Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and enjoyed the annual Cover It Up special edition of hardDrive. If you missed the cover song show, you can stream it on the hardDriveRadio APP. 🙂
Congrats to Bring Me The Horizon as their first single “Throne” from That’s The Spirit is currently the Number One most played rock track on the Mainstream and Active Rock singles charts. Meanwhile, Disturbed‘s “The Light” is waiting patiently in the wings to be dubbed Number One this week!
As we all got ready join with family and friends to give thanks for all of the things we are thankful for, Eddie Vedder paid tribute to the victims in Paris last Sunday night (Nov 22nd.) The Pearl Jam singer dedicated a cover of John Lennon‘s “Imagine” during a show in Rio de Janeiro to a fan named Pierre-Antoine Henry, who was tragically killed at the Eagles Of Death Metal show in Paris over two weeks ago by ISIS terrorists. Vedder also made a moving speech before the song.
(Piere-Antoine Henry in center with Matt Cameron and Mike McCready of Pearl Jam.)
A friend of Henry reached out to Alternative Nation to get audio of the speech for Henry’s funeral, and the site in turn alerted the Pearl Jam camp — which pulled the professionally recorded audio of Vedder’s speech and had it sent in time for Henry’s funeral. Vedder said in his tribute, “Playing these shows it feels like family. A really, really big family. And of course we are always concerned about safety. For yours, for ours, for the crew, for everybody. You know music can bring joy. It also can help you deal with anger. It can also help you with sadness. And when you get a gathering of people at a show all these things become more powerful because you are sharing them with all these other people at the same time.”
He continued, “And it makes the senseless, senseless tragedy that occurred last week in Paris even more upsetting and the fact that it happened during concert with a great band and great Parisian fans it hurts us and breaks our hearts to the core and it broke our hearts even more and more deeply when we heard that someone, a really good man, a father of two, a great husband, great brother, a great son — and he was always in the front row of the shows when we played in Europe — and we found out recently that he lost his life, when like all the others he deserved very much to still be living.”
Henry was one of the 89 people killed by ISIS attackers at the Eagles Of Death Metal concert. A total of 132 were killed and hundreds more injured in seven coordinated attacks around Paris. Pearl Jam wrapped up its South American tour on Saturday (Nov 28th) in Mexico City. (Thanks to The Pulse Of Radio.)
The PRP reports former Avenged Sevenfold drummer Arin Ilejay didn’t stay unemployed for very long. He’s been tapped by the band Islander to sit behind the kit on the band’s short December tour, which begins on Wednesday (Dec 2nd) in Atlanta and wraps up on the 13th in Pittsburgh. It is not yet clear if his position is a permanent one. Ilejay’s dismissal from Avenged Sevenfold was made public earlier this year.
Wow, Kiss will play an all acoustic show in Sioux Falls, SD on Feb 11th. Now that’s pretty interesting. Sans make-up! Reminds me when I lived in LA and repped video directors. My director Mark Rezyka directed the band in 1993 for the the ballad, “Forever.” (Bruce Kulick era.) Actually the first video we did for the band was “Rise To It,” the clip where they put their make-up BACK ON in 1989 after 6 years without it. And after the filming was over, I was standing behind Gene Simmons, as he was holding his then baby son Nick, and, accidentally, he stepped on my sneakered foot with his big gigantic dragon boots. I thought it was broken. It hurt so bad! LOL Ah, the good ole days in LA!
Oh boy! Blabbermouth reports Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star is releasing “Lullaby Versions of Ghost B.C.” LOL You can listen to audio samples at this location.
Slayer fans will rejoice in the news they will kick off a tour in the new year with Testament and Carcass. The run so far as one date that has been revealed, Mar 3 in Philadelphia. Stay tuned for more.
Celebrating life today: John Moyer of Disturbed is 42. Billy Idol is 60 and Roger Glover of Deep Purple and Rainbow is 70.