Good morning! Did you see yesterday’s message about sending me questions for Maynard Keenan and Mat Mitchell of Puscifer? They’ll be in our studios on Monday, and I encourage you to hit Pandora to listen to the full album. You will be blown away how awesome it is. And weird (hello, “Simultaneous”?) I love it. Definitely listen even though you may not send a question. And PLEASE, no “When’s the Tool record coming?” He has said over and over, when he gets the music from the band, he does his part. When he doesn’t have music to write to, he can’t. So let’s let that lie for now, ok? I totally appreciate he is even coming to see us (normally, in the past, I have had to go to his dressing room, so this is pretty exciting for us!)
Our friends Lzzy Hale and Halestorm have posted their new music video for “I Am The Fire.” They filmed in the desert and Lzzy told us the track has gotten a strong response when the band plays it live: “Just this past tour, been so many girls coming up and telling me stories, you know, about how that song has kind of changed their course of where they’re going in life and kind of given them that confidence to make a difficult decision, and it’s been really cool.”
Guitarist Joe Hottinger told TeamRock, “I think the lyric that sums up the whole song best is, ‘I am the one that I’ve been waiting for.’ It’s the idea that nobody is holding you back except yourself. So be the fire.” Halestorm is currently touring Canada with Three Days Grace and will hit Hawaii, Japan, and do their very first shows in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore before the year concludes.
The Pulse Of Radio also reporting Korn recently wrapped up a North American tour on Oct 30th on which the band performed its 1994 self-titled debut album from start to finish, and singer Jonathan Davis is probably glad the trek is over. Speaking with Breal.TV, Davis said, “I’m so motherf**king happy I don’t gotta play this f**king album again after this tour. I’m gonna be straight up honest. I don’t like f**king playing that f**king record.”
Davis said he doesn’t enjoy singing those songs anymore because he’s not in the same place as a person that he was back then, explaining, “It’s dark, it f**ks with my head. I’ve gotten into the worst depression on this tour. It’s just some s**t that needs to go to bed.” (I know there were personal reasons why he wouldn’t include “Daddy” in set lists over the years. That one really does a number on him. So having to do that one song every night must have been so hard just for starters!)
Korn guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer echoed his singer’s comments, telling us that the band has changed a lot emotionally since recording the first album: “We’re so different now. I think most of us are (more) mature than we were back then. It’s kind of fun to just see how we react to some of the old songs when we play ’em, and it does bring back memories. But there’s some memories also that aren’t so good.”
JD added that he doesn’t regret the tour, saying, “I’m glad I did it. The only reason I did it was for the fans so they could come out and feel that and see that. Don’t ask again, I’m not gonna do it again.” The band’s debut album has sold more than four million copies since its release and features Korn classics like “Blind,” “Need To” and “Shoots And Ladders.” Korn has just two more dates on its current schedule, in Taiwan on Nov 19th and at Ozzfest Japan on Nov 21st.
Oh man! I think it’s ON! Pulse posted this story this morning, so of course, I will have to get to the bottom of it, but if the wives are talking, it’s got to be real. Seems a former cast member on Bravo’s The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills inadvertently spill the beans about a Guns N’ Roses reunion. According to Loudwire, Brandi Glanville — not exactly known for her discretion while on The Real Housewives — exclaimed “Guns N’ Roses is coming back, motherf**kers!” while being interviewed during a night out with her longtime friend Susan Holmes-McKagan, wife of former Guns bassist Duff McKagan. (You can tell by the look on Susan’s face that “uh oh” look, and shouting “Woo!” at her friend’s remark that it wasn’t supposed to be revealed. However, Holmes-McKagan did post a vintage photo of the classic Guns lineup on her Instagram account last week.)
Rumors about a reunion of the classic Guns N’ Roses lineup have been heating up ever since the summer, when original guitarist Slash revealed that he and singer Axl Rose had repaired their relationship after nearly 20 years of estrangement. The longtime feud between Slash and Rose has been seen for some time as the main stumbling block to a reunion of the original lineup, which has not performed together in 24 years. Several members have recently left the current lineup of Guns N’ Roses, which features Rose as the sole original member. The band has not performed live since last year. The Guns N’ Roses Twitter account has posted several cryptic messages lately, including “Whatever happened to no news is good news,” and “Surely they’ll read between the lines.”
Pulse also says a White Zombie vinyl box set is coming in 2016, according to former bassist Sean Yseult. Speaking with Artisan News, Yseult said, “J.(Yuenger, ex-White Zombie guitarist) and I — and, actually, Rob (Zombie, ex-White Zombie frontman) got in on it too — we’ve been working on a box set . . . It’s coming out, I believe, this spring or summer. We’ve been working on it for over a year.” Asked what will be inside the set, Yseult explained, “There’s, I think, fifty pages of liner notes. They’ve been interviewing us all for months and months. J. and I sent them all of our White Zombie ephemera — from t-shirts to old punk-rock flyers to everything — and they did a beautiful job on the booklet. It’s gonna be a box set — all vinyl, all the early records that we started in 1985.”
Yseult hinted that there may be some previously unreleased music included with the set as well. A White Zombie CD box set came out in 2008, containing the band’s complete catalog of music and videos. White Zombie was formed in 1985 in New York City and broke up in 1997, with Rob going on to launch a successful solo career in 1998.
Rob Zombie told us a while back he’s made his peace with his previous band’s output after not being happy with it for years: “A lot of the White Zombie stuff, I hadn’t listened to any of these songs since we did ’em and in fact if someone had played me the songs and didn’t tell me what they were, I probably wouldn’t even remember that they were us. But at the time, I remember doing them, going, ‘Eh, that sounds like crap, I hate this record,’ and never listening to it again. But now hearing it, and hearing how it’s so lo-fi and it’s so weird, kind of enjoying it. But at the time it always felt like it fell short of what I was actually trying to accomplish.“
Blabbermouth says Delores Rhoads, the mother of legendary Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Randy Rhoads, has reportedly died at the age of 95. Delores was born in San Bernardino on March 30th, 1920, and started both learning and teaching music from a very young age. In 1948, she founded the Musonia music school, where all three of her children would also become students. Delores played some 15 instruments, including trumpet, piano, violin, flute and more, and was her son Randy’s lifelong music instructor. The late guitarist, who died in a 1982 plane crash, paid tribute to his mother with the instrumental “Dee” on Ozzy’s 1980 solo debut, Blizzard Of Ozz. Check out this video interview featuring Delores talking about her son.
Happy 70th today to Neil Young!