This popped up in my news feed this morning – Dave Grohl Sound City Players All-Star Band To Play Sundance Film Fest. I have been enjoying Dave Grohl’s radio show ‘Dave Grohl Presents Sound City’ on the rock.
The Sound City Radio show focus on a specific time period at Sound City telling the story of a recording studio in Van Nuys, CA. After buying the studio’s famously custom-built analog recording console last year, Grohl had the idea to produce a film about its storied history. Bands such as Nirvana,Rage Against the Machine, Slipknot, Nine Inch Nails, Metallica, Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Cheap Trick,Guns N Roses and many more recorded there, using that very control board for the past 40 years.
Episode one covers 1970-75 and features music from artists like Neil Young, Elton John and Fleetwood Mac. The episodes go up to 2011, with music from Tom Petty, Santana, the Grateful Dead, Jimmy Eat World, Metallica, Arctic Monkeys and Grohl’s former group Nirvana, who recorded some of their seminal Nevermind at Sound City.
Now I here that Dave Grohl has announced the first live show from the Sound City Players on the Sound City film Facebook. Grohl said, “Hey guess what? Sound City Players. Rock Show. Jan. 18th Park City Live. Yup. That’s totally happening.” This will coincide with the Sound City film’s premiere at the Sundance film festival. It is not known who will actually be part of the band/perform with Grohl, but the Sound City soundtrack includes: Krist Novoselic, Pat Smear, Paul McCartney, Josh Homme, Trent Reznor, Stevie Nicks, Tim Commerford, Brad Wilk, Corey Taylor, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Rick Springfield, and others.
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Metallica (also known as “The Black Album”) is the eponymous fifth studio album by the American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released on August 13, 1991 through Elektra Records. Metallica produced five hit singles that are considered today among the band’s best-known songs: “Enter Sandman”, “The Unforgiven”, “Nothing Else Matters”, “Wherever I May Roam”, and “Sad but True”.
It spent four consecutive weeks at number one on Billboard 200. Metallica is the band’s best-selling album to date, with over 15 million copies sold in the United States. It is the best-selling album of the SoundScan era. The album was certified 15x platinum (diamond) by the RIAA on November 13, 2009.
Metallica was a departure from the thrash metal style of Metallica’s previous four albums and saw the band moving towards a more commercial heavy metal sound. Many fans consider the album the initial turning point in their music, where “old” and “new” Metallica are distinguished from one another.
What do you think is it still as good as it was 20 years ago, or has it past its used by date?
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It’s almost been 20 years since the NES was released, so to celebrate I found some remakes in their 8 bit glory!!!
Following a series of arcade game successes in the early 1980s, Nintendo made plans to produce a cartridge-based console. Masayuki Uemura designed the system, which was released in Japan on July 15, 1983 for ¥14,800.
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You can just see these sitting above the fire place. With Granny in her rocking chair, tattoos sagging, deaf as a post from the years of metal music turned up to 11, watching re-runs of Ozy’s reality TV show.
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Woo your beloved with these classic love songs.
Traditional songs for Valentines Day
- Celine Dion – The Power Of Love
- Tony Bennett – The Way You Look Tonight
- Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole – When I Fall In Love
- Elton John – Can you feel the love tonight
- The Bangles — Eternal Flame
- Etta James – At Last
- Elvis Presley – I Cant Help Falling In Love With You
- Westlife – I Do
- N-Sync – This I Promise You
- 98º – I Do (Cherish You)
Or turn the volume up to 11 and hold the boom box high over above your head with one of theses “Not so traditional” songs for Valentines Day
- Nine Inch Nails – Closer
- Jimi Hendrix – Foxy Lady
- Placebo – Pure Morning
- Bloodhound Gang – The Bad Touch
- Rodney Carrington – Show Them To Me
- Marilyn Manson – The Love Song
- Sublime – 5446/Ball and Chain
- Guns N’Roses – One in a million
- Metallica – Nothing Else Matters
- Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor
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No 9 in the lead up to Valentines Day.
Traditional
Not so traditional
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Rockers Metallica are refusing to let New Zealand’s recent earthquakes stop them from performing for fans here.
Devotees feared three big quakes over the past five days, including a 7.1-magnitude one that hit the country’s South Island, would prompt Metallica to postpone two sold-out shows set for Christchurch later this month (Sep10).
But the band insists the shows at the CBS Canterbury Arena – close to the epicentre of the earthquakes – will go ahead as planned on 21 and 22 September (10).
Engineers are currently assessing the 9,000-capacity venue for damage, but bosses insist it doesn’t appear the arena has been damaged at all.
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Metallica have added yet another concert to their New Zealand itinerary.
The band will now play at the CBS Canterbury Arena on September 21 and 22, weeks before their sold-out shows at Auckland’s Vector Arena.
September 21 and 22: Christchurch, CBS Canterbury Arena
October 13 and 14: Auckland, Vector Arena
Heavy metal heavyweights Metallica will play a show in Christchurch, following an online campaign from South Island fans which attracted over 11,000 supporters.
The band will play at the CBS Canterbury Arena on September 22, weeks before their sold-out shows at Auckland’s Vector Arena.
In a statement issued in response to a Facebook campaign, the band said “sometimes, you do get what you want! You asked (okay, demanded!) and we heard ya.”
Metallica’s last New Zealand appearance was in 2004 on the Auckland leg of the Big Day Out tour. The band has not headlined its own New Zealand tour since 1998, when it played shows in Auckland and Wellington in support of the 1997 album, ReLoad.
Because of limitations presented by the Christchurch arena, the band’s full concert setup will not be used on September 22. The 360 degree stage setup has been used on Metallica’s World Magnetic tour since 2008 and will be seen at both Auckland shows.
“It’s gonna be us and YOU old-school ‘club style’ in an arena making a whole lot of noise together, and that’s what counts.”
A presale for fanclub members will open on Friday, July 9, while a public presale will go live at midday on Tuesday, July 13. They will sell fast!
* Metallica on tour in New Zealand
September 22: Christchurch, CBS Canterbury Arena
October 13 and 14: Auckland, Vector Arena
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Tickets to Metallica’s two Auckland shows sold out in just 20 minutes this morning, leaving some angry fans empty-handed.
The tickets went on sale at 9am and promoters for the two shows, on October 13 and 14 at Vector Arena, said they were sold out by 9.20am. Stuff.co.nz was swamped with feedback by irate fans who tried to buy them over the internet, but couldn’t get through.
“I was on the website from 8.50am and nothing. Both pre-sales failed and sure enough no 25th birthday for me. It was going to be the best start to my honeymoon too,” said a poster called Chris. “Once again, the Ticketmaster website is unstable and not up to modern day needs,” said another poster called Mark. Fans who camped out overnight at Real Groovy in Auckland told Stuff.co.nz they spent the night chatting to other fans and sleeping.
“I’ve been sleeping, talking to strangers, and sleeping again,” said a Metallica fan of 20 years.
“I was going to go down to Britomart, but I came down here and saw these guys and thought, ‘I’ll just get in here with these guys’. I’m third in line. It’s alright,” said another.
“It’s never too long to wait (for tickets),” said a third fan. “As long as we get one.”
Queues were “right around the corner” at Real Groovy’s Queen Street store in Auckland this morning, a staff member said. They were still selling tickets at 9.30am.
A handful of fans also camped out overnight at Real Groovy in Wellington.
One fan who tried to score tickets over the internet said: “General sale tickets were gone so fast, by 9.02am when I got through they were gone. Here’s hoping for a third show.”
Promoters said the second show for October 14, announced on Monday, was to be the last, and no extra shows in New Zealand were planned. A small number of tickets could be released at a later date, promoters said. Meanwhile, a special offer from Air New Zealand will mean Christchurch Metallica fans will be able to travel to Auckland to see the band for $1. Bruce Parton, from Air New Zealand’s discount ticketing site Grabaseat, announced the special offer yesterday. “We’ll give 120 seats [from Christchuch to Auckland] at a dollar,” he said. “All you have to do is have a Metallica ticket.”
Parton said the themed flight would have a “party atmosphere” with “black T-shirts and long hair”.
The Grabaseat sale is on now. http://flightbookings.airnewzealand.co.nz/vgrabview/en_NZ/
Metallica last performed in New Zealand at the Big Day Out in 2004.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/entertainment/3690820/Metallica-tickets-sell-out-fast
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