TOMIYA

As leader of her band Tomiya St., Tomiya sold thousands of self-released CD’s on the streets of Japan, quickly landing a contract with Warner Bros. As a solo artist, she’s recorded with top producers in Tokyo and New York, hosted a radio show in Nagoya, and delighted audiences with performances all over the globe.

Tomiya’s music comes from her pure soul, which has yet to be jaded by society. She is funny, cool, sweet and edgy. She is everything her music is all about. For her latest release “Ichiban Pop”, she returned to the studio with producer/multi-instrumentalist Brad Craig. Here, as with their 2005 release “Honey Rock”, they create a genre bending escape from the typical trappings of predictable pop.

Yuka Azuma,Adriana Sassoon, Tomiya Japanese Rock Star

Tomiya official site:http://www.tomiya.ne.jp/

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* Tomiya, I had a great time with you and Yuka hope to see you soon!

LIKE A STORM

Like A Storm is a four-piece rock band from Auckland, New Zealand. In the past 6 months, the band has toured the United States with rock giants Creed, Staind, Hoobastank, Puddle of Mudd, Saliva, Skillet, Shinedown, and Burn Halo, as well as The Veer Union and Framing Hanley. Like A Storm sold over 3,000 Limited Edition Tour EPs in their first 3 weeks of touring in the United States . Overwhelming fan response to the band’s live show saw their debut album “The End of the Beginning” enter at #61 on Billboard‘s New Artist Charts  – from tour sales alone. The album has since been made available on iTunes and at Like A Storm’s shows. UPDATE: Like a Storm is now set to begin touring January 22nd 2010 with Shinedown, Puddle of Mudd, and record breaking rock band Skillet! [www.likeastorm.com] [www.skillet.com].

Their song “Enemy” is featured weekly on ESPN’s College Football, their song “Chemical Infatuation” was featured in USA’s hit Royal Pains, their video is set to debut on MTV’s Headbangers Ball and their songs were featured in trailers for Wolfenstein and Halo video games. The band’s brand of alternative rock music includes vocals, drums, guitar, and bass, as well as programming, piano, synths and didgeridoo. The band’s hit song Lie to Me was the official theme song of TNA’s pay-per-view event Genesis.Like A Storm began in 2005 when brothers, Chris Kent, and Matt brooks first played together in their native New Zealand. They immediately decided to move to move to North America to pursue a career in music. According to Chris “New Zealand is such an awesome place to grow up, it’s a really inspiring place–so beautiful and isolated. But the first time we jammed, we had this amazing chemistry, and we knew we had to take our sound to the world. We left our family and friends and set up in Canada. There are so many different experiences from that time, and the songs on the record are about them.”  They settled in Vancouver and quickly created a buzz. After their first show, Kai Marcus from Methods of Mayhem befriended them and introduced them to producer Mike Plotnikoff. In 2006, they began working on the record and officially began recording with Plotnikoff and Igor Khoroshev in 2007 in California. After about sixteen months of writing and recording the record, The End of the Beginning was complete.

 * LIKE A STORM- Great Show at the HOB Boston.

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KISS IN BRAZIL

KISS NO CARNIVAL DO RIO

The Samba school called ‘Salgueiro’ from Rio de Janeiro honored the band KISS…as seen in the image below. The ‘Salgueiro’ was the second school in the Rio parade on Monday 02/23.

2009 RIO CARNIVAL CLIPCheck out this clip of the 2009 Rio Carnival featuring school ‘Salgueiro’ from Rio de Janeiro honoring KISS with their Gene inspired costumes.

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A comemoração dos 35 anos do grupo promete ser de muita alegria para os fãs brasileiros. Com datas em São Paulo no dia 07/04 e no Rio de Janeiro no dia 08/04, os ingressos para os shows variam de R$ 170 à R$ 350,00.

A pista para o show de São Paulo está R$ 170, 00, mas haverá uma área VIP que custará R$ 350,00. Estudantes pagam meia entrada.

Os preços dos ingressos para o show do Rio de Janeiro ainda não foram divulgados, mas clientes do Citibank podem adquirir os ingressos pela pré-venda que será realizada na próxima semana, dia 05 de fevereiro. O público carioca, no geral, pode comprar os ingressos a partir do dia 12 de fevereiro.

Da formação original, sobraram o baixista e vocalista Gene Simmons, e o guitarrista e vocalista Paul Stanley.

Junto com os dois membros fundadores estão; o guitarrista Tommy Thayer e o baterista Eric Singer. Segundo informações, todos os quatro se apresentarão devidamente maquiados.

O último concerto do Kiss no Brasil com maquiagem foi em 1983, no estádio do Morumbi.

Logo após a apresentação em 1983, a banda voltou ao Brasil em 1998 para um show em Porto Alegre e São Paulo.

Paul Stanley diz que “fãs não querem novo álbum”

 

Josh B. Wardrop, da revista Panorama, entrevistou o guitarrista e vocalista dos KISS, Paul Stanley, que explicou a posição da banda sobre um possível novo álbum.

Panorama: O que o levou a experimentar a pintura?

Stanley: “Quando era adolescente, estudei na Escola de Arte e Música de Nova Yorke, mas não pintava na altura. Há uns oito anos atrás, quando estava a passar por um dificil divórcio, um amigo sugeriu que eu pintasse, como uma forma de terapia. E realmente vivi as minhas emoções e quis continuar a fazer isso”.

Panorama: Como você descreveria o seu estilo artístico?

Stanley: “É muito pessoal, introspectivo, espontâneo. Eu comparo-o a uma viagem sem mapa. Eu gosto de arte abstracta porque ela atinge as pessoas mais a nível emocional do que analítico”.

Panorama: Existem planos para outras tours dos KISS ou um novo álbum a caminho?

Stanley: “Acabamos de fazer alguns concertos na Austrália e Nova Zelândia, e em três semanas estaremos a caminho da Europa. Os KISS estão vivos e prontos para para cegar e arrasar com vocês!. Um novo álbum? Perguntaram-nos sobre isso, mas sabemos que os fãs não querem novo material. Eu poderia fazer um ‘Let It Be’ e as pessoas diriam: ‘Fixe! Mas toca ‘Love Gun”. E estamos felizes assim”.

Panorama: Por que os KISS não entraram para o Hall da Fama do Rock?

Stanley: “Porque os responsáveis fazem parte do que chamamos de ‘Máfia da Música’ e as opiniões deles não refletem as opiniões dos fãs de rock em geral. Infelizmente, é uma coisa vergonhosa que tem um nome oficial”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRANS SIBERIAN OPERA ROCK CONCERT

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra was formed in 1996 by Paul O’Neill who immediately approached long time friends and collaborators Robert Kinkel and Jon Oliva to form the core of the writing team.

While producing and writing for a number of years with various rock groups Paul was always looking for ways to make the music have greater and greater emotional impact. He tried to write the music that was so melodic it didn’t need lyrics. And lyrics that were so poetic that they didn’t need music but once you put the two of them together, the sum of the parts would be greater than the whole, and you couldn’t imagine them apart. Once he’d done this, he was still looking for a way to take it to even greater heights and he realized that putting the songs within the context of a story would give it a third dimension that wou ld make that additional emotional impact possible.

Hence, he started writing not just albums, but rock operas.

He realized then, that there was an inherent problem recording rock operas within the standard rock and roll band makeup. Rock operas by their nature need the voices to change as the characters change. Rock bands normally only have one (or if you’re lucky) two great vocalists to work with, therefore limiting how far you can go. You’re forced to make the music fit the band, as opposed to allowing the music to go wherever it needs to.

With Trans-Siberian Orchestra, first the music is created with no artificial limitations, and then we seek out within the classical, rock, Broadway and R & B worlds, the very best singers and musicians to bring each song to life. This also in many ways forces us to operate on a higher level. This environment has the additional benefit of causing a cross pollenization of musical ideas, creating hybrid forms of music that normally never would have occurred, such as an R&B singer doing a classical style melody and bringing gospel touches to it that causes it to glitter in ways that even the creators could not have predicted. Another very important aspect in the creation of the band, is that there could be no limits on the members; we mix all races and ages.

The young get to mine the experience of the old musicians, while they can’t help to be inspired by the enthusiasm of people just entering the business. This has created a vast constantly changing musical group that even we do not know what it is going to do next.

Once when asked what Trans-Siberian Orchestra was about, Paul O’Neill replied, “It’s about creating great art. When asked to define what great art was, Paul said, “The purpose of art is to create an emotional response in the person that is exposed to that art. And there are three categories of art; bad art, good art and great art. Bad art will elicit no emotional response in the person that is exposed to it, i.e.; a song you hear in an elevator and it does nothing to you, a picture on a wall that gives you the same emotional response as if the wall had been blank, a movie that chews up time. Good art will make you feel an emotion that you have felt before; you see a picture of a forest and you remember the last time you went fishing with your dad, you hear a song about love and you remember the last time you were in love. Great art will make you feel an emotion you have never felt before; seeing the pieta, the world famous sculpture by

Michelangelo, can cause someone to feel the pain of losing a child even if they’ve never had one. And when you’re trying for these emotions the easiest one to trigger is anger.

Anyone can do it. Go into the street, throw a rock at someone, you will make them angry. The emotions of love, empathy and laughter are much harder to trigger, but since they operate on a deeper level, they bring a much greater reward.

STAIND

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OUTSIDE

SO FAR AWAY

RIGHT HERE WAITING

BELIEVE

PAPA ROACH

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Getting Away With Murder

Forever

 

Hollywood Whore

 

WOMEN IN ROCK

Festival snares compelling drummers

Terri Lyne Carrington (left) and Cindy Blackman.

By Siddhartha Mitter

 Globe Correspondent  2008

Cindy Blackman & Adriana Sassoon

In many cultures, the drum is the preferred means of making an announcement. So it’s appropriate that the opening salvo of this year’s BeanTown Jazz Festival – the fall event that, in eight years of existence, has grown into an important gathering of local and national acts – will take the form of a drum summit.

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Featuring two of today’s most compelling jazz drummers, Terri Lyne Carrington and Cindy Blackman, the Sept. 26 showcase at the Berklee Performance Center will offer a rare opportunity to hear, in one evening, two contrasting drum styles as well as two bands in which the player behind the skins is also the leader.Carrington and Blackman are both former Berklee students who went on to respected careers, albeit on somewhat different tracks. A local product (she grew up in Medford), Carrington was a child prodigy who attended the school in her early teens and went on to play with the likes of Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter before moving to Los Angeles where, for a time, she was the drummer in the Arsenio Hall Show band. She’s now based back in Boston, teaching at her alma mater.

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Blackman didn’t finish school, bolting instead for New York, where she started as a street musician in the ’80s. She’s now best known for her many years playing with rocker Lenny Kravitz. But both she and Carrington have maintained jazz identities and careers – mainly as first-call sidewomen, with sporadic outings as leaders. (“Music for the New Millennium,” Blackman’s new double album with a groovy electro-acoustic group, just came out but was recorded in 2005; Carrington has a record due out next year.)Programming the two on the same bill highlights, of course, how rare it is to hear a woman behind the drum kit. And Carrington in particular is underscoring the gender theme through the special lineup she’s assembled for this show. It includes the singer Patrice Rushen and the pianist Geri Allen, along with a rising young saxophonist from the Netherlands, Tineke Postma.

“You reach out to like-minded people,” Carrington says on the phone from her home. She volunteers that it was her intention to gather top women players, while in the same breath starting to change the subject. “It’s a celebration of women in jazz,” she says, “but I don’t want to dwell on that.”Blackman is more adamant on the topic. “The gender question is not even worth bringing up because the drums have got nothing to do with gender,” she says on the phone from a gig in France. “I’m there because I love to play music. And I’m in support of anyone who wants to play the instrument.

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“I wouldn’t care if Art Blakey was pink with polka dots and wearing a tutu,” she adds, citing the great drummer-bandleader. “I wouldn’t care if Tony Williams was green.” Williams, who played with Miles Davis, is the drummer she cites as her greatest influence among a pantheon of others, including Papa Jo Jones and Max Roach.And it’s true: Even if women are a minority in jazz, and perhaps especially on drums, there’s nothing inherent in Carrington’s or Blackman’s style that one can attribute to gender. Rather, there is the influence of these great elders; and there is each woman’s personal aesthetic and approach to an instrument that – made up as it is of a large and malleable assortment of drums and cymbals – offers almost endless possibilities.

It will be a special treat if, following each group’s set, Carrington and Blackman take the stage together to make this summit truly one to remember. At the time of these conversations the two hadn’t yet planned it out, but Carrington says there’s a good chance it will happen.”It’s a difficult instrument to do that with,” she says. “People like to see the competitive aspect of it. But if we do play together it definitely won’t be in any kind of drum battle. I do mine and she does hers, and both should be celebrated.”

Drum Summit is at Berklee Performance Center Sept. 26.                     617-747-2261             

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DAVID BENVENISTE

 David Benveniste (Beno) 

Benveniste has a unique and rich background in connecting, empowering, mobilizing and influencing youth culture. He founded StreetWise in 1997 to promote the band System Of A Down and is responsible for the company’s overarching philosophy that has established StreetWise as an award winning, premiere social marketing agency specializing in the youth market. Through his unique vision and personal tenacity, Benveniste has built a nationwide community of over 200,000 young influencers eager to participate in the brand building experience.  

Benveniste began his entrepreneurial pursuits as an independent band manager through which he founded Velvet Hammer Music and Management Group, a music management company with an impressive roster of top-selling and Grammy winning artists that include System Of A Down, Deftones, and Cypress Hill. Concurrent to his role at StreetWise, Benveniste is also CEO of Velvet Hammer.  Benveniste grew up in Beverly Hills, CA and is a graduate of Beverly High. He earned a Bachelors’ Degree in Communications from The University of Southern California.

System of a Down is the eponymous debut album by System of a Down, first released in 1998. The album was certified gold by the RIAA on February 2, 2000. Two years later, after the success of Toxicity, it was certified platinum.

 

 

Web Design

Guitar Hero®: Aerosmith®

 

StreetWise designed and developed the global marketing site for Guitar Hero®: Aerosmith®. The site’s robust interface and rich motion graphics create an exciting interactive experience that captures the “larger than life” style and swagger of the band. An elevator was created to move throughout the site’s content, playing off the band’s famous hit song “Love in an Elevator,” while taking the user on a journey through the multiple venues featured in the game.

The site features a mass of dynamic content, localized in 10 languages for 14 countries around the globe. The full track list of songs playable in the game are highlighted as well as multiple behind-the-scenes videos, in-game screenshots, exclusive downloads and enough bells and whistles to make every aspiring Guitar Hero® rise to rock royalty and become “The Bad Boys of Boston!”

http://www.streetwise.biz

 

Motley Crue

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Mötley Crüe Los Angeles, California in 1981.

The band was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx (who was, at the time, in a band called London) and drummer Tommy Lee, who were later joined by guitarist Mick Mars and singer Vince Neil. Mötley Crüe has sold over 80 million album copies worldwide

The band has often been noted for their hard-living lifestyles; all members have had numerous brushes with the law, spent time in jail, suffered long addictions to alcohol and drugs, had countless escapades with women, and are heavily tattooed. Their ninth studio album entitled Saints of Los Angeles was released on June 24, 2008, while a film adaptation of their best-selling band autobiography The Dirt, is due to be released sometime in 2009.

Formation and early years: 1981-1983

Mötley Crüe was formed on January 17, 1981 when bassist Nikki Sixx left the band London and began rehearsing with Tommy Lee and vocalist/guitarist Greg Leon^[3]. Lee had worked previously with Leon in a band called Suite 19 and the trio practiced together for some time with Leon eventually deciding not to continue. The bassist and drummer then began a search for new members. Sixx and Lee soon met guitarist Robert “Mick Mars” Deal. Mars was quickly auditioned and subsequently hired by Sixx and Lee. Mars had been playing for a band, White Horse, when one of the members called the group “a motley looking crew.” He had remembered the phrase and later copied it down as Mottley Kru. Modifying the spelling slightly, ‘Mötley Crüe’ was eventually selected with the inspiration to add the two sets of umlauts supposedly coming from the German beer the members were drinking at the time. The group was still in need of a singer. Lee had known Neil from their high school days at Royal Oak H.S. in Covina and the two had performed in different bands on the garage-band circuit. On seeing him perform with the band Rockandi (pronounced Rock-Candy) at the Starwood in Hollywood, Mars suggested Mötley Crüe hire Vince. At first he refused. However, as the other members of Rockandi became involved in outside projects, Neil grew anxious to try something else. When Lee made one final appeal to audition he accepted.

They soon met their first manager, Allan Coffman. The band’s first release was the single “Stick to Your Guns/Toast of the Town,” which was released on their own label, Leathür Records, which had a pressing & distribution deal with Greenworld Distribution in Torrance. In November 1981, their debut album Too Fast for Love was self-produced and released on Leathür, selling 20,000 copies. Coffman’s assistant Eric Greif set up a tour of Canada, while they used the band’s success in the Los Angeles club scene to negotiate with several record labels, eventually signing a recording contract with Elektra Records in late spring 1982. At Elektra’s insistence, the debut album was then re-mixed by producer Roy Thomas Baker and re-released on August 20, 1982, two months after its Canadian WEA release using the original Leathür mixes, to coincide with the tour.

During the “Crüesing Through Canada Tour ’82,” there were several widely-publicized incidents. First, the band was arrested and then released at Edmonton International Airport for wearing their spiked stage wardrobe through Customs and for Vince’s small carry-on filled with porn magazines (both PR stunts) – considered ‘dangerous weapons‘ and ‘indecent material’, Customs eventually had the confiscated items destroyed. Second, a spurious ‘bomb threat‘ against the band, playing Scandals Disco in Edmonton, made the front page of the Edmonton Journal^[5](June 9, 1982) where assistant band manager Greif and Lee were interviewed. This ended up being a PR stunt perpetrated by Greif. Lastly, Lee threw a television set from the upper story window of the Sheraton Caravan Hotel. Canadian rock magazine Music Express noted that the band were “banned for life” from the city. Despite the tour ending prematurely in financial disaster, it was the basis for the band’s first international press.

In 1983, the band changed management from Coffman to Doug Thaler and Doc McGhee. McGhee is best known for managing Bon Jovi & Kiss, starting with their reunion tour in 1996. Greif subsequently sued all parties in a Los Angeles Superior Court action that dragged on for several years, and coincidentally later re-surfaced as manager of Nikki’s former band, London. Coffman himself was sued by a couple of investors for whom he had sold ‘stock in the band’, including Michigan-based Bill Larson. Coffman eventually declared bankruptcy, as he had mortgaged his home at least three times to cover band expenses.

 At height of fame: 1984–1991

After playing the US Festival, and with the aid of the new medium of MTV, the band found rapid success in the United States. They were also known as much for their backstage groupie antics, outrageous clothing, extreme high-heeled boots, heavy make-up, and seemingly endless abuse of alcohol and drugs as for their recordings. Their mixture of heavy metal and glam rock stylings produced several best-selling albums during the 1980s, including Shout at the Devil (September 26, 1983), Theatre of Pain (June 21, 1985), and Girls, Girls, Girls (May 15, 1987), which showcased their love of motorcycles, whiskey and strip clubs, as well as telling tales of substance abuse, sexual escapades, and general decadence.

The band has also had their share of scrapes with the law and life. In 1984, Neil wrecked his car on his way back from the liquor store. He was in a head-on collision, and his passenger, Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley, was killed. Neil, charged with a DUI and vehicular manslaughter, was sentenced to 30 days in jail (though he only spent 18 days). The band would later release box sets entitled “Music to Crash Your Car To“.

In 1987, Sixx suffered a near-fatal heroin overdose. He was declared legally dead on the way to the hospital, but one medic refused to give up and gave Sixx two shots of adrenaline to the heart, bringing him back to life. His few minutes in death were the inspiration for the band’s song “Kickstart My Heart,” which peaked at #16 on the Mainstream U.S. chart, and was featured on their album Dr. Feelgood. Their decadent lifestyles almost shattered the band, until managers Thaler and McGhee pulled an intervention, and refused to allow the band to tour in Europe, fearing that “some [of them] would come back in bodybags“. Shortly after, all the band members except for Mars underwent rehabilitation; Mars cleaned up on his own.

After finding sobriety in 1989, Mötley Crüe reached its peak popularity with the release of their fifth album, the Bob Rock produced Dr. Feelgood, on September 1, 1989. On October 14 of that year, it became their only No. 1 album and stayed on the charts for 109 weeks after its release. The band members each stated in interviews that, due in no small part to their collective push for sobriety, Dr. Feelgood was their most solid album musically to that point, and indeed, one of their best albums to date.

In 1989, McGhee was fired after breaking several promises that he made to the band in relation to the Moscow Music Peace Festival including giving his other band, Bon Jovi, advantages with slot placement. Doug Thaler then soldiered on as sole band manager.

On October 14, 1991 the band’s 6th album Decade of Decadence, a compilation, was released. It peaked at #2 on the Billboard charts. It was supposed to be just something for the fans while they worked on the next “all new” album.

 Years of Turmoil: 1992–2003

After Decade was released, Neil left the band in February 1992. A controversy exists to this day over whether Neil was fired or quit. Sixx has long maintained that Neil quit the band. However, Neil disputes this and insists that he was fired. Neil was replaced by John Corabi (formerly of Angora and The Scream). Mötley Crüe’s commercial success waned throughout the 1990s, although their self-titled March 1994 release made the Billboard top ten (#7). Thaler would manage the band alone until 1994, after the band did a mass-firing when their album, Mötley Crüe, failed to meet commercial expectations.

The band reunited in 1997, after their current manager, Allen Kovac, and Neil’s manager, Bert Stein, set up a meeting between Neil, Lee, and Sixx. Agreeing to “leave their egos at the door,” the band released Generation Swine. Although it debuted at #4, and despite the band performing at the American Music Awards, the album was a commercial failure, due in part to their label Elektra Records’ lack of support.^{[ citation needed ]} The band soon left Elektra and created their own label, Mötley Records.

In 1998, Mötley Crüe’s contractual ties with Elektra Records had expired putting the band in total control of their future. This included the ownership of the masters of all their albums. In announcing the end of their relationship with Elektra Records, the band became one of the few groups in history to own and control their publishing and catalogue of recorded masters. In 1999, the band re-released all their albums, dubbed as Crücial Crüe. The limited-edition digital re-masters included demos and previously unreleased tracks.

In 1999, Lee put his role in the band on hold to pursue a solo career due to increasing bad tension with frontman Neil. He was replaced by Randy Castillo, who drummed on several Ozzy Osbourne albums. Randy died of cancer on March 26, 2002. No replacement had been named which sent the band into a hiatus following a 2000 tour in support of their studio release, New Tattoo. New Tattoo charted at #41 and sold less than 200,000 copies. Former Hole Drummer Samantha Maloney filled in on the tour to promote New Tattoo. The Salt Lake City performance of the tour is featured on the the DVD Lewd, Crüed & Tattooed..

Within the following six years, Sixx played in the bands 58 and Brides of Destruction, while Lee formed Methods of Mayhem and performed as a solo artist. Neil continued touring on an annual basis as a solo artist, singing mostly Mötley Crüe songs. Mars, who suffers from a rare degenerative form of arthritis called ankylosing spondylitis, went into seclusion in 2001.

A 2001 autobiography entitled The Dirt carefully packaged the band as “the world’s most notorious rock band”. The book made the top ten on the New York Times best-seller list and spent ten weeks there.

 Reunion and new album: 2004–present

A promoter in England, Mags Revell, started the ball rolling for Mötley Crüe’s reunion when he started a promotion that basically revealed how fans wanted the band to reunite. After meeting with management several times, in September 2004, Sixx announced that he and Neil had returned to the studio and had begun recording new material. In December 2004, the four original members announced a reunion tour which began February 14, 2005, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The band’s latest compilation album, Red, White & Crüe, was released in February 2005. It features the band members’ favorite original songs plus three new tracks, “If I Die Tomorrow“, “Sick Love Song”, co-written by Sixx and James Michael as well as a cover of The Rolling Stones’ classic “Street Fighting Man”. A small controversy was caused when it was suggested that neither Tommy nor Mick played on the new tracks (duties were supposedly handled by Vandals drummer Josh Freese and ex-Beautiful Creatures guitarist DJ Ashba). However, a VH1 documentary of the band reuniting would later show that Lee did indeed play on some of the tracks. The Japanese release of Red, White & Crüe, includes an extra new track titled “I’m a Liar (and That’s the Truth)”. Red, White & Crüe charted at #6 and has since gone platinum.

 2005

In 2005, Mötley Crüe were involved in an animation-comedy spoof Disaster!, written by Paul Benson and Matt Sullivan and was used as the introduction film to concerts on their Carnival of Sins tour.

2006

In 2006, Mötley Crüe went on the Route of All Evil Tour co-headlining with Aerosmith. This was another well attended tour following the “Carnival of Sins” tour of 2005. In June 2007, Mötley Crüe set out on a small European tour. A lawsuit was recently filed by Neil, Mars and Sixx against Carl Stubner, Lee’s manager. The three sued him for contracting for Lee to appear on two unsuccessful reality shows the band claim hurt its image.^{[ citation needed ]} It was reported on Motley.com that the lawsuit has been settled.

2008

Mötley Crüe’s ninth studio album, titled Saints of Los Angeles was released in Japan on June 17 and in America on June 24. The album was originally titled “The Dirt”, but was changed. The album features the band’s original lineup.

On March 25th, 2008, Canadian radio station 97.7 Htz-Fm, located in St. Catharines, Ontario, played a 30 second clip of the album’s first single, “The Saints Of Los Angeles”.  The clip was sent to them by the band. The clip was posted on motley.com by fans of the band.

On April 11, Mötley Crüe released the song “The Saints Of Los Angeles” in full, and also as a downloadable song for the game Rock Band, on April 15. The song is available on spinner.com.

On April 15, Mötley Crüe officially announced the first Crüe Fest, modeled after “Ozzfest“. The 2008 main acts are Mötley Crüe, Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Sixx: A.M. and Trapt. The Tour began on July 1 in West Palm, Florida.

On June 20, Mötley Crüe appeared on Larry King Live . Mötley Crüe sat down and talked with Larry King about the recent reunion of the band and their new album and tour.

On June 23rd, Mötley Crüe was interviewed by Greta Van Susteren on FOX News Channel. Controversially, Tommy asked Greta at the end of the interview “What color panties are you wearing?”.

Mötley Crüe had announced that sometime in 2009 is the possible release date for the movie, The Dirt, based on the based on the book written by Neil Strauss. Rumors about the cast of characters in this movie include Christopher Walken as the famous rock and roll star Ozzy Osbourne and Val Kilmer as David Lee Roth.

On June 24th, Saints of Los Angeles was finally released.

 Legacy

Acts such as Marilyn Manson, NIN, Towers of London, Moby, Murderdolls, Linkin Park, Backyard Babies, Private Line, The Living End, Mana, Papa Roach, Hardcore Superstar, and Vains of Jenna have cited them as an influence in recent years, most notably for Too Fast for Love and Shout at the Devil. They’ve also been parodied for their early look in music videos by a variety of artists such as Bowling for Soup, Beck, Red Hot Chili Peppers, New Order, Aerosmith and the Backstreet Boys.

The band has been featured on a number of VH1 countdown shows, ‘Dr. Feelgood’ was ranked the #7 Greatest Air Guitar Song, ‘Live Wire’ was ranked the #17 Greatest Metal Song Of All Time on VH1‘s 40 Greatest Metal Songs, and ‘Home Sweet Home’ was ranked the #12 greatest power ballad of all time. Mötley Crüe were featured several times on VH1‘s 100 most metal moments, their highest spot being #3. VH1 included the Tommy Lee sex tapes, The Dirt, Ozzy and Nikki pee at an incident and the Moscow Music Peace Festival; all featured in the countdown. Mötley Crüe has also been one of the many bands featured on VH1: Behind the Music. The band was also ranked #19 on VH1‘s list of the most popular hard rock bands.

Building on the popularity and the desire of fans to see The Crüe between World tours, a wide variety of tribute acts have spawned who celebrate and pay homage to the different eras and albums over the years. Red Hot, a tribute from L.A., captures the look and feel of the Shout at the Devil era with black and red leathers. Theatre of Pain captures the spandex and lipstick attitude of the album of the same name. And Carnival of Sins rounds out the tributes with a rendition of the current Crüe image that brings to mind the crüdeness of the Mötley moniker. The band even has an all-female version from New York City, Girls Girls Girls, who cover all eras of the band’s music without emulating the look of any specific Crüe era.

Band members

 Current members

• Vince Neil – vocals, (1981-1992, 1996-present)
• Mick Mars – guitar, vocals, talkbox (1981-present)
• Nikki Sixx – bass guitar, vocals (1981-present)
• Tommy Lee – drums, percussion, vocals, piano (1981-1999, 2004-present)

 Former members

• John Corabi – rhythm guitar, lead and backing vocals (1992-1997)
• Randy Castillo – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1999-2000)
• Samantha Maloney (touring musician) – drums, percussion, backing vocals (2000-2001)

 Additional musicians

• Will Hunt – drums (2006, 2007): Filled-in for injured Tommy Lee on the last few dates of North American tour, as well as a few dates on 2007 European tour
• Harvey Warren, from Calgary band Broken Toys^[11] – drums (2006): Played on April 5, 2006 at the Enmax Centrium in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada when Tommy Lee was injured
• Donna McDaniel – touring backing vocals^[12][13]
• Emi Canyn – touring backing vocals^[14][15]

 

Discography

Main article: Mötley Crüe discography

Studio Albums

• 1981: Too Fast for Love
• 1983: Shout at the Devil
• 1985: Theatre of Pain
• 1987: Girls, Girls, Girls
• 1989: Dr. Feelgood
• 1994: Mötley Crüe
• 1997: Generation Swine
• 2000: New Tattoo
• 2008: Saints of Los Angeles

 Tours

• “Anywhere USA” – Northern California Tour (1981)
• Too Fast For Love Tour (1981)
• Cruesing Through Canada Tour (1981-1982)
• Shout at the Devil World Tour (1983-1984)
• Welcome To The Theatre Of Pain Tour (1985-1986)
• Girls, Girls, Girls World Tour (1987)
• Moscow Music Peace Festival (1989)
• Dr. Feelgood World Tour ’89 – ’90(1989-1990)
• Monsters Of Rock Tour 1991 (1991)
• Anywhere There’s Electricity Tour (1994)
• Live Swine Listening Party Tour (1997)
• Generation Swine Tour (1997)
• Mötley Crüe Vs. The Earth Tour (1997)
• Greatest Hits Tour (1998-1999)
• Maximum Rock Tour (1999)
• Welcome To The Freekshow Tour (1999)
• New Tattoo Tour (2000)
• Japanese Tour 2000 (2000)
• Red, White & Crüe Tour (2005)
• Carnival Of Sins Tour (2005-2006)
• Route of All Evil Tour (2006)
• 2007 Tour (2007)
• Crüe Fest (2008)

Crue Fest

The Covenant House

BIOGRAPHY-DJ Ashba was born in Monticello Indiana on the early Friday morning of November 10th. At age 1, The Ashba family moved to Fairbury Illinois, a small country farm town, raised by his mother, a classical pianist, who taught DJ about music at a young age .He was instantly obsessed with it. DJ started playing piano at age 3 and played his first recital at 5, performing Beethoven’s classic “Ode to Joy.” By age 6, he was studying drums, banging on garbage cans, pots, pans, buckets and anything he could get his hands on. Finally getting a real set, he studied rhythm. At age 8, DJ worked detasseling corn in the fields for one year until he was able to buy his first electric guitar out of the Sears catalog. The Harmony white Flying V was priced at $89.00. As he rode on the bus to the corn fields each day, he sat with a friend he made, an older guitar player from a local band. DJ would take his pocket knife and carve a fret board on the seat in front of them. His buddy would take the knife, poke 3 holes, and say “That’s an A chord,” go home and practice that tonight. Everyday DJ looked forward to going to work so he could learn a new chord. DJ grew up in a 8 bedroom house with no TV, due to his religious mother. He would sit in his room and practice his new guitar 17 hours a day. At 16, he was taken to his first concert by his dad—the Mötley Crüe “Girls, Girls, Girls” tour. It was the night that changed his life forever. By 19, he packed his possessions in a van and drove to Hollywood, joining a band called Barracuda. As a solo artist, he released his first instrumental album, ASHBA: Addiction to the Friction, and earned six Best Guitar Player awards. DJ Ashba co-founded the band Beautiful Creatures, landing a major label deal with Warner Bros. Writing all the music, his song, “Ride” ended up in the major motion picture Rollerball, while “Wasted” appeared in Valentine and “1 a.m.” was used in the TV show Smallville and on Howard Stern. Beautiful Creatures opened for KISS on their farewell concert jaunt, then went on to perform on Ozzfest 2001, played with Marilyn Manson and toured Japan. The video for “Wasted” was featured on MTV and the band performed a full concert for HBO’s Reverb. The band also made appearances on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn with Knock-Turn-Al as well as memorable performances at Sundance Film Festival and Denver’s Mile High Stadium. DJ Ashba is endorsed by over 15 major music companies. He has toured the world, blowing away audiences with his out-of-control stage performances. DJ has appeared in Rolling Stone and numerous other world-wide ads and videos. Ashba eventually teamed up with Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx, opening an amazing, state of the art recording facility called Funny Farm Studios, were they have written and produced songs for many platinum recording artists. His latest project with Nikki is writing, producing and performing on the soundtrack to Sixx’s biography, The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star, which also includes producer/songwriter James Michael. Together, Sixx, Ashba and Michael make up Sixx:A.M. creating the sonic diary to the book. Ashba contributes fiery guitar solos that fuel such songs as “Accidents Can Happen” and “Dead Man’s Ballet.” “After reading the book, I was so intrigued and inspired, I thought to myself, this is such an amazing story, with such an important message. “I’ve lost so many close friends in the music business to drugs, I felt I had a lot to add to this musical journey.” “We dug so hard-core into the book,” he explains. “I constantly probed Nikki’s mind about heroin and addiction. I really wanted to get a good feel on how to bring this book to life, musically. When I listen to the album now, it gives me chills, but at the time, I was in such a zone. I just tried to be as honest and true to the book as I could be. “I’m so proud to be a part of,” he admitted. “It never entered our minds it would turn out to be a band situation. But everything good that happens in life happens naturally, just like this did. The magic is so amazing between the three of us, this will be one of many albums to come. What I love about this is there are no limits, no rules. We’re putting our hearts out there, and people are responding to it.” “While writing this, we didn’t think about radio,” he said. “It wasn’t about being in a band… it was all done for the song, the story and the message, and that’s why the final product is the way it is. Working with these two guys is a dream come true.”

 

 

 

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