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WARRANT POST VIDEO FOR COVER OF HAGGARD’S “I THINK I’LL JUST STAY HERE AND DRINK,” ALSO STREAM “DEVIL DANCER”

Warrant have released a new video covering the Merle Haggard song, I Think I’ll Just Stay Here And Drink. The song was selected as the Professional Bull Riders’ new “party anthem” and will appear on the band’s new record, Louder Harder Faster“, our May 12th on Frontiers Music Srl. Watch it below.

The band is also streaming another song from their forthcoming album, called Devil Dancer. Listen to it below.

Warrant previously streamed, Only Broken Heart, which can be heard here.

With a line-up featuring original members, Erik Turner, Jerry Dixon, Joey Allen, and Steven Sweet along with singer Robert Mason (Lynch Mob, Cry of Love), Warrant are now stronger than ever. Mason’s vocals remain a breath of fresh air and his swagger on the songs gives new life and a bright future to the band. With production handled by Foreigner and ex-Dokken bass player Jeff Pilson (Last In Line, Starship, Adler’s Appetite, etc.), Warrant is sounding tighter and playing better than ever before. Louder Harder Faster, true to the band’s roots, is full of rockers with some classic ballads thrown in and will surely send their faithful fans into a frenzy.

Erik Turner says, “You can hear and feel the emotions of the last 25 plus years of being in this band poured into LHF. The fun and the frustrations, the pleasure and the pain… a whole lot of blood, sweat, tears and beers went into the making of this album. Love it or hate it, its the real f’ckn deal, 100% pure melodic hard rock. Hand crafted by five musicians who dedicated their lives to music when they were just little kids with big dreams.”

Read more about this release by, clicking here.

Louder Harder Faster tracklisting:

1. Louder Harder Faster
2. Devil Dancer
3. Perfect
4. Only Broken Heart
5. U In My Life
6. Music Man
7. Faded
8. New Rebellion
9. Big Sandy
10. Choose Your Fate
11. Let It Go
12. I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink (Bonus Track available on CD ONLY)

Warrant tour dates:

Mar 10 Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, San Antonio, TX
Mar 16 The Token Lounge, Westland, MI
Mar 17 The Corbin Arena, Corbin, KY
Mar 18 Watseka Theater, Watseka, IL
Mar 24 Akron Civic Theater, Akron, OH
Mar 25 Rock the Arena II @ Savage Arena, Toledo, OH
Mar 31 Medina Entertainment Center, Medina, MN

Apr 1 PBR event / Sioux Falls Arena, Sioux Falls, SD
Thaw Out Days After-Party
Apr 22 Tacoma Dome PBR Event
Apr 27 Hampton Beach Casino, Hampton Beach, NH
Apr 28 Aura, Portland, ME
Apr 29 M3 Merriweather Post Pavilion Columbia, MD

May 12 PBR event / Rock Bar @ Miracle Mile Shops, Las Vegas, NV
May 19 The Rose, Pasadena, CA
May 20 The Canyon, Agoura Hills, CA

Sep 16 Shrinedom @ Creek Hill Barn, Irasburg, VT

Oct 28 Rock N Skull 2017 @ Avantis Dome – Pekin,IL

Nov 1 PBR Event T-Mobile Arena, Toshiba Plaza Stage, Las Vegas, NV

For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit warrantrocks.com/tour.

KELLY OSBOURNE RECOUNTS IN NEW MEMOIR HOW HER FATHER OZZY OVERDOSED WHILE MOTHER SHARON SUFFERED A SEIZURE

The NY Post’s Page Six reports:

…In her new memoir, There is NO F*cking Secret: Letters from a Badass Bitch (via Us Weekly) Kelly [Osbourne], 32, recounts a harrowing tale in which she was forced to care for both [her mother] Sharon, who was battling stage three colon cancer, and [her father] Ozzy, who was hooked on drugs.

“[One day] Mum had a seizure,” Kelly writes about that horrifying day in 2002. “I call for an ambulance and together with her idiot nurse, we got Mum stabilized.”

If the situation wasn’t scary enough, Kelly attempted to bring her father along. “I ran downstairs to get Dad from his room. Dad was there in his boxers, and I watched him scoop his hand into a bowl of pills, swallow a handful of something and wash it down with vodka, like it was water and he was dying of thirst. I didn’t know what to do.”

Kelly managed to get everyone in the ambulance to rush Sharon to the hospital, but things took a wild turn. “He leaned over to put his hand out to see if Mum was breathing,” she recalls. “Then he passed out with his hand over her mouth, and it looked like he was trying to kill her.”

EMTs tried to pull Ozzy off Sharon, but he resisted. “I begged the EMTs not to call the police,” Kelly adds. “I was sobbing and shaking, scared out of my mind, and the EMTs took pity on me and decided not to call the police, but they said they were rushing Dad into detox.”

Finally arriving at the hospital, Kelly — who was without her older sister, Aimee, and younger brother, Jack — found herself running back and forth “from the room where my mother was recovering from a seizure to the room where my father was being treated for a drug overdose and alcohol poisoning.”

Meanwhile, Kelly was facing her own struggles with drug addiction.

“Pills became my way of coping,” she says. “I’d wake up every day in a new kind of hell, one that wouldn’t let me crawl back under the covers and hide.”

“The only way I could face my life was by opening that pill bottle, shaking out a few pills — or a handful — and throwing them down my throat,” the former fashion critic writes.

Today, she’s sober after four trips to rehab.

“I realized only I could save myself,” she says.

There is No F*cking Secret hits bookstores April 25th.

additional source: pagesix.com

BLACK STAR RIDERS PREMIERE NEW VIDEO FOR “DANCING WITH THE WRONG GIRL”

U.S./Irish hard rockers Black Star Riders released their third album Heavy Fire on the February 3rd through Nuclear Blast Entertainment. Fresh off their extensive run of the UK and Ireland, the band return with a music video for new single, Dancing With The Wrong Girl.

Lead vocalist/guitarist Ricky Warwick explains about the track, “The greatest lie we can endure is from our own denial, sometimes two wrongs can make it alright.”

The video was filmed in East London’s neon-clad Gods Own Junkyard, view it below.

To listen to other songs from this release, please click the highlighted titles:

Testify Or Say Goodbye
When The Night Comes In

Black Star Riders is:

Ricky Warwick (Vocals)
Scott Gorham (Guitar)
Damon Johnson (Guitar)
Robert Crane (Bass)
Jimmy DeGrasso (Drums)

RITCHIE BLACKMORE’S RAINBOW TO RELEASE “LIVE IN BIRMINGHAM” ON JUNE 9TH

Rainbow’s performance at the Genting Arena in Birmingham from last June is to be released as a double album.

Titled Live In Birmingham 2016, it’ll be out on June 9th through Eagle Rock Entertainment.

The show was the band’s only performance in the UK in 2016 and preceded two dates at Germany’s Monsters Of Rock festival.

Ritchie Blackmore reactivated Rainbow with Lords Of Black singer Ronnie Romero, Stratovarius keyboardist Jens Johansson, Blackmore’s Night drummer David Keith and bassist Bob Nouveau last year.

A statement from the label reads, “This new 2CD set captures the full audio from the British show at the Genting Arena at the NEC, Birmingham.

The setlist for this show, combining classic tracks from both Deep Purple and Rainbow, includes two tracks from the Mark III Deep Purple era, Soldier Of Fortune and Burn that were not included in the German shows.”

Blackmore will bring the new-look Rainbow back to the UK this summer, with four dates planned in June.

Last November, Eagle Rock Entertainment released Memories In Rock: Live In Germany on DVD and Blu-ray.

Live In Birmingham tracklist:

Disc 1:

1. Over The Rainbow / Highway Star
2. Spotlight Kid
3. Mistreated
4. Since You Been Gone
5. Man On The Silver Mountain
6. Soldier Of Fortune
7. Medley: Difficult To Cure (Beethoven’s Ninth) / Drum Solo / Bass Solo / Band Jam / Keyboard Solo
8. Catch The Rainbow

Disc 2:

1. Perfect Strangers
2. Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll
3. Child In Time
4. Stargazer
5. Medley: Black Night / Woman From Tokyo / Black Night
6. Burn
7. Smoke On The Water

Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow UK tour 2017:

Jun 17: London O2 Stone Free Festival
Jun 22: Manchester Arena
Jun 25: Glasgow SSE Hydro
Jun 28: Birmingham Genting Arena

additional source: Classic Rock via teamrock.com

DEF LEPPARD GUITARIST PHIL COLLEN DISCUSSES THE BAND’S NEW LIVE CD, TOURING WITH TESLA AND POISON, AND WHY THE BAND SEEMS TO BE SO POPULAR WITH NEW YORK AUDIENCES

Greg Prato of the Long Island Pulse spoke with Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen. The interview appears in its entirety below.

Pulse: How did the idea come up to do the new live DVD [And There Will Be a Next Time– Live From Detroit]

Phil Collen: The last tour (in 2016) everyone was saying, “This is the best we’ve ever heard you; this is the best we’ve ever seen the show.” And this was consistent. The last run of dates, the first one to sell out was Detroit, and we thought, “We’ll record it and document this”—literally for that reason. And that was it, really. The show went down a storm and it just captured where we were at.

Pulse: How would you compare playing onstage with Def Leppard now to say, in 1987, when Hysteria came out?

Phil Collen: We’re way better now. We can sing properly. We were kind of busking it a bit then, shouting and screaming, and trying to get it in tune. Now, I’m a better singer this year than I was last year, and a way better guitar player. That goes contrary to what I’ve been led to believe, that when bands start sucking or a singer can’t sing quite as well, or a certain player can’t play as much, it’s because they’re not playing as much or singing as much or putting the effort in. It’s like aging. Our bodies don’t just break down because we’re old, they start breaking down because we stop using them—they atrophy. On a side note, last December, I got to play with Jeff Beck in Japan. He plays all the time, and I was just blown away. I’m on stage, watching him, playing along with him, and he improves all the time because he keeps playing. I know a lot of guys from that era who don’t really do that. But then again, they don’t play. And I don’t mean practice; I mean just play and keep it flowing, inspiration-wise. The same with athletes—you see NFL players quit, and then a year after, they’re like twice their size when they were playing. They’re just not active. So, it’s really about that… staying inspired and staying in shape. That’s the big difference with us… It just keeps getting better and better, and for me, it’s really exciting.

Pulse: Def Leppard is touring once more with Poison and Tesla.

Phil Collen: I just produced the new Tesla album, which turned out phenomenal. It’s not mixed yet, but it’s different. It’s really diverse. We’ve been touring with Tesla, and especially for the last two years, we recorded a lot of this stuff while we were on tour, and then we finished it up in Sacramento where the guys are from. I get to spend a lot of time with them. And Poison, the last time they went out, was with us in 2012. The brilliant thing about this lineup is it’s the celebration of integrity. Poison are the same original four members and we’re the same band that put out Hysteria, except Steve Clark passed away [in 1991] and Vivian Campbell is in the band. And Tesla is all the original members, except Dave Rude is playing instead of Tommy Skeoch. I really do treat it as a celebration of integrity and you can’t say that this much these days.

Pulse: Def Leppard has been especially popular in New York for quite some time.

Phil Collen: It’s the first place I ever came to when I came to the States. I was 19 and had a Greyhound bus journey across America. We sing with American accents because we learned from American artists. Rock music and pop music was an American art form, and that’s how we learned. Even the Stones sung in American accents. It was a big deal for us to come to New York in the first place, as was LA. But the first “port of call” for me was New York, and the band, as well. We spent a lot of time there; the record company and the management were based there. So, we were able to work it a bit more. Maybe that’s got something to do with it. But we did spend a lot of time there.

source: lipulse.com

LATE BOSTON DRUMMER SIB HASHIAN’S REMAKE OF THE BAND’S CLASSIC “SMOKIN” WITH QUIET RIOT’S ALEX GROSSI POSTED ONLINE

Along with Hashian and Grossi (whom submitted this news), Jim Collins (Vocals) and Donnie Vito (Bass), appear on the song. Listen to the 1996 performance, below.

Boston drummer John Thomas “Sib” Hashian died at the age of 67.

His son, Adam, told TMZ that Sib collapsed onstage while performing on the Legends Of Rock cruise. A witness says CPR was performed and a defibrillator was used but to no avail.

Hashian performed on Boston’s self-titled debut album, released in 1976, and on the band’s sophomore release, Don’t Look Back, issued in 1978. Due to pressure from the Epic Records label, Boston leader Tom Scholz chose Hashian to replace original drummer Jim Masdea prior to the recordings of the debut album. Sib left BOSTON during the recordings of their 1986 album, Third Stage, marking the return of Masdea.

Quiet Riot guitarist Alex Grossi states, “Sibby was the real deal in every sense of the word. Writing and recording with him, Donnie and Jim was an amazing opportunity at age 18. I know many people will miss his smile, sense of humor and amazing drumming – He was a class act all around, which is VERY rare in this business.”