Entertainment Industry

Sorry, folks. It’s going to be a bit off here until Friday, but I did want to say one thing: Sean Penn can kiss my butt. Repeatedly and at all hours of the day. I consider him to be the intellectual equivalent of navel lint and an absolute coward for hiding behind the First...
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It was six years ago today that Bob Mayo, formidable musician and friend to many, passed away while on tour. Feels like it was yesterday.
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I was making the rounds of the usual suspects not long ago, when I came across a little blurb that Billy Beck had posted. Now, some people think that Billy is an acquired taste and I could agree with that to a point. He does subscribe to a very ‘trench warfare’ style and no-holds-barred...
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After a tough battle with cancer, Charlie Burns, longtime fixture on the central Texas production scene passed away yesterday. Charlie toured with bands and mixed front-of-house, which is where Merle Haggard gave him the nickname, “Captain Feedback,” which may not strike the general populace as a great nickname, but anytime someone on a tour...
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It sounds like Billy got hit pretty hard with the misery-stick while doing a show with Peabo in Kuala Lumpur. I certainly feel his pain. I wrapped up a thing with a Cirque-like show in Nevada not long ago, where I spent the whole run grinding my teeth over the diminutive in-house rig and...
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  I know I’m coming late to the party on this one, but if you haven’t watched the Susan Boyle video clip from ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ you really should. It’s the most unexpected moment of sheer talent I believe I have ever seen.   Seriously, watch this clip. It’s probably the best seven minutes...
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  I hear the National Anthem. A lot. I won’t bore you with the details, but I will bore you with my opinion on the way people sing it.   First off, this is not about bashing the actual performer. It takes a lot of brass to stand up in front of a crown...
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  I like a big band. Most rock bands have four guys, some have five, but I like that big sound that you get from having seven or eight people on deck raising musical mayhem.   I was lucky enough to tour with Lynyrd Skynyrd back in the 90’s. They knew how to raise...
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  You can learn more from listening than from running your mouth, or however it goes. Now that my Vista issues are somewhat settled, I’ve had a little time to put my ear to the ground, so to speak, and listen to the chatter around the world.   —   One of the phrases...
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  Why should bookies and so-called psychics have all the fun?   Having spent countless hours consulting charts, books, stars, bones and goat entrails, here are my predictions for the upcoming year. Goat entrails smell pretty bad by the way.   The U.S. Economy will rebound in the early springtime only to tank shortly...
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