#WhatsHappening for April 16, 2016

Hey, ho kiddios. Anyone else as tickled as I am that it's the weekend?

I thought so.

The Braves won their first game of the season last night, beating the Marlins 6-3, making them 1-9 on the year. Sounds about right.

Now, do I think they're going to go 16-146? No. But 70 wins will be a damned miracle. And, despite what team reps might want you to believe- moving to the second fucking worst traffic nightmare in the metro area next year isn't going to lead to some miraculous turnaround.

Don't forget to join us for another face-meltingly fun edition of Saturday Night Karaoke, kicking ass and taking names tonight from 10-1 at the Iron Horse Tavern. (PS, that's called hyperbole- no ass kicking or face melting will occur.)

Does this look like a sick man?

The biggest news that I saw yesterday was Prince ending up in an Illinois hospital after playing two shows in Atlanta Thursday night.

His Purpleness was is said to be "fine," as his reps told Entertainment Weekly yesterday afternoon.

Reports say the singer was taken to a Moline hospital after his jet was forced to make an unscheduled landing due to his illness.

Prince had cancelled his two Atlanta shows last week, and played this week, instead- but is said to still be suffering from the flu.

Also making headlines is the rumored concert line up of Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, the Who, Roger Waters, and Neil Young for a festival in Indio, California this October.

The tentative schedule for the show, which is still being negotiated, would have Dylan and the Stones would open the show on Friday with back-to-back sets. Saturday's sets would feature Neil Young and the Promise of the Real opening for McCartney; and Sunday would feature the Who and Pink Floyd's Waters closing out the festival.

Billboard reports that organizers were also considering a second weekend performances. 

Zac Brown  he was "in the wrong place at the wrong time" after being caught in a Palm Beach hotel room where four people were arrested for drug possession last week.

The Palm Beach Police Department says Brown was present they arrived at the Four Seasons Hotel, but that he was not charged or arrested. 

In a statement issued yesterday, Brown said that he did not know the people arrested, was cooperating fully with police, he is not part of any ongoing police investigation, and regretted "using poor judgment and putting myself in that position."

Steve Miller says he's not a grumpy guy- despite what his tirade after last week's induction ceremony at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame may have led you to believe.

Miller told Rolling Stone that the ceremony was "unpleasant" and said the music "industry fucking sucks and this little get-together you guys have here is like a private boys' club and it's a bunch of jackasses and jerks and fucking gangsters and crooks who've fucking stolen everything from a fucking artist."

Miller added that he stands by his statements. 

"I spoke the truth as I experienced it, and as I have experienced it over the years. Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks. The history just proves it. If you're naïve as a musician when you go into it, you learn your lessons quickly. I remember when I was a kid and signed with Capitol Records I thought, "boy, this is great, I'm going down to L.A., I'm going to record at Capitol tower." I went in there and the engineering staff walked out because they didn't like me because I was a hippie [laughs]. That was my first experience. I was thrown into a pool of sharks, where all the bands were fighting for the same resources, managers were wheeling and dealing, and it was a lot more than I thought. I was pretty naïve when I started and, over the years, my record companies have grossed over $1 billion from my work, and I've spent 50 years auditing them to force them to pay me what my contracts call for. I caught them illegally selling hundreds of thousands of my records in markets worldwide. They've broken their contracts, they've broken their word. They have built-in theft in all their accounting. I've had to threaten to use the RICO statutes against them. It's a business with built-in theft and cheating, that's just considered normal, and I'm just not the kind of guy who tolerates that, I don't go for that. If it's not fair, and if it's not clean and clear, then I'm going to work to make it that way.

Birthdays today include: Akon; Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum; Jimmy Osmond; Stephen Singleton of ABC; Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil; John Bentley of Squeeze; Boll 'Sputnick' Spooner of The Tubes; and Bobby Vinton. #MusicalBirthdays