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 Santana
Slams KISS |
KNAC reports: Latin Rock guitarist Carlos
Santana has slammed Kiss frontman Gene Simmons by questioning his musical
ability and branding him "Las Vegas entertainment".
Santana says he is appalled by the standard
of Simmons' music and insists the rocker hides his lack of skill behind
layers of gothic clothing and black make-up. "He's not a musician, he's
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| Slipknot
Injury |
The Gauntlet reports: SLIPKNOT guitarist Jim
Root will sit out the early part of the band's "Subliminal Verses Tour:
The Final Volume" after breaking his wrist a couple of days prior to the
tour's kick-off on Friday, October 14 in Cincinnati, Ohio.[see full story
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| Prince
Surgery |
Gigwise reports: Poor little pepper-pot sized
Prince is due to have hip-surgery, after wearing too many pairs of high-heeled
shoes in his lifetime.
However, the little dude is thinking twice
about whether to have a full hip replacement, because, according to sources
close to him as a Jehovahs witness a blood transfusion may not be acceptable.[see
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| U2
Vs Limbaugh |
Contact Music reports: U2 frontman BONO has
been accused of cheating on his wife by controversial US radio host RUSH
LIMBAUGH.
While discussing a list of "ubersexuals"
put out by an advertising agency, Limbaugh cited PIERCE BROSNAN, JON STEWART,
DONALD TRUMP, BILL CLINTON and Bono as making the list - and then said
that the Irish rocker has a mistress. [see full story for more]-
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| Beatles
Rule |
Reuters reports: The Beatles were singled
out on Friday as the most influential entertainers of the past 100 years,
beating out the likes of Elvis Presley, Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse,
according to a survey conducted by show business newspaper Variety.
The newspaper published a list of 100 entertainers
from all branches of show business, including actors, directors, screenwriters,
musicians, television presenters, animals, comedians and cartoon characters.
Among other names on the list were Johnny Carson, Johnny Cash and Lassie.[see
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| Baker
Knight RIP |
AP reports: Prolific songwriter Baker Knight,
whose hits were recorded by stars ranging from Elvis Presley to Ricky Nelson,
Paul McCartney, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, has died at age 72.
From the 1950s to the 1970s, Knight wrote
almost 1,000 songs. More than 40 singers recorded his tunes, which include
the 1970 Presley hit "The Wonder of You" and Martin's "Somewhere There's
a Someone" and "That Old Time Feelin'." Nelson and McCartney sang the same
Knight hit, "Lonesome Town," decades apart.[see full story for more]-
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| Osbourne
Piggy |
Gigwise reports: Thats right, from one little
porker to another, Kelly Osbourne has declared her raging desire to duet
with none other than Miss Piggy.
Kelly spouted: I just adore her. We grew
up with The Muppets, and its always been my ambition to record a song
with Miss Piggy.[We couldn't resist including this one, see full story
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| Satanic
Pop Star |
Gigwise reports: Attention-seeking pop goon
Robbie Williams has said that he is keen to follow in his mother's footsteps
by dabbling in the occult, in an attempt to "demystify" his dark side.
Williams, well known for making things
up to make himself sound more interesting, has said that his family were
obsessed with spooky things during his childhood and that he is convinced
he is now a natural at black magic.[When asked about this, Satan responded
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| Rolling
Defibrillator |
Ananova reports: The Rolling Stones have a
heart machine reportedly backstage in case one collapses on their US tour.
Organisers have brought in a defibrillator,
used to shock the heart back into a normal rhythm.[see full story for the
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| Foo
Queen |
Blabbermouth reports: QUEEN drummer Roger
Taylor sat behind the kit for the FOO FIGHTERS on a rendition of QUEEN's
"Tie Your Mother Down" during the encore of the FOOS' headlining concert
at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, NJ Friday night (Oct.
14). [see full story for more]- Click
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| Double
Voodoo |
Audio Aggression reports: The Voodoo Music
Festival will return to New Orleans on October 29th, it will continue on
the 30th in Memphis as previously scheduled. Taking stage in New Orleans
will be Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stoneage, Death From Above 1979,
LCD, Soundsytem, Sevendust, among others.[see full story for more]-
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| Motley
Film Directionless |
KNAC reports: The movie based on Motley Crue
biography The Dirt has been left in limbo after director David Fincher
was forced to pull out.
The band have been considering other directors
for the "gritty" tale of the flamboyant rockers' rags to riches rock 'n'
roll story.[see full story for more]- Click
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| A
Static Crash |
The PRP reports: According to Alternative
Press, A Static Lullaby bassist/vocalist Phil Pirrone was involved in a
car crash on Wednesday, October 12th and has been in the Intensive Care
Unit at a local hospital.- Click
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| Claypool
DVD |
The PRP reports: Les Claypool will be issuing
an over 3 hour running time DVD chronicling his solo projects entitled
"5 Gallons Of Diesel" through Prawn Song on November 15th. The tentative
track listing for the outing is as follows:
01 - Sausage - "Riddles Are Abound Tonight"
(Video)
02 - Sausage - "The Making Of Riddles"
03 - Sausage - "Prelude To Fear"
04 - Holy Mackerel - "Hendershot"
05 - Oysterhead - "Shadow Of A Man"
06 - Frog Brigade - "Here's To The Man"
07 - Frog Brigade - "Running The Gauntlet"
08 - Frog Brigade - "David Makalaster"
09 - Frog Brigade - "Long In The Tooth"
10 - Frog Brigade - "Whamola"
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| Girlfriend
Missing |
punkbands reports: The following is an urgent,
personal, non-music related message from Andy of The Junior Varsity. Message
From AndyHello: This is Andy Wildrick from The Junior Varsity. As of recently,
my girlfriend of 3 years, Olamide Adeyooye, has been reported missing by
the police. The last known place she was at was Family Video on Kottage
Avenue in NORMAL, ILLINOIS on Thursday October 12th at about 9:00pm.
Both her and her car are missing. Her cell
phone was left at her apartment and her TV was on so she wasn't planning
on being gone for long. As you can imagine, this is one of the hardest
things I've ever encountered in my life.[see full story for more]-
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| Rollins
Remastered |
punkbands reports: Henry Rollins has announced
plans to remaster and reissue two of his most popular spoken word albums.
Both Sweatbox and Big Ugly Mouth/Short Walk On A Long Pier will be re-released
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| Electric
Six Prep Next CD |
Rockdirt reports: Audiences at Electric Six's
upcoming Australian shows won't hear the new material they've been working
on, but Tyler Spencer, aka Dick Valentine, tells Time Off magazine recording
for a third album will be underway by November. "We've got most of it written
but we haven't rehearsed it as a band yet," he said.[see full story for
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