Legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen recently talked to Guitar World magazine about the "Guitar Gods" tour (also featuring Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal of GUNS N' ROSES and Gary Hoey), and his love for Fender Stratocasters. Check out the clip below. Malmsteen is currently mixing a live album and DVD recorded at back-to-back shows in Tampa and ...
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GUNS N' ROSES will release "Appetite For Democracy 3D: Live From The Hard Rock Casino - Las Vegas" on July 1 via Universal Music Enterprises. The show was filmed on November 21, 2012 during the "Appetite For Democracy" tour in celebration of twenty-five years of "Appetite For Destruction" and four years of "Chinese Democracy". A ...
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Episode 22 of "One On One With Mitch Lafon" features an interview with GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal. You can now listen to the chat using the Spreaker widget below. Asked what it was like sharing the stage with original GUNS N' ROSES bassist Duff McKagan at five GUNS N' ROSES concerts in ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen's June 15 performance at Braun's Concert Cove in Akron, New York during the "Guitar Gods" tour with Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal of GUNS N' ROSES and Gary Hoey can be seen below. Malmsteen is currently mixing a live album and DVD recorded at back-to-back shows in Tampa ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen's June 17 performance at Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey during the "Guitar Gods" tour with Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal of GUNS N' ROSES and Gary Hoey can be seen below. Malmsteen is currently mixing a live album and DVD recorded at back-to-back shows in ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of legendary guitarist Uli Jon Roth (SCORPIONS) performing live at Muskelrock festival at Tyrolen in Blädinge, Sweden on May 30 can be seen below. Roth was forced to pull out of the previously announced "Guitar Gods" tour alongside Yngwie Malmsteen, Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (GUNS N' ROSES) and Gary Hoey due to visa ...
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Legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen spoke to Artisan News about the Guitar Gods tour, which kicked off June 12 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The trek features Malmsteen alongside Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal of GUNS N' ROSES and Gary Hoey. "This was my wife's idea. 100 percent her idea," he said (see video below). "She came up with ...
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Legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen has revealed to Highway 81 Revisited that he is currently mixing a live album and DVD recorded at back-to-back shows in Tampa and Orlando. According to Yngwie, it'll be released in August and will probably be called "Spellbound Live". He told CitizensVoice.com about the live album and DVD: ...
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GUNS N' ROSES frontman Axl Rose makes a cameo in a new Budweiser World Cup commercial, which can be seen below. Seconds into the two-and-a-half-minute video, you see a familiar-looking bodyguard, who is in fact Brazil's beloved UFC legend Anderson Silva. Shortly after, a band comprised of Gary Cahill, Samuel Eto'o and Hulk — professional ...
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Legendary guitarist Uli Jon Roth (SCORPIONS) has been forced to pull out of the previously announced "Guitar Gods" tour alongside Yngwie Malmsteen, Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (GUNS N' ROSES) and Gary Hoey. Says Roth in a statement: "Unfortunately, we are forced to cancel my participation in this tour due to unforeseen circumstances which are beyond our ...
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With over 100 million albums sold, the world's most dangerous bandreturns for this historic Sin City takeover! Now captured in 3D and 5.1 sound, GUNS N' ROSES' new concert film, "Appetite For Democracy 3D: Live From The Hard Rock Casino - Las Vegas", is coming to U.S. cinemas Saturday, June 14. Rockfuel Media has selected ...
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Artisan News has uploaded a 70-minute Revolver Golden Gods black-carpet special featuring "complete" interviews with: * Wendy Dio (Ronnie James Dio's manager/wife) * Dee Snider (TWISTED SISTER) * Mike Portnoy, Billy Sheehan, Richie Kotzen (THE WINERY DOGS) * 12 FOOT NINJA * James Michael (SIXX: A.M.) * DJ Ashba, Richard Fortus, Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal Bumblefoot ...
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During a brand new interview with Revolver magazine, GUNS N' ROSES singer Axl Rose was asked where things stand as far as recording the follow-up to the band's 2008 album "Chinese Democracy". "We recorded a lot of things before 'Chinese' was out," Axl said. "We've worked more on some of those things and we've written ...
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GUNS N' ROSES will release "Appetite For Democracy 3D: Live From The Hard Rock Casino - Las Vegas" on July 1 via Universal Music Enterprises. The show was filmed on November 21, 2012 during the "Appetite For Democracy" tour in celebration of twenty-five years of "Appetite For Destruction" and four years of "Chinese Democracy". "Appetite ...
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GUNS N' ROSES lead singer Axl Rose has dimissed as "bullshit" a report posted at RadarOnline.com which claimed that the band was about to break up. The article in question quoted "a source close to the band" as saying that Rose will call it a day after the group finishes up its Las ...
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Legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen will headline the Guitar Gods tour, set to take place in North America in June/July. Joining Malmsteen on all shows will be Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (GUNS N' ROSES), Uli Jon Roth (SCORPIONS) and Gary Hoey. Speaking to Ruben Mosqueda of Oregon Music News, Malmsteen stated about the trek: ...
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GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Daren Jay "DJ" Ashba tells Las Vegas Review-Journal that one of his favorite things about being in the band is the unpredictability of the group's live shows — including the time they take the stage and the songs they will perform during each concert. "That's what I've always loved ...
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With dozens of bands congregating on Columbus, Ohio this weekend for the annual Rock On The Range festival, one of the event's headliners, GUNS N' ROSES, played a warm-up gig on Tuesday night (May 13) in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. According to The Pulse Of Radio, the Axl Rose-led act broke out a slew of cover tunes ...
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GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Richard Fortus told the Associated Press at yesterday's (Wednesday, April 23) Revolver Golden Gods awards show in Los Angeles that fans could see new music from the band in the next year. "We are working on stuff and hopefully very soon we're going to have new stuff out," Fortus said on ...
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A Bolivian TV report on GUNS N' ROSES' April 12 concert in La Paz, Bolivia — including an interview with the band's guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal — can be seen below. As previously reported, Slash recently said that he was not concerned about Duff McKagan's reunion with Axl Rose at five GUNS N' ROSES shows ...
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GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Daren Jay "DJ" Ashba was interviewed by Bolivian TV ahead of the band's recent appearance in the country. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. Ashba, who joined GUNS N' ROSES in March 2009 following the departure of Robin Finck, spoke to The Sydney Morning Herald ...
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Legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen will headline the Guitar Gods tour, set to take place in North America in June/July. Joining Malmsteen on all shows will be Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (GUNS N' ROSES), Uli Jon Roth (SCORPIONS) and Gary Hoey. A two-minute promotional video for the Guitar Gods tour can be seen below. Malmsteen is ...
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Legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen will headline the Guitar Gods tour, set to take place in North America in June/July. Joining Malmsteen on all shows will be Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (GUNS N' ROSES), Uli Jon Roth (SCORPIONS) and Gary Hoey. Malmsteen is one of the most technically accomplished guitarists of all time, rewriting the book ...
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Ex-GUNS N' ROSES bassist Duff McKagan played the first of five shows with the band last night (Sunday, April 6) at Estadio Ferrocarril Oeste in Buenos Aires, Argentina. McKagan is filling in for GN'R's current bassist, Tommy Stinson, during the group's South American tour because Stinson is reuniting with THE REPLACEMENTS for two high-profile dates ...
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The latest episode of the "Talking Metal" podcast (web site) features an interview with GUNS N' ROSES and SIXX: A.M. guitarist Daren Jay "DJ" Ashba. You can now listen to the podcast using the audio player below. (Note: The Ashba chat begins around the 21-minute mark.) Ashba, who joined GUNS N' ROSES in ...
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Nuno Bettencourt (EXTREME, RIHANNA), Marty Friedman (MEGADETH), Gus G. (OZZY OSBOURNE, FIREWIND), Alex Skolnick (TESTAMENT), Phil Demmel (MACHINE HEAD), Brad Gillis (NIGHT RANGER), Kiko Loureiro (ANGRA), Rowan Robertson (DIO), Tracii Guns (L.A. GUNS) and Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (GUNS N' ROSES) are among the musicians who performed at the "Randy Rhoads Remembered: A Celebration Of A ...
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Guitar virtuoso Gus G., well known in rock and metal circles for his work as Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist and as leader of his own band FIREWIND, has set a March 18 release date for his debut solo album, "I Am The Fire", in North America. The CD will be released internationally on Century Media Records, ...
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Guitar virtuoso Gus G., well known in rock and metal circles for his work as Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist and as leader of his own band FIREWIND, has set a March 18, 2014 release date for his debut solo album, "I Am The Fire", in North America. The CD will be released internationally on Century Media ...
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Guitarist Yossi Sassi, founding member of Israel-based oriental folk metallers ORPHANED LAND, has announced his departure from the band. In a statement, he said: "I never thought that someday I'll write these words… yet if there's something stronger than our past — it is our future, and our dreams, as we evolve and understand what ...
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Shooting for the forthcoming rock photography book titled "Before I Hit The Stage: Backstage Rock 'N' Roll Moments In New York City, 2013" wrapped when Andrew W.K. partied hard this past New Year's Eve at Manhattan's Irving Plaza. The book is set to become the first ever published that photographically documents touring rock 'n' roll ...
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