SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The drummer for the rock band Journey has pleaded guilty to domestic violence charges.

A judge in Salem, Oregon, sentenced Deen Castronovo on Monday to four years on probation. Castronovo will be required to undergo counseling for domestic violence offenders and drug abuse.

The Marion County District Attorney’s Office says Castronovo faces more than five years in prison if he violates the terms of his probation.

Castronovo was arrested June 14. Proescutors said he knowingly caused physical injury to a woman.

He was arrested again two weeks later and ordered to stay behind bars when prosecutors said he texted the woman 122 times and called her 35 times despite a no-contact order.

Castronovo has been with Journey since 1998, when he replaced Steve Smith.

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Get-well wishes go out to Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist and original memberGary Rossington, who suffered a heart attack last week.

In a post on their Facebook page Tuesday, the band said Rossington, 63, is expected to make a full recovery. In the meantime, they’ve cancelled two concerts.

The post reads, “As Gary recuperates after suffering a heart attack late last week, the band regrets to announce that they’ll be canceling two upcoming performances. Full refunds are available at points of purchase for Friday’s show in Terre Haute, IN and the Mt. Pleasant, MI show will be rescheduled in 2016.

“Gary is currently resting at home with his family and is expected to make a full recovery,” the statement concludes.

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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) – The estate of Jimi Hendrix is suing a man in Tucson, Arizona, over one of Hendrix’s guitars.

The Arizona Daily Star reports the company Experience Hendrix, run by Hendrix’s sister, Janie, wants a judge to order Harvey Moltz to return the guitar.

Moltz, the owner of Rainbow Guitars, says he bought it in June 2014 from someone who bought it from former Earth, Wind and Fire guitarist Sheldon Reynolds, the ex-husband of Janie Hendrix.

An Experience Hendrix attorney says Reynolds stole it.

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CADILLAC, Mich. (AP) – The city of Cadillac, Michigan, has unveiled a monument dedicated to the day 40 years ago when Kiss came to town.

Kiss visited Cadillac in October 1975 to meet the high school’s football team, which credited Kiss’ music for its winning season the previous year.

Kiss had ridden in the homecoming parade, had performed in the school gym and had thrown cards that said “Kiss Loves You” from a helicopter.

This past weekend, a black granite monument dedicated to the event was unveiled beside the football field.

Kiss was not able to attend but sent a video tribute.

Gene Simmons tells MLive.com he remembers that event so clearly, because “it was almost as if we were on a Kiss spaceship and landed on Planet Kiss.”

He says a film called “Cadillac High” based on the visit is in the works.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Steven Tyler is asking Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to stop using the song “Dream On” at campaign events.

Tyler’s attorneys have sent a second cease-and-desist letter to Trump’s campaign.

Tyler is a registered Republican, but the letter says Trump’s use of the song gives the false impression that Tyler endorses Trump.

Tyler’s attorney, Dina LaPolt, says the letter is not a political or personal issue with Trump, but an issue of permission and copyright.

Trump’s representatives did not return calls for comment.

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A new Tom Petty biography reveals the rocker was a heroin addict during the 1990s, but has kept it a secret until now.

Biographer Warren Zanes notes that Petty was reluctant to publicly discuss his addiction, telling The Washington Post, “The first thing [Petty] said to me on the subject is, ‘I am very concerned that talking about this is putting a bad example out there for young people. If anyone is going to think heroin is an option because they know my story of using heroin, I can’t do this.’”

“I just had to work with him and say, ‘I think you’re going to come off as a cautionary tale rather than a romantic tale,’” adds Zanes.

Asked how someone in his 40s and 50s — Petty’s age at the time — would become an addict, the writer explained, “He’s a rock and roller. He had had encounters with people who did heroin, and he hit a point in his life when he did not know what to do with the pain he was feeling.”

The book, Petty: A Biography, identifies one of those people as Howie Epstein, who played bass in Petty’s band The Heartbreakers and died from a heroin overdose in 2003. Zane writes, “The fact was, Petty’s drug use was partially obscured by Howie Epstein’s more dramatic decline,” according to Entertainment Weekly.

“I probably spent a month not getting out of bed, just waking up and going, ‘Oh, f***,’” Petty admits in the biography. “The only thing that stopped the pain was drugs. But it was stupid. I’d never come up against anything that was bigger than me, something that I couldn’t control. But it starts running your life…I’m lucky I came through. Not everyone does.”

Petty: The Biography arrives November 10.

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AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd, who was sentenced to eight months of home detention in July after pleading guilty to charges of threatening to kill and drug possession, has lost his appeal for a lighter sentence.

The New Zealand Herald reports that Rudd’s appeal was dismissed on Monday by a High Court in his current hometown of Tauranga, New Zealand.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s charges stem from a September 2014 arrest, after Rudd apparently had threatened to kill one of his assistants and was found in possession of methamphetamine and cannabis.

In addition to the home detention, Phil’s sentence included six months of post-release conditions, while he also was ordered to pay $120,000 in reparations.

At a recent appeal hearing, Rudd’s lawyer argued that the sentence was too severe, while suggesting that the judge hadn’t taken into account the amount of money the drummer was losing by not being able to work during his detention period.

The attorney also maintained that as a penalty from the drug charges, Rudd should have received either a fine or community service, instead of getting a longer home detention sentence.

However, the prosecuting attorney claimed that Rudd had “glossed over” the severity of his actions, and maintained that the man he threatened feared for his and his family’s safety.  The prosecutor also pointed out that Phil had only paid the man $50,000 of the $120,000 reparation sum.

Rudd’s legal issues led AC/DC to replace him on their current tour in support of their Rock or Bust album with former drummer Chris Slade.  T

he rock legends begins a Down Under tour leg on November 4 in Sydney, Australia, and will wrap up the trek with a pair of dates in New Zealand — on December 12 in Wellington and on December 15 in Auckland.

In August, Rudd told Rolling Stone that he hopes to rejoin AC/DC once he puts his legal troubles behind him, but the band has made no statements regarding his status with the group.

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NEW YORK (AP) – John Fogerty believes he was such a prolific songwriter because he was born at the right time.

Fogerty says he was a child of the 1960s and his music was part of the soundtrack of that era.

He says everything was in turmoil and it was a fascinating time unlike any other — although he points out he was not alive when the Black Plague was hitting Europe.

He says that was “probably pretty exciting” as well.

Fogerty writes about his life in his new book, “Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music,” in stores today.

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NEW YORK (AP) – Jose Cuervo tequila is paying tribute to the Rolling Stones 1972 North American tour with a pair of commemorative bottles.

That tour was known as the “Tequila Sunrise” tour because the Stones had just discovered the drink in a San Francisco bar.

Both commemorative bottles feature the Rolling Stones tongue-and-lips logo.

The Rolling Stones Jose Cuervo Especial version sells for $17, while the Ultra Premium Rolling Stones Reserva de la Familia Collectors Edition goes for $150.

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After premiering on Showtime in early September, Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church, the documentary that captures The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s July 4, 1970, performance at the second Atlanta International Pop Festival, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray October 30.

The home video will feature an expanded edition of the film, and will include live renditions of “Red House” and “Freedom” not seen in the televised version.

Directed by John McDermott, Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church focuses on Atlanta promoter Alex Cooley’s efforts to organize the festival, as well as Hendrix and his band’s role as the event’s headliner.

The festival took place just 10 weeks before the guitar legend’s death, and was Hendrix’s largest headlining performance ever in the U.S., with an audience estimated at over 300,000.

Hendrix’s set included such classic songs as “Purple Haze,” “Foxy Lady,” “Hey Joe,” “Fire,” “All Along the Watchtower” and “Voodoo Child (Slight Return),” as well as his version of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” which was performed against a backdrop of fireworks.

The documentary also includes never-before-seen footage, plus interviews with Paul McCartney, Steve Winwood, The Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson, Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, and ex-Allman Brothers Band guitarist Derek Trucks, as well as Jimi Hendrix Experience bassistBilly Cox and late Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell.

The DVD and Blu-ray version of the documentary also features bonus music video for “Room Full of Mirrors” that combines film footage and previously unseen photos of the performance.

A companion soundtrack to documentary titled Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival was released in late August and became Hendrix’s 46th album to chart on the Billboard 200.

Here are the Jimi Hendrix Experience performances featured on Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church DVD and Blu-ray:

“Fire”
“Spanish Castle Magic”
“Red House”*
“Room Full of Mirrors”*
“All Along the Watchtower”
“Freedom”*
“Foxy Lady”
“Purple Haze”
“Hey Joe”
“Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”
“Stone Free”
“Star-Spangled Banner”
“Straight Ahead”

* = not featured in televised version.

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UNDATED (AP) – Alice Cooper and Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry are making good for all the hearing they’ve blown out over the years.

Cooper and Perry, along with Johnny Depp, helped fit customized hearing devices for 218 residents of Rio de Janeiro at the Rock in Rio music festival on Thursday.

Perry says the impact on the lives of the children who now can hear is “astounding.”

Cooper jokes maybe the people who can now hear should start listening to music that’s a little lighter and work up to his music.

The Starkey Hearing Foundation sponsored the hearing devices.

Cooper, Perry and Depp performed as Hollywood Vampires at Rock in Rio.

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