Good morning Radicals! We had an awesome time last night with Atreyu, Memphis May Fire and Ice Nine Kills! Badflower rolls through tomorrow, and there’s more great shows coming up! Hope you’ve got some good concerts on your schedule!
Green Day has become part of the latest unmanned mission to Mars. When the InSight probe landed on the red planet on Monday (November 26th) after a six-month, 300 million mile trip, it was reported that a chip featuring the words “Green Day Since 1986” etched on it was included inside the lander.
The band posted a picture on Facebook with the caption: “Officially landed on Mars. ‘Green Day Since 1986’ was etched on a chip on the NASA InSight lander that landed at Elysium Planitia today. Out of this world.” It is unclear how the band managed to get the engraving placed onto the chip.
The InSight probe launched from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California back in May and will spend two years on the Martian surface, where it will soon begin studying the interior of the planet to discover how celestial bodies with rocky surfaces are formed. The successful landing was the eighth in human history on Mars.
Green Day itself is staying put on Earth for the moment, although the punk trio recently hinted that either new music or live shows could be on the way from Foxboro Hot Tubs, which is actually a pseudonym that Green Day recorded and performed under a decade ago.
Metallica will release the limited edition vinyl set Helping Hands… Live & Acoustic At The Masonic on February 1st, 2019. The double LP on 140-gram colored vinyl documents the inaugural “Helping Hands” benefit concert held in San Francisco on November 3rd. It features rare acoustic renditions of Metallica hits and deep cuts, along with covers of Deep Purple, Nazareth, Bob Seger and Blue Oyster Cult classics.
Band members James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Robert Trujillo and Lars Ulrich were joined by a quartet of backing musicians who provided additional percussion, keyboards, strings and vocal harmony.
Proceeds from the sales of the set will be donated to the band’s All Within My Hands Foundation, which aims to fight hunger and to assist in creating sustainable communities through workforce education.
The album will be available at independent and digital retail around the world, including all streaming services that feature Metallica’s music. It can be pre-ordered now in the Metallica store. All copies will include a download card.
The first-ever “All Within My Hands Helping Hands Concert And Auction” raised more than $1.3 million. Those resources will fund AWMH’s efforts with partners at Feeding America and the American Association of Community Colleges.
In a long-lost and recently rediscovered interview from the week that Nevermind was released in September 1991, late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was asked about an alleged quote attributed to him in which he claimed that white people shouldn’t rap because “the white man has ripped off the black man long enough.”
After wondering whether he had been drunk at the time he said that, Cobain explained, “I’m a fan of rap music, but most of it is so misogynist that I can’t even deal with it. I’m really not that much of a fan. I totally respect and love it because it’s one of the only original forms of music that’s been introduced. But the white man doing rap is just like watching a white man dance. We can’t dance, we can’t rap.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Cobain disputed the notion that the band had gotten an advance of $750,000 for signing a major deal with Geffen Records, insisting that that they only got $175,000, most of which went to other people. He also revealed that he had recently been evicted from his apartment and didn’t have a place to live.
Cobain was also asked why he hates interviews, to which he responded, “I’m getting really bored with the same questions all the time. It’s understandable. I also realize that most of the interviewers have to just ask the standard questions because we don’t have much of an image and there’s not much story behind our band. So what people can grasp, they base their interview off of that.”
The man who conducted the interview, Roberto LoRusso of the Ontarian band Dead City Beat, was just 21 years old when it took place in Toronto. He posted it online, accompanied for numerous apologies for its “embarrassing” line of questioning. Kurt Cobain died in April 1994.
Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose has thanked the group’s fans and his bandmates for their support after his illness forced G N’ R to play an abbreviated show this past weekend in the United Arab Emirates. Despite the fact that he didn’t feel well, Rose managed to perform more than half of the band’s regular 28-song set on Sunday (November 25th) in Abu Dhabi before pulling the plug.
Ahead of Guns’ November 29th concert in South Africa, Rose took to his Twitter account to write, “Wanna thank All the fans, the band n’ every1 4 their concern n’ well wishes! In Johannesburg w/plenty of time 2 b ready 4 the show! This flu or whatever is a wild ride! Comes in waves. Ur ok till ur not!”
He added, “Felt lame explainin’ myself earlier on at the gig but really didn’t know how things would play out n’ we really wanted to do r best 4 the fans. Was a GREAT crowd, awesome venue, cool stage (w/a gentle breeze in the desert! Thanks again n’ hope any1’s not 2 disappointed n’ we look 4ward 2 see every1 again in the UAE!!”
The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix gig closed the Asian leg of Guns N’ Roses’ “Not In This Lifetime” tour, which has now lasted almost three years. The show was the 157th night of a 31-month jaunt that has now gone around the world twice, played to five million people and is on track to be the second highest-grossing tour of all time, behind U2.
Guns N’ Roses will play its last show of 2018 on December 8th in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Finally, we’d like to wish a Happy Birthday to Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Temple of the Dog drummer Matt Cameron, and AFI guitarist Jade Puget! Have a great day to all!
