Friday Updates

• KISS may take the mantle away from Queensryche for the dueling band title.

• Corey Taylor, an avowed KISS fan, has questioned why these guys can't get back together just one last time to perform at their induction, for the fans, letting bygones be bygones, and then go their separate ways. Corey has a penchant for original lineups - Paul Gray's replacement wasn't allowed to play on stage during the last Slipknot tour. 
• What about Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer - what in the wide world of sports are they thinking about this whole fiasco?
• Gene doesn't think Ace and Peter "deserve to wear the paint because the make up is earned". I think they earned that right decades ago. Ace stated that he "owns" the rights to his Spaceman persona and that he licensed it for use to KISS and the rights are due back to him soon - and of course Gene calls bullshit. They should have never let Tommy and Eric wear existing characters make up and had them make up their own characters ala Eric Carr "The Fox". (I think Vinnie Vincent wore make up for a brief period before their unmasking as well).
• And that brings us to the TMS episode 7 (yes I am few episodes behind). Don Jamieson put it on the line - the fans (and Eddie Trunk) were part of the reason you got in and you should give them what they deserve. Mr Trunk knows this could have been avoided if KISS were inducted when they were originally eligible for such -at that time the original lineup was still together...... 
• Interesting fact Eric Carr died on the same day as Freddie Mercury.

• Christine McVie will join Fleetwood Mac for the next tour reuniting the entire Rumours era lineup. I remember when Fleetwood Mac "regrouped" (they never really broke up) and started touring again I was bound and determined to go - it was the first concert I refused to buy tickets to because of the prices. I think lawn passes were running at $75 at Starplex.
• Unfortunately a fourth victim has died as a result of the SXSW hit and run fiasco while several people still remain hospitalized. This guy went from being charged with DWI (and possibly a stolen vehicle) to 23 counts of assault and two murder charges - and it's about to be four.
• WTF? I found this item on This Day in Music - I had no idea:
• 2000, Jimmy Page accepted substantial undisclosed libel damages from a magazine which claimed he had caused or contributed to the death of his Led Zeppelin bandmate John Bonham. Page's solicitor, Norman Chapman, told High Court Judge Mr Justice Morland that the feature in Ministry magazine printed in 1999 claimed Page was more concerned with keeping vomit off his bed than saving his friend's life, and that he stood over him wearing Satanist robes and performing a useless spell.