Today's Day in Rock Stories

Stone Temple Pilots Star Talks New Singer And Album

"By now, many of you will know I won't be doing the Judas Priest tour because of health issues," explains Tipton. "I'm so sorry, but four years ago I was diagnosed with Parkinson's and was told by my specialist that I had already had it for over ten years. I knew something was wrong with my co-ordination and fluency regarding my playing but I worked around it and battled on; I have good days and bad days but the disease is degenerative and I would never want to compromise the greatest metal band in the world.

"It was, therefore, during the last rehearsals I decided to step down and have Andy Sneap fill in; he's a great guy and I'm sure he'll do a great job. I'm sure the band will be as strong than ever."

"I have been overwhelmed by the massive support and love I've had from other artists and from fans all over the world and from many friends and metal maniacs out there," adds the guitarist. "It's not the end for me: I'll still be able to write and record and, on good days, even join the band on stage for a few songs. With new medication and advances being made who knows what the future holds, but one thing's for sure - it will certainly involve Priest!

"This is a return to the very beginning, to the time before Pete Townshend started writing our songs, to a time when we were a teenage band playing soul music to small crowds in church halls," says Daltrey. "That's what we were, a soul band. And now, I can sing soul with all the experience you need to sing it. Life puts the soul in.

"I've always sung from the heart but when you're 19, you haven't had the life experience with all its emotional trials and traumas that you have by the time you get to my age. You carry all the emotional bruises of life and when you sing these songs, those emotions are in your voice. You feel the pain of a lost love. You feel it and you sing it and that's soul.

"For a long time, I've wanted to return to the simplicity of these songs," he adds, "to show people my voice, a voice they won't have heard before. It felt like the right time. It's where I am, looking back to that time, looking across all those years but also being here, now, in the soulful moment."

The film opens in a conference room as Collette's character informs Arcade Fire that they're bankrupt. In order to pay their debt, they must partner with Everything Now Corporation, which will take 98.3% of their future earnings and commit the band to participate in product placement. The cameras then cut to various members of Arcade Fire acting in commercials for soft drinks, cereal and even coffins.

While playing a gig at a casino, where their songs are merely background music, the entire band starts to lose it. The members interrupt table games by throwing cards and money and destroy the stage, which is littered with cereal boxes, soft drinks and instruments.

Moments later, they're filmed back at the coffin, which is emblazoned with their band's name � and filled with money. As the band members try to flee the scene with thousands of dollars, everyone except frontman Win Butler is captured.

I was in the middle of making this record; Life Is A Flower, Life Is A Gun and about six months in I had a stroke. The stroke was obviously terrible, but the cause of the stroke was a little worse for my carotid artery had dissected in my neck which means it had torn and unfortunately, the tear was not operable.

So, I had to, in my own way, try to heal it. They (doctors) sent me home from the hospital, and about four days later the carotid artery tore again. Around midnight that night when it happened, I was in an ambulance heading towards Savannah, Georgia which is about 45 minutes away from where I lived. I remember thinking this is probably where I'm going to die. I've always been meditative and prayerful in my life, so I started praying, but my mind was really not there yet; I just suffered a stroke a week earlier.

So I started trying to remember, 'what are the prayers my mother used to say?' I'm thinking this to myself at that moment the girl in the ambulance with me said, "We're crossing the river, The Big River; Savannah River and I could think of was John The Baptist below me on the river, so I thought of him.

As I thought of all the souls he had saved, and I prayed to him or through him with him, and we ended up at Savannah Memorial Hospital. I was in Savannah for another week, and then we ended up at Emory in Atlanta.

But about seven or eight months later when I was able to think again, and I speak have more command of my language I reflected on that moment crossing the river, and I wrote "John The Baptist."

"It is commonly perceived that the essence of the New York Dolls was never satisfactorily captured by their two albums for the Mercury label, both of which many believe suffered from unsympathetic production," reads a press release. "Fortunately for us all, the band's untutored rawness, unencumbered strength of purpose and unique vision is better served by the recordings that are gathered together for the first time on Personality Crisis: Live Recordings & Studio Demos 1972-1975.

Page will be performing with The Barenaked Ladies (the first together in nearly a decade) at The Juno Awards 2018 where the band will be inducted into the Canadian music hall of fame.

"I've been wanting to kind of hook up with Billy or ZZ for a long time," explains Fogerty about the origins of the 2018 run. "I think we've traded emails. I ran into him down somewhere and I was playing and Billy was playing the next night. I had him come into my show and we did 'Sharp Dressed Man.' It was a lot of fun. He sent me a couple of emails. I think he even gave me a CD or two that he labelled 'Big Ol' Blues.' There was a whole bunch of great old songs on there. We've been trying for a while and it finally has fallen into place, which I'm delighted about."

The ZZ Top guitarist reveals the pair will take turns closing the show each night. "We're tossing the coin," says Gibbons. "Who is going to start, who is going to stop and do we have to stop? That was the real question. I think it'll work out nicely. It's a collaboration experience, which I think makes a lot of sense, not only for both bands, but for the fans and followers."

The two surviving members of the band sat down with Rather at the Whisky A Go Go on Hollywood's Sunset Strip to reminisce about their music, the sixties, activism, and the life and death of Jim Morrison.

"Carrie McFall, she's VERY cross with me right now she's not even as big a Slayer fan as I am!!," wrote the dad on his Facebook in a post that has been embraced by even the grimmest metal fans.

"She's only heard a couple guitar solos here n there while I'm working in the shop, she only likes them cuz I like them," he continued. "But yeah, she's mad at me#futureMetalHead." The clip, shot in a car, starts with the little girl telling her dad several times, "I just wanna go see Slayer."

"You can't go see Slayer, baby. You're too little," he replies. After a pause, he asks, "Are you mad at me?" and then his daughter bursts into tears. "Aw, don't cry. C'mon. Don't cry, Baby, they don't let little kids in there. Slayer's not for little kids."

The dad tries to placate his daughter by asking her if she wants to go see Cinderella or Mickey Mouse instead, but the child remains inconsolable. "Man, this isn't good," he concludes. "We got a diehard Slayer fan at four years old. I'm in big trouble."

It's the Stereotypes remix of the track that serves as the soundtrack for the "Around the World" video, which also comes with live performance images of the group.

He will be performing with a variety of special guests along the tour, including Oh Wonder and Jenny Lewis. The new slate of dates kick off July 7 in Detroit, MI.

Beck has also revealed a new remix of "Up All Night" by electronic duo, Oliver. The smooth new version turns up the '80s pop aesthetics for a kicky and fun interpretation of the tune taken from his latest album, Colors.