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Vince Neil confirmed for "Skating With The Stars"...really?
A daytime diva, an Olympic champion skier, a super-suave actor and an actress who has graced some of the most unforgettable films - will compete each week with Motley's Vince Neil on a ice rink in the two-hour series premiere of "Skating with the Stars," MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22 on ABC TV.
All six couples will take to the ice with their professional partners for the first time in front of a live audience with couples performing high-paced ice dancing moves and dazzling figure skating routines. Couples will need to be perfectly in sync, since the ice is unforgiving of even the smallest mistake. The couple with the lowest ranking following the judges' scores and the public's votes will be sent home the following week.
I'm always perplexed by what people will do for money...ice dancing, really Vince?
Weekend of 10-30 / 10-31 Happy Halloween
RATT no longer rollin...
Stephen Pearcy interviewed on Philly radio station WYSP said,
"We finished a great show in Japan — this huge gig at the Loud Park festival with HALFORD and HELLYEAH and a bunch of other bands — and that was great. So I think we're gonna be on a hiatus for awhile and everybody'll do their own thing and we'll take it from there."
These guys are no stranger to drama...
Weekend of 10-23 / 10-24
The Cars are reuniting! (Hopefully)
Back in July, The Cars posted a photo of themselves in the studio on their Facebook page, with the caption "Anyone in the mood for a reunion by The Cars?"
The photo above shows bandmates Ric Ocasek, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson (bassist Benjamin Orr died of pancreatic cancer in 2000).
Billboard is reporting that the band has reunited to record their first album in 23 years and may support it with a tour.
I would Love to see this happen. The New Cars were fine but this would be great!
Alice Cooper to host Halloween marathon on WGN
Trick or treat? It will be a treat for Alice Cooper fans when he hosts the Monstrous Munster Mash on WGN America Sunday October 31 (a/k/a Halloween) from 10 AM - 7 PM ET.
Alice will introduce and provide commentary for 18 episodes of the 1960s series that presented a family of monsters as equivalent to the average neighbors next door.
Should be cool.
Van Halen tour in 2011?
Van Halen are secretly plotting a 2011 tour, according to the band's manager Irving Azoff. Azoff let the news slip in his capacity as Ticketmaster chairman at a concert promoters meeting on Monday, October 4, according to RollingStone.
Van Halen, with frontman David Lee Roth, last toured together in 2008 - a tour which grossed $93 million for Live Nation. However, before fans break open their piggy banks in the hope of landing the first tickets, it should be noted that Azoff also promised a 2010 Van Halen outing last year, but that never came to fruition.
We shall see...
Weekend of 10-2 / 10-3
Alice Cooper's comments on Rock Hall nomination
"On behalf of Dennis (Dunaway), Neal (Smith), Michael (Bruce) and the late, great Glen Buxton, we are honored to be nominated for induction in to the Hall. Anytime you are nominated in your chosen profession, it's definitely a compliment to be recognized.
It's hard to fathom possibly being in the same club as artists who inspired us originally, like the Beatles, the Stones, the Beach Boys, the Who, the Yardbirds, and Chuck Berry, and to be nominated the same year as legendary artists like my personal favorite songwriter of all time, Laura Nyro, as well as Donovan, who sang on our "Billion Dollar Babies" record, and our good friends in Bon Jovi, is a great feeling".
Check out Alice weeknights right here on The Big Dog!
STP have postponed 12 dates on their tour as a result of Scott Weiland's on stage "meltdown" in Houston.
The group has taken a "short break" beginning with the show scheduled for Tuesday in El Paso, according to its announcement, and will return to the road on October 8 in Tampa.
The band did not give a specific reason for the break, but Weiland's outburst on Sunday may have contributed.
According to the Houston Press, STP took the stage about one hour after opener Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's set, after which Weiland offered slurred tangents about his in-ear monitors, past drug use and thoughts on grunge music.
"The 8th of December will be the time when I stopped doing dope," Weiland said, and then hushed the crowd as it began to cheer. "No, no, no, no," he continued. "I started drinking again. My brother died, I got divorced (from) my wife, and my whole world basically spun around. So you know what? I'm going to take care of myself because that's what I need to take care of. Instead of just having a few shows, I want to have a whole hell of a lot of shows."
This guy is a wreck, plain and simple!
Weekend of 9-18 / 9-19
Queensrÿche to Release 20th Anniversary Edition of Empire
Queensrÿche have plans to re-release 1990’s Empire in a special edition to commemorate the album’s 20th anniversary. The group will celebrate their most commercially successful release by adding a bonus disc containing selections from a 1990 concert in London.
Empire – 20th Anniversary Edition, available November 9th, also will include the extra material featured on the 2003 re-release of the album. Empire contains Queensrÿche’s biggest hit, the power ballad “Silent Lucidity,” which hit No. 9 on Billboard’s Hot 100 as a single.
Empire – 20th Anniversary Edition track list:
Disc 1 (original CD remastered with bonus tracks from 2003 reissue):
1. “Best I Can”
2. “The Thin Line” 3. “Jet City Woman”
4. “Della Brown”
5. “Another Rainy Night (Without You)”
6. “Empire”
7. “Resistance”
8. “Silent Lucidity”
9. “Hand on Heart”
10. “One and Only”
11. “Anybody Listening?”
12. “Last Time in Paris”
13. “Scarborough Fair”
14. “Dirty Lil Secret”
Disc 2 (live material recorded November 15, 1990 at the Hammersmith Odeon, London):
1. “Resistance”
2. “Walk in the Shadows”
3. “Best I Can”
4. “The Thin Line”
5. “Jet City Woman”
6. “Empire”
7. “Roads to Madness”
8. “Take Hold of the Flame”
9. “Silent Lucidity”
10. “Hand on Heart”
I've seen these guys a million times(each time great) and now a double disc from my favorite band...can't wait!
Weekend of 9-11 / 9-12
Vince Neil in more trouble in Vegas?
Rocker Vince Neil is at the centre of an assault investigation in Las Vegas after allegedly attacking a woman in an elevator at the Hilton resort in Sin City.
The alleged victim, who has asked to remain nameless, claims the Motley Crue singer lashed out unprovoked at her when she found herself in the wrong elevator as she headed back to her suite at the hotel on Sunday night.
It's Neil's second run-in with the law in Las Vegas in recent months - he is scheduled for arraignment later this month after police arrested him in June.
I don't know Vince, I'd be thinkin' about getting out of Dodge...
Weekend of 9-4 / 9-5
Axl storms off stage at Dublin GNR show
Note to Guns N' Roses fans: don't throw stuff at Axl if you want the show to go on. Fans in Dublin found out this lesson the hard way. Support act Danko Jones played for 70 minutes and went off at 9.10pm. But GnR didn't appear until 10.30, by which time the restless Dublin O2 audience had begun booing and hissing.
Eyewitnesses say Rose's performance was uninspiring until the band broke into Welcome to the Jungle. At that moment some bottles were thrown onto the stage, and Rose stopped the song to warn the crowd: "One more bottle and we're going home – we're here to have fun but one more and we're gone."
At 10.50 another bottle hit the stage while Rose was introducing the band. He said "Goodnight" and walked off, leaving the unhappy audience furious. Ten minutes later a venue official announced they were experiencing "technical difficulties" but hoped to bring GnR back on, but at 11.10 the house lights came up and arena staff began advising people the night was over.
...not surprised, are you?
The Windy City Gets Rocked by a Hurricane
With the announcement that this will be their last tour, The Scorpions made their final stop in the USA last Saturday night at the Rosemont Theatre in Chicago. Hitting the stage in front of a capacity crowd, Klaus Meine belted out the title track to their latest CD "Sting in the Tail" followed by "Make It Real" and "Bad Boys Running Wild".
While there have been farewell tours before only to have the group return a few years later, the rocking world will truly miss one of the greatest bands in the history of music should the sting of The Scorpions truly be extinguished. Hopefully the boys in the band will realize that there truly is no one like them. Farewell...
Aerosmith confirms Steven Tyler joining American Idol.
Steven Tyler may have fallen off the stage again this week but he's also fallen into a new job. One of his Aerosmith bandmates has gone on the record stating the Tyler has inked a deal to be a judge on American Idol.
According to Hanne Music, on Wednesday Tom Hamilton told the New Jersey Star-Ledger, "Steven is doing `American Idol.' The ink is dry on that." Hanne Music continues: As part of the latest "leak," Hamilton added some additional perspective: "So, we'll have to work around his schedule for a new record. I hope it doesn't hurt the new momentum we've built up on this tour, because that's been so important for us as a band. But I wouldn't want to be the one standing in the way of this for him."
Another reason NOT to listen to Aerosmith and NOT to watch American Idol...Ugh!
