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Meat Loaf underwent two hours of heart surgery on Friday after he collapsed on a London stage during a performance last week. The singer said he was diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, a condition marked by an extra electrical pathway in the heart. He was released from Wellington Hospital in St. John's Wood the day after surgery. "Many people are born with this condition and can live their whole lives without ever knowing it is there," Meat Loaf (a.k.a. Marvin Lee Aday) said in a statement. "Mine appeared to have been quiet until now. The prognosis is excellent as the procedure's success rate is over ninety-five percent." The fifty-six-year-old singer collapsed last Monday at Wembley Arena and initial reports cited a viral infection as the cause. A second show at the venue scheduled for the following night was cancelled. Meat Loaf has been touring in support of his latest album, Couldn't Have Said It Better. His U.K. tour is currently scheduled to run through December 22nd, at which point he'll take a two-month break before heading to Australia for an eight-date run. In his statement, Meat Loaf said he's shooting to return to the stage by November 30th, when he's scheduled to play in Manchester. From : Rolling Stone

Glen Campbell was released this morning from a Phoenix jail after being arrested yesterday on suspicion of drunk driving, aggravated assault on a police officer and for a hit and run. The country-pop legend was arrested at his home after a witness said Campbell fled the scene of a two-car collision in his adopted hometown. Campbell's BMW struck a Toyota Camry at an intersection on Monday afternoon, and the witness followed the car and alerted authorities who arrived at Campbell's home. Police booked the singer, 67, on suspicion of "extreme" drunken driving; authorities are unable to divulge the results of blood-alcohol tests, but the term is used for results above .15 (the legal limit in Arizona is .08). As Campbell was being processed at police headquarters, he allegedly kneed a sergeant in the leg. Whole story at: Rolling Stone

Woohoo Hi Vipp, thanks for checking it out. I hope you stay and keep us in line. Now tell me, what site can you join and have all of the admins line up to kiss your... hand?

If you scroll to the bottom of any thread, you'll see moderator options. Moving threads etc can be done from there.

Yoda - I noticed that up until now (last day or so), you had a link in your sig about helping some project. Could I not use that to send you money through paypal? If that's cool, just send me the link again or add it back into your sig. (I'll just put "cheapprick" in the transactions comments so you know who it was) Cool? You had better! LOL If we come to dire straits we may need you to break ties. j/k I imagine that as long as yoda is one of us, if anything goes wrong we'll have someone to blame. Thanks for all of the work you put in, and come back soon.

AC/DC - The Jack (live)

Have you ever heard of an instance where somebody going down the chimney didn't get trapped? What was he thinking?

There's some good stuff there drnkbudweiser. I like some of the stuff from most of those guys, but Nirvana and Green Day definitely top the list in my opinion. You're not into the Offspring?

From Billboard Arista has gathered Carlos Santana's musical odds and ends for "Ceremony -- Remixes and Rarities," which will be released Dec. 16 in a limited-edition of 100,000 copies. "Ceremony" features songs culled from the recording sessions that yielded Santana's first two albums for the label, 1999's "Supernatural" and 2002's "Shaman." The disc is graced with five previously unreleased songs, remixes or newly recorded versions of five tracks from "Supernatural" and "Shaman" and one unaltered "Shaman" album track. Among the new songs are "Curacion (Sunlight on Water)," co-written and produced by KC Porter; the Femi Kuti-penned, Kike Santander-produced "Truth Don Die"; "Let Me Love You Tonight," produced and co-written by Anders Bagge; JIMMYRAY Productions' "Come to My World"; and the Salaam Remi co-write/production "Manana," with a guest spot by singer Keon Bryce. "Ceremony" also features newly recorded versions of the "Supernatural" track "Primavera" and the "Shaman" song "Why Don't You & I," the latter sporting a new vocal by the Calling's Alex Band. Remixes include "Smooth" by Chris Staropoli, "Maria Maria" by Wyclef Jean and "Foo Foo" by Sam "Sever" Citrin.

From Billboard Motley Crue is taking steps toward a 2004 tour with all of its original members, the first time the group has done so since 1999. If it happens, the trek will be tied into the theatrical release of "The Dirt," based on the notoriously hard-partying band's 2001 autobiography. Bassist Nikki Sixx acknowledged the potential obstacles to reuniting in a post this fall on the band's official Web site. "I speak to [drummer] Tommy [Lee], [guitarist] Mick [Mars] and [vocalist] Vince [Neil] quite often, but I know Vince has some resentments that need to be ironed out," he admitted. "But if everybody wants to do a Crue tour, I'm there," he continued. "At this point for me, a Motley Crue tour is not about the money. I'd really like to go out and give one last kick a** tour where everybody including the band walk away with a smile on their face." This month, Hip-O/Universal released the four-CD Crue boxed set "Music to Crash Your Car To, Vol. 1," featuring every track from the band's first four albums. Sixx has also signed a deal with Sanctuary for the March release of the debut album from his new band, Brides Of Destruction, which includes former L.A. Guns guitarist Tracii Guns, drummer Scot Coogan and vocalist London LeGrand.

LOL, I already voted....

I get in moods where I want to hear rap & hip hop. fave rap - Cyprus Hill (yeah, I know) hip hop - wyclef maybe? Hard to say.

8 options. ;) 8 options on a poll and none of them make reference to the fact that Thanksgiving was a month and a half ago. Well, in canada anyway.

:P

Thanks, even at 34k I can get some idea of the sound. :)

HAH! I know your game, you posted that only to get one more up on me. This post is my revenge.

All I can say is ...... cool.

I love lists like this. You would have to poll many people before you got a duplicate list for a top 10, so with 500 you get to see truly unique preference judgment. My top ten is better than your top ten. :D

Well, I'm glad you're checking the place out anyway Gertrude. :P

Without a doubt, 2003 was the year of 50 Cent. Though he made a name for himself in hip-hop circles in 1999 when he released the song "How To Rob" that dissed everyone from Jay-Z to Missy Elliott, he didn't break sales records until last February. The release of his album, Get Rich Or Die Tryin', sold an astonishing 871,000 in five days. The album was released a few days early after it was leaked on the Internet. It also helps that he snagged a deal with Dr. Dre and Eminem's, Aftermath and Shady Records, respectively. Launch feature includes: video clips recap of top stories listings of the years milestone recordings

Reaction from inductees "It's just very cool," ZZ Top bassist tells Billboard.com of his band's pending induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. "I'm very excited about it and very honored. It's great company we're keeping." As previously reported, the 2004 class of Hall of Fame inductees will also include Jackson Browne, the Dells, the late George Harrison, Prince, Bob Seger and Traffic. "I view it like Cooperstown," an ebullient Seger says. "I think about Al Kaline in the [baseball] Hall of Fame. I've played golf occasionally with Larry Bird, who's in the [basketball] Hall of Fame. Now I'm in my Hall of Fame." "There wasn't a Hall of Fame when I started," he adds, "but to be in there with my heroes -- with your Little Richards, your Elvises, the Beatles, the [Rolling] Stones, [bob] Dylan, is just beyond words. It's wonderful. To suddenly be in that same pantheon is pretty heady stuff." Browne, too, is humbled by the honor. "It's just really great to be acknowledged, to be recognized by a group of your peers and your contemporaries and by critics," he says. "That is just good. That feels great." Seger says he and his Silver Bullet Band will definitely perform at the March 15 induction ceremony in New York, which will be taped to air on VH1 later that week. Guitarist Dave Mason, a founding member of Traffic who was with the band through its first two albums, is hopeful he and fellow surviving members Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi will use the opportunity to reunite. "It might be a great opportunity for the three of us to be together and do something maybe. Hopefully," he says. "The last time we did something was at [New York nightclub] the Bottom Line two years, three years ago," he adds. "And that was the first time in 30 years." For several of the artists, it wasn't their first time on the ballot, or a few years had passed since they reached the 25-year-career eligibility mark. "I hadn't spent much time thinking about it, not wanting to get too emotionally invested in the possibility," confesses Browne, who released his debut album in 1972. "I have a kind of ambivalent stance when it comes to it. I mean, the music has got to be its own reward. Doing it is the most rewarding. Being acknowledged later is really good though," he adds, laughing. "It's very cool." Rounded out by guitarist Billy F. Gibbons and drummer Frank Beard, ZZ Top has been a part of the gala proceedings in the past, having been on hand to help induct Bo Diddley in 1987 and Cream in 1993, among others. "Just to be a small part of that part was an awful lot of fun," Hill says. "Plus, you know, it tickles me to look around and see rock'n'roll guys sitting around, kind of all dressed up and trying to look legit. It's a gas." But he says that it's too soon to say who might induct his band into the Hall. "We have a lot of very good friends and people we greatly admire, and I'm sure we'll get together and make the invitation and see if they're willing or able to do it," Hill says. "We'll put our three heads together and come up with something crazy." Seger says his first choice for inductors are Glenn Frey or Don Henley of the Eagles, "because they're my oldest friends in rock'n'roll," but he said Kid Rock has also voiced a desire to do the honors.

Alanis Morissette will release So-Called Chaos in late February. She is currently putting the finishing touches on the album, the follow-up to last year's Under Rug Swept, with longtime collaborator Tim Thorney and John Shanks (Michelle Branch) in a Santa Monica recording studio owned by Jackson Browne. "I started writing on and off this summer very reticently," she says. "I wrote a couple of songs, ventured away from the studio, then ventured back in. By the fall I realized I had enough songs that could make a record." The album's title comes from a song of the same name that is one of Morissette's most adventurous. It begins a detached, looping vocal, and builds into a high-energy chorus in which Morissette sings, "I want to be naked running through the streets/I want to invite this so-called chaos that you think I dare not be," and then climaxes with a wall of distortion. The experimental nature of "Chaos" is echoed elsewhere throughout the album: Morissette plays around with dance loops, as well as her love for Indian music ("Knees of my Bees" employs a sitar). "My records inform me about where I'm at," she says. So where does she find herself on So-Called Chaos? "I don't consider myself to be a piano artist, a loop artist, or a hip-hop artist. I don't know what I am . . . and that shows." full article at Rolling Stone

It could have been all of my slobberbefore each post.

You know, usually I don't take part in these threads. Now I invited a female of ZP to join and after looking the site over she wasn't too keen on this thread. Which is why I usually don't take part. :(

last one for tonight (you know I've been encouraging my wife to join, and if so to probably steer clear of this thread, lmao) Gwen Stefani