May 21, 2012
94XPOSED FRIDAY FEBRUARY 19TH
One day before what would have been Kurt Cobain’s 43rd bday, we have received some awesome news! The Kurt Cobain biopic is still in the works, with Oren Moverman, the director of the Oscar-nominated film The Messenger, tapped to direct and re-work the script. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the film is based partially on the 2001 Cobain biography Heavier Than Heaven. Kurt CobaIn would have been 43 years old tomorrow!
NIRVANA – SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT SLIPKNOT – SNUFF Rob Zombie, Corey Taylor and Megadeth all received nominations for the second annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards, to be handed out in Los Angeles on April 8. Zombie is nominated in the Best Live Band category and will also close out the award show with a live performance. Slipknot and Stone Sour singer Corey Taylor is nominated in the Best Vocalist category, and Megadeth’s Endgame is up for Album of the Year. Frontman Dave Mustaine is also nominated for Best Guitarist. Winners will be determined by public online voting at revolvermag/goldengods. Voting is open until March 30. ------------------------BREAK---------------------------- It looks like we can stop playing the “name a replacement singer for Aerosmith “ game as Steven Tyler is not only back fronting the group, but the band is reportedly planning to tour this summer. Earlier this week it was announced that Aerosmith, with Tyler, would be a headliner at this year’s Download Festival (on June 13th). Yesterday, it was announced that the band would play the Sweden Rock Festival on June 10th. It now appears that those two dates will be part of a summer tour. Billboard also reports that “the group has also been offered tour dates in South America, but nothing has been announced yet.” AEROSMITH – EAT THE RICH TONIC – IF YOU COULD ONLY SEE Tonic’s new self-titled album will be released on May 4th and the band plans to hit the road this summer to support it. 1st album in 8 years. ------------------------BREAK------------------------- Ronald “Bon” Scott July 9, 1946 – February 19, 1980 Bonn Scott was the second lead singer of hard rock juggernaut, AC/DC. In 1964, Scott formed his first band, the Spektors as their drummer. They eventually morphed into the Valentines, a pop band who scored a bubblegum hit or two in Australia. For a good laugh, check out their video for “Build Me Up Buttercup.” That’s Scott on back-up vocals to the right. After that band broke up in 1970, Scott joined Fraternity, a moderately successful rock band that took him down a more deserved rock path than he was on with his earlier bands. When Fraternity went on hiatus in 1973, Scott found work as a driver of up-and-coming hard rock band, AC/DC. At the time, brothers, Angus Young and Malcolm Young who were looking for someone to replace original lead singer, Dave Evans. Meanwhile, Scott was pestering them about becoming their drummer, but the Youngs soon decided to hire Scott as their lead singer, his gutteral snarl being a better match for their sonic guitars. The group released their first album, High Voltage in Australia in September of 1974. By 1979, the band were building a fan base throughout Europe and North America, so when their sixth album, Highway to Hell came out in July of ’79, AC/DC were well on their way to becoming one of the biggest rock band’s of their generation. The album became their first to crack the U.S. album charts, eventually peaking at #17. Sadly however, Scott wouldn’t live to enjoy the fruits of the group’s hard work. On February 19, 1980, he was placed in a parked automobile to sleep off a night of heavy drinking. When a friend went to check on him some hours later, he found Scott unresponsive, so he was taken to a local hospital where he was listed as dead on arrival. Bonn Scott died at the age of 33, having choked on his own vomit. Official documents indicated that he died of acute alcohol poisoning and suffered “death by misadventure.”
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