Wow! Four day weekend is upon us! It’s raining like crazy here. Snowing everywhere else in the northeast. Ugh! I feel bad for anyone travelling today to be with family and friends for Thanksgiving! Me? I’m staying put with friends! Lou? He’ll be on his couch eating Cheetos! Speaking of Lou, he recorded a most excellent interview with Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins last night. I will be listening and editing that to air on hardDrive and hardDrive XL the first week of January!……Well, while AC/DC is streaming their new Rock or Bust CD over on iTunesRadio, drummer (or is he) Phil Rudd continues to act erratically! Check this out from Pulse Of Radio! A New Zealand High Court judge briefly issued an arrest warrant for Phil Rudd on this morning (Nov 26th) when the AC/DC drummer failed to show up on time for his court appearance to address the charges against him. Rudd was scheduled to appear in court at 9:00 a.m., but arrived several minutes late. Rudd did not enter a plea and had his bodyguard give him a piggyback ride to his car after the hearing was over. Rudd then backed up the vehicle into the path of an oncoming truck, almost causing an accident. Rudd is set to return to court on Dec 2nd, ironically, the day of the album’s release! Couldn’t come up with a wackier story if I tried!!!! I think Phil is the one with dementia!….Have you been watching the Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways? It’s been great! Last week, the spotlight was on New Orleans and just made me want to hop on a plane and be there! Frontman Dave Grohl admitted in a new interview with Rolling Stone he knew nothing about the history and culture of New Orleans before he and the band traveled there for the sixth episode of their HBO series Sonic Highways. Grohl explained, “Before I turned on the camera with Ben Jaffe from Preservation Hall (Jazz Band), I said, ‘I don’t know s*** about jazz and I don’t know s*** about New Orleans’ . . . A lot of the interviews were like that. I’m a music nerd, but I’m not a musicologist. I love talking about music and hearing these stories, but I also love not knowing everything.” The New Orleans episode featured interviews with Jaffe, the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, Trombone Shorty, Steve Earle, and Bonnie Raitt, while also focusing on the careers of Big Easy legends like Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, The Neville Brothers and The Meters. Asked why he included New Orleans in the series, Grohl said, “The celebration of life in that city is unlike anywhere else I’ve ever been . . . there’s a soundtrack to that city everywhere, 24 hours a day. You’re just immersed in music. It makes people smile and dance and drink and celebrate life.” Grohl added, “After that week, you had to tear me out of this place; I f***in’ went through withdrawal after I left. I was making f***in’ beignets and listening to jazz for a month (laughs).” Drummer Taylor Hawkins told us the Foos felt more welcomed by the musical community in New Orleans than any other city: “The thing about New Orleans is all those musicians — it’s like they all wrapped their arms around us as soon as we got there. They were all like, ‘We’re gonna be part of this too.’ Because they wanna play. They’re there to play. They were involved from second one, and that’s the spirit of that place. We’re here to play, everybody’s gonna play. It’s all about that shared sort of experience.” ….Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith said in a new interview with Music Radar the band is aiming for “quality and not quantity” when it begins recording its new album this winter. Smith explained, “We probably have close to 30 songs. I think last time we overdid it a little; traditionally we’ve always recorded 25 or 40 songs. It won’t be 50, like last time. We always say, ‘We’re going to do a Beatles thing and just do 10 or 11 songs,’ then it turns into an epic f***ing thing. This time we’ll focus on the quality and not the quantity.” Been a while since we’ve had music from those guys. Must be nice to have so much $$$$ you don’t need to worry, eh?…..Pulse Of Radio also reports Metallica has revealed the 2014 World Champion San Francisco Giants have invited the band back for the third annual Metallica Night at the Giants’ hometown ballfield, AT&T Park. The band posted, “We’ll all be on hand Saturday, May 2, 2015 as the Giants take the field against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and as always, the night will kick off with the National Anthem and first pitch.” The band will be on hand all evening during the game and will participate in several events throughout the night, which will also feature special giveaways and souvenirs. Special event tickets for the game go on sale Friday (Nov 28th) at 8:00 a.m. PT. A portion of the proceeds from every Metallica Night special event ticket will benefit a local charity. In other news, Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo has launched a PledgeMusic campaign to raise the last batch of funds needed to complete production on his documentary about legendary progressive rock bassist Jaco Pastorius. Trujillo has funded much of the project himself and told us why it’s important for him to get it finished: “When you take on a project like this, you know, it’s from the heart, so it is for the right reasons. This is not the next Transformers. It’s not like ‘the blockbuster.’ It’s a story that I wanted to share with as many people as possible, musicians or non-musicians. I know this story’s powerful, it needs to be told.”….Also from Pulse: The first fully authorized documentary about late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, titled Montage Of Heck, will premiere on HBO in 2015, according to RollingStone.com. The film is written, directed and produced by Brett Morgen and is the first to be made with the cooperation of Cobain’s family. Cobain’s daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, has signed on as an executive producer for the project. Morgen and his team were given access to Cobain’s entire personal and family archives, and the film will include footage from numerous Nirvana performances, along with previously unheard songs, never-before-seen home movies, recordings, artwork, photography, journals, demos and songbooks. Morgen, who has been working on the project for some eight years, said in a statement, “Once I stepped into Kurt’s archive, I discovered over 200 hours of unreleased music and audio, a vast array of art projects (oil paintings, sculptures), countless hours of never-before-seen home movies, and over 4,000 pages of writings that together help paint an intimate portrait of an artist who rarely revealed himself to the media.” Morgen told NME back in 2013 that the movie would feature a mix of animation and live-action footage, although it’s not clear whether that is still the case. The movie has the same title as a musical and sound collage that Cobain created around 1988, which recently surfaced online. The collage exists in both eight and 36-minute versions and combines original sounds and effects with Nirvana demos, songs recorded from the radio and tracks sampled from Cobain’s record collection. A biopic about Cobain, produced in conjunction with his widow Courtney Love, has been on and off in development for years, although there are no signs that it is going to emerge any time soon….Joe Perry of Aerosmith told me last week in a phone conversation we had he’s recording a handful of Christmas tunes, something he’s wanted to do for ages with Aerosmith, but it never came together as a band, so he decided to take it on himself. Poor Joe, he had a really bad cold, too! Hope you’re feeling better, Joe! Can’t wait to hear what you’ve done!….Marilyn Manson has announced The Definitive Box is available for pre-order now. It’s a limited edition set of the forthcoming album, The Pale Emperor, (due Jan 20) and will come in a grey cloth bound collectors’ box with a debossed logotype and high-gloss cover photo flip-in. The back cover will feature black foil-stamped Marilyn Manson monogram logo, two discs pressed by RTI on HQ-180, audiophile grade white vinyl, with 3 bonus tracks. Fold out photo printed on newsprint, 5 lithograph photos by Nicholas Cope wrapped in tissue with a wax seal, and a collectible MP3 download card with bonus tracks. Want it now? Hit this.…..Celebrating life over the next four days: Thanksgiving Day: Mike “Puffy” Bordin of Faith No More/ex-Ozzy is 52. Charlie Benante of Anthrax is 52. Friday, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron is 52. Jon Stewart of The Daily Show is 52. Jade Puget of AFI is 41. Paul Shaffer of the Letterman show is 65. Sunday, Billy Idol is 59, Roger Glover of Rainbow and Deep Purple is 69, Ridley Scott is 77 and our friend John Moyer of Disturbed is 41. (Hey, I think I’ll play 52 in the numbers today!) Have a great Thanksgiving weekend, everyone! Drive safe! Please don’t text and drive, especially if you’ve had a few! It’s not worth your life or someone else’s!