Vasco Rossi drafts in expert help on tour

Guitarist Stef Burns (Y&T, ALICE COOPER) and drummer Matt Laug (SLASH'S SNAKEPIT) are due to tour Europe with Italian rockstar and songwriter VASCO ROSSI in May.

The "Vasco Europe Indoor Live in Concert" tour kicked off last October with tens of indoor dates in Italy, and is due to touch major European venues this month.

04/05/2010 London - HMV Hammersmith Apollo
06/05/2010 Bruxelles - Forest National
08/05/2010 Zurich - Hallenstadion
12/05/2010 Berlin - Tempodrome

Rossi's band also features guitarists Maurizio Solieri, Claudio "Il Gallo" Golinelli (bass), Alberto "Lupo Maremmano" Rocchetti (keyboards), Andrea "Cucchia" Innesto (trumpet, background vocals), Frank Nemola (programming, trumpet, background vocals) and Clara Moroni (background vocals).

This is the first European tour of Vasco Rossi since 1997.

Burns joined forces with Rossi back in 1993, while Laug has been hired in 2007.

VASCO ROSSI's new single, which already reached number one in Italy, is a "revisited cover" of RADIOHEAD's "Creep". The new song is called "Ad ogni costo" (At any cost) and the new lyrics are a free and unrelated interpretation of the original music in Italian.

Rossi has already made a "revisited cover" of the song "Celebrate" from Irish alternative rock band AN EMOTIONAL FISH. The song is called "Gli Spari Sopra", and it's an hit single and the title track of a studio album from 1993.