Today's Day in Rock Stories

Guns N' Roses, U2 and Pearl Jam Mega-Shows Shot Down

Simmons has been posting the events for the release of his massive "Gene Simmons - The Vault Experience: 1966-2016" box set and has been joined at previous events by current former KISS stars but Stanley has yet to attend.

Gene told fans at the New York event, "Along the way, some of our friends and family members who started the band with us came by to say hello to wonderful folks like you. Ace has been to three of the 'Vault' events - Los Angeles and a few others. Ace, by the way, is gonna be opening up for the Gene Simmons Band when we do five shows in Australia. He's gonna be using my back-up band and we're just gonna have a great time. He'll play 'Ozone' and lots of other crazy stuff. And Peter Criss came by yesterday, in case you didn't hear. Vinnie Vincent is gonna be in Nashville. Paul Stanley, I can't get him to come out yet, but we'll see. Maybe I'll get him some paint brushes.

Simmons continued, "The thing we do is tease each other. Tommy [Thayer,] and Eric [Singer] came to Los Angeles. Bruce Kulick's been out. Of course, he likes to go out anywhere."

"Fame at last!," writes Clark on his website. "While it's nice to receive recognition for my work, I really can't take it seriously. That said, I've bought a new tuxedo and my signature now ends with the words 'Living Legend'.

"There's a lot of conjecture on forums about whether the band is performing at the Hall of Fame, and if not why not, and who in the band are going to the ceremony," he adds. "Well, here it is and it's official: Myself, Guy Fletcher and John Illsley will attend the ceremony where we'll be performing an unplugged version of 'Telegraph Road', with me on harmonium, Guy on ukulele, John on banjo, and the vocal sung by Stevie Wonder."

While Mark Knopfler has not commented publicly on the event, his brother and co-founding member of the group, David Knopfler, shared his reason for not attending the induction via a comment on his Facebook page.

The new clip was directed by Troy Smith and we were sent the following details about the concept, "In the video, Godsmack's manager--played by actual manager, Paul Geary--suggests that it's time for the band to expand their fan base by working with new (and clueless) video directors, including one played by Sebastian Bach and another by Billy Ray Cyrus.

"After being pitched a host of awful ideas, Sully Erna decides to hire his cousin, Salvatore Pasquale from Sicily, Italy. Everything hilariously goes wrong at the shoot, climaxing with the set catching fire and, ultimately, the destruction of the video files."

The month-long run - which opens in Westbury, NY on August 25 - will see the singer/bassist deliver a two-hour live homage to his tenure in Deep Purple MK 3 and MK 4. "I'm not playing anything on the forthcoming tour that I didn't either play live or record in the studio with Purple," says Hughes "I can still sing the songs, in some ways even better than I did in the 70's. I can still perform them with the same energy that was on the stage back then, too.

"I feel that the time is right. It's fun to get back into character of my days with Purple. I'm looking back at my life and I want to remember the good stuff. I'm incredibly excited to perform these songs, as they helped define the genre. I can assure you, the new show is going to blow your mind."

The tune was the second single from the group's second album, "Ride The Lightning", which peaked at No. 48 on the Billboard 200 on its way to US sales of more than 6 million copies.

The Herning show marked Metallica's return to live action following a 6-week break from the road as they continue a spring trek across Europe that runs into early May.

Eddie explained, "Well, they were interested but with their father being a famous rock star�they are a bit jaded. I met Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, of my favorites, Led Zeppelin. I asked Jimmy if he could sign something to my son, Zach. I took it back to Zach and he said, 'Who's Jimmy Page? Who's Robert Plant?' Just forget about it."

Reavis had this to say about the track, "This song is about a transition I went through in my life. Out from the last phase and into this exciting new phase! This video shows how decisions can change the course of your life forever - sometimes for good and sometimes bad. Sometimes we have to live with things we have done and we are stuck remembering what you've done and wishing you could change it and how we can learn from our actions and make better choices every day."

Dean had this to say about the song, "'Everything Fades' is a song about Love and Loss and yet the World still turns. This album is so near and dear to my heart. Each track is a different journey down the rabbit hole of another Life Lesson I was lucky enough to learn the hard way because I myself prefer the road less traveled, for it is only on those paths that we are lucky enough to experience Emotion colliding with Inspiration while tumbling in the Imagination of our minds.

The concept of the song and EP came about when me and Meka (our singer) were in our rehearsal room one day and we were going over the lyrics and arrangement for "The War Inside" before it was what it is now. Her original idea was to tell a story of a romantic situation where two lovers were split up by war and in the chorus, you can still hear the elements of that story, because she says, "Wait for me, I'll wait for you�", indicating that no matter what happened, one person would wait the amount of time it took to find the other person.

So then we got to talking more and really going into the lyrics, and we came up with the idea that "The War Inside" could stand for more than just an actual war or battle. It could stand for mental wars inside someone's head, it could be a metaphor for what someone's day is like, or addiction battles, even suicidal thoughts. There is a lot going on in the world now a days, and there seems to be a lot of "battles" in different aspects of life now. You have a lot of political influences now, media telling you certain things, personal problems, misleading thoughts, drug/addiction problems, there are just so many. So, we thought that if we opened the theme of "The War Inside" to potentially aim at all of the different battles out there, it might identify with more people and potentially reach a bigger audience.

The overall message in the song is help promote positive conclusions. For instance, if you have an addiction problem, there is always a way out, no matter how hard it may seem. Another example would be if you're feeling overwhelmed with work or your personal life, there is always the ability to change something and make it better. There is always a positive to a negative, it's the law of life and the way everything works.

So when we did the video for "The War Inside", we wanted to make sure and show the duality of things. Meka portrays herself as a shaman trying to save herself from the the mental duality she is experiencing, and the band is shown one way (clean, leather jackets, etc.) then the other way (dirty, makeup, post-apocalyptic, etc.). The video ended up coming out amazing, and it's always so nice to see our visions come to life.

We really hope you all like the new single and the video. Remember no matter what is going on in your life, there is always a way to make things better if they aren't going according to you.