Today's Day in Rock Stories

Tool's Special Guests For Festival Like Event Revealed

The three appeared with Cooper for the encores at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center's Andrew Jackson Hall, delivering "I'm Eighteen," "Billion Dollar Babies," No More Mr. Nice Guy" and "Muscle Of Love" before being joined by the rest of Alice's current band - guitarists Ryan Roxie and Tommy Henriksen, bassist Chuck Garric and drummer Glen Sobel - for the finale of "School's Out."

Guitarist Bruce, bassist Dunaway, drummer Smith and lead guitarist Glenn Buxton were the original lineup for the Alice Cooper Band from the mid-sixties to 1975, recording seven albums of classic tracks before the singer launched a solo career with "Welcome To My Nightmare." Buxton died of complications from pneumonia in 1997 at the age of 49.

The three surviving members will be featured on Cooper's forthcoming album, "Paranormal": they'll appear on a special three-song bonus disc with the project when it's released on July 28. The set also includes appearances by U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr., ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons and Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover.

Phantom Management had this to say, "The dispute concerns the song Life's Shadow, a song originally written in the early 1970s, credited to Robert Barton and Brian Ingham, and recorded by the band Beckett. Steve Harris was a fan of Beckett and some six lines from 'Life's Shadow' were referenced in Steve's song, 'Hallowed Be Thy Name', which was recorded by Iron Maiden and appeared on the album The Number of the Beast which was released in 1982.

They joined the veteran Irish band for a special Mother's Day performance of the song "Mothers of the Disappeared," which is track from U2's blockbuster 1987 album "The Joshua Tree".

Radio,com reports that U2 frontman Bono asked fans at the Centurylink Field venue, "Where's Eddie Vedder? Spirit of Seattle, spirit of Chicago, spirit of America. Where's Eddie?"

Coverdale tells Sweden Rock Magazine (via Blabbermouth), "We had digital transfers made of all� 'Slide It In', 'Slip Of The Tongue', the '87 album� 'Cause they're all coming up to these big-anniversary things now, so we're looking at all the additional - the demos, etc. - all of the additional material for the hardcore fan, be it video or audio," he said. "And you can hear me writing the basic ideas of 'Still Of The Night' and that kind of stuff."

Frontman Levi Benton had this to say about the song, "Not only does this song open up our new record, it also sets the tone for the record. This album is all about changes throughout life, good and bad. It's about the past that lives within everyone; their 'Shadows Inside'. The lyrics talk about how great new things can give light to your past and put you in a better place."

The guitarist had the following to say about the track, "I did the guitars when I did the Abominator record. We did two albums at once, actually. We were going to do a double album but there was so much material we just cut the motherf***er in half.

"We were actually done with all the recording during February of 2016, and we were just having a real problem getting the mix right. We mixed for 14 f***ing months...I'm out of my mind, man. It's got to be perfect. It's your product and you have to make it perfect, 'cause it's forever. It's got to be great. When my favorite artist makes a record and I don't like it, I'm pissed, y'know? I don't want anyone to feel that way about us."

The special reunion will be taking place at the Sweden Rock Festival on June 8th in S�lvesborg where Dibiase will be filling in for Joey Vera, who is missing the event due to a prior commitment.

Johnson had this to say about the track, It's hard to do a classic song like 'Missing You' and do it justice. That's what we all wanted to do, pay it justice while still making it our own.

The new live album, entitled "Heroes - Live in Europe, 2016," will be released on June 2nd. It was captured during the band's Berlin concert of their European tour last year where they performed their version of "Heroes"

Robert Fripp, who played guitar on Bowie's original version, says, "King Crimson performed 'Heroes' at the Admiralspalast in Berlin as a celebration, a remembrancing and an homage. The concert was thirty-nine years and one month after the original sessions at the Hansa Tonstudio overlooking the Berlin Wall. This is released in the Fortieth Anniversary year."

'Live Beyond The Spheres' will include performances that were captured during the band's 2015 European tour and will be released as a 3 CD and 4 LP vinyl packaging.

Guitarist Paul Gilbert had this to say, "It was great to get back in the studio with our original producer, Kevin Elson. Kevin recorded all of our original classic albums from the '80s and '90s, and we immediately felt that magic chemistry with him on Defying Gravity.

The road trip is scheduled to kick off on July 22nd at The Depot in Salt Lake City, UT and will run until September 8th where it will be wrapping up at the Doheny State Beach in Dana Point, CA.

Nominated in multiple BMA categories for his new music throughout the night, Bobby Rush earlier this year also took home the Best Traditional Blues Grammy for his latest release, Porcupine Meat. His lengthy career was the subject of the BMA-winning Chicken Heads, Omnivore's four-CD, decades-spanning overview project.

The trek will be launched on November 9th in Birmingham at Mama Roux's and will also visit Glasgow and Leeds before wrapping up on the 12th at The Underworld in London.

The band had this to say about the song, "The song itself is a bit schizophrenic. The music is meant to make the listener feel upbeat, and 'pumped up' if you will. However, the story behind the lyrics lends a tale of caution."

Speaking of the new EP, we cannot forget about the previous album. The record "Remark" was the first big studio work for me, so I will compare my impressions about the new EP mainly with it.
First of all, a few words about the format of the EP. Today it is quite difficult for a young artist to release a full album, because he is limited with money and time. So we cannot afford to release full-size material every year. Mini-albums from several songs can be released more often, without compromising the quality of the work.

"Keep Running" for me, and for the other guys is the new level. This is expressed both in the musical component, and in the technical. We've done a lot of work on the overall sound, ranging from arranging, and working through the parts, to directly searching for the sound. I also want to note that we used new ways of organizing our own work, which turned out to be quite effective.

I will say: "Keep Running" sounds like I want. I hear the echoes of my musical tastes in it, and I think the rest of the band will agree with me. I want to thank all those who took part and just helped in the work on EP, as well as Andrew Konoplev, our sound engineer and sound producer.

Comeback: The main motive of the song Comeback was coined already at the time of the release of the first album, like the main vocal part. The only thing, which missed, was a text that would fit well into the music, and would not only correspond to the general mood of the song, but would also complement it. The problem was solved after the trip of our vocalist Yanas to his hometown - Kemerovo. Emotions with which he returned, perfectly fit into the song and helped him to finish the work on "Comeback".

Purple Haze: The song was written spontaneously, at the rehearsal, and then we totally changed it. The title "Purple Haze" should not be considered completely the influence of Jimmy Hendrix, although it was. The title caught on at once, and subsequently, otherwise as Purple Haze, the song was not perceived. Even though the text changed several times, it was difficult to Yanas sing the word "purple" right. For me Purple Haze is a kind of personification of the last two years of my life, my experiences and aspirations. And it's also the sort of weed.

Shout (Tears For Fears Cover) and Too Close (Alex Clare cover)" The idea to record covers at the studio appeared spontaneously, and everyone fell in love with it. There are a lot of huge songs, cover versions of which became more hits than originals, for example - "Behind Blue Eyes". These two songs we performed live and the crowd liked it. In any case, we have compositions in our style, and if the idea justifies itself, then in the future there may be new cover versions of the songs in our releases.