Tag: Los Angeles

With many still shocked and saddened by the passing of one of Slayer‘s founding members and guitarist Jeff Hanneman, the news of the Westboro Baptist Church‘s plans to protest at the funeral has raised alot of anger and confusion among music fans worldwide.

When I first seen this news appear online I was hesitant to write anything about it as I did not want to lend my site to be any part of a promotional tool for such an organisation but over the past few days I have found it difficult to keep silent.

The first I had heard about the church was during the coverage of the death of Ronnie James Dio. They were present at the funeral for the legendary metal vocalist in June 2010. Fellow Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne was among the musical mourners at the Hall of Liberty memorial service in Los Angeles for Dio, and told a local radio show: “I thought it was in such bad taste that those people had those banners about Ronnie James Dio. That’s disgusting. They say that we’re the anti-christ. Well, what makes them any better?”

Dave Grohl is helping to piece together a documentary about Los Angeles studio Sound City.

Some studios seems to have an atmosphere, a life of their own. Something going beyond the kit inside, an ambiance that helps to inspire musicians to push themselves further and further.

Los Angeles studio Sound City was certainly among them.

The music industry was united in their grief at the Grammy Awards which were dedicated to the memory of Whitney Houston.

Singer LL Cool J, who hosted this year’s awards, opened the event with the words: ‘There is no way around this – we have had a death in our family.’

A moment’s silence was followed by a prayer led by LL Cool J in which he said the world was left with Houston’s ‘lasting legacy of music to cherish and share forever’.

Check out the 2012 Winners here – http://sidesixx.com/news/3288-revolver-golden-gods-award-show-2012-winners-and-more/

The Revolver Golden Gods Award Show took place last night at Club Nokia in Los Angeles!

The show was headlined by Avenged Sevenfold and also featured performances by the original Alice Cooper Group, Duff McKagan’s Loaded, Volbeat, Asking Alexandria (with special guest Sebastian Bach), DevilDriver, Fozzy and more.

Last week I had the chance to speak to Ricky Warwick. Starting out as a rhythm guitarist in New Model Army, Ricky formed The Almighty in 1988. Three successful solo albums, many successful side projects and currently fronting the mighty Thin Lizzy on tour – is there any stopping this man? Always a confident musician, Ricky talks about how this line up came to life, working with Nathan Connelly, his love of his family and how life couldn’t be better for the Northern Irish legend.

First congratulations on the current Thin Lizzy tour.

Thank you very very much. I’m having a great time and it is going really well.