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"How many girls become a sinner, waiting for a roast beef dinner?" - Funny girl

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"Ace Up Their Sleeve" by Maya Pontón Aronoff on INPRNT

[fuckyeahvanhalen86-95]

Sammy Hagar has revealed he’s written a tribute song to Eddie Van Halen with Joe Satriani and Michael Anthony.

While Satch and Anthony have their parts recorded already, Hagar says he’s holding the process up because he gets “emotional” when recording his vocals.

After Alex Van Halen revealed that the previous attempt at putting an Eddie Van Halen tribute tour together failed because David Lee Roth didn’t want to pay homage to Eddie’s legacy, Hagar plans to take his tributes one step further.

“It’ll be a single,” he tells Rolling Stone. “We’re working on it right now. Mike [Anthony] and I just finished the bass and the background vocals. I took a shot at a lead vocal, but I don’t know if it’s done yet.”

“Joe’s got his parts done. Kenny [Aronoff] played drums. I gotta tell you, it was emotional singing it, because the song, it’s about Eddie. That’s the best I can put it. It’s a thank you to him, and it’s a thank you to the fans, and it’s a thank you to that era.”

He adds that fans can expect its release in “February or March”, but no other details were spilled.

He did, however, say that he and Wolfgang Van Halen “got goosebumps” when they saw each other at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last month.

The singer, who has announced the return of his Best of All Worlds shows via a Las Vegas residency at Park MGM in 2025, is full of admiration for Van Halen Jr.

“I walked into Ozzy’s dressing room and Wolfie’s sitting there,” he says. “We caught eyes and he jumps up, and we just fuckin’ hugged and got goosebumps on both of us.”

Wolfgang starred at the glitzy event which saw Ozzy Osbourne inducted into the Hall’s annals for the second time, this time for his work as a solo artist.

Taking the stage to perform Crazy Train – and nailing its iconic solo – alongside Tool’s Maynard James Keenan, and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ drummer Chad Smith, he’d helped pour cold water on the muchly contested Randy Rhoads versus Eddie Van Halen rivalry that began in the early ‘80s and hasn’t been properly quelled since.

“It’s so funny, every time I’ve ever run into him and we embrace, I get the goosebumps because I feel like it’s Eddie,” Hagar says of meeting Wolfgang backstage.

“I really feel he’s the closest thing to Eddie on this planet right now. He looks like him, when you look him in the eye. He does his gestures. He takes his finger and he pushes his hair out of his face like Eddie.”

“He did that when I was talking to him,” he continues. “I said, ‘I can’t even look at you, Wolf. I’m getting teared up.’ Yeah, I love him and what he’s doing.”

Wolfgang has, understandably, been cautious about his positioning in regard to his late father’s monumental musical legacy, preferring to tread his own path with Mammoth WVH.

In August he told the WTF with Marc Maron Podcast: “I think people are sitting there waiting for me to outdo my dad in some way, but that's impossible. I'm not him. I'm doing my own thing and if anything I'm outdoing him in that way... I'm a better drummer than him and no one says that!”

Though he did inherit one technique from his dad, in a new chat with Bass Player, he's further distanced himself from his father by dispelling the belief that Eddie taught him every trick from his book.

“My Dad called me a ‘rhythm bassist’, but all he taught me was a power chord and an AC/DC drum beat,” he says. “From there, I just played along.”

Nonetheless, Hagar has previously expressed his desire to involve Wolfgang in the Best of All Worlds extravaganza at some stage, saying “I’m sure our paths will cross”.

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Cinderella: Still Climbing (1994)

Mercury Records

[jeffcbliss]

(Left to right) Kenny Aronoff, Billy F. Gibbons, Steve "Seasick Steve" Wold, playing at The Billy Gibbons Birthday Jam - The Troubadour; West Hollywood, CA (12-15-22). @AronoffOFFICIAL @BillyFGibbons @SeasickSteve @ZZTop

Photo: Jeff Bliss

[theoffingmag]

It’s for the nesting robins, she’d warble, picking at the hollow where the soft cord that once bound us used to be. Then she counted my toes and chirped me to sleep. Today, gathering bottles, baubles and boxes for the estate sale, wingbreeze and birdsong sweep sorrow to the street.

— Mikki Aronoff

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John Mellencamp

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One only tells truth and the other only tells lies

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Joe Satriani + Steve Vai's SATCHVAI Band Unveil Star-Studded Line-up for “Surfing with the Hydra Tour”, Feat. Kenny Aronoff, Marco Mendoza & Pete Thorn

As previously announced, iconic guitar legends Joe Satriani and Steve Vai have joined forces to create the SATCHVAI Band. Today, we are excited to introduce the full band line-up: powerhouse drummer Kenny Aronoff, renowned bassist Marco Mendoza, and virtuoso guitarist Pete Thorn complete the stellar quintet that is SATCHVAI Band. “Finding the right musicians for the SatchVai Band was at first a…

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Misty Water-Colored Memories - Episode 12: "Drum Riffs of the 1980s"

Buckle your chinstraps because we’re heading into new territory. Previous installments in this series have been focused on entire songs rather than just particular components thereof. You’ve been warned. A sure way to tell you’re an old drummer I’ve written about being a bass player several times, but my first love was the drums. A common trait amongst all old drummers we were all once young…

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John Fogerty Deja Vu All over Again 2004 Geffen ——————————————————————— Tracks: 01. Deja Vu (All over Again) 02. Sugar-Sugar (in My Life) 03. She’s Got Baggage 04. Radar 05. Honey Do 06. Nobody’s Here Anymore 07. I Will Walk with You 08. Rhubarb Pie 09. Wicked Old Witch 10. In the Garden ———————————————————————

Alex Acuña 

Kenny Aronoff

John O’Brian

Bob Britt 

Paul Bushnell

John Fogerty

Viktor Krauss

Dean Parks 

Aaron Plunkett 

David Santos

Benmont Tench

* Long Live Rock Archive

[bobateaandbooktalks]

"Through Me (The Flood)" by Maya Pontón Aronoff on INPRNT

[mitjalovse]

Some veterans' late noughts found them in the situations they regretted to miss in their careers. For instance, Tony Iommi called Glen Hughes to do a duet album. While they worked together before, they didn't collaborate for a long time, so Fused finds them together again and you regret they didn't have more chances to be on the same record. True, Fused does make up for the lost opportunities, because both of them sound happy to be there. Moreover, you can hear them suggesting the ways Black Sabbath fronted by Glen Hughes could've gone to, had he stayed longer. Sadly, Fused ended up as a fluke, because the original lineup of the group I mentioned took the whole attention from Mr. Iommi and this became yet another case of Hughes being stood up.

[fuckyeahvanhalen86-95]

Sammy Hagar explained why he let Jason Bonham go from "Best of All Worlds" and hired Kenny Aronoff instead, praising the latter as "one of the greatest drummers on the planet."

So far, Sammy Hagar's triumphant "Best of All Worlds" career retrospective tour has been nothing but good feels and crazy fun. The one thing that contrasted the otherwise exuberant atmosphere was when Jason Bonham confirmed he wouldn't be joining Hagar, Michael Anthony, and Joe Satriani for the upcoming Vegas residency and other future exploits.

The drummer admitted he was "a little shocked" when he found out that the Red Rocker would be continuing with another longtime collaborator, Kenny Aronoff, who had been brought in as a temporary replacement when Bonham had to step down in late August due to a family emergency. Nevertheless, there seems to be no bad blood between the two camps, with Bonham noting he still loves Hagar "to bits."

On the other side, Hagar told Rolling Stone in a recent interview that the reasons for going forward with Aronoff were twofold. Reflecting on the fact that the drummer delivered a smashing performance despite jumping in at the last minute, Hagar offered:

"Yeah, and that's why he is still in the band. That's why we're moving forward with him. There's two reasons. Number one, he's one of the greatest drummers on the planet. I think he's been on more million-selling records than any musician in the world. And he did so well on this tour, and he plays with Joe on a full-time basis."

"Keeping this 'Best of All Worlds' band together is difficult when you got Jason doing his thing, you got Joe doing his thing, you got Mike and I. We need our beach time and our taco nights, Taco Tuesdays and stuff. Trying to get it together, it really helps by having Kenny's schedule be with Joe. If Joe's available, Kenny's available, and it's not trying to put pieces together."

He added:

"Kenny's right here. We can rehearse any day of the week. And he blew my mind. I played with Kenny in Chickenfoot, and he blew my mind then too, because when we auditioned him, he learns every song. 'Tell me what songs we're playing.' 'Okay, here they are.' He charts them out and he sits there, and he fuckin' can read it, and play it with soul and power perfectly, just one time, the first time he plays it. If that don't blow a musician’s mind, I don't know what would, especially these kinds of songs. These songs are crazy. They're fuckin' Van Halen arrangements."

Looking back on the situation which led to Aronoff's arrival, Hagar offered:

"Jason wasn't sure when he was going to go, and we kept saying, 'Well, hey, we gotta know, we gotta know.' Then all of sudden he said, 'Look, my mom took a bad turn. I gotta go.'"

"It was a day off, and I hit Kenny. I sent him a live recording of the set. We knew it a week ahead of time, that things were possibly going to happen, but anyway, he flew out. He got in at six in the morning. He went to bed, woke up at noon, went to the stage, set his drums up with the guy, got his stuff all set up right, and went through the set a couple of times."

"We came in for a soundcheck, went through the things he had questions for. We played that night in Cincinnati. It was fucking great."

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Brian Setzer: The Knife Feels Like Justice (1986)

EMI Records

[jeffcbliss]

(Left to right) Kevin Cronin, Kenny Wayne Shepherd & Kenny Aronoff, playing with the Jim Irsay Band - The Jim Irsay Collection; Shrine Auditorium; Los Angeles, CA (1-11-24). @kcreospeedwagon @IrsayCollection @AronoffOFFICIAL @KWShepherd

Photo: Jeff Bliss