Today's Day in Rock Stories

Gregg Allman Gets All-Star Tribute At CMT Awards

While most rock stars loudly proclaim all of their charitable activities, the former Van Halen frontman is more subtle in his giving back. He revealed in a Facebook post on Wednesday that he is supporting food banks in every community that he visits on tour.

Hagar shared a photo that was taken during a meet & greet with some of the people from the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma before The Circle's sold out show in Thackerville, OK last Friday (June 2nd).

Cornell died in a Detroit hotel room on May 17 following a Soundgarden show in the city. The two members of the Seattle music community shared a long friendship in the years following Vedder's 1990 arrival in town to audition for Pearl Jam. Cornell enlisted the rocker to join him on a duet of "Hunger Strike" for his Temple Of The Dog album tribute to Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood, who died earlier that year of a heroin overdose; the project also featured ex-MLB and future Pearl Jam members Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, Mike McCready and Matt Cameron.

Currently playing shows on a solo tour of Europe, Vedder reportedly shared his thoughts on the Cornell tragedy for the first time publicly during the first of two nights in the UK capital, according to a transcript shared on a Pearl Jam messageboard.

"Sometimes it's hard to concentrate these days," Vedder began. "I was thinking about the history of this building and the Bowie history. So I started to think about that and my mind began to wander. It's not a good...So I haven't really been talking about some things and I kind of... now it feels like it's conspicuous because I lost a really close friend of mine, somebody who...

"I'll say this too," he continued. "I grew up as 4 boys, 4 brothers and I lost my brother two years ago tragically like that in an accident and after that and losing a few other people, I'm not good at it, meaning I'm not...I have not been willing to accept the reality and that's just how I'm dealing with it.

"So I want to be there for the family, be there for the community, be there for my brothers in my band, certainly the brothers in his band. But these things will take time but my friend is going to be gone forever and I will just have to... These things take time and I just want to send this out to everyone who was affected by it and they all back home and here appreciate it so deeply the support and the good thoughts of a man who was a ... you know he wasn't just a friend he was someone I looked up to like my older brother."

"About two days after the news," Vedder revealed, "I think it was the second night we were sleeping in this little cabin near the water, a place he would've loved. And all these memories started coming in about 1:30am like woke me up. Like big memories, memories I would think about all the time. Like the memories were big muscles.

"And then I couldn't stop the memories. And trying to sleep it was like if the neighbours had the music playing and you couldn't stop it. But then it was fine because then it got into little memories. It just kept going and going and going. And I realized how lucky I was to have hours worth of...you know if each of these memories was quick and I had hours of them. How fortunate was I?! And I didn't want to be sad, wanted to be grateful not sad. I'm still thinking about those memories and I will live with those memories in my heart and I will...love him forever."

The reissues include B-sides and live tracks, plus the audio for "In The Round In Your Face (Live)" on CD for the first time. Among the new versions, the Super Deluxe Edition features 5-CD/2-DVDs including four books-Story Of; a Ross Halfin photo book; Discography; Hysteria Tour Program and Tour Poster.

"It's hard to believe that it's been thirty years since the release of Hysteria," says frontman Joe Elliott. "In some respects it really does seem like only yesterday. So, to mark this milestone, we wanted to do something very special for our fans and give them the definitive version of the album, one that incorporates all of the memories and milestones that we caught on tape and some of the madness that we got up to on the road. We hope it means as much to you as it does to us."

Arteaga was interview for the new issue of Metal Hammer and in an excerpt released online he discussed the musical direction of the songs they are working on since the departure of Austin Carlile and how Pauley is handling lead vocal duties.

"Aaron can adapt really well with his skills and talents. It's a situational thing with us - if we've gotta step up to the plate, we will," he said of the bassist and new lead singer. "Aaron's crushing it and he's doing it with ease. It's mind-blowing."

Guitarist Tony Iommi will be attending the ceremony to accept the honor on behalf of the retired band and bassist Geezer Butler shared the following comments with Metal Hammer about the award:

"Thank you for this award. It's good to know that after almost 50 years Sabbath is still relevant, and has its importance in the history of music. I want to thank our fans who have been with us along the way, without them there would be no Sabbath."

The venue lost sound at one point during the event, but this didn't stop Lovato. The singer orchestrated an a cappella version of "Misery Business" by Paramore, getting the crowd singing along with her.

Later, she sang along with Underoath's "Reinventing Your Exit," proving she loves to jam along with some of the world's favorite early 2000's hits.

The event organizers tweeted out to Lovato afterward, writing "thank you @Sirah & @ddlovato 4 keeping the party going & singing when the sound went out during @paramore at #emonitela!"

The post is a black-and-white photo of Iman and Bowie in an embrace with the words: "I would walk forever, just to be in your arms again." Bowie and the Somali-born fashion icon were married on June 6, 1992.

The exhaustive collection includes every studio take, live performance, and radio appearance Presley made during those pivotal years. His first number-one hit came in 1956 with 'Heartbreak Hotel."

Singer Mark Osegueda had the following to say about the upcoming trek, "It is with the sincerest excitement and anticipation that I can proudly say Death Angel is FINALLY coming back to tour Europe and the UK this summer in support of our latest release 'The Evil Divide'!

Band leader Peavy had the following comments about the group's upcoming record (their 23rd studio effort overall), "Our fans are getting Rage metal of the very first grade.

She had the following to say ahead of last week's EP release, "I had a lot of fun writing and recording Queen Of Sin - our first EP that comes out June 2nd. It has a nice diversity of rock subgenres - you can find some post-hardcore, nu-metal, alternative tunes in it. 'QoS' is a sort of defial for those who say rock and sex can't go together. 'Make Rock Sexy Again.' We wanted to get a mix of hard rock tunes and guitar riffs with sensual feminine vocals and dominatrix attitude."

Over the , May waxes philosophical, musing "'Monopoly has always been about pursuing money'but in this case, you're also pursuing excellence in your craft."

"We've been very secretly developing Queen Monopoly for over a year," the guitarist wrote on his website back in March. "I'm excited -- it was a blast working on it -- like making an album! We hope you love it!"

When we went into the studio, I knew I wanted to write a track that showed our appreciation to our fans, THE KILLERS, and got people moving. It needed to hype up everyone that has supported our music and those who continue to take time out of their lives to come down to our shows and tear up the place with us!

We were at rehearsal one day and two simple bass notes sparked this song that has become a mosh pit anthem. There is though an important underlying theme of finding a positive and fun way to get rid of that extra energy, anxiety and stress that so many people feel in their lives. The lyrics in the first verse, "Oh, you can be happy. Just take these pills....nah F**k that" and "We're done with your pills and your chemikillz...so F**k that" are a reference to the prescription pill epidemic going on right now and how easily someone with anxiety, stress or just high energy are prescribed and fed these dangerous drugs.

The second verse is just showing love to the amazing music scene we are part of and the hook is a call to action for all THE KILLERS out there! My favorite line in this song is "Let's Show The World". Nothing deep about that lyric, but it perfectly sums up what we intend to do with the brand new album, S.T.F.U.!