MK Magazine News 2008

I have a special message for my friends in Diary of a Damned Man

image above is dedicated to the Curry Haushold (Christopher, Julicifer, and Phillipifer)

Gigantic Pictures has announced plans to release “Fix: The Ministry Movie”, described as “one of the most shocking, disturbing, and exposing looks into the world of six-time Grammy-nominated band MINISTRY in its most influential, controversial, and drug-induced years.”

According to a press release, “Fix: The Ministry Movie” “shoves your ass way, way backstage with MINISTRY, featuring appearances by Trent Reznor (NINE INCH NAILS), Jonathan Davis (KORN), Dave Navarro (JANE’S ADDICTION), Maynard James Keenan (TOOL) and many more.”

For more information, and to view the trailer

visit www.fixtheministrymovie.com

David, Kid Rock and Dimebag Darrell

David Allan Coe sang lead vocals for Rebel Meets Rebel, a country-metal band consisting of Coe and Dimebag Darrell, Vinnie Paul, and Rex Brown from Pantera. The self-titled album was recorded between 2001 and 2002, but was not released until after Darrell’s death in 2004.

David has also performed and recorded several songs with Kid Rock including “Single Father” and from the #1 best selling rock album of 2008 Rock n Roll Jesus the song “New Orleans”. (which just so happenes to be this writer favorite Kid Rock song from that album)

David Allan Coe is bringing his unique outlaw country stylings to DURTY NELLIES 180 North Smith Street Palatine, IL on Jan 9 and the dates below reflect shows booked well into May. See www.durtynellies.com for ticket information

For more on DAC see www.officialdavidallancoe.com

Sat 01/02/10  
Biloxi, MS  Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Biloxi     
       
Thu 01/07/10  
Grand Rapids, MI  The Intersection - Showroom         
   
Fri 01/08/10  
Dubuque, IA  Mississippi Moon Bar   

Sat 01/09/10  
Palatine, IL  Durty Nellie’s     
       
Sat 01/16/10  
Odessa, TX  Dos Amigos   

Wed 01/20/10  
Alva, OK  Woods County Fairgrounds   

Fri 01/22/10  
Osceola, IA  Terrible’s Lakeside Casino  
 
Sat 01/23/10  
Osceola, IA  Terrible’s Lakeside Casino   

Fri 02/12/10  
Akron, OH  Tangier Restaurant & Cabaret   

Sat 02/13/10  
Fannettsburg, PA  Hillside Tavern   

Thu 02/25/10  
Texarkana, AR  Shooter’s Sports Bar  
 
Fri 02/26/10 
 Vinton, LA  Texas Longhorn Club   

Fri 03/12/10  
Baton Rouge, LA  Texas Music Hall   

Sat 03/13/10  
San Leon, TX  18th Street Pier   

Fri 03/19/10  
Jacksonville, NC  Hooligans Music Hall 
 
Sat 03/20/10 
 Asheville, NC  The Orange Peel   
         
Sun 03/21/10  
Knoxville, TN  The Valarium   

Thu 04/01/10  
Colorado Springs, CO  Cowboys   

Fri 04/02/10  
Denver, CO  Grizzly Rose   

Wed 04/14/10  
Modesto, CA  The Fat Cat Music House And Lounge  
 
Thu 04/15/10  
Hanford, CA  Fox Theatre   

Fri 04/16/10  
Redondo Beach, CA  Brixton   

Sat 04/17/10  
San Juan Capistrano, CA  The Coach House      
      
Wed 04/21/10  
San Marcos, CA  The Jumping Turtle   

Thu 04/22/10  and Fri 04/23/10 
Laughlin, NV  Tropicana Express Hotel Casino   
 
Sat 05/08/10  
Greenville, MS  Harlow’s Casino & Resort   

Thu 05/20/10  
Port Huron, MI  Military St. Music Cafe   

Fri 05/21/10  and Sat 05/22/10
Detroit, MI  Blondies             

from: www.acefrehley.com/store/

 Ace Frehley will release ‘Behind the Player’ a retrospective DVD chronicling his work as one of the world’s most influential guitar players. The DVD will be released worldwide January 19th, through IMV, Rocket Science Ventures and Sony/RED.

The DVD features the iconic Spaceman talking about his life as a guitar player, including rare photos and video footage. Ace also gives in depth lessons for his KISS classics “Shock Me” and “Cold Gin.” The DVD includes an all-star jam session of Ace playing with George Lynch, John 5, Matt Sorum, Chris Wyse and Tommy Clufetos. Frehley says, “I haven’t done anything like this before, but liked what they were doing with the Behind The Player series. Jamming the tracks with the guys was a lot of fun.”

Ace Frehley Behind The Player will be available January 19th at music retailers and for digital download everywhere. Or you can pre-order on Amazon today. 
   
Price: $15

This WENESDAY NIGHT DECEMBER 23RD the 129th annual I LOVE RICH RICHMASS SHOW is going to be held  AT THE COBRA LOUNGE (235 N Ashland Ave in CHICAGO)!!! Joining us in our never-ending ROCK AND ROLL PARTY this year will be our good friends in COME ON COME ON and HAY PERRO. This show is going to be a good fucking time. And since it’s a COBRA LOUNGE, it means the show is FREE! Show starts at 9:30, ILR at 11:30. But show up on time since both the other bands are awesome.

If you’ve never been to one before, I guess that means either I haven’t known you for very long or we mustn’t be very good friends. Back when we more important it was described in the Chicago Tribune as “your family Christmas party on acid”. We dress up in Christmas outfits, we make sure EVERYONE WHO COMES OUT GETS A GIFT (for real), people go crazy, everyone gets shitfaced and everybody gets laid we all are nice and hung over and stinky for our families the next day. The way nature intends us to be.
 
We are going to be running 2 songs of our 1997 classic release “Live, Wett, Dripping with Sexx”. One of them is a song we still whip in the set from time to time, the other is a great little number that we probably haven’t played in at least 8 years. I will not tell you what it is, but let me just say this, you may shit when you hear it.

Jesus, I am so witty.
 
3 great bands, gifts and it’s all free. You are a complete fucktard if you miss this.

Don’t miss it; the last show of 2009 will be a doozy.

Love you all.

RICH
 
Whats that, you want to read more about how great our new CD I LOVE RICH 3: SEASON OF THE RICH is?

Check out this review from Sleazroxx
 
Judging by the song titles on I Love Rich’s Season Of The Rich you don’t have to be a brain surgeon to figure out that this EP is going to be full of sexual innuendos. Actually, forget the innuendos, with titles like “Let’s Fuck All Night” and “Everybody’s Getting Laid Tonight”, they aren’t hinting or alluding to anything, they’ve just come straight out with it. Most of the lyrics here are a milder version of the ‘boy’s locker-room’ stuff that Steel Panther has reached success with.
 
There is a cheesy element about I Love Rich. Lead singer Rich does a good job of convincing the listener that he knows how great he and his band are, but in a farcical kind of a way. From their official site and myspace page, these guys are indeed amusing, with Rich proclaiming about himself, ‘He’s the king of rock’n'roll, all the ladies want his jock, King Kong ain’t got shit on him’. And as much as he probably wants us to believe it, I’m more inclined to guess his tongue is firmly in his cheek. I’ll probably never get to see I Love Rich live, because I live miles away from Chicago, but I’m betting it would be an entertaining show with a party atmosphere because they have that vibe in their music. Listening to this group you can picture them being an over-the-top affair, preening about the stage, having a laugh, and enjoying what they do.
 Unless you are humorless or are easily offended, you really can’t help but crack a smile at some of this. Although I Love Rich don’t seem to take themselves too seriously, they shouldn’t be dismissed because musically they aren’t a parody or joke at all. They appear to be pretty accomplished musicians with some tasty riffs and big drums. Rich himself sounds a lot like Paul Stanley which, considering Kiss’ massive fan base, isn’t a bad thing.

 All the songs do have a sameness about them, but then again so do AC/DC and that hasn’t done them any harm. Season Of The Rich is a straight ahead mix of rock and glam with a smirk on its face. It won’t set the world on fire, but it’s perfect if you fancy opening a few cold ones at home and re-creating the feeling that you are out at a sweat soaked bar having a good time with I Love Rich.

Reviewed by Tania for Sleaze Roxx, November 2009.

“Ich Tu Dir Weh” (English translation: “I’ll Hurt You”), the new video from German industrial metallers RAMMSTEIN, can be viewed at visit-x/rammstein. According to a press release, the clip “is the ultimate distillation of a RAMMSTEIN concert into five minutes. As with the preceding video, ‘Pussy’, Jonas Åkerlund [METALLICA, SATYRICON, MADONNA, THE PRODIGY] stands at the helm as director, and for ‘Ich Tu Dir Weh’, he captures the show on the band’s ‘rehearsal stage’ in 35mm. A full-bodied format to do filmic justice to RAMMSTEIN’s own brand of ‘widescreen’ staging.
“The plan was simple. Åkerlund uses the language of grand cinema, RAMMSTEIN delivers the rest: the theatre, the flesh, the frenzy. The result is formidable. ‘Ich Tu Dir Weh’ shows the band at its purest and most concentrated. A beast, only awakened to life onstage under the spell of fire and a maddening roar.”
 
“Ich Tu Dir Weh” comes off RAMMSTEIN’s new album, “Liebe Ist Für All Da”, which sold 22,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 13 on The Billboard 200 chart. Previously, the group’s best rank came with its 1998 chart debut, “Sehnsucht”, which peaked at No. 45 off the strength of its only U.S. radio chart hit, “Du Hast”. Although the band just had its highest chart debut, “Reise, Reise” sold over 26,000 copies in the U.S. its opening week of sales.
 
Worldwide chart positions reaffirm RAMMSTEIN’s status as one of the most internationally popular rock bands with seven #1 sales chart positions including their native Germany as well as platinum and gold certifications already awarded for numerous European countries.
 
“Liebe Ist Für Alle Da” arrived in stores on October 20 through a marketing and distribution deal with Vagrant Records and Universal Music Germany. The album was produced by Jacob Hellner and RAMMSTEIN, with recording done at Northern California’s Sonoma Mountain Studio. The first single from the 11-track release is “Pussy”, which was released as a digital single on September 22 and accompanied by one of the year’s most viral videos.
 
RAMMSTEIN is:
 
Till Lindemann - Vocals
Paul Landers - Guitar
Richard Z. Kruspe - Guitar
Oliver Riedel - Bass
Christoph Schneider - Drums
Flake Lorenz - Keyboards

Rockers rants and threat trend continues:

Shock-rocker Marilyn Manson has commented on reports that a settlement was reached in former Manson keyboardist Stephen Bier’s (better known by the stage names Pogo and Madonna Wayne Gacy) August 2007 breach-of-contract lawsuit against Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner.
 
Bier, who was seeking more than $20 million, alleged Manson used money from their former band partnership to buy items ranging from Nazi paraphernalia to a $150,000 engagement ring for ex-wife Dita Von Teese.
 
In a posting on his official MySpace blog, Manson writes, “I want to make clear that, aside from the wasted legal fees, in no way did I pay off the person that stood behind a keyboard — pretending to play music other artists in this band wrote. And I would not piss on Pogo if he was on fire. Thee end. Or is it? Let’s wait until all the really bad things I covered up for him are suddenly uncovered. I got a far more severe type of karma for traitors and people that owe me, legally a lot more than what I wasted tolerating your rape of a band you never deserved to be in.”
 
In a separate posting on the same blog, Manson continued, “I don’t want this to be confused as anger. I feel nothing for a person that betrayed me and my band. My band. And I’m sure that if anyone wants to discuss this with him personally, I won’t be so rude to NOT give you his or his family’s addresses. Since I payed [sic] for both soon to be destroyed buildings. That’s at least what I just had a dream of, that I awoke from. So good luck to you, sir. You are gonna need it. Sweet dreams.”
 
An up-to-date article on Bier’s lawsuit against Manson can be found at the Southern California Public Radio web site.
 
 
Last summer Rolling Stone reported on July 28, 2009 Marilyn Manson Threatens Journalists After Explosive “L.A. Weekly” Article
 
Marilyn Manson has issued a warning on his MySpace blog against journalists who write “cavalier statements” about himself or his band, saying there will be repercussions for the “soon-to-be-murdered-in-their-home press” if he spies any more fabrications. “If one more ‘journalist’ makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans’ help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech,” Manson warns. “I dare you all to write one more thing that you won’t say to my face. Because I will make you say it. In that manner. That is a threat.”
 
Manson’s comments are reportedly a reaction to a recent L.A. Weekly interview with Buddyhead.com founder Travis Keller, who talked about what it was like to meet Manson in 2007. Keller paints Manson as a paranoid cocaine addict (Keller said the first thing that Manson asked him was “Can you get us some cocaine?”) who walked around in a side-turned Von Dutch hat. “I was like, ‘You’re Marilyn Manson?’ I remember thinking he’s going to come out with some kind of cape on,” Keller told L.A. Weekly, “I’d never met him before and thought he’d be hanging out in a coffin. He’s nothing like that.” Keller went on to say that Manson’s girlfriend at the time, insinuating actress Evan Rachel Wood, was nicknamed “Snowflake” because “when they played shows, she’d hold all the coke.”
 
Though when Manson talked to Rock Daily in January 2008, he told us about how the Led Zeppelin reunion in November 2007 inspired his own reconciliation with Twiggy Ramirez. However, Keller claims Manson only knew one Zeppelin song (”Stairway to Heaven”) and got bored at Zep’s reunion concert after the song was played. In Manson’s defense, his statements to Rolling Stone seem quite genuine.
 
In a post titled “Marilyn Manson is a big man on the internet!,” Buddyhead writer Meathead responded to Manson’s threats, adding fuel to the fire by writing, “I’m trying to visualize a scenario in which Marilyn Manson actually acquires my home address, achieves a mental state that’s close enough to sobriety to allow him to successfully type it into Google and print out the directions, and then makes it all the way over here without getting distracted and sucking off a vagrant along the way,” Meathead writes.
 
Even if Manson’s threats are just deemed posturing, there is some journo-beating precedent that make Manson’s MySpace post more serious. In 1998, Manson and two bodyguards were accused of assaulting Spin executive editor Craig Marks backstage at a concert over a magazine story. Then again, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor recently called Manson a “dopey clown,” and he’s since disappeared from Twitter, so who knows what kind of mayhem Manson is capable of. Consider us cautious.
 
 

ABBA, Jimmy Cliff, Genesis, the Hollies and the Stooges are on their way to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. As announced today, the five acts will be inducted in a ceremony on March 15.

“They represent a great cross-section of artists that define the broad spectrum and history of rock and roll and people that have contributed immeasurably to our business,” Joel Peresman, president and CEO of the foundation, said in a statement.

Nominees missing the cut this year are KISS, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, LL Cool J, Donna Summer, Laura Nyro, Darlene Love, and the Chantels.

It was a long time coming for proto-punk band The Stooges, already nominated eight times. Same for Genesis, which has been shut out in a perceived slight by the Hall against art-rock bands.

British band The Hollies, which featured Graham Nash, scored such hits as “Bus Stop” and “Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress).” Jimmy Cliff helped popular reggae with the 1972 film “The Harder They Come,” in which he starred.

ABBA, while not generally considered to be a rock ‘n’ roll band, sold 350 million records worldwide and scored 14 Top 40 hits, including “Dancing Queen” and “Waterloo.”

ABBA getting in and KISS coming up short will not go over well with the KISS Army, which actually staged a protest several years ago at the Rock Hall.

eddie trunk

From: EddieTrunk.com

My rage this morning is beyond belief! Why I care so much I don’t know? Maybe because I am a music fan my whole life and have always fought for the bands I love to get the respect (and airplay) they deserve. The R&R Hall Of Shame as I have called it has really lived up to that billing lately, but maybe never more so than what was revealed this morning.

You see after being IGNORED for 10 years and not even being on the ballot, someone at the Hall voting group woke up this year and realized there was a band called KISS, that love them or hate them was one of the biggest bands in the world and influenced millions and sold millions of albums. Finally after being ignored for a decade, they were on the ballot, something many thought they would never see. Surely they would be a shoe in now that they made the ballot right?

Well the R&R Hall Of SHAME gave us KISS fans and the band themselves the ultimate diss when they did NOT induct them this year. This is mind blowing and insulting as not only a KISS fan, but a music fan. This bullshit elitist group of idiots has gone way too far this time. Can you imagine looking over the list of people that they are putting in and saying they deserve it more than KISS?!?!? So offensive and clueless its really mind blowing!

The people that vote on this are the same people that probably made fun of me for being a KISS fan and tried to beat me up after school. I’m stunned, but I shouldn’t be. Really, consider these jerkoffs where the same people that made Van Halen wait until it was two former members that were on stage in the debacle overdue induction. The same people that made Sabbath wait so long that Ozzy said take me off the ballot at one point. SABBATH, who invented a genre!

Even when they get it right they fuck it up and are so disrespectful at the end of the day to these artists and hard music. This one is the ULTIMATE disses in a long line of them. I realize this post is probably filled with grammar and misspelled stuff (and curses), but I am in such a rage I can’t be bothered. You get the idea! Gee I wonder why the NYC spot they opened for the Hall just closed? Can’t wait to see the ratings for the TV broadcast on Fuse. Mark my words, they will be AWFUL! Good luck to them. Makes me sick.

Someone needs to wake the fuck up and as rock fans we must ignore and not support in any way this Hall or what they do until they get it right! When James Hetfield stood on stage and was inducted he made a plea in his speech to have some real rock bands long ignored finally recognized. Something that was super cool, ballsy and truthful. Well I guess these idiots won’t even listen to their own inductees! Disgusting!!

Again, this KISS insult is the ultimate diss to the band and it’s fans, but it is not the only one. ALICE COOPER, RUSH, JUDAS PRIEST, THIN LIZZY, IRON MAIDEN, DIO, DEF LEPPARD, NEVER ON THE BALLOT OVER TEN YEARS ELIGIBLE. In the non metal world where is Boston, Yes, Chicago, Bon Jovi, the list goes on and on. If I were KISS I’d pull a Sex Pistols and not show up and not give them one item to put in the Hall after this. Who needs them? Time for the artists and fans to take some control over this ongoing incredible injustice.

Artists who are in have told me privately it’s a crock of shit! Everyone knows I am a life long KISS fan and supporter of all eras, and even though I am not a fan of the band using Ace and Peter makeup on Tommy and Eric, in my heart I will always be a KISS fan. Most people don’t agree or love everything their favorite groups do, especially when they have been around almost 40 years! But you don’t have to be a die hard or a KISS fan at all to see how absurd this is. I have been so vocal about it for years on radio and TV and I will not stop. But if I’m KISS, or any of the legends dissed by these assholes, when the time does come, and they need YOUR FANS to spend their money to keep this thing interesting, and finally annoint you into their little club I’d tell them to go to hell!

Enough is enough. More to come on this as I have some ideas. But I urge all real rock fans to boycott the R&R Hall Of SHAME and I hope some of the artists do as well. When Metallica was nice enough to fly me to their induction this year I attended out of respect to them, but I did not step foot in the actual Hall. One more thing, I know there are tons of artists totally deserving in the Hall. This is not about or against them. But when a band like KISS is ignored for 10 years, then does NOT go in when they finally get on, AND you consider who is in, IT IS A JOKE!

KISS fans can celebrate the bands music and legacy the right way as I do my annual Original Merry KISSmas Special on the radio this year. I have been doing this since 1992. It is the one time all year I dedicate an entire show to nothing but the music of KISS. I started doing this out of frustration for how little attention was paid to the MUSIC of KISS and it seems this years show is more timely than ever in light of this recent news. Since the show falls on Christmas night live this year I pre recorded it a few days ago so I was unaware of this news when I got it. Probably better off as I would have spent the whole 3 hours screaming! Instead this years show will be something I have never done. One song from every KISS studio album in the order they came out, and a few extras at the end. No solo (except ‘78 albums), but one song each from “KISS” through Sonic Boom in sequence. A fun way to sample a track from all of the bands albums and hear the changes over the decades and lineups.

This show airs for the first time on my flagship Q104.3 in NYC Christmas night starting at 11PM EST. It can be heard live online at www.q1043.com for USA IP addresses only. The show then airs on affiliate stations the next weekend and you can hear it, and all my Q104 shows On Demand on this site if you are a member. Membership is only $40 a year and comes with many more benefits. A great gift for the holidays!

Merry KISSmas my friends, do not give up the fight, and NEVER support the R&R Hall Of SHAME until they get a clue!