B.B. King Suffers Heart Attack

One fan's account of what happened during the show has been published by thenewfury.com: "Ivan held up Jeremy's book and asked the fans if they had this FFDP book. Then, still mic'd seemingly unknowingly, said "That I had nothing to do with", directed at Jeremy. Jeremy then threw his sticks and walked off stage, and the band shortly followed. Ivan talked for a minute, threw his mic, and marched off. A few minutes later, Ivan came back, rambled and talked to the fans, and attempted to play around on Jeremy's drumkit, trying to lead a song rather weakly. Jeremy and the rest of the band came back and played a song while sounding completely out of step with each other, while Ivan stayed really close to Jeremy, seeming to talk sh*t to him. Everyone left again, Ivan threw the mic again. This routine repeated a couple more times until they just ran out of stage time and walked off stage, not to return."

Moody released the following statement of Saturday (via Lambgoat) to give his account of what happened, "There were a lot of technical problems last night that were seemingly unsolvable. We had to make a decision whether to hit the stage crippled, without being able to hear ourselves; or, delay the start of the show - possibly for hours.

"We decided to proceed, but not being able to hear if I was in key, and just guessing where we were in the song frustrated me to the point that I lost my cool.

"I'm not saying I handled it appropriately. Matter of fact I've never been so embarrassed before. I apologize for taking out my anger on stage. You guys know me and you know how I pride myself on my live performances. I'd never want this to boil over in to something that epically wrong ever again.

"To some of our crew, good luck in your future endeavors we wish you the best - we also welcome our new monitor engineer Paul Weber.

"To our fans in Memphis - we'll make it up to you I promise, Houston we we will see you tonight. The rest of the world - yes we are coming.

"And to the haters... wipe that smirk off your face ...We are not going anywhere ... This "ain't my last dance!"

"We GOT YOUR SIX"

According to Brett Morgen, the man who culled Montage of Heck from hours of archival footage, he was able to unearth enough unheard Cobain home recordings for a brand new full-length album.

"We're going to be putting out an amazing album this summer that I think will answer that question," Morgen told Bedford + Bowery during a recent interview when asked if he'd found any particularly notable music while creating the film.

The new clips follow recently posted video of rarely-played, deep tracks from their catalog including "Dirty Movies" from 1981's "Fair Warning" and "In A Simple Rhyme" from 1980's "Women And Children First."

While the Foos embraced the post-millennial show approach, playing a show in Richmond last summer after it was crowdfunded, Pearl Jam have decided against going down the same route.

After one Pearl Jam fan, Daniel Sheffer, pushed to get the band to play the newly renovated Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, locking down 578 backers and raising over $140,000 in the process, management responded with a soft but firm no.

"We're having a great time down here at AT&T Park for Metallica Day with the San Francisco Giants!," posted the band, as the home team took on the Los Angeles Angels.

As with previous Metallica Nights, guitarists James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" prior to the game. Drummer Lars Ulrich threw out the first pitch and bassist Robert Trujillo called for the players to "Play Ball."

In his words, 'The shows? I don't like them. I don't find them fulfilling," Townshend said to Uncut while promoting the band's 50th anniversary tour. "But I'm brilliant at it. I find it incredibly easy. I drift through it."

It's hard not to empathize with him: 50 years into any project, most likely anyone would have a hard time still seeing the thrill of it. That goes double for when you're doing the same thing over and over again, performing the same songs in Townshend's instance.

Garcia recorded the song for his solo album Garcia in 1972, but the performance video of the song is from a 1989 concert by the Grateful Dead in Wisconsin. The 11-minute jam features Garcia's familiar vocals as well as an impressive guitar interlude from the late singer.

Howe says: "I didn't want to come back to just for nostalgia - it had to be for the right reasons. It had to be the best stuff we've ever written, or it wouldn't be worth it to anyone, especially the fans."

Hanneman died two years ago this week (May 2) after Exodus leader Holt had already spent two years covering for him due to illness. He'll make his first album appearance when the thrash icons release their 11th album later this year.

Holt tells Loudwire: "Some people say I should play Jeff's solos the way Jeff did. But I don't think that's doing him justice, trying to copy him. From the riffs to the solos, they were uniquely him.

"I keep little signatures and melodies, particularly in their early songs. But I always say, if you want someone to play them exactly, there's a million guys in Slayer tribute bands who'd do a better job than I am."

Slayer and Exodus became friends during the thrash movement's formative days - and Holt recalls the night the bands met in the early 1980s. "We just destroyed their hotel room," he says."With their permission, of course. The cops came in and we scattered like cockroaches.

"We were recently asked to be an experiment in a laboratory study," says bassist Dave Beste. "The people behind the study evidently wanted to measure our rock'n'roll power, and so we played Electric Man and in the process we broke all their equipment. Somebody taped it and we made a special video out of it. So watch it, and enjoy it. We love science."

He released 36th album Shadows In The Night in February, featuring his take on songs made famous by Frank Sinatra. He received the MusiCares Person Of The Year award the same month.

The 73-year-old said in January: "Look, you get older. Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people have got to be more wise.

Root tells the Des Moines Register: "We haven't been able to do two albums back-to-back since our first one and Iowa. We're at a point in our career where the band is on top of its game. If we take two years or however long away, who knows if we could come back? Someone might decide they want direct or write, or other bands' projects might take priority."

Wood made the comments about the possible reunion during a Q&A to promote his book How Can It Be? A Rock And Roll Diary: "I think that would be brilliant."

The band say: "The cover echoes a sinister artwork depicting the reality of humanity's beautifully disturbing existence and its impending death through the mortal and the everlasting. The background shows an ancient incantation written in Aramaic."

The Canadian outfit have also announced plans to release 10 video clips from the album ahead of its July launch and have issued a teaser of their track Thy Serpent's Tongue.

The thrash giants invited him to become their frontman after the release of debut album Kill 'Em All, because James Hetfield wasn't happy with the vocal role alongside his guitar duties.

But the only other man in the frame preferred to remain with Armored Saint, who release seventh album Win Hands Down in June. Bush tells National Rock Review: "It's something that always resurfaces in my life, and I find it funny.

"I felt complimented when the band was proposing the ides to me. But it just wasn't my destiny to be in Metallica. I would have changed the face of heavy metal - and I don't need that pressure."

Fafara tells The Rockpit: "In sitting on 12 blistering songs and I'm recording those in October, November. Sometime next year I'm going to get right back in a DevilDriver cycle."

"We're having 50 birthday parties on May 9th, hope you can join us!," says the band. "Join the #trooperparty online and send us photos, the best pubs will be rewarded!"

Yes recently discovered seven complete concerts in their archives, which had been taped at the end of 1972 during drummer Alan White's first tour with Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris Squire and Rick Wakeman. White had just three days to learn the set after Bill Bruford departed to join King Crimson.

The set contains every track recorded across North America during October and November of that year in Toronto, Ottawa, Durham, Greensboro, Athena, Knoxville and Uniondale. The restored audio from three months into the tour is described as "open" and "immediate" and "drops listeners right into the front row."

He invited Vicious to become the band's bassist in 1977 - kickstarting a chain of events that led to his death of a heroin overdose two years later, while under suspicion of having murdered girlfriend Nancy Spungen.

Lydon tells Rolling Stone: "Sid was very, very lazy. He had no work ethic - he never learned anything, and by all accounts he had no aptitude for music at all.

"It's curious why I brought him in. It must have been some kind of self-destructive element. But I never had any aptitude until I started. I thought, 'That's how it will work. You'll find your way.'

The band's first-ever performance on an awards show will promote their latest release, "Tokyo Dome Live In Concert", as well as their summer tour of North America, which begins in Seattle on July 5.

In a new video, Lee discusses the new signature instrument, which combines the specs and features of his three favorite Fender basses - two Fender Custom Shop versions of his signature model and the original sleek black '72 Jazz Bass that he used for years.