Today's Day in Rock Stories

Injury Kept Original Guns N' Roses Star From Reunion?

Stanley was asked about the possibility of a reunion with the original members and he responded, "No. And that's not coming from any place of animosity. I sang on Ace's most recent album and did a video with him. I have the connection and the reconnection and to celebrate the good things we've done together is terrific.

"The band as it is - I've played with Eric Singer for, I think, 25 years and Tommy's been in the band probably 15 years at this point. I have no thoughts of re-visiting the past.

Starr broke the exciting news to fans via a series of tweets, beginning with a photo of himself with McCartney and the caption "Thanks for coming over and playing great bass. I love you man peace and love."

"Hell yeah," he said as he passed through the crowd to get to the middle where the rest of the band waits. The fan was so pumped he offers to buy everyone tacos. Just so long as they were Raiders fans.

Another fan explained how Metallica posted an open casting call on their website. "I came 3,000 miles to do this, so to be part of a Metallica music video? Man, it's living the dream," he said.

The group features early Maiden singer Dennis Willcock and guitarist Terry Wapram and Willcock had the following to say about the new project, "Well... just under two years ago I met up with Terry after 40 years... on both of us leaving Iron Maiden, yes leaving, we formed a band, V1 - he had some old recordings which I had never heard before, but so powerful were they that we took upon this mission to record a 2017 version plus some newbies.

"After 26 days of studio time we have finally reached completion - any hold ups but we made it - with Terry, Dwight (Wharton), Chas (Charlie Borg), Gareth (Dylan Smith) and myself... job done!

The 1967 concept album made history with the fusion of a rock band and a symphony orchestra. The group will be breaking the shows on the tour up into two parts with them performing some of their biggest hits during the first half and then returning to play the iconic album in full during the second.

It has been over a decade since the band released their last studio album "10,000 Days" but last week the band updated fans via their website that frontman Maynard James Keenan is now working on the vocals for their new effort.

The site published this message to fans, "In speaking with Danny [Carey, drummer] last night, he told me that the band has temporarily moved some of their gear into a larger space (across town) where Maynard is working on vocals for some of the new Tool material.

The song comes from the group's appropriately titled forthcoming album "Rise From The Dead", which is being released under a just inked deal they made with DSN Music.

Frontman Matt Zane had this to say, "It feels good to be back at it again, like an old lover who f***ed you better than anyone before or after. Everyone has those moments when you resurrect and reinvent. This album Rise From The Dead is one of those moments."

The band reports, "The list of things taken is extensive and the cost to replace everything is over $10k, not to mention all of our luggage and clothing. Most heart breaking of all, they have stolen all of our musical equipment.

"We literally have no way, to play our music live as our show files lived on 3 laptops, and 4 separate external hard drives, all of which were stolen. We have to cancel the rest of our European tour and we have to rebuild our live show from scratch."

"My life has been an extraordinary adventure," Wyman said. "The time feels right to delve into the archive and tell my story before I croak." Wyman was part of the Rolling Stones from 1962 to 1993.

The new clip was directed by frontman Jonas Bjerre and he had the following to say about it, "I've been working a lot with kaleidoscopes lately. You have an image, or a sequence of images, and you snip out an angle, mirror it, and repeat it in a 360-degree angle. It's a beautiful thing, because almost no matter the state of the original image, it ends up a beautiful symmetrical, indefinable something.

"A picture of your messy desk turns into a strange flower. I like that you can't really envision what it will look like until you see it. I think our music is a bit like that too, even as we're working on it."

He continues: "I made a bunch of sequences, and crafted them into these ever-changing 'faces' that I then video-projected on to our actual faces. It's like wearing a mask made out of photons.

Guitarist Ola Englund had this to say, "After almost 2.5 years since the release of 'Exit Wounds', we're finally hitting the studio again. This time around we have chosen Russ Russell of Parlour Studios to record/mix the album, so we're heading over to UK early march to start with the drums.

"And telling from the pre-productions, this will be a bit more of a dynamic album than 'Exit Wounds', song-wise. I'm very excited to let the fans hear what we have in store. It's brutality and beauty in perfect disharmony."

Adam Warne explained the move in an interview with Prog magazine, who also premiered the new video on their website. He told the publication, "Basically, the band is a completely different set-up to how it used to be.

"When we were releasing the first album, it was essentially just me and two other guitarists who I was working with at the time. It was very much a studio project, but it was always my intention to go ahead and turn it into a band because I wanted to perform the music live.

"At the end of the recordings for the first album, I made it a mission to go ahead and put a band together, and to cut a long story short, the band is now here.

"I always felt that the name Synaesthesia was heavily tied to that studio project and the direction we were heading in was exploring new ground. There are also quite a few other bands and projects online called Synaesthesia, which made it quite difficult for us, and that had started to get in the way.

Watch the new promo clip here. Kasher will be releasing the new album, entitled "No Resolution", on March 3rd and he has announced that he will be offering two limited edition vinyl versions including a "blue with white splatter pattern that will be available through the 15 Passenger Bandcamp store and at Kasher's upcoming live shows, and a red and yellow splatter pattern on clear vinyl version that will be exclusive to independent record stores."

The new deluxe edition of the 1988 album is set to be released on March 10th via Sub Pop and was remixed by famed Seattle producer Jack Endino and it took a few years for the band to find a label to release the reissue.

The group posted the following message to fans on Saturday (Feb 18th), "Today, the day before we leave for tour, we went out to our trailer to find all our guitars, basses, and an amp had been stolen. Over $10k of equipment.

The new studio effort is set to hit stores on June 9th. Guitarist Diego Farias had the following comments, "We're very excited on this next release. "We have painstakingly worked on this album for the past 2+ years and all through so many ups and downs within our band. It's been a trip to say the least.

The newly formed group spearheaded by Gamma Ray members Michael Ehre (drums) and Henjo Richter (guitar) have set a May 5th release date for their debut effort.

The annual music event that will be taking place on July 8th and 9th at Town Park in Telluride, CO and will also feature performances from The John Butler Trio, Kaleo, Jackie Greene, Rose Hill Drive and more.

The group, which was formed in 2012, features vocalist Ty (Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt) on vocals, guitarist Provo (Skinlab/Rikets), and drummer Levi (Anti-mortem)