| Quick Hits: Disturbed, Buckcherry, Pink Floyd, John Mellencamp, Iron Maiden, Chiodos, Saving Abel |
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September 15, 2008
Disturbed
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Disturbed will release a new live album, Live & Indestructible, on September 30 exclusively via iTunes. More details will be made available soon. Meanwhile, the band is planning to kick off its fourth Music As A Weapon tour in March of 2009, but dates, cities and supporting acts have yet to be unveiled. Disturbed is currently on tour in Japan and they'll hit Europe in October.
Buckcherry will continue on their upcoming tour as planned, despite the announcement that Avenged Sevenfold had to cancel their dates in September and early October due to ailing frontman M. Shadows. The dates, originally billed as co-headline dates with Avenged Sevenfold and Buckcherry, will see Buckcherry supported by Shinedown and Saving Abel. "We’re glad to hear that Shadows is fine, and can’t wait to get out on the road with the band in November," said Buckcherry frontman Josh Todd. "We have a great show planned, and we are pumped to get on the road behind the new album and play it for the fans." M. Shadows added, “We’re happy to hear that Buckcherry will carry on with the dates we had scheduled together and look forward to joining them for a kick ass tour in November."
One of Pink Floyd's founding members, keyboardist Richard Wright, has passed away at the age of 65. Wright died Monday at his home in Britain after a battle with cancer. Wright first met Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and Nick Mason in college and joined their early band, Sigma 6. Sigma 6 eventually became Pink Floyd and Wright wrote some of the band's key songs, such as "The Great Gig In The Sky" and "Us And Them." He left the group in the early '80s but rejoined Pink Floyd for the 1987 album A Momentary Lapse of Reason and also contributed heavily to latter day Floyd records like The Delicate Sound of Thunder and The Division Bell. He last performed with the group in 2005 for Live 8. Additionally, Legacy.com has set up a guest book for fans to express their condolences. It can be found here.
John Mellencamp will be the focus of the Bio Channel's forthcoming special, Back Where We Started, which will bring Mellencamp to Columbus, Indiana for an intimate concert at the historic Crump Theater for the first time in 32 years. The Crump was one of the very first theaters where Mellencamp ever played at the start of his career, and he'll finally be back on Tuesday, September 23. Tickets will be put on sale in Columbus by the United Way, with proceeds benefiting local flood relief through the Bartholomew Country Long Term Relief Team.
Iron Maiden singer and professional pilot Bruce Dickinson put his flying skills to good use over the weekend after the collapse of XL airways left 221 British tourists stranded in Egypt. Dickinson, a pilot for charter airline company Astraeus, was called to emergency duty to pick up the tourists. "I was just doing my job. I was called out like a lot of other pilots to help and I was obviously happy to do that," said Dickinson, according to Rolling Stone. After saving the stranded Brits, Dickinson was called again five hours later to pick up tourists stuck on the Greek island of Kos.Chiodos will release a limited edition album, Bone Pallace Ballet: Grand Coda, on October 28. The new version of Bone Pallace Ballet, which was originally released in 2007, features four new songs as well as two acoustic versions of "I Didn't Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was A Wizard" and "A Letter From Janelle." The loaded offering also includes a 30-minute DVD with live performances and behind-the-scenes footage of the band. Saving Abel recently filmed the video for their new single, "18 Days," at the Oakland-Alameda Naval Station. A shot from the video is seen below:
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