I made a list of some Do's and Dont's of the "perfect musician" in my opinion.
| Do's | Dont's |
| Passion for their music | Could care less about the material they put out |
| Great musician who hones their craft | Crappy musician, sloppy musicianship | Love the fans | Doesnt care about fans |
I know its dumb, I just wanted to make a table, hahaha!
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November 28, 2009
Pete Wentz Talks Daddy Duty
Just call him Superdad!
With his wife Ashlee Simpson getting set for her big Broadway debut, Pete Wentz has been on daddy duty these days. The 30-year-old Fall Out Boy rocker tells People that he's been having a great time with his adorable son Bronx Mowgli.
"I just spent the last weekend – Mom was rehearsing for Chicago – being Dad without a nanny, without Mom, and didn’t burn the house down. So I’m pretty excited about that."
Baby Bronx marked a big milestone on Friday: His first birthday! The family planned to celebrate with a Spongebob-themed party over the weekend.
"He likes Bob and he likes guitar – which he calls 'itar,’ so we're going to have a Spongebob party for him," Pete explained.
Best wishes again to the birthday boy!
November 28, 2009
Report: Nicole Richie & Joel Madden To Star In Their Own Reality Show
Could mom-of-two Nicole Richie, 28, be returning to the world of reality TV? According to Star Magazine, Nicole and husband Joel Madden are in talks to star in a reality show of their own.
Rumor has it that the former The Simple Life star is currently in discussions with an undisclosed network to appear in a new home-based reality show where the famous friends pop by to be interviewed by the couple.
“Nicole turns down a lot of roles because she doesn’t want to leave her children, Harlow (2) and Sparrow (2-months),” a friend explains. “This would be an option because she could work from home.”
November 24, 2009
Korn Singer MMA Fan
Jonathan Davis who is the lead vocalist for the heavy metal/rock band Korn is a die hard MMA fan. Davis, also plays bagpipes, guitar and drums in many of the recorded albums of the band. Davis is ranked in the top 100 All Time Heavy Metal Vocalists. Davis is a Bakersfield, California resident who has been hanging around the MMA scene since its inception. A fan and friend of fighters like Tito Ortiz and Dean Lister, Davis has taken some time to give us insight into his views on MMA and little bit on his music.
*What are your Top MMA Entrance/Fighting Songs?
1. James Brown-Big Pay Back
2. Dethklok-Go Forth and Die
3. The Fekel-Pummeling In
4. Pantera- Walk
5. Meril Haggard-Fighting Side. Because he is from Bakersfield.
*MMA is comprised of striking/boxing, muay thai, jiu jitsu and wrestling fundamentals. Which of these components do you enjoy watching the most?
I really like watching the muay thai knees, elbows and kicks. Even the punches are fun to watch, but then who doesn't like to also see someone get slammed on their head.
Who are your Top MMA Fighters in Any Weight Class?
1.Fedor
2. Tito
3. Shogun
4. Rampage
5. Dean Lister
What are your favorite MMA Fights to watch? I really like to watch the light weights. It is non- stop action from bell to bell. I think Rob Mccullah is always fun to watch.
Have any Fighters Used Your Music for their entrance?
One time we let Tito use a song off one of our albums before we had released it , I thought that was cool. Nobody had even heard the song yet and Tito was walking out to it for one of his fights. Somebody told me in a recent UFC a fighter walked out to our song- Hold On-I, didnt get to see the fight but i herd the guy won so that was cool.
Most played artists on your ipod today? Black Light Burns
How long have you been a fan of MMA? Ever since I first watched the movie Bloodsport.
Was there one MMA fight that was pivotal in you becoming a fans?
i cant remember one fight , but the feeling you get before a big title fight all nervous and on the edge of your seat. who doesent love that.
Which MMA fights have you been to that stick out in your mind as a great time. Who fought - and why was it such a great MMA fight night?
One time when we were touring in Australia we had a day off and our friend Tim Shark took us to a fight - we had a table front row; they even fed us a 5 course meal. A good friend of tim, Tommy Gun was fighting and he won in like 30 seconds . That guy was real good.
When you started out as a musician, did you envision your success to become the exact type of music you play, Or has your sound changed so much from the days you began?
I started out as a DJ and was really into electronic music , now I'm in a heavy metal band. So actually polar opposites of what I thought.
It is important that your tours represent the fan's absolute favorites? Or do you which there were songs you could drop from the playlist and take a break from? What would you replace it with?
You have to play what the fans want to hear, we let them vote online to determine what songs they want us to play. Then we pick songs we want to play for a little suprise .
November 24, 2009
Ashlee and Pete Throw Spongebob Party
Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Pete Wentz threw their son a "rad" first birthday party on Saturday (21.11.09).
Bronx Mowgli - who actually turned one on Friday (20.11.09) - was treated to a 'SpongeBob SquarePants'-themed bash at his grandparents Joe and Tina Simpson's house in Encino, California, which even included an impersonator dressed as the goofy, yellow sea sponge.
Pete thanked his friends and family on Twitter for a "rad b-day for Bronx. (sic)"
The tot was joined by 30 family and friends - including his pop star aunt Jessica Simpson - who tucked into birthday cake and played on a giant bouncy castle.
Last week, Pete revealed his plans behind opting for the cartoon theme.
He said: "Bronx likes Bob and he likes guitar - which he calls 'itar' so we're going to have a SpongeBob party for him."
Pete was not Bronx's only family member to talk about his birthday celebration on Twitter.
Ashlee wrote: "BX's 1st bday tomorrow! My angel is going to be a year!! The greatest year of my life :) (sic)"
Jessica added: "Happy Birthday to my precious angel on earth!!! Bronx is 1 today!! I LOVE HIM SO MUCH!!! I can't believe it has been a year already.
November 10, 2009
Pete Wentz Talks About Filming Band Hero Commercial In His Underwear
Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz appears alongside Taylor Swift, Weezer's Rivers Cuomo and blink-182's Travis Barker in the new Band Hero commercial which, like its Guitar Hero predecessors, emulates the classic singing in your underwear scene from Risky Business.
Wentz says, "The slide was pretty bizarre. I gotta admire Tom Cruise, because you have to slide so your slide lands on the beat, and you have to slide at just the right place so the next person can slide at just the right place. And they would Lysol it. And sometimes it'd be way slippery. There was a time when I slid offstage."
Wentz also commented on touring with Weezer on the recent blink-182 tour. "They're a band that inspired us in many ways. It's strange that Rivers, like, knows something about Fall Out Boy," Wentz says. "For someone who's been doing it for so long, he's so aware. That's what kind of blew my mind. He knew about bands on my label, and I talked to him about Cobra Starship and stuff like that."
As for Fall Out Boy's supposed hiatus, Wentz notes, "I think that I, and we, have made it confusing for people. I think that when bands force themselves to kind of be creative, it comes across as forced. We've been seven years straight of just driving albums and tour, tour, tour. Everybody just needs to decompress, and the problem is that people want to know the amount of time that's gonna take, or what's going to have to happen for it to come back...It's kind of like in the Midwest, when you start having snow days. The snow will melt one day. It will melt sooner rather than later."
November 9, 2009
Pete Wentz suffered writer’s block after Mowgli’s birth
Fall Out Boy member Pete Wentz has revealed that after his son Bronx Mowgli was born last November he was unable to write a song for six months. Wentz, 30, who is married to Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, was amazed by how much parenthood affected his song writing, as he is now less selfish. “For the first six months after Bronx was born, I couldn’t write at all, and then all of a sudden I started writing again. I think it made me look at the world in a different way,” Contactmusic quoted him as telling MusicRadar. “We have a very selfish culture, and we all embrace it, and that’s what ‘I Don’t Care’ was supposed to be about, and what ‘America’s Sweethearts’ was supposed to be about. “I hate explaining lyrics because it feels like ‘Whatever’ but ‘I Don’t Care’ was about looking at a picture of yourself in the mirror, like the ultimate form of narcissism,” he added.
Joel and Benji Host Nickelodeon Awards
The 7th Annual Australian Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards will be held at Hisense Arena in Melbourne on Friday 13th November and broadcast nationally on Nickelodeon from 7.00pm. This year’s show will be hosted by Delta Goodrem and co-hosted by Benji and Joel Madden of Good Charlotte, with Special Guest Star Miranda Cosgrove, from iCarly. Performers include Guy Sebastian, Jessica Mauboy and Cassie Davis.
November 4, 2009
Joel Madden Named Son Sparrow to Make His Life Difficult
Nicole Richie and Joel Madden could have named their son something simple like John, Tom or Chris, but they figured they'd give him a unique name like "Sparrow" instead to make his life more difficult. Nicole gave birth to the couples son in September and they knew he would live a privileged life so they decided to make his life a little more complicated. Joel said: "It reminded me of the Johnny Cash song ˜A Boy Named Sue". My worry raising a son in Hollywood is, what will he have to struggle for? I wanted to give him a name that he's going to have to stand up for. I love it, I think it's a beautiful name." Joel also says he's a amazed at how dedicated Nicole is to raising their family. He told Britain's OK! magazine: "While I'm working, it all piles on Nicole. She takes care of the kids, and it never gets to her. She doesn't feel like she's giving up anything“ she is whole heartedly their mom. Nicole isn't just busy being a full time mom. The trendy star is busy working on her upcoming fashion line Winter Kate, which should be available sometime next year.
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November 3, 2009
Pete Wentz Tattoos Cobra Starship"s Gabe Saporta Self-Portrait On Leg
The bipolar emo-boy bassist, famously of Fall Out Boy, has been involved in a prank war with Cobra Starship singer Gabe Saporta for months. It all started after Pete arrived at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards wearing Gabe's phone number on a t-shirt. Gabe responded by revealing Pete's email address at the Spanish MTV Awards¦ but the worst was obviously yet to come. "Well, I promised Gabe if [his band's song] "Good Girls Go Bad" went platinum, I would let him pick a tattoo to put on me," Pete said last week. "A man with such humble beginnings, of course, chose a self-portrait." Not just a self-portrait, the tatt also features the inscription "Gabey Baby Made Me Go Bad." "I held through with the bet," Pete explained. "But let's see if Gabe holds through with his end of the bet if [Gabe's band's album] goes gold."October 28, 2009
Pete Wentz And Ashlee Simpson's Home For Sale
Ashlee Simpson and hubby Pete Wentz have put their $4.5 million dollar Beverly Hills home up for sale. And no, it's not because Ashlee is unemployed now. The couple decided their mansion was simply not "kid friendly" and they're looking for a new home that their son Bronx can grow up in. A source tells Life & Style magazine, "The house is built into the side of a giant hill and it doesn't really have any yard. "Now that Bronx is getting older they realized that really isn't a child-friendly house. "They are going to sell this house and look for something that will be better suited to young children." The couple bought the home back in January 2007, before they tied the knot in March of 2008 for $4.5 million dollars. It comes with four bedrooms, a gym, a gourmet kitchen, swimming pool and two-storey guesthouse. Any takers?Source-HollyScoop
October 15, 2009
Korn Frontman Abandons Concept Record Route On Forthcoming 'Korn III'
This week, Korn frontman Jonathan Davis will begin recording his vocal tracks for Korn's ninth studio LP, which they've nicknamed "Korn III". The follow-up to 2007's untitled effort sees Korn working once more with producer Ross Robinson, who produced the band's first two albums, 1994's "Korn" and 1996's "Life Is Peachy", and Davis tells Noisecreep its something of an unintended return to the group's roots, and not a concept, as initially planned.
"It's really like the old school stuff ... like the first two records," Davis tells Noisecreep. "It's just going back to our roots, working with Ross ... it's just been amazing, and it sounds like nothing we've ever done. It's more in the vein of the first two records, and we're really excited about it. And working with Ross, it just sort of evolved out of us, naturally. He's got us going back to the old school-style of how we were writing, and how we all just sat in a room together and did all this stuff so. We're excited ... it's just how its been taking shape."
Davis and the rest of the band - guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer, born-again bassist Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu and kitman Ray Luzier - initially wanted the record to revolve around a concept ... one Davis identified as the five symbols he feels will be the downfall of man: drugs, religion, power, money and time. But things have changed.
"It's turning into something else," Davis says. "I was going for that, and I was writing lyrics and stuff around that vibe. And other stuff started coming out, and I can't control what's coming out on my inside. So, the music's ... it always changes. I can start out with a plan, but it's just turning into different stuff. We've got 13 or 14 songs, and the guys are taking turns doing bass and guitars. The drums are all recorded. It's our most diverse record, and I think it's going to make all of our fans happy, and they'll all be very surprised."
Davis says the band is shooting for an early 2010 release for "Korn III", but at this point, Korn is without a label. The singer says the band is considering following in the footsteps of Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead, and that they may actually release the LP on their own. "That's an option," Davis admits. "We're going to weigh out all our options and see what's best for us." At this point, Davis says former drummer David Silveria is just that, the band's former drummer. "I don't think he wants to play drums anymore," he says, before adding that a reunion with former guitarist Brian "Head" Welch wasn't likely: "We'll see if it happens in time, its just not the right time now."
Following the touring and promotion cycle for Korn's next one, Davis says he'll return to the studio to finish his long-in-the-works solo record, which he claims will be much "different from Korn ... it's more like a heavy David Bowie and Peter Gabriel. It's really cool."