{"id":7464,"date":"2009-06-06T09:22:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T14:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=7464"},"modified":"2009-06-07T09:13:13","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T14:13:13","slug":"david-ellefson-joins-ripper-owens-on-solo-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=7464","title":{"rendered":"David Ellefson Joins Ripper Owens On European Solo Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y55\/RSCODY\/l_34f0f4145f74aeda06aaa1139b62f33d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/tmdcom.jpg\" alt=\"TMD\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Legendary Ex-Megadeth bassist David Ellefson will be playing with Ex-Judas Priest vocalist Tim &#8220;Ripper&#8221; Owens on the road for a string of dates this summer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ellefson comments:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Underway now in Europe, I&#8217;m playing bass for my HAIL! band mate Tim \u201cRipper\u201d Owens while he plays shows to support his new solo record \u201cPlay My Game\u201d, which came out in May on SPV Records.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the band is drummer Simon Wright (AC\/DC, DIO) and guitarists Chris Caffery (TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA, SAVATAGE) &#038; John Comprix (BEYOND FEAR, RINGWORM).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here are the dates:<\/p>\n<p>June 6, 2009 Solvesborg, Sweden, Sweden Rock Festival (Tim \u201cRipper\u201d Owens)<\/p>\n<p>June 8, 2009 Giessen, Germany, Hessenhallen (Tim \u201cRipper\u201d Owens w\/Heaven and Hell)<\/p>\n<p>June 9, 2009 Berlin, Germany, Zitadelle (Tim \u201cRipper\u201d Owens w\/Heaven and Hell)<\/p>\n<p>June 10, 2009 Bamberg, Germany, Jakoarena (Tim \u201cRipper\u201d Owens w\/Heaven and Hell)<\/p>\n<p>June 13, 2009 Donnington Park, UK, Download Festival (Tim \u201cRipper\u201d Owens)<\/p>\n<p>June 14, 2009 Karlsruhe, Germany, Europahalle (Tim \u201cRipper\u201d Owens w\/Heaven and Hell)<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/timtheripperowens\">http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/timtheripperowens<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/davidellefson1\">http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/davidellefson1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/fire019.gif\" alt=\"fire\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Rocket&#8217;s acclaimed 2007 interview with David Ellefson <a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?p=1818\">HERE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y55\/RSCODY\/ROCKHEROFINAL1-1-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"R\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Ex-Megadeth bassist David Ellefson will be playing with Ex-Judas Priest vocalist Tim &#8220;Ripper&#8221; Owens&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}