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It has been 10 years since the recording of "DMLight". Beginning August 10th, 2022 (T.O.R.N.) will be in pre-production for the new album which is the second part of "13" call: "Religion: a requisite". This is the most exciting thing that has happened in a decade!! Set to be released in 2023. "Religion: a requisite" is based on the belief of god and the religious views of man as well as the norm, mental illness and more!
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January 28th, 2019 9:09 am
MAJOR UPDATE!!
Due to legal issues with the old studio's, Time Ends has announced that he will be rerecording all of his old albums in order to obtain complete rights to his creativity. "My personal issues with TimeMachine Music will not be released to the public as of yet. I have requested for the stem tracks several times through out the years and have not received anything, all though my falling out with this permanently close company is personal, I will proceed with re-recording all of the tracks in order to separate myself from any affiliation with the entity's of this company. Myself and anything that (T.O.R.N.) stands for will not be affiliated with the company or the likes of people that it has." quoted Time Ends
Time ends has begun the recording process with TimeEnds Productions and will be working with producer Jeff Steele as well. Stay tuned for more news!
Due to legal issues with the old studio's, Time Ends has announced that he will be rerecording all of his old albums in order to obtain complete rights to his creativity. "My personal issues with TimeMachine Music will not be released to the public as of yet. I have requested for the stem tracks several times through out the years and have not received anything, all though my falling out with this permanently close company is personal, I will proceed with re-recording all of the tracks in order to separate myself from any affiliation with the entity's of this company. Myself and anything that (T.O.R.N.) stands for will not be affiliated with the company or the likes of people that it has." quoted Time Ends
Time ends has begun the recording process with TimeEnds Productions and will be working with producer Jeff Steele as well. Stay tuned for more news!
January 27th, 2019 2:04 pm
BREAKING NEWS!!! Time Ends is currently in the studio recording new material!!! He also will be attending open mic nights and begin getting (T.O.R.N.) back on the scene. After his injury causing him to break his left ankle he is now ready to begin performances. Currently he is educating adults with special needs in the film industry how to edit sound and score films. He also hosts a podcast every thursday afternoon 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm live on facebook and he uploads it fridays. stay tuned for more news!
November 23rd, 2017 8:01 pm
happy thanksgiving!!!
I Hope you are all well,
I will be releasing music soon. i will be recording as of next week in San diego. my plan is to record and release one song at a time. I know that there are some albums that need to be released but i have some music that is in me that needs to be released before i can make the other ones, i also have a few other projects that i have been working one and i am releasing music in the next two weeks, the music is now being mixed and mastered.
Thank you for being with me through this journey called life, i know that AIDP has been a huge struggle for me and i continue to struggle with it. But i fight as we all fight through life's challenges and battles. Life is amazing and i have tons to share.
I Hope you are all well,
I will be releasing music soon. i will be recording as of next week in San diego. my plan is to record and release one song at a time. I know that there are some albums that need to be released but i have some music that is in me that needs to be released before i can make the other ones, i also have a few other projects that i have been working one and i am releasing music in the next two weeks, the music is now being mixed and mastered.
Thank you for being with me through this journey called life, i know that AIDP has been a huge struggle for me and i continue to struggle with it. But i fight as we all fight through life's challenges and battles. Life is amazing and i have tons to share.
October 8th, 2017 11:55 am
Today i have been working on music for the next T.V. film for COX network, i am very happy and very proud to be a part of "Madeit Films". It is an honor.
The next few weeks are going to be a great ride and full of learning and great experience. Please stay tuned for more details.
Also I am currently working on the new albums that i abandoned due to several reasons, good thing is i am now able to reevaluate what the material to make it sound better than i had originally had in mind.
I am also working on other projects such as "Static Discharge" "Alien Prophets" and "Harvey" you can check out the developing websites below.
Alien Prophets
The next few weeks are going to be a great ride and full of learning and great experience. Please stay tuned for more details.
Also I am currently working on the new albums that i abandoned due to several reasons, good thing is i am now able to reevaluate what the material to make it sound better than i had originally had in mind.
I am also working on other projects such as "Static Discharge" "Alien Prophets" and "Harvey" you can check out the developing websites below.
Alien Prophets
Thursday September 28, 2017 5:56 pm
BREAKING NEWS!!!!
(T.O.R.N.) is officially appearing on national T.V. a few songs were selected to be a part of the soundtrack to the episode. Also I scored the episode with original music created for the episode. So please take a look
It was very exciting to be a part of the production team. Working with them is an extraordinary privilege
The first episode that we created, “The Detentionaries” will debut this on Sunday, Oct. 1 at 4 p.m.
“Inclusion Short Films” will air every Saturday and Sunday at 4 p.m., with a new episode every month. In California, YurView is available on Cox on the following channels:
• San Diego – Ch. 4 and 1004/HD
• Orange County – Ch. 1003
• Palos Verdes – Ch. 1003
• Santa Barbara – Ch. 1004
Here is a link to the film that will be aired "The Detentionaries." <---Click
Please subscribe to the channel!!
Here is the additional market list for ISF:
In Yur FL
Tuesday and Thursday at 4:00 and 6:00 p.m.
In Yur LA
Sundays and Saturdays at 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursday at 2:00 p.m.
Tuesdays at 8:00 p.m.
In Yur VA
Saturday s at 3:00p.m.
Tuesday and Thursdays at 6:00 p.m.
In Yur NE
Sunday and Saturdays at 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursdays 7:30 p.m.
Inclusion Short Films
In Yur AZ
Sunday at 4:00 p.m.
Monday at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday at 9:00 p.m.
Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
(T.O.R.N.) is officially appearing on national T.V. a few songs were selected to be a part of the soundtrack to the episode. Also I scored the episode with original music created for the episode. So please take a look
It was very exciting to be a part of the production team. Working with them is an extraordinary privilege
The first episode that we created, “The Detentionaries” will debut this on Sunday, Oct. 1 at 4 p.m.
“Inclusion Short Films” will air every Saturday and Sunday at 4 p.m., with a new episode every month. In California, YurView is available on Cox on the following channels:
• San Diego – Ch. 4 and 1004/HD
• Orange County – Ch. 1003
• Palos Verdes – Ch. 1003
• Santa Barbara – Ch. 1004
Here is a link to the film that will be aired "The Detentionaries." <---Click
Please subscribe to the channel!!
Here is the additional market list for ISF:
In Yur FL
Tuesday and Thursday at 4:00 and 6:00 p.m.
In Yur LA
Sundays and Saturdays at 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursday at 2:00 p.m.
Tuesdays at 8:00 p.m.
In Yur VA
Saturday s at 3:00p.m.
Tuesday and Thursdays at 6:00 p.m.
In Yur NE
Sunday and Saturdays at 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursdays 7:30 p.m.
Inclusion Short Films
In Yur AZ
Sunday at 4:00 p.m.
Monday at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday at 9:00 p.m.
Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday September 17, 2017 1:30 am
Monday July 18th, 7:30 pm
Good Evening my viruses!!!
I hope you are all doing well, with the recent events in which has delayed me form accomplishing any of my projects i have finally reached the point as to where i am finally able to pick up where i have left off. Just today alone i was able to work on organizing my files, organziing my music shit and even work on my book!!i am happy and in a great place!! i have started my YouTube Channel for my self.
click HERE!
I hope you are all doing well, with the recent events in which has delayed me form accomplishing any of my projects i have finally reached the point as to where i am finally able to pick up where i have left off. Just today alone i was able to work on organizing my files, organziing my music shit and even work on my book!!i am happy and in a great place!! i have started my YouTube Channel for my self.
click HERE!
Wednesday July 13, 2016 10:33 pm
Hell-o my viruses!!
I hope you are all well, i have been MiA and been working on some things, i will be back at it like i said, i just need to make sure that i am ready to hit the studio. i will be finishing my book soon and i will be finishing some other projects that i have started, upon completion you will see it here on my website. i hope you all had a nice, happy and safe 4th, i was in Lancaster i witnessed a fire start about a mile away, seems like some houses began to burn. other than that stay safe and i will see you soon!!!
I hope you are all well, i have been MiA and been working on some things, i will be back at it like i said, i just need to make sure that i am ready to hit the studio. i will be finishing my book soon and i will be finishing some other projects that i have started, upon completion you will see it here on my website. i hope you all had a nice, happy and safe 4th, i was in Lancaster i witnessed a fire start about a mile away, seems like some houses began to burn. other than that stay safe and i will see you soon!!!
Wednesday March 30, 2016 7:31 pm
NEWS! I am glad to say that i have ben working hard on new material. Things are going very well for me and I have been working hard!! i am doing videos and colaberations as well. stay tuned for mor news soon. i am also linking up to more internet access websites for downloads etc.
Monday December 28, 2015 6:16 pm
R.I.P. Lemmy Kilmister
R.I.P. Lemmy Kilmister, Motörhead frontman dead at 70Rock icon had been battling an extremely aggressive cancerBY ALEX YOUNG
ON DECEMBER 28, 2015, 4:37PM
Lemmy Kilmister, founding member and frontman of Motörhead. has died. He was 70 years old.
News of his death was first reported by radio and TV host Eddie Trunk, who was a longtime friend of Lemmy. Several others have since confirmed the news, including Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne, who wrote on Twitter, “Lost one of my best friends, Lemmy, today. He will be sadly missed. He was a warrior and a legend. I will see you on the other side.”
In a statement posted to Facebook, Motörhead wrote, “There is no easy way to say this… our mighty, noble friend Lemmy passed away today after a short battle with an extremely aggressive cancer. He had learnt of the disease on December 26th, and was at home, sitting in front of his favorite video game from the Rainbow which had recently made it’s way down the street, with his family. We cannot begin to express our shock and sadness, there aren’t words. We will say more in the coming days, but for now, please… play Motörhead loud.”
In addition to cancer, Lemmy had been suffering from a number of other well-publicized health issues, including hematoma. In 2013, he was fitted with an implantable defibrillator to correct an irregular heartbeat. His health issues had caused the cancelation of multiple Motörhead performances in recent years, though Lemmy remained an active force up until the time of his death.
Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister was born Staffordshire, England in 1945. Inspired to become a musician after seeing The Beatles perform in concert, Lemmy spent his 20s playing in a variety of bands, and also served as a roadie in the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
In 1972, he was hired to play bass in the UK space rock group Hawkwind, despite having no previous experience on the instrument. He quickly honed his skills, helping shape the band’s sound on critically acclaimed albums such Space Ritual, while also signing lead vocals on the song “Silver Machine”, which peaked at No. 3 on the UK charts.
Lemmy was lead vocalist, bassist, principal songwriter and the founding, and the only constant member of Motörhead since the band’s formation in 1975. To date, Motörhead have released twenty studio albums and achieved 30 million in sales worldwide. Their last record, Bad Magic, was released in August 2015.
Motörhead saw far more commercial success in the UK, though they achieved a cult status in the US. Their ferocious hard-rock style rejuvenated the metal genre in the late 1970s and inspired everyone from Metallica to Guns N’ Roses to Dave Grohl. Albums such as Ace of Spades, Orgasmatron, and Rock N’ Roll were critically lauded, though ironically the band’s only Grammy Award came via a cover of Metallica’s “Whiplash”, which they recorded for a tribute CD.
Lemmy’s outlandish behavior further fueled his icon status. He was fired from Hawkwind after being arrested at the Canadian border for drug possession, yet his appetite for drugs and alcohol remained a constant throughout most of his career. He famously claimed he had drunken a bottle of Jack Daniel’s every day since turning 30, and he was also a proponent of amphetamines. Recently, he joked that he had switched from drinking whiskey to vodka for “health reasons.”
“Apparently I am still indestructible,” he insisted in a 2014 interview with the Guardian, noting that the only thing that will keep him from playing music was death itself. “As long as I can walk the few yards from the back to the front of the stage without a stick,” he said, adding with a laugh, “Or even if I do have to use a stick.”
Lemmy also dabbled in acting with cameos in films such as Airheads, Hardware, and even Foo Fighters’ video for “White Limo”.
ON DECEMBER 28, 2015, 4:37PM
Lemmy Kilmister, founding member and frontman of Motörhead. has died. He was 70 years old.
News of his death was first reported by radio and TV host Eddie Trunk, who was a longtime friend of Lemmy. Several others have since confirmed the news, including Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne, who wrote on Twitter, “Lost one of my best friends, Lemmy, today. He will be sadly missed. He was a warrior and a legend. I will see you on the other side.”
In a statement posted to Facebook, Motörhead wrote, “There is no easy way to say this… our mighty, noble friend Lemmy passed away today after a short battle with an extremely aggressive cancer. He had learnt of the disease on December 26th, and was at home, sitting in front of his favorite video game from the Rainbow which had recently made it’s way down the street, with his family. We cannot begin to express our shock and sadness, there aren’t words. We will say more in the coming days, but for now, please… play Motörhead loud.”
In addition to cancer, Lemmy had been suffering from a number of other well-publicized health issues, including hematoma. In 2013, he was fitted with an implantable defibrillator to correct an irregular heartbeat. His health issues had caused the cancelation of multiple Motörhead performances in recent years, though Lemmy remained an active force up until the time of his death.
Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister was born Staffordshire, England in 1945. Inspired to become a musician after seeing The Beatles perform in concert, Lemmy spent his 20s playing in a variety of bands, and also served as a roadie in the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
In 1972, he was hired to play bass in the UK space rock group Hawkwind, despite having no previous experience on the instrument. He quickly honed his skills, helping shape the band’s sound on critically acclaimed albums such Space Ritual, while also signing lead vocals on the song “Silver Machine”, which peaked at No. 3 on the UK charts.
Lemmy was lead vocalist, bassist, principal songwriter and the founding, and the only constant member of Motörhead since the band’s formation in 1975. To date, Motörhead have released twenty studio albums and achieved 30 million in sales worldwide. Their last record, Bad Magic, was released in August 2015.
Motörhead saw far more commercial success in the UK, though they achieved a cult status in the US. Their ferocious hard-rock style rejuvenated the metal genre in the late 1970s and inspired everyone from Metallica to Guns N’ Roses to Dave Grohl. Albums such as Ace of Spades, Orgasmatron, and Rock N’ Roll were critically lauded, though ironically the band’s only Grammy Award came via a cover of Metallica’s “Whiplash”, which they recorded for a tribute CD.
Lemmy’s outlandish behavior further fueled his icon status. He was fired from Hawkwind after being arrested at the Canadian border for drug possession, yet his appetite for drugs and alcohol remained a constant throughout most of his career. He famously claimed he had drunken a bottle of Jack Daniel’s every day since turning 30, and he was also a proponent of amphetamines. Recently, he joked that he had switched from drinking whiskey to vodka for “health reasons.”
“Apparently I am still indestructible,” he insisted in a 2014 interview with the Guardian, noting that the only thing that will keep him from playing music was death itself. “As long as I can walk the few yards from the back to the front of the stage without a stick,” he said, adding with a laugh, “Or even if I do have to use a stick.”
Lemmy also dabbled in acting with cameos in films such as Airheads, Hardware, and even Foo Fighters’ video for “White Limo”.
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Sunday November 15th, 2015 9:53 pm
2016 TOUR & NEW ALBUM?
Time Ends rehearsing in (T.O.R.N.) Studios (November 14, 2015)
Through trial and error, countless hours, days, months and years lost from the dual life that this paranoid schizophrenic lives finally has come to the day where he broke out of the cage of anxiety he was locked behind.
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"Recording has always been easy for me, but i fucking hate doing it" Stated Time Ends. Am i gong to record with Chris again, we will see. but for now i will be recording the new album "crop Circles" at (T.O.R.N.) Studio's, I will have a buddy join me on doing leads. the stuff you may hear i more than likely will never perform live, unless it is dear to me and i dont have to get "Hired guns" but push comes to shove i will do so and you all know my #1 choice of drummer will be.... so keep a dark ear out.
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Time Ends has finally announced a 2016 tour and new record as well as finishing the studio Box set "13" For the past two years Time Ends has been battling personal issues and (in his words) "I am ready to come back into the scene, regardless of the outcome, I know I made a bad name for (T.O.R.N.) throughout the last year with show cancellation and studio time lost, due to my job and personal issues, but I feel that I am ready to come back out there as the "Has been, who never was." I am ready to show the world the side of themselves they deny." "This will be the first album i introduce baritone to the world of (T.O.R.N.), i'm excited!!! I have wanted to wonder into the world of baritone, now i officially have gone there. I will show you some crazy bizarre shit like i always have done. This will be fuckin awesome!! Time Ends is set to head into the studio late January early February to start recording the fourth "Concept album in the history of (T.O.R.N.) 
Baritone Guitar for the new album
As of now there is no set dates for the tour or album release, but dramainthevalley.com will keep you all updated with the latest news and upcoming events
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Chris Squire A Legend Falls
by Kevin Johnson | Sunday, June 28th, 2015
Bass legend Chris Squire, who stood at the helm of progressive rock in Yes since 1968, has died of cancer. He was 67 years old. Yes released a statement on their Facebook page announcing the news.
“It’s with the heaviest of hearts and unbearable sadness that we must inform you of the passing of our dear friend and Yes co-founder, Chris Squire,” they wrote. “Chris peacefully passed away last night in Phoenix Arizona, in the arms of his loving wife Scotty. For the entirety of Yes’ existence, Chris was the band’s linchpin and, in so many ways, the glue that held it together over all these years. Because of his phenomenal bass-playing prowess, Chris influenced countless bassists around the world, including many of today’s well-known artists. Chris was also a fantastic songwriter, having written and co-written much of Yes’ most endearing music, as well as his solo album, Fish Out of Water. Outside of Yes, Chris was a loving husband to Scotty and father to Carmen, Chandrika, Camille, Cameron, and Xilan. With his gentle, easy-going nature, Chris was a great friend of many… including each of us. But he wasn’t merely our friend: he was also part of our family and we shall forever love and miss him.”
Squire was born in the London suburb of Kinsgsbury in 1948 and received his start in music in the church choir. He first took up bass around the age of sixteen after hearing Paul McCartney in the Beatles. His first public appearance with his first band The Selfs was at St. Andrew’s Church Hall.
Squire would eventually found Yes in 1968 alongside singer Jon Anderson. The two had connected over a love of vocal music and the need to express themselves. “I couldn’t get session work because most musicians hated my style,” Squire said. “They wanted me to play something a lot more basic. We started Yes as a vehicle to develop everyone’s individual styles.”
Until his passing, Squire was the only original member of the band and released 21 studio albums, 10 live albums, 32 compilation albums, 34 singles and 19 videos with them. Their most recent album Heaven & Earth cracked the top 20 in the UK charts.
It was announced on May 19th that Squire had been diagnosed with Acute Erythroid Leukemia and would be on hiatus from the band for treatment. Yes’ appearance scheduled for August 7th with Toto will mark the first ever concert without the bassist.
Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Chris Squire
Re Posted from : http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2015/06/28/in-memoriam-chris-squire/
“It’s with the heaviest of hearts and unbearable sadness that we must inform you of the passing of our dear friend and Yes co-founder, Chris Squire,” they wrote. “Chris peacefully passed away last night in Phoenix Arizona, in the arms of his loving wife Scotty. For the entirety of Yes’ existence, Chris was the band’s linchpin and, in so many ways, the glue that held it together over all these years. Because of his phenomenal bass-playing prowess, Chris influenced countless bassists around the world, including many of today’s well-known artists. Chris was also a fantastic songwriter, having written and co-written much of Yes’ most endearing music, as well as his solo album, Fish Out of Water. Outside of Yes, Chris was a loving husband to Scotty and father to Carmen, Chandrika, Camille, Cameron, and Xilan. With his gentle, easy-going nature, Chris was a great friend of many… including each of us. But he wasn’t merely our friend: he was also part of our family and we shall forever love and miss him.”
Squire was born in the London suburb of Kinsgsbury in 1948 and received his start in music in the church choir. He first took up bass around the age of sixteen after hearing Paul McCartney in the Beatles. His first public appearance with his first band The Selfs was at St. Andrew’s Church Hall.
Squire would eventually found Yes in 1968 alongside singer Jon Anderson. The two had connected over a love of vocal music and the need to express themselves. “I couldn’t get session work because most musicians hated my style,” Squire said. “They wanted me to play something a lot more basic. We started Yes as a vehicle to develop everyone’s individual styles.”
Until his passing, Squire was the only original member of the band and released 21 studio albums, 10 live albums, 32 compilation albums, 34 singles and 19 videos with them. Their most recent album Heaven & Earth cracked the top 20 in the UK charts.
It was announced on May 19th that Squire had been diagnosed with Acute Erythroid Leukemia and would be on hiatus from the band for treatment. Yes’ appearance scheduled for August 7th with Toto will mark the first ever concert without the bassist.
Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Chris Squire
Re Posted from : http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2015/06/28/in-memoriam-chris-squire/
B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89 (articel by By TIM WEINERMAY 15, 2015)
B. B. King, whose world-weary voice and wailing guitar lifted him from the cotton fields of Mississippi to a global stage and the apex of American blues, died on Thursday at his home in Las Vegas. He was 89.
His death was reported on his website, which said he died in his sleep. Mr. King, who was in hospice care, had been performing until October 2014, when he canceled a tour, citing dehydration and exhaustion stemming from diabetes.
Mr. King married country blues to big-city rhythms and created a sound instantly recognizable to millions: a stinging guitar with a shimmering vibrato, notes that coiled and leapt like an animal, and a voice that groaned and bent with the weight of lust, longing and lost love.
“I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions,” Mr. King said in his autobiography, “Blues All Around Me” (1996), written with David Ritz.
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In performances, his singing and his solos flowed into each other as he wrung notes from the neck of his guitar, vibrating his hand as if it were wounded, his face a mask of suffering. Many of the songs he sang — like his biggest hit, “The Thrill Is Gone” (“I’ll still live on/But so lonely I’ll be”) — were poems of pain and perseverance.
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The music historian Peter Guralnick once noted that Mr. King helped expand the audience for the blues through “the urbanity of his playing, the absorption of a multiplicity of influences, not simply from the blues, along with a graciousness of manner and willingness to adapt to new audiences and give them something they were able to respond to.”
B. B. stood for Blues Boy, a name he took with his first taste of fame in the 1940s. His peers were bluesmen like Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, whose nicknames fit their hard-bitten lives. But he was born a King, albeit in a sharecropper’s shack surrounded by dirt-poor laborers and wealthy landowners.
Mr. King went out on the road and never came back after one of his first recordings reached the top of the rhythm-and-blues charts in 1951. He began in juke joints, country dance halls and ghetto nightclubs, playing 342 one-night stands in 1956 and 200 to 300 shows a year for a half-century thereafter, rising to concert halls, casino main stages and international acclaim.
He was embraced by rock ’n’ roll fans of the 1960s and ’70s, who remained loyal as they grew older together. His playing influenced many of the most successful rock guitarists of the era, including Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix.
Mr. King considered a 1968 performance at the Fillmore West, the San Francisco rock palace, to have been the moment of his commercial breakthrough, he told a public-television interviewer in 2003. A few years earlier, he recalled, an M.C. in an elegant Chicago club had introduced him thus: “O.K., folks, time to pull out your chitlins and your collard greens, your pigs’ feet and your watermelons, because here is B. B. King.” It had infuriated him.
When he saw “long-haired white people” lining up outside the Fillmore, he said, he told his road manager, “I think they booked us in the wrong place.” Then the promoter Bill Graham introduced him to the sold-out crowd: “Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you the chairman of the board, B. B. King.”
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“Everybody stood up, and I cried,” Mr. King said. “That was the beginning of it.”
By his 80th birthday he was a millionaire many times over. He owned a mansion in Las Vegas, a closet full of embroidered tuxedoes and smoking jackets, a chain of nightclubs bearing his name (including a popular room on West 42nd Street in Manhattan) and the personal and professional satisfaction of having endured.
Through it all he remained with the great love of his life, his guitar. He told the tale a thousand times: He was playing a dance hall in Twist, Ark., in the early 1950s when two men got into a fight and knocked over a kerosene stove. Mr. King fled the blaze — and then remembered his $30 guitar. He ran into the burning building to rescue it.
He learned thereafter that the fight had been about a woman named Lucille. For the rest of his life, Mr. King addressed his guitars — big Gibsons, curved like a woman’s hips — as Lucille.
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He married twice, unsuccessfully, and was legally single from 1966 onward; by his own account he fathered 15 children with 15 women. But a Lucille was always at his side.
Riley B. King (the middle initial apparently did not stand for anything) was born on Sept. 16, 1925, to Albert and Nora Ella King, both sharecroppers, in Berclair, a Mississippi hamlet outside the small town of Itta Bena. His memories of the Depression included the sound of sanctified gospel music, the scratch of 78-r.p.m. blues records, the sweat of dawn-to-dusk work and the sight of a black man lynched by a white mob.
By early 1940 Mr. King’s mother was dead and his father was gone. He was 14 and on his own, “sharecropping an acre of cotton, living on a borrowed allowance of $2.50 a month,” wrote Dick Waterman, a blues scholar. “When the crop was harvested, Riley ended his first year of independence owing his landlord $7.54.”
In November 1941 came a revelation: “King Biscuit Time” went on the air, broadcasting on KFFA, a radio station in Helena, Ark. It was the first radio show to feature the Mississippi Delta blues, and young Riley King heard it on his lunch break at the plantation. A largely self-taught guitarist, he now knew what he wanted to be when he grew up: a musician on the air.
The King Biscuit show featured Rice Miller, a primeval bluesman and one of two performers who worked under the name Sonny Boy Williamson. After serving in the Army and marrying his first wife, Martha Denton, Mr. King, then 22, went to seek him out in Memphis, looking for work. Memphis and its musical hub, Beale Street, lay 130 miles north of his birthplace, and it looked like a world capital to him.
Mr. Miller had two performances booked that night, one in Memphis and one in Mississippi. He handed the lower-paying nightclub job to Mr. King. It paid $12.50.
Mr. King was making about $5 a day on the plantation. He never returned to his tractor.
He was a hit, and quickly became a popular disc jockey playing the blues on a Memphis radio station, WDIA. “Before Memphis,” he wrote in his autobiography, “I never even owned a record player. Now I was sitting in a room with a thousand records and the ability to play them whenever I wanted. I was the kid in the candy store, able to eat it all. I gorged myself.”
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Memphis had heard five decades of the blues: country sounds from the Delta, barrelhouse boogie-woogie, jumps and shuffles and gospel shouts. He made it all his own. From records he absorbed the big-band sounds of Count Basie, the rollicking jump blues of Louis Jordan, the electric-guitar styles of the jazzman Charlie Christian and the bluesman T-Bone Walker.
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On the air in Memphis, Mr. King was nicknamed the Beale Street Blues Boy. That became Blues Boy, which became B. B. In December 1951, two years after arriving in Memphis, Mr. King released a single, “Three O’Clock Blues,” which reached No. 1 on the rhythm-and-blues charts and stayed there for 15 weeks.
Continue reading the main storyB. B. King Plays ‘The Thrill Is Gone’ at Crossroads Guitar Festival
He began a tour of the biggest stages a bluesman could play: the Apollo Theater in Harlem, the Howard Theater in Washington, the Royal Theater in Baltimore. By the time his wife divorced him after eight years, he was playing 275 one-night stands a year on the so-called chitlin’ circuit.
There were hard times when the blues fell out of fashion with young black audiences in the early 1960s. Mr. King never forgot being booed at the Royal by teenagers who cheered the sweeter sounds of Sam Cooke.
“They didn’t know about the blues,” he said 40 years after the fact. “They had been taught that the blues was the bottom of the totem pole, done by slaves, and they didn’t want to think along those lines.”
Mr. King’s second marriage, to Sue Hall, also lasted eight years, ending in divorce in 1966. He responded in 1969 with his best-known recording, “The Thrill Is Gone,” a minor-key blues about having loved and lost. It was co-written and originally recorded in 1951 by another blues singer, Roy Hawkins, but Mr. King made it his own.
Mr. King is survived by 11 children. Three of them had recently petitioned to take over his affairs, claiming that Mr. King’s manager, Laverne Toney, was taking advantage of him. A Las Vegas judge rejected their petition this month.
The success of “The Thrill Is Gone” coincided with a surge in the popularity of the blues with a young white audience. Mr. King began playing folk festivals and college auditoriums, rock shows and resort clubs, and appearing on “The Tonight Show.”
Though he never had another hit that big, he had more than four decades of the road before him. He eventually played the world — Russia and China as well as Europe and Japan. His schedule around his 81st birthday, in September 2006, included nine cities over two weeks in Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Luxembourg. Despite health problems, he maintained a busy touring schedule until 2014.
In addition to winning 15 Grammy Awards (including a lifetime achievement award), having a star on Hollywood Boulevard and being inducted in both the Rock and Roll and Blues Halls of Fame, Mr. King was among the recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995 and was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2006, awards rarely associated with the blues. In 1999, in a public conversation with William Ferris, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Mr. King recounted how he came to sing the blues.
CONTINUE READING THE MAIN STORY25COMMENTS“Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon,” he said. “I’d go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I’d sing and play.
“I’d have me a hat or box or something in front of me. People that would request a gospel song would always be very polite to me, and they’d say: ‘Son, you’re mighty good. Keep it up. You’re going to be great one day.’ But they never put anything in the hat.
“But people that would ask me to sing a blues song would always tip me and maybe give me a beer. They always would do something of that kind. Sometimes I’d make 50 or 60 dollars one Saturday afternoon. Now you know why I’m a blues singer.”
His death was reported on his website, which said he died in his sleep. Mr. King, who was in hospice care, had been performing until October 2014, when he canceled a tour, citing dehydration and exhaustion stemming from diabetes.
Mr. King married country blues to big-city rhythms and created a sound instantly recognizable to millions: a stinging guitar with a shimmering vibrato, notes that coiled and leapt like an animal, and a voice that groaned and bent with the weight of lust, longing and lost love.
“I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions,” Mr. King said in his autobiography, “Blues All Around Me” (1996), written with David Ritz.
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In performances, his singing and his solos flowed into each other as he wrung notes from the neck of his guitar, vibrating his hand as if it were wounded, his face a mask of suffering. Many of the songs he sang — like his biggest hit, “The Thrill Is Gone” (“I’ll still live on/But so lonely I’ll be”) — were poems of pain and perseverance.
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Blues Guitarist B.B. King Dies at 89CreditAssociated Press
The music historian Peter Guralnick once noted that Mr. King helped expand the audience for the blues through “the urbanity of his playing, the absorption of a multiplicity of influences, not simply from the blues, along with a graciousness of manner and willingness to adapt to new audiences and give them something they were able to respond to.”
B. B. stood for Blues Boy, a name he took with his first taste of fame in the 1940s. His peers were bluesmen like Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, whose nicknames fit their hard-bitten lives. But he was born a King, albeit in a sharecropper’s shack surrounded by dirt-poor laborers and wealthy landowners.
Mr. King went out on the road and never came back after one of his first recordings reached the top of the rhythm-and-blues charts in 1951. He began in juke joints, country dance halls and ghetto nightclubs, playing 342 one-night stands in 1956 and 200 to 300 shows a year for a half-century thereafter, rising to concert halls, casino main stages and international acclaim.
He was embraced by rock ’n’ roll fans of the 1960s and ’70s, who remained loyal as they grew older together. His playing influenced many of the most successful rock guitarists of the era, including Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix.
Mr. King considered a 1968 performance at the Fillmore West, the San Francisco rock palace, to have been the moment of his commercial breakthrough, he told a public-television interviewer in 2003. A few years earlier, he recalled, an M.C. in an elegant Chicago club had introduced him thus: “O.K., folks, time to pull out your chitlins and your collard greens, your pigs’ feet and your watermelons, because here is B. B. King.” It had infuriated him.
When he saw “long-haired white people” lining up outside the Fillmore, he said, he told his road manager, “I think they booked us in the wrong place.” Then the promoter Bill Graham introduced him to the sold-out crowd: “Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you the chairman of the board, B. B. King.”
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“Everybody stood up, and I cried,” Mr. King said. “That was the beginning of it.”
By his 80th birthday he was a millionaire many times over. He owned a mansion in Las Vegas, a closet full of embroidered tuxedoes and smoking jackets, a chain of nightclubs bearing his name (including a popular room on West 42nd Street in Manhattan) and the personal and professional satisfaction of having endured.
Through it all he remained with the great love of his life, his guitar. He told the tale a thousand times: He was playing a dance hall in Twist, Ark., in the early 1950s when two men got into a fight and knocked over a kerosene stove. Mr. King fled the blaze — and then remembered his $30 guitar. He ran into the burning building to rescue it.
He learned thereafter that the fight had been about a woman named Lucille. For the rest of his life, Mr. King addressed his guitars — big Gibsons, curved like a woman’s hips — as Lucille.
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He married twice, unsuccessfully, and was legally single from 1966 onward; by his own account he fathered 15 children with 15 women. But a Lucille was always at his side.
Riley B. King (the middle initial apparently did not stand for anything) was born on Sept. 16, 1925, to Albert and Nora Ella King, both sharecroppers, in Berclair, a Mississippi hamlet outside the small town of Itta Bena. His memories of the Depression included the sound of sanctified gospel music, the scratch of 78-r.p.m. blues records, the sweat of dawn-to-dusk work and the sight of a black man lynched by a white mob.
By early 1940 Mr. King’s mother was dead and his father was gone. He was 14 and on his own, “sharecropping an acre of cotton, living on a borrowed allowance of $2.50 a month,” wrote Dick Waterman, a blues scholar. “When the crop was harvested, Riley ended his first year of independence owing his landlord $7.54.”
In November 1941 came a revelation: “King Biscuit Time” went on the air, broadcasting on KFFA, a radio station in Helena, Ark. It was the first radio show to feature the Mississippi Delta blues, and young Riley King heard it on his lunch break at the plantation. A largely self-taught guitarist, he now knew what he wanted to be when he grew up: a musician on the air.
The King Biscuit show featured Rice Miller, a primeval bluesman and one of two performers who worked under the name Sonny Boy Williamson. After serving in the Army and marrying his first wife, Martha Denton, Mr. King, then 22, went to seek him out in Memphis, looking for work. Memphis and its musical hub, Beale Street, lay 130 miles north of his birthplace, and it looked like a world capital to him.
Mr. Miller had two performances booked that night, one in Memphis and one in Mississippi. He handed the lower-paying nightclub job to Mr. King. It paid $12.50.
Mr. King was making about $5 a day on the plantation. He never returned to his tractor.
He was a hit, and quickly became a popular disc jockey playing the blues on a Memphis radio station, WDIA. “Before Memphis,” he wrote in his autobiography, “I never even owned a record player. Now I was sitting in a room with a thousand records and the ability to play them whenever I wanted. I was the kid in the candy store, able to eat it all. I gorged myself.”
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Memphis had heard five decades of the blues: country sounds from the Delta, barrelhouse boogie-woogie, jumps and shuffles and gospel shouts. He made it all his own. From records he absorbed the big-band sounds of Count Basie, the rollicking jump blues of Louis Jordan, the electric-guitar styles of the jazzman Charlie Christian and the bluesman T-Bone Walker.
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On the air in Memphis, Mr. King was nicknamed the Beale Street Blues Boy. That became Blues Boy, which became B. B. In December 1951, two years after arriving in Memphis, Mr. King released a single, “Three O’Clock Blues,” which reached No. 1 on the rhythm-and-blues charts and stayed there for 15 weeks.
Continue reading the main storyB. B. King Plays ‘The Thrill Is Gone’ at Crossroads Guitar Festival
He began a tour of the biggest stages a bluesman could play: the Apollo Theater in Harlem, the Howard Theater in Washington, the Royal Theater in Baltimore. By the time his wife divorced him after eight years, he was playing 275 one-night stands a year on the so-called chitlin’ circuit.
There were hard times when the blues fell out of fashion with young black audiences in the early 1960s. Mr. King never forgot being booed at the Royal by teenagers who cheered the sweeter sounds of Sam Cooke.
“They didn’t know about the blues,” he said 40 years after the fact. “They had been taught that the blues was the bottom of the totem pole, done by slaves, and they didn’t want to think along those lines.”
Mr. King’s second marriage, to Sue Hall, also lasted eight years, ending in divorce in 1966. He responded in 1969 with his best-known recording, “The Thrill Is Gone,” a minor-key blues about having loved and lost. It was co-written and originally recorded in 1951 by another blues singer, Roy Hawkins, but Mr. King made it his own.
Mr. King is survived by 11 children. Three of them had recently petitioned to take over his affairs, claiming that Mr. King’s manager, Laverne Toney, was taking advantage of him. A Las Vegas judge rejected their petition this month.
The success of “The Thrill Is Gone” coincided with a surge in the popularity of the blues with a young white audience. Mr. King began playing folk festivals and college auditoriums, rock shows and resort clubs, and appearing on “The Tonight Show.”
Though he never had another hit that big, he had more than four decades of the road before him. He eventually played the world — Russia and China as well as Europe and Japan. His schedule around his 81st birthday, in September 2006, included nine cities over two weeks in Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Luxembourg. Despite health problems, he maintained a busy touring schedule until 2014.
In addition to winning 15 Grammy Awards (including a lifetime achievement award), having a star on Hollywood Boulevard and being inducted in both the Rock and Roll and Blues Halls of Fame, Mr. King was among the recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995 and was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2006, awards rarely associated with the blues. In 1999, in a public conversation with William Ferris, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Mr. King recounted how he came to sing the blues.
CONTINUE READING THE MAIN STORY25COMMENTS“Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon,” he said. “I’d go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I’d sing and play.
“I’d have me a hat or box or something in front of me. People that would request a gospel song would always be very polite to me, and they’d say: ‘Son, you’re mighty good. Keep it up. You’re going to be great one day.’ But they never put anything in the hat.
“But people that would ask me to sing a blues song would always tip me and maybe give me a beer. They always would do something of that kind. Sometimes I’d make 50 or 60 dollars one Saturday afternoon. Now you know why I’m a blues singer.”
Saturday November 15, 2014 7:16 am
Bishops Struggle to Follow Lead of Francis
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ALTIMORE — It was a hail and farewell moment at a tumultuous time for the Roman Catholic Church. More than 200 bishops rose to their feet Monday and gave a protracted standing ovation to Cardinal Francis George, a former president of the bishops’ conference, who will step down next week as the archbishop of Chicago.
Among those applauding in the conference room was the man who will soon be installed in the powerful Chicago seat, Bishop Blase J. Cupich. Pope Francis has never met him, but plucked him from the obscure diocese of Spokane, Wash., passing over archbishops considered rising stars under the two previous popes.
Change is rattling the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, as the American bishops hold their annual fall meeting here this week. The vast majority of them were appointed by Francis’ two more conservative predecessors, and some say they do not yet understand what kind of changePope Francis envisions and whether it is anything more than a change in tone.
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The change is reflected not only in the bellwether Chicago appointment, but also in Francis’ call for the church to open discussion on sticky matters long considered settled, such as communion for the divorced and remarried, same-sex relationships, couples who live together without being married and even polygamists in Africa.
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Bishop Gregory L. Parkes of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Fla., left, looking at the cross worn by Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso on Monday before the start of the bishops’ meeting.CreditMatt Roth for The New York TimesSome prelates, like Bishop Cupich, are exhilarated at the pontiff’s fresh message and the prospect of change, while others, like Cardinal George, are warier. A few have been downright resistant, including Cardinal Raymond Burke, an American in Rome who has publicly challenged Francis and was removed on Saturday from his position as head of the Vatican’s highest court.
“The pope is saying some very challenging things for people,” Bishop Cupich said in an interview Tuesday. “He’s not saying, this is the law and you follow it and you get to heaven. He’s saying we have to do something about our world today that’s suffering, people are being excluded, neglected. We have a responsibility, and he’s calling people to task.”
Bishop Cupich is seen as an able administrator with a pastoral approach, who has written and spoken on social justice for the poor and disenfranchised in tones that echo Francis. He said he had no idea how he was selected, saying, “Maybe someday over a nice glass of Chianti I’ll ask him.”
The bishops are gathered in Baltimore only weeks after a contentious Vatican meeting on marriage and the family ended in Rome. That meeting — the first of two synods being held one year apart — has reawakened a split in the church between theological conservatives and liberals that had remained relatively dormant during the 20-month honeymoon with Francis. But now Francis’ pontificate has entered a more delicate phase, with some bishops asking whether he has a coherent vision of where he wants to take the church and a plan for how to get there.
“He says wonderful things,” Cardinal George said about Francis in an interview on Sunday, “but he doesn’t put them together all the time, so you’re left at times puzzling over what his intention is. What he says is clear enough, but what does he want us to do?”
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Cardinal George, who is 77 and being treated for cancer, remains a voting cardinal until age 80 and says he would like to travel to Rome to see Francis: “I’d like to sit down with him and say, Holy Father, first of all, thank you for letting me retire. And could I ask you a few questions about your intentions?”
Catholics worldwide are supposed to spend the next year leading to the next synod meeting in Rome in October 2015 discussing issues related to marriage and the family, and bishops are awaiting instructions from the Vatican about how to conduct the dialogue.
Their public meetings here have largely been taken up with the priorities they have had for years: opposing abortion and same-sex marriage, and the concern that government is infringing on the church’s religious freedom through provisions like the birth control mandate in President Obama’shealth care law.
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The bishops' conference is taking place only weeks after a contentious Vatican meeting on marriage and the family ended in Rome. CreditMatt Roth for The New York TimesOn Tuesday afternoon, after some Catholic commentators took the bishops to task for saying nothing during the conference about the hot-button issue of immigration, the floor was briefly turned over to Bishop Eusebio L. Elizondo, an auxiliary bishop of Seattle. He called attention to a letter that the bishops’ conference sent in September urging Jeh Johnson, the secretary of Homeland Security, to take executive action to protect some illegal immigrants from deportation.
In their regional meetings, the bishops were asked to identify which seven priorities the bishops’ conference should take up, in light of Francis’ pontificate, for the years 2017 to 2020, Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City said in an interview.
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However, Bishop Wester said, “I don’t think the old priorities are going to stop, particularly if they’re still relevant.”
Four prelates who just returned from the synod in Rome addressed the bishops and played down the wall-to-wall news reports of division. They pointed out that in the synod’s final document, there was consensus on all but three of 62 passages — those on gay relationships and divorce and remarriage.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York gave a sarcasm-laden report to his fellow bishops, saying, “Too bad we missed that real synod, brothers, because the one we were at was hardly as spicy.”
On Wednesday, behind closed doors, the bishops will elect four among them to attend the synod in 2015, in addition to Cardinal Dolan and Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, who automatically attend as appointees to the Vatican’s office on synods. The choice of delegates will be a telling indication of whether the American bishops support significant change, or the status quo.
The Rev. Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest and senior analyst for National Catholic Reporter, a liberal, independent news outlet, said in an interview between the sessions that this group of bishops was shaped by the popes who appointed them, John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
“There is no bishop who is standing up and being the real leader of a Francis faction,” Father Reese said. “They grew up in conservative families, went to conservative seminaries and have been told not to talk to theologians who are creative because they’ve been labeled heretical. Now Francis is saying let’s go in a different direction and let’s have a discussion. The last two pontificates, there was no room for discussion, and this makes them nervous and confused.”
Among those applauding in the conference room was the man who will soon be installed in the powerful Chicago seat, Bishop Blase J. Cupich. Pope Francis has never met him, but plucked him from the obscure diocese of Spokane, Wash., passing over archbishops considered rising stars under the two previous popes.
Change is rattling the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, as the American bishops hold their annual fall meeting here this week. The vast majority of them were appointed by Francis’ two more conservative predecessors, and some say they do not yet understand what kind of changePope Francis envisions and whether it is anything more than a change in tone.
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The change is reflected not only in the bellwether Chicago appointment, but also in Francis’ call for the church to open discussion on sticky matters long considered settled, such as communion for the divorced and remarried, same-sex relationships, couples who live together without being married and even polygamists in Africa.
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Bishop Gregory L. Parkes of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Fla., left, looking at the cross worn by Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso on Monday before the start of the bishops’ meeting.CreditMatt Roth for The New York TimesSome prelates, like Bishop Cupich, are exhilarated at the pontiff’s fresh message and the prospect of change, while others, like Cardinal George, are warier. A few have been downright resistant, including Cardinal Raymond Burke, an American in Rome who has publicly challenged Francis and was removed on Saturday from his position as head of the Vatican’s highest court.
“The pope is saying some very challenging things for people,” Bishop Cupich said in an interview Tuesday. “He’s not saying, this is the law and you follow it and you get to heaven. He’s saying we have to do something about our world today that’s suffering, people are being excluded, neglected. We have a responsibility, and he’s calling people to task.”
Bishop Cupich is seen as an able administrator with a pastoral approach, who has written and spoken on social justice for the poor and disenfranchised in tones that echo Francis. He said he had no idea how he was selected, saying, “Maybe someday over a nice glass of Chianti I’ll ask him.”
The bishops are gathered in Baltimore only weeks after a contentious Vatican meeting on marriage and the family ended in Rome. That meeting — the first of two synods being held one year apart — has reawakened a split in the church between theological conservatives and liberals that had remained relatively dormant during the 20-month honeymoon with Francis. But now Francis’ pontificate has entered a more delicate phase, with some bishops asking whether he has a coherent vision of where he wants to take the church and a plan for how to get there.
“He says wonderful things,” Cardinal George said about Francis in an interview on Sunday, “but he doesn’t put them together all the time, so you’re left at times puzzling over what his intention is. What he says is clear enough, but what does he want us to do?”
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Cardinal George, who is 77 and being treated for cancer, remains a voting cardinal until age 80 and says he would like to travel to Rome to see Francis: “I’d like to sit down with him and say, Holy Father, first of all, thank you for letting me retire. And could I ask you a few questions about your intentions?”
Catholics worldwide are supposed to spend the next year leading to the next synod meeting in Rome in October 2015 discussing issues related to marriage and the family, and bishops are awaiting instructions from the Vatican about how to conduct the dialogue.
Their public meetings here have largely been taken up with the priorities they have had for years: opposing abortion and same-sex marriage, and the concern that government is infringing on the church’s religious freedom through provisions like the birth control mandate in President Obama’shealth care law.
Photo
The bishops' conference is taking place only weeks after a contentious Vatican meeting on marriage and the family ended in Rome. CreditMatt Roth for The New York TimesOn Tuesday afternoon, after some Catholic commentators took the bishops to task for saying nothing during the conference about the hot-button issue of immigration, the floor was briefly turned over to Bishop Eusebio L. Elizondo, an auxiliary bishop of Seattle. He called attention to a letter that the bishops’ conference sent in September urging Jeh Johnson, the secretary of Homeland Security, to take executive action to protect some illegal immigrants from deportation.
In their regional meetings, the bishops were asked to identify which seven priorities the bishops’ conference should take up, in light of Francis’ pontificate, for the years 2017 to 2020, Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City said in an interview.
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However, Bishop Wester said, “I don’t think the old priorities are going to stop, particularly if they’re still relevant.”
Four prelates who just returned from the synod in Rome addressed the bishops and played down the wall-to-wall news reports of division. They pointed out that in the synod’s final document, there was consensus on all but three of 62 passages — those on gay relationships and divorce and remarriage.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York gave a sarcasm-laden report to his fellow bishops, saying, “Too bad we missed that real synod, brothers, because the one we were at was hardly as spicy.”
On Wednesday, behind closed doors, the bishops will elect four among them to attend the synod in 2015, in addition to Cardinal Dolan and Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, who automatically attend as appointees to the Vatican’s office on synods. The choice of delegates will be a telling indication of whether the American bishops support significant change, or the status quo.
The Rev. Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest and senior analyst for National Catholic Reporter, a liberal, independent news outlet, said in an interview between the sessions that this group of bishops was shaped by the popes who appointed them, John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
“There is no bishop who is standing up and being the real leader of a Francis faction,” Father Reese said. “They grew up in conservative families, went to conservative seminaries and have been told not to talk to theologians who are creative because they’ve been labeled heretical. Now Francis is saying let’s go in a different direction and let’s have a discussion. The last two pontificates, there was no room for discussion, and this makes them nervous and confused.”
Saturday November 1st, 2014 9:25 pm
**One of my favorite Musicians out there dies today
Static-X Founder Wayne Static
Passed Away At Age 48
PR team has just confirmed that Static has indeed passed away.
Wayne Richard Wells (aka Wayne Static), the enigmatic frontman of Static-X, has passed away at age 48. While the cause of death has not yet been determined there are reports of drugs being involved. His death comes days before his 49th birthday.
Micah Electric of 9Electric posted the news less than an hour ago, stating that Static, “…was a good soul who chose the wrong path.”
Static-X rose to fame with the release of their debut album Wisconsin Death Trip in 2001, particularly with their most popular single “Push It”. The album went platinum two years later. The band went on to release a total of six studio albums, the last of which was 2009′s Cult Of Static. Static also released a solo album entitled Pighammer.
Static-X and fellow hard rock band Drowning Pool were set to embark on a UK tour in January.
We send our deepest condolences to his friends and family.
Passed Away At Age 48
PR team has just confirmed that Static has indeed passed away.
Wayne Richard Wells (aka Wayne Static), the enigmatic frontman of Static-X, has passed away at age 48. While the cause of death has not yet been determined there are reports of drugs being involved. His death comes days before his 49th birthday.
Micah Electric of 9Electric posted the news less than an hour ago, stating that Static, “…was a good soul who chose the wrong path.”
Static-X rose to fame with the release of their debut album Wisconsin Death Trip in 2001, particularly with their most popular single “Push It”. The album went platinum two years later. The band went on to release a total of six studio albums, the last of which was 2009′s Cult Of Static. Static also released a solo album entitled Pighammer.
Static-X and fellow hard rock band Drowning Pool were set to embark on a UK tour in January.
We send our deepest condolences to his friends and family.
Saturday 25th, 2014 7:17 am
New York (CNN) -- A mandatory 21-day quarantine imposed by New York and New Jersey on health care workers returning from West Africa after treating Ebola patients caught local and federal officials by surprise and spurred a heated debate on handling the spread of the virus.
The policy of isolating medical personnel and others arriving from Ebola-affected countries zones was abruptly implemented Friday by the governors of New York and New Jersey, Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie. The announcement came one day after a New York doctor who treated patients in Guinea became the first Ebola case diagnosed in the city and the fourth in the United States.
The mandate came as a surprise to the federal Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention in Atlanta, according to a federal official familiar with the situation.
"They're not happy," the official said of the CDC. "These two governors said, 'Take this, federal government.' They're very worried we won't be able to get physicians or nurses to go (to countries affected by the Ebola outbreak)."
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"They did this without consulting the city, and that's not a good thing," the official said of Cuomo and Christie. "They didn't let anyone know in advance."
Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity.
On Saturday, the CDC said that it sets the baseline recommended standards, but state and local officials have the prerogative to set tighter policies.
"When it comes to the federal standards set by the CDC, we will consider any measures that we believe have the potential to make the American people safer," the CDC said in a statement.
Nurse worried about mandatory quarantines
The two-state policy was implemented the same day that nurse Kaci Hickox landed at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey after working with Doctors Without Borders in treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone.
Hickox, in an Op-Ed piece in The Dallas Morning News, wrote that she was ordered placed in quarantine at a hospital, where she tested negative in a preliminary test for Ebola. Still, hospital officials told her she must remain under mandatory quarantine for 21 days.
Hickox wrote that she was held at the airport and questioned by various health workers after her flight landed about 1 p.m. At first, her temperature -- taken with forehead scanner -- was 98 degrees.
Hours later, her cheeks flushed with anger over being held without explanation, another scanner check recorded her temperature as 101 degrees, she wrote.
Hickox eventually got a police escort, sirens blaring, to a hospital, when her temperature was again checked in an outdoor tent. On the oral thermometer, her temperature was recorded as 98.6. And she tested negative for Ebola, she wrote in the Dallas newspaper. A second test by the CDC confirmed the finding.
In a statement released Saturday, Doctors Without Borders, or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), said there was a "notable lack of clarity" about the guidelines released by New York and New Jersey.
"We are attempting to clarify the details of the protocols with each state's departments of health to gain a full understanding of their requirements and implications," MSF said.
"While measures to protect public health are of paramount importance, they must be balanced against the rights of health workers returning from fighting the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to fair and reasonable treatment and the full disclosure of information to them, along with information about intended courses of action from local and state health authorities."
New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett is concerned that the mandatory quarantine will discourage doctors and nurses from volunteering to take care of Ebola patients in West Africa, according to her spokeswoman.
"We just want to make sure we don't inadvertently discourage volunteers who are going to West Africa to help control this epidemic,"said health department spokeswoman Jean Weinberg.
The new airport screening procedures require anyone who had direct contact with Ebola patients to remain in quarantine for up to three weeks.
In addition, people with a travel history to the affected regions but with no direct contact with Ebola patients will be "actively monitored ... and, if necessary, quarantined," according to the new policy.
"This is not the time to take chances," Cuomo said Friday. "This adjustment in increasing the screening procedures is necessary. ... I think public safety and public health have to be balanced and I think this policy does that."
New federal policy starts Monday
The new guidelines add to the federal policy requiring all travelers coming to the United States from Ebola-affected areas to be actively monitored for 21 days, starting Monday.
Already, such travelers landing at five U.S. airports -- New York's Kennedy, Dulles International, New Jersey's Newark Liberty International, Chicago's O'Hare International and Hartsfield-Jackson International in Atlanta -- must go through enhanced screening.
Ebola has killed nearly 5,000 people, mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, in what health officials call the worst outbreak of the disease in history.
Just four Americans -- all health care workers -- have contracted Ebola.
On Friday, the National Institutes of Health said Nina Pham, a Dallas nurse, had been declared free of the Ebola virus.
Public health experts say there's plenty of scientific evidence indicating that there's very little chance that a random person will get Ebola, unless he or she is in very close contact -- close enough to share bodily fluids -- with someone who has it.
How the Ebola virus spreads
New York Ebola patient in isolation
On Thursday, a New York doctor who had traveled on a humanitarian mission to Guinea, where he had treated Ebola patients, developed symptoms and has been hospitalized in Manhattan.
Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, is in isolation at Bellevue Hospital. He arrived back from Guinea on October 17 and had limited his public interactions but did not eliminate them, according to officials.
Spencer's fiancee, who has been under quarantine at Bellevue, has been cleared and has no symptoms, according to Jean Weinberg, a city health department spokeswoman. Two friends of Spencer are under quarantine outside the hospital and are being monitored, though they feel healthy.
On Saturday night, the doctor's fiancée returned home to the hazmat-cleaned apartment she shares with Spencer in Manhattan.
Dr. Jay Varma, deputy commissioner for disease control at the city health department, held a news conference outside said the woman would be under quarantine for 21 days and that she is healthy. She is not allowed visitors and groceries will be delivered to her apartment.
Spencer's activities, which include riding in subways and cabs, havesparked a sharp public debate about how to deal with people who have traveled to West African countries ravaged by the disease.
On Saturday, one of the places visited by the Spencer, The Gutter bowling alley in Brooklyn, reopened after extensive decontamination work. And New York Mayor Bill de Blasio dined on meatballs at a Manhattan restaurant visited by the doctor.
Should the focus of American policy be to do everything to prevent anyone who has visited the most ravaged regions from entering the United States, even if it discourages health care workers from going there?
Some U.S. lawmakers, such as Rep. Andy Harris, favor a strict three-week quarantine. (That duration is significant because it takes anywhere from two to 21 days from the time a person is exposed to Ebola to when he or she shows symptoms of it; if more time than that passes without symptoms, a person is considered Ebola-free.)
"In return from being allowed to come back into the country from a place where a deadly disease is endemic, you'd have to enter a quarantine facility and be supervised for 21 days," the Maryland Republican told CNN.
But other officials say while that policy could prevent some cases of Ebola in the United States over the short term, it could backfire if highly trained American doctors have less incentive to travel to Africa to fight the disease.
"These individuals who are going there to serve are the people who will end this crisis," de Blasio said. "We can't have the illusion that we can turn away from it and some day it may end. If we took that attitude, this would be a truly devastating global crisis."
The policy of isolating medical personnel and others arriving from Ebola-affected countries zones was abruptly implemented Friday by the governors of New York and New Jersey, Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie. The announcement came one day after a New York doctor who treated patients in Guinea became the first Ebola case diagnosed in the city and the fourth in the United States.
The mandate came as a surprise to the federal Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention in Atlanta, according to a federal official familiar with the situation.
"They're not happy," the official said of the CDC. "These two governors said, 'Take this, federal government.' They're very worried we won't be able to get physicians or nurses to go (to countries affected by the Ebola outbreak)."
Should health care workers be quarantined?
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Photos: The Ebola epidemic
A New York City official called more stringent screening "a real stunner."
Quarantined nurse slams travel policy
"They did this without consulting the city, and that's not a good thing," the official said of Cuomo and Christie. "They didn't let anyone know in advance."
Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity.
On Saturday, the CDC said that it sets the baseline recommended standards, but state and local officials have the prerogative to set tighter policies.
"When it comes to the federal standards set by the CDC, we will consider any measures that we believe have the potential to make the American people safer," the CDC said in a statement.
Nurse worried about mandatory quarantines
The two-state policy was implemented the same day that nurse Kaci Hickox landed at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey after working with Doctors Without Borders in treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone.
Hickox, in an Op-Ed piece in The Dallas Morning News, wrote that she was ordered placed in quarantine at a hospital, where she tested negative in a preliminary test for Ebola. Still, hospital officials told her she must remain under mandatory quarantine for 21 days.
Hickox wrote that she was held at the airport and questioned by various health workers after her flight landed about 1 p.m. At first, her temperature -- taken with forehead scanner -- was 98 degrees.
Hours later, her cheeks flushed with anger over being held without explanation, another scanner check recorded her temperature as 101 degrees, she wrote.
Hickox eventually got a police escort, sirens blaring, to a hospital, when her temperature was again checked in an outdoor tent. On the oral thermometer, her temperature was recorded as 98.6. And she tested negative for Ebola, she wrote in the Dallas newspaper. A second test by the CDC confirmed the finding.
In a statement released Saturday, Doctors Without Borders, or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), said there was a "notable lack of clarity" about the guidelines released by New York and New Jersey.
"We are attempting to clarify the details of the protocols with each state's departments of health to gain a full understanding of their requirements and implications," MSF said.
"While measures to protect public health are of paramount importance, they must be balanced against the rights of health workers returning from fighting the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to fair and reasonable treatment and the full disclosure of information to them, along with information about intended courses of action from local and state health authorities."
New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett is concerned that the mandatory quarantine will discourage doctors and nurses from volunteering to take care of Ebola patients in West Africa, according to her spokeswoman.
"We just want to make sure we don't inadvertently discourage volunteers who are going to West Africa to help control this epidemic,"said health department spokeswoman Jean Weinberg.
The new airport screening procedures require anyone who had direct contact with Ebola patients to remain in quarantine for up to three weeks.
In addition, people with a travel history to the affected regions but with no direct contact with Ebola patients will be "actively monitored ... and, if necessary, quarantined," according to the new policy.
"This is not the time to take chances," Cuomo said Friday. "This adjustment in increasing the screening procedures is necessary. ... I think public safety and public health have to be balanced and I think this policy does that."
New federal policy starts Monday
The new guidelines add to the federal policy requiring all travelers coming to the United States from Ebola-affected areas to be actively monitored for 21 days, starting Monday.
Already, such travelers landing at five U.S. airports -- New York's Kennedy, Dulles International, New Jersey's Newark Liberty International, Chicago's O'Hare International and Hartsfield-Jackson International in Atlanta -- must go through enhanced screening.
Ebola has killed nearly 5,000 people, mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, in what health officials call the worst outbreak of the disease in history.
Just four Americans -- all health care workers -- have contracted Ebola.
On Friday, the National Institutes of Health said Nina Pham, a Dallas nurse, had been declared free of the Ebola virus.
Public health experts say there's plenty of scientific evidence indicating that there's very little chance that a random person will get Ebola, unless he or she is in very close contact -- close enough to share bodily fluids -- with someone who has it.
How the Ebola virus spreads
New York Ebola patient in isolation
On Thursday, a New York doctor who had traveled on a humanitarian mission to Guinea, where he had treated Ebola patients, developed symptoms and has been hospitalized in Manhattan.
Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, is in isolation at Bellevue Hospital. He arrived back from Guinea on October 17 and had limited his public interactions but did not eliminate them, according to officials.
Spencer's fiancee, who has been under quarantine at Bellevue, has been cleared and has no symptoms, according to Jean Weinberg, a city health department spokeswoman. Two friends of Spencer are under quarantine outside the hospital and are being monitored, though they feel healthy.
On Saturday night, the doctor's fiancée returned home to the hazmat-cleaned apartment she shares with Spencer in Manhattan.
Dr. Jay Varma, deputy commissioner for disease control at the city health department, held a news conference outside said the woman would be under quarantine for 21 days and that she is healthy. She is not allowed visitors and groceries will be delivered to her apartment.
Spencer's activities, which include riding in subways and cabs, havesparked a sharp public debate about how to deal with people who have traveled to West African countries ravaged by the disease.
On Saturday, one of the places visited by the Spencer, The Gutter bowling alley in Brooklyn, reopened after extensive decontamination work. And New York Mayor Bill de Blasio dined on meatballs at a Manhattan restaurant visited by the doctor.
Should the focus of American policy be to do everything to prevent anyone who has visited the most ravaged regions from entering the United States, even if it discourages health care workers from going there?
Some U.S. lawmakers, such as Rep. Andy Harris, favor a strict three-week quarantine. (That duration is significant because it takes anywhere from two to 21 days from the time a person is exposed to Ebola to when he or she shows symptoms of it; if more time than that passes without symptoms, a person is considered Ebola-free.)
"In return from being allowed to come back into the country from a place where a deadly disease is endemic, you'd have to enter a quarantine facility and be supervised for 21 days," the Maryland Republican told CNN.
But other officials say while that policy could prevent some cases of Ebola in the United States over the short term, it could backfire if highly trained American doctors have less incentive to travel to Africa to fight the disease.
"These individuals who are going there to serve are the people who will end this crisis," de Blasio said. "We can't have the illusion that we can turn away from it and some day it may end. If we took that attitude, this would be a truly devastating global crisis."
March 31st, 2014 1:28 am
Just a quick update for you all i am still working on all the pending projects and will have some new material out for you guys. please feel free to email me at [email protected] for booking or any other questions. I also will be handing out CD's at all NSPW events. if you haven't had a chance to check out one of the shows please visit them at www.nspwla.com
December 31st, 2013 6:22 pm
Let me just say this now because in a few hours i will not be able to say it....
2013 was the year of development, the year of testing, knowledge and regeneration. 2014 is the year to move forward in the ventures that have been laid before me. I will be successful in what ever i do because i will allow myself become successful.
i want to leave behind all the bullshit that i have witnessed, been a part of and created. tomorrow will be the start of a new day, a new moon, a new year and a terrible hang over.
I don't believe in "God" but i do believe in energy, and i believe that this coming year will have the same demons that i have been fighting with through out my entire life. but i do have the upper hand this time. i have good, positive energy with me and one of the most powerful thing ever....myself
Happy New Years to all!!!
2013 was the year of development, the year of testing, knowledge and regeneration. 2014 is the year to move forward in the ventures that have been laid before me. I will be successful in what ever i do because i will allow myself become successful.
i want to leave behind all the bullshit that i have witnessed, been a part of and created. tomorrow will be the start of a new day, a new moon, a new year and a terrible hang over.
I don't believe in "God" but i do believe in energy, and i believe that this coming year will have the same demons that i have been fighting with through out my entire life. but i do have the upper hand this time. i have good, positive energy with me and one of the most powerful thing ever....myself
Happy New Years to all!!!
August 2nd, 2013 10:19 am
Good Morning world!!
I am writting to update you all on a few things, yes the albums are still being worked on, yes the albums will be sent out and yes i like the jiggley!! but all joking aside, i will be posting LIVE performances of (T.O.R.N.) very soon!!! all that information will be sent out to you all asap!! other than that enjoy your weekend!!
I am writting to update you all on a few things, yes the albums are still being worked on, yes the albums will be sent out and yes i like the jiggley!! but all joking aside, i will be posting LIVE performances of (T.O.R.N.) very soon!!! all that information will be sent out to you all asap!! other than that enjoy your weekend!!
July 28th, 2013 8:19 am
Good morning fellow friends, family and fans. We will be headed back on track to finish up the next line of albums for you to hear, those of you that have ordered "DmLight" will be receiving it soon, and i apologize for the super delay, as most of you know I have been super busy with another project. I am also developing some other special treats for you guys. please stay tuned and and thank you for listening.
Gay Marriage Approved? We at (T.O.R.N.) Support Gays, Lesbians, Same sex etc.
This is just an article about what happened....
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/us/politics/supreme-court-gay-marriage.html?_r=0
WASHINGTON — In a pair of major victories for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that married same-sex couples were entitled to federal benefits and, by declining to decide a case from California, effectively allowed same-sex marriages there.
The rulings leave in place laws banning same-sex marriage around the nation, and the court declined to say whether there was a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. But in clearing the way for same-sex marriage in California, the nation’s most populous state, the court effectively increased to 13 the number of states that allow such unions.
The decision on federal benefits will immediately extend many benefits to couples in the states where same-sex marriage is legal, and it will give the Obama administration the ability to broaden other benefits through executive actions.
The case concerning California’s ban on same-sex marriage, Proposition 8, was decided on technical grounds, with the majority saying that it was not properly before the court. Because officials in California had declined to appeal a trial court’s decision against them and because the proponents of Proposition 8 were not entitled to step into the state’s shoes to appeal the decision, the court said, it was powerless to issue a decision. That left in place a trial court victory for two same-sex couples who had sought to marry.
The decision on the federal law was 5 to 4, with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy writing the majority opinion, which the four liberal-leaning justices joined.
“The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the State, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity,” Justice Kennedy wrote. “By seeking to displace this protection and treating those persons as living in marriages less respected than others, the federal statute is in violation of the Fifth Amendment.”
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. was in the minority, as were Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr.
The ruling overturned the Defense of Marriage Act, which passed with bipartisan support and which President Bill Clinton signed.
The decision will raise a series of major questions for the Obama administration about how aggressively to overhaul references to marriage throughout the many volumes that lay out the laws of the United States.
The five-member majority in the California case was different from the one in the Defense of Marriage case, in a sign that the California case was less straightforward. Chief Justice Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by Justice Scalia, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Stephen G. Breyer and Justice Elena Kagan.
“In the majority’s telling, this story is black-and-white: Hate your neighbor or come along with us,” Justice Scalia wrote in his dissent in the case on the federal law. “The truth is more complicated.”
Justice Scalia read from his dissent on the bench, a step justices take in a small share of cases, typically to show that they have especially strong views.
Justice Kennedy, in his opinion, wrote that the law was “unconstitutional as a deprivation of the equal liberty of persons that is protected by the Fifth Amendment.”
If California becomes the 13th state to legalize same-sex marriage, about 30 percent of Americans will live in jurisdictions where it is legal. Until last year, when four states voted in favor of same-sex marriage at the ballot box, it had failed — or bans on it had succeeded — every time it had appeared on a statewide initiative.
Opponents of same-sex marriage have said that they remain hopeful that they can mount a political comeback, much as opponents of abortion used Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision, as a springboard to a more aggressive movement. Brian Brown, the head of the National Organization for Marriage, vowed Wednesday after the rulings to push for a federal constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
Gay rights advocates said they would continue pushing to legalize same-sex marriage in new states.
The case on the federal Defense of Marriage Act of 1996, United States v. Windsor, No. 12-307, considered the part of the law that defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman for purposes of federal benefits. (A different part of the law, allowing states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages from other states, was not before the court.)
The case concerned two New York City women, Edith Windsor and Thea Clara Spyer, who married in 2007 in Canada. Ms. Spyer died in 2009, and Ms. Windsor inherited her property. The 1996 law did not allow the Internal Revenue Service to treat Ms. Windsor as a surviving spouse, and she faced a tax bill of about $360,000 that a spouse in an opposite-sex marriage would not have had to pay. Ms. Windsor sued, and last year the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, struck down the 1996 law.
Until 2011, the Justice Department defended the law in court, as it typically does all acts of Congress. That year, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced that he and President Obama had concluded that the law was unconstitutional and unworthy of defense in court, but that the administration would continue to enforce the law. After the Justice Department stepped aside, House Republicans intervened to defend the law. Although the administration’s position prevailed in the lower courts, the Justice Department filed an appeal to the Supreme Court, saying the final decision should come from the highest court.
The case on Proposition 8, the 2008 California voter initiative that banned same-sex marriage there, was filed in 2009 by Theodore B. Olson and David Boies on behalf a two same-sex couples who sought to marry. The two lawyers argued on opposite sides in Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court case that settled the 2000 presidential election.
A judge in San Francisco struck down Proposition 8 in a broad ruling whose logic would apply to bans around the nation. California officials did not appeal the ruling.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, ruled that proponents of Proposition 8 had standing to appeal the judgment against the state. The court then affirmed the trial judge’s decision but on a narrower ground, saying voters were not entitled to withdraw a constitutional right once it had been established by the State Supreme Court. That reasoning did not directly threaten bans in other states.
In their brief in the Supreme Court, supporters of Proposition 8 said that preserving the traditional definition of marriage would “further society’s vital interests in responsible procreation and child rearing.” Those interests would be undermined, they say, by “officially redefining marriage as a genderless institution.” They urged the Supreme Court to proceed with caution in changing the definition of marriage and to respect societal judgments made through the democratic process.
Supporters of same-sex marriage responded that allowing gay and lesbian couples to wed would not make it any more likely that straight couples would act irresponsibly. They added that courts must protect the fundamental rights of disfavored minorities.
The Obama administration urged the Supreme Court to strike down Proposition 8, focusing on a ground that it said would apply to California and seven other states. It violates the Constitution’s equal protection clause, the administration’s brief said, to confer all the benefits and burdens of marriage on gay and lesbian couples through robust civil union or domestic partnership laws but withhold the label “marriage.”
The Proposition 8 case is Hollingsworth v. Perry, No. 12-144.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/us/politics/supreme-court-gay-marriage.html?_r=0
WASHINGTON — In a pair of major victories for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that married same-sex couples were entitled to federal benefits and, by declining to decide a case from California, effectively allowed same-sex marriages there.
The rulings leave in place laws banning same-sex marriage around the nation, and the court declined to say whether there was a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. But in clearing the way for same-sex marriage in California, the nation’s most populous state, the court effectively increased to 13 the number of states that allow such unions.
The decision on federal benefits will immediately extend many benefits to couples in the states where same-sex marriage is legal, and it will give the Obama administration the ability to broaden other benefits through executive actions.
The case concerning California’s ban on same-sex marriage, Proposition 8, was decided on technical grounds, with the majority saying that it was not properly before the court. Because officials in California had declined to appeal a trial court’s decision against them and because the proponents of Proposition 8 were not entitled to step into the state’s shoes to appeal the decision, the court said, it was powerless to issue a decision. That left in place a trial court victory for two same-sex couples who had sought to marry.
The decision on the federal law was 5 to 4, with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy writing the majority opinion, which the four liberal-leaning justices joined.
“The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the State, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity,” Justice Kennedy wrote. “By seeking to displace this protection and treating those persons as living in marriages less respected than others, the federal statute is in violation of the Fifth Amendment.”
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. was in the minority, as were Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr.
The ruling overturned the Defense of Marriage Act, which passed with bipartisan support and which President Bill Clinton signed.
The decision will raise a series of major questions for the Obama administration about how aggressively to overhaul references to marriage throughout the many volumes that lay out the laws of the United States.
The five-member majority in the California case was different from the one in the Defense of Marriage case, in a sign that the California case was less straightforward. Chief Justice Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by Justice Scalia, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Stephen G. Breyer and Justice Elena Kagan.
“In the majority’s telling, this story is black-and-white: Hate your neighbor or come along with us,” Justice Scalia wrote in his dissent in the case on the federal law. “The truth is more complicated.”
Justice Scalia read from his dissent on the bench, a step justices take in a small share of cases, typically to show that they have especially strong views.
Justice Kennedy, in his opinion, wrote that the law was “unconstitutional as a deprivation of the equal liberty of persons that is protected by the Fifth Amendment.”
If California becomes the 13th state to legalize same-sex marriage, about 30 percent of Americans will live in jurisdictions where it is legal. Until last year, when four states voted in favor of same-sex marriage at the ballot box, it had failed — or bans on it had succeeded — every time it had appeared on a statewide initiative.
Opponents of same-sex marriage have said that they remain hopeful that they can mount a political comeback, much as opponents of abortion used Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision, as a springboard to a more aggressive movement. Brian Brown, the head of the National Organization for Marriage, vowed Wednesday after the rulings to push for a federal constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
Gay rights advocates said they would continue pushing to legalize same-sex marriage in new states.
The case on the federal Defense of Marriage Act of 1996, United States v. Windsor, No. 12-307, considered the part of the law that defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman for purposes of federal benefits. (A different part of the law, allowing states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages from other states, was not before the court.)
The case concerned two New York City women, Edith Windsor and Thea Clara Spyer, who married in 2007 in Canada. Ms. Spyer died in 2009, and Ms. Windsor inherited her property. The 1996 law did not allow the Internal Revenue Service to treat Ms. Windsor as a surviving spouse, and she faced a tax bill of about $360,000 that a spouse in an opposite-sex marriage would not have had to pay. Ms. Windsor sued, and last year the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, struck down the 1996 law.
Until 2011, the Justice Department defended the law in court, as it typically does all acts of Congress. That year, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced that he and President Obama had concluded that the law was unconstitutional and unworthy of defense in court, but that the administration would continue to enforce the law. After the Justice Department stepped aside, House Republicans intervened to defend the law. Although the administration’s position prevailed in the lower courts, the Justice Department filed an appeal to the Supreme Court, saying the final decision should come from the highest court.
The case on Proposition 8, the 2008 California voter initiative that banned same-sex marriage there, was filed in 2009 by Theodore B. Olson and David Boies on behalf a two same-sex couples who sought to marry. The two lawyers argued on opposite sides in Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court case that settled the 2000 presidential election.
A judge in San Francisco struck down Proposition 8 in a broad ruling whose logic would apply to bans around the nation. California officials did not appeal the ruling.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, ruled that proponents of Proposition 8 had standing to appeal the judgment against the state. The court then affirmed the trial judge’s decision but on a narrower ground, saying voters were not entitled to withdraw a constitutional right once it had been established by the State Supreme Court. That reasoning did not directly threaten bans in other states.
In their brief in the Supreme Court, supporters of Proposition 8 said that preserving the traditional definition of marriage would “further society’s vital interests in responsible procreation and child rearing.” Those interests would be undermined, they say, by “officially redefining marriage as a genderless institution.” They urged the Supreme Court to proceed with caution in changing the definition of marriage and to respect societal judgments made through the democratic process.
Supporters of same-sex marriage responded that allowing gay and lesbian couples to wed would not make it any more likely that straight couples would act irresponsibly. They added that courts must protect the fundamental rights of disfavored minorities.
The Obama administration urged the Supreme Court to strike down Proposition 8, focusing on a ground that it said would apply to California and seven other states. It violates the Constitution’s equal protection clause, the administration’s brief said, to confer all the benefits and burdens of marriage on gay and lesbian couples through robust civil union or domestic partnership laws but withhold the label “marriage.”
The Proposition 8 case is Hollingsworth v. Perry, No. 12-144.
June 20th, 2013 10:06 am
The Second of thirteen is on it's way to be started and finished in one shot!! also the following albums 3, 4 and 5 will also be recorded and released all at the same time. Keep on the look out for dates and special news.
June 1st, 2013 7:52 am
Good day tyo you all!!
I would like to thank everyone in whom ordered their free copy for (T.O.R.N.)'s new album "DmLight" (1 of 13). your order will be mailed out to you asap. The album is now ready for order here at Dramainthevalley.com
this album will be limited time only and available until june 30th. after that it will no longer be in print. the next album "Religion: a Requisite" release date will be announced soon. Thank you all again and i hope you enjoy the madness here at (T.O.R.N.)
I would like to thank everyone in whom ordered their free copy for (T.O.R.N.)'s new album "DmLight" (1 of 13). your order will be mailed out to you asap. The album is now ready for order here at Dramainthevalley.com
this album will be limited time only and available until june 30th. after that it will no longer be in print. the next album "Religion: a Requisite" release date will be announced soon. Thank you all again and i hope you enjoy the madness here at (T.O.R.N.)
Ray Manzarek dies at 74
The Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek dies at 74
By Michael Thurston (AFP) – 7 hours ago
LOS ANGELES — Ray Manzarek, co-founder of legendary 1960s group The Doors and creator of their signature organ sound, has died after a long battle with cancer, his manager said. He was 74.
Manzarek formed the group -- whose worldwide hits included "Light My Fire" and "L.A. Woman" -- with Jim Morrison in 1965 after the two met by chance in Venice Beach, California.
He died Monday surrounded by his wife Dorothy and brothers Rick and James in a clinic in Rosenheim, Germany after "a lengthy battle with bile duct cancer," said a statement on the Doors Facebook page.
"I was deeply saddened to hear about the passing of my friend and bandmate Ray Manzarek today," The Doors' guitarist and long-time collaborator Robby Krieger was quoted as saying.
"I'm just glad to have been able to have played Doors songs with him for the last decade. Ray was a huge part of my life and I will always miss him," he added.
Tom Vitorino, the keyboardist's manager, told AFP: "Ray Manzarek was larger than life. He will be missed."
The Doors were one of the biggest acts of the 1960s, selling over 100 million albums worldwide and earning 19 Gold, 14 Platinum and five multi-Platinum albums in America alone.
Morrison impressed Manzarek, who moved from Chicago to Los Angeles to study film, with an early version of "Moonlight Drive" during their chance meeting on Venice Beach.
Manzarak was responsible for the band's trademark sound, including the rolling organ on songs like "Light My Fire." Other hits included "Break On Through to the Other Side," "The End" and "Hello, I Love You."
He was "really the driving force behind (the band) to make it all happen," former band manager Bill Siddons said. "He was the guy behind the curtain that made things happen."
Morrison's untimely death in 1971 aged 27 effectively ended the band's iconic phase, although the group continued to perform and release music with various band line-ups.
Manzarek wrote a best-selling book about his life, "Light My Fire: My Life with The Doors," in 1998. He was played by Kyle McLachlan in the 1991 Oliver Stone biopic "The Doors."
Slash, the former lead guitarist of Guns N' Roses, was among the first to pay tribute, posting on his Twitter account: "RIP Ray Manzarek words cannot express."
Morrison's sudden death -- he was found in a bathtub in his Paris apartment -- stunned fans of the band, which broke fresh ground in psychedelic rock with such hits as "Riders on the Storm" and "People are Strange" and "Light My Fire".
There was never an autopsy, giving rise to multiple conspiracy theories, as Morrison's remains were buried in the French capital's Pere Lachaise cemetery, alongside other such notables as Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein and Oscar Wilde.
Morrison moved to Paris after the 1971 release of "L.A. Woman" and lived in the then-not-yet-hip Marais district with partner Pamela Coulson. It was she who found him dead, with a heart attack officially cited as the cause.
Manzarek, who did much to keep the Doors flame burning, once suggested another possibility. Recalling a 1970 conversation with Morrison, he wondered if the intense frontman had just faked his death to start a new life incognito.
In 2011 Manzarek and Krieger marked the 40th anniversary of the singer's death with a sell-out concert at the Bataclan club in Paris.
The Doors were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 and have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where flowers were placed Monday in Manzarek's memory.
By Michael Thurston (AFP) – 7 hours ago
LOS ANGELES — Ray Manzarek, co-founder of legendary 1960s group The Doors and creator of their signature organ sound, has died after a long battle with cancer, his manager said. He was 74.
Manzarek formed the group -- whose worldwide hits included "Light My Fire" and "L.A. Woman" -- with Jim Morrison in 1965 after the two met by chance in Venice Beach, California.
He died Monday surrounded by his wife Dorothy and brothers Rick and James in a clinic in Rosenheim, Germany after "a lengthy battle with bile duct cancer," said a statement on the Doors Facebook page.
"I was deeply saddened to hear about the passing of my friend and bandmate Ray Manzarek today," The Doors' guitarist and long-time collaborator Robby Krieger was quoted as saying.
"I'm just glad to have been able to have played Doors songs with him for the last decade. Ray was a huge part of my life and I will always miss him," he added.
Tom Vitorino, the keyboardist's manager, told AFP: "Ray Manzarek was larger than life. He will be missed."
The Doors were one of the biggest acts of the 1960s, selling over 100 million albums worldwide and earning 19 Gold, 14 Platinum and five multi-Platinum albums in America alone.
Morrison impressed Manzarek, who moved from Chicago to Los Angeles to study film, with an early version of "Moonlight Drive" during their chance meeting on Venice Beach.
Manzarak was responsible for the band's trademark sound, including the rolling organ on songs like "Light My Fire." Other hits included "Break On Through to the Other Side," "The End" and "Hello, I Love You."
He was "really the driving force behind (the band) to make it all happen," former band manager Bill Siddons said. "He was the guy behind the curtain that made things happen."
Morrison's untimely death in 1971 aged 27 effectively ended the band's iconic phase, although the group continued to perform and release music with various band line-ups.
Manzarek wrote a best-selling book about his life, "Light My Fire: My Life with The Doors," in 1998. He was played by Kyle McLachlan in the 1991 Oliver Stone biopic "The Doors."
Slash, the former lead guitarist of Guns N' Roses, was among the first to pay tribute, posting on his Twitter account: "RIP Ray Manzarek words cannot express."
Morrison's sudden death -- he was found in a bathtub in his Paris apartment -- stunned fans of the band, which broke fresh ground in psychedelic rock with such hits as "Riders on the Storm" and "People are Strange" and "Light My Fire".
There was never an autopsy, giving rise to multiple conspiracy theories, as Morrison's remains were buried in the French capital's Pere Lachaise cemetery, alongside other such notables as Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein and Oscar Wilde.
Morrison moved to Paris after the 1971 release of "L.A. Woman" and lived in the then-not-yet-hip Marais district with partner Pamela Coulson. It was she who found him dead, with a heart attack officially cited as the cause.
Manzarek, who did much to keep the Doors flame burning, once suggested another possibility. Recalling a 1970 conversation with Morrison, he wondered if the intense frontman had just faked his death to start a new life incognito.
In 2011 Manzarek and Krieger marked the 40th anniversary of the singer's death with a sell-out concert at the Bataclan club in Paris.
The Doors were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 and have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where flowers were placed Monday in Manzarek's memory.
Arrested Developement
Here is the new Single "Arrested Development"
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May 15th, 2013 1:53 pm
Hell-o Everyone!! TimeMachine Music Studios is working real hard on editing and mixing and mastering the final Master CD for me to develop for you guys the album "DmLight" Chris is working real hard in the studio and adding that (T.O.R.N.) magic and flavor for you ears to devour. if you guys haven't checked out their website please do so.
Luna Blue Art Collective is also working real hard on developing the next album covers for (T.O.R.N.)'s albums. This company works real hard and they do a great job at what they do, please check them out and follow their work.
Luna Blue Art Collective is also working real hard on developing the next album covers for (T.O.R.N.)'s albums. This company works real hard and they do a great job at what they do, please check them out and follow their work.
"Empty"This is the actual take that is being used for the album, we figured that you guys would like to see how Chris at TimeMachine Music Studios records me sometimes.We always have a great time recording and it is always an adventure and fun! Well, hope you guys enjoy!
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May 11th, 2013 11:31 pm
Writing process for the next few albums, using some old material and creating new music as well. The next few albums are going to be a mixure of acoustic and electric. so hopefully everything goes smooth and well where i will be able to load up the website full of music!!
May 5th, 2013 10:21 pm
The writing process is coming along very well, i am in hopes that i will be able to one afford the studio time and two able to have the time to finish all Thirteen albums. The theory came to me one day as i was working on this website, i want to write thirteen albums by the end of this year, then in 2014 i will have a box set available for you all called "13" which i am planning on having all thirteen albums, plus a few live albums as well as interviews, bloopers, a video of the making of all thirteen albums and even live in the studio. This is going to be one of the best thing that i ever do for (T.O.R.N.) and it will be one of my greatest accomplishments in life. This is a goal that i have for myself and i will see it fulfilled to the fullest.
I will also be adding videos on this website for you to watch and see all teh frustrations that will going on in the studios. well with taht being said, you yall want to submit some feed back you can do so below.
I will also be adding videos on this website for you to watch and see all teh frustrations that will going on in the studios. well with taht being said, you yall want to submit some feed back you can do so below.
May 5th, 2013 1:57 pm
Currently working on the second (2nd) Album if the "13" series called "Religion : A Requisite." This album will touch on my thoughts, theories and feelings towards religion and how it is imposed onto us as a requisite instead of a choice. This album also will also explain as to why i am called "Time Ends" as well as many other things. Lets look at this not as an insult or instigation to begin an argument or a fight, but rather like an open minded discussion with out prejudice, and after we have spoken we move on like nothing has happened.
The single "A Letter to God" is hopefully released next month for your download and listening pleasure. You will have the ability to purchase the songs for download as well as purchase the album via compact disk. please feel free to ask me any questions!
The single "A Letter to God" is hopefully released next month for your download and listening pleasure. You will have the ability to purchase the songs for download as well as purchase the album via compact disk. please feel free to ask me any questions!
I drink to you my friend!!
(CNN) -- Grammy-winning guitarist Jeff Hanneman, a founding member of the heavy metal band Slayer, died Thursday of liver failure in Southern California, the band said in a statement.
He was 49.
"Slayer is devastated to inform that their bandmate and brother, Jeff Hanneman, passed away at about 11 a.m. this morning near his Southern California home. Hanneman was in an area hospital when he suffered liver failure," the band said in a statement posted on its website and Facebook page.
Hanneman leaves behind his wife, Kathy, a sister and two brothers.
"He ... will be sorely missed," the band said.
The guitarist was with Slayer from its founding in 1981. Its breakthrough came five years later with the release of "Reign in Blood," an album that included two songs -- "Angel of Death" and "Raining Blood" -- co-written by Hanneman.
That was one of 10 studio albums that the band put out over three decades together, during which they performed thousands of shows.
On Slayer's official website, Hanneman said that the last one -- "World Painted Blood" -- came together quickly because the band's members worked seamlessly.
"The interaction between all of us on this record was really something special," he said. "... The chemistry was just good."
In 2006 and 2007, Slayer won Grammy awards for best metal performance.
The metal world -- in tweets from, among many others, the bands Rancid, Hatebreed, In Flames and Testament -- reacted to Hanneman's death with sadness and appreciation, referring to him as a "true heavy metal legend" and a "brother in thrash."
"Jeff Hanneman will always be a metal god," wrote rocker Andrew WK. "A true master, he gave energy and excitement to millions, and will continue to. #PartyForSlayer."
The news also spurred thousands of diehard fans to comment about Hanneman on Slayer's Facebook page.
Wrote one: "One of the best shredders ever to walk Earth. RIP, good sir."
CNN - http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/02/showbiz/california-jeff-hanneman-obit/index.html
He was 49.
"Slayer is devastated to inform that their bandmate and brother, Jeff Hanneman, passed away at about 11 a.m. this morning near his Southern California home. Hanneman was in an area hospital when he suffered liver failure," the band said in a statement posted on its website and Facebook page.
Hanneman leaves behind his wife, Kathy, a sister and two brothers.
"He ... will be sorely missed," the band said.
The guitarist was with Slayer from its founding in 1981. Its breakthrough came five years later with the release of "Reign in Blood," an album that included two songs -- "Angel of Death" and "Raining Blood" -- co-written by Hanneman.
That was one of 10 studio albums that the band put out over three decades together, during which they performed thousands of shows.
On Slayer's official website, Hanneman said that the last one -- "World Painted Blood" -- came together quickly because the band's members worked seamlessly.
"The interaction between all of us on this record was really something special," he said. "... The chemistry was just good."
In 2006 and 2007, Slayer won Grammy awards for best metal performance.
The metal world -- in tweets from, among many others, the bands Rancid, Hatebreed, In Flames and Testament -- reacted to Hanneman's death with sadness and appreciation, referring to him as a "true heavy metal legend" and a "brother in thrash."
"Jeff Hanneman will always be a metal god," wrote rocker Andrew WK. "A true master, he gave energy and excitement to millions, and will continue to. #PartyForSlayer."
The news also spurred thousands of diehard fans to comment about Hanneman on Slayer's Facebook page.
Wrote one: "One of the best shredders ever to walk Earth. RIP, good sir."
CNN - http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/02/showbiz/california-jeff-hanneman-obit/index.html
April 24th, 2013 2:53 pm
Without Influence featuring Ryan Lee Adams 2013
This album is being recorded in sections. First we did the percussion. I had Chris mix it to how he see's fit, then i had him finalize then i sent it out to musicians that asked to be a part of the project i had them record the bass line, then i had Chris mix it to a stereo mix of the percussion, then finalize that into a stereo mix to record keyboards and so on and so forth,i want this album to be recorded without the influence of anyone on the musicians, i want it to be 100% natural with them.
Musicians such as Joaquin Fores, Tyler Lippens, Ossain Avela Cardenas, Chris Whitlock joined this project.
Our featured Artist on this Album is none other than the Original percussionist of (T.O.R.N.) Ryan Lee Adams.
Musicians such as Joaquin Fores, Tyler Lippens, Ossain Avela Cardenas, Chris Whitlock joined this project.
Our featured Artist on this Album is none other than the Original percussionist of (T.O.R.N.) Ryan Lee Adams.
April 24th, 2013 11:55 am
New(T.O.R.N.) Album Release date will be on May 25th, 2013
Finally here and ready for print, the new (T.O.R.N.) Album "DmLight" will officially be released May 25th 2013 along side other favorite (T.O.R.N.) albums as well, an event will take place and will be announced in the near future, will you get to hear some favorite (T.O.R.N.) songs, it is very possible.
DmLight is a collection of poetry that talks about several different topics such as the loss of a child to drug addiction.
"We all have demons, we all have demons that follow us, demons that try to take over our lives, but in reality we are the demon. I have been haunted my entire life by things that i don't even believe in, the the truth of the matter is they are real and they believe in you whether you believe in them or not!" - Time Ends 2013
"DmLight" cover was designed by our dear friends "the Luna Blue Art Collective" cover concept by Time Ends. The Single "Broken it Seems" will be released may 3rd 2013. Stay tuned for more details about this new album and how to purchase it!
DmLight is a collection of poetry that talks about several different topics such as the loss of a child to drug addiction.
"We all have demons, we all have demons that follow us, demons that try to take over our lives, but in reality we are the demon. I have been haunted my entire life by things that i don't even believe in, the the truth of the matter is they are real and they believe in you whether you believe in them or not!" - Time Ends 2013
"DmLight" cover was designed by our dear friends "the Luna Blue Art Collective" cover concept by Time Ends. The Single "Broken it Seems" will be released may 3rd 2013. Stay tuned for more details about this new album and how to purchase it!
April 21, 2013 5:09 am
Mission status Recording
Destination Palmdale
Destination Palmdale
April 19, 2013 8:35 pm
Sunday 6:00 am i head into "TimeMachine Music Studios" yet once again to begin the recording process on the new (T.O.R.N.) album "DmLight" this album will have a grand total (e.l.e.v.e.n.) tracks here is a list for you guys if you are interested!!
1. Apology
2. Charlie
3. Broken it Seems
4. Buried
5. Sleep Paralysis
6. Empty
7. Arrested Development
8. Pain
9. Bullet
10. An empty room full of people
11. Apathy
1. Apology
2. Charlie
3. Broken it Seems
4. Buried
5. Sleep Paralysis
6. Empty
7. Arrested Development
8. Pain
9. Bullet
10. An empty room full of people
11. Apathy
April 17th, 2013 9:48 am
CD's are still being developed, Albums being created. The new (T.O.R.N.) Album is set to be released soon, the single for the album will be announced soon!! the cover of the album will be designed by Luna Blue Art Collective. More news coming soon, stay tuned! Tour dates also will be announced!!
If you haven't had a chance to check out our friends at "Luna Blue" click here.
If you haven't had a chance to check out our friends at "Luna Blue" click here.
April 14th, 2013 9:51 am
It is with true sadness that we report that Deftones bassist Chi Cheng passed away early Saturday morning (April 13) after a four-year battle to survive following a car crash in 2008.
The 42-year-old musician had spent most of the time since the accident in a coma, briefly showing signs of consciousness on a couple of occasions. Over the past few years, Deftones have continued to record and perform without Cheng, but had always kept the bassist close to their hearts.
Cheng was seriously hurt on Nov. 4, 2008 when a car he was traveling in with his sister Mae flipped multiple times after hitting another vehicle. His struggle over the past four years was documented by his family at the website OneLoveForChi.com, where the news of his death was posted by his mother on Saturday:
Our dearest Family,
This is the hardest thing to write to you. Your love and heart and devotion to Chi was unconditional and amazing. I know that you will always remember him as a giant of a man on stage with a heart for every one of you. He was taken to the emegency [sic] room and at 3 am today his heart just suddenly stopped. He left this world with me singing songs he liked in his ear.
He fought the good fight. You stood by him sending love daily. He knew that he was very loved and never alone. I will write more later. I will be going through the oneloveforchi and any other information may not be reliable. If you have any stories or messages to share please send them to the onelove site. Please hold Mae and Ming and the siblings and especially Chi’s son, Gabriel in your prayers. It is so hard to let go.
With great love and “Much Respect!” Mom J (and Chi)
Deftones frontman Chino Moreno recently discussed the band’s relationship with Chi, telling Noisecreep, “When I was 17-years-old, I moved out of my parents’ house and moved in with him. We’ve been best friends most of my life. I’ll just be doing some random thing in my life and he’s always in my thoughts. The whole band feels very strongly about him and he’s always been a part of things.”
Back in October, Deftones invited Cheng’s son Gabe to perform with them at a show in Sacramento, Calif. Video of the performance can be seen here.
Loudwire would like to express its deepest condolences to Chi Cheng’s family, friends and bandmates during this very difficult time. One love for Chi.
Report from http://loudwire.com/
The 42-year-old musician had spent most of the time since the accident in a coma, briefly showing signs of consciousness on a couple of occasions. Over the past few years, Deftones have continued to record and perform without Cheng, but had always kept the bassist close to their hearts.
Cheng was seriously hurt on Nov. 4, 2008 when a car he was traveling in with his sister Mae flipped multiple times after hitting another vehicle. His struggle over the past four years was documented by his family at the website OneLoveForChi.com, where the news of his death was posted by his mother on Saturday:
Our dearest Family,
This is the hardest thing to write to you. Your love and heart and devotion to Chi was unconditional and amazing. I know that you will always remember him as a giant of a man on stage with a heart for every one of you. He was taken to the emegency [sic] room and at 3 am today his heart just suddenly stopped. He left this world with me singing songs he liked in his ear.
He fought the good fight. You stood by him sending love daily. He knew that he was very loved and never alone. I will write more later. I will be going through the oneloveforchi and any other information may not be reliable. If you have any stories or messages to share please send them to the onelove site. Please hold Mae and Ming and the siblings and especially Chi’s son, Gabriel in your prayers. It is so hard to let go.
With great love and “Much Respect!” Mom J (and Chi)
Deftones frontman Chino Moreno recently discussed the band’s relationship with Chi, telling Noisecreep, “When I was 17-years-old, I moved out of my parents’ house and moved in with him. We’ve been best friends most of my life. I’ll just be doing some random thing in my life and he’s always in my thoughts. The whole band feels very strongly about him and he’s always been a part of things.”
Back in October, Deftones invited Cheng’s son Gabe to perform with them at a show in Sacramento, Calif. Video of the performance can be seen here.
Loudwire would like to express its deepest condolences to Chi Cheng’s family, friends and bandmates during this very difficult time. One love for Chi.
Report from http://loudwire.com/
April 7th, 2013 9:33 am
My studio is still a wreck, i have to assemble it but lack the will to. Mid this month i will be preparing to speed up the process and begin to have all my merchandise ready for sale.
March 30th, 2013 12:30 pm
Happy Easter to everyone!! I will be spending time with the family for a bit!
March 26th, 2013
Long battle with my mental illness as well as dealing with financial issues, I am finally able to return to the studio and complete what i started. Soon i will have all the albums ready for sale as well as new album projects ready to be distributed for your ears to enjoy and/or dislike!! i will be sending out massive advertisement for all of you my friends! see you soon!