Good morning Radicals! Well ,the Patriots won the Super Bowl… again. How droll. Instead, let’s look at what the Foo Fighters were up to for the pre-game concert on the 2nd:
Foo Fighters were joined onstage by Prophets Of Rage guitarist Tom Morello and country star Zac Brown at the band’s pre-Super Bowl concert on Saturday night (February 2nd) in Atlanta for a cover of Black Sabbath‘s “War Pigs.” The Foo, Morello and Brown were then joined by Perry Farrell for a rendition of Jane’s Addiction‘s “Mountain Song.”
Other guests included Queen‘s Roger Taylor, who played drums during a rendition of his band’s “Under Pressure,” and saxophonist Dave Koz. Foos frontman Dave Grohl told the crowd at the show, “I don’t know when y’all are gonna see us again, but you will, because we’re too f**kin’ old to break up. It’s like your grandparents getting divorced. It’s not gonna f**kin’ happen.”
Grohl and the Foos reportedly had pizza delivered to fans who were waiting on line for 24 hours before the doors opened for the Saturday night show,
Grohl previously joined Brown and his Zac Brown Band mid-set during their show at the Tabernacle in Atlanta on Thursday (January 31st) for a version of Metallica‘s “Enter Sandman.”
Foo Fighters will play four more U.S. shows before embarking on a summer European tour. The Foos continue to tour in support of their 2017 album, Concrete And Gold.
Bring Me The Horizon scored its first Number One album in the U.K. with its sixth studio LP, Amo. The disc had combined first-week sales of 27,000 copies in its native country, with 61 percent of its sales on CD or vinyl. The band’s previous best U.K. chart showing was Number Two with 2015’s That’s The Spirit.
The band thanked the fans for the achievement, saying, “Thank you to everyone in the U.K. for getting our new album Amo to Number One. Thanks for buying it and streaming it and showing us support — it really means a lot to us. Thank you very much, we love you.”
The record failed to crack the Billboard 200 album chart’s Top 10 however, settling for a Number 14 debut with sales in North America of just over 26,000 units — close to the U.K. tally. Around 16,000 of those were physical copies.
The biggest rock release on the Billboard chart’s Top 10, which was published on Sunday (February 3rd), was Weezer‘s self-titled “Teal Album.” The all-covers set debuted a week earlier at Number 47 after its surprise release on January 24th, the final day of sales tracking for that week. With a full week now behind it, the “Teal Album” moved some 39,000 copies to reach Number Five on this week’s chart, earning the Rivers Cuomo-led act its ninth entry in the Top 10.
Hellyeah has released what appears to be a snippet of a brand new song from the band’s upcoming album. You can see a few clips on the bands Instagram. The LP will mark the group’s final effort with drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott, who passed away in June 2018 at the age of 54 from heart disease. Abbott reportedly completed his drum tracks for the new LP before his death.
A release date has yet to be determined for the new Hellyeah album, which will follow up 2016’s Unden!able and its hit cover version of Phil Collins‘ “I Don’t Care Anymore.”
In addition, Hellyeah singer Chad Gray returned to the stage for the first time since Abbott’s death when he showed up on last week’s annual ShipRocked cruise aboard the Carnival Valor.
Gray turned up twice during the cruise, joining Nonpoint during a performance of “Bullet With a Name,” and also jamming alongside Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch and the ShipRocked Stowaways all-star band on a rendition of Korn’s “Blind.”
Fan footage of Gray’s performance with the latter has surfaced online, while Nonpoint posted about the vocalist’s appearance, “Welcome back my brother. Feels so good to get you back where you belong, onstage doing what you were born to do.”
Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong shared his thoughts on the band’s breakout third album Dookie in honor of the LP’s 25th anniversary on Friday (February 1st). The 1994 release was the trio’s major label debut, selling more than 20 million copies worldwide and spawning five hit singles, including “Longview,” “Basket Case,” “Welcome To Paradise,” “She” and “When I Come Around.”
Armstrong wrote on Instagram, “Random thoughts and gratitude for the 25 year anniversary of the big D. We wanted to think of something special to do but we couldn’t quite come up with anything…Maybe play the record in its entirety at the pyramids in Egypt. Or jam it Machu Picchu? Exclusive in Viggiano? Never quite came to fruition.. But never despair. 2019 still has time.”
He also shared some memories of that time in the band’s career, writing, “Driving in my old Ford Fairlane hearing ‘Longview’ on the radio for the first time…having a lot of uncertainty about our future but not giving a s**t. Wanting and dreading to be a rock star…if that’s even possible…Local punk scene backlash…stress stress stress!! You have to have gratitude for the bad and the ugly too…I hope people keep listening…cause we’ll keeping playing.”
We asked drummer Tre Cool a while back how the success of Dookie changed Green Day: “There’s a responsibility that goes along with it. I think that we respect more now than we did when we were probably younger, you know, when Dookie was around, going crazy. It is like a responsibility and we sort of feel like this kinship with all the fans.”
Armstrong hinted to fans on Instagram in December that he was writing new Green Day songs but did not share any more details. The band kept a low profile for much of 2018, although they posted photos over the summer indicating that they had been rehearsing classic early albums like Dookie, Insomniac and Kerplunk! in full.
Nickelback bassist Mike Kroeger has told Australia‘s Wall Of Sound in a new interview that he is a huge metal fan and wouldn’t mind if his band made a full-on metal album one day.
Kroeger explained, “Metal is what makes me go. It’s what I listen to without fail. If we could actually sink in and do a metal album, all four of us would love it. I know that we’re all — on differing scales — metalheads at our core . . . I would do a Slayer cover album if I could. That’s where my heart lies. There are just never enough hours in the day to do everything, but let’s just say I wouldn’t count it out.”
Kroeger added that Nickelback’s music is “definitely not” necessarily a reflection of what he and his bandmates listen to, saying, “I listen to bands like Meshuggah, Gojira, Lamb Of God…The freedom of expression is extraordinary, and really inspirational. There are no boundaries, and that’s the kind of music I like.”
Nickelback’s latest album, 2017’s Feed The Machine, was a heavier than usual effort for the Canadian act, a fact that frontman Chad Kroeger acknowledged a while back: “There are some heavy songs on there. But like all the Nickelback records, there’s only so much of that one thing that we can do before we kind of go, ‘Okay, well, I’m kind of bored of that, let’s try something else.’ Because that’s what satisfies us as creators. If you’re going to just continue to create the same thing, well, it becomes lackluster after a while.”
Nickelback has been continuing to tour in support of Feed The Machine, with the group heading to Australia later this month.
Finally, before we go, we want to wish a Happy Birthday to Offspring guitarist Noodles and the legendary Alice Cooper! Have a great day everyone!
