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Recap
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Instead of just taking our usual Christmas break off and leaving you hanging
until the 27th, we figured we'd use these "off" days to recap the most
popular
stories of the year. These were the
most read individual
stories from each month. Enjoy and have a rockn' Christmas.
We'll see you back with the regular Day in Rock report when we return on
Wed 12/27!
Here is the second installment, come back Monday for part III.
 April |
| Snoop
Brawl |
antiMusic reports: Snoop is in the dog house
in England after he and his entourage where at the center of a brawl with
police at Heathrow airport that left seven officers injured and Snoop in
the big house.
Snoop Dogg was released on bail Thursday
afternoon after being held overnight at a London police station. Snoop
and his posse stopped off in Heathrow on their way to South Africa where
Snoop was scheduled to perform at The People's Celebration Concert.
The brawl reportedly started when members
of Snoop's posse were denied entry to the first-class lounge of British
Airways, according to the Times Online. Members of the posse allegedly
started throwing whiskey bottles at a duty free shop and began arguing
with staff members. Police arrived and reportedly told the posse they would
not be allowed to board their flight. That's when all hell broke loose
and the mob became "abusive and pushed the officer," according to a British
Airways spokesperson. [see full story for more]- Click
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| Roth
Replaced? |
Blabbermouth reports: According to Hits Daily
Double, CBS Radio's Joel Hollander has made a deal with XM Radio to replace
David Lee Roth with Opie and Anthony. Look for the High Voltage duo to
return to the terrestrial airwaves on CBS' N.Y., Philly and Dallas' Free-FMs
as well as WBCN Boston, WNCX Cleveland, Pittsburgh's K-Rock and West Palm
Beach's The Buzz. [see full story for more]- Click
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| McCartney
Stole Song? |
Day in Rock reports: Does Paul McCartney owe
Curtis Mayfield's estate some royalties? The intro and 1st verse of the
song "Anyway" from McCartney's latest album Chaos And Creation In The
Back Yard sounds strikingly familiar to the Jeff Beck / Rod Stewart
arrangement of Mayfield's "People Get Ready". While many astute reviewers
picked up on this "borrowing" when reviewing the album when it was released
last year, we have learned that McCartney is definitely familiar with the
song.
In March 99 when McCartney was inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame
as a solo artist (along with Mayfield), McCartney participated in an all-star
jam with Bono, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel and yes one of the four
songs they performed was "People Get Ready," according to SpringsteenLyrics.com
[see the full story link to read their account of that performance]-
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| Pee
Wee Hurley |
Contact Music reports: FALL OUT BOY star ANDY
HURLEY was left red-faced when a security guard caught him having sex during
a cinema showing of children's movie CHICKEN LITTLE. The SUGAR WE'RE GOIN'
DOWN rocker was ejected by an official who caught him with his pants down.
[story is kind of confusing. Was he having sex with a child? A girl? A
Fall Out Boy? Read the full story and see if you can figure it out. But
boys and girls remember, don't show your chicken little in public]-
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| D12
Murder |
Gigwise reports: US rapper Proof, a member
of Eminem's D-12 crew, has been shot and killed at a bar in Detroit.
According to reports Proof, real name Deshaun
Holton, was one of two men shot at an after hours club on the cities Eight
Mile Road in the early hours of the this morning.
The second man shot, currently unnamed
by the Police, is critically ill in hsopital.[see full story for more]-
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| RIAA
Vs Education |
MTV reports: Like many of the thousands of
other people who've been sued by the Recording Industry Association of
America for allegedly downloading music illegally, 20-year-old Cassi Hunt
is in no position to pay off thousands of dollars in fines.
But the advice a RIAA representative gave
the sophomore physics major at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
didn't really sound reasonable: Drop out and get a job or switch to a cheaper
community college.[you really need to click over for the full story on
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| May |
| Axl
Vs Hilfiger |
antiMusic reports: Axl Rose got into a bit
of a tiff with Tommy Hilfiger on Thursday night at The Plumm in Manhattan.
Tommy threw a fit when Axl moved his girlfriend's drink. "I moved his girlfriend's
drink so it wouldn't spill," Rose told the Kevin & Bean on KROQ during
a short interview Friday morning. "It was the most surreal thing, I think,
that's ever happened to me in my life."
Tommy was in such a snit over the moved
drink he "smacked" Axl in the arm. "He just kept smacking me," Rose said.
Club owner Noel Ashman to the New York Post, "Axl was a gentleman and had
the good sense not to retaliate, as he would have done some serious damage
to Hilfiger." [Maybe Axl was in shock that Tommy had a girlfriend?]
Axl was on KROQ to announce that Guns N'
Roses are to headline the station's Inland Invasion on 9/23 at the Hyundai
Pavilion in Devore, Ca. This will be the Gunners first LA area gig in over
a decade. [we know that a couple of ubber cool folks at KROQ read the Day
in Rock, so come on kick down some tickets!]
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| Britney
Baby Drop |
TMZ reports: Oops, she almost did it again.
Britney Spears stumbled this afternoon as she was leaving a New York City
hotel and almost dropped little Sean Preston.
We're told Britney was holding a drink
in her left hand and Sean in her right as she maneuvered through a crowd
of onlookers. Britney moves through the crowd and then she suddenly trips,
the baby's head goes backward and his hat flies off his head. Britney regained
her balance and the baby seemed ok. [see full story for more]-
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| Rap
Vs Oprah |
Contact Music reports: ICE CUBE has joined
LUDACRIS and 50 CENT as the latest rapper to attack US media mogul OPRAH
WINFREY for her apparent dislike for hip-hop stars. He tells men's magazine
FHM, "I've been involved in three projects pitched to her, but I've never
been asked to participate. "For Barbershop, she had CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER
and EVE on, but I wasn't invited. Maybe she's got a problem with hip-hop.
"She's had damn rapists, child molesters and lying authors (JAMES FREY)
on her show. And, if I'm not a rags-to-riches story for her, who is?"[see
full story for more]- Click
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| Red
Hot Song Theft? |
SMN reports: Have THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
ripped off TOM PETTY's famous hit 'Mary Jane's Last Dance'? What is being
dubbed as "damning evidence" has been made available in MP3 format courtesy
of the Dan Gaffney Morning Show on American radio station WGMD[see full
story for a link to the evidence]- Click
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| Sum
41 Split |
MTV reports: Sum 41 lead guitarist Dave 'Brownsound'
Baksh has decided to leave the band. In a press release, Dave revealed,
"I couldn't continue on creatively in Sum 41 without being a thorn in the
side of the band. As people grow, they change." Brownsound added, however,
that there is absolutely no animosity between him and the other members
of the band, saying "we are brothers." According to Mike Renaud, the president
of Upper Management, the split was simply a matter of Baksh wanting to
focus his creative energies elsewhere. Brown Brigade will have more of
a "classic metal" feel to it, Renaud said, adding that Baksh is currently
working on songs and auditioning singers for the band. [see full story
for more - wonder if his version of 'classic metal' will be like Sum 41s
version of punk? eg pop-metal? ]- Click
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| June |
| Nickelback
DUI |
MTV reports: Nickelback singer Chad Kroeger
was arrested for drunk driving last week, Canada's national wire service,
Canadian Press, confirms. The rocker was pulled over in British Columbia
after police officers became suspicious of his driving.[see full story
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| Kill
Emo Bands |
Gigwise reports: The Killers' Brandon Flowers
has launched yet another scathing attack on emo bands like Fallout Boy.
He ranted to the NME: "Culturally, if it
gets as big as it is in America, it could change an entire generation of
people growing up here. Emo, pop-punk, whatever you want to call it, is
dangerous.
"We don't wanna dislike anyone, and we've
still never met Fall Out Boy, but there's a creature inside me that wants
to beat all those bands to death. [see full story for more]-
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| Journey
Lip Sync? |
antiMusic reports: A Journey fan going by
the name of Rockndeano has accused Journey frontman Steve Augeri of lip
synching during the band's shows. A discussion of the issue began on Melodicrock.com
but he quickly saw the need for a dedicated site to discuss the controversy,
so he launched a blog on June 1st. To back-up the claims he has posted
several songs via YouSendIt but accused the band of having them removed
(we were too lazy to trackdown and listen to any).
Here is a bit of what Rockndeano has to
say: "Lead singer Steve Augeri, has had some serious vocal problems the
last year or so, and after many hundreds of man hours breaking down concert
bootlegs and analyzing 'live' songs from different venues, I have levied
the charge against my once favorite band....They use tapes for lead vocals.
Yes, you heard that right. Journey has resorted to using tape for lead
vocals live." [see full story for more]- Click
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| Korn
Hospitalized |
antiMusic reports: Korn frontman Jonathan
Davis was hospitalized in the U.K. for an unspecified illness. The band
was in the UK to take part in the Download Festival. Instead of calling
off Saturday's performance, the band called on a plethora of special guest
singers to fill in for Davis including members of Slipknot, Devildriver,
Trivium, Avenged Sevenfold, Skindred and 10 Years.
Because of Davis' illness, the band was
forced to cancel Sunday's Download performance in Dublin and also cancelled
Tuesday's concert in Amsterdam, their support group Hatebreed will play
a headline set instead, according to MetalRage.com. [see full story for
info on another band forced to miss Download]- Click
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| R
Kelly Sex Tape |
Gigwise reports: A Chicago judge has ruled
that R Kelly's notorious sex tape can be shown to the public.
Both prosecutors and defence lawyers has
asked Judge Vincent Gaughan to limit the availability of the tape � which
allegedly shows the R'n'B singer having sex with a girl who is thought
to be as young as 13 � to jurors and attorneys in the Cook Country State
trial.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Billy
Preston RIP |
AP reports: Billy Preston, the exuberant keyboardist
who landed dream gigs with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and enjoyed
his own hit singles including "Outta Space" and "Nothing From Nothing,"
died Tuesday at 59.[see full story for more]- Click
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| 666:
Mark of the Aiken |
antiMusic reports: Some Claybots were incensed
that we dare link Clay Aiken with the Biblical Mark of the Beast yesterday.
We have bad news for them; we didn't make this up as his birth name Clayton
Holmes Grissom really does translate to 666 using Gematria (the Greek method
of assigning numerical values to words). If you take Clay's first and middle
initial and last name of birth it totals 666. Good thing that those researches
we reported on yesterday contend that the mark of the beast is really 616.
An interested aside; strange as it may sound Ryan Seacrest's name equals
the divine number 888. So that should tell you how much stock to put in
this!
C=18 H=48 G=42 R=108 I=54 S=114 S=114 O=90
M=78 Total=666
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