The cover art for "Guitar Hero: Metallica" has been released . . . and hopefully it isn't the FINAL draft. Why? In their rundown of all the additional bands appearing on the game . . . they misspelled LYNYRD SKYNYRD. Anyhow... The track listing will ROWK!!! 
METALLICA tracks:
* All Nightmare Long
* Battery
* Creeping Death
* Disposable Heroes
* Dyers Eve
* Enter Sandman
* Fade To Black
* Fight Fire With Fire
* For Whom The Bell Tolls
* Frantic
* Fuel
* Hit The Lights
* King Nothing
* Master of Puppets
* Mercyful Fate (Medley)
* No Leaf Clover
* Nothing Else Matters
* One
* Orion
* Sad But True
* Seek And Destroy
* The Memory Remains
* The Shortest Straw
* The Thing That Should Not Be
* The Unforgiven
* Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
* Wherever I May Roam
* Whiplash
If you downloaded the "Death Magnetic" album for Xbox and PS3, those ten songs will play in their entirety in the full game mode. PS2 and Wii versions (coming in the spring, most likely in early May) will include "Broken Beat & Scarred", "Cyanide" and "My Apocalypse" since they are not compatible with the "Death Magnetic" downloadable content.
Other artists:
* ALICE IN CHAINS - No Excuses
* BOB SEGER - Turn The Page
* CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - Albatross
* DIAMOND HEAD - Am I Evil?
* FOO FIGHTERS - Stacked Actors
* JUDAS PRIEST - Hell Bent For Leather
* KYUSS - Demon Cleaner
* LYNYRD SKYNYRD - Tuesdays Gone
* MACHINE HEAD - Beautiful Mourning
* MASTODON - Blood And Thunder
* MERCYFUL FATE - Evil
* MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP - Armed and Ready
* MOTÖRHEAD - Ace of Spades
* QUEEN - Stone Cold Crazy
* SAMHAIN - Mother of Mercy
* SLAYER - War Ensemble
* SOCIAL DISTORTION - Mommy's Little Monster
* SUICIDAL TENDENCIES - War Inside My Head
* SYSTEM OF A DOWN - Toxicity
* THE SWORD - Black River
* THIN LIZZY - The Boys Are Back in Town
RollingStone.com got a sneak preview of Guitar Hero: Metallica, which is only the second in the popular gaming franchise to be based around a specific artist. According to RollingStone.com's report, the game's storyline was conceived by frontman James Hetfield and lets players begin as METALLICA's opening act, eventually getting to play as the members of METALLICA themselves if they can make it that far.
Jones: "We opened for METALLICA in Korea and decided to hit Hawaii on our way back to do a couple shows. Kirk was heading to Hawaii, too, but I didn't see him on our plane. After we landed, I was getting my luggage and I felt this tap on my shoulder. It was Kirk, and he said, 'Are you the guitarist in TOOL? I love your band. Would you like to come to dinner?' And I was like, 'Yeah!'"
"He lent me a long board and took me out to this spot where all the old-timers surf. I'm from California, so I've never had to paddle 30 minutes anywhere. [laughs] And you have to go out real far in Waikiki to catch the good waves. My arms were getting so tired, and I was so worried I was gonna look like a pussy!"
Guitar World: I'm wondering what, in your opinions, are the upsides and downsides to becoming a cult phenomenon?
Jones: "[laughs] I know, sorry. I think the downside is that there's a real potential to forget your roots and why you started playing in the first place. It's important to remember where your head was when you first started, because when you get successful and spoiled it's easy to forget the excitement of when you were first writing songs. And that's why his band and my band go into hidingto write songs and try to find that spot again. We do this so we don't just keep writing what we wrote last time that was successful and start sounding like a cover band of ourselves. We have to constantly go back and find ourselves."
Hammett: "I guess you can say 'Death Magnetic' is METALLICA reaching back to our cultish days, as well. I don't know if you can even call us a 'cult band' now, because we're a very popular band. Can you be a cult band and still be popular? I don't know."
Jones: "It probably depends on who you ask. I think the word 'cult' comes from an outsider's perspective. When someone on the outside looks at METALLICA, they would say they have a cult following. Because METALLICA have had years of success and have a dedicated fan base, it could almost seem like people are following them out of blind faith, but I don't think this is exactly correct. TOOL has had that too. I've heard stuff like, 'How can a band that a lot of people never heard of have gold and platinum records?' That's when they'll say, 'It's because TOOL has a weird cult following.' To me it's just a term people use to describe something they don't quite know how to explain…which is not necessarily a bad thing."
Guitar World: It also seems a cult band can become an easy target for disgruntled fans when it grows beyond being their "pet band."
Hammett: "I know that a lot of people who are cultish types are really obsessive. They really want a certain thing, or feeling, and they find this thing in a band. When the band grows biggerand maybe more personally inaccessible as a resultthese cultish people try even harder to get this thing or feeling from the band. There's a certain type of person who is obsessed with METALLICA who spends all of their time trying to get this one thing outta our music, and when they don't get it they become passionately pissed off. [laughs]"
Jones: "For me, there's nothing wrong with obsession as long as you're getting something out of it that's positive. And when your expectations are let down because you didn't like this record as much as the last record…well, you just have to be a little more forgiving, or move on."
Hammett: "'Forgiving' is totally the right word, because after all it is just music. You can live through it."
Guitar World: Speaking of mysterious subject matter, Kirk, you brought a pretty tripped-out ESP guitar with you today, which goes well with this issue's cult heroes theme.
Hammett: "More like occult heroes. [laughs] Basically, for this guitar, I gave the artist [American painter] Mark Ryden a list of topics, and I said, 'Translate these ideas into your vision and paint it onto the guitar.' There's a bee, which is symbolic of knowledge; the raven, symbolizing secret knowledge; and then the all-seeing eye, symbolic of universal knowledge. Caduceus [a symbol formed by a short staff entwined by two serpents] symbolizes the tree of life, but if you notice it also resembles a DNA strand [a double helix]. Then there's the hand from heaven, the Rosicrucian rose and my astrological sign, Scorpio, as well as assorted skulls and a yin-yang. It's full of numerology, astrology, occult and religious symbolism."
Jones: "It's an amazing-looking guitar. I love all the light sources beaming off of the female shape, and the design at the center, over the pickups, which I see as a life-and-death thing. Mark Ryden is really the icon of this current underground, up-and-coming art movement, and he's paved the way for a lot of people who have similar approaches. I've seen his paintings in person in Seattle, and he is a master at what he does. I'm glad he's now getting the recognition. And Kirk's going to play it and scratch it all up? He should just put it under glass and hang it on his wall. Or better yet, give it to me. [laughs]"
Hammett: "It's gonna see some wear and tear, but that's its purpose. Plus, Mark said he'd do touch-ups when they're needed."
Guitar World: It seems you're both very thoughtful when it comes to studying hermetic philosophies. Do you find them useful in adding order to your lives outside of the musical realm, too?
Jones: "The order is already there. It's just that we're making ourselves aware of it. Sacred geometry is basically studying anything and breaking it down to its purist form, be it a symbol, shape, color, vibration or sound. That's what our life is. It goes outside who we are as people, the earth or the universe, into the spiritual realm or even an unconscious collective realm."
Guitar World: Going back to your guitar, Kirk, what specifically fascinates you about symbolism?
Hammett: "Well, as far as symbolism goes, there are different schools of thought, like how colors can influence your mood or perspective. Different symbols, like the all-seeing eye or the rose, will trigger different things in your psyche or unconscious. All this stuff is influential on some level and has an impact on the person surveying it, whether on a quantum level or a more overt level. I'm really interested in that sort of thing. Another good example of this is Jimmy Page's use of the ZoSo sigil, which he had written on his outfit. [A sigil is a word or symbol of supposed occult power. Page's ZoSo symbol first appeared on the packaging of 'Led Zeppelin IV' and later on his stage outfits.] He thought that it helped his music and artistic direction. I'm totally into how certain images can influence the subconscious mind. On a very basic level, if this guitar was stark white I would feel completely different about it. The fact that it has this amazing graphic on it inspires me and moves me."
VERNE TROYER is currently on the U.K. version of "Big Brother" . . . along with COOLIO, LATOYA JACKSON and some C-list British celebrities. Recently, they made Verne and a partner dress in bear costumes and eat honey.
BOY GEORGE may be awaiting sentencing for forcibly chaining a Norwegian Man-whore to his bedroom wall, but he doesn't seem to be missing any meals over it. Check out this picture of George looking pretty bloated . . .
Aidin Vaziri of the San Francisco Chronicle recently conducted an interview with Maynard James Keenan, frontman for TOOL and A PERFECT CIRCLE and a wine connoisseur.
San Francisco Chronicle: Didn't you plan A PERFECT CIRCLE's last tour around various wine regions?
Maynard: No. But if we would go to a particular area, I would go a few days early to explore the region. I was on the road for a decade accidentally experiencing things. I was planning on making the wines long before I knew anything about what I was doing. But I ran into Eric Glomski, a guy that took me under his wing, and he's been my mentor.
San Francisco Chronicle: What kind of people show up to these Whole Food signings?
Maynard: Generally music fans, and they've been very well behaved, for the most part. They're coming for one reason, but then they actually come back for the right reasons. The first run-through, we had a lot of people there because they're music fans, but then they would come back because they had genuine questions about the wine and pairings.
San Francisco Chronicle: Don't you have an image as a satanic weirdo to maintain?
Maynard: TOOL is not SLAYER. I went to art school. I spent three years in the military. There's more to me than throwing devil horns.
San Francisco Chronicle: So what makes your wines different than a jug of Gallo?
Maynard: We're in an area that hasn't been pioneered in winemaking. If you want consistency, go with Gallo. It's just going to taste like that. We want the wine to taste where it's from, a particular spot on the earth. That's the idea behind boutique wine making. This particular way the weather is, the way the soil feels. Every year should taste different.
San Francisco Chronicle: Do you still have time to make music between irrigating fields and stomping grapes?
Maynard: I'm still making music. We just put tickets on sale for a pair of shows PUSCIFER is doing in Las Vegas. Oddly enough, in my own mind, it kind of goes hand in hand with the winery, with what we're doing in a local area. We can work around harvest and winemaker dinners and pop out to do this fun show that could be a disaster or it could be awesome. It's the same as picking grapes.
Never been a huge Jennifer Anniston fan, but I must admit she is growing on me all of the sudden!
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Remember the banjo boy? Turns out he is NOT mentally handicapped, is married and owns a restaurant. Can't play a banjo either.
A 22-year-old moron named Nicky Reilly from
See, Nicky . . . this genius . . . got stuck inside the toilet stall after he'd prepared the bombs, and when they went off IN HIS HANDS . . . he was the only one injured. (--No, he didn't die. Dammit.)
It's not uncommon for an attractive, young woman to sell a calendar featuring pictures of herself in various states of undress.
Enter "Chubby Mikey" . . . a 29-year-old guy from
According to Chubby Mikey, quote, "I feel sexy and attractive so that's the way I act. I don't see why I can't pose for photos like any other male model."
On Friday, a guy from
Eric's mohawk was measured at 27 inches tall (--or two feet, three inches tall) . . . which is THREE inches taller than the old world record
Let's get right to it: The first Guns n' Roses album of new, original songs since the first Bush administration is a great, audacious, unhinged and uncompromising hard-rock record. In other words, it sounds a lot like the Guns n' Roses you know. At times, it's the clenched-fist five that made 1987's perfect storm, Appetite for Destruction; more often, it's the one sprawled across the maxed-out CDs of 1991's Use Your Illusion I and II, but here compressed into a convulsive single disc of supershred guitars, orchestral fanfares, hip-hop electronics, metallic tabernacle choirs and Axl Rose's still-virile, rusted-siren singing.
If Rose ever had a moment's doubt or repentance over what Chinese Democracy has cost him in time (13 years), money (14 studios are listed in the credits) and body count — including the exit of every other founding member of the band — he left no room for it in these 14 songs. "I bet you think I'm doin' this all for my health," Rose cracks through the saturation-bombing guitars in "I.R.S.," one of several glancing references on the album to what he knows a lot of people think of him: that Rose, now 46, has spent the last third of his life running off the rails, in half-light. But when he snaps, "All things are possible/I am unstoppable," in the thumper "Scraped," that's not loony hubris — just a good old rock & roll "fuck you," the kind that made him and the old band hot and famous in the first place.
Something else Rose broadcasts over and over on Chinese Democracy: Restraint is for suckers. There is plenty of familiar guitar firepower — the stabbing-dagger lick that opens the first track, "Chinese Democracy," the sand-devil fuzz in "Riad N' the Bedouins" and the looping squeals over the grand anguish of "Street of Dreams." But what Slash and Izzy Stradlin used to do with two guitars now takes a wall of 'em. On some tracks, Rose has up to five guys — Robin Finck, Buckethead, Paul Tobias, Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal and Richard Fortus — riffing and soloing in broad, saw-toothed blurs. And that's no drag. I still think the wild, superstuffed "Oh My God" — the early Chinese Democracy track wasted on the 1999 End of Days soundtrack — beats everything on Guns n' Roses' 1993 covers album, The Spaghetti Incident?
Most of these songs also go through multiple U-turns in personality, as if Rose kept trying new approaches to a hook or a bridge and then decided, "What the hell, they're all cool." "Better" starts with what sounds like hip-hop voicemail — severely pinched guitar, drum machine and a near-falsetto Rose ("No one ever told me when/I was alone/They just thought I'd know better") — before blowing up into vintage Sunset Strip wallop. "If the World" has Buckethead plucking acoustic Spanish guitar over a blaxploitation-film groove, while Rose shows that he still holds a long-breath vowel — part torture victim, part screaming jet — like no other rock singer.
And there is so much going on in "There Was a Time" — strings and Mellotron, a full-strength choir and Rose's overdubbed sour-growl harmonies, wah-wah guitar and a false ending (more choir) — that it's easy to believe Rose spent most of the past decade on that arrangement alone. But it is never a mess, more like a loud mass of bad memories and hard lessons. In the first lines, Rose goes back to a beginning much like his own — "Broken glass and cigarettes/ Writin' on the wall/It was a bargain for the summer/An' I thought I had it all" — then piles on the wreckage along with the orchestra and guitars. By the end, it's one big melt of missing and kiss-off ("If I could go back in time . . . But I don't want to know it now"). If this is the Guns n' Roses that Rose kept hearing in his head all this time, it is obvious why two guitars, bass and drums were never going to be enough.
It is plain, too, that he thinks this Guns n' Roses is a band, as much as the one that recorded "Welcome to the Jungle," "Sweet Child O' Mine," "Used to Love Her" and "Civil War." The voluminous credits that come with Chinese Democracy certainly give detailed credit where it is due. My favorite: "Initial arrangement suggestions: Youth on 'Madagascar." Rose takes the big one — "Lyrics N' Melodies by Axl Rose" — but shares full-song bylines with other players on all but one track. Bassist Tommy Stinson plays on nearly every song, and keyboardist Dizzy Reed, the only survivor from the Illusion lineup, does the Elton John-style piano honors on "Street of Dreams."
But Rose still sings a lot about the power of sheer, solitary will even when he throws himself into a bigger fight, like "Chinese Democracy." In "Madagascar," which Rose has played live for several years now, he samples both Dr. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech and dialogue from Cool Hand Luke. And at the end of the album, on the bluntly titled "Prostitute," Rose veers from an almost conversational tenor, over a ticking-bomb shuffle, to five-guitar barrage, orchestral lightning and righteous howl: "Ask yourself/Why I would choose/To prostitute myself/To live with fortune and shame." To him, the long march to Chinese Democracy was not about paranoia and control. It was about saying "I won't" when everyone else insisted, "You must." You may debate whether any rock record is worth that extreme self-indulgence. Actually, the most rock & roll thing about Chinese Democracy is he doesn't care if you do.
And loyal X-Rock listener Mike Ledger was there, courtesy of Rapid City's #1 choice for rock!
Metallica kicked off their Death Magnetic world tour last night with a blowout at the Jobing Arena in
Columbia Records has set an October 20 release date for AC/DC's widely anticipated "Black Ice", the band's first studio album in eight years. "Black Ice" features 15 new tracks. The album was recorded in
"Black Ice" will be sold in the
Imagine if millions of people had seen you naked before you were old enough to say "embarrassing." That's the story of Spencer Elden, whom you may know as the little baby floating towards a dollar bill on the cover of Nirvana's 1991 album, Nevermind.
Nearly 17 years later, amid hating school and playing water polo, Elden is still struggling to make sense of his (very) public image.
"Quite a few people in the world have seen my penis," he says from his home in Los Angeles. "So that's kinda cool. I'm just a normal kid living it up and doing the best I can while I'm here.
(Thanks for the link Sgt. Steve.)
Andy Dick wears many hats: Actor, comedian, Ivanka Trump groper to name but a few. We can add to that list chicken-wingery-parking-lot-felon, as the comedian was arrested at
I saw the vajayjay before I realized it was a coffin. I suppose that's not something to be proud of.
What on earth is this, you might ask? According to Blabbermouth, you might be looking at the cover of the new Metallica record, title to be named later.
How about...NO! As in no way, no thank you, not happening.
WTF? Why do these lists always leave off Pearl Jam and Pink Floyd. Do they not have RIFFS? Here they are according to a poll conducted by the BRITISH music school 'Guitar X'.
1. "Smoke On The Water" - Deep Purple
2. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Nirvana
3. "Walk This Way" - Aerosmith
4. "Purple Haze" - Jimi Hendrix
5. "Sweet Child O' Mine" - Guns'n'Roses
6. "Paradise City" - Guns'n'Roses
7. "Ace Of Spades" - Motorhead
8. "Enter Sandman" - Metallica
9. "Under The Bridge" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
10. "Welcome To The Jungle" - Guns'n'Roses
11. "Run To The Hills" - Iron Maiden
12. "Walk" - Pantera
13. "Johnny Be Goode" - Chuck Berry
14. "Back In Black" - AC/DC
15. "Immigrant Song" - Led Zeppelin
16. "Wake Up" - Rage Against The Machine
17. "Highway To Hell" - AC/DC
18. "My Generation" - The Who
19. "Seven Nation Army" - The White Stripes
20. "Born To Be Wild" - Steppenwolf
21. "Give It Away" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
22. "Paranoid" - Black Sabbath
23. "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" - Jimi Hendrix
24. "Eye Of The Tiger" - Survivor
25. "Money For Nothing" - Dire Straits
Would YOU hit it? If your a 16 year old boy, it's a no-brainer.
Florida seems to be leading the nation in teacher sex scandals, and the latest one has a lot of great details. According to police, the father of a 16-year-old high school boy became suspicious when he saw his boy getting out of substitute teacher Lisa Robyn Marinelli's Chrylser 300 pulling up his pants. According to police, the 40-year-old Marinelli also gave the boy a pair of her panties as a memento of their sexual relationship.
So this is the kinda action ya get for a couple grand a night....
And YES! I am Irish. Very Irish. The guy on the right might be me...I don't remember.
If we saw this on Leno, we would laugh for the first time in years at something on his show.
(WCCO) A Minneapolis man has been sentenced to five years of probation after police say he robbed a woman of her keys and cell phone then took off her shoes and licked her toes.
On Wednesday, Carlton Jermaine Davis, 26, was sentenced in Ramsey County Court to probation and evaluation for the next five years. According to the sentence, if Davis doesn't complete probation he will have to serve 21 months in prison.
According to the criminal complaint, Davis approached a woman who was leaving work around 1 a.m. last September. He said to her, in a very demanding voice, "put your cell phone and purse inside the bag".
The complaint said that the 24-year-old woman was frightened so she complied. After giving Davis her belongings he demanded she take her shoes off. She did and Davis responded "Now I'm going to suck your feet".
The victim told police that she was too shocked and scared to do anything. Davis then tried to suck her neck but as he approached her some people walked by and he took off.
Police arrested Davis a few minutes later about four blocks away.
Davis already served 152 days and has received credit for time served.
Hey, Mama Spears! When does that new book of yours on parenting hit the shelves? Click here for all the sordid details.
Courtney Love.......grosser than ever. Is it grosser or is it more gross. Anyway she's disgusting. Nuff sed.
Where would all these rock legends be if they hadn't died? Well I agree with the one on Kurt Cobain. The only difference though would be that no one would have cared abour Nirvana after they broke up and I wouldn't have to hear everyone talk about how their music changed the face of rock. What about Soundgarden?
This man ran over a 72-year-old women with a shopping cart in a check-out line at a grocery store. Possibly the best mug shot ever.
To the left is just one of four ways to get away with sleeping at work. This one is the Lifter Method. As you can see, the hardworking gentleman in the picture shows us that he is sleeping even though to others it looks like he is reaching for his pen that he has dropped on the floor. If you want to see the other three methods click here.
This is the D-Bag that said to his jury, “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I’ll kill all of you if you find me guilty of any one charge, and that goes for your family, too.” Then, he went to his cell and made a mosaic artwork out of two bologna and cheese sandwiches. Threatening people and then making art out of food.....sounds like what I would do any drunken night of the week.
Not much to say to this one. Britney is pissed. Surprise, surprise.
This list ranged from a Youth Pill to a Water Desalinator for the world's oceans. (WTF???????) I want to know why Beer Sandwiches didn't make the list.
Also.......I SUCK!
Would someone please tell me why there is a website for the Top 10 Most Facinating Urinals in the World. Then, could they please tell me why this picture reminds me of a recurring nightmare that I have where I am being held against my will in the bathroom of a gay nightclub.
Suzanne Marie Butts is facing potentially three years of incarceration for stealing three rolls of toilet paper from a courthouse in Iowa. At least she's using toilet paper. In related news, X ROCK listeners are kleptos and are stealing everything from sardines to (what one man claimed was) my little sisters v-card.
Paris is back in jail.....and instead of serving 23 days with good behaviour, she gets to serve the full 45. Everybody say HAAAYYY- HOOOOO - HEY.......HO.
Evidently, by size. Winner Jordin Sparks is about twice as big as Beat Box Boy, and three times as large as Ryan Seacrest. Jordin's dad was an NFL football player. She looks as though she could be one too. It might be a good career move, since most American Idol winners careers go down the crapper. Except for Carrie Underwood (hot and covered in peach fuzz), and Kelly Clarkson (the definition of deliciously chubby).
Close Enough for Government Work: U.S. Department of Agriculture officials admitted in March that since the early 1970s, 250 of the nation's 6,000 meat-processing plants, which are all required by law to be inspected daily, have been inspected as rarely as biweekly (probably because they were too far away for an inspector to get to), according to a March Reuters report. [Reuters, 3-29-07]
KUSA-TV reported in March that a Transportation Security Administration undercover team was able to sneak simulated liquid explosives past screeners at Denver International Airport about 90 percent of the time during a three-day test in February, in nearly every case because, though machines detected the explosives, the undercover agents talked the screeners out of personally searching them. [KUSA-TV (Denver), 3-29-07]
Your Government in Action
Among the long-term disabilities that have been drawing compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs (at a time when the returning wounded from Iraq and Afghanistan are meeting bureaucratic delays in getting their own disabilities properly compensated): 124,000 veterans receiving monthly checks because of hemorrhoids (according to a March Scripps Howard News Service report) and "thousands" of veterans since 1972 having received regular monthly checks to cover venereal diseases that they contracted on their own time while on active duty, including those treated for depression at having caught the disease (according to an investigation by the same reporter, published in May). [Scripps Howard News Service, 3-29-07] [Seattle Post-Intelligencer-SHNS, 5-2-07]
Like anybody is gonna see it!
