Today's Day in Rock Stories

Eagles Reuniting For Music Festival With Fleetwood Mac?

The band has also announced the rescheduled dates for the concerts that were originally set to take place this week in San Diego, Denver and Glendale, AZ.

The tour will feature the hologram appearing with the Dio Disciples, which includes Ronnie's former bandmates Craig Goldy, Simon Wright and Scott Warren, along with former Judas Priest singer Tim "Ripper" Owens and Yngwie Malmsteen bassist Bjorn Englen.

The band's two-night stand at the O2 Arena in London reportedly grossed $2.7 million and they played to 30,370 fans, which earned the band the second spot on the current chart.

The publication reports that not all of the tour's "Boxscores" have been reported to them but it is estimated that the band's The End Tour could have brought in around $100 million after selling over a million tickets across the globe during the year long trek.

Gene will be playing the special solo set on March 18th at the Agora Theatre which was scheduled in association with his appearance at the Wizard World Comic Con in the city on 18th and 19th.

Simmons recently spoke with cantonrep.com about the show, "This is gonna be a first for me. Outside of KISS, I've never done a solo tour. I never did anything like that.

The band had previously announced a paper-less ticket policy to combat "touting" and it appears to have been a major success with the group revealing that "the number of tickets available at inflated prices on the secondary platforms plummeted by over 95% compared with the band's last UK arena tour in 2011."

The group features AFI's Davey Havok along with No Doubt's Tom Dumont, Tony Kanal and Adrian Young and "Kill for Candy" is the first single from the group's forthcoming self-titled debut album, which is set to hit stores on May 12th.

The band will be kicking of the debut nationwide headline trek on July 26th in Indianapolis at the Vogue and the trek will run until September 13th where it will conclude at The Fonda Theater in Los Angeles.

The video has been released in sync with a recap of the event, which features clips of several songs performed during the fifth and final show of the Asian leg of the group's WorldWired tour in support of their tenth album, "Hardwired�To Self Destruct."

Metallica are currently playing a series of shows in Mexico City before a set of appearances at Lollapalooza festivals in South America begin later this month.

The album is set to be released on April 28th and the video for the title track was directed by Leigh Brooks and includes footage from the Hamburg and London stops of the group's recent European tour.

Life Of Agony's Alan Robert had this to say about the new clip, "We were looking to capture the raw energy of our live show with the new video for 'A Place Where There's No More Pain'.

"As a longtime LOA fan, Director Leigh Brooks instantly knew exactly what we were going for. He's been a fan since the early nineties and we finally met at the Electric Ballroom gig in London last year.

The original album was packaged in a cosmic 3-D sleeve that had a pair of 3-D glasses embedded in the front cover to best appreciate the dramatic art work. Each Audio Fidelity Shinin' On SACD slip case will include a pair of 3-D glasses so the brilliant art work can be viewed as originally intended.

Grand Funk's Brewer had this to say, " 'all the Girls' was a bit of an experiment for Grand Funk. Disco had raised it's ugly head in 1974 and if you wanted radio airplay you needed to go in that direction. Grand Funk, not being a 'Disco Act', decided to do R&B which was really what GFR was all about. R&B pumped up on steroids. Enlisting veteran producer Jimmy Ienner, I think Grand Funk came up with the best rendition of the soul classic 'Some Kinda Wonderful' in history.

The initial dates for the trek have been announced, which will also feature J Boog and The Movement. It is scheduled to begin on June 8th in Glen Allen, VA at the Innsbrook After Hours.

The trek is scheduled to kick off on March 24th in Albuqurque, NM at Burt's Tiki Lounge and will run until April 19th where it will wrap up at Reggie's in Chicago.

The new album is the group's sixth full length effort and was produced by Ben Kaplan (Rise Against, Mother Mother, Biffy Clyro). It hit stores in North American today, March 3rd.

2017 is looking like a huge year for Depeche Mode and their legion of loyal fans. Their new album Spirit drops this month and the icons will commence a world tour in May.

"N.T.A.E. may contain subversive elements that produce feelings of euphoria and may be harmful and unsettling to the consumer," it reads. "Likewise, this physical package may lead to unrealized expectations or unexpected results upon opening. Caution should be exercised with both."

Upon opening the envelope, purchasers discovered printed photographs coated in the strange black toner-like powder. The substance coats fingers and otherwise makes a mess. The disclaimer concluded with language likely added for legal reasons:

We're just gonna be honest here, most of our songs are written about sex and drugs because this IS Rock N Roll. The concept of our first single WILDFLOWER was inspired by the sudden change of fashion by the incredibly gorgeous girls here in Hollywood. We started noticing girls wearing heart shaped glasses, flowery dresses, cool 70's inspired witchy hats, flowers in their hair. Led Zeppelin, Doors, Pink Floyd T'shirts and even posting story's on social media with these types of bands music in the background. There was also a kinda voodoo type vibe going on as well. Some girls, (one group in particular) even referring to their friends as their coven. The inspiration behind the lyrics were sparked by these super groovy, rock n roll, hippie-chicks and the idea of them being drawn to the city of Hollywood. Which, in many cases, from the mid west to lavish where all the devils and the demons hide with all of the thrills.

With all this as a muse for our writing journey, the song, simply put, is about a wild-hearted, new age witchy, hippie type girl. With looks to kill, moving to L.A. and by natural course of attraction, magnetically finds herself amongst other gypsy type souls to roam free and dangerously wreak havoc in the Hollywood Hills.

She's dangerous. Untamed. Unattainable. Mysterious. Wild and free. Every man's desire and every fathers worst nightmare. She's a WILDFLOWER.

The drums and bass tracks on this song, as with every other song on the album, were recorded at the world famous Sunset Sound Studio's. Once bass and drums were completed it was time to move onto guitars.

We decided to move into a smaller studio in Hollywood to begin the process. The first song up was "Wildflower". Myself and legendary engineer/producer Ross Hogarth were somewhat leery about the small size of the room that would attempt to handle the crushing volume of some of Ross's vintage modded Marshalls. By the end of recording the main guitar tracks for wildflower, the screws on the back of the cab had blown off and it felt like at any moment the entire room would explode and the walls would come tumbling down on top of us Lol!!

A cool fact about the guitar tracks on wildflower is that they were the only one's recorded at that studio. For after the near demise of that place, we'd move over and set up shop at the world famous NRG recording studio's to finish off the other 13 songs.

The song was an incredibly exciting process to record. Everything from choosing the right tones for electric guitar, to the right acoustic for the intro, which ended up being the owner of NRG, Jay Baumgardner's 1968 Gibson. Then creating the old school blues intro chants and our singer, Dusty Bo, playing harmonica through guitar player, Clay Davies Marshall stack, at a blistering volume which would become the harmonica's tone throughout the song. To say the least, it was super groovy good times!!

So Crank it up! Cause rock 'n' roll aint no riddle man, to us it makes good good sense!!