Hey y’all! Hope you are enjoying the return of summer here like we are on the east coast. Actually, I am NOT liking it, but my feet are still enjoying wearing sandals (how I HATE shoes.) Anyhow, yesterday goes down in history as a Gold Star Day! Didn’t start out that way. Mercury being in retrograde and all, but once I got to the Ed Sullivan Theater and got to hang with the Foo Fighters, it was much better! Chatted it up with Chris Shifflett (I know his uncle Larry) standing in the hallway of their dressing rooms waiting for Taylor Hawkins and Nate Mendel to get ready for my interview. But then there was Dave Grohl! He was texting someone on his phone. I said hello and wasn’t sure if he remembered me (altho I did interview him two other times in person and a bunch of times on the phone.) “Of course I remember you, Roxy!” and gave me this BIG HUG! (I went limp!) Told him how much I LOVED the first episode of Sonic Highways and hope we get to chat during this album cycle. He said we will! So I am HOLDING him to it! (Why didn’t I take a selfie?) Not to say my interview with Taylor and Nate was slouchy! It was GREAT! As soon as I can, we’ll post it on the new hardDriveRadio APP so you can hear it for yourself! Oh and I want to correct my story from yesterday. Cubby Bear wasn’t the premiere punk club in Chicago, but it happens to be the only one still standing today. Just watch the HBO special Friday night, you will see all! Set your DVR for 11 PM! And this afternoon, the new Foo Fighter’s single “Something From Nothing” will drop. It’s great. And has some funky clavinet in it, too! We expect the band will perform it tonight on the Late Nite with David Letterman. Last night, Louisianan Tony Joe White and the Foos performed White’s “Polk Salad Annie.” (Check out that rattlesnake guitar strap, yo!) That tune is from 1969! White is also known for his hit “Rainy Night In Georgia.” … In other news, speaking of Chicago, Rob Zombie‘s Great American Nightmare haunted house attraction has drawn complaints in Chicago for a room portraying real-life serial killer John Wayne Gacy, in which an actor dressed as Gacy sits in his famous clown costume, blowing up balloons, while two ghoulish dolls dressed as Boy Scouts sit on the couch. One prosecutor in the Gacy case said the room was “in terrible taste,” while a second prosecutor added, “It’s a little too close to home and might open some old wounds . . . I don’t argue with Rob Zombie’s right to do what he’s doing. But it’s a shame that what he’s doing is causing the victims’ families pain.” Zombie himself surmised earlier this year that there would be “backlash” to the attraction, while its producer, Steve Kopelman, said, “It’s tasteless and offensive, but it’s art.” Known as the Killer Clown, Gacy was convicted of the sexual assault and murder of 33 teenage boys and young men in Chicago between 1972 and 1978. Yikes! (Thanks Pulse Of Radio/Blabbermouth)….In other horror story news, seems the San Bernardino fire officials have put the kibosh on allowing the Knotfest folks to fill oil cans with camel dung and some sort of oil and burn the concoction during the festival next weekend. I guess the festival folks weren’t remembering California is in a drought state and the chance of a wild fire could be a horrible thing. I think concert goers will now be able to breathe a sigh of relief, eh? (And California has enough smog; who needs to smell burning camel dung anyhow?)….. Blabbermouth also reports Halestorm‘s and Ask Lzzy host Lzzy Hale, her brother Arejay and Josh Smith were interviewed by PopCultureMadness.com last month. Check it out here. …..Happy Birthday today to Flea! He’s 52! And Happy 43rd to Chad Gray of HellYeah!