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Report: Dr. Pepper still sticking to their word about our FREE soda as the company promised!!!

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Not too long ago, Dr. Pepper begged and begged Guns N’ Roses to release “Chinese Democracy”. A week later, Axl responded to the Dr. Pepper offer, saying that he is flattered as hell that Dr. Pepper supports the band and the long awaited album. Dr. Pepper desperately wanted Guns N’ Roses to release the album this year. The company is sticking to their word that now that the Guns N’ Roses “Chinese Democracy” release is real, every person in America gets a free Dr. Pepper.

The company explained before that this isn’t a ploy to help promote Dr. Pepper, they really wanted the band to release the long lost album.

On the release date, Nov. 23rd, to get your free can, go to the Dr. Pepper website where you can enter in your information and then they will send you the coupon so you can get a free can of Dr. Pepper anywhere the drink is sold in the USA.

Billboard reports:

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003877349

How much do you want to bet that if Dr. Pepper didn’t offer Guns N’ Roses this, then the “Chinese Democracy” release would have been even longer to wait?

Axl just had to jump on this opportunity ’cause he knew this would help promote the album, big time.

You think “Chinese Democracy” will bomb in record sales? Hell NO. Not a fucking chance. With Dr. Pepper helping out to promote the album. It has a possibility of being the biggest album in years. It will definitely sell a lot more copies than Metallica’s “Death Magnetic” that’s for sure.

I see “Chinese Democracy” being no. 1 on the Billboard  200 for at least several weeks or a whole friggin’ year.

Kev

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BREAKING NEWS: Guns N’ Roses confirm “Chinese Democracy” is real….

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Right here:

http://web.gunsnroses.com/splash.jsp

They closed down their website with just that front page. So look like they are designing a new website for the “Chinese Democracy” release. You can also hear the album’s title track song in it’s entirey and in profesional sound quality.

I guess Axl wanted the media to confirm “Chinese Democracy” first before the band does so they can let the public know it’s official and real.

Hopefully we will see the album on the Best Buy shelves on Nov. 23rd like they promised. If the release date ever gets pushed back again before that release date, I’m all done with Gn’r completely.

I still won’t believe this until I see the album on the shelves with my own eyes.

Kev

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The Listening Room: New Guns N’ Roses single “Chinese Democracy”…HEAR IT NOW!!! IT ROCKS!!!

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The new Guns N’ Roses single “Chinese Democracy” the album’s title track is online for a free listen.

You can listen to it here:

http://www.q1043.com/pages/news/gunsnroses/

Like I said, just because the band Gn’r doesn’t have it’s original members doesn’t mean the new album will suck.

The new song sounds fucking great. I love it.

Although I’ll admit that this new song sounds like other bands such as Buck Cherry, Stone Temple Pilots, the Foo Fighters, etc. The new Gn’R is good. I dig the vocals, the guitar playing, the solos in the song are especially awesome. An energetic tune.

We can listen to the song better without the advertising audios being played during it though.

Kev

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Report: New Guns N’ Roses single from “Chinese Democracy” album hits airwaves tomorrow on radio…

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Look like “Chinese Democracy” album is becoming a reality finally. The first single off the new Guns N’ Roses album will be released tomorrow. The article here doesn’t say what song they are releasing though. Tune in and find out what song it is tomorrow.

Billboard reports:

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003876113

How much do you want to bet that it’s either “Shackler’s Revenge” or “Madagascar”?

It’ll probably be “Shackler’s Revenge” to help plug in Rock Band 2.

Kev

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Cool Video: Casey Desmond puts up unique video with a song titled “Tilt Me Back”…

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I once said I was going to start promoting unsigned and indie musicians who post videos in youtube into the blog, and here is the first one.

Casey Desmond a musician from Boston, Mass. just uploaded a video titled “Tilt Me Back”, a music video that looks to be high budget production. The video has people wearing strange costumes and lots of weird things going on in this video. The song itself is very nice and good work itself. I dig the melody of the tune and the way the vocals are sung.

I predict this video will get a lot of hits very quickly. This immediately became one of my favorite music videos by an indie musician in youtube. Enjoy this. It’s a way cool music video, I enjoy the unique style in this.

Kev

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Report: Big and Rich vs. Danzig match at a hotel…

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Lead singer of the country/rock band Big and Rich, John Rich got into a fight with former Danzig/Hell Yeah bassist Jerry Montano at a hotel in West Hollywood, California.

See the reports at TMZ here:

http://www.tmz.com/2008/10/17/cops-big-and-rich-singer-in-hotel-smackdown/

And here:

http://www.tmz.com/2008/10/17/john-richs-attack-this-buds-for-you/

And here:

http://www.tmz.com/2008/10/17/schlitz-happens/

And another one here:

http://www.tmz.com/2008/10/17/john-rich-2-fights-in-2-days/

Here’s how I think the fight went down:

Jerry Montano is just hanging around the Hotel and he saw John Rich walking by.

Jerry: “Dude, are you that singer from that country band, Big & Rich?”

Rich: “Yep, and who are you?”

Jerry: “Why I’m Jerry Montano, I used to play for Danzig years back. Remember the song ‘Mother’?”

Rich: “No, my band wasn’t around back in those days to even know what kind of music that is. I’m a country musician, now if you excuse me, I gotta go.”

Jerry: “Wait wait wait, I just wanted to tell you how much I love your band and wondering if you would like to jam with me sometime.”

Rich: “Sorry, but country and metal doesn’t fit”.

Jerry: “I may be a metal musician but I like country, some of it…”

Rich: “I don’t jam with tattoo’ed long haired punks like yourself. I only jam with cowboys who play tunes for country line dancers”.

Jerry: “I ain’t letting you go until I get my opportunity to jam on my bass with you…”

Rich: “Get the hell outta my way, asshole…”

Kev

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Report: Facebook plans on going music digital but it maybe different than myspace music…

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With myspace music launching not too long ago, the other popular networking site Facebook is planning a similar thing but it will be different. The announcement was made by the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg himself. They plan to team up with other song streaming music websites such as imeem.com, rhapsody, ilike, and Lala.

Although this plan is not “definite”, they could also turn down the plan if this doesn’t work out.

More on it here:

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE49G2EJ20081017

This sounds much better than myspace music, I hope it happens.

Kev

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Report: Jimmy Page does not want a star on the Hollywood “Walk of Fame”…

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A die hard Led Zeppelin fan Rocky Dickerson started a campaign where rock guitar legend Jimmy Page could get nominated in getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Rocky Dickerson started the campaign when coming back home in California after attending the Led Zeppelin reunion concert at the O2 last year. When Jimmy Page finally heard this guy is doing a campaign to get a star, Jimmy Page responded and said he does not want his own star, and says Dickerson shouldn’t bother with it.

More on it here:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/1/20081017/ten-page-says-no-to-walk-of-fame-star-ca-c60bd6d.html

Good for Pagey. The man is serious about guitar playing and music, he only wants to concentrate on that.

This makes it pretty clear that Jimmy Page just wants to play music, not worrying about fame.

Kev

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Report: Guns N’ Roses “Chinese Democracy” track listing and CD cover art revealed on BestBuy.com!!!

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The Best Buy website revealed the official cover art for Guns N’ Roses new long awaited album “Chinese Democracy” and also revealed the track listing.

See it here:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9111016&st=chinese+democracy&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1925065

Look like this release date is set in stone. I’m still not believing it until I see this album on the shelves that day it’s released.

Kev

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CD Review: Ac/Dc “Black Ice”…

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Just finished listening to Ac/Dc’s “Black Ice” the entire album from the link below the post here. My thoughts.

I really enjoyed it. It’s quite a good album. Nothing amazing or nothing mind blowing, but exceptionally good. It’s just typical Ac/Dc. Same sound, same style. The usual great guitar playing by Angus and Malcolm. “Black Ice” is no return to “Back In Black” or “The Razor’s Edge”, “Black Ice” is more aiming toward the Bon Scott era. “Black Ice” has the classic Ac/Dc sound back. I would like to give vocal credit to Brian Johnson.

During the bands long 8 year hiatus, Brian Johnson must be working hard on his vocals. He has improved. He is not just a screamer on this new album, he actually “sings”. There are songs where Brian sings in a deep voice, to regular singing, to high pitch screaming. The earlier Ac/Dc albums, you hear Brian screaming pretty much throughout the entire song, but not with this album. He actually “sings” which is good.

I wish the album could be a little better but other than that, I’m happy to see the band back after all these years!

My favorite tracks: “Rock N’ Roll Train”, “Big Jack”, “Stormy May Day”, “Decibel”, “Money Made” and the title track “Black Ice”.

Score for Ac/Dc’s “Black Ice” = *** (3 stars as in good)

Kev