Best part about Monday holidays, your Tuesday is really Wednesday!…Met the fellas in Young Guns last night after their performance at the Apple Store in Soho. It was very cool to have a band doing an acoustic performance in an Apple store. They have this small conference area with theater seating on the second floor of the store where they also recorded the session, which included “Bones” from their current album of the same name, along with songs from their first album All Our Kings Are Dead, and even a Radiohead cover. The band is hitting the hardDrive studios today and then head out on the Triple Threat Tour with Seether, Sick Puppies & Kyng. (I’ll be at the Chicago stop of that tour and looking forward!!) Anyhow, check the band out on their official site! Meanwhile, I hear Seether was presented a platinum plaque for sales of all of their albums recently. Did I say I was looking forward to seeing them in Chicago? And I also heard their Rise Above This Festival on Sunday in New Hampshire was a rousing success! Much love to those boys!….Halestorm announced a tour with In This Moment and Eve to Adam. Find all the dates in Road Rage! I spoke with Ms Hale last week about being the Hottest Chick in Hard Rock. We had a good laugh, too! She’s awesome and I am so happy for the band’s success!…Oh man, I just saw this on Pulse of Radio and it really saddens me how this boy has continued down a slippery slope. Puddle Of Mudd frontman Wes Scantlin was arrested on Monday (Sep 4th) after an argument on a plane with a flight attendant led to an emergency landing. According to TMZ, Scantlin allegedly became aggressive after the attendant refused to sell him alcohol, and his behavior forced the Los Angeles-bound plane to make an unplanned stop at Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas, where Scantlin was booted from the aircraft and placed under arrest by Austin police. Scantlin was booked for public intoxication, but could also face federal charges of interfering with a flight crew. Here’s Scantlin’s other problem: the musician pleaded guilty to a felony cocaine possession charge in July, but the judge agreed to clear his record as long as he did not break any further laws for 18 months — a deal which Scantlin might have now violated and which could lead to more prison time for the drug charge. Scantlin was arrested on the possession charge last January, when he was pulled over by police in the Culver City section of Los Angeles. Now I say this to his manager and rest of his band: send Wes to rehab. NOW!…..Pulse also reports Green Day singer/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong was released from a hospital in Bologna, Italy and allowed to fly home on yesterday (Sep 4th) after being admitted to the medical center for an undisclosed ailment on Sunday (Sep 2nd). Armstrong’s illness forced the trio to cancel its Sunday night gig in Bologna, which was the last date on a short European run. Although unconfirmed reports suggested Armstrong was suffering from gastric issues, he mouthed “my voice is gone” to waiting reporters when he landed at the airport in Los Angeles. The band’s next date is Sep 21 in Vegas at the I Heart Radio Festival….Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor told local TV station KXVO in Omaha, Nebraska he would love to see a reunion of one of his favorite bands at future editions of the group’s Knotfest concerts. Asked who he would like to see on a future bill, Taylor replied, “For me I would like to keep it — bands from our generation or maybe Slayer would be wonderful to have on the Knotfest shows. Stuff like Korn would be great, Rob Zombie — maybe even encourage a White Zombie reunion?” (Note from Roxy to Corey: Hate to tell ya this, but the chanes of a White Zombie reunion are probably slim to none. When Rob ever mentions them, he never waxes poetic about their musical skills as a band.) And spekaing of Korn, Pulse also had this story I wanted to share: The members of Korn were moved recently when they were presented with the uniform of a Marine killed in Afghanistan in 2010. According to Loudwire, Marine Lance Corporal William H. “Billy” Crouse IV was killed in a bombing in the country’s Helmand province two years ago. At a recent concert in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Crouse’s brother Ryan Rothman presented Korn frontman Jonathan Davis with Crouse’s uniform, saying, “I want to give this uniform formally to you on behalf of my family. The inspiration you have had on my life and the impact of things you’ve brought me through and the things we shared through you and your music, I wanted him to be with you.” Davis responded, “I feel for your loss. We’ve lost a lot of kids, but it wasn’t in vain, it was to keep our way of life going. I will have a special place for this, always.” In a video about his brother, Rothman spoke about Crouse’s first Korn show, recalling, “When he was 13 years old, I took him to Indianapolis to see Korn. He was a lot bigger than me, and we went into the mosh pits. He was protecting me at that point, even though he was my little brother.” Davis has done a lot of work with the USO and the Wounded Warriors organization, arranging to spend time visiting injured members of the military in hospitals….Oddly enough, I was speaking last night to a man who ’til recently was the UK manager for Bullet for My Valentine. And today I see this news that guitarist Michael “Padge” Paget has just undergone back surgery and is recovering at a hospital at home in the U.K., according to Loudwire. Paget’s operation was not previously announced and it is not clear just what his condition was, but the band posted a photo of him following the procedure and stated that he’s “doing great.” It is not clear whether Paget had completed his work on the band’s upcoming fourth album, which the band has been working on since last spring. The group was scheduled to finish recording in early August with producer Don Gilmore, who also collaborated with the group on 2010’s Fever. Frontman Matt Tuck recently said in an interview that Bullet “nailed it” on the new record, which is scheduled to come out in early 2013…..Football season officially begins tonight. Can the Super Bowl champion New York Giants beat the Dallas Cowboys?
