Surprise! Axl Rose of Guns N Roses has hots for Kelly Osbourne
August 29, 2008
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He may be twice her age, but we hear creepy rock legend Axl Rose has a thing for Kelly Osbourne!
And apparently the Guns ‘n’ Roses star, 46, is no charmer when it comes to showing it either.
Hipster New York designer Richie Rich told OK! that he and his buddy Kelly, 24, bumped into the oddball singer at a recent Hollywood party.
“He was really weird with her,” said the Heatherette fashionista at a party for the launch of the new Tide and Downy Total Care washing liquid. “He kept leering at her and saying, “I want to f*** you!”
We can’t imagine Axl’s fellow metal hero, Kelly’s dad Ozzy Osbourne, being too happy about that!
WENN
http://icydk.com/2008/08/28/axl-rose-has-the-hots-for-kelly-osbourne/
Surprise! Axl Rose of Guns N Roses has hots for Kelly Osbourne
August 29, 2008
He may be twice her age, but we hear creepy rock legend Axl Rose has a thing for Kelly Osbourne!
And apparently the Guns ‘n’ Roses star, 46, is no charmer when it comes to showing it either.
Hipster New York designer Richie Rich told OK! that he and his buddy Kelly, 24, bumped into the oddball singer at a recent Hollywood party.
“He was really weird with her,” said the Heatherette fashionista at a party for the launch of the new Tide and Downy Total Care washing liquid. “He kept leering at her and saying, “I want to f*** you!”
We can’t imagine Axl’s fellow metal hero, Kelly’s dad Ozzy Osbourne, being too happy about that!
WENN
http://icydk.com/2008/08/28/axl-rose-has-the-hots-for-kelly-osbourne/
Promoter of Bret Michaels of Rock of Love says ticket worth the price for tour
August 29, 2008
OCALA - Bret Michaels will bring his high-priced rock concert to Ocala in October and tickets go on sale Friday at 6 p.m.
Promoter Mike Myers said it will cost between $100 and $120 (plus tax and gratuity for both price ranges) to see Michaels, lead singer of Poison and star of his own cable reality show, “Rock of Love.”
The concert will be held Oct. 25 at Coconut Jack’s Beach Club. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and Michaels is expected to take the stage at 9. Opening acts will perform.
Tickets go on sale Friday evening at the club, 1512 S.W. 10th St., or by calling 208-0056 after 6 p.m., Myers said.
He added that interest in tickets has been “strong, our phone has been ringing off the hook.”
Later, after local tickets have been sold, Myers said, tickets may be sold through TicketMaster. The $120 ticket includes “all you can drink,” Myers said. The $100 only gets you in to see the show.
The high prices don’t phase Myers.
“I’m not worried at all; we think it’s going to be a sellout,” he said, adding that the capacity for the show will be 500 tickets.
“That price is fair. Bret Michaels is hot,” he added, referring to Michaels’ current hit album (”Rock My World”) and top-rated VH1 television show.
The show, now going into its third season, features Michaels trying to find the perfect woman. Myers said applications for the program will be available at the Ocala event.
“The place is going to be packed with women,” Myers added. “We’re not going to have a problem selling tickets.”
Michaels has been on a “Rock of Love” tour this summer. He is due to play some Florida dates in October and will finish that leg of the tour in Ocala, Myers said.
Michaels first came to fame as lead singer with Poison in the 1980s. His good looks and long hair helped Poison become one of the best selling glam-metal bands of that era.
Lately, Michaels has been playing a kind of country/rock music, and the reality television show has helped rekindle his popularity.
http://www.ocala.com/article/20080828/LIVING05/808280343/-1/NEWS&title=Promoter_says_ticket_for_Poison_star_worth_the_price
SLASH On ‘Chinese Democracy’ Album Leaker: ‘I Hope He Rots In Jail’
August 29, 2008
SLASH On ‘Chinese Democracy’ Album Leaker: ‘I Hope He Rots In Jail’
According to the Los Angeles Times, GUNS N’ ROSES and the group’s former guitarist Slash have commented on the arrest of a California man on copyright-infringement charges for posting on his web site nine songs from GUNS N’ ROSES’ yet-to-be-released album “Chinese Democracy”.
http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/metal-news-2/422971-slash-chinese-democracy-leaker-i-hope-he-rots-jail.html
Blogger faces felony charges for leaking Chinese Democracy album from Guns N Roses
August 29, 2008
The Culver City man had posted nine songs from the yet-to-be released album ‘Chinese Democracy.’ He faces up to three years in prison and fines under a law cracking down on individual bootleggers.
When five FBI agents arrested Kevin Cogill at his Culver City apartment, it marked the newest weapon in the entertainment industry’s war on piracy: felony charges against small-time bootleggers.
Cogill posted nine leaked songs from an unreleased Guns N’ Roses album, which has been in the works for more than a decade, on his music blog in June. The site crashed under the traffic, and he removed the songs after a few hours when the Los Angeles-based rock band’s lawyers complained.
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Now he faces up to three years in prison and $250,000 in fines. On Wednesday he became the first Californian charged under a 3-year-old federal anti-piracy law that makes it a felony to distribute a copyrighted work on computer networks before its release.
“In the past, these may have been viewed as victimless crimes,” said Craig Missakian, an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles who built the case with the FBI and recording-industry investigators. “But in reality, there’s significant damage. This law allows us to prosecute these cases.”
Cogill, 27, was arrested Wednesday and released on $10,000 bond. He was not required to enter a plea. His public defender, Anthony Eaglin, declined to comment.
“I hope he rots in jail,” said Slash, the former Guns N’ Roses lead guitarist. “It’s going to affect the sales of the record, and it’s not fair. The Internet is what it is, and you have to deal with it accordingly, but I think if someone goes and steals something, it’s theft.”
The entertainment industry has long fought to protect official release dates. It contends that sales are lost when a movie or song is available free on the Internet before it hits stores. Leaked songs are often unfinished and of poor sound quality.
Pre-release piracy “pops the balloon,” said Eric German, a partner with Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp who has represented the recording industry in piracy cases. “It rips up the lottery ticket. It takes the wind out of everything.”
The Recording Industry Assn. of America has long relied on civil lawsuits to combat piracy. But the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 gave it a new hammer — felony charges with stiff penalties for posting even one song before its release.
The law has been used only a few times, mostly to tackle big commercial piracy rings. But in 2006, two people were charged with distributing a version of a Ryan Adams & the Cardinals album, “Jacksonville City Nights,” on the Internet before it hit stores. They were sentenced to two months of house arrest and two years’ probation.
Fans of Guns N’ Roses have experienced a long drought of new recorded material. Led by lead singer Axl Rose, the rockers have been working on their album, “Chinese Democracy,” on and off since the 1990s.
Cogill used to work for Universal Music and now works at entertainment site Crave Online. Writing under the name “Skwerl,” he uses his blog, Antiquiet, to talk about American politics and the music industry.
In early June, he expressed his appreciation for Guns N’ Roses, noting that he had waited half his life for a new album.
“The more you [mess] around with the details, the more likely the album is to leak on the Internet, spoiling whatever big plans you’re cooking up anyway,” he wrote, addressing Geffen Records, the band’s label and a unit of Universal.
On June 18, he said he had received nine “Chinese Democracy” tracks from an unnamed source and made them available for streaming, but not download, on Antiquiet. He contended that if the album was good — and he thought it was — it would do well financially, in spite of any leaks.
After he removed the tracks, the FBI interviewed Cogill at his office and home, seeking the source of the leaked songs.
“I’ve been asked if my legal troubles are over,” he wrote after the FBI’s visit. “The answer is that they haven’t begun.”
No one came to the door at Cogill’s home Thursday. A man who answered his phone declined to identify himself but said Cogill wasn’t granting interviews.
In an e-mail, fellow Antiquiet blogger Britney Bernstein said Cogill’s case was building buzz for “Chinese Democracy.” “Any publicity this album gets is good publicity,” she said.
The band released a statement: “Presently, though we don’t support this guy’s actions at that level, our interest is in the original source. We can’t comment publicly at this time as the investigation is ongoing.”
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-music29-2008aug29,0,729953.story
