What did I tell you? I can take a rumor and by speaking it into this microphone make it a reality. I’m like that kid in the Twilight Zone movie that forces his family to live in some demented Looney Tune cartoon just by willing it to happen. That’s me. A friggin’ god. An as such you can promptly drop to your knees and thank me for bringing the rumor that Slipknot, Disturbed and Mastodon would all play the Rockstar Energy Mayhem festival AND kick off said festival at the White River Amphitheater into reality. It wasn’t going to happen until I took its lifeless form and breathed a soul into it through the 100 million watts of my vocal chords. I don’t even need this radio station. I only speak into this mic as a courtesy to Fatty.

 

It is confirmed that the Rockstar Energy Mayhem festival will happen as announced, but I threw in a little extra something. I thought the rumored line-up was good, but I could do better. So I added Sevendust, Airbourne, Machinehead, 36 Crazyfists and, just for Fatty, Dragonforce. The date up at the White River Amphitheater is July 9^th.

 

 

 

 

Fans of old footage of classic rock bands, in other words, old people: Good news! Rockworld.TV and the Infernal Machine music archive are taking old Super 8 reels and Betamax tapes and digitally archiving and restoring them. Among the tapes, footage of the Beatles appearances on 60s German show Beat Club and Hendrix's two appearances on the Ed Sullivan show along with performances by Zep, Aerosmith, The Who and the Grateful Dead. They’ll have the videos up on their site in the coming months, which means someone will pirate the videos off the site in a couple of month plus two minutes and have them loaded on YouTube in a couple months plus three minutes (allowing time for the kid pirating this stuff to take a leak somewhere during the upload). So keep an eye out for it.

 

  

 

In the history of things, try to come up with the one thing least in need of a remake. OK, I’ll narrow it down from “things” to “music” because rocks probably don’t need to be remastered since they do all the things that rocks need to do now. So, in music, think of something that should probably not be subject to a remake, or at least very far down on the list. Something as close to perfect that to try to recreate it is to almost guarantee failure.

 

If you said, the Thriller album, congratulations, but that hasn’t stopped Michael Jackson. Apparently he has recorded what he’s calling a “star studded” remake will mark the 25^th anniversary of the original’s release. We don’t know much about which stars stud this record, except for one… will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas. He will replace McCartney’s parts on “The Girl Is Mine

 

'Thriller' is the biggest selling album ever, having sold more than 104 million copies worldwide since its November 1982 release.