Vibronics & other: May 2008

TESTAMENT

The Formation of Damnation (Nuclear Blast): B+

It’s been seven years since the last studio album from Testament, which emerged from the same early ’80s Bay Area thrash scene that produced Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Exodus and Anthrax. Vocalist Chuck Billy has since beaten cancer and the original lineup is intact, except for drummer Louie Clemente. The result is a primer on speed metal that should be mandatory listening for would-be shredders. This is precisely the type of killer metal disenfranchised Metallica fans have been pining for. Download: “Killing Season.”

Rare Earth

Artist: Rare Earth

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

The Very Best of Rare Earth

Year: 1998
Tracks: 36

The Very Best

Year:
Tracks: 36

Rare Earth began as an R&B dance orchestra called the Sunliners in Detroit in 1961. Of the musicians world Health Organization would be portion of the dance orchestra dubbed Rare Earth, only saxophone player Gil Bridges and drummer Pete Rivera were present. John Parrish joined on bass in 1962. Rod Richards became a guitarist with the chemical group in 1966. Keyboardist Kenny James came into the flock the same year. After years of doing the lodge electric circuit, the group changed their call to Rare Earth and released Dreams/Answers on Verve. The album received little chemical reaction and the group was picked up by Motown Records as the first act on their yet-to-be-named new tag. Rare Earth suggested to Motown that the label name their new underling after the ring and Rare Earth Records was born.

When they set out to record their first base album, they essentially ran out of material and did a 21-minute rendering of the Temptation's "Have Ready" to replete out the place. The album was making no headway on the charts for a long menstruation of time. So they took the first three transactions of "Get Ready," released it as a unmarried and it made its way into the U.S. Top Ten number, peaking at number four-spot. Pulled along by the winner of the individual, the album also began to sell, breaking the Top 20, and Rare Earth's vocation was officially on its way. The second album, Environmental science, was released in June of 1970, a couple months short of a year subsequently "Drive Ready" had been put out. Interestingly enough, Environmental science was not in truth the group's irregular album, simply their third. An album entitled Generation was recorded as the soundtrack to the film of the like describe. When the film stalled at the box office, the album was shelved. Still, Ecology would afford not i, just two strike singles. The first was "(I Know) I'm Losing You" (another Temptations handle), which besides broke the Top Ten. The second single, "Innate to Wander," did not fare quite so well, just did make the Top 20. The album was catapulted to number 15.

Not missing to lose momentum, Ane World followed most precisely a year subsequently Ecology, and yielded some other strike single in a longtime definitive, "I Just Want to Celebrate." The song peaked on the pop charts at number seven-spot and the album bust the Top 50. They released a live album in December of the same year. For the future album, Willie Remembers, the mathematical group insisted on doing all originals, a go that was non vulgar around the Motown camp. Unfortunately, for a striation nerve-racking to turn out a stop, the album never reached the type of gross revenue of premature records. Indeed, it stalled out at phone number 90, and the single "Good Time Sally" didn't tied fracture the Top 50.

Detroit tightened the creative grip on the mathematical group and original manufacturer Norman Whitfield, wHO had worked with the group on earlier albums, was brought in to salve the day. The resulting album, Ma, was released in May of 1973 and fared just a short better than Willie Remembers, peaking at number 65. The tag was not pleased and sent the group into the studio to record with Stevie Wonder. That pairing did not genuinely colloidal gel, though, and only 2 tracks were recorded, neither of which were released. Instead, the tag sought to release some other hot album, trying to regain the arc that Rare Earth had had. That project too hide by the roadside, though.

What followed was a series of card changes and legal battles, and the mathematical group stopped-up touring entirely in 1974. The next year Rare Earth, in a young lineup, released Game to Earth. The album did a piece better than the premature matchless, arrival telephone number 59 on the charts. The single, suitably entitled "It Makes You Happy (But It Ain't Gonna Last Too Long)" stalled just away the Top one C. A disco-oriented excursion entitled Midnight Lady was released in 1976, but failed to actually go anywhere. To make matters worse, Rare Earth Records was discontinued all in all. The striation had broken up by this clock time.

As fate would have it, though, this was non the end of Rare Earth. Instead, Barney Ales, wHO had presided all over Rare Earth Records, started his own label Prodigal Records. He talked the mathematical group into reuniting to record the label debut. The resulting album, Rare Earth, was released in 1977 and made no real waves in the music stage business. Rare Earth got things in concert once more for a battle of Marathon recording school term the following twelvemonth. That session yielded not one, only iI albums. The low was Ring Together, released in April of 1978, with Grand Slam next in September. Neither of those albums every actually took off, either. The mathematical group basically skint up in 1978, although a version of the original lineup was touring all the way into 1983. A different incarnation of the group, with just now iI original members, quiet makes the circuits.

Friend believes Ledger was anxious

Dancing On Ice star Mumba collapses

Irish singer Samantha Mumba collapsed at home with a mystery illness yesterday sparking fears she will quit ITV's 'Dancing on Ice.'
The singer was found to be suffering what appeared to be severe flu symptoms and dehydration, and was hooked up to a drip by medics - with her participation on the celebrity ice-skating show now under threat.
However studio bosses are reported to have called in additional medical staff to work on Sunday's live broadcast.
A source tells British newspaper The Mirror, "She was very sick but is resting now and is determined to get better and get back on the ice."
Samantha is one of the favourites to win the show after Gareth Gates and Hollyoaks actor Chris Fountain.

Good Charlotte - Madden I Should Run America

GOOD CHARLOTTE rocker BENJI MADDEN is convinced he could run America more successfully than the "idiots" currently in charge under President GEORGE W. BUSH's leadership.

The guitarist - who's dating socialite Paris Hilton - is appalled at many of the decisions made by U.S. politicians, who he accuses of lacking the intelligence required for such a high-powered job.

And Madden insists if he was president, the world would be a better place.

He says, "I have the best overall vision for economics, healthcare, job security. Honestly, I really think I could come up with some better ideas than some of those idiots that think they know what they're doing right now.

"They don't know what they're talking about."

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Mariah Carey given $16m wedding present

Mariah Carey’s one lucky girl — her wedding gift from new hubby Nick Cannon was a $16m, 14-carat, pink diamond ring.

And the ‘Touch My Body’ singer’s new bling wowed fellow diners when she was spotted at New York’s trendy Waverly Inn.

A source said: “Nick has been besotted since he first met Mariah on a US TV show three years ago. Just before they got married, he got down on one knee again and gave her the pink diamond ring he’d had custom made. She was stunned and thrilled.”

The pair married in a small ceremony at Carey’s Bahamian estate last month. Mariah’s cousin, Shawn McDonald, reportedly walked her down the aisle.

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