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Report: Sammy Hagar says yes to John McCain using “Right Now” as theme song…

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When John McCain used the Van Halen song in the Sammy Hagar era “Right Now” for his presidential campaign on the night he announced Sarah Palin his running mate for Vice President, Eddie Van Halen himself wasn’t happy about it, saying that the presidential hopeful used the song without the band’s permission. Eddie fired back at McCain saying he had no right to use the song.

TMZ reports:

http://www.tmz.com/2008/08/29/van-halen-to-mccain-no-you-cant/

However, the man that wrote the song himself, Sammy Hagar, responded to Van Halen saying that Sammy is all cool with McCain using the song. Sammy defended the song saying that he wrote the song because “Right Now” is a political song, he says the song is basically about if you want something in life, don’t sit around and go out and get it. The song is about making changes.

“Right Now” is a hit single that was recorded for the album “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge” released back in 1991. The song became one of the biggest Van Halen hits ever made.

Blabbermouth reports:

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=103798

Kudos to Sammy, I’m glad he spoke out and stepped in before Eddie threatened lawsuit on McCain. McCain don’t need anymore lawsuits by musicians ’cause he already got one by Jackson Browne. If Sammy Hagar is the one who wrote the music and lyrics to “Right Now”, Sammy owns the copyright, that means David Lee Roth has no control over that song since David Lee Roth was no part of it.

Kev

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Cool Video: Chuck Berry rocks Jay Leno…

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From last night’s Jay Leno episode, Chuck Berry musical guest.  Chuck Berry fuckin’ rocked, and still has it at 80 years old! He even still has that walk across the stage while playing guitar well! Chuck Berry still playin’ as if it was the 50’s!!!! AWESOME! Can’t get any better than this! Chuck Berry fuckin’ rules!!!

Kev

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Thought: Will Metallica’s “Death Magnetic” silence the nay sayers?

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Ever since the band Metallica’s new direction in their sound since Load/Reload/St. Anger, people have been hating on the band ever since. Although Metallica gets a lot of haters and people bashing the band, I think the never ending negativity toward the band is getting extremely old.

I am predicting that once “Death Magnetic” is released September 12th, I think that album will finally give Metallica the respect they deserve.

I’ve heard the two new Metallica songs from the album “The Day That Never Comes” and “My Apocalypse”, and both songs are very well done. It sounds like Metallica again.

But I wouldn’t badily judge their new stuff until the whole album comes out. I think this could possibly be the band’s best album since the Black album. I just wish the haters would catch the band a break and just wait for the album to come out and then they can bash the band all they want. That’s the thing, you know, I don’t think people will bash the band anymore after the album is released because this will be the Metallica album that people have been dreaming of for a long time.

The band is releasing songs off the album early on their website because they want feedback from the public and so far the feedback of their new stuff have been really positive feedback. Definitely a big step from “St. Anger”.

Metallica will be big again like they were in the 80’s and early 90’s. “Master of Puppets” will always be the band’s best album ever made but if lucky enough “Death Magnetic” can be right behind it. The album “Death Magnetic” comes out in two weeks and I’ll be buying it for sure. I will review the album of course.

Kev

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Report: Slash on Guns N’ Roses “Chinese Democracy” leaker, “I hope he rots in jail”…

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Although Slash is no longer in the band Guns N’ Roses and never played guitar on the album “Chinese Democracy”, it seems as though Slash still has respect for Axl Rose and the new GN’R album too. The former GN’R man commented on the Chinese Democracy leaker Kevin Cogill saying that Slash hopes he rots in jail and goes on saying what Kevin did is going to hurt the music industry and the new album’s sales.

Kevin Cogill was arrested for leaking 9 tracks from “Chinese Democracy” to his blog and quickly spreaded across the internet. He was arrested by the FBI.

More on it here:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-music29-2008aug29,0,729953.story?page=1

If you all look on the back of major label albums, there is an FBI Anti-Piracy warning on the back of each one. Piracy is illegal. The FBI has the right to arrest those for piracy or fine them which ever one is necessary.

So you may ask, why does the kid have to be arrested and not get sued by the RIAA, getting sued is better than being arrested? The truth is, it is not the RIAA’s responsibility to sue those who leak new albums early. All the RIAA does is sue those who illegally download music from online software, that’s all they do.

Leaking music early before an album is released without the band/artists permission is a federal law. Axl Rose owns the copyrights to those songs. If you own your own music and if someone steals it, you have the right to force legal action.

Axl Rose is doing the right thing here. I’m on his side on this. I hope the leaker rots in jail too and I hope the FBI punishes him pretty fucking hard. Stealing music from a band/artist is never a cool thing to do.

I copyright all of my own songs and if someone steals my music, I would pretty much do the same thing. Force legal action on the pirate.

Kev

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Report: Slash on Guns N’ Roses “Chinese Democracy” leaker, “I hope he rots in jail”…

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Although Slash is no longer in the band Guns N’ Roses and never played guitar on the album “Chinese Democracy”, it seems as though Slash still has respect for Axl Rose and the new GN’R album too. The former GN’R man commented on the Chinese Democracy leaker Kevin Cogill saying that Slash hopes he rots in jail and goes on saying what Kevin did is going to hurt the music industry and the new album’s sales.

Kevin Cogill was arrested for leaking 9 tracks from “Chinese Democracy” to his blog and quickly spreaded across the internet. He was arrested by the FBI.

More on it here:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-music29-2008aug29,0,729953.story?page=1

If you all look on the back of major label albums, there is an FBI Anti-Piracy warning on the back of each one. Piracy is illegal. The FBI has the right to arrest those for piracy or fine them which ever one is necessary.

So you may ask, why does the kid have to be arrested and not get sued by the RIAA, getting sued is better than being arrested? The truth is, it is not the RIAA’s responsibility to sue those who leak new albums early. All the RIAA does is sue those who illegally download music from online software, that’s all they do.

Leaking music early before an album is released without the band/artists permission is a federal law. Axl Rose owns the copyrights to those songs. If you own your own music and if someone steals it, you have the right to force legal action.

Axl Rose is doing the right thing here. I’m on his side on this. I hope the leaker rots in jail too and I hope the FBI punishes him pretty fucking hard. Stealing music from a band/artist is never a cool thing to do.

I copyright all of my own songs and if someone steals my music, I would pretty much do the same thing. Force legal action on the pirate.

Kev

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Report: Lars Ulrich interview…Metallica drummer speaks on cocaine use, Dave Mustaine, negative fan reviews on “St. Anger”, and more…

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There is an interesting interview with Lars Ulrich at The Quietus website where Lars talks about a variety of topics. He speaks how Noel Gallagher from Oasis inspired Lars to get off cocaine.

He is still talking about Dave Mustaine of Megadeth to the media when Dave was fired from Metallica 24 years ago. Lars says that he and the rest of Metallica aren’t friends with Dave, Lars says he won’t telll Dave to back off and move on because he isn’t that kind of guy, Lars still has respect for Dave as a person and as a musician. Lars respects Dave’s work with Megadeth as Lars is a fan of Megadeth as well. Lars says that he is flattered that Dave Mustaine still loves Metallica to this day. Although they respect each other musically, they never got along personally.

More on it here:

http://www.thequietus.com/articles/metallicas-lars-ulrich-on-cocaine-oasis-megadeth-and-that-quietus-incident

I’ve always thought Megadeth was much better than Metallica anyways.

Will Dave and Metallica ever bury the hatchet and become friends in the future? It could be possible but I doubt it will ever happen. I’d love to one day see Metallica and Megadeth tour together but I don’t ever see Dave asking Metallica to play for Gigantour. They once shared the stage for Woodstock ’99 and that’s probably the only time you’ll see them share the stage.

I don’t think they should move on and stop thinking about the past. Mustaine is just trying to get answers on why Metallica kicked him out, and Metallica continues to refuse to admit the truth to the public. It’s no wonder Dave is still bothering Metallica because the band continues to act like assholes to him.

Kev

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The Listening Room: Hear the new Ac/Dc song “Rock N’ Roll Train” NOW!!

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After 8 years of hearing no new music by Ac/Dc, the wait is finally over!!! 🙂

Here is the new Ac/Dc song “Rock N’ Roll Train”, the official song by the band themselves.

My thoughts?

It’s a typical 3 three chord and three or four minute pop song but it’s still a great tune though, I’m digging it. It’s definitely 10 x’s much better than “You Shook Me All Night Long”. Looking forward to hearing the rest of the album.

Kev

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Report: Ac/Dc’s “Rock N’ Roll Train” single to premiere online tonight at midnight…

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Although the new Ac/Dc single “Rock N’ Roll Train” debuts radio airwaves tomorrow, the song will make it’s world premiere tonight at midnight. So for you Ac/Dc fans dying to hear the new song and can’t wait to hear it, be sure to hop on over to iHeartMusic.com where the song will be exclusively uploaded for the world to hear early.

Blabbermouth reports:

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=103609

I don’t know if I’ll be able to stay up ’til midnight tonight since I just got home from vacation, but I’ll try. If not, I’ll definitely hear it tomorrow.

Looking forward to hearing it.

I’m happy that Ac/Dc is finally back!

Kev

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Report: Jimmy Page and Leona Lewis to perform Led Zepp’s “Whole Lotta Love” at Olympics closing ceremony…

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Bassist Guy Pratt confirmed that Jimmy Page and pop star Leona Lewis will be performing Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” at the Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremony Aug. 24th.

Jimmy Page have been known to do many collaborations with different music artists over the years, him performing with Leona Lewis will be his latest collaboration. Who knows, it may look like that Jimmy and Leona may do more work together in the future.

More on it here:

http://www.gigwise.com/news/45528/jimmy-page-and-leona-lewis-to-play-led-zeppelin-classic-at-olympics

I’ll definitely try to watch this while I’m in San Diego.

I’m leaving at 2:30 this afternoon to head to the Albany airport. It’ll be a 6 hour flight so I’ll arrive in San Diego at around 10:30 or 11:00 tonight. I’m bringing books to read and my PSP Sony handheld game system to keep me busy on the long plane ride. Plus, I’m sure the plane will show a movie on there, who knows what movie it will be, it wouldn’t surprise me if the movie is “The Dark Knight”, if it is, I wouldn’t mind seeing it again for the third time. I’ll post a goodbye post before I leave to the airport today.

Kev