Black Label Society frontman Zakk Wylde spoke with Jacksonville, NC radio station Rock 105.5's Tina Smash at the Carolina Rebellion Festival in Charlotte, NC on the May 3rd - 4th weekend. Check out the interview below:

In a new interview with TimesLeader.com's Rich Howells, Zakk Wylde notes early on that despite becoming known at a young age as Ozzy Osbourne’s guitarist, replacing Jake E. Lee, on iconic albums like 1991’s No More Tears, he initially lost interest in the instrument he’s now inseparable from.

“I was, and I still am, just a huge Elton John guy, so it’s funny that I ended up playing guitar first. Then I got onto piano, obviously. I had an acoustic guitar,” the New Jersey native began.

“My parents had me taking lessons and stuff, just introducing us to things. It’s good parenting; you just introduce your kids to stuff and whatever they gravitate to, if they really like something, then that’s great. But at 8 years old, I wasn’t ready to commit myself and practice because I wanted to hang out with my friends. It would be summer and I’d be hanging out with my friends and everything like that, wanting to go swimming, play Wiffle ball and football and hang out. As far as me having the music bug then, nah, I wasn’t interested in sitting and practicing for 8, 10 hours a day, so I quit.”

Read the complete interview at this location.

Black Label Society were the musical guest on Late Night With Seth Meyers last night, Tuesday, May 6th. The band performed "Angel Of Mercy", and video footage of the performance can be seen below:

BLS' Catacombs Of The Black Vatican recently hit the #4 position on Canada's Soundscan charts and #5 on the US Billboard chart.

The band recently debuted a brand new music video for 'My Dying Time'. Directed by Justin Reich of The Antimatter Studio, the video shows frontman Zakk Wylde and newcomer Dario Lorina shining brighter than ever.

Wylde comments: "The video that father Justin created, my treatment was of me waking up in the morning and going to the grocery store and this is the video he made."

Black Label Society, with support from DOWN, are out on the 2014 Revolver Golden Gods Tour, presented by Epiphone. The tour will finish up in early June. Zakk

Tour dates:

May

17 - Ft. Wayne, IN - Piere's
19 - Sioux Falls, SD - The District
20 - Chicago, IL - House of Blues
21 - St. Paul, MN (Minneapolis) - Myth
23 - Grand Prairie, TX (Dallas) - Verizon Theater
27 - New Orleans, LA - House of Blues
28 - Houston, TX - House of Blues

June

1 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theater
2 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Complex - Rockwell
4 - Tempe, AZ - Marquee Theater
5 - Las Vegas, NV - Brooklyn Bowl
6 - San Francisco, CA - Regency Ballroom
7 - Los Angeles, CA - Fonda Theater