Today's Day in Rock Stories

Ritchie Blackmore Open To Playing Final Deep Purple Concert

Radio.com has these details: In one of the evening's most heartfelt moments, lead singer Arnel Pineda dedicated Journey's performance of "Lights" to the Perry. Perry fronted Journey through the band's most iconic eras and helped define the sound other lead vocalists have recreated.

Topping a bill that featured Journey and Earth, Wind & Fire, the group delivered a 20-song set of classics and hits that opened with "The Chain" from their mega-selling 1977 album, "Rumours."

"You Make Loving Fun" and "Dreams" from the record were followed by tracks from 1979's "Tusk" before, as Forbes notes, the band delivered "Landslide" as a tribute to late Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey, who passed away early last year. "I'd like to dedicate that song to Glenn Frey, who was my friend," Nicks said after the tune. "And I'd like to dedicate it to his son, who did such a beautiful job last night under so much pressure. That was for big Glenn and little Glenn."

The Corey Taylor fronted band will be launching the new trek to promote their recently released new studio album "Hydrograd", which hit stores on June 30th and topped the Billboard Rock and Hard Rock albums charts.

I remember the Wanted tour back in 2015 wasn't only the longest period on the road for the band, but also the most exhausting show we ever did. The idea was, to stage the album "Wanted" bringing together music and story to one big whole experience. But of course, travel crew and all the needed stage and tech stuff was limited having only one night-liner for the tour, which meant 12 beds at that time. So two actors had to be enough and we decided, apart from many other things, to do quadrophonic sound and visuals, so you had screens not only in front of the audience but also in the rear. All the ideas worked out fine on tour and we did a couple of recordings to see if there's a chance to bring the show on film.

But it was impossible to get this 360 degree impression of the show on film, and so right after the tour we decided to work out a script for a Wanted show designed especially for filming a concert movie and call it A New Dawn.
Imagine, you can leave all the transport problems of a tour behind and work only for one show. So we were not limited to only two actors and realized our idea of having two stages, one for playing music and one for acting. In the end we had more than 20 actors and around 50 people worked for this concert film.

After the event I have to say that this work was one of the greatest experiences for the band. For me personally it was a very touching moment to see, that during the last 20 years the RPWL family became bigger and bigger. Nearly everyone on stage or offstage was connected to the history of the band. This surely was one of the main reasons to manage such a great work!

The band has added additional stops to the tour including U.S. performances in San Diego, Reno, Boston, Cedar Rapids, San Francisco, and more. They have announced Canadian dates in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary.

The group are promoting a recently-launched summer tour of North America, which began in Quebec City on July 13 and wraps up in Lake Tahoe, NV on August 16.

The trek includes a 6-night residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, NV. In September, Pete Townshend will bring his Classic Quadrophenia stage show to the US for series of dates.

The project sees The Who guitarist create a new orchestral version of the band's 1973 concept album based around lead character Jimmy's search for an identity amongst the mods and rockers in mid-60s Brighton.

This will be 14th year of the tour which is scheduled to kick off on November 10th in Minneapolis at the State Theatre and will wrap up on December 28th in Bellingham, WA at Mount Baker Theatre.

The newly announced dates include shows across Germany in late November and early December including Hamburg, Berlin, Oberhausen, Munchen, Stuttgart and Frankfurt.

The previously announced dates kick off with several shows across the UK including Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds and London, as well as shows in Zurich, Luxembourg, Vianna and Antwerp.

Walsh has recruited Zac Brown Band, Gary Clark Jr. and Keith Urban to perform at the special event which will be taking place at the EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia on September 30th.

King was asked about the band's plans to begin work on the next album when he sat down with Revolver Magazine and he responded, "Funny thing is, Repentless isn't even two years old yet, though it seems like it is. But from that session, there are six or eight songs that are recorded - some with vocals, some with leads, but all with keeper guitar, drums and bass.

The group announced that they will be recruiting a special guest vocalist to fulfill the rest of their upcoming live commitments including their upcoming North American tour with Decapitated and Thy Art Is Murder.

The opening track from the band's fourth album, "�And Justice For All", the tune earned then-bassist Jason Newsted his first Metallica songwriting credit alongside guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich; the rocker joined the lineup following the tragic loss of Cliff Burton in a 1986 tour bus accident. The project peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 on its way to US sales of more than 8 million copies.

The Detroit stop lands just past the halfway mark of the North American leg of the band's World Wired tour in support of "Hardwired�To Self-Destruct."

Metallica's latest release just topped a 2017 mid-year US rock sales report by Nielsen Music.

The group plan to deliver a totally different set list than they played on a recently-completed summer run in the region. "Europe, are you ready for the final installment of The Last Hero Tour?!" says the band.

At press time the video has now been viewed over 1,318,000 times. The song is lead single to the band's new studio album "Will To Power", which will be hitting stores on September 8th.

Guitarist Michael Amott shared his gratitude to fans for making the clip a hit, "A huge thanks to our amazing fans all over the world for the overwhelming interest in the new Arch Enemy single and video! Now we are really excited for you to hear more music from our upcoming "Will to Power" album!

The new album, entitled "Gossip" was produced by David Bendeth (Paramore, All Time Low) and is the band's fifth full length effort, It will be hitting stores on September 22nd.