November 1st – November 8th: Volbeat Is #1, GN’R Sued & Tony Iommi To Auction Guitar
Volbeat
11/1 Volbeat Score Twelfth #1
Volbeat’s single, “Time Will Heal,” is the band’s twelfth #1 on the Billboard Rock Mainstream chart.
“Time Will Heal” and “By A Monster’s Hand,” which topped the chart earlier this year, are from Volbeat’s ninth album, “God Of Angels Trust.”
Five Finger Death Punch
Babymetal
11/1 Five Finger Death Punch Collab With Babymetal Scores
Vocalist Ivan Moody and guitarist Zoltan Bathory of Five Finger Death Punch join Japan’s Babymetal during the latter’s sold-out Los Angeles show at the Intuit Dome to celebrate their collaborative single “The End” reaching #1 on the Japanese iTunes Metal chart. In addition, it’s the first song featuring Japanese lyrics to chart on U.S. Rock radio, where it has landed the Top 5.
“Five Finger Death Punch and Babymetal had performed at the same festival overseas back in 2015, so I was really happy thinking they might have remembered me from then,” shared Babymetal vocalist Su-Metal. “I sang Japanese lyrics inspired by the original lyrics of ‘The End’ and spent a lot of time experimenting to find the voice that best fit such a deep, cool track.”
Metallica
11/1 Two Arrested At Metallica Concert
Two Metallica fans are arrested and charged with trespassing after allegedly scaling a central tower inside Optus Stadium during the band’s concert in Perth, Australia.
Photos and video from the scene show cops telling the shirtless men to climb down before arresting them and escorting them out of the concert.
AC/DC’s Angus Young
11/2 AC/DC TV Special Airs
“AC/DC: The World’s Greatest Rock Band” is broadcast on Australia’s Seven and 7plus, just days before AC/DC’s “Power Up” Aussie tour.
The program has long-lost tapes and interviews (with GN’R’s Slash, Foo Fighters Dave Grohl and Wolfmother’s Andrew Stockdale among them) that tell the band’s inside story.
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay
11/2 Grateful Dead Singer Passes Away
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay dies from cancer at age 78. A former member of the Grateful Dead (1971-1979) she also provided backing vocals on #1 hits for Elvis Presley (“Suspicious Minds”) and Percy Sledge (“When A Man Loves A Woman”).
At one time she was married to fellow Dead member keyboardist Keith Godchaux.
Guns N’ Roses
11/3 Former Guns N’ Roses Manger Sues
Former Guns N’ Roses manager Alan Niven files a lawsuit against the band while seeking the court’s approval to publish his autobiography, “Sound N’ Fury.”
In legal documents Niven requests a jury trial while claiming that the band is trying to enforce a non-enforceable contract and attempting to interfere with the release of his book.
Roddy Bottom
11/4 Roddy Bottom’s “The Royal We”
Faith No More co-founder and queer icon Roddy Bottum releases his memoir “The Royal We.”
The book is a reflection of a San Francisco that once was and is no more. It documents Bottum’s travels from Los Angeles — growing up gay with no role models — to San Francisco, where he formed Faith No More.
“The Royal We” also covers Faith No More world tours, surviving heroin addiction and the plight of AIDS.
After selling millions of records, Bottum came out of the closet in 1992 revealing what it meant to be gay – to become a queer icon – in the world of Rock music.
Tony Iommi
11/5 Tony Iommi To Auction Guitar For Hospital
The Black Sabbath’ guitarist announces he will raffle one of his guitars – a mahogany Gibson SG played during Ozzy Osbourne’s final concert – as part of a £150,000 appeal to refurbish the Birmingham cancer treatment center. Iommi received cancer treatment at the hospital.
KISS
11/5 KISS Suit Dismissed
The wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of the KISS guitar tech Francis Stueber who died of COVID-19 while quarantining on the band’s ‘End of the Road World Tour’ in 2021 is officially dismissal by the court. A settlement was reached the previous September.
Stueber died after he was “abandoned” alone in a “random hotel room.” The lawsuit alleged the band had no plan in place to deal with staff who contracted COVID-19 on the road.
Taylor Momsen
11/5 The Pretty Reckless Singer Deals With Struggles
Taylor Momsen explains what helped her overcome the depression and substance abuse on a podcast.
“I had to make a very conscious choice at a point where I was either going to live or I was going to die and I had to either stop everything I was doing and get my life together, or this was going to kill me. I luckily chose to move forward but it was that serious.”
Taylor Momsen
11/8 The Pretty Reckless Are #1 On Mainstream Rock With “For I Am Death”
“With ‘For I Am Death’, I want the music to speak for itself, allowing the listener to decide what it means to them,” said The Pretty Reckless frontwoman Taylor Momsen (pictured). “The interpretation of the song might align with my own, or it might come from the heart of the audience. Either way, I’m excited to see what people take away from it and what it means to them. Oh, and Rock and Roll will never die.”
“For I Am Death” the band’s eighth #1 and fourth straight on Mainstream Rock. The other three were “Death by Rock And Roll” (2020), “And So It Went” (2021) and “Only Love Can Save Me Now” (2021).
The Pretty Reckless formed in 2009 and consists of Momsen, guitarist Ben Phillips, bassist Mark Damon and drummer Jamie Perkins.
Soundgarden
11/8 Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame Inductions
Soundgarden, The White Stripes and Bad Company are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the “Performer” category during the 40th annual induction ceremony at the Peacock Theater in L.A.
Soundgarden are supported by fellow Seattle musicians. However, Bad Company’s Paul Rodgers is absent due to health issues.
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