More members of the hard rock and heavy metal community have posted their messages online to pay tribute to the legendary heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio, who sadly passed away yesterday morning as a result of stomach cancer. You can read some more of these messages below.

Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx: “I still have this image of him standing on stage in front of 100,000 belting out ‘Man On The Silver Mountain’ and remember the shivers it sent up my spine. He’s one of the kindest souls I have ever met and his talent was beyond inspirational to so many of us. Those of us that had the opportunity to know Ronnie can tell you what a wonderful and passionate man he was.”

KISS: “We mourn the tragic passing of the great Ronnie James Dio. In addition to his powerhouse vocal ability, Ronnie was a true gentleman who always emanated great warmth and friendship to us and everyone around him. We will miss him.”

Hail Of Bullets: “There are no words to describe this sad loss. One of the if not the greatest rock/metal singer of all time has passed away…you will be missed.”

Chris Jericho (Fozzy, WWE wrestler): “A God amongst singers and a true gentleman. Thank you for always being so nice to me. You are the King of Rock and Roll.” [Source]

Although a summer of riding away, much to the excitement of riders everywhere the entertainment line-up is being announced for a venue at the legendary motorcycle rally, Sturgis.

Platinum-selling and world-renowned glam metal band, Mötley Crüe, will be joining an impressive and extensive list of artists to perform at the Legendary Buffalo Chip during Sturgis Rally Week 2010. The hardcore rockers, scheduled to perform on Wednesday, August 11 will be playing their only scheduled U.S. Summer Concert on the grounds of the Legendary Buffalo Chip.

Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee plan to conclude a line of appearances in Great Britain, Sweden and Finland’s Sonisphere Festival on Aug. 8. They will then be joining thousands of bikers at the best party anywhere, the Legendary Buffalo Chip.

The L.A. party band widely known as the world’s most notorious purveyors of hard rock songs and melodic power ballads has come to embody the sex, drugs and rock & roll lifestyle synonymous with the rock music industry. Mötley Crüe boasts in their band biography that “no band has consumed as many drugs and downed as much booze without dying as L.A.’s Mötley Crüe.â€�  Read the rest of this entry »

MOTLEY CRUE will perform at this year’s Sturgis Rally, according to the Rapid City Journal. The annual motorcycle rally will be held August 11th at the Buffalo Chip Campground in Sturgis, South Dakota. The band is making a special trip for the rally, given that they’re slated to play Stockholm, Sweden a few days earlier. Motley Crue joins a bill that already includes ZZ TOP, THE DOOBIE BROTHERS, CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVISITED, DISTURBED and others. [Source]

MÖTLEY CRÃœE has been confirmed for next year’s edition of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 5-7, 2010 in Wacken, Germany.

The festival billing is shaping up as follows:

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ARCH ENEMY
CALIBAN
CANNIBAL CORPSE
CORVUS CORAX
DESPISED ICON
DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER
EDGUY
ENDSTILLE
GHOST BRIGADE
GRAVE DIGGER
IMMORTAL
IRON MAIDEN
ORDEN OGAN
MÖTLEY CRÜE
STRATOVARIUS
THE DEVIL’S BLOOD
U.D.O.
W.A.S.P.
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Motley Crue fans will have to wait until 2011 to catch up with the band – the rockers are taking a hiatus in 2010. The group wrapped up its Crue Fest 2 tour in September and they will now take a break to concentrate on various side-projects.

Frontman Vince Neil is planning a solo tour and he’s also working on his autobiography, which will reveal even more about the band members’ wild antics than their best-selling 2001 book The Dirt.

He suggests the tome will reveal he and his band mates don’t get along as well as fans think they do. Neil said, “We’re taking 2010 off. I go out and do my solo record and tour (and) I’ve got a book coming out. 2010 is my year.”

“I’m writing about all the stuff you don’t know about. I think we’re still the same band that played in bars in 1980. We still treat each other the same way; we still love each other and hate each other.â€� [Source]

Possum of Rock On Altitude recently conducted an interview with MÖTLEY CRÃœE drummer/METHODS OF MAYHEM frontman Tommy Lee at Lee‘s recording studio called The Atrium in Calabasas, California. Watch the chat below.

MÖTLEY CRÃœE‘s new “greatest-hits” collection, suitably titled “Greatest Hits”, is available for streaming in its entirety at this location. Released on November 17 via Eleven Seven Music/Mötley Records, the package features the following track listing:

01. Too Fast for Love
02. Shout at the Devil
03. Looks that Kill
04. Too Young to Fall in Love
05. Smokin’ in the Boys Room
06. Home Sweet Home
07. Wild Side
08. Girls, Girls, Girls
09. Dr. Feelgood
10. Kickstart My Heart
11. Same ‘Ol Situation
12. Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)
13. Without You
14. Primal Scream
15. Sick Love Song
16. Afraid
17. If I Die Tomorrow
18. Saints of Los Angeles
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