Is SlipKnot over? I hope not….:(

SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor says he doesn’t want to make any rash statements about the band’s future following the recent passing of bassist Paul Gray and is focusing, for the time being, on promoting “Audio Secrecy”, the new album from his other band, STONE SOUR.

“It’s kind of a gray area right now,” Taylor tells in FMQB Productions‘ radio special, “Inside Stone Sour: Audio Secrecy”. “Everybody is still feeling it. It’s too soon to tell.

“I’m very conflicted about whether or not I want to do anything with SLIPKNOT, because to me, Paul was such an integral part of the band. He was the whole reason that the band was the way it was… Paul was the glue and the orchestrator behind some of the best music we ever wrote. He was the soul of the band.

“I don’t want to make any statements that I’ll look like a fool in retrospect, but to me, right now, it just doesn’t make sense,” Taylor says. “Until it does, that’s the way it stays for me. That’s why I’ve been saying it’s too soon to tell… you never know.”

“Inside Stone Sour: Audio Secrecy” is airing on radio stations nationwide from September 3 to September 7.

SLIPKNOT drummer Joey Jordison, who was recently out with ROB ZOMBIE on the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, told The Pulse of Radio that there have actually been talks about SLIPKNOT‘s future following Gray‘s passing. “Shawn (Crahan) just came out, the ‘Clown,’ he just came out to the Mayhem festival, and we sat down and we talked and we’re starting to map out the game plan right now,” he said. “So there is another SLIPKNOT record already kinda in the making. You know, we’re getting timelines set and, you know, it’s gonna be a little bit but there’s definitely another record. Paul would always want us to make another record. He wouldn’t want the band to stop — SLIPKNOT was his life.”

Paul Gray‘s body was found on May 24 in a hotel room in a Des Moines, Iowa suburb. A coroner ruled that the 38-year-old musician died of an accidental overdose of morphine.

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A Black Man Goes To Glenn Beck’s Rally (interesting perspective)

by Jerome Hudson

To hear the mainstream media tell the story, you would have thought that I, a black man, had walked into a hornet’s nest of racists when I decided to attend Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally. In reality, my experience was the complete opposite.

Instead of hooded Klansman frothing with hate and venom, I made dozens of new Facebook friends and gained a hundred Twitter followers.

One lady from New Jersey asked me if I was “afraid” because I was one of the “few blacks in attendance?”

I looked at her square in the eye and said, “Ma’am, the only thing I’m afraid of is that if I don’t hurry, I’m not going to make it to the restroom in time.”

We spoke of family, laughed, shared and she wept as she embraced me with hugs and kisses while thanking me for being there. (What a complete bigot, that lady!)

Beck’s rally was meant to restore faith hope and charity in America. And that was the spirit of the day.

To be sure, I was one of the few blacks there that historic day. I’m sure to many I stuck out like a sore thumb. Or, perhaps more aptly, like a chocolate chip smack dab in the middle of a giant sugar cookie.

Perhaps that’s why I was interviewed by at several news outlets.

When asked how long I had been waiting for the event to begin, I turned all three interviewers’ faces to stone when I replied, “about 24 hours.” I’m sure they thought I was kidding, but I wasn’t.

Like most Americans, I’ve had enough with this administration’s policies. I was fed up and fired up.

I am even more so in the wake of the most moving gathering I’ve ever been privileged to be a part of.

At one point, some of the people attending the Rev. Al Sharpton’s “counter rally,” coined “Reclaiming King,” stopped me. I guess they must have been judging me by the color of my skin not the content of my character, because they asked if I was going to come join them.

“No, I won’t be there,” I told them. “Why?” one of them asked with a grimace on his face. I looked at him and said, “I want to be where the Lord is and the Lord is in this place.”

One of the older black women in the group asked me if I felt like I was “selling out” for being one of the “tokens” in the Beck rally crowd?

I laughed and said “Ma’am, Al Sharpton is a pretender. He is going to tell you to pretend that the color of your skin matters. He is going to ask you to ignore the now overwhelming proof that 50 years after the Civil Rights movement, blacks are now destroying each other faster than the KKK could have dreamed.”

As I walked away, the group stood frozen, not knowing how to reply.

Later, as Sharpton preached a divisive message void of actual solutions on how to “close the education and economic gap” in the “black community,” Dr. Alveda King, Martin Luther King’s niece, invoked the spirit of her slain uncle proclaiming, “I too have a dream, that white privilege will become human privilege and that people of every ethnic blend will receive everyone as brothers and sisters in the love of God.”

Her comments on restoring the “foundation of the family” in America were met, not with boos, but with a thunderous applause.

(What bigots those white folks! Having the audacity to cheer Dr. King’s niece like that. Racists the whole lot of them!)

I was probably the only 24-year old black college student in the crowd. It’s hard to know, because we had over 300,000 people there. But that didn’t matter to me. As we all stood hand-in-hand, American shoulder to American shoulder, our myriad faces streaked with tears as we sang “Amazing Grace.” It was a moment I will be proud to tell my grandkids about one day.

What that moment taught me is this: Something profound is happening in America that runs far deeper than politics. The ground is shifting, and it’s in freedom’s direction.

As a nation at war, standing in division and debt, Beck challenged the crowd to return to God.

The message I took away is that we cannot continue to pick at the scab of America’s past but must become the balm that heals it. That’s the way forward—arm in arm, moving together, toward a better future.

Standing in a crowd that stretched from the Washington Monument to Lincoln Memorial what happened on 8/28 was the most inspirational thing I had ever experienced.

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Check out my “tricked” out tattoo by Tony Trip!!

Finally, and it only took about two years of me searching for an artist I could trust and his work lived up to his name…I took the “Trip” last Friday down to Unspoken Art Studios (1-812- 589-7380 – 105 S Kentucky Ave, Evansville, IN) and met up with the Owner Tony Trip to discuss a tat that I was thinking about getting.. I have to add here I am very anal and ocd in such away that it has to be perfect or at least perfect in my eyes or I will have to pass on it and too date I have passed on all the others…. But Tony Delivered. This guy is super nice and professional and one hell of an artist!..He took the time to  explain everything to me since it was my first tattoo and what to expect, care etc…We shot the shit about old school and new  music and even  new born babies (which Tony is a proud Dad too)….He worked my tattoo idea into the perfect first tattoo for me…

So check out the photos I took and give Tony a call… I am definitely going back and getting more…I can see where they say tattoos are addicting 🙂

chuck

Here is the link to his site. Be sure and check out his awesome work!

http://www.theycallmetrip.com/home.html

Special thanks to Mike “The Sandman” Sanders from 103GBF and Chris Gish from Gish’s Auto Paint and Repair for turning me on to Tony too!!!

I’d say Jackyl knows how to shoot a video… ;-)

If you look real close you can see the band …..but why look for them?

Here’s the Deal Axl. go on at your alotted time. not two hours later and…

They won’t shut you off at the board anymore…Dude, you get paid millions to play somewhere and you hold the audience and promoters hostage….You go on two  hours later than scheduled…Who are you? Axle Rose?  Not anymore….you should have cobained it years ago and then your legacy wouldn’t be so tarnished…G N R is no longer the next Rolling Stones..You killed off that band…. You are the leader of a good cover band…that’s all..Fans pay thier hard earned money and you screw them around and don’t get to play a full show because of curfews…You don’t care about the fans…Your back stage watching cartoons….(chuck)

GUNS N’ ROSES singer Axl Rose has commented on the band’s appearances this past weekend at the U.K.’s Leeds and Reading festivals, the latter of which was cut short by the festival organizers due to curfew issues. In a message on Twitlonger.com, a related Twitter site where one can post messages longer than 140 characters, Rose wrote, “Don’t know what it is with us or these last two shows. Takes the fun out it for everyone — fans, band and crew alike, but whatever.

“So you know, we allegedly had a deal in place pre-show with the city at least at Leeds to do a bit longer performance that was either miscommunication, someone wasn’t informed, changed their mind, didn’t care or was a con. Regardless, the nonsense just seems so unnecessary but without real management or industry presence is unfortunately beyond our control. We hope the fans feel they got at least what they could from us under the circumstances as for us all things considered that’s the main thing. The rest is filler.

“Anyway, enough rambling. Peace, thanks for understanding and what we did manage to get done out there was a blast! The crowds and fans were amazing!! And in our opinion (not that apparently it means much) you deserved better!! Thanks again!!”

Professionally filmed video footage of the Reading performance (courtesy of the BBC) can be viewed below.

GUNS N’ ROSES reportedly started its Reading festival performance at 10:30 p.m. — more than an hour later than scheduled — and was given an extra half hour to play, until roughly midnight

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30th Anniversary of Blizzard and Diary..

It’s been 30 years years already? Damn, I remember when they came out. These albums rocked. Serious musicianship on each one of them. Well, until Sharon Osbourne pulled out the originals and replaced Lee and Bob on them…Where has the time gone and who let the bitch do that..???? (chuck)

According to CDJapan.co.jp, 30th-anniversary editions of OZZY OSBOURNE‘s classic “Blizzard Of Ozz” and “Diary Of A Madman” albums — which were previously due Japan on October 13 — have been postponed until next year. The “30th Anniversary Legacy Edition” of “Blizzard Of Ozz” will include a bonus disc featuring more than 10 tracks. The three-album reissue series will also include “Blizzard Of Ozz” (“30th Anniversary Edition”) and “Diary Of A Madman” (“30th Anniversary Edition”).

To pre-order these two items, follow these links:

* “Blizzard Of Ozz” (pre-order)
* “Diary Of A Madman” (pre-order)

When asked about Ozzy‘s upcoming 30th-anniversary editions of his first two albums at a Toronto press conference in May, Osbourne‘s wife/manager Sharon said, “They are coming out for Thanksgiving and they will be on the market then. . . It’s going back to the original recordings with [Bob] Daisley [bass] and [Lee] Kerslake [drums]. And there will be a lot of stuff that you haven’t heard before in the packages. Like certain conversations that were going on in the studio with the guys just messing around while the tape was still rolling. All of that will be added into it.”

Bob Daisley, who played bass on the first two solo albums by Ozzy Osbourne, said in a recent interview with his web site that he has not been contacted about the 30th-anniversary editions of those records being released later this year. The tracks played by Daisley and drummer Lee Kerslake on both albums — 1980’s “Blizzard Of Ozz” and 1981’s “Diary Of A Madman” — were replaced on a previous reissue after Daisley and Kerslake sued Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne over royalties.

Daisley told the web site, “Neither Lee nor I have been contacted, considered or consulted in the decision to re-release the original recordings. I haven’t a clue as to what the ‘bonus material’ might be. As for royalties, we have not been approached for a reconciliation and have been offered and promised nothing.”

Ozzy told The Pulse of Radio he was against the idea of replacing the original tracks when he found out about it. “Believe me, it wasn’t my doing,” he said. “I mean, I didn’t know that was being done, ’cause Sharon was fighting all the legal things that were going down at the time. I said, ‘What did you do that for?’ And she said, ‘The only way I could stop everything was if it went to that level.’ And I said, ‘You know what, whatever the circumstances were, I want the original thing back.’ I mean, I wouldn’t have done that.”

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