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ddrum recently announced the release of the Vinnie Paul Limited Edition Commemorative Snare Drum. This snare is limited to 250 drums worldwide and is available now at authorized ddrum dealers. The custom dragon wrap on the 8×14 maple shell was conceived by legendary PANTERA, HELLYEAH and DAMAGEPLAN drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott, and based on the hat he loved and wore religiously.

The Vinnie Paul snare is a flashback to the original ddrum signature model built for Vinnie when he joined the company. The limited-edition commemorative snare drum features an eight-ply North American maple shell with 45-degree inner and 30-degree outer bearing edges with slight round-over. In addition, the drum features chrome hardware, a premium snare throw-off, 10 double-sided ddrum turret lugs, and die-cast hoops for increased tuning stability, and overall rim shot clarity and volume.

“I’ve spent years working on these snares for Vinnie,” said Abbott’s longtime drum tech Patrick King (a.k.a. “PKING”). “This snare resonates on so many levels with me. It rings in my ears (literally and figuratively) and through my core. This snare is not just a snare. It’s an extension of Vince. His sound. His heart. His legacy.”

The ddrum Vinnie Paul Limited Edition Commemorative Snare Drum includes a special synthetic leather bag and sells for $499.00 at authorized ddrum dealers while supplies last.

For more information and to see the rest of the ddrum product line, go to www.ddrum.com.

Vinnie passed away on June 22, 2018 at his home in Las Vegas at the age of 54. He died of dilated cardiomyopathy, an enlarged heart, as well as severe coronary artery disease. His death was the result of chronic weakening of the heart muscle — basically meaning his heart couldn’t pump blood as well as a healthy heart.

A public memorial for Vinnie Paul was held on July 1, 2018 at Bomb Factory in Dallas, Texas.

Not long before his death, Vinnie laid down the drum tracks for HELLYEAH’s sixth album, “Welcome Home”, which was released in September 2019.

Hulu has released a first look at Sebastian Stan and Lily James as MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee and “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson in the limited series “Pam And Tommy” about their infamous leaked sex tape. Seth Rogen will also appear in the series as the man who stole the tape, and will produce with his partner Evan Goldberg. The series also stars Nick Offerman, Taylor Schilling, Andrew Dice Clay, Pepi Sonuga, Spencer Granese and Mozhan Marnò.

The eight-episode series will focus on series the duo’s salacious relationship in the 1990s, including the leak of the private honeymoon video and the legal battle that ensued.

Lee and Anderson are reportedly not involved with the series, which is written by Robert Siegel and DV DeVincentis and produced by Annapurna.

Anderson and Lee got married on a beach in Mexico in 1995 after dating for just four days. The couple, who divorced in 1998, share two sons, Brandon, 24, and Dylan, 22.

The sex tape Lee made with Anderson during their 1998 honeymoon ended up finding its way online after being stolen from their home by an electrician. Pamela later sued the distribution company, but ended up settling, and the tape continued to be available online as a result. The tape reportedly made $77 million in less than 12 months.

“I’ve never seen it,” Anderson said on “Watch What Happens Live” in 2015. “I made not one dollar. It was stolen property. We made a deal to stop all the shenanigans. I was seven months pregnant with Dylan and thinking it was affecting the pregnancy with the stress and said, ‘I’m not going to court anymore. I’m not being deposed anymore by these horny, weird lawyer men. I don’t want to talk about my vagina anymore or my public sex — anything.”

Here’s a peek at Pam & Tommy, coming to @Hulu. Based on the true scandal that started it all, featuring Lily James, Sebastian Stan and @SethRogen… ready to rewind? #PamAndTommy pic.twitter.com/4ctdKYEm9F
— Pam & Tommy on Hulu (@pamandtommy) May 7, 2021

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JANE’S ADDICTION and PORNO FOR PYROS frontman Perry Farrell has announced his KIND HEAVEN ORCHESTRA’s brand new single, “Mend”. Working with friends Taylor Hawkins (FOO FIGHTERS), Elliot Easton (THE CARS) and David Bryan (BON JOVI) made this song special for Farrell.

Written with Hawkins, “Mend” addresses the relationship of a mutual friend falling apart. Lyrics like “I want to be with her again. In lovers’ clouds, my head surrounded. Oh, that’s the only way, I must see her again. So my broken heart can mend,” shed light on his heartbreak.

Farrell says of his motivation: “I’ve tried to reach through his ribcage and examine the heart of a good friend. Tried to empathize with what he was going through. I tried to mend my friend.”

This release comes in the wake of the compilation of Perry Farrell’s work (outside of JANE’S ADDICTION and PORNO FOR PYROS) in his box set “The Glitz: The Glamour”, which was released January 2021. More PORNO FOR PYROS music is forthcoming and post-pandemic JANE’S ADDICTION dates are currently being announced.

Due out on May 21, the “Mend” single can be pre-ordered/saved now at this location.

“The Glitz; The Glamour” is a 35-year retrospective of Perry’s life, music and art — focusing on 68 tracks worth of his alt rock rarities and innovative artistic explorations. The retrospective is served up in the form of a vinyl and collectible box-set and is an art piece in its own right — in collaboration with fine artist Zoltar, this offering firmly puts Farrell’s stake in the ground as the “godfather of alternative rock.”

In addition to the deep groove vinyl recordings, the box-set includes a Blu-ray featuring 12 uncompressed Dolby Atmos mixes from “Kind Heaven” and three previously unreleased Atmos mixes, a photographic memoir hardcover book, a bandana, plus two exclusive Zoltar prints. “The Glitz; The Glamour” is out now via Last Man Music. Visit www.perryfarrell.com for more information.

On May 6, SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian was joined by students from Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) to perform “Bari Aragil” at the Hope For Armenia virtual event hosted for Teach For Armenia.

The program in support of education in Armenia and Artsakh drew many attendees, including cameos by actress and singer Cher and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian.

Modeled after Teach For America, Teach For Armenia is a partner of the Teach For All global network, putting an emphasis on the importance of education so that children can continue to grow and thrive.

Serj previously performed “Bari Aragil” with his father Khatchadour Tankian more than a decade ago, and they even filmed a very special video for the track showcasing the two of them singing it together. It was featured twice on the Thanksgiving day Armenia Fund Telethon broadcast worldwide in 2009.

In November 2020, SYSTEM OF A DOWN made new music available for the first time since 2005 in order to rally for Armenia. They released “Protect The Land” and “Genocidal Humanoidz” and pledged royalties earned, including from purchases on Bandcamp, to the major non-profit Armenia Fund. Along with other donations from fans on their social pages, they have raised over $600,000.

Tankian was born to Armenian parents, with four grandparents who escaped from Armenia to Lebanon during the persecution of the Armenians.

In a new interview with New York’s Q104.3 radio station, FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl said that he believes there is pent-up demand for live performances from music-starved audiences who haven’t been able to attend concerts in nearly 15 months.

“In the last year and a half, I’ve noticed that people are craving live music more than they ever have,” he said. “And so it doesn’t matter if it’s NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK, they’re gonna run to a concert to see it when things open up. Because it’s what human beings do; I think that human beings need to feel that tangible, communal experience because it makes you feel not alone. When you see a human being on stage and you’re a human being in the front row, it’s reassuring because you realize, like, ‘Oh, this is a big part of why we’re alive.'”

Earlier this week, Live Nation, the world’s largest live event and ticketing company, said that it has already booked twice as many shows for 2022 as it did in 2019.

Live Nation has confirmed several major tours for 2021, including MEGADETH and LAMB OF GOD’s “The Metal Tour Of The Year”.

2022 will see the long-awaited reunion tours of RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE and MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE.

During a call with with investors on Thursday (May 6), Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino said: “Around the world, people are showing the need to get out and socialize once again which reinforces our expectation that a return to concerts will be the logical progression as vaccines are readily available to everyone who wants to get one. This is generally already the case in the U.S. where we are confidently planning our reopenings, particularly for outdoor shows, and we expect many of our other major markets will follow this summer.”

Things must be getting back to “normal” because our fine, feathered fiend hates everything again this week.
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Legendary punk rock band MISFITS has replaced MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE on the billing of this year’s Aftershock festival, set to take place October 7-10 at Discovery Park in Sacramento, California.

As previously announced, Aftershock 2021 will be headlined by METALLICA (performing two unique sets, one on Friday and one on Sunday), with MISFITS headlining on Saturday, October 9. The diverse Aftershock 2021 lineup will also include: LIMP BIZKIT, RANCID, THE OFFSPRING, SOCIAL DISTORTION, RISE AGAINST, VOLBEAT, MACHINE GUN KELLY, MASTODON, GOJIRA, SEETHER, ASKING ALEXANDRIA, and many more.

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE canceled its appearance at Aftershock after announcing that it was postponing its reunion tour to 2022.

Last month, Glenn Danzig told Rolling Stone magazine that the door was “open” to MISFITS playing more shows. “If we do it, I would like to play some places we haven’t played yet, Texas or Florida or places like that,” he said. We haven’t done any shows in those states, and those states are fully open.”

The initial comeback performance by MISFITS members Danzig, Jerry Only and Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein took place at the 2016 Riot Fest. The estranged bandmates played together for the first time since 1983 and were backed by former SLAYER drummer Dave Lombardo and guitarist Acey Slade.

Since then, the original lineup of the MISFITS has reunited for scattered dates, with the most recent one taking place in December 2019 at Wells Fargo Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Prior to the Riot Fest concerts, Glenn, Jerry and Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein last performed together on October 29, 1983.

The original MISFITS band broke up in 1983, and Only brought forth a new version of the MISFITS in 1995. Various members have come and gone, but Only, along with BLACK FLAG’s Dez Cadena, has kept some form of the MISFITS in the recording studio and on the road for most of the last two and half decades.

1996’s “The Great Southern Trendkill” is PANTERA’s most extreme and abrasive album, hands down. Characteristically defiant and contrarian, the band followed up its No. 1 Billboard-charting “Far Beyond Driven” with an LP that was far beyond confrontational — musically experimental, sonically bombastic and lyrically scathing. For the 25th anniversary of the landmark record (released on May 7, 1996), Revolver magazine talked to singer Philip Anselmo about the dark days that inspired such dark music.

Anselmo said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I was in a superbly dark fucking spot when we did that record. And what I remember about doing it was pretty ugly, but I was surrounded by beautiful things. I was in New Orleans. I was at Trent Reznor’s studio; that place was fucking beautiful and awesome. And [producer] Terry Date was there. And Terry Date would come, fly out to work with me. It was the first record I did away from the band. I was injured, man. I was addicted to drugs. And sometimes when you’re in those dark places, they make for some goddamn good music or interesting expressions of music and art in general.

“I think I felt pretty confident that the songs were devastating enough,” he continued. “I can just leave it at that — I felt like they were devastating. We did some different stuff musically, with the guitar tones and whatnot — cleaner tones and shit like that.”

Philip also talked about “The Great Southern Trendkill” title track, which opened the album in a spectacularly brutal fashion. “It needed to,” he said. “It was like an announcement. That first song was, ‘We have not left our heavy metal roots behind. We have not. And we will not abandon the cause.’ And that’s how we felt about it.”

“The Great Southern Trendkill” was reissued in 2016 for its 20th anniversary. The two-disc “The Great Southern Trendkill: 20th Anniversary Edition” included the original album remastered, plus a dozen previously unreleased mixes, instrumentals, and live recordings.

Five years ago, Anselmo told the “Do You Know Jack?” radio show about the making of “The Great Southern Trendkill”: “Well, it was very interesting times and very trying times as well. On a personal level, I wasn’t doing all that well because I was injured, I was making every rookie mistake in the world with pain medication and all that stuff, and I was embarrassed. I didn’t wanna see anybody, man; I was in a bad way. However, I was present throughout the entire writing of the songs, musically, because I am the lyricist, so therefore shaping a song and getting it into some semblance of song structure, of course, they needed me there for that. But I did decide to do my vocals on my own at Trent Reznor’s studio that he used to have here in New Orleans which was awesome.”

He continued: “Aside from all of that, I had a journalist just yesterday say, ‘Well, this is kind of a dark-horse record for PANTERA.’ And you know what? I could not disagree with the person. And I still say, yeah, it was a bit of a dark-horse record for PANTERA, because heavy metal, at the time, was supposed to be on its way out. Grunge was the number-one-selling genre at the time. Heavy metal was being experimented with by different bands, in different ways, and, really, from the PANTERA perspective, we really, really, really, really wanted to fly the pure PANTERA style of heavy metal as best we could. And we did. And, you know, I’ll go a bit further and say that right when we… the day we all arrived to meet up and go on our first tour for ‘The Great Southern Trendkill’, our road manager approached me and he said, ‘Phil, you know, man. Don’t expect sold-out shows, man. Heavy metal’s on its way out. Kids are listening to different stuff. And it’s gonna be rough. Don’t expect this. Don’t expect that.’ And I was, like, ‘Great! I appreciate the pep talk.’ But the best thing that remedied this bullshit diatribe was that he was dead wrong. That show — that first show — was packed to the gills, sold out, as were most of the other ones. So fucking in your face opinion.”

Around the same time, PANTERA drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott told “Whiplash”, the KLOS radio show hosted by Full Metal Jackie, that “The Great Southern Trendkill” “was a really crazy record for PANTERA. I mean, it was the most chaotic, most unorganized, most against-the-grain record that we ever made, looking back at it, after being a part of the remastering and everything that was there. That being said, it came out at a time, in 1996, when rap metal was coming in, and I even remember us getting a phone call from the president of our label, saying, ‘Hey, you guys need to… Be sure and start rapping on your record, add some rap to it.’ And we just kind of laughed and said, ‘Okay, we’ll get right on that.’ And anyways, that record was really designed as just a gigantic bird finger to the music industry at that time, and I think it really accomplished what it was all about.”

QUEEN’s Brian May and Roger Taylor have confirmed to Spotify’s “Rock This With Allison Hagendorf” that they tried to record a new song with singer Adam Lambert but they ultimately decided against releasing it. “Yeah, we did have a little playaround,” Brian said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “We didn’t actually finish anything to our satisfaction. It has to be perfect, it has to be great when we come out with something… But, yeah, it could happen.”

Added Roger: “I’d like it to happen, but as Brian said, it’s gotta be really great. It can’t be ordinary, and I think we’d all feel very disappointed if it came out and everybody went, ‘Hmmm…’ It’s gotta be good.”

May and Taylor went on to praise the current QUEEN singer and former “American Idol” runner-up, with Roger saying: “Adam is an exceptional talent, and I just can’t speak highly enough of him. His voice is second to none. He’s been nothing but a pleasure since we’ve been working together, which is why we continue to do so.”

Added Brian: “I call him the G.F.G — the gift from God — ’cause we weren’t looking for that. And somehow he was there. And, of course, he doesn’t imitate [late QUEEN singer] Freddie [Mercury] in any shape or form, but he’s able to rise to the challenge of interpreting every one of those songs and making them something special, even in the light of history. He has big shoes to fill. And he’s a phenomenon. There’s no doubt. Nobody else could have stepped into that place. We love Adam, and hopefully we’ll be back out there with him next May and June.”

The recording sessions for aforementioned “abandoned” track reportedly took place in Nashville during a QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT U.S. tour.

Lambert, May and Taylor first shared the stage during “American Idol” in May 2009 for a performance of “We Are The Champions”. They teamed up again in 2011 at the MTV European Music Awards in Belfast, Ireland for an electrifying eight-minute finale of “The Show Must Go On”, “We Will Rock You” and “We Are The Champions” and in the summer of 2012, Lambert performed a series of shows with QUEEN across Europe as well as dates in Russia, Ukraine and Poland. They have since completed a number of tours and performed at some of the biggest festivals in the world.

In May 2019, Lambert said that he wasn’t convinced it was the right move for him to record new music with QUEEN. Speaking to Hunger, he said: “People always ask if we want to record together, and I’m not sure it makes total sense, because it wouldn’t really be QUEEN, because, to me, QUEEN is Freddie. My favorite thing is collaborating and putting these concerts together and creating on stage — it’s super fulfilling and exciting. To present these ideas to these two gentlemen — especially when they like the idea.”

Lambert previously downplayed the Mercury comparisons, saying: “There’s never going to be another, and I’m not replacing him. That’s not what I’m doing. I’m trying to keep the memory alive, and remind people how amazing he was, without imitating him. I’m trying to share with the audience how much he inspired me.”

In 2004, QUEEN recruited BAD COMPANY singer Paul Rodgers, with whom they completed two world tours and released an album, “The Cosmos Rocks”, in 2008. They amicably parted ways a year later when Rodgers returned to BAD COMPANY. Since 2011, QUEEN has been fronted by Lambert.