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David Gilmour Combines Pink Floyd Classic With 'Purple Rain'

The initial dates for the Fall Arena Rock Tour have been announced and the trek is currently scheduled to kick off on October 18th in Little Rock, AR at Verizon Arena and the tour is expected to run through December once all of the dates are revealed.

Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Zoltan Bathory had this to say about the trek: "I wanted to give you a brilliant quote about trying to keep rock music alive by assembling bills that can sell out arenas where everyone can have the production rock shows deserve, or bringing out new talented bands and expose them to huge crowds... or about rebuilding a community with the help of rock radio, and donating to good causes while we are at it... but we are so busy doing it that I ran out of quotes".

The show is part of the band's Rock Or Bust world tour and will feature Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose on lead vocals after Brian Johnson was ordered to stop touring or risk going deaf.

Polish Iron Maiden fan club SanktuariuM reports the band performed the standard setlist from "The Book of Souls" world tour, but the show did feature a few changes.

From a production standpoint, there were no pyrotechnics during the concert and the band members were reportedly not allowed to throw items like wristbands and drumsticks into the crowd.

Iron Maiden did, however, make some minor alterations to their content: during "The Trooper", frontman Bruce Dickinson did not wave the Union Jack flag as usual, and he changed a line in the title track to 1984's "Powerslave" - "Tell me why I had to be a Powerslave" was presented as "Tell me why I had to be a Wicker Man."

Frehley had the following to say about working with Stanley again, "It was great working with Paul again and all the years we've spent apart doing other projects seemed to vanish once we hit the stage!"

And the band have successfully argued for the repression of evidence that was to be used against them when the jury trial begins in California on May 10. The legal action centers on whether Led Zeppelin plagiarized 1967 Spirit track Taurus in the opening section of Stairway, which was released four years later and followed the bands touring the US together.

Page and Plant have both recorded depositions that will be presented to the court, assuming that no settlement is reached before the case commences next month. Bandmate John Paul Jones was excluded from the case during Klausner's pre-trial ruling.

Lawyers representing the estate of late Spirit guitarist Randy California this week submitted a list of various Taurus recordings that they believe reinforce their position.

Manufacturer C&C Drums restored the kit after it was sent to them by staff at the Paris Bataclan venue. EODM were on stage at the venue when extremist terrorists burst in and killed 89 people on November 13 last year.

C&C Drums had the kit blessed by a priest before returning it to Dorio. Dorio says: "After five months the kit I was playing on November 13 in Paris has returned to me. There was a time when I never wanted to see it again but I just couldn't let this instrument be thrown away.

Frontman Matt Tuck is featured discussing the Ice Cold Gig event, which saw him performing continuously during a skydive, a speedboat ride and a sled drive.

Tuck says in the video: "The point of the whole gig is a celebration of what I do, and an opportunity to get my friends involved in a once-in-a-lifetime trip."

Sixx AM - who issue their second album Prayer For The Damned on April 29 - say: "We are a lucky band, grateful to have all had success prior to the creation of Sixx AM.

"We have always been vocal about artists' rights. We stood with Taylor Swift when she spoke up about the absence of royalty payments to artists by Apple Music.

"We chose today to speak up about how YouTube unfairly pays artists and labels an estimated 1/6 of what it's competitors Spotify and Apple pay and why this must be addressed.

The book is described as "the first book telling Iggy Pop's story of the Stooges from his own words. Grammy winning editor and avid music historian Jeff Gold spent two days at the rock legend's home sharing pictures and memorabilia from his collection."

According to a press release the song was inspired by last fall's Paris terrorist attacks, and is the hypothetical story of two friends attending the fateful Eagles of Death Metal show and their attempt to save each other.

He planned to release the album this month but says in an update that he hopes to have it out in August. Wilson says: "There have been some delays in post-production due to personal matters. Unfortunately, this means that the album has been delayed by a few months. At the moment we're looking at an August release."

Periphery III: Select Difficulty follows the twin releases Juggernaut: Alpha and Juggernaut: Omega last year, and that followed 2012's Periphery II: This Time It's Personal.

Guitarist Jake Bowen says: "For the past couple of years we've been refining our collaborative process, and we feel it's only getting better with the completion of this album.

"We spent two months writing songs that are not only representative of the Periphery sound, but also reflect where all of us are as musicians. Working together has helped us tread new ground musically and creatively."

Hackett says: "When Inside Out told me that I could film a gig on the British leg of the 2015 tour for release, I thought that we should do it away from London and I felt doing it in Liverpool had a certain ring to it.

Loureiro tells WSOU: "People are always asking, 'How is it to work with Mustaine?' He has this reputation because sometimes he says stuff that people don't agree with. But to be honest, Dave, he's just a super gentleman.

"When I met him the first time, when I was kind of auditioning, we just hung for a day in Nashville. He was showing me Nashville - we had lunch, we had coffee, beer at night.

Prospect Park say 5FDP signed a four-album contract in December 2012. Recording for the fourth album was to start this June. According to Courthouse News Service, when Prospect Park asked the band for two masters for a greatest hits record, the band refused and insisted on using a different producer "out of concern for lead vocalist Ivan Moody."

It was recorded during Opeth's show at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on September 25, 2003, during which they performed the album Damnation in full.

Rose will be fronting the group for the remaining dates on their Rock Or Bust tour after Brian Johnson was advised by doctors to stop performing immediately or risk total hearing loss.

AC/DC's European shows with Rose will begin May 7 in Lisbon, Portugal. TMZ touched base with Rose on AC/DC at LAX and asked him about Guns N' Roses recent pair of headlining sets at Coachella.

Speaking about their upcoming set on the main stage, frontman Jason Mendonca says: "Akercocke have returned after five years absence from the live circuit. We are reinvigorated by the return of our original guitarist Paul Scanlan and the ranks are completed by Dam frontman Nathanael Underwood on bass guitar.

They'll play seven shows in the UK and Ireland, including two gigs on the same day - July 23 - at Ramblin Man Fair where they will be onstage at around 2pm and later that night at the Ebbw Vale Steelhouse Festival, with a 10.30pm stage time.

"As you can see I'm sporting shades today," Papa Emeritus III told the audience. "It's because I have an eye infection. Come see us in the fall and I will not wear them and you will have the full eye experience."

The band also performed "He Is" from their latest release "Meliora", and a cover of Roky Erickson's "If You Have Ghosts" from their 2013 Dave Grohl-produced EP of the same name.

In February, Ghost were honored for "Meliora" with their first Grammy Award in the Best Metal Performance category for the single, "Cirice", and a Swedish Grammis Award for the "Best Hard Rock/Metal Album" of the year.

The band say of the record: "It captures a moment in time where our adoration for the power of music, with all its subtle imperfections, combined with a welcoming audience, create an experience that will never occur again.

Bassist Kyle Fasel says: "Scared To Be Alone was a song that stood out to us very early on. I remember when we wrote it, the song just hit me. It didn't sound like any of our other songs, yet it still sounded right for us. We tried a different approach in the beginning of the song with a darker sound. And then in the chorus we totally dug into our Jimmy Eat World influence.

And now the group has added further shows in Europe, with extra performances scheduled this summer in Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and the UK.

The follow-up to 2014 debut Boo Hoo Hoo is produced by Ben Kaplan, who has worked with artists including Biffy Clyro, Shakira, Gallows, Rise Against and Atreyu.

Singer Colleen Rennison previously said: "I live and breathe rock'n'roll. It's a disease to want to push the envelope, to be an enemy to yourself at times, to want so much from the world that sometimes you can't even stand to be in it.

Both tracks feature on the band's upcoming fourth album entitled Profit, out on May 27 via Mascot Label Group. Tabor said of the album: "There really is no Jelly Jam 'sound.' In order to make Profit the strongest album, we recorded a lot of excess music and chose songs that work together towards the general story idea.