HEART GETS STAR ON WALK OF FAME TODAY

Heart's busy fall continues, as Ann and Nancy Wilson receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday. Their star, number 2,481 if you're keeping track, will be located at 6752 Hollywood Boulevard, in front of The Musician's Institute. If you can't make it in person, you can watch it stream live at WalkofFame.com starting at 11:30 a.m. PT.

Comparing this particular accolade with the others they've received in their long career, Ann Wilson tells ABC News Radio, "It's a good one. We've never received an honor like that before." Nancy, meanwhile says, "We don't have to try to figure out where to put it in our house 'cause it's already on the street over there by the Musicians Institute."

But while they don't have to ponder where to keep the award, they do have to make a decision about something equally important. "I gotta figure out what to wear [to the ceremony!]," says Ann.

Nancy tells ABC News Radio that one thing they think is special about getting a star on the Walk of Fame is that it's a permanent piece of the landscape that their descendants can visit. "It'll be really fun for our kids and their kids, y'know, future generations...to just be able to walk by there and go, 'Ooh, yeah I'm related to those sisters,'" says Nancy. "I think that's the coolest thing about it."

The sisters don't even mind that people from all nations will be stepping on their names for all eternity. "Just walk all over us! I don't care! Go ahead!" they laugh. (AUDIO IS EXCLUSIVE)

Heart's new album Fanatic will be in stores October 2. Their memoir Kicking & Dreaming is in
stores now.

KID ROCK NEW RELEASE "REBEL SOUL"

Kid Rock will release Rebel Soul on November 19 via Top Dog/Atlantic Records. Produced by the Kid himself, the new album is described in a release as "a return to form for Rock who with this album cements his place as the premier genre-hopping rock and roller of all time." The lead single, "Let's Ride," will land at radio soon...

ART AND STEVE GODOY PLAYING IN ANN ARBOR DEC. 14

THE LAST OF THE BADMEN

The Godoy twins, (The Last of the Badmen) Art and Steve are great friends of mine... I adore them both (all the girls do.. :)

Spoke with Art last night and they want to come out and play Ann Arbor... so we booked a date for December 14, 2012 in Ann Arbor. . Art,  Steve, Danny Creadon (!!) and Troy Zak.  If marvelous guitarist Deniz Tek is not booked in Australia...he may be here as well.. stay tuned for more details....

I 94 Barman's reviews of The Last of the Badmen's music

 Nowhere is Safe

Listen to The Last of the Badmen on CD Baby

Ride

INSIDE OUT/RUINERS GIG AT SMALLS

Saturday, September 29th - Inside Out Reunion Show wsg The Ruiners & Betty Cooper

Legendary and seminal all-female Detroit punk trio Inside Out is reuniting for a special show at Small's Bar in Hamtramck. INSIDE OUT is Karen Neal (Vocals/Bass/Songwriter), Lynda Mandolyn (Vocals/Guitar/Songwriter) and Cathy Carrell (Drums). 

MY GREAT FRIENDS  THE RUINERS will open the show along with pop/rock band Betty Cooper.

$8 (plus $1 service charge) in advance, $8 at the door. 18+ - 8p.m.

RETROKIMMER: OCTOBER 5TH IN ANN ARBOR!!

RED STONE SOULS

THIS SHOW IS NOT TO BE MISSED!

October 5 Millennium Club 

210 South 1st Street  

Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Ian Kirwan - Vox & Lead Guitar

Kevin Bernard - Bass

Travis Erickson - Drums

Beau Felix - Guitar

Red Stone Souls – Hard Blues, Garage and Psychedelic Rock and Roll tossed into a blender and turned on high. Red Stone Souls, formed in early 2010, have busted down the doors of the “New Generation” rock scene. The band layers Ian Kirwan's (the NiNeS) vintage “Dirty” guitar work and road-seasoned vocals with dynamic riffs and lyrical stories to create a genre defining sound chocked full of rock for a new generation of fans. The band also features, Beau Felix (Dangerous Pursuit) guitars, Kevin Bernard (the NiNeS) on the bottom end and Travis Erickson (Squeeze Tina) shotgun style on the kicks. This potent combination cranks out, blistering micro-anthems embodying that basic Rock and Roll steamroller aesthetic. Ultimately, it's “Red Stone Souls” live show that generates the most enthusiastic reviews.

This energetic hot band is from our area and they are killer! Come out and party with us....

SOLEIL MOON

Larry King, 

Khari Parker, 

John Blasucci, 

Lamar Jones 

Chris Siebold.

Soleil Moon blows me away... so tight like a jazz band with killer pop flair...love all these guys...

Soleil Moon, a band comprised of top-shelf music-biz pros – producers, writers, and first-call session musicians, released ​Worlds Apart​ in 2000, making a big impact on Adult Contemporary radio with "Willingly," "Never Say Goodbye," and the title track, all of which ranked high on the national radio charts inside the top 10.​​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​​

A decade later, Soleil Moon has finally returned to unveil the long-awaited follow-up album, ​On The Way To Everything​. And the lead single, "History Repeats Its Pages" has been working its way up the National Adult Contemporary Charts and is now poised at number 10. ​​

PAUL MCCARTNEY IS DEAD HOAX 44th ANNIVERSARY

This story is in the news again today....The Paul is Dead Story started with a guy named Tom calling in to WKNR FM disc jockey Russ Gibb (the famous Grande Ballroom owner)..

WHO BURIED PAUL MCCARTNEY: THE STORY THAT SWEPT THE WORLD 1969

Paul McCartney is alive and well, but a well-placed rumor in 1969 had some thinking otherwise. On September 23, 1969, 43 years ago, the Northern Star newspaper of Northern Illinois University published a story claiming that McCartney had been killed in a car crash a few years earlier and had been replaced by a look-alike. A radio station in Detroit picked up on the story and ran with it. Within a month, the story had gone global and Beatles fans worldwide were collectively scratching their heads.

The intrigue led fans everywhere to search for ‘clues’ on album covers and in songs. A few of these included Paul wearing a black rose in the clip of ‘Your Mother Should Know’ from ‘Magical Mystery Tour,’ walking barefoot and out of step on the cover of ‘Abbey Road’ and appearing with his back to the camera on the back of the ‘Sgt. Pepper’ sleeve. There are, naturally, deep meanings behind these and the countless other ‘clues’ conspiracy theorists found. Most famously, one theory suggested that if you played the song ‘Revolution 9′ backwards, it sounds vaguely like “Turn me on dead man.” Try playing your MP 3 backwards and see what happens!

Though initially amused by the story, McCartney finally decided to clear the decks. “Do I look dead?” he asked a reporter visiting him at his farm, “I’m as fit as a fiddle.” Good news for us all, Paul was just fine … still is for that matter, and still out there rocking!

THE JETSON'S DOG ASTRO....

Astro is a canine character on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, The Jetsons. He was designed by Iwao Takamoto, and originally voiced by Don Messick.

Astro, despite being clumsy and dim-witted, was very loyal (to a fault) to the Jetsons. He was more advanced than present-day dogs, in that he had a rudimentary grasp of the English language, albeit with r's in many places they shouldn't be, or replacing other letters.

For example, "I love you, George" would be "I ruv roo, Reorge". Astro was found by Elroy in the fourth Jetsons episode, "The Coming of Astro". When Jane, Judy, and Elroy proposed keeping him to George, he was against it claiming that an Apartment is no place for a dog.

However, when trying to escape, The Cat Burglar put the mask on George. Electronimo then proceeded to chase after George. It was Astro who was trying to run from The Cat Burglar that inevitably caught the criminal by accident by crashing into him. This prompted George to decide that Electronimo was not the way to go. They gave Electronimo to the police and kept Astro as part of their family.

In the fifteenth episode, "Millionaire Astro", Astro is discovered to be Tralfaz, the long lost dog of zillionaire J.P. Gottrockets and The Jetsons have to do the right thing and return Astro to his rightful owner. In the end Mr. Gottrockets realizes how unhappy Astro is and allows him to go back home with The Jetsons. Astro hated the name and always repeated it as "Tralfaz...Yuck," or in Astro-speak: "Ralfaz....Ruck!"

Astro also appeared as the main star in Astro and the Space Mutts, a segment of Space Stars.

Astro's signature expression was "Ruh-roh!" (or "Ruh-roh, Reorge!"), supposedly the canine variant of "Uh-oh!" (expression of dismay). Scooby Doo, who was also designed by Iwao Takamoto and voiced by Don Messick, had a similar signature expression: "Ruh-Roh, Raggy!" (Uh, Oh, Shaggy!)

A running joke (literally) at the end of each episode in the 1960s run shows George Jetson walking Astro on an automatic dogwalker outside his apartment. Astro chases a cat causing the dogwalker to go fast; George loses hold of the dog leash; Astro and the cat jump to one side and both watch George forced to run for his life on the out of control dogwalker screaming for Jane to "stop this CRAZY THING!".

George eventually falls and is carried by the treadmill's belt around its path, under the machine and back up again, while Astro and the cat look on in amusement.