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Alice Cooper could be going back to the ’80s.

The early ’80s, to be exact — a period that found Cooper in the midst of a commercial and personal low point while releasing the albums Flush the Fashion, Special Forces, Zipper Catches Skin and DaDa between 1980-83. While plenty of veteran artists tend to ignore their less celebrated work, Cooper seems open to revisiting some of the better tracks from those LPs.

During the first episode of Ask Alice, which you can watch above, Cooper is asked if he’d ever consider re-recording songs he released during that period. “Every one of those albums catches a different part of your life and is a portrait of where you were at that time,” he says initially. “So in some ways it’s kind of taking away from the history.”

And while he doesn’t suggest those records contain his best work, he’s still willing to stand behind them as honest snapshots from a dark time. “I was insane during these four albums, and I think the insanity shows up on the albums and the lyrics and I don’t think I’d want to play with that,” he continues. “It was a certain insanity that was privately mine, and everybody got to see it.”

Still, Cooper admits the temptation to tinker with the recordings is there. “There are certain songs that I keep going, ‘I want to redo that song – that song could be applicable today. It worked in 1981 but it would be really good today.’ So possibly, yeah,” he shrugs. “That’s something producer Bob Ezrin and I would talk about.”

In the meantime, Cooper’s still gearing up for his guest-laden covers album, which may finally arrive in record stores this fall.



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B.B. King has been treated by doctors after his daughter charged the blues legend’s longtime manager with elder abuse.

Patty King, who lives with her 89-year-old father, told TMZ that she became worried when her dad’s urine turned orange. She said he wasn’t eating either. But Laverne Toney, who has power of attorney over the ailing blues legend, allegedly refused to take him to the hospital. Patty King called the police, who then summoned paramedics.

B.B. King was then treated at a local hospital, where his daughter said he suffered a minor heart attack. She is now pushing for authorities to step in and protect King, who has worked with Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, Peter Frampton, Joe Cocker, U2 and David Gilmour over the years.

This apparently isn’t her first complaint against Toney: TMZ reports that last November Patty charged her with elder abuse and burglary, saying that the manager and her assistant have siphoned off as much as $30 million from B.B. King, while allegedly withholding medications during King’s tour and pilfering jewelry valued at $250,000. Police investigated, according to TMZ, but ultimately no charges were filed.

King was rushed to the hospital last month after suffering from dehydration. An erratic show in April 2014 was attributed to a missed dose of diabetes medication. Dehydration was also blamed when a series of shows was postponed in the fall of 2014. King eventually canceled all of his remaining concerts last year.

Patty King now says she will move to switch her father’s power of attorney. Toney has not yet commented on these new charges.
 
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Life imitated art in early 1980 when South African school children, fed up with an inferior apartheid-era education system, took to chanting the lyrics of Pink Floyd‘s “Another Brick in the Wall (Part II).” The song, with its memorable line stating, “We don’t need no education,” had held the top spot on the local charts for almost three months, a total of seven weeks longer than it did in America.

By May 2, 1980, the South African government had issued a ban on “Another Brick in the Wall,” creating international headlines. “That apartheid government imposed a cultural blockade, so to speak, on certain songs – including mine,” Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters told the Guardian.

Apartheid, which literally translates from Afrikaans into “apart” and “hood,” was a system of segregation enforced by the ruling white National Party in South Africa from 1948-94. The laws divided communities and, of course, schools, along racial lines. As the ’80s dawned, however, outrage over this imbalance began to take root – both internationally and in South Africa.

Boycotts at black schools started at Cape Town’s Hanover Park in February 1980 – just as Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” entered the South African charts. A month later, the song reached No. 1 there, and by then protests had spread across the nation – with Waters’ lyric as a rallying cry. South Africa’s Directorate of Publications held sweeping power, in that era, to ban books, movies, plays, posters, articles of clothing and, yes, music, that it deemed “politically or morally undesirable.” “Another Brick in the Wall” quickly came into its crosshairs.

“People were really driven to frenzies of rage by it,” Waters later said. “They thought that when I said, ‘We don’t need no education,’ that it was a kind of crass, revolutionary standpoint – which, if you listen to it in context, it clearly isn’t at all. On the other hand, it got some strange reactions from people that you wouldn’t expect. The Archbishop of Canterbury went on record saying that if it’s very popular with schoolkids, then it must in some way be expressing some feelings that they have themselves. If one doesn’t like it, or however one feels about it, one should take the opportunity of using it as a starting point for discussion – which was exactly how I felt about it.”

Pink Floyd’s use of actual schoolchildren to convey those thoughts certainly made its sentiments all the more identifiable for the young. A group of more than 20 kids from London’s Islington Green School, around the corner where engineer Nick Griffiths was adding sound effects to The Wall, were asked to participate in the session. Griffiths then tracked their voices multiple times, giving “Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)” a monumental send off. For singing on the album, the children got tickets to a Pink Floyd concert, and copies of both The Wall and the single.

Apartheid’s demise in the early ’90s, first with the 1991 repeal of the National Party’s old laws and then with the completion of elections in 1994, effectively ended the ban on Pink Floyd’s music in South Africa. Controversy still surrounded “Another Brick in the Wall,” however. A decade later, in 2004, some of the former Islington students sued for unpaid royalties, claiming thousands of pounds were due them.
 
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pegasus216 said:
B.B. King has been treated by doctors after his daughter charged the blues legend’s longtime manager with elder abuse.

Patty King, who lives with her 89-year-old father, told TMZ that she became worried when her dad’s urine turned orange. She said he wasn’t eating either. But Laverne Toney, who has power of attorney over the ailing blues legend, allegedly refused to take him to the hospital. Patty King called the police, who then summoned paramedics.

B.B. King was then treated at a local hospital, where his daughter said he suffered a minor heart attack. She is now pushing for authorities to step in and protect King, who has worked with Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, Peter Frampton, Joe Cocker, U2 and David Gilmour over the years.

This apparently isn’t her first complaint against Toney: TMZ reports that last November Patty charged her with elder abuse and burglary, saying that the manager and her assistant have siphoned off as much as $30 million from B.B. King, while allegedly withholding medications during King’s tour and pilfering jewelry valued at $250,000. Police investigated, according to TMZ, but ultimately no charges were filed.

King was rushed to the hospital last month after suffering from dehydration. An erratic show in April 2014 was attributed to a missed dose of diabetes medication. Dehydration was also blamed when a series of shows was postponed in the fall of 2014. King eventually canceled all of his remaining concerts last year.

Patty King now says she will move to switch her father’s power of attorney. Toney has not yet commented on these new charges.
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This is starting to sound like the Casey Kasem situation. :sad:
 
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I quit posting here because no one seemed interesteded except about 2 people, but I had to post this one.
Come on September!

Before we see a new Soundgarden album, fans should look for a new Chris Cornell solo album coming this fall. The vocalist has taken advantage of some downtime in the schedule to record a new acoustic disc that’s expected to arrive in September.

Cornell has titled the album Higher Truth and it will be the follow-up to his polarizing 2009 solo set, Scream. Additional details on the disc have not been revealed, but Cornell has already begun setting up touring support for the disc. He’ll kick off a tour of Australia and New Zealand on Nov. 20 in Christchurch, New Zealand. Following in the vein of the acoustic set, the dates are said to be “unplugged, up-close and personal.”

Though Soundgarden have been on hold and Cornell’s been in the studio working on his new album, the rocker has remained a fixture at radio. He a guest collaborator on “Heavy Is the Head,” the recent chart-topping single from country superstars the Zac Brown Band.

Soundgarden’s most recent release was the 2012 studio album King Animal. They also released a massive rarities, B sides and covers set titled Echo of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across the Path in 2014
 
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Have you heard the song they allegedly copied, Swiftdog?
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Yes.

There are similarities in the appregiated chord structures in the Spirit song and the first part of Stairway.

However, Stairway does not solely consist of that similar part. Melodies are not the same, there are different arrangements and the whole second part of the song is nothing like the Spirit song.
 
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Do you remember the beginning of Bitter Sweet Symphony? The beginning was the same as The Last Time by The Stones, and The Stones got all the royalties from that song because of that. So it will be interesting to see what happens with this one.
 
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Do you remember the beginning of Bitter Sweet Symphony? The beginning was the same as The Last Time by The Stones, and The Stones got all the royalties from that song because of that. So it will be interesting to see what happens with this one.
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I believe that was an authorized sample (I could be wrong).

Big difference between a sample of a work being used without permission and having a similar arrangement or part.
 
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