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The frontman says he, his wife and son were welcomed to stay at the Bon Jovi family home and Jon gave him his old stage clothes, adding: "He literally gave me the shirt off his back."

But Skid Row's growing popularity when opening for Bon Jovi on their 1989 tour soon caused relations to sour. As Skid Row's t-shirts began to outsell Bon Jovi's, the headliners took Bach to task for swearing on stage.

Bach says he was "summoned into Jon's room," where, he adds, "Jon stared me down and said the words, 'I'll f***ing own you.'" He also recalls heading to the stage in Kentucky's Rupp Arena when Bon Jovi's road crew grabbed him, secured his hands and "poured a vat of freezing cold ice milk" over his head. He ran on to the stage and hit out at his tourmate in between songs, calling him "Bon Blow-me."

After the show, Bach says: "We saw about 60 people coming toward us. Leading the pack was Jon Bon Jovi himself. Flanking him was his dad and his brother Tony. Behind them was the full Bon Jovi road crew."

According to Bach, Bon Jovi said to him, "I heard what you said on my stage, motherf***er," and then threw a punch, which Bach ducked. Bach was then marched by the road crew into his dressing room and held against a concrete wall, as Bon Jovi Senior pointed in his face.

Directed by Beth Jeans Houghton, who worked with chief animator Joseph Brett, the video finds a young Australian girl falling prey to Hollywood's image on TV. She quickly ditches her suburban digs and flies off to find fame and fortune on the California coast, but she quickly discovers everything is not quite what it seems.

What follows is a trippy, twisted visual about the divide between image and reality. News anchors spout off the day's top events before vomiting green bile on one another, parties full of posh people turn into monstrous nightmares, devils haunt everyone's shoulders and offer bad ideas, and, oh yeah, Anthony Kiedis gets busy with a giant spider who eventually rips his head off. Watch it

Hammett says he has empathy for Mustaine's situation and adds that he believes some of the wounds were healed when Mustaine joined Metallica onstage at the Fillmore in San Francisco in 2011 to celebrate the band's 30th anniversary.

Hammett tells Word Of Wheeler (via Blabbermouth): "I've always shown a lot of empathy for him, understanding that he was just pissed off. It's the equivalent of the woman of your life leaving you, when your band kicks you out. I've never been kicked out, but I can imagine it's a horrible experience, especially if it's a band that you feel really passionately about.

"So I can understand Dave's plight over all these years. But I will also say that when we did these 30th-anniversary shows at the Fillmore and we invited Dave to play on all those Kill 'Em All songs, man, it felt so good to have him playing on stage."

The expanded album reissue is set to be released on December 16th. They will be offering the title digitally and via streaming services as well as in 2 LP black and gold mixed vinyl version.

It was commissioned after fans and friends contributed to a fundraising campaign following Lemmy's death last December. Motorhead's longtime manager Todd Singerman said at the unveiling: "I look at him no differently than Johnny Cash, the Beatles and so on. He was real. He didn't bullsh*t. The way he went on stage was the way he was at home. Go find that today."

Frontman Todd La Torre had the following to say, "'Hellfire' is a depiction primarily based on the tragic events surrounding the Malaysian airline flight MH17. Despite the storyline's foundation, the lyrical and visual narrative transcends into other pertinent, global subject matters.

"Civil unrest, guerrilla warfare, media propaganda, and social inequalities are just some examples of the multifaceted issues marbled throughout 'Hellfire'. A poignant illustration of an unfortunate yet timeless reality." Watch the video

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The three-day festival will feature headline sets from NOFX, The Used, Bad Religion as well as performances from The Vandals, Pennywise, Glassjaw, Story of the Year, Lagwagon, A Wilhelm Scream and more

The band performed at a triumphant sell-out show at London's The Forum and head of to Europe for some dates in Holland and France. They announced plans to headline the prestigious London venue for the very first time last week. Tickets went on sale at noon on Monday (Dec 5), selling out within the hour.

The festival, which will be staged at JetBlue Park, will include two stages featuring over 25 bands including The Offspring, Mastodon, Chevelle, Seether, Papa Roach, Three Days Grace, Alter Bridge, The Pretty Reckless, Eagles of Death Metal, Highly Suspect, In Flames, In This Moment, Motionless In White, All That Remains, Nothing More, Beartooth, Starset, I Prevail, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Goodbye June, Cover Your Tracks, with more bands still to be announced.

Chevelle's Pete Loeffler had the following to say, "Fort Rock festival is coming again guys! Hailing from Chicago, IL, we always look forward to heading down south to Florida to warm up, stretch our legs and hopefully still head bang our way right into, or right through your hearts! Yes indeed, we will see you soon!"

In the video , Anderson explains how he encountered violinists Matthew Denton and Michelle Fleming, violist Eoin Schmidt-Martin and cellist Emma Denton via a "rather unlikely" contact, and how he went about "putting them to the test" creating "quite authentic classical-style arrangements."

Anderson also says: "A couple of years ago I came up with the idea of recording a dedicated string quartet album in a contemporary but classical setting, with brief appearances from myself.

But as he nears "the end" of his music career, Townshend says performing to younger crowds has given him a new lease of life. He tells Rolling Stone: "For me, the last five weeks of the tour we did, before we came to California to do Desert Trip, everything felt very different. I'm notorious for being, I suppose the word is blas�, but also a bit diffident about performing.

"We'll do a good show and afterwards, people will say, 'Were you having fun?' And I'll say, 'No, not really.' They'll say, 'Isn't it great?' And I'll say, 'Well, glad you think so but it's just what I do.' That kind of thing.

"I'm a little bit detached and I put it down to the way that I grew up. My dad was in a band, and I grew up on the road with my dad, and I feel safe on the road. I don't get nervous on the road. I get a little bored on the road. I don't have a lot of hose kind of starry buzzes that a lot of people get when they perform.

A talent buyer from the city's Thalia Hall delivered the news to the band, saying Chicago had experienced record levels of gun-related crime this year. They say they made the call after receiving several complaints from locals over the Flint band's scheduled appearance.

But Gunn says firearms are part of the band's "culture" - and they won't be going anywhere. He says: "The gun thing's part of the culture where we're from, it's inherently part of the band. It's not something we apologise for or regret or anything like that. I don't think there was any excessive use of guns, we've never used guns on anyone at shows, we've had hundreds of shows and they went off perfectly fine.

"Excessive use of guns to me is something like what happened with Dimebag, or just this year what happened in Paris - that's excessive use of guns. Guns are a part of our lives and we're not going to be caught in those types of situations.

Scrape Across The Sky also features over three hours of extra features, including encores of Ten Million Demons and Widow's Peak, all the live projections the band use accompanied by the live audio, Until The End recorded at Lorelei's Night Of The Prog festival in 2014.

It also include a photo gallery, and vocalist Peter Nicholls in conversation with the band's graphic artist Tony Lythgoe. The Blu-ray has been produced by Michael Holmes and engineered by Rob Aubrey.

Ranging from the hypnotic opener Worlds Of Yesterday to the wistful climax of Distant Summers, via the thrilling rage of Kill The Pain That's Killing You and the orchestral expanse of You'll Be The Silence, the album features some stunning solos and harmonically rich compositions that represent Bowness's most musically ambitious work to date.

Lyrically, the album addresses how the era of streaming and ageing audiences affects creativity, how a life devoted to music impacts on real/family life, and how idealistic beginnings can become compromised by complacency and the fear of being replaced by younger, more vital artists. Tim elaborates: "It all started with me seeing a sixty something jogger in an expensive tracksuit rifling through the vegetable racks at my local Co-Op. His intense glare combined with his thinning long grey hair and Mick Fleetwood beard left me wondering which veteran rock band he'd once played with. This got me thinking about the moment when music first came into this person's life and whether it still informed his music making in the present.

It's a far cry from hitting the road with Iron Maiden, who used a customised jumbo jet for this year's The Book Of Souls world tour.

But he argues that there are other advantages to playing smaller venues with his side-project, who plan to release a live album and a second studio album during 2017.

Harris tells Planet Rock: "The bus is great - apart from all the snoring. When the bus stops I can't deal with that, I've got to say.

"But that's the only downside, really. I do like being on the bus, and the meet-and-greet with fans. It's nice to see people so happy in a photo with you and all that.

The album is said to be "darker" than their first outing and "picks up from where the first album left off, with its examination of societal control mechanisms, and looks at the inevitable outcomes should we continue down dark, dogmatic pathways."

Mainman Nick Beggs adds: "I know I'm not the only person who feels the way I do. Other people understand the state of the world and what's at stake as we make one terrifyingly bad decision after an other.

Ginger says: "Ironically I struggled even getting to the studio to record my parts for this single, deep as I was in my current battle with depression. The same attack that almost killed me a week ago.

"My depression wants me dead. So far I'm winning on weight advantage, but the battle is never over. This is a very vulnerable time of year for sufferers of mental health issues, and suicide sees a marked increase over Christmas and New Year. So the help provided by The Samaritans is invaluable, especially over this period.

The promo was shot in various locations across the UK, with mainman Jem Godfrey reporting they wanted to capture their summer live dates in the video.

He says: "What's a quick and easy way to shoot a video? Take a couple of Go-Pros to a couple of gigs and film what happens! This is the fusion of our little turn on the Prog Stage at Ramblin' Man in Kent in the summer and also our debut at Thekla in Bristol.

"There's a bit of our rehearsals in there too to prove that we do indeed rehearse from time to time. A nice little memory of summer to keep us warm this winter."

Following Steve Walsh's departure in 2014 the band regrouped with new singer Ronnie Platt (ex-Shooting Star), keyboard player David Manion and guitarist Zack Rizvi. They join long-standing Kanses members Phil heart (drums), Rich Williams (guitar), Billy Greer (bass) and Dave Ragsdale (violin).