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Did Steve Perry From Journey Drop An N-Bomb?
[via Blabbermouth]
The latest issue of Playboy features an interview with Sarah Silverman in which the sexy shock comic hints that former Journey singer Steve Perry dropped an n-bomb when he came to heap praise upon her after a stand-up gig. Referring to “the onetime lead singer of a very popular band from the 1980s,” Silverman claims this individual came backstage after one of her performances and said, “You’re my favorite comedian. You have the best [you-know-what] jokes.”
Of the incident, Silverman said, “After that, I stopped believin’.”
Perry has already issued a response defending himself, stating that he’s “really shocked” and doesn’t “understand why she would go there…I don’t use that word, are you kidding? That’s so derogatory.” Perry, an admittedly huge fan of the Jesus Is Magic comic, claims what he actually told Silverman was, “I can’t believe that somehow you seem to be getting away with all these slurs and the n-word, I just can’t believe how you’re doing this.” Perry also noted that he was by no means condemning Silverman and appreciated her ability to make people of “all colors and all ethnic backgrounds laugh.”
Nixon Or Axl?
See if you can determine who spoke the following quotes—our 37th president Richard Milhaus Nixon or Guns n’ Roses wild man Axl Rose. Answers after the jump.
1. “Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates.”
2. “By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.”
3. “We take it for granted we know the whole story. We Judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.”
4. “The press is the enemy.”
5. “I’d just like to say that I have a personal disgust for small dogs, like poodles. I have serious physical problems with them.”
An In-Depth Look At The “Super Mario Bros.” Theme
Video game blog Kotaku just posted a thorough (and thoroughly interesting) piece on the famous theme from “Super Mario Bros.” and how it’s been altered for the recent “Super Smash Bros. Brawl” soundtrack. All you music theory/classic gaming nuts out there will really dig this one. Mad props to author Cruise Elroy for assembling this great article.
In other news, DUNNA DUNNA DUNNA…DUNNA DUNNA DUNNA…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
In honor of our Irish brethren, here’s the video for “On Point” by House of Pain. I’ve always felt this track (and the rest of HOP’s 1994 release Same As It Ever Was) was criminally underrated. As for the video, it kind of looks like it could be a subplot from a direct-to-DVD rip-off of The Departed.
So many great lines in this one. “I’ll leave ya sulkin’ like Macaulay Culkin!” “Why? ‘Cause I rock shit like Ronnie Dio!” Those two are hall of famers for sure, but the one that really gets me is the rhyme about being “super like Schnieder.” Even in 1994, a “One Day At A Time” reference was stretching it. Nowadays, no one in the Western Hemisphere remembers that show. They phased those reruns out with “Mannix” and “Mayberry R.F.D.”
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, readers. Please drink responsibly, and if you all seen the leprechaun, say YEEEEEAAAHHH!!!!!!!
Get Your Industrial Dance On With //TENSE//
Texas-based //TENSE// is making the world safe for moody goth body-movers again. Check out their latest joint, “Turn It Off”, below. Remember when industrial dance was fun, simple, and innocent? Not like now, where you see Al Jourganson in Baby Gap commercials!
Check out more //TENSE// at their Myspace.
What’s The Gayest Riff Slash Has Ever Played?
Last week, former Guns n’ Roses guitarist Slash took a moment during his Canadian Music Week keynote speech to set the record straight about his rumored involvement with Michael Jackson’s 1991 hit single “Black or White”. Turns out the top-hatted rocker had nothing to do with that song.
“If you listen to [the hook], that’s gay,” Slash explained. “I’d never play that.”
Indeed, the hook in “Black or White” is quite gay, by which of course Slash and I both mean happy. “Black or White” is an extremely happy song (even the part where MJ “gets real” and starts listing all the stuff he’s SO OVER). Is “B/W” possibly the most upbeat guitar-driven rocker of Michael’s career?
That’s a debate for another day. What really needs to be determined right now is the gayest riff Slash actually has played in his multiple decades of rockin’. Peep a list of candidates after the jump.
Probable Reasons MTV Banned Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” Video
News broke over the weekend that MTV may have banned the ridonkulous Lady Gaga music video “Telephone” from their reality show-choked airwaves. No less than CNN picked up on the story, which MTV has spent hours denying on Twitter. The original blurb, posted on Mediaite.com, is rather scant on details. This might be a rare instance in which the world owes MTV an apology instead of the other way around (still waiting on that Pauly Shore mea culpa).
Let’s say MTV did ban Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” music video. What would their reasoning be? Perhaps one of the following:
- “Telephone’s” drunken Jersey trash quotient too low
- Lady Gaga is neither 16 or pregnant
- Nine minutes is too long to go without a commercial break
Feature Interview: J. From White Zombie: More Genial Than Human
Jay Yuenger is best known to rock audiences as the fingers behind the thunderous heavy metal riffage on White Zombie’s two most famous albums, 1992’s La Sexorcisto and 1995’s Astro-Creep: 2000. Yet Yuenger’s life has been quite colorful on both sides of the Zombie rainbow. The musician got a peak at life behind the iron curtain before he hit puberty, bopped around Chicago’s hardcore punk scene in the early ’80, and even graduated from the same high school as Mandy Patinkin. Since WZ imploded, Jay’s been living in the Big Easy and working as a record producer for bands like 11 Blade, Puny Human, and Fu Manchu. The artist formerly known as J. from White Zombie was gracious enough to take some time out of his day recently to speak to Crawdaddy! about life in New Orleans, the challenges associated with record producing, and (of course) White Zombie.
Crawdaddy!: You lived in Moscow as a kid. What was that like?
Jay Yuenger: [Laughs] Well, that’s a very rock ‘n’ roll question! I was in kindergarten at the time, so I only have the vaguest memories. My father was the Moscow bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune. At the time, Russia was still heavily communist, so we lived in a building with all these foreign families. All my friends were kids of other newspaper people and embassy representatives. I do remember we had state-assigned servants who were believed to be reporting all our actions to the KGB.
Crawdaddy!: Weird. So what drew you to New Orleans?
Yuenger: It’s the most unique American city. There are only few truly unique cities left in this country. Sante Fe is one, Vegas is another, and then there’s New Orleans. It’s not really a part of the US. It’s its own country. Plus, it’s surrounded by music. You’ll literally look out your window and see a group kids going by playing trombones. It’s cool and old; you can have no money and live in a mansion. The downside is that it’s really crazy here, nothing works, everyone’s corrupt… so, you know.
Crawdaddy!: You once explained your “Silver Surfer” production style, wherein you envision the Silver Surfer breakdancing and try to imagine the music he’s dancing to. Do you have any other styles that involve superheroes dancing?
Yuenger: [Laughs] No, I have no other dancing hero styles of production. That particular record, that artist, Odoms, just always made me think of the Silver Surfer flying through the cosmos. You know, all those great, old 1960s Jack Kirby comics. And the Surfer eventually stops and finds a disco to get down in.
Relive The Glory Days Of American Idiot With Green Day: Rock Band
[via Joystiq]
June 8, 2010: the day Harmonix shall unleash the insanity that is Green Day: Rock Band upon this island we call Earth. A trailer was recently released for the game; watch below and gasp as Tré Cool’s obnoxious facial expressions come to life and leap right out of your computer screen!
Green Day: Rock Band will feature 47 delicious Green Day songs (all exportable, except on the Wii) and the same harmonizing deal thingy that made everyone cream their pants over Beatles: Rock Band. You can click the Joystiq link above to get all the pertinent platform pricing info. Surprise: this game will not be available for Turbografx 16.
Let the debate over Green Day’s relevance/video game worthiness begin.
How To Break Into Heavy Metal Without Getting Screwed
by: James Greene Jr.
[via Everything Is Terrible]
Advice as sage now as it was twenty-five years ago. Check out the volcanic hair explosion atop Michael Weikath’s noggin. Woof!
by: James Greene Jr.
published: March 19, 2010
in column: What Goes On
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