Roger Waters Slams 'Rogues And Thieves' That Ruined Music

King attended an awards ceremony the day Hanneman passed away from alcohol-related disease in May 2013. He told the crowd: "Jeff f***ing Hanneman, he played in Slayer. He does not want a moment of silence. Jeff wants a moment of f***ing noise." Then he invited them to "tip one back to our fallen brother."

Now King tells Loudwire (via Blabbermouth): "I knew he was in the hospital, I knew he was in bad shape, but nobody thought he was in that bad a shape, 'cause nobody raced to get out there. And then, you know, he was gone. And I had rehearsal that day, I had [to appear at the Revolver] Golden Gods [show in Los Angeles], where people gave me sh*t for not f***ing blubbering on mic. But it's a celebration, even in death."

The bassist and his Crue bandmates are putting the band to bed with a world tour that ends on New Year's Eve in Los Angeles. And after taking a month off, Sixx will get to work on Sixx AM's fourth album and put in place plans to tour the world with guitarist DJ Ashba and frontman James Michael.

And Sixx is so excited by the possibilities that lie ahead, he has vowed never to play Motley Crue songs as part of a Sixx AM set. Sixx tells Riff You: "We don't play Motley Crue music and we never will play Motley Crue music.

"The day Motley Crue plays its last show, I will never play another Motley Crue song again� even if it's one I wrote. To be respectful to Motley Crue is the biggest gift I can give to fans.

In addition to Slick, McCarty also recruited bassist Kenny Aaronson (Bob Dylan, Billy Idol, Brian Setzer, Mick Taylor), Myke Scavone (Ram Jam & Doughboys) on blues harp, vocals, and percussion, and guitarist/singer John Idan.

The tour will be kicking off on September 30th in Los Angeles at the Fonda Theater and will wrap up on October 30th in Albuquerque, NM at the Sunshine Theater.

Soulfly frontman Max Cavalera had this to say about the trek, "This is a great package and brutal lineup. I personally am a fan of all these bands and it's an honor to have them touring with us! See you in the pit!"

Soilwork's Dirk Verbeuren says, "We're beyond excited to tour North America alongside Soulfly, Decapitated and Shattered Sun. Is that a kick ass package or what? We'll be debuting material off our upcoming tenth album as well, so don't miss us when we come through your town!"

Shattered Sun frontman Marcos Leal shared his excitement, "We are beyond ecstatic to announce this tour with Soulfly, Decapitated, and Soilwork. Our love for these bands go back to the days we first decided to pick up instruments, from all the way back to the Sepultura days with Max and the first time we picked up a copy of Natural Born Chaos by Soilwork.

DeVries explained his decision in the following message to fans, "For those that haven't already heard, I've decided to step down as bass player of Fear Factory. The main reason being to simply take some time off of the road and focus on my kids. I couldn't think of anyone better to take my place then Tony Campos. He's a good friend and great bass player!

"Thank you to all Fear Factory fans. You guys have been amazing and made the past three years a blast! Thank you as well to Dino, Burt, and Mike for a great ride, and some memorable / incredible shows! None of which could have happened without our amazing road crew, Wedge, Jerry, Justin, Sarah� you guys rule! Music is my passion, so this won't be the last time you see me."

Campos left his spot in Soulfly to join Fear Factory. Here is what he had to say, "Big announcement time. Now that I'm back out on the road with Ministry, I can go ahead and tell you all what's going on without confusing everyone (hopefully). After I'm done with this Ministry run, I will begin playing bass for Fear Factory.

"This is the gig I wanted when Static-X was falling apart, and I'm really excited that I finally get to do it. My first show with them will be at Amnesia Rock Fest on June 20th, the day after I play with Ministry at Amnesia Rock Fest.

"It is a very Americana, fun summer song that reminds me how much I love music with a sublime video feel of hanging with the fans," says Michaels. "I wrote this song with my good friend and fellow Pennsylvanian, Luke Laird, who is a Grammy Award-winning songwriter of hits like Little Big Town's 'Pontoon', Eric Church's 'Talledega' and Luke Bryan's 'I See You.'"

"True Grit" features guest appearances by Lynyrd Skynyrd's Gary Rossington and Rickey Medlocke, Jimmy Buffett, Rascal Flatts and Loretta Lynn.

According to an interview with the last original member of the group, guitarist Gary Rossington, at Billboard, after the band was approached with a couple of offers, they decided to work on another full-length.

"We've been offered a couple deals," Rossington told Billboard. "The record business is so different now, but they want us to do a new album with new material and we're gonna do it.

"That's only the second time we've every played that song," announced singer Alex Gaskarth afterward. Massive blink-182 fans with tattoos to prove it, All Time Low tried for many years to Hoppus on one of their songs.

UMe sent over these details about the film, " Brett Morgen who wrote, directed and produced the documentary began working on it in 2007 when Cobain's family approached him with the idea and offered him unrestricted access to all of Cobain's personal and family archives.

"The documentary features Cobain and Courtney Love's only daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, as a co-executive producer on the film and includes footage from various Nirvana performances and unheard songs, as well as unreleased home movies, recordings, artwork, photography, journals, demos, and songbooks.

The tour is currently scheduled to kick off on July 25th with a performance at the Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle, WA and conclude on September 27th at the Landmark Festival in Washington, DC.

The appearance marks the group's return to the NBC late night program since they were forced to postpone a week-long residency following a serious bicycle accident involving Bono in Central Park last November.

Sult tells Metal Titans: "We were on several different labels over the years, and we just decided we were completely sick and tired of dealing with record companies. And in 2008, we decided to just set out on our own and never looked back. And it's probably the best thing we've ever done for our career.

"Earth Rocker came out on our own label; that was the second Clutch studio album that we've put out on our own label. And since that time we've been lucky enough to get back the rights to our three previous studio albums, and also an album called Jam Room as well.

In an interview with May The Rock Be With You, Hale said the band had a different concept of 'heavy' thing time around. "When we were talking about making songs heavier, it didn't necessarily mean stacks of Mesa Boogies and a lot of crunch and layers and walls of guitars," she said.

"It means the weightiness of the heaviness, the Sabbath, the Zeppelin and I guess the Judas Priest aspect." It also meant there were only two rules in place for the recording: "we're not going to record the record in the same way that we did the last two, and is it good or not?"

Lifeson remembers, "All of our early albums were written on acoustic guitar. When Geddy [Lee, bass and vocals] and I would write the music, we'd sit down with a cassette recorder and two acoustic guitars, in spite of the fact that we were a hard rock band.

"Closer to the Heart" is a sweet, ballady type of song, but we mix it up. It takes an interesting course as the arrangement builds. Once we got the basic arrangement down, we knew that the intro would be acoustic, and then we took it up a notch dynamically and brought the whole band in.

In the early '00s, we all got a bit of TMI courtesy of Ozzy's family, courtesy of MTV's smash-hit reality show, The Osbournes. But in this interview from a decade earlier, Ozzy gave a bit of insight into his private life, including a bit of the dynamic between him and his wife/manager Sharon.

In the interview, Ozzy begins talking about his poor penmanship when signing autographs, but the conversation then veered to his sobriety. "That's the hardest thing about keeping sober, I used to have a few cans to mellow out." Without a few brews in his system, he said, "I'm a terminal insomniac," even though he'd also drastically reduced his coffee intake. "I'm on the edge all the time."