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Here is a nice little clip from last night’s show. I’m not sure who did the filming but they literally must have been within 5 feet (probably a little to the right) of Chadinator and I last night because this was pretty much our vantage point for the concert.

This was my first time seeing them live and overall it was good. Many songs from Kid A, Amnesiac, & Hail to the Thief really come to life live. It was great seeing them recreate all the sounds right there on stage. Not much was played from the bends/ok computer era which is my favorite so obviously that was a bit disappointing, but I can appreciate them not wanting to play the same songs over and over again. The only problem is much of there latter music is a little slower paced. Which I like in the right mood but not my typical concert experience. I know Chadinator and I would cringe every time they rolled the piano out.

From the new album Bodysnatchers and Reckoner translate very well live. Also Bangers n Mash was quite rocking!

Of course they did play Paranoid Android as part of the last encore and as far as I’m concerned any let down in the setlist was otherwise made up by the inclusion of this one song.

Check one more big band off the dwindling list of bands I need to see before I die.

My friend and I have been sitting at the back of the crowd.  We are watching the whole group sway back and fourth.  They look like one enormous live entity…uncontrollable, unstoppable. 

They just brought a fire hose to the stage and shot it at the audience.  It’s so hot that I watched them carry a woman out on a stretcher after passing out and getting trampled. 

I am in 5th grade, this is my first concert and we’ve decided to push our way up to the stage….or at least as far as we can make it.   Bon Jovi - New York Tour 1987

 That was a long time ago for me, but I have very fond memories of that concert.  Growing up, just about the only real music “tape” that my brother and I had at that age (besides the oldies that my parents listened to) was the Slippery When Wet album.  Bon Jovi was the only thing I knew about Rock.  The experience I had that day was something that I’ll never forget.

Last night, thanks to my good friends SoItGoes, ScruffDog and his wife, I was able to revisit that same feeling from 1987 as I watched Bon Jovi sing “Shot Through The Heart” up on stage in Atlanta.   In all of his keyboard-80’s greatness I sat in awe as my childhood idol rehashed all of my favorite songs.  He threw in some of his new stuff, which wasn’t all that great, but he made sure to sing the real crowd pleasers……which was “totally” awesome.

I wasn’t the only child of the 80’s out last night.  I would say 80% of the crowd was made up of people just like me.  Fans looking to re-kindle that spark.  I have to say that the concert was a little more toned down from the fire-hose-the-audience one of my youth.  Probably due to a little maturity on behalf of the group.  However, that didn’t make it any less fun!

Thanks for the tickets guys! 

According to Vivid Entertainment, the film, which has no audio, allegedly shows Hendrix having sex with two women in a dimly-lit bedroom, the Times reports.

Vivid, which has also released sex tapes featuring Pamela Anderson, Tommy Lee and Kim Kardashian, among others, says that the tape is authentic, and will be offered for sale in stores and for download Online, according to the Times report.

“I believe that we did our due diligence, and as a result of that clearly believe that it’s him,” said Steven Hirsch, Vivid’s co-chairman told the Times. “If they said that it wasn’t him, I would never have put it out.”

Some who knew Hendrix, who died of a drug overdose in 1970 at the age of 27, disagree. Kathy Etchingham, one of his girlfriends from the 1960s, says the man in the film couldn’t be Hendrix.

“He would never have allowed anyone to see that,” she told the Times. “In private he was very shy and would cover up.”

I bet Jimi rips a nasty solo right in those girls’ faces.  Read into that statement all you want.

Keep your eyes on the skies people.  A reward is up for the person who finds the inflatable pig that floated away during the closing performance at the Coachella festival.  What’s in it for the finder of the pig?… $10,000 and 4 tickets to Coachella for life.  Probably get to meet Roger too.  I wonder what it’s worth if the finder holds out for a while.

Fellow ZC’ers,

Below is information on World Zombie Day/Atlanta Horror Fest/Zombie Walk.  We have 6 months to get ready, plenty of time.

    Per the website

“As a part of World Zombie Day we will be holding the Atlanta Horrorfest Zombie Walk on Sunday, October 26th, 2008. It will be the closing ceremony for AHF 08. World Zombie Day is the day that all ghouls from Kentucky to Kokomo, from Atlanta to Afghanistan, from Washington to Wales, and from Pittsburgh to Puerto Rico can celebrate together in a near orgy of blood covered bliss!!

Every major and minor city of the world that has ever hosted a zombie walk can band together and give one solid groan heard WORLDWIDE for the zombie cause!

RISE UP UNDEAD BROTHERS AND SISTERS!!!

NOW IS OUR TIME TO GROAN AND SHAMBLE FOR WORLD HUNGER!!

The participating living dead are encouraged to bring a non-perishable food item to each zombie walk starting point. A mass effort will be taken on worldwide to prove that charity, goodwill, and zombie love can flourish in every nation regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, or religion, and that no matter where or how we die…

WE WILL COME BACK!!!

Location and Time T.B.A.”

That’s right game over.

Reports indicate that Guns N Roses long awaited follow up to their double album release Use Your Illusions 1 & 2 may  see the light of day this year.  This must be a  sign of the end of the world and the forthcoming zombie apocalyptic invasion.I can see nothing else coming from the release of the 14 years in a the making Chinese Democracy by Guns N Roses. (well okay by Axl Rose and whoever he could scrounge up to help him out and call it Guns N Roses)

I must admit when i first heard this was happening i was a little worried because I’m sure i made a bet sometime in my past that China would actually become a democratic country before the album Chinese Democracy ever came out. I feel like i bet a lot of money on it too so hopefully whoever that was is not attempting to hunt me down. Although I’m not trembling in fear of having to pay up just yet. I mean this is Axl we are talking about. He has had about as many botched take offs for this album as NASA has seen in recent years with fuselage problems. There have been concerts, leaked songs, rumors, and so much more over the past decade about its release. Dates have even been set. Of course those dates have come and gone. At this time though it has been reported to have been delivered to Geffen and is rumored to have a total cost in production over years of 13 million dollars. I’ll say that again 13 MILLION dollars. The article mentions that Axl and Geffen are haggling over money and rights issues. Hey Axl you spent 13 mil what more do you want!

I don’t even know who the musicians besides Axl would be on the album. I know at one point Buckethead was working with him, but they had a falling out (who hasn’t had a falling out with Axl). Will his work be on the album?  Will the album be any good? Will it sound like it was  pieced together or will it have a cohesive flow? I know it won’t have Izzy’s great riffs and hooks, Slash’s soaring signature solos, or Duff steady baselines and strong backing vocals which means it is off to a poor start.

In addition those preparing for the end can do so with the knowledge that they will at least be armed with a can of Dr Pepper. You may have heard about a month ago Dr. Pepper put out a blanket statement saying that if Chinese Democracy was released in 2008 they would give every man woman and child in the free world a can of Dr Pepper. I know when i pack my zombie survival kit i always carry a can of Dr Pepper! Obviously the execs at Pepsi know that if this album comes out we are all up the creek and our paddles are turning into snakes.

I for one would like to see this train wreck come to an end and hear this atrocity, but the realist in me says it ain’t really gonna happen. I feel my bet earlier in life is pretty safe, but only time will tell. One has to wonder if the recent destruction of religion on Zombie Chatter was the catalyst to set these events in motion? The release of Chinese Democracy is a sure sign of us moving closer to the events in Revelations.  Perhaps if a release date is set we will have to have a new Zombie Chatter countdown on our side bar!

So this is rumored to be the cover of the new Lil Wayne Album…… I just had to share because i thought it was hilarous! Just shows Lil Wayne has been a thug since he was a Lil Guy!

I’m 64% sure this is a joke, but god if it is not i’ll vote for it as best album cover of the year!

Some might think it is a coincidence, but I was checking out the latest Zombie News and saw that religion had dissappeared.  Then, I immediately went to check my email and saw the following headline when my mailbox opened:

 New Kids on the Block to Reunite

So let’s get this straight:  first, religion disappears.  then, nkotb returns.  It must be the end of the world!

Removing wallpaper. Before I purchased Casa Reiss-Crosby I thought that my personal Hell might be watching The Golden Girls non-stop while listening to Michael Bolton and Celine Deon singing a duet with Kenny G blowing the ass-horn in the background.

Nope….. does not even compare to removing wallpaper.

The experts (and numerous websites) will tell you that this is such an easy process. They blow sunshine up your ass letting you think that it’ll be poodles and daises. NO it’s really barbed wire and open scabs…it’s horrible

            Their Idea                                                 The reality

I first began this (miss) adventure last Sunday; I went to my local Home Depot and rented a wallpaper steamer, (a devise that heats water and makes skin peeling steam as to remove your wall paper) it worked well, but I was crawling along at a snail’s pace. During my 2 day rental, We made it through 3 rooms, (Sara made it through a bathroom with the conventional spray; her Hell was far worse than mine) but 3 rooms worth of wallpaper remained. To make matters worse the previous owners used a lot of glue and did not prime the walls before putting up the paper, this exacerbated the process making it incredibly slow and even more painstaking than I’m guessing it should have been. I knew, even then, that the worse was yet to come.

So this previous Friday was the day I was going to make the wallpaper my bitch and take it down, I knew it would take a Herculean effort. I went to Home Depot again and rented the steamer at 5:06 pm Friday April 4^th, I proceeded to go home and steam, 24 hours later I had finished (I slept 3 of the 24 hours) …but not without burning myself numerous times from the steam that issued from my portable Hell-fire device.

My advice, if you’re going to remove wallpaper, call me. I’ll bring the Celine Deon and laugh at you the entire time, that way you get the full effect…

The future of music is heading towards its past. With digital downloads gaining in popularity every year, more and more people purchase fewer albums and purchase more single songs on the internet. There are many debates over this subject that revolve around the “what came first the chicken or the egg”. Did musicians as a whole stop making great albums which ultimately led people to only want the two or three songs that were good, or did people’s short-attention span stop giving albums enough of a listen to really get the other non-accessible songs? I believe it is a combination of both, but regardless the full length album will eventually take the way of the dinosaurs.

When musicians first started recording music for distribution they would record 2-3 songs and send them to a radio station, i.e. Elvis and etc. Two of my favorite bands, The Smashing Pumpkins and Muse, have recently announced they will no longer release albums but release 2-3 songs at a time on the internet. It is where the past meets the future and very interesting how things tend to go in cycles.

This is bitter sweet for me since I believe my favorite albums are great because they captured a theme or a general feeling of a moment in time. These 2-3 songs released will in no way have the same impact as a full length album, but it will ultimately result in more releases through out a 2 year period. Generally a band will release one album every two years and would probably release 2-3 song blocks every couple of months, which is typically a net gain in songs.

So at the end of the day we lose some and gain some. Ultimately, I want more great music and I am excited about what the future will bring as the music industry continues to evolve.