Ellefson rhymes with Jackson

I don’t know about you guys, but I really like David Ellefson. He just seems like the total opposite of Dave Mustaine and yes, that is a compliment. On the Big Four DVD, the backstage stuff, he was the only one that genuinely seemed excited to be playing a gig and be part of a music festival, the other guys from all four bands just seemed like it’s another day at the office.

News is slow over the weekend so I’m gonna post an interview with David from NAMM. He talks about his signature Jackson bass guitars.

Now I’m not a big fan of Jackson in general, but these basses look sweet. If you squint at the picture above, it almost looks like a normal guitar. I always loved basses like that, and the headstock is just pure badassery, if you ask me.

Make the jump for the interview.

DJ N’ Chats

Ever wanted to chat to DJ Ashba?

Right now 99% of you reading this post will be thinking “who?..”

If you’re one of those 99% of people, congratulations, you’re officially as cool as me, and 99.9% of people in the world. If you know the answer, you probably like bands consisting of ginger egomaniacs and puppets a little too much, but I won’t judge you for it. I’m all for equality, because people with bad taste have rights too.

Anyways, DJ Ashba is the “Guns N’ Roses” guitarist. Well, he’s the GNR guitarist to Axl Rose and about 10 other people (which coincidently is about the same number of people that are in GNR these days). To everyone else, he’s “who?…”

Oh right, the chat right? You thought I’d just ranted for a whole post and forgot the actual story didn’t you? Well, forgotten, no. It’s more that I actually couldn’t care less. You really want to know the details though don’t you? Click here then.

The Damned performance

The Damned Things, a band featuring two Anthrax members and some other dudes from bands I’d never listen to if you threatened me with a lead enema, performed their single on ‘Jimmy Kimmel.’

You can watch the performance under the cut, it’s HD and it’s pretty intense, and by intense I mean not intense at all, unless you think a French director goofing around behind the band is intense.

Yes, that is Michel Gondry, a visionary director who made some mighty interesting commercials and music videos back in the day, but who’s now reduced to doing Seth Rogen films and Kimmel skits. It’s sad when a pioneering artist has to sell out like that, but it fits that he should do so near The Damned Things, know what I mean?

God I’m so subtle. Also check out our review of their album, while you’re at it.

Iron Maiden mastermind

I always thought being a huge fan of a band was about their music and the way you relate to it, not about how many obscure facts you know about them. But I must be in the minority, because whenever I talk to a fan about his favorite band, he always seems to sheepishly insert or allude to trivia nobody gives a fuck about, just to prove how big a fan he is. Oh right, so you know in what year Lars Ulrich bought his first condom? You must get Metallica, man.

Anyways,  there’s a British show called “Mastermind” which glorifies these types of fans, and right now it’s Iron Maiden‘s turn. Some 27 year old fan will apparently answer questions about his favorite band on TV or something like that, I really didn’t have the patience to read the whole article. Think you do? Then read it here.

Make the jump to see a Metallica fan on the very same show. Make the jump off a bridge if you knew all the right answers, too.

Re-Death’ed

Legendary Death Metal band Death are going to re-release their 7th and final album ‘The Sound of Perseverance’ on February 15 in North America, February 21 internationally. The album will be remastered and it will include previously unreleased demo material.

On top of that, original cover artist Travis Smith updated the album artwork for the re-release. Make the jump to read why Smith decided to update the artwork.