Lamb of God's Randy Blythe Acquitted of Manslaughter Charges

Larry translated this from the original Czech report:

The Prague Municipal Court on Tuesday acquitted American singer Randy Blythe indictment. Metalist originally faced up to ten years in prison for that in 2010 threw the concert band Lamb of God fan from the stage. The young man later died.

The Czech news report features a video of Randy's words to the court and the dead man's family.  Click on the image for more.

Call Me A Hole (NIN Carly mashup)

by Brent Chittenden

Blame Mr. Green over at Geek Hard. He sent it to me, some things can't be unheard.

If you're still here, try this similar suggestion from Mark.

I Like This: Junip

Yet another recommendation from the Shoot the Image people.  They're batting 1.000.

Episode 9 of The Secret History Of Rock Now On Demand!

Episode 9 of the Secret History of Rock is now available on demand.

In this episode: the cosmos is covered, as is how death can be a good career move, husband and wife teams in rock, and a quick review of what happened in music in 1998.

We're a little behind getting these posted (due to some large technical difficulties) but if you missed it, you can find episode 8 here

009 - It's The End Of The World As We Know It - Secret History Of Rock by Alancross on Mixcloud

Some Fun Facts About Dark Side of the Moon, Released 40 Years Ago This week

It was March 1, 1973, when Pink Floyd startled everyone by releasing an album that was parsecs better than just about anything they had ever done since forming in 1968.  Dark Side of the Moon would go on to sell more than 40 million copies (a best guess) and define prog-rock, headphone-rock and stoner rock for several generations.

Some facts:

--It spent 741 consecutive weeks on the Billboard album charts from 1973 to 1988. It was only removed from the chart because of a change in rules.

--Can you name the woman wailing on "Great Gig in the Sky?" That's Clare Torry, a then 22 year-old session vocalist who wasn't all that keen to work with Pink Floyd.  She performed three takes with the version we hear being a composite of all three.  She was paid £30.  A 2005 lawsuit over royalties went in her favour, giving her a co-writing credit on every copie sold since.

--The laughing maniac heard throughout the album is Peter Watts, the band's road manager and sound engineer.

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