Author Archives: Alex
The movie that made Lemmy cry
Why would anyone want to meet Lars? I can see why some would want to escape him, but the guy in this movie wants so bad to meet him, a movie has been made about him.
“Mission To Lars” tells the story of Tom Spicer, an autistic Metallica fan who just wants to meet Lars Ulrich — and the journey he makes to do so.
There are so many jokes I could do right now, and trust me, I’m trying really hard to control myself. I’m just wondering if this guy was the inspiration for the name ‘Lulu.’
Okay, I know, I’m going to hell, but the movie does seem pretty touching… Hell, it made Lemmy cry.
No more solos in Limp Bizkit
Uh-oh, everyone’s favorite nu-metal band is disbanding. Well, not completely, but apparently the drummer and DJ are out of the band. I guess no more solos in the band, right?
If you don’t get the joke above, watch this cover of Metallica‘s Sanitarium.
Anyway, here are a couple of tweets from DJ Lethal:
“So far the only news I’ve heard is that fred has plans for a “new” limp bizkit which doesn’t include [drummer]John Otto or I. I’m hoping for the best“
Read full article here.
They’ll probably be replaced by a Macbook, so it’s not all bad news. I’m sure it’s more power efficient than all those heavy rigs. EARTH HOUR 2012!!!
The update no one was waiting for: New Aerosmith album updates
Aerosmith? More like Aerosmithsonian… Get it? Cause they’re old enough to be in museums LOLOLOL!!!1111
Anyway, they have a new album out. It has an old vibe to it (duh, their combined age is 1000), and…
“The camaraderie’s there, there’s some songs that are new rock, and old rock and middle-of-the-road rock, and blues, piano. Joe Perry singing a couple of songs, I’m playing the drums, Joey sings, just all kinds of stuff.“
Read full article here.
They switched instruments? Awww, isn’t that cute. Was it even intentional, or is it just old age?
The Alice Cooper archive got broken into
I didn’t know there was an ‘Alice Cooper archive,’ but apparently it exists, and someone broke in and stole some stuff.
“The storage facility in Los Angeles which houses the Alice Cooper archives was broken into on March 27, along with three other storage units. A police report has been filed. Items missing include a large quantity of original vinyl records, a jacket, and the original sculpture which was used for the cover of the Hey Stoopid album.“
Full article here.
When asked why he risked jail time for a bunch of Alice Cooper stuff that is worth like $50 total, the thief had no comment.
By the way, sorry for going so long without any updates, but I had some stuff to do, and the other writers apparently have real lives too, and shit. I know, right? Fucking losers. Real jobs and girlfriends, pshh…
Mike Shinoda is scoring movies now…
Mike Shinoda (Macbook user from the thrash metal band Linkin Park) is scoring movies now. The good news is, the movie looks like shit so you won’t have to sit through it and hear Mike’s awful score. The bad news is, I’m writing yet another post on someone from nu-metal.
But first, let’s laugh. Here’s Mike describing Linkin Park‘s sound:
“Although we have our moments where we want to play something that’s just brutally loud and Chester’s screaming his brains out, we’re the same band that’s going to write ‘My December’ or sing something softer. Both come naturally to us, and we love to do both. Some people get turned off by one or the other, and we’re okay with that. It’s kind of unapologetic in that sense“
Get it? Next time you hear those fast riffs and blistering guitar solos, just remember they have a soft side, too. Now onto the movie:
“When they first contacted me about this movie, they cited a few things that I do like Fort Minor and the remixes. I knew they wanted to do stuff I like to make for fun. When I talked to Gareth Evans [Director] about it, I said, ‘For this movie, I really want to do something that’s fun for me. I don’t do film scores, but I want to get into them more. I’m interested in them. I want to go a little bit more traditional.’ He loved what I wanted to do. Some of that required creating musical themes that represented different characters and creating sonic things that represented certain characters.“
He loved what you wanted to do? Guy must have awesome tastes in music… Anyway,
“The main bad guy in the movie, Tama, doesn’t have a theme. He’s got a sound. It’s this one weird distorted sample that echoes out. That’s all you need. You get that in a moment, and you know it’s him. We tried to play back and forth with those elements because, in our minds, they had to really represent the characters we were portraying.“
Full article here.
That’s so groundbreaking and original. I think Hans Zimmer got a time machine in 2008, came to the present day to steal that idea from Mike, then went back to 2008 and used it in The Dark Knight. You go Mike!
What’s with all these mediocre musicians scoring movies now? First Trent Hacknor, now this guy. Next thing you know, Jonathan Davis will get in on this.
