METALLICA will conduct a cyberchat tomorrow, May 2 at 5 PM PT to discuss the Napster lawsuit and upcoming tour at http://chat.yahoo.com. Questions can be submitted 30 minutes ahead of time via artistdirect.com or yahoo.com. In other Metallica news, before heading out on the Summer Sanitarium tour with the band, JASON NEWSTED will record with an as yet untitled side project with guitarist DYLAN DOKIN and drummer BRIAN SAGRAFENA.
DREAM THEATER have a new EP available in Japan. Through Her Eyes features two alternate versions of that album track, plus and edited version of Home and a live medley When Images and Words Unite. The medley features Pull Me Under . Under A Glass Moon . A Fortune In Lies . Only A Matter Of Time and Take The Time.
A spokesperson for GUNS N' ROSES has confirmed that noted producer Roy Thomas Baker is currently in the studio with Axl Rose. Baker has only just met the singer, the spokesperson cautioned, and at this stage, he is only supplying additional production which may or may not make it onto the next GN'R album. This also does not mean the band plans to hand over production duties to Baker, as GN'R manager Doug Goldstein told MTV News that Sean Beavan is still on the job. Mike Clink, Moby, Youth, and finally Beavan have all been names attached to the project to date, but Beavan, on board since early 1999, has been the only one who has logged any serious time. "He's been the only producer," Goldstein told MTV News. "The others were people we met with or tried out on some tracks [with]. With Moby, we just had a meeting with him. Axl tried out Youth; he was great, he just wasn't the guy." Baker's other production and engineering credits include classic material from the likes of The Cars, Journey, Foreigner, T-Rex, Devo, Be-Bop Deluxe, and Cheap Trick.
Also on the Internet chat schedule: DEEP PURPLE's ROGER GLOVER, IAN GILLAN and STEVE MORSE will conduct an online chat today, May 1 at 8 PM ET at www.rockline.com or http://chat.yahoo.com, and IAN GILLAN will also chat on Tuesday, May 2 at 4 PM ET at www.canoe.ca. DEREK SHERINIAN and ROD MORGENSTEIN of PLATYPUS will chat today at 9 PM ET at http://chat.twec.com, on Thursday, May 4 at 9 PM via www.rockonline.com or http://chat.yahoo.com
In KING'S X news, the band is currently gearing up to tour their latest abum Please Come Home...Mr. Bulbous, first to Europe in May for six weeks, then 2 1/2 months through America and Canada starting July 11th. Also in the works: new solo albums from both Ty Tabor and Doug Pinnick, who will record once again as POUNDHOUND. Ty offers the following description of his own solo record: "It's going to be very different, nothing at all like the first record, more Pink Floyd meets Lindsay Buckingham meets the Beatles, a really bizarre combo of things. A lot of harmonies in the vocals and stuff, real melancholy, you know, like a slow, watery Pink Floyd type of vibe." Ty also ventured the following description of the second Poundhound record. "I know that Doug is getting close to being finished. He's extremely happy about it. And what I've heard of it, it is going to be one seriously rocking, funk, stomping kind of record. It's more of what Doug does on his own than what he brings into King's X. There's a funk side to it but it's heavy, really heavy." Ty can currently be heard on the second PLATYPUS album, Ice Cycles.
BON JOVI's Crush album contains the following tracks. (The exact listing may vary depending on the country of release): It's My Life . Say It Isn't So . Thank You For Loving Me . Next 100 Years . Mystery Train . Captain Cash & The Beauty Queen From Mars . Just Older . Save The World . She's A Mystery . One Wild Night . Two Story Town . I Got The Girl . Hard To Make A Living Loving You . Neurotica.
GALACTIC COWBOYS are hanging up their boots, according to a press release at their official site, www.galacticcowboys.com, but are parting on good terms and don't rule out working together in the future.
RORSCHACH TEST will play four shows to promote Peace Minus One, their first album for E-magine Entertainment. Following appearances in Seattle, Washington on May 12, Spokane, Washington on May 13, Los Angeles, California on May 18, and Phoenix, Arizona on May 20, the band will gear up for a full-scale summer tour.
