Is Robert Plant a true musician for skipping millions over Led Zeppelin tour for his own project?

January 31, 2008

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Pehaps Mr. Plant considers himself to be a true musician/artist and

doesn't care about the money. Wow, imagine that.

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Cancer stricken Chuck Billy of Testament pays back with concert tour

January 31, 2008

Cancer stricken Chuck Billy of Testament pays back with concert tour

TESTAMENT’S CHUCK BILLY TO PERFORM AT THE 2008 LONGEST WALK 2

 KICKOFF CONCERT!!!

 Chuck Billy, lead singer of legendary thrash metal band Testament

 and proud member of the Pomo Indian Tribe will be performing at

 theLongest Walk Kickoff Concert on Saturday, February 9. The

 concert begins at 5:00PM at the Eastside Cultural Center in

 Oakland, CA.  Chuck Billy will be performing alongside his brother

 Andy and 2006 Native American GRAMMY & NAMA recipient Star Nayea.

 The Longest Walk Kickoff Concert will also feature performances by

 7th Generation Rise, Blackhorse Blues Band, Jeremy Goodfeather, and

 others TBA. Tickets range in price from $25-$40.

 The concert is a benefit for the Longest Walk 2, which kicks off on

 Monday, February 11. The Longest Walk 2 is being organized and led

 by American Indian Movement co-founder Dennis J. Banks.

 Participants will embark on a 5 month journey across America

 walking over 4,400 miles to Washington, D.C. arriving on July 11,

 2008. It is an extraordinary grassroots effort on a national level

 to bring attention to the environmental disharmony of Mother Earth.

 For more information on the Longest Walk 2, visit www.longestwalk.org.

 Be sure to catch brothers Chuck and Andy Billy as they help to

 kickoff the Longest Walk 2 in Oakland, CA on February 9!! And don’t

 miss the long-awaited, nine-years-in-the-making new album from

 Testament, due April 29 on Nuclear Blast Records. The album - “The

 Formation of Damnation” - was engineered and mixed by the venerable

 Andy Sneap. Testament are among the originators of thrash who paved

 the way for many of today’s young and upcoming bands.

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Opeth mainman is ticked off of illegal album downloads but dude, deal with it

January 31, 2008

Opeth mainman is ticked off of illegal album downloads but dude, deal with it

Mikael Åkerfeldt has got to get with the times as this is a new reality. So it sounds like he is pretty ticked at the fact it could be his fans doing this. Maybe they can’t afford album prices but they still show up at your shows. Like I said, deal with the new reality. We did so you need to aswell.

Metal Hammer: Your label, Roadrunner, has been criticized for the number of reissues it releases, including your last album, "Ghost Reveries". Do you think that’s fair?
Mikael: I think most labels do that today. The record industry is not doing that well; the companies are grasping at straws to try and make money, and perhaps that’s the way to do it. I don’t care how many reissues of our albums they put out — they could put out a thousand reissues and I couldn’t care less, as long as the quality is good. You don’t have to buy these things if you don’t want to. Personally, I don’t buy clothes and I don’t go out drinking, I just buy records — so I don’t have a problem with buying 20 different versions of my favorite album.
Metal Hammer: "Ghost Reveries" was leaked via the Internet before its release in 2005. Does illegal file sharing piss you off?
Mikael: It does piss me off. The main problem for me is that the magic gets lost. When you’re downloading, you don’t have the artwork, you don’t have anything but the tunes, and in bad quality. It bothers me, because the ideal situation for me would be to gather up 5,000 fans every day and give them the record and we could listen to it together, although that’s not possible. My music is sacred to me, and I don’t want it to be presented in any form other than the ones we have approved.

Thanks for Blabbermouth

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