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Guns N' Roses Announce Historic Show This Summer

Iommi was a guest at a charity fundraiser at the Opus Restaurant in Birmingham and during the event the host Gary Newborn asked him if the band would play together again.

He responded (via here), "It's highly unlikely, but we may. You can never say never, because we've done it [before] ... So many times, you say, 'Oh, that's it now,' with different singers and this and that, and all of a sudden we're playing together again. I would hope we could do some one-offs, but we'll never tour the world again as we did, because it is really exhausting."

He added, "People think, 'What a great life,' and it is a great life, but it has its toll on your body. All the traveling at different hours of the day and night. You finish a show at 11 o'clock. What we'd normally do is we'd base ourselves in one place, like New York or wherever we were, and then we'd stay in New York for 10 days, fly out and do a show and fly back in the night.

"So by the time you get to the hotel, it's four o'clock or five o'clock [in the morning]. And you don't pass the time, you can't sleep. And that's the difficult part. Even though you travel the best way you can. You could never fault the service. We had a great plane, we had great hotels - everything was marvelous - but it's still tiring."

The newly announced dates kick off with a U.S. run that will begin on October 20th in Salt Lake City, UT at the Maverik Center and wrap up on November 20th in Phoenix, AZ at the Comerica Theatre.

After a short time off they will head overseas for the Euro tour which will be launching on December 2nd in Glasgow, Scotland at Glasgow Academy and finishing up on December 19th in Rome, Italy at Palalottomatica.

The Stones will be alternating the opening acts at the various shows on the eight concert run including former Oasis star Liam Gallagher, Florence + The Machine, The Vaccines, The Specials, Richard Ashcroft (two shows), Elbow and James Bay.

Tipton - who recently announced his retirement from the road following a diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease - was in the lineup for the group's classic tracks "Metal Gods", "Breaking The Law" and "Living After Midnight" while marking his fifth appearance during the band's "Firepower" world tour.

The guitarist personally chose album co-producer Andy Sneap to take over his touring duties, while leaving the door open for possible performances on the trek.

The band played a reportedly song called "Gimme the Keys" and the performance was captured by a fan who shared it via YouTube. The song is most likely set to appear on the band's new album, which frontman Neil Fallon discussed during a radio interview ahead of the festival.

Fallon told 103.7 The Eagle Rocks that the effort will be called "Book Of Bad Decisions" and they expect to release it in September. He said of the recording process, "We were only [there] three weeks, and we managed to bang out 15 songs. It's done, in the bag. [producer Vance Powell] was a joy to work with, and it's a great-sounding record, and we're really pleased with the way it came out."

Harding, a.k.a. Wesley Stace offered an abridged 10 track version of the album on vinyl for Record Store Day this past weekend and will now released an expanded 17-track version on CD and digitally.

The former Motorhead guitarist and the band will be supported on the UK portion of the trek by Leader Of Down (which featured late Motorhead guitarist W�rzel).

The newly expanded version of the album is set to be released on June 22nd and featured the original album remastered along with ten b-side recordings from the era of the original record release.

Singer Shirley Manson had this to say, "Version 2:0 is in my opinion the quintessential garbage record. We are all very grateful to the millions of people who took it to their hearts at the time it was released and to those who continue to love on it still".

The song comes from the group's 2017 studio album "Look At Yourself" and singer Frankie Palmeri had the following to say about the new clip, "I just want to thank all the great people involved with the filming and production of the video.

The new studio effort hit stores on June 15th and frontman Ben Ward had this to say about the first song from record, "'Sons of Salem' is the first track on the album and we consider it an Orange Goblin anthem.

"We see this song being a staple of the live set with the singalong chorus and the awesome, catchy riff. A mean and moody intro to the album that sets the tone throughout, it's short, sweet and straight to the point.

The video was directed by Mike Leber and the song was co-written with Andrew Farriss of INXS. Casey shared these background details about the track, "The song 'Anything You Want' was written with INXS' Andrew Farriss when I was auditioning to be a member of INXS.

"The song has an intense energy and makes you move! We wanted to capture that vitality in the video. My wife (Daniella Casey) is a dance instructor so she rallied up her troops and the vibe they brought is straight-up INCREDIBLE!!!