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To say he was an innovator and major influence to an entire generation of musicians would kind of be selling him short, so let's just say Rest in Peace, Ed.
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A couple of my co-workers told me about this "song" called W.A.P. and what it stood for. Okay, then.
I'll be over here, remaining happily clueless about modern music.
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Singer Johnny Nash also passed away last week. Best known for his 1972 hit I Can See Clearly Now, Nash was one of the first American artists to record in Kingston, Jamaica. Before his pop career, Nash performed with Arthur Godfrey on his radio and TV shows.
Nash was 80.
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Yesterday (Saturday) was the 25th anniversary of the release of No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom, far and away the group's most popular work.
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Nielsen reports that works from Van Halen's catalog were streamed over 31 million times in the United States alone- up 1369% percent over the previous week's tally.
The top five most-streamed songs were Jump, Panama, Runnin’ With the Devil, Hot for Teacher, and Eruption.
Sales of the band's albums and songs were up nearly 5000% over the previous week.
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Looking for something to do in this Halloween season? Alice Cooper will be reading scary stories to fans online. Spooky Story Time with Alice Cooper- organized in partnership with Airbnb- will benefit North Star Reach, which camp experiences for children with serious health challenges and their families.
Tickets for the virtual event go on sale here on October 14th at noon here on the east cost.
Cooper promises to take his "penchant for terror to the scariest place I know- the internet" and says 100% of the proceeds go to the charity.
"Join me for a spooky story session to celebrate the season. We’ll read about spiders and spirits, goblins and ghosts and monsters and mutants – all of my favourite things, really. And we’ll do it in full costume. It’ll be a scary good time."
The even is advertised as "suitable for children ages 6+ with an appetite for fright."
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Yesterday would've been John Lennon's 80th birthday. Check out Willie, Lukas, and Micah Nelson's tribute.
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Lee Zeidman, president of Staples Center, Microsoft Theater, and LA Live says he doesn't "believe (things will) ever going to be back at whatever normal was on March 11- regardless of what kind of vaccine, drug therapy or physical distancing" is developed in response to the Coronavirus.
"When someone sneezes in your vicinity, you’re going to look around. When you go to purchase your food and beverage, you’re going to see how they’re served. When you walk the arenas and the stadiums, you’re going to look at how they sanitized it and who’s out there to continue to sanitize it."
Los Angeles Rams' owner Stan Kroenke, whose team expected to open their new Inglewood digs at SoFi Stadium in grand fashion, and- instead- saw the stadium move to "a virtual ribbon-cutting ceremony with just a small number of people" and a fanless Rams home opener last month. Taylor Swift, Kenny Chesney, Guns N’ Roses, and Tim McGraw were also scheduled to perform.
Zeidman says, while sports are able to continue to function thanks to television and sponsorship deals- concert venues are faced with uncertainty.
"If you’re a promoter or an agent or an artist, the toughest thing is plotting the tour. If you’re going to go from New York to Los Angeles, [there could be] 100, 150 dates in between there- without knowing exactly where every state is, where every county is and where every city is, as it relates to how you can open up for mass gatherings in full capacity. It’s going to be very tough to do that. Then, as you try to take your tours overseas, you’re going to run up against the same issues country to country."
Take heart, Mr. Ziedman- even if California and New York are trying to keep the virus under control, Georgia and Florida have complete morons for governors.
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Maynard James Keenan of Tool told the Arizona Repulblic that he was diagnosed with COVID in February and says he's "still dealing with the residual effects. But it was ugly. I survived it, but it wasn’t pretty." James added that he hadn't spoken about the diagnosis previously because he "didn’t want to run around screaming it. But it’s real. And there’s after-effects. I had to go through some major medications to undo the residual effects. Still coughing. There’s still lung damage."
James said he was still suffering from the effects of the disease, still suffering from "coughing fits because my lungs are still damaged at the tips. And I just got over the inflammation that was going on with my wrist and hands" from an "autoimmune attack on my system in the form of, like, a rheumatoid arthritis. Basically, from what I understand, it attacks weird spots and it’s random. So that’s what I got. That was my prize."
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Birthdays today include: Gene Watson (77); Daryl Hall (74); Andrew Woolfolk of Earth, Wind & Fire (70); Paulette Carson of Highway 101 (68); Andy McCoy of Hanoi Rocks (58); Scott Johnson of Gin Blossoms (58); MC Lyte (50); and Cardi B (28). #MusicalBirthdays
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