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Week of July 3rd 2009. Michael
Jackson Tribute Show
Michael Jackson, the King of Pop has died at 50 years
old on June 25th, 2009.
The spectacular stories and recapturing of his career and highlights that are presented now as exposes of who he was and what he
did can tend to overshadow the fact that aside from being one of the best song and dance entertainers…
he was a songwriter, a storyteller of his time with the gift of innovation and movement that impacted his generation.
He was in fact a man, experiencing the frailties, joys and pain of our human existence that for him was taken to the extreme ends of the spectrum.
Michael Jackson's father, Joe Jackson, is truly a horses ass...he's worse than Michael ever described him to be. How could this
guy divert questions he is asked about his son to turn to be a vehicle to push his own pathetic record
label? When his world
renowned son just tragically died...the second biggest horses ass Rev. Al Sharpton stands next to
Joe Jackson nodding his head.
It's deplorable...Michael deserved better.
----------Set List and Commentary---------
BEN
1972: "Ben" the title song from a film about a beloved rat,
used in the movie Willard
becomes 14-year-old Jackson's first No. 1 single.
· In 1979: "Off the
Wall," the first album by the
"adult" Jackson who was
21 yrs old, is released. It was his first time working with
Quincy Jones. It
spent eight months in the Top Ten. It was the beginning of him
being a
huge music star.
· After breaking his nose in 1979 during a dance routine, he began
undergoing a series of surgeries that affected the rest of his career, and
Jackson continued to complain of breathing difficulties.
THRILLER
1982: the "Thriller" album
was released. It became the biggest selling record of all
time, Thriller marked an epitome in pop music songwriting. With practically
every song on the album hitting the Top 5. It sold an astounding 47 million copies.
Eddie Van Halen
played the unbelievable guitar solo's on the Thriller track.
· The groundbreaking videos from the Thriller album came a year later in
1983 --literally catapulting Jackson into music royalty and unbelievable
fame landing him at the top of his game. 1983 also marked the TV special "Motown 25: Yesterday, Today and
Forever" in which Jackson performed Billy Jean and premiered his forever famous move...the moonwalk.
I remember watching this and freaking out!
· 1984: Jackson was injured when a spark ignites his hair during filming of a Pepsi ad.
He underwent plastic surgery on his scalp and some say this incident may
have started his addiction to painkillers.
BAD
MAN IN THE MIRROR
THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL
1987: "Bad" the follow-up album to "Thriller," is released. It tops the charts
for eight weeks and yields seven hit singles. Jackson worked meticulously
on this album as it was the follow up to the
incomparable Thriller.
The full music video for "Bad" is an 18-minute short film directed by Martin
Scorsese. The highly acclaimed song Man in the Mirror is just about as good as songwriting gets
and is
really my favorite Michael Jackson song.
· 1988-Jackson released his autobiography Moonwalk
- exposing how emotionally
painful his childhood was at the hands of his father and how lonely being a
mega superstar can be. Jackson had surgery to put cleft in his chin this
year.
· 1987's Bad marks the end of his amazing music rise to superstardom, as things began to change for him and his career the 1990s.
· 1990 - He started wearing surgical masks in public.
BLACK OR WHITE
1991's "Dangerous" album sold over 7 million copies his second album to
debut at #1 on the charts. It contains the groundbreaking song
Black or White. Slash plays Black or White’s main riff.
The Black or White video is one of my all time favorite videos...Jackson uses the latest technology in it and his updated tribal dance moves are unsurpassed...he's pretty hot looking in it! Black or White is one of my favorite Michael Jackson songs.
HEAL THE WORLD also on the Dangerous album, spawned the Heal the World foundation in 1992 founded by Jackson, bringing underprivileged children to his ranch and donating millions of dollars to children's causes. He lived at Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara from 1988 to 2005, when he relocated to Bahrain for several years.
· Through out his life Michael Jackson donated and raised millions of dollars for beneficial causes through his foundations, charity singles, and he claimed a spot in the Guinness Book of world records for his support of 39 charities.
WE ARE THE WORLD written in 1987 by Jackson and Lionel Richie along with production by Quincy Jones made music history by involving scores of top musicians to join in this charitable cause and song, resulting in millions of dollars for drought and famine relief in Africa.
· Though out the 1990’s Jackson married twice, once to famed Lisa Marie Presley and once to Debbie Rowe. Both marriages lasted about 2 years. Jackson had succeeded in fathering three children, 2 boys and one girl, whom he loved dearly and was dubbed a great father.
· In 1993 and then again in 2004 Jackson was devastated by charges of child molestation. He settled the first case out of court due to his stress and failing health and on the recommendations he do so from friends and family, and he was acquitted in the second case. However, this surely took its toll on Jackson, and in many ways it seems he never recovered from it. The bad media coverage and hungry tabloids never let up on him.
Jackson had been scheduled to perform 50 sold-out concerts to over one million people, at London's O2 arena, from July 13, 2009, to March 6, 2010. Following this he planned to tour Europe, Asia, Australia and North America. During a publicity press conference, he had made suggestions of possible retirement. The president of AEG Live, had stated that the first 10 dates alone would have earned Jackson approximately 50 million.
His manager said that he was so happy to be returning to the stage doing his thing. I’m so glad that he was enjoying the rehearsals for his upcoming tour and that the final rehearsal was magic…because often times the road you travel to get somewhere is the happiest journey and the best of times…
Jackson made a music video, currently known as "Dome Project", in early June 2009. The video is scheduled to finish post-production in mid-July 2009.
Jackson's cardiologist, Conrad Murray administered CPR to Jackson for close to 30 minutes before calling 911 --- saying that the phones in the mansion were disconnected and that he did not know the address of the mansion. However,
he did have a cell phone in his possession.
So many of his famous friends and entourage don’t want his years long prescription drug problems discussed…why?
It doesn’t detract from the musical genius he was; it adds the to human being that he was.
These facts shouldn’t be masked.
It is time for Jackson’s mask to be taken off...for the benefit of his legacy and the humanizing of his life and achievements.
The name of his final tour was dubbed “This Is It” and so it
was...this eternal “lost boy” has been found.
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NEWS WEEK OF JULY 3, 2009.
The
world morns the loss of Michael Jackson, a groundbreaking
entertainer, a charitable, sensitive man. Click here to
open the PDF document titled Michael
Jackson
to read Jule's thoughts on his life and untimely death.
------------------------ Eddie Van Halen filed a lawsuit against Nike in Los Angeles this week alleging the company used the trademarked striped design from his
guitar on their new line of "Dunk Lows" tennis shoes.The Nike shoes feature red, white and black streaks along the
midsole.
The suit states that Van Halen received a 2001 copyright for the design on the body of his "Frankenstein" electric guitar.
Court papers allege that Nike infringed on that copyright by using the design on sneakers without "consent, approval or license."
Eddie recently launched his own line of striped sneakers under his EVH brand.
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Yoko Ono claims John Lennon would not have been surprised that she won a major music
honor. Yoko Ono was handed a Lifetime Achievement award, her first ever music
award, at the MOJO Honours List in London not too long ago.
She has praised award organizers for their 'courageous' decision. When she was asked what John Lennon would have thought of her accolade,
she replied that he would not have been surprised and that "He would have said, 'I told you so, man.'..well he got the "man" part right anyway!
She then said that he was the only person who was really believing and promoting her work. Well...yes that is true...
------------------------------------ Cher's daughter is having a sex change.Chastity Bono – the 40-year-old daughter of Sonny & Cher – began the lengthy gender
reassignment process earlier this year.She has asked family and friends to call her Chaz, and will have surgery to give her male
genitals later this year...Guess Cher will rename her hit song "Half
Breed" to "Full Breed" and dedicate it to her
son Chaz !!
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SHARON OSBOURNE is reported to owe the state of California thousands of dollars in back taxes.
She has allegedly been asked to pay the state more than $23,000 after she was fined for failing to pay her taxes in 2007.
Osbourne, commanded huge salaries from judging stints on talent contests The X Factor and America's Got Talent in 2007, did not pay her tax bill.
State officials then fined her $50,000 for the missed payment and despite her handing over the huge sum, she still has an outstanding debt of $23,000 resulting from the fine...pay
up Sharon!!!!!!!!
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As I reported a few weeks agao...Yusef Islam is the latest to claim plagarism in the face of Coldplay’s hugely successful ‘Viva La Vida’
album, but there is a difference, Islam forgives them...guess it pays to become a buddist monk!!
Islam said that he felt the band had taken part of his 1973 song ‘Foreigner Suite’ and used it in the title track from their latest record, but he later that they did copy his song but he doesn't think they did it on purpose, saying he'd love to sit down and have a cup of tea with them and let them know it's okay.
Meanwhile, Joe Satriani is still fighting Coldplay in the courts claiming their song ‘Viva La Vida’ the same one that allegedly ripped off Yusef Cat Islam Stevens also contained “substantial portions” of his song ‘If I Could Fly’.
A new John Lennon exhibit is opening up this week as part of an exhibit at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex in NYC. "John Lennon: The New York Years" will feature Lennon's guitars, letters, his famous New York City T-shirt, and his upright piano from his Dakota apartment, and the 1981 Grammy Award for the "Double Fantasy" album along with other personal items. One surprising and outrageous item that is featured is a
paper bag containing the bloody clothes from the night he was shot to death.
Yoko Ono received the bag from the medical examiner in December 1980, when Lennon was gunned down in New York
City.Ono thought it was important to include the bad of Lennon's bloody clothes to let people see the effects of gun violence.
---------------------------------------- Lynyrd Skynyrd bassist Ean Evans lost his battle with
cancer, just four months after the death of former Skynyrd keyboardist Billy Powell. Ean Evans also formed a side band called Evanscapps, with Bobby Capps of .38 Special.
----------------------------------------- Coldplay has denied that the band have ripped off any other artists for their music, following Yusuf Islam's (formerly known as Cat Stevens)
public suggestion this week that they ripped off his song 'Foreigner Suite' for their own hit 'Viva La Vida'.
The band is currently being sued by guitarist Joe Satriani, who has accused them of
plagiarizing his song 'If I Could Fly'.
Coldpaly has insisted that they are innocent, saying that the band "hasn't done anything wrong and that some kind of musical crossover between artists is inevitable."
--------------------------------------- Boy George is a free man this week having been sprung from prison
after completing just four months of a 15 month sentence.
The former Culture Club frontman, real name George O'Dowd, was jailed in January for the false imprisonment and assault of male escort in 2007.
He was initially sent to Pentonville Prison in North London, and later transferred to Edmunds Hill Prison in Suffolk, where he remained until his release this week.
------------------------------------- ALICE IN CHAINS will support KID ROCK at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan
on Saturday, July 18th. Also scheduled to appear is CYPRESS HILL. Tickets are on sale via Tickets.com and at the Comerica Park box office.
ALICE IN CHAINS has signed with Virgin Records, for the release of the group's first new album in 14 years. The yet-to-be-titled disc will be out in mid-September.
---------------------------------------- Bob Dylan's new album, Together Through Life, has entered both the U.S. and UK album charts at #1, marking the artist's second consecutive U.S. #1 debut and his first chart-topping release in the UK since New Morning in 1970.
----------------------------------------- Black Sabbath are releasing a 'Best Of' compilation next month.
The 14-track collection, 'The Best Of Black Sabbath', is set for release on June 15 and will contain songs lifted from the metal legends' first eight studio albums.
------------------------------------------ Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament was the victim of a violent robbery
outside Southern Tracks Recording studios in Atlanta, Georgia
where the band is recording their ninth studio album with producer Brendan O’Brien. According to a police report, Ament and a band employee pulled up to the rear of the studio when three assailants with knives came out of the woods wearing black masks, gloves and pants. The robbers smashed the windows of a rented Jeep and grabbed a BlackBerry before demanding more money. In total, Ament was robbed of $3,000 in cash and $4,320 worth of personal property.
Back
to Top Duff McKagan and Slash
said this week that if they had to choose-- they would
go back to playing with Axl Rose before reteaming up with former Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland. Now that's saying a heck of alot, cos, we all know that the fall out between Axl and the orginal Guns-n-Roses was legendary!!
----------- Slash revealed this week that he has been approached to mentor contestants during an upcoming "Rock Week" on "American Idol".
Slash has only said that "'American Idol' has asked him to do the mentor bit for 'Rock Week'," and has not mentioned if he has agreed to do it or not.
----------- Judas Priest guitarist KK Downing is opening a spectacular golf course around the mansion he bought near Bridgnorth, England--he says he has played golf all over the world and wants to open up a five star course himself.
Meanwhile Judas Priest singer Rob Halford has gone into the apparel business.
Metal God Apparel is his new clothing line is set to launch in June and is designed for men and women with a metal edge.
----------- Five years after their split, Creed announced that they are reforming for a new album and an American tour, which kicks off August 6th in Pittsburgh and runs through October 14th.
Shortly thereafter...Alter Bridge singer Myles Kennedy shot down reports that the announced reunion of Creed would put an end to Alter Bridge, the band he formed with then-former Creed members, guitarist Mark Tremonti, drummer Scott Phillips and bassist Brian Marshall.
------------ Lilith Fair, the North American female music festival created by Sarah McLachlan which ran from 1997 to 1999, is
confirmed to make its return next year, and will be doing a two-week tour in Britain and Europe sometime in 2010.
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The first acts confirmed for London's Meltdown Festival, which runs June 13th to June 21st at the Southbank Centre, include Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band, Sean Lennon, Cornelius, Patti Smith, Robert Wyatt, Yo La Tengo, Baaba Maal and Moby. The Roots will open the event at the Royal Festival Hall on June 13th.
------------ Joel Madden from the band Good Charlotte was banned from boarding a plane until he covered up his tattoos.
Madden was preparing to fly from Chicago, Illinois' O'Hare International Airport to London to film a new music video when British Airways officials ordered him to hide the tattoos on his arms.
He was told that he could not board the jet unless he complied with their regulations. Madden eventually gave into the airlines demands but said he plans to complain to
British Airways bosses over the treatment he received.
------------ Phil Spector, the rock music impresario behind hits like “Da Doo Ron Ron,” and “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling,” was convicted
this week of murdering a struggling actress at his mansion in 2003. Spector, 68, faces at least 18 years in prison. The jury, ending a
five-month trial, reached its decision after 27 hours of deliberating whether he shot the woman in a fit of anger or, as his lawyers
argued, merely witnessed her suicide. Mr. Spector, who was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, was famous for his
Wall of Sound, lush orchestrations heard on an array of hits in the 1960s and 1970s. He worked with the Beatles, Tina Turner,
the Rolling Stones and others.
-------------- Hundreds of George Harrison's biggest fans and best friends, including Paul McCartney and Tom Petty, turned out this week to see a posthumous star he received on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los
Angeles. Incense smoke snaked into the air during the dedication as Petty, sporting dark sunglasses, mingled with such celebrity guests as Jeff Lynne, T-Bone Burnett and Tom Hanks.
--------also---------- George Harrison’s first-ever career-spanning greatest hits collection will be released on June 16th. Let It Roll: The Music of George
Harrison will feature songs from throughout Harrison’s career, from live takes of his biggest Beatles hits to his storied solo career.
Harrison was twice inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, both as a Beatle and a solo artist.
------------ Metallica announced this week that at last their digital box set is out Starting on April 14th
their entire discography will be available on
iTunes as a "digital box set" so that for one price, you can download the entire catalog. That's 163 tracks including all the studio
albums. iTunes will be the only place you can find the digital box set .
------------ Dave Matthews Band kicks off its 2009 tour this week with a show at Madison Square Garden in New York City and will be on the road
through October 2nd. Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, the band's first studio album in four years, will be released on June 2nd.
----------- Bruce Springsteen is being named in a New Jersey divorce
lawsuit as being the "other man". The husband
contends that his wife had many
secret meetings and liaison's with Springsteen. In
essence...she cheated on him with the Boss. Springsteen denies
having any intimate relations with the woman -saying that they
are just friends that met at a gym they both belong to-- and
that he is a happily married man.
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NEWS----------------- U2 said that they would give away millions of dollars from the profits of their upcoming world tour to charity.
The money will be given to Global Fund, which helps fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Africa. All of the revenue from VIP
auction ticket sales at up to 100 worldwide concerts will be donated. The band will begin their tour on June 30th when it kicks off in
Barcelona, Spain before they head to the U.S. in September.
------------------ Green Day's "American Idiot" is headed from disc to stage. Michael Mayer, the Tony Award-winning director of "Spring Awakening," is
adapting the band's 2004 concept album for the Berkeley Repertory Theatre on Green Day's home turf in California.
The production will run Sept. 4-Oct. 11 with tickets now on sale for early performances at
www.berkeleyrep.org.
Mayer and Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong collaborated on the script for "American Idiot," which follows the working class
subjects of the album's songs.
------------------ Slash made a surprise appearance at East Los Angeles' Belvedere Middle School
this week to support the national music education
organization Little Kids Rock. Slash visited the program's music room, treating 30 lucky students to a Q&A session and jamming with
them on guitar to the tune of Guns N Roses' song "Sweet Child O Mine."He also signed four Epiphone acoustics as gifts to the school.
----------------- The 30th anniversary of Judas Priest's classic British Steel album will be celebrated this summer with a North American tour that
gets started on July 1 in St. Charles, MO, and wraps up on August 11 in Morrison, CO. Whitesnake is joining the tour as
co-headliners on most of the dates. Judas Priest's last LP, 2008's Nostradamus, was the group's highest debut ever at
No. 11 on the Billboard 200 chart.
----------------- With their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this week, Metallica has just confirmed a reunion with longtime bassist Jason
Newsted to play at the ceremony. Newsted was planning on attending the ceremony, but was happily surprised to be asked to jam with the band.
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At the 38th annual Juno Awards held in Vancouver recently,
Nickelback won three awards (the fan choice award, group of the year, and album of the year for Dark Horse) Coldplay took best international album of the year for Viva la Vida.
----------------- The Osbournes: Reloaded TV Variety show aired this week to terrible reviews and many affiliate stations refusing to air it.
Tthe one hour
show was trimmed down to 35 minutes and many say it should be cut all together. Which is probably what will happen. Many of the skits
seemed borrow from other programs, none of them being unique, and after a while it's simply not funny to have the Osbournes cursing in
place of some real humor.
-------------------- The childhood home where Jimi Hendrix is said to have first discovered music has been dismantled after eight years of preservation
efforts failed. Barely a shell of the house originally in Seattle's Central Area neighbourhood remains on a lot across the street from
where Hendrix was buried. it's said that parts of the house have been saved and may be sold later.
The demolition of the home is the end of a fight to preserve it, beginning in 2001 when the original site was purchased for
condominium development.
CHICKENFOOT — the new supergroup featuring guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani, singer Sammy Hagar , bassist Michael Anthony, and drummer Chad Smith (RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS), will release its self-titled debut CD in either April or May. The first single might be either "Oh, Yeah!" or "Bitten By The Wolf". The band's tour in support of the CD will kick off in May, warming up in smaller venues in the USA, followed by a few weeks in Europe during the summer. Then the band will return to the USA for a larger headlining tour this fall. The band is planning on performing the entire CD as well as songs from each of the
band members' careers. So, expect to hear some classics from VAN HALEN, Sammy Hagar, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, and some blazin' Joe Satriani instrumentals!
------------------ MÖTLEY CRÜE announced the lineup on for their second annual summer festival tour, Crüe Fest 2:
MÖTLEY CRÜE
G0DSMACK
THEORY OF A DEDMAN
DROWNING POOL
CHARM CITY DEV1LS
------------------ Ya wanna sing or rock alongside the Beatles? Well you'll have your chance on September 9th when the band's much-anticipated videogame hits
store shelves. Apple Corps and MTV Networks set the sale date and announced the software would be priced at $59.99. You can spend another
$99.99 to buy instruments similar to those used by the band. "The Beatles: Rock Band" will be available simultaneously at locations in North America, Europe,
Australia, New Zealand on September 9th -- The videogame is based on MTV's "Rock Band" and will allow you to pick up the guitar, bass, mic or
drums and experience The Beatles extraordinary catalog of music through gameplay that takes players on a journey through the legacy and evolution of the
band's legendary career, The videogame will mark the band's first leap into the world of digital music. Beatles' songs are still unavailable on Apple Inc's
iTunes.
----------------- Neil Young has now been confirmed to play a headline slot at this year's Glastonbury festival.
He joins Blur and Bruce Springsteen who had already been announced as headliners The Doves, Emiliana Torrini, Lily Allen and
Florence And The Machine have also all been confirmed to appear at the festival.
----------------- Word is spreading this week that Velvet Revolver had picked Gord Prior, a singer with a Canadian-based band called Blu Bones, as their new
lead singer.Not so, says a spokesperson for Sanctuary Artist Management, which reps Velvet Revolver. "Gord Prior isn't the new guy.
In fact, no decision has been made as to who the singer is."
According to management, Prior was sent tapes of two new Velvet Revolver instrumental tracks and asked to write words and melodies and to then
sing over the music. "But he's just one of numerous singers that tapes went out to," says the spokesperson. "Gord submitted his demos just like
everybody else. He wasn't even asked to come in and do a formal audition. I don't know why these rumors get out there, but that's just the nature
of the Internet." And keeping with my nature...I'll keep you posted with any new developments!
------------------ A new book called the Ultimate Hendrix is coming out. It traces the Hendrix's sound as it evolved, session by session, day by day.
This remarkable record of Hendrix's creative process brings to light new details about each of his recording sessions and live
performances. Covering the years between his discharge from the army in 1963 and his tragic early death in 1970,
Complete with all-new interviews with bandmates and studio staff, candid conversations transcribed directly from the raw tapes,
and rarely seen photos of Hendrix in the studio, this book offers an intimate portrait of an artist at work.
------------------ Metallica frontman James Hetfield headed home to the United Statesafter being hospitalized in Stockholm, Sweden.
Hetfield was admitted to the hospital with dehydration after coming down with a possible case of food poisoning. He was released but the
illness forced the band to cancel its second concert in Stockholm.
------------------ No Line on the Horizon is the twelfth studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was released on 27 February 2009 in Ireland, the Netherlands,
Germany and Australia, on 2 March in the rest of Europe, and a day later in North America.[1][2] The album is U2's first since 2004's How to
Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, the longest gap between studio albums in the band's career. The material was originally intended to be
released as two EPs, titled Daylight and Darkness, but the band later decided to combine them into one album.[3] The album is
dedicated to Rob Partridge, who signed the band's first record deal in 1979 and passed away from cancer in late 2008.
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The Slash figure measures 11 inches
from the top of his famed hat and Includes a guitar mounted on a Guitar Hero base." The Slash doll is set to be released sometime next month...Yes,
but is it anatomically correct?!
-------------------- Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band will tour North America this spring
in support of their new album, "Working on a Dream," released this week.
The trek begins April in San Jose, Calif.North American dates are set through May 23 in East Rutherford, N.J. A European tour then
begins a week later at Holland's Pink Pop festival and concludes June 10 in Bergen, Norway. Springsteen is also slated to be this years Super Bowl half time entertainment.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd keyboardist Billy Powell died this week according to the band's official website.
Powell at first was a roadie with the band, but was hired on to be a member of the group in 1972. The Texas native, who reportedly
died in his Florida condo, was 56 years old.Lynyrd Syknyrd was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.
-------------------- The Killers and Coldplay are to play a one-off gig at London's O2 Shepherds Bush Empire together to benefit the War Child charity.
The gig takes place on February 18th - directly after the BRIT Awards. Both bands will play 45 minute sets.
-------------------- Gene Simmons has signed on with Universal Music Canada to form Simmons
Records, which will find the self-proclaimed “God of Thunder”
signing and developing Canadian bands.
-------------------- Slayer, Marilyn Manson and Bullet For My Valentine will head up this year's Mayhem Festival.
The tour reportedly starts on July 10 in
Sacramento and will also include All That Remains, Trivium, God Forbid and Cannibal Corpse.
------------------- Johnny Knoxville has made another boneheaded move, but at least it didn't result in a torn urethra this time.
The "Jackass" actor was detained and then released for carrying a grenade at Los Angeles International Airport.
Knoxville, 37 yrs. old, was going through security when a screener noticed the grenade was found in his carry-on. A bomb squad
examined the grenade and determined it wasn't "live" since it lacked a firing pin or explosive. Knoxville claimed that it was a prop
that he had forgotten to remove from his bag. The actor was cited for carrying a "prohibited item" into the airport and later released so
he could board his American Airlines flight. So far he has not been charged with the misdemeanor.
Knoxville is usually known for performing
stunts that generally cause bodily harm or embarrassment. In February 2008, while trying to back-flip a motorcycle, his crotch was injured
when the stunt went awry and the bike landed on top of him.
-------------------- There's been a BIG buzz going around the internet about a
new album & a tour by KISS, I checked into it with all my contacts and it sounds like it's
for real, the new album is due to hit stores in June. I thought you guys might be interested!
--------------------
There's a brand new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex in SoHo,
NYC. The museum opened in early December.
The mini-museum sits in the brick-walled basement of an Old Navy store at 76 Mercer Street..It is the first time the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame has extended itself beyond the main museum in Cleveland, and New York City was the logical choice.
There's a 26-foot scale model of Manhattan located in the “New York Rocks” gallery, which lights up in 24 places marking key
locations in NYC rock history. The room also contains a CBGB area and articles of clothing and other artifacts from New York musicians
like The Ramones, Blondie and Patti Smith.
-------------------- Axl Rose has accused Dr Pepper of failing to honor a pledge to give a free drink to all Americans
if Guns N' Roses released a
new album in 2008. The Dr. Pepper made the promise after a number of release dates for the band's Chinese Democracy album passed.
A lawyer for singer Rose said Dr Pepper's website crashed during the 24 hours it offered vouchers.
Dr. Pepper said it extended the scheme by 18 hours and had set up phone lines--to which Axl called the effort clumsy and a disaster
and said that Dr. Pepper's blunder ruined the day of Chinese Democracy's release
(oooo pleeeeaassee!) and is asking for money to be given
to Guns-n-Roses for use and abuse of their publicity and intellectual property rights
They have also demanded a full-page newspaper apology -
to appear in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.
Dr Pepper spokesman said it was one of the largest
responses we have ever received for a giveaway. He said the company had gone to great lengths to
fulfill requests including extending the
promotion and setting up a free phone line to accept voucher requests. Meanwhile the republic of China dismissed
Chinese Democracy as a "venomous attack" on the nation.
------------------ Axl Rose has issued an open letter to the makers of Guitar Hero saying the use of songs such as Welcome To The Jungle and
Sweet Child O' Mine in the hugely popular game were "unauthorized". Slash being being involved with Guitar Hero is fine, but not when
Activison is using Welcome To The Jungle unauthorized," wrote Rose. Slash was in Guns and on Welcome To The Jungle and he has
rights to perform it," he continued. "But not to be represented in this context in association with Guns. And since they weren't granted
the license it'll take some sorting."..well I think it'll just take a bit of a payoff..right
Axl?
------------------ Coldplay is being sued for Plagiarism. Guitarist Joe Satriani filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the band
Coldplay, saying that
the Coldplay song “Viva la Vida” makes use of “substantial original portions” of his composition “If I Could Fly,” an instrumental track.
The suit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, seeks a jury trial, damages and any profits Coldplay gained from the song. “Viva la Vida”
was nominated for Grammy Awards for song of the year and record of the year.
----------------- The One Laptop Per Child project has drawn a few notable celebrity endorsements, but this is the first one who's had to be digitally recreated. John Lennon is reaching out through use of digital technology to recreate his face and voice encouraging you to donate laptops to poor children.
One Laptop Per Child created an ad, approved by Yoko Ono, promoting its cause. The organization donates rugged, solar-powered laptops to
children in developing nations. It has Lennon actually talking about the project and donations.
----------------- Foo Fighters and Coldplay will honor Neil Diamond at a special gala
gig. They are joining Adele, John Mayer, Tim McGraw and actress
Jennifer Hudson at the charity gala gig at Los Angeles Convention Center on February 6, 2009.
Neil Diamond, who will also perform, was
named MusiCares 2008 Person Of The Year for his charitable work. All money raised will benefit the MusiCares program,
which aids musicians in times of financial, medical and personal crisis, reports Rolling Stone.
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Former Eurythmic Dave Stewart is the first musician to put his name to a range of vibrators! Working in collaboration with JimmyJane, he's
created special editions of the Little Something model, and also written a song called Let's Do It Again.
His song will be offered as a free
download to anyone who buys one of the products. As part of the 'project' Stewart has also created a "provocative video" –
this can be watched in full on the JimmyJane website, while an abridged version has been posted on
YouTube.There are actually two
special edition versions of the Little Something, and both are "adorned with the handwritten chorus of Stewart's song.
------------------ James Hetfield of Metallica was interviewed by the Houston Chronicle and discussed "Death Magnetic," the downside of "St. Anger" and was
asked about Guns N' Roses long in the making "Chinese Democracy," which finally will see the light on Nov. 23rd.
While James was complimentary towards Axl Rose as an artist, he did take the opportunity to make a comment about "Chinese Democracy".
He said he'll certainly listen to the album, but hw haven't lost sleep waiting for it. I thought we took a long time to make an album. But you know
he's late for everything so it makes total sense.
------------------ Rumors are abounding this week that RCA Records has dropped Velvet Revolver from their roster of signed bands.
Velvet Revolver released two full-length albums while with the label-- 2004's "Contraband", and its follow-up, "Libertad" in 2007.
Velvet Revolver has been looking for a new frontman since gettting rid of Scott Weiland back in April.
------------------ Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker is back in the studio less than two months after being involved in a plane accident that killed four
passengers and left him and bandmate DJ AM severely burned. Barker appeared via satellite from his studio in Los Angeles this week for
MTV's Total Finale Live. "Thanks for all the support," the drummer said. "I feel better every day."
----------------- Paul McCartney said this week that it's time an experimental Beatles track saw the light of day.
McCartney says he wants to release "Carnival of Light," a 14-minute experimental track the Beatles recorded in 1967 but never released.
The band played the recording for an audience just once, at an electronic music festival in London.
McCartney said he still had a master tape of the piece and "the time has come for it to get its moment."
He would need permission from Ringo Starr and the widows of Lennon and George Harrison to release the track.
----------------- The lawyer for Kevin Cogill, the Los Angeles man charged with uploading nine unreleased Guns N' Roses tracks from the upcoming
Chinese Democracy album, said this week that his client's plea deal with prosecutors does not require any prison time
and that he is
looking at probation only.With the assistance of the Recording Industry Association of America, the 27-year-old Cogill was arrested last
summer and charged with a felony carrying a maximum 5-year term. Cogill is accused of uploading the songs to his music site, antiquiet.
No one would say whether, under this deal, Cogill would divulge where he got the tracks.
------------------ The first few dates of The Smashing Pumpkins' 20th anniversary tour aren't off to a rousing start.
On the second night of a two-night stand in New York City, which emphasized long, dirge-like non-hits over short, blistering big hits.
Corgan got tired of the catcalls he was receiving and from watching audience members leave in
droves, He eventually invited a particularly
vocal heckler onstage to have it out with him. They exchanged superlatives and the guy eventually left he stage and the band
continued on to complete the show.
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After his most recent controversial video posting in October telling fans to stop sending fan mail or asking for autographs,
Ringo Starr has cursed
at at middle aged woman who ran up to him after he accepted a Diamond award on behalf of the band at the World Music Awards in
Monaco--the woman ran up to him and threw her arms around him almost knocking him to his
feet..he told the woman to F**k off and
then rudely refused an interview with a crew that was waiting to speak with him. So much for peace and love Ringo...but it is crazy that the
guy has to still deal with crazed fans at this current point in his career. However, fans made the Beatles, which made Ringo rich and famous...you decide!
------------------ Kelly Osbourne is planning an Elvis-themed wedding!
Kelly Osbourne, is said to be engaged to model Luke Worrell and a Las Vegas wedding is planned next spring. The male model is 19 years old
and Kelly is currently 24. The couple is said to be trying to keep things hush hush, Kelly having only told her mother 2 months ago upon getting
her engagement ring, and father Ozzy only finding out several weeks later. It is unknown exactly what the Elvis theme will be, but there is a well
known ceremonial chapel in Vegas that boasts an Elvis impersonator being the justice of the peace.
------------------ The reactivated band Blind Melon has launched a search for
another new vocalist following the departure of Travis Warren.
Travis left the
band last week, forcing Blind Melon to cancel its U.S. tour which was set to begin on November 7th in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
The band initially hoped to be able to play some of the shows with vocalist Chris Shinn, who formed Unified Theory with Blind Melon's
Christopher Thorn (guitar) and Brad Smith (bass), filling in, but those plans were eventually abandoned.
Travis Warren claims that he was fired from the group because of vocal problems, but the band says that it was he who walked out on them.
------------------ A biopic about Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia is in the
works that will give a revealing look at the roots of his emergence.
The yet to be titled project will focus primarily on Garcia's early life in California's Bay Area before he joined the Grateful Dead --
a period that includes a stint in the military, a life-changing car accident and his first creative encounters with members of the Northern
California music scene.
------------------ The guy accused of illegally posting songs on the Internet from Chinese Democracy the unreleased album by Guns N' Roses has
agreed to plead guilty, a federal prosecutor said this week. Kevin Cogill will enter his guilty plea to one federal count of copyright infringement
at a hearing on Dec. 8th.
The FBI said Cogill posted nine tracks from the highly anticipated Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy" on the Web site Antiquiet.com.
The album will be released on Nov. 23 exclusively in Best Buy stores. They did not disclose how Cogill, who has no known direct connection
to the band, obtained the songs.Cogill was arrested in August at his Los Angeles home and released on bail. At the time of his arrest, authorities
said he faced more than three years in prison if convicted. He declined to discuss details of the plea deal reached with federal prosecutors.
------------------ The Faces are set to reunite for rehearsals with a view to a full reformation.
Rod Stewart said that all the original members aside from late
bassist Ronnie Lane, who died in 1997, were set to reconvene this week to run through their old hits.
The band, which includes current Rolling
Stones' guitarist Ronnie Wood, will use Stewart's touring bassist to fill in for Lane.
The Faces split up in 1975 after Wood began playing with
The Rolling Stones.
------------------ A Harvard Law School professor filed a counterclaim last Friday against the Recording Industry Association of America that challenges the constitutionality of the RIAA’s efforts against those caught downloading music from file-sharing services.
Charles R. Nesson ’60, the founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, is defending a Boston University graduate
student who was charged in 2005 with downloading seven songs from a file-sharing network. According to RIAA spokesperson the
amount sought from th e student is undisclosed and left to the judge’s discretion, though he may face over $1 million in penalties.
The Harvard Law School professor explained his reasons for getting involved are about a private organization being allowed to take a
huge chunk of government power and impose its will upon millions of people. He says the situation is absurd and was never about money but
about creating a scary situation to deter others. The RIAA has created controversy over the past few years with a series of aggressive,
PR negative lawsuits against file sharers.
------------------- A new music service that allows fans to listen to songs and albums in their entirety for free has been launched
this week.Peter Gabriel co-founded
the venture called We7 - a free advertising-funded music streaming service which will have music from four major labels and hundreds of indies
available to listen to. While fans get to listen to tracks in full for free before they buy, rights owners and artists will get paid by We7 from audio
and digital advertising revenue. Check out We7.com !
------------------ A new Bruce Springsteen song, "Workin' on a Dream," will premiere on this week's NBC's Sunday Night Football game between the Dallas
Cowboys and Washington Redskins. The track will be played during highlights during the halftime segment. "Workin' on a Dream" will appear on
Springsteen's next album, which will be released in late January.
------------------ The president of Ticketmaster and Ticketmaster CEO said this week that the company is beginning to experiment with "eliminating add-on fees"
for ticket purchases. They're already testing the program on certain sales for upcoming tours.
TicketFast would not be charged with additional service fees.
The first act to experiment with the elimination of service fees is Front Line Management client The Eagles.
------------------ Allegations against a Bon Jovi employee, not a member of the band are brewing as a British woman is suing Bon Jovi, alleging that a
member of their crew ran her over deliberately in a golf buggy leaving her seriously injured. It happened while the band played at Milton Keynes'
National Bowl in southeast England two years ago. She claimed that she was working to prevent backstage access after a fire broke
out in the VIP area, and that's when she was approached by McDonnell, a member of Bon Jovi's personal security team. Apparently he was
mad that he could not proceed into the area. Bon Jovi has refused to have any involvement in the incident and McDonnell is no longer thought to be
working with the group. None of the band members were present when she blocked the pathway of a crew member, nor were they aware of any disturbance at the time.
The injured woman's claim in England follows a claim she attempted to file in the United States, which was rejected.
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Well, as if you didn't already know it, Senator Barrack Obama has been elected to be the 44th President of the United States!
The election is finally over and in January he and Joe Biden will take over the oval office....Rock
On...!
------------------- Don't forget to get your glorious coupon of a 20oz can of Free Dr. Pepper soda by going to DrPepper.com on the morning of
November 23rd -- the day that Guns-N-Roses CD Chinese Democracy is released. What the two have to do with
each other is a mystery.
------------------- The Foo Fighters were named Band of the Year at last night’s
Marshall Classic Rock n' Roll of Honour awards. Dave Grohl accepted the prize
in a video acceptance speech screened at the London ceremony, which marked the 10th anniversary of the event.
Ozzy Osbourne was presented with the Living Legend award by former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash – who was also honoured with the Marshall '11’
award for his 'services to balls-out guns-blazing rock n' roll" - while veteran rockers Whitesnake collected the Best Album award for 'Good To Be Bad’.
Led Zeppelin – who recently announced plans to tour without original singer Robert Plant –
scooped the Event of the Year prize for their tribute concert to
late Atlantic Records boss Ahmet Ertegun at The O2 in London last December and Kiss guitarist Paul Stanley was awarded Showman of the Year, while
former Pink Floyd member Syd Barrett - who died in 2006 - was posthumously honoured with the Inspiration Award.
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Listeners to the Jeff O'Neil Show on 99.3 The FOX (CFOX-FM) Tuesday were surprised to hear none other than Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan
co-hosting the open-phones segment of the show and announcing an upcoming official proclamation that November 28 is AC/DC Day in Terminal City.
The Mayor of Vancouver Canada has officially declared November 28th as AC/DC Day in the city. The Mayor was a guest on the Jeff O'Neil
Show airing on 99.3 (CFOX-FM) when he made the statement!
------------------- U2 is hard at work in England working on a much anticipated new album which is said to be super innovated and to be their best work yet.
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According to a new report sales of computer games are set to overtake the combined sales of music and video products such as CDs and DVDs this year. Physical sales of CDs have declined over recent years. Although the amount of paid-for music downloads has increased, still only four percent of music is sold digitally. Computer game sales already outstripped sales for music last year.
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AC/DC has already topped sales charts in 29 Countries including the
US, UK, Germany, Canada, France, Argentina, Japan, Australia and more. In the US alone Black Ice has sold more than 780,000 units its first week on sale, marking the band's first ever debut entry at #1 on the album charts. The band is also on the cover of Rolling Stone which hit newsstands this week. The first leg of the Black Ice World Tour kicks off this week in Wilkes-Barre, PA and runs through April 23, 2009 in Birmingham, UK"Rock N Roll Train," the first single from
Black Ice.
--------------------- Finally, after over a decade of false starts, we will finally get what we’ve all been waiting for: a
free bottle of Dr. Pepper. With the official confirmation that Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy
is really happening, the makers of Dr. Pepper announced their plan to make good on their promise to provide everyone with free soda. “We never thought this day would come,” (yea, neither did we!) said Dr. Pepper's vice president of marketing, “but now that it’s here all we can say is: The Dr Pepper’s on us.” Starting November 23rd, the day Chinese Democracy hits Best Buy, you can head over to the Dr. Pepper website and register your information to receive a coupon which can be redeemed for a free 20-ounce pop.
Somehow, I just don't get the correlation here...seems a bit
odd to me...I guess it's just a bit of rock and roll publicity
for Dr. Pepper.
-------------------- Led Zeppelin has finally responded to all the rumors circulating about Led Zeppelin launching a full-blown reunion next
year. Unfortunately, it’s not the response Led Zeppelin fans were hoping for.
Robert Plant has issued a statement that he definitely is not planning on participating in a reunion tour with the rest of the band. Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham are reported to be recruiting another vocalist, and are supposedly planning a tour together, not to replicate Plants lyrics, but to develop a sound of their own with a new frontman. Plant is currently on tour with Alison Krauss to promote their album Raising
Sand...whoopie!
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Beatles unseen footage! The Beatles' American tour in 1964, is up for auction.
It was filmed by a 15 year-old fan at an unscheduled gig in Kansas City,
and afterwards lay forgotten in a drawer at his parents' home for decades. The concert was put on at the last minute when the Kansas City municipal
stadium offered a record-breaking 150,000 dollars to Beatles manager Brian Epstein to add the date to their tour.
The 8mm silent color film reel is
approximately two minutes long, dating from September 17 1964, and will be auctioned by Berkshire firm Cameo on November 4th.
------------------- Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan are in talks to star in an HBO sitcom together.
HBO are reportedly trying to sign up them –
to appear as roommates struggling to make it big in Hollywood, in what has been described as a cross between 'Friends’ and 'Ugly Betty’.
Show chiefs are said to have approached 'Extras’ star Ricky Gervais and 'Desperate Housewives’ creator Mark Cherry to pen the script,
which will see the trio playing characters inspired by themselves. This is sure
to be a train wreck in the making! Three giant egos!
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MTV doesn't play videos anymore, focusing instead on reality shows and other types of content.
This week MTV
announced the launch of MTV Music, a YouTube-styled site which will eventually feature the company's entire catalog of music videos.
There are 16,000 videos, “Unplugged” performances and exclusive MTV concert footage. Sadly, the site maintains MTV's habit
of regional restrictions meaning it is impossible to stream the videos outside of the United States. While every video is not available yet,
the site has pages full of videos for many artists.
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Courtney Love is advertising for a new housekeeper on
MySpace! in her blog she is asks for a 'non-freaky, non-thieving' employee.
Prospective candidates should live near Malibu, be "insanely clean"..how about just insane?! and be "someone who really wants to get into the film
business"
...gee..that fits into the housekeeper job description. She then signed her post 'weirdo mgcee', she finished the advertisement by saying: "No superfans please.
And it’s very good money.' Gee do you think anyone but her fans would read her myspace page?
However, in a later post, Courtney admitted: 'It’s just weird I
went on MySpace looking for an assistant. I’m insane.'..well, ya got that right.
---------------------- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced next year's nine potential inductees today, including
Metallica, Run-D.M.C., Jeff Beck and The Stooges.
Other nominees include Chic, Wanda Jackson, Little Anthony and the Imperials, War, Bobby Womack.
Five finalists will be chosen in January, with the
official induction ceremony happening on April 4th at Cleveland's Public Hall. This will be the first time the Hall of Fame opens its ceremony to the public
and the first time it's being held in Cleveland—the home of the actual Hall of Fame—since 1997.
--------------------- Metallica is facing criticism over the sound quality of “Death Magnetic”. There's a bit of a controversy surrounding the audio quality of the new
Metallica CD, "Death Magnetic" . Some fans have started a protest petition against the "maxed out" and "distorted" mix of the music. Fans claim that the
Guitar Hero versions of the songs have a superior and less distorted sound than the CD version.
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The cover of one of the latest People magazine has a picture of
Clay Aiken holding his infant son with the headline "Yes, I'm
Gay."
---now that's a shocker...who would have "thunk" it.....
--------------------- Travis Barker has been released from an Augusta, Georgia hospital this week after suffering severe burns in a fiery plane crash more than a week ago.
His release follows DJ AM's release from the hospital late last week. Both were being treated for burns suffered during a plane crash two weeks
ago, with which they were the sole survivors.
-------------------- Quick-thinking security guards saved Foo Fighters Dave Grohl from an onstage attack
at the Austin City Limits music festival in Texas on lst week.
The Foo Fighters were headlining the last day of the weekend festival when an audience member clambered up onto the stage and ran towards the singer.
Recently Oasis were forced to scrap a series of concerts in North America and Europe when guitarist
Noel Gallagher suffered injuries from a stage attack in
Toronto.
-------------------- Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel have announced a concert
on October 16th in New York to support democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama.
The show will take place on the night after the last debate of the election. Tickets for the show range from $500 through to $10,000.
Obama himself will attend the show at the Hammerstein Ballroom.
Springsteen will also be performing this Saturday for Obama at a rally in Philadelphia.
-------------------- Apple could shut down its iTunes music store this week, if a verdict from the US Copyright Royalty Board forces the company to pay higher royalty rates.
A ruling is expected by the board later on this week. The association wants to increase rates by 66 per cent, from nine cents to 15 cents per track, whereas
Apple wants a decrease to 4.8 cents per track. In a statement submitted to the board iTunes vice president Eddy Cue said that Apple would not stand for
an increase and that Apple would have no qualms about shutting iTunes down if it was not making enough money.
See it's all about the dollar bill, ya'll.
-------------------- Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has sued bloggers who impersonated him on the internet. Tyler filed a lawsuit in the Los Angeles Superior Court claiming
people have been posing as him and his girlfriend while revealing intimate details about his personal life.
Google has removed the blogs at the his request and
he believes it is the same group of people who were responsible for similar postings last year.
