wow.  truly sad news.  went over to his website, found he has been battling cancer since last August.  making it to 71 in the rock world is phenomenal.  gotta go find a recording of Child In Time and cry a little.   

one of my favorite memories is seeing Deep Purple at Alpine 2nd Row for the Perfect Strangers tour, standing right in front of Jon Lord.  he had a huge hammond organ on a big pivot hinge and he swung that thing back and forth while he played, we were scared to death it was going to fall right off the stage and land on top of us.

shame

well I'm just so honored I don't know what to say
after being on here for 5 years or so, I finally have a clone

Hey Bartender!  got one of those old-timey selzer bottles?
the kind the Three Stooges blast each other with?

SOAD is like one of those bands we will never see the likes of again

unless they take a sharp right turn and invent a totally new kind of music

heard on our Sirius that channel 27 is going to  be the Pink Floyd channel soon.
gotta get an indoor unit for our subscription.  or spend all our time in the car.

* looks up at the sky - doesn't see any tickets falling from the clouds *

he's probably busy on the new ozzy.com site.  saw something about that being new and updated so
I went over there and its just about the same except they are running a contest to see who can find the ozzy photos they've selected across the site and you can win stuff from their merch link.

either that or he has been taken over by the golf spammers or gotten a job working from home!

I'm still here.

How can you say the new Ozzy site is the same? The previous site was all SCREAM cd art. The new site shows tons of Ozzy images from his entire career. Each page has images specific to the time period of the album or section you are looking at. You disagree?

to be fair, I went back earlier today to give it another look.  I even logged in and checked out the forum.  maybe it's my computer's settings but I couldn't see who was posting on the threads.  the new stuff must have been under construction a bit when I was there last.  the photos are cool - but the fan photo gallery captions don't give much information on who/when, etc.  and whose raccoon is that?

it's been all over the place.  today I saw bits of the interview he did on The Talk about it.

bump

hope he's okay
haven't heard from him since then

okay so it only took a couple months and they supposedly are not fighting


this is from Rolling Stone;

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/eddie-van-halen-explains-postponed-van-halen-tour-dates-20120613

Eddie Van Halen Explains Postponed Van Halen Tour Dates
 
'We bit off more than we could chew'
 
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By Rolling Stone
 
June 13, 2012 1:55 PM ET
 



Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth of Van Halen perform in Anaheim, California.
 
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In a recent interview with USA Today, Eddie Van Halen explained why Van Halen postponed all their summer tour dates following their June 26th show in New Orleans. "We bit off more than we could chew. This record [the recently released A Different Kind Of Truth] took a lot out of us," says the guitarist. "And we went on tour earlier than we wanted to so we could play Madison Square Garden [before a renovation], and that threw the schedule out of whack."
 
Last month singer David Lee Roth expressed similar sentiments in a video, saying, "We bit off way more than we could chew when it came to scheduling. The band is winning, but our schedule has been sidelined for unnecessary roughness."
 
Van Halen denied any instance of inter-band turmoil, as reported by Rolling Stone last month, when a source with knowledge of the tour said that Van Halen's members "hate each other” and that “the band is arguing like mad. They are fighting." The guitarist also revealed the band will visit Japan in November and has "something special" tentatively planned for next year.


Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/eddie-van-halen-explains-postponed-van-halen-tour-dates-20120613#ixzz1xzpYq0hr

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-roger-waters-at-wrigley-field-pg,0,4321191.photogallery

here's the review of the show last weekend.  I didn't get to go.  friends who went and listened from Yak Zee's beer garden across the street said scalpers were still asking for $500 at intermission.
and the cops were being dicks about making sure no one was "loitering" - if you didn't have a ticket and weren't in a bar or on your way to one, keep moving along.

back to  the topic . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82RPCyr9ErE

this is for ministrymember99 if he ever checks in . .  my friends the Beer Nuts featuring
Joe Kelly and Louis Szwitek with Herb Rosen and Leanne "Dickless" Murray
from the st pats show at double door this year

I don't know . . . this looks like a lot more fun . . . being held at Wilmot Mountain Ski Resort, August 4th
and there's other upcoming dates listed on their website.  who the bands are is still a mystery for some dates.

http://www.ruggedmaniac.com/


Rugged Maniac is a 5K (3.2 mile) obstacle course race that combines the most rugged terrain and burly obstacles to allow those with a sense of adventure to define themselves, then bask in glory at a rocking after party with great bands, good food and plenty of beer!
 
Each Rugged Maniac features at least twenty obstacles constructed by an experienced crew of licensed contractors. These aren’t the pop-up kiddie obstacles you’ll see at other races. You’ll climb over walls up to 12’ high, crawl through mud under barbed wire, slide down a 50’ water slide, jump over fire and face many other challenges all while running through a combination of forests, fields, motocross tracks and ski slopes!

 . . . .  and I'm sure she greatly appreciated it.         

(opens the trapdoor behind the bar, shines a flashlight down into the darkness)

um, is that a meth lab?  I think Stevie has been living down here for a few months

there's a table full of burnt pots and pans
and underwear strewn all over the floor

ew