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Born in Brooklyn, New York City in 1957, the drummer Vinny Appice is the younger brother of Carmine Appice. He first achieved fame as a member of Black Sabbath, replacing the original member Bill Ward. He became a good friend of the singer Ronnie James Dio, who was part of the band at the time, also being part of his own band Dio later on. They worked together for decades and he had the chance to know him quite well. In an interview with Metal Swap Meet (Transcribed by Blabbermouth), the musician recalled the love that Dio had for his fans. Vinny Appice recalls the love Ronnie James Dio had for his fans "It was amazing. He'd be sitting there in the rehearsal room, writing lyrics. We'd be jamming on something, both with Sabbath and Dio, and then he'd go up to the mic and sing a couple of lines. I'd go, 'Holy shit. This sounds like the record's finished.' It was so spot-on and strong, I was, like, 'Oh, man.' And then I watched him the way he worked with the fans. One of the first things I remember, we pulled out of an arena with Sabbath. We had two limos, Ronnie and I in one, and Tony and Geezer would leave early." "We would stay and hang out. We pull up, go out of the arena, go up the hill and go to the gates and let us out and there's a whole bunch of fans there. And it's freezing cold out. It's January in upstate New York. Ronnie says, 'Stop,' gets out of the limo, walks over to the fans, starts signing stuff for them. (I thought) 'Wow, that's cool.' So I did the same thing. I wasn't that known back then, but now that's somebody who cares." Appice continued: "He cares about his fans. He remembers your name. And it's just amazing. The next year or tour, you'd go see Ronnie, he'd go, Hey, Brian. How are you doing, man?' He remembers your name. And I'd be going, 'Hey, Bob, it's really good to see you.' He remembered everybody's name. It was incredible. He loved his fans. He loved the music," Vinny Appice said. With Black Sabbath, Appice recorded the studio albums "Mob Rules" (1981) and "Dehumanizer" (1992). As part of Dio he recorded: "Holy Diver" (1983), "The Last In Line" (1984), "Sacred Heart" (1985), "Dream Evil"(1987), "Strange Highways" (1993) and "Angry Machines" (1996). He was also the drummer in the Black Sabbath spin-off band Heaven and Hell, which released the album "The Devil You Know" in 2009. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTxSNosJrDo&pp=ygUJbW9iIHJ1bGVzThe post Vinny Appice recalls the love Ronnie James Dio had for his fans appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.

The guitarist Michael Schenker will release a new album, next September 20, called “My Years With UFO“, covering tracks he recorded with the legendary Hard Rock band. He will have many special guests on the tracks and some of them are Axl Rose, who will sing in “Love To Love”, Slash who plays on “Mother Mary” and Dee Snider, who sings in “Natural Thing". He released now as a single, the new version for "Rock Bottom", which has the Helloween singer and guitarist Kai Hansen. Hear the new UFO's "Rock Bottom" version with Kai Hansen and Michael Schenker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z67AKN0AQgU   Other special guests on the album are Stephen Pearcy, Roger Glover, Joe Lynn Turner, Jeff Scott Soto, Joel Hoekstra, Carmine Appice, Kai Hansen, Biff Byford, Erik Gronwall, Joey Tempest, Michael Voss, John Norum and Adrian Vandenberg. But besides those musicians, a core band formed by keyboardist Derek Sherinian, drummer Brian Tichy and bassist Barry Sparks was also part of almost all the tracks. ‘My Years With UFO’ tracklist “Natural Thing: (feat. Dee Snider, Joel Hoekstra) “Only You Can Rock Me” (Joey Tempest, Roger Glover) “Doctor, Doctor” (Joe Lynn Turner, Carmine Appice) “Mother Mary” (Slash, Erik Gronwall) “This Kids” (Biff Byford) “Love To Love” (Axl Rose) “Lights Out” (Jeff Scott Soto, John Norum) “Rock Bottom” (Kai Hansen) “Too Hot To Handle” (Joe Lynn Turner, Adrian Vandenberg, Carmine Appice) “Let It Roll” (Michael Voss) “Shoot, Shoot” (Stephen Pearcy) An official statement about the album said: “For the first time ever, Michael Schenker returns to his classic years with UFO, revisiting the era that catapulted both him and the British hard rock band to international stardom.” “Touring the globe as a teenager, Schenker became a driving force behind some of UFO’s most beloved tracks… During these meteoric years, the albums Phenomenon, Force It, No Heavy Petting, Lights Out, Obsession and the seminal live album Strangers in the Night were released, each contributing significantly to the genre. “Now, Michael Schenker is set to celebrate those glory days with his new album, My Years With UFO, alongside today’s rock elite.” UFO was active from 1968 to 1983, 1984 to 1989 and 1991 until 2024. Schenker was part of the band from 1973 to 1978, 1993 to 1995, 1997 to 1998 and 2000 to 2003.The post Michael Schenker releases new UFO’s “Rock Bottom” version with Kai Hansen appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.

The legendary Black Sabbath bassist and lyricist Geezer Butler dealt with depression for decades until he finally managed to get better. As the musician, who is currently promoting his biography "Into The Void", said in an interview with TalkShopLive (Transcribed by Blabbermouth), it was just in the 90s that he finally found a doctor who could help him. The musician recalled that back in the 60s and 70s people were afraid to go to the doctor and talk about mental health because they were afraid someone could put them in a mental institution. So he had to deal with depression for decades until he was finally medicated properly. Geezer Butler recalls how he overcame depression "Unless you've experienced true depression, you can't describe it. It's like you're going to this awful black hole. People would say, like, 'Oh, just go and have a drink or take the dog for a walk.' That's what the doctors used to say. 'Well, go and watch television or read a book.' And, of course, you've got no interest in anything. So the only way I could express myself was writing the lyrics for 'Paranoid'." "I mean, I wasn't depressed all the time, but when I used to get the bouts of depression, you just couldn't explain it to anyone, and you were terrified that you go to a mental health person, maybe, and they put you in hospital for years, in a mental institution." "So you'd never go to doctors or anything like that. And so you just had to get on with it. And the only way I could get it out of my system was to write the lyrics." "(I'm doing) good now, yeah. 'Cause in 1999, I was finally properly diagnosed, and they put me on Prozac for six weeks. And the doctor says, 'It's not gonna work straight away. Keep taking it for six weeks and eventually you'll start feeling like normal again.' And I said, 'Well, what's normal?' After six weeks, this big cloud seemed to lift off me. It was great," Geezer Butler said. Butler helped to form Black Sabbath back in 1968 and was part of the band until 1984, returning in 1987, 1990 to 1994, 1997 to 2006 and 2011 to 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qanF-91aJoThe post Geezer Butler recalls how he overcame depression appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.

The legendary Black Sabbath co-founder and guitarist Tony Iommi released a solo instrumental song "Scent of The Dark" back in 2021 to promote a new fragrance named after him, which was released by Xerjoff. Now, he did the same thing, releasing the track "Deified", to promote the new fragrance of the same name. Hear the new Tony Iommi song "Deified" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Ng7ZXrhBQ&pp=ygUSdG9ueSBpb21taSBkZWlmaWVk Read the official statement about the new Iommi fragrance: "Xerjoff presents the second chapter of the almighty collaboration between the greatest riff master of all time, Black Sabbath’s legendary guitarist and rock composer, Tony Iommi and Xerjoff’s esteemed founder, Sergio Momo." "The new perfume project sees a combination of forces that play on the palindromic nature of sound, scent and sensorial sequences. Everything has its own cycle. A riff, a melody, a perfume. In the ‘70s, playing a vinyl backwards was a phenomenon that became a popular way to hide subliminal messages. The palindromic nature of a riff and backmasking became the catalyst for the creation of this journey with Tony.” – Sergio Momo" "Worshiped for his epic dark riffs and guitar solos, Black Sabbath’s legendary guitarist, Tony Iommi, was hailed as the godfather of heavy metal, deified in his own right. Deified perfume featuring Tony Iommi is the second venture between the two entities to land in the Xerjoff Blends collection. This experimental experience plays on the palindromic nature of sound, scent and sequences." "Deified can be read both ways, in the same way that a riff and a track can be interpreted, in a palindromic sequence of back and forth, defying the ordinary by exploring new trajectories in the world of perfumery. In order to move forward, we must go back to the beginning, and this is what Tony Iommi and Sergio Momo’s new venture focuses on in the scent, the track and the video." "The immense instrumental track, Deified, written by Iommi and featuring Sergio Momo, will be released soon along with an equally impactful music video."The post Tony Iommi releases new solo song “Deified” appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.

Van Halen released their debut album in 1978, when a revolution was happening in the music business due to Punk Rock, that took Rock and Roll back to its roots, keeping the tracks short and simple besides adding a lot of intensity to it. At the time Hard Rock and Heavy Metal were already established as two of the most successful sub-genres of Rock and suffered a lot when they had to fight for space in the market with the Punk groups. However, Van Halen was one of the bands that managed to stand out at the time. Especially because of Eddie Van Halen's incredible guitar playing. Curiously, the virtuoso guitarist even wrote one song to make fun of Punk Rock, but eventually the track became a hit. The Van Halen song that Eddie wrote to make fun of punk rock Formed in Pasadena, California in 1973, Van Halen released 12 studio albums and sold an estimated amount of more than 80 million records worldwide. It all started in 1978 when the band's self-titled debut album was released. As Eddie revealed in an interview with Forbes in 2009, he helped to write one of the biggest hits of that record to make fun of Punk Rock music. "You know what I was doing? I was cartooning off punk. Cause 'Ain’t Talkin' ‘Bout Love,' we were jumping around in Dave’s father’s basement joking around, that song was a joke. But now actually when I listen to it, it sticks in your head and it’s very basic and simple." "But I was actually making fun of punk. Cause sometimes I have a tendency to get overly complicated. It goes right over people’s heads. So I gotta catch myself sometimes and keep stuff almost simpler than I do," Eddie Van Halen said. The guitarist once praised The Ramones for their ability to play so fast for a long time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtwBFz6lfrY Curiously, back in 1978 Van Halen was Black Sabbath's opening act alongside The Ramones. It was the only time the two American groups played the same bill. Van Halen played faster than many Hard Rock bands that emerged at that era. However, they weren't as fast as The Ramones. In an interview with Goldmine Magazine in 2023, the drummer Marky Ramone, the only classic member of the band who is still alive, said that Eddie once praised them. He said: "'Try playing The Ramones for an hour, and your hand will fall off'. We had the opportunity to play a show together. The hard part is the 8th note down stroke. A lot of punk bands tried to play it, and they went up and down." "That is not what we did. The Ramones were continuous down strokes, and it created this wall of sound. We were grateful that other bands attempted what we were doing. But no one came close to what we did," Marky Ramone said. Van Halen came to an end after the death of Eddie back in 2020 at the age of 65, after years battling cancer. Their final album was "A Different Kind of Truth" (2012) released during the band's final reunion that started in 2007. From that year until 2020 the group was formed by David Lee Roth (Vocals), Eddie Van Halen (Guitar), Alex Van Halen (Drums) and Wolfgang Van Halen (Bass - Eddie' son). Their final live concert happened at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles back in 2015.The post The Van Halen song that Eddie wrote to make fun of punk rock appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.

The following article, EVERY DEMOCRAT Who Claims Trump Assassination Attempt Was A HOAX Should Be Sued For A BILLION DOLLARS By Family Who Lost Loved One At Butler Rally, was first published on Conservative Firing Line. (Natural News) Alex Jones of InfoWars was sued for nearly $1 billion for simply claiming that he thought the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax (fake or staged). Now, millions of Democrats across the country are claiming that the Trump assassination attempt was staged. So, they think it’s fake, but what about the innocent human being who … Continue reading EVERY DEMOCRAT Who Claims Trump Assassination Attempt Was A HOAX Should Be Sued For A BILLION DOLLARS By Family Who Lost Loved One At Butler Rally ...