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 Richard
Pryor RIP |
Day in Rock reports: Today's Day in Rock is
dedicated to the memory of Richard Pryor. Though he wasn't a musician,
he was an iconoclast in the finest tradition. Here is part of MTV's news
report on his passing (see the full story link for the rest). Richard Pryor,
the comedian whose animated, rapid-fire delivery and powerful touch with
taboo subject matter created a body of influence that extended far beyond
comedy, reportedly passed away on Saturday. He was 65. -
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| School
Vs Dimebag Fan |
Pivotal Rage reports: The story of Timothy
getting in trouble at Lake Central High School for simply wearing a "R.I.P.
Dimebag Darrell" memorial T-shirt initially appeared in his local newspaper,
then North West Indiana Times. The story went on to say that Janet Emerick
(Lake Central High School Superintendent) read "Any apparel or item that
alludes to drugs, alcohol, sex, the occult, gangs, profanity or which are
offensive to ethnic or racial groups is prohibited." Basically making it
clear that she and the school finds the memorial T-shirt to promote heroin
use due to the "Dimebag" reference.
However once this story reached the rest
of the music community, I and surely many others who read the story instantly
said, "This is a load of bulls***!" This is an important issue that needs
to be addressed in our country and in our musical community, so I decided
to give Tim a call... "My study hall teacher, Ms. Pajkos told me that I
was a fool for going to the paper. Ever since that article came out, they
threw me out of regular school and put me in night school. Because the
teachers were ridiculing me, so now I have night school. Now I'm separated
from the rest of the kids. It sucks, I miss my friends." [see full story
for the rest of Nick Desenberg's article including his conversation with
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| Fatal
Bus Crash |
AP reports: A tour bus carrying the country
music group Sawyer Brown slammed into a car on a Kansas highway early Saturday,
killing a 24-year-old woman, authorities said.
Zeller said woman in the car appeared to
have run a stop sign just before her vehicle was broadsided by the bus
around 7:45 a.m.[see full story for more]- Click
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| RIAA
Beats Mom |
AP reports: A federal appeals court late Friday
upheld the music industry's $22,500 judgment against a Chicago mother caught
illegally distributing songs over the Internet.
The court rejected her defense that she
was innocently sampling music to find songs she might buy later and compared
her downloading and distributing the songs to shoplifting.[see full story
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| Garth
Thee Wed |
AP reports: Country music stars Garth Brooks
and Trisha Yearwood said "I do" on Saturday in a private ceremony at their
Oklahoma home.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Lyrics
Jail? |
Gigwise reports: The music industry is planning
to extend its war on unlicensed music by taking action against internet
sites that provide guitar tabs and lyrics without copyright.
The Music Publishers' Association (MPA)
which represents sheet music companies in America says it will launch a
crackdown in 2006 with MPA President Lauren Kaiser saying she wanted site
owners jailed.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Prince
Ink Deal |
Gigwise reports: Paisley loving pop legend
Prince has signed a new record deal with Universal and is set to release
a new album enetitled �3121'.[see full story for more]-
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| Eyehategod
Singer Freed |
Blabbermouth reports: EYEHATEGOD frontman
Michael Williams, who was arrested in Lousiana on a narcotics charge in
the Hurricane Katrina aftermath, was reportedly released from a Morgan
City, LA jail last week. It is not presently clear if there are still any
charges pending against Williams[see full story for more]-
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| Radio
City Dream Theater |
Blabbermouth reports: DREAM THEATER are rumored
to be planning a very special 20th anniversary show at the Radio City Music
Hall in New York City sometime in early 2006. The concert, the exact date
for which will be announced soon, will reportedly be filmed for an upcoming
DVD. [see full story for more]- Click
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| Alrosa
Villa Blacklisted? |
Blabbermouth reports: [This is a little part
of a story about the Alrosa Villa, the club where Dimebag and others will
killed last year]Since the shootings, booking agents and a few bands have
all but blacklisted the 31-year-old venue. This year, the club hosted eight
national acts, compared with 20 to 25 a year before the shooting.
"We've lost a tremendous amount of money,
not because of Columbus customers, but because bands won't play here,"
club owner Rick Cautela said. "And no band from Texas wants to play here."
The Houston band KING'S X, which played
Nov. 12, was an exception, even though the band's singer, Doug Pinnick,
was close to Abbott. [see full story for more]- Click
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| Riot
Tour |
Blabbermouth reports: Veteran hard rockers
RIOT have added two U.S. dates to their current itinerary. The group's
schedule is shaping up as follows:
Jan. 27 - Las Vegas, NV @ Tailspins
Jan. 28 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Club Vegas
Mar. 17 - Palencia, SPA @ Carabel
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| Mastodon
Plot Epic Release |
Blabbermouth reports: MASTODON drummer Brann
Dailor recently spoke to Revolver magazine about the group's upcoming Warner
Bros. debut, tentatively due late summer 2006.
"We want the whole thing to flow together
as one big piece of music, where the end of one song links up with the
beginning of the next one," he said. "We want the whole experience to be
like movements in a symphony."[see full story for more]-
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| Tour
Bus Crash |
Blabbermouth reports: The tour bus for legendary
guitarist George Lynch (DOKKEN, LYNCH MOB) and his backing band got sideswiped
in an accident with a diesel truck on Sunday morning (Dec. 11) after Lynch's
performance in Detroit, Michigan. The group have resumed traveling and
are headed for Denver, Colorado[see full story for more]-
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| Paris
is Burning |
Audio Aggression reports: The previously unnamed
band featuring Bobby Burns (Soulfly) on guitar, Billy Keeton (Skrape) on
vocals, Pete Sison (Skrape) on bass and Chad Gravitt on drums and guitarist
Mikey Withers have chosen the name Paris is Burning.[see full story for
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| P2P
Foiler Quits |
tinfoil.music reports: A leading service that
attempted to dissuade people from using file-trading networks like Kazaa,
by planting millions of fake files online, is being shut down.
Seattle-based Loudeye said Friday that
it is shuttering its Overpeer division, effective immediately, in an attempt
to bolster the parent company's bottom line. [see full story for more]-
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| Ace
Radio |
KNAC reports: "Coming December 23rd, it's
the Original Merry KISSmass Special. It's easily one of the biggest shows
I do all year and always makes news one way or the other. I'm proud to
announce this year my good friend Ace Frehley (ex-KISS guitarist) will
be breaking the silence and serve as my co-host live in the studio! [see
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| Metal
Eminem |
The PRP reports: Candiria look set to contribute
a cover of Eminem's "The Way I Am" to the upcoming "Too Legit For The Pit,
Hardcore Takes The Rap II" compilation effort currently being put together
by Radical Records. [see full story for an update on the new CD]-
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