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Earlier this year, it appeared they would be delaying the celebrations until 2013 after guitarist Keith Richards suggested the band weren’t ready to go back on the road yet.  Wood told The Sun, “It looks like we are going to be doing more stuff. I am keeping October/November free, that’s what I’ve been told. I’m just awaiting more information.”  A 2012 winter tour seems unlikely. It is more plausible that late 2012 will herald full Stones rehearsals for a 2013 tour – Keith Richards has already says that he considers 2013 as the band’s real 50th anniversary. “The Stones always considered ’63 to be 50 years, because Charlie [Watts] didn’t actually join until January,” Richards said. “We look upon 2012 as sort of the year of conception, but the birth is next year.”

Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose suffered an injury while the band was kicking off their tour in Moscow.  GNR kicked off their 2012 European tour with two shows in the Russian city last weekend and, according to Komsomolskaya Pravda, Rose hurt his leg when he fell off a table while dancing at the trendy club Premier Lounge after the second Moscow concert.  The Sun reports Axl’s agent revealed that the rocker had slipped and pulled a hamstring. Rose wrote “Can U say HemaToma?!” when he tweeted a photo of his injury, which reveals extensive bruising to his leg.

U2 frontman Bono is set to become the richest man in rock when Facebook shares go on public sale tomorrow.  His Elevation Partners equity firm bought 2.3% of the social media company in 2009 for $90m, and that investment will be worth over $1.5bn – that’s £940m – by close of business today.  That will make the singer and anti-poverty campaigner far more wealthy than former Beatle Paul McCartney, who’s topped the rock rich list for years and is currently valued at £665m.

Motor City Madman Ted Nugent lives up to his nickname having been voted the Detroit’s greatest guitar player by a landslide. MLive! in Michigan conducted the poll and Nugent won with 428 votes, or over 51 percent of the total vote.
  Nugent is current out out on the road with REO Speedwagon and Styx of their Midwest Rock ‘n’ Roll Express Tour.

Big Red’s Retro Rock with Jeff Teolis on K106.3

twitter: @jeffteolis

TODAY IN ROCK HISTORY_WEDNESDAY

Today is the day the announcers of K106.3 demonstrate our
commitment to the fine art of radio brodcasting by exposing
our collective ineptitude when it comes to REAL work….
Okay… when it comes to MY own ineptitude when it comes to
REAL work… 

Yeah, I think I might have been the one who did that…

So I’m a late bloomer. Today I picked up my first paint roller in 26 years
and went to town in the music office, which we’re in the process of renovating,

beginning with a fresh coat of paint. Rob and Tony are still wiping the paint marks
off the ceiling and door frames. It doesn’t help that my brother recently put me
through the wringer on my first P90-X ARMS AND SHOULDERS workout.

Basically, what I’m saying is…. My arms are rubbery and numb and I have
a total lack of what one would call “manual dexterity”.

It’s like doing dishes…if you drop enough of them, then eventually you don’t have
to do dishes anymore, right?

After a half hour of arms flailing and paint flying, I’ve since been put back in the air-chair for the
afternoon, so that I can entertain my colleagues with witty banter, great classics
and the BEST new rock!

Oh.. and we get a new floor now. Hooray!!!

Today is the day the announcers of K106.3 demonstrate our
commitment to the fine art of radio brodcasting by exposing
our collective ineptitude when it comes to REAL work….
Okay… when it comes to MY own ineptitude when it comes to
REAL work… 

Yeah, I think I might have been the one who did that…

So I’m a late bloomer. Today I picked up my first paint roller in 26 years
and went to town in the music office, which we’re in the process of renovating,

beginning with a fresh coat of paint. Rob and Tony are still wiping the paint marks
off the ceiling and door frames. It doesn’t help that my brother recently put me
through the wringer on my first P90-X ARMS AND SHOULDERS workout.

Basically, what I’m saying is…. My arms are rubbery and numb and I have
a total lack of what one would call “manual dexterity”.

It’s like doing dishes…if you drop enough of them, then eventually you don’t have
to do dishes anymore, right?

After a half hour of arms flailing and paint flying, I’ve since been put back in the air-chair for the
afternoon, so that I can entertain my colleagues with witty banter, great classics
and the BEST new rock!

Oh.. and we get a new floor now. Hooray!!!

He reveals the band wanted him to play a “minimal” part in their Download festival headline slot – while another unnamed musician played the rest of the set. And he adds the band asked him to appear at their homecoming gig in Birmingham for free.  Ward says he’s heartbroken that people who hoped to see the original lineup on stage in the coming months will be robbed of the experience.

On this day in 2010, Ronnie James Dio died from stomach cancer. The 67-year-old metal singer had fronted many bands, including Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio. Gibson looks back: Among the very last songs Ronnie James Dio ever recorded was “Metal Will Never Die,” an ode to the fist-pumping power and glory that Dio, himself, personified. It’s been just one short year since his untimely death, on this day in 2010, and those words echo as loudly today, if not louder, than when the diminutive metal god with the golden voice first delivered them. Dio’s death, though not surprising to the legion of metal fans who knew he had been ill for quite some time, galvanized the heavy metal community in an unprecedented way.

Born Ronald James Padavona in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1942, Dio’s ascension from trumpet and French horn player, which were his first musical instruments, to heavy metal god is the story of perseverance, passion for rock ‘n’ roll and undeniable talent.

Dio’s musical career began in 1957 with a band called The Vegas Kings, which later changed to Ronnie and the Rumblers, then Ronnie and the Redcaps, then in 1961, Ronnie Dio and the Prophets. In 1967, Dio and Prophets guitarist Nick Pantas formed the Electric Elves, which shortened its name two years later to Elf. The band’s success eventually landed them an opening slot for Deep Purple, which exposed Dio’s remarkable voice to Deep Purple’s guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore, who later recruited Dio and other members of Elf for his new band Rainbow.

After three studio albums and a live album, Dio left Rainbow, and in 1979 he replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath. Dio’s first album with Sabbath, the platinum-selling Heaven and Hell, was the shot in the arm Sabbath’s flagging career needed. Next up was the album Mob Rules, followed by the live disc Live Evil. Disagreements during the mixing of Live Evil prompted Dio to leave the band and strike out on his own.

In 1982, Dio and former Black Sabbath drummer Vinny Appice formed Dio. They recruited 19-year old Irish sensation Vivian Campbell on guitar, as well as bassist Jimmy Bain. Dio’s debut album, Holy Diver, remains of metal’s landmark albums. Over the years and through numerous personnel changes – Dio would remain the only constant member of the band – the band released 10 albums.

A classic Alice Cooper concert depicting the makeup-ed rocker during his famed 1979 Madhouse Rock Tour is set to reach DVD on May 22. The Strange Case of Alice Cooper features footage of the shock rocker playing songs from his 1978 album, From the Inside, plus a selection of earlier hits. Highlights include Cooper singing “School’s Out,” “No More Mr. Nice Guy,” “I’m Eighteen” and “I Never Cry” – all true Alice favorites.  Of course, this wasn’t a tame show. Cooper’s concert reportedly was inspired by his visit to a New York sanitarium and offers plenty of creepy allusions to the visit. The DVD also will offer an introduction by none other than late horror-film star Vincent Price.

Check it out!

Big Red’s Retro Rock with Jeff Teolis on K106.3

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Weiland told ABC News Radio: “They gave me a couple of songs, and myself and Dave and Duff are going to be getting together for a songwriting session next week. Slash is going to do some touring then we’re going to do some shows in the later part of summer into early fall.”  Slash heard the comments during a live interview on Minnesota’s 93X radio station. “He’s out of his mind!,” He exclaimed. “There’s been a common rumor going around. I know he’s been positive about that subject. Maybe they know something I don’t know. I have absolutely no intention of going back to that.”

Filming for the Jimi Hendrix biopic is going ahead despite protestations from the late guitarist’s estate, according to movie director John Ridley.  CMU reports today that Ridley will definitely begin filming his Hendrix movie in Ireland later this month, with Outkast rapper Andre 3000 (aka part-time actor Andre Benjamin) in the lead role.  Called All Is By My Side, it’s set in England in 1966 and tells the story behind the recording of Hendrix’s debut album Are You Experienced.

Now that Saturday Night Live has confirmed the musical guests for this week’s season finale with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards tells Rolling Stone that he won’t be involved.  “I spoke to Mick and he said it’s something that he said yes to many months ago, so he’s just doing it,” Richards says. “He’s on his own.”  In addition to his hosting duties, Jagger will perform with Arcade Fire and the Foo Fighters with Jeff Beck.

Jane’s Addiction have added a third additional North American leg to their “Theatre of the Escapists” tour.  Mutemath, Band of Skulls and Die Antword will each open select dates of the trek which  The band embarked on the second leg of the tour last week and it set to hit venues in Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.

Following news that Van Halen have added five new dates to their current US tour, the band announced several more additions to the “A Different Kind Of Truth” trek on Monday.  Eight (8) more concerts are now on the schedule, including stops in Spokane, Portland, Albuquerque, El Paso, Austin, Oklahoma City, Moline and Milwaukee.  The new dates are a part of the second leg of the tour, which Van Halen announced last month. The full series of summer shows start July 7 in Uncasville, CT.