(antiMusic) Today's Running Out of Patience Meterฎ reading: it has been 5,349 days since the last new Guns N' Roses album was released. Now here is today's GNR related story: On August 5th, 2008, Versailles Records will return to stores with Double Talkin' Jive: A Hard Rock Tribute to Guns N' Roses. The roster features current/former members of Guns N' Roses, Ozzy Osbourne Band, Deep Purple, Heart, Motley Crue, Dio, Poison, Ratt, L.A. Guns, Zebra, Riot, Brides of Destruction, Riot, Rainbow, Lita Ford Band, Keel, Rockstar: Supernova, Dangerous Toys, Ace Frehley Band, Uptown Horn, Grammy Award winning keyboardist Randy Cantor, as well as millennium rockers including Richard Kendrick & A.J. Caruso of Straitjacket Smile, Corey Craven, Rose Reiter, Chris Catena, Marko Pulluka, Artie Dillon, Chris Heaven, Urban Preacher, Katet, and Lee Thompson & the Sidewinder band.
With the release, the label will also issue the 'Surf Rock Vol. 1/2' Sampler, which features some of the millennium's coolest up and coming rockers, including Voytek Duv, The Swamp Coolers, Voodoo Johnson, Wicked Charmer, Exit State, ICON, Masterknob, Mismatch, Urban Snake, Bub Zulu, Ready the Destroyer, Blind Shades, Anodyne, Slick Bishop, The Bloody Turncoats, Crow Court, Michael Turner, Nyki Lindsay King, Aaron Morse, Note to Amy, Rob Owen, Puritan Rodeo, Loaded Dice, The Dingos, Disasteroid, Temple of Dush, Mongrel Band, Suicide Circus, The Tall Hush, Tension Head, Wookie Johnson, Blame It On Cain, Joesephus and the George Jonestown Massacre, Stark NYC, Disarray, Barry Shelton, Lee Thompson/The Jones, Katet, Andrew Santagata & A Breed Apart, Kore Rozzik, Leigh Silver, Deprived.
In November, Versailles Rcds will return to retail with 'Misty Mountain Hop: A Millennium Tribute to Led Zeppelin', as well as a christian-rock new band comp., 'Glory Rock Vol. 1/2', and in the mid-spring of 2009, 'Wicked Garden: A Millennium Tribute to Stone Temple Pilots.' To learn more, check us out online at www.myspace.com/versaillesrecords