As the New Year kicks off, Joe Satriani is gearing up to launch his career retrospective "Surfing to Shockwave" tour on February 25 in Seattle, Washington. The 48-date tour will be celebrating "30 Years Of Mind-Bending Guitar Daredevilry", a phrase coined in a June 2014 career-defining retrospective feature in Rolling Stone. Satriani will spotlight music ...
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A memorial celebration for legendary rock guitarist Ronnie Montrose will be held on January 23. The event, dubbed "Ronnie Montrose Remembered", will be held at the Observatory in Santa Ana, California and will feature many well-known rock musicians and artists coming together to pay homage to Ronnie and his music. This one-time tribute concert to ...
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IRON MAIDEN guitarist Dave Murray joined members of Alice Cooper's band on stage last night (Thursday, December 31) at Alice manager Shep Gordon's star-studded New Year's Eve benefit bash in Maui, Hawaii to perform the MOTÖRHEAD classic "Ace Of Spades". Dave also performed THE BEATLES song "Revolution" with a group of stars that included Sammy ...
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KIX guitarist Brian Forsythe has confirmed that his bandmate Ronnie Younkins went back to rehab earlier this year to receive treatment for alcohol addiction. Speaking to Bob Suehs of Rock N Roll Experience, Forsythe said (see video below): "[Ronnie returned to rehab] for a little bit — for a month and a half, ...
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AXS TV expands its music programming lineup with the all-new original series "Rock & Roll Road Trip With Sammy Hagar", premiering Sunday, January 24, 2016 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. The six-episode series features all-star guest appearances and unforgettable performances, as the Red Rocker drives across the country to jam with some of music's ...
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AXS TV expands its music programming lineup with the all-new original series "Rock & Roll Road Trip With Sammy Hagar", premiering Sunday, January 24, 2016 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. The six-episode series features all-star guest appearances and unforgettable performances, as the Red Rocker drives across the country to jam with some of music's ...
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"At Your Service" is the first concert DVD from Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony, Jason Bonham and Vic Johnson — better known as THE CIRCLE. The DVD captures the supergroup jamming on 17 legendary tracks which span more than 40 years of rock music history. Recorded live during the band's first North American tour, 2014's "A ...
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A memorial celebration for legendary rock guitarist Ronnie Montrose will be held on January 23, 2016. The event, dubbed "Ronnie Montrose Remembered", will be held at the Observatory in Santa Ana, California and will feature many well-known rock musicians and artists coming together to pay homage to Ronnie and his music. Billed as a NAMM ...
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Legendary rocker Sammy Hagar and Vic Johnson performed at halftime during CBS's "Thursday Night Football" between the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks on October 22 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Video footage of the performance can be seen below. Hagar recently confirmed to Ultimate Classic Rock that he has recorded one new ...
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The third VAN HALEN frontman, Gary Cherone, who took over when Sammy Hagar left the group (or was fired, depending on whom you ask) in 1996, was interviewed on a recent episode of "Talk Is Jericho", the podcast of Chris Jericho, the world champion pro wrestler, actor, New York Times best-selling author and lead vocalist ...
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Legendary rocker Sammy Hagar will perform at halftime during CBS's "Thursday Night Football" between the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks on October 22 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Hagar recently confirmed to Ultimate Classic Rock that he has recorded one new song with his CHICKENFOOT bandmates, "Before I Die", and has vowed ...
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Author Greg Renoff spoke to BostonHerald.com about his newly released VAN HALEN biography, "Van Halen Rising: How A Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal", in which he wrote about the time in 1977 when producer Ted Templeman almost replaced VAN HALEN singer David Lee Roth with Sammy Hagar. Said Renoff: "Ted ...
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In a brand new interview with RollingStone.com, former VAN HALEN singer Sammy Hagar was asked if he thinks people are losing interesting in seeing the current lineup of the band, featuring David Lee Roth on vocals and Wolfgang Van Halen on bass. He responded: "I can only speculate on what I've seen on ...
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2016 marks the 20th anniversary of Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp, and four of the greatest guitarists and a legendary drummer come together in Los Angeles to headline one of the most amazing camp's ever assembled on Presidents Day/Grammy weekend, Feb. 11-14, 2016. Campers will have the opportunity to meet and jam with guitarists Tony ...
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Sammy Hagar has confirmed to Ultimate Classic Rock that he has recorded one new song with his CHICKENFOOT bandmates, "Before I Die", and has vowed to continue making music with the supergroup, which also includes guitarist Joe Satriani, bassist Michael Anthony (ex-VAN HALEN) and drummer Chad Smith (RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS). "What we ...
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In 1986 Joe Satriani released his first solo album through Relativity Records, "Not Of This Earth". Fast-forward to this year when Satriani released his 15th solo album, "Shockwave Supernova", to critical acclaim. To mark this major milestone anniversary, Satriani will bring to life the "Surfing To Shockwave" 2016 tour, an evening spotlighting his 30-year career. ...
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Bass Player magazine returns for its eighth year in Los Angeles with the premier live bass guitar event, Bass Player LIVE! 2015, on Saturday, November 7 and Sunday, November 8. SIR Studios, at 6465 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, will once again be the location for two days of exhibits by top gear manufacturers and clinics ...
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Joe Satriani, the legendary guitar shredder who recorded such platinum sellers as "Surfing With The Alien" and "Flying In A Blue Dream", took time out of his schedule to join Shawn and Corbs of "The GuitCast" podcast to talk about his early music education, his amplifier prototype for Marshall Amplification, his new album, "Shockwave Supernova", ...
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Former VAN HALEN singer Sammy Hagar has scheduled a number of signing appearances for his new book, "Are We Having Any Fun Yet?: The Cooking & Partying Handbook", which comes out on September 15 via Dey Street Books (formerly It Books), an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. They are as follows: Sep. 14 - 6:00 p.m. ...
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"Hello I Must Be Going", the new video from HURTSMILE, the band led by the third VAN HALEN frontman, Gary Cherone (also of EXTREME), who took over when Sammy Hagar left the group (or was fired, depending on whom you ask) in 1996, can be seen below. The song is taken from HURTSMILE's sophomore album, ...
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After waiting nearly a year, legendary rocker Sammy Hagar has finally gotten the keys to his brand new, custom-made $1.4 million Ferrari LaFerrari that he custom-ordered in white with black and beige accents while touring the Maranello factory for the first time. Only 499 units of the LaFerrari — which boasts a whopping 950 horsepower ...
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The Pulse Of Radio reports that Sammy Hagar has been shopping a new reality show on his family but so far he hasn't gotten any takers. According to Hagar, networks haven't been biting on the sizzle reel he's been shopping. He told the St. Louis Dispatch: "The response I got was that there's no drama… ...
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Sammy Hagar has partnered with full-service branding, licensing and social media marketing company Epic Rights and Prominent Brand + Talent, a global brand management and development consortium, to launch the worldwide brand strategy and to develop a wide-ranging licensing program for Hagar's Sammy's Island lifestyle brand. "For me, it started the moment I first stepped ...
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Joe Satriani's 15th studio album, "Shockwave Supernova", has earned the multi-Grammy-nominated guitarist his highest U.S. chart position of his career. The CD debuted on Billboard's Top 200 Current Albums Chart at No. 19, the highest debut of his 30-year career, topping his former highest, 1992's "The Extremist", which hit No. 22 on its debut. In ...
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Former VAN HALEN singer Sammy Hagar has branded Eddie Van Halen "a liar" after the legendary VH guitarist claimed in an interview that Eddie had to show ex-VAN HALEN bassist Michael Anthony "how to play all the parts" to the band's classic songs before they would go on tour. Speaking to Billboard.com, Eddie ...
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In a brand new interview with Billboard.com, VAN HALEN guitarist Eddie Van Halen revealed that he would love to record the follow-up album to 2012's "A Different Kind Of Truth", but that not everyone is on the same page about which musical direction the next effort should take. "It's hard, because there are ...
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Ex-VAN HALEN singer Sammy Hagar claims that his former bandmates are trying to prevent him from performing songs that he originally wrote and recorded with the group. Hagar's new band THE CIRCLE, which also features Michael Anthony, Jason Bonham and Vic Johnson, plays hits from Sammy's four decades of rock (MONTROSE, solo, VAN HALEN, THE ...
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Dey Street Books (formerly It Books), an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, has set a September 15 release date for "Are We Having Any Fun Yet?: The Cooking & Partying Handbook" by former VAN HALEN singer Sammy Hagar. Official book description: "Indulge yourself in the superstar rocker and #1 New York Times bestselling author's raucous and ...
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Legendary guitarist Joe Satriani has confirmed that CHICKENFOOT appears to finally be dead, with all four members of the band focusing on other projects for the foreseeable future. The group, which also included former VAN HALEN singer Sammy Hagar, ex-VAN HALEN bassist Michael Anthony andRED HOT CHILI PEPPERS drummer Chad Smith, has not made a ...
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KINGS OF CHAOS, the supergroup whose roating lineup is composed of onetime members of GUNS N' ROSES, VAN HALEN, DEEP PURPLE, THE CULT and ALTER BRIDGE, will perform at a special benefit concert for Ric O'Barry's Dolphin Project on Wednesday, July 29 at The Fillmore in San Francisco, California. Former GUNS N' ROSES members, guitarist ...
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