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  • Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road: Elton John & Ben & Jerry’s Team Up For Charity

    I’m not the world’s biggest Elton John fan (yeah, sacrilege, I know) and I’m not the world’s biggest Ben & Jerry’s fan. Well…correction, I could potentially eat the entire contents of the average Ben & Jerry’s, but I’m diabetic.

    At any rate, to honor Elton John’s upcoming show in the state of Vermont (fun fact: Vermont is the only state that Sir Elton has never played in), B&Js is creating a flavor called Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road. Consisting of chocolate, cookie dough and peanut butter, the flavor is obviously named for Elton’s massive hit album from the mid-Seventies.

    I am definitely in admiration of the Rocket Man’s charity work over the years, and all the proceeds for sales of this ice cream flavor will go to benefit the Elton John AIDS foundation, an organization which has raised hundreds of million dollars for AIDS research since its inception in the early Nineties.

    So, forget your calorie counter and do something good for the world…pick up a tub of this stuff.

    Now, off to find out what “brickle” is…

    http://www.benjerry.com/

    http://www.eltonjohn.com/

    Want a bonus? Here’s a vid of my favorite EJ song.

  • Steven Page: Just About The Last Person You’d Expect To Be Busted For Drugs

    Never thought you’d hear the words “Barenaked Ladies” and “drug bust” in the same sentence? Well…

    Barenaked Ladies singer/guitarist Steven Page. Photo courtesy of TheHypo
    BNL lead singer Steven Page

    Steven Page, lead singer of Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies was busted last Friday for possession of a controlled substance in Syracuse, NY (Syracuse? Really?). Cops, suspicions aroused by a car with one door open (?), found married dad Page (whose band just released a children’s album, for crying out loud!) along with two women (??) in a nearby apartment with cocaine and pot. I wonder if the ladies were barenaked??? BWAHAHHAHHAHHA…

    (For those who aren’t really up on their BNL, they are the guys who sing “One Week”, and “If I Had $1,000,000”. Of the group’s two main singers, Steven Page is the fairer, sort of chunky one with the big voice, while Ed Robertson is the darker, more nerdy-sounding one)

    But anyway, I won’t say anything bad about Steven Page. I’m actually extremely fond of BNL..well at least I was until that “Barenaked Ladies are Men” crap. They’re one of the best live bands I’ve ever seen (and the only rock band I know who could get away with a cover of Destiny’s Child’s “Bootylicious”, as they performed the night I saw them). But seriously…who’d have thought that the singer of songs like “Be My Yoko Ono” and “Brian Wilson” was capable of Winehousity??

  • Has Journey Hornswoggled Me?

    So, I switched on the TV around noon today and flipped over to VH-1 Classic with the expectation that I’d catch some cheesy 80s video goodness. As it turned out, they were broadcasting a concert by some band that sounded familiar, but I couldn’t place visually.Then the vocals kicked in and I realized I was watching a Journey concert.

    Only the lead singer wasn’t Steve Perry. Although he certainly sounded like Steve Perry. I realize Perry’s been gone from the band for almost a decade, and I’d also heard the story of how Journey found their new lead singer, Arnel Pineda, through YouTube (God bless modern technology). What I didn’t realize was that if you closed your eyes and heard this guy sing, you’d swear you were listening to the real deal Perry, same big voice, same caterwauling, the whole bit. Check him out for yourself, the resemblance is uncanny. OK, it’s not so uncanny in this performance (he misses a couple of notes that Perry would have nailed), but he still sounds a hell of a lot like Perry. Just saying.

    Here’s the real deal Perry. I love this song.