The other night on ‘The Late Show’ I heard Paul Shaffer and his band cover the song "We Were Born to Be Loved" by beloved grunge pioneers King’s X. It’s not the first time Shaffer’s performed it, he seems to be a fan, as KX bassist Doug Pinnick tells it…
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‘The US vs. John Lennon’ chronicles the egregious lengths the US gov’t went to in order to silence an artist who had the audacity to speak out. Of course, Lennon came from an age when artists did that sort of thing, and he wasn’t the only one to get on the authorities’ nerves. But we don’t live in that world anymore…
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A music giant has left us. Josef Erich “Joe” Zawinul — who established a new school of music with Miles Davis and led the seminal Weather Report with Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, et al. — passed away Tuesday in his beloved Austria, appropriately in Vienna, the “city of musicians.” He visited this planet for 75 short years and, had I my druthers, would have had 75 more productive seasons before his exit…
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SS: …Why do you believe that an artist’s opinion on politics should matter? GP: I don’t participate actively in expressing political views and always turn down the offer of appearing on bills for political causes. Surely, everybody’s opinions on politics matter, apart from very stupid people, who should shut the f?!k up…
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