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Report: Axl Rose planning on suing Guitar Hero franchise…accusing video game of using Guns N’ Roses songs without his permission…

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Axl Rose has threatened legal action against Dr. Pepper, and now he’s threatening legal action against the Guitar Hero franchise. What is he mad about at Guitar Hero? Axl claims that the game used “Sweet Child” and “Welcome to the Jungle” songs without his permission.

He says he’s okay and all good with Slash being involved with the game, Slash has been featured in the game “Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock”, but Axl is not okay with the franchise using his songs without asking him.

More on it here:

http://www.nme.com/news/guns-n-roses/41729#comments

Remember, the copyright laws people. Don’t hate the musicians ’cause they want to sue over their music. It’s their music. If you own the copyright to something, you have the right to sue as you please. It’s all about protecting the artists work.

Axl is being protective over his music when it comes to Dr. Pepper, the Kevin Cogill “Democracy” blog leaker, and now Guitar Hero. Axl has every right to be doing what he wants to be doing. You may hate these musicians for threatening legal action, but hey, it’s their right, they have the right to do that.

I mean, if all this was happening to my songs and if people were stealing ’em and using ’em without my permission, I would threaten legal action too.

Kev

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Report: David Coverdale thinks Led Zep should record new album with guest vocalists…

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David Coverdale, who once sang for Jimmy Page on the “Coverdale/Page” album, says that Jimmy Page should back off on the Led Zeppelin tour with a new singer and just make a new album with different special guests singers instead. Coverdale used Santana’s “Supernatural” as an example.

More on it here:

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=111033

I am not afraid to say that I actually like David’s idea. Jimmy Page has already done something like this before. He’s done it with his solo album “Outrider” released back in 1988, Pagey’s only solo album had different guest singers. Mostly singers we don’t even know about like John Miles, Leon Russell, Chris Farlowe, and of course Robert Plant sang a song on “Outrider”. “Outrider” was also the first time that Jason Bonham played drums on an album with Jimmy Page, so that O2 reunion wasn’t the first time Pagey and Plant played with Jason.

Jimmy Page doing another album with his new band with different guest singers is a good idea. I can see all kinds of today’s rock singers singing for Pagey’s new Led Zeppelin band. Singers like Chris Cornell, Eddie Vedder, Dave Grohl, James Hetfield, David Bowie, David Coverdale, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Scott Weiland, etc.

Although I don’t see this happening anytime soon.

Kev

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Report: Axl Rose discusses “Guns N’ Roses” band name through another message board chat…

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Axl Rose just love doing them online chats. He did another one discussing mostly about why he continues to use the Guns N’ Roses band name. And he also gave out his thoughts on when people say that “Chinese Democracy” is an Axl Rose solo album, of course, he says it’s a Guns album, not an Axl album.

Axl continues to use the Gn’R name like I’ve been saying for a long time. Axl owns the band name, he owns the rights to Guns N’ Roses. If you own the copyrights to something, you have complete control of it. Remember, “Axl Rose is Guns N’ Roses”. If Axl one day decided to quit music altogether, that means no Guns N’ Roses. Period.

Read this interesting interview here, it’s pretty long beware:

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=110830

Kev

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Confirmed: Metallica will release their own Guitar Hero game…

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The boys in Metallica finally confirmed the rumours that they will indeed get their own Guitar Hero game. Where Guitar Hero fans would get the opportunity to play nothing but Metallica songs.

In the game, will have 28 Metallica songs, and the band also picked their favorite songs from other bands they played shows with such as Alice In Chains, the Foo Fighters, Slayer, Machine Head, and Queen.

I’m pretty sure in the game they will let you either choose which band member you’d like to play as, maybe either Kirk and James. Maybe even Lars and Rob. You can either play single player or the band career mode. In the band career mode, you’ll get to play on the stages of some of Metallica’s most famous venues where they played at in the past.

Keep an eye on the band’s website as they’ll give you the updates on the tracklisting’s for the game:

http://www.metallica.com/index.asp?item=601719

Songs that I think that’ll definitely be on there, this is NOT the official listing, this is just “speculation” of what I think will be on there…:

“Battery”, “Master of Puppets”, “The Thing That Should Not Be”, “Enter Sandman”, “Sad But True”, “The Unforgiven I”, “Where ever I May Roam”, “Nothing Else Matters”, “The Day That Never Comes”, “Cyanide”, “The Judas Kiss”, “All Nightmare Long”, “Whiplash”, “Seek and Destroy”, “Fight Fire With Fire”, “For Whom The Bell Tolls”, “Creeping Death”, “The Call of Ktulu”, “Fade to Black”, “One”, “King Nothing”, “Until It Sleeps”, “Hero of the Day”, “Fuel”, “The Memory Remains”, “Some Kind of Monster”, “St. Anger”, Bob Seger cover of “Turn the Page”.

I think they’re definitely going to do their most popular songs from every album and that list above fits. Although, it would be nice if Metallica will throw some obscure songs that aren’t played on the radio though. I’m sure they will. We’ll wait and see.

I’m definitely looking forward to this and I will buy it when it comes out in 2009 since I’m a huge Metallica fan.

Kev

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Report: Jennifer Hudson NOT going back to work…

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Reported not too long ago, Jennifer Hudson, announced she is going back to work on a music video to one of her songs. It turns out, it isn’t true and it’s just speculation. Her reps say that she has talked about going back to work, to finish what she started, but she realizes, she isn’t ready and it’s too soon. From the looks of things, she is still too heartbroken and emotional with the deaths of her closest family members.

More on it here:

http://www.usmagazine.com/news/jennifer-hudson-cancels-video-shoot

Sadly, I don’t see her going back to work on music and filming movies anytime soon. It’s going to be a long while. It could take a year or more. If you lose more than one of your closest family members in your life, it’ll take a long time to get over. In fact, I don’t see how anybody can get over this at all.

It’ll be tough for Jennifer to decide when she’ll go back to work. Question is, will  Jennifer be able to pick up her Grammy award if she wins one? Those are things to think about. I don’t see Jennifer going back to her career for a long time.

I think she’ll be ready to come back to work once the killer of her family members is found and put away behind bars for life. Even if the killer isn’t William Balfour, the real killer could possibly still be out in the running and the killer could be after Jennifer too.

This is why it isn’t a good idea at all for Jennifer to go back to work this soon for her own protection and safety.

Kev

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Report: Axl Rose does “Q&A Session” with fans at fan site message boards…

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Axl Rose has always been the type of guy to avoid interviews with the press like with TV, newspapers, magazines, etc. Axl was nice enough to accept the opportunity by regular fans like us to answer fan questions through the most popular Guns N’ Roses fan sites on the web. This is a no holds barred “Fan Q&A” where Axl just speaks whatever he wants with honesty.

It’s a great interview, I enjoyed the read. He speaks on a lot of topics. I finally got my copy of “Chinese Democracy”. It’s a killer album. Axl’s a fine songwriter.

Enjoy:
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=110709

Kev

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Report: Axl Rose does “Q&A Session” with fans at fan site message boards…

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Axl Rose has always been the type of guy to avoid interviews with the press like with TV, newspapers, magazines, etc. Axl was nice enough to accept the opportunity by regular fans like us to answer fan questions through the most popular Guns N’ Roses fan sites on the web. This is a no holds barred “Fan Q&A” where Axl just speaks whatever he wants with honesty.

It’s a great interview, I enjoyed the read. He speaks on a lot of topics. I finally got my copy of “Chinese Democracy”. It’s a killer album. Axl’s a fine songwriter.

Enjoy:
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=110709

Kev

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Coldplay Vs. Joe Satriani: The two songs don’t sound the same at all to me, what the hell kind of fantasy world you all living in?

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All week, I’ve been listening to the two songs…Joe Satriani “If I Could Fly” guitar instrumental and Coldplay’s hit “Viva La Vida” to compare the songs, to see if they sound exactly the same that so many people claim out there.

They don’t sound the same at all. To me, they are completely different songs. The chord progressions are totally different, and both songs are not in the same key. If you know music, Coldplay’ s “Viva La Vida”, I believe is in the key of C#Db. And Satch’s “If I Could Fly” is definitely in the key of F#, so the tone in Satch’s song is a much higher key than Coldplay’s song.

If you hum or sing along to the melody of Joe’s song and Coldplay’s song both, you would see right away that Joe’s guitar leads are much different than Chris Martin’s vocal lines. Sure, there are similarities some but Chris Martin did NOT copy every little thing in Joe’s song. The chorus of Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” is kind of similar to Joe’s guitar lead but if you listen carefully and hum along to it, note by note, you would notice that both songs are going in different places.

I still feel that Chris and the guys in Coldplay are innocent, and I feel the jury will ask the judge for a dismissal. If Joe’s planning on having a jury in court, then lets hope the court will have profesional musicians in the jury and they’ll immediately know if they are the same or different.

Read between the lines, Joe Satriani attacked Coldplay for publicity. The only reason so many people are agreeing that Coldplay ripped off Joe is because Coldplay is a big easy target in the music industry. So they all stand by Joe’s side.

I love Joe as a musician and guitarist too, he’s a hero of mine and Satch is an inspiration, but that still don’t mean I have to stand by his side. I don’t agree with Satch’s lawsuit on this. It’s pretty stupid and lame, will get Joe nowhere. For many years in Joe Satriani’s career since back in the 80’s, he’s been a great guy until now.

He’s never been the sue happy musician, he’s always been nice and down to earth, I don’t think he’s had an ego problem until today. Joe’s the one who brought Kirk Hammett into the music industry ’cause Joe taught Kirk how to play guitar. Joe Satriani taught many other famous musicians to play guitar too. Joe’s going to lose this thing. End of story.

Kev

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Report: Pearl Jam “Ten” reissue being released March 24th…

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Pearl Jam announced the band will release four different re-issue editions of their very first album “Ten”. The 4 reissues will of course, include the original album “Ten” which will be produced by Brendan O’ Brien, and also each 4 of those editions will include 6 unreleased songs from that era. Although Brendan O’ Brien did NOT produce “Ten” originally, he will record his vision and style of sound for the new version of “Ten”. The band have been wanting O’ Brien to record his version of “Ten” for years because the boys in Pearl Jam enjoy O’ Brien’s work in the studio.

The discs will also include a free DVD of their unreleased MTV Unplugged live performance with 5.1 Surround Sound. The re-issue’s of “Ten” will also be available for vinyl LP’s, for you longtime vinyl collectors.

The 4 editions of Pearl Jam “Ten” will hit stores everywhere March 24th. This is part of celebrating the legendary album’s 20th Anniversary. In 1991, when this band named Pearl Jam first came into the music industry, the band took the music world by storm, selling millions of copies and winning lots of awards for this album. This is indeed one of the biggest albums in the history of music.

Billboard Reports:

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/pearl-jam-raids-vaults-for-ten-reissue-1003921204.story

It’s about time this album is getting a re-issue!!! I’ve been waiting for this to happen. I love this album to death, it’s an important album to me, one of my top ten faves. It’s one album I can listen to over and over and never get tired of it. Pearl Jam is an incredible band, I’ve always loved them. They haven’t made one album in their career that sucked, I love all of their music so far. I’m definitely going to pick up the re-issue of “Ten” in March. Hell yeah!!!

Kev

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Report: Paula Abdul upset with “American Idol” producers… Will she leave the show and quit?

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Uh oh. Paula Abdul is pretty pissed off at the “American Idol” producers because she is blaming the death of Paula Goodspeed, her longtime stalker, on the producers of the hit TV show. She is blaming “American Idol” for feuling Goodspeed’s obsession with Abdul which led her to her suicide in front of Abdul’s home. Abdul requested to the producers to not let Goodspeed audition for Season 5 but the producers let Goodspeed audition anyways, even though Abdul tried to explain to them she had been her stalker for years. Paula Goodspeed have been an obsessive fan of Paula Abdul since Abdul’s pop music career back in the 80’s.

Reports have been saying that Abdul have been pretty upset over Goodspeed’s death, Abdul couldn’t sleep at night because of it and she is planning on moving to a new home.

Is this a big sign that Paula Abdul could quit being a judge of the popular show and could she sue “American Idol”?

More on it here:

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/12/10/paula-abdul-criticizes-american-idol-producers-for-allowing-stalker-to-audition/

I too blame it all on “American Idol”. People think “American Idol” is full of good and talented people but honestly, the show has brought out a lot of crazy people and whackos. The auditions prove that.

I think the only reason “A.I.” let Goodspeed audition for Season 5 was just so Goodspeed can have the opportunity to get closer to Abdul face to face.

Kev