Today's Day in Rock Stories

Guns N' Roses To Mix Things Up On Upcoming Tour Leg

Butler made the revelations in an interview with MusicRadar. When asked if he has ever considered to returning to Black Sabbath's roots and recording a blues project, he revealed that there were plans for one but they were sidelined by the band's farewell tour.

He told the publication, "The follow-up to 13 was going to be a blues album, but the tour got in the way. It would take something like two or three years to do it properly, and we thought we might not all be here by that time, so it would be better to do this final tour first and then maybe we'll do a blues record later."

The new live set can be preordered here and will be entitled "Live In Birmingham 2016". It features the Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow lineup of Blackmore on guitar, vocalist Ronnie Romero, drummer David Keith, bassist Bob Nouveau, keyboard player Jens Johanssen, along with backup singers Candice Night and Lady Lynn.

"Due to illness, Neil Young is regrettably no longer able to induct Pearl Jam at this Year's Induction Ceremony," said the Rock Hall in a statement Wednesday. "The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is thrilled that David Letterman has agreed to induct Pearl Jam this Friday night at the 32nd Annual Induction Ceremony."

Head was the featured guest on a recent episode of the WikiMetal podcast and went into details about the writing and recording of their most recent album "The Serenity Of Suffering" and also how Taylor came about appearing on it.

Welch said, "We started off me, Munky and Ray, the drummer, in the studio in Hollywood. We started writing rough song ideas - we did that for a month or two, and then we decided on a producer, Nick Rasculinecz and once we presented the songs that we messed around with in the studio, only like one or two of them� Like, one to three of those songs made it, the other ones got thrown in the trash. And so, I think that once we got Nick, we kind of started over, and then it was me, Nick, the producer, Munky and Ray mostly in the studio.

"And Jonathan would come down and listen to what we were doing and give his input, and then Fieldy would come down once in a while, because he has his kids, he has like three young kids, so when he's off he likes to be home with his kids. So he would just come once in a while and check things out, kind of add his opinion.

The performance at the city's Hippodrome San Isidro followed the group's appearance at Lollapalooza Chile in Sao Paulo, Brazil on March 25 as one of three festival gigs in South America that would wrap up at Lollapalooza Chile on April 1.

Metallica will resume the Worldwired tour in support of "Hardwired�To Self Destruct" when they begin a 25-show summer stadium tour of North America at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, MD on May 10.

This week, the group were announced as one of the headliners at the Outside Lands festival at Golden Gate Park in their hometown of San Francisco, CA over the weekend of August 11-13.

Due May 26, the project will be available as CD, 2CD, 2LP, 6-disc Super Deluxe Edition and digital packages, all featuring a new stereo mix by Giles Martin and Sam Okell following the original work by the legendary George Martin.

"It's crazy to think that 50 years later," says Paul McCartney, "we are looking back on this project with such fondness and a little bit of amazement at how four guys, a great producer and his engineers could make such a lasting piece of art."

The expanded 2CD package adds a second disc of 18 tracks, including previously unreleased alternate takes of each of the album's 13 songs, newly mixed in stereo and sequenced in the same order as the album. The second CD also includes a new stereo mix and a previously unreleased instrumental take of "Penny Lane," and the 2015 stereo mix and two previously unreleased alternate takes of "Strawberry Fields Forever."

Gov't Mule, The Allman Brothers Band and The Dead star Warren Haynes will be the musical director for the event which will be dubbed "New Orleans Is Waiting For Columbus."

The group, who disbanded in 2008, did what was thought at the time to be a one-off reunion to celebrate the release of one of their albums on vinyl, but have now have announced that they are officially back together.

They broke the news to fans with the following Facebook post, "We're back... If you haven't figured it out yet, the original line up has been jamming over the last few months and working on some new material.

The band reformed in 2014 and recently announced that they will be releasing their comeback album "Weather Diaries" on June 16th. They recently released a music video for the song "Charm Assault". Watch it here.

The movie will be returning to movie theaters for one night on April 20th to celebrate the anniversary and Fathom Events has revealed that the screenings will include a special preview of the forthcoming Grateful Dead documentary "Long Strange Trip" which is executive produced by Martin Scorsese and directed by Amir Bar-Lev.

The special reissue from the acclaimed power pop band will include the original album, which was produced by Mitch Easter (R.E.M., Marshall Crenshaw, Velvet Crush), along with the collection of previously unreleased bonus material.

The trek with In Flames is scheduled to kick off on May 4th in Rochester, NY at Anthology and will be wrapping up on May 25th in Dallas, TX at the Gas Monkey Bar & Grill.

Die So Fluid's Grog had the following to say about the new Drew Richards produced track, "Bittersweet is an alter ego who came to life as I wrote the song" says Grog. "Part me, part fictional, she embodies all the stuff I like about many of my fave female tv, film and graphic novel characters.

The show sent over the following details: The Rock Brigade Podcast's Jeb Wright and James Rozell caught up with Krokus founding member Chris von Rohr to talk about the album, and much more.

He tells how the band chose each song on the album and how they went to great lengths to Krokus-ize each track. In addition to the new album Chris talks about the band's origins and recounts opening for the Scorpions when Uli Jon Roth was in the band, as well as his first trip to America where he learned that the type of 'job' a groupie offered him was not one that meant he had to do actual work.

The song can be streamed here and comes from the group's forthcoming album "Revelation". The new studio effort will be released on May 19th and is the follow up to their 2015 release "Ascendants".

Mallen had the following to say about the David Radahd (aka Johnny Rocker, Heavens Basement) produced track, "Groove filled riffs, sweeping melodic verses and punchy choruses. A song that tells the listener what we are all about."

I guess the inspiration and influence to actually do this song came from the drive of wanting to actually get my first real break into the mainstream rock scene. I love doing covers and the only band I could think of that made their big break off a cover was Van Halen with "you really got me" by the kinks. They basically took that song, spiced it up, changed the structure a bit and Eddie added a shredding guitar solo into it which you wouldn't hear from bands out of the 60s like the kinks or the Beatles.

So for starters I took the main riff George Harrison plays before the verses , messed around with it for a bit and figured that's how I'd start the song , with a huge bang or kick in the gut. The vocals I kept like the original , you can't mess with or change John and Paul's vocals they're already good and doing that would be sacrilegious. So I sang both the melodies and harmonies , each having their own separate track in the recording process.

With the main verse chord progression I added some little nuance transitions between some of the chords. That inspiration came from listening to a lot of Quiet Riot when Randy Rhoads was in the band, I have my sister doing a bit of that as well on bass.

When it came to the solo I got a bit stuck the first time around because I learned you can't just play in G minor pentatonic due to the way the chord progression is. So the second time around when I re-did the solo with producer David Ivory I figured why not play the vocal melody as the solo with a few embellishments on it and some fast picking licks at the end of it to finish it off. Off the whole EP we just released yesterday "Built in Good Value" I feel that's one of the best solos I ever recorded.

A little Easter egg you'll hear at the end of the song is my little homage to Randy Rhoads where I play one of his most famous live licks you'd hear him do a lot on concert bootlegs at the end of songs and I finish it off with his kill switch effect he always did like in the live version of Crazy Train.

So again thank you for this wonderful opportunity and don't forget to go check out our new EP "Built in Good Value" on iTunes, google play, Spotify and Amazon, available for release now!