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Saturday, April 11, 2009

Robbie Robertson to offer free downloads after frustration w/ Capitol & Geffen.

Robbie Robertson & his son Sebastian will be offering free downloads on Robbie's official Myspace page. The downloads will apparently be of Robbie's solo music as Capitol & Geffen will not allow the free downloads of Robbie-related music they have their hands on.

http://www.myspace.com/robbierobertson1

Billy Bob Thornton & The Boxmasters pull off from Willie Nelson live Canadian dates.

The Canadians are not warming up to Billy Bob's radio interview from earlier in the week & he & The Boxmasters have briefly left the tour w/ Willie Nelson for the remaining Canadian dates. They will rejoin the tour soon when it hits CT.

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Today/Music/2009/04/11/9083066-sun.html

Friday, April 10, 2009

"Dungeon & Dragons" co-creator passes away.

The second of the amazing game Dungeons & Dragons, Dave Arneson, passed away yesterday @ 61. The other co-creator, Gary Gygax, passed away March '08. They created the game in '74. Although we were not big participants in this game, we did have a brief stint w/ it back in junior high & it is quite an imaginary world Arneson & Gygax created.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30147390/?GT1=43001

Billy Bob Thornton's unfortunate interview.

It’s unfortunate that many listeners of Jian Ghomeshi's Canadian radio show will have a poor impression of Billy Bob Thornton. We met he & the rest of The Boxmasters @ Levon Helm’s late Aug ‘08 Midnight Ramble & they we all great, including Billy Bob. He even made his way around his security team to shake our hands & say hi when we called for him as he was walking off the stage. Someone must have gotten under his skin prior to the interview.

Here's a link to the video of that interview from our friend Matt's great Addicted to Vinyl blog:

http://addictedtovinyl.com/blog/2009/04/09/a-challenging-interview-with-billy-bob-thornton/