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Incidentally, the Starwood Club closed down two years later. Quiet Riot however went on to huge success and released an album in 1983 that topped the U.S. charts; unheard of for a heavy metal band.




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Transcript
Tuesday

Oct. 2. 79

Dear Michele,

Your letter scared me, upon first glance, I hadn’t any idea what it was about, but when you told me, it struck in a strange way, I hadn’t any idea that I talked about my guitar so often, I’m going to have to change that, no matter who I talk to.

It’s a drag that it screwed up our relationship, you should have told me sooner, but I don’t think that’s the only reason, you just don’t like me that much, and I can see why, because I’m a hard person to get along with at times.

But any I’m glad we got that straight, thank you for not lying to me. To get off the subject, you look really nice today, you get prettier & prettier every day. My weekend was pretty good. Steve came by and we went to a couple parties, and we went to the Starwood, I spent pretty much of my weekend on cloud 9 if you know what I mean.

I had never been in the Starwood before, like, we hung around outside, but I’ve never been inside. It’s not such a hot place, I mean the Bands are alright, the girls are pretty (I still think you cuter than any of the girls there) the drugs are cool but it’s not a place I would want to waste my life at. The most exciting part of the night was, a guy mouthed off to this black guy, and the black got a hundred friends and chased him around all Hollywood. It’s a pretty crazy place. I’m going there next week to see Quiet Riot, because I hear there pretty good. One of these days I’ll play there.

Love you

Saul

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Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith has teamed up with Mary Poppins star Dick Van Dyke to record a children’s album.

‘Rhythm Train’, which has been co-produced by Smith with LA Kids[/a] singer [b]Leslie Bixler, sees the sticksman play vocal characters like a pirate and train conductor on several tracks.

“I may not be playing as hard but I still am trying to be creative,” Smith told Spinner.com, of playing drums compared with the Chili Peppers. “It’s just trying to make the songs as good as I can. That doesn’t change.”

Songs that appear on the 13 track album include ‘Roly Poly In My Guacamole’ and ‘Lotta Dinosaur’.

“I am certainly no rapper but I helped guide Dick with it the first day. It was pretty funny,” Smith said.

“At my age, my generation, we are not particularly rap-crazy,” Van Dyke added. “Rap has a great beat, but I swear to God, I have never been able to understand one word. I don’t know what they’re saying.”

To listen to the album go to theRhythmtrain.com.

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From Pitchfork.com:

According to our photographer Sung Kim, the show raised $572,754 for Oxfam, with tickets auctioned off to the highest bidder. The highest ticket price was $2,000, and the minimum winning bid was $475.00. Kim reports that celebrities in attendance included Justin Timberlake, Drew Barrymore, Charlize Theron, Daniel Craig, and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Thom Yorke: “Lotus Flower” (Live at Haiti Benefit) New Radiohead song

1. Faust Arp
2. Fake Plastic Trees
3. Arpeggi
4. National Anthem
5. Nude
6. Karma Police
7. Kid A
8. Morning Bell
9. How To Disappear Completely
10. Wolf at the Door
11. The Bends
12. Reckoner
13. Lucky
14. Bodysnatchers
15. Dollars & Cents
16. Airbag
17. Exit Music (For A Film)

First encore:
18. Everything In Its Right Place
19. You & Whose Army?
20. Pyramid Song
21. All I Need

Second encore:
22. Lotus Flower (new song)
23. Paranoid Android
24. Street Spirit

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2010 Coachella Line UP is here

The 11th COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL line up has been announced!

COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2010 LINE-UP

JAY-Z, MUSE AND GORILLAZ HEADLINE  3-DAY FESTIVAL WITH MORE THAN 130 ACTS

ROUNDING OUT LINE-UP TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY, JANUARY 22 AT 10:00 AM

The 11th COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL will feature a mix of artists ranging from Pavement, Thom Yorke????, Vampire Weekend, Them Crooked Vultures, LCD Soundsystem, Phoenix, Tiësto, Faith No More, Deadmau5, David Guetta, MGMT and Public Image Limited. Set for Friday, April 16, Saturday, April 17 and Sunday, April 18 at the beautiful Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA–the same grounds where COACHELLA debuted in 1999–the COACHELLA 2010 line-up will feature more than 130 acts.

This year’s COACHELLA will feature a variety of options to make the concert experience an enjoyable one. In addition to expanded camping options–including car, RV and traditional tent camping– COACHELLA will allow, for the first time, in-and-out privileges for all attendees. Festival goers will once again have the ability to purchase 3-day festival tickets and various onsite camping options via an easy layaway payment plan.
For those looking to streamline the weekend’s experience, COACHELLA has teamed with Valley Music Travel to provide exclusive travel packages, local hotel shuttle transportation and private home rentals with VIP COACHELLA access. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.valleymusictravel.com/coachella.php.

FRIDAY APRIL 16: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Them Crooked Vultures, Vampire Weekend, Deadmau5, Public Image Limited, The Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Benny Benassi, Fever Ray, Grace Jones, She & Him, Erol Alkan, The Avett Brothers, Calle 13, The Whitest Boy Alive, The Cribs, La Roux, Yeasayer, Lucero, DJ Lance Rock, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Proxy, Ra Ra Riot, Deer Tick, Wolfgang Gartner, Aeroplane, Iglu & Hartly, Sleigh Bells, P.O.S., Baroness, Hockey, Little Dragon, White Rabbits, Wale, Kate Miller-Heidke, As Tall as Lions, Jets Overhead, Alana Grace, Pablo Hassan.

SATURDAY, APRIL 17: Muse, Faith No More, Tiësto, MGMT, David Guetta, The Dead Weather, Hot Chip, Devo, Coheed and Cambria, Kaskade, 2Many DJ’s, Major Lazer, Dirty Projectors, Gossip, Z-Trip, The xx, John Waters, Les Claypool, The Raveonettes, Mew, Sia, Camera Obscura, Tokyo Police Club, Porcupine Tree, Old Crow Medicine Show, Aterciopalados, Bassnectar, Frightened Rabbit, Dirty South, Flying Lotus, Corinne Bailey Rae, Pretty Lights, Shooter Jennings, RX Bandits, The Almighty Defenders, Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros, Craze & Klever, Zoe, The Temper Trap, Portugal. The Man, Band of Skulls, Girls, Beach House, Steel Train, Frank Turner.

SUNDAY, APRIL 18: Gorillaz, Pavement, Thom Yorke????, Phoenix, Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Stone, De La Soul, Julian Casablancas, Plastikman, Gary Numan, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sunny Day Real Estate, Yo La Tengo, MUTEMATH, Deerhunter, Infected Mushroom, Club 75, Matt & Kim, The Big Pink, Gil Scott-Heron, King Khan and the Shrines, Florence and the Machine, Yann Tiersen, Little Boots, Miike Snow, Talvin Singh, Ceu, B.o.B., Babasonicos, Owen Pallett, The Glitch Mob, Mayer Hawthorne, Local Natives, Rusko, The Middle East, Hadouken!, The Soft Pack, Kevin Devine, Paparazzi, Delphic, One EskimO.

Tickets for COACHELLA go on sale Friday, January 22 at 10:00 AM at all Ticketmaster locations and www.coachella.com. Three-day weekend passes are $269.00, plus surcharges. More details on layaway, camping options and up-to-the minute information, can be found at www.coachella.com. COACHELLA 2010 sponsors include Heineken and PlayStation.

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Mellencamp made a deal with his youngest son (Speck) that he would agree to quit smoking if his Facebook group  ”1,000,000 to join, my dad John Mellencamp will quit smoking.” actually hit the 1 million mark. His goal of reaching that by the end of 2009 came up short, but currently he still has an impressive 280,000 people signed up and growing.

Mellencamp’s wife, model Elaine Irwin Mellencamp, tells Examiner.com, “I don’t think any kid likes to see a parent smoking and it’s always inspiring when people build a true grassroots movement. When a 14-year-old kid does it, it’s all the more charming. It’s become a story of applying yourself and making a difference, and I’m really proud of him for having that experience.”

Mellencamp made a post on his website recently about his sons current efforts to get him to quit smoking.

“Speck is doing this to try to persuade me to stop smoking, and I look at it as a huge act of love on his behalf. He’s a big dreamer, and I hope that someday he’ll use his dream to benefit his world in some fashion.”

Click the following link to Join Specks group. “1,000,000 to join, my dad John Mellencamp will quit smoking”

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“A child abuse prevention group in the U.K. is protesting against British rock icons The Who’s appearance at the NFL’s Super Bowl XLIV halftime show on February 7. Child Abuse Watch is requesting the NFL remove guitarist Pete Townshend from the lineup due to his 2003 arrest for accessing child pornography on his computer.

Child Abuse Watch founder and CEO Evin Daly told the press, “The Who is a great band. Pete Townshend is the only issue here.”

Townshend, pictured, was given a police warning following the charges and put on the U.K.’s Violent and Sex Offender Register for five years. Townshend contends that he purchased access to a Texas-based pedophile website as part of research for his autobiography, which was published in 2008. He was also booked for possession of “indecent pictures,” but was cleared of those charges, as no pictures were found on his computer.

Child Abuse Watch published a position statement on Townshend’s halftime show appearance, which, if Super Bowl XLIII’s ratings are any indication, could be watched by upwards of 100 million people. It also wrote a letter to the NFL on the matter. On its website, the organization writes that the musician “pleaded guilty” and “was never cleared of any charges pertaining to his caution and resulting sex offender status.” The statement also highlights an article Townshend wrote on child pornography as proof of his research and a graphic fictional story he published to his website in 2006. The story was quickly taken down, with Townshend admitting it was “ill-advised.”

NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy insists that the band will perform as scheduled. “UK police cleared him since he was doing research for a project on child abuse,” he said.”

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