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Clarification: This shouldn't be
needed but the little aside about the mystery Ozzfest second stage band
we posted on Friday where we said our bet was on Clay Aiken WAS A JOKE.
Half a dozen Clay Aiken fan sites reported it as news and some fans were
even arguing about how it made sense with Clay wanting to do something
different. While Sharon has been known to go for trends etc (thus
the basis of the joke) Clay on Ozzfest is probably too big a stretch even
for her. [Although Crazy Town and Clay have more in common than they'd
like to admit] So don't worry Clay fans, your little Muppet won't be torn
to shreds by metalheads this summer. [and as a general rule, anything
added within these brackets is typically sarcasm. While that was obvious
in this case (and most cases), it just goes to show you that they'll believe
anything
]
| Weiland
Slashed By Former GNR Manager |
Day in Rock reports: Metal Sludge has posted
a rather interesting statement that reportedly came from Guns N' Roses
former manager Alan Niven. Here is an excerpt but you'll have to click
the full story to read it all.
"Categorically, Slash is utterly accurate
- Mr. Weilland is, in my personal opinion, a clueless posturing fraud,
of no particular or obvious abilities, including, and most apparently,
composition. The band is a thorough waste of a truly great guitar player
and terrific rhythm section. [their output has been entirely forgettable
and one dimensional].
"As for Mr. Rose, I have no doubt he is
still genuinely and profoundly gifted, and it is self evident that he has
provided more insight and memorability in a single line of composition
than Mr. Weilland has managed in an entire career.
"For the record, Mr. Rose wrote the majority
of the melodies and lyrics on the guns records, which include the best
selling rock debut of our times, with 16,000,000 sold in the United States
alone."[see full story for more]- Click
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| Borland
Vs Durst |
Day in Rock reports: Wes Borland posted a
Myspace Blog in responce to Fred Durst's "free style" song posting that
took aim at Wes and he's recent comments that the Bizkit might be over.
Here is part of what Wes had to say.
I am actually going to respond to you guys
AND Fred. Here it goes:
It is a shame to have things once again
come to head because of lack of communication between two people. Was I
right to speak for everybody in Limp? Probably not. But I thought the fans
deserved to know what was going on at least from my perspective. After
years and years of dealing with each other, it seems that Fred and I still
have not figured out how to keep it positive. I'm to blame, he's to blame.
It sucks. We never talk. So, it's hard to ever know what's really going
on. I still stand behind everything I've said. LB doing something is as
much news to me as it is to everybody else. If Fred is making music, that's
great, more power to him, but I wasn't aware. So, here we are now.[see
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| Suge Label heading to Death Row? |
Gigwise reports: A judge has pledged that
he will take control of Marion Suge Knights business and personal assets
after he failed to pay a $107million civil lawsuit from last year.
At the hearing yesterday (March 23), Los
Angeles Judge Ronald Sohigian revealed he is to appoint a court officer
to organize Knights assets. [see full story for more]-
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| Radiohead
Sellout |
Gigwise reports: If you didnt get your Radiohead
tour tickets at 9am this morning youre out of luck theyve all sold
out.
Tickets for the bands upcoming mini-tour
of Britain and Europe sold out within minutes of going on sale, leaving
thousands of fans disappointed.[see full story for more]-
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| Buck
Owens RIP |
Reuters reports: Honky-tonk star Buck Owens,
who sold more than 16 million albums and popularized country entertainment
on television as host of "Hee Haw," died on Saturday at age 76.
Owens, who helped spread the twangy "Bakersfield
sound" as an antidote to Nashville's slick country music, died of heart
failure at his home, said his keyboard player Jim Shaw[see full story for
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| Arctic
Monkeycast |
Tripwire reports: Put on your dancing shoes
and get ready to listen to fake tales of San Francisco, or should we say
Washington DC? On Monday, March 27 Arctic Monkeys will be rolling into
DC to play the 9:30 Club. Pull out a hankie and dry your eyes if you are
not in the area. NPR is offering up a live audio webcast of the show for
all of us not in DC! [see full story for more including info on a new EP
that's in the works]- Click
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| Cobain
Doll |
Blabbermouth reports: A new Kurt Cobain action
figure, which features the striped sweater and stringy hairstyle the late
NIRVANA frontman sported in his band's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video,
will be available via NECA (National Entertainment Collectibles Association)
in late June.[see full story for links to photos plus a link to an expose
on Love.. ouch!]- Click
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| Queensryche
Anthem |
Blabbermouth reports: QUEENSRCHE frontman
Geoff Tate will sing the national anthem at the New York Mets/Washington
Nationals game Shea Stadium in Flushing, New York on April 5 at 7:10 p.m.
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| Euro
Hermano |
Blabbermouth reports: HERMANO, the California-based
band featuring vocalist John Garcia (UNIDA, KYUSS), and guitarist Dave
Angstrom (SUPAFUZZ), have confirmed the following European dates in July:
Jul. 14 - W2 - Den Bosch, NETH
Jul. 15 - Rock Herk Fest - Herk de Stad,
BEL (1st show of the day)[see full story for more]- Click
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| Sharon
Turns Down Millions |
Blabbermouth reports: Digital Spy is reporting
that Sharon Osbourne has turned down a £5 million (approximately
$8.7 million) offer to make a film about her life story.
Two Hollywood studios were bidding to buy
the movie rights to Osbourne's autobiography "Extreme". However, Sharon
decided that she did not wish to open old family wounds.
"The book was hard to write," Osbourne
told the Sunday Mirror. "And I feel the book covered it all."[see full
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| Stone
Sour Lose Joel |
TuneLab reports: Stone Sour has announced
that Joel Ekman will no longer be a part of the band. Two weeks into the
recording of the bands new album, Elkman was forced to return home after
his son, who was diagnosed with brain cancer last fall, became sick.[see
full story for more]- Click
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| (Hed)
Delay |
TuneLab reports: (Hed) p.e. have delayed the
release of their new album, 'Back to Base X'. The album will now be released
on June 6th.- Click
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| Top
Solos |
KNAC reports: Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven
has been voted the best guitar solo of all time.
The Jimmy Page effort topped a survey of
2,000 readers of Total Guitar magazine besting the likes of Van Halen,
Guns N' Roses and Jimi Hendrix to be named the best air guitar moment.
1. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
2. Van Halen - Eruption
3. Guns N' Roses - Paradise City
4. The Eagles - Hotel California
5. Metallica - Enter Sandman
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| Zombie
Vs Haters |
Rockdirt reports: Rob Zombie recently took
part in a Q&A with Decibel magazine, where he lashed out at message
board "haters". Asked if he's ever gone online to see what people are saying
about him on message boards, the veteran rocker responded, "I have a couple
of times, but that's bad news. I'm just baffled by how things function
these days - not because I don't understand it, but because when I was
a kid, everything was about why you liked something. You were obsessed
with it, and you couldn't wait to get more. Now there's like this subculture
of haters - people who wanna complain about everything and tell you why
it's wrong. [see full story for more]- Click
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| Sabbath
Curse Lennon Film |
Rockdirt reports: Black Sabbath drummer Bill
Ward is blasting the upcoming film 'Chapter 27', which casts Jared Leto
as Mark David Chapman, the killer of Beatles legend John Lennon. "Just
got the sh** news that there's going to be a movie about the asshole who
shot John Lennon," Ward writes. "As a Lennon fan [and] admirer, I can't
believe that this film is coming out on general release. I object completely
that we have available to us a movie about a guy who robbed millions of
people of so much, who stamped out a brilliant mind, and who broke apart
a family. When John Lennon died, my heart broke, and I've never gotten
over his death, and I know that millions of other people got hurt also.
Whoever is responsible for this movie, the money, the producers, the cast,
the music, I fail to see how you can participate in anything that could
bring more infamy to an already infamous murderer, robber and pain-bringer.
I curse this movie[see full story for more]- Click
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