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Report: Krist Novaselic of Nirvana finally explains the bass throwing controversy at the 1992 MTV Music Video Awards on his blog after all these years!!!

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Krist Novaselic, the former bass player of Nirvana looks back at the Nirvana performance taken place at the 1992 MTV Music Video Awards. He finally explains the secrets behind that performance 16 years later.

He says, while Nirvana was waiting backstage for their performance that night, Krist explains that Axl Rose was being a dick to Kurt and Courtney, when Courtney tried to praise Axl for Guns N’ Roses by saying “Axl, you’re the godfather”, Axl ignored them and walked off like if he didn’t care if Kurt and Courtney were fans of Gn’r.

When it was time for Nirvana to finally hit the stage, Kurt badily wanted to play “Rape Me” off the “In Utero” album. The MTV officials weren’t liking the idea and wouldn’t let the band play the song, so the band decided to play “Lithium” instead. Remember that performance when Kurt started playing chords to “Rape Me”, then they kicked off to “Lithium”? Many people assumed that was a mistake. That’s the trick, it wasn’t a mistake, it was a prank played by the band. A little joke.

Krist then explains, the reason Krist threw the bass in the air was not because it would be cool for the performance. He did it because he was angry and frustrated that he couldn’t hear his bass while playing the song. When the bass came down and landed on his head, he was actually faking it and pretended to be knocked out when he landed on the floor. Krist was fine when it happened although he did have a little blood coming down his forehead.

Read the rest of this interesting story here:

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2008/11/what_really_happened_at_the_19.php

I miss the old days of the classic MTV Video Awards during the 90’s. That’s when the MTV Video Awards were really good back in those days. Today’s MTV Video Awards are obviously crap. It’s good to see Krist open up more about the Nirvana past. I enjoy hearing old Nirvana stories from Krist and Dave Grohl.

Kurt Cobain would be proud for Dave for the Foo Fighters.

Kev

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CD Review: Guns N’ Roses “Chinese Democracy”

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Many music fans are trashing the new Guns N’ Roses album “Chinese Democracy” after the band premiering the album in their official myspace page. A lot of people are saying the album is “shit”, “we waited for 14 years for this garbage”, etc. I don’t know if the haters listened to the same record or not, but I thought the album was extremely impressive. I think the 14 years was worth the wait, indeed. Sure, the album does not have the original lineup with Slash, Duff McKagan, etc. but who cares? I personally think the new band defines what Guns N’ Roses is supposed to be.

The songs on the new album, are incredibly tight, Axl sings with a lot of “emotion” and the songs have that intense “in your face” power. There is electronica added to the mix, which what makes the new songs sound different. Axl wanted a different style of Guns N’ Roses. The new Guns N’ Roses sound, not the old sound. It is not the 80’s anymore and the band is evolving with a new sound. Axl’s vocals still hasn’t changed a bit, he still sings like he did back in the earlier days and Axl is still bringing in slow piano ballads as he has always done in the earlier Guns N’ Roses records.

The guitar solos of Bumblefoot is sick and totally knocks me out, I never heard the guy before, and the guy is just amazing. I love the guitar solos on the disc. While I love the entire album, the songs that floored me are: “If the World”, “Catcher In the Rye”, “Madagascar”, “Better”, “Sorry” and “This I Love”.

To those negative people out there trashing the album, you can’t just give the album one quick listen. Just carefully listen to it, and you would see that Axl worked hard on these songs over the years, you would see how amazing they are. It’s a beautiful album. I loved it. Definitely one of the best albums of 2008 and I’ll definitely get my own copy of the album soon. I won’t buy it right away though, ’cause I can’t buy anymore things for myself since the Holidays is just around the corner. I just wrote this album on my Christmas wishlist as a gift from family members so hopefully I’ll get this album under the tree.

I don’t see how anybody could hate this fantastic record. Chinese Democracy definitely adds to the list of Best albums of 2008. The reason Axl took this long because he wanted to take his time with the songs to make it a real good one and I can’t blame him. He wants to make a great record and in order to make a great record with great songs, you must take your time with them.

Score for Guns N’ Roses “Chinese Democracy” = **** (4 stars as in excellent)

Kev

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Report: John McCain fights back at Jackson Browne, feud over “Running On Empty” song heats up!!!

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The McCain camp is fighting back at Jackson Browne in defense of McCain’s use of Browne’s hit song “Running on Empty” during the Elections. If you read the court documents TMZ posted, the McCain camp is begging for a lawsuit dissmisal and they defend their use of the song.

They claim that Browne failed to prove how this is infriging his copyright to the song without use of permission and they also prove in the response that McCain had every right to use the song whenever he wanted. They also blame Browne for attacking McCain with this just so Browne can promote his new album. They say that using iconic songs for public use is not copyright infrigement.

TMZ reports:

http://www.tmz.com/2008/11/19/mccain-jackson-browne-used-me/

I’ve said it once before and will say it again, you don’t want to mess with John McCain.

Kev

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Report: John McCain fights back at Jackson Browne, feud over “Running On Empty” song heats up!!!

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The McCain camp is fighting back at Jackson Browne in defense of McCain’s use of Browne’s hit song “Running on Empty” during the Elections. If you read the court documents TMZ posted, the McCain camp is begging for a lawsuit dissmisal and they defend their use of the song.

They claim that Browne failed to prove how this is infriging his copyright to the song without use of permission and they also prove in the response that McCain had every right to use the song whenever he wanted. They also blame Browne for attacking McCain with this just so Browne can promote his new album. They say that using iconic songs for public use is not copyright infrigement.

TMZ reports:

http://www.tmz.com/2008/11/19/mccain-jackson-browne-used-me/

I’ve said it once before and will say it again, you don’t want to mess with John McCain.

Kev

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Report: This Thursday, Paul McCartney and Guns N’ Roses will launch their new albums on their myspace pages!!!

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Don’t want to wait ’til Nov. 23rd to pick up Guns N’ Roses new album “Chinese Democracy”? Don’t worry!!! Myspace confirmed they will post the full album in it’s entirety in the Guns N’ Roses official myspace page. You’ll be able to stream the album but not download.

Paul McCartney will also do the same with his new album “Electric Arguments” played by his band the Fireman. These two albums will be on myspace tomorrow on Thursday.

More on it here:

http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE4AJ08G20081120

I’ll especially give the new Guns N’ Roses a listen tomorrow on myspace. I’ll listen to the Sir Paul one too of course, but I’m more interested in hearing the new Gn’r album. I had planned on buying the “Chinese Democracy” album and I want to listen to the whole thing first in case I want to change my mind.

Kev

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Report: Coldplay to call it quits in 2009?

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Chris Martin of Coldplay revealed that he may break up his band Coldplay and call it quits in the music business. He’s only 31, and he claims he’s getting too old for music.

More on it here:

http://www.nme.com/news/coldplay/41153

Come on, Chris! You’re never too old to rock! Look at Neil Young and Springsteen!

I really don’t think age has anything to do with this, I think he just wants to spend more time with his family. He must love being married to famous actress Gwyneth Paltrow.

Kev

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Report: Guitar World picks their top 20 hottest female guitarists…

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Guitar World magazine picked their top 20 hottest female guitarists. Be aware, that the whole point of this top list is that they are judging by the looks, they are not judging by the musical talent of the female guitarist herself, just her hot looks.

Check out the list here:

http://www.guitarworld.com/top_20_hottest_female_guitarists

Not a bad list, but they should take off Courtney Love. She’s not even hot or cute looking at all.

I can’t believe they left off Sheryl Crow!!! She’s an important guitarist in the industry who has it all, the sexy looks, the talent, all of it. Shame on Guitar World for leaving her out! BOO!!

Kev

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Cool Video: “True to You” new original song…

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So I’m back to writing songs again. Time to write a new batch of songs again for the year 2009. I want to play different songs at my shows next time around.

Wrote a new original song titled “True to You”, and am quite of proud of it. I gave it a country rock feel. Lyrics coming in the video soon. This songs a short one, it’s not one of them 7-10 minute ones.

Enjoy.

Kev

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Thought: Now that Mitch Mitchell is gone, will his Experience Hendrix tour live on?

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Now that all three members of the Jimi Hendrix Experience are gone will Mitch Mitchell’s tour with the Experience Hendrix go on without him? The Experience Hendrix tour like I said, it’s a tour where many different special guest musicians play various instruments to tribute the music of Jimi Hendrix. The tours over the years had many different guitarists from Jonny Lang to Kenny Wayne Shepherd to Brad Whitford and the list goes on.

I wonder if the Experience Hendrix tour will live on without Jimi, Noel, and Mitch. I personally think the “Experience Hendrix” tour will be going on forever nonstop. The Experience Hendrix will tour every year special guesting many different musicians. It’s a good way to keep the Hendrix legacy alive and strong so of course they’ll keep the tours going.

I’m a huge Jimi Hendrix addict myself. He’s one of my musical heroes, I’ll never get tired of listening to his music. He’s one of the main guys that made me want to pick up the guitar in the first place.

Kev

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Report: Jimmy Page says new band will NOT tour under the name of Led Zeppelin…

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Jimmy Page has been pretty quiet about the rumours of Led Zeppelin touring without Robert Plant. The man finally speaks out after all this time, with Pagey sayin’ that Led Zeppelin will not tour under the name of Led Zeppelin with no Robert Plant. One of Pagey’s spokespersons sent out a statement to Rollingstone saying, “Whatever this is, it is not LED ZEPPELIN. Not without the involvement of Robert Plant.” Still not revealing on who the new singer will be. This means that Pagey, Jonesy, Bonham and who ever the new singer will be will tour under a different band name. Not under the Led Zeppelin name.

I’m sure they’ll still play Led Zeppelin songs and the bands new material but not under the name of Led Zeppelin.

Blabbermouth reports:

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=108836

Look like they are getting close to announcing the new singer. I am predicting they will announce the new singer and new band name sometime before the Holidays around Christmas time.

I’m all for this new band, I’m looking forward to hearing what new songs Pagey has up in his sleeve.

What’s hilarious about this whole thing is, that everybody thought Led Zeppelin really were going to tour under the name Led Zeppelin without Robert Plant when I know that is something Pagey wouldn’t do. He isn’t that stupid, you think? And they all call themselves Led Zeppelin fans, LOL! I always knew that Pagey wouldn’t go under the Led Zeppelin name without Robert Plant and I’ve been saying it in the blog for a very long time. Pagey knows Plant is Led Zep, he ain’t dumb.

Kev