The
Day in Rock 8/18: Velvet Revolver Cancel EP/DVD, Frantic Metallica, Jack
Osbourne Joins Troll Twins, "Let's Get It On" Writer Dies, Grand Marshall
Kid Rock, No Rush To Rio, Viva Lost Elvis!
08-12-03
Keavin Wiggins
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Velvet
Revolver Cancel EP/DVD
Blabbermouth.net reports: VELVET REVOLVER,
the new band featuring GUNS N' ROSES alumni Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt
Sorum, David Kushner of SUICIDAL TENDENCIES and former STONE TEMPLE
PILOTS frontman Scott Weiland, have abandoned plans to issue a live EP/DVD
of their June 19 Los Angeles performance and are said to be concentrating
on writing the material for their full-length debut, tentatively
due in early 2004 through an as-yet-undetermined label. "The EP/DVD project
was cancelled a few weeks ago," the group's publicist said. "It didn't
make any sense anymore, and since we are negotiating with a few new record
labels, they don't want anything to be released before the actual full
CD."
The band, who were previously reported
to have secured a one-off deal with Immortal Records for the release
of the now-scrapped EP/DVD, are believed to be talking to several major
labels about the release of a full-length album, including Elektra, Warner
Brothers and J Records.
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Frantic
Metallica
SNMnews.com reports: METALLICA's new video,
'Frantic',… has been put up on METALLICA's webpage, and can be viewed at
[this
link.] It can be watched in either Windows Media or Realplayer.
'Frantic' will also be the next track off
the new album, "St Anger", to be released as a single, and will do so September
15th. It will come in various formats, with most places receiving 2 CDs.
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Jack
Osbourne Joins Troll Twins
Jack Osbourne will be managing the Troll
(Olsen) Twins in a new film. The twins have a striking resemblance to the
Troll dolls that were all the craze a few years back, but have yet to play
the characters in a film or television show.

Undercover Reports: Jack Osbourne will
be seen on the big screen in 2004 starring opposite the Olsen twins.
Osbourne has signed on for 'New York Minute',
the new movie from director Dennie Gordon. Gordon also directed 'What A
Girl Wants' and 'Joe Dirt' and prior to that worked in TV directing shows
such as 'Dawson's Creek', 'The Practice' and 'Ally McBeal'.
Jack Osbourne will play the part of a band
manager. Mary-Kate Olsen will play Roxanne, the 17 year old punk star of
the band and Ashley will play her twin sister Jane.
The entire movie is set in a 24 hour period.
Roxy and Ash find a computer chip in a bread roll and for the rest of the
day the chase is on.
The movie has just started filming and
will premiere in 2004.. - Click
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"Let's
Get It On" Writer Dies
AP Reports: - Ed
Townsend, who wrote hit songs including1958's "For Your Love" and Marvin
Gaye (news)'s controversial "Let's Get It On," has died. He was 74.
Townsend, who wrote more than 200 songs,
died of heart failure Wednesday in a San Bernardino hospital.
Nat King Cole and Etta James were among
the stars who recorded Townsend's songs. One of his first hits was "For
Your Love" — which Townsend recorded himself, at the suggestion of Capitol
Records executive Joe Zerga.
"The simplicity of the song was what makes
it enduring to the people," said Clyde Otis, chairman of the Clyde Otis
Music Group and a friend of Townsend's since the 1950s. "Ed had no idea
it would become that popular."
"Let's Get It On," released in 1973, had
an overt sexual theme that generated criticism. But Townsend insisted the
song was actually about getting on with life.
Townsend also wrote and produced the Impressions'
1974 No. 1 R&B hit "Finally Got Myself Together (I'm A Changed Man)."
Townsend, a Fayetteville, Tenn., native,
grew up singing in the choir at th echurch where his minister father preached.
He moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1950s.
Survivors include his wife, Janice; four
children, a brother, a sister, three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
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Grand
Marshall Kid Rock
AP Reports: Full story – Rapper-rocker
Kid Rock will serve as grand marshal at a three-day fund-raiser in his
home state next weekend.
He will also lead a motorcycle event at
the Lapeer Forum Summer Fest, about 60 miles north of Detroit. Proceeds
from the events will benefit three charities.
Kid Rock, a Michigan native, didn't hesitate
to sign on to the event when he was asked, said Lloyd LaVoy, owner of the
Lapeer Forum Sports Bar, the site of the fund-raiser. "That says
a lot about him," LaVoy told The Flint Journal.
The event will aid the Easter Seals Foundation;
the Rainbow Connection, a Detroit-based charity for terminally ill children
sponsored by Kid Rock; and the Steve Bell Scholarship Fund, named for a
local firefighter and police officer killed in a traffic accident earlier
this year.
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No
Rush To Rio
Blabbermouth.net reports: eteran Canadian
rock trio RUSH have reportedly pushed back the release date of their triple-disc
live album and double-disc DVD, titled "Rush in Rio" (view cover here),
to late October via Anthem/Atlantic Records.
As previously reported, the DVD version
of "Rush in Rio" includes all 28 songs from the CD (recorded last Nov.
23 on the last show of the band's "Vapor Trails" tour), augmented with
a documentary with footage from other shows in the Brazilian cities Porte
Allegre and Sao Paolo. Fans will be able to view the action from multiple
cameras, and will be treated to "extra stuff like pictures of Big
Al [guitarist Alex Lifeson] at home in his pajamas and some other
unusual things hidden in there somewhere," according to bassist Geddy Lee.
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Viva
Lost Elvis!
canoe.ca reports: Looks like Elvis left
something behind on his way out the building.
Nearly 40 years after its recording, a
never-before-released Elvis Presley track is set to appear on the forthcoming
collection Elvis 2nd to None. The King, who died on August 16, 1977, recorded
the song "I'm a Roustabout" for his 1964 circus-themed film Roustabout
with Barbara Stanwyck (news) and Raquel Welch (news), but the producers
ultimately opted for a different song to be used as the film and album's
title track.
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