Barry Feinstein Passes

I have been holding off on this for a few days, thinking of something appropriate to do. I think the best way is just to show a little bit of his work, it speaks for itself.

Other non Scott Ian news

• I hate award shows, and I suppose so do the Black Keys after receiving the above  MTV Music Award.
• SMiLE, the "lost" Beach Boys album is being released. Or as far as it made it anyways.
• Poison is being sued for "stealing" several songs, including "Talk Dirty to Me", a little friggin late don't you think? Well they did it to Led Zeppelin years after the fact. Good artists borrow, great artists steal.
• Stone Roses shows are selling out in minutes over in the U.K. I don't know if we will see the same effect in the U.S. but I plan on attending.

Scott Ian says

• There should be more U.S. Big 4 dates, in his opinion. They played more than 10 European shows but only a few in America. Three of the bands are in for a full tour, the only hold out is Metallica, which is the band that got this together in the first place. One can only hope.....
• But, there will be no more S.O.D. According to Scott, S.O.D. is done and he sees no reason to revitalize it. I had my chance to see them a few years back and missed out. My loss....

Lulu is Streaming

Metallica and Lou Reed "LULU"

They're Back......

Concert Update

• I guess when you go to enough concerts you will get a bad show every once and a while, and when you go to three concerts in a span of 11 days I would say your odds increase. I had given a quick update on DAC previously in this blog, Roger Daltrey was last week-not a bad show, but missing a certain element, specifically a Townsend, and I am not talking about Simon either. Not a bad show, just not a great one.
• NOW-The suck ass Allen Event Center. The show as Sunday night, which was bad enough as it was, Thin Lizzy opened, followed by Black Label Society and Priest headlining, for their "Final World Tour" (notice this is not their "farewell tour" anymore). Let's just say the Allen Event Center was not built for it's acoustics. The distortion was terrible and if you didn't know the words to songs you were pretty much screwed. Having seen Priest before and knowing what they should sound like pretty much made the show intolerable. I will not be returning to this venue without further proof that this situation has improved.
• This is a rare situation-I have no current tickets to any upcoming shows, and not sure what I am going to see next.

Another Charlie Daniels Band member dies

Longtime keyboardist Joel “Taz” DiGregorio passed from injuries sustained in a car wreck. Joel co-wrote many of the band hits including The Devil Went Down to Georgia. I haven't got to see these guys yet and I am hoping it isn't too late. As previously mentioned in this blog former member Tommy Crain passed away earlier this year.

Concert Update

• Saw David Allan Coe Friday night at Billy Bob's-he played about 50 songs, just not the whole song. Having not seen him as a headline act wasn't expecting this.
• Tonight is Roger Daltrey playing "Tommy" at Nokia in Grand Prairie, my buddy wanted to go so I am tagging along.
• Sunday is Judas Priest in Allen, I am planning on being there so it will be 3 concerts in 9 days.
• Guns N Roses, or Axl and a bunch of other guys, are still up to their same shenanigans-I am glad I saw them in their heyday.
• In non concert related news Mikey Welsh, former bassist of Weezer has been killed by death. And apparently he predicted it.

Random Death Updates

• Steve Jobs, creator of the iPod & iPhone has died. MP3's were around long before the iPod but there is not doubt he pushed digitized music to the forefront of the music industry-iTunes is the worlds largest online music retailer.
• Folk guitarist Bert Jansch passed. I am not familiar with his work but he was an inspiration for quite a few big names.
• Marv Tarplin, guitarist for Smokey Robinson and the Miracles passed. Interesting trivia fact-he was the guitarist for a group called the Primettes, who morphed into the Supremes after his departure.
• Sylvia Robinson-founder of Sugar Hills records passed. You guessed it-Sugar Hill Gang, Grandmaster Flash etc. recorded on this label.
• You can see details of all the above at The Music's Over
• Jani Lane's official cause of death-Acute Ethanol Poisoning-was it just a matter of waiting on the official word from the toxicology reports?

Random Here, Random There, Random Everywhere

• The two L.A. Guns camps are having a mini pissing war (still)
• Jessie Dupree, lead singer of Jackyl, was in a pretty nasty motorcyle accident.....
• Get your fine wines here you can choose from Ratt, Kiss, Warrant
• Got tickets for David Allan Coe at Billy Bob's Friday 
• The Flaming Lips are now recording a 24 hour song, which will be sold encased in a human skull, of which there are only five of, of which all five are sold out....