Update on Ronnie James Dio…Stomach Cancer…:(

Ronnie needs our metal prayers!!!

Eddie Trunk, co-host of the VH1 Classic television program “That Metal Show” who has a long-running radio show, “Friday Night Rocks”, on New York’s Q104.3 FM, has posted the following message on his official web site:

“Just hung up the phone with both Wendy Dio and Ronnie James Dio himself.

“Obviously, the news was just released about Ronnie having stomach cancer. I was aware of this a number of days ago, but did not say anything public until Ronnie‘s camp was ready to release the news.

“As I have said in the past, Ronnie has always been one of my closest friends and biggest supporters over the many years we have worked together doing various things. We have a friendship far beyond just music and he being a musician and me being a host. So I have been in a knot over this news when I was first told about it around a week ago.

“The results of the many tests he has had were made known yesterday, so now he knows exactly what he is dealing with and will soon find out the course of action. The GREAT news is that it did not spread and is in an early stage!

the rest of story here :
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=131022

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Metal Prayers needed. Ronnie James Dio is in the Hospital

DIO — the band fronted by legendary heavy metal vocalist Ronnie James Dio (HEAVEN & HELL, BLACK SABBATH, RAINBOW) — has cancelled its previously announced European tour after Ronnie was taken ill. “Ronnie has been hospitalized and we are waiting for further news,” the singer’s wife/manager Wendy Dio told BLABBERMOUTH.NET.

DIO‘s lineup for the European tour was supposed to include WHITESNAKE/ex-DIO axeman Doug Aldrich due to the fact that the band’s regular guitarist, Craig Goldy, had prior touring commitments with BUDGIE in Australia.

DIO‘s “Killing The Dragon” album from 2002 was released in June on limited-edition vinyl with a gatefold pop-up cover via Night Of The Vinyl Dead. Only 500 hand-numbered copies were manufactured.

read here:

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=130598

Gibson Guitar plant in Nashville raided by feds…

An international crackdown on the use of endangered woods from the world’s rain forests to make musical instruments bubbled over to Music City on Tuesday with a federal raid on Gibson Guitar ‘s manufacturing plant, but no arrests.

Agents of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service made a midday appearance and served a search warrant on company officials at Gibson’s Massman Drive manufacturing plant, where it makes acoustic and electric guitars.

Gibson issued a statement saying it is “fully cooperating with agents of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as it pertains to an issue with harvested wood.” The company said it did nothing wrong.

Federal officials declined to say whether anything was removed from Gibson’s plant or what specifically the agents were trying to find. But some exotic hardwoods traditionally used in making premium guitars, such as rosewood from the rain forests of Madagascar and Brazil, have been banned from commercial trade because of environmental concerns under a recently revised federal law.

the rest of the article is here:

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20091118/BUSINESS01/911180400/1003/BUSINESS

Vince Neil on “The Dirt”

Heather Muse from Lemondrop.com spoke with MÖTLEY CRÜE singer Vince Neil recently about a number of topics. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

Lemondrop.com: Is the movie version of The Dirt ever going to get made?

Neil: “I guess it’s just sitting on somebody’s desk right now collecting dust. It’s always been out of our hands. So if it happens, it’s great. If it doesn’t, [laughs] I’m not going to sit around and wait for the trailer to come out, you know. One thing about [the movie], I never even agreed that the movie should be made because how can you really put those lives – our lives and the stuff that we’ve done – into a two-hour film? There’s so much stuff. What do you leave out? What do you put in, and how do you actually capture it on film without it being rated X, really, because of all the excesses: girls and drugs and drinking and all that stuff? I’d rather you leave it to your imagination and picture it in your mind when you read the book. To me, that’s cooler.”

Lemondrop.com: What’s different about touring solo?

Neil: “It’s looser. It’s a lot of fun because it’s not so structured … But my band, we just go out and we don’t have a set list or anything.

We just go out that night and we sit down and we go, ‘Well, what do we want to play tonight?’ And we throw down some songs and just go and play. It’s everything from tons of cool cover songs and classic Mötley stuff and stuff from solo records and everything in between. You can’t do that in Mötley. I just go out and have a lot of fun. It’s fun being in Mötley, but this is a lot of fun too. I enjoy playing the smaller places too. You never get a chance to do that in a band like Mötley Crüe. So I get kind of the best of both worlds.”

Read the entire interview here.