13—Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum Complex
May 15—Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
May 17—Allentown, PA PPL Center
May 18—Huntington, WV Big Sandy Superstore Arena
May 20—Orlando, FL Amway Center (no REO Speedwagon)

June 22—Boston, MA Xfinity Center
June 24—Bangor, ME Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion
June 25—Quebec City, QC Centre Videotron
June 27—Syracuse, NY Lakeview Amphtheatre
June 29—Hershey, PA Hershey Park Stadium

July 1—Indianapolis, IN Klipsch Music Center
July 2—Chicago, IL Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
July 5—Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
July 6—Milwaukee, WI Summerfest in Milwaukee
July 8—Pittsburgh, PA First Niagara Pavilion
July 9—Grand Rapids, MI Van Andel Arena
July 11—Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
July 13—Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
July 15—Detroit, MI TE Energy Music Theatre
July 16—Toronto, ON Molson Canadian Amphitheatre

August 6—Madison, WI Alliant Energy Center
August 8—Evansille, IN Ford Center
August 10—Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live
August 12—Atlanta, GA Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood
August 13—Raleigh, NC Walnut Creek Amphitheatre
August 17—Birmingham, AL Oak Mountain Amphitheater
August 19—Austin, TX Austin 360 Amphitheatre
August 22—Houston, TX The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman
August 24—Dallas, TX Gexa Energy Pavilion
August 26—Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
August 27—ST. Louis, MO Hollywood Casino
August 29—Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center
August 31—Darien Center, NY Darien PAC

Sept 14—Billings, MT Metrapark Arena
Sept 16—Salk Lake City, UT USANA Ampitheatere
Sept 17—Denver, CO Pepsi Center
Sept 19—Albuquerque, NM Isleta Amphitheatre
Sept 20—Phoenix, AZ Ak-Chin Pavilion
Sept 22—Irvine, CA Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre
Sept 24—Sacramento, CA Toyota Amphitheatre (no Tesla)
Sept 25—Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
Sept 28—Boise, ID Taco Bell Arena
Sept 30—Eugene, OR Matthew Knight Arena

Oct 1—Tacoma, WA Tacoma Dome
Oct 4—Omaha,NE CenturyLink
Oct 5—Minneapolis, MN Xcel Center
Oct 7—La Crosse, WI La Crosse Center Arena
Oct 8—Toledo, OH Huntington Center
Oct 10—Cedar Rapids, IA U.S. Cellular Center
*Styx to appear

Def Leppard on the web:

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twitter.com/def_leppard
facebook.com/defleppard
Instagram.com/DefLeppardOfficial
Youtube.com/DefLeppardOfficial

Join the Def Leppard Rock Brigade for priority access to Def Leppard pre-sale tickets, VIP meet n’ greet packages and exclusive merchandise defleppardrockbrigade.com.

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2/29: LEBREWSKI CRUISE, BOB KULICK PODCAST, FALLEN HEROES SPECIAL

Greetings everyone from South Florida. Had a great few nights stay at the always amazing Seminole Hard Rock and now tomorrow i get ready to board the Lebrewski Cruise. Hope you were lucky enough to grab one of the free cabins I gave away on this site and social media. It’s a great ship, great food, live music and of course beer! Back from this cruise on Saturday. Then live on SiriusXM Monday 3/7. Then to KC to host UFO at Voodoo Lounge 3/9. My schedule is insane and changing all the time. All dates on the home page as confirmed.

Thanks to all I hung with last night in Pompano at the Queensryche/Dokken show. Good to meet you all.

Please be sure to visit ET’s Box Office under Live & On The Air on this site. Always adding free tickets for giveaway. The shows are mostly in NY/NJ but at times outside my local area also.

No news yet on That Metal Show. When I know you will know. Thanks for the support!

This Thursday my new podcast is an exclusive all new interview with guitarist Bob Kulick. Bob talks about his behind the scenes work with Kiss and much more. Free on www.podcastone.com and Itunes.

This weekend for my FM / syndicated show “Eddie Trunk Rocks” I have a brand new special I am calling Fallen Heroes Of Rock. Every song played will feature at least one member who passed away. Hope you can join me as we pay tribute to some of the greats that have passed away. As always hear it on all affiliates and their streams free.

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LITA FORD DISCUSSES BEING A FEMALE GUITARIST IN A MALE DOMINATED INDUSTRY, HER NEW BOOK AND THE TIME ROBERT PLANT ASKED HER TO PLAY BASS IN LED ZEPPELIN

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Sarah Grant of Rolling Stone spoke with guitarist Lita Ford. Excerpts from the interview appear below.

Rolling Stone: Hair metal wasn’t exactly a welcoming genre for female musicians and life on the Sunset Strip is portrayed as a boys’ club. How do you reflect on that period of your life?

Lita Ford: I was pretty oblivious to the fact that I didn’t have a penis between my legs. It never dawned on me. All I knew is that I had fingers and I had the lust for hard rock. I wanted to play it and that’s what I went by. I never thought, “Oh, I’m not a dude and chicks don’t do this.” A lot of people in the industry thought it was wrong and didn’t want to accept the fact they were producing a female artist. Even some of my bandmates I had trouble with. They would think, “If she can do it then I can do it.” They’d come back a few years later and say, “Do you still need a guitarist?”

Rolling Stone: Taylor Swift at the Grammy Awards spoke about men in the industry taking credit for her work. Does that ring true for you?

Lita Ford: All the time. Mostly in the earlier stages of my solo career, during my first solo album, Out for Blood. As things went on, it seemed to get better. … The only people that accepted me as a musician was other musicians. People like Edward Van Halen, Billy Sheehan — true musicians like them accepted me.

Rolling Stone: You almost left [your first band] the Runaways early on after finding out that three-fifths of the band was gay or bisexual.

Lita Ford: I didn’t know what it was and I was 15. It freaked me out. I was completely ignorant. I don’t even think my parents knew what being gay was. A long time after [the Runaways], my mother rented a video from Blockbuster and it was porno and she didn’t know it. So she brings it home to watch with her girlfriends and it’s two guys getting it on. So she calls me up and explains it’s not the movie she wanted, but it’s two men having sex, and I said, ‘Yeah?’ And she said, ‘Do they really do that?’ I said, ‘Yes, mom, they do.’

Rolling Stone: You wrote about several other famous musicians who recently died, like Lemmy Kilmister who cowrote one of your biggest songs Can’t Catch Me after a drug-fueled night at the Rainbow. Were you close to him before he died?

Lita Ford: I was. My bass player Marty O’Brien and I had been invited to perform a Motörhead song at a party for Lemmy, which was about a week before his passing. He looked frail. I don’t want to remember him like that, because that’s not the Lemmy I knew. Cancer does terrible things to people. But he went happy. Lemmy lived the way he wanted to live. He did what the hell he wanted to do. He was there a week prior to his passing because he didn’t want to lie in a hospital bed, instead he said let’s go rock out. It made him feel better.

Rolling Stone: Did you ever tell John Paul Jones about the time Plant asked you to play bass in Led Zeppelin in 1975?

Lita Ford: No [laughs]. I didn’t take [Plant] seriously. I thought, “You’re going to replace one of my favorite bass players on the planet with a 17-year-old girl? Are you drunk?” And I walked away! I took it as a compliment, hugged him and we talked about music for a while.

Rolling Stone: It was risky to detail the high-profile trysts you had with people like Jon Bon Jovi, Eddie Van Halen and Nikki Sixx. There’s a double standard that women can’t be respected musicians and date musicians at the same time.

Lita Ford: I didn’t think like that. I was just surrounded by rock stars. It’s like if you work at a bank and end up dating a bank teller. I was in a rock band and ended up dating rockers. Plus, none of us were married then. We were free spirits.

Rolling Stone: You wrote that Sharon Osbourne suspected you slept with her husband, Ozzy, the night you wrote Close My Eyes Forever together in 1987.

Lita Ford: I’m guessing that’s what she thought. We haven’t spoken since then. I know at the time she was managing me, Ozzy had a lot of drug issues. He was at his worst. He was messing around and doing things he shouldn’t have been doing as a married man. I can see why Sharon would think I was one of those girls. But I would never have done that to Sharon. I loved her as a human being and as a manager.

Rolling Stone: You wrote a lot about how deceptive rock stars can be, particularly Ozzy’s Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi.
You allege that he physically abused you during your engagement. Did he ever reach out to atone for what he did?

Lita Ford: No. We actually reached out [to Iommi] before we released the book and he never responded. We haven’t spoken since those days.

Rolling Stone: One of your first guitars was a chocolate Gibson SG, because you thought it was the one Iommi played. A decade later, you had to teach him his own riffs because he was too high to remember them. What was that like?

Lita Ford: It leaves you bitter. It hurt me to discover that this person I thought was a God could be so f–ked up and so mean. He wasn’t the person who I fell in love with or the person I had worshipped. Still today, I worship the musician because of what I remember about him, his guitar playing. I forget the rest. He’s probably totally clean and sober now. Back then there were just a lot of drugs flying around. It was almost like being with Elvis Presley — he could pick up the phone and have four doctors at his doorstep. He would get jars and jars of pills and cocaine on a daily basis.

The abuse didn’t start right away. The punch in the eye on the airplane was the first actual hit I took from him. He waited for a place where I couldn’t get away. I didn’t think he would do it again. I thought maybe it was the drugs, maybe he took something that would make him fly off the handle and once the drugs wore off it would be okay. I went to my mother and said I had a friend who’d been hit by her boyfriend. She said in her thick Italian accent, “Lita, he do it once, he do it again,” and she was right. He did it again and that’s when I took all my stuff and the ring he gave me and went to a pawn shop.

Rolling Stone: You’re back working with some of your pals from the Eighties on your new album, Time Capsule. You can hear the influence of songs like “Kiss Me Deadly” on Taylor Swift’s 1989, one of the the biggest albums of 2015. Why do you think the Eighties are having such a comeback now?

Lita Ford: It just feels like the right time. People that lived the Eighties are getting older and they miss it. Now there are teenagers saying, “I wish I was there for that.” Time Capsule isn’t something I recently wrote — it’s a piece of the Eighties and a lot of musicians from the era contributed like Gene Simmons, Dave Navarro, Robin Zander, Jeff Scott Soto, Rick Nielsen and Billy Sheehan.

Read more at Rolling Stone.

Lita Ford’s memoir, Living Like a Runaway is available for purchase now. Read excerpts from the book, here.

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source: rollingstone.com

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ALL-STARS OF ROCK AND THE SEATTLE MUSIC COMMUNITY PAY IT FORWARD WITH ONLINE AUCTION LAUNCHING MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29TH, 2016 FOR KISW VETERAN DJ CATHY FAULKNER DURING FAMILY CRISIS

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Veteran rock DJ Cathy Faulkner has helped break the careers of some of the biggest names in Rock N’ Roll, from Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden to Tool, Candlebox and Kenny Wayne Shephard to name but a few. Now, the all-star, music community has rallied its circle of support to raise funds for the woman who has uplifted so many, whose family is facing a major, life-altering crisis.

After suffering a brain injury, Cathy’s husband Nels Moulton was surprisingly diagnosed with stage 4 Melanoma. The journey to this discovery has been met with staggering medical expenses combined with a loss of income for the family of three, including 11 year old son, Trevor.

When such an emergency hits such an icon of the music business family, it comes as no surprise that artists responding to the cause would include Jerry Cantrell and Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Candlebox, Heart, Muse, Tom Petty, Wanz and Macklemore & Lewis, AC/DC, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guns N Roses, Carrie M Akre, Tool, Dave Mathews Band, Lenny Kravitz, Three Days Grace and Cage the Elephant. Unique items and fan experiences will be auctioned online via www.livesunsmart.org/teamnels beginning Leap Day, February 29th at 9am PST.

Through a partnership with the Live SunSmart Foundation, “Team Nels” (the community of supporters who have rallied to assist the Faulkner/Moulton family) is hosting an online auction to raise awareness about the effects of skin cancer and to also help raise much needed funds to support the Faulkner / Moulton family during their journey to healing.

“Even with insurance, we are still dealing with a massive amount of medical bills that will continue for the foreseeable future. We are beyond grateful for the outpouring of support from our friends, family and the music community at large”, said Faulkner. “We believe music fans will be excited about the unique items and experiences that will be available for bid.”

Among the unique and one-of-a-kind items available through the Team Nels/Live SunSmart auction are a G&L Tribute Series Superhawk guitar signed by Jerry Cantrell of Alice In Chains; an autographed red Fender guitar signed by Tom Petty; an autographed AC/DC poster; a 1903 copy of Vitalogy health encyclopedia signed by the four founding members of Pearl Jam; an autographed director’s chair signed by the members of Tool, an exclusive VIP fan experience with Candlebox, a white Fender guitar signed by Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart and VIP package for Heart’s upcoming tour; a jacket autographed by members of Guns N’ Roses; thrift shopping with Wanz, the Grammy award-winning singer of Macklemore & Lewis’ “Thrift Shop;” VIP Dave Matthews Concert Experience at The Gorge, and more.

Those interested in previewing auction items, or those wishing to make a tax-deductible donation can go to www.livesunsmart.org/teamnels. People may also make donations by, texting TEAMNELS to 72727. Auction bidding will begin Leap Day, February 29th at 9am PST. Updates can also be found on Twitter (@TeamNels) and Instagram (@TeamNelsAuction)

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