DEEP PURPLE DRUMMER IAN PAICE SUFFER MINI STROKE

Deep Purple had to cancel two shows overseas because drummer Ian Paice suffered a mini stroke.

Paice has posted the following message on the band’s Facebook page:

“To all the people who were expecting to see Deep Purple in Sweden and Denmark this week I would like to let you know the reason the shows were not possible, and also to stop all the speculation and rumours.

On the morning of the 14th of June I woke up to find that the right side of my body was feeling numb and I could not control my right hand and fingers.

So I had myself admitted to hospital where I was diagnosed with having suffered a “mini stroke,” or TIA. The hospital staff in Stockholm were amazing and started my treatment straight away.

After both CT and MIR scans there was found to be no serious or permanent damage. As of this moment all I am suffering is a slightly numb right side of the face [and] a tingling sensation in my right hand. My dexterity in the hand is coming back quickly and I fully expect to re commence touring next month.

So now I have a set of tablets which have to be taken every day to ensure it doesn’t happen again!. So sorry for not being able to play for you. And I’m sorry for myself!”

Clearly the issue is serious since it means Paice will break his 48-year streak of never missing one of the band’s shows since the group formed in 1968.

additional source: Gerry Martire at q1043.iheart.com

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GUNS N’ ROSES ANNOUNCE OTHER OPENING ACTS FOR THEIR “NOT IN THIS LIFETIME” TOUR, INCLUDING THE CULT AND SKRILLEX

Maria Milito of Q104.3 in New York reports:

Guns N’ Roses head out on their Not In This Lifetime tour next week and they previously announced that Alice in Chains and Lenny Kravitz would support them at some shows. Now, the band has revealed more opening acts, and they are very… diverse.

Among the acts set to grace the stage ahead of GN’R are The Cult and rockers Billy Talent, but also country singer Chris Stapleton, and, most interestingly Skrillex. The EDM producer and DJ will just be at the Houston show on August 5th, while Stapleton will only open the Nashville show. See all tour dates, and opening acts, listed here.

source: q1043.iheart.com

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THIN LIZZY GUITARIST DAMON JOHNSON DISCUSSES THE BAND, AND WRITING SONGS FOR ARTISTS, SUCH AS, TED NUGENT AND QUEENSRYCHE

Greg Prato of Brave Words spoke with Thin Lizzy guitarist, Damon Johnson. Portions of the interview appear below.

BraveWords: What can fans expect from the next Black Star Riders album?

Damon Johnson: We feel really confident right now. We’ve had a great three years of promoting the two albums that we’ve had out. We’ve got incredible support in Europe and it’s really inspired us. We feel very fortunate to be middle aged classic rock guys that are still getting to make new music that people are listening to and paying attention to. We feel very fortunate that we get a lot of radio airplay in England – BBC Radio 2 has been incredibly supportive of Black Star Riders. We know if we can deliver another quality record that we’re going to have a lot of people waiting to listen and support it. And it’s a priority for us to do more touring in the United States for this third album. We’ve very excited about that.

BraveWords: You’ve written songs for Stevie Nicks, Ted Nugent, Skid Row, Queensrÿche, and Carlos Santana.

Damon Johnson: It’s certainly something that I’m very proud of. And I have to tell you, most of those situations kind of came to me. I’d never been that guy that was looking to get co-writes or working the phone. I certainly have a lot of friends in Nashville that that’s their everyday life is co-writing and trying to get cuts on other people’s records. I was fortunate to have some kind of relationship in each of the instances you just named. I was friends with Ted Nugent – we toured with him with Brother Cane. I’ve been friends with the Queensrÿche guys for quite some time and they asked me to come and write. And in the case of the Stevie Nicks song and the Carlos Santana song, I was writing songs for myself – I maybe wanted to put them on some kind of a solo record. And I would play them for friends, who would go, “Oh, I know the guy who manages Stevie Nicks. I heard she’s looking for songs – let me send this to her.” And sure enough, they would call back, and go, “Yeah, we like this song a lot.” And the same thing happened with Carlos Santana – Clive Davis heard our song Just Feel Better, and played it for Carlos, who loved it, and Carlos picked up the phone and calls Steven Tyler to sing the lead vocals. It’s crazy, man. I’m proud of all those songs, and whenever I perform my solo acoustic stuff, I play a lot of that material. It gives fans a chance to hear how the songs sounded in their original incarnation. I never went in and made some big, over-produced demo of those songs – it was just me and an acoustic guitar.

To read more of this interview, and to find out about Johnson’s new solo EP, Echo, please visit Brave Words.

source: bravewords.com

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THE DEAD DAISIES NEW SINGLE, AND VIDEO, FOR “LONG WAY TO GO” RELEASED TODAY ON SPITFIRE MUSIC / SPV

The Dead Daisies outstanding new single, Long Way To Go, released today, June 17th, on Spitfire Music/SPV, more than whets the appetite for these celebrated hard rockers’ hotly anticipated third album, Make Some Noise, due out August 5th.

The video for Long Way To Go, shot at the Hessentags Arena in Germany with the Hollywood Vampires last month, can be viewed below.

Make Some Noise, packed with huge hooks, giant, intense guitar riffs and glorious, distinctive vocals, was superbly recorded and produced by Marti Frederiksen (Aerosmith, Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Buckcherry) in Nashville in February and March 2016.

Additionally, the Dead Daisies will be opening a month’s worth of dates for KISS in the U.S. (beginning August 10th in Green Bay, WI, and wrapping up on September 10th in Huntington, WV), as well as a headlining performance at the Whisky-A-Go-Go on September 15th.

The Dead Daisies are:- Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake, Dio), John Corabi (Mötley Crüe, Ratt), David Lowy (Red Phoenix, Mink), Marco Mendoza (Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy) and Brian Tichy (Ozzy Osbourne, Foreigner).

You can pre-order the new release at thedeaddaisies.lnk.to/MakeSomeNoise.

The Dead Daisies/KISS tour dates:

August:

10 Green Bay, WI – Resch Center
12 Fort Wayne, IN – Allen County Memorial Coliseum
13 Saginaw, MI – Dow Event Center
15 Kalamazoo, MI – Wings Event Center
17 Springfield, IL – Illinois State Fair
19 Des Moines, IA – Iowa State Fair
20 Rockford, IL – BMO Harris Bank Center
22 Dayton, OH – Nutter Center
24 Toledo, OH – Huntington Center
26 Youngstown, OH – Covelli Centre
27 Erie, PA – Erie Insurance Arena
29 Rochester, NY – Blue Cross Arena
30 State College, PA – Bryce Jordan Center

September:

1 Allentown, PA – The Great Allentown Fair
3 Worcester, MA – DCU Center
4 Portland, ME – Cross Insurance Arena
7 Bridgeport, CT – Webster Bank Arena
9 Richmond, VA – Richmond Coliseum
10 Huntington, WV – Big Sandy Arena
15 Hollywood, CA – The Whisky – Headline show.

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LISTEN TO METALLICA’S JAMES HETFIELD PLAY ON HEART’S “BEAUTIFUL BROKEN”

James Hetfield‘s collaboration with Heart on the title track to the band’s upcoming Beautiful Broken can be heard below.

The album, Heart’s first in four years, features a series of new songs coupled with older tracks, like this one, that have been updated.

Heart’s original version of the song was issued as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of 2012’s Fanatic.

“It blows the previous version out of the water,” Nancy Wilson noted in a press release. “James just took the song on, and what he added was perfect with a bite and a rock accent.”

Other reworked songs to be included on the new album, which is out July 8th, were first found on 1983’s Passionworks, 1982’s Private Audition and 1980’s Bebe Le Strange. Wilson says that gives Beautiful Broken a throwback sensibility.

“There is really a ’70s feel to this record both in the sound and the way we got to the emotional core of each song,” she said. “We picked songs that we always wanted to re-do, plus we’ve added three new tracks. On both new and old, we have the band playing together the way we used to. This is classic Heart.”

additional source: ultimateclassicrock.com

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AXL ROSE MAKES A RARE APPEARANCE AT THE CHINA EXCHANGE, INTERVIEW POSTED ONLINE

In the maelstrom of his recent activities, from the long awaited, historical Guns N’ Roses stadium tour to his heralded performances as touring vocalist with AC/DC, Axl Rose has maintained a deafening silence. In recent months, when even fan sightings and accounts of chance meetings with Rose, have made headlines, Axl Rose remained silent unless on the stage…until now. On Tuesday June 7th, Rose made a rare appearance at China Exchange in London’s Chinatown, as part of the Prudential Series, for a candid 60-minute discussion, hosted by Sir David Tang. Watch the interview below.

Created in 2015, China Exchange serves as a home for ideas, discussion, and creative expression to stimulate greater understanding of China’s impact on the world. So when the Chinese Democracy vocalist was invited for an unlikely conversation in an intimate setting, many believed the booking to be a hoax. Before a sold-out audience of 230 fans and friends, Axl Rose indeed emerged for an unfiltered, candid 60-minute discussion, pleasantly and honestly answering all questions fans and press have been eager to explore with the iconic vocalist. Comfortable in the is free-form environment, Rose discussed his vocal techniques – a regime of vocal exercises; his aim for a cleaner sound on Chinese Democracy; and the complexity of singing Brian Johnson’s Back in Black with care to avoid lasting damage to his voice. ​Rose went on to confide what it means to him to be performing with AC/DC on the current tour and to be in a positive place with Guns n’ Roses.

Of his meeting with the legendary performer, China Exchange founder, Sir David Tand expressed “Axl Rose is at the apex of contemporary music that speaks and relates to hundreds of millions of people. I could not have talked to a more extraordinary human being.”

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