Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper took part in the Halloween Hootenanny tour last fall. The trek followed a short run the pair did together last summer
Read the rest at Blabbermouth
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Beach Boys to Release Lost Masterpiece, Smile
Read the rest at Gibson.com
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ERRORS :: ‘Magna Encarta’ Picture Disc Released March 28th
The band have also announced a series of live shows for the UK in April.
The 7″ details are as follows:
Limited picture disc
A: Magna Encarta
B: Ganymede
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William Shatner Recording a Metal Album
Apparently all the songs are to have a “space” or “flying in space” theme. They will include “Space Odyssey” (The Byrds), “Iron Man” (Black Sabbath), “Learn to Fly” (Foo Fighters), “She Blinded Me with Science” (Thomas Dolby) and “Bohemian Rhapsody” (Queen).
However, the infamous Captain Kirk has a problem if he thinks Thomas Dolby, the Byrds or Queen are considered heavy metal, but to someone that age, maybe it is :O)
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Did You Know?
more stuff everybody should know...
Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"
Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
THE LAW OF THE LAND
In Galveston, Texas, it is illegal to have a camel run loose in the street
and in music today:
In 1960, "Teen Angel" by Mark Dinning hit number 1 in the US. The song had been written for him by his sister Jean, who also recorded as one of The Dinning Sisters. Some radio stations banned the song and in the UK, where it barely made the top 40, it was called "the death record".
In 1973, Max Yasgur died of a heart attack aged 53. He was the owner of the dairy farm in Bethel, New York at which the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held between August 15 and August 18, 1969.
In 1975, the Ohio Players top the Billboard singles chart with "Fire" and the Hot 200 album chart with an LP of the same name.
R.E.M. made their first ever-recording sessions at Bombay Studios Smyrna, Georgia in 1981. Tracks included “Gardening At Night,” “Radio Free Europe” and “(Don't Go Back To) Rockville.”
In 1990, suffering from depression American singer songwriter Del Shannon died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. He had just appeared at the annual Buddy Holly memorial concert in Fargo, North Dakota and had recently completed recording a new album with the help of Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne called "Rock On!" Shannon was rumored to take Roy Orbison's place in The Traveling Wilburys at the time of his death. He would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in 1999.
And birthday wishes to Vince Neil of Motley Crue (1961)
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