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Great White bassist Scott Snyder has recently had major lower back surgery. The 61-year-old musician, posted on social media: “This is something I’ve needed for years and couldn’t put it off anymore.” He went on to say that he would be out for a few more shows and will be back as soon as possible.…

Getty ImagesBruce Kulick has announced his retirement from Grand Funk Railroad and longtime Bob Seger guitarist Mark Chatfield will step in. Kulick, 67, commented through a press release: “I will forever cherish my time in Grand Funk these past 23 years. The train was always on the track, creating a rock & roll groove known…

PRPhotos.comBilly Joel and Stevie Nicks have announced a joint concert in Chicago on June 21, their first-ever performance at Soldier Field. Joel also posted that he and Sting will do their first-ever joint concert in St. Louis on September 27th at Busch Stadium. The special event continues the duo’s one-night-only series of stadium shows. Tickets…

PRPhotos.comA chat between guitar legends, Queen’s Brian May and Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi has been posted online. You can watch them trade old stories as they play their own version of Sabbath’s “Paranoid.” The video was just uploaded to the Guitar World YouTube channel. The clip was taken from a three-part documentary series that originally…

PRPhotos.comAce Frehley is set to release his new solo album, 10,000 Volts, on Feb. 23 and says the songs are reminiscent of the KISS album, Rock and Roll Over. He wrote and recorded the album with Trickster’s Steve Brown. He explained: “There’s no BS in any of these songs. There’s no filler and zero wasted…

Getty ImagesPreviously unseen footage of Led Zeppelin performing at Michigan’s Pontiac Silverdome in 1977, has emerged online. The 23-minute clip captures the band playing to – what was then, a world record crowd of 76,200, for a single-act show. The 8mm film, shot from the audience, has been restored and was posted by Guitar World.…

Getty ImagesHeart performed on New Year’s day at the NHL game between Seattle and Vegas in their home town of Seattle, Washington. During intermission Ann and Nancy Wilson, along with their band played “Barracuda” and “Magic Man.”

Getty ImagesREO Speedwagon frontman Kevin Cronin says writing “Can’t Fight This Feeling” was a lengthy and difficult endeavor. He first started writing the verses, but couldn’t write the chorus. He explained during an interview with Dan Rather and said: “I wrote a number of horrible choruses to these verses. I was like, ‘Okay, I’m going…

PRPhotos.comEddie Vedder of Pearl Jam stopped in at a music store in Oahu, Hawaii and bought three guitars for the store’s music teacher to pass on to his students. Later, the Coconut Grove Music teacher, Harry Koizumi asked his students to write a thank you note and Vedder wrote each of them personal notes back.…

PRPhotos.comGuitarist John 5 shared some details about the new music Motley Crue is working on. He says that one track that Nikki Sixx has written harkens back to the sound of their debut album Too Fast For Love. In an interview with Illinois Entertainer, he said: “It’s just natural for him to write these songs…