Good morning! Up early and out early! This week we are preparing for interviews with Duff McKagan to promote his new book, How To Be A Man (and Other Illusions.) Faith No More, Of Mice & Men, Butcher Babies and Amaranthe,too! Plus prepping to send Lou Brutus and Paulie Walnuts to the 9th annual Rock On The Range in Columbus on Friday. CRAZY times. But this is what we do and we happen to LOVE IT!
Godsmack frontman Sully Erna said that the band plans to tie the release of single “What’s Next” from their 1000 Horsepower album with the military’s launch of a campaign. Erna told a radio station in Syracuse: “The best part of releasing the single is we’re gonna do a whole campaign, because the lyrical content to the song is about the only thing that is certain is life and death, but what’s next? So we’re doing a whole campaign with the U.S. military — all the men and women of the U.S. armed forces — we’re teaming together with them. We’re gonna do a whole campaign to help out homeless vets, to help out guys with PTSD, all that stuff. We’re just gonna do a whole thing for an awareness level, for a bit of inspiration. It’s noble. Just a lot of great things.” He goes on, describing the concept behind the record: “The whole concept of the record was, really, going back to the roots of Boston and part of our history of that was we were, as people know, a big part of the Navy [promotion]. We used to be … we were the recruit song for six years in a row. So we wanna kind of bring it back to that as well. And we’re such big supporters of the U.S. troops. We don’t support war — we wanna be clear about that — but we support our troops and what they have to do, and how they put their lives on the line for us every day so we can live in a country like this.” Erna also said that the band is coordinating with the Boston Red Sox Home Base charity on their work with patients suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (Thanks Pulse of Radio.)
Halestorm has posted the lyric video for “Dear Daughter.” Just in time for Mother’s Day!
My friend Carlota Gonzalez from 92.3 KOMP in Las Vegas was the co-host of last weekend’s Rock in Rio there in Sin City. She got to interview my pal Chino Moreno of The Deftones, who revealed Jerry Cantrell make an appearance on the upcoming Deftones album, due in September. “Jerry is on the album. I didn’t know if he wanted anybody to know or not. But I guess I’ve just spilled the beans. But he came in… There’s this one track that… in the demo stages of it, I was, like, ‘There’s this hole in there…’”
AC/DC played in Nuremberg, Germany over the weekend at Zeppelinfeld. A fan filmed the show. Here’s ” Rock Or Bust”! I bet listeners of 97.1 Gong Radio were there in full-force!
Happy 37th today to Perttu Kivilaasko of Apocalyptica!