Motley Crue's new album, Saints of Los Angeles hit the streets today (June 24). Let's rock it to the top of the charts - visit your favorite record store and buy yours today!
Get ready Chicago - here they come! Dinosaurs once again roam the earth in a spectacular theatrical arena show, strong>Walking With Dinosaurs - The Live Experience, based on the award-winning BBC television series. WALKING WITH DINOSAURS – The Live Experience is now on tour in North America and will make its Chicago premiere at the United Center Thursday, Aug. 7 – Sunday, Aug. 17. More than one million Americans have seen the production since it opened in July 2007 ickets go on sale Friday, June 27 at noon. Tickets may be purchased at the United Center Box Office, 1901 W. Madison St., and at any Ticketmaster outlet, charge by phone at (312) 559-1212 or online at ticketmaster.com.
Published by
Jarrod Vrazel
on Wed Jun 18, 2008
Motley Crue will be featured on NBC's "Access Hollywood on June 18 and CNN's Larry King Live on June 20 to promote the upcoming release, "Saints of Los Angeles."
Listen to the new album, courtesy of IHeartMusic.com.
Published by
Jarrod Vrazel
on Wed Jun 18, 2008
In an interview with Eddie Trunk of XM's Boneyard, Sebastian Bach discusses the possibility of a Skid Row Reunion.
"But the time is right in my view as well for this great band to kick ass one more time. SKID ROW was one of the best bands to come from the '80s, and personally, I'd love one more shot to see them original one more time. I think we might see it one day as demand grows, but I doubt any time soon."
After years of planning, Walking With Dinosaurs came to life at Sydney's Acer Arena on January 10, 2007. The show has already proved itself such a sensation, that the North American tour was fast-tracked.
Ten species are represented from the entire 200 million year reign of the dinosaurs. The show includes the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the terror of the ancient terrain, as well as the Plateosaurus and Liliensternus from the Triassic period, the Stegosaurus and Allosaurus from the Jurassic period and Torosaurus and Utahraptor from the awesome Cretaceous. The largest of them, the Brachiosaurus is 45 feet tall, and 75 feet from nose to tail. It took a team of 50 - including engineers, fabricators, skin makers, artists and painters, and animatronic experts - a year to build the original production.
Variety said, "The dinosaurs are stunning, life-size and faultlessly nimble. In act one, the beasts parade into the arena gnashing and cavorting as a safari-suited paleontologist describes their attributes ... in the second half, the action cranks up, culminating in a spectacular clash as a T-Rex mom defends her baby from predators. Sonny Tilders' triumphant creature design ensures Walking With Dinosaurs is a truly spectacular spectacular. It is everything a dino-phile could want."
The New York Times said that in this show dinosaurs make "a thundering comeback after 65 million years."
Gloria Goodale of the Christian Science Monitor said, “When the dinosaurs start pouring out onto the stage, if you don’t have to stifle the natural flight response of any living breathing being, then it’s your pulse that needs checking.”
Newsweek called the show, "that rare entertainment beast that parents and kids can enjoy together."
It took 50 artists and technicians one year to build the show. The 15 dinosaurs were originally “hatched” by Tilders, the head of creature design, in a Melbourne Docklands workshop big enough to park a 747. For the North American tour, the only building large enough to house rehearsals for the dinosaurs – some as large as 36 ft tall by 56 ft long, was the Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center!
Artistic Director William May is known around the globe for co-producing shows with Malcolm Cooke for the past 30 years, including The Hobbit and The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. He produced Marilyn An American Fable on Broadway and co-composed and wrote the musical Always for the West End.
Director Scott Faris directed Michael Crawford in EFX at MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, which at the time was the biggest stage production ever conceived, and was on the production team that created Siegfried & Roy at the Mirage Hotel. Faris directed the London production of Chicago, as well as productions of Les Miserables, City of Angels, Cats, Grease and the 2007 national tour of Sweet Charity starring Molly Ringwald.
Faris said, "We take the audience on a journey back in time and show them how the dinosaurs might have actually looked in their prime - huge, sometimes frightening, sometimes comical monsters - that fought for survival every day of their lives. Our dinosaurs move exactly like they are real -- with all the roars, snorts and excitement that go with it. The realism is mind-blowing!"
Sonny Tilders, who designed and built the creatures has been, for the past decade, one of the major creative forces of the high-tech world of animatronic puppetry for film and television. He was one of the lead animatronic engineers for Jim Henson’s Creature workshop on the Farscape series, followed by work on Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Peter Pan, Ghost Rider and The Chronicles of Narnia.
Tilders said, "Many of the technologies we are using on WALKING WITH DINOSAURS – The Live Experience are borrowed from film. The computer software and hardware we have developed is based on the systems used to control animatronic creatures in feature films.”
"To make it appear that these creatures are flesh and blood weighing six, eight or even 20 tons, we use a system called "muscle bags," made from stretch mesh fabric and filled with polystyrene balls, stretched across moving points on the body. These contract and stretch in the same manner that muscle, fat, and skin does on real creatures."
"The puppeteers use "voodoo rigs" to make many of the dinosaurs move. They are miniature versions of the dinosaurs with the same joints and range of movement as their life-sized counterparts. The puppeteer manipulates the voodoo rig and these actions are interpreted by computer and transmitted by radio waves to make the hydraulic cylinders in the actual dinosaur replicate the action, with a driver hidden below the animal, helping to maneuver it around the arena." Suited puppeteer specialists, who are inside the creatures, operate five of the smaller dinosaurs.
Warner Brown wrote the script of "Walking with Dinosaurs - The Live Experience." He is an accomplished writer whose works include the book of the musical Flickers on Broadway, the screenplay of Nijinsky for Regent Entertainment, the musical The Black and White Ball, which features music by Cole Porter and The Truth About Light, written with composer Jimmy Roberts. Other credits include a new version of Half A Sixpence for the West End in 2008, Garbo – The Musical with music by Jim Steinman and Michael Reed, playing in Europe, and the plays and musicals Scandal, The Biograph Girl, Six for Gold, Cinderella, Talullah for a Day and Dance for Life.
The score of WALKING WITH DINOSAURS - The Live Experience is by James Brett, additional writer, orchestrator and conductor of 20th Century Fox’s Alien vs. Predator and Miramax’s Ella Enchanted. Brett helped create the groundbreaking collaboration between Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony as assistant Musical Director alongside Michael Kamen; the album sold 5 million copies worldwide.
The sets and projections are by the internationally renowned designer Peter England, a frequent collaborator at Opera Australia and the Australian Ballet. He designed the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, was a co-designer of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games Closing Ceremony, designed three City of Sydney New Year’s Eve Celebrations and was a finalist in the international design competition for the Pentagon Memorial in Washington DC.
Lighting Designer John Rayment lit the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games; Hong Kong’s original A Symphony of Light, a massive cityscape permanent lighting display involving over 18 buildings; Singapore’s 2002 National Day Parade stadium event; and Singapore’s Marina Bay annual New Year’s Eve Countdown display. Rayment also works frequently at Opera Australia and has lit 30 productions for Sydney Dance Company.
Crue Fest - Motley Crue, Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Sixx AM, and Trapt - was officially unveiled April 15, 2008 at a press conference in Hollywood.
Crüe Fest kicks off July 1 at Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Florida. and will hit more than 40 cities before wrapping up August 31 at Post-Gazette Pavilion in Pittsburgh.
Published by
Jarrod Vrazel
on Sun Mar 30, 2008
Fergie : photo by Michael Bielecki : missingframephotography.com
Fergie closed out the Circle K Tempe Music Festival in Tempe, Arizona March 28, 2008, with a one hour and fifteen minute set that included covers of Heart’s “Barracuda” and a “Live and Let Die/Black Dog” Paul McCartney/Led Zeppelin mash-up.
My Chemical Romance and Fergie performed at the 6th annual Circle K Tempe Music Festival to a large crowd comprised of toddlers to die-hard rockers. Great weather, and various family-friendly activities, including: a Rockstar vert sponsored ramp, a garage band competition, and even an onsite Circle K with proceeds benefiting United Cerebral Palsy, made for a successful weekend.
According to Ken Koziol, co-founder of the festival, there are plans to build a second main stage next year featuring classic rock bands as the festival grounds expand.
Published by
Jarrod Vrazel
on Sun Mar 30, 2008
Eve 6 : photo by Michael Bielecki : missingframephotography.com
Eve 6 performed at the Circle K Tempe Music Festival in Tempe, Arizona March 28, 2008. After a three year break from touring, plans for the new Eve 6 include touring colleges up until the summer of 2008, at which point they plan to book a real tour, as well as begin work on what will be the fourth Eve 6 album and first in five years.
The Circle K Tempe Music Festival lineup for March 29 included Fergie, Gin Blossoms, Meat Puppets, Eve 6, and Cowboy Mouth.
Published by
Jarrod Vrazel
on Sat Mar 29, 2008
My Chemical Romance : photo by Michael Bielecki : missingframephotography.com
My Chemical Romance headlined the Circle K Tempe Music Festival in Tempe, Arizona March 28, 2008. The band's darkly conceptual and highly ambitious CD The Black Parade, featured the single, "Welcome to the Black Parade," whose elaborate accompanying video looked and sounded like the result of Tim Burton directing Queen. The record went platinum by early 2007.
The Circle K Tempe Music Festival lineup for March 29 includes Fergie, Gin Blossoms, Meat Puppets, Eve 6, and Cowboy Mouth.
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