smorg

The long awaited Guns N’ Roses album is now available for pre-order on iTunes, exclusively.

Pre-order here: Guns N’ Roses - Chinese Democracy

Johnny Cash, recorded on 6/32/03 just weeks after the death of June on May 15th. John passed on September 12th 2003, his heart broken, his voice and body weak. This performance was at a Carter family event and one of the last he ever gave.

Oh there’s something ’bout a man in black,
Makes me want to buy a cadillac,
Throw the top back,
And roll down to Jackson town,
I wanna be there on the stage with you,
You and I could be the next rage too,
Hear the crowd roar,
Make ‘em want more,
Kick the footlights out,

I wanna love like Johnny and June,
Rings of fire burnin’ with you,
I wanna walk the line,
Walk the line,
‘Till the end of time,
I wanna love,
Love ya that much,
Cash it all in,
Give it all up,
When you’re gone,
I wanna go too,
Like Johnny and June,

I wanna hold you baby right or wrong,
Build a world around a country song,
Pray a sweet prayer,
Follow you there,
Down in history,

I wanna love like Johnny and June,
Rings of fire burnin’ with you,
I wanna walk the line,
Walk the line,
‘Till the end of time,
I wanna love,
Love ya that much,
Cash it all in,
Give it all up,
When you’re gone,
I wanna go too,
Like Johnny and June,

Like Johnny and June,
More than life itself,
No-one else,
This endless promise,
They don’t make love like that anymore,
Is that too much to be askin’ for,

I wanna love like Johnny and June,
Rings of fire burnin’ with you,
I wanna walk the line,
Walk the line,
‘Till the end of time,
I wanna love,
Love ya that much,
Cash it all in,
Give it all up,
When you’re gone,
I wanna go too,
Like Johnny and June,

Like Johnny and June,
And when we’re gone,
There’ll be no tears to cry,
Only memories of our lives,
They’ll remember, remember,
A love like that.

I love these guys and double love this video.

EDIT: Now fixed…stupid youtubes.

Opening track of their latest, newly released album. So good to hear them back, damn. Consider this one ordered, guys.

Click to listen: Local H - Blur

[From Bruce Springsteen Endorses Obama: "He speaks to the America I've envisioned in my music for the past 35 years"]

Dear Friends and Fans:

Like most of you, I’ve been following the campaign and I have now seen and heard enough to know where I stand. Senator Obama, in my view, is head and shoulders above the rest.
He has the depth, the reflectiveness, and the resilience to be our next President. He speaks to the America I’ve envisioned in my music for the past 35 years, a generous nation with a citizenry willing to tackle nuanced and complex problems, a country that’s interested in its collective destiny and in the potential of its gathered spirit.

via Consumerist

Reader Brent was furious to find three lawn tickets bought through Ticketmaster, priced at $13 each, came to the ridiculous total of $106.20. First there’s the facility fee, then there’s the mandatory parking, a processing fee, and the “convenience” charge for purchasing the tickets online. After all the fees were piled on, the $13 tickets now cost $35.40 each. Brent

Ok, not really. Actually, Dr. Pepper has vowed to give everyone in America a free drink if Axl releases the SEVENTEEN YEAR IN THE MAKING album ‘Chinese Democracy‘.
Really some brilliant marketing - I wonder if Axl will comply or sue? :)

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/NYW021A26032008-1.htm

Tired of a world in which Americans idolize wannabe singers and musicals about high schoolers pass as rock ‘n roll music, Dr Pepper is encouraging (ok, begging) Axl Rose to finally release his 17-year-in-the-making belabored masterpiece, Chinese Democracy, in 2008.
In an unprecedented show of solidarity with Axl, everyone in America, except estranged GNR guitarists Slash and Buckethead, will receive a free can of Dr Pepper if the album ships some time — anytime!

My bff Andy, sans his band ‘Red House‘, doing ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’. I hate him.

This is him and his boyz doing a medley of songs written before the rest of his band was born, ha! (Andy, you are old.)

Damned song is stuck in my head. Turns out it is by ‘They Might Be Giants’, who have been around since, err, forever. I hope they release this as a full track sometime.
:)

On Thursday night, my lovely bride and I attended a concert by a little band known as the ‘Foo Fighters’. Evidently the lead singer is a former band member of another band called ‘Nirvana’ and both groups have had a modicum of success in their brief lives, evidently.

Anyway, we managed to somehow end up being about 5 feet away from the stage (closer than we were at the Raconteurs show we also attended at the Tabernacle).

The show was awesome. They played for 2 hours, and the highlight was almost certainly when Dave came off stage, walked to the bar and stayed there for a good ten minutes as he and guitarist Chris Shiflett traded riffs during a badass rendition of Stacked Actors.