What's Better Than Double D? Matallica In 3D

Why is there so much Lasik eye surgery in America when this nations obsession with 3-D means putting on what you're trying to take off? As of late, no matter how great the picture...the winner is the patron but the movie company. 3-D glasses are horribly uncomfortable, the lens can't be touched by buttery popcorn figures and God forbid the fat a** in front of you refuses to remove their hat. Outside of that...the movie theater 3-D experience is mind blowing, extremely close to the right depth of perception and turns cranky fathers with screaming kids back into a monkey the same age. Even better? The world of Rock continues to hop on board the true to life adventure without having to secure six different bank loans, sell off the cat while promising your neighbor you'll clean up their dog poop for a month just to score a single concert ticket. Classic Rock Magazine reports Drummer Lars Ulrich says Metallica’s forthcoming 3D movie project could be regarded as their answer to Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains The Same. Zep’s 1976 film The Song Remains The Same, a companion to the live album of the same name, is based on performance footage from New York’s Madison Square Garden. But it also features several out-of-concert “fantasy sequences” for each of the band members, as well as for manager Peter Grant and tour manager Richard Cole. “There are similarities [to The Song Remains The Same],” Ulrich reveals in the latest issue of Classic Rock. “There are four members in Led Zeppelin, four members in Metallica, it’s a full-length movie, and there’s a lot in this film that does not take place onstage. “The major difference is that the stuff that takes place offstage in the Metallica movie does not feature any members of Metallica. It’s two separate worlds – a Metallica show and a story that unfolds in a parallel universe – and at some point they intertwine.” Metallica are working with director Nimrod Antal on the 3D movie and filmed their August 24, 2012 concert in Vancouver, Canada, as part of the project. The film is likely to be released this summer. Metallica are working on new material while they put the finishing touches to the 3D movie. The songs are said to pick up where 2008′s Death Magnetic album left off. “Death Magnetic is one motherfucker of a record,” said Ulrich. “There aren’t many Metallica records that sound as good as Death Magnetic four years after they were made. With a lot of the other records, there were questions: ‘Why did we do that?’ or ‘What was going on there?’ or ‘Why didn’t somebody say to turn the snare on?’ I don’t feel like that with Death Magnetic. What we’re doing now certainly sounds like a continuation.” Rick Rubin produced Death Magnetic but it’s uncertain whether he’ll be involved with the new record’s sonics. Ulrich commented: “I love Rick. We all love Rick. We’re in touch with Rick constantly. We’ll see where it goes. It would stun me if the record came out in 2013. We’ve got to finish this 3D movie, which is what we’re doing right now.”

John Lennon Inspired Film Ready For Hollywood Production

I've always believed Classic Rock is more than just a generational sound. More than just men over the age of 50 are clinging to its presence. C.R. is a way of life and you never get tired of hearing some ballsy radio entertainer ordering you to rip the knob off. Without a doubt the louder it gets the more it fuels the engines of the masters behind the gears that continue to move not a nation but an entire foundation of music fans young and a little older than young forward. Guess who's hot on the trail of the same scent? Hollywood! Ultimate Classic Rock reports the drama mechanics that make the machines designed to thrust your rockers into overdrive are featuring quite a bit in the plots of movies these days. Last month, ‘Not Fade Away,’ a film about New Jersey teenagers inspired by the Rolling Stones to form a band, opened in theaters. This spring will see the beginning of production on ‘Imagine,’ in which a musician receives a letter of encouragement from John Lennon. The story is based on the real-life tale of Steve Tilston who, in 1971, was a British musician worried about succumbing to the trappings of fame. Lennon read an interview with the young artist and reached out to Tilston via a letter, which offered advice and encouragement, with his home phone number. Unfortunately, Tilston never received the letter, and had no idea of its existence until 2005, when a collector who purchased the letter tracked down Tilston. ‘Imagine’ takes that premise but, instead of Tilston being a musician whose career never amounted to anything, screenwriter Dan Fogelman created Danny Collins, a rock legend who turned into exactly what Tilston was worried he would become, a decadent rock star content to go through the motions playing the hits in sold-out arenas. But receiving the letter from Lennon after all those years reminds him of who he once was and decides to turn his life around, both by reconnecting both with his son and his artistic vision. The move stars Al Pacino as Collins, which probably means lots of scene-chewing tantrums in the movie’s early-going, before he decides to turn his life around. Jeremy Renner plays the estranged son, and Julianne Moore is the manager of the hotel Collins moves into as part of his quest for redemption.

No Bridge Over Troubled Waters. No PInk Floyd Reunion Ever

George Lucas didn't fall out of love with Star Wars. He just wanted to move forward. So he sold it to Disney, a company with very large pockets and multitudes of parks willing enough to grab what little air was left and shove it back into the soul of character. Star Wars fans are ecstatic! Just like Star Trekkies, Hulk-a-maniacs, 1990's Eagles junkies and everybody else associated with chunks of a kids life and style that seemed to have drifted from sight until one days said, "Let's give it one more shot." Looks like The Beatles and Pink Floyd will go down in history as being the no so interested. Classic Rock Magazine reports Roger Waters has emphatically ruled out a Pink Floyd reunion once and for all – saying the band “was over” in 1985 when he left. In recent years relations between him and surviving members David GIlmour and Nick Mason have thawed to the point where all three appeared during a performance of Waters’ The Wall in 2011. But that’s as far as it goes, says the former mainman. He tells the Sun: “I can’t. I left Pink Floyd for very good reasons, and it was the right and proper thing to do. It was over in in 1985 – and it’s still over.” But he admits: “I’m having dinner with Nick tonight. He’d jump back in a heartbeat.” Despite thinking about retiring after the first round of The Wall shows, Waters has found himself staging more and more performances, with a series of massive open-air editions due this year. But he admits the idea came from his wife – and he didn’t like it when she suggested it. “I started to get itchy feet,” he recalls. “Laurie said, ‘You should go out on tour again, but if you do, there’s only one thing you can do: The Wall. “I said, ‘Be quiet – you don’t understand!’ Then I started figuring out whether it was possible. Eventually I told her, ‘You know what? You were right.’” The focus in the storyline has moved since Waters first delivered it as a “frightened youngish man.” He says: “I’m much less frightened and much more comfortable with audiences. “I was determined that this show should not just tell the story of miserable little Roger Waters, but make it a much broader and theatrical piece about the walls that divide us – north and south, rich and poor, Christians and Muslims.” He promises his concert at Wembley Stadium on September 14 will offer plenty for those who have seen previous performances. “We’re going from 28 projectors to 49,” he explains. “There will be a lot more detailed information, close-ups of me, the band – you won’t quite be sure of what’s going on.”

Peter Frampton Credits David Bowie For Saving The Music

I've spent an entire Rock Jock's life accusing Casey Kasum for my addiction to collecting music's story. Trapped in a teens body the best way to set it free was to generate enough cash from keeping score at a bowling alley to finance a bedroom radio station that reached nearly a block from the needle making love with a vinyl 45. But even that didn't calm the hunger. I forced myself to stop being a kid and landed my first on-air performance at 14 and have regretted it ever since. An addiction when made public is judged and that's what radio maker's do. A long song intro begs to be fed while masterminds behind rivers of research command what I've always called "The Disconnection." "Just tell em we play a trunk load of their favorite songs. Nothing more nothing less." Relationship best describes why the car stereo is cranked and your vocal chords crack. Video didn't kill the radio star. Radio killed the radio star. Instantly I become enthralled, completely fascinated and taken back when a radio listener shares their music relationship with me. What's captivating are the expressions in their eyes. The emotions released when something as simple as a song lyric found reason for them to hold onto to it longer than expected. Rarely do I find Ipod carriers grasping onto the same strings. Is it because "The Next" button makes mood building too easy to formulate? I remember when sipping on the entire first side of Boston was the journey. Not the initial 2.3 seconds which for some reason always has to start off with drums. Tom Sholtz and Brad Delp of Boston made the guitar my guardian angel. Relationship! Which is why I fricken dig this Blogging crap! There's no better feeling than whipping out the necessary tools to scratch the itch. I believe music is more than just having a great beat you can dance to. The stories generated before and after the song are my porn. Relationship is everywhere in Classic Rock! If you've gotta click out that's ok but the rest of us are gonna find out how Peter Frampton credits David Bowie with saving his career as he struggled to escape the shadow of his iconic Frampton Comes Alive! album. The guitarist admits it’s taken until now to feel capable of moving on. But now that he does, he’s at peace with the legacy of his 1976 live record. And one of the first steps on the long road to emotional freedom was taken when old schoolfriend Bowie invited him to join his band for 1987′s Glass Spider tour. Frampton tells M and Classic Rock Magazine: “The 80s were a difficult period for me. My dear friend David got me out on the road, and on his Never Let Me Down record, and reintroduced me as a guitar player around the world. “I can never thank him enough for believing in me, and seeing past the image of the satin pants and big hair to the guitar player he first met when we played together in school.” The experience of working with Bowie rekindled Frampton’s love of playing. “I enjoyed touring with David so much I just wanted to go back out and play,” the guitarist says. “I hadn’t really played that much in the 80s.” Last year the former Humble Pie member released a live DVD based on his FCA! 35 anniversary tour. That’s also helped him come to terms with the massive success of the original record. He recalls: “There was a fear factor that kicked in when the thing got so damned big that it didn’t matter who you were or how clever or talented you were, you just weren’t going to follow it up. “It’s something that I grew to appreciate for what it is. It went from being an albatross to something that I’m very at peace with and proud of. “The day Frampton drops dead, the first sentence is going to be: ‘Peter Frampton, who was most famous for his album Frampton Comes Alive!…’ There’s no getting away from it, no matter what I do. “If that’s the record I’m remembered for, I’m fine with that, for all sorts of reasons.”

KISS Solo Collects Praise

The several shades of gray connected to Rock KISS-tory have begun to glow but not under the limelight of Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley. Music critics have sent high praises out to guitarist Tommy Thayer's current solo adventure. The greatest thing about KISS is their brutal approach to honesty. A like it or leave approach to making Rock hard and ready to perform. It's never been hidden away from fans that Thayer was an active part of their line up while Ace Frehley made a comeback. According to Classic Rock Magazine Tommy had been kitted out with his own Spaceman garb in case the changeover took place while the band were touring. Thayer had been a member of the Kiss entourage for nearly two decades before he finally hit the stage with them following Frehley’s departure in 2002. He first met mainmen Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley in the mid-80s as he tried to find fame with his band Black’n'Blue. Thayer tells Epiphone.com: “We had just released our second album and somehow we landed the opening slot on the Kiss Asylum tour. They knew we were fans and they took interest and gave us some help, especially Gene. “He eventually began working with us, producing our third and fourth albums. Things evolved and soon I began working for Kiss, first behind the scenes, then later directly with the band.” He admits he’d never imagined actually appearing on stage – but says: “I think Paul and Gene had almost made me the heir apparent for several years before it happened. “Because of the volatility in the band from 1998 on, I was literally on standby backstage for several tours to take over on guitar if necessary. “Behind the scenes, I had my own Kiss outfit, boots and makeup kit in case of an emergency situation. “By the time they asked me to be the new lead guitarist over 10 years ago, the writing had been on the wall for a long while.” Thayer, alongside returned drummer Eric Singer, has been credited by Stanley and Simmons for having re-energised the band. But the guitarist admits it took a while before he could exert his musical creativity. “With 30 years of Kisstory preceding me, you needed to be faithful and support where the band had come from,” he says. “It wasn’t the time to reinvent the wheel with a new style of guitar playing or a new character or personality.” With latest album Monster receiving acclaim from fans, Thayer reflects: “Over the course of the last 10 or 11 years Kiss has slowly built to new heights. “The success of our tours, particularly since 2008, have been astounding. Going back into the studio in 2009 to record Sonic Boom and then again with Monster has been an incredible growing experience. “With the support and encouragement of Paul, Gene, and Eric I’ve been able to take my guitar playing to a whole other level. It’s a great feeling.”

A Remake Of The Beatles Yellow Submarine Has Sunk

The trouble with Hollywood is their mind blowing addiction to movie remakes. How many ticket buyers forked out the bucks for Total Recall in 2012? Did you slam the kids into the seats for the official rerelease of Monsters Inc? Footloose? It's not over yet! 50 films are slated to be refurbished with modern attempts at acting. They include: Dirty Dancing, Robo Cop, A Star is Born, The Crow, Barbarella, The Birdsw, Escape from New York, Heavy Metal, Lethal Weapon, My Fair Lady and Short Circuit. Guess what movies been taken off the books? The Beatles classic Yellow Submarine. According to RollingStone Magazine Robert Zemeckis has dropped his planned remake because it would put him behind the eight ball. Zemeckis has latched onto a fair share of Hollywood fame with Back to the Future and Forrest Gump but believes remaking Yellow Submarine isn't worth the investment of time, money or space. Zemeckis and Disney had been planning the remake of the Beatles' 1968 film since 2009 and even found a cast of voice actors and a Beatles tribute band in 2010. But Disney left the project last year and, though Zemeckis would have been able to take the film to other studios, it seems he's focusing his attention elsewhere. His latest film, Flight, opened last month.

The World Of Rock Is The New Abe Lincoln

It's 2013! American Culture is sick of the term: Fiscal Cliff... Yo! Restring your guitar with a better hotter method of madness: Bro-fessional. Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted gets total credit for masterminding the best definition of what needs to take place when whipping our productive mindsets back into place. Office buildings, banks, restaurants and specialty shops constantly drop the weight of guilt on the shoulders of their employees claiming, "The end is near! We need you to step up your game or I'll find someone else to meet my demands." Who needs a dictator in the White House when its completely legal to set them free inside factories, giant warehouse sized religious outlets and highway construction sites? Gone with the early 1990's is what once made America thee place to race off to: Family atmosphere. Dismantled and tossed into box is belief not in the system but human generated ambition. Wait! Wait! Before you double click your flat screen off this page let me demonstrate how the world of music portrays the way we lay outside the walls of a Marshall amp. Jason Newsted says he'd consider returning to Metallica if they were “bro fessional” about it. He comments: “If they came as my brothers and they were professional, and they’re sitting there and looking me in the eye and the managers aren’t around; if it was like that again and the money was crazy, then I would consider it. Think about it! How long did it take The United States Government to agree on the key issues that would keep millions of middle class Americans from forking out money we don't have? They waited until the last minute and beyond. Now tell me how many of us truly believe the lyrics to their song is about us and not about the managers and money givers that elected them into office? Cam Newton of the Carolina Panther's was fined $21,000 for doing exactly what most young parents tell their kids, "Use your words." Yeah? Such verbal expressions or lack of bro fessionalism led to the NFL gifting the quarterback with a solid accusation dubbed abusive conduct to an official. Gene Simmons of KISS has always stated in a calm professional manner his reasons for terminating the relationship with Ace and Peter. Their rebuttal not so peaceful. I love how Paul McCartney has chosen his golden years as being the hanging place of the hat worn while the rest of world accused Yoko of breaking up The Beatles. Maybe if Career Builder's dot com had been around in 1968 one of them could've stepped away for a little while to regenerate some of that bro-fessionalism. Take up the term! Use it but don't abuse it! Creative hearts and minds are easily injured. Imagine how strong the country could become and how better the music on the radio would be if a shade of Jason's bro-fessional thinking was put into play.