8/25: BRUCE DICKINSON EVENT 1 WEEK FROM TONIGHT, IOWA, PERISCOPE, MORE.
Thanks to all I met Sunday in Des Moines at the Iowa State Fair. It was a great honor to host the closing event of the entire fair featuring sets from Dee Snider, Warrant, Dokken and Firehouse. I had never been to Iowa before and it was cool to meet so many great fans. I […]
BUCKCHERRY RELEASE VIDEO FOR “TIGHT PANTS”
Buckcherry have released a video for the song, Tight Pants, from their forthcoming new album, Rock N’Roll, which was released on August 21st through F-Bomb records. Watch the video below. Last week, Todd revealed that the song Tight Pants was influenced by Aerosmith. To read more about this, and to see the album track list, […]
GUITARIST GEORGE LYNCH ON A DOKKEN REUNION, “THAT IS ON THE TABLE RIGHT NOW…, BUT OF COURSE THAT COMES AND GOES EVERY COUPLE OF YEARS”
Leslie Michele Derrough of Glide Magazine spoke with guitarist George Lynch. Portions of the interview appear below. Glide: What song in your career would you say was the most difficult to transfer to the live stage from the recording? Lynch: Probably Mr. Scary because it has so many guitars on it. What I’ve done in […]
GUITARIST TONY MACALPINE POSTPONES TOUR AMID CANCER SCARE
Guitarist Tony MacAlpine has had to postpone his upcoming tour of Asia and Australia. In a statement, he said that he and his doctors believe he has colon cancer. Yesterday (August 24th), MacAlpine posted the following on his Facebook page: “Last week I was taken to the hospital with severe stomach pains. Following blood work, […]
THE METAL GOD, ROB HALFORD, REFLECTS BACK ON JUDAS PRIEST’S SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE TRIAL
Kory Grow of Rolling Stone reports: Twenty-five years ago today, a judge ruled that heavy-metal trendsetters Judas Priest were not liable for the deaths of two young men who cited the band’s music as the reason they killed themselves. One day in December 1985, the men — Raymond Belknap, then 18, and James Vance, 20 […]
WATCH “THE UKES OF HAZZARD” COVER METALLICA’S “ONE”
Damian Fanelli of Guitar World reports: Below, check out an all-ukulele cover of Metallica’s One. It’s performed by a guy who calls his project “Ukes of Hazzard.” “This was by far the most difficult cover I’ve done,” he says on YouTube. “It’s long, it’s intricate and devilishly fast at the end. The whole process of […]
