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Mother Love Bone: The Tragic Death of Andrew Wood, Malfunkshun & The Story of 'Apple', Hotney 4 Streams • 4 years ago

Mother Love Bone: The history of the band and death of Andrew Wood

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0:00 - Andrew Wood's Early Life
1:34 - Malfunkshun
5:37 - Green River
7:40 - Mother Love Bone Formation
11:15 - Major Label Deal/Andy's Problems
14:25 - Andy's Death

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Andy Wood would be Born to a close knit family in columbus, mississippi, 1966. Throughout his childhood his family moved around a lot as his father was in the military. They would live in san antonio texas in the mid 70’s before relocating to bainbridge island in the 80’s, which is a short ferry ride away from Seattle. In his youth, Andrew Wood would find solace in Elton John, Kiss, and T-Rex a sign of what was to come in his musical career. By the time he was in elementary school Andy already started dabbling in drugs, something which would lead to his downfall.
Known for his charismatic style, Andy originally wanted to be a radio DJ even winning a contest in the sixth grade to host a show on a local seattle radio station KZOK called ‘Your mother won’t like it.” It was during this show Andy hosted a three hour program where he told stories, jokes and did comedy bits in addition to playing music. Dave Rees who would be Andy’s bandmate in the band Malfunkshun would recall in the book Everybody loves our town “i remember talking to andy after that and he seemed a little disappointed because he wanted to be a dj but he realized that there was no immediate feedback. There was no audience. And that really bummed him out. He actually told me. Well now i’m gonna have to be a rockstar. According to Kevin Wood, Andy’s older brother it would be a concert andy saw in middle school where cheap trick opened Kiss that made Andy want to become a rockstar.
Before we can talk about Mother Love Bone, we have to talk about another band that preceded it Malkfunkshun. Andrew Wood would form the band with his older brother kevin when he was just 14 . The brothers would end up recording their first demo tape during easter sunday in 1980 when they were left home alone while their family was at their grandmothers house. His brother Kevin used to work as a dishwasher at a restaurant and remembered seeing a sign above the dishwasher that said ‘report malfunction’ before the name got trimmed down to malfunkshun with an alternative spelling. Originally malfunkshun was a four piece, but was scaled down to a three piece with Andy playing bass and doing vocals while his brother kevin played guitar and they enlisted punk drummer Regan Hagar. Dave Rees who was Malfunkshun’s original bassist for a short period of time said in the book Grunge is Dead: “Malfunkshun was the loudest and most entertaining band I’d ever seen. Yes, they were louder than motorhead.”
Andy’s brother Kevin would recall in the same book “everyone had a good time at a malfunkshun show. It was an open minded sort of feeling. I was afraid first of offending the sensibilities of the punk rockers. But they welcomed us with open arms. I think we opened up doors for bands to just come out, be themselves and play. It’s kind of what started the whole evolution of the punk turns into the rock
While many associate grunge with flannel, one of the earliest so called grunge bands was Malfunkshun, which didn’t wear flannel. Wood would model his stage persona after theatrical performers including Marc Bolan, Freddie Mercury, Elton John and Prince. He would take the stage name L’Andrew The Love Child while his brother would take on the name Kevin stein and their drummer Regan Hagar would become THundarr. Unlike a lot of his peers Andy wanted to be a big star, perform in arenas and create music that appealed to the masses. Andy was so single minded in his pursuit of success that according to Kerrang he said he would even open for Warrant.
Andy’s on stage persona became the stuff of legends in seattle, telling jokes in between songs, one story had him even making a san

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Books: Grunge Is Dead, Everybody Loves Our Town
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2005 documentary Malfunkshun: The Andrew wood
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Rage Against The Machine RATM X Factor Humiliation Of Simon Cowell Hotney 2 Streams • 4 years ago

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Today we take a look at the 2009 infamous battle between the band Rage Against the Machine and the horrible reality show the X-Factor and creator Simon Cowell. Every year since 2005 the winner of the X-Factor always had the number 1 single come Christmas time, but in 2009 things changed. A grassroots campaign started by a UK DJ got people to buy the Rage Against the Machine song "Killing In the Name" from the group's debut record.

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Now, released in November of 1992, the band's first commercial single, Rage Against the Machine's song, "Killing in the Name" would become the group's signature track. The guitar riff and expletive laden outro of the song made it memorable. It would be inspired by the deadly LA riots of 1992 as well as the Rodney King beating. The song would take aim at institutional racism and the brutality of the police. As you would expect, the large amount of expletives in the song's outro prevented it from achieving much airplay in the United States.

The band found a huge following across the pond in Europe. The song would chart in the UK in 1993, peaking at number 25. It would be strange that 15 years later, the song would make a return to the UK charts but this time at the number 1 spot. It was something that was really unthinkable and shocked a lot of people but how did it happen? Stay tuned to find out.

Christmas time is a big moment for musicians in the UK. It's a general rule of thumb in the country that whatever song tops the charts during the holiday season, will go on to become the biggest selling song of the year. This is a tradition that dates back 50 years to the 70s when rock bands would put out Christmas theme songs or covers.

Come 2005, things started to change a bit in the UK. Now reality TV has been one of the many scurges that has plagued television over the past 20 years and music shows especially have exploded since American Idol's inception in the early 2000s. One of those music shows was the Simon Cowell created X-Factor, which originally started in the UK and migrated across the pond to America in the later part of the decade.

In the UK from 2005 to 2008, each season's winner of The X-Factor would always have the number one song in the country come Christmas time. It was almost like figuring out who was going to win the election of North Korea.

In 2008, radio DJ, John Mortar was sick of Simon Cowell's [bullshit] and launched an online campaign to prevent that year's winner, Alexandra Burke from taking the number one spot. He would urge people online to buy the Rick Astley song, "Never Gonna Give You Up" but the campaign would ultimately fail. Astley's song would not even crack the top 50 in the UK, peaking at number 73. Burke's cover of "Hallelujah" easily took the Number 1 spot that year and became the biggest selling holiday single of all time in the UK.

Come 2009, things would change. In early December of 2009, the same DJ and his wife, Tracy would launch a group on Facebook encouraging people to buy the song, "Killing in the Name" before Christmas in order to prevent the winner of The X Factor that year from taking the Number 1 spot. The campaign would ask people, "Fed up of Simon Cowell's latest karaoke act being Christmas' Number 1? Me too. So who's up for a mass purchase of the track, Killing in the Name" as a protest to the X-Factor monotony?"

The X-Factor winner that year was the person named Joe McElderry who covered the Miley Cyrus song, "The Climb".

Now, the X-Factor song was promising to donate some of their profits to charity, while Rage Against The X Factor campaign encouraged supporters to also give to charity. In fact, a Just Giving page was created to raise money for the homeless charity and shelter, which by December 20th of 2009 had already raised over $100,000 US in funds.

By the middle of December, the group reportedly had over 700,000 members on Facebook and the campaign even caught the attention of Rage Against the Machine guitarist, Tom Morello who lent his support saying, that achieving the Christmas Number 1 would be, as he put it, "A wonderful dose of anarchy," and Morello even planned to donate royalties from the sales of the song to charity.

Morello wouldn't be the only high-profile musician giving their support to the campaign as Dave Grohl, Them Crooked Vultures, Muse and even The Prodigy also voiced their support for the campaign. Also lending their support was heavyweight, Paul McCartney who coincidentally, also appeared on The X Factor with the finalists.

Simon Cowell, for his part, apparently responded to the campaign reportedly calling it "stupid and cynical," but one thing that went unnoticed was that both, the X Factor and Rag

Linkin Park: The Sad Story Of the Band & Death of Chester Bennington Hotney 3 Streams • 4 years ago

The sad story of Linkin Park and death of Chester Bennington

0:00 - Early Years
14:48 - Hybrid Theory
23:04 - Meteora
31:28 - - Minutes to Midnight
33:30 - Final Decade/Chester's Death

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#linkinpark #chesterbennington #mikeshinoda

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Linkin Park’s celebrated debut album 2000’s Hybrid Theory would come out during the peak of the nu-metal’s popularity. Linkin Park over the next several years became inescapable if you listened to rock radio or watched MTV. What came next is truly amazing. Linkin Park did something that so few bands could do, their popularity eclipsed trends in music and they soon ventured into uncharted territory, much to the chagrin of some of their fans. But sadly their nearly two decade run came to an abrupt end following the death of frontman Chester Bennington. Today, let’s take a deep dive into the career of Linkin Park.

Linkin Park’s story begins with Rapper/vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist/producer Mike Shinoda. Shinoda would be born to a japanese father and a white mother with the musician telling Howard Stern that being mixed race resulted in him not really knowing where he belonged in school. His mother would encourage him by the age of 6 to take up piano lessons thinking it would look good on his college applications. In addition to music lessons Shinoda would tell the shock jock that he he spent a lot of his time as a young child painting and doing artwork with the idea that perhaps someday he’d become an artist

It was by the time he became a teenager he soon started to get into the blues, jazz and hip hop. Shinoda by the mid 80’s would be hugely influenced by Run-DMC’s second record King of Rock and Beastie Boys' License to Ill as well as LL Cool J's Bad in addition to Public Enemy and NWA. It would be the collaborations and blending of rock and rap that gave Shinoda an idea of what he wanted to pursue musically telling Rolling Stone “The first show I went to was Anthrax and Public Enemy. They did ‘Bring the Noise’ together, and I was like, ‘That’s the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard.

Wanting to follow in the footsteps of his music idols who sampled popular rock music in their songs he would ask his musical teacher to teach him how to do just that recalling to to Rolling Stone. When I was about thirteen, I told my teacher, Eileen, I wanted to get more into playing jazz and blues and maybe hip-hop. She said she couldn't help me out with that because that wasn't her training. She said, "Maybe you just wanna get a keyboard and start learning those things on your own." I thought that was really big of her to say, and definitely led to an important point in my life where I bought a keyboard. Then I got a sampler, started making beats and playing around with MIDI and digital-based music.”

Shinoda would tell Stern that prior to Chester Bennington fronting Linkin Park the seeds of the band began with him and a childhood friend of his named Mark Wakefield who he first started making music with recalling to the shock jock “the band was just originally me and Mark and i would mostly do all the rap stuff and he would do most of the rock stuff and then we’d teach each other the other side. Mark also happened to be living next door to guitarist Brad Delson with Shinoda adding “Almost like a TV Sitcom they were next door neighbours and there windows were across from each other…We’d be in mark’s room playing sega genesis and you’d hear brad playing metallica on the guitar from the other window.” Delson was also a schoolmate of Shinoda Agoura High School in southern california. The trio soon recruited a bandmate of Delson, drummer Rob Bourdon, who played with him in the band Relative Degree.“ Bourdon, got his start drumming in the third grade after his parents took him to an aerosmith concert. Fun fact . (Bourdon’s mother, Patty, was a high school girlfriend of Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer, who he credits with coming up with the band name.

It was following high school Shinoda attended Pasadena’s California’s Art of College Design where he studied illustration. Shinoda would refer to the school a

Why Faith No More Fired Jim Martin & Whatever Happened to Him? Hotney 3 Streams • 4 years ago

Why Faith No More Fired Jim Martin and whatever happened to the guitarist?

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#faithnomore #mikepatton #jimmartin

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Best known for his ten year stint in the group Faith No More Jim Martin would be the group’s guitarist from 1983 to 1993.. Faith No More would break up in 1998 and reform in 2009, but strangely enough Martin wasn't a part of the reunion. Why’d he leave the group and what happened to him? Well one of the answers will surprise you and that’s what were going to discuss in today’s video.

Immediately recognizable due to his red trimmed glasses, his bushy beard and long hair, Jim Martin was born in the bay area and spent the early part of his musical career playing in a band called Vicious Hatred, which also featured future metallica bassist Cliff Burton. By 1982 drummer Mike Bordin, keyboardist Roddy Bottum and bassist Billy Gould formed Faith No More, which was named after a greyhound the bandmembers said they had bet on. MTV would report that Cliff Burton urged Martin to audition for the group. Taking his advice he did and got the gig. In their early years group struggled to find a vocalist, instead played gigs using an open mic policy whereby they invited a member of the audience to front the band each night. Not exactly a winning strategy to make it in the music business. One frequent attendee of the band’s early shows was singer Chuck Mosley who performed with the band several times and soon enough he became the group’s frontman.

Mosley’s time fronting the band would last about half a decade seeing the group put out two albums 1985’s We Care a Lot,and 1987’s Introduce Yourself. However Mosley’s volatile behavior and internal conflicts led the group to fire him before the end of the decade. By early 1989 having assembled a majority of the music for their third album, the band held auditions for a replacement finding Mike Patton. Patton at the time was playing in his outfit Mr. Bungle and within a week of getting the job he’d complete the lyrics for their third album the Real Thing.
The Real THing would be the group’s commercial breakthrough producing two hits in Epic and Falling to Pieces and the album went platinum in America selling over a million copies.

The band followed that up with 1992’s Angel Dust a record that would be guitarist Jim Martin’s last with the group. The album would sell about half as many copies as it’s predecessor going gold and marked a change in sound Angel Dust was the first album where Patton had a bigger influence on the music and rumors soon swirled in the music mags that Martin clashed with his bandmates about the title of the album, musical direction and things reportedly got so bad that some of Martin’s guitar parts were stripped from the record (at least that was a rumor for a long time).
Martin would talk to Kerrang in 1992 during the making of the record.
When asked whether Angel Dust was an enjoyable experience he’d rspond
Absolutely not, it's been an unpleasant experience from the very
beginning! It's been very unpleasant, but not really much different to my experiences in making records with Faith No More. It's very difficult to say it all in a short amount of time. "There's certain things
that certain people worry about at certain times, and certain other people choose to play upon it to increase the tension of a given situation until everything's way out of hand."
Angel Dust' would only have one song written by Martin. He wouldn’t attend rehearsals or meetings with the rest of the group opting to have the band send him tapes so he could add his guitar parts later. In all honesty it wasn’t too different from how faith no more recorded their previous records. Once Angel Dust was released in the summer of 1992, If you read a lot of the rock publications who spent time with the band on the road in early to mid 1993 you can see a lot of them writing about the internal tensions between Martin and the rest of the band.

Kerrang would write in their february 1993 issue about faith no more. While vocalist MIKE PATTON was taking an increasingly strong grip on the band's lyrical and musical direction, guitarist and

The White Stripes: Whatever Happened To Meg White, Drummer For the Band Hotney 5 Streams • 4 years ago

The White Stripes: Whatever happened to the drummer from Jack White's band.

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The Detroit rock band The White Stripes would graduate from being indie darlings to one of the most popular rock bands in the world during the 2000’s. The band’s time would come to an end in 2009 and while they wouldn’t make it official until a few years later, there were warning signs that the band was done. How did the White Stripes get to this point and whatever happened to drummer Meg White? Despite the inactivity from the band, fans of the group can look forward to one thing a few years from now. That’s what we’re going to explore in today’s video.

Prior to the White Stripes forming in 1997 Meg and Jack White would meet several years prior, date and eventually get married. Jack would take Meg’s surname as he was originally born John Anthony Gillis. The pair would meet in 1996 at Meg’s place of work, a Detroit restaurant called Memphis Smoke. Jack was playing in a variety of bands around the city including Two Star Tabernacle, The Hentchmen and Goober and the Peas. It would be one night in 1997 when Jack was working on new music that he asked Meg to play the drums. He would recall to Rolling Stone in 2008 “When she started to play drums with me, just on a lark, it felt liberating and refreshing. There was something in it that opened me up.” And so the White Stripes would be born. While the pair would eventually divorce in 2000 they opted to continue with he band.. The pair initially made it seem to the press that they were brother and sister, but the press would eventually find proof of their marriage and this is a topic I’ve done a whole video on, the link is down below.

The White Stripes would release their self titled debut album in 1999 and their follow up in 2000. They would release their third album White Blood Cells in 2001 and it would prove to be their breakout hit thanks to the songs Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground and Fell in Love WIth a Girl. The band would continue to have major success with three more albums including 200’s Elephant, 2005’s Get Behind Me Satan and their final record 2007’s Icky Thump.

On July 31, 2007 the White Stripes were set to take the stage in Southhaven, Mississippi at the Snoweden Grove Park Amphitheater. Meg White would apparently turn to the band’s archivist and utter the words “I think this is the last White Stripes Show”. The band was out on the road promoting what was their latest and last release of their career Icky Thump, which went to number 2 on the charts. The band had spent the last two months traveling across Europe and North America and their stop in Southaven was to be their last on this leg of the tour before playing dates along the pacific northwest, the California coast, south central states and Hawaii in September and October.

But literally a day before their September tour started, the band announced that their upcoming dates were canceled putting out a statement that read “The White Stripes announced today that they are canceling their forthcoming tour due to health issues. Meg White is suffering from acute anxiety and is unable to travel at this time.
The White Stripes sincerely apologize to their fans.
"We hate to let people down and are very sorry."
A few days later the band also cancelled their 8 date UK tour which was set to take place in october and november of the same year.
Jack White would look back telling music radar that the pace at which the band was touring and their heightened popularity only worsened Meg’s mental health revealing “Meg is a very shy girl, a very quiet and shy person. We were playing two shows a day in Canada, then we'd fly to France and do a TV show there, then we were back in England on tour, and we were just killin' it, man. The train was out of control.”
The band’s camp went quiet in 2008 with Jack White forming the band The Dead Weather and continuing work with the Raconteurs a band that was formed in 2005. Despite the lack of activity from the White Stripes camp in an interview White would do in 2009 he wou

Talib Kweli & Onyx Talk "Bacdafucup," Big DS, Jam Master Jay, X1, & Snowgoons | Pe Hotney 7 Streams • 4 years ago

In this episode of "People's Party With Talib Kweli," Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with the legendary hip-hop group:

ONYX

This crew set a new bar for hardcore hip-hop when they hit the scene in 1993. Here's some of what you'll hear in this one:

• The importance of Big DS to the Onyx legacy.
• Baisley Park as the epicenter of the Queens hip-hop scene.
• Lo Life booster crew affiliations and Polo gear in hip-hop.
• The story of how Onyx linked up with Jam Master Jay.
• The chaotic video shoot for Onyx's 'Throw Ya Gunz'.
• Pulling inspiration from Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.'
• How Chyskillz helped define the Onyx sound on their first album.
• The transition in tone from 'Bacdafucup' to 'All We Got Iz Us'.
• Rapper X1 breathing new life into Onyx on the 'Shut 'Em Down' album.
• Whether Sonny Seeza is still part of the group.
• Starring in the 1993 film 'Strapped' and the TV show 'Moesha'.
• Sticky's digital album movie 'It's About T.I.M.E.'.
• How touring overseas has been so important to the group and its longevity.
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• The 2021 Onyx release 'Onyx 4 Life'

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7 Reasons Cliff Burton F***ing ROCKS (+Bass Lesson Tips) Hotney 4 Streams • 4 years ago

How did Cliff Burton become a metal bass hero? Here’s my take on Metallica’s legendary former bassist, plus tips to level up your own playing.

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What really freaked me out when I first heard Cliff was when he’d shred his bass like a lead guitar - so first we’ll break down part of his solo on “Orion”. I’ll show you 3 guitarist-style tricks Cliff uses to make that solo shred hard.

Then we’ll talk influences, metal legends like Steve Harris, Geezer Butler, and Lemmy Kilmister had a big impact on Cliff, and you can see that influence directly in the bass line examples we’ll check out.

Cliff was also majorly influenced by listening to Johann Sebastian Bach and other baroque composers. I’ll break down exactly how that influence showed up in his playing - and how it didn’t. (nobody ever talks about this!)

As any fan knows, Cliff wrote super creative bass lines that transcending the plodding root note style of other rock and metal bands. We’ll look at his line on “Jump In The Fire,” compared to Rob McGovney’s original bass line, to see this in action.

Cliff’s bass tone kept evolving through the three Metallica albums he played on - I’ll show you how Cliff’s tone compared to other metal bassists of the same era by playing back to back isolated bass lines from Steve Harris, Tom Araya, David Ellefson, and Frank Bello. (these are so cool to hear)

How do you keep up with James Hetfield’s legendary downpicking speed? Cliff had a trick up his sleeve that made it doable - you’ll probably be surprised how simple it is, and how well it works in a full band mix.

Cliff Burton played with Metallica from 1983 to 1986 - just under three years - and we’re still feeling the impact of his legacy over 30 years later.

His life ended abruptly on September 27, 1986 in a tragic tour bus accident.
It was a huge loss to his family, friends, and fans.

But the music lives on, and I have a feeling we’ll be talking about Cliff for many more years. So thanks Cliff, we love you, and rest in peace!

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