Today's Day in Rock Stories

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Blackmore was asked during an interview with Dutch radio station Radio Veronica if he had received any more offers for new shows following the limited run of special Rainbow shows earlier this summer.

He responded (via Blabbermouth), "Yes. Many. But I wanted to see how the three went. If they were disastrous and we had accepted more, it was gonna be awkward. We might do a few more shows again."

Blackmore was also asked if it was difficult to come up with the set lists for the recent Rainbow show and he responded, "No. [It was] very easy, in a way. We had about fifteen songs that were very obvious songs to play, like 'Catch The Rainbow'. And we incorporated a few Deep Purple songs - 'Black Night', 'Smoke [On The Water]', 'Highway Star' - of which some of the fans said, 'Why did you do those Deep Purple songs?'

Organizers reported via their Facebook page that they called for an ambulance and Ellefson was transported to St. Pantaleon hospital for treatment, where his foot was put into the cast.

The post says that frontman Dave Mustaine took to the stage to break the news to fans at the event. Mustaine also reportedly posted an update via Periscope, according to a tweet from @MandatoryMetal1, saying that Ellefson broke his foot backstage.

Led Zeppelin won the case last month after a jury found that they did not borrow the iconic song's opening from the 1968 instrumental "Taurus" by the band Spirit.

Ozzy was asked about the case by Rolling Stone and shared his strong reaction to the case. "It's f***ing crazy, actually," he said. "That should have never gone to court.

"I heard the original thing, and there's just a slight similarity. It's like saying any f***ing song with that kind of a guitar on it is a rip-off. It's not fair. There's only so many f***ing notes on a guitar, and it wasn't that much like 'Stairway to Heaven.' I'm amazed it lasted so f***ing long, you know?"

"You listen to 'All Right Now' by Free and you listen to Steve Miller's 'Rock'n Me,' and it's exactly the same riff and they haven't sued each other, It's exactly the same."

Osbourne went on to praise Led Zeppelin and concluded with "They don't deserve it. It's like, do you honestly think they'll sit there and go, 'Oh, we'll steal this and change it a bit like this so it sells.' F***. Give me a break. The song that was played was kind of a bit similar but it was only the chord sequence."

Legendary guitarist Jeff Beck also shared similar views in an interview with Billboard. "I had to smirk because I knew that Jimmy and Robert would come out on top," Beck said. "Apparently you can't copyright a chord sequence. It has to have a lyric or some kind of a meaningful melody to be copyrighted. And it is a chord sequence which has been used loads of times, but not in such an iconic way.

The five-night festival (July 16-20) was set to feature sets from Robert Plant & the Sensational Shape Shifters, the James Hunter Six, George Clinton, Snarky Puppy, Laura Mvula, Massive Attack, Gallant, the Cinematic Orchestra, Youssou N' Dour and a dozen others, reported Billboard.

The group features Anselmo (Pantera, Down, Superjoint), John Jarvis (Pig Destroyer), Derek Engemann (Cattle Decapitation), Chase Fraser (Continuum, ex-Animosity, Decrepit Birth), and Jesse Schobel (Strong Intention).

Anselmo had this to say about the album, "Doing the Scour project was a blast. The way I saw it, the songs are short, and extremely straight-forward, so I didn't want to clutter them up with too much. I had to pick particular lyrics that seemed provocatively absurd enough, and to perform them as raw as deemed fit.

Vogel also revealed that the band has recruited Down to Nothing's David Wood to takeover vocals for the tour. He released the following statement explaining his absence, "This is a pretty tough thing for me to write from my apartment in Los Angeles while the rest of Terror is out on the road. Truth is, the last few months have been a few of the worst in my life. I've been dealing with neck and back disc issues since Hellfest in New Jersey and the Sick Of It All / Champion tour we did in 2004. Physical therapy has always solved the problems for the time being and I'd be back out on the road; but not this time. Terror finished a European tour in mid-May, I flew home and went right into a surgery on my neck - a three level posterior decompression.

"I knew this was going to be hard on me, but I don't think I really had a clue just how intense spinal surgery really was. I rested a ton and when I was ready, I began the post-surgery therapy, knowing I had two months before the Life and Death tour started. The tour began July 6 in Chicago and probably against my better judgement I was there on stage. After the next show in Louisville I was feeling f***ed up and in a lot of pain. It was pretty obvious I wasn't healed enough to be out on the road, so I decided rather than try to 'tough it out' and really mess myself up permanently, I was going to put my health first and fly home.

Rollins posted the following statement, approved by Vega's family, on his official website on Sunday, "With profound sadness and a stillness that only news like this can bring, we regret to inform you that the great artist and creative force, Alan Vega has passed away.

"Alan passed peacefully in his sleep last night, July 16. He was 78 years of age. Alan was not only relentlessly creative, writing music and painting until the end, he was also startlingly unique. Along with Martin Rev, in the early 1970's, they formed the two person avant band known as Suicide.

The popular program featured an entire category devoted to the Grammy-winning band. The contestants on the show knew Dave Grohl was first famous for being in Nirvana.

Dillinger Escape Plan Guitarist Ben Weinman had this to say, "In honor of the legendary Oderus Urungus, we are proud to take part in this year's Gwar B-Q.

"After all, any band who sings songs about killing hippies and Skinheads while simultaneously condemning war and shooting many gallons of blood on the crowd are friends of ours!"

The group had the following to say about the clip via Facebook, "Today we invite you to watch a very special video that we are so proud of for our single Ashes Of Eden. We sincerely hope you enjoy it as much as we do [smile emoji]." Watch the video here.

The band is currently on a North American tour with Disturbed which is scheduled to wrap up on August 21st with a joint appearance at the KISW Pain In The Grass event in Auburn Washington.

The Gothenburg, Sweden metal group recorded the forthcoming 20 track DVD in front of 10,000 fans at their hometown venue of Scandinavium, according to Nuclear Blast.

Edsel Dope had the following to say about the new record. "It's been a long time coming, and I'm very happy with how the new album came out. I'm super excited for fans to hear the entire record and for us to get out there on tour and feed off of each other's energy." Watch the new video here.

The band also announced that they will be launching a reunion tour in September that will feature the classic lineup of the group including Dope, Acey Slade, Virus, and Racci Shay.

The recordings date back to before the band became known world wide from their string of hit videos on MTV and their multi-platinum album "Stay Hungry", when they were still a band that had a fierce local following in Long Island, New York and surrounding areas, but could not get the major record labels to pay attention to them.

According to the announcement, the box set features live recordings of early classic tracks like "Rock 'N' Roll Saviors," "You Can't Stop Rock 'N' Roll," "The Kids Are Back," "What You Don't Know (Sure Can Hurt You)," "Ride To Live, Live To Ride".

The 'Bad Vibes' video was directed by Jessy Fuchs of Slam Disques (Obey The Brave, Simple Plan). Frontman Alex Erian had the following to say about the track, "We've often been vocal about the classic death metal bands that have influenced us throughout the years but have rarely discussed the grindcore and hardcore elements in our music.

Frontman Cory Brandan told the publication the following: "'Synthetic Sun' is one of our favorite songs to play from the record. It was a lot of fun to write being that it's a bit more technical in spots and a song that we actually recorded a lot differently than the other songs as well-using lower gain settings on our amps, playing with our fingers instead picks in spots, stuff like that.

"It's a very different song behind the scenes of 'Polar Similar.' The song deals with watching a very close loved one destroy themselves and feeling helpless in their wake. Seeing someone stop being the person you used to know and change or move into something else."

Campbell joined the quartet in 1990, after being asked to produce their first demos. Although they recorded one early album with Campbell, he left to join play with Foreigner's Lou Gramm, then joined Def Leppard.

Bowie owned more than 200 paintings from famous British 20th century artists, including Frank Auerbach, Damien Hirst, Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland. Sotheby's will display the works publicly for the first time in November, then the pieces will be sold in a three-part auction that is expected to bring in more than $13 million, reported Billboard.

"Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own," Bowie told the New York Times in 1998. 'It can change the way that I feel in the mornings," Billboard reported.

Frontman Jyrki 69 had the following to say about the song and video: "It's a driving rocker of a song which has already made people move in our live set. I got the idea for the lyrics in Marseille, France, where pastis is cheap and girls are pretty.

The event is being held to benefit three local non-profit organizations that aide the homeless in Los Angeles. We were sent the following details and comments from The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas.

"Homelessness and mental health are big issues in LA and we're happy to do a little something that can hopefully help a bit," said the singer. "The Center in Hollywood and Waste Not Want Not Now are great, well-intentioned and trustworthy charities doing wonderful work".

The band teamed up with craft-beer-in-a-can brewery Oskar Blues for the new beer which they call "Bayside Black." Guitarist Jack O'Shea had this to say in the announcement, "I've been a big fan of Oskar Blues for a long time and it's amazing that we get to collaborate with them. It's one of my favorite styles of beer and one of my favorite breweries. I can't wait to try some!"

The new beer will be limited to 100 barrels and will be available at Total Wine & More, as well as select venues on the band's upcoming North American tour, as well as part of a pre-order bundle for the new album via Craftshack (in participating states).

Oskar Blues' Head Brewer at Oskar Blues Brewery Lyons Juice Drapeau had this to say about the special brew, "The challenges of creating a Black IPA is that when creating a recipe, one has to be very careful to balance the hop bitterness and malt bitterness.

"Dark malts can have astringent characteristics to them so the key is to really achieve a clean hop bitterness to compliment the potential malt bitterness. Also, another important aspect of Black IPAs is to layer a variety of crystal malts and dark malts so that the malt character in the beer has a lot of depth and complexity."

The song is about that feeling of having a big crush on someone, and the intense longing that comes along with it. Sometimes you can have this image of someone that you build up so big in your head, that it creates this pressure that makes it impossible for you to approach them and tell them how you really feel.

I wrote this tune about a year or so before we formed Dead 27s and just kind of kept it in the back pocket. It started with the chord progression, which to me immediately sounded like it needed some type of Al Green falsetto hook over it.

So I messed around with a few different lines. The one that I eventually settled on was "Don't want to live my life without you baby", which was initially written to be repeated at the end of the song during a fade out. But after swinging and missing with a few chorus ideas, that line seemed to fit the best for what I had in mind for the chorus.

I didn't necessarily write it about anyone in particular, but whenever I hear it now I think about a certain girl I was borderline obsessed with at the time...so maybe I subconsciously wrote it about her. The funny thing is, when we released it she texted me to tell me how much she loved it, and all I could say was "Thanks".