Happy Monday! Almost didn’t think we would be here this morning. Drove through a small tornado near Albany, NY yesterday. Trees falling all over the place! Scary when you are in a line of crawling traffic along tree-lined roads with no where to go! Whew. Mother Nature was on our side.
OK, so when is this guy going to wake up and smell the coffee? Pulse Of Radio reporting this morning AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd was arrested again on Saturday night (Jul 18th) at his home in Tauranga, New Zealand, according to multiple local reports. The 61-year-old rocker appeared in Tauranga District Court on Monday morning (July 20th) and was released on bail. Police charged him with possessing and consuming alcohol — a breach of the conditions of an eight-month home detention sentence handed down to Rudd earlier this month.
Rudd is expected to return to court on August 3rd to answer the latest charge. He is now facing up to one year in jail and a fine of $2,000 New Zealand dollars. Rudd is also now subject to on-demand drug testing. He pleaded guilty in April to charges of threatening to kill and drug possession following his arrest last fall. He faced up to seven years behind bars, but was sentenced to eight months of home detention and monitoring, along with a stay in a rehab program. Rudd’s son submitted an affidavit to the court which said in part that his father “has a heart of gold and wouldn’t hurt a fly. It’s just when the drugs take over, he behaves how he taught me not to.” Rudd played with AC/DC for 30 years and performed on the band’s new album, Rock Or Bust, before his arrest. Chris Slade, who played with AC/DC from 1990 to 1993, was announced in February as the group’s drummer for its current world tour.
I attended the Foo Fighters’ show Thursday. That was the night for the encore, Darryl Jenifer and Dr Know, bassist and guitarist of Bad Brains, joined the band on stage for two of the legendary DC group’s songs “How Low Can A Punk Get” and “The Regulator.” The night before, Chad Smith from the Red Hot Chili Peppers joined for a cover of the Faces’ “Stay With Me.” Anyhow, that was the night I got to sit with Dave. We talked about his “throne,” his self-designed chair which enables him to perform and motor himself on stage. He told me how the origins of the chair came to be. “You know when you’re a kid and you’re in school, you sit in your notebooks in class and you draw instruments and stages and stuff like that in your notebook. It’s the exact same thing. If you see the photo, it’s like, it looks like I did it when I was in seventh grade. And it actually happened. And we did the show on the 4th of July, that’s when I realized like, ‘Oh, the throne is the star of the show now.’ People want to see the throne. And you’ll see the throne. The throne’s badass. It’s really fun.”
Stone Sour singer Corey Taylor has revealed more details about the band’s next two covers EPs, which will follow up the April release of its first one, Meanwhile In Burbank . . . . Taylor told us that each EP will feature five songs like the initial disc. The first EP, Straight Outta Burbank, will feature covers of songs from the Bad Brains, the Rolling Stones, Slayer, Motley Crue and Iron Maiden, while the second one, No Sleep ‘Till Burbank, will focus on tunes from Van Halen, the Violent Femmes, the Buzzcocks, Rage Against The Machine and AC/DC. Meanwhile In Burbank . . . was released as a Record Store Day vinyl exclusive and digitally via iTunes. It contained songs from Metallica, Kiss, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Alice In Chains.
Taylor told us how the recording of the EPs could impact the next all-new Stone Sour album: “What it did teach us was that we could go into a room and record live, and have it sound tight, have it sound exciting, have it sound like it was recorded together instead of layered in a studio. And I think that’s one of the interesting things that we might try with this upcoming album.”
Lou Brutus got the royal treatment this weekend at RockFest in Cadott, WI. He’s winging his way home so he can be back on the air tonight and I am sure we will get great stories of his escapades backstage hanging with everyone from Avenged Sevenfold to Shinedown and all the other killer bands in between. Look for Lou’s stage shots too! We’ll be featuring lots of his interviews on both hardDrive and hardDirve XL real soon!
New tunes for your ears! Saint Asonia “Let Me Live My Life” and Bullet For My Valentine “Army of Noise” have surfaced. Saint Asonia will be in the house on Jul 29th. If you have questions for the band, who are also going to be doing our Live App Chats on Jul 28 & 30, start writing them down so you can participate
The PRP reporting Deftones singer Chino Moreno tweeted last Thursday (July 16th) that his son Jakobe‘s band, Death Rogen, was playing its first show in Sacramento that evening. The skatepunk outfit has just released its debut self-titled EP. Meanwhile, dear old dad makes a guest appearance on a newly released track called “Embers” from the upcoming Lamb Of God album VII: Sturm Und Drang, due out this Friday (July 24th).
Birthdays! Chris Cornell of Soundgarden is 51. Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam is 49. Carlos Santana, 68. Andrew Stockdate of Wolfmother is 39. Giselle Bundchen is 35 and Sandra Oh is 44. Have a great day!