Derek Riggs on drawing “Eddie” from Iron Maiden

I remember when Killers came out…This artwork was flooring!! (chuck)

 

One of the people who works on the website tells a story about looking at Killers as a ten year old kid and being uncontrollably drawn to it, saying, “It was like pornography.” This is funny to me, because it’s true — it was unavoidably compelling and obviously evil, but also because of the countless Eddie posters that shared wall space with Heather Locklear or Pamela Anderson. So, how do you look back on your life as a pornographer?

[laughs] Oh, I wasn’t part of all that. I just drew a picture and the rest of that stuff didn’t really have anything to do with me. From the first thing that I drew, it was all a logical response to what I saw around me at the time. It’s funny you say that about pornography, because part of my motivation at the time was a reaction against what I was seeing in hard rock bands. They all had boring art with half-naked women and it was all really crap. I wanted to draw something that had some balls to it. There was nothing else like what I was doing at the time.

That’s funny, because Eddie ended up having such a strong appeal, to the point that people had to put posters of him up in their rooms.

I had a funny experience of my own. About two months after I submitted the art to Killers, I was walking down Oxford Street in London, where I lived. There was a huge Virgin records store at the end of the block. They did an absolutely huge 15 foot by 15 foor square painting of Killers. I didn’t even know it had been released. I thought, “Fucking hell, that’s terrible.”

read the rest here or Eddie will come and get you…

http://www.metalsucks.net/2010/08/17/the-austerity-programs-just-foley-interviews-legendary-illustrator-derek-riggs/

Sebastian rules out SkidRow Reunion

I guess I see his point….(chuck)

Bach: “They’re [the current lineup of SKID ROW] still around and they’re playing where they play and I have to go on the Internet all the time and explain to people that I’m not in the band, and it’s just frustrating.

“If you got fired from a job, everywhere you go, it wouldn’t be, ‘Jimmy who worked at McDonald’s in ’89.’ You’d be like, ‘Get over it.’ [laughs]”

On why he can’t reunite with his former bandmates as SKID ROW:

Bach: “Let me answer it as honestly as I can. You’re talking about… When SKID ROW was last good… We broke up in ’96, but I don’t even count that. I would say ’91 was when we were last really a good band. I just don’t live in 1991 in 2010, and I’m talking about four other guys that I haven’t seen in 15 years.

“I think of SKID ROW the same way you might think of picking up your high-school yearbook. You have affection for what happened 30 years ago, but you look at the yearbook and you go, ‘Oh, cool,’ and you shut it, and it’s today.

“I don’t know those people.

“It’s not sports. It’s not like a team.

link:

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=144822

Megadeth’s Vic Rattlehead makes an appearance

There is soo much  more they could do with this guy in concert…They need an actor to play him and not a roadie ( I am assuming it’s a roadie in this video, but it’s cool anyway) (chuck)

STP stands thier ground against their Record Company Atlantic

“The band’s choice to self-produce the album, when they could have had any producer they wanted, is a good indication they are serious about this policy. “Our label [Atlantic Records] refused to let us produce it,” De Leo says, adding Atlantic told STP, “‘We want a big-name producer.’ You know what we told them? Fuck off.” DeLeo stands by the band’s choice, calling the self-titled album STP’s “finest-sounding record.” And once the band played the new album for Atlantic, he says, the label caved in on its demands.”

“STP has had a rocky relationship with Atlantic in the past; the label sued the band in 2008 for attempting to escape their contract prematurely. DeLeo speaks candidly of this relationship. “It just seemed funny that every label but our own contacted us to write songs for other artists,” he says. “Our own fucking label didn’t even know what they had in their back pocket for the last decade.” Furthermore, according to DeLeo, the band won’t be working with Atlantic much longer. “Their loss. They have us for one more record,” he says. “I think it’s only because we managed to sell a lot of records that we’ve had a pretty good relationship with them.”

for the rest of this cool article go here :

http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/08/17/getting-vocal-with-stone-temple-pilots-dean-deleo/

UFO’s are watching Ozzy’s Concerts?

Roger Marsh of UFO Examiner reports that “a triangle UFO flying higher than any conventional aircraft” was spotted during Ozzy Osbourne‘s performance at the Ozzfest 2010 kick-off concert on Saturday, August 14 in Devore, California. “The shape was triangular with rounded tips,” one concert-goer was quoted as saying, according testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness-reporting database. “The color of the craft was a pale gray. The middle looking on edgewise was slightly rounded and thicker in the middle, which held three round lights in a line strobe-like. Colors were green, yellow and pinkish purple. The lights were like a strobe that blinked and flashed 3-5 times before it disappeared behind a tree that it fit behind.”

Read more from UFO Examiner.

In October 2008, The History Channel debuted an episode of “UFO Hunters” that featured one of the best-documented UFO “sightings” to date. It took place August 21, 2004, when fans were leaving an Ozzfest concert that took place First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre in in Tinley Park, Illinois.

As the fans were caught up in a traffic jam, three lights in a triangular pattern hovered above them for nearly 20 minutes. According to a Chicago UFO expert, it may be the most-seen incident recorded.

Watch a four-minute report on the Tinley Park UFO “sighting” below. (Note: The report below is not part of the “UFO Hunters” episode.)