THURSDAY Updates

• Metallica is currently scheduled to headline Glastonbury coming up later in June. But not if some of the "fans" have their way as there is an attempt to get them banned from the festival for Hetfield's love of guns and hunting. Iron Maiden refuses to play the festival saying it's basically pompous and snobby. In much cooler festival news Bruce will lead a mock dogfight of WWI era planes over Sonisphere.

• So Duff MAY return to Guns. Let the rumor mill begin - I am not sure Slash wants anything to do with it.
• So for the last few months I kept reading about a act called Fish. Let's just say one of the music sites I follow can be quite erroneous with some of their reporting and grammar - the last I saw was an article citing "George Lynch of Dokken". But there is an act called Fish as well as Phish.
• Brett Michaels has probably used up another one of his lives - I think this is the fourth.
• I could have seen if they had done some sort of tribute thing, but the Beastie Boys are officially no more.
• IF you are in NY in late October, AND the band's health holds together, AND you can manage to snag a ticket - try to catch one of the Allman Brothers finals shows at the Beacon Theater.
• There is officially a proposal for a statue of Glen Danzig in Austin - riding a dragon.
• Man that whole Casey Kasem thing has spiraled out of control - changes in conservatorship, hospitalization, raw meat throwing and Scientology. It is just too much to put here. Link.
• So Doug Aldrich has left Whitesnake, amicably, to pursue other interests. Doug is a great down to earth guy and we hope to meet him again one day. As you can see by the chart below at the time he left he was the longest tenured guitarist in Whitesnake, alongside Reb Beach, who now holds that position. That is not a small feat as it is well know that Mr. Coverdale controls all aspects of Whitesnake and most members are hired hands. And see that black album line in 1987 where just about every member switched- that was the release of the "Whitesnake" album that propelled them into mainstream success - most of the core band members who played on the album were basically fired before a video could even be made - Vandenberg was the exception as he was hired during the recording process and had a small contribution to that album.