Today's Day in Rock Stories

AC/DC's Brian Johnson And Robert Plant Do Surprise Live Jam

Joel welcomed Rose to the stage late in his main set for the 1979 track, which Rose delivered regularly while on tour last year with AC/DC in the absence of long time frontman Brian Johnson.

"This is a sacred song," Joel told the crowd. "Gives me a chance to bring on a friend of mine to do it. He's a talented guy. This is a spiritual song, sacred song � you can dwell on this on Sunday. Please welcome Axl Rose."

The rumor spread at the beginning of the month after a blog claimed anonymous "industry sources" told them Robert Plant had agreed to reunite with the legendary band this year's installment of the music festival.

McCartney has added new shows in Chicago, Newark NJ, New York City, Brooklyn, Uniondale NY and Detroit and also announced he will be visiting Oklahoma City for the first time in fifteen years.

That show will be taking place on July 17th at the Chesapeake Energy Center. The new Chicago area show will happen on July 26th, Newark on September 12th, New York City on Sept. 17th, Brooklyn on Sept. 21st, Uniondale on the 27th.

A laser light show plays behind their performance. As ever, Phoenix brings their dreampop style and sophisticated visual point of view to the table. The pretend show is called "Ti Amo," which is the name of the group's sixth record.

The prestigious B.B. King Entertainer of the Year title went to Joe Bonamassa, who also garnered Guitarist of the Year honors. The Entertainer of Year award held great personal significance for Bonamassa because one of his first performances was opening for B.B. King when he was only 12 years old.

King was a mentor of Joe, and the young bluesman has also cited how important the early break with B.B. was to his career. "I did realise that," Bonamassa recently noted. "Every time I played with the guy was a huge deal." He also credits King with teaching him a lot about the business of entertainment, whether in a large or small venue. "You've got to play the same way that you would to a small club. It's that enthusiasm and the dynamic that bring it close. I learned from watching B.B. King in that type of venue. He could definitely play to the back of the room. Even in a big place, it still felt small."

Bonamassa wasn't able to attend the ceremony personally, as he's currently on a European tour. He celebrated his 40th birthday this week by, as ever, playing another show!

The second single from "Hardwired�To Self-Destruct" topped the US Billboard Mainstream Rock chart upon its release last fall as the band were playing warm-up dates for the WorldWired tour in South America.

The Baltimore show delivered a mix of new material and classics from seven albums while also featuring the US live debuts of "Now That We're Dead" and "Halo On Fire."

The tour is set to kick off this Thursday, May 18th at the Royal Albert Hall in London with the Euro run visiting several cities across the UK and Spain and wrapping up in Rome.

The tour was scheduled to include performance at the Sweden Rock Festival on June 10th and the Night of the Prog Festival in Loreley, Germany on July 16th.

The video features NFL running back Marshawn Lynch, along with comedians Ken Jeong, George Lopez and Jim Breuer. In the video, the comedians and Train frontman Patrick Monahan crash Lynch's wedding after being left off the invite list.

Earle and his band, The Dukes, worked with Willie Nelson, Johnny Bush and Miranda Lambert on the project, which is dedicated to the late Waylon Jennings and pays tribute to outlaw country.

After two successful experiences, the Grammy-winning rock band will continue the four-day festival at sea next year. This floating festival will sail from Miami, Florida, to Nassau, Bahamas, and promises an epic, interactive musical journey.

It includes "Beck's Bolero," "Shapes of Things," "You Shook Me" and more. Tom Scholz of Boston has also listed the album as his favorite ever on Gibson.com, stating, "I knew Jeff Beck's Truth album inside out..."

"What a line-up!" Simmons enthuses to MusicRadar. "Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart on vocals, Ron Wood on bass - Ronnie's a much better bass player than he is a guitarist.

"There's a rumor that Jimmy Page played on some of this, too. Even before Led Zeppelin and Cream, Beck took the blues and turned up the volume. But it wasn't just decibels; Beck was pushing the envelope in all sorts of directions. Nuanced little jazz licks that caught you off guard� sophisticated, delicate melodies.

"I wanted to capture that intensity that's going on right now," said Haynes, explaining the album's title and overarching mood. "I've never seen it like this, ever."

The group is also set to hit the road beginning May 17 for lengthy summer tour. As reported by Ultimate Classic Rock, Haynes describes Gov't Mule as a "kind of playground" for the members of the band.

I had just broken up with my boyfriend, and I was depressed. So, I came upstate to get some space to process what had just happen and to be in nature. I find that it is best to channel that energy into my art, so I started writing. I brainstormed like 10 pages of what was on my mind and then I left it. Later, I revisited what I had written and morphed it into lyrics.

The song started out as a conversation with him. I basically wrote what I felt I didn't say or what wasn't heard or understood. The song is about living a lie. It's about confronting our demons so we can be comfortable with who we are and so we can live as honestly as possible in our own skins. In order to do that, we have to look at ourselves in the mirror. We have to sit in an uncomfortable space and shine a light on those dark, ugly spaces that we don't want to look at. Once we see them, we can take steps to heal them. Like knots, we can find the best way to unravel them and let them go.

A lot of this process involves a separation from the social norms or social assumptions we are taught. Meditation, art, being in nature, travel, and new experiences all help to facilitate that separation. After separation, we can observe. We observe a deeper sense of self and we learn to see what experiences keep us the most truthful to that deeper sense of self.

In thinking and writing about my ex (and telling him to look in the mirror), I learned that I was also learning to look at myself in the mirror. So when I say, "I know you hate to look at me cause I'm your mirror, and you don't like what you see," he became my mirror. The song then morphed into an infinity mirror where I was his mirror and he became my mirror, and the mirror mirrors the mirror, ad infinitum.

That's what so awesome about the writing process. As artists, the more we can dissolve and get out of our own way, something greater than what we consciously conceive of has the chance to manifest in the material space. We basically become conduits for the great knowledge to enter the material realm.