Holy shit....

Casey Kasem - Soon to be Headed to the Great Juke Box in the Sky

End of life procedures have been implemented by his daughter Kerri, whom a judge had recently put in charge of his medical care in lieu of his wife Jean, who is Kerri's step mother. Basically they are withholding food and water as this has been determined by doctors to cause him more harm than good, and according to his daughter these where his wishes. There will probably be an intense battle over his estate (80M) once he passes on. A few tidbits below:

• Obviously he was the host of American Top 40, Top 20 and Top 10 in radio format and America's Top 10 on the boob tube.
• Was the voice of a number of cartoon characters, most famously Shaggy on Scooby Doo.
• Jean played Loretta Tortelli on the Cheers sitcom.
• Kerri work's with Nikki Sixx on The Sideshow Countdown and Sixx Sense (I had no idea this even existed!).
• He has two other children from his first wife and one other child with Jean.

Mid-week Updates

• So George Strait set an indoor attendance record the other night, appropriately in Texas at The Death Star, for his last show of his last tour, and we were in attendance. I haven't been to very many country shows, and probably won't attend that many more relative to the amount of "rock" shows I have seen - but that was one worth seeing.
• Am I allowed to list everyone who played with him on the sidebar? They performed two songs each with George and all were in attendance for the three song finale. That's five songs each.
• Morrissey is a pompous ass....at least he didn't blame it on "burning flesh".
• The Kinks are allegedly getting back together. I am not sure what made Dave change his mind but he has been vehemently against it for many years.
• This article - has some great comments no matter your opinion either direction......
• Happy Birthday to the man with the least beard in ZZ Top, Frank Beard.
• The video below is right "circle pit" - because I don't see any mosh pits, just people running. But I do hope someone took out the DB in the wife beater at 1:54.

Tough decision.....

I am going to add on a few they forgot - but so many more.

 

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.