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How RANDY RHOADS Met OZZY OSBOURNE

Feb 24, 2010 at 12:20pm

Edward Nyahay, creator of Little Lost Productions, has posted a video clip of Kelle Rhoads telling the tale of how Kelle's brother, Randy Rhoads, met Ozzy Osbourne and became the guitarist in the former BLACK SABBATH singer's solo band. Watch it below.
As previously reported, Kelle Rhoads, Kelly Garni (former QUIET RIOT bassist) and Ronny North will join forces again to play three Randy Rhoads tribute concerts in Japan (in Osaka, Tokyo and Nogaya) on March 15-17, 2010. Kelle will be handling vocals for the band, which is being billed as "A Tribute To Randy Rhoads Project" featuring Kelle Rhoads, Kelly Garni and Ronny North. The trio will be in Japan for a week and will be taking part in a bunch of signing events as well as doing press the entire time.

Garni played alongside Randy in QUIET RIOT and was a close friend of both Randy and Kelle.

Ronny North was invited by Kelle Rhoads to play guitar with the guys at a recent Randy Rhoads event and they hit if off so well at the show that they decided to do it again in Japan.

At this year's NAMM (National Association Of Music Merchants) show, the limited-edition Jackson Randy Rhoads Relic tribute model guitar was unveiled.

According to The Music Zoo, Randy's tribute model is a direct replica of his original 1980 Jackson asymmetrical V-shaped guitar that he personally designed. He intended to call this body style the Concorde and it is widely regarded as the "first pointy guitar." The original guitar had been kept at the Rhoads family music school since his death, and they say it had not been out of the case in over 20 years.

Randy's original guitar was built in 1980 by Tim Wilson and Mike Shannon. Shannon is still with Jackson today and he'll personally build the extremely limited run of 60 guitars.

Suggested Retail Price for the guitar: $12,619.56 (in honor of Randy's birthday: December 6, 1956)

In 1982, Rhoads, the then-lead guitarist for OZZY OSBOURNE, and two others were killed at Flying Baron Estates, just outside Leesburg, Florida, when their small plane struck Osbourne's tour bus, then crashed into a mansion.

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METALLICA: 30-Minute Buenos Aires Press Conference Video

Jan 23, 2010 at 6:57pm

Press Conference Part 1:

Press Conference Part 2:

The four members of METALLICA took part in a 30-minute press conference prior to the band's January 21, 2010 concert at River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires. Watch it in two parts below.
When asked about the significance of METALLICA's upcoming "Big Four" shows in Europe with SLAYER, MEGADETH and SLAYER, METALLICA guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield responded, "I think after recording [METALLICA's 2008 album] 'Death Magnetic' and seeing the great response of us feeling like we're really strong and together again as a band, and then the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction, a lot of history kind of caught up to us. Embracing our past, with writing this kind of music again, and inviting all of our friends to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and having this sense of nostalgia and being OK with that, a lot of it brought up the importance — at least for myself — and conveying it that the [San Francisco] Bay Area was pretty important for us and some of the thrash music of the 1980s was a big movement. And also celebrating the other bands who have survived that long; it's not easy — a band like MEGADETH, a band like METALLICA, a band like SLAYER and ANTHRAX, who are still going. And why don't we get together and celebrate the fact that we've been together for almost 30 years. And we were trying to do that a little earlier, but [it wasn't] just 'till now [that] everyone was available and willing to do that.

METALLICA's setlist for the Buenos Aires concert was as follows:

01. Creeping Death
02. For Whom The Bell Tolls
03. Wherever I May Roam
04. Harvester Of Sorrow
05. Fade To Black
06. That Was Just Your Life
07. The End Of The Line
08. Sad But True
09. Cyanide
10. All Nightmare Long
11. One
12. Master Of Puppets
13. Blackened
14. Nothing Else Matters
15. Enter Sandman
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16. Last Caress
17. Whiplash
18. Seek and Destroy

METALLICA's first-ever concert appearance in Peru set an attendance record as the biggest music event in Peruvian history, with 55,000 fans showing up to see the band play on Tuesday night (January 19) at a stadium in Lima. At a press conference several hours before the concert, Hetfield told reporters that the band was grateful for the response. "It's unbelievable," he said. "It's amazing, and we're very grateful that it's still happening. You know, METALLICA's been together for 29 years or more, and it's really great to know that there are still places that we haven't played, like in Lima — it's our first time here."

METALLICA's Peruvian gig grossed approximately $3.7 million in U.S. dollars.

The country's two biggest previous concerts in 2009 were the JONAS BROTHERS, who drew a total of 55,000 over two nights, and OASIS, who drew 41,000 fans.

DEPECHE MODE and THE KILLERS also performed there for 30,000 people.

METALLICA's show was the first of a South American tour that will bring the band to Panama, Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, Brazil and several other countries. After that, the quartet will head to Europe for dates throughout the spring and summer.

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Don't Expect A New Iron Maiden Album Before 2011

Jan 3, 2010 at 1:46am

On Friday, January 1, Iron Maiden
drummer Nicko McBrain told Eddie Trunk — co-host of the VH1 Classic television program "That Metal Show" who has a long-running radio show, "Friday Night Rocks", on New York's Q104.3 FM — that the band will enter the studio in a couple weeks to start work on a new CD. According to Trunk, Nicko "said there was about eight songs written so far so the band would probably need to come up with a few more new songs while recording. [He added that] the material was a little different than past albums and they were taking their time with the recording schedule." McBrain also stated that the "new CD probably won't come out until 2011," according to Trunk.

IRON MAIDEN guitarist Janick Gers revealed to BBC News in November that the band was on its way "to Paris for three weeks to work on some new stuff." He added, "The most important thing for a band is to create new music, otherwise you're not valid — you become a parody."

IRON MAIDEN will headline this year's edition of the U.K.'s Sonisphere festival, which will be held Saturday, July 31, 2010 and Sunday, August 1, 2010 at Knebworth.

MAIDEN became the first outfit in history to travel round the world in a customized jet during their "Somewhere Back in Time" tour, as detailed in award-winning movie "Flight 666".

The Boeing 757 carried musicians, crew, gear and guests with singer Bruce Dickinson

, a qualified airline pilot, at the controls.

(Thanks: NJthrasher)

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