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September 28th, 2011 | By ryan-kazr in Uncategorized | No Comments »All of the Pink Floyd remasters hit stores. All this week Jimmy Fallon is playing tribute to the band.
Get all of the info on the re-issues here.
All of the Pink Floyd remasters hit stores. All this week Jimmy Fallon is playing tribute to the band.
Get all of the info on the re-issues here.
The documentary God Bless Ozzy Osbourne will arrive on DVD and Blu-ray on November 15th. The movie, executive produced by Ozzy’s son Jack, chronicles the singer’s early life, his troubled youth, his career with Black Sabbath and his rebirth as a solo artist, along with his longtime addictions to drugs and alcohol. The film features interviews with family members, friends and fellow musicians, plus rare concert, backstage and personal footage of Ozzy.
The shortlist for the 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been announced and this year’s first-time hopefuls include Guns ‘N Roses, the Cure, Heart, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, the Spinners, the Small Faces/the Faces, War, Rufus with Chaka Khan, Donna Summer, Freddie King, and rappers Eric B. & Rakim. Also making a return to the ballot after getting previously passed over are the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Laura Nyro, the Beastie Boys, Donovan and War.
If Guns N’ Roses makes the induction list, the questions becomes whether singer Axl Rose — who currently leads a version of the group in which he is the only original member — will share the stage with founding members Slash, Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin. While Rose has made his peace with McKagan and Stradlin in recent years, he refuses to mend fences with Slash.
On a side note, THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS ARE NOT IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
Rush, Kiss, Boston, The Monkees, Hall & Oates, Joe Cocker, Yes, Sonny & Cher, Ringo Starr, Bernie Taupin, Brian Wilson, Gram Parsons, Grand Funk Railroad, Chicago, ELO, Journey, the Zombies, Frankie Avalon, Squeeze, Pat Benatar, Todd Rundgren, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, The E Street Band, Badfinger, Big Star, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Sting, Humble Pie, Eddie Money, T.Rex, Beatles manager Brian Epstein, Beatles recording engineers Norman Smith and Geoff Emerick, Styx, Free, Who engineer and producer Glyn Johns, Billy Idol, Rockpile, The Runaways, rock photographers Jim Marshall, Ethan Russell, Gered Mankowitz, Dezo Hoffman, Astrid Kirchherr, Annie Leibovitz, Henry Diltz, and Bob Gruen; Chubby Checker, The Guess Who, rock journalist Lester Bangs, The Turtles, Def Leppard, Deep Purple, Cheap Trick, Rolling Stones pianist Ian Stewart, Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, Kansas, Thin Lizzy, Joe Walsh, Squeeze, Delaney & Bonnie, Roxy Music, The Dictators, Brian Eno, Meat Loaf, America, XTC, The Searchers, Leslie Gore, The Raspberries, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Linda Ronstadt, The MC5, Peter Gabriel, Herman’s Hermits, the Moody Blues, Mountain, Blue Oyster Cult, Chic, The New York Dolls, The Steve Miller Band, Peter Frampton, Jethro Tull, Foreigner, Bad Company, and many more.
An upcoming biography of Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl claims that the former Nirvana drummer nearly quit that band in 1993 after hearing Kurt Cobain make disparaging remarks about his playing while on a plane from Seattle to Los Angeles. According to Ultimate Classic Rock, Grohl is quoted as saying, “Kurt was kinda f***ed up. And I heard him talking about how s***ty a drummer I was. I just want to f***ing play music. I don’t want to have to deal with any of this craziness.”
Cobain apparently added that he wished Grohl played more like Mudhoney drummer Dan Peters, who actually did a short stint in Nirvana before Grohl came along in 1990.
Grohl was calmed down by manager Alex McLeod and put aside any thoughts of leaving the group by the time the flight landed, but the author of the book, Paul Brannigan, thinks Grohl would have eventually left anyway if Nirvana’s career had not been cut short by Cobain’s death in 1994.
Brannigan explained, “Dave was very aware that Nirvana was Kurt and (bassist) Krist (Novoselic)’s band, and that as lifelong friends, they shared a bond which went beyond music. At some point I feel that Dave would have parted company with the pair.” The book, titled This Is A Call: The Life And Times Of Dave Grohl, hits stores this December.
The Foo fighters joined Roger waters last night on Jimmy fallon and played \'In the Flesh\'. The Video is here.