Aw, NY Yankee Yogi Berra‘s funeral mass is being televised on the YES Channel here in NYC. What an incredible legend he was. Long Live Number 8.
Saw this on his Facebook yesterday! So stoked for him! Pulse Of Radio reporting Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor has been recruited by the producers of the long-running British sci-fi series Doctor Who to lend his “deep and terrifying roar to the alien warlord known as Fisher King” in the October 3rd episode of the BBC show. According to the Mirror,Taylor is a huge Doctor Who fan, so when the BBC heard that Slipknot was playing earlier this year in Cardiff, where the show is produced, they reached out to see if Taylor would be interested in lending his voice to the character.
The entire band was given a VIP tour of the Doctor Who set and Taylor recorded his vocals for Fisher King, which is a massive green alien that has tons of horns protruding from his body. The character is played physically by seven-foot, eight-inch tall Neil Fingleton — the tallest man in the European Union — while his normal speaking voice is provided by Peter Serafinowicz.
In other news, Taylor was interviewed last week on a local TV station in the band’s hometown of Des Moines, IA, where he revealed Slipknot is planning some kind of big event in the city to mark the end of the band’s current touring cycle. He explained, “By that time, it will like over a year and a half that we’ve been on the road. We’re looking to something here right around that time — just make something big (and) have fun with it.” Slipknot has been on tour behind its first album in six years, .5: The Gray Chapter. The group will launch a new round of dates on Oct 13th in Bismarck, ND.
A release date of Nov 13th has been set for Montage Of Heck: The Home Recordings, a compilation of previously unheard recordings by late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. The recordings were compiled by filmmaker Brett Morgen, who discovered them while going through Cobain’s personal archives for his Emmy-nominated documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck. The film, which premiered on HBO last May and also had a limited theatrical run, will also come out on the 13th on Blu-ray and DVD. The album will be available on CD, cassette and digital, with a two-LP vinyl package arriving on Dec 7th. There will be both a 13-track standard edition and a 31-track deluxe version. A “Super Deluxe” edition will include the film and 48 minutes of bonus interviews on Blu-ray and DVD, the 31-track soundtrack on CD and cassette, a 160-page hardbound book with extended interviews and images from the Cobain archive, a puzzle with a collectable storage container, movie poster, postcards and bookmark. The Home Recordings will include never-heard snippets, demos, “musical experiments” that would make it on to later Nirvana albums, a cover of the Beatles‘ “And I Love Her” and a comedy skit.
Wow. There’s no words to describe how amazing this is! Foo Fighters raised a whopping $10 million for the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital at a charity concert in San Francisco last Thursday (Sep 17th) in conjunction with the city’s Dreamforce conference. Hospital spokesperson Marc Benioff said, “I don’t think there’s ever been a night where $10 million has been raised for a children’s hospital ever before.”
Pulse also reporting Guns N’ Roses guitarist Richard Fortus was seriously injured in a recent motorcycle accident, leading him to miss an Australian tour with his other band The Dead Daisies. According to Blabbermouth, Fortus issued a statement saying, “On September 17, 2015, I was involved in a motorcycle accident. As a result, I broke my shoulder blade, collar bone, six ribs, a toe, I have a bruised lung, lacerated liver and a concussion. Amazingly, my doctors have assured me that I will make a full recovery.”
He added, “I have never missed a show in my entire career, and, unfortunately, I will have to miss the entire Australian and New Zealand leg of this tour . . . I’d like to thank everyone for their well-wishes and can’t wait to be back in Australia very soon.”
Wait, didn’t a similar serious accident on a motorcycle happen a few years back in LA with former GNR guitarist Gilby Clarke? His was a hit and run back in 2010.
Oh no! Kimye‘s baby boy is due Dec 25th! Bets on whether Jesus will be in his name?
Happy 73rd to Ian McShane (Ray Donovan, Deadwood) and Happy 52 to Les Claypool of Primus.