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Red Hot Chili Peppers: Why People Hated Their Super Bowl Appearance With Bruno Mars Hotney 2 Streams • 3 years ago

Why people hated the band's Super Bowl halftime show Appearance with Bruno Mars
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#rhcp #superbowl #halftimeshow

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In 2013 the NFL would announce that Bruno Mars would perform at the following year’s super bowl. The last real rock act to perform at the super bowl was in 2010 when the Who performed. 2005 to 2010 was a great time for rock fans when it came to the super bowl. Following the whole nipple gate fiasco of 2004 involving justin timberlake and janet jackson the NFL wanted to play it safe and for six years featured some great acts including Paul Mcccartney, The Rolling Stones, Prince, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and of course The Who.

From 2010 to 2013 we had the usual pop artists most rock fans could care less about. Shortly before the 2014 halftime show Mars would announce he’d be joiend by special guests Red Hot Chili Peppers. The halftime show would be scene by 115 million people, the biggest audience in superbowl history at the time.

Not everything went smooth during the planning stages as Mars and the NFL butted heads. The NFL wanted to have the audience members wear light up bracelets to which Mars responded
Telling rolling stone "If you take that camera off me, you're doing yourself a disservice. And what happened? They spent all this money on these things, and it didn't work. Mars became the youngest performer to headline the halftime show being 28 at the time. While Mars performance garnered rave reviews, the same couldn’t be said for the Chili Peppers. While Mars would perform a medley of his hits in addition to opening the show with a drum solo honoring his late mother the Chili Peppers joined him onstage for the second last number performing their 1991 hit Give It Away. Mars' would receive much praise for his performance, but critics were less positive about the Chili Peppers. Entertainment Weekly criticized the Red Hot Chili Peppers' appearance calling it “random and unnecessary” Buzzfeed echoed a similar sentiment with the LA Times Wood calling the Chili Peppers performance ‘stale’

It wasn’t just the critics who criticized the chili peppers as other musicians soon chimed including Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid who pointed out that guitarist Josh Klinghoffer and bassist Flea’s instruments weren’t plugged in. Some accused the band of faking their live performance. A few days later Flea would issue a statement on their performance a few days later stating

“When we were asked by the NFL and Bruno to play our song Give It Away at the Super Bowl, it was made clear to us that the vocals would be live, but the bass, drums, and guitar would be pre-recorded.

GALLERY

GALLERY“I understand the NFL’s stance on this, given they only have a few minutes to set up the stage, there a zillion things that could go wrong and ruin the sound for the folks watching in the stadium and the t.v. viewers. There was not any room for argument on this, the NFL does not want to risk their show being botched by bad sound, period,”
Drummer chad smit hmeanwhile took to twitter to write FYI.... Every band in the last 10 years at the Super Bowl has performed to a previously recorded track. It's the NFL's policy. Period."[28]
That wasn’t the only complaint about the chili peppers controversy as deadspin reported that the US Federal Communications commission received 53 complaints about the performance mostly about flea and anthony keidis performing shirtless worried about what children might think. One person contacted teh FCC complaining about a double standard about men being able to go topless but not woman.
Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose published a letter to offer his own humorous take I enjoyed the show and I've no idea what the real story is nor would I want to suggest or imply anyone wasn't actually performing or that what they were playing wasn't what we actually heard. That said I feel it's important to always look on the positive side of things and to give the benefit of doubt.
So consider that maybe sometime before their actual performance that rather than use a guitar cord or standard wireless, that in the name of science and for all mankind Flea courageously had a newly invented breakthrough in microchip technology installed in his ass that picked up the frequencies of his bass and transmitted them to his amplifier.

Red Hot Chili Peppers: John Frusciante's Reclusive & Lost Years Hotney 2 Streams • 3 years ago

A look at Red Hot Chilli Peppers guitarist John Frusciante's Lost and Reclusive Years during the mid 90's.

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#johnfrusciante #redhotchilipeppers

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John Fruscinate would be the longest serving guitarist in the band having three separate stints with the group with his first happening from 1988-1992, 1998-2009 and more recently 2019 until present. By the late 80’s the Chili Peppers already had several guitarists included Jack Sherman and Hillel Slovak. Following the death of Slovak in 1988 Frusciante would join the band. Frusciante’s musical background differed greatly from his bandmates with Flea recallingin the book , Fornication: The Red Hot Chili Peppers Story, Fruiscante was and iquote “a really talented and knowledgeable musician. He [Frusciante] knows all the shit I don’t know. I basically know nothing about music theory and he’s studied it to death, inside and out. He’s a very disciplined musician—all he cares about are his guitar and his cigarettes.”
In 1991 Red Hot Chili Peppers would release their fifth and breakthrough album Blood Sugar Sex Magik. It would establish the band as one of the biggest groups in the world, but the new success brought challenges namely insecurity, infighting and drug addiction. Frontman Anthony Kiedis would write in his 2004 autobiography Scar Tissue about Frusciante’s headspace at the time recalling “John would say, ‘We’re too popular. I don’t need to be at this level of success. I would just be proud to be playing this music in clubs like you guys were doing two years ago.” It was that attitude that also showed up during their live gigs with drummer Chad Smith telling VH1’s behind the music. John was just up there like he didnt’ give an f about anything and you can’t be in a band and not care and it’s gonna show and it did a lot of the shows were terrible.”
.Frusciante would stay with the band until May of 1992 before leaving the group following a performance in tokyo, japan. He would look back revealing in a 1994 interview "It was just impossible for me to stay in the band any longer", he said. "It had come to the point where even though they wanted me in the band, it felt like I was forced out of the band. Not by any members in particular or management in particular, but just the direction it was going.
Upon returning home Frusciante would be hold up in his hollywood hills home finding solace in drugs, ghosts, art and music. While to the public he disappeared for nearly half a decade they would get a glimpse into his mind at the time with the release of his 1995 avante garde album Niandra La Des and Usually Just a T-Shirt. Despite being written three years prior towards his tail end with the Chili Peppers it spells out Frusciante’s fragile state of mind. CMJ New Music Monthly called it "probably the most-up album ever released by someone who had once played in stadiums. It was in 1994 friend johnny depp and gibby haynes from butthole surfers filmed frusciante in his home as part of a short documentary, which would later be released to promote the guitarist’s first solo album..
According to loudersound Frusciante would tell a US Publication about the album “My recordings had gone to from these happy, optimistic things, to celebrations of the surreal, to really scattered, demonic-sounding things like the sound of someone whose mind was about to explode.”
In addition to dealing with a severe drug addiction Frusciante also claimed to hvae upwards of 400 ghosts in his head telling Classic Rock “I wasn’t spiritually protected against the spirits that meant me no good,” “Ghosts that are just there to with me and drive me crazy. I couldn’t discern between them and the ones that were helping me and I was so confused. Everything that I was learning seemed to be pulling me towards death. I saw death in everything around me. And everything that was beautiful represented everything that was sad, lost and gone.”
Despite being estranged from his former bandmates, he did maintain somewhat of a relationship with bassist Flea who would visit his old friend from time to time but as Frusciante’s drug abuse escalated it was too much for Flea.
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Pearl Jam: Tragic Story of The Kid Who Played Jeremy Hotney 2 Streams • 3 years ago

Pearl Jam: Jeremy the story of the kid who played the character in the film.

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#pearljam #Jeremy #eddievedder

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Grunge would dominate the music scene in the early 90’s and one of the band’s who was a frequent presence on MTV and on rock radio was Pearl Jam. Perhaps no video is more popular for Pearl Jam than Jeremy from their debut album Ten. Despite the song’s dark subject matter and controversial video, it received heavy rotation on MTV, is still frequently played on rock radio where I live and is the band’s most viewed video on YouTube. But whatever happened to the kid who starred in the video, well fame proved to be difficult to deal with and he would find a different path in life, His life would be cut short due to a tragic accident. That’s whjat were going to explore in today’s video

To celebrate the video’s 25th anniversary, Billboard Magazine would write a very indepth article on Trevor Wilson, the young actor who portray’s Jeremy in the music video. The publication would interview Mark Pellington who directed the video for Pearl Jam and Wilson’s parents who discuss a man who felt the same way about fame as the members of Pearl Jam did.

The video lyrics for Jeremy would be inspired by a real life event that happened at a Dallas school in 1991 when a boy who was bullied by his kids at school ended his life in front of his classmates. Director Mark Pellington would tell Billboard that Wilson was sick when he sent in his audition tape, but despite this he clinched the audition the second he walked in recalling "He was sick on his tape, and he didn’t play it like, 'Oh, I’m all angsty,'". "He was sitting there and I was looking at [his audition tape], and he was kind of dazed and numb and f--ked up. I found out later that he was sick. But he was so expressive, in a non-histrionic way." WIlson’s mother Diane would point to the fact that her son suffered from Asthma, something that may have influenced how he acted and looked the day of the audition. she would tell billboard that had she been at the audition chances are she wouldn’t have let her son go because she wasn’t a fan of firearms. Ironically MTV rejected the first cut of the video because they didn’t want any firearms shown in the video, much to the shagrin of the video’s director and the band.

Wilson’s mother Diane worked with people in show business while living in new york. His mother was a chef to well known celebrities including director Ridley Scott, talk show host phil donahue and actress michelle pfeifffer. Wilson would attend the Rudolf Steiner Waldorf School in Manhattan while spending his weekends at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. It would be the 1986 film Stand By Me that got Wilson interested in acting and one of Diane’s clients who saw potential in her son and suggested he try acting classes.

Wilson’s father accompanied his son to the audition after reading about it in the backpages of Billboard magazine. His son had already done a few auditions for other projects, but that was it. While he was waiting for his son to be called he overheard someone say and i quote “He has to have a good scream,” so he pinched his son’s leg until he let out a big scream and went over the lyrics of the song with him to help him better understand the character. Wilson got the audition beating out 200 other applicants. The original plan was not to feature Pearl Jam at all in the video, but Pellington decided against that after spending several days shooting the band in London.

After the video shoot wrapped up Wilson and his family went on vacation and relocated from New York to Los Angeles. By the time Wilson’s family was now living in Los Angeles Jeremy’s video had premiereed on MTV and feeling something seismic happen, they started to sense something big was happening with his Father recalling to Billboard . “Once we moved there, he started getting all this fan mail, and he went on this radio talk show [with Dr. Drew Pinsky] — and women were calling in and saying they’d like to take him to bed… just boxes and boxes of fan mail,” Wilson soon became recognizable to a lot of places he went with his father adding “After a few months of that attention, he kind of turned away.” with his mother adding

Godsmack: Whatever Happened To The Girl On The Group's 'Godsmack' Album? Hotney 2 Streams • 3 years ago

Godsmack: Whatever happened to the Girl on the group's 'Godsmack' album.

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#godsmack #motleycrue #sullyerna

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Released in 1998, Godsmack’s first album, which riginally self released as All Wound Up, until the band signed a major recording deal to Universal and Republic Records. They would soon re-release the album as a self titled release. Gracing the cover was a mysterious pierced and woman along with a logo I always shared some similarities with Alice in Chains. Not to mention the name Godsmack, the name of a track taken off Alice in Chains hugely popular 1992 Dirt album. I found it funny when drummer Shannon Larkin claimed the band were not influenced by Alice in Chains saying they are not clones of the band telling the Reno Gazette Journal “I don't hear it. I was never a big ALICE IN CHAINS fan. Layne's (Staley of ALICE IN CHAINS) voice is amazing, but I never heard it. If somebody said GODSMACK sounds like METALLICA, I could totally hear that. Sully sounds like (METALLICA's James) Hetfield to me. I guess there's a darkness to the harmonies that sounds like Layne and Jerry (Cantrell),but to me it's still apples and oranges."

Getting back to the story. . Who was the woman on the cover,, was she real and if so what is she up today? That’s what were going to explore along with the controversy involving the album and a disgruntled parent.

The woman on Godsmack’s debut album is a real person. Her name is Toni Tiller. She would be interviewed by Kerrang where she discussed how she got on the cover and what she’s up to today. She would admit to meeting the members of the band years after the shoot and how nice they were. She would tell Kerrang how she graced the album cover recalling "I was living in NYC and deeply involved in the club kid scene and so I had an interesting look going. I met a photographer in Brooklyn and we were trying a few things out for a project if his and we snapped that image. A few years later he was working with the band and they saw that in his book and liked it, so they purchased it for use. The next ting I know, my face everywhere. It was pretty strange, but I love weird stuff like that."

That image the band used was taken four years earlier in 1994. Tiller would admit she wasn’t a model and would help people out if they asked also admitting that one woman in new york made a doll of her. Surprisingly she would admit that being on the album’s cover never got her recognized in public, largely because of geography. She would admit there weren’t a lot of Godsmack fans where she lived at the time. So what’s she up to today? She would admit to Kerrang "Now I live in the woods, I'm bald, usually barefoot, and into a variety of stuff. Meditation, strange objects, cooking, esoteric studies, cacti, dollhouses, rugs, and artsy crap. In my spare time I have a reform school for rude kittens." Since doing the interview with Kerrang she has posted some photos showing her signing posters of the band’s debut album.

Let’s talk about the controversy behind the album. Released in august of 1998 the group’s debut record didn’t create any trouble for almost a year. In April of 1999 the album was certified gold in America moving half a million copies. Then in June of 1999 MTV reported that one, I’m not kidding one parent from Cleveland had bought the record for his kid and after going through the liner notes and lyrics, complained about the record citing objectionable artwork and lyrics. The artwork they objected to were pentagrams The album hadn’t been released with a parental advisory sticker and somehow made it’s way past the people who review albums for walmart and k-mart. The complaint resulted in the chains pulling the album off store shelves. Eventually the band agreed to play ball with walmart and put parental advisory stickers on the album with sully erna telling rolling stone "Our record has been in the marketplace for more than a year now without a parental advisory sticker and this is the one and only complaint. Stickers and lyrics are by nature subjective. We have decided to put a sticker on the record." "It's almost taunting kids to go out and get the record to see what we're saying on it. Erna would claim the controversy didn’t hurt the album commercially and he was probably right the album went 4x platinum just in America

Led Zeppelin: Their Disastrous 1985 Live Aid Reunion With Phil Collins Hotney 2 Streams • 3 years ago

Led Zeppelin's Disastrous 1985 reunion at Live-Aid in Philadelphia.

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#ledzeppelin #jimmypage #robertplant

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Led Zeppelin’s Disastrous Reunion (Live-Aid)

Live Aid in 1985 was a charity concert that was held simultaneously in the UK and America and was put together to help fight the famine in Ethriopia that had been documented the previous year. I don’t think i’ve ever shared this with you guys, but I used to live in ethiopia when i was younger. Yes, i know i’m quite worldly. Live Aid 1985 was the site of several high profile reunions including Black Sabbath, Crosby Still Nash and Young. But that wasn’t what most fans were looking forward to. The charity concert was also the site of the most anticipated reunion was one involving ¾ members of the led zeppelin with drummer phil collins. The performance that day would be remembered as a complete disaster even by the members themselves and today we’re going to explore the stories.

Led Zeppelin would break up in 1980 following the death of drummer john bonham the band would disband. The band would reunite for the first time in 1985 after Live Aid organizer Bob Geldoff convinced the surviving members to appear at the Phildaelphia concert at john f kennedy stadium. . The band would play through a 20 minute long set consisting of three of their classic songs including Rock and Roll, Whole Lotta Love, and Stairway to Heaven. Tony Thompson and Phil Collins filled in on the drums for the performance.

The performance was not remembered for the right reasons.

The performance was marred by a myriad of problems. Bassist john paul jones flew in the day of the show and the band only spent an hour rehearsing the same day. Couple this with the fact that the monitors were acting up and the members couldn’t hear themselves or each other and when guitarist jimmy page was handed a guitar on stage it was out of tune. Couple this with frontman Robert Plant’s vocal problems and it was a performance fans had hoped for.

Frontman Robert Plant would tell Rolling stone 3 years after Live AId . “Emotionally, I was eating every word that I had uttered. And I was hoarse. I’d done three gigs on the trot before I got to Live Aid. We rehearsed in the afternoon, and by the time I got onstage, my voice was long gone.” with Jimmy Page adding years later My main memories, really, were of total panic. John Paul Jones arrived virtually the same day as the show and we had about an hour’s rehearsal before we did it. And that sounds like a bit of a kamikaze stunt, really, when you think of how well everyone else was rehearsed.”

Phil Collins would write about the performance in his book writing I knew the wheels are falling off from early on in the set. I can’t hear Robert clearly from where I’m sat, but I can hear enough to know that he’s not on top of his game. If I’d known it was to be a two-drummer band, I would have removed myself from proceedings long before I got anywhere near Philadelphia.” He would tell q magazine in 2014 in a separate interview "I thought it was just going to be low-key and we'd all get together and have a play.
"But something happened between that conversation and the day - it became a Led Zeppelin reunion. I turned up and I was a square peg in a round hole."
Adding "Robert was happy to see me, but Jimmy wasn't. You could sense I wasn't welcome.
"If I could have walked off, I would have done. But then we'd all be talking about why Phil Collins walked off Live Aid - so I just stuck it out.

While many including some of the band members blamed Collins for at least part of the poor performance with Jimmy Page telling the Sunday Times “The drummer couldn’t get the beginning of ‘Rock And Roll’,”” So we were in real trouble with that. "But at the end of the day, he didn't know anything. We played 'Whole Lotta Love', and he was just there bashing away cluelessly and grinning. I thought that was really a joke."

Collins would blame a lack of rehearsal time as reported by new musical express stating “I didn’t rehearse when I got there, but I listened to ‘Stairway To Heaven’ on Concorde,” he said. “I arrived and went to the caravans, and Robert said: ‘Jimmy Page is belligerent’.”

he would blame other drummer Tony Thompson. Collins would claimed was more trying to make a name for himself should led zeppelin

Frank Zappa: Why Saturday Night Live Banned The Musician Forever Hotney 2 Streams • 3 years ago

Frank Zappa: Why Saturday Night Live Banned Frank Zappa from hosting or appearing as the musical guest.

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#SNL #frankzappa

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Eclectic Musician Frank Zappa would first appear on NBC’s variety sketch show Saturday Night Live in 1976 as the musical guest. Two years later he’d appear as the host and musical guest and it would result in him getting banned. Let’s take a look at what happened.
On October 21, 1978 Frank Zappa was tapped to host saturday night live and appear as the musical guest. It was a rare occurrence back in the day for the show to have the same host and musical guest. It feels more common nowadays. Unfortunately for the show and Zappa it didn’t go well.. Looking uncomfortable during the beginning of the show Zappa would start things off by reminding the audience that he was reading off of cue cards.
Each episode of SNL involves a week of brainstorming ideas for sketches, writing the sketches and then rehearsing. It was during the run up to his hosting date that Zappa didn’t appear to get along with the cast of the show. So much so, that some of the cast members refused to even appear onstage with the musician during the final segment of the show known as the ‘goodnight segment’. Perhaps part of the reason Zappa didn’t gel with the cast was because it was the 70’s and drug use was pretty rampant amongst the SNL staff, something Zappa disapproved of.
After a poorly received dress rehearsal Zappa adopted an attitude of indifference, and it was obvious to those watching at home.
A year after his appearance Zappa would be interviewed by Stereo Review and look back at his appearance hosting SNL Saying “It’s a very difficult thing to do; they never make it easy on anyone who hosts the show. All the direction and attention goes to the sketches. They’re not called skits–they become ‘incensed’ if you call them skits–and it’s all designed to accommodate the people who are regulars on the show, so anybody who goes on there to hosts is at a severe disadvantage. Because they never tell you what camera is on, and you’re not supposed to memorize your script because they’re rewriting right up to show time. And so you’re looking at the cue cards, and unless you’re used to acting live on TV, you haven’t got a prayer; you’ll be looking at the wrong camera. It was really hard.” Adding They [SNL] had written dialogue for me to say that I wouldn’t normally say; they wouldn’t let me write any of my own stuff.”
In 1990 comedian and cast member Dana Carvey would end up immitating Frank Zappa on the show during an episode that comedian andrew dice clay hosted.

Stabbing Westward: Whatever happened to the band behind 'Save Yourself' & 'What D Hotney 2 Streams • 3 years ago

Stabbing Westward: Whatever happened to the band behind 'Save Yourself' and 'What Do I have To Do,

0:00 - Pre-Band Years
2:25 - Stabbing Westward Early Years
4:13 - Ungod/Second Album
8:00 - Trent Reznor's Thoughts/Darkest Days
11:28 - Breakup/Reunion

Kiss Reunion Tour

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Sex Pistols

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#stabingwestward #christopherhall

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’ve had a lot of people requesting this band over the past year or two and it’s finally time to tackle this subject. Before we start make sure you guys go fill out our request form in the description box below of what stories and topics you’d like to see us cover in the future on our channel. Stabbing Westward would emerge on people’s radars during the mid 90’s and be frequently compared to industrial pioneers nine Inch nails. I mean, they shared a similar sound even shared drummers, which may have been instrumental in getting the band signed and today we’re going to explore whatever happened to the band.

While Stabbing Westward wouldn’t rise to prominence in the middle part of the 90’s they formed nearly a decade prior in the 80’s. The band would be started by two musicians bassist and vocalist Christopher Hall and Walter Flakus (keyboardist, programmer, backup singer) in the city of Macomb, Illinois. Most sources said the band’s early days dated back to 1985, but one fan site that’s since archived claims the band’s origins dated back to 1981. According to the fan site the pair met at a summer music camp. Four years later they would both attend Western Illinois University pursuing degrees in music, while working at the local college radio station.. At this time forming a rock band wasn’t on their minds, at least not for Hall who would tell Cryptic Rock From the time I was five, I played the trumpet and I went to college studying Classical music. I was convinced I was going to be a trumpet player in the Chicago Symphony and be a university teacher; that was my goal.The Rock band thing was sort of a side passion that kind of took over. Hall would tell songfacts where the band’s musical inspiration came from saying As kids, Walter and I were crazy about Ministry and Depeche Mode and Kraftwerk and bands like that. Anything Al Jourgensen did we just thought was the greatest thing on earth. That was always just what we wanted to do.

The pair would play in a variety of bands before they decided they wanted to form their own project.The pair soon started recording music similar to the Cure and they bought a four track recorder, a drum machine and learned how to sequence a midi keyboard. Christopher Hall would tell Songfacts We were both in other bands – together and apart – that were mostly cover bands. One band was like a new wave cover band. I was in another band that did a lot of Smiths and Echo & the Bunnymen type stuff. But Walter and I always secretly wrote industrial music in our bedroom. We would put together every keyboard and drum machine we had and bounce tracks on a four-track. That was our passion.

According to future drummer Andy Kubiszewski (Coup-bichess-kee) who told be in the loop chicago the band’s name came from and i quote “essentially when Chris and Walter were putting the band together, they had a gig and there was a deadline for a name for the band, so they pulled out a bunch of album covers and they pulled out a record cover and it had an excerpt from, I believe it was an Eisenhower speech, where he was talking about communism coming to the west and he used the phrase “stabbing westward,” and they went oh well, “Stabbing Westward”, that will work.”

In reality the phrase stabbing westward was not from eisenhower, but an unknown announcer from a 1947 newsreel. The newsreel would be included in the 1982 documentary the atomic cafe.

The pairs post secondary institution of Western Illinois University served as an inspiration for the pair with Hall stating to R&R Reported “Since we went to Western Illinois University, Stabbing Westward had a certain ‘kill everybody in the school’ vibe to it! The school’s way out in farm country and the country is really close minded. I was walking around like Robert Smith with real big hair, big baggy black clothes, black fingernail polish and eye makeup. They just didn’t get it. We hated the town.”
The pair soon moved to ch

Prince: The Woman Who Won a Date With the Rockstar MTV Contest Under The Cherry Moon Hotney 2 Streams • 3 years ago

The story of the MTV Contest that saw one lucky fan win a date with musician Prince.

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In 1986 MTV would partner up with musician Prince to promote his new film at the time titled Under the Cherry Moon. MTV would hold a contest to give one lucky winner the chance to win a date with the musician along with several other prizes. Here’s a promo the network ran for the contest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB97NefZmE0

The winner would be 20 year old hotel chambermaid from Sheridan, Wyoming named Lisa Barber. The town’s population was less than 11,000 people. Barber would spot the ad for the contest while watching MTV with a friend one day after work., Funny enough Prince wasn’t the most famous celebrity to visit the town as it was reported that years prior Queen Elizabeth II was spotted shopping in the town. She had been invited by Sen. Malcolm Wallop. .

The Daily Beast would reach out to Prince’s publicist Robyn Riggs several years after the musician’s death to recount what happened behind the scenes. Riggs who was 25 at the time would recall reading the paper the day after the MTV contest ended. She read an interview with Barber who was asked whether she was a fan of her boss with her responding ‘Yeah, he’s OK. But I really like Motley Crue! I hope I get to meet Tommy Lee.”

Riggs fearing that the contest could unravel would head down to Billings, Montanna, the closest major airport to Sheridan. Riggs would have to give Barber a makeover from heavy metal fan to Prince fan, and had to ensure preparations were underway for her boss arrival. A convoy of trucks descended on the small town with Prince’s equipment for the concert. Prince’s band the Revolution, didn’t have a good start to the contest with guitarist Wendy Melvoin revealing in the book Prince: The Man and his music . “We had the worst flight ever from Denver to Sheridan, everyone was praying. We thought we were gonna die," with Keyboardist Lisa Coleman adding, “The plane was a VW van with wings.”

The contest almost fell apart when. Prince’s manager, would call Riggs to tell her thatthat the musician would drive himself to the movie theatre and the contest winner could ride with the band in the bus to the event. Furious, Riggs would call up Rob Friedman who was the head of the movie studo’s marketing department to give him a heads up and tell Prince’s manager and i quote “Steven, here’s what’s going to happen. You’re going to get with your client, you’re going to tell him that he’s going to take this girl AS HIS DATE. If he does not do that, then I’m going to haul Warner Bros. out of here. And all of our promotional dollars are going home.”

Ahead of the movie premiere Barber would spend an hour getting dolled up by Prince’s haristylist and makeup artist and was given an outfit to wear for the premiere admitting to people magazine she and i quote “usually shopped at kmart”

Barber would tell People Magazine “I was so nervous, but he told jokes in the car while he drove us to the movie theater, and I could tell he was doing his best to help me relax,” “It was such a huge deal – cameras were flashing everywhere. That night was the biggest thing to ever happen in Sheridan.”

After the movie premiere the party headed back to the local holiday inn where Prince and his band played a 45 minute set. In honor of the celebration, then Sheridan Mayor Max DeBolt proclaimed July 1, 1986, as “Prince and MTV Day.”

Prince would end up keeping a fake pearl necklace he got from Barber that night, but he wouldn’t leave her empty handed giving her a goodnight kiss at her home, along with a pair of earrings and gold necklace in addition to two tickets to an upcoming concert in Denver Barber would admit to people magazine “I went with a friend and they gave us backstage passes, but he wasn’t there after the show,” “Still, he was so sweet. He left me 13 long-stemmed red roses.”
Here’s some clips from mtv’s coverage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHdAa7t3MMY

Cannibal Corpse: How Jim Carrey & Ace Ventura Helped Propel The Band's Career Hotney 2 Streams • 3 years ago

Cannibal Corpse: The story of how the band ended up in Ace Ventura to perform their song Hammer Smashed Face.

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Despite being panned by critics the 1994 film Ace Ventura Pet Detective was instrumental in launching comedian Jim Carrey’s movie career. Apart from helping Jim Carrey’s career the film was also important in increasing the popularity of Death Metal legands Cannibal Corpse who also appeared in the film at the request of the comedian. Today lets talk about how the band ended up in the film, what happened afterwards and is jim carrey a metal head?

The film Ace Ventura Pet Detective saw Jim Carrey’s character trying to find out who stole the football team the Miami Dolphin’s mascot. In addition to Carrey the film would star real life Miami Dolphin’s quarterback Dan Marino and Friends actress Courtney Cox. The film would be director Tom Shaydac’s directorial debut and he was given a pretty small budget of under $20M. There were a lot of gambles during the filming. Actor jim carrey was mostly known from standup and his appearance on the show in living colour. How would he translate to the big screen, especially considering he improvised a lot of the scenes. It was a sentiment that carry shared with the LA Times in 1994 while promoting the film revealing

“"I knew this movie was going to either be something that people really went for, or it was going to ruin me completely,"”

Carrey would admit to Arsenio Hall in an interview a few years before the film came out that he found himself fascinated by metal as you can see here.

According to Barney Greenway of napalm death carrey reportedly asked for napalm death to be in the film, but it wasn’t clear what happened to the request so cannibal corpse was next in line. By 1994 Cannibal Corpse was still up and coming at the time, even though they had already recorded 3 albums and they wouldn’t have an album on the US charts until 1996’s Vile.

The band has always been controversial amongst politicians and even entire countries. Former U.S. Senators Bob Dole and Joe Lieberman both called them out in his campaign speech. Dole claimed the band and i quote “undermines the national character of the United States” “mindless violence and loveless sex,”Dole’s aide later confirmed that he’s actually never listened to any of their music.

CC wasn’t allowed to play any songs off their first 3 albums [1990’s Eaten Back to Life, 1991 Butchered at Birth and 1992’s Tomb of the Mutilated] in Germany until 2006. Their albums were banned from sale in Australia until that same year and according to vice the band was kicked out of russia several times for inciting religious division

The band has also faced heat from the russian government and had numerous shows canceled within the countries bordersfor and i quote “inciting religious division.” [source: vice]

Getting back to the movie and the band. Carrey had made a special request for the film to include the band and while the band was honored to get the offer they didn’t want to be made fun of or put in a comedic light. Cannibal Corpse drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz telling Vice in 2015 “We got a call from our record label, Metal Blade, saying that they’d got a call from Jim Carrey’s people saying that he wanted us to be in this movie he was making," "Of course, that’s not a call you’re expecting to get. It just didn’t compute, you know? But it was a phone call, simple as that." The drummer would admit that he was a fan of carrey from his in living colour days going on to say
"We’re a brutal death metal band, and we’re serious about what we do. This seemed like it would be a cool opportunity, but we didn’t want to be made to look like fools or to be laughed at," t "But they assured us that we were going to be portrayed as Cannibal Corpse - they weren’t gonna make fun of us."
Originally the band turned down the offer b

MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS - SAME LOVE feat. MARY LAMBERT (OFFICIAL VIDEO) Hotney 2 Streams • 3 years ago

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Same Love, as featured on the debut album from Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, The Heist, will be available 10/09/2012

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Same Love, A Film By:
Ryan Lewis
Jon Jon Augustavo
Tricia Davis

Directed by:
Ryan Lewis
Jon Jon Augustavo

Produced by:
Tricia Davis

Director of Photography:
Mego Lin

Associate Producer:
Honna Kimmerer

Starring:
Jairemie Alexander
William Pontius
Shelton Harris
Sarita Valdez
Jay Sommerville

Cast:
Jairemie Alexander
William Pontius
Shelton Harris
Sarita Valdez
Jay Sommerville
Thomas Collins
Tina Tsiakalis
Kendall Kapsner
Rosie Cole
Rory King
Josue Gonzalez
Mia Clapp Perfetti
Mary Lambert
Robert Braxton
Jaida Kimmerer
Brooklyn Thornton

Crew:
Tricia Davis - Producer
Mego Lin - Director of Photography
Honna Kimmerer - Production Design
Miles Johnson - Lead Green
Evelyn Brodersen - Lead Green
Jennifer Terrana - Lead Green
Jennifer Popochock - Makeup Artist
David Herberg - Key Grip
Wil Drake - Best Boy Grip
Mike Dyrland - Best Boy Grip
Yu Chen Lin - Gaffer
Blueboy Sguiggley - Production Assistant
Seth McDonald - Production Assistant
Chris Duerkopp - Steadicam Operator
Craig Nisperos - Still Photographer
Austin Santiago - Location Services
Ben Haggerty - Story Supervisor
Sahwn Anderson - Transportation Coordinator
Nic Adenau - Additional Footage
Dan Torok - Casting

Special Thanks To:
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Greg Turk & Ray Nutter @ All Pilgrims Church - http://www.allpilgrims.org/
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And a VERY special thank you to Kerri Harrop (Music for Marriage) for her hard work and dedication in the fight for marriage equality and her devoted support to Same Love as an idea, song, and finally now as a music video. "Same Love" and the campaign to approve Ref 74 wouldn't be the same without you, Kerri.

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Same Love feat. Mary Lambert
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Macklemore Publishing BMI, Ryan Lewis Publishing BMI
Produced by Ryan Lewis for Macklemore DBA Ryan Lewis LLC
Written by Macklemore, Mary Lambert
Piano performed by Josh Rawlings
Violin by Andrew Joslyn
Cello by Natalie Hall
Trombone by Greg Kramer
Recorded and Mixed by Ryan Lewis, Ben Haggerty
Macklemore/RyanLewis Studios, Seattle, WA
Mastered by Sterling Sound, New York City, NY

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