click
on pic and watch & listen to one of the funniest
Radio DJ's ever, - the legendary Chuck
Geiger
at KFRC San Francisco. You don't know him? - Never mind,
just have a look. It's heavenly! If we had DJ's
like him in Europe, - radio would be fun
to listen again..... (2
min. download time) But
it's worth it...
03.09. 2010
Happy
Birthday Today Pietro
Locatelli (Italian
composer, violinist)315+ - Donna
King Conkling (The
King Sisters)92+
Hank
Thompson
(US country m.85 -
Freddie King Bluesr.
Musiker,76+ - Kenneth
Pickett (The
Creation)68+
Al
Jardine,68
Beach Boys, - Gary
Leeds
(Walker Brothers)66 - George
Biondi (Steppenwolf)65
Eric
Bell (Ex-Thin
Lizzy)63 - Donald
Brewer
(Grand Funk Railroad)62 -
Doug Pinnick,
King's X, 60
Steve
Jones Sex
Pistols, 55 - Perry
Bamonte (The
Cure)50 -
Junaid Jamshed (Vital
Signs)46
Jennifer
Paige,37
More
September
Birthdays
Further
Celebrity Birthdays today Ferdinand
Porsche
(österr. Automobilconstructeur, 135, +) - Charlie
Sheen
(US-movie actor, 45)
Samuel
Kuffour
(afrik. soccer player, 34)
Passed Away This very Day ...50 years ago:
Joseph Francis Lamb
(72) American composer of ragtime music (heartattack)
...40 years ago: Alan
"Blind Owl" Wilson
(27) (Canned Heat) (drugs)
...25 years ago: Johnny
Marks
(75) US song-writer, singer
...16 years ago: Major
Lance (53)
The Floats (heartattack)
...9 years ago: Dave
Myers
(74) The Four Aces (diabetes)
...3 years ago: Carter
Albrecht (34)
American keyboardist for Edie Brickell & New Bohemians (shot)
...3 years ago: Janis
Martin
(67) American rockabilly singer (cancer)
More September
Deaths & Birthdays
Today 22 years ago: Robert
Cray's
'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark' hits UK chart
More Trivia'
the
Rock'n'Roll
Diary
02.09. 2010
Happy
Birthday Today Russ
Conway/Trevor Stanford
(UK pop music pianist, composer)85+ - Horace
Silver
(US jazz pianist,82
Sam
Gooden
(The Impressions)71 - Bobby
Purify/James B. Moore
(US soul singer)69
Rosalind
Ashford (Martha
Reeves & the Vandellas)67 -
Billy Preston,64+
- Michael
Rother (Kraftwerk)60
Mik
Kaminksi (Electric
Light Orchestra)59 - Fritz
McIntyre
(UK keyboards; Simply Red)54
Steve
Porcaro (Toto)53
- Jerry
Augustyniak
(10,000 Maniacs).52 - Paul
Wylie Deakin
( The Mavericks)51
Mike
Baker
(Shadow Gallery)47+ - Dino
Cazares (US
guitarist; Fear Factory,44
Sam
Rivers
( Limp Bizkit)33 - Aimee
Osbourne (UK
singer, actress and columnist)27
Spencer
Smith (Panic!
at the Disco),23
More
September
Birthdays
Further
Celebrity Birthdays today
Giuliano
Gemma
(it.
actor, 72) - Jimmy
Connors
(Tennisplayer,
58) -
Keanu
Reeves
(US-actor,
46)
Lennox
Lewis
(engl.
Boxer, 45) - Salma
Hayek
(mexic.
actress, 44) - Oliver
Panis
(frz.
car racing champ, 44)
Passed
Away This Very Day ...9
years ago:
Jay
Migliori (70)
saxophonist f. Frank Zappa and Frank Sinatra
...3 years ago: Fritz
Fryer/David Roderick
Carney Fryer (62) British lead guitarist
...1 year ago: Guy
Babylon (52)
American keyboardist and composer (heart attack)
More September
Deaths & Birthdays
Today 21 years ago: Tears
for Fears'
'Sowing the Seeds of Love' hits UK chart
More Trivia'
the
Rock'n'Roll
Diary
The
Pogues are
just about to split for the second time. Founded in 1991 and
feat. Shane
MacGowan
they split in 1996,
and reformed again 2001
in the Original Line up. Now it looks like, as if they call it
a
day again -
here
After Rapper
Kanye
West has
already ditched popstar
Taylor
Swift at
last years
MTV Awards,
causing almost a scandal, now also Black
Crowes Sänger
Chris
Robertson
has started criticing
"I
find it embarrassing that adults are like, 'Taylor Swift is
very talented.' She's not. She might be
cute, but she's horrible" - hier...
Texas Country Singer
Miranda
Lambert has
the highest nominations for the upcoming CMA Awards
on Nov. 10 in Nashville - here.
36
Crazy Fists are
starting their first headliner tour on sept.
16. in the
USA
Start is in Seattle and
the
final on oct.
23.
in Colorado Springs.
On oct. 15.
Melodic
Rocker 'Strangeways'
feat.
Terry Brock,release
their new
Studioalbum 'Perfect
World'. Hier
you can listen to the
Songs
'Perfect World' and 'Borderlines'
Guns'n'Roses
played
Dublin yesterday once again with one hour delay. And they
finished the set after
only 20 minutes. Read the full story here
Apocalypticas
new
Album
'7th Symphony' has
gonne into the american Top
200 Albumcharts on
#
31
for 13.000 sold units in it's firt week of release. In
Canada they even went onto #19
While her first
Album 'One Of The Boys' went only on #
8 in the US .Billboard
Charts
Katy
Perrys second
Album "Teenage Dream," went # 1 straight away with
26.000 sold units after
only one day after release
- here.
January 14 2011 sees the release of
U.D.O.s new
Studioalbum 'Rev Raptor'. The Band has also been
confirmed for Stockholm's Rock Out Festival on
Sept.
10./11.in
Gamla Tryckeriet bestätigt.
Sonata
Arctica guitarist Elias
Viljanen has broken his hand while rehearsing, so
the upcoming show in
milan has to be postboned.
But he should be okay 'till the Southamerica tour in
october.
Rare video footage has appeared on you tube of
Death
feat. Chuck
Schuldner+ hier
Here
you can listen to
Audiosamples from
the new
Lordi Album
'"Babez For Breakfast"' -
out on sept. 14
der 14. September.
'Joe
Bonamassa Live
From The Royal Albert Hall' comes on oct. 19. on Blu -Ray DVD. More
tor read
here
Kiss Drummer
Eric
Singer confirmed within an
Interview:
"We've Already Been Talking About Going Into
The Studio And Doing Another Record" More
to read
here
German
Powermetal
Band
Paragon have
parted ways with guitarist
Martin
Christian
but have won 2 new
musicians:
David
Wieczorek (ex-Stormwarrior)
and
Wolfgang
Tewes (also
Black Hawk
and Wheels Of Steel). The work to a new Studioalbum have already
started. Read more
here
Leave's Eyes have
a new
Videoclip
for
'Take The Devil In Me'
Former
Dio guitarist
Rowan
Robertson has
mentioned within an Interview here
that the new yet
unreleased
Dio
Songs are
not gonna be released.
The Videoclip
for
Slashs
Song
"By the Sword" feat. Singer
Andrew
Stockdale of
Wolfmother can
be viewed
in 3D
More
to read
here.
The new
CD
'Heaven's Venom' of Kataklysm
has jumped into following
Charts
Austria - #32 - Germany - #35 - Switzerland
- #53 - US - #196
And
here you find the
Videoclip
for 'Push The
Venom'
Jorn Lande
and his
Band
Jorn have
announced a string of European
Live dates (see
Tourdates)
Further infos at:
Jornlande.com
Sweden's
Deathmetal band
Grave have
parted ways from their guitarist
Fredrik
Isaksson out of personal
reasons
The new man is
Tobias
Cristiansson (Dismember)
Further
Infos
-
here
Stone
Sour Live
At Webster Hall -
here.From
Sept.7 on
LoudTrax.com
there will be a contest around the
Band,
where you can win a
Fender Stratocaster guitar. And
at NME.com
you can listen to the complete
new
Album 'Audio Secrecy'
Noel
Gallagher (Ex-Oasis)
is playing drums in the Studio for
Paul Weller and
his new album
- here.
Stone Temple
Pilots/ex-Velvet
Revolver Frontman
Scott
Weiland intends to record a
Xmas
Album with
traditional xmas songs after he released already a first single
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
More tor read here
zu lesen.
Moonsorrow are
at the Studio
in Finland from today, to record their next Studioalbum .
Updates
will follow frequently - here.
Alter Bridge have
inked a deal for their new upcoming album
Album 'AB III' with
Roadrunner Records
Release date is set for Oct. 11.
Children Of
Bodoms Alexi Laiho -
Behind The Scenes At Rock House; Video
Laihos 3te instructional DVD
will be out before the end of the year.
New Zealand's
Bulletbelt have
a new
Track 'Succumb' for
listening-
here
The track comes from the recently
released
EP 'The Black Army Stands' EP. Here
you find the
Videoclip for the
Titeltrack.
Blind
Guardians At
The Edge Of Time has jumped on #18 in the canad. Top Hard
Music Albums Charts
and on #108in the Top 200 Charts. In The USA the CD has
also gone on 108 in the
Billboard Top 200
Another book hint
-
The Remarkable Journey Of
Jimi Hendrix
- here
01.09.
2010
Happy
Birthday Today
Tommy
Evans
( the Drifters)83 - Boxcar
Willie/Lecil Travis Martin (country
musician)79
Conway
Twitty/Harold Lloyd Jenkins(US countrymusician,77 -
Archie Bell
(US vocalist; The Drells)66
Barry
Gibb Bee
Gees,64 - Greg
Errico
(Sly & The Family Stone)64 - Russ
Field
( Showaddywaddy)61
Bruce
Foxton (The
Jam, Stiff Little Fingers)55 - Gloria
Estefan,53
- Cass/
Richard Keith Lewis (Skunk
Anansie)50
Joseph
Williams
(Toto)50 - Craig
McLachlan,45
- DJ
Spigg Nice (Lost
Boyz)40 - Lââm/Lamia
(Frz singer).
J. D.
Fortune (
INXS)37 - Omar
Rodriguez-Lopez (The
Mars Volta),35 - Babydaddy/S.
Hoffman
(Scissor Sisters)
Peter
McCarrick Brown (Wheatus)34
- Joseph
Trohman
(Fall Out Boy), 26
More
September
Birthdays Further
Celebrity Birthdays today Edgar
Rice Burroughs (writer of
Tarzan-novels, 135, +) - Vittorio
Gassman (it. actor, 88, +)
Rocky
Marciano (Italo-US boxing champion,
87, +) Lily
Tomlin (US-actress/producer, 71)
Passed Away This Very Day ..33
years ago: Ethel
Waters (80)
American blues vocalist (heart desease)
...5 years ago:
R.L.Burnside/Robert Lee Burnside (78)
US blues singer-songwriter (heartattack)
...2 years ago: Jerry
Reed/Jerry Reed Hubbard
(71) American country music singer
...1
year ago:
Jake Brockman
(53) Echo & the Bunnymen (bike accident)
...1 year ago: Wycliffe "Steely"
Johnson (47) Jamaican Reggae
musician (heart attack after surgery)
More
More September
Deaths & Birthdays
Today
54 years ago: Elvis
Presley
buys his mum a pink Cadillac
More Trivia'
the
Rock'n'Roll
Diary
Axl
Rose
Fires
Entire Road Crew after the once again delayed appearance of
Guns'n'Roses
in
Leeds
And once again the plug was pulled at midnight and closed the
set early. Read the full report here
On Oct. 12. californian Intronaut
release their new Album 'Valley Of Smoke'. Here
your find the trailer.
Accept and
their new Album
'Blood Of The Nations' have jumped into the german Album Charts on
pos. 4
This is the hightest chart entry for the band ever. 'Russian
Roulette' in 1986 wen no. 5
Participating at the 2011 Killfest Tour in Europe are Overkill
next to Destruction
and
Heathen
(see Tourdates)
31.08.
2010
Happy
Birthday Today Jerry
Allison
(Crickets)71
- Wilton
Felder
(Crusaders)70 - Roger
Dean (UK
contemporary artist)66
Van
Morrison,65
- Bob
Welch,64
- Rudolf
Schenker
(Scorpions)62 - Glenn
Tilbrook
(Squeeze)53
Gina
Schock
(Go-Go's),53 - Chris
Whitley (US
blues/rock-blues guitarist)49+ -
John
O.Reilly
(Rainbow/Blue Öyster Cult),48 - Joanna
Connor (US
power-blues guitarist)48
Gerard
Love (Teenage
Fanclub)43 - Debbie
Gibson,40
- Del
Marquis/Derek
Gruen (Scissor Sisters)31
Patrick
Nuo (Swiss
singer)28
More
August
Birthdays
Further Celebrity Birthdays today Caligula
(roman
emperor1998, +) - James
Coburn
(US-actor 82, +) - Richard
Gere (US-actor,
61)
Edwin
Moses
(Us athletics 55) -
Kostas Kostantinidis
(greek soccerplayer, 38)
Chris
Tucker
(US-comedian, 38) - Andrei
Medwedew
(ukrain. Tennisplayer, 36)
Passed Away This Very Day ..8
years ago: Lionel
Hampton
(94) American jazzmusican (heart failure)
...6 years ago: Carl
Wayne/Colin David Tooley
(60) The Move (cancer)
...6 years ago: Johnny
Bragg
(78)Johnny Bragg & The Prisonaires (cancer)
More August
Deaths & Birthdays
Today
21 years ago: The
Rolling Stones
"Steel Wheels", their first concert tour in eight
years starts at
JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.
More Trivia'
the
Rock'n'Roll
Diary
The Videoclip for Masterplan's
Song 'Time To Be King' can be viewed here
Santanas
new Album, 'Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics Of All
Time',includes his Version of
Def
Leppards
'Photograph', featuring Daughtry
Singer Chris
Daughtry. Here
you find a Liveclip therfore
And here
you find Tracklist and Bestellinfos.
James
LaBrie
has pu another Track 'I Need You' from his new Longplayer 'Static Impulse'
online on his
official MySpace
Page
Mind
Flashes Is
president Obama trying now to defend his peace nobel price
(by the way, for what did he receive it actually? -
with this new meeting between Israel & Palestina?
Yeah well - hope dies last - as we say so....
After allready Singer Emperor
Magus Caligula
left his band Dark
Funeral
now also bassist B-Force
is off
the game . The band has yet found another bassplayer, but no
singer so far Interested parties should contact: vocalist@darkfuneral.se
. Hier
you find a clip of Dark Funeral at this year's german -Summer Breeze -still in the old line up.
Billy
Sheehan
(Mr. Big, David Lee Roth), Michael
Graves
(The Misfits),
Jeff Duncan
(Armored Saint), Marko
DeSantis (Sugarcult)
und Andy
Hilfiger
(Bassologist/Fashion Guru) have gathered with Marky
Ramones
to play a special show in the style of the Ramones on Oct. 8 at
the
Musicians Institute
Concert Hall in Hollywood Marky
Ramone is the only surviving member
of the Ramones
All proceeds of this event go to charity.
Hier
you find Slash
jamming
with Fergie
of the Black
Eyed Peas
at Sunset Strip Music Festival on Aug 28.to Hearts 'Barracuda' - here
to 'Paradise City'
Aerosmiths
Joe Perry
ain't that certain about the band's future, exspecially after
Steven Tyler has signed on to American Idol. . More to read - here.....
Iron
Maiden played the Marina Sur Auditorium in Valencia, Spain
on Aug. 28. therfore many photos are availabel here
- also of Supportact Edguy.
Michael
Monroe
(Ex-Hanoi Rocks)will be recording his new Studioalbum in Los
Angeles togehter with ProducerJack Douglas He'll be starting work now in September.
Further Infos are available at:http://www.myspace.com/michaelmonroeofficial
The next Single of Buckcherrys
Album 'All Night Long' will be the track Song 'Dead' . Further
Tourinfos
are available here
- or check Tourdates!
After guitarist Steve
Hackett (Ex-Genesis/Yes)
has put out another Soloalbum last year, he is now working on a new Project named
Squackett,feat.
also Yes Bassist Chris
Squire.
Here
you find an Interview with
Hackett.
Further Infos: http://www.hackettsongs.com/
David
Ellefson (Megadeth, F5) and Tristan
'1690' Grigsby (Daitrive) Tim
"Ripper" Owens (Chared Walls of The Damned Iced Earth, Beyond
Fear, Judas Priest) und Jason
Bittner (Shadows
Fall, )crecorded a Song named 'Leave It Alone' for a Dimebag
Darrell Tribute
Album a few years ago. This track is now
available here
As TMZ.com
reports, Slash,
who's real name is Saul
Hudson
files for divorce after 9 years of marrage with Perla
Ferrar
because
of irrepairable differences.The
couple has 2 children and
Slash
wants a joint custody
for both.
Kickhunter
release the Second All In Album Making-Of Footage Part
2 - For reminder Part
1
Eddie Vedder (Pearl
Jam), Patti
Smith
and Johnny
Depp
played for the West
Memphis Three benefit in Little Rock, Arkansas on Aug. 28. Therfore 2
liveclips are available here
and here
Bad
Religion
have posted another Track from their new upcoming Album 'The
Dissent of Man' The Song "The Resist Stance"can be checked out on their MySpace
Page
Arjen
Lucassen is confirming the Instrumentalists for his new Star
One Project
- here.
And Green
Day
have a new Song named "Cigarettes and Valentines." Hier
you can listen to it within a Liveclip According to the Band this track is included in a new
Livealbum A further Tour hint