Today would be my parents 64th wedding anniversary. Congrats to them up in Heaven or wherever they are…..Today I am also going to attend a concert by Leslie West. I remember when his original band Mountain’s tune “Mississippi Queen” first came out in 1970. I was in college. Or maybe that was the year I dropped out for a semester and dropped acid every day. It was also the year Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin both died. Weird year…..OK, on to the news! Five Finger Death Punch is now streaming its upcoming album, The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell, Volume 2, in its entirety via iTunes. The Nov 19th release is the second half of a two-record set, with the first volume emerging this past July and debuting at Number Two on the Billboard album chart. The deluxe version of the album will feature a live DVD, with the band performing 15 songs in concert….I love Papa Roach. And here’s something that makes me love them even MORE! They recently partnered with the Make-A-Wish Foundation to make a fan’s dream come true, according to Loudwire. A teenage fan named Mark Guerra, who is currently battling a brain tumor, wanted his band Breaking Boundaryz to record an EP with Papa Roach. The Papa Roach guys stepped up immediately by inviting Guerra, his bandmates and his family to New York City, where they kicked things off with a dinner and VIP access to the Papa Roach show that night in Sayreville, NJ. The following day, both acts hit the studio to record the EP, with Papa Roach bringing Breaking Boundaryz on the third day to the offices of their label, Eleven Seven Music, where the label announced that it would release the EP digitally and donate a percentage of the profits to Make-A-Wish. The entire three-day experience was filmed by Fuse, which will air it on Nov 26th…Avenged Sevenfold are on the cover of the new edition of the UK’s Metal Hammer. Sorry haters, they rock…Reached out again to Ben Burnley of Breaking Benjamin. I hope he gets in touch! Would love to be the place he speaks with first upon his return!…Happy 46th to Jimmy Kimmel.
