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"I have a problem when you charge $100 to see a live show and the artist uses backing tracks," Simmons tells Australia's News.com.au. "It's like the ingredients in food, if the first ingredient on the label is sugar that's at least honest. It should be on every ticket - you're paying $100, 30 to 50 per cent of the show is (on) backing tracks and they'll sing sometimes, sometimes they'll lip synch. At least be honest. It's not about backing tracks, it's about dishonesty."

"There's nobody with a synthesiser on our stage, there's no samples on the drums, there's nothing," he added. "There's very few bands who do that now - AC/DC, Metallica, us. I can't even say that about U2 or the Stones. There's very few bands who don't use (backing) tracks."

"In 1991, we were on the road, and Slash went to my office and said 'I'll be leaving tomorrow to play with Michael Jackson on a tribute concert,'" Goldstein recalled in the interview with Rolling Stone Brazil. "I told him not to do it because Axl was molested by his father when he was two and he believed the charges against Michael Jackson."

Goldstein also discouraged Slash from playing the show because he felt that Jackson's compensation wasn't fair. "Everyone knew Eddie Van Halen received $1 million to play in 'Beat It.' So I asked Slash, 'how much are you receiving? Can I manage this to you?' and he said, 'I'll just receive a big screen television.' When Axl found out Slash was gonna play with Michael Jackson and that the payment was a big screen TV he was devastated. He thought Slash would support him and be against all abuse. From Axl's point of view, that was the only problem. He could ignore the drugs and the alcohol, but never the child abuse."

The contract gives Sony access to Halford's side projects since 1992, including Fight and Two as well as his solo work. Next week's release will be followed by a Playlist collection and a definitive Complete Albums Box. Video releases are also expected.

Odadjian tells Madcap Music Review: "There's a very good chance. We've written some songs. We're keeping it to ourselves - we're getting back to the bullsh*t of being together."

The chance of a return ended with Lennon's murder in 1980, while George Harrison died in 2001. Starr tells Rolling Stone: "We did it in twos - we talked about it.

The original Decline Of Western Civilization was released in 1980 and highlighted the hardcore-punk scene in Los Angeles. Second installment The Decline Of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years followed in 1988 featuring artists including Megadeth, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Faster Pussycat, Poison and Kiss.

The film famously featured W.A.S.P. guitarist Chris Holmes drinking in his mother's pool and Ozzy Osbourne cooking bacon in a leopard-print dressing gown.

The band toured Australia recently, but cancelled all meet and greets due to a bout of food poisoning. Ken had tickets for all six Australian dates and was devastated when he didn't get the chance to meet his heroes.

But by chance, one of his friends works for Qantas airlines, and was on board the Foos' flight home. Grohl was moved after being told Ken's story - and he's sent a personal photo greeting as well as a bunch of merchandise.

The 272-page coffee table volume was penned by music journalist Stephen Humphries and includes interviews with Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart, along with Syme himself.

Renbourn began his career as a solo artist before starting work with Bert Jansch in 1963. They put Pentangle together four years later along with Jacqui McShee, Danny Thompson and Terry Cox.

The bassist tells Hot Metal Online: "We're just returning to the studio, rehearsals are continuing before the final stages of the pre-production. The writing is pretty much done - that can always change in the studio.

"We'll go into the recording, probably, in early May. We had some tour dates in August. Those tour dates got moved, which quite honestly is a good thing because it frees us up and gives us time to make the record with a schedule that's a little more appropriate for how we want to make a great record.

The Daily Telegraph reports the five-bedroom home is on an absolute beachfront site of about 520sq m and is among many multimillion-dollar properties in the street.

In the interview video, he explains that while the follow-up to 2011's Imaginaerum was inspired by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, there's more to the 11-track release than that.

He says, The name of Immortal, for the time being, will rest; the essence, the power, the music - and Abbath - will not." He says that he "has been writing and rehearsing fervently, with a deluge of new material ready to be recorded; unable to come to an agreement in order move forward with the other members of the band, he has formed a new line up. Whilst grateful and respectful for the contributions of Demonaz, Horgh and Apollyon, the time is now right for Abbath to present his art to the world and continue to evolve the legacy.

All tickets for the original dates will remain valid and returns are available from point of purchase. The band say: "As lead singer and guitarist Andy Cairns is suffering from a combination of flu and a chest infection he has been advised bed rest for the week by his Doctor. Accordingly Therapy?, with regret, must postpone the first two shows of their forthcoming tour.

The lead single from the band's sixth album, "1984", delivered the band their first and only US No. 1 hit, which topped the US Billboard Hot 100 chart for five weeks, leading the album to sales of more than 12 million copies in the States alone. Check out the preview here

The event, which recognizes achievements in 34 music categories, will see Priest honored as the first recipient of a Global "Honorary" WAMI Hall Of Fame induction.

"In keeping with WAMI's mission to promote music and the accomplishments of musicians," says WAMI President Zoy Begos, "we're stepping beyond state boundaries by recognizing Judas Priest's contributions to the local, national and international music scenes.

A statement reads: "Imagine an enchanted audience in front of an enormous stage in Argentina. Thousands of fans screaming just for her. Having their cameras and cell phones ready to film what will become one hell of a performance, Tarja finally appears. Let the show begin."

Now they'll play five venues in and around London on the same day - Bank Holiday Monday, May 4. They will be joined by various guests acts at each show.

And while he admits tensions were high between himself and guitarist Holt for a long time, he says the pair's respect for each other has grown in the year since his return.

Zetro tells The Great Southern Brainfart: "There was about 10 years of mudslinging back and forth but Gary and I have a really great relationship now.

"We can tell each other anything. Being back in Exodus, there's a lot more respect between everyone. We're all pretty much into our 50s now. I think with age we've come to respect who we are as musicians and being in the business."

The album will be preceded by a single, Vermillion Hue, on April 6 - but you can listen to an exclusive stream of the track online. Say the band of the single: "The tumbling clouds filled with a halcyon vermillion hue, and the lonely trees standing solitary in the vast rolling fields. Just makes you think doesn't it? Reminisce and think of times gone by; sacred moments in your life�The profundity and hopeless enormity of it all...

"Vermillion Hue is a feeling experienced by Garland Vanderbilt, one of The Helmholtz Resonators, whilst aboard a train, on a physical and spiritual journey from the musical adventure; The Mystery Of Woolley Mountain.

In 2011 the guitarist admitted: "The band is wondering, 'When is this thing? When do we hear it?'" Previously, Graham Nash had accused the producer of ruining an abandoned Crosby, Stills And Nash album, while Slipknot's Corey Taylor said he'd never work with the producer again.

Now Gibbons tells Shepherd Express: "Rick is in no way going to get set into motion, when it may be hasty or hurried. He really is sincere when he works with any artist.

"Rick said, 'Let's keep working on it until it's right.' You find yourself returning to a particular track - it may be months tucked away in the can - and you say, 'Let's come back to that.'"

He admits Rubin's approach presented issues, saying: "It can be challenging to listen to the same song for two hours and then say, 'I want to sing it again.' Then you say, 'Would this word be better here? Let me sing it again.' After a full day you're just toast."

He says: "The writing style and entire approach to this was a stronger desire to do something fairly different from my other band. We used sounds hugely influenced by early David Bowie and took more chances.

Also added are A Wilhelm Scream, Teenage Bottlerocket, Arcane Roots, Crooks, Broken Teeth, Hang The Bastard, Black Peaks, Blood Youth, Trash Boat, Youth Man and Press To Meco.

Featuring the singles Paranoid Android, Karma Police, No Surprises and Lucky, the chart-topping follow-up to The Bends received almost universal critical acclaim on release.

I had just moved to LA after a 5 year on again off again continual tour with my old band "Whitey" in the UK, a series of unproductive stints working with Courtney Love, Joaquin Phoenix followed courtesy of an introduction from Alan McGee who was considering managing either or both of the projects so I had gone into a kind of studio hermit phase writing songs for films and being a backroom guy collaborating with friends and writing for other artists.

A friend of mine, David Maurice introduced me to JC Chasez, ex NKOTB with whom he was writing an album. We got into the studio together to write, and the enthusiasm that JC exhibited was so infectious and joyful, that I went back to the studio I was living in and wrote the basic track and lyric in 15 minutes on a nord lead, borrowed from my housemate "Jawnee" of "that noise" and my other band "Piel" in Koreatown, LA with the intention always of presenting the tune to JC for inclusion on his album, although when Tiki (my other housemate and the utterly brilliant singer/songwriter in Piel) heard it, it became clear that I should not even think of sharing it with JC.

My mind always wants to twist the meanings of things, and convey something beyond and behind the lyric, so I wanted it to come across as a terrible creepy Hollywood party predator in one of the Hollywood hills parties that we had been attending regularly where everything is provided, and the girls are either insanely beautiful and a little vapid, or brilliantly strange and paradisiacal.

The norm in those circles is this odd cocaine fueled personality which overruns any sense of humanity. It is sad to say depending on your perceived "status", you can use these hackneyed old pick up lines and awful creepy come ons to persuade certain of the girls to join you for whatever debauched ideas you might have.

The video we made intends a certain creepy feel, and the dancing girls are these ghostly shades captured from the ether by my central lothario/alien spirit.

The final thing is the water theme which was inspired by the ubiquitous pools in la, and my sign, which is water. The symbol of sexuality, and the eternal feminine from which everything is born. I also sweat a LoT on stage!