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BRENT SMITH NAMES 10 LPS THAT CHANGED HIS LIFE AS NEW SHINEDOWN ARRIVES
With Shinedown‘s sixth studio album, Attention Attention, just released on Friday (May 4th), frontman Brent Smith discussed 10 albums that changed his life in a new interview with Classic Rock. Although it didn’t make the list, the first LP Smith ever bought was Motley Crue‘s 1987 album Girls, Girls Girls, about which Smith said, “It was the first time I felt like I was doing something dangerous. It was a cassette, I was very young — maybe 10, and I hid it from my parents . . . I had a Walkman tucked away in a closet in my room, and I’d listen to it at night after my parents went to bed.”
Story Source: LouderSound
SULLY ERNA SURPRISES CHILDREN’S CHOIR WHO SANG ON NEW GODSMACK DISC
Godsmack singer Sully Erna went last Thursday (May 3rd) to Gilbert H. Hood middle school in Derry, Massachusetts, where he met with 19 eighth graders and one-seventh grader from that school and West Running Brook middle school who sang as part of a children’s choir on a new Godsmack track called “Unforgettable.” The song appears on the band’s new LP, When Legends Rise, and Erna turned up to surprise the kids with autographed vinyl copies of the record.
Erna told the local newspaper, the Eagle-Tribune, “I’m extremely proud of this record and (the students) did phenomenal on it. If it helps one of them to pursue their dreams and goals in music and to go for it — I hope this experience helps them achieve that. They’re the future of music and our future, in general.”
Story Source: Loudwire
Rage Against The Machine drummer Brad Wilk told the Let There Be Talk podcast that he would love to see the band get back together again after last performing in 2011. Wilk explained, “Nothing would make me happier than to be able to f**k s**t up right now with Rage Against The Machine,” adding, “It’s just really a matter of getting us all on the same page.”
Rage originally split in 2000, before reuniting in 2007 and performing a string of shows through 2011. The band has not issued any new music in 18 years. Regarding a reunion, Wilk said, “If that will happen again or not, I have no idea, but I know at least the four of us are amicable and can talk to each other, and actually even go hang out on occasion, so I think more we just want to be friends first more than anything.”
Story Source: NME
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