Tingly's News Archive May '06- May '07

[Keith]

Ok Tingly.. as promised.

[Tingly]

Wel, hi everybody! Welcome to Tingly's JS News Thread Sticky!

I'd like to thank all of you who made this honor possible, JS, Keith, etc.

So, here's the central spot to get all your irrelevant, weird music and entertainment news!

And, of course, JS'rs are free to post their own news items in here, or their leads to news items, or suggestions, comments, etc.

[Tingly]

Mariah Carey will hit the road for the first time in more than three years this summer on the "Adventures of Mimi: The Voice, The Hits, The Tour" arena outing. Dates get underway Aug. 5 in Miami and are on tap through Oct. 10 in Phoenix. Sean Paul will open the majority of the tour's first portion, with other openers to be announced.

-Billboard

Veteran rock act Styx will take the stage May 25 with Cleveland's Contemporary Youth Orchestra as part of the Rock the Orchestra series at the Blossom Music Center.

The nonprofit orchestra, which is in residence at Cleveland State University, includes 115 musicians and a 50-member chorus between the ages of 13 and 19, all directed by Liza Grossman. HDNet will capture the show in high definition for broadcast and a later DVD is likely.

"We have had offers over the last 10 years to perform with an orchestra again, but frankly we had not been inclined to accept," Styx guitarist Tommy Shaw writes in a commentary in the May 27 issue of Billboard (on newsstands today, May 19). "But this new offer was different."

-Billboard

A-HA, EMBRACE AND BILLY IDOL CONFIRMED FOR GUILFEST'S 15TH YEAR!

GuilFest returns for 2006 proudly announcing a set of truly outstanding headliners that are sure to give Stoke Park a real weekend to remember, with Embrace, A-Ha and Billy Idol all confirmed to play the Radio 2 main stage at Guilfest's 15th year!

The Wonderstuff, Lightning Seeds, Gary Numan, The Stranglers and Sparks will also be performing and many more top names will be confirmed soon!

-www.getreadytorock.com

[Tingly has no idea where Stoke Park is and doesn't care, either!!!]

[Tingly]

The Church of England has criticised Madonna's appearance on a cross to kick off her latest tour in Los Angeles.

"Why would someone with so much talent seem to feel the need to promote herself by offending so many people?" said the church in a statement.

Madonna performed the ballad Live To Tell while suspended from a giant mirrored cross on the opening night.

David Muir of the Evangelical Alliance also accused the singer of "blatant insensitivity".

"Madonna's use of Christian imagery is an abuse and it is dangerous," he said.

-BBC News

[I'm sure a lot of people think it's a great idea, but she should be NAILED to it. -Tingly]

[Builder018]

We need some Iron Maiden and Judas Priest updates please!!!

[Tingly]

Various "spam" postings have upset the normally calm Jam Session community at the guitar.zentao.com website.

Several postings by members urging people to join various guitar "militias" got everyone riled up. Then there were multiple postings by some news freak named "Tingly," that ate up bandwidth. A few sophomoric exchanges between Tingly and Nameless really put the capper on it.

The mods took action and the militias were broken up, and their leaders were arrested. Robot_Boy was heard to yell: "Get me a good lawyer!!" as he was carted away.

Tingly was sent to his own sticky, which some said was an honor, but others said was exactly what needs to be done with a dangferous disease.

When reached for comment Tingly stated, I am happier than a pig in ****.

-A Special Report to TNS (c) 2006

[shredding]

If anyone want to hear some classical music news, tune in to Tingly classical station.

[Builder018]

Tingly...you should write screen plays!!!

[shredding]

tingly, i strongly recommend you to put up a podcast with RSS feeds. so we can download it and listen to Jam session news without having to log in. (like on the way driving to work). what do you think?

[Tingly]

In a post on his Web site, producer Kevin Shirley (H.I.M., Judas Priest) said Iron Maiden will finish recording their yet-untitled, forthcoming album this week. "The last song for the record is on the console — we still have some keyboard washes to add, and then I'll finish up the mix," he wrote. "Yesterday we recorded umpteen guitar tweedles, ably executed by [guitarist] Janick [Gers], in four-part harmony, which led me to believe that if there is a hell, [Queen] guitarist Brian May will be the gatekeeper." ..

-MTV News

[Nameless]

Various "spam" postings have upset the normally calm Jam Session community at the guitar.zentao.com website.

Several postings by members urging people to join various guitar "militias" got everyone riled up. Then there were multiple postings by some news freak named "Tingly," that ate up bandwidth. A few sophomoric exchanges between Tingly and Nameless really put the capper on it.

The mods took action and the militias were broken up, and their leaders were arrested. Robot_Boy was heard to yell: "Get me a good lawyer!!" as he was carted away.

Tingly was sent to his own sticky, which some said was an honor, but others said was exactly what needs to be done with a dangferous disease.

When reached for comment Tingly stated, I am happier than a pig in ****.

-A Special Report to TNS (c) 2006
HEY
:mad: :mad: :mad: I just wrote a thread about that but it got deleted :(

[Tingly]

"tingly, i strongly recommend you to put up a podcast with RSS feeds. so we can download it and listen to Jam session news without having to log in. (like on the way driving to work). what do you think?"

Hmmm..sounds somewhat interesting. Could I DO them while *I* am on the way to work???

[Builder018]

Cool Maiden update Tingly!!! Thanks!!!

[Tingly]

Hi Nameless! Good to see ya, man! Thanks for posting!

I think you can do that piece in here, if ya want.

They were (rightfully) tired of us (me) bantering back and forth and pushing the good guitar stuff onto page two and three. So, no big deal, feel free to post your funny news here!

[Tingly]

Judas Priest will be the featured guests on the nationally syndicated radio show Rockline with host Bob Coburn Wednesday night May 24th at 8:30 PDT.
For a station near you, and information regarding how to log onto the Internet for the broadcast, go to www.RocklineRadio.com

[Nameless]

The surviving members of the legendary rock band led zeppelin were presented the award by the king of sweden today in the city where they recorded their final album, 27 years ago. Members Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and John Paul Jones were cheared on as they crossed the stage. Drummer John Bonham who died in 1980 was represented by his daughter Zoe. The award(founded in 1989) is typically split between pop and classical artists. Past winners include Paul McCartney, Isaac Stern, Bruce Springsteen, Pierre Boulez and Quincy Jones.

[Tingly]

Cool award, from a cool country, for a cool band!

Cool find, Nameless!

[roger24]

sweet

[Stray Dog]

Great thread! I don't know if this is supposed to be for comic relief or for serious JS purposes, but I think the idea where of a thread for people to post all guitar and music related news is an AWESOME idea!

[Tingly]

The Web is awash with music videos made by camera-savvy wannabes.

By Deborah Netburn, Times Staff Writer
May 14, 2006

SHE is 12, maybe 13, old enough to know all the lyrics to a rock song, but her smooth skin and soft features betray that she has only just entered adolescence. As the 3 minutes, 22 seconds of buffered video footage begins, she grabs a pair of headphones and begins bopping her head in time to the bass drum.

It is a moment at once innocent and emotional, personal and pure enough to make you cry.

It is the kind of thing that used to stay behind closed bedroom doors, when bored teens would grab a hairbrush as a mike and privately fantasize in front of a mirror about being the next hot pop star.

A few of the more outrageous lip-sync videos have become Internet phenomena, forwarded from one viewer to the next. Millions of people have watched the two Chinese college students who call themselves the Back Dormitory Boys lip-sync with conviction (and a whole lot of swaying) to the Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way" and they have since become full-fledged celebrities in China.

Pomme and Kelly, two 15-year-olds from the Netherlands, have made a total of 10 videos. Pomme and Kelly's videos have a silly, high-energy and specifically youthful quality — they flail their arms, they use such props as paper money and cellphones, and Kelly has a predilection toward making faces at the camera. The girls never edit their videos (because they don't know how).

"We just like to act weird (in front of the camera)," they wrote in an e-mail interview, still unsure of what to make of all the attention.

In March, 27-year-old Ben Petro from Brisbane, Australia, launched GoogleIdol.com, a website that allows visitors to vote for their favorite lip-sync video. "I spend a few hours every day slacking on Google Video and I saw a lip-sync video by these two girls from the Netherlands and it kind of hit me, this is really becoming a bit of a craze," said Petro. "I thought there should be some kind of competition. And then 'Idol' popped into my mind."

In the first week the site was active, GoogleIdol received more than 7,500 hits. And by the time the first competition ended, more than 40,000 people had voted. Pomme and Kelly won.

CLOSER to home, Gary Brolsma, a bespectacled 19-year-old from Saddle Brook, N.J., became something of a media phenomenon after he made a lip-sync video to a Romanian dance song called "Dragostea Din Tei" (he called it "Numa Numa") in which he repeatedly performed his variation of the raise-the-roof arm motion.

-www.latimes.com (Edited by Tingly)

[freya181]

it's not a joke or serious. it's just for fun. just like the guitar warfare! some of you take it too seriously, it's just something fun to do. :)

btw, Tingly, should i suggest an article covering the guitar wars with some commentary from me?

[Robot_Boy]

Get Me A Good Lawyer!

[Tingly]

Substantial numbers of Jam Session members have broken up into factions and begun "battling" each other in the forum, while other members "run for cover."

It started quietly enough in October of 2005. Robot_Boy began recruiting for the "Ibanez Militia." A recruiting drive in December of 2005 by ferrariman74 added to the membership, and a movement was born.

Some members alleged that "only a bowel movement had been created" and they were very unhappy about having a militia in their midst.

Soon, other groups started up. ZampraZ formed the Fender Legion. Mr. Boston formed the Gibson Guerillas. Most recently, the Jackson War Machine was created by VooDoo Chile. Now there is also an ESP Army and an Epiphone Legion!

What the hell this is all about is all very mysterious but, after tremendous investigative efforts by the Tingly News Service Staff (meaning me--sitting here at the computer) it has been determined that, apparently, it all has something to do with what kind of guitar you own, or hope to own, or once owned, or will own sometime in the future or were hit with when you were a kid.

There was some controversey stirred up, thank goodness <yawn>, when some members (confidential sources who will not be named) implied that the whole thing was "stupid and boring and taking up space."

The mods stepped in yesterday, warned everybody to be reasonable and not take things to the extreme, and everybody calmed down.

Still, shredding (the self styled "Gibson Clan Co-leader") wrote today that the "forum has become overheated. isn't it for musicmanship anyway?" That post immediately generated 3 pages of messages. omissam posted: "This forum has become a crappy military role playing game. Everyone's fighting over nothing." But Les_Is_More pointed out, "yeah its all a joke! i love it, its hilarious!"

freya has suggested that all that is needed is some commentary from him. No one knew what the hell he was talking about.

Amazingly, in addition to recruiting drives, these groups have conducted public pep talks, traded insults, and are even threatening to conduct "battles" and "wars." Many members are longing for the good old days when people posted messages about needing a girlfriend, being rejected by the opposite gender, or just being plain old horny!

-Special to the TNS (c) 2006

[zappatude]

Classic ^^

[Tingly]

Amazingly, there is absolutely NOTHING going on ANYWHERE in the universe worth reporting. It's a stunning development!

We here at Tingly News Service apologize to you, our faithful (ha!) readers.

As soon as someone makes a total *** of themselves (other than us) we will report it!

Stay tuned for more drivel!

-Special to TNS (c) 2006

[Tingly]

2003 - Singer/songwriter Liz Phair embarks on her first tour in several years with a string of acoustic performances opening for the Flaming Lips.

2000 - Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins announces that the Seattle-based rock group will officially break up at year's end. Corgan claims that he and his bandmates are tired of "fighting the good fight against the Britneys of the world."

2000 - "Binaural," Pearl Jam's long-awaited sixth studio album hits U.S. store shelves.

1998 - Teen heart-throb group Hanson notches a sellout in less than 20 minutes in the Detroit market for a June 29 show at the Pine Knob Amphitheatre.

1979 - Tom Petty files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The filing is partly the result of a dispute with Petty's record label, which had been purchased by MCA.

1971 - Iron Butterfly breaks up. The group's biggest hit is "In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida," a No. 30 song in 1968.

1970 - The Grateful Dead gives its first performance outside the U.S., a four-hour set at the Hollywood Rock Festival in the U.K.

1965 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Help Me Rhonda," The Beach Boys.

[Mr. Boston]

As the Chief Intelligence Officer for the Gibson Guerillas I have a statement to release to the press (Tingly) regarding recent developments in the political climate of Jam Session.

Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen, shredders, blueshounds, jazzfiends, bluegrass pickers, classical afficianados, punks, rasta-jammers, folk-singers, etc.

The recent mobilization and March to War of the Gibson Guerillas was based on intelligence received by an unnamed source, that the Ibanez Militia was taking active steps to acquire WMDs, and supplies to manufacture WMDs; Weapons of Mass Distortion. Robot Boy is a tyrannical dictator who has expressed his willingness to ruin our way of life through the proliferation of dangerously fast shredding, and piercing tone. Robot Boy does not decide the Gibson Guerillas' foreign policy- I do. As he is faster than any other militia leader- I decided a pre-emptive strike was called for. We must not be passive in the face of active pickups. This forum cannot stand idly by through the imminent threat of an attack of dive-bombs. As we all know shredding contains no emotion. This is a very real and immediate threat.

So I have done some alliance building and joined forces with ZampraZ, and the Fender Legion. I have petitioned Congress to create a Department of Showcase Security- so we can listen in, and see who is shredding and who is not. If you are playing decent, emotional music, you have nothing to fear.

I have a dream, that one day in this great soundscape- players of ALL genres will come together in harmony. That axe-slingers of the world will be judged not by the speed of their legato alone, but by the content of their composition. That Screamo Kids, Punk Rockers, and Funk Junkies, will join hands with Bluesmen, Death Metal Demons, and Chicken Pickers. The mechanical, inhuman, speed obsessed, robotic playing of Robot Boy and his minions threatens this tender balance with every arpeggio. We are a forum created in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that ALL styles are created equal, and that no genre should be allowed to ascend to dominance.

We WILL prevail, we WILL succeed. We WILL remove Robot Boy from his usurped position of power so that freedom, democracy, and the rich and diverse cultural history of guitar music will endure on this planet forever more.

Thank you,

Mr. Boston- Chief Intelligence Officer, Gibson Guerillas

**BTW- if you can't tell this is totally sarcastic and meant in good fun, you're taking this forum, and probably life in general WAY too seriously. Relax, back away from the computer, and pick up your guitar.**

[freya181]

freya has suggested that all that is needed is some commentary from him. No one knew what the hell he was talking about.
hehe..

[zappatude]

Mr. Boston that was really good stuff. Weapons Of Mass Distortion. LOL

I would like to thank Tingly News for giving Mr. Boston this forum from which to be heard.

[Tingly]

This has been a Public Service Annoucement and a test of the Jam Session Early Warning System.

Had this been an actual emergency, your *** would have been grassed.

We now rejoin our regular broadcast, which is already underway...

[fishtaco]

Haha, some funny stuff here.

How about some news on Cradle of Filth and Rammstein? Um, okay nevermind, I think I'm the only one interested in those news.

[Tingly]

ANGTORIA, the new Swedish/British orchestral/metal band formed by female singer Sarah Jezebel Deva (CRADLE OF FILTH, THERION, MORTIIS), composer Chris Rehn (ABYSSOS) and Tommy Rehn (MOAHNI MOAHNA), have announced the addition of CRADLE OF FILTH bassist Dave Pybus and MY OWN GRAVE drummer John Henriksson to the group's lineup.

-www.topix.ne 5/1/06

[Tingly]

All videos that Rammstein have ever released can now be found in the iTunes Music Store. From Seemann to Mann gegen Mann, they are each priced at $1.99 on the US store and €2.49 on the German store (prices may vary elsewhere).

-herzeleid.com

[Rammstein is not currently touring, or I'd supply dates. Sorry, fishtaco - Tingly]

[fishtaco]

Wow, you found news for me, thanks Tingly.

[Tingly]

ATHENS, Ala. -- A woman was charged with domestic violence for allegedly hitting her husband and another woman on the head with a can of Raid bug spray after she found them together.

Police Sgt. Trevor Harris said a "nosy neighbor" called the woman at work on Friday and told her that her husband was at their apartment having an affair with another woman, prompting the wife to head home.

"She came in and caught her husband with another woman and she grabbed a can of Raid and went at it," said another officer, Capt. Marty Bruce. "She hit the husband in the back of the head with it and then turned on the woman and also hit her in the head."

The woman who was struck needed stitches for a head wound, police said, and the husband also was cut but did not require medical treatment.

Cornelia Cottrell Smith, 26, of Athens was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of domestic violence and released from the City Jail after posting a $1,000 bond.

-AP

[Tingly]

VILNIUS, Lithuania -- Lithuanian police were so astonished when they pulled over a truck driver and his breathalyzer test registered 18 times the legal alcohol limit, they thought their testing device must be broken.

It wasn't.

Police said Tuesday 41-year-old Vidmantas Sungaila registered 727 milligrams of alcohol per 100 milliters of blood repeatedly on different devices when he was pulled over for driving his truck down the center of a two-lane highway 60 miles from the capital, Vilnius on Saturday.

Lithuania's legal limit is 40 milligrams of alcohol in 100 milliliters of blood.

"This guy should have been lying dead, but he was still driving. It must be an unofficial national record," Saulius Skvernelis, the director of the national police traffic control service, told the AP. "He was of high spirits and grinning the whole time he was questioned."

"A person this intoxicated should be in an intensive care unit, not behind the wheel," said Tautvydas Zikaras, head of the dependence illness center in the country's second-largest city, Kaunas. Zikaras said he had never heard or read of someone being so drunk.

Sungaila, who was slapped with a 3,000 litas ($1,110) fine and the loss of his license for up to three years, told police he had been drinking the night before and tried to freshen up by downing a pint of beer for breakfast.

Lithuania has one of the worst road safety records in the European Union.

-AP

[Tingly]

Brooks & Dunn Win at Country Music Awards By TOM GARDNER

LAS VEGAS -- Brooks & Dunn, the most honored artists in the history of the Academy of Country Music's awards show, picked up a record 20th trophy Tuesday night as country music's elite gathered to perform and compete for honors.

The duo accepted the song of the year award for the gospel-tinged "Believe," written by Craig Wiseman, who also co-wrote the 2005 song of the year, "Live Like You Were Dying."

Brad Paisley, who led the list of nominees with six, got the award he said he wanted, winning album of the year for "Time Well Wasted." Jason Aldean, whose song "Why" is No. 1 this week, was named top new male vocalist.

Brooks & Dunn and Sugarland had five nominations each and Rascal Flatts and Carrie Underwood had four apiece. Along with her Sugarland nominations, lead singer Jennifer Nettles also was up for her crossover hit with Bon Jovi, "Who Says You Can't Go Home."

Sugarland took away honors for top new duo or vocal group.

Underwood, the most-nominated woman, won single of the year for "Jesus Take the Wheel," a song she performed during the show.

-AP

[Martina McBride just finished singing "Thanks A Lot." She had to back off the mic, or I think she would have blown the MGM Grand sound system with sheer power. Lord, what a voice! - Tingly]

[Tingly]

By DAVID BAUDER

NEW YORK (AP) -- Coming from the radio speakers, Bob Dylan sounds as craggy and weather-beaten as he looks - and quite playful, too.

As he reaches his 65th birthday Wednesday, the rock 'n' roll poet is carving out a new role as a part-time radio disc jockey [on XM Satellite Radio-Tingly].

So far, about the only thing missing is Bob Dylan music, unless you count the off-key verse of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" that he croaked at the beginning of this week's show on baseball.

Each week Dylan builds his show around a theme, like the weather and drinking songs.

The majority of the music Dylan plays predates his own heyday.

"I think it's more akin to the way radio sounded in 1952 than it does in 2006," said Lee Abrams, XM Satellite Radio's chief creative officer.

Dylan's entertaining baseball show also mixed in calls from classic baseball games, like Curt Gowdy announcing Ted Williams' home run in his final at-bat with the Boston Red Sox.

-AP

[Tingly]

PARIS -- Two Rolling Stones concerts scheduled in Paris this summer have been indefinitely postponed, French organizers said Tuesday.

The concerts had been slated for June 3 and July 2 at the Stade de France stadium. Organizers said they had no immediate information on replacement dates.

An Aug. 8 concert in the French Riviera city of Nice was still on the tour schedule.

The Stones' "A Bigger Bang European" tour, which was to open in Barcelona, Spain, on Saturday, was postponed after 62-year-old guitarist Keith Richards suffered a head injury in Fiji on April 27.

News reports variously claimed that Richards fell out of a palm tree or from a jet ski. He later had surgery in Auckland, New Zealand, to relieve pressure in his head.

-AP

[iam2phat]

keep up the good work Tingly. I'm loving these reports. And the newscast that Mr. Boston did was pretty funny. Weapons of mass distortion, never would have thought of that.

[Lazy Bee]

. He later had surgery in Auckland, New Zealand, to relieve pressure in his head.

-AP


I knew there was something better than relaxation tapes. :mad: Got a Doctors name by any chance?

[Tingly]

Thanks for the encouragement, iam. 'Glad you enjoy the thread.

Lazy - sorry you are under such stress! I doubt you need SURGERY! I think Keith Richards had a different kind of "pressure in his head."

[Tingly]

Sand Springs, OK - A swarm of bees stung and killed a Great Dane dog in Sand Springs.

Police say the 120-pound dog was stung numerous times in the yard of a home at 6:45 last night.

The state Agriculture (website - news) , Food and Forestry Department will investigate whether Africanized "killer" bees were involved.

The female dog was stung at least 20 times.

-AP

[Tingly]

Bartlesville, OK - Schools are doing whatever it takes to keep students in school and off the streets. It even means parents are being sentenced to jail if students skip too much school. In Bartlesville, a mother was given 30 days for her daughter's truancy.

Washington County has a new truancy court to keep students in class. So far this year, 38 parents have been charged because their kids weren't in school.

"She just wouldn't get up to go to school," says Anna Marie Hailey. "I have literally pulled my child out. I even walked her to the bus stop."

But, Hailey couldn't get her 14-year old to show up at Central Middle School. She even threatened to call the cops.

"But, now they called the law on you."

"Yeah, uh huh."

Anna Marie is serving a 30-day sentence in the Washington County Jail. The judge first warned her, put her on probation. But, absences continued, so they locked her up because her daughter was truant.

-www.ktul.com

[Les_Is_More]

freya has suggested that all that is needed is some commentary from him. No one knew what the hell he was talking about.

-Special to the TNS (c) 2006



AHAHAHAHA :rotf: :rotf:

tingly your the man, (and freya is too) hahah keep em coming! ill be a source if you need!

[Mr. Boston]

Hey Tingly- probably I'll get my butt whooped for this- but whatever happened to Menudo- aside from Ricky Martin that is? It'd be nice to see what levels of depravity the various members of the Latin equivalent to New Kids on the Block have sunk to. Working in gas stations in Texas under assumed names by now I hope.

Also- I heard somewhere that Axl Rose recently got beat up by Tommy Hilfiger- any truth to these rumors?

[Tingly]

These guys dropped off the radar BIG TIME so I had some trouble locating news. I found some stuff by doing searches on their individual names. So, here is news on MENUDO!! (There were so many members I just covered the ones in the group up to 1985.)

Rene Farrait (born November 2, 1967) was a member during the band's most successful period.

After leaving the band, Rene became a solo singer and made a few albums.

In 1987, he joined former bandmates Ray Reyes and Johnny Lozada and formed a band named Proyecto M. They lasted two years together, during which they became very popular in Puerto Rico and Venezuela, and acted in a few soap operas.

He married Leyda Barreto in the 1990s and joined his former bandmates for a comeback tour named El Reencuentro. It was named like that because they couldn't use the name Menudo due to legal issues.

Rene faced health troubles in the early 2000s, but he recuperated.

In 2005, "El Reencuentro" returned for a one concert engagement in Puerto Rico. Farrait was once again involved in the musical project, but he survived a motorcycle accident that left him with 20 stitches on his jaw area just days before the concert.

Oscar Melendez (1966–) is a Puerto Rican.

Oscar Melendez's era at Menudo was before the group became internationally famous. When Oscar was in the band, the group did, however, become famous in Puerto Rico.

Oscar Melendez participated at fiestas patronales almost every weekend as a member of Menudo. In addition, he participated on Menudo's channel 2's television show.

Oscar Melendez has led a relatively quiet life after his years as a Menudo. [Translation: YES, he IS pumping gas, now! -Tingly]

Fernando Sallaberry [Couldn't find much on him. This is from "Menudo Online" and Wikipedia:]
Birthday: November 25, 1965
Birthplace: Spain;
Current Stagename: Fernando Sallaberry
Now Appearing: Fighting Lou Gherig's Disease
Marital Status: Unknown
Kids: None

Fernando as a solist became popular in Puerto Rico and in South America. However, he is currently ill of a strange virus which maintains his health condition unstable. It is hard for him to move and he has needed his family's assistance for the last few years.

He continues to gain strength and movement, but is currently confined to a wheel chair.

Carlos Melendez (born c 1965) is a Puerto Rican.

Carlos Melendez lasted in Menudo until 1979, barely missing out on the group's golden era. As a matter of a fact, the only one of the three Melendez brothers to participate during Menudo's era of worldwide fame was Ricky.

Carlos Melendez tried a duo singing career with Fernando Sallaberry for a brief time after leaving Menudo. He did not record any major hits by himself, however, and soon, retired from music. [Translation: ALSO pumping gas, now!! -Tingly]

Oscar Neftalí Sallaberry. He's being called "The man who almost was" because he was one of the Menudo members who couldn't enjoy the best times of the group and he is the least remembered. Nefty graduated in 1986 from Marquette University in Computer Sciences. He's the Information Technology Principal Officer in a company in Puerto Rico.

Johnny Lozada. After he retired from Menudo, Lozada adopted a boy, and he became a member of Proyecto M together with Rene Farrait and Ray Reyes. Once that group dissolved, he went into acting.

Lozada came back into the scene participating in Mexican telenovelas, and in 1998, he and former Menudo's Farrait, Miguel Cancel, Ray Reyes, Charlie Masso and Ricky Melendez got together in Puerto Rico for a concert named El Reencuentro. El Reencuentro was so successful that they needed to add two more concerts that weekend and later, they went on tour all over Latin America and the United States.

Lozada has moved to Miami and is married. He has four kids, and he just ended playing boxer Johnny Trinidad in the Amigas y rivales Telenovela with Televisa.

Xavier Serbia. After two productions with EMI Capitol, Xavier disappeared from public life. He moved to Costa Rica, where he finished his B.A in International Relations. He was offered to join some of the ex Menudos in 1998 for a comeback tour named El Reencuentro, but he declined, allegedly saying that Menudo was a beautiful part of his past and he wants to keep it that way.

In the year 2000 he signed a contract with Red Global, a Peruvian TV station, to become the co-host, alongside Katia Balarin and rising Argentinian model Laura Borlini, of the entertainment show "Que Noche!". Around August of the same year, Red Global suffered very serious internal problems that lead to the cancelation of all of their programs, including "Que noche!". The last live episode of the show went off-air 10 minutes after the start of the program with no explanation to the audience and anyone else.

Back in the United States, he worked as a broker and planning associate for a multinational company. He finalized a master degree in business administration (MBA) with concentration in finances. During this period, he appeared as a commentator on such Telemundo Network shows as “Noticiero Nacional Telemundo’, “Esta Mañana” and “América en Vivo”, among others.

In 2003, he was elected by NBC-Telemundo and Ford, to host the business series El Camino Al Triunfo where he performed as writer, advisor and host.

That same year, Xavier launched XavierSerbia.com, a Spanish language site where he informs the Hispanic community in the US about personal finances and small business.

Xavier is Contributor Editor of the section "Money Matters" of the magazine "Siempre Mujer" with a circulation of 350,000 and an audience of 1.3 million readers. The magazine is published by Meredith Corporation (NYSE: MDP), one of the most important publishing company in the United States.

Xavier Serbia is also writing a weekly syndicated column titled ‘El Menudo Cuenta’, currently being featured in the Puerto Rican newspaper ‘El Nuevo Dia’, with a daily circulation of more than 250,000.

At present Xavier is pursuing his second master degree in Financial Economics at Trinity College. He also performs public presentations where he shares his knowledge and experience in the area of personal finances and small business.

Miguel Cancel. Cancel joined El Reencuentro in 1998. The group, made up of former Menudo members, went on a worldwide tour and recorded an album singing old Menudo songs.

Cancel currently works as a police officer with the Los Angeles Police Department. He was previously an officer with the Coral Gables, Florida police department. While with Coral Gables, he was seriously injured in 2004 when a police van overturned. Cancel was also named the July 2003 Coral Gables Officer of the Month by the Kiwanis Club of Coral Gables.

Charlie Masso. After he left the band, Charlie moved to Mexico for a very long time, where he was in a few soap operas. He got married and had a family, and in 1998 joined Melendez, Farrait, Lozada, Reyes and Cancel in touring many of the places where they made millions of fans as Menudo's, with El Reencuentro.

Charlie has made a few calendars with both Lozada and Cancel since then, and he lives in Miami. His marriage has unfortunately been under some stress lately.

Ray Reyes. Ray left only after 2 years in the group due to his sudden voice and height change. Years later he joined former Menudos Rene Farrait and Johnny Lozada in Proyecto M, once again substituting Serbia. Proyecto M went to enjoy great success in Puerto Rico and Venezuela.

Ray got married and has a family. He joined some of his former Menudo bandmates as well as Farrait and Lozada in 1998 for a concert named El Reencuentro in San Juan. The concert did so well, they had to add two more San Juan dates that weekend and then went on a worldwide tour.

Roy Rossello. He is currently living and touring in Brazil with other former members of Menudo in a Reunion tour. They are calling themselves Menudo La Reunion.

Robby Rosa. In 1998 he released his first english-language album, titled Songbirds and Roosters. It featured the English versions of the tracks from his debut album Frío. In 2001 Rosa released a Greatest Hits album called Libertad del Alma which featured songs from an upcoming album in which he had been working for more than three years.

In 2003, he again re-invented himself yet again, in preparation for the release of his most ambitious project yet, an album titled Mad Love Released in March 2004, the album contained tragic love themes in different musical genres ranging from hard rock to flamenco ballads. The album was comprised of 15 songs, 3 of which are sung in Spanish. The album was the first to earn Rosa international recognition beyond Latin America, becoming widely popular in Europe. Rosa toured the continent with Lenny Kravitz in the summer of 2004.

Rosa received a Latin Grammy Award in 2004 for the video clip of the song "Más y Más". In September 2004, Draco took his show to Puerto Rico's new 18,000-capacity Coliseo de Puerto Rico, selling out the venue. A CD/DVD of the event was released on December 6, 2005, titled DRACO Al Natural. He capped 2005 with 7 sold out concerts at Puerto Rico's "Bellas Artes" theatre in the month of September and proceeded to focus on a new spanish-language album for 2006.

Rosa currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife Angela and two sons, Revel and Redamo, although he also has a residence in Puerto Rico. Rosa has been known for using many different pseudonyms when writing songs for other artists.

[Edited by Tingly (c) 2006]

[Tingly]

Mr. B - you asked about the Axl Rose-Tommy Hilfiger "dust up."

It wasn't that big a deal. I think Axl "chose" not to kill him, or they were separated. He was okay enough to sing and joke about it afterward.

Here's a version of the story from that AP, posted at Metromix.com:
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NEW YORK -- It was a one-two encounter between Axl Rose and Tommy Hilfiger.

The rocker and designer capped a Thursday evening out at a new club called The Plumm in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood with midnight fisticuffs.

"There was an issue between the two of them," Plumm owner Noel Ashman told The Associated Press.

The scuffle reportedly started after the Guns N' Roses front man moved the drink of Hilfiger's girlfriend, Dee Ocleppo.

"I moved his girlfriend's drink so it wouldn't spill," Rose told the Los Angeles radio station KROQ on Friday. "It was the most surreal thing, I think, that's ever happened to me in my life."

According to the 44-year-old singer, Hilfiger, 55, smacked him in the arm and told him to put the drink back.

"He just kept smacking me," Rose said.

Attempts to reach Hilfiger or a representative were not immediately successful.

Rose was there to play a surprise set for "Rent" actress Rosario Dawson for her 27th birthday party.

At the time of the dustup, The Plumm was packed with a celebrity crowd including Lenny Kravitz, Mickey Rourke, Kid Rock, Peter Beard, Molly Simms, Wentworth Miller, Ann Dexter Jones, Lydia Hearst and Damon Dash.

Rose did perform, and dedicated the song "You're Crazy" to "my good friend Tommy Hilfiger."

[Mr. Boston]

WOW Tingly- you have truly outdone yourself. Keep it up and you'll have a Pulitzer on your shelf, lol.

[Tingly]

That's very kind of you to write, Mr. B.

Thanks! I'll keep at it.

[Tingly]

Death on Everest divides climbers

By Sasha Shtargot and Janine Bennetts
May 25, 2006

AN ETHICAL battle is raging among mountaineers over a man left to die on Mount Everest as others forged on to the summit.

New Zealand climber Mark Inglis, a double-amputee who climbs on prosthetic legs, was one of many who passed British climber David Sharp, 34.

Sharp was trying to climb the mountain alone. He died after he apparently ran out of oxygen 300 metres below the summit.

Inglis said his party was the only one among about 40 climbers to stop and help Sharp as he lay in Everest's "death zone", above 8000 metres. He said his group kept climbing after deciding there was nothing they could do to save the Briton.

"He had no oxygen, he had no proper gloves," Inglis said. "He was effectively dead … so we carried on. Trouble is, at 8500 metres it's extremely difficult to keep yourself alive, let alone keep anyone else alive."

Mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary slammed the behaviour of Inglis' group, saying there was a lack of ethics among climbers. Sir Edmund, who, with Sherpa Tensing, was the first man to climb Everest, said his 1953 British team would have abandoned its summit bid if another climber's life had been in danger.

"I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die."

Elsewhere, a man died in a rock-climbing accident at Mount Arapiles, 350 kilometres west of Melbourne, yesterday after falling 15 metres onto a ledge.

www.theage.com.au

[Edited by Tingly]

[Arc]

"tingly News At 10.00!"

[Tingly]

The Rolling Stones have postponed the first 15 dates of their European tour as guitarist Keith Richards recovers from a head injury.

Stones publicist LD Communications today (May 24) said the European leg of the band's A Bigger Bang tour, which had been due to start Saturday (May 27) in Barcelona, Spain, would now begin in July at a venue and city to be announced. The rescheduled dates are due to be announced in the next few days.

The postponed gigs were scheduled for Barcelona and Madrid, Spain; Brussels, Belgium; Paris; Bergen, Norway; Horsens, Denmark; Gothenburg, Sweden; St. Petersburg, Russia; Brno, Czech Republic; Warsaw, Poland; Vienna, Austria; Milan, Italy; Athens, Greece; and Zagreb, Croatia.

The postponement of the two Paris shows on June 3 and July 2 was announced yesterday (May 23) by French organizers.

-Billboard [Edited by Tingly]

[Tingly]

Folk singer Joan Baez and a woman who once spent two years perched atop a giant California redwood took up residence today (May 24) in a tree in a Los Angeles community garden that is threatened with demolition.

Baez, who gave voice to Vietnam War protesters, and Julia "Butterfly" Hill, whose anti-logging protest in the late 1990s drew widespread attention, said they would occupy the tree in shifts.

The 14-acre garden in the middle of gritty south Los Angeles is tended by some 350 farmers, many of them immigrants, who have been growing fruits and vegetables there since 1992.

The farmers are threatened with eviction after the Trust for Public Land failed in its efforts to buy the site from the owner, who plans to build a warehouse there.

A small group has gathered on the site in a bid to prevent the garden from being wiped out.

-Billboard

[Tingly]

Elton John accepted 100,000 pounds ($188,000) in libel damages today (May 24) over allegations that he asked guests not to approach him at a charity ball.

Associated Newspapers Ltd., which publishes The Daily Mail, paid the damages, according to John's attorney, Hanna Basha. The Sunday Times, which reprinted the Mail article, agreed on a confidential settlement earlier this year, Basha said.

The allegations surrounded John's behavior at his annual Tie and Tiara annual charity ball.

The Mail claimed in its June 24 article that the singer had issued a "bizarre" edict for guests not to approach him at the ball.

-Billboard

[Tingly]

The music of Canada and Australia will grab the spotlight during the five-day City Showcase festival of events in central London.

Canadian acts Catlow, Ian Kelly, Peter Elkas and the Trews will perform June 7 at a concert at the Metro Club under the "Canada Rocks" banner. The gig is presented in association with the Canadian High Commission and Billboard.

Meanwhile, Aussie acts the Audreys, FlowState, Headless Prom Queens and Team Plastique are booked for the Billboard-supported "City Showcase Australia," to be held June 8 at the city's Borderline venue.

-Billboard

[Tingly]

Warner Brothers’ Sire Records is launching “an interactive virtual listening party” for songstress Regina Spektor’s new album, “Begin to Hope,” next week in the virtual world of Second Life. The event marks “the first time a major record company has launched a virtual record release in Second Life and held a listening party for one of its artists,” according to a press release. In a series of locations around SL that were built out by Reuben Steiger’s virtual world services company, Millions of Us, residents will be able to hang out, chat and listen to songs from the album in their entirety, according to Steiger. The album itself isn’t due in stores until June 13.

The listening stations, which are built out as loft apartments whose scenery changes depending on which song is playing, will probably be a nice way to preview the material with friends (as opposed to the solitary listening experience of previewing an album on a site like Amazon.com, say), and against the backdrop of a thriving virtual world — though some may prefer dedicated spaces like PCD Music Lounge.

-www.3pointd.com

[Tingly]

A £7 million sex theme park, which has no rides, is to open in London's West End later this year.

Visitors to Amora - The Academy of Sex and Relationships at the Trocadero in Piccadilly, will pass through seven zones including Pleasure and Orgasm.

The 10,500sq-ft exhibit is designed to "separate fact from myth and educate everyone into being better lovers".

You have to be aged 18 and over to get in and tickets will cost £15 for the attraction which opens on 7 September.

Organisers expect to attract more than 600,000 visitors within the first year.

The theme park will include life-sized silicone-made models which visitors can touch to discover erogenous zones.

People will also be able to build their ideal partner from a series of body parts and there will be instructions on how best to kiss and how to talk more sexily.

The seven zones will start with attraction, love and relationships.

[mk-ultra]

nice, btw whatever happend too the people from "boy meets world"?

[Tingly]

Proving that no one does EVERYTHING well, Sir Elton John's scary musical Lestat will close on New York's Broadway after only 39 performances.

The £7m show was hated by critics when it debuted at the Palace Theatre in April, after a brief try-out run in San Fran. It will close Sunday.

Audiences last week were at 53% capacity. The show was based on the best-selling novels of Anne Rice.

The star wrote the music for Lestat and long-time songwriting partner Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics.

It was the pair's first stage musical collaboration, and probably their last!

The show biz newspaper, Variety, called the show "beyond rescue", while the New York Times' said it was "a musical sleeping pill".

[Special to Tingly News Service (c) 2006]

[Tingly]

mk wrote: "nice, btw whatever happend too the people from 'boy meets world'?"

Sadly, they are ALL DEAD! (I checked.)

[Tingly]

Rapper 50 Cent, singer Annie Lennox and rock band Green Day have won the major awards at a ceremony where US songwriters honour their peers.

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) voted 50 Cent songwriter of the year.

Lennox collected the Founders Award for her "inspirational" work as a solo artist and with The Eurythmics, one of the biggest groups of the 1980s.

Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day was one of the songs of the year.

It shared the honour with Mariah Carey's We Belong Together, written by Johnta Austin, Jermaine Dupri and Manuel Seal.

Singer Annie Lennox was described as having "one of the finest musical voices." Green Day also won another prize at the ceremony in Los Angeles - ASCAP's creative voice award.

-BBC

[Tingly]

Madonna has defended a controversial mock crucifixion in her stage show, saying it is part of an appeal to the audience to donate to Aids charities.

"I don't think Jesus would be mad at me and the message I'm trying to send," she told the New York Daily News.

UK and US church groups condemned the stunt after the singer began a 51-date world tour in Los Angeles.

A Church of England statement asked why Madonna felt "the need to promote herself by offending so many people".

Madonna performed the ballad Live To Tell while suspended from a giant mirrored cross on Sunday's opening night.

-BBC

[Sexymonkey]

mk wrote: "nice, btw whatever happend too the people from 'boy meets world'?"

Sadly, they are ALL DEAD! (I checked.)
OH MAN!... I was just thinking of Boy Meets World this mornings... why does this happen to me? Yesterday I was remembering when my dad told me a story about how his dog broke his foot, and a couple of minutes later my dog came back limping... I must be cursed... or blessed... haven't decided yet...

[ZampraZ]

Madonna is a weird DUDE.

[Freebird]

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) voted 50 Cent songwriter of the year.

-BBC

WHAT?! :eek:

[Tingly]

I know. It's incredible. They should at least have used quotations:

Alleged "Songwriter" of the year...

[Arc]

That's just a disgrace to the music industry

[gorham]

as if thats even happened. were they all deaf people?

[Tingly]

It happened, allright:

50 Cent named songwriter of year - BBC
50 Cent is ASCAP songwriter of the year - United Press International
50 Cent Named Songwriter Of The Year - All Headline News
:(

[Tingly]

Picture_show, a member since February, has started a NEW evolution thread in the Mosh Pit! His life was immediately threatened and the FBI is investigating (j/k).

The first 3 posters who joinred the discussion were new, "2006" members. Then JeffMerriman, a member since February of 2005, wrote, "We only have about twenty threads that completely beat the **** out of this debate, all of which have great arguments. Why not look for those, read them, and then post up so they don't force people to regurgitate all the info that has been posted ad nauseum."

[LOL!]

As the discussion re-started, Jeff, partly out of frustration, promptly listed 10 separate prior Jam Session threads on the topic! Old time JS members (okay, it was just me) commented that "it was one of the best displays of the use of the 'search' function in recent memory."

Undeterred the agument, I mean discussion, has gone on for 17 more posts, the last one by Zappa, only 4 minutes ago. SO FAR, the discussion is very polite and well mannered, but the mods are watching carefully as this subject has "gotten out of hand" before.

-Special to the Tingly News Service (c) 2006

NOTE TO NEW MEMBERS: There were previous Evolution threads that generated heated arguments. It was one of the reasons the Mosh Pit was actually created.

[Tingly]

FEBRUARY 16, 2000. StoneDragon and CyberCobre complete work on their guitar web site dream, and JAM SESSION is born!!! The first member, MrSamson, joins, and somehow manages to go back in time and posts 501 messages before December 31, 1969!! (according to the JS Members List).

-Special to the Tingly News Service (c) 2006

[gorham]

i wish i was the first member.

[PerianArdocyl]

Green Day also won another prize at the ceremony in Los Angeles - ASCAP's creative voice award.

:lolpnd:

Nice thread, by the way! You really seem to have it covered, Tingly.

[Tingly]

Thanks, Peri! 'Very kind of you to write that! I appreciate the encouragement.

[Tingly]

FEBRUARY 17, 2000. AlterEgo joins Jam Session as the second member, but never posts one message, and is never heard from again!!!

[Tingly]

Who. Views on this thread: 666!

Is THE DEVIL watching???!

[Tingly]

Yo! Somebody come in here and "view" this thread and get rid 'o that 666!!!

[ZampraZ]

Yeah 1 concert here in sweden is cancelled, must be bad, cos you could compete for the tickets, and what about all people that bought products of a company called extra to compete?

[Tingly]

Jon was born Giovanni Bongiovanni. His mouthful of an Italian-American birth name was anglicized to John Francis Bongiovi. Later, upon his record company's request, the condensed Jon Bon Jovi was born.

In the '80s, Bon Jovi was known for playing music in progress to an impromptu jury of kids who hung out around the corner from the band's studio, in Sayreville, New Jersey, at a pizza parlor!

Jon Bon Jovi has acted in Sex and the City, Ally McBeal, Cry Wolf, Moonlight and Valentino, and Pay It Forward.

Bon Jovi received Golden Globe, Grammy and Oscar nominations for the song "Blaze of Glory." He won the Golden Globe and performed the song at the Academy Awards.

"Friends" TV star, Matt LeBlanc, was in two Bon Jovi videos. One was the video for "Miracle" from the Young Guns II soundtrack. After success and dollars struck, he returned for "Thank You for Loving Me" (from 2000's Crush).

In 1989, guitarist Richie Sambora was dating actress-singer Cher, who had just released her Heart of Stone album.

Jon became part owner of the Arena Football League's Philadelphia Soul in 2004.

Jon Bon Jovi blows out his birthday candles on Mar. 2, the same day as Coldplay's Chris Martin.

-Adapted from E! Online

[Tingly]

WASHINGTON -- Imagine an invisibility cloak that works just like the one Harry Potter inherited from his father.

Researchers in England and the United States think they know how to do that. They are laying out the blueprint and calling for help in developing the exotic materials needed to build a cloak.

The keys are special manmade materials, unlike any in nature or the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. These materials are intended to steer light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation around an object, rendering it as invisible as something tucked into a hole in space.

"Is it science fiction? Well, it's theory and that already is not science fiction. It's theoretically possible to do all these Harry Potter things, but what's standing in the way is our engineering capabilities," said John Pendry, a physicist at the Imperial College London.

"This is very interesting science and a very interesting idea and it is supported on a great mathematical and physical basis," said Nader Engheta, a professor of electrical and systems engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.

Pendry and his co-authors also propose using metamaterials because they can be tuned to bend electromagnetic radiation -- radio waves and visible light, for example -- in any direction.

A cloak made of those materials, with a structure designed down to the submicroscopic scale, would neither reflect light nor cast a shadow.

Instead, like a river streaming around a smooth boulder, light and all other forms of electromagnetic radiation would strike the cloak and simply flow around it, continuing on as if it never bumped up against an obstacle. That would give an onlooker the apparent ability to peer right through the cloak, with everything tucked inside concealed from view.

The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency supported the research, given the obvious military applications of such stealthy technology.

-AP

[Arc]

Errr...one word worries me....RADIATION, but what kind of radiation???

[Tingly]

Arc - all waves: sound, light, radio are forms of "radiation." Most are harmless. Radiation from radioactive material IS dangerous because those are actually very tiny, but heavy, high speed particles flying off the substance that will do you harm.

In the news story above, they are saying that light waves or radar (but mostly light radiation), not radioactivity, would just bend around the "cloak" or shield, so your eyes would see what was BEHIND it, not the shield itself, without harm to you or the shield.

[hostilepony31]

thats pretty cool about the invisibility cloak.

but does anyone find it weird how things like this get support because of its "obvious military applications?" it reminds me of something i heard a while back about how war can bring about many technological advancements and stuff.

[Tingly]

Yeah, well, these things are SO astronomical in their development cost, unless the military can use it and foots the bill, it doesn't get invented in the first place.

[Tingly]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- An armless man stopped for speeding was driving with one foot on the steering wheel and another on the pedals, a policeman testified in court.

Colin Smith, who was born without arms and has never held a driver's license, appeared in court Thursday charged with driving in a manner likely to be dangerous to the public.

The police officer who stopped Smith said the driver's seat was reclined and the armless man appeared to be using one foot to steer the car and the other to work the accelerator and brake. Smith, 31, entered no plea but said he would defend himself against the charges.

He told the court he had been driving for years, using his feet to steer, and had never had an accident.

[Tingly]

ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) -- Police in an Austin suburb arrested a man on Thursday who allegedly walked into a bank, demanded money from a teller and then sat down and read a magazine.

Paul Wendell Gunn, 61, surrendered to police about an hour after he went to the bank and demanded an undisclosed amount of money, said Round Rock police spokesman Eric Poteet.

After the teller gave Gunn the money, he sat down on a couch inside the bank and started reading while everyone else evacuated, Poteet said in Thursday's online edition of the Austin American-Statesman.

Authorities closed off the area around the bank, which is only a half-block from the police station, until Gunn surrendered, Austin television station KVUE reported.

Gunn never used a weapon, and no one was injured, police said.

[Keith]

Leave it to musical notes or entertainments notes only please.
Otherwise, all political or religious material gets moved to the Mosh Pit.
Thanks
Best regards.
Keith

[Tingly]

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- A trio of hungry burglars caused their own undoing by leaving a trail of snack wrappers after stealing six packages of instant lottery tickets from a convenience store.

"This was a combination of good police work and a stupid criminal," said Sgt. Tom Connellan, a police spokesman.

The burglars smashed a window early Wednesday at a convenience store and fled with the lottery tickets and some Little Debbie Coffee Cake snacks. Officer James Johnson followed a trail of discarded wrappers to a nearby apartment building, where he arrested the trio.

Charged with burglary, grand larceny and criminal mischief were Curtis Hudgins, 17, Adrian Huddleston, 20, and a 15-year-old boy whose name was withheld because of his age.

[lyleman]

LOL - That's my town, Tingly!!! I knew we were of below average intelligence up here, but geez...These guys need to go downstate first to learn from real criminals before committing these crimes. Damn litterers.

[Arc]

Hahahaha!!!! That should be on America's Dumbest Criminals!

[ZampraZ]

Hah they have to be really Retarded with a big R!

[disposed hero]

dont use that word like that

[lyleman]

from the "Compact Oxford English Dictionary" :

retarded

• adjective less advanced in mental, physical, or social development than is usual for one’s age.


The word is not captive property of those less fortunate people who were born with disabilities. When you are retarded, you probably were born with mental deficiencies. When you are Retarded (as ZampraZ said), you are just a moron!

[TimpZ]

Do you like, copy everything from some site?

[Tingly]

TimpZ- if you are asking ME, the answer is no, I do not copy articles from a particular site. I gather stuff from all over, even some hard copy newspapers. And some of the stuff I write myself.

'Hope you enjoy the thread!

[Tingly]

Y'know, we often overlook stuff that's going on outside of the U.S.

I don't mean to spam anybody, but there is a HUGE festival going on right now in Portugal.

It's called Rock in Rio. I guess it started in Brazil or something, but now it's in Europe.

The Bela Vista Park, in Lisbon, is presently hosting it. The festival continues on June, 2, 3 and 4 at "the City of Rock." They get 90,000 people for some of the shows!

Here's the upcoming schedule for just a few of the artists:

June 2 Santana and Roger Waters [Waters will be broadcast live on multiple media platforms around the globe through a new partnership with "Network Live." You can get it in real time on AOL, XM or DirecTV.]

June 3 Red Hot Chili Peppers

June 4 GNR(A Portuguese band) and Sting

-[Special to the Tingly news Service (c) 2006 - Thanks to diogopm]

[Tingly]

Group disband after 15 years

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci have split.

A statement on the band's official website has confirmed the group have "decided to call it a day" after almost fifteen years together.

It reads: "(The band) would like to thank everyone who came to the gigs and bought the records over the years. The reissues of the first three Gorkys albums will go ahead as planned and will be released before late 2006."

Various members of the band had released solo records in the last 12 months.

-nme.com

[Tingly]

Paul Simon premiered his new album "Surprise" at a secret London show and played a whoile bunch of classic hits, too on May 25, at The Bloomsbury Theatre in the West End.

He played four tracks from the Brian Eno-produced record - "Outrageous", "How Can You Live In The Northeast?", "Father And Daughter" and set closer "Wartime Prayers".

Simon, backed by a four-piece band, treated the lucky audience to a host of hits from his entire career, including two Simon And Garfunkel classics - 'The Boxer' and 'Cecilia'. There were also three cuts from his Grammy-winning 1986 album 'Graceland' - set opener 'Diamonds On The Soles Of her Shoes', 'The Boy In The Bubble' and the title track.

The show was recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 2. It will be aired at 9pm on Saturday June 3.

The set was:

'Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes'
'Outrageous'
'Slip Slidin' Away'
'You're The One'
'Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard'
'How Can You Live In The Northeast?'
'The Boxer'
'The Boy In The Bubble'
'Loves Me Like A Rock'
'Graceland'
'Father And Daughter'
'Cecilia'
'Wartime Prayers'

'Surprise' will be released on June 5.

nme.com [Edited by Tingly (c) 2006]

[Tingly]

The Who will return to the venue which spawned their classic 'Live At Leeds' album.

The band will be kicking off their UK tour at Leeds University on June 17, 36 years after they played the legendary set which was released on the 1970 LP.

Though intended to be a secret show, the group's UK tour dates have been posted on guitarist Pete Townshend's official website.

After returning from America, playing Woodstock and amongst critical acclaim for their rock-musical 'Tommy', The Who turned-up to play a gig at Leeds University in 1970, which was captured on tape and went on to become a multi-million selling record.

Speaking recently about the seminal show, singer Roger Daltrey said: "The students there were a great audience for us it was packed to the rafters, and then some more. I heard there was a thousand fans on the roof!"

The Who will follow their show in the city on June 17 with a string of European dates, which are as follows:

Leeds University (June 17)
Brighton Centre (18)
Leeds O2 Wireless Festival (25)
Bristol Ashton Gate Football Stadium (28)
Belgium Werchter Festival (30)
= = = = = = = JULY = = = = = = =
London Hyde Park Calling Festival (July 2)
Hampshire Beaulieu Motor Museum (3)
Liverpool Docks (5-6)
Ireland Oxegen Festival (8)
Scotland T In The Park Festival (9)
Bonn Museumplatz (11)
Berlin Wuhleide (12)
Locarno Moon & Stars (14)
Monte Carlo Sporting Club (15)
Antique Vienne Theatre (17)
Metz Amneville Arena (18)
Paleo Festival, Nyon (20)
St Polten Lovely Days Festival (22)
Ulm Munsterplatz (23)
Barcelona Palau St Jordi (26)
Madrid Sports Palace (27)
Zaragoza Pabellon Principe Felipe (29)

-nme.com [Eited by Tingly (c) 2006]

[Tingly]

Hi:Fi is a series of concerts in big venues in both England, and Ireland.

nme.com is reporting that "several bands have been forced to pull out of the north leg of the Hi:Fi festival this weekend (May 27) after high winds caused damage to equipment at the Matfen Estate site."

Event organisers have now merged two arenas. As a result, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Sound Explosion, The Envelopes, The Marshalls, The Motorettes and a band who won a local competition will no longer appear on the bill.

-Special to TNS (c) 2006

[Tingly]

Highly rated newcomers Men Women & Children are set to play a one-off UK show.

The electro band, who were formed by Glassjaw guitarist Todd Weinstock, will play the London Scala on June 6.

The show takes place the day after the group release their debut UK single 'Dance In My Blood'.

-nme.com

[Tingly]

Dave Matthews Band grossed $57 million in 2005 from touring North America and has consistently placed in the top 5 grossing tours annually over the last decade.

-MSNBC

[Tingly]

Along with special surprise guests like Stevie Nicks, and supporting acts like Pearl Jam and the Allman Brothers, Petty is planning to make his next tour special by going back to the band’s first album to play some rarely heard Heartbreaker tunes. They’ll also dust off songs they haven’t played in concert for years.

The "Highway Companion Tour" kicks off June 9 in Charlotte, NC at the Verizon Amphitheatre.

Also, Peter Bogdanovich is doing a documentary on the Heartbreakers. He’s also filming some concerts. He’s spent a great deal of time going through footage of the last 30 years.

-MSNBC [Edited by Tingly (c) 2006]

[Tingly]

The major events on this day, in music history, were, mainly, some BIRTHDAYS:

1968 - Kylie Minogue is born in Melbourne, Australia. The actress-singer's biggest single is a remake of "The Loco-Motion," which hits No. 3 in 1988.

1968 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Mrs. Robinson," Simon & Garfunkel.

1945 - John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival is born in Berkeley, Calif. Among the songs he writes are "Proud Mary," "Have You Seen the Rain" and "Bad Moon Rising."

1944 - Gladys Knight is born in Atlanta. Gladys Knight & the Pips begin recording when Knight, the lead singer, is only 8 years old. The group's biggest hit is "Midnight Train to Georgia," a No. 1 song in 1973. Knight also takes part in the No. 1 song "That's What Friends Are For," which raises money for AIDS causes.

-Billboard

[Tingly]

1 year ago: System of a Down, "Mezmerize"

5 Years ago: Tool, "Lateralus"

10 years ago: Fugees, "The Score"

15 years ago: R.E.M., "Out of Time"

[Tingly]

1999 - The Rolling Stones launch the European leg of their Bridges to Babylon tour, performing in front of 80,000 enthusiastic fans in an open-air concert in Stuttgart, Germany.

1995 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman," Bryan Adams.

1979 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Hot Stuff," Donna Summer.

1965 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Help Me, Rhonda," The Beach Boys.

1962 - Henry Mancini's "Moon River" wins a Grammy for Record of the Year, and Judy Garland's "Judy at Carnegie Hall" wins a Grammy for Album of the Year.

1961 - Singer, songwriter and guitarist Melissa Etheridge is born in Leavenworth, Kan.

1945 - Gary Brooker, leader of Procul Harum, is born in Essex, England. The group's biggest hit is "A Whiter Shade of Pale," a No. 5 song in 1967. The group's name means "beyond these things" in Latin.

-Billboard

[Tingly]

On Dec. 30, 2004, rock band Callejeros was involved in one of the worst concert tragedies in history when a fan threw a flare during a concert, setting the nightclub Republica Cromanon on fire and leaving 194 dead.

The disaster led to the resignation of Buenos Aires' mayor and the jailing of Cromanon's owner. Band members are still awaiting trial and could be held responsible for the deaths of their fans, including their own close relatives and girlfriends.

Despite the tragedy, the band has persevered. In fact, its new album, "Senales," appears poised to be the act's best-selling release to date.

When it hit stores May 11 on the indie label Pelo Music, the band's fourth album was certified gold in Argentina for shipments of 20,000 copies. The album sold out in record chains hours after its release despite having virtually no marketing behind it. A week later, shipments of the album, distributed by EMI, had climbed to 35,000 copies (40,000 units is the platinum level in Argentina). Callejeros' past releases have sold a combined 120,000 copies.

-news.aol.com

[Tingly]

Gas costs have doubled during the past two years. But the show must go on. Music acts are touring as much as ever. It's just costing them more to do it.

Up-and-coming acts feel the pinch most. Seattle electro-pop dance outfit U.S.E. spent about $10,000 for gas on its tour last winter -- nearly double the cost for a similar-size 2004 trek, the band's publicist says.

Most tour buses have a 250-gallon tank, which takes $500-$600 to fill, compared with $250-$300 a couple of years ago.

"We used to budget tours at about 30 cents a mile for gas, and now we're up to about 60 cents a mile," says music business manager Jamie Cheek, certified public accountant at Flood, Bumstead, McCready, McCarthy. "If I have an act that's about to go on a 40-day tour and they've got five trucks and five buses, and a 40-day tour could be over 20,000 miles, that's almost an additional cost of $6,000 a vehicle. So if I have 10 vehicles, that's an additional $60,000."

That money comes directly out of the artist's bottom line, Cheek says. "But the flip side of that is, if it's five trucks and five buses, that's a big tour, and chances are if I look at the overall budget, fuel is maybe 2 percent to 3 percent of my overall costs," he points out. "If your overall expenses are $5 million for the tour, $60,000 -- though I don't want it to be there -- is not going to stop me from touring."

The rising costs have not been passed on to consumers via ticket prices -- yet. With tours planned months -- if not a year or more -- in advance, including budgeting, guarantees and ticket prices, such increases likely would not be seen until 2007.

-Billboard [Edited by Tingly (c) 2006]

[roger24]

Gas costs have doubled during the past two years. But the show must go on. Music acts are touring as much as ever. It's just costing them more to do it.

Up-and-coming acts feel the pinch most. Seattle electro-pop dance outfit U.S.E. spent about $10,000 for gas on its tour last winter -- nearly double the cost for a similar-size 2004 trek, the band's publicist says.

Most tour buses have a 250-gallon tank, which takes $500-$600 to fill, compared with $250-$300 a couple of years ago.

"We used to budget tours at about 30 cents a mile for gas, and now we're up to about 60 cents a mile," says music business manager Jamie Cheek, certified public accountant at Flood, Bumstead, McCready, McCarthy. "If I have an act that's about to go on a 40-day tour and they've got five trucks and five buses, and a 40-day tour could be over 20,000 miles, that's almost an additional cost of $6,000 a vehicle. So if I have 10 vehicles, that's an additional $60,000."

That money comes directly out of the artist's bottom line, Cheek says. "But the flip side of that is, if it's five trucks and five buses, that's a big tour, and chances are if I look at the overall budget, fuel is maybe 2 percent to 3 percent of my overall costs," he points out. "If your overall expenses are $5 million for the tour, $60,000 -- though I don't want it to be there -- is not going to stop me from touring."

The rising costs have not been passed on to consumers via ticket prices -- yet. With tours planned months -- if not a year or more -- in advance, including budgeting, guarantees and ticket prices, such increases likely would not be seen until 2007.

-Billboard [Edited by Tingly (c) 2006]


that sucks for them. but anyone with tour buses and stuff have alot of money anyway.

[Tingly]

In another sign that the concert industry and consumers are becoming more comfortable with ticket auctions, INXS will put an entire show up for bid on its current tour.

All tickets for INXS' June 14 performance at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara, Calif., will be sold in an open auction format through stubhub.com, with final ticket prices determined by fans.

This inaugural event in the StubHub Concert Series will also feature former Creed frontman Scott Stapp as the opening act.

The 650-seat Lobero is an apt petri dish to experiment with, given its size and relatively small market.

The first of multiple auctions for the INXS show began May 19 with a complete sampling of tickets from the front to back of the house. All ticket auctions will begin at $1; as the first round of auctions wrapped on May 23, some tickets were still at $1, while some prices inched toward $300.

Tickets will be available in two tiers, a VIP Admission Pass with an INXS meet-and-greet and band-signed "Switch" CD, and an Admission Pass only ticket.

-news.aol.com [Edited by Tingly (c) 2006]

[Tingly]

Six months ago, the Parlour Boys were just a Lexington, Ky.-based bar band aspiring to a career in the music business. They had little more than talent, hope and a MySpace profile.

Then the band stumbled upon an advertisement on MySpace for Verizon Wireless' "Calling All Bands" contest, offering unsigned acts the chance to have a song featured as a ringtone, ringback tone, music video and full-track download on the new VCast Music service.

Out of 4,000 songs submitted, the group's "Lovers" won the grand prize. The effect was immediate. Before the winning song was even converted into a ringtone, record labels began flying out to meet the band, and Verizon featured the act at its South by Southwest Music Festival showcase.

MySpace, with its 75 million members and 38.4 million unique monthly visitors, pioneered the symbiotic relationship between a service aiming to build a community and the developing artists who are looking for fast, cheap exposure. But MySpace is no longer alone.

Among the digital services offering music contests are Bodog Music (bodogmusic.com), which is conducting a nationwide battle of the bands for $1 million and a recording contract via peer-to-peer voting; American Idol Underground (americanidolunderground.com), where the TV phenomenon invites aspiring artists to compete for cash, equipment and professional services in twice-yearly listener polls; and Guitar Hero II (beaguitarhero.com), with video game creators picking a winner to be included in the game's soundtracks.

Vivendi Universal Games recently awarded indie music artist Kazy a spot on the soundtrack to its "Scarface: The World Is Yours" game after he received more than 70,000 votes from a MySpace contest. Kazy and the two runners-up also had the opportunity to open for red-hot Interscope act Wolfmother in Hollywood during the E3 videogame convention in May. RedOctane, publisher of the popular "Guitar Hero," is taking submissions for the chance to have a song featured in the game's sequel, "Guitar Hero II."

And TagWorld -- a startup, music-focused social-networking site competing with MySpace -- is working with New Line Cinema to offer unknown bands the chance to land a song in the soundtrack to the upcoming camp thriller "Snakes on a Plane," which hits theaters in August. Any act with a TagWorld profile can submit a song for consideration, and the TagWorld community will narrow the contest to 25 finalists. The movie's producers will select the winner in June.

With only about 5,500 music acts as members, TagWorld still pales in comparison to the behemoth MySpace, which touts more than 1 million. After the promotion's first week, TagWorld reported a 21 percent increase in new profiles.

But there's a fine line between offering a digital platform for new acts to promote themselves and exploiting their hopes and dreams for a short-term publicity stunt. MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson says he is very careful about which contests he'll let tap the site's artist community because there is no shortage of companies looking to prey on the ambitions of naive young artists. In particular, he won't allow contests that offer recording contracts or require artists to pay anything for their services.

Perhaps more important for record labels, a lot of these services are serving as extensions to their A&R (artists and repertoire) departments. At a time when the economics of the music business make it more difficult than ever to commit to long-term artist development, these digital music services have emerged as a surrogate incubator. And contests help to select the good eggs.

Neither the Parlour Boys nor Kazy, or any of the other contest winners, have converted their success into label deals yet. But that's not to say it hasn't had any effect. The Parlour Boys, for instance, say they've had to hire a full-time manager to oversee their increasingly busy schedules. They plan to self-release an EP in two months.

-Billboard [Edited by Tingly (c) 2006]

[Tingly]

Now that he's lost his radio job, David Lee Roth is seeking gainful employment in another capacity -- as lead singer of Van Halen. Again.

"I see it absolutely as an inevitability," says Roth, who was deposed by CBS Radio in late April as one of Howard Stern's replacements. "There's contact between the two camps, and they have legitimate management; Irv Azoff is part of their loop now.

"To me, it's not rocket surgery. It's very simple to put together. And as far as hurt feelings and water under the dam, like what's-her-name says to what's-her-name at the end of the movie 'Chicago' -- 'So what? It's showbiz!' So I definitely see it happening."

Despite that claim, Roth -- who was Van Halen's singer from 1974-1985 -- acknowledges that he hasn't seen Edward Van Halen "in a couple of years." The last time Roth recorded with Van Halen was for the group's "Best Of Van Halen Volume 1" album in 1996, though there have been periodic rumors ever since.

-news.aol.com

[Tingly]

During his maiden voyage as a filmmaker, Primus bassist/leader/songwriter Les Claypool experienced something that every director — from Hollywood super-mogul to the most indie auteur — knows intimately: "If anything can go wrong, it will."

But by no means does Claypool regret making "Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo," a mockumentary that follows a fictitious jam band by that name, satirizing the sprawling patchouli scene the way "This Is Spinal Tap," "CB4" and "The Rutles" series did for heavy metal, hip-hop and Beatlemania, respectively. Claypool's movie took the Best of Festival - Feature, Audience Award at this year's Malibu Film Festival.

He noted that there's an ample potential audience for the film. "Bonnaroo is the highest grossing music festival in the United States, and it does so with only Internet advertising," he continued. "And it's not just hippie bands — Radiohead and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are playing this year."

Claypool's film will be screened at Bonnaroo in June, where he will also perform solo and play a set with Oysterhead, his supergroup with Phish's Trey Anastasio and former Police drummer Stewart Copeland.

The film tracks the progress of Electric Apricot from a gig at the storied Bay Area club the Sweetwater Saloon to sessions for their first album to "Festeroo," a jam band-heavy festival (these scenes were shot last year at the High Sierra Music Festival in Quincy, California).

Along the way, we get to know the bizarrely nicknamed members of the band (who are played by Claypool and three Bay Area musician pals): Herschel, the keyboardist and purest hippie of the bunch; Aiwass, the pseudo-intellectual bassist fond of quoting Wittgenstein and remarking, "I feel like Hitler at Waterloo"; and Lapdog, the archetypal drum nerd (Claypool).

Then there's the guitarist/singer, Gordo. "He drinks beer, wants to party and worships Jerry Garcia," Claypool said. Gordo looks likely to become the film's breakout star thanks to a scene in which he gets gangsta on a character who doesn't show sufficient reverence for Garcia.

Claypool devised the film's general plot, but much of the dialogue was improvised. "Electric Apricot" features cameos from Seth Green ("Robot Chicken," "Austin Powers") and "South Park" co-creator Matt Stone, playing a pair of concert "tapers," as well as brief turns from jam-scene icons including the Dead's Bob Weir, former Phish bassist Mike Gordon and Gov't Mule's Warren Haynes and Matt Abts.

-www.mtv.com

[hellzbellz]

Your having fun with this aren't you Tingly! ^.^

[Tingly]

MACHINE HEAD, CONVERGE, VISION OF DISORDER, HORSE THE BAND AND OTHER SPECIAL GUESTS JOIN AS I LAY DYING, IN FLAMES, TRIVIUM, CANNIBAL CORPSE, GWAR, TERROR, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, BEHEMOTH, THE CHARIOT, THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD, EVERGREEN TERRACE FOR THE SUMMER'S HOTTEST INDIE METAL TOUR, THE SECOND ANNUAL SOUNDS OF THE UNDERGROUND!

Bands representing all points along the hardcore and metal spectrums have been added to this year's SOUNDS OF THE UNDERGROUND tour. The tour, which represents some of the best independent-minded music available today, begins appropriately over the Independence Day holiday week, on July 8 in Cleveland and runs through August 12 winding up in Universal City, California.

Joining the tour on...

July 8 - July 23 = Horse the Band, one of the most visceral bands to blend screamo and noise, will be on the tour from its launch until July 23 in San Antonio, TX (with the exception of July 12 in Montreal).

July 9 - July 17 = Converge, one of the leading voices in hardcore, will play seven shows starting July 9 in Tinley Park, Illinois and running through July 17 in Columbia, Maryland.

July 26 - 29 = Job for a Cowboy will take the SOTU stage July 26 in Mesa, Arizona and will play three shows, ending July 29 in Mountain View, California.

July 26 & July 28 = Shadows Fall, modern metalcore band, It Dies Today and metal upstarts, Still Remains (7/26 Mesa, AZ. & 7/28 San Diego, CA.)

July 29 - August 5 = Bay area metal titans Machine Head, will storm the stages from Mountain View, CA on July 29 through St. Paul, MN on August 5.

Several other bands will play one show each:

7/14 in Mansfield, MA - New American Metal pioneers Killswitch Engage

7/15 in Sayreville, NJ - This is Hell

7/16 in Camden, NJ - Vision Of Disorder (VOD)

7/17 in Columbia, MD - Municipal Waste and Dog Fashion Disco

8/10 in Vancouver, Canada - 3 Inches of Blood

See www.blistering.com for complete show dates and locations

[Tingly]

Due to concerns for vocalist Craig Owens' health, Equal Vision recording artists Chiodos have decided to pull out of their direct supporting slot on their current tour with Between the Buried and Me.

"I woke up this morning with a severe shortness of breath," explained Owens, moments prior to the band's their last show at Poughkeepsie, NY's The Chance on Wednesday, May 24, 2006. "Since I had been sidelined once before, I have to be cautious with my health." The band will return home to Davison, MI so Owens can recover before resuming their rigorous touring schedule in June with It Dies Today, Haste the Day, and The Showdown.

-www.blistering.com

[Tingly]

Metal Masters is currently seeking on-camera talent for vj/interviewers positions. Interested candidates must possess the following requirements to qualify:

1) A knowledge of rock & metal music...past & present
2) Live in the Tampa Bay area
3) Be at least 18 years of age and a high school graduate
4) Own reliable transportation
5) Must own a cell phone
6) Must have daily Internet access
7) Must be available at a moment's notice to conduct an interview which could happen anytime between 3pm and 8pm any day of the week. This is due to the fact that interviews are usually not confirmed until the day before or the day of the interview.
8) Broadcast and/or journalism experience is a plus

All interested candidates should send Metal Masters:

1) A five minute audition tape on either a VHS or a mini-dv tape.
2) A letter of interest that also includes a statement that you meet all the above requirements.
3) Answer the following two questions:
a) Please tell us about yourself.
b) What do you think you have to
offer/contribute to Metal Masters?
4) A small picture of yourself
5) Your name
6) Your age
7) Your address
8) Your home & cell phone numbers
9) Any other pertinent information that you think we should know abut you.

If we are interested after viewing the tape and reading your letter of interest, we will contact you.

Send tape, letter and picture to:

Metal Masters
VJ/Interviewer Position
2780 East Fowler Avenue #224
Tampa, FL 33612

Entries will not be returned.

-www.metalmasters.net

[Tingly]

JUNE, 2005. The man believed to be responsible for stabbing four people at an Ybor City club turned himself into Tampa police. Michael Pyne, 39, of Pinellas Park is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Thomas Laskas and attempted murder of his wife Wendi Laskas.

Pyne is also charged with aggravated battery and aggravated assault for allegedly stabbing two other people at Club Masquerade.

COMMENTS FROM COC BAND MEMBERS, AS POSTED ON THEIR WEBSITE AT COC.COM:
Guitarist/vocalist Pepper Keenan: "People are fighting for their lives right now due to last night's events.

"This is not what it's supposed to be about."

Bassist Mike Dean: "People, please, if someone spills your drink or steps on your foot or hurts your feelings, it might be better to laugh it off and walk away. If someone is really creating a dangerous situation, alert the security people at the show. They are professionals or at least they get paid to handle such situations without you putting yourself in legal or physical danger.

"This tragedy is possible anywhere people gather and especially where alcohol is involved.

Guitarist Woodroe Wetherman (in a personal e-mail to Metal Masters) states: Sad event for sure, feel bad for those involved.

-www.metalmasters.net [Edited by Tingly (c) 2006]

[Tingly]

British rapper MIA -- who declared in her Sunflowers single "Like PLO I don't surrender" -- cannot come to America, at least for now. She says the American embassy in London has denied her a visa.

The 28-year-old singer, whose debut album Arular became an international hit two years ago, was unhappy that Sunflowers was banned by MTV because of its references to suicide bombers.

The provocative words in her lyrics, seen by many as extolling the Tamil Tigers, is reportedly the reason why the visa has been refused, even though she had sung many of the controversial numbers before her last American visit.

MIA, who has performed at many venues across America, was planning to come to America to work on a new album with boyfriend and collaborator, Philadelphia-based Wes Diplo.

'Roger, roger, do you hear me, over?' she said on her Website. 'The US immigration won't let me in, I'm locked out. They won't let me in. Now I'm making my album outside the borders.'

Maya was about 11 years old when her mother and brother arrived with her in England. She was drawn to rap while mingling with the inner city children, especially from Jamaica.

-inhome.rediff.com

[Tingly]

Bruce Springsteen and 17 of his most musical friends transformed the Tweeter Center stage into a giant porch last night, simultaneously christening the venue's season, kicking off the artist's US tour, and welcoming the summer season with a 2 1/2-hour performance that was more backyard party than rock concert.

Springsteen is touring in support of ``We Shall Overcome," a collection of songs popularized by Pete Seeger, and last night's homespun symphony of accordions and fiddles, pedal steel guitars, and joyful voices was filled with the irrepressible spirit that's the very essence of folk music.

Springsteen hollered and stomped and led his strumming, plucking, honking, sawing ensemble through jubilant takes on ``John Henry," ``Jacob's Ladder," and nearly every other track on the new album. He also reworked a handful of songs from his back catalog -- down-home versions of ``Johnny 99," ``Cadillac Ranch," ``Open All Night," ``Ramrod," and ``You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)."

Any fans expecting a signature Springsteen show were surely startled to find themselves scrolling through musical history. Spirituals and sea chanteys, outlaw ballads and minstrel tunes, civil rights ballads and dustbowl anthems were the order of the night -- with a heavy nod to New Orleans and an unexpected dose of soul.

A blowsy horn section turned everything in its path positively Bourbon Street, while Boston-based banjo player Greg Liszt affectionately evoked the project's namesake with his four humble strings on rousing singalongs of ``Old Dan Tucker," ``Jesse James," and the grade-school staple ``Erie Canal."

Local rocker Peter Wolf joined the band for a show-closing (and show-stopping) medley of ``Dirty Water" and ``Buffalo Gals."

By Joan Anderman

-www.boston.com

[Tingly]

The Dixie Chicks released a new album this week, but the band's new music is absent from most country radio stations nationwide.

The band's new album, "Taking the Long Way," is getting a chilly radio reception.

The album's first single, "Not Ready to Make Nice," makes it clear that the band is making no effort to win back fans by saying sorry -- "It's too late to make it right/ I probably wouldn't if I could/ 'Cause I'm mad as hell/ Can't bring myself to do what it is you think I should."

If the band isn't ready to forgive and forget, neither are country radio stations.

Only 14 of the nation's 123 country music stations played the single this week.

-www.tmcnet.com

[Tingly]

Sting plans to release a new album in October -- a disc full of 16th century music performed on the lute. According to his Web site, the as-yet untitled set will be issued on the classical label Deutsche Grammophon.

"It's a strange record, a delightful record and I think people will be intrigued by it," Sting says in a video interview on his site. "The album is voice and lute, there are a few four part harmonies that I sing and it's all music from the 16th century."

Sting was given a lute as a gift by guitarist Dominic Miller approximately two years ago. The gift reminded Sting of his long-time fascination with 16th century composer John Dowland who wrote songs especially for the lute.

Dowland, who died in 1626, is perhaps best known for his song "Flow My Tears." "He was really the first singer/songwriter that we know of and so a lot of us owe our living to this man," Sting says of the composer. The idea for the album came to fruition after a meeting with Edin Karamazov, a Bosnian lute player. No track listing has been announced.

Sting begins a summer European tour in Lisbon June 4; the tour also visits Russia, Israel, Scandinavia and Monaco, concluding July 30 in Vilnius, Lithuania.

-Billboard

[Tingly]

Rock star Stevie Nicks will open the first eight shows on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Highway Companion tour, which kicks off June 9 at the Verizon Amphitheatre in Charlotte, N.C.

Nicks' performances include two shows in Virginia and a June 20 stop in New York's Madison Square Garden. Her final appearance on the outing will be the June 21 gig at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield, Mass. Nicks is scheduled to perform a selection of songs with Petty.

-Billboard

[Tingly]

Rapper Foxy Brown, accused of assaulting two nail salon workers in a fight over payment for a manicure, will go on trial in July, a judge said today (May 26).

Brown, 26, whose real name is Inga Marchand, is charged with misdemeanor assault in the Aug. 29, 2004, incident. Prosecutors allege she kicked one worker and hit the other in the face.

During her last court appearance in December, Brown was to have entered a guilty plea to a misdemeanor. But the session was derailed when Judge Melissa Jackson accused the rapper of disrespect and making faces at her.

"I don't like her attitude," Jackson then told Brown's lawyer Joseph Fleming.

A ruckus also developed when Brown was handcuffed during the December session. She shouted at a female court officer that her numerous bracelets were "in the way," and allegedly struck the officer.

Jackson said Brown could either apologize or serve up to 30 days in jail. Brown apologized, but did not enter the plea. Assistant District Attorney Gary Galperin had said the statement was legally and factually flawed, and indicated that Brown had not accepted enough blame for the nail salon fracas.

On Friday, Brown appeared before Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Gerald Harris, without incident. She arrived in court wearing her hair in two long pigtails, brown knee-length pants, stiletto heels and a clinging T-shirt with a tiger image.

Harris set a hearing and trial date for July 17, and extended orders of protection for the nail salon workers.

-AP

[TimpZ]

Rock star Stevie Nicks will open the first eight shows on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Highway Companion tour, which kicks off June 9 at the Verizon Amphitheatre in Charlotte, N.C.

Nicks' performances include two shows in Virginia and a June 20 stop in New York's Madison Square Garden. Her final appearance on the outing will be the June 21 gig at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield, Mass. Nicks is scheduled to perform a selection of songs with Petty.

-Billboard


hmmm... who cares? :rotf:

[Tingly]

Well, TimpZ, while your opinion is valid, some people DO care. And it's extremely hard to gather news and say, "This item people will care about and this one they won't."

But I am willing to bet that a lot of people think Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty have "a few more good miles" left in them. they are both classic rockers from 'way back. The fact that they "survived" to be over 40 doesn't mean they should be disregarded.

[Tingly]

While Kimberly Stewart continues voice lessons in hopes of someday launching a music career, her good friend Paris Hilton is beating her to the punch in covering one of her father's tunes.

On her as-yet-untitled debut album, Hilton will include a rendition of Rod Stewart's disco hit "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"

Hilton revealed the song selection to Hong Kong magazine Prestige, noting that her album will mix reggae, pop and hip-hop elements.

"The whole album has so much different music on it," said Hilton, who shot her first video, for the reggae-oriented "Stars Are Blind," on a Malibu, California, beach last week. "I like all music. It's not like I only like pop or only rock. I want to have something for everybody."

Hilton was initially hesitant to make the album but eventually warmed up to the recording studio and even wrote the lyrics to seven of her songs.

"I have always had a voice and always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out," she told Prestige. "I think that is the hardest thing you can do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it is what I am most talented at and what I love to do the most."

-MTV

[Tingly]

The former rock band tour manager sentenced to prison for igniting the nightclub fire that killed 100 people should be allowed to work as a bookkeeper for a nonprofit agency while serving time, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Daniel Biechele pleaded guilty to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter in the 2003 fire at The Station nightclub in West Warwick and was sentenced earlier this month to serve four years in a minimum security facility.

His lawyers said Tuesday that he had been offered a job in the finance department of The Arc of Northern Rhode Island, a nonprofit agency that provides services to people with disabilities.

Superior Court Judge Francis J. Darigan Jr. ruled that Biechele, who had no prior criminal record, was eligible to participate in the work-release program. The job still requires approval from the state Department of Corrections, which generally follows a judge's recommendation.

[Tingly]

[From 2001 to 2005, nothing happened on May 31 worth discusssing-Tingly]

2000 - Latin jazz legend Tito Puente dies on the operating table of a New York hospital as a result of complications following 12 hours of open-heart surgery. He is 77.

1999 - "Behind the Music," VH1's highest-rated original series, begins airing at 9 p.m. nightly. The broadcasts kick off with the premiere of "The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Behind the Music."

1998 - Geri "Ginger Spice" Halliwell confirms her departure from the Virgin Girl Power group The Spice Girls, citing the split to differences between herself and her band mates. A statement read to the press by her lawyer ends with the phrase "P.S. I'll be back." [No she won't, and neither would they-Tingly]

1997 - A very nervous Lee Ann Womack makes her Grand Ole Opry debut. The singer is so nervous that she barely moves from center stage during her performance. Of the jittery big night, Womack later said "If I'd moved, I would've peed in my pants."

1987 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "You Keep Me Hangin' On," Kim Wilde.

1972 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "I'll Take You There," The Staple Singers.

1964 - Dave Clark Five makes the first of 12 appearance on TV's "Ed Sullivan Show."

1957 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Love Letters in the Sand," Pat Boone.

1944 - Guitarist Mick Ralphs is born in Heresford, England. He is a founding member of Mott the Hoople, but leaves the group in 1973 to form Bad Company. Bad Company has two top 10 singles: "Can't Get Enough" and "Feel Like Makin' Love."

1930 - Actor, director Clint Eastwood is born in San Francisco, Calif. Eastwood is self-taught jazz musician and pianist. He plays three songs in the movie "In The Line of Fire," and composed two Cajun-inspired instrumentals for the movie "A Perfect World."

[Tingly]

Courtney Love will make a series of intimate revelations about the last days of Kurt Cobain's life in her upcoming memoirs, it has been revealed.

A four-page preview of the 288-page book, which is entitled "Dirty Blonde: The Diaries Of Courtney Love", has been released.

The diaries, which were researched and edited by Ava Stander, will contain extensive copy about her rock'n'roll life and loves as well as a host of previously unreleased material.

Alongside never-before-seen photographs of her and late husband Cobain and their daughter Frances Bean, the book covers Courtney's childhood and her relationship with the Nirvana star.

Speaking about his suicide on April 17, 1994, Love recalls one of the couple's last happy days before he died, explaining: "Exactly one month ago today was the last time I made love with my husband.

"I cooked him dinner. We spent four hours in the playroom with Frances. We saw 'Schindler's List'. It made us frightened for life and we saw the value of life.

"Our convictions we defined until 4 a.m. and we fell asleep in each other's arms and woke up that way in the morning."

-uk.launch.yahoo.com

[Tingly]

Keane have been confirmed as one of the headliners at a new Spanish music festival taking place on split sites in Barcelona and Madrid.

The band, who are about to release their second LP, "Under The Iron Sea", will be joined on the bill by New Order and Massive Attack.

Primal Scream, The Dandy Warhols, Daft Punk, Belle & Sebastian, Dirty Pretty Things, Sigur Ros and Fatboy Slim will also appear at Summercase between July 14 and 15.

The festival takes place at the Boadilla Del Monte in Madrid and the Parc Del Forum in Barcelona, with the bill swapping venues across the weekend.

-Yahoo! Music

[Tingly]

Foo Fighters will play an exclusive acoustic show in London next month, it has been revealed.

Dave Grohl's band will appear at the Apollo Victoria Theatre on June 14 with an eight-piece line-up.

The show precedes their North American acoustic tour, which commences in Vancouver, Canada, on July 10. The band's most recent LP - "In Your Honour" - featured a CD of acoustic music.

Tickets for the London concert went on-sale today from 10am.

The band have already announced details of a string of more traditional live shows in the UK, including dates in London's Hyde Park and Manchester's Old Trafford.

The UK tour now calls at:

June 2006

10 The Isle Of Wight Festival
14 Apollo Victoria Theatre, London
17 Hyde Park, London
18 Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester

-uk.news.launch.yahoo.com

[Tingly]

Radiohead have dismissed claims they played a song for David Cameron at a recent Friends Of The Earth concert.

The Conservative Party leader attended the band's show at Koko in Camden and later went on to reveal he'd written to Radiohead and asked them to play a song for him.

Cameron appeared on BBC radio's Desert Island Discs on Sunday, choosing "Fake Plastic Trees" before telling presenter Sue Lawley he thought Thom Yorke had performed the track at his request at the May 1 concert.

Cameron explained: "Yes he (Yorke) did. I sent this rather sad letter saying I'd love to come to the concert, thank you for asking. PS please play this, my favourite song - and he did."

However, a spokesman for Radiohead has denied Cameron's claim, which was made at a special show featuring just Yorke and Johnny Greenwood from the group.

"The set list was chosen to reflect the fact that it was just Thom and Jonny playing and the choice of songs was what they wanted to play - nothing to do with any special requests," explained the spokesman.

-Dotmusic

[Tingly]

The new bass player in the Arctic Monkeys is apparently playing with a broken hand.

Nick O'Malley was drafted into the band after original member Andy Nicholson was diagnosed with "fatigue" and told to take a rest from touring.

O'Malley, who played with the Monkeys for the first time earlier this month at a show at the Old Blue Last pub in London, suffered the injury two weeks ago.

Apparently the accident happened after some tomfoolery on the way home from a night in the pub with members of his former band, The Dodgems. However, it's not affected his position in the Sheffield sensation.

Fellow Dodgem Phil Goodwin explained: "Two weeks ago we went out to the local pub with one of the lads who roadies for us. As we were walking home the other lad grabbed him and pulled him over our neighbour's wall.

"It's quite high and he landed on his right hand. It is his plectrum hand and he has a pot on it but he says he can hold a plectrum."

-uk.news.launch.yahoo.com

[Tingly]

An English radio station said it has banned songs by British crooner James Blunt from its airwaves after listeners said they were fed up with hearing "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover".

Chris Cotton, programme controller of local radio Essex FM in southern England, said: "We don't have anything against James Blunt and we're pleased he has been so successful, but we really need a break."

The music industry exerts a lot of pressure on radio stations to play certain artists' music over and over again, Cotton said.

"Often this can be out of step with the audience's tastes, which results in songs being overplayed," he said. "We're happy to stand up to this pressure and follow the strong message listeners have given us. We encourage other radio stations to take the same step."

Despite this minor setback, Blunt has enjoyed phenomenal success since his voice first emanated from radio stations across the world last year.

"You're Beautiful" topped the charts in 25 countries.

In March, the former army officer became the first British artist to reach the number one slot in the US Billboard chart in nine years.

His album, "Back To Bedlam" has sold more than seven million copies worldwide.

-uk.news.launch.yahoo.com

[Tingly]

Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai says Grammy-winning singer Norah Jones has an actor's "aura", and that their coming collaboration, the film My Blueberry Night, was tailor-made for her.

"Of course everyone knows her because she's a singer, but I didn't pick her for this film because she's a very successful singer. I think she's suitable for acting," Wong said in an interview with Hong Kong's Cable TV from Cannes.

Wong heads the jury panel at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

"This is instinct. It's like how I felt that Faye Wong could act when I first saw her a few years ago. There's a very special aura," Wong said, referring to the Chinese pop diva who appeared in his movies Chungking Express and 2046.

Asked if My Blueberry Night was written for Jones, Wong said: "You could say that."

Wong described the film as a love story and said he has also cast Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Rachel Weisz.

He said Jones' character has a romance with Law's, while Portman and Weisz portray people she meets.

Cable TV quoted Wong as saying filming will take two months. Shooting is expected to start within months.

Jones, 27, rose to fame with the success of her debut album Come Away With Me, which won eight Grammy awards. She is the daughter of Indian musician Ravi Shankar.

-Yahoo! Music

[Tingly]

Per BASSMAN's sugestion: an Open Mic thread, one year ago about radio stations:

May 26th, 2005, 05:06 PM
BASSMAN
Your favorite radio station
http://www.bear104.com/

May 26th, 2005, 05:08 PM
gtrhrcane
When I do listen, it's usually http://www.92kqrs.com/ That's maybe a total of 10 minutes a week.

May 26th, 2005, 05:12 PM
BASSMAN
Looks like a cool station Cane

May 26th, 2005, 05:18 PM
gtrhrcane
Yeah, it's almost the same thing you got going, except there's not a whole lot of the heavy stuff on there like metallica. This station handles that and then some for that end of the spectrum.... http://www.93x.com/ They're pretty hard core if you like that.

Oh and, 93x has the hot chick of the day.

May 26th, 2005, 05:33 PM
Slipstream
My fav is KPIG in Freedom, CA

May 26th, 2005, 05:50 PM
gtrhrcane
Nice... looks like the same format type of stuff too as KQRS... go figure!

May 26th, 2005, 06:07 PM
BASSMAN
fot the heavy stuff
http://www.katt.com/schedule.html

May 26th, 2005, 06:11 PM
bugman
www.xpn.org

May 26th, 2005, 06:16 PM
socialparasite [Hasn't posted since April 26th, 2006 - Tingly]
that disco one cant remember the name of it

May 26th, 2005, 06:20 PM
fornies [Hasn't posted since April 19th, 2006 - Tingly]
98.7 the Gater. http://www.gater.com/

May 26th, 2005, 06:48 PM
phingerboard
I put on the public radio station for jazz all night while I'm sleeping, and college stations during waking hours for blues and exposure to some off-the-beaten-path stuff.

The "Classic Rock" stations were great when they first came around but they have all become parodies of themselves.

May 26th, 2005, 06:57 PM
elvisdudette
kola 99.9 or arow 95.5 first one is oldies mainly motown second is more classic rock stuff

May 26th, 2005, 07:32 PM
BluesSG [Hasn't posted since March 8th, 2006 - Tingly]
im a big fan of WTJS Broadcasting live from my ipod.

May 26th, 2005, 07:38 PM
tcook [Hasn't posted since April 29th, 2006 - Tingly]
live365.com and I mostly listen rock and roll stew or bandet blues radio. Fm radio died years ago, I really only listen to internet radio

May 26th, 2005, 07:41 PM
Skymx99
www.foxrocks.com The ONLY radio station I listen to. I mainlly listen to ACDC cd's.

May 26th, 2005, 08:20 PM
Slipstream
The coolest radio station in the '60s was KSAN in San Francisco. They were the "underground" FM station. It started with a bunch of hippies bringin' their Dead albums and such in. They got big, sold out, and nowadays they play country. I was really disappointed in them. I used to like tuning to them whenever I was drivin' through the City. The best station in SF now is 107.7 "The Bone".

In L. A. it was KLOS, and in San Diego it was KGB. I'm in S. Oregon now, and the best station is 107.7 "The Eagle".

I usuallly listen to CDs though. Right now I got Skynyrd on (Curtis Loew)

May 26th, 2005, 09:02 PM
elky101
www.wlup.com they play anything from back then to nowadays. its pretty kool. they love Zep cuz they play two or three songs every weekday at 8pm and Metallica weekdays at 10 pm. On tuesdays they do twofors, where they play two songs by the artists that comes on. I luv that station.

May 26th, 2005, 09:34 PM
fretflyer
my fav is clevelands metal staion, www.wmms.com, they show the previous songs been played, and u can live stream it too

May 26th, 2005, 11:45 PM
Cassidy
www.classicrock1001.com
The afternoon guy is the best!!! (Oh wait... that's me, heh heh)

Cassidy

May 27th, 2005, 09:56 AM
Slipstream
I've heard that guy is really cool. I think I heard that from you though.

[Tingly]

It's been a heluva ride here on jam Session, these last 6 years. There were tons of past threads on spam, Stairway to heaven, soloing tips, band names, starting a chat room, best concerts, best guitars, best musicians, worst band, favorite album, being stuck in a guitar playing rut, and, of course, Nirvana!

Here are some other memorable JS threads from Open Mic:

In 2001, member Mr. Samson was MIA in Alaska:

http://guitar.zentao.com/forum/showthread.php?t=416

Back in 2002 threads were hijacked, just as they are now. Here's one that went from controlling feedback to apartment living:

http://guitar.zentao.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1154

BUGMAN's "Hobbies other than guitar" thread was very popular in 2002:

http://guitar.zentao.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1342

and in 2004, too:

http://guitar.zentao.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7800

Here's a funny "trivia" thread from almost 3 years ago:

http://guitar.zentao.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1828

Here's a 2004 thread about, of all things, cows (yes - cows):

http://guitar.zentao.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2351

Here's a weird November, 2004 thread by gavb about how cool it is to play the guitar (and "being eroticly bathed by several delicious ladies," I kid you not):

http://guitar.zentao.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9423

[shredding]

i'm deeply absorbed into the past. I've been viewing the old posts for a few hours (time is all relative when time travel).

Where is stonedragon?

[Tingly]

Singer Pete Doherty has been detained aboard a flight to Barcelona after a syringe was found in the aeroplane toilet, an airline spokeswoman has said.

The captain of the easyJet flight from Gatwick radioed ahead to ask police to meet the flight at Barcelona's El Prat airport.

Police are currently searching the plane as it sits on the runway with 142 passengers aboard, according to the easyJet spokeswoman.

Doherty and members of his band Babyshambles were travelling in a seven-strong party and are due to perform at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona.

An easyJet spokeswoman said: "During the flight our cabin crew became suspicious of a passenger who spent a lot of time in the toilet. When he came out they saw it was Pete Doherty.

"Members of the cabin crew then entered the toilet and found a syringe hidden in a bin, covered in blood.

"When questioned, Pete Doherty became agitated and aggressive. The cabin crew informed the captain, who called ahead and asked police in Barcelona to meet the flight on arrival."

The spokeswoman added: "When the police came on board, a member of the party went into the toilet with a bag and came out without it. This sparked a security alert. The police came on board and would not allow anybody to leave the aircraft until every piece of hand luggage had been identified.

"Unfortunately, members of the Doherty party began throwing their bags around and swapping bags, and would not identify which bags were which. They were not being co-operative with the police and they did not seem to be taking the situation seriously."

The EZY5135 flight landed at Barcelona at 1745 local time. The easyJet spokeswoman said: "Our cabin crew are trained to spot any unusual behaviour. We have very strict rules about unreasonable behaviour on board our flights."

[Tingly]

David Gilmour has told The Rolling Stones to "get a life" and quit their music career.

The former Pink Floyd star has urged the aging rock'n'roll legends to call it a day, as they prepare to unveil their current world tour in Europe.

Gilmour, who himself played a string of live shows at the Royal Albert Hall this week, said: "I think it's ridiculous, actually. Mick and Keith should get a life. It's like a strange, sexual compulsion.

"How much do they need? I think a lot of it is the applause. It's a powerful drug, 50,000 people appearing to adore you," he told The Daily Telegraph.

-Dot Music

[mk-ultra]

Singer Pete Doherty has been detained aboard a flight to Barcelona after a syringe was found in the aeroplane toilet, an airline spokeswoman has said.

The captain of the easyJet flight from Gatwick radioed ahead to ask police to meet the flight at Barcelona's El Prat airport.

Police are currently searching the plane as it sits on the runway with 142 passengers aboard, according to the easyJet spokeswoman.

Doherty and members of his band Babyshambles were travelling in a seven-strong party and are due to perform at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona.

An easyJet spokeswoman said: "During the flight our cabin crew became suspicious of a passenger who spent a lot of time in the toilet. When he came out they saw it was Pete Doherty.

"Members of the cabin crew then entered the toilet and found a syringe hidden in a bin, covered in blood.

"When questioned, Pete Doherty became agitated and aggressive. The cabin crew informed the captain, who called ahead and asked police in Barcelona to meet the flight on arrival."

The spokeswoman added: "When the police came on board, a member of the party went into the toilet with a bag and came out without it. This sparked a security alert. The police came on board and would not allow anybody to leave the aircraft until every piece of hand luggage had been identified.

"Unfortunately, members of the Doherty party began throwing their bags around and swapping bags, and would not identify which bags were which. They were not being co-operative with the police and they did not seem to be taking the situation seriously."

The EZY5135 flight landed at Barcelona at 1745 local time. The easyJet spokeswoman said: "Our cabin crew are trained to spot any unusual behaviour. We have very strict rules about unreasonable behaviour on board our flights."

and of course in ten or 20 years he will be considerd a legend, well i mean he is kinda like keith, except differant music( i never heard any babyshambles)

[iam2phat]

make a thread about hellzbellz getting married, or is that too mean?

[Tingly]

Kanye West and Ludacris have been cleared of stealing another band's music.

The pair have been at the centre of a lawsuit in New York for two weeks, accused of ripping-off a 2001 underground track by IOF.

The New Jersey group claim they lifted the beats and lyrics to their track "Straight Like That" for their 2003 chart smash "Stand Up".

However, Ludacris and West, who were both called to give evidence at the copyright trial, told the court they only heard the song for the first time when the case was filed.

After the pair were cleared by the jury, IOF's manager Jeff Billingsley insisted they would appeal. He said: "Probably Ludacris feels good that he got over this, but he has not gotten away."

-dotmusic

[Tingly]

Primal Scream have announced details of a full UK tour in support of their new album "Riot City Blues".

The band will play 11 shows, commencing in Newcastle in November and concluding in Southampton at the end of the month.

The tour calls at:

November 2006

14 Newcastle Academy
15 Aberdeen Music Hall
17 Glasgow SECC
18 Manchester Apollo
19 Birmingham Academy
21 Liverpool University
22 Nottingham Rock City
24 London Hammersmith Apollo
27 Cambridge Corn Exchange
28 Bristol Academy
29 Southampton Guildhall

"Riot City Blues" is released on June 5.

[Tingly]

The Rolling Stones have confirmed they will restart their European tour in July.

The dates, meant to start in Barcelona on May 27, now kick off in Milan on July 11.

The band's plans were thrown into confusion after guitarist Keith Richards was hospitalised when he fell from a tree. After a brain operation, he is now recuperating at home.

[Tingly]

Comeback rockers Guns n' Roses are to roll the clock back by supporting The Rolling Stones on their upcoming European tour.

Axl Rose's mob, who supported the Stones on some dates of their 1989 'Steel Wheels' tour of the US, will play at two German shows - Nuremburg on July 10 and Leipzig on July 12.

[Tingly]

Oasis debut 'Definitely Maybe' has been voted the best album of all time in an NME.COM poll.

The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums teamed up with NME.COM to celebrate 50 years of the Official UK Album Chart.

Not only have Oasis secured the top spot, but their 1995 album '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' is at Number Five.

The Manchester lads' heroes, The Beatles, were at second and third place in the poll with 'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' and 'Revolver'.

Radiohead also scored two albums in the top ten, with 'OK Computer' at Number Four and 'The Bends' at Number Ten.

Editor of The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums, David Roberts, said the poll shows that great albums will always last. He said: "Usually these polls are full of records that people have only just bought because they are freshest in the mind. Only two albums in the Top 20 were released in the last five years, so the voters have clearly thought long and hard about their decision."

The most recent album to feature in the Top 20 is The Libertines' debut, 'Up The Bracket', at Number 15.

The full Top 20 is as follows:

1. 'Definitely Maybe' - Oasis
2. 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' - The Beatles
3. 'Revolver' - The Beatles
4. 'OK Computer' - Radiohead
5. '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' - Oasis
6. 'Nevermind' - Nirvana
7. 'The Stone Roses' - The Stone Roses
8. 'Dark Side Of The Moon' - Pink Floyd
9. 'The Queen Is Dead' - The Smiths
10. 'The Bends' - Radiohead
11. 'The Joshua Tree' - U2
12. 'London Calling' - The Clash
13. 'The Beatles (The White Album)' - The Beatles
14. 'Abbey Road' - The Beatles
15. 'Up The Bracket' - The Libertines
16. 'Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols' - Sex Pistols
17. 'Four Symbols (Led Zeppelin IV)' - Led Zeppelin
18. 'The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars' - David Bowie
19. 'A Night At The Opera' - Queen
20. 'Is This It' - The Strokes

-www.nme.com

[Tingly]

COLDPLAY's CHRIS MARTIN will perform a single song in the living room of a London elementary school student as part of a charity auction held by the Canonbury Primary School. Martin fetched approximately $10,000 for the gig, to go towards a new resource and IT center for the institution. The singer became involved in the event through the band's manager, whose child attends the school.

[Tingly]

Experimental grindcore gurus Cephalic Carnage are working on material for what will be their fifth album. The band will record the songs this winter and plans to release the effort a year from now. On a related note, Cephalic have found a replacement for bassist Jawsh Mullen, who left the band in February. Nick Schendzielos, who also plays with Denver's AinMatter, has been filling in for Mullen since he jumped ship. ... Unearth will shoot a video next week with director Darren Doane (AFI, Strife) for "Giles," the first single from the band's August 8 release, III: In the Eyes of Fire. ... Munich, Germany, death-metallers Heaven Shall Burn have completed tracking their forthcoming LP, Deaf to Our Prayers. "We're totally satisfied with the result," the band wrote on its site of the disc, set to drop August 28. ... Vincent McAllister, a guitarist and founding member of pioneering metal outfit Pentagram, has died. McAllister, 51, succumbed to cancer May 26, and his body was discovered inside his home by one of his roommates. He had been diagnosed in 2004 and underwent chemotherapy to combat the disease. He was not married and leaves no children. ...

According to Trivium bassist Paolo Gregoletto, the band has finished tracking The Crusade, the follow-up to 2005's Ascendancy. In all, the band recorded 15 tracks, which will graduate to the mixing phase this week. "We are incredibly excited with what we have accomplished in the studio," Gregoletto wrote on the band's Web site. The Crusade was recorded in Orlando, Florida, with producer Jason Suecof (God Forbid, Bury Your Dead). ... Grindcore legends Anal Cu-- have parted ways with guitarist John Kozik and drummer John Gillis, according to the band's Web site. Guitarist Josh Martin will return to replace Kozik, but AC are still looking for a new drummer. ... Death-metal icons Cannibal Corpse will be Jamey Jasta's guests during Saturday night's "Headbangers Ball" on MTV2. The band will discuss guitarist Rob Barrett's return to the fold and this summer's Sounds of the Underground Tour. ...

Canadian technical death-metal band Beneath the Massacre are in Yan's Room Studio in Montreal working on their full-length debut with producer Yannick St-Amand (Despised Icon, Ion Dissonance). The yet-untitled album will contain 10 new songs and follow up the band's 2005 EP, Evidence of Inequity. ... The Gathering singer Anneke Van Giersbergen won the award for Best Singer at this year's Muzikantendag 2006 on May 27 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In March, the Gathering won Holland's illustrious Edison Award for Best National Music DVD for their double-DVD "A Sound Relief." Van Giersbergen, who suffered a bronchial and sinus infection that forced the band to postpone a month of European shows between April 19 and May 28, will bring the Gathering back on the road this month. ... God Dethroned are nearly done recording their seventh, yet-untitled album at Soundlodge Studio in Germany. According to a post on their Web site, the disc will feature "Some crazy double-bass rolls, super-fast fills, but above all, groove." Expect some "technical riffing mixed with heavy melodic atmospheres" as well.

Alabama Thunderpussy have hired ex-Exhorder and Floodgate singer Kyle Thomas to replace Johnny Weils. The band has been working on new material since July 2005 and plans to enter the studio in the weeks ahead. "We knew right away that Kyle was the man for the singer spot when we heard him singing on some of the new material," guitarist Erik Larson said. "As an Exhorder fan, I felt a bit star-struck that this guy was singing on our music. It's amazing." ... ATP are among the bands contributing to For the Sick - A Tribute to Eyehategod, due this fall. New York extreme-metal band Brutal Truth reunited to record cover of "Sister ******" for the tribute record, the proceeds of which will go to New Orleans musicians whose lives were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Other artists contributing to the disc include Byzantine, Watch Them Die, the Esoteric and Raging Speedhorn. For the Sick is scheduled for release this fall. ... Chicago's Novembers Doom will enter the studio June 16 to record the follow-up to 2005's The Pale Haunt Departure.

-MTV News

[Tingly]

BABYSHAMBLES -- fronted by KATE MOSS' now infamous ex-boyfriend PETE DOHERTY -- no longer have a record deal. Although the band released its debut album in America just this year, it appears Babyshambles have been dropped from their label. While representatives from Rough Trade Records maintain the relationship came to a "natural end," a recent incident in which Doherty allegedly squirted a syringe of his own blood at an MTV camera crew might have been a factor in the decision.

-Rolling Stone

[Arc]

Hahaha!!! Since Doherty was all over the news about the crack that he's been doin, it was plain obvious that they were gonna get kicked off the record label. What I don't understand is, WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG?!?!?!?

[Tingly]

Keane reckon they survived a rocky spell during the recording of their "darker" new album 'Under The Iron Sea' because of the sheer quality of the music they were making.

The band told NME earlier this year that they nearly split during the making of the LP, out June 12. But despite the awkward atmosphere in the studio, the band were bought back together by what they were creating.

Frontman Tom Chaplin told NME.COM: "One of the great things about music is that it's what brought us together in the first place. It was out geeky way of expressing ourselves. We were never very good at talking about stuff, we'd just turn it into music.

"Having that album to make and making it has definitely helped to reconcile a lot of the troubles we had. It's good to be back in that place again."

Drummer Richard Hughes added: "We never had a holiday - we took it all into the studio! But we survived it."

And the band all agree that the tensions made for a better record than their massive selling 2004 debut 'Hopes And Fears'.

Chaplin insisted: "It's big step up in every way. We're not the sort of band that's scared of change. All the bands we grew up loving are like that - Depeche Mode, Radiohead, The Smiths. Bands that didn't fear changing and always broke new ground.

"It's definitely very different and rightly so. Whether it's Tim (Rice-Oxley)'s new piano sounds or the funkiness of the drums - all the performances are much more raw and intense.

"We're kind of darker. It's very much a raw, visceral spontaneous record. All three of us felt we had much more to contribute this time. We all had much more to bring to the party."

-New Music Express [Edited by Tingly]

[Tingly]

The Black Crowes are to release a new double album later this year.

The band, who reformed to play London shows earlier this year, release the double 'The Lost Crowes' on August 29. It's made up of tracks culled from previous recording sessions.

Billboard reports the first CD will be called 'The Band Sessions' and will feature material recorded in 1997 such as an early version of the single 'By Your Side' called 'If It Ever Stops Raining', 'Paint An 8', 'Life Vest' and 'Another Roadside Tragedy'.

Disc 2 will be called 'The Tall Sessions', and features tracks recorded from 1993, including earlier versions of songs which appeared on the 1994 'Amorica' album. Songs on this disc include 'Thunderstorm 654', 'Feathers' and an alternate version of 'Ballad In Urgency' called 'Lowdown'.

Also due on August 29 is the DVD debut of the 1992 video compilation 'Who Killed That Bird Out On Your Window Sill'.

-NME.COM

[Tingly]

Green Day have promised that their next album will be "an event" when it is finally unleashed.

The US three-piece confirmed that they are already working through dozens of ideas and demos on a daily basis.

Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong told MTV News: "For us, everything that we do is completely, 100 percent passion-and energy-driven, so however we're going to come out with our next album, just be certain it's going to be an event, not just putting a record out.

"At this point, to put a record out with like 12 songs on it and turn it in sounds a bit boring for us. So we want to definitely make something that is well thought-out and [that] all of our blood is put into."

Bassist Mike Dirnt added: "We've headed back to the same [mentality as American Idiot], and that is what we really gotta do: Erase all the rules and go in and be productive."

Green Day have confirmed that they are continuing to work on their American Idiot movie project.

-New Music Express

[Tingly]

A Russian Web site that lets visitors download albums for less than $1 is a smash hit with music fans -- but not with U.S. trade and music industry officials.

The site is a pirate, they allege, and say Russia's failure to close it down presents a direct obstacle to the country's negotiations to join the World Trade Organization.

The site, they allege, amounts to a haven for music pirates. They say it presents a direct obstacle to Russia's negotiations to join the World Trade Organization.

Russia is already the second-biggest source of pirated music film and software in the world after China -- costing U.S. companies nearly $1.8 billion last year, according to anti-piracy groups. The Web site -- Allofmp3.com -- just adds to the dispute.

The site's knockdown prices make it a strong draw.

Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes Music Store, which is the world's most popular online store licensed by the industry, charges 99 cents per song, but the Russian site offers tracks for a tenth of that price.

Songs from new albums by popular rock groups cost between 10 and 16 cents. The whole of one top new album can be had for $1.40.

According to a report by the Britain-based IXN data company, which compared traffic volumes of Web sites offering music downloads, Allofmp3 leapfrogged U.S. online music store Napster over the first half of the year to make it the second most popular music site in the U.K. after iTunes.

But popular or not, the site is already under criminal investigation by Russian prosecutors and has been picked out by the U.S. Trade Representatives Office as an example of Russia's bad record on tackling piracy.

-Big News Network

[Tingly]

DENVER – Clear Channel Communications Inc., the No. 1 U.S. radio broadcaster, was accused in a lawsuit Friday of violating federal anti-trust laws by curtailing concert competition and jacking up ticket prices.

The proposed class-action, filed in Denver federal court, names Clear Channel's broadcasting unit and former concert promotion arm Live Nation Inc. as defendants. It comes three months after a U.S. Justice Department probe into similar matters ended with no action taken against the company.

According to court papers, the suit accuses the defendants of breaking the law by limiting radio airtime for musicians who used competing concert promoters and inflating musicians' fees, ”in some cases more than 100 percent of gross sales, in order to exclude competitors from the market.”

-Reuters

[Tingly]

Looks like Guns N' Roses won't be opening for the Rolling Stones after all. The Stones put their European Bigger Bang tour on hold after Keith Richards was sidelined with a head injury last month, and now the band has announced that the Nürnberg and Leipzig, Germany, shows that Axl and the gang were set to play in July have been canceled. Richards is ready to get back on the road, however, and the Stones' European tour will kick off July 11 in Italy. "Excuse me, I fell off my perch," Richards said in a statement on the band's site. "Sorry to disrupt everyone's plans but now — it's full steam ahead! Ouch!" Rescheduled dates for postponed European shows are expected to be announced soon

-MTV News

[Tingly]

Sony BMG Music Entertainment has announced the resignations of the top two executives at its Sony Music Label Group, less than four months after the company's owners appointed a new chief executive in a bid to resolve management discord.

The sudden departures of Don Ienner, chairman of the unit, and Michele Anthony, the president, announced Thursday, ended the tenures of two of music's most powerful executives. Known for an aggressive style, each of them in the past 17 years built the careers of artists like Destiny's Child, Pearl Jam and John Mayer.

The resignations came as Sony BMG's new chief executive, Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, has been revamping the company, which is the industry's second-largest behind Vivendi's Universal Music Group.

Sony BMG said Rob Stringer, chairman and chief executive of the company's British unit, would take over as president of the Sony label unit in the United States on Sept. 1.

[killerkiwi]

why did they resign?

[Tingly]

Ah - VERY interesting question, killer! SONY's press release certainly didn't say. They just announced the replacements.

One commentator said it was "the end of the Tommy Mottola era," and they were his type of people, so they had to go.

Chris Morris of "The Hollywood Reporter" wrote that they were fired simply because "The Sony labels' acts are not selling records at the moment."

Columbia, Sony's flagship label, handles the Dixie Chicks, Shakira and Bruce Springsteen.

[Tingly]

New Music Express is giving away an Epiphone Les Paul Standard guitar, recording time at top London studio Miloco, a photosession and stylist for a day and an all-access pass to next week’s City Showcase.

Taking over London from June 5-9, the event sees gigs in venues and shops around the capital as well as workshops from industry professionals, Radio 1 and XFM DJs and the all-important A&Rs. In the past it’s helped launch the careers of Hot Chip and Razorlight and this year will play host to top new artists.

Hurry up! The competition closes at midnight June 5 2006.
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The annual Student Music Journalist Of The Year competition offers one lucky winner the chance to come and work at NME HQ for a whole month.

All you have to do is submit a 150-word review of the last gig you went to in NME 'house' style. The greatest minds in rock'n'roll journalism (ie NME) will then pick the winner and send them a golden train ticket up to London to begin 30-odd rip-roaring days of sex, drugs and indie-celeb encounters.

The deadline for all entries is June 30, 2005. entrants must still be in full-time education. the position is unpaid.

-NME.COM

[Tingly]

The two members of the rap group Youngbloodz and their 12-person entourage face drug and weapons charges after being stopped in Atlanta while on their way to a concert. Jeffrey Ray Grigsby, 29, who performs using the name J-Bo, and Sean Paul Joseph, 27, who performs as Sean Paul, were arrested Thursday on I-85 on the way to Columbus, Ga.

All 14 were charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of firearms. They posted bond yesterday (June 2).

Coweta County Sheriff's Deputy Clinton Reynolds said he pulled the tour bus over because it had an expired Florida tag but immediately noticed the odor of burning marijuana. After a search of the vehicle, Reynolds said deputies found two firearms and about a half pound of marijuana divided into 11 plastic bags.

-Billboard

[Tingly]

Vince Welnick, the Grateful Dead's last keyboard player and a veteran of other bands, including the Tubes and Missing Man Formation, has died, the Grateful Dead's longtime publicist confirmed today (June 3). He was 51.

Welnick died Friday, said Dennis McNally, who would not release the cause. He lived in the northern California town of Forestville, but McNally said he didn't know whether he died at home or in a hospital.

-Billboard

[Tingly]

A few hundred lucky fans packed into New York's Avalon on Wednesday night to witness Pearl Jam tape an episode of the VH1 series "Storytellers," which will premiere July 1 on the music channel. The band last played the venue formerly known as Limelight in 1992.

-Billboard

[Tingly]

2000 - Country stars Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney are arrested in Buffalo, N.Y. after Chesney rides off on a mounted police officer's horse and McGraw allegedly attacks sheriff's deputies who attempt to stop him. The pair are acquitted on all charges related to the skirmish the following May.

1998 - Van Halen is forced to cancel a concert at the Docks club in Hamburg, Germany, after a chunk of ceiling plaster falls on drummer Alex Van Halen's arm during the band's soundcheck. Van Halen's arm is merely bruised in the incident.

1987 - Bryan Adams records a live version of the Christmas song "Run Rudolph Run."

1982 - The late Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tenn., opens as a tourist attraction.

1974 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Band on the Run," Paul McCartney & Wings. It was recorded in Lagos, Nigeria.

1946 - Bassist John Paul Jones (John Baldwin) of Led Zeppelin is born in Sidcup, England.

1942 - R&B star Curtis Mayfield is born in Chicago. His biggest pop singles were both from the film "Superfly" and released in 1972. "Freddie's Dead (Theme from `Superfly')" reaches No. 4 and "Superfly" reaches No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.

-Billboard [Edited by Tingly]

[Tingly]

Devendra Banhart is canceling five tour dates leading up to his appearance at the hippy/hipster convocation Bonnaroo, due to his English tourmates, the Magic Numbers.

It was announced yesterday that Banhart has canceled five shows, including two dates in North Carolina. According to Banhart's publicist, the decision was made two days ago when the Magic Numbers, now recording in New York, decided they were behind schedule with the follow-up to their self-titled debut of blasé power pop jingles, released last year on Capitol Records.

Banhart has no plans for recording a new album at the moment, primarily because he will be touring throughout the summer and fall. Well, obviously not all summer, thanks to the Magic Numbers.

The canceled shows:

06-06 Alexandria, VA - Birchmere
06-12 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
06-14 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
06-15 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
06-18 Nashville, TN - 3rd & Lindsley

Banhart will still play Bonnaroo, the four-day festival on a 700-acre farm in Tennessee, and it appears the Numbers will make that date as well.

-Grayson Currin, Pitchforkmedia.com

[Tingly]

When Built to Spill tours they do not mess around with piddly two-to-three month jaunts. Like Doug Martsch's beard, Built to Spill go large and go long.

After having to postpone their trek due to Martsch detaching a retina (presumably during an intense pick-up game of b-ball), Built to Spill are back on track for a mammoth four-month journey across the United States. The macro-tour kicked off Saturday, June 3, in the band's hometown of Boise, ID at a benefit concert for the Buffalo Field Campaign, an organization working to prevent the slaughter of Yellowstone National Park's free-roaming bison.

After that, Martsch's quartet slowly moves down the Northwest and into Southern California, performing a few multi-night stints along the way. From there, it's across the Midwest, with a stop at Lollapalooza before moving to the East Coast. After a few more multi-night stands, it's on to the South before wrapping things up with handful of dates throughout Texas.

Here are the rest of the June dates:

06-13 Seattle, WA - Showbox
06-14 Seattle, WA - Showbox
06-15 Seattle, WA - Showbox
06-16 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
06-17 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
06-19 Eugene, OR - WOW Hall
06-21 San Francisco, CA - Slim's
06-22 San Francisco, CA - Slim's
06-23 San Francisco, CA - Slim's
06-24 San Francisco, CA - Slim's
06-25 Santa Cruz, CA - Catalyst
06-27 San Diego, CA - House of Blues
06-28 Los Angeles, CA - The Troubadour
06-29 Los Angeles, CA - The Troubadour
06-30 Los Angeles, CA - The Troubadour

-Quanah Humphreys, Pitchforkmedia.com [Edited by Tingly]

[Tingly]

2001 - Beloved hard rock veterans Spinal Tap come back from the dead at New York's Carnegie Hall with a 20-song, 90-minute performance as part of the annual Toyota Comedy Festival.

2000 - Rapper Eminem (Marshall Mathers) and three others are arrested outside the Hot Rocks Cafè in Warren, Mich., a Detroit suburb. A fight breaks out in the parking lot of the nightclub after several people in the crowd recognize the 27-year-old Grammy-winning rapper. Police are soon called to the scene.

1999 - Country singer Tim McGraw and more than 400 listeners are forced to evacuate his charity concert at the 7th House in Pontiac, Mich., after a woman uses pepper spray against a man she claims groped her. McGraw falls to his knees, choking, in mid-song, and frightened audience members flee from the hall, coughing and holding shirts over their faces.

1997 - Ronnie Lane, bassist with the Small Faces and, later, the Faces, dies at his home in Colorado. He is 51. Lane had suffered from multiple sclerosis since 1977.

1992 - Priscilla Presley announces the winner of the Elvis postage stamp vote from the lawn of Graceland in Memphis, Tenn. Fans vote 851,200 to 277,723 for a 1950s-era Elvis over an older Elvis. Presley was chosen for a "Legends of American Music" series of 29-cent first-class stamps.

1979 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Love You Inside Out," The Bee Gees.

1964 - Jimmy Nicol becomes the Beatles' temporary drummer when Ringo Starr becomes ill before start of a world tour.

1958 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "The Purple People Eater," Sheb Wooley. Wooley plays Peter Nolan on the TV series "Rawhide." He also records comic recordings under the name Ben Colder and writes the "Hee Haw" theme song.

1945 - Michelle Phillips (Holly Michelle Gilliam) of the Mamas and the Papas is born in Long Beach, Calif. The group's biggest hit is the million-selling No. 1 song "Monday, Monday." Phillips later acts in the TV show "Knots Landing."

1945 - Gordon Waller of Peter & Gordon is born in Braemar, Scotland. The duo's biggest hit is the No. 1 song "A World Without Love," which is written by Paul McCartney.

[Tingly]

Punk legends The Rollins Band and X will launch the As The World Burns tour together on July 28 in San Francisco. It will be the first tour featuring the definitive Rollins Band lineup with Melvin Gibbs, Chris Haskett and Sim Cain since 1997, and the the original lineup for X - Exene, John Doe, Billy Zoom and D.J. Bonebrake - is back together as well. "Not since 1997 have we played together, so it's a big deal to us," said Henry Rollins. "We are very excited to be back together and to be out playing in America this summer. The band is really sounding great. We have been working hard at band practice getting a good set of songs together. [We] are looking forward to playing dates with X, one of the greatest live bands of all time." The tour runs through August 19 in Boston.

[Tingly]

Phish's June 17, 2004, show at Brooklyn's Keyspan Park is headed to CD and DVD. Live In Brooklyn will be released on July 11 as a three-CD package and a two-DVD set. The audio version includes the entire two-set performance, while the DVD, which was shot by eight cameras, includes excerpts from soundcheck, backstage footage, and the songs "Taste," "Bug" and "Tweezer Reprise" from the following night's show.

[Tingly]

Bono has revealed he has been learning how to play the piano, which has helped in his songwriting. "I've got a lot of songs, oddly enough, from taking piano lessons," Bono revealed. "My kid's piano teacher, Dawn, has been teaching me the piano. And every time she gives me a lesson, I write a new song. So next week, when [U2] meet up, I have all these songs to play for them. So I'd like to thin out my schedule in terms of the politics and activism and just get lost in the music again. That's what I'm really looking forward to for the summer."

-U.K. newspaper, The Guardian

[Builder018]

The reason Tingly's News Service is so good is because it gets to the point!!! Nice job on all of the articles. Maybe the network news should follow your practices.

[Builder018]

I hearby nominate the Tingly News Service for the first official "Jammy" Award.

[Tingly]

Thanks for the encouragement, Builder018!!

[Tingly]

In these fiscally conservative times, acts must often prove their ability to generate a viable fan base before record labels will even consider adding them to their rosters.

To that end, several nascent acts are turning to the mobile phone -- traditionally a platform reserved for marketing established acts -- to launch their music careers.

Take the G.R.i.T Boys -- a hip-hop group developed and promoted by superstar Paul Wall. Looking to rise above the crowded music scene of their native Houston, the Boys agreed to be the subject of a reality series called "NEXXT," filmed exclusively for distribution over mobile phones.

The idea, the group's manager/producer, Pretty Todd of Mo' Betta Grooves, says, is to do something that would generate attention and expose their music to a greater audience.

"Labels these days do not invest in artists," he says. "They wait for artists to invest in themselves. You could be Tupac, but if you're not selling records or don't have a radio song, you're not gonna get a deal. You have to do something yourself to show the label something tangible."

[Tingly]

With its 50th birthday approaching, AARP (formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons) wants to connect with its 36 million members on a greater emotional level. With no shortage of potential new members -- someone in the United States turns 50, the age at which one can join, every seven seconds -- AARP is looking to music and entertainment to help build that bridge.

To that end, AARP has tapped Pasadena, Calif.-based DMI Music & Media Solutions to develop its first fully integrated music branding strategy.

Music is no stranger to AARP's business. James Taylor performed at AARP's annual event for its members two years ago; in October, Elton John will take to the stage in Anaheim, Calif. And AARP magazine recently featured McCartney on the cover.

DMI's three-year music plan for AARP will roll out in September, according to DMI CEO/chief creative officer Tena Clark. Among the ideas being considered are a traveling musical revue, a music festival, an introduction-to-AARP "birthday CD" for those turning 50 and the creation of a music microsite at aarp.org. Clark likens the future online destination to "a Myspace for boomers."

[Tingly]

The major labels suddenly have a whole new piracy concern: music videos.

The rise of user-generated content sites like YouTube, MySpace, Google Video and iFilm has sparked a revolution in the viral sharing of music videos across these Web communities. The problem is, much of the distribution taking place -- outside a select number of promotional deals -- is happening without the approval of record companies.

In recent weeks the Recording Industry Association of America has been stepping up its efforts to stop sharing of popular videos on such sites, particularly on the rapidly expanding YouTube. The site, which now claims more than 6 million visitors and 40 million streams daily, has become a haven for unlicensed music videos, which users are capturing with TiVo and other digital video recorders and then posting the files to the Web. Much of the material is coming from recorded MTV broadcasts.

The RIAA recently issued cease-and-desist letters to YouTube users sharing videos from the likes of Nelly Furtado, Beyonce and Rihanna.

-Billboard

[iam2phat]

The major labels always have a concern, and it's always with money. I fully support youtube and the like because music should be for free, musicians make music because they enjoy it, not for the money.

[Tingly]

Kylie Minogue has admitted she is feeling "broody" and would like to have a baby.

The Aussie pop rocket, who has been recovering from breast cancer surgery since she was diagnosed last May, is understood to be close to a full recovery.

According to reports, not only has she recently returned to the studio but is also considering having children with her partner, French actor Oliver Martinez.

She told the Sydney Sun-Herald: "Yes, I feel broody. It's only natural. It hasn't happened yet, but I hope it will someday.

"Ollie is lovely. Our relationship has gone well from the beginning. I suppose it helps that he understands my career."

Speaking about recording again, Kylie, who is expected to appear at the Glastonbury Festival in 2007, commented: "I'm still taking things slowly, but I've had a great week in the studio and things couldn't be any better.

"It's been a long, hard road to now but I'm feeling good and I want to get back into the swing of things."

[Tingly]

2002 - Ramones bassist Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Glenn Colvin) is found dead in his Hollywood, Calif., home. He is 50.

2002 - Drug charges against R&B singer Dionne Warwick are dropped after a Miami-Dade County judge agrees to a plea bargain deal, which includes a drug treatment program. The singer was arrested a month earlier when Miami International Airport baggage screeners find what they suspect are marijuana cigarettes hidden in Warwick's lipstick container.

2002 - R&B star R. Kelly is indicted on child pornography charges stemming from a videotape that officials say shows the artist having sex with an underage girl.

1999 - Mel Torme, the Russian-Jewish kid from the South Side of Chicago who became an international singing star with sidelines as an actor, a songwriter, an arranger, a drummer and a writer, dies from compilations of the stroke that halted his career in 1996. He is 73.

1993 - Conway Twitty dies at age 59 of a ruptured stomach vessel after collapsing in his tour bus after a show in Branson, Mo. He scored 39 No. 1 Billboard country hits - including four duets with Loretta Lynn - among them "Hello Darlin'," "You've Never Been This Far Before" and "Happy Birthday Darlin'."

1984 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Time After Time," Cyndi Lauper.

1980 - The Grateful Dead celebrates its 15th anniversary with a concert in Phoenix, Ariz.

1971 - Grand Funk Railroad sells out New York's Shea Stadium within 72 hours, breaking the Beatles' box office record there.

1956 - Elvis Presley performs "Hound Dog" on TV's "Milton Berle Show," resulting in protests by some viewers.

-Billboard

[Tingly]

Perpendicular magnetic recording means Toshiba has managed to achieve a 200GB density on a 2.5-inch hard drive, it said.

The drives won’t be available in quantity until August, but said that the MK2035GSS will provide 277.1 megabits per square millimetre, which is a record.

The firm is showing off the drive at this week’s Computex show in Old Taipei. The serial ATA II drive has 8MB of buffer memory and an average seek time of 12msec, using two platters and four heads.

-Inquirer

[Tingly]

Vince Welnick, the Grateful Dead's last keyboard player, has died, the band's longtime publicist said Saturday.

Welnick died Friday, said Dennis McNally. The cause appears to be suicide, Sonoma County, Calif., sheriff's officials said.

McNally said Welnick was 51. Several other sources list his age as 55.

Welnick, whom friends called a gentle and sensitive man, was classically trained and spent hours practicing each day. Although he was a member of the Dead for just five years, until the band folded after the death of guitarist Jerry Garcia, he left an indelible mark on his bandmates.

In a statement posted on its Web site, the band said, "Our Grateful Dead prayer for the repose of his spirit: May the four winds blow him safely home."

-Houston Chronicle

[Tingly]

Epic Records and Sony Wonder have signed a deal with Atlanta-based pop trio Laughing Pizza to develop children's recordings, direct-to-DVD titles and TV programming based on the group's live act. Laughing Pizza is composed of husband-and-wife duo Lisa Michaelis and Billy Schlosser and their daughter, Emily. Epic and Sony Wonder plan to mount national tours and merchandising for the trio, who emphasize healthy living in their music. "The potential for the growth of this unique franchise is huge," said Epic president Charlie Walk, who credited his own children for introducing him to Laughing Pizza.

[Tingly]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Former "American Idol" contestant Chris Daughtry said Saturday he has turned down an offer to be lead singer for the band Fuel. Daughtry, in Greensboro for a day of welcome-home appearances, said he expects to announce his next career move in few months, probably after he finishes with an "American Idol" summer concert tour. "I'm going to be doing my own thing," Daughtry told The Charlotte Observer. The band offered Daughtry a job hours after viewers voted him off the Fox television talent show last month. Bass player Jeff Abercrombie and guitarist Carl Bell made their pitch on the TV show "Extra." He would have replaced Brett Scallions, who quit the multi-platinum rock band in February.

-AP

[Tingly]

Bruce Springsteen fans will get a new live music experience every day during his tour thanks to an arrangement with AOL Music revealed Thursday. Springsteen will choose an exclusive video performance from each stop on his current 18-city North American tour with the Seeger Sessions Band, which AOL Music will present for free along with photos, set lists and highlights of the show recounted by staff of Backstreet.com, the highly regarded Springsteen fan site. From Indianapolis on Wednesday night, for example, the video is of "Old Dan Tucker," and Backstreet.com's Chris Phillips noted changes in the set from other shows and related an exchange between Springsteen and a boy in the audience.

-www.hollywoodreporter.com

[Tingly]

1. Dixie Chicks, "Taking the Long Way"
2. Soundtrack, "High School Musical"
3. Various artists, "American Idol: Season 5 Encores"
4. Angels & Airwaves, "We Don't Need To"
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Stadium Arcadium"

-AOL Music

[Tingly]

BASSMAN is made a mod:

http://guitar.zentao.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16845

ShiggityShwa asks what's the scariest movie you ever saw?

http://guitar.zentao.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16764

Plstrcast reviews upcoming 2005 summer TV shows:

http://guitar.zentao.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16795

danelectro laments "working with idiots":

http://guitar.zentao.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16804

[iam2phat]

keep up the good work tingly. although many of us dont reply, we all thikn you're the best news anchor.

[Tingly]

Thanks for the shout, iam2phat!

[Tingly]

Billy Preston, the exuberant keyboardist who landed dream gigs with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and enjoyed his own series of hit singles, including "Outta Space" and "Nothing From Nothing," died Tuesday at 59.

Preston had battled chronic kidney failure, and he received a kidney transplant in 2002. But the kidney failed and he has been on dialysis ever since, Moore said earlier this year.

Known for his big smile and towering Afro, Preston was a teen prodigy on the piano and organ, and lent his gospel-tinged touch to classics such as the Beatles' "Get Back" and the Stones' "Can't You Hear Me Knocking?"

He broke out as a solo artist in the 1970s, winning a best instrumental Grammy in 1973 for "Outta Space," and scoring other hits with "Will It Go 'Round In Circles," "Nothing From Nothing" and "With You I'm Born Again," a duet with Syreeta Wright.

He also wrote Joe Cocker's weeper, "You Are So Beautiful," and co-wrote with Quincy Jones the score for 1970 movie "They Call Me Mr. Tibbs." Other achievements included being a musical guest on the 1975 debut of "Saturday Night Live," and having a song named after him by Miles Davis. Among his film credits: "Blues Brothers 2000" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."

Preston's partnership with the Beatles began in early 1969 when friend George Harrison recruited him to play on "Let It Be," a back-to-basics film and record project that nearly broke down because of feuding among band members. Harrison himself quit at one point, walking out on camera after arguing with Paul McCartney.

Preston not only inspired the Beatles to get along _ Harrison likened his effect to a feuding family staying on its best behavior in front of a guest _ but contributed a light, bluesy solo to "Get Back," performing the song with the band on its legendary "roof top" concert, the last time the Beatles played live. He was one of many sometimes labeled "The Fifth Beatle."

Preston also toured and recorded extensively with the Rolling Stones, playing on such classic albums as "Sticky Fingers" and "Exile on Main Street." In the mid-'70s, he parted from the Stones, reportedly unhappy over not getting proper credit for "Melody" and other songs. He reunited with the band in 1997 on its "Bridges to Babylon" record.

-wireservice.wired.com [Edited by Tingly]

[Tingly]

Someone else might have written the "Bat Out of Hell" song, but Meat Loaf claims he should be the only one to use the phrase in connection with music.

In a federal lawsuit dated May 26, the rocker, whose name is listed in the action as Michael Aday, said the expression had been publicly associated with him since the 1977 release of his "Bat Out of Hell" album.

The lawsuit claims defendant Jim Steinman, who wrote the original song of the same name, wrongly claims ownership of the phrase.

The album and its 1993 follow-up, "Bat Out of Hell II," sold 48 million copies worldwide, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit seeks damages of more than $50 million.

Steinman and co-defendant David Sonenberg, listed in the action as having been Meat Loaf's manager, have been trying to disrupt the October release of the third "Bat Out of Hell" album by telling the singer's distributors that Aday had no right to use the phrase, according to the lawsuit.

[Tingly]

City Councilwoman and former Motown star Martha Reeves has been a strong advocate of stricter housing code enforcement, but a newspaper says it discovered multiple violations at her own properties.

Inspectors found 25 code violations at one two-unit rental property, include two emergency infractions for lack of maintenance of fire doors, The Detroit News reported.

In a written response, Reeves said she acquired most of the properties "sight unseen" at a state land auction.

Reeves, 64, said she recently hired a new management company and that "improvements are forthcoming."

As part of the Motown group Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, she had hits in the 1960s with "Heat Wave," "Dancing in the Street," "Nowhere to Run," "I'm Ready for Love," "Jimmy Mack" and "Honey Chile."

She was elected in November to a four-year term on the nine-member City Council.

-1010 WINS

[Tingly]

Ali Aghili, 37, and Marney Hurst, 33, both of Boulder, were to be married Saturday night at the posh Little Nell Hotel.

Instead, they got into a fight the night before and police arrested them because both allegedly threw punches, said police Sgt. Steve Smith.

The wedding had to be called off because their $250 bond conditions required them to stay away from each other, Smith said. He said it took police three hours to sort out the incident.

[Tingly]

Foo Fighters are to play another acoustic warm up show before their forthcoming London and Manchester headlining dates.

The band will be appearing at Ipswich's Regent Theatre next Monday (June 12).

As previously reported, Foo Fighters will also perform a second acoustic show at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre on June 14 before their massive outdoor headlining shows at Hyde Park and Old Trafford Cricket Ground on the weekend of June 17-18.

[Tingly]

Singer Kylie Minogue was named Woman of the Year at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards for her inspirational battle against breast cancer.

Kylie, 37, could not attend the London bash but sent a message to her fans. "The last year has been my least public but, in many ways, the most," she said.

"Your support has been an enormous help and I hope to be back with you all in person very soon."

[Tingly]

Rapper Eminem has settled a lawsuit over the illegal use of his Grammy award-winning songs in ringtones, court records showed.

Eminem's publishing company filed the suit against Colorado-based Cellus and five other companies last October.

The case involved "the blatant and unauthorized use" of Eminem's songs and music for ring tones, which "has become extremely popular and has spawned an entire industry," the complaint said.

Lawyers for both Eminem and the main defendant did not immediately return calls for comment Tuesday. Court documents said the lawsuit was dismissed June 1.

Howard Hertz, a Bloomfield Hills lawyer for Eminem and his publishing companies, told the Detroit News Tuesday that illegal Eminem ring tones are generating hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

-uk.news.launch.yahoo.com

[Tingly]

Sandi Thom's record label have moved to defend their act, days after she swept to Number One in the UK singles chart.

Thom has been the subject of press speculation in recent weeks, following the claims that she was discovered after a DIY [Do It Yourself-Tingly] promo campaign, launched from her front room.

Craig Logan, from RCA Records, said this week they had nothing to do with Thom's "Twenty One Nights From Tooting" webcasts, which are said to have acted as a launchpad for her career.

He also denied that the reported audience figures for the online gigs had been exaggerated up to 70,000, insisting the label signed Thom because she is "a great artist" and had not manufactured her fame.

Thom's debut single, "I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker", dethroned Gnarls Barkley from Number One on Sunday after a record-breaking nine-week run for the hip hop duo.

-Dot Music [Edited by Tingly]

[Tingly]

Pete Doherty has insisted he did not inject drugs on a flight to Barcelona last week.

The Babyshambles star was arrested with his band on-board an Easyjet flight from London last Thursday, with airline officials reportedly discovering a blood-filled syringe.

Police are understood to have searched Doherty and co at the airport, but the former Libertine insists nothing was found to implicate him or the others.

-dotmusic

[Tingly]

American singer and song writer Lou Reed has confirmed he will be playing at the Hultsfred Rock Festival which is to take place in South East Sweden between 15th and 17th June.

Other major acts taking place in the Hultsfred festival will be Finnish Eurovision contest winners, Lordi, American rock band The Strokes and Sweden’s favorite rock band, Kent. Swedish bands The Cardigans, The Soundtrack of our Lives and The Sounds will also be making an appearance.

-thelocal

[Tingly]

As world musicians tuned up in the ancient Moroccan town of Fez for a festival of religious music, political figures and thinkers debated ways to bring spiritual harmony to a globalised world.

The 12th Fez festival, which opened on Friday, brings together spiritual and religious music from Syria, Iran, India, Mali, Latin America, Japan, Tibet, Azerbaijan and the Mediterranean under the theme of "harmonies".

William Christie, the French-American conductor, kicked off the festival on Friday evening with a performance by his Arts Florissants orchestra of works by composers including Mozart and Jean-Philippe Rameau.

The festival - which was recognised in 2001 by the United Nations as a major contributor to dialogue between civilisations - runs until June 10, ending with a concert by Salif Keita, a Malian musician.

-aljazeera.net

[Tingly]

SINGER Jade MacRae takes performing in her stride.

But it's as a songwriter that the 26-year-old will be hoping to grab the limelight tonight, when she joins the elite of local writers and members of the music industry at the annual APRA Music Awards in Sydney.

The awards, presented by the Australasian Performing Right Association, are second only to the ARIAs on the music industry calendar, and MacRae will perform her song You Make Me Weak, which is in the running for a prize in the newly created Most Performed Urban Work category.

The artists in line for the main prize, song of the year, include End of Fashion, Pete Murray, Wolfmother, Ben Lee and Missy Higgins.

Tonight's event, at Sydney's Four Seasons hotel, will include a performance by Icehouse, whose singer and songwriter Iva Davies is being honoured for contribution to music.

-www.theaustralian.news.com

[Tingly]

LONDON: It was billed as the end of an eight-year rock'n'roll feud that began when a backstage argument escalated into an onstage fight.

Scottish rock brothers Jim and William Reid, whose band The Jesus and Mary Chain outraged the rock establishment in the 1980s and 90s, had not spoken since their US bust-up in 1998.

They were due to reunite on stage last night to accept the Maverick award at the Mojo magazine music awards. But the event failed to cast its spell on William Reid, 47, as he failed to show at the London ceremony.

Not even the presence of Bobby Gillespie, a founding member of the band who left to form Primal Scream in 1986, could tempt William back on stage with his younger brother. The siblings feature high on the list of rock's warring families. Compared to the Sex Pistols in the mid-1980s, The Jesus and Mary Chain inspired Radiohead, Nirvana and Oasis.

The band's welding of sweet melodies to ear-splitting feedback became an international success, but verbal communication between the Reids ceased after a traumatic US tour in 1998.

The battling brothers knocked over microphone stands in a melee, and a sellout crowd watched William storm out of the group and Jim abort the show.

Receiving the award, Jim Reid, 44, did nothing to calm the dispute when he told the audience: "I would like to thank my big brother - for not coming."

-www.theaustralian.news.com

[Tingly]

It is a byword for disasters musical and sartorial, but now the Eurovision Song Contest is going global with a primetime remake on American network television.

Executives are desperate to find a challenger to the Fox television network's American Idol, the talent show that generated 63 million votes for last month's final, more votes than any US president has received.

The furore caused by the Finnish metal-monsters Lordi, who swept to victory in the 51st Eurovision this year, has convinced the NBC network to adapt Eurovision into a state-by-state song contest.

Each state will select a band or singer to represent it in a national final. Unlike American Idol, where competitors recreate established hits, the focus will be on original songwriting.

Reveille, the US television company that adapted The Office for NBC, is producing the show for the network. Ben Silverman, its president, said: "People are looking at American Idol and saying, 'How can I get a piece of that?'. Eurovision is the granddaddy of all talent shows and the Super Bowl of singing."

While kitsch is central to Eurovision's appeal, the American version hopes to be taken seriously.

-www.theaustralian.news.com

[Sexymonkey]

This is Jam Session's very own WWW RECORDS!!

For the MOST posts on a SINGLE thread goes to...
FRETFLYER with 1171 posts in the "Once Upon a Time" thread by Slipstream.

Awesomest theory award goes to...
JonR for being such a theory geek!!

Most mysterious award goes to...
Daisyrocker whose very existance is still being debated.

Awesomest guy to just hang out and talk to goes to...
Zappa for being an overall awesome person.

Most misunderstood person on JS award goes to...
BASSMAN because we all thought that he played bass.


The LONGEST running Non-Sticky thread ever goes to...
Slipstream for making the "Once Upon a Time" thread.

The MOST viewed thread award goes to...
Clem Snide's POST YOUR PIC thread, with 43,115 views.

And... *intro to Eye of the Tiger*
The best award ever...
For making JS the best Guitar forum on the 'net goes to...
EVERYONE, for contributing to a total of 40,768 threads 544,159 posts, AND...12,378 MEMBERS!

[Tingly]

Haha! Good one, Sexymonkey! Thanks for that! Very interesting.

[Nameless]

I think at one point I had the highest daily posting average of anyone on JS. Maybe Daisy ended up beating me though...hmmm.

[Tingly]

Tom Petty is considering launching legal action against the Red Hot Chili Peppers over a song on their new album, according to reports.

Petty is said to be aware of the allegations, made by a US DJ last month live on-air, that the current Chili Peppers single, "Dani California", rips-off his "Mary Jane's Last Dance".

There are now claims that both the US funk-rock force and producer Rick Rubin, who also produced the Petty track, will be called to answer claims of plagiarism.

A spokesman for Petty commented: "I am well aware of this situation. I guess imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

"Tom doesn't have a comment on this at all. I have no idea if he is going to sue the Chili Peppers, and am not prepared to make a comment on that."

-yahoo.com

[Tingly]

Sir Paul McCartney is ruing the day he married Heather Mills after seeing lurid pictures of his estranged second wife being splashed in the British tabloid press.

“He is deeply depressed and unhappy, consumed by anguish and regret, and is in no way ready to face the world,” said a friend of the former Beatle, 63, who is holed up at his Sussex farmhouse. “He bitterly regrets marrying Heather and dragging his children into this awful situation.”

A tabloid carried a picture of a virtually naked Mills in a steamy clinch with a half-naked man on its front page, with the headline ‘Lady Macca Hard Core Porn Shame’, causing Sir Paul great embarrassment. The picture is part of a series of pornographic pictures taken for a 112-page German book, Die Freuden Der Liebe, or The Joys of Love, published in 1988.

Mills’s lawyers admitted the 38-year-old former model had taken part in the shoot but argued it was not pornographic. “This photo shoot, undertaken approximately 20 years ago, was for the purpose of a lovers’ guide to caring relationships and instructive sex like many other books on the market,” said lawyer Coyle White Devine. “The photo shoot was not for the gratification of viewers.”

-www.dnaindia.com

[Tingly]

2003 - Beck is prevented from performing at the Field Day Festival in East Rutherford, N.J., as he recovers from a rib injury. According to the artist's official Web site, Beck was watching Blur's performance from the side of the stage when he was accidentally slammed in the ribs by a local working stage hand.

1998 - Country music's first stadium tour, the Nokia Presents the George Strait Chevy Truck Music Festival Brought to You by Wrangler, wraps at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas. Tim McGraw, John Michael Montgomery, Faith Hill, Lee Ann Womack, and Asleep at the Wheel join featured headliner Strait.

1979 - Chuck Berry performs at the White House at President Carter's request. Little more than one month later he is sentenced to four months in jail for income tax evasion.

1970 - The Who performs its rock opera, "Tommy," at New York's Metropolitan Opera House.

1969 - Blind Faith makes its live debut in a London park. 150,000 people attend the free performance.

1969 - Johnny Cash debuts his own network variety show on CBS-TV.

1958 - Prince (Prince Roger Nelson) is born in Minneapolis.

1940 - Singer Tom Jones (Thomas Jones Woodward) is born in Pontypridd, South Wales.

[Tingly]

The most popular recording this year may not be a song, but rather a five-note melody called "Bamboo."

The simple chant of the word, composed by the relatively unknown Nadir Khayat and Bilal Hajji, will almost certainly be heard by an accumulated audience of as many as 30 billion TV viewers in the space of about a month.

Such is the branding reach of the Federation Internationale de Football Assn. (FIFA), world soccer's governing body. "Bamboo" has been selected as the official melody for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the biggest soccer festival on Earth, which will kick off June 9 in Germany.

The melody will be sold as a ringtone, used in special FIFA-targeted remixes of hit songs and will feature prominently in advertising from such sponsors as Adidas, Budweiser, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Phillips.

-cnn.com

[Tingly]

Digital music sales have long lagged behind physical sales in the Latin music world. The launch of a digital music store by Univision Communications, the largest Spanish-language media company in the United States, may shift that dynamic.

The retail effort will take root at Univision.com and aims to be live by June 9, to benefit from World Cup traffic. The store, powered by Canadian company Puretracks, will launch with a minimum music base of 1.1 million tracks in all genres, including at least 55,000 Latin songs. Plans call for tens of thousands more Latin tracks to be added.

-Billboard

[Tingly]

The major labels put aside their fight with Apple Computer over the pricing of digital music when they all signed new one-year licensing deals for the iTunes Music Store in April. But the industry debate over what a song should cost is anything but over.

Even as 99 cents remains the most common price tag for tunes, efforts are afoot in the mobile music business and in other parts of the PC-based downloading market to test the limits of the iTunes-favored buck-a-track formula.

To understand just how slippery music pricing has become, look at the smorgasbord of prices for a hit tune like "Check on It" by Beyonce. Among the cell phone carriers, Sprint is selling the track as an over-the-air download for $2.99, Verizon is selling it for $1.99, and upstart mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Amp'd Mobile has it for 99 cents. Among iTunes' competitors, Walmart.com has it for 88 cents, and subscribers to Real Networks' Rhapsody can buy it for 79 cents. Add black-market competitors, and the pricing environment gets even more dynamic. Users of Russian sites like Allofmp3.com can download it for 10 cents. And, of course, it's also widely available across leading peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and a handful of blogs for nothing.

So what's the song actually worth? There's no set answer, economists say.

-Billboard

[Tingly]

Chalk it up to a corporate merger, limited promotion or maybe just a record that was too different from her first -- whatever the reason, Nelly Furtado's last record tanked.

Most artists would love to sell 400,000 copies of a record in the United States, as Furtado did on her second release, "Folklore" (DreamWorks), which hit stores in November 2003. But it was a disappointment compared with the sales of her 2000 debut, "Whoa Nelly!" (DreamWorks), which moved 2.4 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and featured the hit song "I'm Like a Bird."

-Billboard

[Tingly]

David Lee Roth is promoting his latest project, a bluegrass tribute to his former band called “Strummin' With the Devil: The Southern Side of Van Halen.”

“This album has already been roundly accepted by a number of communities,” he told The Associated Press in an interview at his Nashville hotel on Friday. “It's a familiar tome already. You know the words, you know every vowel, every high kick, every hoot and holler, every bell and whistle that goes along with this music.

“Someone asked me ‘Are you imitating Bon Jovi doing this?,’” Roth cracked, referring to Bon Jovi's recent country hit, “Who Says You Can't Go Home.” “I said, ‘Wise up, man, I'm imitating the Eagles.’”

[Tingly]

BBC Radio 1 has been accused of encouraging knife and gun crime by Conservative leader David Cameron.

Mr Cameron singled out the station's Saturday night schedules which feature DJ Tim Westwood's hip-hop show.

Radio 1 strongly denied Mr Cameron's accusation, saying it took its responsibilities "very seriously" and followed strict producer guidelines.

It said hip-hop was a "vibrant" genre which sometimes reflected the "harsher realities of people's lives".

The Conservative leader made his comments on Tuesday evening at a British Society of Magazine Editors event.

-BBC

[Tingly]

The former manager of US R&B star Ashanti is suing her for millions of dollars for breach of contract.

Linda Berk claimed her contract was cut short in 2003 after she had helped to make the 25-year-old singer "a music and entertainment superstar".

"The contract expired naturally and we didn't renew it," said a spokesperson for the performer.

Ashanti, whose full name is Ashanti Douglas, has scored top ten hits in the UK with the singles Only U and Foolish.

Her career has been dogged by controversy.

Her record label, Murder Inc, was raided by the FBI in 2003 as part of a drug operation. The label's boss, Irv Gotti, was later charged with laundering $1m (£530,000) for an allegedly violent drug gang. None of the label's artists were implicated in the case.

Last year, Ashanti was ordered to pay $630,000 (£359,000) to her first producer in a separate trial for breach of contract. The producer, Genard Parker, began working with Ashanti before she landed a recording contract.

-BBC [Edited by Tingly]

[Mr. Boston]

The major labels put aside their fight with Apple Computer over the pricing of digital music when they all signed new one-year licensing deals for the iTunes Music Store in April. But the industry debate over what a song should cost is anything but over.

Even as 99 cents remains the most common price tag for tunes, efforts are afoot in the mobile music business and in other parts of the PC-based downloading market to test the limits of the iTunes-favored buck-a-track formula.

To understand just how slippery music pricing has become, look at the smorgasbord of prices for a hit tune like "Check on It" by Beyonce. Among the cell phone carriers, Sprint is selling the track as an over-the-air download for $2.99, Verizon is selling it for $1.99, and upstart mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Amp'd Mobile has it for 99 cents. Among iTunes' competitors, Walmart.com has it for 88 cents, and subscribers to Real Networks' Rhapsody can buy it for 79 cents. Add black-market competitors, and the pricing environment gets even more dynamic. Users of Russian sites like Allofmp3.com can download it for 10 cents. And, of course, it's also widely available across leading peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and a handful of blogs for nothing.

So what's the song actually worth? There's no set answer, economists say.

-Billboard


The reason cell-phone companies charge more is for the convenience of not needing a computer or any kind of interface to download the song- not cause a song is "worth" $2.99- what a buncha bull. I think providers of song downloads need to wise up to the fact that if it's CHEAPER to buy CDs at higher quality- and rip them to computers to use with MP3 players- people will do so. The only reason I buy anything on iTunes is the convenience. If the convenience does not equal the cost I will be HAPPY to go back to buying CDs which sound a lot better anyway.

[Tingly]

UK music fans no longer face the threat of prosecution for copying their own CDs on to PCs or MP3 players, as long as the songs are only for personal use.

Peter Jamieson, chairman of the British Phonographic Industry, said consumers would only be penalised if they made duplicates of songs for other people.

Currently anyone transferring music to portable devices breaks copyright laws.

The music industry has traditionally turned a blind eye, however, in favour of targeting "professional" pirates.

"We believe that we now need to make a clear and public distinction between copying for your own use and copying for dissemination to third parties," said Mr Jamieson, whose organisation represents the UK's record labels.

[Tingly]

Katharine McPhee, who lost out to Taylor Hicks in the top-rated Fox show's finale two weeks ago, has signed a record deal with music mogul Clive Davis in conjunction with 19 Recordings Unlimited, the label managed by "Idol" creator Simon Fuller, it was announced Tuesday.

[Tingly]

Jerry Lewis, who played "The Nutty Professor" in 1963, has a wacky new scheme: staging the film as a Broadway musical. The first show is planned for January at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, where the 80-year-old comedian has a houseboat, he said.

Lewis will direct the show, which he aims to have on Broadway by October 2008.

The show will be produced by The Michael Andrew Company. Andrew, a 41-year-old crooner and comedian who fronts The Atomic Big Band, is set to play the lead, the bucktoothed Julius Kelp, who invents a potion that transforms him into the suave Buddy Love.

-AP [Edited by Tingly]

[Tingly]

Today, CBS Radio will announce a deal to offer text messaging to listeners, a new service that it said will help stations and their advertisers reach and interact with consumers.

The 41 station deal between CBS Radio, a unit of CBS Corp., and Vibes Media, provider of the iRadio Instant Response Text Messaging Platform, marks the largest text messaging deal in broadcast radio to date, Vibes said.

Under the deal, listeners of 41 CBS Radio stations, including 25 in New York and Los Angeles, can participate in promotions and contests from anywhere via text messaging on mobile phones without getting shut out by busy signals.

In addition to customizing promotions, stations can also use the platform to inform listeners to things like upcoming artist interviews or when a major concert announcement is about to be made on the air.

-Reuters

[Tingly]

The U.S. House of Representatives began debate Tuesday on the Senate-passed version of legislation that would increase the fines broadcasters pay for airing indecent speech, with a vote expected on the legislation today.

House approval of the legislation, which is expected, would send it to President Bush for his signature.

Under the legislation, fines for indecent broadcasts would increase tenfold to $325,000 per violation.

-Reuters [Edited by Tingly]

[Tingly]

"Desperate Housewives" star Nicollette Sheridan surprised fiance Michael Bolton by doing a duet with him on his new album, "Bolton Swings Sinatra."

"I didn't think she was going to have the courage to step up to the microphone and record, and she did," Bolton told AP Radio in a recent interview.

Bolton, 53, and Sheridan, 42, dated for several years in the early 1990s but reconnected last year. Sheridan's publicist confirmed their engagement in March.

The couple sings the classic love song "The Second Time Around" on Bolton's album, which was released last month.

[Tingly]

In 1965 -- the year of "Satisfaction" -- the Rolling Stones were finally starting to make some rock-star money. The members of the group purchased houses, cars and started investing in their individual passions.

Bill Wyman bought a camera and a complete set of lenses.

Some of Wyman's best shots will be on display at the San Francisco Art Exchange beginning June 9, in an exhibit put together with London-based Raj Prem Fine Art Photography. Wyman says he sorted through more than 22,000 negatives, slides and Polaroids before narrowing the group down to about 150 images.

The works include candids of the Rolling Stones -- on- and offstage -- other bands and musicians, Wyman friends such as the Chagalls and landscapes taken on his travels all over the world.

-CNN.com

[Tingly]

Musical history denotes that at some point during your spangling career you are going to have some sort of rock 'n' roll accident, but then it all adds to the entertainment factor – not to mention the publicity!

Keith Richards is the last in a long list of celebrities to fall victim to the rock 'n' roll curse – and amazingly on this occasion there were no drugs involved. The legendary Rolling Stones guitarist suffered a head injury after falling out of a coconut tree while on holiday in Fiji.

Now, from one rock legend to another; Ozzy Osbourne also had a lucky escape in December 2003 when he was dramatically flung from his quad bike. The Black Sabbath singer ended up crushed under the vehicle when it flipped over during a joyride in his English country estate. His injuries were so serious that the rocker died once in the ambulance and then again in intensive care.

Another star who injured herself while enjoying outdoor pursuits was the Queen of pop herself – Madonna.

She broke her hand, collar bone and cracked three ribs after falling off a horse while out trotting on her 47th birthday in August 2005.

It's not just during leisure pursuits that these celebrities encounter the clumsy gods – the stage can also prove to be a precarious platform.

David Bowie was left temporarily blinded after an excitable fan chucked a lollipop at him during an Oslo gig in June 2004.

The British artist was forced to halt the performance and demanded the confectionary-wielding culprit come forward calling them a "coward" and a "b****d".

Ironically this incident proved an omen for the whole tour. The industry veteran was rushed to hospital, where he underwent an emergency operation on an acutely-blocked artery, after he suffered a heart attack during a set in Hamburg, Germany.

But all rockers know that wherever possible the show must go on – especially Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee.

The former Mr Pamela Anderson bravely performed one more song after he was dramatically engulfed by fire during a bizarre on-stage firework stunt in Wyoming, America.

The accident – caused by faulty pyrotechnics - occurred towards the end Motley Crue's set while Tommy was suspended by a wire 30 foot above the stage.

However, no amount of faulty equipment could have been blamed for Diddy's on-stage mishap.

The hip-hop star confessed nerves about his first acting role left him with a dodgy stomach during his Broadway debut in A Raisin In The Sun last summer.

He said: "To go out there in front of 2000 people, eight times a week, was a scary thing. One time, I actually got diarrhoea as I was on stage."

Sometimes it's hard to draw the line between 'accident' and 'publicity stunt' – the line was decidedly blurry when Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson were left blushing during their live Superbowl performance.

The Cry Me A River popstar reached across Jackson's leather gladiator outfit and pulled off the covering to her right breast revealing a silver tassel on her nipple.

On other occasions these crazy accident-prone celebrities have only them selves to blame – or was it the drink and drugs?

In 2002, Liam Gallagher lived up to his hard Mancunian image after losing two front teeth during a drunken brawl in Munich.

The Oasis frontman was fined £40,000 for the infamous fight which resulted in the band cancelling two shows, costing them a further £175,000.

-Music News Australia

So just remember kids, next time your teacher asks want you want to be when you grown up, perhaps you should pick something less dangerous than being a rock 'n' roll star – like a fireman or a shark rearer!

[Tingly]

NEW YORK - Bunny Wailer, the reggae legend who was one of the original Wailers along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, will tour for the first time with a new generation of Marleys.

Wailer will play alongside Marley's sons, Stephen and Ziggy, on the Roots, Rock, Reggae Festival, a month-long tour that opens Aug. 6 in Redway, Calif., after a year hiatus.

The 59-year-old Wailer, whose real name is Neville O'Riley Livingston, said in a phone interview from Jamaica that he considers it his "responsibility and duty" to tour with the Marley family.

-news.yahoo.com and JS Member KeithB

[roger24]

Musical history denotes that at some point during your spangling career you are going to have some sort of rock 'n' roll accident, but then it all adds to the entertainment factor – not to mention the publicity!

Keith Richards is the last in a long list of celebrities to fall victim to the rock 'n' roll curse – and amazingly on this occasion there were no drugs involved. The legendary Rolling Stones guitarist suffered a head injury after falling out of a coconut tree while on holiday in Fiji.

Now, from one rock legend to another; Ozzy Osbourne also had a lucky escape in December 2003 when he was dramatically flung from his quad bike. The Black Sabbath singer ended up crushed under the vehicle when it flipped over during a joyride in his English country estate. His injuries were so serious that the rocker died once in the ambulance and then again in intensive care.

Another star who injured herself while enjoying outdoor pursuits was the Queen of pop herself – Madonna.

She broke her hand, collar bone and cracked three ribs after falling off a horse while out trotting on her 47th birthday in August 2005.

It's not just during leisure pursuits that these celebrities encounter the clumsy gods – the stage can also prove to be a precarious platform.

David Bowie was left temporarily blinded after an excitable fan chucked a lollipop at him during an Oslo gig in June 2004.

The British artist was forced to halt the performance and demanded the confectionary-wielding culprit come forward calling them a "coward" and a "b****d".

Ironically this incident proved an omen for the whole tour. The industry veteran was rushed to hospital, where he underwent an emergency operation on an acutely-blocked artery, after he suffered a heart attack during a set in Hamburg, Germany.

But all rockers know that wherever possible the show must go on – especially Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee.

The former Mr Pamela Anderson bravely performed one more song after he was dramatically engulfed by fire during a bizarre on-stage firework stunt in Wyoming, America.

The accident – caused by faulty pyrotechnics - occurred towards the end Motley Crue's set while Tommy was suspended by a wire 30 foot above the stage.

However, no amount of faulty equipment could have been blamed for Diddy's on-stage mishap.

The hip-hop star confessed nerves about his first acting role left him with a dodgy stomach during his Broadway debut in A Raisin In The Sun last summer.

He said: "To go out there in front of 2000 people, eight times a week, was a scary thing. One time, I actually got diarrhoea as I was on stage."

Sometimes it's hard to draw the line between 'accident' and 'publicity stunt' – the line was decidedly blurry when Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson were left blushing during their live Superbowl performance.

The Cry Me A River popstar reached across Jackson's leather gladiator outfit and pulled off the covering to her right breast revealing a silver tassel on her nipple.

On other occasions these crazy accident-prone celebrities have only them selves to blame – or was it the drink and drugs?

In 2002, Liam Gallagher lived up to his hard Mancunian image after losing two front teeth during a drunken brawl in Munich.

The Oasis frontman was fined £40,000 for the infamous fight which resulted in the band cancelling two shows, costing them a further £175,000.

-Music News Australia

So just remember kids, next time your teacher asks want you want to be when you grown up, perhaps you should pick something less dangerous than being a rock 'n' roll star – like a fireman or a shark rearer!

yeah, stuff like that always seems to happen to rockers. but when you think about it, most people have had a few bad wipeouts, or spills in there lifetime.

[gavb]

2
1958 - Prince (Prince Roger Nelson) is born in Minneapolis.


No freakin' way, lol. Roger Nelson. lmao.

[Tingly]

Girls Aloud star Kimberley Walsh has released a statement apologising to fans after she was photographed smoking cannabis.

Walsh is pictured in a UK tabloid today holding a joint, prompting the "ashamed" singer to say sorry to the group's young audience.

The picture was apparently taken at a private party last New Year's Eve, with a group of friends.

In the statement, Walsh commented: "I realise what I did was wrong, especially as I'm in a position where fans look up to you. I got caught up in a moment and I'm sorry."

Meanwhile, a 'friend' of the star attempted to defend Kimberley, who is understood to be "mortified" by the leak of the photo.

-Yahoo.com

[Tingly]

Swedish company Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), Europe's largest fashion retailer, said it has signed a deal with singer Madonna, under which H&M will supply a complete off-stage wardrobe for her entire entourage.

"Partnering up with H&M feels like a perfect fit. We'll all get to express ourselves in our own individual ways," Madonna said in a statement.

H&M said that off-stage, Madonna and the team - including the band, dancers and crew members - participating in the Confessions World Tour will be free to choose clothing from H&M's 2006 collection. The tour started May 21.

On stage, Madonna will be dressed by designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, H&M said.

-Yahoo.com

[Tingly]

The full details of the final Johnny Cash "American Recordings" album have been announced.

The last official chapter in the series, which re-established Cash as a significant rock'n'roll figure, is called "American V: A Hundred Highways" and is out on July 4.

Once again produced by Rick Rubin, the LP was recorded in Cash's final months during 2003, before his death in September.

Covers of Bruce Springsteen, Gordon Lightfoot and Rod McKuen tracks all feature, as does "Like The 309", the last Cash original.

-Yahoo.com

[Tingly]

Alanis Morissette and her actor fiancé Ryan Reynolds have split up.

The Canadian singer and the 'Just Friends' star - who first met at drew Barrymore's birthday party in 2002 - have decided to call time on their relationship of almost four years.

The pair got engaged in 2004 but never set a date for their wedding, with Alanis claiming the reason was because they were "really enjoying" their engagement.

It is not yet known why the pair decided to split and representatives for both stars have so far refused to comment on the break-up.

Before the split, the 'Ironic' singer claimed the reason the pair's relationship was so successful was because they were both Canadian.

She said: "We already started off with the shorthand, so I think it's a really great base. I attempted dating many American men. I really tried!"

-BANG Media International.

[Tingly]

[This guy was SO broke, he was probably a musician - Tingly]

A man that was so deep in debt and with no means of paying it decided to hand over his wife in order to climb out of the whole with his creditors.

In order to repay his over $3,000 debt, Emil Lancu handed over his wife Daniela to 72-year-old creditor Jozef Justien Lostrie.

According to Ananova.com, Lancu said: "I had no money to pay the debt and when I told Lostrie he said he would take my wife instead.

"I was scared of what he would do and so I signed a document saying Daniela would live with him."

The wife though, seems to have no problem at all with the deal.

"Before I had to clean the house and look after our three children on my own, while Emil did nothing, but now I'm treated like a guest and hardly have to raise a finger," she says.

-All Headline News

[Tingly]

GREAT FIND CASSIDY and PUDDLEGUM66!!!

-A Special Bulletin From the Tingly News Service (c) 2006

A dance video on YouTube.com, posted to Jam Session on May 12th by member Cassidy and May 20th, by member Puddlegum66, has gone on to achieve world fame, and been viewed more than 18 million times!

Judson Laipply is a 30-year-old comedian/motivational speaker from Cleveland, made famous by his "Evolution of Dance" video clip. The funny six minute video, has Laipply doing funny, but authentic, dance moves to several music clips from the last 40 years or so.

The Associated Press reports that four years ago, Laipply began ending his appearances at schools with the dance medley, and it became a hit with his audiences.

His friends asked him to record it, so Laipply uploaded it to MySpace then YouTube.com. "Evolution of Dance" is now the site's most-viewed video.

See Cassidy's thread here:

http://guitar.zentao.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41564

See Puddlegum66's thread here:

http://guitar.zentao.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42225&highlight=evolution

Cassidy's real name is Keith Anderson. He is a 57 year old radio announcer from LaCrosse, Wisconsin who joined JS in March of 2005 and has written 1,628 posts. Being a self-described "old rock and roller" (like Tingly!) from back in the day, he has been playing guitar for 40 years(!) and owns TONS of stuff! Here's just a sampling: Gibson Les Paul Custom, Fender Stratocaster, Squier Stratocaster, Squier Telecaster, Danelectro Innuendo, Silvertone/Samick Strat copy, Cruise by VMI Short Scale Bass Guitar, Kustom KBA20 Bass Amp. Peavey Studio Pro 112 Transtube, Peavey Delta Blues w/15" Blue Marvel, Roland Cube 15, and a Washburn D10ST Acoustic. We assume he is simply filthy rich. He credits John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison with influencing him the most. He often posts in Open Mic, and recently discussed his Hi-Fi system in gavb's Hi-Fi thread of June 7.

Puddlegum66 (real name "Jay") works in television production, and lives in Detroit, Michigan. He has been a member of Jam Session since January, of 2005. As we went to press, he had 2,869 total posts. He has been playing the guitar for about four years. According to his JS profile, his influences are "Randy Rhodes, Robert Smith, SRV." He owns a Frankenstein Ibanez/Jackson guitar, a Behringer V-amp2, a Vantage 418DT, a Vox AD30VT Valvetronix amp and a 20th Anniversary Squier Strat. You can hear him playing 12 of his excellent funky tunes at his SoundClick web site at:

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=439608

[Puddlegum66]

WOOHOO!! I rule!!

[Tingly]

Yeah, that was a GREAT FIND, Jay! Thanks again! I saw the guy on the Today Show here in NY, yesterday morning, and the newscasters were laughing their asses off!

[Tingly]

The local council of Rockdale, a suburb south of Sydney, Australia, has decided to deal with juvenile delinquency by piping the music of Barry Manilow through a loudspeaker into a parking-lot troublespot.

Every Saturday night, up to 100 teenagers bring their souped-up cars to the parking lot at Cook Park Reserve at Brighton-le-Sands where "they rev their engines, compare fittings, and play their own 'doof doof' music, very loudly," reports the UK's Guardian newspaper.

The councilors hope Manilow hits such as "Mandy" and "Copacabana" will spoil the mood of young hooligans, forcing them to flee from the premises. "Based on reports ... daggy [uncool] music is one way to make the hoons leave an area because they can't stand the music," he adds.

[What the hell is "doof doof" music?!-Tingly]

-All Headline News

[Tingly]

Apparently, karaoke is seen more in Vietnam than just a recreational thing.

According to Vietnamese newspaper, Tien Phong, 21 officials from Petrovietnam's financial arm PVFC are expected to write "self criticisms" for not participating in karaoke on Saturday night.

The karaoke was part of a contract signing ceremony.

An official with the company said, "No one has been laid off yet but they have to criticize themselves for not participating in collective activities."

-All Headline News [Edited by Tingly]

[ScottRiley]

I think 'doof doof' music is dance music, the doof doof kinda sounds like the repetetive, electronic drumming you hear in every dance song, just say it over and over in your head....congratulations, you're now a DJ.

[Tingly]

Haha!! Thanks for that explanation, Scott!

[Tingly]

Bluesaholic, a Jam Session member since Septemeber of 2005, scored a big news coup, with first notice to Jam Session members of the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, by an American air strike, in Iraq Wednesday night.

Bluesaholic jumped on JS, and posted his thread, simply titled "ZARQAWI is DEAD" at 3:13 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time.

See:
http://guitar.zentao.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43690

Bluesaholic is a 36 year old guitar player with 20 years of playing experience. He is from "The Black Mountian side" and lists his occupation, in his profile, as that of a "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn." The Tingly News Service has been unable to confirm that there are any working "pipers" today, nor to determine where "the Gates of Dawn" are currently located. He usually "hangs out" in Open Mic, and Tools Of The Trade. Yesterday, in an Open Mic thread by xtcgo, he suggested "Fist!!!" to anyone looking for a band name.

[Tingly]

Pictures in today's Sun newspaper show Petra Nemcova getting saucy in the surf with singer James Blunt, after joining James and his family on holiday in Ibiza.

Ex-Army captain James, famous for hits including You’re Beautiful and Goodbye My Lover, quickly cosied up to Czech-born Petra on the beach.

And the beauty, who models sexy Victoria’s Secret underwear and was a covergirl for American magazine Sports Illustrated, just couldn’t keep her lips off him.

An onlooker said: “James looked very pleased with himself having a supermodel doting on him.

“She looked besotted. She was kissing him every few seconds and went for a very tender kiss in the water.

-The Sun and KeithB [Edited by Tingly]

[KeithB]

I found also on The Sun site; Robert Plant is going to be appearing at The Cornbury Festival - www.cornburyfestival.com - which takes place July 8/9 somewhere in England. See website for details.

[Tingly]

Axl Rose is relying on an oxygen mask to get through the current Guns N' Roses European tour, it has been claimed.

The Gunners frontman has apparently been taking air from the machine at the group's live shows, which saw them play in London earlier this week.

According to reports in the Hungarian press, Rose, 44, was forced to run off-stage after every song and use the mask at a concert there recently.

Apparently the gig was delayed by several hours because of issues with the tank. Rose was over an hour late for the band's performance at the Hammersmith Apollo on Wednesday, leaving many fans stranded at the end afterwards.

In other reports, The Sun claims this morning that an ambulance was on-standby at the London concert, in case he had any problems with his breathing.

-Yahoo.com

[Tingly]

"The Sopranos" star Michael Imperioli, who won an Emmy for his role of Christopher Moltisanti in the hit US mob drama, is to make his musical debut in Portugal with the first performance by his punk-rock band "La Dolce Vita".

The 40-year-old actor, in Portugal filming a movie, said he decided to stage the three-man band's first show at a Lisbon bar Friday instead of in his hometown New York because it was easier to find a place to take a chance on a new group.

"New York can be indecent. There the musical world is saturated, especially for someone who comes from another area like me. They can be a bit unpleasant," he told daily Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha.

Imperioli is the main vocalist and guitarist of the band, which was named after Federico Fellini's 1960 masterwork "La Dolce Vita".

He will film the last batch of episodes for the final sixth season of "The Sopranos" in July which will air in the United States in 2007.

-Yahoo.com

[Tingly]

A group of nihilists are being blamed for the desecration of a Catholic church in New York this week, on National Day of Slayer.

The day of 'celebration' to commemorate the metal overlords is understood to have inspired carnage at a seminary in Yonkers on Tuesday. [It's down the block from where I am sitting, maybe a half mile, at the most - Tingly]

Workers at St. Joseph's, who asked not to be named, were met with blasphemous scenes on arriving at work on June 7, the day after the anniversary.

The building was defiled with spray-painted pentagrams, upside-down crosses, while a statue of Jesus was daubed with pentagrams.

A series of Slayer-inspired graffiti was also left at the scene, including "Reign In Blood", the title of group's seminal 1986 album, reports MTV.

-Yahoo.com

[Tingly]

Beyonce Knowles is looking for an all-female band for her upcoming tour.

Knowles is searching for musicians to play on a tour in support of her second solo album, B'Day, Columbia Records has announced.

The album will be released internationally on September 4, her 25th birthday.

Auditions will be held in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Burbank, California and Weehawken, New Jersey.

The band will include drummers, keyboard players, bassists, guitarists, horn players and percussionists.

Finalists from local auditions must be available to travel to New York to audition for Knowles later in the week and to begin working on the road by June 20, the record label said.

-Yahoo.com

[KeithB]

This just in: Tingly has exceeded his storage space for PM's on JS!

So, I'll share this news item with you directly:

KISS Fragrances and coffeehouse(s?) are coming!!!

Yep, they're coming out with KISS fragrances. So you too can smell like a hairy guy coated in clown grease from 1979!
Here's a link to the story on yahoo! news:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/fwd/20060608/en_fashion_fwd/kiss_rocks_on_with_new_fragrance_and_coffeehouse;_ ylt=AkudfXTyXzXlmAKDf6zGTBUDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBhZDhx NDFzBHNlYwNtZW5ld3M-