If a picture is worth a thousand words?..then I just wrote a novel with these! I mean, it really doesn?t get much better than that ? rockin? Mama Kin with Mr Steven Tyler. Or doing Paradise City with Chester Bennington and Slash. Or doing Surrender with Robin Zander. Or even jamming the Sex Pistols classic, EMI?.WITH two of The Sex Pistols! The Camp Freddy shows have been off the hook and we still have three more to do this month. I?m like a proverbial pig?.wallowing in shit!!! Hhahaha!! Here I am back on the Modern Guitars tip, with an all new blog ? just for you guys. I have also included a nice little video recap of the first Roxy show that we did with Camp Freddy, as well as a clip of Whole Lotta Love from the recent MAP Awards ceremony…
Press release Source: Gibson Guitar Limited Edition Gibson Victorian F-style MandolinGibson Original, known for manufacturing the world’s best mandolins, banjos and dobros, announced the introduction of the Limited Edition Gibson Victorian F-style Mandolin with only 15 available in the world….
Organizers of the upcoming London Guitar Show (June 12-15) have announced that electric guitar virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen will perform on Saturday, June 14. The concert is free for visitors of the London Guitar Show, which is part of the London International Music Show. Malmsteen will also sign autographs at the Marshall amp stand at 3:30 p.m. on June 12 and 13 and at 2:30 on the 14th. He joins a stellar lineup of performers that includes Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbert, Phil Hilborne, Billy Sheehan, Guthrie Goven, Ritchie Kotzen and Jamie Humphries. More »
As much as we love big music venues and big name artists, we have a special affection for the smaller music events that take place around the world like the Beaufort Music Festival 2008 (May 9-10, 2008) that offer musicians on local music circuits a chance to perform their work for discriminating music lovers in smaller towns. The seaside resort town of Beaufort, North Carolina, is probably best known as the hometown of the notorious pirate of the 1700s, Edward “Blackbeard” Teach. But, for the locals, Beaufort has gained considerable regional acclaim for its annual music festival that has been staged each year along the waterfront since 1988. More »
Plenty, it seems.
In this doc from the Pentagon’s document dump we see a chief Pentagon flak reporting on his attempts to get “potus” to join in on a “closed call” with “our retired military television analysts.” The request, he says, had been “submitted to karl and company.”
The name of the interlocutor in this email thread has been blacked out. But it’s clear he’s a close associate of Bush’s National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley. He’s unable to listen in on the call because he’s attending a Hadley speech. He tells the Pentagon propagandist, however, that “I’m hoping to have Hadley brief these guys next week.”
At the very least, this shows that officials at the highest levels of the White House — Hadley and Rove, certainly, and perhaps even the president himself — were aware of the efforts to “get [the analysts] on message.”
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Update: I see Glenn Greenwald hit some of these same passages yesterday.
You know that little star flair in McCain’s logo. The creepy detail you’re sure is emblazoned on the side of Cindy McCain’s GulfStream.
Well he’s so eager to communicate that he’s a down with the environment candidate that on his new “eco-friendly” merchandise sold at his online store, the star has been replaced with the three-arrowed recycling dingbat.
So bad it’s kinda awesome:
Hillary netted 12 delegates tonight. Big-time win. Little-time impact.
But the bigger electoral story tonight is the victory of Democrat Travis Childers in a special election in a Mississippi district that gave George W. Bush 63 percent of its vote in 2004.
Basically this is a safe. fucking. seat. No way a Democrat should have been competitive. Much less won. As Kos points out, there are 110 or so GOP districts that are less conservative than this one. Long story short, the Republican minority in the House could be in for a world ‘o hurt in November.
And NRCC chair Tom Cole knows it, sending out a gloomy email tonight telling his colleagues to brace themselves: “I encourage all Republican candidates, whether incumbents or challengers, to take stock of their campaigns and position themselves for challenging campaigns this fall…”
The Hill (not to be confused with The Hills) recently asked all 97 senators not named McCain, Clinton, or Obama whether they’d consider standing as VP candidates in 2008.
The most politically damaging responses came from an unwitting trio of GOP septuagenarians:
Several GOP senators ruled themselves out because of their age, including 74-year-old Chuck Grassley (Iowa), 76-year-old Pete Domenici (N.M.) and Thad Cochran (Miss.), who is 70. If elected, McCain would be 72 on Inauguration Day.
“I’m too old to be vice president,†Grassley said.
For the record, Dick Cheney is 67.
Looking at the available evidence, I reckon it’s a 30 point spread.
My out-my-arse projection: Obama loses by 28 points.
Yours?