Van Halen's David Lee Roth Questions Sammy Hagar's Credibility

With McKagan on bass and Novoselic on accordion, the pair teamed up to deliver an instrumental take on the 1998 US No. 1 Guns N' Roses hit at the city's Neptune Theatre.

The former Guns N' Roses bassist hosted the evening as a release party for his new book, "How To Be A Man (And Other Illusions)", joining Novoselic for an extended interview/conversation while also holding a book signing for the attendees.

The book sees McKagan share wisdom he gained through his years with Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver to getting sober after a life of hard living, going on to a successful marriage and a balanced life as a musician and a father.

In an interview with KROQ's Kevin and Bean on Monday morning, Bono said that the show will be one of their smallest in such a theater in nearly four decades.

'Roxy's this kind of legend, and all these extraordinary artists have played there--people who are really important to us like Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen," he said. "I saw Iggy Pop there, which is mind-blowing' So, you organized it for us. And thank you."

'The opening line of 'Mercy'--Help me I've fallen on the inside'--is a reference to the protagonist knowing and recognizing that they have lost something, they have lost themselves," Bellamy said with the song's release in a press statement. "This is where they realize they're being overcome by the dark forces that were introduced in 'Psycho.'"

This song follows the aforementioned "Psycho" and "Dead Inside" in advance of the June 9 release date for Drones. If Bellamy's above quote makes the album sound like it has a specific concept in mind, that's because it does.

The show at The Record Connection in Niles, Ohio saw the band deliver a 9-song set that included three tracks featured on "Songs From The Laundry Room", a collection of early demos that was released on 10-inch vinyl as part of the annual event that celebrates independently-owned record stores in the USA and internationally.

Head Foo Fighter Dave Grohl also served as the 2015 Record Story Day Ambassador. Following the record store appearance, the Foo Fighters attended the 30th annual Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony in Cleveland, with Grohl sitting in to perform with Joan Jett as part of her induction a year after she joined Nirvana for their 2014 honor.

Backed by Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra, Vedder delivered an intense performance of Pearl Jam's 1994 track, "Better Man", as a send-off to the host ahead of his final broadcast on Wednesday, May 20 after more than three decades in late night television.

Vedder broke a guitar string in mid-song on the track, which appeared on the group's third album, "Vitalogy." Pearl Jam are currently on a break from their world tour in support of 2014's "Lightning Bolt."

Miller writes: "Growing up in Texas in a family of musicians and having a father who was a part time recording engineer exposed me to the blues at a very early age. It quickly became my favorite music. I met T bone Walker when I was eight years old. He taught me how to play lead melodies, play the guitar behind my head and do the splits all at the same time. Later when I got to know BB and had given him copies of recordings my father had made of T Bone in 1951, BB told me T Bone was one of his most important influences and had been the 'Bridge from Blues to Jazz' and had inspired BB's complex arrangements.

"By the time I was 14 years old I had my own band and we were backing up Jimmy Reed at gigs in Dallas. In the mid 60's I was jamming in Chicago with Muddy Waters, James Cotton and Howlin' Wolf and was playing rhythm guitar for Buddy Guy when I finally decided to head West and seek my fortune and start The Steve Miller Blues Band.

"By the late 60's T Bone Walker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Freddy King, Jimmy Reed, Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters and BB King were considered by all musicians to be the best active Blues players in the world. When I was 23 I had played with all of them but BB King.

"In February 1967 Bill Graham called and told me he had just booked BB at the Fillmore West and wanted my Blues band to open for him. I jumped at the chance. We headed over to the Fillmore and set up our equipment and waited to watch BB sound check. His band was amazing and his drummer Sonny Freeman was the greatest shuffle drummer I had ever heard but there wasn't a chance to meet BB personally. Just before the show started we took the stage when BB's assistant came out with BB's guitar and started walking around with it as we were starting to open the show. It's an old headliner blues trick used to upstage the openers by exciting the audience and I was pretty annoyed. It's sort of like disrespecting a fellow musician by saying ' Lets have a big hand for�.what's your name?' Well BB's guy finally found a place right behind me on the stage where my spot light lit up BB's guitar.

"As I remember it the guitar got a bigger round of applause than our entire band did. Well we started the set and we were going over pretty well and almost through when I broke a string. This was way before the days of guitar roadies and extra guitars and I thought to myself 'Well you put your guitar on my stage during my set, I'm gonna use it.' So without thinking it over very carefully I picked up BB's guitar, plugged it in and tried to play it. It turned out he had the thinest gauged strings and most delicate set up I had ever seen. The first note I tried knocked the two high strings immediately off the bridge of his guitar and I was in total shock at what I had just done. I quickly put them back in place but I was so freaked at what I had just done and afraid I had messed up 'Lucille' I quickly finished our set and put BB's guitar back on his stand. Turned out no one from BB Kings group was watching us and they never said a word about it and later after I was invited to Jam with BB and he was gracious and great to me, it was that jive guitar tech.

"Many years later BB and his Band were playing at club in Sun Valley and I went over to see him. It was a very crowded night and I was on the front row when BB came out and opened the show. He sounded great and was singing a verse and answering with lead guitar when he broke a string. I was looking right at him, he never acknowledge anything had happened and kept looking straight ahead smiling and singing while he removed the broken string, reached into his pocket pulled out a new string without looking, unwrapped it, mounted it on the bridge, and fed it through the peg head, wound up the string and finished the job just in time to play his lead solo. He never let on that he had broken a string or that anything unusual had happened and I think I was the only person in the club who understood what had just happened.

"I did get to play with BB and he was always generous, kind and inspirational. Thank you BB for all the great music, inspiration and friendship you gave to all the guitar players in the world. We are in Memphis playing here tonight and of course the evening will be dedicated to the Great BB King. We are sure going to miss you. RIP"

Consequence Of Sound reports the show at Seattle's Crocodile on June 14 has been set up to highlight the influence music from the Mississippi Delta had on the Seattle grunge scene in the early 90s.

Jasta explained the plans during an interview on the Full Metal Jackie's radio show this weekend. Here is what he had to say (via Loudwire): "Well, we are going to start writing in October. That's kinda of the game plan. We were going to try it sooner then we got offered this Slipknot arena tour, and then we got offered festivals in July in Europe, and some festivals in the states and Canada in June.

"It's like as soon as you are ready to get out they are ready to pull you back in. It is a good problem to have. It's like here is still demand in the live setting, so that is cool.

It features seven tracks pressed on red, green and blue vinyl and is presented with a holographic gatefold foil jacket. It's available to purchase now via Cleopatra while a digital version is available through iTunes.

The albums features a number of well-known players including former Black Sabbath vocalist Tony Martin, former Black Sabbath/Dio/Heaven & Hell drummer Vinnie Appice, bassist Hugh McDonald (Bon Jovi, Alice Cooper), Boston guitarist Barry Goudreau and vocalist Mark Boals (Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force.).

He tells TeamRock Radio's Metal Hammer Magazine Show: "I was adopted when I was three-years-old. My stepfather and my mom raised me really well. I owe a lot of my success to my stepdad who always taught me perseverance and responsibility."

Harrison played the Maton at nearly a dozen concerts during July and August 1963. It was eventually returned to Barratt's and later sold to Dave Berry and the Cruisers guitarist Roy Barber.

The title follows last year's The Final Breath Before November - and they say there's another release to come afterwards. Edison's Children report: "With the anticipation of a new Marillion album on the horizon, we're going to hold back for a short while on our next concept album. To hold you over until the next epic is complete, we present our 'bridge album,' to take you from our last epic to our next."

The song appears on upcoming Lamb Of God album VII:Sturm Und Drang, announced last week. Blythe tells Rolling Stone: "There was a guillotine right down the hall from me, from when the Nazis had the prison. From 1943 to 1945 they executed almost 2000 people by guillotine - because it was cheaper than shooting and quicker than hanging.

"They call it the saw room or the axe room. I sat there at night and I'd think about all those dudes that got their heads chopped off, men and women, in that place not too far from me."

Frontman Mick Jagger reveals he begins practicing his singing a month before hitting the road. "After a few weeks I do karaoke," he says, "But not in a smoke-filled room."

Responding to a question about pre-show nerves he explains: "I don't really get nervous, I get excited. Before the first show of a tour sometimes I get anxious. Anything can go wrong, there's things than can happen. But I'm not really nervous."

Rhoads signed up with Ozzy in 1979 after leaving Quiet Riot, while Banali didn't become a member until the following year. The drummer tells That Metal Show: "I was in a three-piece band called Monarch and we were playing the same circuit. We actually played with Quiet Riot a few times.

"When Randy went to audition for Ozzy, afterwards he calls me up and goes, 'You want to come and play with this guy?' "I said, 'The guy from Black Sabbath? Okay. I don't have a car.' He goes, 'I'll pick you up.'"

"We set a pretty high standard with our previous release," says Gunnar Nelson. "That record received by far the most critical acclaim of any Nelson record to date. Peace Out was expected to be even better, so the so the goal was to push ourselves to the very limit-past what we believed we could do.

Mainman Dave Cureton tells Prog: "The character played by Linda Odinsen is walking around searching for a better place, a better world. She's representing that sometimes you feel alone in this world when things go bad, but there's always a light at the end of the tunnel - there will be people around you that'll help and support you to get where you want to be."

He tells the Metal Hammer Radio Show at Rock On The Range: "There's a song we've been playing on the last two tours called Supernova. You knew about it a little bit at school but actually going into it is really interesting. Trying to bring those characteristics of a supernova to a kind of romantic song and a somewhat metaphorical song was a lot of fun. I think it worked well."

Flynn tells Wikimetal: "I am not a role model at all. When I write, the things I write are always personal. I'm not running for office. I observe these things. The role of an artist isn't to be a role model. The role is to hold up a mirror to society.

"Sometimes you reflect beauty, love and those amazing things - sometimes you reflect the darker side of life. Being in a metal band, we choose to reflect the darker side a lot more often."

Staples tells Rolling Stone: "Being in The Last Waltz was the most beautiful thing that ever happened to the Staples Singers. I still can't get offstage without doing The Weight. We were already close friends with The Band by then, with Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson and Rick Danko. Danko would keep you laughing! He was really cool."

Pen tells Prog: "It's so easy to slip into the darkness in the modern world. It's like Alice In Wonderland, where you're falling into the rabbit hole and it's all spiralling out of control - but all you want to do is go home and be safe."

He was partly inspired by reading about explorers in isolation. "I started just thinking about how we can go slightly crazy if we push ourselves to do things," he says. "Everybody seems to want to break free in their own way. Creating that atmosphere in the album was something I really enjoyed."

Michael Jackson always had a knack for finding great lead guitar players when he wanted to rock out a bit on a single. On 1982's Thriller, he used Eddie Van Halen on "Beat It." On the follow up, 1987's Bad he called on Billy Idol's axe-man Steve Stevens for "Dirty Diana." And, by the '90s, there was no guitarist hotter than Guns N Roses' Slash. And so it was that Slash got a call from the King of Pop while he was staying in the famed "Riot House" aka the Hyatt on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.

The song that Slash played on the album was "Give In To Me." He also provided some guitar noise on "Black Or White," but didn't play on the song, contrary to popular belief. But Jackson and Slash hit it off, and the guitarist even hit the road with him for a short time.

The new album is inspired by the band's home town. "Detroit is a city commonly portrayed as the underdog to most of the world," say the band. "We were discarded by many when the sh*t hit the fan, but through hard work, passion and determination we strive to rise again. Right to Rise, though written to mirror our beautiful city, is an album that we feel encompasses rock'n'roll in the current climate of the industry. It's for all the underdogs out there with their sleeves rolled up and their blue jeans on."

This song was birthed out of an incident. While on the road playing bass for a band, I decided to gamble at the Hollywood Casino in Toledo, Ohio. While in the Casino I got a call from my girlfriend. We were catching up on my trip and the talking started turning into arguing, which then turned into fighting. The fighting got intense; it was a parking lot conversation.

So here I am desperately trying to find the exit of this Casino that is designed to keep you inside and distracted while I'm fighting on the phone with someone who can clearly hear all the commotion around me. I mean there were slot machines, roulette tables, people screaming and crying, but there was no way out. The thing about Casinos is that they don't want you to leave. It was so bizarre. We tried to make the weirdness of the song (especially the synth driven bridge) mimic that frantic noisy exit attempt.