January 1999 Archive
...Due to the theft of an equipment truck with all their equipment, FEAR FACTORY, SYSTEM OF A DOWN and SPINESHANK have been forced to postpone the remainder of their US tour (click here for postponed dates). Gear, stage backdrops and merchandise for all three bands were loaded in the back of the truck, which was stolen in Philadelphia on Saturday, January 23rd. Management has asked that anyone with information on the theft call (212)229-5237. Postponed dates will be re-scheduled in March after the completion of the Japanese and Australian tour dates and tickets purchased for the earlier shows will be valid...
...MOTORHEADbangers rejoice!
The legendary band - and one of the all-time greats in our book - will release a double
live album in March entitled "Everything Louder Than Everyone Else." Recorded in
Germany during the "Snake Bite Love" tour, the set includes the following
tracks:
Disc One
1) Iron Fist
2) Stay Clean
3) On Your Feet Or On Your Knees
4) Over Your Shoulder
5) Civil War
6) Burner
7) Metropolis
8) Nothing Up My Sleeve
9) I'm So Bad, Baby I Don't Care
10) The Chase Is Better Than The Catch
11) Take The Blame
12) No Class
13) Overnight Sensation
14) Sacrifice
Disc Two
1) Born To Raise Hell
2) Lost In The Ozone
3) The One To Sing The Blues
4) Capricorn
5) Love For Sale
6) Orgasmatron
7) Going To Brazil
8) Killed By Death
9) Bomber
10) Ace Of Spades
11) Overkill
The cover was painted by veteran Motorhead artist Joe Patagno and the band has pencilled
in a North American tour in April - May 1999 and possibly European in June...
...After 32 years of interviewing rock's biggest stars on the air, ROCKLINE and Priority Records will finally release a CD collection of the finest live performances by guests of the show. The 12-track "Best of Rockline" will be in stores on Tuesday, January 26 and will contain never-before-released live performances by THE WALLFLOWERS, TONIC, DISHWALLA, 7 MARY 3, BROTHER CANE and TWO...
...In other MOTORHEAD news, Lemmy and Janiss Garza will pen Lemmy's biography for a book to be published in 2000. My God, can you imagine the stories to be told there!...
...PHANTOM BLUE have announced two Southern California shows in February. The first takes place on February 10th at 9:45PM at the KOR Club at The Dragonfly in Hollywood (213)466-6111. The second show will be at Hogue Barmichael's in Newport Beach, California (949-261-6270). The band will also be featured February 12 - 19 on radio stations KMMY/1600AM and KYPA/1230AM during which they will present new music and be interviewed. These same stations will broadcast the band's February 19th performance live. For more information, check out the Phantom Blue website at http://www.phantomblue.com...
...KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD and band will join the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra on March 19th in a special program of Shepherd's own material, given a classical twist. Shepherd then plans on writing songs for a new album to be recorded this summer. A tour on the B.B. King Blues tour will then follow...
...The Z Rock shows in the U.K. and Stockholm, Sweden will
be recorded live and released later this year on a special budget CD. Bands performing in
the shows are SNAKES IN PARADISE; SEVEN WISHES; SCUDIERO; PUSH;
DAMNED NATION and HUMAN RACE. For more information,
visit the Z Rock website at http://graffiti.virgin.net/zero_option_pro.z_records/
In related news, RAINMAKER have called it quits, thus canceling their appearance at the Z
Rock UK show on May 2nd 1999...
...TENACIOUS D will star in their very own comedy series for HBO beginning March 24th, 1999 at 11:00PM...
...VANILLA ICE is hitting the road, in support of his hard rock/rap album entitled "Hard to Swallow." Check out Snidermann's review by clicking here and then visit Pollstar for show dates...
...MOTLEY CRUE's Tommy Lee may be heading back to the slammer. Allegedly, Lee has violated his probation by joining his Crue bandmates in a brew or two. A February 4th hearing date has been set in Malibu Municipal Court after reports from the New York Post and MTV snitched out Lee's drinking...
...QUEENSRYCHE guitarist Michael Wilton got a pleasant surprise recently, when his $5,000 custom-made ESP Vintage Plus guitar - which was stolen from Wilton five years ago - suddenly turned up at a recording studio in Redmond. Studio owner Todd Walker recognized the guitar as one being played by Bill Brumlow of DREAM TRAIN. "I was terrified when I found out," said Brumlow, who returned the guitar immediately to Wilton. Brumlow said that he had purchased the guitar two years ago from a collector. Wilton was "elated," stating "There are so many rats in the music business that, when something like this happens, it just gives me hope." Wilton plans on taking the guitar on the band's summer tour. Here's hoping he asks Bill Brumlow and DREAM TRAIN along for the ride...
...Z Records recording artists SAVANNAH will record their unplugged gig in Salem, MA on February 5th, 1999 but will not release the CD through normal channels. Instead, the CD will only be available directly from the Z Records main office and a few selected mailorder companies within Europe and the USA. A pressing of only 1,000 copies is expected. More information later...
...GREEN DAY are out and BRYAN ADAMS, JONNY LANG and others are in as the opening act on the upcoming ROLLING STONES' tour. The punk band will start work on their next album instead...
...It's just a rumor at this point, but GUNS'N'ROSES may be in talks to join the upcoming LOLLAPALOOZA tour. No word on exactly which version of GUNS'N'ROSES that may be although a recent reunion of some of the original bandmembers at a film festival recently may be some indication...
...MARILYN MANSON are joining forces with HOLE and MONSTER MAGNET on a co-headlining tour that will begin sometime in March. No word on venues or cities just yet...
...Nearly naked ladies and hard rock music? C'mon - you know you want to know more. Well, okay, then: It's the Pleasures night club in Pasadena. While great hard rock/heavy metal bands play on stage, bikini dancers gyrate their stuff nearby. Sounds like the Rob Zombie show at the Orange Pavilion. Check it out yourself when HELARAGE opens for THE L.A. GUNS at Pleasures on February 20th...
...Mats Lillienberg has lessened his involvement in HUMAN RACE. According to guitarist Robert Hansson, "Mats...has decided to take a step back from Human Race. He will though be a part of HR and perform with us on stage. But most important, there are absolutely no hard feelings behind his decision, nothing but personal reasons. Human Race will go on as before. We will enter the studio to record our second full-CD for Z Records as already planned in April! "...
More Z Records news: The label recently confirmed that they have signed the newly reformed Swedish supergroup GREAT KING RAT. The band will release a new album in April 1999 in Europe and will likely appear live when the current Z Rock tour filters through Stockholm...
...METALLICA will perform two shows with acclaimed film composer MICHAEL KAMEN and the SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY on April 21 - 22, 1999. Kamen - who has done orchestra work for such artists as PINK FLOYD, DAVID BOWIE and ERIC CLAPTON - said of the collaboration: "This is not going to be the easy-listening version of Metallica. The idea is to have Metallica be Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony be the San Francisco Symphony. I think there's more in common than there are differences."...
...CRAIG MARKS, executive editor of SPIN magazine, has filed a $24 million lawsuit against MARILYN MANSON claiming that two of Manson's bodyguards beat him. Marks, 37, claims that he was attacked at Manhattan's Hammerstein Ballroom falling a November 23rd Manson performance. "That's what you get when you disrespect me," the lawsuit claims Manson told Marks after the guards slammed him against a wall and choked him. The mentioned "disrespect" reportedly came from Spin's decision to drop a planned Manson magazine cover. Manson's attorneys deny the attack ever happened. "Our investigations show all of these accusations to be totally groundless," Manson's lawyer, Paul Cambria, told the Associated Press, "The witnesses sharply dispute Mr. Marks' account of what happened." All we can say is thank God we gave Manson three chainsaws for his "Mechanical Animals" release (click here to see our review)...
...Yeah, yeah. So the Grammy nominations were announced. Big
deal. It's just another music awards show, right? Unless you're one of the nominees, of
course. Anyway, here's some of the categories that you might give a damn about. Or not.
HARD ROCK PERFORMANCE: KISS "Psycho
Circus," MARILYN MANSON "The Dope Show," METALLICA "Fuel," JIMMY PAGE AND
ROBERT PLANT "Most High," PEARL JAM "Do
the Evolution."
METAL PERFORMANCE: JUDAS PRIEST "Bullet
Train," METALLICA "Better Than You," NASHVILLE PUSSY "Fried Chicken and Coffee," RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE "No Shelter," RAMMSTEIN "Du Hast."
ROCK INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE: EVERCLEAR "El
Distorto de Melodica," PAT METHANY GROUP "The Roots
of Confidence," PAT METHANY GROUP "Take
California," PROPELLERHEADS "A Train of
Angels," JOE SATRIANI "Trouble Is...," KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD BAND "The Ironic Twist."
ROCK SONG: "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by Richard
Ashcroft, Mick Jagger and
Keith Richards; "Celebrity Skin" by Billy Corgan,
Eric Erlandson and Courtney Love; "Closing Time" by Dan
Wilson; "Have a Little Faith In Me" by John Hiatt;
"Uninvited," by Alanis Morissette.
ROCK ALBUM: "The Globe Sessions" SHERYL CROW;
"Premonition" JOHN
FOGERTY; "Version 2.0," GARBAGE;
"Celebrity Skin," HOLE; "Before These
Crowded Streets" DAVE MATTHEWS BAND.
SHORT FORM MUSIC VIDEO: "Pink" AEROSMITH;
"Bachelorette" BJORK;
"Ray of Light" MADONNA; "All Around the
World" OASIS; "Do the
Evolution" PEARL JAM.
ROCK PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCAL: "Pink," AEROSMITH; "The Way," FASTBALL;
"Celebrity Skin," HOLE; "Bitter Sweet
Symphony," THE VERVE; "Heroes," THE WALLFLOWERS.
...Grammy Schmammy. You want a real award? How about the Best Metal Band Award that HELARAGE won on New Year's Eve, courtesy of Rock City News. Now that's an achievement. Congratulations, HELARAGE! Also making an appearance that night was LEMMY of MOTORHEAD to accept the Rock City News Lifetime Achievement Award. Where were the Grammy folks then, huh?...
...The original line-up of METAL CHURCH has reformed and plan to record a new album. Also on the reunion trail are ARMORED SAINT...
News from Z Records: The latest releases from AMAZE ME and PUSH are now available in Europe and will soon be here in the U.S. DAMNED NATION, DREAMHUNTER, DANNY DANZI and SEVEN WISHES are back in the studio, working on their next records and LILLIAN AXE have nearly completed the mixing of their next album, due later this year...
...Warner Archives and Rhino Records will release "Shades," a four-CD box set from hard rock pioneers DEEP PURPLE on March 2. This incredible collection will contain 62, count 'em, 62 Deep Purple tracks from over 20 of the band's albums. Included will be many rare and unreleased tracks, including demos, movie soundtracks, album outtakes, non-LP B-sides and live performances. The set will be packaged in a foil-stamped digi-box with the deep purple logo embossed on the cover and will contain a 56-page book written by Jim Ladd and Mick Wall. The only thing that sucks about this set is that we have to wait until March to get it. Sight unseen, this is one definite must-have for 1999...
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