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Chataway went on to play with bands including Earth and Bullion, and was reported to be performing in and around his Worcester home until recently. Atkins says via his Facebook page: "Just heard the very sad news that Ernie passed away last night. He was a lovely bloke and a great guitarist and will be sadly missed.
"I remember the first time we met at the auditions for a new guitarist for Judas Priest in 1969 - his looks reminded me of Marc Bolan. When he plugged in his guitar he totally blew us away, and made KK Downing look a complete amateur (who we'd auditioned earlier)."
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The supergroup, Russell Allen, Mike Orlando, John Moyer and AJ Pero, were traveling to Quebec City on I-93 in New Hampshire when the accident occurred. According to the label, the band's gear and their van were destroyed in the crash.
As a result the band announced that they have canceled the remaining dates on their tour with Avenged Sevenfold and Hellyeah, along with their headline dates through June 8th.
The band issued the following on their Facebook, "We are sad to announce that the band has been in a serious accident yesterday traveling to Canada on the current A7X/Hellyeah Tour.
"The band & crew are pretty beat up but by the grace of God there's no serious injuries & everyone is ok. Unfortunately the trailer flipped & equipment has been destroyed but they are figuring out the next move in hopes to continue on. Thank you all so much for your kind thoughts & prayers!!!"
Metallica also played cover versions of Rare Earth's I Just Want To Celebrate, Deep Purple's When A Blind Man Cries and The Beatles' In My Life.
The band say in a statement: "It's no secret that Ozzy has been a major presence throughout our entire lives and we are so humbled and honoured to be with Ozzy for this special evening."
Slash was also in attendance and joined Ozzy's band onstage. Check out video footage from the event
here.
Last month, Allman urged Midnight Rider director Randall Miller to shut down production on the film following a February 20 on-set accident that resulted in the death of assistant camera operator Sarah Jones and injured a few others.
In a letter to Miller, Allman said, "I am writing to you as one human being to another, and appealing to you from my heart. I am asking you from a personal perspective not to go forward," adding, "Your desires as a filmmaker should not outweigh your obligations as a human being. I am asking you to do the right thing and to set aside your attempts to resume the production out of respect for Sarah, her family and the loss that all of us feel so deeply."
William Hurt clearly felt the same way: he was playing the role of the adult Allman (most of the film portrays Allman as a young man), but he dropped out of the film in the wake of the accident.
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Graham Nash originally leaked news of Gilmour's album last November, when he revealed that he and David Crosby were going to contribute vocals to the project.
"What the hell would it cost you to have David Crosby and Graham Nash getting on a bloody train to Brighton to sing with you?'," said Nash on Vintage TV's Needle Time program. "We're musicians. We love good songs. We'll sing them until we are dead."
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During the interview Morley asked Don about the remake of "Hotel California" that appears on the Soundtrack of Summer compilation album that is being released in conjunction with the tour.
Felder explained the reason behind the remake, "Well they wanted to put out a soundtrack CD for the Soundtrack of Summer tour. So Foreigner had some songs they were going to re-record. Styx had re-recorded some of their stuff and management asked me what song or two I'd like to re-record and I said, obviously "Hotel California" would be the most fun to do. Tommy and I have already played it together. Styx and I have already played it together.
"So I worked out this version that starts out this sort of steel string, acoustic introduction and then slowly it builds with some percussion. By the time you get to the last verse, the drums come in and it turns electric and I take a solo, then Tommy Shaw takes a solo and then Mick Jones takes a solo. We trade off singing the verses. Tommy sings a verse, I sing a verse, Kelly Hansen sings a verse. We all sing the harmonies on the chorus. It just turned into so much fun doing it, and came out so well, that I said, this is going to be so much fun. I'm hoping that we'll have time to be able to work that up so that we can play it live together. I think that would be fantastic."
Read the rest of the interview
here.
Ozzy played a five-song set with the guest guitarists and his solo touring band, playing "I Don't Know", "Suicide Solution", "Iron Man", "Crazy Train" and "Paranoid."
The evening saw Osbourne honored with the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award in recognition for his dedication and support of the MusiCares MAP Fund, and for his commitment to helping other addicts with the addiction recovery process.
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During the show, one lucky listener was also given the chance to win a limited edition Gibson Zakk Wylde Moderne of Doom guitar . Coincidently, Wylde also grabbed the 17 spot on the "Hellraiser" list.
Other rockers who nabbed "Hellraiser" honors included Keith Moon, Axl Rose Alice Cooper, Jim Morrison and Keith Richards. See the complete list below:
1. Ozzy Osbourne
2. Keith Moon (The Who)
3. Lemmy (Motorhead)
4. Jim Morrison (The Doors)
5. Alice Cooper
6. Nikki Sixx (Motley Crue)
7. Keith Richards (Stones)
8. Bon Scott (AC/DC)
9. Joe Walsh (Eagles)
10. John Bonham (Led Zep)
11. Axl Rose
12. Pete Way (UFO)
13. Rick Wakeman
14. Steven Tyler (Aerosmith)
15. Ronnie James Dio
16. Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)
17. Zakk Wylde
18. James Hetfield (Metallica)
19. Paul Rodgers
20. Rick Parfitt (Status Quo)
The Daily Dot reports that Hadfield's video, posted a year ago Monday (May 12) to YouTube, will be taken after Tuesday because the video was apparently only licensed for one year.
Hadfield explained to his followers on Twitter and Facebook the situation, noting that they "had permission for a year." But while the astronaut seems a bit more resigned to the video's fate, many fans of the clip are tweeting at and posting on Bowie's Facebook wall, hoping he'll allow the video to remain online.
Unfortunately, it's not that easy. As The Economist pointed out last year, copyright is a fickle fellow in space. Because Hadfield was close enough to earth when he recorded the song, he's subject to terrestrial copyright laws, but since copyright varies by country, it's a matter of which country he was technically in when he recorded - and as evidenced by the video, he jumped around a bit, both in time and in location. Plus, even the latter poses an issue, as different parts of the International Space Station, on which Hadfield recorded the song, are owned by different countries, meaning the laws of those countries apply as well.
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On Tuesday in New York City, Jimmy Page played a selection of bonus tracks from the band's first three albums and then took questions from the audience, made up of representatives from various news outlets.
Before playing the unreleased tracks, Page said that he'd been working on the reissues for about three years, and that the project started when he finished work on Celebration Day, the live documenting of their 2007 one-off reunion concert. He also said that the reissue program would extend into 2015, and will include all nine Led Zeppelin studio albums (including the posthumous release Coda).
After that, the lights dimmed, the screen showed a giant Led Zeppelin logo surrounded by replicas of Led Zeppelin I, II and III and a furious "Communication Breakdown" exploded from the speakers.
Page later explained that Zeppelin's 1969 debut didn't actually have any leftover material, so the bonus disc is a full length concert recording from Paris in '69. Frontman Robert Plant sounded a bit nervous on "Communication Breakdown," but more comfortable on the slow blues burner "You Shook Me."
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In one take, Young performed, recorded and pressed a cover of "Crazy," which was written by Willie Nelson, but made famous by Patsy Cline, using White's refurbished 1940s-era Voice-o-Graph recording booth. The vinyl was played at the end of the show.
Young recorded his new album, A Letter Home, at Third Man Records using the booth, which White unveiled on Record Store Day last year. According to Consequence of Sound, the machine allows you to record up to two minutes of audio, which is then dispensed in the form of a 6″ phonograph disc. It's supposedly the only machine of its kind that's operational and open to the public.
Last month, White also pulled off a similar feat and earned himself a Guinness World Record for the fastest released record by recording a live version of his new song, "Lazaretto" and then pressing it in less than four hours. The record was previously set by Swiss polka trio Vollgas Kompanie, who in 2008 released an LP the day after recording it.
Watch Young cover "Crazy" straight to vinyl
here.
"This track is definitely from a forthcoming album due later on this year," is all a Dylan spokesperson told Rolling Stone about the song, which was posted on Dylan's official website. There is still no title or release date for the record, which would be his first since 2012 full-length, Tempest.
Dylan gives the tune a decidedly Americana feel, trading the original's swelling string arrangement with pedal steel guitars, although he stays true to Sinatra's arrangement.
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In September, 66-year-old Ward went through an operation to deal with a longstanding problem with his right shoulder. But just four days later, he was back in hospital for emergency stomach surgery to treat a condition called diverticulitis - an extremely painful inflammation of the colon.
Ward tells Black-Sabbath.com: "I haven't played a kit of drums since I had the shoulder operation on September 8, 2013. I just played a little bit of jazz. Somebody had brought a kit of drums into the gallery. I played for eight or nine minutes. It wasn't too bad, it was a nice surprise. I was wondering how it might be not playing for a while with the injuries that I've sustained... But today we sat down and it wasn't bad."
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But he clearly enjoyed making it and says he has been pleasantly surprised by some of the reviews it has gathered. He also jokes that the album is "toilet paper".
Hawkins tells Music Feeds: "We weren't going for perfection, we were going for excitement. I didn't trip out about making some masterpiece, I just wanted to have fun. Some of the records that I love were recorded fairly quickly. Van Halen 1 was recorded in a week, Zeppelin's first record was like four days or something and Black Sabbath's first record was recorded in two days. I've already done a lot of big productions and I wanted to see what it felt like just totally being raw."
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Plant and the band are playing a previously announced a series of summer tour dates, however, which will begin June 5 at the Mawazine Festival in Rabat, Morrocco.
The group will be on the road for seven weeks through to mid-July before taking a break in their live schedule. Plant will release a new solo album on September 9th.
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As well as his famous work on Ridley Scott's film Alien - for which he won the Visual Effects Oscar in 1990 - Giger's work was popular with a host of rock musicians.
Korn singer Jonathan Davis uses a microphone stand designed by Giger, while Giger's painting Landscape XX was included as an insert in the artwork for the Dead Kennedys album Frankenchrist. The penis-laden poster was at the centre of an obscenity trial against Kennedys singer Jello Biafra.
More recently, Giger's work graced the cover of two albums by Swiss extreme metal band Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones and Melana Chasmata. The band's singer Tom G Warrior recently spoke exclusively to the Metal Hammer Magazine Show on TeamRock Radio, where he described Giger as a "genius".
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And when he gave it away to a friend, who sold it years later, Harrison let it be known he was "disappointed" and that he'd think twice about giving similar presents in the future.
Auctioneers Julien's have also confirmed the Rickenbacker 425, serial number BH439, appeared on TV show Ready Steady Go in October 1963. The following night it was played by John Lennon backstage in Glasgow, before being used at Abbey Road on October 17.
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Due July 9, "Nashville Outlaws" features performances by Rascal Fatts, LeAnne Rimes, Florida Georgia Line, Darius Rucker, Gretchen Wilson and more.
After more than three decades together, Motley Crue's "The Final Tour" will kick off July 2 in Grand Rapids, Michigan with guest Alice Cooper. The band are currently in the studio, working on the final song of their career. "All Bad Things Must Come To An End" is expected to be released in sync with the start of the tour.
Check out the tribute album track and guest list
here.
Available only to Citi card members, the event will mark the second time in Soundgarden's career that they will perform the album from beginning to end; the first time was in Austin, Texas during SXSW in March.
Tickets to the Soundgarden performance will cost $19.94 and be available for purchase only with a Citi credit or debit card beginning Wednesday, May 21st at 10 AM, EST.
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Right and Wrong, darkness and light, evil or divine. The truth can be stretched, fabricated, bought and sold. Your word can be the definition of all you're worth. We can be scapegoats, the fall guy, Martyrs for what we think is right. We have a new script to write. Grow some selfless pride. Find and care about, Beauty on the inside. Humility and Humanity. Not just in Memories.
Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the album
right here!
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