Q 103 - Albany's #1 Rock Station » guitars http://q103albany.com Albany's #1 Rock Station Sun, 19 May 2013 17:37:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Eddie Van Halen Donates 75 Guitars to School Music Programs http://q103albany.com/eddie-van-halen-donates-75-guitars-to-school-music-programs/ http://q103albany.com/eddie-van-halen-donates-75-guitars-to-school-music-programs/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:22:04 +0000 Jeff Giles http://loudwire.com/?p=40652 Being in the school band just got a whole lot cooler for some of the kids in the Los Angeles area: Eddie Van Halen has teamed up with the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation to donate 75 guitars from his personal collection to schools that don’t have enough funding to pay for instruments. For Van Halen, it was a simple case of giving back — as he put it simply, “Music education and families are dealing with the economic times, and I wanted to help them.”

]]> http://q103albany.com/eddie-van-halen-donates-75-guitars-to-school-music-programs/feed/ 0 Frazer Harrison, Getty Images Velvet Revolver Album with Corey Taylor of Slipknot Killed by Slash http://q103albany.com/velvet-revolver-album-corey-taylor-slipknot-killed-slash/ http://q103albany.com/velvet-revolver-album-corey-taylor-slipknot-killed-slash/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:42:54 +0000 Jeff Giles http://tsminteractive.com/?p=28539 They have an all-star lineup and a pair of top five albums to their credit, so what’s keeping Velvet Revolver from soldiering on without departed vocalist Scott Weiland?

According to drummer Matt Sorum, the band has tried — even going so far as to record an entire album’s worth of new material with Slipknot/Stone Sour singer Corey Taylor. But it hasn’t panned out — so far, anyway.

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