Finally. Friday.
Don't forget to head over to the Iron Horse Tavern tomorrow night for another loud and proud edition of Saturday Night Karaoke with Mark. The fun starts at 10pm- be there.
Vicki Cornell, widow of Soundgarden's Chris Cornell, announced today that a statue of her late husband will be coming to the late rocker’s hometown of Seattle.
The statue will be located at the Museum of Pop Culture and will be unveiled late next month. The bronze statue by sculptor Nick Marras features Cornell in "his signature boots, dog (tags), and (with his) long locks."
Vicki Cornell calls the statue her family’s gift to "the tight-knit community that gave him his start." Plans for the statue had been in the works since last summer.
Avenged Sevenfold has been forced to cancel it's North American tour that was set to kick off Sunday night after singer M. Shadows was ordered by physicians not to perform because of vocal cord problems.
In a letter to fans posted on the band's website and social media platforms today, Shadows wrote:
"There is no good way to start out a note containing bad news but here it is.
After Europe I came down with a terrible viral infection that rendered me voiceless.
I tried my best to take care of the situation with voice rest, medication and doctor visits but my voice was only getting worse.
After a week of steroids the swelling went down enough to see the cause of the problem. A blood blister has formed on my vocal folds and is preventing them from vibrating properly. In short, I can’t sing anything at the moment and the more I attempt to the more damage is being done. Luckily, as of now the doctors feel that 3 months of no singing and voice rest should get my chords back on track.
Unfortunately, this means we will have to cancel all tour dates at the moment.
Decisions like this weigh on me very heavily. It’s a tour I was looking forward to very much. I want to apologize to the fans who have spent their time and money booking travel arrangements and accommodations. I also want to apologize to our crew and the other bands who were depending on this tour.
None of these things are lost on me.
Just know that I have exhausted every possible solution in trying to get out there and perform for you. It just simply can’t happen at the moment.
We have a few things coming down the pipe soon that should be fun so we hope you look out for those.
Again, I am deeply sorry and hope to see you all soon.
In silence,
M"
Okay, first of all- this trailer for the upcoming season of The Walking Dead looks damned good. Also, am I the only one who thinks the scene of everyone running up from behind Rick (presumably into battle) looks a lot like Steve Rogers leading the Avengers into battle against Thanos' minions?
Show star Andrew Lincoln also is reported to have confirmed at a ComiCon panel today that he was, indeed, leaving the show after the upcoming season- meaning that another major break from the comics' story line is on the horizon.
Dennis DeYoung says he's happy that his former band mates in Styx were playing Mr. Roboto for the first time in 35 years despite James Young and Tommy Shaw's longtime, and quite vocal, contempt for the song and the album it came from- Kilroy Was Here.
"... I play Mr. Roboto at every show and people go mental," DeYoung told Billboard. "They love it because it's insinuated itself somehow into the culture, which is beyond my comprehension because when I wrote the thing it was never intended to be a single. But if I could write four more of those tomorrow, I'm doing it."
Young, meanwhile, told Billboard in a June interview that the recording of the album "was an ugly time" in the band's history and "none of the rest of us" liked the project. "We gave Dennis enough rope to hang himself, and us, collectively ... and it's clear that moment in time was a huge mistake. We killed the golden goose, at least for the time being, and it's taken a long time to resurrect it."
DeYoung, however, insists that the arena rock phase of the band's career came to an end when Tommy Shaw left for a solo career. "It really did catch us off guard and stunned the other four guys in the band," said DeYoung- who also says he was against a move to immediately replace Shaw and continue on a planned 1984 stadium tour.
"That's what really killed the momentum or the golden goose in my opinion. At that very moment MTV was just beginning to take a foothold in this country then and the band Styx missed that whole first weave of the video revolution that was taking place."
Young said the band's decision to play the song was to "fulfill a yearning request form a lot of people over the years that we'd turned a deaf ear to," denying DeYoung's assertion the decision was was driven by tour promoters
"They had gotten so many complaints from the fans that the guys weren't playing the hits because they leave out Mr. Roboto, Babe, Don't Let It End and Show Me the Way and The Best of Times," DeYoung said. "The fan base is not interested in parsing it down to who did what; They're just digging the music and want to hear all the hits."
Basically, 20 years on, they're still pissy. DeYoung holds out hope that they'll patch things up should the band ever be inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. "Should that happen, I predict we will all be standing on that stage and we will all be performing together. I do believe that."
