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SKID ROW RELEASE A STATEMENT REGARDING SINGER TONY HARNELL LEAVING THE BAND, DECLARES “WE FOUND OUT ABOUT HIS DECISION THE SAME WAY ALL OF YOU DID, VIA HIS POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA”

As previously reported, singer Tony Harnell posted a tweet stating that he is no longer the singer in Skid Row. In response to Harell’s tweet, Skid Row have posted the following statement on their Facebook page:

“To the Skid Row faithful,

As you may know, Tony Harnell quit the band yesterday. We found out about his decision the same way all of you did, via his post on social media. He had posted that he was no longer in the band before informing the band personally.
The last we spoke with Tony was on Dec 17th. He was in the hospital being treated for “bronchitis with asthmatic symptoms.” We were all very concerned and offered any assistance we could to help him get healthy. Due to his condition we were forced to cancel our show in Chicago on Dec. 19th. The next time we heard anything was his post yesterday.

That being said, we are all moving forward and wish Tony the best in his future endeavors.

Lastly, amidst all of the rumors and speculation, there has been no talk of a reunion nor are we opening for Guns N Roses.
That’s it for now. We’ll keep you updated as best we can.

Thanks for your support and understanding. See you in 2016!”

SKID ROW AND SINGER TONY HARNELL PART WAYS, NO EXPLANATION GIVEN

Skid Row have parted ways with vocalist Tony Harnell.

The former TNT frontman had only joined the band in April, after they dismissed Johnny Solinger following a 14-year stint with the band.

Harnell says in a tweet, “I’m sorry to inform everyone that I’m no longer the lead singer for Skid Row. I thank the fans for their love and support!”

He hasn’t provided any further information. At the time of this posting, the band have yet to comment.

additional source: teamrock.com

GUNS N’ ROSES TO REUNITE FOR COACHELLA, TALK OF A POSSIBLE STADIUM RUN AS WELL

Ray Waddell of Billboard reports:

Guns N’ Roses, with founding members Axl Rose and Slash, will headline the Coachella Music & Arts Festival in Indio, California on April 15th-17th and April 22nd-24th, according to multiple sources. The reunited band is also negotiating with promoters to play as many as 25 football stadiums in North America in the summer of 2016, and is scheduled to be one of the first acts to play the new Las Vegas Arena, set to open April 6th. Guns N’ Roses is said to be asking as much as $3 million per show, with tickets topping out in the $250-$275 range.

The last show Axl Rose and Slash played together was on July 17th, 1993 at River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires. Guns N’ Roses’ most recent tour, which only included Axl Rose from the original lineup, took place primarily in South America and The Joint in Las Vegas, grossing $15.2 million.

Representatives for the band, as well as Coachella producer Paul Tollett and agent Ken Fermaglich at United Talent Agency, could not be reached for comment. Executives at AEG, which will operate the new Vegas arena, also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The band’s first album, Appetite for Destruction, is the biggest-selling debut in U.S. history, with 18 million sold. It spent five weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, and launched the number one Billboard Hot 100 single Sweet Child O’ Mine.” They have sold 44.5 million albums total in the U.S., according to the Recording Industry Association of America.

Billboard’s confirmation comes on the heels of two rumor-inducing hints dropped over the past week, the first a cryptic update to the Guns N’ Roses website and the second during screenings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, where footage of a concert crowd was shown with Guns music overdubbed. Though longtime fans may be understandably wary after the decade-plus wait for Chinese Democracy, which became a totem of sorts to frontman Axl Rose’s sometimes unpredictable behavior, this reunion bears no sign of that record’s bumpy road.

Coachella has a pedigree for coaxing much-loved acts out of retirement, or being the linchpin to plans that had already been simmering. The fest has previously hosted the reunions of Rage Against The Machine in 2007, My Bloody Valentine in 2009, Pulp in 2012 and Outkast in 2014 — not to mention Tupac’s posthumous return to the stage in 2012. Guns N’ Roses will arrive a year after two other legendary acts, AC/DC and Steely Dan, headlined the 2015 edition. Last year’s edition drew 198,000 to the California desert, generating $84.2 million in revenue, according to Boxscore.

source: billboard.com

LEMMY KILMISTER WAS ONLY GIVEN “TWO TO SIX MONTHS TO LIVE” AFTER CANCER WAS FOUND IN HIS BRAIN AND NECK

hhhh According to Motorhead’s manager Todd Singerman, singer Lemmy Kilmister was given “two to six months to live” when he was told he had terminal cancer on December 26th.

Singerman told Sky News that Kilmister went to hospital two days after his 70th- birthday party at the Whisky A Go Go club in Hollywood, California on December 13th because he wasn’t feeling well. Although, his doctors initially thought he was fine, they decided to do a brain scan before releasing him because “his speech was seeming a little odd. We wanted to see if maybe [he’d had] a minor stroke.” The scan uncovered tumors in Lemmy’s brain and neck.

Singerman told Sky News on Monday, “Nobody had any idea, we just learned Saturday, two days ago, that he even had cancer, and the doctor told him he had between two to six months to live. He [died] today as I was making calls to [ bandmates] Phil [Campbell] and Mikkey [Dee], telling them to come on out so they could have a last goodbye while he was still upbeat and everything. He was feeling mighty low… He wasn’t expected to die like that.”

Singerman added, “He [Lemmy] gets home [from tour], we have a big birthday party for him at the Whisky A Go Go. His friends came down and played. Two days later, I could tell he wasn’t feeling good, so we took him to the hospital, they release him, then after the brain scan they found the cancer in his brain and his neck… The doctor comes with the result a couple of days later and says… it’s terminal.”

Singerman initially wanted to keep the diagnosis private, but Lemmy insisted otherwise. “He was like, ‘No, no. You go ahead and put out a press release,” the manager told RollingStone.com. “I want people to know it was cancer. It’s a bad thing and they should know it.’ That’s how he felt.”

Despite Lemmy’s well-documented health issues over the last two years, Singerman said the cancer diagnosis “caught everyone by surprise. [Cancer] was the last thing we thought he would ever have. When you think about it, he has been to every doctor and hospital around the world and nobody caught that… That comes as a massive shock.”

additional source: blabbermouth.net

METALLICA GUITARIST KIRK HAMMETT ON LEMMY KILMISTER: “[HE] WAS THE FINEST OF GENTLEMEN”

Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has released a statement regarding the passing of Motorhead’s, Lemmy Kilmister, from cancer at age 70. Here is what Hammett had to say:

“Lemmy was the finest of gentlemen.

Back in 1979 when I was 16 years old, I heard Overkill for the first time. I thought it was the fastest thing I’d ever heard, and I declared to all my friends that Motörhead were the fastest band in the land.

When I had first seen pictures of what these guys looked like, I noticed a certain authenticity about them. I imagined they lived the way they looked and looked the way they lived.

And I remember very distinctly having a realization that moment — I realized that it was OK to be an outsider and that it was OK to not feel like I had to conform to anything that I objected to in my teenage life because clearly the Motörhead guys in this picture looked like they didn’t conform to anything at all and boy it sure looked and sounded like they were enjoying themselves as a result.

So I got a lot from that pic and that massive sound and that attitude.

And I have to thank Lemmy, Fast Eddie and also the recently departed Philthy Animal for the inspiration, spark and fire that I felt so strongly from that night in 1979.

That inspiration will always be there with me and may the music of Motörhead live on!”

source: Rolling Stone

MOTORHEAD DRUMMER MIKKEY DEE SAYS WITH THE PASSING OF FRONTMAN LEMMY KILIMISTER, “THE BAND IS OVER”

With the passing of their iconic frontman, Lemmy Kilimister, Motorhead drummer Mikkey Dee tell’s Sweden’s Expressen, that the band is over.

”Motörhead is over, of course. Lemmy was Motörhead. But the band will live on in the memories of many,” the drummer reveals in a telephone interview. He added, “We won’t be doing any more tours or anything. And there won’t be any more records. But the brand survives, and Lemmy lives on in the hearts of everyone.”

The last city to host Motörhead was Berlin, earlier this year. Despite already suffering from his illness Kilmister battled his way through to the end of the group’s Europe tour.

”He was terribly gaunt, he spent all his energy on stage and afterwards he was very, very tired,” Mikkey Dee says. ”It’s incredible that he could even play, that he could finish the Europe tour. It was only 20 days ago. Unbelievable.”

…Dee concedes that Motörhead wrapped up its career in the best possible way.

”It feels fantastic that we were able to complete the tour with him. It’s heartening that we didn’t cancel because of Lemmy,” he says. “I’m incredibly grateful over the years we had, and that we had such a good time together,” he adds.

source: www.expressen.se