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The Guns N' Roses members Slash and Duff McKagan have released a new charity single called "I Can Breathe," which also features Cesar Gueikian, the CEO of Gibson Guitars. The project, called "The Gibson Band," is organized by the guitar company and will include other musicians as members in the future. All the proceeds will be donated to the National Alliance on Mental Illness via the Gibson Gives program. Over the decades McKagan talked about his fight against depression and panic attacks. Hear the Gibson Band song "I Can Breathe" featuring Slash and Duff McKagan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVp7ntu73ac Read the official Gibson statement about the song featuring Slash and Duff McKagan "We’re excited to announce a new release from the Gibson Band, a revolving collective of musicians who join together to make music and raise funds and awareness for worthy causes. A hard-hitting rock song, the new benefit single “I Can Breathe” features rhythm guitars and piano from Cesar Gueikian, CEO of Gibson, with special guests Duff McKagan on lead vocals and lyrics, and Slash on lead guitar and solos." “I am grateful for the collaboration from Slash, Duff, and from my friend Serj Tankian’s participation with cover artwork. I’m thrilled we are donating all proceeds from the song to a great and relevant cause.” @gueikian" "Gibson Records, Duff McKagan, Slash, and Cesar Gueikian, will donate 100% proceeds from the sale of “I Can Breathe,” in addition to all auction funds raised to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), through Gibson Gives. @namicommunicate is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health resource organization that is dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. NAMI’s mission is to create a world where all people affected by mental illness live healthy, fulfilling lives supported by a community that cares."The post Charity single with Slash and Duff McKagan is released appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

Back in the late '70s, Black Sabbath was promoting Never Say Die, their final album with Ozzy Osbourne during his first tenure with the band. One of the opening acts for their tour was a young American band called Van Halen. They had just released their groundbreaking self-titled debut album, which impressed everyone in the music industry—especially due to Eddie Van Halen's revolutionary guitar playing. Like Tony Iommi, Eddie would go on to become one of the most influential guitarists of all time. The two developed a close friendship over the years. In an interview with Guitar World, Tony was asked about the last guitarist who truly impressed him. He named Eddie Van Halen and reminisced about his reaction the first time he saw Eddie perform live. Tony Iommi recalls his reaction when he first saw Eddie Van Halen “The first one was Eddie Van Halen. When they toured with us early on in their career, I thought he was really good and had come up with something very different for its time. Nowadays you can see how all the technical players have learned from Eddie. The funny thing about him was, much like me, he didn’t read music or anything. It was all from feel. He was inventing stuff just using his ears. “Some of the guitar playing I hear these days is too technical. You have to be precise on this note or that note. I can’t do that – if I do a solo on a record, it’s never the same live. I can’t reproduce what I did in the studio. I’ll do something similar but not exact,” Tony Iommi said. Eddie Van Halen passed away at the age of 65 back in 2020, a victim of cancer. He was a huge Black Sabbath fan and Van Halen used to perform many songs of the Metal band in the early days of their career when they were playing in bars. Eddie would even be the vocalist on some of these versions and in 1994 he had the chance to write a song with Sabbath. He was in England when the band was recording the album "Cross Purposes". He went to visit them in the studio and helped to write the song "Evil Eye". At the time the group had Tony Martin as the vocalist, Iommi on guitar and Geezer Butler on bass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPcPBdqqgRo&t=41sThe post Tony Iommi recalls his reaction when he first saw Eddie Van Halen appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

Also known as the Riffmaster, Tony Iommi was arguably the most pivotal musician in the creation of Heavy Metal music. The accident in which he lost the tips of two fingers forced him to change his playing technique, use lighter strings, and tune his guitar differently. These adaptations contributed to the distinctive sound of Black Sabbath, which laid the foundation for Heavy Metal music, alongside his bandmates Ozzy Osbourne, Bill Ward, and Geezer Butler. After the release of their groundbreaking self-titled debut album in 1970, Sabbath went on to release a series of incredible albums in the following years. However, in 1973, while in Los Angeles attempting to create a new album, Tony Iommi found himself creatively blocked. Everything changed when the band decided to seek inspiration by retreating to a castle in England. It was in the castle's dungeons that the riff for the classic song "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" came to him. Iommi recounted this story in an interview with Guitar World. How dungeons inspired Iommi to write 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' riff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfTpjrzas5E “Before making that album, we went to L.A. to record and it never worked out. I got writer’s block and just couldn’t think of anything. I was a bit like, 'Oh, shit!' Then we came back to England and had a couple of weeks off. I’d never had a creative block like that before. “I was really worried because I just couldn’t think of anything. So we decided to create a bit of atmosphere and hired Clearwell Castle. We set our gear up in the dungeons. Bloody hell, straight away the first riff I came up with was that one from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. I knew I really liked the sound of it, and then we built it up from there. It ultimately comes down to the mood you’re in, where you are, the atmosphere there and what you can create. Being in the dungeons of a castle clearly had the right effect on me,” Tony Iommi said. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath was the band's fifth album and was released in November, 1973. Besides the title track, it also has famous songs like "Sabbra Cadabra", "A National Acrobat" and "Killing Yourself To Live". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OykO8Nli9MI&t=1sThe post How dungeons inspired Iommi to write ‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’ riff appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.