Clown For Governor - April 12, 2010

City View the weekly newspaper in Central Iowa just released their list of 25 People Not Running For Governor That Should. Clown made it on to their list,check it out to see what they had to say!

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METALLICA Performs 'The Unforgiven III' Live For First Time; Apr. 14, 2010

METALLICA played the "Death Magnetic" track "The Unforgiven III" live for the first time ever earlier tonight (Wednesday, April 14) at Telenor Arena in Oslo, Norway.

Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be viewed below.

The band's setlist was as follows:

01. That Was Just Your Life
02. Cyanide
03. Fuel
04. The Shortest Straw
05. The Day That Never Comes
06. Of Wolf And Man
07. The Judas Kiss
08. Sad But True
09. The Unforgiven III
10. ...And Justice For All
11. One
12. Master Of Puppets
13. Battery
14. Nothing Else Matters
15. Enter Sandman
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16. Helpless
17. Phantom Lord
18. Seek And Destroy

METALLICA kicked off a new European tour yesterday (Tuesday, April 13) in Oslo, Norway. This leg follows a successful South American run, which brought the guys to Peru, Panama, Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, Brazil and several other countries.

So far this year, METALLICA has had a busy tour schedule, but when the guys do have down time, they try to make the most of it. Bassist Robert Trujillo told The Pulse of Radio what he does on breaks between tour legs. "When we come off the road, we kind of go our own ways," he said. "It just happens naturally, that's kind of a normal thing, I think, for a lot of bands. But I kind of immediately end up at the headquarters. I'm a SoCal guy and I'm living in NorCal, and I don't know a whole lot of people except my bandmates, so I always end up at the headquarters and kind of jamming there and taking care of emails and whatnot."

METALLICA's "headquarters" is located in San Rafael, California.

The band's current tour winds down June 27 in Istanbul, Turkey. On the itinerary is an appearance at Rock In Rio in Lisbon, Portugal on May 30, followed by Rock In Rio in Madrid, Spain on June 14.

For see the video,click here.

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Scorpoins Live in Czech Republic

Grup band hardrock veteran Jerman,Scorpions,tadi malam(15/03/10)kembali menggebrak panggung di "Get Your Sting And Blackout Farewell Tour 2010".Di usia mereka yang rata2 60-an mereka masih dapat membawakan performa yang baik.Dalam konser yang diadakan di Rep.Ceko mereka membawakan 24 lagu2 diantaranya Always Somewhere,Send Me An Angel,Holiday,dll.Foto2 konser mereka dapat dilihat disini.

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MICHAEL MONROE: AXL ROSE Is 'A True Rocker

LasVegasWeekly.com recently conducted an interview with former HANOI ROCKS frontman Michael Monroe. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

On his stage costumes:

Monroe: "With HANOI ROCKS I was doing the more glittery kind of thing, but for now I've kind of toned down. It's more simple. I think of what's more easy to move in; I try not to wear stuff that gets in the way too much. I got to be able to do the splits without splitting the pants!"

On splitting his pants on stage from the splits:

Monroe: "That happened once with HANOI ROCKS at The Marquee in London in the '80s. I remember I had these silver-colored pants and they were PVC or vinyl — almost the same color as graphic tape. I was graphic-taping them and the more I taped them the more they split. It became part of the show, me taping my crotch on stage. At first I was distressed, but then I thought, 'Well, that's something different for this show.' I went to the roadies and said, 'Help! Get me some graphic tape now!' I would have been screwed without graphic tape."

On the big-name collaborations:

Monroe: "Slash is one of my favorite guitar players. He's a great guitar player, and he plays the right kind of guitar. He was a great pleasure to work with. The GUNS 'N ROSES sessions were great fun. With Axl [Rose] we had some magical moments, doing that cover of the DEAD BOYS song 'Ain't It Fun', and Little Steven. I think the best songs I've written for my solo stuff have been with [him], like 'Dead, Jail or Rock 'n' Roll' [featuring Axl Rose]. He's a true rocker."

On glam rock and hair metal:

Monroe: "Somebody said I'm the guy who brought the punk into glam. To me, a lot of the hair-metal bands that came after [HANOI ROCKS]. People say [we] inspired a lot of that stuff, but I think we were more into the music. To us, the music and the songs and the attitude were more important than the big hair and the posing. ... A lot of the bands in L.A. and the hair-metal scene seemed to play their hair dryers better than they played their instruments. So I didn't really feel like I was any big part of that."

On the crazy days of HANOI ROCKS:

Monroe: "There was one incident in Israel where we almost got arrested. [Instead] we got deported because the guys threw a table out the window, and it landed on a taxicab and almost killed the driver. It could have hit [him], but luckily it didn't. The hotel manager came into the room — he opened the door with his own key — and there was broken glass all over the floor. He stepped on the glass and was jumping on one foot, [and] Nasty [the guitarist] hit the hotel manager over the head with his crutch. ... He had broken his leg in London falling down stairs at some club. There was a steep staircase at the club and they decided to see what happens when you jump headfirst with your hands behind your back — that's the kind of madness..."

On bringing rock 'n' roll to Finland:

Monroe: "In Finland back [in the HANOI ROCKS days], even if you had long hair they would kill you. Us wearing makeup and jewelry, the way we looked, it was like, 'Forget it.' When we started there were some fights with audiences, like groups of rednecks coming after us. They demolished a bus once with crowbars and baseball bats. There were like 10 guys and I woke up — I was taking a nap in the back of the bus — with the window just falling on top of me. ... We got out of there just in the nick of time. ... I think HANOI had a lot to do with the attitude changing. In the later years we became the biggest band in Finland, and that forced the people to be more open-minded about looks and stuff. We opened a lot of doors even for bands that are coming out of there now."

From:LasVegasWeekly.com

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Konser Guns N' Roses Diundur Gara-Gara Panggungnya Hancur

Hari ini(15/03/10)semestinya GnR melaksanakan konser di Rio de Janiero.Tapi tiba-tiba tadi malam panggung yg akan dibuat GnR manggung hancur kena hujan lebat.Bahkan salah seorang kru terluka akibat insiden ini.Frontman GNR,Axl Rose menyampaikan pesan pada Fansnya via Twitter yg isinya:
"ATTENTION: The March 14th GUNS N' ROSES show in Rio De Janeiro at Apoteose Stadium has been officially canceled for this evening due to the stage collapsing because of heavy rains. Stay tuned for more info and possible rescheduling information as we receive it. There is a possibility the show may be rescheduled for tomorrow night, March 15th or at a later date. There fortunately are no fatalities but there are injuries from both our camp and Rio crews the extent of which is not known at present. The Rio Fire Dept is evacuating crews out of the venue to avoid further injuries with the heavy rains and winds. Details are just coming in. Also a truck w/part of The Sebastian Bach Band's gear has rolled on the trip from Sao Paulo to Rio what is our understanding several times and we are awaiting details on the safety of the driver at this time. Thank you for your understanding and please be safe out there. Thank you. Axl Rose."







Photos courtesy:GnR world

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Sweden Rock Festival

Stone Sour telah dikonfirmasi untuk ikut dalam festival Sweden Rock Festival .Festival tahun ini mengambil tempat di Sölvesborg,Swedia yg berlangsung selama 3 hari,yaitu pd tanggal 09-12Juni 2010.
Selain Stone Sour masih banyak band2 yg akan mengikuti festival ini,yaitu:
AEROSMITH (US)
ALDO NOVA (CAN)
ALESTORM (UK)
ANVIL (CAN)
BACHMAN & TURNER (CAN)
BEHEMOTH (PL)
BIGELF (US)
BILLY IDOL (UK)
BLACKBERRY SMOKE (US)
CINDERELLA (US)
D-A-D (DK)
DAMN DELICIOUS (S)
DANZIG (US)
DEATH ANGEL (US)
DUNDERTÅGET
F.K.Ü. (S)
FATES WARNING (US)
GARY MOORE (UK)
GRAVE DIGGER (D)
GUNS N' ROSES (US)
JORN (N)
MAGNUM (UK)
MASTODON (US)
MICHAEL MONROE (FIN)
MOTHER'S FINEST (US)
NAZARETH (UK)
OPETH (S)
PENDRAGON (UK)
POINT BLANK (US)
RATT (US)
RAVEN (UK/US)
RICK SPRINGFIELD (AUS/US)
SABATON (S)
SAGA (CAN)
SATOR (S)
SLAYER (US)
STEEL PANTHER (US)
STEELWING (S)
STONE SOUR (US)
STRATOVARIUS (FIN)
SUICIDAL TENDENCIES (US)
THE ITCH (S)
THE QUIREBOYS (UK)
U.D.O. (D)
UNISONIC (D)
W.A.S.P. (US)
WATAIN (S)
WINGER (US)
Y&T (US)

Pada tahun lalu festival ini dibanjiri penonton sebanyak 35.200 orang.Namun pada tahun ini hanya dibatasi untuk 33.000 orang saja.For more information, visit www.swedenrock.com.

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Konser Guns N' Roses Sempat Dihentikan Gara-Gara Lemparan Botol

Vokalis Guns N' Roses,Axl Rose,menghentikan konsernya pada tanggal 13 Maret 2010 di stadion Estádio do Palmeiras São Paulo, Brazil.

Insiden ini bermula pd saat 2 menit setelah pembukaan konser GNR yg bertajuk Chinese Democracy.Tiba2 salah seorang penonton melempari para personel GNR.Axl Rose yg tak terima atas perlakuan tsb langsung menghentikan konser dan berkata "Where's the little fuck over here?C'mon, coward. You wanna fuck up the show for everybody? 'Cause I've got no problem — I will leave. We will all leave. You wanna play games? You can fuck yourself or we can have some fun. You guys wanna have fun? Then I don't need no little fucking pussies like we had the other night at that club.You wanna fuck with me and my boys? We will leave."

Untunglah,tak selang berapa lama GNR kembali melanjutkan konsernya dan berjalan tanpa hambatan.

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