38 Special have released “Slightly Controversial,” featuring Train’s Pat Monahan. It's the second single off Milestone, their first album in 21 years.
38 singer and guitarist Don Barnes says the song is a “powerful guitar banger,” adding that it’s "wrapped around a mystery woman who’s been through a few things in her life. She wants to keep people guessing and talking about her every move and they just can’t seem to figure her out. Her choice to be an enigma is for her own emotional protection.” You can find the YouTube video below.
Milestone, their 13th studio album, will be out on September 19th.
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Eagles co-founder and former guitarist Bernie Leadon will follow up last month’s release of “Too Many Memories,” his first single in over 20 years, with a new album, Too Late to Be Cool, on October 10th.
He says, “I love this album. We took time to make sure the songs were in good keys for my voice. The three piece band and myself were all sitting in the same room, or where we could see one another well. Many were first, or very early takes. I even sang live on about three songs.”
Leadon has also released a second single, “Just a Little,” which you can find on YouTube.
Too Late to Be Cool was produced by Glyn Johns, who produced or co-produced the first three Eagles albums.
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While original KISS guitarist Ace Frehley plans to be with his bandmates in Washington, D.C. in December when they are presented with the Kennedy Center Honors, he won't be joining Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley in November for their KISS Kruise: Land-locked in Vegas event at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas.
Frehley tells Guitar World, “They asked me and I declined. There’s no way I’m gonna be involved with that, you know? Their biggest mistake is that they should have done that at Madison Square Garden, not in Las Vegas in a 5000-seater, or whatever it is.” Frehley is referring to the band's final two End of the World tour shows at the New York City arena on December 1st and 2nd, 2023.
“There are multiple reasons," adds Frehley. "You know, about nine months before KISS was going to play Madison Square Garden, both Paul and Gene were saying, ‘We’re going to bring everybody out on stage.’
“And then, a few months before the concert, they both changed their tune and said, ‘Ace and Peter [Criss] aren’t going to do it.’ In fact, Paul went on to say, ‘If Ace and Peter got on stage with us, the band could be called Piss.’ So, I kind of got into an argument with him.”
But, he makes it clear that he's "the kind of guy that never says never. I don’t hate Paul or Gene, you know? We’re rock and roll brothers, and Peter, too. So, anything can happen.”