Today's Day in Rock Stories

Guns N' Roses Play Special Tribute To Chris Cornell

"We're the hardest-working band in show business," Simmons tells Glasgow Live during the group's current UK tour. "I wear over forty pounds of studs and armor and all that stuff, seven-inch platform heels, spit fire and have to fly through the air and do all that stuff. If Bono or Mick Jagger, who we all love, had to dress up and do what I do, they couldn't last an hour - they just couldn't.

"In hindsight," he continued, "it would have been smarter to be a U2 or The Stones, to wear some sneakers and a t-shirt and you're comfortable. No, we had to do it the hard way.

"So we're not gonna be able to do it into our 70s, and I'm 67 now. We'll do it for a few more years, and then when we think it's time to go, we'll go, and we'll do it the right way, with a big party. I'd like to think that we would do something that rocks the planet - something big and worldwide and maybe free."

Haynes wrote the following tribute that same day on his Facebook page, "RIP Gregg Allman - I am at a loss for words. I was moved by Gregg's voice when I first heard the Allman Brothers Band in 1969. I was nine years old. I had not even picked up a guitar yet but thanks to my to older brothers I had been exposed to a lot of great soul music with the best singers in the world. But this was something different. This music was making a deep emotional connection with me even though it was too complex for me to really understand. Somehow, though, it had this "common man" quality that allowed that music to connect with people on so many different levels without analyzing the ingredients that went into it-soul, blues, rock, country, jazz-all mixed together in a way no one had ever done before. And on top of it all was this beautiful voice that could be soothing, terrifying, mellow, angry, and amazingly natural and soulful all at the same time-and instantly captivating. It drew me in. It drew us all in.

The band's seventh album sold 111,000 equivalent album units (including the streaming metric) in its first week with 100,000 in actual album sales, reports Billboard.

The new road trip will visit 10 cities and is scheduled to kick off on October 11th in Calgary, AB at the Southern Alberta Jubilee and will wrap up on October 22nd in Abbotsford, BC at the Abbotsford Centre.

Ian told Duke TV (via Blabbermouth), "Yes, we would love to work with Lady Gaga. I think we put that out there a while ago. And then when we found out she was doing the Grammys with Metallica, I was, like, 'Wow! It makes sense. They're gonna be on a big TV show and do it together.' And I actually thought she was great on it.

The new album, Goldfinger's first in nine years, will also feature appearances from 311 frontman Nick Hexum, Mighty Mighty Boss Tones guitarist Nate Albert, Twenty One Pilots' Josh Dun, ONE OK ROCK's Takahiro Moriuchi and others.

John Feldmann had this to say, "I took my time making this record...Nine years to be exact! I feel like I've made the most concise Goldfinger record in my career. We have all Goldfinger styles together as one, with Zakk Cervini, who mixed the Blink-182 record, and Travis Barker on drums, I couldn't be more proud of an album."

Due June 9, the set was introduced by the lead single, "In My World", and will be debuted live during a series of summer dates across North America starting June 21 in Atlanta, GA.

"We've always had a particular musical relationship since he first joined the band - it was immediate," McVie tells the Daily Express. "The whole band was just chemistry abounding but Lindsey and I, me being the piano player and him the guitar player, understand each other musically without saying anything.

The film was captured during the legendary rock band's performance at the Nepstadion in Budapest on July 27, 1986 and according to the announcement it occurred during frontman Freddie Mercury's final tour with the band.

The band features Mike Patton (Faith No More, Tomahawk), Dave Lombardo (Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies, Misfits), Justin Pearson (The Locust, Retox) and Michael Crain (Retox, Festival of Dead Deer).

The new studio effort is band's first new released in six years. It is set to be released on July 7th and is billed as a return to the sound of their acclaimed 1990 self-titled debut album.

The song comes from the band's just released studio album "Amber Galactic". The group had the following to say about the track, "Almost everyone, no matter who they are, have experienced one, or perhaps even a few, epic nights in their lives.

"That night when you met the love of your life, and you couldn't go to sleep because your heart was beating too fast out of pure excitement and joy. That night when you lost the love of your life. The night when you thought that no matter what happens next, I'll remember this night for the rest of my life.

The event will feature performances from Marilyn Manson, Halestorm, Mastodon, Gojira, In This Moment, Steel Panther, August Burns Red, Beartooth, Starset, Radkey, Bleeker, Badflower, DED, While She Sleeps, Black Map, Greta Van Fleet, He Is Legend, Biters, Them Evils, and more to be announced.

The special event will be taking place from January 4th and 8th with five days and four nights of activities including three electric sets and one acoustic performance from Taking Back Sunday.

The inaugural event is scheduled to take place on February 9th through 11th of next year in at the Wyndham Garden Sterling Heights, just outside of the duo's native Detroit.

"Die on My Ride" was written while I was in a very dark mood. It was right after our second tour in October 2016. I had some personal struggles going on and found it hard to keep up with what I was doing and fighting for what I believe in. So that was the tone of the song, dark, nasty, but there is a little bit hope at the same time.

Confronting challenges from society, opinion, and the most harsh thing, yourself, your own doubt, is what made things harder. "Die on My Ride" is about everyone. We all have this kind of struggle, being pushed around by people, being given a model of behaviors and being questioned for your true self.

The song is about the darkness and the challenge, but it is also about a warrior spirit: that we have decided to die for whatever we are trying to achieve and having no regret for it, because we believe in the deepest truth that no one else can see. Only you can see it, so you decide to go for it, and you embrace the spirit of dying on this ride.

All the melodies and instruments are recorded in a twisted and dark texture, only piano parts give the final touch of our hope and love. I think it is pretty clear musically that what the song is about.