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On January 31st, shock rock legend ALICE COOPER joined guitarist SLASH (ex-GUNS N’ ROSES) on stage at the Dubai Tennis Stadium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. They performed Cooper’s classic ‘School’s Out’; check out the fan-filmed video below:
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MICHAEL MONROE (HANOI ROCKS) has been invited to support Slash at Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland on Tuesday, February 19th. After a long and respectable career Michael Monroe embodies the energy of rock and roll with his electric and passionate performances. Slash, himself has admitted to being a Michael Monroe fan: “Michael Monroe is one of THE great rock and roll front-men. He’s also a good man and a good friend.”
One of the most important rock icons, Slash earned his place as one of history’s greatest guitar heroes 25 years ago on the GUNS N’ ROSES debut Appetite For Destruction. One of Guns N’ Roses’ idols was Hanoi Rocks with Michael Monroe as their leading figure before his solo career. The last time Slash played in Finland was in Ruisrock 2010 where Michael Monroe also appeared as a guest star during his set. Michael Monroe is currectly finishing a new album, due to be released in the spring. In addition to Monroe his band includes bassist Sami Yaffa, guitarists Steve Conte and Dregen and drummer Karl Rockfist.
For more details and tickets visit Lippu.fi.
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Slash has blasted Scott Weiland for claiming in various interviews that he was going to be rejoining VELVET REVOLVER, saying, “None of us have a clue what he’s talking about… We’re not buying it.”
Weiland recently said that he thought it was “the perfect time for VELVET REVOLVER to get back together,” telling Rolling Stone magazine, “I am completely open to it, and I know there are other guys in the band that are completely open to it.”
VELVET REVOLVER has been without a singer and on more or less permanent hiatus since Weiland was dismissed from the band in April 2008. He rejoined STONE TEMPLE PILOTS at that time and has toured constantly and cut one album with them.
In an interview in the new issue of Classic Rock, Slash was reluctant to address Weiland‘s recent comments, saying “I don’t even want to give him this attention, to tell you the truth.”
He added: “I think at this point Scott just got fired from STP and I think he’s trying to pull off that trick of trying to get something else going on, and we’re not buying it. The door’s shut on this side and it’s probably shut on that side too, so he’s on his own. And he deserves it, too.”
Slash continued: “Scott is completely speaking out of his ass [about the VELVET REVOLVER reunion]. Nobody at this end has had any conversations with Scott on this subject, except maybe [VELVET REVOLVER guitarist] Dave Kushner, because he was the only one in the band who was really close to him. And all things considered, we don’t have a good professional relationship with Scott.
“And it also pisses me off because he’s put STP through so much shit over the years, and put us through shit too when we were working with him. In 2008, that was all over with, so at this point, when he starts coming up with this stuff, it’s like, whatever.”
The guitarist said he is in a good frame of mind these days and he had no intention of bringing a begative influence like Weiland back into his life. “It’s been great,” Slash said. “It’s basically since I got my shit together and stopped touring with Scott. Even if I didn’t have my solo thing going on, I still wouldn’t work with him.”
VELVET REVOLVER did reunite with Weiland for a four-song set in January 2011 at a Los Angeles tribute concert for late songwriter John O’Brien (see video below), but the band has otherwise remained inactive.
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Sharon Osbourne, in partnership with Japanese promoter Hayashi International Promotion (H.I.P.), recently announced the first-ever Ozzfest Japan. The two-day festival will debut Saturday, May 11th and Sunday, May 12th, 2013 at the Makuhari Messe Arena, just outside of Tokyo, and will feature headlining performances from BLACK SABBATH – featuring Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler and Tony Iommi – and SLIPKNOT. Other confirmed acts include: TOOL, DEFTONES, SLASH and STONE SOUR. The official Ozzfest Japan promotional poster can be seen below:
“We are excited for the opportunity to bring Ozzfest to Japan for the first time ever,” says Sharon Osbourne. “We’ve got the perfect combination of Western and Japanese bands. Ozzfest is also thrilled to be presenting Black Sabbath’s first-ever performance in Japan.”
Despite Japan reigning as the second largest music market in the world, Ozzfest Japan 2013 will represent the first major international music festival to ever travel to the country.
“We are thrilled to open a new chapter for this legendary festival in Japan,” H.I.P. President Massy Hayashi says of the significance of bringing Ozzfest to Japan. “I think it will be the perfect chance to bring together the very best international rock music and also give us a chance to show how far Japanese rock has come in recent years.”
For more details visit Ozzfestjapan.com.
Check out a message about the fest from Ozzy, below:
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According to 7daysindubai.com, guitar legend SLASH (VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N’ ROSES) will perform in Dubai next month with MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS.
The gig is on Thursday, January 31 at Dubai Tennis Stadium and will be part of the closing weekend of the Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) 2013.
Organised by M4 Events and DSF 2013, tickets for the gig cost Dhs300 or Dhs500 and are available from Virgin Megastore, Time Out, Platinum List, Box Office ME, Dobazaar and selected ENOC/EPPCO stations and Zoom Stores, or call 050 284 2020.
Visit Slashdubai.com for more details.
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Anthony Leonardi III, a creature artist and storyboard artist who worked on “Rango” and “47 Ronin”, is directing the movie, which began shooting in May in Louisiana.
Slash told The Pulse Of Radio that he’s looking forward to seeing how “Nothing To Fear” turns out. “It’s [a] really good production team, the special effects people are great, the cast is great, the story’s great — everything’s great about it,” he said. “And it will be interesting to see where this particular one, how it comes out and where it goes, ’cause we’re planning on doing two a year.”
“Nothing To Fear” has already been picked up for distribution by Anchor Bay Entertainment.
The movie is the first of a proposed series of horror films produced by Slash‘s company, which he launched last year in partnership with two other producers.
“Nothing To Fear” is based on an actual town in Kansas, which, according to legend, is one of the seven gateways to Hell.
The company has three other films in development, including “Wake The Dead”, which based on the graphic novels by Steven Niles, with Haley Joel Osment playing Victor Franklin, a college student experimenting with reversing death.
Slash described “Wake The Dead” in an interview as “basically a modern, young Frankenstein story about a brilliant college student who’s discovered how to animate dead tissue — but he’s a teenager so he goes overboard.”
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