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The untraditional Xmas

2009-12-28T17:58:00.000-08:00

Hello to all
I recently (as of friday) had a very untraditonal Xmas. Why you may ask ? Well my father who turned 80 this past July and despite having a slight stroke in 2002 and taking heart medication is fairly healthy for his age.
Last Tuesday he had extreme case of lower stomach pain. So much so he had to be taken to the emergency room at the local hospital(which is about four blocks) by an ambulance.
The first time I saw him in the emergency room he was curled up on the gurney clutching his stomach and complaing and cursing. Now my father doesn't curse all the time (he does some) and is a fairly easy going guy but he was giving the nurses and doctors a hard time. After a CT scan and Xray they discovered that his lower intestines or bowels were obstructed.
The solution then was to pump his stomach which involves sticking a tube down your nose and throat into the stomach.
At first he wouldn't have it no he said just take me home and get me something to eat I'll be ok and he also believed that it would cause cancer(a larynscopy was done to his uncle and his cancer was already in the later stages.)He was being stubborn and obstinate about it.
The doctor, my mother, and I assured him that this wouldn't be if he'd just cooperate finally he said Ok. I didn't see this procedure but from the sound it wasn't pleasant.
They pumped his stomach for about six hours and got alot and I mean ALOT of fluid out of it. The doctor after studying the scans and x rays suggested that not only was the lower intestine blocked it was "twisted" like a hose. They'd never seen it before in man of this age and he'd never had any surgery in his stomach.They'd have to send him to Memorial Hospital in Springfield,Il for potential surgery.
About ten pm after being in the emergency room for nine hours he was transported to Memorial Hospital. The surgeons and staff looked at him more closely and suggested that they would continue to pump his stomach until morning and maybe only have to do a laproscopy to check and see if would clear itself up.
My mother and I left the hospital thinking that it would be better in the morning we got two blocks from the hospital and the cell phone rang.
The surgeon decided to do the laproscopy that night and possibly operate on his lower intestines. So back to the hospital we went and they prepared him for surgery.
The surgeons were extremely nice and I got the impression they were really concerened about this obstruction and that it couldn't wait until morning.
There was scar tissue wrapping around his small intestine and causing him all that pain.They made an incision below his belly button took out the intesting cut out the "kink" and sewed it back together and put it back.We waited in the surgery waiting room for about three hours and around four am the surgeon came in and told us my father would be OK !
If the surgeons didn't do this he'd either gotten gange green or perrinitis or could have died. I'm very glad that they were vigilant about this problem and treated it as life threating.
He spent five days in the hospital recuperating and I knew he was feeling well when he was joking around with the nursing staff and doctors.
So I'm very thankful to the surgeons at Memorial Hospital in Springfield Il. They are very skilled and nice people and would highly recommend them any day.
Although, it was an untraditional Xmas it would ensure traditional and uneventful ones to come.
A very big THANK YOU and Congratulations to the surgeons and staff at Memorial Hospitial in Springfield, Illinois.

The Return of the Mac and other thoughts.

2009-11-15T10:00:00.001-08:00

Hello to all
well after nearly two weeks of hand wringing and kvetching I've repaired my Mac. Now this repair just required a new hard drive which one can pick up for about $70 at Best Buy (which is what I did). However, when your unemployed but getting a smaller weekly paycheck $70 seems like alot of money. Thanks to my friend Matt who helped me with half that amount my G5 Macintosh is running today. Matt is a friend who I met when I worked at Borders and I've known him now for over ten years.
We've been good friends for most of the ten years but there were times when we didn't agree or something was said by either of us (probably me) that caused us to disagree. It was realized in time that the friendship should continue on and it did.
When I met him he seemed like a nice enough guy at the time and I thought that we'd work together and eventually grow apart. But that didn't happen despite the physical distance between us (He's live in Alaska, Florida, Idaho, Maine, New Hampshire, Wyoming) we've gotten close with every phone call, email and visit.
Like alot of people in this world he's a child of divorce and the circumstances in the divorce I won't go into at length but let's just say his parents parting wasn't a pleasant one. Despite this he has a pleasant personality and is probably one of the nicest and most honest hard working person you'd ever want to meet.
So before I get to long winded here lets all stop for a moment and remember those friends who mean alot to you and let them know how much they are appreciated.

John Hughes, michael Jackson, The Beatles

2009-08-09T17:48:00.000-07:00

Well one of the idols of my youth died the other day John Hughes. He was known for his direction of The Breakfast Club, Ferris Buellers Day Off, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles.Recently, he directed those Home Alone and Beethoven movies which were Ok but not as good as his previous work.

Ot seems like everyday someone who I identified with in the past is well...past. I realize that as you get older people who are
famous that you identified with do get older and die however Gerogre Burns and Bob Hope lived to be 100 and Harry Morgan is 94 years old ( Col Potter on MASH) as far as I know he's in decent health and hopefully will also live to be 100.

However, There are the surprises I can recall when people didn't think for a minute that people such as John Candy, Chris Farley, and yes even Michael Jackson would die or even die suddenly. . I guess we shouldexpect people to pass away "suddenly" but it is always difficult to grasp this until it happens.

I guess one just has to keep in mind that everyday is fleeting and that there may not be too many more tomorrows.

Another note on the passing of time the Beatles album Abbey Road turned 40 today and it was at the forefront of music at its time. I think it was one of the first albums that used a synth instead of an organ or piano. I've heard that it was so delicate that the other members of the Beatles would have to wait for Paul to set it up and play the parts for the album. This caused alot of tension so maybe we should be blaming it and not Yoko?
Anyway, the Abbey Road album is worth listening too from beginning to end on this date forty years later.
Until next week ?
GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

I actually went to something on a friday night

2009-07-19T14:50:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone
I went to the Sonic Youth concert on friday night which is unusual because I've always been a "homebody". The concert was free (I did have to pay for the metrolink ride there) It was part of the Budweiser Live on The Levee series and played on stage under the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. I'm not a big fan of Sonic Youth although I do know some of their songs and I think their biggest influence/ audience is pot smokers. Anyway, I decided to go and listen to them. I was glad to see several age groups there from the "old" people like myself to youngsters who probably never owned a 45 single (record). T Before the show started a guy approached the microphone and announced that there was a lost child needed to be found but as soon as he announced it she was found by the soundboard. He said to her that "she's just helping them get the sound for the band up to perfection." With the child found the show was going to start at 7:30 the band appeared at 7:45 but they are from the NYC area so being fashionable late is normal for them

. Thurston Moore founder and sometimes lead singer announced that "we are the sonic youth" after that they began playing. They recently released a new Cd an I believe they played alot of their new material from it. The band isn't the type to stop and say for our next song we will play etc they just play from one song into another.

Kim Gordon sang a song and I did see some people leave with a disgusted look on their face guess they were expecting a band like The Fray or maybe David Gray ? Overall, the crowd remained interested in the songs. I was kind of concerned about those standing in front of the stage they just did that stood there. Back in the day (I sound old) that area would have been moshing, crowd surfing or even pogoing I would have liked to at least see pogoing.

During a break Moore asked if it was always this beautiful here (highs in the 80's low humidity) the crowd laughed because it usually isn't this pleasant in the middle of July. He said they(band) were thinking of relocating and wondered if there was any room in the arch for rent.

I wondered to myself about the ages of the members of the band. I know they started around 1980 with Moore and Gordon at least in their twenties and by now approaching or at their fifties. I checked up on their ages on Wikipedia. Thurston Moore is going to turn 51 next saturday and Kim Gordon who I guessed to be fifty is actually fifty six almost sixty years old. She didn't seem to be slowing down with her skills on the guitar or stage persona.

They played a solid show despite it being free and the fans not being hardcore Sonic Youth followers.

The one thing that I didn't like is at the end of their encore set their p.a. system was shut off and a song by Flyleaf started playing and the fireworks show started. I think those that planned this should have given them some extra time to finish and take a bow before blasting lame pop and fireworks.

Until next time.

GETOUTOFMYHEAD

Here is an added bonus some video I shot on my phone.

When will the tribute end ?

2009-07-05T14:05:00.001-07:00

When will the tribute(s) end to the deceased king of pop. I realize that he was a "icon" in the music industry and still had alot of fans despite releasing only one album in the past ten years or so(more recent work were compilations) .
However, I think there should be a time limit to how long the media can pay tribute too him. In my opinion two weeks is about long enough although the fascination with the King of Rock Elvis Presley passing away has yet to go away and he's been dead for 30 years. The media is worried about how Michael's kids are going to grow up without their father. They should avoid MJ's dad because from what MJ said wasn't a pleasant influence on their father.
Lisa Marie grew up without her father and she doesn't seem all that affected by it unless you count her marrying MJ and Nicholas Cage and releasing a few horrible albums. I'm certain that the children that MJ had will grow up to be semi-well adjusted despite their lineage. One of them might actually have a talent for music or something related to music? The best thing they could do is either get away from the music business altogether or become a producer or a label owner.

HELLO Its good to be back good to be back.

2009-07-02T15:23:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone
I am back on the "nets' and I'm going to get back into blogging about what is going on in music today and even yesterday. Because not remembering the past is a sad thing.
THANKS
GMACD.

Merry Xmas from John & Ono

2008-12-19T19:49:00.000-08:00

This is one of the few Xmas songs that I truly enjoy even though
it isn't really an Xmas song.

The Decline of music and its beginnings.

2008-12-13T11:57:00.000-08:00

I've been thinking lately about the music industry and its problems. Sales of Cd's are down in every major retailer and space for the product has also been slashed. Some might think that it is because of the downloading of music that replaced the sale of the Cd.
I think that it can be traced all the way back to the days of the cassette tape and the Sony Walkman. Before the invention of the Walkman there were records and stereo systems when a new record was released fans of a particular band would get together and listen to it. In some cases it was an excuse to sit around and smoke illegal substances(I'm talking to the Pink Floyd fans). It was in a sense a social scene where like minded individuals would listen to the record and get to know the music and each other.
I guess that's why I still hold onto my records and turntable maybe sometime in the future when the economy becomes really bad we will all get together and listen to records that were either newly released or released many years ago.
Until next time
GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

THE END

2008-05-20T10:12:00.000-07:00

Well, since not alot of people have been reading my blog and I don't have the "nets" at my humble abode yet I am going to end this blog for awhile. I appreciate the few comments I received from family. However, I am going to create a new blog that mixes my passions of music and art what it will be called and when it will appear is to be determined. Until next time this is THE END

2008-03-31T12:22:00.000-07:00

Well it is happening in the music world again what was popular once is now popular with the kids who were young or weren't even born yet. I am talking about RickRoll which is a renewed interest in the singer Rick Astley's one hit "Never Gonna Give You Up" for some odd reason it has become the song of protest for those who are against the Scientologist movement. It is also being used on YouTube in a number of odd ways. The
LA Times that explains it further. Anyway, it proves my theory that being a one hit wonder in music is better than being an enduring artist because people will always remember you fondly even if they hated your music at the time. The evidence is there look at all the former 80's bands like Flock of Seagulls, Quiet Riot, Poison touring the lower end of the club circuit they sell out every time and the people love them. It doesn't matter if the original band plays together as long as it has at least one original member who owns the name. I admit I was a fan of Astley's hit and got some flak for listening to it not too long ago but maybe I'm just ahead of what is culturally cool and don't realize it sometimes.
Well until next time

GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

The Grammys or as some call it the Gimmie"s and a way to fix them

2008-02-12T11:26:00.000-08:00

Well the Grammys were sunday and surprise not alot of people watched it. Unfortunately, at one time the grammys were a big deal and this being the 50th anniversary of them it should have matttered more. I willl give the grammy judges credit for choosing Amy Winehouse giving her a total of five . I have listened to her album Back in Black ever since it came out and have yet to grow tired of it. Which is weird because I'm not much on female singers as some of my friends.
The Grammy's continued the tradition of "WHAT THE @#!%? by giving best album to Herbie Hancock who is a jazz artist and not a very good one either. It should have gone to Winehouse or at least Kayne West who both have had a up and down year professionally and personally.
In the past the Grammys gave the best album for hard rock to Jethro Thull in 89' when it should have been Metallica and of course the infamous naming of Milli Vanillin in 1990 when they found out the they didn't even sing they gave the grammys back. Then in 2001 they named Steeley Dan best album overshadowing the more popular Eminem, Radiohead. How could we fix these past oversights one may ask?

I propose that the Grammys hire myself, my brother in law Bryan blogger of Benvelont Order of Mustacioed Men to distinguish the winners every year and give the awards to the proper musicians. Of course I would be bias towards Oasis and he would be towards Tom Waits but still the two of us are more "in tune" with the music media. We could even do it in a week at the end of the year and still come up with a better list than those in charge now.

Well that is all I have to say for now until next time

GETOUTOFMYHEAD

Musicians who die before their prime (or after).

2007-11-29T09:50:00.000-08:00

The news wasn't good for Quiet Riot fans on Monday the lead singer Kevin Dubrow had died of unknown causes. I think it was the rock n roll grim reaper harvesting former rock stars.
People will shake their heads about the brilliance of Dubrow dying while not exactly in his musical prime and he had been known to abuse alcohol and drugs in the past so why is his death suddenly mysterious?
Some brilliant musicians who died before their prime were Nick Drake who made four albums which no one ever paid much attention to in the early 70's. He died on an overdose of prescription anti depressants whether he did it on purpose or accidental is truly unknown.. Another musician was Jeff Buckley who was the son of a musician that died while in his prime (Tim Buckley) but his downfall wasn't drugs as his father it was drowning in the Mississippi River which could have been accidental from drinking too much.
These musicians were not alone in being overlooked the music labels and the public tend to dictate what becomes popular and what isn't.
Brittney Spears, Courtney Love should have burned out awhile ago because they too have trouble with alcohol, drugs, and other problems in their life. Recently, Amy Winehouse who is a fairly good singer but a troubled one has been in the news for her personal life too. For some odd reason people are interested in how many times they have been to rehab, jail, or some other trivial information instead of the music they make.
Then we can shake our heads and cry if a musician dies before his/her prime and not mourn someone who was a has been.

Until next time

GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

Music as of late.

2007-11-03T13:14:00.000-07:00

About Me

While I'm still writing on a rented computer I feel the need to post anyway. In my own life I have found a job, an apartment, and won't have to keep living with my parents. Perhaps, I will get my own internet connection and this blog can once again be weekly.

Former band members of the music world reunite and make more money.

There seems to be a trend in the music scene former band members are reuniting for one reason or another whether it is money, memories, or just because that solo career isn't taking off as it was first thought a number of bands have decided that it wasn't so bad to play music together.
It started almost a year ago the band Audioslave called it quits they were made up of Chris Cornell (Soundgarden) and former members of Rage Against the Machine. The original members of RATM are getting back together with Zack De La Rocha and only playing dates not a tour but one off performances in various cities. I personally think that RATM isn't much of a band but a place for Zack D to scream his lungs out and voice his skewed political ideals. If they were truly Raging against any machine be it political, social, or economic they would be a self supported entity and not part of the Warner Music Group. The reunion bug has bitten other recent bands that called it quits The Smashing Pumpkins who "reunited" although the only two original members are Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin they played a series of dates in various cities and released a new Cd. I heard the other day though that Jimmy Chamberlin is having health problems so the tour may have to be postponed. another , band that recently called it quits was The Verve who were famous for their song "Bittersweet Symphony" which they didn't make a dime off of because it contained a symphonic sample from the Rolling Stones hit " The First Time," this was one of the many reasons why they quit that and Richard Ashcroft the lead singer couldn't get along with Nick McCabe the bass player amongst other reasons. Now they are getting back together and playing gigs in the United Kingdom.
Ashcroft tried to go solo with a few releases but they just didn't sell I own his first one "Alone with Everybody" and it sounds like he is trying to hard to impress maybe after a lackluster effort at a solo career he has realized that a band isn't that bad of an idea.

Bands from thirty years ago aren't immune to the reunion bug either. The surviving members of Led Zepplin were to get together in England for a one off performance of their material minus John Bonham who died from too much whiskey. However, the performance was cancelled because Jimmy Page the guitarist broke his finger. The death of John Bonham cut short the life of one of the biggest bands of the seventies and the surviving members decided that it wasn't worth it to go on without the drummer. Now they are trying to recreate something that they were and aren't today.

The Eagles Don Henley and Glenn Frey they are a band that I always enjoyed as a young child/man and was disappointed that I never saw them perform live. However, I never expected to see them get together because when asked in 1980 if they would ever do a reunion Don Henley stated "When hell freezes over," well as we all know fourteen years later they got back together for the MTV Unplugged sessions which was OK but I didn't think they would seriously consider a reunion tour.

They did and it was called the Farewell tours I and II which ran through the late nineties into the year two thousand. I thought well they must have gotten it out of their system but low and behold they decided to record new material and release exclusively at of all places Wal-Mart which I think is just wrong. It always seemed that the Eagles were all about thumbing their nose at the corporate goons that run record labels they refused for years to reunite because they knew it would just money making effort for the labels.? Did they actually miss playing music with one another or was it because Glenn Frey hasn't had a solo hit since 85' and Don Henley's last hit was in 89'. Don Henley finally released a solo disc after eleven years and it sounded like something you'd hear on a soft rock station and it didn't sell that well either.

Finally bands who have refused to reunite for any amount of money, memories, are Abba and the Smiths . It was reported a few years ago that the members of Abba were offered a billion dollars to reunite for just a few shows. The leader and other band members declined saying that it wouldn't be the same and shallow to do so. The Smiths who were fronted by Morrissey. They were offered the same type of deal to reunite however, Morrissey was sued by the drummer for royalties that he didn't receive and he won and Morrissey said that the Smiths would have to reunite after either him or the drummer died. Johnny Marr has joined Modest Mouse and improved their sound with his guitar playing so the Smiths don't look to be reuniting for any amount of money, memories, or lack of a successful solo career.

Until next time....

GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

Still writing on a rented computer but trying not to let it get me down.

2007-10-04T13:55:00.000-07:00

Hello to all
I 'm still writing on a rented computer but have been paying more attention to the music scene as of late. I could write about Brittney losing custody of her kids but I think enough has been written about that.

One of the Hanson brother of that fine little ditty from '97 "called "Hmmm bop" was hospitalized for an emblolsim in his heart. He's 26 and shouldn't be having heart trouble yet should he ? Maybe it is payback for all of the times he uttered that dreadful tune.

Sharon Osbourne (Ozzy's wife) is apparently in a feud with Courtney Love after calling her a "has been" well I'm certainly glad Sharon pointed this out to all of us because her husband was somewhat of a has been several times in the past. The Osbournes show put his name back out there and sparked interest in his up and down music career. It even caused their daughter Kelly to think she could sing too. We all remember the cover of the Madonna song "Papa don't preach" horrible and now I understand that Kelly is on Broadway doing the singing in the play "Chicago"? One more reason for me not to attend a Broadway Show in NYC.

I've been reading the new "Q" magazine and it lists the greatest guitar players of our time and features them on the cover and features and article on their favorite influences and songs.
They are Jimmy Page, Johnny Marr, Joe Perry, Dave Grohl, Matt Bellamy and Jack White to name a few. I agree with a couple of the selections of Johnny Marr played in the Smiths and is currently with Modest Mouse , Matt Bellamy the lead singer and guitarist of Muse , Jimmy Page the soul of Led Zepplin and Joe Perry the soul of Aerosmith.
I don't understand why they picked Dave Grohl who was and is kind of a drummer and Jack White while talented(I enjoy the white stripes) isn't the most talented of the bunch. Still it is a great articles and magazine and worth the $9.25 us dollar price.

Not much else to write so I will stop this for now and until the next time ?

GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

Still writing on a rented computer (sigh)

2007-09-13T11:08:00.000-07:00

Well it has been almost a month since I wrote on here. Once again I have nothing prepared so maybe this will be a good column ?
The MTV Video Awards took place this week in Las Vegas NV and the show was hosted by Sarah Silverman (why?) who made a joke about Brittney Spears kids being the cutest two accidents in the world. She should talk she is dating Jimmy Kimmel and if they ever have kids I shudder to think about what they will look like.
Later during the ceremony Brittney Spears appeared for the first time since 2002 on stage and she looked like a 25yr old mother of two out of shape and at times she didn't even seem to sing or dance much. Other stars in the audience said that MTV set her up to fail and if they did so what she was a phony from the beginning anyway.
Kayne West said he doesn't like MTV and told them to play a video however he still takes the paycheck that he gets from them for appearing.

The White Stripes have cancelled their upcoming tour dates. The reason is the drummer Meg White has acute anxiety and is unable to perform. Why she is anxious over something that she has done for several years is unusual. While she isn't the world's greatest drummer how hard can it be to keep a beat ? I like the White Stripes and don't know why she cannot hold up her end of the deal.
Maybe, Jack should invest in a drum machine at least it can perform every night without fail unless it is unplugged.

The Phil Spector trial has been going on for awhile now and the evidence doesn't look like good even after five years of waiting for the trial his history with guns, women and drugs are leading him to a long prison term. Too bad Spector was a real sound genius in the sixties. Seems that many geniuses have flawed personalities that sometimes lead to their undoing.

The Austin City Limits Musical Festival happens this month and I still haven't been able to make it to one of these. The festival is held in September and showcases bands from country-pop-alternative and the uncatagorical. Watch PBS sometime and the show Austin City Limits you can see great live performances by some artists that you may know or discover a new one.

Until next time

GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

Writing on a rented computer.

2007-08-16T14:40:00.000-07:00

As I sit here in the public library writing on a rented computer I am reminded as to why I bought a G5 and hooked up to the internet. One reason is that it was so much easier because I had all day or week to come up with something now it is 106 minutes and counting. The public in public library can also be annoying there are some young children right now who don't understand or respect the sancticty of a library and are making it difficult for me to keep my big mouth shut.

Anyway, to the music scene I don't have alot of written material prepared but I will distill what I have been hearing hear and there.

On a 105.7 the Point an "alternative station" in St. Louis Mo, that used to be cool until they were bought by the clear channel conglomerate about ten years ago. The Point reported that Brittney Spears was seen with Peter Criss who if you all remember had a deplorable show a year or so ago where he made things disappear. Too bad he cannot do the same for the former Ms. Federline. Criss has been seen with Heather Locklear and other better looking women in Hollywood. Maybe he will catch a really bad form of VD and be blinded by it or meanwhile Kevin Federline is looking like parent of the year compared to his former misses.

I was in a major retail establishment that sells books and music recently and tried in vain to listen to the new Smashing Pumpkins Cd, Zeitgeist the cd stations were all broken except one and when I did listen to it I was of course disappointed.
Sounds like Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin with some studio musicians playing the rest of the songs and trying to go back to 1994. A bit of advice to Billy Corgan, either reform the band or just forget it completely. I'm certain that he has enough cash to keep him in razors to contiually shave his receding hairline.

The Violent Femmes who had the one trick song "Blister in the Sun" and rode that tune for a good fifteen years have decided to sue each other. It was announced today that the bass player is suing the lead singer over royalties owed to him from their first disc. Their one hit was used recently in a Wendy's commercial and alot of fans were repulsed by the use of it. I myself used to enjoy the Violent Femmes but eventually realized they only knew three chords and there are musicians who are more talented then the dimbulbs who make up the Violent Femmes.

Finally, the Warped Tour took place in St. Louis this week, it was August and if you know anything about this part of the country it gets really HOT and HUMID.People went to this travelling music/ fashion show and sweated it out over an entire day. Some of the bands complained about the heat and humidity one band I think was from Denver complained that it was 185 degrees outside when it fact it was a cool 104. If they can't stand the heat from other areas of the country then why do they tour?
I'm sure that if they suffer from the heat and have to seek medical treatment the amount of money paid too them will certainly be worth the work. Try working in the hot sun without health insurance and for low wages sometime if they don't like performing.

Enough said

Until next time????

GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

Currently on a summer hiatus.

2007-07-18T10:02:00.000-07:00

Hello to anyone who happens to stumble onto this blog. I haven't abandoned it completely, I currently don't have internet access and the library only gives one so much time. I haven't had a chance to peruse the music scene since my quick exit from my apartment for three years.However, be certain that my blog will return and I think that I will write it a bit differently than previous editions.

Soundtrack of Generation X, Reunions, Recording, Problems, Guitars

2007-06-10T20:18:00.000-07:00

Soundtrack of Generation X

The soundtrack for a movie about the grunge band Nirvana titled "Kurt Cobain: About A Son" has been determined. The movie will be released sometime at the end of this year. Bands that will be included in the soundtrack are Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Melvins,, The Butthole Surfers, Mudhoney, Leadbelly, and Bad Brains all are bands that influenced Nirvana. The film also features a rare interview with Kurt Cobain.
Death Cab for Cutie lead singer Ben Gibbard has put together an original score for the film with Steven FIsk titled "Overture." Below is a list of the proposed soundtrack.

Steve Fisk & Benjamin Gibbard - "Overture"
Half Japanese - "Put Some Sugar On It"
"Never Intended" (interview clip)
The Vaseline's - "Son Of A Gun"
Arlo Guthrie - "Motorcycle Song"
Scratch Acid - "Owner's Lament"
The Melvins - "Eye Flys"
Mudhoney - "Touch Me I'm Sick""
Punk Rock" (interview clip)
"Car Radio" (interview clip)
Bad Brains - "Banned In D.C.
"Iggy Pop - "The Passenger"
Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Up Around The Bend"
Lead Belly - "The Bourgeois Blues"
Butthole Surfers - "Graveyard"
R.E.M. - "New Orleans Instrumental No. 1"
"Hardcore Was Dead" (interview clip)
David Bowie - "The Man Who Sold The World"
"The Limelight" (interview clip)
Ben Gibbard - "Indian Summer"
Mark Lanegan - "Museum"

Who is imitating.......

The english cover band UB40 is suing Paris Hilton for allegedly using their 1990 hit "Kingston Town" in her single "Stars are Blind." The song written by UB40 reached number four and Paris's single reached number five last year. Paris won't be sued directly because she was recently dropped from her label (this is the least of her problems now) .
The band plans to use musicologists and information from the internet to prove the similarities of the single. UB40 are famous for their covers of famous and not so famous songs their biggest hit was a cover of Neil Diamond's 1968 hit "Red Red Wine" which was #1 on the Billboard Charts in the US in 1988. I would like to know how a cover band can sue someone for stealing from them if Paris's record label didn't get permission from the band . If it is an original composition then they have a case if not then they don't.

Marilyn Manson he claims that the band My Chemical Romance are ripping him off. He recently stated "I'm embarrassed to be me because these people are doing a really pitiful, sad, shallow version of what I've done." The critique comes just as Marilyn and MCR are to share a stage at Britain's Download Festival in Donnington Park. MCR will perform on Friday and Manson will perform on Saturday.
Manson's claim that My Chemical Romance are ripping him off are ridiculous because he has been ripping off Bowie, Alice Cooper and others who came before him. Sales of his work hasn't been stellar since his Cd "Jesus Christ Superstar" which was despised by those in the religious right for his mocking of Christ and the Bible. It was also cited as an influence on the students who committed the Columbine High School shootings a few years ago. This controversy fueled his celebrity and he hasn't had much success since. We all know that controversy sells and when your no longer controversial then you don't sell as much of whatever it may be.

Reunions

The britpop band Blur are planning a return to the music scene. The original plan was to enter the studio this summer but other projects amongst the original band members has delayed the start until November. The lineup will feature Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James, and Dave Rowntree all original members of the band. Damon Albarn took time off from the band to form "Gorillaz" in 1999 and went on to release three discs with the cartoon inspired band. Alex James also took time out to write and do a column for the english music magazine "Q". Graham Coxon left in 2003 during the recording of "Think Tank" because he simply didn't like the direction the band was going and went on to have a somewhat successful solo career. Dave Rowntree bought a farm in the english countryside and emulated fellow drummer Bill Berry of REM who became a farmer after leaving the band.

The B-52's are finishing up work on their new disc in their hometown of Athens, Georgia fifteen years after the release of "Good Stuff' in 1992. They took some time off after the success of the "Cosmic Thing" and "Good Stuff" tours that ran from 1989-1992. They admitted after the consecutive tours they were a little burned out and had some in and outs taking awhile for things to fall into place. There are eleven tracks on the new disc and just like previous B-52's material will contain alot of danceable pop. Post-production of the album is expected soon and they plan to release it sometime next year. They do need a label to release it on and they are looking for one. They also plan a tour of the US and Europe this summer and a full concert schedule when the disc is released.

Victoria Beckham once known as Posh Spice says a Spice Girls reunion will "definitely" happen in the coming months. She said this while presenting an award at the Glamor Awards ceremony in the United Kingdom last week. "We'll see what turns out, between you and me I definitely hope this will happen." A plan for the girls to play six huge gigs at the end of this year in London, Tokyo, Las Vegas and accompanied by a greatest hits compilation. Melanie C has come out against the idea but I believe that the amount of money to be made off of reunion tours will override her reluctance given her recent lack of solo success.

Crowded House played a packed private lunch hour show in Los Angeles on Thursday at the 200 capacity Hotel Cafe. The New Zealand based band reunited early this year and plan to release a disc in July titled "Time on Earth." The performance was a warm up for their upcoming tour and at times the set seemed like they were in someone's living room jam session. The band members joked about recent hangovers and the sound of horns honking during the afternoon gridlock traffic during their set at the small club. They played eight songs which included four of their new tracks from "Time on Earth" and the well loved classics of "Private Universe," "Fall At Your Feet,"Locked Out," and "Don't Dream It's Over." Lead singer Neil Finn thanked the lunchtime crowd for attending their performance and said "if anyone is going to get in trouble for being away from work, we'll write notes for you...saying F@%K You" and added a laugh.

Rage Against The Machine launched a mysterious countdown clocks on their website recently. The site give no information on what they are for however, some fans claim to have cracked the meaning. If users set the internal clocks on their computers forward to the deadline it reveals the sites meaning. The website is registered to Live Nation Worldwide Inc. who own the Alpine Music Theatre in East Troy Wi where the band will be playing a show. The second countdown ends on Aug 24th if the same procedure is followed it will reveal where the bands next show is to be performed.

Tales of Merchandising

Wilco has issued a statement on their website defending the licensing of songs from "Sky Blue Sky" for the advertising of Volkswagen. Fans of the band have been critical of this decision however the band states on the site that they did this to get their music out, they were paid for it, and many members of the band drive VW's. This isn't the first time Wilco has licensed their work several songs have been licensed for commercials and films world wide. Recently a song was featured in a spot for Telefonica Mobile in Spain and Jeff Tweedy will also play the voice of god in an upcoming episode of Comedy Centrals cartoon "Lil Bush"
The decline of radio airplay and the surge of downloading a band's work for just one song has played a factor not only with Wilco but other bands on ways to promote their work through t.v. commercials and other alternative methods.

A pair of sneakers that are to be issued by New Balance are inspired by the band Joy Division. The shoes will feature artwork from the bands 1979 album "Unknown Pleasures." Distinctive ripples will appear on the sole and the tongue and have an embossed "Fact 10" as a nod to the band's label Factory Records.
Joy Division will also be the subject of a film titled "Control" and directed by Anton Corbijin a dutch artist who is known for his work photographing the band and directing the video "Atmosphere" for the band shortly after the death of lead singer Ian Curtis. Corbijin has also worked with the band U2, "Joshua Tree" Depeche Mode "Violator", and most recently the artwork for The Killer's on the disc "Sam's Town"

In the Studio

U2 are working with Brian Eno again they are writing a new album in Morocco as a follow up to their 2004 disc "How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb." They have been joined by Eno and Daniel Lanois both have produced their most important and popular recordings. An online posting by Bono explained how the sessions were going, " We have no plans for the music yet we're just going to make it until we can't put it out" drummer Larry Mullen Jr said this was the first time that the band has worked with the two producers in a song writing capacity and have found it to be different and liberating.

No Doubt are planning on working on a new disc and will begin in a studio next month. It will be their first disc in six years, three members of the band Tony Kanal, Adrian Young, and Tom Dumont are going to lay down some tracks while waiting for their lead singer to finish up her solo tour which ends this fall. The band has been together since 1987 and decided to take a break from being band in 2004. Tony Kanal has said that the break has been pretty long and they are ready to work together again.

Legal Matters

The Phil Spector trial continues in Los Angeles. On Tuesday the jurors were shown the bloody revolver found at the feet of actress Lana Clarkson on the night of Feb 3, 2003. A bureau that was next to Clarkson's body slumped in a chair in the foyer of Spector's mansion contained a snub nosed Colt Cobra revolver with dried blood on the handle and barrel it is unregistered but believed to be owned by Spector.
Prosecutor Pat Dixon had detective Mark Liilenfield show the revolver to the jury and then went on to show photographs of a purse hanging from Clarkson's right shoulder her right hand rested on the purse this led them to believe that her death wasn't a suicide but a homicide.
The prosecution maintains that Spector killed Clarkson and they reinforced their claim of his fondness for guns with photographs of a small arsenal containing two fully loaded blue steel revolvers, an unloaded 12 gauge pump shotgun and several rounds of ammunition and that the incident as a romantic evening gone awry. When police arrived on the night in question the mansion was dark and there were lit candles, a bottle of tequila and brandy in the living room coffee table and Spector's briefcase and a foil packet of Viagra that contained two empty slots.
The defense attorney Bradley Brunon maintained during cross examination of the detective that the crime scene was contaminated and asked Lillenfeld whether he was aware that a rape test performed on Clarkson later came back as negative. He replied "No" and Brunon asked if the detective had any evidence that Spector took the Viagra again he replied" No, I don't." The defense resumed their line of questioning of the crime scene asking if there had been alot of touching of the revolver in question Lillenfeld answered that there wasn't. If convicted Spector will spend fifteen years in prision for murdering Clarkson he is currently sixty seven and seems to have had his share of mental problems in the past.

R Kelly's recent disc "Double Up" landed at # 1 on June 5th and the disc sold 386,000 copies according to Soundscan. This coincided with the fifth anniversary of Kelly's indictment on child pornography charges on June 5, 2002. A trial date has yet to be determined and Kelly has remained free even though he was indicted on 21 counts of child pornography by a grand jury in Cook County. The charges stem from a sex tape that has been circulated on the internet featuring a man who looks like Kelly having sex with a teenage girl. Whether he will ever stand trial for the charges wasn't known at this time.

Problems

Lilly Allen says that touring has turned her into an alcoholic The 22 year old pop singer who is the daughter of english actor/comedian Keith Allen and film producer Allison Owen debuted her disc "Alright Stil" with the single "Smile" which hasn't received alot of airplay in the USA but reached number 1 in the UK in July of 2006.
She has had a difficult few months feuding with other artists such as Lady Soverign who called her a "chav" (an english derogatory term for a fake or fashion slave) and feuding with Cheryl Tweedy from rival pop girl group Girls Aloud and she has also had to cancel dates in the United States due to lack of interest and her current problem.
Allen said "The constant touring promotes an unhealthy lifestyle and that she needs to get into the studio to work the follow up to her debut disc "Alright." She explains that" I'm an alcoholic now. It's not good and that's why I want to get back to the studio. I've actually pulled myself aside and said it will kill me if I keep it up. I've got to stop abusing myself because as far as I'm concerned every loon hates me now." She is scheduled to play the Glastonbury festival later this month. Sounds like she may not make it if she cannot overcome her problem of booze and feuding with other artists.

Perhaps, Ms. Allen should join Richie Sambora who recently checked into Wednesday for an undisclosed problem and asked that the public respect him and his family's privacy. It isn't known if his entering rehab will interfere with the release of the Bon Jovi disc titled "Lost Highway" that debuts on June 19th. The band are scheduled to appear on the "Today" show on that date and later play a concert in London on June 24th. A more extensive tour is planned for 2008.

In Closing

I've decided to close this column in a public service announcement form. You should try to take the time to learn a musical instrument during your lifetime.
I played the trombone as a child and became pretty good at it but of course I gave it up as I got older. I have always been interested in music and have known some musicians in the past but never picked up another instrument until recently.
A guitar owned by a friend of mine was sitting around collecting dust and not being played it is a Hohner (pictured) it was manufactured in the 1960's and Hohner is more known for their making of harmonicas.
It is a bit out of tune but it is a beautiful instrument and I've been trying to and have learned some chords rather quickly. It has provided me with quite a few hours of enjoyment and is very theraputic. Whether I'm trying to learn a new chord or just strumming it all of my troubles seem secondary. Even if your not musically inclined I challenge you to pick up an instrument that you always wished to play and learn how to play it. It might be difficult at first but nothing worth doing is easy.
You won't be sorry I assure you.
Thanks
Until next week

GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

A Reunion and a Rebuttal, and a Possible breakup

2007-06-03T14:28:00.000-07:00

A Reunion

The Police kicked off their reunion tour on May 28th at General Motors Place in Vancouver British Columbia before a sold out crowd of 20,000 people. This in response to a band that hasn't publicly played together in over twenty years. The show was opened by Fiction Plane a group led by Sting's son Joe Sumner.
The Police opened their show with "Message in a bottle" many fans in the audience stood up and sang along while some were feeling the nostalgia of the moment others weren't even born when the song was released.
Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland followed up with a six minute rendition of "Synchronicity" a track from their 1982 album by the same name.
The Police have scheduled a tour of 21 gigs in the US that include stops in Los Angeles, Las Vegas,Seattle, New Orleans, and New York. Their stops in Canada include Montreal, Edmonton, and Toronto. They will also perform in South America, Europe, and finish up in Australia in early 2008. The Police are hoping to rival the Rolling Stones and U2 tours of late and join other bands that have had reunion tours such as The Eagles, Genesis, and the yet to reform Van Halen.

A Rebuttal

An unexpected critic of the show offered up his opinion of the first show. It was Stewart Copeland The Police's drummer said "the concert was unbelievably lame and the singer jumps like a petulant pansy" and the drummer is making "complete hash, and who knows what the guitarist is doing" said Copeland . The show started off rough for Copeland who tripped while walking on stage unintentionally striking a gong on his drum set. He didn't hear Sumners opening riff to "Message in a Bottle" and Sting didn't hear Copeland's drum intro. "We are half a bar out of sync with each other and Andy is in Idaho" said the drummer. They quickly recovered even though Sting got his footwork wrong as he leapt into the air to signal the end a shamble of the song "Synchronicity II." After the concert no fists flew backstage the three members of the band fell into each others arms laughing hysterically a different result from their heyday when fists flew.
Should the Police stay together for the tour they are scheduled to play and record a performance for MTV's "Unplugged" series. The series debuted in 1989 four years after the break up of the Police and Sting recorded a session as a solo artist in 1991. They will perform acoustically on July 13th at a yet to be named Miami Florida venue.

Music Notes

Prince will perform at the Macy's department store in Minneapolis on July 7th to celebrate the day his new fragrance 3121 debuts. The performance is expected to draw 1,400 fans and includes a ticket to a private show on the eighth floor of the building and one ticket to his performance that evening at the Target Center.
The cost of the package is $250 plus service fees and went on sale on Friday at Macy's in Minneapolis. Further details are posted on the purple one's website.

Johnny Borrell the front man of the english band Razorlight has recorded a solar powered song for the charity Friends of Earth. The track "Funeral Blues" that features the lead singer and a violinist highlights the solutions for climate change. The song was recorded at the Premises in Hoxton, London which is powered by 18 solar panels. The track is available on Britain's Radio 1 station and will be available for free download over the next two weeks.

The new disc by the White Stripes has been leaked by a Chicago radio station DJ Electra at Q101 and Jack White is really angry about it. The station played the disc in its entirety and was obviously instantly bootlegged placed on internet file sharing sites. Jack White called the radio station from Spain and scolded the dj and asked if she was sorry for what she had done. She wrote on her blog that someone had given a copy of the entire disc and they were excited about playing it. The whole experience was an hour long love fest for the White Stripes, and that Jack shouldn't be angry because it is believed to be a terrific disc.

Andrew Lloyd Webber wants to work with Eminem on a possible future collaboration. The composer admits that he doesn't know the rapper too well. But he has often spoken about his appreciation of the rap superstar and has even met with him, he says that Eminem is "very intelligent." Webber has written such hits as Cats, Phantom of the Opera, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

There had been speculation that Gerard Way lead singer of My Chemical Romance had married because a ring appeared on his left hand recently. He said it was only a friendship ring but announced his engagement on June 1 during an interview on MTV 2.

George Michael has donated the piano that John Lennon used to compose "Imagine" to Virginia Tech University. A spokesman for Michael said that "Georges's deepest wish is to imagine a world with peace and without violence." Virginia Tech University is where a gunman killed 33 students in April. In other related George Michael news the singer cancelled a concert in Prague because of an accident involving two of the trucks that carried special sections of the stage. A large part of the stage podium remained trapped under a truck and it wasn't possible to replace it. No further details of the accident were given and it isn't known when the concert will be rescheduled.

Further Rehab

Bo Diddley was released from Creighton University Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska he returned to his Gainesville, Fl home by private jet. He was transported to Shands Rehab Hospital to begin further speech and occupational therapy. He will spend two weeks at the facility and will continue his therapy as an outpatient. Get well wishes from fans around the world poured in as well as messages from Chuck Berry, Elvis Costello and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top.

Brittney Spears has posted an open letter on her website to her fans detailing her descent into madness back in February. She said that she had " truly hit rock bottom," and that she wasn't suffering from depression or alcohol but she was running around like a bad kid with ADD. She also stated that she "had a manager from a long time ago come in and try to direct me and my life after I got my divorce," referring to her on-off again manager Larry Rudolph. She went on to further state that she was overwhelmed and in shock from the divorce and admits that she was just "lost." She said that her life is both "crazy and surreal" and she is "truly blessed " thanks to her children and finished the letter saying " I just hope this letter made some of you think a little bit more of me and where I'm coming from."
At one time she was a somewhat bankable pop sta. However, her novelty quickly wore off and her music never really changed with the scene. Her first marriage of 55 hours to Jason A. Alexander and her second marriage to Kevin Federline a backup dancer who she had two children with. Then her descent into alcohol and late night parties and subsequent rehab proved that she is a former pop star looking for attention.

Legal Blotter

Five weeks into the Phil Spector trial the jury continues to hear the physical evidence of the night that Lana Clarkson died. The coroner Dr. Louis Pena testified that the barrel of the gun may have been forced into Lana Clarkson's mouth bruising her tongue before she was fatally shot. He stated that the bruise was "very unique and is consistent with blunt-force trauma." He also testified that there are bruises on Clarkson's right arm and wrist.
Clarkson had been experiencing chronic headaches had been prescribed two drugs that are generally taken for depression. He called her death a homicide and described her as a hopeful person with no history of depression or suicide attempts according to his research. Pena cited evidence that she hadn't been putting her affairs in order as some people do before a suicide. "She died with a purse on her shoulder in a strangers home, which isn't typical of someone taking their own life." Jurors were then shown graphic photos of the crime scene and the damage done to Clarkson's face, and inside of her mouth. One juror looked away and Clarkson's mother and sister were obviously not present for this part of the prosecution. The defense maintains that on Feb 3, 2003 Clarkson took her own life and Spector had nothing to do with it.

Rapper Young Jeezy( Jay Jenkins) was arrested at an Atlanta Ga strip club on Thursday. Jeezy was there with his sister and her friends when an altercation occurred around 3 am. Off duty police officers working security at the club called for backup from the county police and they responded. The officers reported that there wasn't any physical confrontation it was all verbal and confrontational because some of the group didn't want to leave. Jeezy was later booked on a disorderly conduct charge at the DeKalb county jail and released.

A possible breakup?

According to Liv Tyler her father Steven Tyler lead singer of the band Aerosmith is considering leaving. His reason is that the other members don't seem to appreciate him. However, it hasn't been confirmed that Tyler is actually leaving the band. He recently recovered from throat surgery to correct a popped blood vessel. He and his wife clothing designer Teresa Tyler of 18 years divorced in January of 2006 citing personal problems as the reason for the divorce.

My Corner

I'd like to end this entry on a happy and somewhat nostalgic tone. The Beatles album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" came out exactly forty years ago on June 1, 1967 Although, I wasn't alive when the original came out it has always been a favorite of mine. The record confused alot of people because of its psychedelic content and was considered high technology because it was stereophonic. It set a pattern for bands of the future to emulate and learn from and influenced not only pop music but all forms. If you have the opportunity I strongly advise you to listen to the original record from the beginning to the end and imagine what it must have sounded like for the first time in 1967.

Until next week

GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

Spice Girls Reunion ? Method Man Arrested, Paula falls straight down.

2007-05-28T18:34:00.000-07:00

Reunions?

The reunion of the Spice Girls may not take place after all it was reported that they would get together for a concert with a venue to be yet announced around Christmas and be paid $2 million each. Melanie Chislholm formerly known as Sporty Spice has been rumored to oppose the idea because she wants to concentrate on her solo career. Mel C has four discs her most recently titled "This Time" and released a cover of the "Bow Wow Wow" song " I want candy" last month and is only available in the United KIngdom. Melanie C's solo career has been similar to such forgettable artists such as Robyn, Geri Halliwell (formerly Ginger Spice), and Natalie Imburlia ("Torn"). Early reviews indicate that she shows some promise on the new disc overall it is lacks substantial effort. Rejoining the group for only a short time might give her solo career a boost.

Portishead are planning to reunite and will play their first live show since 1997 at All Tomorrow's Parties a festival which celebrates music, art, and media. The event will take place in Minehead, England from Dec 7-9, 2007 and the group will curate " A Nightmare Before Christmas" display.
The band says that they have chosen different artists to work with and are looking forward too it. In February of this year the band made a surprise appearance at Mr. Wolf's a noodle in Bristol, England where they played an acoustic set previewing new material. The band was founded by Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, Adrian Utley , classified as a "trip-hop" band where they use live jazz samples in order to maintain a lo-fi sound. The group are from Bristol and debuted in 1994 with "Dummy" and the single "Sour Times" they followed up with their second disc "Portishead" and the single "All Mine". They collaborated in 1999 with Tom Jones on his disc "Reload."

Simon and Garfunkel were recently honored by the Library of Congress and received the Gershwin Award which is given to outstanding American musical talents in the popular song genre. A concert was performed Wednesday with Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, Lady Black Mamzabo also performed with Simon their first collaborations since 1999. SImon said of Garfunkel " My dear friend and partner in arguments." before starting with their 1970 studio album " Bridge Over Troubled Water," and "Celia." James Taylor also made an appearance during the concert and sang "Still Crazy After All These Years," another hit by the pair of honorees. Stevie Wonder closed out the show with Simon the gospel group The Dixie Hummingbirds did a version of "Loves Me Like a Rock." The concert will be broadcast on PBS television starting
June 27th.

Music Notes

Lily Allen is going to do a duet with Deborah Harry of Blondie did a version of "Heart of Glass" on the Today Show on May 25th and Harry's group Blondie did "Call Me" and three of their own songs. Deborah Harry is to release a solo album on August 7th titled "Necessary Evil," if you'd like to hear an advanced track from the disc it is streaming on myspace.com/debbieharry.

American Idol's days maybe numbered the 30.7 million people who watched Jordin Sparks in this years season finale was a sharp drop from the 36.4 million who saw Taylor Hicks in last years finale. The factors that are contributing to the decline are a lackluster group of contestants and a general disinterest of viewers and the law's of TV gravity.

Amy Winehouse who's top ten single "Rehab" won best contemporary song Thursday at Britain's Ivor Novello Song writing Awards presented at the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters.
The awards are named after Ivor Novello who composed the popular songs "Keep the Home Fires Burning,"and "We'll Gather Lilacs." WInehouse thanked the crowd and said " I didn't even have time to get drunk-I've only been here 15 minutes." said Winehouse who is known for her high speed personality and has a reputation for smoking and drinking. She recently married boyfriend Blake Fielder-Civil in Miami,Florida. She said it was sudden "but that's the way I am," and "I've married the best man in the world."

A new advertising campaign for the shoe company Doc Martens has been halted. The print ads depicted deceased rock legends Kurt Cobain, Joe Strummer, Joey Ramone, and Sid Vicious wearing the Airwair line while sitting on a cloud wearing all white except the black boots.
The tag line in the corner reads "Dr. Martens Forever." The image of Kurt Cobain without the approval oby Cobain's widow Courtney Love. Her publicists filed to put a stop to the depiction of her late husband and Dr. Marten's not wanting to face a public relations embarrassment put an stop to the ads and apologized. "Dr. Martens is very sorry for any offense that has been caused but the public images showing dead rock star icons wearing Dr. Marten boots" according to a company press release. The advertising agency that created the images wanted to communicate to the consumer that Dr. Martens were made to last and the images were legally purchased from Corbis a worldwide stock photo company.

Noel Gallagher of Oasis has made up with the Scissor Sisters and lead singer Ana Matronic. He reportedly called the band's music "music for squares."
During a backstage meeting at the Brit Awards Matronic said " We share the same security company, so when I heard they were hanging around backstage I marched straight up to Noel and pinched him on the cheek. and gave him a big hug. If someone says something bad about the Scissor Sisters I don't engage them in an argument but try to kill them with kindness and make them love me." Noel referred to Matronic as a "top bird" to a mutual friend and he was very nice as was Liam. Maybe the Gallagher brothers have finally softened up after all these years or else they have been misquoted as they had been in the past.

Ozzy Osbourne was awarded the first star in Birmingham, England's new walk of fame on Broad street outside of the city's National Indoor Arena where he is to perform on July 6th. He previously received a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame in 2002. He commented that having a star in his hometown made him happy " I have a star in Hollywood on their Walk of Fame but having a star in my hometown means so much more to me. A personal thank you goes out to Lord Mayor Randal Brew." Future stars are to be given to actors,comedians, and musicians who come from Birmingham and the public are asked to get involved and vote for the stars they'd like to see honored.

An Iggy Pop inspired children's garden has won a silver medal at the Chelsea Flower show. The Lust for Life Garden features an arc of water that moves rhythmically to the beat of "Lust for Life" the song that he is best known for. Iggy said " It's awesome the Lust For Life Garden won a silver medal. It's great to know my music reaches so many people and inspires, I'm honored the Children Society's garden is inspired by my music and I wholeheartedly support the work they do-they rock." According to the the London Daily Mirror the garden will later be dismantled and rebuilt within one of the the charities project for disadvantaged children.

Legal Woes

Method Man(b. Clifford Smith) of the Wu-Tang Clan was arrested last week in Brooklyn, NY after a police officer noticed the registration of his 2005 Lincoln Navigator had expired. The officer also claims to smell marijuana smoke coming from the vehicle once it was stopped. Upon further investigation the officer found two blunts and other drug paraphernalia. The New York Post reported that Method had 28 grams of the drug in his possession before being taken into custody. He was charged with unlawful and criminal possession and driving uninspected vehicle.

Injured list

Paula Abdul fell while trying to avoid stepping on one of her Chihuahuas breaking her nose and fracturing her toe. She was slightly bruised but wasn't hospitalized for her injuries and the dog was unharmed. She was able to make it to Wednesday's American Idol Finale. Abdul has suffered a variety of unusual injuries, in 2004 she contracted a fungal infection while getting a manicure at a salon and had to have her right thumbnail removed. In 2005 she revealed that she suffers from a rare neurological disorder called Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRP) that causes chronic pain, and in April 2006 she filed a police report claiming she suffered back injuries and a concussion when she was thrown into a wall at a club by a fellow partygoer.

Bo Diddley who suffered a stroke on May 19th during a performance in Council Bluffs, Iowa is out of intensive care Monday and walking around at Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha Nebraska. He is awaiting his lead doctor's permission to go back to his home in Gainesville, Florida whether he will be transferred by medivac or private jet remains to be determined. The stroke affected the left side of Diddley's brain and he has trouble with speaking and recognizing words but is slowly improving and has little or no physical limitations. He has had a history of diabetes and hypertension factors that contributed to the stroke.

That is all I can write for this week I still have alot more to report but will save it for next week until then

GETOUTOFMYHEAD !

Pumpkins,Crows, and Linkin's Park.

2007-05-21T10:50:00.000-07:00

The Smashing Pumpkins Reunion

A series of summer concert series are slated for the Smashing Pumpkins. They will perform at a club called The Orange Peel in Asheville NC, from June 23-July 5 and then perform at the historic Fillmore in San Francisco CA, from July 22-Aug 1, 2007. Fans attending the shows will be allowed to use video and audio recorders at both venues according to the bands website . The performance at the Asheville venue will be the biggest event in the clubs history and for the city of Asheville. The Smashing Pumpkins last extended stay was a four shows in their hometown of Chicago before the release of "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness," in 1994. Original members Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin are the only members who are slated to perform at the venues other original members James Iha and D'Arcy Wretzky have yet to be included in the reunion plans.
It would seem that in order to have a "reunion" of a band Corgan would have to put aside his much publicized ego and work with all original members. Some recent reunions of bands that have been somewhat successful are Son Volt, The Pixies, and the english band Cream who apparently called it quits over a woman. If the members of these bands can find some common ground one would think that Corgan and company could too.

It's a boy

Sheryl Crow announced this week that she has adopted a two-week old baby boy and he has been named Wyatt Crow after her father. She mentioned last year on CNN that she would love a child whether it was her own or came from someone else.
This is the first child for Crow who is currently single but had a much publicized engagement with Lance Armstrong that ended in February 2006. It was often rumored that she and the cyclist were contemplating having children together and that she was visiting fertility clinics because she couldn't have children but denied reports of her ever doing so. Crow admitted that she formed a close bond with Armstrong's son and twin daughters during the courtship. After the relationship ended she announced that she had been diagnosed for breast cancer which she eventually beat.
The recent big name adoptions by Angelina Jolile, Madonna, and Rosie O'Donnell have led some to believe that they do it because of their celebrity. However, they have apparently realized that there are children in the world who need parents.

On the mend ?

Bo Diddley suffered a stroke last Sunday after becoming disorientated during a concert for the Katrina Hurricane Victims in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He was admitted to the intensive care unit at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, The stroke on his left side and left him with impaired speech at first . However, his condition was somewhat improved the next day and doctors think that he will be able to perform again after going through physical therapy. He has had a history of hypertension and diabetes.
Bo Diddley was born Elias Bates in McComb Mississippi on Dec. 30, 1928 He learned to play the guitar, violin and was inspired to play music and perform after seeing John Lee Hooker. He adopted the stage name Bo DIddley and began performing rhumba like beats similar to the hambone style that some street performers used in the south. His first album was released in 1958 on the Chicago based Chess Label a successful jazz label during the 50's and 60's. His first public appearance was on the Ed Sullivan Show where he was the first black performer featured on that program. He has influenced and performed variety of artists throughout the years ranging from The Clash, The Yardbirds, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Grateful Dead, U2.

Rapper's Delights

The rapper 50 Cent says he doesn't intend to clean up his lyrics in spite of the recent publicity over rap lyrics containing the "N-word", "Ho", and "B*tch". Def Jam's founder Russell Simmons call for an end to these words used by rappers throughout the industry and the second word was a reason for the cancellation of the Don Imus show by CBS radio.
Fiddy said "Music is a mirror, and hip-hop is a reflection of the environment that we grew up in. It's the harsh realities that end up in the music. If I ask you to paint a picture of the American flag and not use the color red your going to have a difficult time." 50 Cents first disc "Get Rich or Die Trying" was a story of how he had survived growing up poor, dealing drugs, and the ever present theme of him being shot ten times and surviving.

Snoop Doggy Dog is said to be bored with hip-hop and would like to change his career by working with other artists outside of the genre. He has said " I got beats for everybody man, I got beats for Celine Dion, Sade. Rap shit is easy whoever I call , I can get just because I'm Snoop Dogg. " I want to be more creative with artists who will be here in 20 years from now.

A hip-hop artist known for working outside his genre is Kayne West who is finishing up his third disc titled "Graduation" to be released in September. It will feature collaborations with Chris Martin of Coldplay on the songs "Graduation" and "Can't tell me nothing."

Lauryn Hill has announced that she will be playing two special shows in the US this summer. She will play on June 27th and 29th the first in Oakland and the second in Pala, California. She and Conor Oberst (Brighteyes) are said to be working together on her new disc. One of the tracks titled "Khulami Phase " is said to be the title of the disc.

Nate "Danja" Hills has collaborated with Britney Spears on her new disc and he says it was all about having fun and not worrying about her recent personal life. He has said that the new disc is fun and there isn't anything wrong about feeling good about being and celebrating womanhood.

Ten Million sold and we still have none

Paul McCartney's new disc "Memory Almost Full" is estimated to be heard by more than 6 million people around the world. This will be the first release on the Concord Music Group label which is owned by the Starbucks Corporation . The worldwide listening party will be on June 5th the date of the discs release and will be previewing it in more than 10,000 stores and in 29 countries.

Buy It !

A former friend of Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson has been trying to halt an auction of his personal items at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel and Casino that is to take place on May 30-31.
At least 1,000 items valued at $50 million are to be auctioned. Jackson filed a temporary injunction and sought punitive damages against Universal Express Inc. a luggage handling company based in Boca Raton, Fl which received 20.000 items as part of a bankruptcy settlement with the Jackson Family in 2002. The items that contested were written items such as personal correspondence, the lyrics to the 1970 ht "ABC" by the Jackson 5 and artwork
On Friday a hearing to extend the injunction was to take place but Jackson didn't show up. Apparently, Jackson and Universal reached an out of court agreement. The auction will take place but won't include potentially embarrassing items the CEO of Universal said that if Jackson presses further legal action then the embarrassing items would be added to the auction regardless of their content.

They just keep on Rolling

Mick Jagger is rumored to be engaged to his current girlfriend fashion designer L'Wren Scott. She was recently seen wearing an expensive engagement ring.

Keith Richards guitarist for The Rolling Stones is reported to be writing his autobiography. He may receive at least $5 million for the story of his life and is meeting with publishers over the next few months in New York City.

Linkin's Park

Linkin Park's new disc "Minutes to Midnight" which was released on May 15th may be somewhat of a surprise for longtime fans. The one thing people will notice is that there's not alot of nu-metal feel but what we do is very Linkin Park." Chester Bennigton lead singer of the band said that "Minutes to Midnight" doesn't sound like LInkin Park's previous work the songs are more melodic and has more content than their previous discs.
The rapper/musician Mike Shindoa who writes most of the lyrics for the group sings on one track and has said that people assume that the lyrics are political but they aren't. "We're not a political band. And I see some of the stuff that you're referring to ... as more social. I tend to be drawn towards people, the interaction with people and how emotional events make you feel, and because we're all older, I think that we are more aware of those things." "We've taken alot of risks on this record because of the stylistic changes that we've made. Linkin Park's first two discs 2000's "Hybrid Theory" sold 10 million copies and 2003's "Meteora" sold 4 million all in the first week of sale.

Reformations, Bannings, Courtney Love's garage sale,

2007-05-14T14:03:00.000-07:00

Reformations

The Spice Girls are considering reuniting and have been offered $2 million each to play a show this Christmas. Melanie B, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell and Victoria Beckaham, met to discuss the plan last Wednesday evening. They were at the Cirprani Restaurant to celebrate David Beckham's thirty second birthday who is the husband of Victoria Beckham. The only holdout was Mel C who was against a reunion but is considering it after meeting up with the other girls later in the week.
The strangle hold that they seemed to have on the music scene in 1997 puzzled alot of people maybe it was because the grunge revolution died a few years earlier and britpop was at its peak and fans were looking for something new and fresh.Their influence spawned copycat groups like "All Saints","Girls Aloud", and the current incarnation "The Pussycat Dolls" all follow the same formula of five beautiful girls who sing about love, life, and girl power. I don't see a reason for the "Spice Girls" to reunite other than it will be a financial windfall for them as their solo careers have been less than successful.

A group who shared the charts with the Spice Girls ten years ago was Blur. Their "Blur" contained the hit "Song 2" an homage to the grunge sound of American bands They will reunite in the studio this summer with founding member Graham Coxon and Alex James. It will be the band's first disc since 2003's "Think Tank" a disc where Coxon quit during those sessions to begin a somewhat successful solo career. Although, there were alot of hard feelings when Coxon quit but apparently they are all back on speaking terms. Coxon said " If things don't go well in the studio they're all quite happy to walk away, safe in the knowledge they gave it their best shot." Alex James is quoted as saying " We're all going to head into the studio together this summer, Graham's coming too. We're going to see if we've still got it ."

Crowded House are to reform and release an album their first since 1996's " Farewell to the World." They called it quits after the release of that album and did their final performance on the steps of the Sydney Opera House in Sydney Australia on Nov. 26, 1996 where the proceeds went to the Sydney Children's Hospital.
The album will be called "Time on Earth" and be available on July 10th . They are to perform their first set of shows at the The Live Earth Festival in Australia which will feature the reformed band minus longtime drummer Paul Hester who committed suicide due to his struggle with depression in November of 2005. Hester's replacement is Matt Sheroud who has played drums for Beck.

The Police are set to play their first show in twenty five years in Vancouver B.C. They will play a fan only show on May 27th where members of the fan club can use tickets purchased online. They will then play a public show for ticket holders on May 28th. They have reunited to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the bands formation and will tour North America and Canada this summer.

Banned From Walter Reed

Joan Baez the folk singer and anti-war activist has been banned from performing for recovering soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital. Although she had permission to do so as far back as March.
No reason as to why she wasn't allowed to perform for the soldiers other than "she didn't fit in here" Baez's replied " I have always been an advocate for nonviolence and I have stood as firmly against the Iraq war as I did the Vietnam war 40 years ago, I realize now that I might have contributed to a better welcome home for those soldiers fresh from Vietnam. Maybe that's why I didn't hesitate to accept the invitation to sing for those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan."
A spokesman for the Army Steve Sanderson sent an email to Rolling Stone. Com stated " These additional requirements were not in the agreement/contract and would have required modification." John Mellencamp said " They didn't give me a reason why she couldn't come. We asked and they sad, "She can't come here period." Whatever the reason or reasons this author believes that in light of the recent deplorable conditions discovered at Walter Reed they should be looking for an opportunity for positive publicity instead of fostering the negative.

Courtney's Garage Sale

Courtney Love the widow of Kurt Cobain has announced that she will sell several items belonging to the former lead singer who committed suicide on April 5,1994. She plans to have an auction and give the proceeds to charity and has said " I am going to let my daughter have a sweater, a guitar, and the lyrics to "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and the rest well just sell." "My daughter doesn't need to inherit a giant bag of flannel shirts" and " I still wear his (Kurt's) pajamas to bed how am I ever going to form another relationship in my lifetime wearing his pajamas." Love sold her share of the rights to the Nirvana catalog in March of 2006 and plans to release an album titled "Nobody's Daughter" a date has yet to be determined for the release.

Prince to play several shows in London

Prince will play 21 shows in London starting in August at the O2 arena. The ticket price will be £31.21($61.21 ) a reference to his last album 3121. Those who buy tickets for the performance will receive a yet untitled studio album from the purple one. Prince said " The last time I was here not alot of people saw me so we are trying to make it affordable." He has a large fanbase in the UK and is doing an extended stay in London similar to the shows he recently did in Las Vegas.

Tori "Lloyd Webber" Amos ?

Tori Amos the piano humping princess is writing a musical and will debut in New York's West End and Broadway. "I think I am writing a musical, I'm gushing but under lock and key" she said. " I'm trying to be Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. I'm trying to be both of them. I'm busy , this is such a big project-a double record 23 songs and teh extras."
She recently released her new album American Doll Posse where she uses different personas on the disc to tell a story so a musical shouldn't be hard for her.

Bad news for Phil Spector

The ongoing trial of Phil Spector who is suspected of killing Lana Clarkson in his Beverly Hills home on February 3, 2003. Spectors and his defense have claimed for the past four years that she killed herself. However, this week four women who knew Spector testified against him further incriminating his fondness for guns and his threat to women. The first Melissa Grosvenor testifed that during their relationship , he walked up, held a gun to my face between my eyes and said "If you try to leave I'm going to kill you." she claims this happened in New York in 1991 when she was a waitress and found him a charming and quick witteed they dated for a year and a half. Grosvenor acknowledged she has been convicted of embezzlement in Georgia and later lied on an employment application when she asked about her criminal history.

Stephanie Jennings testified that she and Spector developed a long distance relationship in 1994. Jennings a music industry photographer testified that he threatened her with a gun and held her hostage.
She described being at a party where Spector became extremely drunk and obnoxious. She returned to her hotel room without him and slept until a knock by a bodyguard who said that Spector wanted her in his room. When she refused he showed up drunk and during an argument he slapped and pushed her causing her to fall on the toilet and she grabbed Spector who fell into the bathtub. He left after the confortation and returned with a gun and placing a chair in front of the door and said "I wasn't going anywhere." Cross examination of Jennings revelead that she had dated Spector off and on until 2004 so she apparently wasn't afraid of him as it would seem.
If Spector's history with guns, violence, and women are true and he is guilty of killing Lana Clarkson the 67 year old former producer is facing 15 years in prison.

The Killers hold off on their third album

The Killers are saying that their third disc will be awhile. In an interview with Billboard guitarist Dave Keuning said that they won't start recording until mid 2008. They have started rehearsing new ideas for the third disc.
The Killers released their first disc "Hot Fuss' in 2004 and followed up wit "Sam's Town" in 2006.

My Chemical Romance and Muse in death threat scandal

My Chemical Romance and the british band Muse are canceling tour dates after members of their crew became violently ill after a gig in Virgina on April 29th. They apparently contracted salmonella from the Green Leaf Cafe in Williamsburg Va. The owner of the resturaunt claims he has been receiving death threats from fans who blame him for the incident. The poisionings are being investigated by Virgina health officials.

Wilco releases new album

The Chicago based band Wilco will release their new disc on May 15, 2007 titled "Sky Blue Sky." I have personally heard some of the tracks and it sounds like they are going back to a more basic sound which is different than their two previous discs 2000's "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" and 2004's " A Ghost is born." They changed peoples perception of what Jeff Tweedy a former member of Uncle Tupelo who were known for their "alt.country " sound could do with his talent. I'm certain it will be a good one so download or buy it tomorrow.
Thanks

On a personal note; our pet cat named "Lilith" passed away. She was a stray that we found she had lived with me and my brother for seven years and then stayed with my brother when he bought a house in 2002. Lilith was at least ten years old if not older her "pet" name was "Boo Cat " because she looked like the pictures of cats we used to see on bulletin boards in school during Halloween. She was all black and very affectionate and never complained .
So I have to say may you be able to frolic in the sunshine forever and may there always be a plentiful supply of Fancy Feast wherever you are. You were a wonderful friend and won't be forgotten.

Until next week GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

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2007-05-06T18:43:00.000-07:00

I'm going to put this blog on a short hiatus. When I started it I had hoped to make it more edgier and I don't feel that I 'm accomplishing it. This week I'm going to just list the birthdays and think harder about ways to change the format of the blog.
Thanks
Glenn T

Birthdays for the week of May 6-May 13, 2007

May 6
Jimmie Dale Gilmore(1945)
Country singer,songwriter,
actor

Bob Seger(1945)
Famous for his hit
"Against the wind"
"Like a Rock"
"Old time rock n roll"

John Flansburgh (1960)
Guitarist and songwriter and
one half of the duo
They Might be Giants.

May 7
Thelma Hiouston (1946)
R&B singer who scored a
#1 hit in 1977 with "Don't leave me this way"
Also the of Whitney Houston.

Bill Kreutzmann (1946)
Drummer for legendary
rock band the Grateful Dead for their entire 30-year career.

Philip Campbell ( 1961)
Lead guitarist of the British heavy metal band, Motörhead

Eagle-Eye Cherry (1969)
American-Swedish musician and
the son of jazz artist Don Cherry.

May 8

Ricky Nelson (1940 –1985),
One of the first American teen idols.

John Fred ( 1941 - 2005)
Best known for the song "Judy in Disguise "

Toni Tennille (1940)
One half of the duo
The Captain and Tennille
known for their hit
"Love will keep us together."

Gary Glitter (1944)
Born Phillip Gadd
English rock and pop singer and songwriter
known for his hit "Rock and Roll parts 1 & 2",

Philip Bailey (1951)
Best known as one of the longtime members of Earth, Wind & Fire

Chris Frantz (1951)
Drummer for both the Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club.

Alex Van Halen (1953)
Drummer and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen,

Billy Burnette (1953)
Guitarist and singer
was part of Fleetwood Mac
1987 to 1995.

Paul Samwell-Smith ( 1943)
Founding member and bassist of the
The Yardbirds .

May 9

Hank Snow (1914 – 1999)
Hall of Fame country music singer and songwriter.

David Prater( 1937-1988)
One half of the soul music duo Sam and Dave

Billy Joel ( 1949)
American singer, pianist,
and songwriter .
David Gahan ( 1962 )
lead-singer for Depeche Mode.

Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan ( 1971)
One of the four founding members of the
band Oasis and was the bass player
from 1991 to 1999.

May 10

Fred Astaire (1899 – 1987)
born Frederick Austerlitz
American film and Broadway
stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor.

Maybelle Carter (1909 – 1978)
Country musician of the
Carter Family and the
mother of June Carter (Cash)

Donovan (1946)
Born Donovan Leitch
Scottish singer, songwriter, and guitarist

Dave Mason (1944)
musician, singer, songwriter,
and guitarist with the rock band Traffic.

Graham Gouldman (1946)
English songwriter and musician who was a long-time member of British band 10cc.

Sid Vicious (1957 – 1979)
born John Ritchie
bass player of the Sex Pistols

Bono ( 1960)
born Paul David Hewson, KBE
The lead singer and
principal lyricist of the Irish rock band U2.

Danny Carey ( 1961)
Drummer for the band Tool.

Young MC (1967)
born Marvin Young
rapper most known
for his 1989 hit, "Bust a Move",

May 11

Eric Burdon (1941)
Lead singer of The Animals
and later of War.

Butch Trucks (1947)
Drummer and one of the founding
members of The Allman Brothers Band.

Greg Dulli (1965)
Lead singer of the
band The Afghan Whigs.

"Doom" Schneider (1966)
Drummer of the german
band Rammstein.

May 12

Burt Bacharach( 1928)
Award-winning American
pianist and compose and
is best known for his many
pop hits from 1962-70.

Ian Dury (1942 – 2000)
Former lead singer of
the British band
Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Billy Swan (1942) i
Songwriter and singer
best known for his 1974 single,
"I Can Help".

Ian McLagan (1945)
English keyboardist and
a member of Small Faces
in the 1960s, and Faces in the 1970s.

Billy Squier (1951)
Rock musician
best known for the song
"The Stroke" on his 1981

May 13

Ritchie Valens (1941-1959)
born Richard Valenzuela
Pioneer of rock and roll.
album release Don't Say No
died in a plane crash with
Buddy Holly and JP Richardson.

Mary Wells ( 1943 – 1992)
American soul, R&B, and pop singer.
most famous for her 1964 hit "My Guy".

Stevie Wonder ( 1950)
Singer, songwriter,record producer.

Paul Thompson ( 1951)
Drummer for Roxy Music
from 1971 to 1980

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2007-04-26T10:04:00.000-07:00

The Phil Spector Trial, Smashing Pumpkins, Spinal Tap

Legal News

Opening statements by the defense and prosecution began this week in the Phil Spector trial a jury of nine men and four women will decide if Spector had a hand in the death of Lana Clarkson who died four years ago at his mansion. Originally, It took authorities eight months to charge Spector after the incident he had previously been charged with "implied malice" alleging he did not intend to kill Clarkson but caused her death by reckless behavior and taking an extreme risk. Spector appeared tense as the opening statements were read against him.

Alan Jackson the chief prosecutor portrayed Spector as a man "who when he's confronted with the right circumstances, when he's confronted with the right situations, turns sinister and deadly." Jackson said "The evidence is going to paint a picture of a man who on Feb 3, 2003 put a loaded pistol in Lana Clarkson's mouth and shot her to death." The defense maintains that Clarkson's death was a suicide and that Spector had only known her for a few hours after meeting her at the House of Blues where she worked as a hostess in Los Angeles that evening. If found guilty Spector will be charged with second degree murder and spend fifteen years in prison.

Music Notes

The newly reunited Smashing Pumpkins are set to release a disc titled "Zeitgeist" on July 7th a new single hasn't been selected and information on if the original members James Iha, and D'Arcy Wretzy will join the other two original members Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin. The Smashing Pumpkins first show will be May 22nd at the Grand Rex Theatre in Paris, France they will continue the tour through Europe into mid June and play the first U.S. show at the Live Earth Concert on July 7th at East Rutherford NJ.
A track list for the disc has been released the first song being
"Doomsday Clock" which is a big loud rock and roll song similar to "Geek USA" featured on their earlier disc 'Siamese Dream.' The first songs on the disc are similar to this and harken back to the days of the grunge era. Songs such as "Never Lost" and "For God and Country" is a bass driven tune similar to Depeche Mode in their synth-rock days.
The rest of the songs on the disc are as follows.
"Doomsday Clock"
"7 Shades of Black"
"Orchid"
"That's the Way"
"Tarantula"
"Starz"
"United States"
"Never Lost"
"Bring the Light"
"Come On (Let's Go)"
"For God and Country"
"Pomp and Circumstance"

Spinal Tap will reunite for the Live Earth Concert on July 7th in London. The original member of the mock heavy metal group will reunite they are guitarist Nigel Tufnel(Christopher Guest) singer David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) and bass player Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer). Rob Reiner the director who created the 1984 mockumentry "This is Spinal Tap" will also be in attendance.
A new fifteen minute film directed by Reiner will be featured when the band reunites and will be later shown at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The short film explains what the members of the band have been doing since their last reunion on the disc 'Break Like the Wind' released in 1992.
Nigel has been raising miniature horses but has been unable to find jockeys small enough to ride them. David is a hip-hop producer who runs a colonic clinic and Derek is in rehab for being addicted to the internet.

The Cranberries broke onto the music scene in 1994 with the song "Linger", and "Zombie" from the disc 'Everybody else is doing it, why can't we.' Their last disc was 2001's 'Wake up and Smell the Coffee' which barely showed up on the charts.
However, the lead singer Delores O'Riordan mentioned recently that a reunion is possible but currently she is working on her solo project. O'Riordan said that she completed her solo disc ' Are you listening? ' in a relaxed atmosphere while spending time with her children and family. Alot of the songs came from day to day living said O'Riordan it was a very natural and organic process where experimented with different beats, instruments.

My Chemical Romance has announced that Mikey Way lead singer Gerard Way's brother is to leave the band temporarily to spend time with his new wife. The couple were married on March 8th and the band has been touring behind their new disc ' The Black Parade.' On the bands official website Gerard said "The band has decided to give (mike) and his wife a much needed break from the road to start a life and have a proper honeymoon and do all the things a newlywed couple should do." It isn't known how long Mikey will be away and a replacement hasn't been named.

The White Strips celebrate ten years as a band this year and with their new release "Icky Thump" due out June 19th they will embark on a North American tour this summer where they will play a variety of unconventional venues. Jack White says that "We're going to play the 16 states we've never played before, that way we will have played in all 50 states and we're going to play every province and territory in Canada." Before coming to North America they will play six shows in Europe and play the Bonnaroo Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.
The first of the U.S. dates begin on July 22 at Portland, Maine and a show two days later at New York's Madison Square Garden. The rest of the dates are as follows

June 24: Burnaby, B.C. (Deer Lake Park)
June 25: Whitehorse, Y.T. (Yukon Arts Centre)
June 26: Yellowknife, N.W. (Yellowknife Multiplex)
June 27: Iqaluit, N.U.N. (Arctic Winter Games Arena)
June 29: Calgary, A.B. (Pengrowth Saddledome)
June 30: Edmonton, A.B. (Shaw Conference Centre)
July 1: Saskatoon, S.K. (TCU Place)
July 2: Winnipeg, M.B. (MTS Centre)
July 3: Thunder Bay, Ont. (Community Auditorium)
July 5: Toronto (Molson Amphitheatre)
July 6: Montreal (Bell Centre)
July 7: London, Ont. (Labatt Centre)
July 8: Ottawa, Ont. (Cisco Systems Bluesfest)
July 10: Moncton, N.N. (Moncton Coliseum)
July 11: Charlottetown, P.E. (Civic Centre)
July 13: Halifax, N.S. (Cunard Event Centre)
July 14: Glace Bay, N.S. (Savoy Theatre)
July 16: Saint John's, N.F. (Mile One Centre)
July 22: Portland, Maine (Civic Center)
July 23: Boston (Agganis Arena)
July 24: New York (Madison Square Garden)
July 25: Wallingford, Conn. (Chevrolet Theatre)
July 27: Wilmington, Del. (Grand Opera House)
July 28: Fairfax, Va. (Patriot Center)
July 29: Myrtle Beach, S.C. (House of Blues)
July 30: Birmingham, Ala. (Sloss Furnace)
July 31: Southaven, Miss. (Snowden Grove Park)

The Raconteurs a side project of Jack White of the White Stripes are working on a follow up to their 2006 debut 'Broken Boy Soldiers.' They are working at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, TN and have twelve songs written and hope to have a new disc out next year. They are trying to get as much done before Jack White's first band The White Stripes goes on tour behind their new disc.

The Arctic Monkey's new release 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' has only sold 85,000 units during its first day of release which was Monday. Their first disc ' Whatever, people say I am, That's What I'm Not' which debut in January of 2006 sold 363,735 copies in a week in the UK and 108,000 on the first day it was released. Perhaps, their antics off stage and outside the studio are more interesting than their musical talent.

Marilyn Manson new disc titled 'Eat Me, Drink Me' which debuts June 5th will have 11 tracks and was recorded with guitarist/bassist Tim Skold. The recent divorce of Manson from Dita Von Teese seems to have been influenced his choice of titles and his anger about the breakup. On the track "The Red Carpet Grave" he sings "I can't turn my back on you when you walk away," and he seems reflective on "They said Hell's not Hot" which features the lyric "I kill myself in small amount/in each relationship it's not about love/just another funeral and just another girl left in tears."
Manson and his band will be on the road and perform at the Pink Pop festival in Landgraaf, Holland on May 26. A tour of North America will begin in early July but the dates where he will perform are not set at this time. Manson continues to work and direct his film "Phantasmagoria; The Visions of Lewis Carroll" in which he stars as the Alice in Wonderland author.

The Beastie Boys will release a new disc 'The Mix Up' in June it will be a return to the band's original sound. They will be playing instruments on the entire disc instead of sampling as they had done previously. According to Mike D "There's more rock on there,it might make you flip your wig right off, or your hairpiece, if your a casual listener." Hopefully, this release will be better than the 2004 release "To the 5 Burroughs" which I actually bought thinking it would be an interesting disc well it turned out to be really dull.

The band Interpol is set to release their third album " Our Love To Admire" on July 10th and the first single will be "The Heinrich Maneuver" which sounds like an upbeat kiss off to an ex love. The rest of the disc visits familiar territory with the tracks "No I in Threesome" and "Mammoth" which use simple repeated guitar riffs and powerful bass. Some experimentation takes place on the other tracks the first one being "Pioneer to The Falls" which is a six minute funeral like dirge that features a vocal style similar to Jim Morrison. Another track "The Lighthouse" is an ambient piece which is somewhat of a departure from the bands usual sound,. "Rest My Chemistry" is soulful and spaced out the lyrics "I've slept for two days/ I've bathed in nothing but sweat."
Some of the new material Interpol was played during their just finished Canadian tour. However, they will debut the new material in front of a larger audience on April 27th at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, California. There are only three other shows in the U.S. this summer the rest of their schedule being dominated by international festivals to be held in Europe through late August.

The Police have announced that they will perform private fan club shows during their reunion tour this summer.
The first show will take place at GM Place in Vancouver, B.C. on May 27th tickets will not be available to the public they will only be made available to fan club members. The Police's 30th anniversary tour officially begins at the same venue on May 28th and the public will be able to attend.

The recent outcry of Don Imus calling the Rutgers women's basketball team a " bunch of nappy headed hos" and the eventually firing of Imus by CBS Radio has highlighted the hip hop industries use of those words without being responsible for them.
Russell SImmons of the Def Jam label held a private conference with influential music industry executives on Monday April 23rd to address the "growing public outrage" and discuss the racial and sexual epithets used in the industry. Simmons said that the three words "bitch","ho", and "nigga" should be considered extreme. Clean versions of hip hop discs don't use these words, however there isn't an industry standard as to what words can or cannot be used. The issue of freedom of speech cannot be ignored but those who produce the offensive material should be responsible for it.
In a statement from Simmons "Our discussions are about the corporate social responsibility of the industry to voluntarily show respect to African-American and other people of color, African-American women and to all women in lyrics and images."

Aretha Franklin is to hold auditions from May 1-3 in her hometown of Detroit, MI for a musical about the 65 year old queen of soul's life. The autobiographical musical will portray her at various ages of her life along with her friends, background singers, and musical colleagues.
Roles that are up for grabs are LaRue Mann her wardrobe mistress, a suitor Ken Cunnigham , and others such as Dinah Washington, Sam Cooke, Smokey Robinson, and pianist Art Tatum.
Franklin is best known for her hits "Respect", "Chain of Fools", and "Freeway of Love. "The musical is based on the 1999 best seller" Aretha; From these Roots" and will possibly premiere in March 2008 in Detroit Michigan

On Saturday April 21st a seven hour auction benefit was held for musicians who lost everything in hurricane Katrina at New York's Hard Rock Cafe by Julien's Auction and raised $2,436,900 plus a 20% buyers fee.
Some of the 200 items auctioned were a Gibson Les Paul guitar owned by U2's The Edge which brought $240,000 and his 1958 Gibson archtop which he has used on every tour since 1985 sold for only $ 105,000. Bono's sunglasses pulled in $20,000, Jimi Hendrix's 1966 Red Fender Mustang guitar sold for $400,000 a saxophone from former President Bill Clinton sold for $54,000. A pair of John Lennon's round blue tinted glasses sold for $30,000. There was an assortment of other accessories used or worn onstage by members of U2 were also sold.

UNTIL NEXT WEEK GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

Phil Spector on trial, the murder of Jam Master Jay, and Morrissey snubs the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

2007-04-19T10:59:00.000-07:00

Legal Notes

The selection process for the Phil Spector murder trial finished up this week. A jury of nine men and three women were chosen after four days of questioning. They are to decide if the producer is guilty of the murder of Lana Clarkson who died of an apparent self inflicted shotgun to the head at Spector's home on Feb 3, 2003. However questions remain as to whether she killed herself or that Spector had a hand in her death.

Spector's chauffeur has stated to police that he saw Spector on the night in question holding a shotgun with what looked like blood on his hands and stating "I think I killed somebody," Spector has claimed that he is bipolar and on the night in question he hadn't been taking his medication regularly. He is also notorious for his fondness for guns and erratic often bizarre behavior when working with artists in the past.

The prosecutors have a difficult task before them because it has been near impossible not to find someone who hasn't heard some or all of the details of the case. This compounded with the impression that many people believe that celebrities have an easier time when it comes to legal justice as in the recent trials of O.J. Simpson and Robert Blake. The jury selection will continue on Monday so that six alternates can be selected and opening statements will begin on thursday of this week.

The murder of Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay (b. Jason Mizell) may soon be solved. In the December 2002 Jay was shot in the back of the head by an unknown assailant in his Queens studio.
It has been reported by the New York Daily Post that Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff, a convicted drug dealer and longtime friend of Murder Inc. heads Irv Gotti and Chris Gotti, targeted Mizell because he defied an industry blacklist of rapper 50 Cent that was imposed because of "Ghetto Qur'an", a song written about the drug history of McGriff

Prosecutors believe that either Ronald Washington was an accomplice or even the killer of Jay who has been convicted of several armed robberies since the murder. He is also a suspect in the 1995 killing of Randy Walker a friend of the late Tupac Shakur. Washington has denied any involvement in Jay's murder and alleges that the detectives have been hostile and hounded him about the killing of a Mizell who he says was a "childhood friend." A spokesperson for Jay's family have stated that they are happy that police have found a suspect and will be waiting when more information becomes available.

On a personal note this author believes that Jam Master Jay didn't deserve to die this way. The group Run-DMC was the first hip-hop/ rap group that I discovered. They have had some violence in the past at their concerts which they condoned and have pretty much remained above the violent lyrics that dominated hip-hop in the early nineties and today.
I wonder how the individual(s) could commit such a crime and not feel remorse ? Maybe, it was a "crime of passion" and given a different set of circumstances the outcome might have been that Jam Master Jay had lived and the issues could have been resolved peacefully.

The New York Post reports that the Suffolk County Magistrate of New York Aletha Fields-Ferraro has ordered rapper 50 Cent to pay $10,000 in child support for his ten year old son Marquise Jackson. The mother of the child Shaniqua Tomkins was also granted $15,000 a month for expenses that the rapper hasn't been paying. It is reported that when Fifty arrived at the courthouse to met with the magistrate he demanded VIP treatment caused a commotion and refused to go through metal detectors at the courthouse. The next court date is set for June 11 of this year.

Beyonce is being sued by Des'ree because according to her she didn't get permission to cover a song called "I'm Kissing You." Most know Des'ree for her 1994 hit "You gotta be."
The suit filed April 19th states that there was a deal for her to use the song originally but the fell through. Des'ree is seeking to put a stop to the distribution of the song. Beyonce featured the song on her solo album ' "B" Day-Deluxe Edition' and titled it "Still In Love (Kissing You).

WTF DEPT.

The seven month old Swedish baby named Metallica Tomaro will be allowed to keep her name. It wasn't the band that objected to the naming of the child rather the Swedish tax officials objected to the name. Because it was the name of a band and it resembled the word "metal" to closely. Karolina Tomaro the girls mother took her case to the county court where she won a victory over the taxing authority. They appealed the decision but dropped the appeal last week so Metallica will be able to keep her name.

MUSIC NOTES

Damon Albarn of the band 'Gorillaz' has confirmed that they won't release any more studio albums. He has said that the only project left for the band will be a film featuring a score composition that has been rumored to be linked to Terry Gilliam of Monty Python fame.
Albarn spoke to the BBC last week and said "We're trying to make a film next, starting in September hopefully. It will be a film score. There won't be another pop record." The virtual band was formed in 1999 with Damon Albarn, and Jamie Hewlett creator of the comic "Tank Girl" providing the design and background of the virtual band.
They have always been mysterious about who the members of the band were but it has been suggested that there are anywhere from two to fifty different individuals contributing to different aspects of the album. When the band played live there were specially designed screens on stage that projected the bands animated characters. Their first tour featured two screens on with animated characters the other with just silhouettes of the band playing instruments.
'Gorlliaz' had two albums the first being 'Gorillaz' which debuted in 2001 and the other 'Demon Days' which debuted in 2005. Singles from the two albums were "Clint Eastwood" and "Feel Good Inc."

Radiohead a band that hasn't been heard from since 2003's 'Hail to the thief' has posted a short sample of a new song on their website. The song titled "15 Step" can be heard on the official website "Dead air space." The song can be heard when you click on the banner "Hodaiu Drektion" and the lyrics can be read at the fan site Ateaseweb.Com. They premiered the track on the first date of the 2006 tour at KB Hallen in Copenhagen, Denmark. They are getting ready to release a new album sometime in the summer or fall of this year.

Tom Morello the former lead singer of Rage Against the Machine has announced that he will release an album under the guise of "Nightwatchman" the disc will contain 13 tracks and have songs of bitterness, revenge, and a dark response to a world in turmoil. On one track " One Man Revolution" Morello plays the acoustic guitar for the first time. He plans to play a handful of selected dates in the UK in June.

Richard Fairbain the former singer of the 90's one hit wonder Right Said Fred wants to be London's next mayor. Fairbain said"I want to stand as an independent candidate with a manifesto for the real working people of London, they make it a brilliant city."

Rap star Romeo Miller will attend the University of Southern California in the fall of 2008 where he will play basketball. Miller who was once known as Lil Romeo and announced three years ago that he would someday be playing in the NBA when he was all of 5' 6' at age 14 fortunately has grown some in the past few years. Currently, he's a high school junior and is
6' 1" and plays guard on his Beverly Hills high school team in Beverly Hills, Ca.
He has stated that he will be known as Percy Miller while attending the university. A spokesman for the university Dave Tuttle said "We can't comment on any potential recruits until we receive a signed letter of intent." Basketball runs in Miller's family his father hip-hop mogul Master P tried out with two NBA teams in the 90's but failed to make either team.

It has been ten years since Jeff Buckley died of an accidental drowning n the Mississippi river near Memphis, Tn. To commemorate his passing on May 28th an album titled ' So Real: Songs from Jeff Buckley will contain recorded and live tracks including his popular version of Leonard Cohen's song "Hallelujah." The track listing will be as follows

Last Goodbye Lover You Should Have Come Over Forget Her Eternal Life Dream Brother (alternative take) The Sky Is A Landfill Everybody Here Wants You So Real (acoustic live performance) Mojo Pin (live) Vancouver Je Ne Connais Pas La Fin Grace Hallelujah I Know Its Over

Morrissey has decided to snub the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame ceremonies that are to be held in 2008 for The Smiths. His ongoing rivalry with drummer Mike Joyce seems to be the reason. Morrissey and Joyce were involved in a lawsuit over The Smiths royalties and who deserved what amount. Since the lawsuit Morrissey has publicly stated that he hasn't forgiven him and the only way that he would show up would be if Joyce didn't attend.

Here are the birthdays for the week of April 22-April 29, 2007

April 22

Charlie Mingus (1922 – 1979)
American jazz bassist,
composer, bandleader,

Glen Campbell (1936)
Grammy Award,
Dove Award winning
American Country Pop singer and guitarist best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a television variety show called "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television. His hits include "Gentle On My Mind", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and "Rhinestone Cowboy"

Peter Kenneth Frampton (1950)
Grammy winning English musician,
best known today for his solo work
in the mid-70s as an "arena rocker".

Paul Carrack (1951)
Keyboardist, singer and songwriter
Mike + The Mechanics

Aaron Fink (1977)
lead guitarist and
backing vocalist for
Breaking Benjamin.

Jason Stollsteimer(1978)
lead vocalist and guitarist
of The Von Bondies,

Daniel Johns (1979)
vocalist, composer,
guitarist and pianist,
for the band Silverchair.

Amelle Berrabah (1984,)
recent member of the
English girl band, Sugababes

April 23

Ray Peterson (1939 - 2005)
pop music singer scored
a hit in the 60's with
"Tell Laura I Love Her,"
"Corrina, Corrina.

Roy Orbison (1936 – 1988)
Singer-songwriter
and a pioneer of rock and roll
" Ooby Dooby," "Only The Lonely,"
"In Dreams," "Oh, Pretty Woman,"
"Crying," "Running Scared," and "You Got It.

Glenn Cornick (1947)
the first bass player in
the rock band, Jethro Tull.

David Cross (1948,)
electric violinist
known for playing with
progressive rock band King Crimson

Stephen Clark ( 1960 – 1991)
Co-lead guitarist for British rock
band Def Leppard

Carlos "D" Dengler (1974)
the bassist for New York
indie rock band Interpol.

April 24

Barbra Streisand (1942)
Academy Award-winning American singer
theatre and film actress, composer,
liberal political activist, film producer
and director. Satirized on South Park
in the episode called "Mecha-Streisand",
which she tried to take over the world by
transforming herself into a giant robot
and is then defeated by the robot
Robert Smith of The Cure

Doug "Cosmo" Clifford (1945)
played drums in the band,
Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Captain Sensible (1954)
born Raymond Burns,
singer and guitarist
founded the punk rock
band The Damned.

Boris Williams (1957)
Drummer known for
his work with The Cure (1984-1994).
previously worked with
the Thompson Twins,
Kim Wilde and Tomato City.

Billy Gould ( 1963)
musician and producer.
He played bass for
Faith No More

Tyson Ritter (1984)
lead singer and bassist
of The All-American Rejects.

April 25

Ella Fitzgerald (1917 – 1996)
Considered one of the
most influential jazz
vocalists of the 20th Century.

Björn Kristian Ulvaeus (1945)
Swedish musician and composer,
most notable as a member of ABBA.

Stu Cook (1945)
played bass guitar in the band
Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Andy Bell (1964 )
the lead singer of
the English Synthpop
duo Erasure.

Eric Avery(1965)
played bass guitar in the band
Jane's Addiction

April 26

Roger Taylor (1960)
the drummer for
the pop/rock band
Duran Duran.

Chris Mars (1961)
was the drummer for
The Replacements

T-Boz (1970)
bTionne Watkins
Lead singer
of the group TLC.

Joey Jordison (1975)
best known
as the drummer
for band Slipknot

April 27
Casey Kasemi
born Kemal Amin Kasem
American radio personality
and voice actor.

Ann Peebles (1947)
international singer and songwriter .
Two of her better known songs are
I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down"
"I Can't Stand the Rain"

Kate Pierson (1948)
Vocalist and lead singer and
founding member of The B-52's.

Ace Frehley (1951)
born Paul Frehley,
Guitarist best known as founding member
for the rock band Kiss.
played with the group from
1973 - 1982. Rejoined in
1996 to play for the reunion
tour and left in 2002.

Patrick Stump (1984)
Musician, composer and producer and
the lead singer and rhythm guitarist
of the band Fall Out Boy.

April 28
Kim Gordon (1953)
musician, vocalist, and artist
plays bass and guitar in the
band Sonic Youth.

Too $hort (1966 )
born Todd Shaw
rapper and producer
of "no-nonsense" pimp
rap.

Daisy Berkowitz(1966)
born Scott Mitchell Putesky
Was the lead guitarist and co-founder
of the rock group Marilyn Manson until
1996, during the recording of
Antichrist Superstar.

April 29

Phil King (1960)
Known for being
the bass guitarist
in the alternative band
Lush.

Master P (1967)
born Percy Robert Miller
entrepreneur, businessman
marketing expert, and rap artist.
founder and CEO of
No Limit Enterprises.

Carnie Wilson (1968)
American singer and television
hostbest known as a member
of the early-90s singing group
Wilson Phillips.

Well until next week GETOUTOFMYHEAD !

OnABREAK

2007-04-14T10:55:00.000-07:00

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April 16

Bobby Vinton (1935)
American pop music singer.

Dusty Springfield, OBE (born Mary O'Brien 16 April 1939, died 2 March 1999) was a popular British singer whose career spanned four decades. She achieved her most notable success during the 1960s, with a successful comeback in the late 80's.

Gerry Rafferty ( 1947)
Scottish singer and songwriter.

Peter Garrett, MP, AM (1953)
Australian musician and politician.
lead singer of the Australian
rock band Midnight Oil

Ian MacKaye (1962)
American musician,
best known as the singer
for the bands Minor Threat,
Embrace and Fugazi,

JimmyOsmond (1963)
singer, actor, and businessman.

David Pirner
lead vocalist for
the band Soul Asylum.

Selena,(1971-1995 )
Mexican American singer
who has been called
"the queen of Tejano music"

April 17

Jan Hammer (1948,)
a composer and musician.
Miami Vice Theme

Maynard James Keenan (1964)
American rock singer
member of the band Tool

April 18
Greg Eklund (1970 )
was the drummer for
the American rock band
Everclear until 2003

April 19

Tim Curry (1946)
English actor, singer
composer
mad scientist
Dr. Frank N. Furter
in The Rocky Horror
Picture Show

Mark Volman ( 1947 )
American rock and roll singer,
a founding member of
The Turtles.

Bob Rock (1954 )
musician, sound engineer,
and record producer.

Marion "Suge" Knight(1965)
controversial entrepreneur
in the hip hop music industry
and co-founder of Death Row Records.

April 20

Tito Puente (1923 – 2000)
influential Latin jazz
and mambo musician.

April 21

Iggy Pop (1947)
bJames Newell Osterberg, Jr.
lead singer of The Stooges

Robert Smith ( 1959)
guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, and
the lead singer of
The Cure since its founding in 1976.
"pop culture’s unkempt poster child of doom and gloom",
songs
"somber introspection over lush, brooding guitars"
Smith is a multi-instrumentalist and can play 6 and
12-string guitars;
4 and 6 string bass guitars;
double bass; keyboards; and violins.

Until next week GETOUTOFMYHEAD !

Year Zero, Imagine, April Fools Day

2007-04-08T16:00:00.000-07:00

What do all of these things have in common? They all took place in music this week,

NIN/Trent Reznor have a new release called 'Year Zero' which tells of an Orwellian America in the not to distant future and will be debuting on April 17th. They are using a form of guerrilla marketing where clues contained in the bands t-shirts spell out web site addresses that lead to an internet scavenger hunt fans can access the sites by adding the .COM suffix. A t-shirt with "anotherversionofthetruth.com" leads one to a website that tells more about the content of the upcoming disc. USB drives with copies of the songs have been found in the bathrooms at venue's where the band has performed. In Lisbon, Portugal a fan found a drive with the song "My Violent Heart" another fan in Barcelona, Spain found a drive with "Me I'm not' and in Manchester, England a drive containing "In this Twilight." Fans have swapped the songs and posted them on blogs and despite warnings from the RIAA the entire album has yet to be leaked online.
NIN/Reznor have always been a group that tries new ideas with their material whether it is the first Cd 'Pretty Hate Machine' which made Ministry and Nitzer Eb less interesting and made them sound like noise. The 1999 NIN release 'The Fragile' although not commercially successful was a creative comment on the music scene in a time of the "boy bands, pop divas" and general lack of talented bands that were popular at the time.

A group that has enjoyed popularity regardless of what they have do from using an accordion as a principal instrument and releasing two children's disc in the past two years are readying a new rock album They Might Be Giants are to release a disc titled 'The Else' and will contain 13 tracks some of the songs will be produced by the Dust Brothers who they have worked with on a 1993 remix of "Snail Shell."

John Flansburgh said that they came up with a couple of ways to work on the new songs, "we got loops from early on in the process, a huge collection of delightful drum loops. That's how we started a bunch of tracks." The Dust Brothers then came to New York and helped them re-assess the things we demoed and written on our own. New songs that received the producers treatment were "Take out the Trash" however, "I'm Impressed" is just John Flansburgh and John Linnell but it reflects working with the Dust Brothers.
TMBG will spend two weeks in May previewing the new material beginning May 3 in New Market NH and wrapping up May 19th in San Diego, CA at the Belly Up Tavern.

The upright piano that John Lennon wrote the song "Imagine" is on tour and this time it will be photographed on the hotel balcony where Martin Luther King Jr was shot and killed on April 4,1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. It was recently photographed on the grassy knoll near Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas where President John F. Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963. The piano will also visit the World Trade Center site in New York City, Federal Building site in Oklahoma, and the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Tx. The theme of the photographs are about peace and how the song Imagine was a message from Lennon to humankind about why peace is important. The piano is owned by George Michael and he is planning on making a documentary of the tour and the photographs of the sites. Putting them in a book with the proceeds going to charities for peace.

Keith Richards caused a stir this week when he stated that in 2002 after his father died he took his cremated remains mixed them with a bit of cocaine and snorted the concoction. The Disney company was upset when they heard about this not because Keith is doing drugs but because he will be the father of Jack Sparrow in the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean 3 due in theaters this summer.
Later this week Richards said that he was joking being that it was April Fools Day whether he did this or not may explain why he fell out of tree a few years ago while on vacation in Fiji

The annual Lollapalooza Festival will take place in Chicago's Grant Park August 3-5, 2007.Pearl Jam are slated to headline the final night of the festival which will be the band's only scheduled appearance for this year. Tickets are expected to go quickly and a three day pass to the festival will cost $165. Tickets can be purchased at Lollapalooza.com

Below a list of acts that are to perform.

Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Disco Biscuits
Kanye West
She Wants Revenge
Manu Chao
The Dresden Dolls
Wilco
Reverend Horton Heat
Death Cab For Cutie
The Smoking Popes
The Raconteurs
Andrew Bird
Gnarls Barkley
Stars
The Flaming Lips
Cursive
Ween
Blackalilcious
My Morning Jacket
Editors
Queens of the Stone Age
Lyrics Born
The Shins
Lady Soverign
Common
Calexico
Matisyahu
Feist
Ryan Adams
Aqualung
Umphrey's McGee
The Hold Steady
Sonic Youth
The Go! Team
Ben Kweller
Mates of State
Violent Femmes
Pepper
Thievery Corporation
Particle
Sleater-Kinney
The Red Walls
Nickel Creek
Mule Math
Blues Traveler
Wolfmother
Broken Social Scene
Sparta
The New Pornographers
The Subways
Iron & Wine
Of Montreal
Poi Dog Pondering
Blue October
Coheed and Cambria
The Secret Machines
Built To Spill

upcoming birthdays for April 9-April, 15 2007

April 9
Carl Lee Perkins ( 1932 – 1998)
American pioneer of rockabilly music,
a mix of rhythm and blues and country
music that evolved at Sun Records in Memphis in the early 1950

Gerard Way (1977)
frontman, lead vocalist
and co-founder of the
band My Chemical Romance

Albert Hammond, Jr. (1980)
musician and member of
the indie rock band The Strokes.

April 10

Shelby F. "Sheb" Wooley (April 10, 1921 – September 16, 2003) was a character actor and singer, best known for his 1958 novelty hit "Purple People Eater".

Eddie Hazel (April 10, 1950 – December 23, 1992) was a pioneering and influential guitarist in early funk music in the United States, most famous for his lead guitar work with George Clinton and Funkadelic.

Steve Gustafson (b 1957)
the bassist for the band 10,000 Maniacs

Kenneth Brian "Babyface" Edmonds ( 1958)
American R&B and pop singer, songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, record producer, film producer, and entrepreneur.

Brian Setzer ( 1959)
American guitarist, singer and songwriter.
Stray Cats Brian Setzer Orchestra

Katrina Leskanich ( 1960)
Katrina and the Waves

Warren Justin DeMartini ( 1963)
nicknamed Torch, is
the lead guitarist for Ratt

Tim Alexander (1965)
best known as the drummer
for the rock band Primus

Kenny Lattimore (1970)
American R&B singer.
Among his most popular hits were
"Never Too Busy" and "For You".

Mike Mushok ( 1970)
guitarist and songwriter
of the hard rock/post-grunge
band Staind

Chris Carrabba ( 1975)
the lead singer and guitarist
of the acoustic-alternative
band Dashboard Confessional

Shemekia Copeland ( 1979)
American blues singer.
The daughter of blues guitarist
and singer Johnny Copeland

Bryce Soderberg (1980)
bassist for Los Angeles
rock band Lifehouse.

Liz McClarnon ( 1981 )
English singer
and member of Atomic Kitten

Mandy Moore(1984)
American pop singer and actress

April 11

Stuart Adamson ( 1958 – 2001)
was an English-born Scottish
rock guitarist, singer and songwriter
Big Country,

Lisa Stansfield (1966)
English
R&B/soul/house singer

Cerys Matthews (1969)
singer and songwriter,
Catatonia, from 1992 to 2001.

Ollie Riedel (1971)
German musician
the bass-guitarist for the band Rammstein.

Joss Stone(1987)
English soul, R&B,
blues singer, songwriter,
and occasional actress
sold over nine million albums worldwide.

April 12

Billy Vaughn (1919 - 1991)
a singer, multi-instrumentalist,
and orchestra leader.

Tiny Tim( 1932 – 1996)
b .Herbert Butros Khaury
American singer, ukulele player,
and musical archivist

Herbie Hancock ( 1940)
Academy Award and multiple
Grammy Award-winning
jazz pianist and composer

Lois Reeves (1948 )
American soul and R&B singer
most notable for being the
younger sister of
Martha Reeves
Martha and the Vandellas

David Bruce Cassidy (1950)
american actor and musician,
best known for starring in the tv
series The Partridge Family
from 1970 to 1974.  
Vince Gill (1957)
American country music
musician, songwriter, and singer.

Will Sergeant (1958)
English guitarist,
best known for being
a member of Echo & the Bunnymen

Art Alexakis (1962)
singer/guitarist and songwriter
of the rock band Everclear

Amy Ray ( 1964 )
singer-songwriter
and member of the Indigo Girls

Nic Hexum ( 1970 )
vocalist and rhythm guitarist
for alternative rock band 311.

Guy Berryman (1978)
a member of the group Coldplay

April 13

Jack Casady (1944 )
the bass player for
Jefferson Airplane

April 14

Loretta Lynn (1934)
American country singer
and was one of the leading
country female vocalists
during the 1960s and 1970s

April 15

Linda Perry 1965
best known as the lead singer
and primary songwriter of 4 Non Blondes

Samantha Fox (1966 )
English former glamour model
and dance-pop singer.

Ed O'Brien (1968)
member of Radiohead.

Until next week GETOUTOFMYHEAD !

YOU TUBE AWARDS

2007-04-01T13:33:00.000-07:00

You Tube video awards

The You Tube video awards were handed out Monday by the video sharing site. This was the first awards given by the online site. The nominees of the best videos were listed in ten categories. Viewers had all week to vote for their favorite and in the music category the band Ok Go and Terra Naomi won a music awards . Ok Go won an award for the video to their song " Here It Goes Again.'"

The video is of the band using three sets of treadmills to make it look as if they are dancing to the song and is funny and clever. This is probably the most use a treadmill will receive by the members of the band. Terra Naomi won for her song " Say It's Possible" the video is of her with an acoustic guitar singing. She has used her appearance to get a deal with Island Records and will release her debut album in the summer.

Elton turns the big 60 !

Elton John celebrated his sixtieth birthday with his sixtieth concert at Madison Square Garden in New York on March 25. Elton sang thirty three of his hits in a three hour set and was joined by the Brooklyn Boys Choir. An audience of celebrities watched and Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams briefly joined him onstage. Williams said the John wore a tuxedo that made "Liberace look amish," other celebrities in the audience were Michael Caine, Rosie O'Donnnell, k.d. Lang, and Sharon Osborne.
Former president Bill Clinton also paid tribute to John's work in raising awareness and helping people with the AIDS virus. Bernie Taupin a longtime lyricist led the audience in singing happy birthday to John. John said " without Bernie none of us would be here tonight because the words have always come first."

In other Elton news the church leaders of the island country of Tobago have demanded that Elton John not play a concert scheduled to play the Plymouth Jazz Festival on April 29 th because he is gay and "have a negative social impact on the people " and " some may not be sure of their sexuality."
The political leaders of the country dismiss this idea and back John's performance at the festival. One of the organizers of the event insisted that " His band has performed in every country in the world. He is not coming here to preach about what lifestyle people should have."

Musical Notes

U2 guitarist The Edge donated his 1975 Les Gibson guitar that he has been using for ages to be auctioned off for Music Rising a program to replace musical instruments lost in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina and the flood that followed. Edge said " I wanted to give something really significant and that would really mean alot for me to give."

Lead singer of KISS Gene Simmons has made it clear that he isn't interested in a reunion of the original band lineup. He is quoted as saying "I personally don't want to, I love Ace and Peter, always have ,and because of my tough love I've never been shy about saying that they have always been drug addicts and alcoholics and they've destroyed themselves." At least you can say that he is honest.

Damon Albarn former lead singer of the band Blur/ Gorillaz has written an opera that will premiere at the Manchester International Festival. The opera is said to be based on the Chinese tale of the monkey and will be a "circus opera" which tells of the monkey's journey to the west and will feature a 45 piece troupe from China, Shaolin Monks, and martial arts experts. The show will include music composed by Albarn and visual concepts designed by Jamie Hewlett.
The festival will run from June 28-July 15 in Manchester and feature performances by Lou Reed, Smokey Robinson, PJ Harvey, Kanye West, and Happy Mondays at various venues around the city.

The White Stripes have released the track listing for their new album "Icky Thump" which will debut sometime in June. There are reports that parts of it will have a "hot tango rhythm" and bagpipes evoking a scottish them. I am not certain if these reports are rumors or truth but the White Stripes have always had some interesting songs. Here is a list of the tracks on "Icky Thump."
1. "Icky Thump”
2. “You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You’re Told)”
3. “300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues”
4. “Conquest”
5. “Bone Broke”
6. “Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn”
7. “St. Andrew (This Battle Is in the Air)”
8. “Little Cream Soda”
9. “Rag and Bone”
10. “I’m Slowly Turning Into You”
11. “A Martyr For My Love For You”
12. “Catch Hell Blues”
13. “Effect and Cause

Jack White of the White Stripes will play Elvis in an upcoming movie called 'Walk Hard' a parody of the Johnny Cash biopic
'Walk the Line.' The feature is to focus on a fictional rockabilly musician similar to Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash played by John C. Reily. White will appear as Elvis who encounters the musician in the film.

The Beastie Boys are going to be busy this summer they are planning on releasing a new album, performing summer shows and some instrumental gigs. The instrumental performance will take place at The Sasquatch Festival on May 26th in George, Washington. They will perform at 18 european festivals from June 10th to September 9th the first will be at the Alive Festival in Lisbon, Portugal and wrap up the tour at U.K.'s Bestival.

David Bowie has been selected as curator for the H& M High Line Festival. It will begin at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on May 9th. The festival will continue at various venues around New York and Bowie is quoted as saying ' I thought it a very cool deal to be asked to curate the High Line Festival. The request for me to choose the artists and acts that I myself would go out of the way too see. Although, this will be the inaugural year will be modest in scale we've been pretty lucky in that many whom I asked have accepted." The current lineup for the festival is as follows.

May 2007
09 Arcade Fire - Radio City Music Hall
10 Air - Theatre at Madison Square Garden
11 The Polyphonic Spree - Hammerstein Ballroom
15 Deerhoof - Irving Plaza
16 Daniel Johnston - High Line Ballroom
16 17 Ken Nordine - The Kitchen
17 18 Laurie Anderson - High Line Ballroom
18 Secret Machines - High Line Ballroom
19 Ricky Gervais - Theatre at Madison Square Garden

The O.C. and Gray's Anatomy have influenced musical tastes by what they play during the episodes will have a label called Chop Shop Records with Warner Brothers . The label will be managed by Alexandra Patsavas the music supervisor responsible for the music on these shows.

The group Nickelback's album "All the Right Reasons" has remained on the charts for 18 months and the band continues to sell out their concerts while other bands struggle to have even some of the same success? Music critics and those who appreciate quality music loathe this band and are puzzled as to why they are so successful. Chad Kroeger the bands lead singer has said that the bands music is all over the map and appeals to a large audience and he doesn't listen to what the critics think. His song-writing technique is also very detailed, "He'll write a lyric or chorus and go back and say this chorus or that word isn't right and he can spend weeks writing the perfect song and melodies," said Kara DioGuardi who recently worked with him on another project.
Nickelback's influence has also reached beyond their hits. A charitable campaign for "If Everyone Cared" has raised over $200,000 according to Kroeger, " We wanted to inspire the people who saw the video and show that you don't need a team of personnel, you don't need alot of money to make a change in the world."

Another band that enjoyed popularity during the early to mid nineties and to the chagrin of critics are The Black Crowes. They are said to be in the studio and working with producer Paul Stacey in New York and Los Angeles. The album will be their first in six years

The band Tapes and Tapes have been working on their second album and will record it this summer. The next disc is to be different from their first one. Lead singer Josh Grier said " It's pretty much the same group of guys" but I'm sure there's going to be at least for us a song-writing growth."

Marilyn Manson musician, author, and one who strives to tick off the religious right is now showing his other artistic side. His watercolor artworks that he has painted over the years are to be displayed in Ft. Myers, Florida. Manson will be touring with the metal band Slayer. They will play 25 cities across the U.S. between July and September. Manson's album "Eat Me, Drink Me" will debut in June.

Amy Winehouse a british soul singer who's breakthrough album Back To Black has seen some chart success in the U.S. cancelled two shows in the U.S. and two more in the U.K. which were to be held at Shepards Bush Empire in London last week Apparently, the star who is known for her debauchery onstage and off fell during a drunken episode and smashed out her front teeth which required dental surgery. The canceled Empire shows will be made up on May 28th and 29th. It isn't known if there are any make up dates for the U.S. shows.

The Happy Mondays will release their first album in 15 years and are set to make their first full comeback since 1992's disc 'Yes Please'. Shaun Ryder the lead singer of the band says that they are working with Howie B and Sonny Levine to produce the album. He says that their sound is fresher than their first album ' Pills, Thrills, and Bellyaches,' "I'm no the world's greatest salesman, me I'm not a salesman at all (but) I think it's a really great album" said Ryder.

Legal Dept.

Celebrities were busy in court this week the first Velvet Revolver's lead singer Scott Weiland's wife and an alleged altercation at a Burbank Hotel and the destruction of clothing taking place outside their home. The couple have been married seven years and Scott went into rehab three years ago and has been sober since.
Mary Weiland released a statement to the supposed altercation with her husband and vandalism of two hotel rooms at the Graceila Hotel in Burbank, California. Late she set some of his clothes on fire outside their home and police responded to a call that a woman was burning something in a trash can, she was booked for investigation of felony arson and vandalism. Scott Weiland told police that $10,000 of his wardrobe went up in smoke.
She says the incidents were brought on by a "reaction to an imbalance in medication she takes to treat a bipolar disorder." "Reports that we were fighting outside the hotel are not true," Scott was merely trying to help me calm down , I want to make it very clear that he didn't hurt me in any way, I am grateful to my have a loving husband who is able to take care of me during this challenging time." The couple have apologized and paid for the damage to hotel as for the vandalism, arson charges against her the district attorney's office hasn't file them against her.

Wynonna Judd has filed for divorce from her estranged husband Dan R. Roach after his arrest last week on a charges of sex involving a minor. Roach was arrested in Abeline and charged with three counts of sexual battery against a child under the age of thirteen then extradited to Nashville where the charges originated. The Nashville police department had been investigating him for sex crimes and has been since February. Roach had been receiving treatment for drug and alcohol addiction at a clinic in Buffalo Gap, Texas. Wynonna cited irreconcilable differences as a reason for the divorce and they had been separated since Feb 18 of this year. They were married in November of 2003 and have no children together.

Britney Spears fresh from rehab finalized the divorce with Kevin Federline this week. According, to their lawyers they have reached a " global divorce agreement regarding the issues of their marriage," which includes the custody of their two children.
Britney had dental surgery earlier this week and after her visit to the dentist she met with her ex husband's lawyers for five hours. They both signed the agreement but the terms and the settlement weren't disclosed. It is rumored that Federline will walk away with $ 1 million and joint physical custody of the children however that wasn't confirmed.

Eminem and his ex wife Kim Mathers agreed in court to stop criticizing each other in public for the sake of their daughter have apparently decided not to honor that agreement other than inside the courtroom. On tuesday Kim was being interviewed on New York's Hot 97 and spoke about their relationship. She spoke of his recent legal action to stop her and said " how many songs does he have about me?" she has been the subject of his songs " Cleaning out my closet," and " Mockingbird." She went on to say that he does interviews about the freedom of speech and that she has only done a couple about their relationship. Eminem cries like a "little girl." Kim accused him of being disconnected from reality and revealed that she really has no contact with him despite living a mile away from him.

Former lead singer Anthony Lovato of the band MEST was arrested last Sunday for suspicion of stabbing and killing a 25 year old man during an argument in an apartment building parking lot in Los Angeles.
Police arrived at the scene and found a man lying on the ground with knife wounds he later died at the hospital. A lieutenant with the department said that Lovato called 911 and remained at the scene to surrender himself to the police. They had been called on Saturday evening to the same apartment complex where the two men were fighting at a woman's apartment that they both had been previously dating but no one was arrested.
Lovato has avoided a murder charge because LA County District Attorney won't file charges against him because "there is insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the killing was not a justifiable use of reasonable force in self defense." Lovato has maintained that he stabbed the man in self defense, this along with his cooperation with police helped his case. MEST formed in Blue Island, IL in 1995 and had a hit in 1998 with the single ' Mo Money, Mo 40 oz' and went on to release four albums on the Maverick label which is owned by Madonna the band broke up in January 2006.

Busta Rhymes (b. Trevor Smith) is set to face misdemeanor assault charges in two separate incidents. He is accused of kicking and punching a former employee during an argument outside his office in Manhattan the day after Christmas, and he 's also accused of assaulting a fan who allegedly spit on his car after a performance at the Amsterjam Music Festival .
Manhattan Criminal Court judge Tanya Kennedy retracted a plea deal that was made earlier this year and set a court date for May 8th. Busta Rhymes who recently refused a deal that would have allowed him to plead guilty but enroll in anger management class and do community service in order to avoid jail time. If he is convicted he could be sentenced to more that a year in jail and fined $500.

WTF Dept.
( I am not making this up)
Michael Jackson is to have a 50 foot robotic replica of himself that will shoot laser beams from the eyes and is to roam the desert near Las Vegas Nv. It is to be the centerpiece of an elaborate show in the city which he is rumored to be currently residing in. If built the robot would be visible from the incoming airplanes coming into the gambling capitol of the world. Luckmann Van Pier has drawn up blueprints for the robot and according to Andre Van Pier Michael has seen them and likes them alot. It doesn't surprise this author is surprised that he likes them because his ego is at least twice the same size of the robot here is a perfect example of someone who has either too much money or not enough sense.
In 1995 Jackson had a giant statue of himself that was towed down the Thames river in London to commemorate his HIStory album release.

Well with all that being said I am going to list the upcoming birthdays for April 1-April, 9 2007

April 1
Ronald Lane (1946 - 1997)
English singer, songwriter and bass player (nicknamed "Plonk") best known for his membership in two prominent English rock bands, Small Faces (1965-69) and Faces (1970-75).

Jimmy Cliff(1948)
Jamaican reggae musician

Jesse Tobias (1972)
Guitarist who gained notoriety during a brief tenure
with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1993 and
was replaced by Dave Navarro within the year.

April 2

Serge Gainsbourg ( 1928 – 1991)
French poet, singer-songwriter,
actor and director.

Marvin Gaye (1939 – 1984)
American soul and R&B singer-songwriter,
instrumentalist, record producer and performer
who gained international fame as an artist on the Motown label in the 1960s and 1970s.

Dr. Demento (1941)
born Barret Eugene Hansen
a radio disc jockey specializing in
novelty songs and pop music parodies.

Emmylou Harris (1947)
country music singer-songwriter
and musician.

Leon Russell Wilkeson (1952 - 2001)
bass guitarist of Southern rock band
Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1972 until his death in 2001.

Greg Camp (1967)
Guitarist and lead songwriter
for the band Smash Mouth.

April 3
Wayne Newton (1942)
Singer and entertainer based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
He performed over 30,000 solo shows in Las Vegas.

Billy Joe Royal (1942)
American country music singer.

Tony Orlando (1944)
b. Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis
American singer best known for his time
with the group Dawn in the early 1970s.

Richard John Thompson (1949)
British musician, best known for
his guitar playing and songwriting.

Sebastian Bach (1968)
b. Sebastian Philip Bierk
Canadian heavy metal singer
best known as ex-frontman of Skid Row.

Drew) Shirley ( 1976)
Guitarist and the newest member
of the rock band Switchfoot.

April 4

Muddy Waters (1913 – 1983)
American blues musician
and is generally considered "the father of Chicago blues".

Dave Hill (1946)
Lead guitarist and backing vocalist
in the English glam rock group, Slade

Gary Moore (1952)
Guitarist played with Thin Lizzy,

Johnny Borrell (1980)
Guitarist, and songwriter of
English band Razorlight.

April 5

Stan Ridgway (1954)
Original lead singer for the band
Wall of Voodoo.

Mike McCready (1966)
Founding member of
Pearl Jam

Paula Cole (1968)
Singer/Songwriter
known for her singles
"Where Have All the Cowboys Gone" and "I Don't Want to Wait"

Pharrell L. Williams (1973)
Producer, singer, rapper, and songwriter.

April 6
Merle Haggard, (1937)
American country music
singer, guitarist and songwriter.

Zamfir (1941)
Virtuoso of the pan flute.

Frank Black (1965)
Singer, songwriter and guitarist
of the band The Pixies.

April 7
Ravi Shankar ( 1920)
Indian composer best known
for his virtuosity on the sitar and
played with the Beatles on several
of their later albums.

Bobby Bare (b1935
American country
music singer and songwriter.

John Oates (1948)
Musician and producer
known as half of successful duo Hall & Oates

April 8

Steve Howe (1947)
Guitarist best known for his work
with the rock group YES.

Izzy Stradlin(1962)
Former guitarist
with the band
Guns & Roses.

Julian Lennon, (1963)
English singer, songwriter, musician,
and first son of Beatle John Lennon.

Biz Markie ( 1964)
born Marcel Hall
East Coast hip hop rapper and DJ, best known
for humorous singles such as "Just a Friend".

Paul Grey( 1972)
Bassist for the nu metal band Slipknot.

Until next week GETOUTOFMYHEAD !

Endings and Beginnings.

2007-03-25T14:38:00.000-07:00

This week in music was a week of endings and beginnings whether it is a festival, trial, tour, reunion, a work in progress or a rehab completion this week had all of these.

END

The ending of the South by Southwest festival known as SXSW wrapped up this past week.The SXSW is held each year in Austin, Tx and features numerous bands that play in a various venues all over the city. A variety of musical styles are showcased at the festival everything from rock, hip-hop, pop, punk, country, to the avant garde/ experimental. Some of bands and singers you may be familiar with are
The Presidents of the USA, Bowling for Soup, Johnette Napolitano (Concrete Blonde) Kenny Wayne Shepard to some lesser known bands such as Garland Jeffreys , The Whigs, The Saints. The festival lasts all week through the middle of March and is considered an indicator of what bands may be the "next big thing."and members of the music industry gather to discuss and showcases the newest technology and ideas in music.

BEGIN

The beginning of the Phil Spector murder trial started in Los Angeles. Spector is a producer famous for the "wall of sound" technique that was made popular by groups and singers such as The Ronnettes, The Beatles, The Rightous Brothers, The Ramones, and Tina Turner, John Lennon.
Spector has been know for his eccentricity whether it is in the studio where he reportedly pulled a gun because an artist couldn't hit a certain chord to being a recluse in his suburban faux castle mansion in the hills of Los Angeles.
On Feb 3, 2003 Spector and actress Lana Clarkson were in attendance at L.A.'s House of Blues. Clarkson was a forty year old actress who had starred in movies and television shows such as Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Night Court, Hill Street Blues. However, recently she had fallen on hard times working as a hostess at the House of Blues. Later that evening they went to his home and sometime during that same evening Clarkson was found slumped in a chair in the foyer of Spector's home dead from an apparent self inflicted shotgun blast.
A chauffeur of Spector's reported to police that Spector was quoted as saying too him on the night in question " I think I killed somebody" and he had a shotgun with blood on his hands.
A coroners report called the death a homicide and "death by the hand of another," she had gunshot residue on her hands indicating that she had apparently shot herself. Spector maintained it was a "accidental suicide" but was arrested under suspicion of murder and later freed on a $1 million dollar bond.
On Oct 26 , 2005 a judge ruled that damaging statements made by Spector to the police can be used against him at the trial. His lawyer's have fought to suppress a statement made by him to police where he stated " I didn't mean to shoot her" the lawyer argues that Spector is bi-polar and was going through prescription drug withdrawal when police questioned him about the incident. If convicted of murder he could serve life in prision.

Would you like a pastry with that ?

Starbucks Corp. and the Concord Music Group they will launch a label called Hear Music. The first signing was announced Wednesday at the company's annual meeting. The artist will be Sir Paul McCartney. This announcement is a big step for the Starbucks Corp which has produced and sold some albums in their stores. Ray Charles "Genius loves company" was a title that you could get with your verti cappuchino in 2004 and was a big seller for the company.

Someone who will possibly be drinking more of Starbucks product will be Brittney Spears who officially completed her 30 day rehabilitation on Tuesday. She entered the facility on Feb 22 after bizarre behavior which included her shaving her head, getting new tattoos on her wrist and hip, and beating a car with an umbrella. The facility Promises is a Mediterranean style villa located in the Santa Monica Mountains and costs $48,000 for a 30 month stay. Some other famous alumni of the facility are Charlie Sheen, Ben Affleck, and Matthew Perry.
It hasn't been disclosed exactly what Spears entered the rehab facility for but if her hanging out with Paris Hilton before the odd behavior and the rehab is any indication it was most likely alcohol.

Lawsuits a rock n roll staple

The estate of the late Rick James has filed a lawsuit on March 15 seeking unspecified damages against the Brooklyn Music Publishing group. The suit accuses the company of collecting money from licensing James' songs without permission in European markets. About a dozen of Rick James' songs are involved in the lawsuit and they have been used for commercials. Brooklyn Music Group had a long term contract to oversee the publishing rights to some of James' songs but not his hit "Superfreak." When Rick James died in 2004 his trust decided not to renew the agreement and instead awarded the rights to another company in January 2007. Brooklyn Music Group refused to stop administering the songs hence the reason for the lawsuit.

Reassembled Pumpkins, Non Instinct Dinosaur

Billy Corgan who tried to be a solo artist with his first and hopefully last release 2005's 'The Future Embrace' and was panned by fans and critics, so what does a six foot two guy with a big ego and a whiney voice do ?
He decides that having a band wasn't so bad after all and reforms it. Nearly a year and a half after Billy Corgan placed a full page ad in the Chicago Tribune stating that he wanted his old band back. The Smashing Pumpkins will debut with a new album it will be titled 'Zeitgeist' and according to the bands website will be released at 7:07 a.m. on saturday July 7,2007.

It isn't known if any of the former members of the band such as James Iha, D'Arcy Wretzky , or Melissa Auf Der Maur will rejoin the group however, original members Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin will . To build up the publicity of the disc and the reunion of the band they will play a series of festivals in Europe starting with the Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands on May 28 and make stops in Germany, Portugal, and Italy before wrapping up at Intelaken, Switzerland.
The only North American date that has been confirmed will be the second night of Toronto's first Virgin Music Festival sponsored by billionaire Richard Virgin. The other acts participating in the festival are Bjork, Interpol, The Killers, Paolo Nutrinin and Amy Winehouse.

Another group that was popular during the late 80's and early 90's has reunited for an album and tour. Dinosaur Jr. will debut their album 'Beyond' and it will be out on May 11 on Fat Possum Records. They have had been touring several dates before completely reforming and this will be their first album recorded together since 1989. They will be playing several dates in ten major cities such as LA, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Chicago, Ann Arbor, and New York.

J.Masics has had some success as a solo artist but not the same level that the group enjoyed during the early nineties which could be the same reason the Pumpkins are getting back together. Bass player Lou Barlow will rejoin the band but is currently on tour with the reunited Sebadoh which he formed after leaving Dinosaur Jr. The tour dates are as follows

May
11 Los Angeles, CA - The Troubadour
12 Los Angeles, CA - The Troubadour
13 Los Angeles, CA - The Troubadour
15 San Francisco, CA - Slim's
16 San Francisco, CA - Slim's
17 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
18 Seattle, WA - The Showbox
19 Olympia, WA - Capitol Theatre
20 Bellingham, WA - The Nightlight
22 Victoria, BC - Sugar Nightclub
23 Vancouver, BC - The Commodore Ballroom
25 Calgary, Alberta - MacEwan Ballroom
26 Edmonton, AB - The Starlite Room
27 Saskatoon, SK - The Odeon Events Centre
29 Winnipeg, MB - Garrick Centre at The Marlborough
29 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock
30 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock
31 Chicago, IL - The Abbey

June
1 Chicago, IL - The Abbey
2 Chicago, IL - The Abbey
3 Ann Arbor, MI - Blind Pig
4 Ann Arbor, MI - Blind Pig
6 New York, NY - Irving Plaza
7 New York, NY - Irving Plaza
8 Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theatre
9 Montreal, QUE - Club Soda

The White Stripes have announced that they will go on tour in support of their sixth album titled 'Icky Thump.' It has a tentative June release and will be the first under their new agreement with Warner Brothers Records.They will play 34 dates in the U.S. starting July 29th in San DIego and then go to the midwest before ending the tour in their hometown of Detroit. The Shins will also join them for the tour at a single date in September at Coney Island NY.
White Stripes tour dates:
July

29 San Diego, CA - Street Scene

August

6 George, WA - The Gorge
7 Vancouver, British Columbia - Orpheum
8 Vancouver, British Columbia - Orpheum
10 Portland, OR - Keller Auditorium
12 Berkeley, CA - Greek Theatre
15 Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre
16 Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre
17 Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre
18 Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre
19 Phoenix, AZ - Dodge Theatre
22 Denver, CO - Red Rocks
23 Kansas City, MO - Starlight Theatre
24 St. Louis, MO - Fabulous Fox Theater
26 Minneapolis, MN - Orpheum Theater
27 Minneapolis, MN - Orpheum Theater
29 Chicago, IL - Auditorium Theater
30 Chicago, IL - Auditorium Theater
31 Chicago, IL - Auditorium Theater

September

8 Milwaukee, WI - Eagles Ballroom
9 Indianapolis, IN - Murat Theatre
10 Columbus, OH - Ohio Theatre
12 Cincinnati, OH - Cincinnati Music Hall
13 Louisville, KY - Palace Theatre
14 Cleveland, OH - Playhouse Square Center-State Theatre
16 Toronto, Ontario - Molson Amphitheatre
17 Montreal, Quebec - Bell Centre
19 Providence, RI - Providence Performing Arts Center
20 Boston, MA - Opera House
21 Boston, MA - Opera House
24 Coney Island, NY - Keyspan Park *
27 Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavillion
28 Atlantic City, NJ - House of Blues

October

2 Detroit, MI - Masonic Temple Theatre
*with the Shins and Brendan Benson

New Material coming soon !

R.E.M. are back in the studio after being inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame last week. The remaining members Michael Stipe, Bill Buck, Mike Mills are heading back to the studio to work on their 14th album. The bands 2004 release "Around the Sun" failed to chart very well and wasn't received very well by fans and critics. It was a low point for album sales in the bands twenty seven year career.
R.E.M. are looking for new musical direction and are to be working with Irish producer Garrett "Jacknife" Lee who won two Grammy awards for his work on U2's " How to dismantle an Atomic Bomb." Lee has also worked with english bands Snow Patrol, Kasabian, and Bloc Party.

Bjork is working on new material in Sony's studio in New York City. She was there to lay down two tracks on called 'Pneumonia' which features her unique voice with seven french horns, the other track that she was working on is called 'Trance.' The album titled 'Volta B' will be different than her previous two disc album Medulla and Vespertine. Bjork says that she " Is ready to be an extrovert again and have fun making music." "Ninety percent of this album was born from me sitting in front of the computer editing brass horns and tribal beats." She will also be collaborating with Anthony of Anthony and the Johnsons and producer Timbadland.

Bryan Ferry has recorded a whole disc of Bob Dylan covers. "If not for you," and "Positively fourth street," get the smooth and suave sound that Ferry is known for. He is also recording a new disc with his old band Roxy Music their first since 1982's Avalon.

Morrisey will tour the western half of North America this year . A forty date tour at mid sized venues with the exception being the Hollywood Bowl which seats 17,000. He will not tour Canada because of the annual seal hunt that takes place and is supported by the Canadian government. Listed below are the dates and locations for his tour.

Morrissey Tour Dates

April
27 Stockton, CA - Bob Hope Theater
28 Sparks, NV - John Ascuaga's Celebrity Showroom
29 Sparks, NV - John Ascuaga's Celebrity Showroom

May
1 Oakland, CA - Paramount Theater
2 Santa Rosa, CA - Wells Fargo Center
5 Spokane, WA - INB Performing Arts Center
6 Seattle, WA - Paramount
8 Salt Lake City, UT - E Center Ford Theater
9 Denver, CO - Fillmore
11 Omaha, NE - Orpheum
12 Milwaukee, WI - Riverside
14 Ann Arbor, MI - Michigan Theater
15 Chicago, IL - Auditorium
17 Cleveland, OH - Playhouse Square Center
18 Columbus, OH - Palace Theater
21 Indianapolis, IN - Murat Center
22 St Louis, MO - The Pageant I'm surprised he is coming here ! (author)
23 Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater
25 Dallas, TX - Palladium
26 Austin, TX - Backyard
28 Houston, TX - Verizon
30 El Paso, TX - County Coliseum
31 Tucson, AZ - Music Hall

June
2 Phoenix, AZ - Maricopa County Events Center
3 San Diego, CA - Bayside Concerts
5 Ventura, CA - Majestic Ventura Theater
6 Riverside, CA - Riverside Municipal Audit
8 Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl
9 Las Vegas, NV - Pearl

Elvis Costello will begin a ten date tour of the U.S. this spring starting April 13th where he will perform with Rosanne Cash at New York City's Rubin Museum of Art. According to Costello "It will be an all acoustic musical talk show, drawing on the theme of magic numbers," while we all ponder what that means it will be interesting to see if Costello's sound has changed any since he married jazz musician Diana Krall. The ten date tour will be as follows.
May
2 Los Angeles, CA - House Of Blues
3 San Francisco, CA - The Warfield
6 Denver, CO - The Fillmore
8 Minneapolis, MN - Myth
9 Chicago, IL - House Of Blues
11 Detroit, MI - State Theatre
15 Boston, MA - Avalon
16 New York, NY - Nokia Theatre
18 Washington D.C. - 9: 30 Club
19 Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory

Guess he didn't find the perfect drug

Trent Reznor has spoken out about drugs and he doesn't have too many good things to say about them. He has said that drugs impaired his ability write and create music and is quoted as saying " I had made writing out to be a terrifying prospect filled with pain and failure and some things, I dreaded doing because I always lacked self confidence and every other thing." "By the end of my run with drugs I realized that my brain wasn't functioning right and I'd lost the power to concentrate." "It really made my art suffer, which made me feel worse, which made me want to get high and you know that cycle starts up." Since sobering up he has stated that he finally learned how to write on the road that makes him even more productive than ever before.

Another group of former drug addicts and never aging rockers The Rolling Stones have announced that they will tour Europe and begin a 27 date tour on June 5 in Werchter, Belgium. They will headline the Isle of Wight Festival June 10 it will be their first at the festival in more than 30 years. The tour will wrap up Aug 21 with a show at London's Millenium Dome which has been re-branded the O2 Arena. They were forced to cancel several european dates for last year's "A Bigger Bang" tour because Keith Richards fell out of a tree and injured his head while on vacation in Fiji and Mick Jagger contracted laryngitis in August. Despite these set backs their 2006 tour grossed $138.5 million.

Contemporaries of the Rolling Stones, The Who are back on tour after they had to cancel a concert in Tampa FL last saturday because of Roger Daltrey's bout with bronchitis . The Who played a sold out concert in the Alltel arena in Little Rock, AR. Daltrey told the crowd that "it feels good to be out of bed," he then proceeded to go perform an over ninety minute set of the bands classic hits and new ones from their recent album ' Endless WIre'. They ended the evening by playing 20 minutes of encores and a few hits from the rock opera 'Tommy.'
In other Who related news Pete Townshend has set off a debate on what is classic rock. In an interview with WAXQ-FM Townshend spoke out against those who would classify The Police as classic rock. Townshend said
" The Police are punk, they are a punk band," 'They aren't classic rock, you know you've got the Stones and the Who. He also stated that "classic rock is finished it's all over after that. This is just music it's not classic anything."

The suicide of Brad Delp lead singer of the band Boston continues to have repercussions on current and former members. Tom Scholz a founding member and chief songwriter wasn't informed of Delp's death and not invited to his funeral.
Tensions between Scholz and the early band members stem from delays in recording Boston's new albums after the releases of 'Boston' in 1976 and 'Don't look back' in 1978. Scholz sued for the rights to the band name an music but lost the case. Those who opposed Scholz attended the funeral and Delp's former wife Micki was quoted on a New York radio station as saying that the professional conflicts in Delp's life caused him to become despondent and after a long time friend Fran Cosmo was cut from Boston's summer concert . Many fans took these for the reason Delp took his own life.
Scholz called Delp his closest friend and collaborator in music for over 35 years and was dissappointed that his exclusion from the funeral . He feels that he is being blamed unfairly for the suicide. His lawyer contacted Micki and asked that she retract her previous statement but no comment was made by her. Delp's fiance said that no one was intentionally excluded from the funeral. She stated that she wanted Delp's children to get through this ordeal quickly and without drama.

Elton John will turn 60 years old on March 25 he will celebrate by putting on a decadent show at Madison Square Garden in New York City. It will be interesting how many costume changes he does if any.

Here are the birthdays for the week of March 26- March 31, 2007
Mar 26
Steven Tyler (1948)
born Steven Tallarico
lead singer of the band
Aerosmith.

Teddy Pendergrass, (1950)
American soul singer

Charly McClain ( 1956)
American country music singer.

Kenny Chesney (1968)
Country music singe known for his songs
"No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems"
"When the Sun Goes Down".

James Iha (1968 )
former guitarist for
The Smashing Pumpkins .

Mar 27
Pee Wee Russell, (1906 - 1969)
jazz musician.

Benjamin Webster (1909-1973)
Influential American jazz tenor saxophonist.

Sarah Vaughan( 1924 – 1990)
American jazz singer
one of the greatest
singers of the 20th century

Tony Banks (1950) i
English songwriter, pianist/keyboard player, and guitarist.
One of the founding members of progressive rock/pop group Genesis has belonged to Genesis throughout its entire history.

Andrew Farriss (1959 )
The keyboardist and key composer
for the Australian band INXS.

Brendan Hill (1970)
The drummer for American jam
band Blues Traveler.

Mariah Carey (1970)
R&B singer, songwriter
known for her 8 octave
range voice.

Fergie (1975)
born Stacy Ann Ferguson
Member of the Black Eyed Peas
singer, songwriter, and actress.

Mar 28

John Evan(1948)
played keyboards for Jethro Tull
from April to December 1970
and then from January 1971 to June 1980.

Milan B. Williams (1948 –2006)
Keyboardist and a founding member
of the Commodores band.

Reba McEntire (1955)
Grammy Award-winning American singer
and one of the best-selling
country music performers of all time.

Jon Lee (March 28, 1968 – January 7, 2002)
Original drummer for the successful British rock band Feeder.

David Keuing (1976)
Guitarist for the American synth rock band The Killers.

J-Kwon (1986)
born Jarrell Jones
rapper from St. Louis

Mar 29

Pearl Bailey (1918 –1990)
American jazz and blues
artist popular throughout her
career which started in
the 30's up until her
death in 1990.

Ray Davis (1940- 2005)
Original bass singer
one of the founding members of The Parliaments, Parliament and Funkadelic.

Bobby Kimball (1947)
Singer best known for being
a member of the rock band Toto.

Patty Donahue (1956— 1996)
lead singer of
The Waitresses

Perry Farrell (1959)
Former lead singer of the
band Jane's Addiction and
Porno for Pyro's.

John Popper (1967) i
Musician and songwriter
for the band Blues Traveler

Mar 30

Frankie Laine,(1913 – 2007)
Successful American singer
of the twentieth century.

Graeme Edge (1941)
Drummer and
a songwriter for
the Moody Blues.

Eric Clapton CBE (1945)
nicknamed "Slowhand"
Grammy Award winning
English guitarist, singer and composer,

MC Hammer ( 1962)
born Stanley Burrell
American rapper
popular during the late 1980s
early 1990s, known for
his dramatic rise to and fall from fame and fortune,

Tracy Chapman (1964)
Singer-songwriter,
best known for her singles "Fast Car,"
"Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution,"
"Baby Can I Hold You,"
"Give Me One Reason."

Céline Dion (1968)
Canadian
Grammy and Juno
award winning pop singer
occasional songwriter.

Norah Jones (1979)
born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar
Grammy Award-winning
American singer-songwriter

Mar 31

Richard Kiley ( 1922-1999)
American stage and film actor
narrated various documentaries.

Shirley Jones (1934)
Academy Award
winning singer and
actress. Known for
her role as the mom
on The Partridge Family

Lefty Frizzell (1928-1975)
born WIlliam Frizzell
American country music
singer and songwriter
popular for his Honky Tonk
style during the 1950's.

John D. Loudermilk ( 1934 )
American singer and
songwriter

Herb Alpert ( 1935)
Known for his work
with the Tijuana Brass,

Angus Young ( 1955)
Guitarist and songwriter
for the band AC/DC

Until then GETOUTOFMYHEAD !

Van Halen, R.E.M. Patti Smith, Oh My....

2007-03-18T07:58:00.000-07:00

Rock N Roll Hall of Fame inductions held

This week started off with induction ceremonies for the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. New members Van Halen, R.E.M., Patti Smith, The Ronnettes and rap's first artist Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
Van Halen were the first to be inducted although, no current members of the band were on hand for the ceremony. Former members Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony accepted the invitation. Van Halen had planned to use the ceremony to kick of their reunion tour. However, lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen entered rehab last week and the tour has been put on hiatus. The band Velvet Revolver were the "house band" for the ceremony and had planned to perform the hit "Jump" and "Panama" with Van Halen's former lead singer David Lee Roth. Roth didn't appear because he objected to using Velvet Revolver to perform Van Halen''s songs. The disparity between Van Halen and Roth doesn't promise a happy reunion tour if a tour at all this summer.

R.E.M. were the second group to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Bill Berry the bands former drummer joined them for the induction. Berry suffered an an aneurysm on stage in 1995 and nearly died. After nearly 17 years in the band he left in 1997 to take it easy and become a farmer. R.E.M. formed in Athens, Ga in the early 80's and are the innovators of the indie rock scene and had a hit in 1985 with "Radio Free Europe" they hit the mainstream later with "Losing my Religion" on the album' Out of Time ' in 1991 and continued to have hits throughout the 90's and into the 2000's.

Patti Smith a solo artist was inducted into the Hall of Fame. She is famous for her 1978 album "Horses" which linked the hippie and the punk rock sound of the day. Her album was an influence sighted by Michael Stipe as the reason why he wanted to become a singer and rock star. Smith didn't attend the ceremony instead she publicly panned it in a New York Times article saying that after having talked to the regular people around her Greenwich neighborhood it made the induction less important too her.

The Ronnettes were also inducted into the hall. They are famous for the song 'Be my Baby" which showcased the "wall of sound" pioneered by Phil Spector who was married to the lead singer Ronnie Spector. Keith Richards hosted the induction and Ronnie was there to accept the invitation

Hip hop and rap's first group was inducted into the Hall of Fame Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Their hit in the early 80's "The Message" was a chronicle of the urban life during the Reagan era. The induction ceremony was lead by rapper/ producer Jay-Z and leader Mellie Mel was on hand to accept the invitation. The rappers of today Jay-Z, Eminem,and Tupac will be eligible for the Hall of Fame in 25 years.

Music Notes

Nine Inch Nails will release a new c.d. titled Year Zero on April 17 their first since 2005's With Teeth. Trent Reznor the bands lead singer and songwriter said that it was written while they were on tour for With Teeth . " I sometimes have trouble writing new material, while on tour but this was written in tour buses, backstage, and during breaks in the tour," said Reznor. The new material tells the story of an Orwellian picture of the USA in the year 2022 . A trailer for the album and the first single is called Survivalism are currently available on the NIN website.

The Flaming Lips are working on a Broadway version of their 2002 c.d. Yoshimi battles the Pink Robots. They are hoping to work with Des McAnuff who brought The Who's Tommy to the Broadway Stage. Wayne Coyne said "As much as I love the intense experience of being at a rock show, this could be great!"

A Guns N Roses fan site was shut down not by the band but by the fan who runs it. The GNRonline web-master is unhappy about the continued delay of the current lineups c.d. 'Chinese Democracy 'which is close to ten years in the making. The most recent release of the c.d. was to be March 6 when that didn't happen the web master stated

"The never-ending saga of 'Chinese Democracy', the lack of respect, clearness and mutual loyalty are just some of the reasons that has brought us down to this painful conclusion. Until now our detractors have always accused us of being 'Axl fanatics' (and to a certain degree, it is probably true) but today we aren't able to sustain Axl's project anymore, neither financially nor economically. We just can't afford to waste our heads on a project that has never even taken us into consideration. We still want to believe in Axl Rose and his record and we greatly wish that 'Chinese Democracy' would see the light of day before February 2008. If that will be the case we will make our best effort to re-open the site otherwise our domains will be lost and that will be the end of it."

A member of Coldplay is going to be a guest star on the new Swizz Beatz album titled 'One Man Band'. The album is written and produced by the rapper and it isn't known which member appears on the appear on a track titled "Part of the Plan." Chris Martin the lead singer of Coldplay appeared on "Beach Chair" from Jay-Z's 2006 comeback album 'Kingdom Come'. Martin has also recorded a song entitled 'Homecoming' which will be the first single from a new Kanye West album.

Debbie Harry has picked Kirsten Dunst to play her in an upcoming movie about her and the band Blondie. Alot of people aren't too happy about Harry picking Dunst for the role. Some feel that Dunst won't portray Harry acurately. Some of the other names tossed around were Scarlett Johannson or Gina Gershon.

Brittney Spears has fallen for a rock musician who she is in rehab with. She has started dating Jason Filyaw who is a 33 yr. old musician and is the lead singer for the band RIva. The couple met while attending an AA meeting and plan to move in together once they finish rehab.

The late John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High" has become Colorado's official second state song along with the lesser known state song "Where the Columbines Grow." State senator Bob Hagedom pushed for the adoption of the song and said that it had been the unofficial song for many years. It has also introduced many people around the world to Colorado said Hagedom.
State senator Dave Schultheis said that he doesn't think the state should have two songs. "If the legislature didn't like Where the Columbines Grow, they should remove it and replace it." He admitted that he didn't know the words to the current state song. John Denver's brother Ron Deutschendorf said that John would have been honored to have his song designated as a state song. John Denver died in a plane crash near Monterey Ca, ten years ago.

The Who cancelled a concert in Tampa Fl, moments into the first song. Apparently, lead singer Roger Daltrey was ailing and having vocal problems. The concert started at 8:40 p.m. and they started to play their hit "I Can't Explain" but Daltrey exited without even singing a lyric. Lead guitarist Pete Townsend and the rest of the band left the stage, he returned later to apologize to the 9,000 fans attending the concert.
Telling them that Roger was barely able to speak and he is really sick and unable to go on. A make up date of Mar. 25 has been set and refunds for the tickets can be obtained at the place of purchase. The Who are in the middle of their first reunion tour in 20 years and their first since John Entwhistle the band's bassist died in 2002.

Saturday the 21st annual Soul Train Music Awards were held in the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena Ca. Jamie Foxx, Mary J Blige. Gnarls Barkley and others were presented awards.
Jamie Foxx won best male for his album "Unpredictable" and Blige won for best female album for "The Breakthrough", Gnarls Barkley for best single from a group with "Crazy." John Legend won best male singer for "Save Room" and Beyonce won best female single for her song "Irreplaceable." Jay-Z won the Michael Jackson award for best soul or rap video for "Show me what you got" Jennifer Hudson won the Sammy Davis Jr. award for her performance in the movie "Dreamgirls" and Baby Face was presented the Stevie Wonder award for Outstanding achievement in song writing. The show was hosted by La Toya Jackson and Omarion the awards were voted on by radio station professionals, talent managers, and performers.

It was also learned this week that Brad Delp the lead singer of Boston who was found dead in his home last Friday committed suicide
A note attached to the stairs below the bathroom stated " I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation. I have lost my desire to live," he wrote. The note also included instructions on how to contact his fiancee: "Unfortunately she is totally unaware of what I have done.". He committed suicide by placing two charcoal grills in the bathroom of his home and sealing off the door. Later police found four sealed letters in his office addressed to his fiance and his children, their mother.
Pamela Sullivan stated that he had been depressed for sometime and feeling bad about himself. Brad Delp and Sullivan were to be married this summer during a break from the bands tour.

Rock N Roll legal briefs

Paul McCartney and Heather Mills have come to an agreement in their bitter divorce battle. The couple were married in 2002 and have a child Beatrice together. It was reported that Mills was seeking $6.6 million a year or $20.000 a day but Mills dropped those demands and will received $48 million in cash and a Georgian Mansion worth $8 million.
No prenuptial agreement was signed before the two married and Mills could have walked away with a quarter of McCartney's $1.6 billion fortune. The British press have labeled Mills as a "gold digger" and to this she has replied " I fell in love unconditionally and if I was a gold digger then I'd have alot of money in my bank account and be worth millions."

An irish judge wants Eminem to appear in court following the cancellation of a 2005 performance at Slane Castle. The rapper is the subject of a $3 million compensation lawsuit filed by promoters MCD and are seeking to recoup funds from three insurance companies .
They claim they haven't been refunded their money after 80,000 tickets were voided by the cancellation of the concert by Eminem who cited "exhaustion" for the cancellation during his Anger Management Tour. Eminem has requested that he present his appeal in private but justice Peter Kelly has refused insisting the rappers contribution to the trial is "possibly crucial."

Levon Helm the former drummer of The Band is suing a Manhattan advertising firm for their use of the song "The Weight" in a television commercial.
The commercial was produced by Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (BBDO) and featured in a Cingular advertisement. The lawsuit was filed in New York State's supreme court in December and Helm asks for the information on how much the commercial made and for compensation. His attorney states that law prohibits a company from using a celebrity's voice or likeness without written permission.
According to a royalty statement from EMI records who own Capitol records BBDO paid for the rights to use the song and Helm took one-fifth of the licensing fee that was paid BDO had no comment on the suit.
Helm was quoted as saying" It was just a complete sellout of The Band—its reputation, its music, just as much disrespect as you could pour on Richard and Rick's tombstones," said Helms. Richard Manual piano player for The Band died in 1986 and bass player Rick Danko died in 1999. The Band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

Busta Rhymes wasn't present for the filming of the movie Order of the Redemption a crime thriller starring Tom Berenger and Rhymes . It wasn't his choice not too be present. The New York Police Department barred the rapper from the production citing "safety concerns" there are rumors that Rhymes was barred from the set because of his continued failure to cooperate with the NYPD in a murder probe of his bodyguard Israel Ramirez . He was killed by an unknown assailant in February of 2006 while Rhymes was filming a music video in Brooklyn. This incident along with recent ones involving Rhymes where he allegedly assaulted a fan for spitting on his SUV and a former driver says he was roughed up over money owed to Rhymes. Busta Rhymes has entered a plea of not guilty in both cases and his next court date is March 26. If convicted on the first count he will be charged with a misdemeanor and 30 days in jail, the second count will possibly net a fine.
The movie's producer Rob Capelli in an interview with The New York Daily News said that the decision to bar Rhymes from the set was financial because having the star on the set would require additional police detail. The movie director Jeff Celentano stated that they had permits to shoot the production in Manhattan for 14 days in early April. He also said that barring him from the set was unfair to Rhymes and that he had been nothing but professional during the project.

Courtney Love is being sued by The Beau Monde Center a southern california rehab center that treats drug and alcohol addiction. The center claims she paid $10,000 up front but hasn't paid the remaining $180,000 for the treatment she received in 2005.
The center offers massages, gourmet food and whale watching for its wealthy celebrity clientele. Love spent four months in the center and was ordered too by a Los Angeles judge because she spent months in and out of courts on drug charges and one charge of assaulting a female who is a friend of Love's ex-boyfriend.
Love's lawyer stated that there is a difference between the them over how much money is actually owed and the matter is in the process of being resolved.

That is all of the music news for the week here are the birthdays for the week of March 19-25 2007. Until next week
GET OUT OF MY HEAD !

Mar 19

Ornette Coleman (1930)
American saxophonist and composer.
He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s.

Clarence "Frogman" Henry (1937)
Blues artist

Ricky Helton Wilson ( 1953 – 1985)
the original guitarist in the rock band The B-52's,
which he helped to form in 1976. One of the
first musicians to die of HIV.

James "Big Jim" Wright ( 1966)
record producer, musician, and songwriter, producer.
Worked with Mariah Carey on her 2005 album,
The Emancipation of Mimi.

Mar 20
Dame Vera Lynn, DBE ( 1917)
British singer whose career flourished during World War II
nicknamed "The Forces' Sweetheart" and is best known for
the popular songs "We'll Meet Again"

Jerry Reed (1937)
American country music singer, country guitarist, songwriter, and actor.

Marcia Ball (1949)
American blues singer and pianist

Carl Palmer (1950)
English drummer and percussionist.
Palmer is a veteran of a number of British bands, including
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and Asia.

Jimmie Vaughan (1951)
American blues guitarist and singe and
is the older brother of Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Slim Jim Phantom (1960)
rock drummer, best-known for his
work with the band, The Stray Cats

Chester Charles Bennington (1976)
American musician,
front man lead vocalist in the
band Linkin Park.

Nickolas Don Wheeler (1982) i
lead guitarist, sings back-up vocals, keyboardist, programmer
for The All-American Rejects

Mar 21

Eddie James House, Jr. (1902 –1988)
better known as Son House
an influential blues singer and guitarist

Roger Hodgson (1950)
British vocalist and musician
one of the founding members of
the progressive rock group Supertramp.

Jonas Berggren aka Joker (1967)
born Jonas Petter Breggren
one of the members of the
swedish group Ace of Base.

Keith "Keeti" Palmer (1967)
Member of the english band
The Prodigy.

Deryck Jayson Whibley ( 1980)
a.k.a Bizzy D
musician and producer
known for his work as the lead
vocalist and songwriter of Canadian pop
punk band Sum 41

Mar 22
Keith Relf (1943 -1976)
Lead singer and harmonica
player of The Yardbirds.

Mar 23

Ric Ocasek (1949)
former vocalist and frontman for
The Cars and a producer for several other
groups including Weezer, Bad Brains, and Suicide.

Chaka Khan (1953)
R&B singer popular during
the 70's

Damon Albarn, (1968 )
English singer-songwriter and
the lead singer of rock band Blur

Mar 24

Nena (1960)
A German singer who became famous
with the song "99 Luftballons" ("99 Red Balloons")

Dougie Thomson (1951)
Member of the band
Supertramp.

Sharon Helga Corr, MBE ( 1970)
Member of the irish rock band
The Corrs.

Mar 25

Hoyt Axton (1938 –1999)
American country music singer-songwriter,
film and television actor.

Aretha Louise Franklin (1942)
American soul, R&B, and gospel singer, songwriter

Nick Lowe (1949)
singer-songwriter
bass guitarist and producer

Sir Elton John, CBE (1947)
a multiple Grammy- and Academy Award-winning
English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist

Jeff Healey (1966)
Canadian blues-rock guitarist.

Cathy Dennis ( 1969)
dance-oriented pop singer-songwriter,
record producer and actress.

$3,400 to talk to who ?

2007-03-11T12:49:00.000-07:00

News this week

On thursday in Tokyo fans paid ¥400,000 or $ 3,400 to talk to and meet with Michael Jackson . Many came dressed as the King of Nonesuch and there was a fan art contest judged by Jackson. Over a 100 orphans and handicapped kids were able to visit with him for free.
Although, Jackson still has a huge fan base in Japan he has kept a low profile around the rest of the world since being acquitted of child molestation charges in June of 2005 and spending most of his time in Bahrain and Ireland.
It is rumored that he is currently working on a solo album with Will I. Am of the Black Eyed Peas. The reformation of the Jackson 5 may happen. Michael will reunite with his brothers and play 250 dates in Las Vegas then tour the United States. The shows and tour are expected to make $500 million.

Britney Spears who hasn't been on the top of the charts for quite sometime may get some help from producer Timbadland who has worked with Justin Timberlake, and Nelly Furtatdo on such hits as "SexyBack" and "Maneater".
Timbadland is quoted as saying " she's got to be serious about a comeback." He has also said that he would like to have Justin Timberlake help with the production of new material. Calls from Timbandland's agent to Spears agent and label were not immediately returned.

The Dixie Chicks weren't nominated for any catagories in the upcoming Academy of Country Music Awards.
Apparently, it is because of their stand on George W. Bush. Having stated publicly that they were embarrassed about being from the same state as the president. They received five awards at the Grammy's earlier this month.

According to Van Halen's website guitarist Eddie Van Halen has entered himself into rehab because he doesn't feel himself. He also said that he will be able to give 110% in the future. Van Halen were slated to begin a reunion tour with former lead singer David Lee Roth.

Coldplay are boasting that they have written the song everybody should hear "before we die." The band has decided to return to the studio and craft a different sound than the previous album "X&Y" which has sold more than 2 million copies since being released in 2005. Chris Martin the lead singer said that for a long time people have believed that they are "black and white" but they now feel like they have an incredible job and can try new things.

LL Cool J is in talks with Chapstick to endorse the lip balm. The company believes that he can appeal more to men and increase sales.

The Beastie Boys are finishing a new album which will hopefully be out this summer. It will be their first since the 2004 release "To the 5 Burroughs."

Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey turned some heads in Nashville while filming scenes for the upcoming movie "Tennessee."

The R&B diva is playing an aspiring country signer who flees her controlling husband in New Mexico by moving to Nashville with two brothers.

Last week, she sang at the downtown honky-tonk Second Fiddle. She co-wrote "Right To Dream" with Willie Nelson and performed it with Nelson's harmonica player, Mickey Raphael.

"People were weeping on the crew when she sang it," director Aaron Woodley told The Tennessean. "It's very moving, especially in the context of the film and her character."

Earlier, they shot on location in Dunlap, about 20 miles north of Chattanooga, and at Cumberland Caverns in McMinnville. Later they filmed some train scenes on trips between Nashville and Lebanon.

"There I am, sitting on the edge of a boxcar with Mariah Carey, breezing through town," Woodley said. "We slowed down to go over a bridge, and there were people sitting in cars. I think they did a double-take: 'I swear I just saw Mariah Carey on a boxcar.'(AP wire)

In celebrity legal news

Sean Combs now known as just "Diddy" is being sued. A man claims that Combs was talking to his girlfriend outside a Hollywood nightclub last week and as he approached them Combs punched and yelled obscenities at him. Police are investigating but couldn't confirm that the incident actually took place so Combs wasn't charged. Sean Combs lawyer says it is another case of someone trying to take advantage of a celebrity. The lawsuit filed by the man seeks unspecified pain suffering and punitive damages.
A side note to Sean Combs and one of his former associates. This past week wass the 11th anniversary of the death of the Notorius B.I.G. who was born Christopher Wallace.He was artist with Bad Boy Records fronted by Combs. Wallace was gunned down on March 6, 1996 in Los Angeles after attending the Source Awards. His murder remains unsolved to this day. However, he released a greatest hits album this past week which contained no new material.

Bobby Brown who spent three days in a Norfolk county Mass. jail for not paying child support. He was eventually bailed out by a Washington D.C. radio station because he was to be an employee of the station for a week. It was learned this week he will not be appearing on the station after all. The reason wasn't given as to why Brown won't show his gratitude.

John Popper of Blues Traveler was arrested tuesday afternoon for going 111 mph on Interstate 90 near Spokane, Wa. Police found various weapons inside hidden compartments of the vehicle. They also found a stun gun, night vision goggles and a small amount of marijuana in the black Mercedes SUV that had flashing emergency lights, siren and a p.a. system. Popper said that he had these items installed because "in the event of a natural disaster, he didn't want to be left behind." Police impounded the vehicle and the items. Popper and the driver were taken to jail but were released on their own recognizance. Authorities are going to charge them with possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia
John Popper had a hit a few years ago with "Runaround" when he was with the band Blues Traveler. Recently, he formed the band The John Popper Project with DJ Logic they released an album in 2006.

Fabian the 50's and 60's teen hearthrob singer had a couple of close calls last weekend. He was in a car crash with his daughter and manager near Palm Springs, Ca on friday. A vehicle sideswiped the vehicle they were riding in it rolled a few times but no one was hurt. Later at the Spotlight Casino while performing with Frankie Avalon he fell of the stage and scraped his chin.

The premiere of "Three days in the Life" a documentary about John Lennon was cancelled by lawyers of Yoko Ono. The footage of the documentary was shot inside Lennon's apartment in 1970 . It details the two months before the Beatles broke up . It was to be screened at Berwich Academy a private school in southern Maine. Apparently, the executive producer of the documentary Ray Thomas didn't receive a release for the copyright of the film and planned to show it for free at the academy. However, Ono's lawyers said that was even forbidden so the screening was cancelled completely

Money Death,Money, Death
Courtney Love who recently sold her share of Nirvana's songs is profiting from the band's song "Breed" which will be featured on the new MLB 2k7. Kurt Cobain continues to make money 13 years after his death.

James Brown who died on December 25th, 2006 has finally been laid to rest. His body was kept at an undisclosed location while his former wife and his family fought over his estate.
Seems that the current widow of the singer was apparently still legally married to someone else when she married Brown. The family cites this as a reason why she shouldn't get a piece of his estate. Brown's body was finally placed in a crypt on saturday.
The crypt is locaton on the Brown familys Beech Island home in South Carolina. The family also plan to build a larger mausoleum similar to "Graceland" in the future.

The "Big Bopper" J.P. Richardson's body was exhumed recently. In 1959 near Mason, Iowa he died with Buddy Holly and Richie Valens in a plane crash. It has been rumored for years that a gun found near Buddy Holly was fired on that flight and may have caused the crash . It was also rumored that RIchardson may have lived for awhile after the crash and died trying to find help.
However, a forensic expert at the University of Tennessee found massive fractures on Richardson's body from head to toe which proved that he died on impact. This also proved that pilot error was responsible for the crash. Richardson's body was reburied in the same cemetery but in a different plot and there is a plan to place a statue at the grave-site.

Brad Delph of the band Boston died suddenly on friday March 9 at age 55 in his Atkinson, NH home. Details of his death are not know but foul play wasn't suspected. He was with the band from 1976-2007 and sang on such hits as "More than a feeling." and "Longtime." The band Boston recently released an album and had taken a break from their recent tour. The band's website was taken down and replaced with Delph's picture and the words "we just lost the nicest guy in rock n roll."

I will try to end this on a happy note by listing the birthdays this week of
March 11-18, 2007

Mar 12
Al Jarreau (1940),
b. Alwyn Jarreau
Jazz Singer
famous for singing the
theme song to the
t.v. show "Moonlighting"

Liza May Minnelli (1946)
Judy Garland's little girl
and famous for her
performance in "Cabaeret"

James Taylor (1948)
Famous for many hits
during the 70's such as
"Fire and Rain"
married to Carly SImon for
a short time.

Stephen Harris (1956)
Known as just "Arry" to
his fans. Bassist, songwriter
of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden.

Marlon David Jackson (1957)
Member of The Jackson 5

Graham Coxon (1969)
Former guitarist
for the Britpop band
"Blur"

March 13

Jan Howard (1930 )
born Lula Grace Johnson
was one of the trail-blazing
country music female vocalists of the 1960s.

Liz Anderson (1930)
born Elizabeth Jane Haaby
Country music singer songwriter
wrote the Merle Haggard song
"The Fugitive" and "Strangers"
she is also the mother of
Lynn Anderson who had
the hit "I never promised you
a rose garden."

Erma Franklin ( 1938 – 2002)
soul, rhythm and blues, pop singer
recorded the original version of
"Piece of My Heart" later covered
by Janis Joplin

Neil Sedaka (1939)
Singer, songwriter
who had the hits
"Breaking up is hard to do"
"Calendar Girl."

Michael Martin Murphey (1945)
Country music singer
had hits in the 70's such
as "Wildfire"

Adam Charles Clayton (1960)
Bassist for the Irish rock band
U2.

Common (1972)
born Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr
Chicago based rapper, songwriter.

David Draiman (1973 )
The lead singer for the
band Disturbed,

Ed Sloan, (1973)
the lead vocalist and guitarist
of the metal group Crossfade

Spanky G (1979)
Born Michael Joseph Guthier
former drummer of the band
The Bloodhound Gang.

Mar 14

Les Brown, Sr. ( 1912 – 2001)
Known for Les Brown
the Band of Renown

Lee Hays ( 1914 - 1981)
American folk-singer and songwriter,
known for singing bass with
the Weavers.

Phil Phillips (1931)
born John Phillip Baptiste
singer and songwriter best known for
his 1959 hit "Sea of Love."

Quincy Jones (1933)
music impresario, conductor
record producer, musical arranger,
film composer and trumpeter

Rick Dees (1950)
Born Rigdon Ogden Dees
radio disc jockey who is
best known for his syndicated radio show
Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 and
the novelty song "Disco Duck."

Taylor Hanson (1983 )
one of the singers
in the band Hanson

March 15
Harry James ( 1916 – 1983)
Band leader during the Big Band Era.

Phillip Lesh (1940 )
musician and founding member
of the rock band
Grateful Dead

Mike Love (1941)
singer and songwriter
of The Beach Boys.

Ryland "Ry" Peter Cooder (1947)
American musician collaborates with various
musicians from other countries.

Dee Snider (1955)
born David Daniel Snider
Lead singer of "Twisted Sister"

Bret Michaels (1963)
Born Bret Michael Sychak
lead vocalist of
the glam metal band Poison.

Mark McGrath (1968)
the lead singer of rock band Sugar Ray
and currently hosts the television tabloid Extra.

Mark Hoppus (1972)
one of the three founding members of
the pop punk band blink-182

Wil. I Am( 1975)
Born William James Adams
hip-hop musician and founding member of The Black Eyed Peas

Sid Wilson ( 1978 )
DJ for the
group Slipknot.

March 16
Fred Neil ( 1936 – 2001)
American blues and folk singer
songwriter in the 1960s and early 1970s.
He is best remembered for writing the
top 40 hits "Candy Man" by Roy Orbison
"Everybody's Talkin'" by Nilsson

Jerry Jeff Walker (1942)
Born Ronald Clyde Crosby
a country music singer.

Nancy Wilson ( 1954)
singer and guitarist who formed
the band "Heart" with her sister
Ann. She is also married to
Cameron Crowe.

Flavor Flav (1959)
Born William Dayton
Rap artist and television star
founding member of the influential
politically conscious hip hop group Public Enemy

March 17

Billy Corgan (1967)
lead guitarist, and songwriter
for the rock band
Smashing Pumpkins

Melissa Auf der Maur (1972)
Canadian rock musician
and former bass player
of the band "Hole" and
Smashing Pumpkins.

Caroline Corr, MBE ( 1973)
drummer for the folk-rock band
The Corrs

Justin Hawkins ( 1975)
former lead guitarist and
singer of The Darkness.

Mar 18

Wilson Pickett (1941 – 2006)

Irene Cara (1959)
Known for the hit song
"What a feeling' from the movie
"Flashdance."

James McMurtry (1962)
folk music singer-songwriter
and the son of novelist Larry McMurtry.

Vanessa Williams ( 1963)
R&B/Pop/theatrical singer and actress

Jerry Cantrell ( 1966)
guitarist, singer, songwriter
with the band
Alice in Chains

Miki Berenyi (1967)
former lead singer
of the English band
Lush.

Queen Latifah (1970)
Born Dana Owens
One of the first female rappers.
Actor and spokesperson for
Maybelline.

Well that is all the news in music this week Until next week

GET OUT OF MY HEAD !

Spring and Summer concerts coming soon.

2007-02-28T21:58:00.001-08:00

Hello
music lovers can it be the first week of March already? Time is certainly moving by quickly it won't be long until the spring and summer concerts and shows begin. An outdoor concert that will be here soon is Bonnaroo in Manchester Tennesee. The web site lists it as 101 days to go until it starts.
While there will be several artist performing the most interesting one is The Police who have reunited for 2007 in celebration of them forming 30 yrs ago. I can't see how this really a celebration considering they somewhat broke up in 1984 but I guess that it is one way to say that they have put aside their differences for now. The friction between Sting and Stewart Copeland is what made for some great music when they were together. I hope they sound better than they did at the Grammy Awards it showed that they hadn't played together in quite a few years. Alot of different groups will be playing Bonnaroo here is a partial list of some of them.
Tool ,• Widespread Panic • The White Stripes • Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals • Wilco • The Flaming Lips • MANU CHAO Radio Bemba Sound System • The String Cheese Incident • Franz Ferdinand • Bob Weir & Ratdog • Damien Rice • Ween • Gov't Mule • Ziggy Marley • The Decemberists • The Roots • Kings of Leon • Michael Franti and Spearhead • Wolfmother • Regina Spektor • The Black Keys • Galactic • DJ Shadow • Gillian Welch • Spoon • Keller Williams (WMD'S) • Sasha & John Digweed • STS9 • Old Crow Medicine Show • The Hold Steady • Lily Allen • North Mississippi Allstars • Fountains Of Wayne • Hot Tuna • Feist • Hot Chip • John Butler Trio • Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys • Aesop Rock • The Richard Thompson Band • Dierks Bentley • James Blood Ulmer • Xavier Rudd • Gogol Bordello • Junior Brown • Tortoise • T-Bone Burnett • Mavis Staples • Clutch • Cold War Kids • Dr. Dog • Paolo Nutini.

Wilco will be wrapping up a tour of Australia and Europe prior to playing at Bonnaroo. They will also be releasing a new album on May 15, 2007. It is called "Sky, Blue,Sky" and will include songs such as "Either Way,You Are My Face,Impossible Germany, and Sky Blue Sky." I haven't heard anything in advance from this album but will report on what I do when it is available. It will be interesting to see which direction the band will take musically. Jeff Tweed and Jim O'Rourke worked hard on the last two albums to be more experimental in order to leave the "alternative country" label that Uncle Tupelo and Wilco had built up previously. Wilco has recently been compared to Radiohead in their muscial direction. No matter which direction they take muscially I 'm certain it will be a success.

Another former Uncle Tupelo member has reformed his band. Jay Farrar who after going solo has decided that the band Son Volt was a better . A new album called " The Search" will debut on March 6, 2007 a partial listing of tracks are " Slow Hearse , The Picture , Action , Underground Dream , Circadian Rhythm" it will be interesting to hear how Farrar with some members of the new and old Son Volt.They begin a tour March 26 , 2007 and will play the Pageant in St. Louis on April 21, 2007.

Avril Lavinge has released her single "Girlfriend" and it is alot different than her previous albums "Lets Go" and "Under my Skin". The lyrics and music are alot lighter and comparable to what Jewel tried a few years ago. She left the angsty guitar girl image behind for a poppier sound on her album "03/04" the fans didn't react well to this and when sales dipped Jewel said it was a comment on the music industry and how it is more concerned about style than substance. If the reviews on iTunes are any indication of what Avril's fans think she apparently didn't pay attention to Jewel's mistake.

British pop singer Kellis ( the song 'Milkshake") the wife of rapper Nas was arrested in Miami on Friday for interferring with a police undercover operation. Apparently, Kelis charged two undercover female officers who were posing as prostitutes shouting racial slurs toward them. Her friends restrained her and she seemed to calm down for a moment but then she started again and the officers arrested her for interference. She posted a $1,500 bond and was released a few hours later.
Another pop singer in trouble is Bobby Brown who hasn't been paying child support for the past few months. When he atttended his daughters cheerleading competition in Canton, Ma the norfolk county police arrested him and took him to jail for three days. Hot 99.5 a Washington DC radio station paid over $19,000 that Brown owed in child support because he was to be an employee of the station for a week. Bobby Brown and his wife Whitney Houston divorced last year after 14 years of marriage.

The New Music Express Awards were held in Hammersmith Palais on March 1, 2007 in London England. The ceremony celebrated the best and worst of the year. The show was wrapped up by the Kaiser Chiefs who gave a great performance.
Winners of the awards were as follows

Best Catagory

Best Britsh Band Muse
Best International Band My Chemical Romance
Best Solo Artist Jamie T.
Best Album Whatever people say I am/ Artic Monkeys
Best Track Wasted little Dj's/ The View
Best Video Bones/ The Killers
Best Movie Pirates of the Carribbean Dead Man's Chest
Best Dvd Scummy Man/ Artic Monkeys
Hero Of the Year Gerard Way/ My Chemical Romance
Godlike Status Primal Scream
Sexiest
Man Matt Bellamy/ Muse
Woman Kate Moss

And the worst
Worst Band Panic! at the Disco
Worst Album "Rudebox"/ Robbie Williams
Villian of the Year George W. Bush

Those who had a birthday this past week were
Feb 26
"Fats" Domino (1928)
Antoine Dominique

Lazar Naumovich Berman (1930-2005)
Russian classical pianist

Johnny Cash (1932– Sept 12,2003)
Influenced generations of rock & country
musicians.
Known as
The man in Black.

Mitch Ryder (1945)
William S. Levise Jr.
Lead singer for Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
Famous for the hit "Devil with the Blue Dress on"

Bob "The Bear" Hite (1945-1981)
Lead singer and harmoinca player
for the band Canned Heat (1965-1981)

Sandie Shaw(1947)
b Sandra Ann Goodrich
"barefoot singer "
from Canada.

Emma Kirkby (1949)
British soprano singer

Michael Bolton(1953)
b Michael Bolotin
no relation to the guy
from "Office Space"

Erykah Badu (1971 )
b Erica Abi Wright
Neo-Soul R&B singer

Corinne Bailey Rae (1979)
English singer/songwriter

Feb 27
Mildred Bailey ( 1907 – 1951)
popular American singer
during the 1930's.

Dexter (Keith) Gordon (1923 - 1990)
American jazz tenor saxophonist
and considered one of the first
bebop tenor players

Guy Mitchell (1927-1999)
b Albert George Cernik
An American pop singer
famous for the song
"Heartaches by the number"

Steve Harley ( 1951)
b Steven Nice
Lead singer of Steve Harley & Cockney Rebels
progressive rock group in Britain during the 1970's

Adrian Frederik "H" Smith (1957 )
songwriter and guitarists
for the band Iron Maiden.

Nancy Laura Spungen (1958 – 1978)
the girlfriend of Sex Pistols'
bassist Sid Vicious.

Brad Vander Ark (1969)
bass player for the band
The Verve Pipe 1992-2001.

"Chilli" (1971)
b Rozonda Ocelean Thomas
from the R&B group TLC

Ali Tabatabaee (1973)
one of the vocalists in
the band "Zebrahead"

Bobby Valentino(1980)
b. Robert Wilson
American R&B singer

Josh Groban (1981)
American singer/songwriter
with a baritone voice.

Feb 28
Joe South (1940)
b. Joe Souther
Guitarist
played on Aretha Franklin
song "Chain of Fools"

Brian Jones (1942-1969)
b. Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones
original member The Rolling Stones.

Bernadette Peters (1948)
American Tony Award-winning
actress and singer.

Pat Monahan (1969)
lead singer of the band
Train

Jason Aldean (1977)
country music artist.

Fefe Dobson (1985)
b. Felicia Lynn Dobson
Canadian singer and songwriter

March 1
Alton Glenn Miller (1904 -1944)
American jazz musician
bandleader in the swing era
Disappeared over France during
WW II.

Harry Belafonte (1927)
b.Harold George Belafonte Jr.
Calypso singer of the
"Banana Boat song"

Mike d'Abo (1944)
English singer/songwriter
former lead vocalist
for Manfred Mann

Roger Daltrey (1944)
founder,vocalist, songwriter
for The Who

Burning Spear (1948)
b Winston Rodney
Reggae singer

Ryan Peake (1973)
lead guitarist
for the band
Nickelback

March 2

Desi Arnaz (1917-1986)
b. Desidero Alberto Arnaz III
Cuban actor, musician, band leader
married to Lucille Ball
1940-1960

Lawrence Albert Payton (1936-1997)
singer with the 60's R&B group
The Four Tops.

"Lou" Reed (1942)
Lewis Allen Reed
Lead singer of the band
Velvet Underground.

Rory Gallagher (1948 – 1995)
Irish blues/rock guitarist

Karen Carpenter (1950-1983)
drummer/ singer with
her brother Richard in
The Carpenters.

Jay Osmond (1955)
Member of the
Osmonds.

Mark Evans (1956)
bass player for
AC/DC

John Cowsill (1956)
keyboardist for
The Cowsills

Jon Bon Jovi (1962)
b.John F. Bongiovi
singer in the band
Bon Jovi

Chris Martin (1977)
lead singer, songwriter, guitarist
for the band
Coldplay.

March 3
Doc Watson (1923)
Arthel Lane Watson
bluegrass singer
songwriter and guitarist

Jennifer Warnes (1947)
American singer/ songwriter
songs
"Right time of the night"
"Up where we belong"
w/ Joe Cocker

Snowy White (1948)
b. Terence Charles White
guitarist for Thin Lizzy
Pink Floyd

Robyn Hitchcock (1953)
singer/ songwriter/ guitarist
of Psych Folk.
Known for his work with
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians.

Tone Loc (1966)
b. Anthony T. Smith
Hip hop artist/ actor
known for the hit
"Wild Thing"
"Funky Cold Medina"

March 4
Bobby Womack (1944)
guitarist / songwriter
played guitar for several groups
during the 60's 70's

Chris Squire (1948)
English bassist backing vocalist for the progressive rock group
" Yes " and the only member of the group to appear on every album.

Shakin' Stevens (1948)
b. Michael Barrett
English singer/ songwriter

Jason Newsted (1963)
former bass player with
Metallica (1986-2001)

Evan Dando (1967)
Lead singer of
the "Lemonheads"

* Birthdays for March 5-11, 2007

March 5
Paul Evans (1938)
rock and roll singer and songwriter in the 1950s and 1960s.
hits with the songs "Seven Little Girls (Sitting in the Back Seat)"
"Midnight Special" and "Happy-Go-Lucky Me

Clodagh Rodgers (1947)
singer from Northern Ireland,
known for her hit "Jack in the Box"
was the United Kingdom's entry in
the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest.

Alan Clark (1952)
one of the keyboardists for the
rock band Dire Straits.

John Anthony Frusciante (1970)
the guitarist of the band Red Hot Chili Peppers

Evil" Jared Hasselhoff ( 1971)
b. Jared Hennegan
the bassist for the band The Bloodhound Gang

March 6
James Robert (Bob) Wills (1905 – 1975)
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
American country musician, songwriter, and big band leader

John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery (1925 -1968)
American jazz guitarist.

Mary Wilson ( 1944 )
American singer
The Supremes.

David Jon Gilmour CBE (1946 )
English guitarist, singer,songwriter
member of the band Pink Floyd.

Kiki Dee (1947)
b. Pauline Matthews
successful singer/songwriter
most famous song was a duet with Elton John
"Don't Go Breaking My Heart""(1976)
#1 that same year

Madonna Wayne Gacy i (1964)
b. Stephen Gregory Bier Jr.
the keyboard player for Marilyn Manson.

March 7
Lee Young ( 1917)
jazz drummer and singer.
played with such jazz and swing musicians
as Mutt Carey, Fats Waller, Les Hite, Benny Goodman, and Lionel Hampton.
In the 1950s he played with Nat "King" Cole's trio.

Chris White ( 1943)
the bass guitarist with the 1960s English band
The Zombies.

Townes Van Zandt ( 1944 – 1997)
folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet.

Arthur Lee ( 1945 – 2006)
enigmatic and volatile frontman, songwriter and
multi-instrumentalist of the Los Angeles psychedelic band Love

Peter Wolf ( 1946)
b. Peter Blankfield
the lead vocalist for the
J. Geils Band from 1967 to 1982.

Taylor Dayne (1962)
b. Leslie Wunderman
American pop vocalist, dance
artist and actress.
Had the hit single
"Tell it to my heart" (1988)

Thomas Erak (1985)
guitar player and lead singer from
the band The Fall of Troy.

March 8

Mickey Dolenz. ( 1945)
b.George Michael Dolenz, Jr
actor, musician, and television and
Theatre director best known for being one of The Monkees.

Randy Meisner, (1946)
bass guitarist and vocalist best known for his contribution as
a founding member of the country-rock group The Eagles.

Michael Rand Allsup, ( 1947 )
guitarist best known for his contribution as a member of
the rock and roll group Three Dog Night.

Gary Numan ( 1958)
b.Gary Anthony James Webb
English singer, composer, musician and
electropop pioneer

Angie Hart ( 1972)
Australian pop singer
lead vocalist in the band Frente!.

Gaz Coombes ( 1976)
b.Gareth Michael Coombesis
vocalist and guitarist for the band Supergrass.
His "trademark" sideburns are a bit younger though.

Thomas Oliver Chaplin
lead singer of the English rock band
Keane.

March 9
Keely Smith ( 1932)
b.Dorothy Jaqueline Keely
American jazz and popular music singer
collaborated with Louis Prima and Frank Sinatra
in the 50's and 60's

Lloyd Price (1933 )
early New Orleans
style rock and roll musician
known for the song
"Lawdy Miss Clawdy"

Ornette Coleman (1930)
American saxophonist and composer.
major innovator of the free jazz in the 1960s.

Mickey Gilley ( 1936 i)
American Country Music Singer and Musician
and the cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis.

John Cale (1942)
musician, songwriter and record producer
a founding member of the Velvet Underground

Mark Lindsay(1944)
the singer for the group Paul Revere and the Raiders.

Robin Leonard Trower (1945 )
rock guitarist with Procol Harum

Jim Cregan ( 1946 )
rock guitarist and bassist played with
Family, Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, and Rod Stewart.

Jeffrey Osborne (1948 )
musician, and former lead singer of the band L.T.D

Martin Fry (1958)
lead singer of the band ABC.

Johnny Kelly (1968)
drummer for the gothic-doom band Type O Negative

Bow Wow (1987)
formerly known as Lil' Bow Wow
b. Shad Gregory Moss
rapper and actor.

Mar 10
Dean Torrence (1940)
"Dean" of the 60's rock group
Jan & Dean

Donald Thomas Scholz (1947)
guitarist founder of the
rock band Boston.

Jeff Ament (1963)
bassist
founding member
of Pearl Jam.

Neneh Cherry (1964)
Swedish-born singer and rapper
half-sister of Eagle Eye Cherry.

Edie Brickell (1966)
singer-songwriter
married to Paul Simon (the musician)

Timbaland (1971)
b Timothy Z. Mosley,
record producer and rapper
member of hip-hop group Timbaland & Magoo.

Matthew Rubano ( 1977)
bassist of the American rock band
Taking Back Sunday.

Carrie Marie Underwood (1983)
American Idol winner
and country music singer

Mar 11
Lawrence Welk (1903 – 1992)
musician, accordion player, bandleader, and
television impresario
"champagne music.

Robert "Bobby" McFerrin Jr.(1950)
Had a hit in 1988 with
"Don't worry be Happy"

Vinnie Paul (1964)
b.Vincent Paul Abbot
heavy metal drummer
works with Pantera and Damageplan.

Lisa Anne Loeb (1968)
singer songwriter known for the
hit "Stay" (1997) wears her
trademark catseye glasses.

Benji Madden & Joel Madden (1979)
twin brothers and guitarist for
the band Good Charlotte.

Russell Lissack (1981)
lead guitarist of the
rock band Bloc Party

Until next week
GET OUT OF MY HEAD !

*Authors Note
I have decided to list the next weeks upcoming birthdays in music instead of the previous week. It will help prepare anyone who wants to do something special for that artist, musician, or actor.

The last week in February.

2007-02-19T22:00:00.000-08:00

Wow
can it be the last week in February seems that it was just New Years Day. The year is quickly passing us by. In the music world this week Brittney Spears not only shaved her head and the salon owner sold her hair online for "charity" but she went into rehab then left and eventually went back again. The odd thing is her ex K-Fed said that he thought she should have gone awhile ago and he 's going to take care for the two kids they have??? I cannot see how K-Fed is going to take care of two kids when he has a couple more of them by a different woman who he doesn't even acknowledge. To quote a line from a John Lennon tune " Strange days indeed, most peculiar momma."

In regards to the former Beatles record label and Apple Corp and Apple Inc reached an agreement this past week. Seems that in 1991 the two parties agreed that Apple Inc wouldn't use the "Apple" logo and trademark. Apple Corp was unhappy about Apple Inc. using the logo on the iTunes site and prevented them from allowing Beatles songs to be downloaded.
Under the new agreement Apple Inc. will license certain trademarks and their continued use back to Apple Corp. in return they will allow Beatles songs to be downloaded on iTunes. The two companies will have to bear their own legal costs and the terms of the agreement weren't made public. So, it won't be long until we can download our favorite Beatles songs from iTunes or iWIndows.

Kurt Cobain's 40 th birthday would have been this week he was born on Feb 20,1967 in Aberdeen Washington USA
he killed himself on April 5, 1994. In the 14 yrs since his death a Forbes Oct 2006 article listed him as the top-dollar dead celebrity earning an estimated $50 million dollars passing Elvis who was the top-dollar dead earning celebrity and only earned $42 million in 2006.
Another musician Tupac Shakur was killed in 1996 and continues to release new music he grossed 25 million in 2006, Rick James who died in 2004 will have a new single out this year. Seems like dying is a boom to a musicians bottom line.

In happier news the band Modest Mouse (the song "Float On" 2004) will be coming out with a new CD titled
"We were dead before the ship sank" on March 20 and guitarist Johnny Marr will be joining them. He was in The Smiths during the 80's with Morrisey then he played with THE THE and eventually formed the band Electronic with Bernard Sumner (New Order) . Electronic called it quits and New Order reformed so he's been playing with various artist such as Oasis, Beck, Beth Orton, and his own group Johnny Marr and the Healers., I believe that this will make Modest Mouse sound even better than before.
Here are a list of birthdays in music for the week of Feb 19-25, 2007

Robert "Bilbo' Walker(1937)
guitarist for the band Stillwater

Lou Christie(1943)
American songwriter for
for the Chess Label

Paul Dean (1946)
Lead guitarist for
the band Loverboy

Tony Iommi (1948)
guitarist for
Black Sabbath

Andy Powell(1950)
Founding member of
Wishbone Ash

Johann Hans Holzel (1957- 1998)
better known as FALCO

Seal Samuel (1963)
known as just
"Seal"
Married to model Hedi Klumm

Feb 20
Ibrahim Ferrer (1927-2005)
Afro Cuban musician
with Ry Cooder

Nancy Wilson(1937)
Jazz singer

Buffy Sainte-Marie(1941)
Canadian singer

Sandy Duncan (1946)

Jerome Geils (1948)
lead guitarist for
the J. Geils Band

Walter Becker (1950)
guitarist for Steely Dan

Randy California (1951-1997)
guitarist for the band
Spirit

John Brant (1954)
former bass player
for Cheap Trick 81-87

Ian Brown (1963)
lead singer for
The Stone Roses

Kurt Cobain (1967-1994)
Nirvana lead singer/guitarist
would have turned 40
this year

K-OS (1972)
Canadian Rapper

Ed Graham(1976)
drummer for the
band "The Darkness"

Feb 21

Eunice K. Waymon (1933-2003)
better known as
Nina Simone

Jake Burns (1958)
Lead singer
for the band
Stiff Little Fingers

James Dean Bradfield (1969)
lead singer/guitarist
for the Manic Street Preachers

Eric Wilson(1969)
member of the band
Sublime

Charlotte Church (1986)

Feb 22
Oliver(1945-2000)
American pop singer
in the 60's

Ernie K- Doe(1936-2001)
had the hit "Mother in Law" (1961)

Feb 23
Brad Whitford (1952)
guitarist for
Aerosmith

Howard Jones (1955)
English singer/songwriter
from the 80's

Brad Nowell (1968-1996)
Lead singer of
Sublime
died from heroin

Feb 24

George Harrison MBE (1943-2001)
the "quiet" one from the
Beatles

Nicky Hopkins(1944-1994)
British piano/organ player
session musician during the
60's & 70's played for
countless artists.

Doug Yule(1947)
musician/ singer
with Velvet Underground
1968-1973

Michelle Shocked (1962)
( born Karen Michelle Johnston)
American singer

Mitch Hedberg (1968-2005)
Stand up comedian
died from that damn
heroin.

Chad Hugo(1974)
drummer from the
band
Slipknot

Feb 25

John Doe (1954)
born John Duchac
founder of the
L.A. punk band "X"

The Oscars are tonight and I will have a run down of any music that will be featured in the movies until next week
GET OUT OF MY HEAD !

The Week that was

2007-02-18T14:55:00.000-08:00

Well let's see the week that was in music.
Audioslave called it quits which I think was a great idea it should have happened sooner. I couldn't see why the guys from Rage Against the Machine wanted to hang out with Chris Cornell from Soundgarden. I didn't care for their sound or the songs that they sang. I never could see how RATSM were raging against anything because they had a contract with TimeWarner? The often sighted creative differences was the reason why they called it quits

The Grammy's were this week and the Dixie Chicks despite being riled by their fans and the conservative right for saying they were ashamed of being from Texas because it was the same state that George W. Bush was from at a concert a few years ago.
They won the Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Song of the year "Taking the Long Road Home" and "Not ready to make nice" were the winning album and song all of which were produced by Rick Rubin (Beastie Boys Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Johnny Cash) I'm glad to see that some musicians can stand up for what they believe in and be rewarded for it. Here is a list of some of the catagories awarded.

Best Album of the Year Taking the Long Road Dixie Chicks
Best Song of the Year " Not Ready to make nice" Dixie Chicks
Best New Artist Carrie Underwood
Best Alternative Album St. Elsewhere Gnarls Barkley
Best Pop Vocal Album
Female "Ain't no other man" Christina Agulera
Male " Waiting on the world John Mayer
to change"
Best Rock
Solo "Someday Baby" Bob Dylan
Group "Dani California" Red Hot Chili Peppers
Best Rap
Solo " What I know" T.I.
Group/Duo " Ridin" Chamillonaire
Song " Money Maker" Ludacris
Collaboration " My Love" Justin Timberlake
Best Country
Female " Jesus take the wheel" Carrie Underwood
Male " The reason why" Vince Gill
Best Video
Short Form "Here it goes again" OK GO
Long Form "Wings for wheels" Bruce Springsteen

An awards show that is similar to the Grammy's was the Brit Awards held in London.
The winners there were
British Solo Artist
Male James Morrison
Female Amy Winehouse

British Group Arctic Monkeys

MasterCard British Album Arctic Monkeys
“Whatever people say I am, that’s what I’m not”

British Single Take That /“Patience”

British Breakthrough Act Fratellis

British Live Act Muse

International Male Solo Artist Justin Timberlake
International Female Solo Artist Nelly Furtado

International Group The Killers

International Album Killers “Sam’s Town”

International Breakthrough Act Orson

Outstanding Contribution to Music Oasis

I have to admit that I'm more than partial to Muse and Oasis they are both bands that I have enjoyed listening too and am glad to see that they being recongized. I don't understand the buzz about the Artic Monkeys They don't seem as talented as the other musicans and rely more on their antics on stage and off. I guess each generation has their version of the Sex Pistols.

Brittney Spears made a scene on Friday evening in LA she had flown in from rehab in the carribean earlier in the day . Then she showed up at a hair salon wanting her head shaved when the stylist wouldn't do it she did it herself then she went to a tattoo parlor and had a couple of "tats" done. A pair of lips on her wrist and a black pink and white cross on her hip ? Why she did all of this is stil unclear. Maybe she wants to shed her teen queen image and become some sort of new era Joan Jett whatever the reason we will have to see.

Birthdays in Music this week

Michael McDonald February 12, 1952
Doobie Brothers

Brian Robertson February 12, 1956
Thin Lizzy

Chynna Phillips February 12, 1968
Wilson Phillips

Peter Gabriel February 13, 1950
Genesis/Solo artist

Peter "Hooky" Hook February 13, 1956
New Order bassist

Leslie Feist February 13, 1976
Known as "Feist"

Tim Buckley February 14, 1947 – June 29, 1975
Jeff Buckley's dad

Rob Thomas February 14, 1972
Matchbox 20
lead singer

Michael Avory February 15, 1944
drummer for the KInks

Sonny Bono February 16, 1935 – January 5, 1998

Ice -T February 16, 1958
Rapper

Andy Taylor February 16 1961
Duran Duran guitarist

Taylor Hawkins February 17, 1972
drummer for the
Foo Fighters

Dennis DeYoung February 18, 1947
Lead singer of
Styx

Juice Newton February 18 1952
Playing with the
queen of hearts

Dr. Dre February 18, 1965
Producer,
former member of
NWA

Well that is all the music that is
Until nex week
GET OUT OF MY HEAD !

What is this about?

2007-02-18T14:50:00.000-08:00

Hi,
I suppose your wondering what this Blog is about and who is wrting it ? Well my name is Glenn Taylor and i live in Swansea IL which isn't the center of the music universe but I suspect someday it will be. Anyway, I am somewhat of a music savant in that I know alot about music groups of today and yesterday. This blog is called "GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" because sometimes we get a song caught in our head and aren't certain as to why or how it got there. I will do a weekly (hopefully) report on the music scene national and if there are any local bands out there send me an email and I may do a write up on you too. Email me at GMACD1@YAHOO.COM for any and all correspondence.

GETOUTOFMYHEAD

The untraditional Xmas

The Return of the Mac and other thoughts.

John Hughes, michael Jackson, The Beatles

I actually went to something on a friday night

GETOUTOFMYHEAD

When will the tribute end ?

HELLO Its good to be back good to be back.

Merry Xmas from John & Ono

The Decline of music and its beginnings.

THE END

GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

The Grammys or as some call it the Gimmie"s and a way to fix them

GETOUTOFMYHEAD

Musicians who die before their prime (or after).

GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

Music as of late.

Former band members of the music world reunite and make more money.

GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

Still writing on a rented computer but trying not to let it get me down.

GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

Still writing on a rented computer (sigh)

GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

Writing on a rented computer.

GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

Currently on a summer hiatus.

Soundtrack of Generation X, Reunions, Recording, Problems, Guitars

Soundtrack of Generation X

Who is imitating.......

Reunions

Tales of Merchandising

In the Studio

Legal Matters

Problems

In Closing

GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

A Reunion and a Rebuttal, and a Possible breakup

A Reunion

A Rebuttal

Music Notes

Further Rehab

Legal Blotter

A possible breakup?

My Corner

Spice Girls Reunion ? Method Man Arrested, Paula falls straight down.

Reunions?

Music Notes

Legal Woes

Injured list

That is all I can write for this week I still have alot more to report but will save it for next week until then

GETOUTOFMYHEAD !

Pumpkins,Crows, and Linkin's Park.

The Smashing Pumpkins Reunion

It's a boy

On the mend ?

Rapper's Delights

Ten Million sold and we still have none

Buy It !

They just keep on Rolling

Linkin's Park

Reformations, Bannings, Courtney Love's garage sale,

Reformations

Banned From Walter Reed

Courtney's Garage Sale

Prince to play several shows in London

Tori "Lloyd Webber" Amos ?

Bad news for Phil Spector

The Killers hold off on their third album

My Chemical Romance and Muse in death threat scandal

Wilco releases new album

Until next week GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

I'm going to put this blog on a short hiatus. When I started it I had hoped to make it more edgier and I don't feel that I 'm accomplishing it. This week I'm going to just list the birthdays and think harder about ways to change the format of the blog. Thanks Glenn T

Birthdays for the week of May 6-May 13, 2007

GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

The Phil Spector Trial, Smashing Pumpkins, Spinal Tap

Legal News

Music Notes

UNTIL NEXT WEEK GETOUTOFMYHEAD!

Phil Spector on trial, the murder of Jam Master Jay, and Morrissey snubs the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

I'm going to put this blog on a short hiatus. When I started it I had hoped to make it more edgier and I don't feel that I 'm accomplishing it. This week I'm going to just list the birthdays and think harder about ways to change the format of the blog.
Thanks
Glenn T