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RIVERDOGS WORLD GONE MAD - PRE-SALE OPEN:
On September 30, the Riverdogs will fulfil a long time promise to fans and to themselves to release brand new material with guitarist Vivian Campbell (Def Leppard, Thin Lizzy, ex-Dio, ex-Shadowking) for the first time since their 1990 debut album.


The album is World Gone Mad - a short, but succinct collection of personal, reflective and honest songs, powered by some of the best musicians in the world.

Riverdogs was formed by vocalist/guitarist Rob Lamothe and bassist Nick Brophy. Following an introduction to the guys, Vivian Campbell (Def Leppard, ex-Dio, ex-Whitesnake) agreed to produce Riverdogs' first demo. Vivian was so impressed by their talent, he joined the band for their debut-album, released on Epic Records in 1990, winning a prestigious Edison Award in The Netherlands. Soon after, drummer Marc Danzeisen joined the band to complete the line-up. Though fans and critics gave the album a warm reception, lack of support from their record label eventually led the band to go independent, with Campbell departing the line-up. Releasing another two albums in Europe, the band continued to pick up fans before eventually disbanding.
Campbell settled into the Def Leppard line-up and Nick Brophy become and continues to be a respected engineer and producer. Rob Lamothe continued an acclaimed solo career and Marc Danzeisen an in-demand session player.
In 2003 the band gathered again to record new material and play a few reunion shows. Those new songs were recorded as demos, but never completed. In 2010 MelodicRock Records approached band manager Paul Liszewski about a possible release of these songs. The band liked the idea so much an agreement was reached and over the course of a few week long get-togethers, the line-up of Lamothe, Campbell, Brophy and Danzeisen recorded final versions of the 2003 tracks as well as writing a couple of brand new songs.
Added to the new World Gone Mad album is one live cut from the band's 2004 re-union shows, a cover of the Badfinger classic.
World Gone Mad is the fulfilment of a long promised release of new Riverdogs material. The band's faithful fanbase are rewarded with 7 new Riverdogs classics, issued at a special price.

Track Listing with audio samples:

01 - World Gone Mad 02:38
02 - Big Steel Town 02:36
03 - Best Day of My Life 04:06
04 - Just A Little Higher 03:15
05 - For You 04:03
06 - This Empty Room 02:51
07 - Glitter Town 02:46
08 - No Matter What (Live) 02:59

PRE-ORDER NOW AT THE SPECIAL ONE-OFF DISCOUNT PRICE OF US$10.00 (+$5.00 shipping airmail worldwide).

Orders can be placed via THIS LINK (scroll to 28 July 2011 entry)


Above text and picture taken from: http://www.melodicrock.com/


3rd Annual Benefit for Create Now with Viv Campbell of Def Leppard
 Vivian Campbell, legendary lead guitarist with Def Leppard and now on tour with Thin Lizzy hosts 3rd Annual Benefit to Support Create Now.
You can spend an evening on Saturday, March 19, 2011 enjoying a delicious 4-course meal at a private dinner party with Viv and his other fans at Finn McCools Irish Pub in Santa Monica.
Create Now receives 100% of the proceeds from this event.
Viv will share a private dinner with the 25 fans who win this terrific opportunity to chat with him, hear his stories, take photos, and have memorabilia signed.
"WIN A PRIVATE DINNER WITH VIVIAN CAMPBELL in Santa Monica
You can spend an evening on Saturday, March 19, 2011 enjoying a delicious four-course meal at a private dinner party with Viv and his other fans at Finn McCools Irish Pub in Santa Monica, CA.
100% of the proceeds will benefit Create Now, a nonprofit organization that transforms the lives of high-risk youth through creative arts mentoring, education, resources and opportunities.
Viv will share a private dinner with the 25 fans who win this terrific opportunity to chat with him, hear his stories, take photos, and have memorabilia signed. Be one of the lucky 25 to join him. Bidding starts on eBay Feb 25, 2011 and ends March 6, 2011. You have several chances to win since Create Now is listing this offer on eBay multiple times for pairs of tickets and individuals. The higher your bid, the closer you sit to Viv. Visit Create Now's website to learn more at: www.createnow.org or email: info@createnow.org."
24 December 2010 - Vivian to record a new album with Riverdogs in 2011
Much loved melodic rock band Riverdogs (Rob Lamothe, Vivian Campbell, Nick Brophy & Marc Danzeisen) have signed to MelodicRock Records for an album to be released in the first half of 2011.
This studio album is a long awaited return for the band, featuring unreleased music from the 'lost' 2003 sessions as well as perhaps a few new 2010 tunes :)
The guys recently spent a week in Los Angeles together working up ideas and re-mixing and adding new parts to the originally recorded songs.

(source: Melodicrock.comhttp://www.melodicrock.com/)
25 September 2010 - Vivian to play at the Baked Potato
Sir Sodoff and the Trainwrecks perform their last live gig for while at The Baked Potato in Studio City, CA. Tickets available at $20.00
12 June 2010 - Vivian to play at Pat's
Sir Sodofff and the Trainwrecks to perform at Pat's in Studio City, CA
04 June 2010 - Vivian to play at Harper's
Sir Sodoff and the Trainwrecks to perform at Harper's in Tarzana, CA

12 May 2010 - Vivian to join Thin Lizzy on tour 2011 
Vivian Campbell will join the new line-up of Thin Lizzy for a UK tour in early 2011. The band will play a 13 date tour across the UK preceded by a special appearance in Dublin on 4th January to mark the 25th anniversary of original frontman Phil Lynott's death. A full European tour will be announced later. 

Vivian will be joined in the line-up by former Leppard support act/The Almighty singer Ricky Warwick who takes over lead vocals. Former Thin Lizzy members from the original line-ups of the 70s/80s also join them including Scott Gorham, Brian Downey and Darren Wharton (who later sang with Dare). The new line up and UK Tour dates 2011 can be seen on the Thin Lizzy fan club site.
Tickets are £23.50 (£26 in London) and support comes from Supersuckers.
08 May 2010 - Vivian to perform at Cozy's
Sir Sodoff and the Trainwrecks to perform at L.A.s Cozy's. Featuring Vivian Campbell, Lou Castro, Michael Fell, Kara Grainger, Glen Sobel.
Start at 21:30hrs - $10.00 cover
08 March 2010 - Vivian to perform at Bologna Guitar Festival
Bologna Guitar Festival will take place during the Music Italy Show, which will be held in Bologna from May 15 to May 17.
Other guitarists expected to perform at the event include Yngwie Malmsteen, George Lynch (DOKKEN, LYNCH MOB), Doug Aldrich (DIO, WHITESNAKE), John Sykes (THIN LIZZY, WHITESNAKE)and Jennifer Batten (MICHAEL JACKSON)
24 January 2010 - Vivian to perform at Todd Rocks Benefit
Hosted by 95.5 KLOS-FM’s Uncle Joe Benson, the evening will feature special performances by Vivian Campbell, guitarist for Def Leppard and Whitesnake and Mark Schulman, the drummer for Pink, Beyonce, and Sheryl Crow; and Jon Abrams, the star of Broadway’s “Movin’ Out.”
WHEN: Monday, February 1st, 2010
TIME: 6 p.m. to Close
WHERE: House of Blues Anaheim (Downtown Disney) 1530 Disneyland Drive, Anaheim, CA Phone: (714) 778-2583
-above info taken from the Todd Rockin' Leukemia blog-
13 December 2009 - Vivian performs "MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY"
To get us all in a Holiday mood, here is Vivian's rendition of Slade's "MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY", which he performed as a guest of The Section Quartet during their December 1st show at the Largo in LA. You can view the video by clicking THIS LINK
7 December 2009 - Win dinner with Viv!
Here's your chance to attend a private dinner on February 13, 2010 with Vivian Campbell at the famous Cat and the Fiddle Restaurant & Pub in Hollywood! Create Now is currently auctioning 25 seats at Viv's dinner table on eBay, and bidding ends on December 17.The top 25 winners will hang out with Viv in a private room where you'll eat a scrumptious dinner (choice of meat, fish or poultry) that includes wine and beer. No host bar. There will be four tables and the more you pay, then the closer you get to sit to Viv during the meal -- more opportunity to pick his brain about Def Leppard's future plans or anything else! However, everyone will have plenty of time to mingle with him, since we'll be in a private room with a lot of space. Everyone can have their photos taken with Vivian. There's a nice backdrop area, and we'll even have a professional photographer on hand (an old friend of Viv's) to get awesome shots. Of course, Viv will also sign your memorabilia so bring your albums, CDs, T-shirts and posters! All proceeds from this benefit will support the work of Create Now, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization that helps transform the lives of high-risk and at-risk youth through creative arts mentoring, education, resources and opportunities. We serve kids who are abused, homeless, substance abusers, gang members or incarcerated by providing workshops in art, music, writing, dance, theater and cultural excursions. Create Now has served more than 20,000 of the most troubled kids in Southern California in 13 years.
15 November 2009 - Vivian joining The Section Quartet
On December 1st, Vivian will make a guest appearance with The Section Quartet at the Largo/Coronet Theatre , 366 N La Cienaga Blvd, Los Angeles.The Section Quartet specializes in turning popular rock songs into classical quartet pieces. They are especially known for creating all-string version albums of songs originally recorded by Radiohead, Incubus, Nine Inch Nails, and Tool.
17 September 2009 - Vivian at FIND YOUR RHYTHM seminar
Join Vivian Campbell and Mark Schulman (drummer for Pink and Viv's bandmate in their hobby project Clock) on Thursday, October 1st in Shrewsbury, MA (near Boston) on a two-acre historic estate for an amazing motivational seminar, "Find Your Rhythm," that Mark will present. This benefit will support two wonderful charities, Create Now in Los Angeles and Zumix in Boston, both of which help at-risk youth through music.Tickets are limited: $150 includes cocktails, a fine catered dinner and the seminar. Cocktails/Dinner at 6:30 PM, Program at 7:30 PM. For an additional $200, up to 20 people can join Vivian and Mark for an "After-Hours Soiree" in the home's authentic pub, a Speakeasy from prohibition days. 
15 July 2009 - A conversation with Vivian Campbell
By Jessi Virtusio
To look back at Vivian Campbell's career thus far can make one's head spin. Not only was he a part of Dio during big records "HOLY DIVER" and "THE LAST IN LINE," but he also was a part of the blockbuster Whitesnake lineup that toured in 1987 to 1988 behind the self-titled Whitesnake mega hit CD. But, of course, Campbell is likely best known for being a guitarist for Def Leppard, a band that he has been a part of since the early 1990s.
Much of my conversation with Campbell will be in my Thursday (7/16) "Gig of the Week" in Fifty-Two Weekends, which will preview Def Leppard's summer tour stop set for Friday (7/17) at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre in Tinley Park. The jaunt also includes Poison and Cheap Trick, which got its start in Rockford. To whet your appetite for that feature, here is what Campbell had to say about the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, what it was like to go from being a fan of the band to being a member of Def Leppard, and more.
From fan to band member
Campbell started with Def Leppard in 1992, replacing the late Steve Clark after his tragic death. "I didn't feel any pressure at all," Campbell said of that time. "I wasn't an unknown. It would have been more difficult for me if I was John Doe before and never played a big gig before. I felt so confident. I had been in so many bands prior to that…. I'd been around the block, and I felt very confident about coming into the band. I think it was a lot easier for me than the other guys in Def Leppard. They lost their friend who they had known for years. They had never played when Steve wasn't there."
"I've never felt any sort of animosity from Def Leppard. Being a fan of the band for so many years, I was very familiar with the music. … I always felt part of this band. I was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but I've really always felt a kinship with Def Leppard. They was cemented when I saw the guys play for the first time during the Hysteria tour in 1987. I was in Whitesnake at the time. You could really tell (that) was a real band. The guys in Whitesnake, we had no real bond or kinship. You could really sense, watching Def Leppard on stage, they were really a band of brothers."
Even with Campbell's experience prior to Def Leppard, something he said he really enjoyed about joining vocalist Joe Elliott, guitarist Phil Collen, bassist Rick "Sav" Savage and drummer Rick Allen was the chance to sing in addition to playing guitar. "Ronnie Dio would never let me sing," Campbell said. "I've always loved to sing. We have a lot of vocals in every song we do. It's fun. We enjoy our work, and it shows."
Solo work
When he is not working with Def Leppard, Campbell works on solo material and released "TWO SIDES OF IF," a collection of blues favorites that he handled vocals for, in 2005. He said he's working on new material with an unknown writer and producer from Los Angeles, and described the tunes as more modern, moody and sexual as well as a showcase for his vocals.
"I really don't know what I'm doing with it," he said of the material that comes from Campbell's friend providing tracks for Campbell, who then writes lyrics. "You've got to give at least part of (your music) away. I would imagine that, once we get a record's worth (of material), we'll probably put it up on a Web site and give away three or four songs. I believe it's a karmic thing. If you release your best work and give it to people, … it will eventually come back and reciprocate in some way."
Music through the years
Speaking of coming back, rock is back in a big way, even if audiences weren't so kind after the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
"In the 1990s it was a tough sell," Campbell said of the ups and downs of playing rock music. "It takes about a decade or so for it to become acceptable again and for new audiences to discover it. I remember in the '60s, people were digging the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and acts like Jimi Hendrix. By the time you got to the 1980s, there were some great artists. … It was amazing. In the 1990s, we couldn't get arrested. I think that's true with every band. (After the) bad haircuts and bad fashion sense, you get a whole new generation. I do believe this. I've been saying, in the last seven or eight years, there's a whole new generation of Def Leppard fans. It's not all bad."
"I was always a Def Leppard fan before I was in the band. I always appreciated the effort that Def Leppard put into songwriting. There's a real craft to writing songs. That was obviously helped by Mutt Lange's guidance. Mutt Lange's defintiely a talented writer and producer. We take what we do very seriously and especially the songwriting aspect. We don't consider a good song good enough. Most of the time, we do go the extra mile and we get rewarded, and that's why we can still tour. Those songs still hold up.
10 January 2009 – Vivian’s Acoustic Gig at the Mint
Check out the YouTube videos shot during Vivian's solo performance at The Mint in LA, when he was opening for Lauren Monroe's band (featuring Rick Allen on drums). During his show, Viv played his bluesy versions of the Def Leppard classics "POUR SOME SUGAR ON ME" and "HYSTERIA" and additional “TO BE ALIVE”. You can view them all by clicking THIS LINK
11 December 2008 – Win Dinner with Vivian
Ever wanted to have dinner with one of the guys in the band? Here's your chance to have a bite with Vivian Campbell at a fancy LA restaurant -- while supporting a great cause!
You can spend an evening with Vivian on Saturday, March 7, 2009 enjoying a delicious meal at a private dinner party with Viv and other fans at a high-end restaurant in Los Angeles. Nonprofit organization CREATE NOW is auctioning ten seats for this dinner and you could be sitting on one of them. This could also make a terrific holiday gift for your loved ones! On the night of March 7, starting at 7:00 pm, Viv will share a private dinner at a nice restaurant in Los Angeles with the 10 fans that win this terrific opportunity. Become one of the lucky 10 to join him. You have seven chances to win, since CREATE NOW is listing this offer on eBay multiple times. To accommodate individuals as well as couples, they have three separate listings for the chance to win a pair of tickets and four different listings for individual tickets. The higher your bid, the closer you sit to Viv and the more you can pick his brain on anything you like! Transportation to or from the event is not included. Winners must be 21 or over, or else be accompanied by an adult. All auctions will end on December 20th.
CREATE NOW is a 501 ©(3) non-profit organization founded in 1996 that changes the lives of high-risk and at-risk youth through creative arts mentoring, education, resources and opportunities. Create Now serves troubled kids, ages 2-25, who have been abused, neglected, abandoned, orphaned (foster youth), are homeless, runaways, children, teen parents, victims of domestic violence, children of prisoners, substance abusers, gang members or incarcerated. Create Now has reached more than 17,000 youth throughout Southern California in the last twelve years. 
3 July 2008 - MusicRadar interviews Vivian
by JOE BOSSO
It's been 16 years since he joined Def Leppard, but guitarist Vivian Campbell is still known as the "new guy in the band." But when you consider that members Joe Elliot (vocals) and Rick Savage (bass) formed the Leps in 1977, and drummer Rick Allen came aboard a year later (guitarist Phil Collen, who replaced Pete Willis in 1982, is now a lifer), the new guy status is a cross Campbell will have to bear.
And he does so, happily. Having logged time in Dio and Whitesnake with noted tyrants Ronnie James Dio and David Coverdale, the Northern Irish guitar player has found his tenure in Leppard to be "a sustained pleasure. This is the band I was destined to be a part of."
Seemingly impervious to changes in musical fashion, Def Leppard continue to thrive. Their latest release, Songs From The Sparkle Lounge, is their perkiest effort in years, and even finds the pop-metallurgists teamed with country boy Tim McGraw on the track Nine Lives. "Working with Tim was fantastic," says Campbell. "But I think he was more in our world than the other way around. Put it this way: nobody's ever going to mistake Def Leppard for a country band!"
Before hitting the road with Lep for yet another summer tour bonanza, Campbell sat down with MusicRadar to discuss his role in the band, working the blues into pop and how he's dealt with big-headed lead singers (no, we don't mean Joe Elliot).
Check out the 2-part audio interview with Vivian at MusicRadar!
25 June 2008 - Phil and Viv in Guitar World
The latest issue of Guitar World (September 2008, on newsstands now) features Vivian and Phil in the regular feature "DEAR GUITAR HERO". In the article, Viv and Phil answer seven questions from readers, addressing issues varying from guitar-technical topics to the VH1 Movie.
10 Feb 2008 – Clock perform live
After a long, long period of silence, Vivian's side band CLOCK will be getting together again for a one-off gig this upcoming weekend! On Sunday, February 10, Vivian will be joined by PJ, Mark and Sasha at their regular hideout Molly Malone's in Los Angeles, to play their first show in three years. The evening will be kicked off by Born The Sky at 9.30PM and tickets at the door are $12 (admittance to 21 and over only). Don't miss it!
Clock's CD "THROUGH TIME" (featuring the original version of Def Leppard's "TO BE ALIVE", from their 1999 "EUPHORIA" album) can still be ordered at CDbaby.com.


Sources
Def Leppard.com
Blabbermouth.net 
DefLepparduk.com

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