'It's just like blood on tape'

DENNIS WILSON - Pacific Blue & Bambu (The Caribou Sessions) Rating *****
DENNIS WILSON was the Beach Boy who was actually a beach boy.

He surfed, chased girls, lived fast and died young.

On December 28, 1983, just after his 39th birthday, he drowned, drunk and
lonely. A few days later, he was buried at sea.

He once said: "I don’t know why everybody doesn’t live at the beach, on
the ocean.

"It makes no sense to me hanging around the dirty city. That’s why I
always loved and was proud to be a Beach Boy. I always loved the image. On
the beach, you can live in bliss."

The middle of the three Wilsons — Brian being the older and Carl the younger —
Dennis was the wild, good-looking one.

His voice was rougher and deeper than his brothers, his musical talents less
obvious.

He was the drummer, the babe magnet, the group’s Mr Popular who, as the story
goes, urged Brian to start writing songs about surfing.

He may have taken a back seat to begin with but by 1968 he had emerged as the
most important composer in The Beach Boys after Brian.
Real Beach Boy ... Dennis
At the same time, he began living an increasingly rackety existence. He
married five times (including twice to Karen Lamm), got to know cult maniac
Charles Manson, and had an increasing dependence on booze and chemicals.

But despite his brother’s more obvious genius, it was Dennis who produced the
first solo album by a Beach Boy, composed at his favourite instrument, the
piano.

Pacific Ocean Blue, released in 1977, remains one of the greatest achievements
by any Wilson — and we’re talking competition that includes landmarks such
as Pet Sounds and SMiLE.

It begins with the mighty swells of River Song and ebbs and flows through the
stomp of What’s Wrong, the sublime Moonshine, the affectionate Thoughts Of
You, the tear-stained Farewell My Friend and the epic End Of The Show.

In the end, it was Dennis’s only released album, the strands of his follow-up,
Bambu, never fully realised as an album.

Mighty

Pacific Ocean Blue has been out of print for years and has passed into
mythical status, a true lost classic, hunted down by collectors, treasured
by the few who got to know its infinite pleasures.

Now, finally, the album gets the affectionately-produced reissue/remaster
treatment it deserves.

Over two CDs, we get the original album and a slew of unreleased material
including all the songs intended for Bambu.

One of Dennis’s greatest unfinished songs was Holy Man, which he left as a
serene instrumental.

With new lyrics by his best friend and songwriting partner Gregg Jakobson and
vocals by Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins set to the original track, the
reborn Holy Man is presented here as a fitting, touching and beautifully
sung tribute to Dennis.

For a SFTW exclusive, I talked to Taylor — who feels a special bond with
Dennis as they’re both drummers who sing and write — and Gregg, who fondly
remembers his soulmate:
TAYLOR ON DENNISHow come you got to record the vocal track?
It goes back eight or nine years. An old girlfriend of mine’s father was one
of Dennis’s best friends as well as his writing partner (Gregg).
When did you first hear Pacific Ocean Blue?
When I was a kid, I knew Surfin’ USA, Good Vibrations, God Only Knows, the key
Beach Boys tracks. Then, when I met Gregg, he played me Pacific Ocean Blue.
I loved it. It was so raw and soulful. There’s no bulls**t on it. It’s
straight from the gut, just blood on tape.
Did you get your own copy?
It was pretty impossible to get hold of but I have three vinyl copies. I gave
one to Roger Taylor (Queen drummer), who I’ve got to know pretty good after
a couple of years of me stalking him!
So when did you get to sing on Holy Man?
Gregg called me and said: "We’re doing it! We’re doing it! We got the funding
and everything’s on. I want you to check out putting some vocals on this
unfinished song that was really important to Dennis."
Pacific Ocean Blue ... Dennis WilsonWhy didn’t Dennis sing on it?
I guess they tried some lyrics and didn’t like ’em. There was a Dennis vocal
track but he erased it, just said "I’m gonna f***ing erase it!"
He was a big dude and you didn’t f*** with Dennis.
How did you feel about taking his place?
I was a little nervous. I was like "Who the f*** am I to do it?"
This stuff is pretty sacred. I didn’t want to p*** on his Picasso.
How did you feel when you heard your version played back?
Whenever I do a vocal for something, I run fast from the studio and I don’t
want to hear it for a couple of days. I’m constantly telling the engineers
I’m not a singer "so don’t look at me like that". But
I’ve had a great reaction to it from friends and muso people.
Has fellow Foo Fighter Dave Grohl heard it?
He loved it, thought it was totally beautiful, but I don’t think he’s ever
heard Pacific Ocean Blue. It’s hard to sit him down to actually listen to
something. He’s as busy as f***, always got something going on with his
family and all that stuff.
Do you feel an affinity with Dennis?
I do. He’s a drummer. He grew up on the beach and Gregg always said that we
had somewhat similar voices, kinda rough, not exactly Pavarotti, a bit
scratchy.
What do you think of the song?
Well, Dennis’s piano was great. You can hear his instrumental version if you
don’t wanna hear this bonehead on there. (Big laugh.) I love Dennis so much
and I love Pacific Ocean Blue. I love the legend of him.
What sort of man do you think he was?
I think he was terribly insecure ’cos he had these two brothers. One of ’em,
Carl, had the voice of an angel and the other, Brian, is a mad genius. But
Dennis was the only one who surfed — he was the real Beach Boy.
So he was their spiritual leader?
In a way, yeah. Everyone knows what a cop their dad was and he was really hard
on Dennis, who was considered the unmusical dumb one. With all due respect —
because they all had their moments — Dennis did the best stuff. There’s no
question.
What about his songs for The Beach Boys?
His first major song was called Little Bird which is on Friends. It’s
beautiful and I love his voice. It’s ragged and got more ragged through the
years. Some people think he got punched in the throat at a bar. I dunno,
maybe it was just drinking and drugs or whatever, but it’s almost got a Tom
Waits feel.
Which songs on Pacific Ocean do you like?
I like End Of The Show. I like the ballads. The one that breaks my heart is
Thoughts Of You.
Thanks for talking to me about it.
I’m so glad you love that album. We’ll start our own fan club, man!

GREGG ON DENNIS
How did you know Dennis?
It was ’63 or ’64. I went to Honolulu with Bruce Johnston (who became a Beach
boy) and Terry Melcher (musician son of screen star Doris Day) ’cos I worked
with them.

They were opening for The Beach Boys and Dennis and I hit it off right away.
He, like me, isn’t one to sit around very long drinking Mai Tai cocktails.
We would go off surfing or riding motorcycles or chasing girls.
Best friend ... Gregg JakobsonWhat sort of person was he?
He was always gregarious and treated everyone the same. It didn’t matter if
you were the Queen or some homeless person.
When did you start working with him?
We carried our relationship back to the mainland and the working together
evolved. Dennis would sit at a piano, start having ideas and he would ask me
for a line or a bar.
Why did it take Dennis longer than his brothers to get recognition?
He was the bad boy, the kid who set the lot on fire next door. He was always
chasing girls and playing with cars but he was also like a sponge. His big
brother Brian was a musical genius and Dennis had the same DNA.

It just took a little bit longer to develop. Einstein didn’t talk until he was
four and then he probably came out with whole sentences about quantum
physics. First it was "that’s just Dennis" so nobody
listened, but then people said "well, wait a minute, what was that?"
It’s so sad he died so young.
Nowadays, people say: "God, what would have happened if he’d lived all
these years?" He was just scratching the surface and, like brother
Brian, he played the studio like an instrument.

I can’t imagine, with all the electronics and digital stuff available, where
he would have taken it. It would have been amazing.
What was it like working on Pacific Ocean Blue?
I was honoured. He was in a very progressive, very productive mood all
through. There was a lot of stuff cut then that is coming out now on the
Bambu part. Only after that did things go down hill.

Holy Man is a stunning piece.




It really killed us that we couldn’t come up with a lyric for it. Thirty years
later, the lyric did manifest itself and then Taylor (Hawkins) came in and
knocked it out of the park.

Then we sent it to Brian May and Roger Taylor and they really added some
horsepower to it. Wait till you hear the London version. I just know that
somewhere Dennis is looking down and smiling on this.
What went wrong after Pacific Ocean Blue?
There was trouble with The Beach Boys and, don’t forget, more than anything,
he loved being a Beach Boy. Also there were problems with Karen, his wife. A
lot of things happened at the same time which sent him on a downward spiral.
It was very sad to see.
Did your relationship with him deteriorate?
We remained buddies but it was harder and harder to be around him. It’s hard
to watch somebody you love slowly destroying themselves. To fight the
demons, I guess he was anaesthetising himself with alcohol or whatever came
down the street.
Where were you when he died?
I was in Laguna Beach, about 50 miles down the coast from Los Angeles. Some
friends called and said: "Have you heard?" and I said: "No."
I was sad but I wasn’t surprised. Even Dennis said: "I live fast
and I’m gonna die young. I play hard and I work hard, don’t bother me."
That was his attitude.

Rustie Lee joining EastEnders cast

Celebrity chef Rustie Lee is set to join the cast of 'EastEnders', as Gus Smith's feisty aunt.
According to the show's official website, the 54-year-old will play a character called Opal for two episodes, which will be screened in April.
Lee said: "I'm absolutely over the moon to think I'm going to be in the Square. I can't wait."
Actor Mo George, who plays Lee's on-screen nephew Gus, will be leaving the show soon.

R. Kelly judge threatens to issue arrest warrant

Reporter Jim DeRogatis was no-show at hearing





CHICAGO -- The judge in the R. Kelly child pornography trial is threatening to issue a warrant for the arrest of a Chicago Sun-Times reporter.
Reporter Jim DeRogatis got hold of the sex tape at the heart of the case in 2002. He didn't appear for a morning hearing regarding his testimony at Kelly's trial.
An angry Judge Vincent Gaughan told a Sun-Times attorney he'd give him 15 minutes to find something in Illinois law that gives DeRogotis the right to defy an order to appear in court.
Gaughan has rejected arguments that the reporter's actions should be privileged under the First Amendment and that he shouldn't have to appear.
Prosecutors rested their case Monday, and jurors have the day off.
The singer has pleaded not guilty.

John Lennon's ex-girlfriend reveals photos

John Lennon's former girlfriend May Pang has released a collection of intimate snaps of the late Beatle.
Pang began an 18-month fling with Lennon in 1973, during a separation from his wife Yoko Ono.
After keeping the personal pictures under wraps for 35 years, Pang is sharing her photos of life with the "real John Lennon", along with a collection of his private sketches, in her new book 'Instamatic Karma'.
Talking about the pictures Pang said: "They were literally in a shoebox under my bed. A friend of mine said, 'You've got to get this out. People have got to see the John that you saw.'"
She added: "So this is an intimate portrait of our lives together. You're seeing him through my eyes."

Paula Frazer

   
Artist: Paula Frazer

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   Country
   

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Discography:


   
 Leave the Sad Things Behind

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12


   
 A Place Where I Know

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12

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There aren't many American singers amuck of a fine country twang wHO are actually from the Deep South, and world Health Organization would specifically list Australian Nick Cave as the main influence on their work. But such is the case for the talented Paula Frazer, world Health Organization far from organism whatsoever sort of clone also brings the same broad orbit of influences to bear on her own work, from punk rocker and blues to cabaret and gospel, for her have hitting musical visions. Raised in both Georgia and Arkansas, her musical influences readily came from both parents. She american ginseng in the church service choir, where her father was a sermoniser, spell her mother taught her pianissimo and introduced her to medicine from George Gershwin and Billie Holiday to the modern-day music of the 1960s and 1970s. After various youthful experiences in local bands, Frazer touched in 1981 to San Francisco to seek her wider luck.


Patch ab initio bopping just about in a variety of bands, including a stint with the undeservedly dark Frightwig, Frazer's big break came with Tarnation, a band that avowedly was fundamentally Frazer through and through. The initial lineup recorded 2 albums, approach to wider attention thanks to the splendid Gentle Creatures, appearing in 1995. Earlier that twelvemonth, however, the other trine members foregone to engage their have work, going away Frazer to piece an initial touring lineup that, afterward a farther change on sea bass, became the social unit that recorded the band's utmost album, Mirador. After various touring appearances, including dates in Europe with her hero, Cave & the Bad Seeds, Frazer launch herself once over again without a band.


Having already made a name for herself on former projects, most notably a hit collaboration with the Anglo-Indian act Cornershop on their When I Was Born for the 7th Time record album, Frazer decided in 1998 to sink the Tarnation call in favor of her have. She over again assembled a backing mathematical group drawn on Bay Area musicians, with her elysian choices organism vocalist/keyboardist Patrick Main, Sister Double Happiness veteran soldier Jeff Palmer on bass, and Oranger member Jim Lindsay handling the drums. The outcome, with the further assistance of drummer Matt Torrey and a miscellany of guests, was Indoor Universe, appearing in 2001 -- her solo "debut," simply more than accurately the next in a series of fantabulous releases. 2003's retrospective A Place Where I Know gathered four-track versions of songs from both her Tarnation and solo albums; deuce years later she returned with a young record album, Forget the Sad Things Behind. 2007's Straight off It's Time was credited to Paula Frazer and Tarnation, and continued in the same mineral vein as her solo work and outturn with the radical.

Rainbow

   
Artist: Rainbow

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Rock: Hard-Rock
   Metal: Heavy
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Bent Out of Shape

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 10


   
 Stranger In Us All

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 10


   
 Stranger In Us All

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 10


   
 Stranger In Stockholm (CD2)

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 1


   
 Stranger In Stockholm (CD1)

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 9


   
 The Best

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 12


   
 Live In Germany 1976 (CD 2)

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 4


   
 Live In Germany 1976 (CD 1)

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 4


   
 Finyl Vinyl

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 13


   
 The Best Of (CD 2)

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 8


   
 The Best Of (CD 1)

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 8


   
 Down To Rotterdam (CD2)

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 8


   
 Down To Rotterdam (CD1)

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 7


   
 Difficult to Cure

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 9


   
 Down to Earth

   Year: 1979   
Tracks: 8


   
 On Tour 1978 Starstruck - Osaka

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 16


   
 Rainbow On Stage

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 9


   
 On Stage

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 6


   
 Rising

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 6


   
 Richie Blackmore's Rainbow

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 9


   
 Rainbow Rising

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 6


   
 Live In Germany (CD2)

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 4


   
 Live In Germany (CD1)

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 4


   
 Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 9


   
 On Tour

   Year:    
Tracks: 16


   
 Finyl Vinyl By Skorzeny

   Year:    
Tracks: 13

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The brainchild of former Deep Purple guitar player Ritchie Blackmore, Rainbow quickly developed into one of the '70s most successful clayey alloy bands behind magnetic movement man Ronnie James Dio. Together, the duet would raise a string of acclaimed albums which are still considered classics of the genre. But the mathematical group would change their musical coming legion multiplication following the singer's release, eventually confusing and alienating much of their consultation. Releasing eight albums during it's decennary long campaign, the striation last came to an end when Blackmore departed to rejoin his old Deep Purple comrades in a fully fledged reunion in 1984. And patch the impact of Rainbow's influence has faded with the intervening decades, theirs was a crucial chapter in the development of heavy metallic element and voiceless rock.


Disillusioned and fRS up with the chaotic state of Deep Purple in the mid-'70s, guitar player Ritchie Blackmore made the sensational announcement in May of 1975 that he was quitting the mathematical group he had founded and lED for over vII age in order to embark on from abrasion. Teaming up with up-and-coming American vocaliser Ronnie James Dio, Blackmore reinforced Rainbow just about the singer's former band Elf, minus their guitar player David Feinstein. Featuring bassist Craig Gruber, keyboard player Mickey Lee Soule, and drummer Gary Driscoll, the group's 1975 debut Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow was quickly embraced by European fans and yielded their starting time hit unmarried, "Man on the Silver Mountain." Blackmore and Dio were dissatisfied with the album's sound, however, and distinct to revamp Rainbow (by then sufficiently conventional to do without Blackmore's name) by draftsmanship bassist Jimmy Bain, keyboard player Tony Carey, and former Jeff Beck Group drummer Cozy Powell. It was with this batting order that they entered Musicland studios in February 1976 to record the landmark Rising composition -- one time voted the greatest heavy metallic element album of all time in a 1981 Kerrang! magazine publisher readers' poll parrot. Capturing Blackmore and Dio at the point of their originative powers, Rising chronicled both the guitarist's neoclassical alloy compositions at their most ambitious, and the singer's growing fixation with fantasy lyrical themes -- a blueprint he would follow for his total career thenceforth. Following its release, the band embarked upon a successful creation circuit, culminating in a sold out European expedition which spawned a best-selling live album entitled On Stage, released in 1977.


By the time they returned with the as acclaimed Long Live Rock'n'Roll record album in 1978 (featuring bassist Bob Daisley and keyboard player David Stone), Rainbow had naturalized themselves as one of Europe's best-selling groups and big top concert draws. But the volatile human relationship between Blackmore and Dio had already begun to deteriorate, as the American-born isaac Bashevis Singer became progressively frustrated of standing in the guitarist's shadow -- tied in his own body politic, where the mathematical group was now amply committed to breakage big. To score matters worse, Blackmore had been so impressed with "Long Live Rock'n'Roll"'s success as a single, that he began to see neutering the band's sound in order to pursue a more mainstream knockout stone approach (a counseling which Dio cherished no persona of). A luck group meeting with Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath (only latterly divorced for dear from unreliable front man Ozzy Osbourne) helped the singer produce up his judgment, and Dio formally chuck up the sponge Rainbow in early 1979 to unite the Sabs.


Determination a suited substitute for the magnetic isaac M. Singer proven a grievous dilemma, and when Blackmore finally recruited former Marbles singer Graham Bonnett, his determination came with an all-around re-tooling of Rainbow's sound, non to mention, once once again, the band's membership, which directly included onetime Deep Purple cohort Roger Glover and keyboard player Don Airey. With the spillage of 1979's Down to Earth, departed were the mystical themes and epic metal compositions, replaced by a more than aerodynamic commercial hard rock candy fashion. But despite containing deuce of Rainbow's biggest singles, "All Night Long" and "Since You've been Gone" (the mo, written by early Argent singer Russ Ballard), the album sputtered in stores, selling far less than the group's late, Dio-fronted efforts. Bonnett too failed to get together Blackmore's high-minded expectations on stage, and after a single, disastrously boozy performance at the inauguration Castle Donington Monsters of Rock Festival in the summer of 1980, the vocaliser was unceremoniously granted the boot.


Erstwhile again strapped for a singer, Blackmore establish his piece in American singer Joe Lynn Turner, world Health Organization along with new drummer Bobby Rondinelli signaled a lawful career conversion for Rainbow. Wishing to shed the group's portentous, Dio-associated Euro-metal sound of years past once and for all, the new Rainbow lineup was made to order for some other bid at widespread acceptance in America. The first base merchandise of this new counselling, 1981's advantageously received Difficult to Cure helped the group regain some of their impulse and yielded their highest-charting single ever so, another Russ Ballard-penned racetrack entitled "I Surrender." In fact, the record's deed track -- a sprawling, ten-minute metallic blitzkrieg through Beethoven's ymphony No. 9 -- was the only throwback to Rainbow's highbrow metal origins. Released in 1982, Uncoiled Between the Eyes failed to chart any successful singles, nevertheless, and the band's appeal began to nosedive, along with Blackmore's progressively uninventive, risk-free vocal written material. 1983's Bent-grass out of Shape (featuring new members in keyboard actor David Rosenthal and drummer Chuck Burgi) fared no bettor, and afterward accepting the fact that Rainbow's best years were behind them, Blackmore finally relented to look at part in the long-rumored and hoped for regeneration of Deep Purple's authoritative Mark II lineup. Typically, the guitarist refused to go prohibited restfully, and Rainbow were backed by a full symphony orchestra orchestra for their last March 1984 performance in Japan.


A posthumous live handout, entitled Finyl Vinyl, was compiled in 1986, and though he would briefly upraise the Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow byname after quitting Purple for the second time in 1994 (even recording an album called Stranger in Us All), this avatar would be transitory. Blackmore was last heard from playacting with his purported fiancé Candice Night in the gothic folks duo Blackmore's Night.

Download

   
Artist: Download

   Genre(s): 
Experimental
   ROck: Alternative
   

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Discography:


   
 Effector

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 9


   
 Sidewinder

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 8


   
 Microscopic

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 8


   
 Eyes of Stanley Pain

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 14


   
 Furnace

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 13

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Another Hanson Baby Born

Rivers Cuomo - Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo

In an era where the majority of rock stars aren't very interesting, there's much to like about the kookiness of Rivers Cuomo.
Having apparently lived in a wardrobe for weeks on end; sold all his possessions bar a guitar to buy a one-room basement flat; left rock 'n' roll for a degree at Harvard, and gone on sex binges followed by years of abstinence, Weezer's frontman has, rightly or wrongly, garnered a reputation as rock's weirdo.
Something of a hesitant rock star, it is peculiar then that Cuomo has now decided to raid his near 20-year collection of demo recordings and allowed us in.
Recorded between 1992 and 2007, the 18-track collection is more a curiosity for Weezer fans than anything else with the quality of a lot of the recordings questionable. With many, it's easy to see why they haven't made it on to Weezer albums, while others point to Cuomo's sometime desire to experiment outside of Weezer's structured sound and flirt with other genres.
'This Is The Way', one of the more recent demos, was apparently considered as a lead single for the band's forthcoming album and is one of the more experimental sounding tracks here in that it has a sleazy hip-hop feel to it. You can picture bling, gold and black rappers with Cuomo looking odd and out-of-place somewhere in-between.
Cuomo's geek-eyed sensitivity flows to the core on tracks like 'Wanda (You're My Only Love)', which was intended to soundtrack the movie 'Angus', and the excellent 'Chess' and 'Longtime Sunshine'.
'Blast Off', however, is the standout track and one which would feel at home on any Weezer album.
Recorded as part of the band's second album sessions, Cuomo had intended to release a "space-voyage rock-opera" entitled 'Songs from the Blackhole', and indeed many of the songs here were intended for that work.
Hardcore Weezer fans will be familiar with these tracks, along with much of 'Alone'. Many of the songs have previously cropped up online, along with a host of other less focussed demos.
One of the best things about the record, however, is Cuomo's sleeve notes. The songwriter openly describes how each track came about and what was going on in his life at the time.
It's an engaging companion to the 18-tracks and, thankfully, 'Alone' doesn't look like being the only road into the workings of Cuomo's creative mind. He's currently looking on a publisher for his memoirs - now that should prove fascinating.
Steve Cummins

Joe Bonamassa launches extensive tour

Hard-working blues-rocker Joe Bonamassa [ tickets ] has mapped out a tour itinerary that will take him across North America and beyond through next year.The singer/songwriter/guitarist is scheduled to play a May 18 gig at the Doheny Blues Festival in Dana Point, CA, before officially launching the tour June 8 with a two-night stand in Alexandria, VA. Bonamassa will visit venues across the US, including a host of blues and jazz festivals, and cross over to Ontario, Canada, for a few shows in October. He'll also jet to the UK for a short run of dates in July and November.The performer's North American itinerary, which stretches into March 2009, is listed below. Overseas dates can be found at Bonamassa's website.The guitar virtuoso continues to support his seventh solo album, "Sloe Gin," which surfaced last fall, snagged the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart and remains in the Top 10 after 38 weeks. The set includes several originals along with the Ten Years After classic "One of These Days," Paul Rodgers' "Seagull," the John Martin classic "Jelly Roll," Charles Brown's "Black Night," the Chris Whitley-penned "Ball Peen Hammer" and a version of the Bob Ezrin/Michael Kamen-penned "Sloe Gin" that clocks in at eight-plus minutes. The latter two songs are streaming at Bonamassa's MySpace page.The New York native, who began playing guitar at age 4, has been showered with praise over the years for his post-modern fusion of electric British blues, traditional Delta blues and rock and roll. He started his career at age 12, touring with legendary bluesman B.B. King, and went on to work with guitar greats including Buddy Guy, Danny Gatton, Robert Cray and Stephen Stills.Now at age 31, Bonamassa is the youngest member of the Blues Foundation's Board of Directors and is the lead spokesperson for the organization's Blues in the Schools program. The musician was also recently named Best Blues Guitarist in Guitar Player Magazine's Reader's Choice Awards for the second year in a row.

Krivi

   
Artist: Krivi

   Genre(s): 
Trance
   

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Discography:


   
 Sunrise In Boka

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 2

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Pete Wentz - Newlywed Wentz Caught Up In Police Drama

Cruise Scientology video leaked on web

A four-year-old video of Tom Cruise talking about his belief in Scientology has been leaked on the internet.
To the soundtrack of 'Mission Impossible', the Hollywood star makes a number of claims about the power of Scientology.
He claims the group is the "authority on the mind", and can get people off drugs, rehabilitate criminals and "will bring peace and unite cultures".
Cruise declares: "Now is the time. Being a Scientologist people are turning to you - so you better know it and if you don't, go and learn it. But don't pretend."
"If you are a Scientologist, you see things the way they are, in all its glory, all of its complexity," he adds.
The video, which appeared on video-sharing website YouTube, comes as Andrew Morton published a book about Cruise, alleging that the actor ranks second in command in the Church of Scientology.