That was 3 Al - Ed, Farrah, & Michael.

:-(

Roughly 150,000 people die a day.

Skippygirl - Cool...let me know what you think of Dredg.

The California summer is good. I don't go to the actual beach all that often, but I love living close to it. Just today I went out to lunch with a friend a few blocks up from the water. That constant ocean breeze is very nice... :-)

http://www.peavey.com/news/article.cfm/action/view/id/414/cat/3/article.cfm

"Chickenfoot, the supergroup formed by bass legend Michael Anthony with Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani and Red Hot Chili Pepper Chad Smith, relies on a Peavey backline for its self-titled debut album, released on June 5."

Mikey formed Chickenfoot?

Still not good enough :-/ Get HR on the line. They're fired!

michelle - That press release has been rewritten so many times in the past few days...it's all a big mess.

I think the first version said Satch formed Chickenfoot, which is actually the least correct as he was the last to join.

If Peavey's HR people are fired, can I have their job?

There was a story a few months ago when some website (Bloomberg?) accidentally published a draft of their obituary for Apple's Steve Jobs. And there have even been a few instances where a journalist has died before the person he/she wrote about...if editors don't catch that, the obits go to print and appear to be written from the grave.

It's pretty common knowledge that Eddie Van Halen played guitar on MJ's Beat It, but it might not be as well known that Slash played on this song from Dangerous (and a few others from the album too, I think)... So, there you go...

Shepherds Bush Empire mini review before I forget something....

Can't sleep and it's now 3.30am and I think that was quite an epic gig. Here are my memorable highlights:

I got a Joe Chickenfoot Plec

Joe is now smokin Joe (someone else can correct me if wrong on that)

Chad is Chadster when in Britain

John McEnroe is obviously a fan of the band...

"Chadster" climbed on his drum kit, then fell off it and cut his arm and there was a fair bit of blood (but he kept playing naturally).... the guys were in hysterics when he fell off

Chadster later trashed his kit and threw a drum which hit Sam in the head!

Mikey gave me a beer at the end of the show

I am sure the others who went will have their memorable highlights to share so I won't spoil any of that

Got a fair few photos hopefully, and recorded a couple of songs but based on the basic spec of the camera I'm guessing the sound will be sh.... not very good

Austin, yer first in line. lol!

Any fans of that little bitch Perez Hilton? Check out what he posted on Twitter, then quickly removed.

He also recently got punched in the face over some Black Eyed Peas thing, and then he cried like a little girl in his video blog because somebody FINALLY gave him what he deserved. How some people waste their lives is beyond me.

Hmmm...interesting that they didn't play My Kinda Girl. It was just released on MySpace/Facebook so I thought they'd be pushing it as their next single. Did they drop anything else from the album? Was the encore still Future In The Past, Bad Motor Scooter, and Highway Star?

Can someone post a picture of the drums Chad trashed? I hope it wasn't the awesome set he used on the US tour...I loved how those looked.

And if Sammy got hit by a drum...does that mean he's "quit" the band twice now? He did in San Francisco...and both that and this are the third shows of each tour. Hmmm... ;-)

Austin - tis over here.... it wasn't overly damaged, perhaps trashed was the wrong term

Naughty Chadster

Mc....I still haven't found yer Cork video....izit up or izinit?

Glitzman, we're good, thanks for asking...and my mum's lil birthday was nice...she's so dear. Thanks for the good wishes :)

It's so strange to know that Michael Jackson is gone. He was a part of my life for awhile, I enjoyed his vids, especially the more outrageous ones...thought the dancing was crazy! And he was young, with kids. Very sad for his whole family I'm sure. Same for Farrah Fawcett...rip both of them.

punkdude, congrats on the news of a son....hope he's very healthy and happy :)

Cappy!! Sorry to hear about the job, but maybe not terribly sorry?? Cuz it sounds like yer relieved...but what's next on the horizon for you?

Austin, changed my mind....we're going to the show in Tahoe...it's GA (YAY!!) and in a gorgeous location (BIGGER YAY!!) and isn't as far a drive as Berkeley. Chris is already excited!! ROOOOOOOAAAAAAD TRIP!!! Oh and Austin....yes, u can have the job at Peavey, go clean em up!!! They obviously need help and someone who is ACCURATE!

Guess we can call that show....ChickenHOE! LOL!

dear joe produces an overdrive pedal

for your line of pedals

dear joe produces an overdrive pedal

for your line of pedals

Ah Pip it sounds great!! My kinda gig :0). How did you get the beer did you stay around whilst they were packing up ? And tell me you said hi to Joe from me...........

I was listening to Jim Ladd's show on KLOS tonight and finally heard Oh Yeah on the radio. So that was cool. He also gave away a pair of tickets for the LA show, but I didn't get them. I've won a few things from his program in the past, though.

Anyway, I also found out through him that Sky Saxon of the 1960s California garage rock band The Seeds died yesterday as well. The band wasn't as popular as Michael Jackson, obviously, but it was influential in its own way.

Just FYI, that's a HUGE Sammy Hagar town...he has one of his Cabo Wabo restaurants in the hotel where the show is at. So be ready for big crowds...and I'd start looking for a place to stay now so you don't get shut out.