by Alix Vallecillo | Mar 16, 2016 | Money Talks, Music Biz, News
If you keep wondering how much your favorite bands make when they head out on the road, Billboard‘s Boxscore released their latest batch of earnings and attendance from many artists, and we’ve summarized them here for you. This time around, we have some numbers for...
by Bram Teitelman | Feb 2, 2016 | News, Postponements
From more than one account, the Def Leppard ‘Hysteria on the High Seas’ tour was a little bit of a bummer. There was, of course, the sad death of Dio/Rainbow bassist Jimmy Bain from lung cancer, who was there to perform with his current band Last In Line....
by Bram Teitelman | Feb 1, 2016 | In Memoriam, News, Updates
Last weekend, the metal community suffered another loss when former Dio and Rainbow bassist Jimmy Bain died while on the Def Leppard ‘Hysteria on the High Seas’ cruise with his current band, Last In Line. He was 68. And while he’s had struggles with...
by Bram Teitelman | Jan 28, 2016 | News, Video
[youtube]https://youtu.be/Gix4saxDjQQ[/youtube] When Def Leppard first became popular in the early ’80s, there was only one place that played music videos, MTV. Oh yeah, we should mention to you younger readers that MTV actually used to play music videos. At any...
by Alix Vallecillo | Jan 26, 2016 | Events, News, Updates
As some of you know, former Dio and Rainbow bassist Jimmy Bain passed away over the weekend. The news started to spread after Bain’s former Dio bandmate Simon Wright posted about it on his Facebook and it seems like Vinny Appice was not too happy about it. Bain...