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Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls Rock 'n' Roll incompatible with Islam

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei bans rock 'n roll

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said today that music is "not compatible" with the values of the Islamic republic, and should not be practised or taught in the country.

In some of the most extreme comments by a senior regime figure since the 1979 revolution, Khamenei said: "Although music is halal, promoting and teaching it is not compatible with the highest values of the sacred regime of the Islamic Republic."

Khamenei's comments came in response to a request for a ruling by a 21-year-old follower of his, who was thinking of starting music lessons, but wanted to know if they were acceptable according to Islam, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. "It's better that our dear youth spend their valuable time in learning science and essential and useful skills and fill their time with sport and healthy recreations instead of music," he said.

Unlike other clerics in Iran, whose religious rulings are practised by their own followers, Khamenei's views are interpreted as administrative orders for the whole country, which must be obeyed by the government. Last month Khamenei issued a controversial fatwa in which he likened his leadership to that of the Prophet Muhammad and obliged all Iranians to obey his orders.

Khamenei has rarely expressed his views on music publicly, but he is believed have played a key role in the crackdown on Iran's music scene following the revolution. When Khamenei was president, he banned western-style music, forcing many stars to go into exile.

Houshang Asadi, a former cellmate of Khamenei before the Islamic Revolution said: "He hated the music from the beginning."

"There were times I sang a song by Banan (a popular vocalist) for him and he told me to avoid music and instead pray to God", said Asadi, who shared a cell with Khamenei for four months in Moshtarak prison in Tehran in 1976 and stayed friend with him for several years after the revolution. "The only music he liked was revolutionary and religious anthems," said Asadi.

After the reformist President Khatami took office in 1997, official attitudes towards music and especially pop began to thaw.

After his election in 2005, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cracked down on music. His ministry of culture and Islamic guidance has refused permission for the distribution of thousands of albums. Since last year's disputed elections the authorities have given even fewer permits for public concerts, fearing they could be used by the opposition.

Iran has rarely given permission to concerts, as it fears that the opposition might use it as an opportunity to express itself, said Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Iran's most prolific and popular classical vocalist.

"They are afraid of my concerts because of those moments before the concert is begun, when the whole hall is in silence and darkness when someone suddenly shouts 'death to dictator' and everybody accompanies and they are unable to identify that person," Shajarian said.

Iggy Pop News

Iggy Pop is proud of 'Kill City,' the 1977 album he recorded with late-era Stooges guitarist James Williamson. With Williamson and Pop back together in the Stooges after three decades of estrangement, the project's Oct. 19 reissue couldn't be better timed.

"'Kill City' to me was a very good minor work," Pop told Rolling Stone this week while promoting his new T-shirt line. "It was an important work. It was my indie record."

Originally recorded in 1975 as a demo to shop to labels at a time when the singer was fighting heroin addiction, the disc features such lost piano-laden classics as 'I Got Nuthin,' 'No Sense of Crime' and the title track.

Pop also reported that he and Williamson are at work on demos for their first new collaborations since 1980's 'Soldier.' Pop says that although "the riffs are really good," he's raised the bar for any new material that sees the light of day.

"I'm keen to respect the integrity of the group and what it stands for so I don't want to do a new album lightly," he explained. "Whatever songs we do, I want them to be better."

Foghat Doing The Blues
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When vocalist “Lonesome” Dave Peverett died from cancer in 2000, he took a bit of Foghat with him. However, a vocalist he admired named Charlie Huhn— who last sang with Humble Pie — now carries on the torch by fronting the well-known, blues-based, classic rock of Foghat.

In recent years Foghat decided to make a dream of Lonesome Dave’s a reality: release an all-blues record, writing blues originals and covering songs from the masters. And that is exactly what the band did by releasing the album “Last Train Home,” a firehouse of an album that includes the guitar mastery and engineering aptitude of Bryan Bassett, and musical guests such as well-admired blues guitarist Eddie Kirkland.

How did the idea of putting out a blues record come around? It’s something that the band has thought about for a long time.
Roger Earl: Actually, Dave (Peverett) talked about it years ago, about doing an album of all blues songs, and we never got around to doing just that. Lots of albums that we’ve done would have one or two songs, like our first single “I Just Want to Make Love To You,” and some people maybe thought that we ruined that.

Far from it.
RE: Yeah, far from it. Willie Dixon was happy because he was getting money from the first album because he wrote it. And when we did the live album in ‘77 (“Foghat Live”), it was released as a single again, and again a hit record, so …

And now you’ve made Lonesome Dave’s dream — of putting out an all-blues record — a reality.
Bryan Bassett: We did. Actually, it used to be a sort of ritual of ours. After each performance we would go back to the bus and listen to blues records. We talked about it for years and never had opportunity to do it .

I think Lonesome Dave would be very proud of this album.
BB: That’s good to hear, because I felt like Dave was on my shoulder the whole time.
Charlie Huhn: I personally always keep him in my thoughts, and he gives me motivation. It’s like he’s still here coaching. And he always has, always will. His effort will always go recognized in my book. He’s one of my mentors. I’ve had several shoes to fill in my history, but it’s his guidance, and I appreciate your comment.
BB: What I appreciate about Charlie is the way he’s able to cover Dave’s songs, with the same approach to performing, interacting with the crowd and rocking out.

Foghat (left to right): Dave "Lonesome" Peverett, Rod Price, Roger Earl, Craig MacGregor

Over the years, Foghat has gotten the chance to jam with many blues legends.
RE: Yes, that’s a highlight of my life, definitely. We did a show for the New York Public Library (Blues Benefit for the NY Public Library in 1977). They didn’t have any sort of collection of blues records. And Dave was really keen on doing it. We were doing the “Stone Blue” album at the time, and Foghat was basically the house band for Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Otis Blackwell, Johnny Winter, Eddie Kirkland … When we met Eddie, he used to play with John Lee Hooker, in the early ’50s, in Detroit, and we met Eddie the week we were doing rehearsals in the New York City. Eddie had a band there and they were just horrible, so Eddie said to our manager, ‘Can you get rid of them?’ They were young. they didn’t know how to play, so we backed Eddie. And I would play for Eddie Kirkland anytime, anywhere, anyhow. He’s an absolute gem. He’s got a great voice still. He’s a great guitar player. So now we recorded seven or eight songs down in Florida with Eddie and we only had room for two of them on the new album.
CH: 86 years old, still real fresh. Prolific writer.

How did you arrange for him to come into the studio?
CH: We asked his agent and manager when he was available. He had just gotten back from Europe. He drove his car down. We sat in the living room and played for a day.

Eddie just fit right in?
RE: The first couple of songs, it was a little tentative, I think. I don’t think Eddie was really sure quite what was gonna go on.
CH: And he changed stuff all the time, just like a real blues guy. All of sudden it was like, boom, you were into the four-chord, a measure early, and you’re like, “Okay. I’m following you.”
RE: And by the time we got around to the third song, I think Eddie realized we were there for him. And then it was great.

FOGHAT Vocalist/guitarist Charlie Huhn and lead guitarist Bryan Bassett. Courtesy of Foghat

How did you choose some of the songs on the new album … the ones from other blues artists?
CH: Well, we all had our favorite blues songs that we’d grown real close to over the years. And then Roger said, “Well, we have to do some Savoy Brown songs, too. So what about “Needle and Spoon?’ And I said, ‘Yeah!’ I used to drive hours to see Savoy Brown in the late ’60s, so this was all coming full circle. And we knew we had to write some originals, too. It’s fun to get that stuff out, too, because it’s got to come out.

Speaking of Savoy Brown, do you still keep up with Kim Simmonds?
RE: I think Kim has been playing better than he ever has. His guitar playing is great. We talk two or three times a year and we see each other.
CH: Boy, if Savoy Brown ever got back together, I’d buy the first ticket!

Savoy Brown is known as a British band that did better in the States. But when I first found out years ago that Foghat was a British band, I was surprised.
RE: We grew up listening to American music. Everybody sang with American accents.
CH: People who are younger and their influence wasn’t from Savoy Brown, probably didn’t know the history of the band Foghat by listening to just radio airplay. You can research and learn about the history of the group but a lot of people didn’t do that either. Early on, they (Foghat) couldn’t get arrested over in their own home country.

This new album can also be about turning a younger generation onto the blues, too.
CH: Yeah, they’re the ones that really need to learn about it.

Well, kids see the band on things like Guitar Hero, then they know about Foghat. They see this album and might say, ‘Wow, what’s this stuff?’
CH: Guitar Hero’s been really good to the band, in that it has introduced us to the younger generation. Now, as far as introducing the younger generation to the blues … I don’t really know how to do that, but I think that once they hear and realize that we are a blues-influenced band they will put the connection together.

Now, the name “Last Train Home” … it doesn’t have any farewell statement to it, does it?
CH: Oh, no. It’s just about a relationship that went bad and the title kind of just stuck. So there’s no underlying, subliminal message there.
RE: What you can do is play the CD backwards, and then you’ll be enlightened. (laughs)
CH: Yeah, hold it under a black light.Which in the ’70s, many probably would have done.

Putting this album aside for a moment, what Foghat album are you most fond of?
RE: The first album, which we did with Dave Edmunds. I am particularly fond of that, the way Dave Edmunds actually pulled it all together for us. He was fabulous to work with. All the arrangements to the songs were pretty much there and we were struggling trying to mix it ourselves in various studios.

Then we got to Rockfield Studios, and Dave Edmunds had the night shift and we finally said to him, ‘Dave, can you help us out on this?’ and it came to the point where he would say ‘Let me play piano on this. You need piano right there.’ or ‘Let me try my guitar on this one for you.’ And the next thing we knew he’s producing our album. Thank you, Dave. Incredible player and engineer.

The band had just played a NASCAR event, playing the national anthem, with mixed reactions I’ve heard.
BB: We played that as a band. Me, personally, it was great. It’s an honor for me and to my patriotism and we’re honored to do it. It was our first performance of doing it and we wanted to do it very plainly so people can sing along with us. And we wanted to show our support for the military overseas.

Now, after touring to support this album, what’s next for Foghat?
CH: We haven’t put our finger on exactly what we want to release next. Right now, we just keep writing and recording, stay productive, stay active.

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Seattle Hempfest started out as a humble little gathering of stoners and has grown into one of the most sophisticated cannabis policy reform events in the world. Originally billed in 1991 as the "Washington Hemp Expo",

The fallout from Jack Herer's groundbreaking publication, "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", was just beginning to build and the time was right for a new wave of marijuana activists to emerge on the political scene.

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Eagles musician Don Henley settles copyright wrangle

Eagles musician Don Henley has reached an out-of-court settlement with a US politician who used his songs for an election campaign without permission.

Republican Senatorial candidate Chuck DeVore paid an undisclosed sum of money and made an apology for creating parodies of two hits written by Henley.

The California politician also said sorry for rewriting the song lyrics.

Henley said he took action to protect "the rights of artists to control the use of the works they create".

"My colleagues and I brought this lawsuit to protect our music from being taken and used, without permission, to promote someone else's agenda. It was not a question of political ideology," he added.

'Disparaging remarks'

Mr DeVore admitted that the song parodies, which were posted on YouTube, had infringed copyright.

"Political candidates, regardless of affiliation, should seek appropriate licence authority before they use copyrighted works.

"Further, we regret all inaccurate, derogatory or disparaging remarks made about Mr Henley during the course of this dispute," his statement added.

After Henley took legal action, Mr DeVore said "it's time to up the ante on Me Henley's liberal goon tactics", and claimed the material was used fairly.

Last year, Henley and two other musicians sued DeVore and a campaign worker for the misuse of their work.

All She Wants To Do Is Dance and The Boys of Summer were used in campaign videos called All She Wants To Do Is Tax and Hope Of November, which have since been removed.

Mr DeVore was unsuccessful in his bid to be California's Republican nominee for the Senate elections.

Among numerous copyright cases brought by US musicians against politicians, former Republican presidential hopeful John McCain issued an apology to Jackson Browne for using his song without permission

DOOBIES WORLD GONE CRAZY EXTENDS BROTHERHOOD

(WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.) The Sept. 28 HOR Records release of the Doobie Brothers’ World Gone Crazy pushes the band’s already expansive palette of sounds even further with the help of some very special guests. For a band whose diverse influences may only be exceeded by their long list of current and former collaborators, the added contributions make perfect sense.

Founders and principal songwriters Tom Johnston and Pat Simmons have anchored the band throughout the past 40 years, but didn’t hesitate to reach outside when merited. And what could be more meritorious than a co-write and duet with American icon Willie Nelson on “I Know We Won.” Simmons explains, “I’d been talking to Willie for ages. He’s a fantastic person and perfectly captured the sentiment.”

Elsewhere, Johnston enlisted world class musicians for several sessions, including accomplished piano master Billy Payne, percussionist Karl Perazzo (Santana), Doobie sax man Mark Russo, Tower of Power horn legend Mic Gillette and A-list drummer Gregg Bissonette. “Billy is professor longhair twice removed and really the guy for the kind of stuff we wanted on the song ‘World Gone Crazy, ‘” Johnston says. “I was really going for that New Orleans feel. He also did a few other songs, bringing rich gospel sound to ‘A Brighter Day. ‘ We got a lot done in a three day period with all those guys. And that’s been the goal of all our records: To achieve that diversity but at the same time remain true to ourselves.”

For “Don’t Say Goodbye,” Simmons arranged for the inimitable vocal backing of former Doobie Michael McDonald. “He and I are still close friends,” Simmons says. “I got him, his wife Amy and a good friend of mine Gail Swanson to come in and sing background.”

World Gone Crazy has been in development for several years, enabling Simmons, Johnston, guitarist John McFee and drummer Mike Hossack to dial-in exactly what they wanted for the album. “We were able to reach out a little further, which in the past was not always the case,” Simmons says. “As you’re recording a song sometimes you realize it needs one or two other elements to make it come to life, and we had time for that. I had Cameron Stone come in and play cello on the track ‘Far From Home. ‘ It was a good feeling to be able to accomplish those things.”

Man Fights To Prove Marijuana
As A Holy Sacrament

Every religion has sacred materials that make up many of their rituals, but one churches use of marijuana had a Colorado man before a judge monday.

Jason Wimler had pulled over to fix a broken windshield wiper on I-25 on Rev. Jason Wimler

December 22, 2009. He and his girlfriend were on their way to her parents home for a Christmas celebration. When a state trooper, who pulled over to see if he needed assistance, smelled fresh marijuana coming from the car they searched the vehicle. They found less than an ounce of the controlled substance.

Wimler, 22, is an ordained minister for The Hawaii Cannabis Ministry, and told the trooper the marijuana was a religious sacrament to be used during the Christmas holiday. He was cited for possession and sent on his way.

Monday, Wimler, his girlfriend, attorney, and two representatives of THC Ministry were back in Pueblo for a final court hearing prior to his trial. His attorney out of Denver, Danyel Joffe, has taken his case pro bono because it touches on subject she feels strongly about. The freedom to practice religion without discrimination.

Joffe says, the state allows for peyote to be used as part of religious rituals and that cannabis should be afforded the same exception.

The Hawaii Cannabis Ministry founder Roger Christie attended the hearing, and explained one way in which the controlled substance is used during church services. The cannabis is added as an ingredient in a topical oil used to anoint parishioners. "We think it's the old testament recipe that God gave to Moses, and that it was to be used throughout all the generations.

Three hebrew dictionaries that I own say that the fragrant cane, in that recipe is actually cannabis," says Christie.

Meanwhile, Wimler's bid to have a special jury instruction that could have acquitted him was denied by Judge Steven Fieldman.

And instead of paying the $100 dollar fine, Wimler and his attorney decided to move forward with the trial so that an appeal on the matter could be made to a higher court. Wimler's trail is scheduled for July 8th.

Cannabis electric car to be made in Canada

An electric car made of hemp is being developed by a group of Canadian companies in collaboration with an Alberta Crown corporation.

The Kestrel will be prototyped and tested later in August by Calgary-based Motive Industries Inc., a vehicle development firm focused on advanced materials and technologies, the company announced.

The compact car, which will hold a driver and up to three passengers, will have a top speed of 90 kilometres per hour and a range of 40 to 160 kilometres before needing to be recharged, depending on the type of battery, the company said in an email to CBC News Monday.

It will be powered by a motor made by Boucherville, Que.-based TM4 Electrodynamic Systems, said Motive Industries president Nathan Armstrong.

The car's body will be made of an impact-resistant composite material produced from mats of hemp, a plant from the cannabis family. The material is being supplied by Alberta Innovates-Technology Futures, a provincial Crown corporation that provides technical services and funding to help commercialize new technologies. The hemp is being grown in Vegreville, Alta.

The Kestrel is one of five electric vehicles being developed by Project Eve, an automotive industry collaboration founded by Motive and Toronto Electric, an Ontario material handling and electric motor company, to boost the production of electric vehicles and electric vehicle components in Canada.
Colleges to help build cars

The Kestrel cars will be built with the help of polytechnic schools in Alberta, Quebec and Toronto, and the first 20 cars are scheduled to be delivered next year to EnMax, a Calgary-based energy distribution, supply and service company that is taking part in Project Eve.

Automotive pioneer Henry Ford first built a car made of hemp fibre and resin more than half a century ago.

"It's not an original idea," Armstrong said, but one that wasn't developed much further as car manufacturers favoured other materials, such as steel, in subsequent decades.

However, fibreglass and carbon fibre-based composites have gained popularity as materials for the body of racecars because they are strong, but light. Such composite materials consist of pieces or fibres of a hard reinforcement material, such as glass or carbon fibre, surrounded and supported by a matrix of a material such as plastic.

Producing composites from glass or carbon fibre requires intense heating in furnaces and multiple chemical processes, Armstrong said, making it very energy intensive,

In contrast, plant-based fibres grow in a field using the energy of the sun.

"As a structural material, hemp is about the best," Armstrong said, as it has about twice the strength of other plant fibres. It doesn't require much water or pesticide use, and grows well in Canada, providing a high yield per hectare.
Market advantage

"Plus, it's illegal to grow it in the U.S., so it actually gives Canada a bit of a market advantage," Armstrong added. The U.S. does allow the import of processed hemp.

ATlF had been working for some time on hemp-based composite materials with the hardness of glass and had been seeking a commercial use.

Motive Industries had joined forces with Toronto Electric, a material-handling and electric motor company, to found Project Eve and decided to give the material a try.

The car will take batteries with a capacity ranging from 4.5 to 17.3 kilowatt hours of energy.

The vehicle's full design will be released after the September EV 2010 VÉ Conference and Trade Show in Vancouver.

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Richards Told To Tone Down His Life

If the tales of rock 'n’ roll excess in Ozzy’s new autobiography I Am Ozzy didn’t quite fulfill your gossip quotient for the year, help is round the corner from another rock wildman whose autobiography is causing a stir before it’s even been printed.

British tabloid the Daily Mail has been reporting that Keith Richards’ forthcoming autobiography Life is so controversial that he has been warned by Rolling Stones management to tone it down, amid fears that the warts-and-all exposé will further strain the relationship between him and fellow Stone Mick Jagger. The high-octane lifestyle enjoyed by the Rolling Stones is legendary, and is expected to provide ample fodder for a life story which could sell in huge numbers. But revelations about Jagger’s drug-taking and affairs might be removed to protect the stability of the band, whose last world tour grossed almost $560m.

Richards has already prepared a first draft of the book after securing a massive £4.8m ($7.2m) advance, and insiders have been pleasantly surprised by his candor. An unnamed source said: “Keith said he was finding it difficult to remember things when he first sat down to start writing it. But his memory seems pretty good. It's going to be explosive when it comes out.” Censored or not, the autobiography should hit stores in October.

4 Year Old Hippie suspended from school for "Too long hair"

The story of Taylor Pugh, the 4-year-old preschooler suspended by the Mesquite Independent School District for his long locks, is making the cross-country rounds today. Thanks to this Associated Press video, MISD spokesperson Laura Jobe's hairstyle has now been called into question.

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Mick Jagger has rejected the suggestion drugs had a negative impact on the Rolling Stones, insisting the band wrote some of their biggest hits while under the influence.

The legendary group famously indulged in narcotics during their 1960s and 70s heyday - particularly chief songwriters Jagger and Keith Richards.

But the frontman insists the "party atmosphere" helped to inspire much of their music, particularly iconic 1972 album Exile on Main Street.

Jagger tells Absolute Radio, "That was a period of time when everyone took loads of drugs, it was very fashionable, but I mean, we did a lot of hard work as well, so it was a bit of a party atmosphere, loads of visitors, you know, there was a lot of drugs floating around, but not everyone was completely out of it all the time and we did a lot of good tracks, you know."

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Pot leaf ads rejected by Facebook now appearing on Google

The pot leaf that Facebook said promoted “illegal content” and banished from advertisements on its popular site has reappeared on the Web via Google.

The ads, which include a marijuana leaf in a quote bubble, ask readers to “end the war on marijuana” and sign a petition to President Obama to allow states to legalize the substance.

The social-networking website has decided that its advertising guidelines do not allow marijuana leaves to appear in ads, although marijuana leaves appear on numerous free Facebook pages devoted to the weed. Facebook ran the marijuana leaf ad from the Just Say Now campaign for more than a week before deciding to reject it.

“Facebook’s concocted prissiness over political advocacy is more to be disparaged than imitated,” Bruce Fein, a lawyer and author who worked in President Reagan’s Justice Department and a Just Say Now advisory board member, said in a statement. “Freedom of expression is made of sterner stuff. Google deserves applause for exposing Facebook to shame.”

Annie Ta, a Facebook spokeswoman, said Wednesday that the company’s position was unchanged.

Google spokeswoman Diana Adair declined to discuss the company’s decision to accept the ads, noting that the firm does not talk about specific advertisers.

Adair had indicated earlier that the search engine’s policies would probably allow a pot leaf in an ad.

The two tech firms are located about six miles apart in Silicon Valley.

On Wednesday, the Libertarian Party also said Facebook had rejected an ad last month with an image superimposing the party’s Statue of Liberty logo over a pot leaf. The ad touts the party as the only one to support complete legalization of marijuana.

Wes Benedict, the party’s executive director, called Facebook’s action ridiculous.

“We recognize Facebook’s right to control their content and censor whoever they want,” he said in a statement. “But we’re also exercising our First Amendment right to complain about their bad decision, and to alert other consumers to put pressure on them.”

Ronnie Wood has new radio gig

Ronnie Wood, the Rolling Stones guitarist, is to present a weekly show on rock music station Absolute Radio and its digital sibling, Absolute Leif busted again

Classic Rock.

The Ronnie Wood Show, which will be produced by independent production company Somethin' Else, will broadcast first on the digital station on Friday evening and be repeated on Absolute Radio on Saturday night.

Absolute Classic Rock relaunched this week, branding itself the home of the "Great British Guarantee" with a playlist featuring the Who, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Queen and the Rolling Stones.

"Ronnie will deliver a playlist that comes straight from his heart, playing music that he loves and is passionate about, all accompanied by his uniquely fascinating stories, experiences and memories and using his trusted guitar to illustrate elements of the tunes played and to accompany him," said Absolute.

The Friday show will launch at 6pm on April 9. The Saturday repeat will air at 10pm.

Tony Moorey, the Absolute Radio content director, said: "Think fantastic music, and one man and his guitar in your living room, but that man being one of rock's gods, Ronnie Wood. It's not often that we have a genuine opportunity to strike a radio relationship with a rock legend ... The Ronnie Wood Show is that opportunity."

It is the latest Absolute Radio show to be awarded to an independent production company, after Frank Skinner's Saturday morning show and Dave Gorman's Sunday morning slot, which are both made by Avalon.

"The World's Largest Music Festival"
Summerfest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Summerfest (also known as "The Big Gig") is a yearly music festival held at the 75-acre Henry Maier Festival Park along the lakefront in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The festival lasts for 11 days, is made up of 11 stages with performances from over 700 bands, and since the mid-1970s has run from late June through early July, always including the 4th of July holiday. Summerfest attracts between 800,000 and 1,000,000 people each year, promoting itself as "The World's Largest Music Festival," a title certified by the Guinness World Records in 1999.

Live musical acts are offered on 11 stages throughout the grounds from noon to midnight, including the 23,000-capacity Marcus Amphitheater. All shows are free with an admission ticket, with the exception of headlining acts at the Marcus Amphitheater. Admission is between $8.00 and $15.00, depending on the time of day. There are numerous promotions for discounted or free tickets.

Summerfest has been most famous for its music, ever since the first festival in 1968, when acts such as Ronnie Dove, The New Colony Six, and Up With People performed. In 1969, Led Zeppelin performed (see Midwest Rock Festival). Since then, musical acts from Bob Dylan, Tina Turner, and James Taylor to Christina Aguilera, Mary J. Blige, and Nine Inch Nails have graced the Summerfest stages. Acts with Milwaukee and Wisconsin connections have had a prominent history at Summerfest, most notably the BoDeans, The Gufs and Violent Femmes.

The concerts have been mostly civil events, with two notable exceptions. In 1970, a performance by the late-arriving Sly & the Family Stone nearly resulted in a riot, and in 1973 a performance by Humble Pie & the Blackberries did result in a riot, along with a bonfire and about 300 arrests. As a result of the latter concert, organizers shied away from rock bands for several years, and established guidelines for "family-friendly" acts and a ban on alcohol brought in by patrons.

Other Summerfest attractions include comedy acts, shopping vendors, fireworks (including "The Big Bang" on opening night), other special attractions, family activities and more.

If you're seeking proof that all American music leads to rock, look no further than this year's headliner lineup for Summerfest's M&I Classic Rock Stage. SEE LINEUP

The blues? Doesn't get bluesier than B.B. King. Album rock? The Moody Blues and Yes have their pictures next to that definition in the dictionary. Disco? Check - Average White Band. Metal? Blue Oyster Cult will make sure there's sufficient cowbell. New Wave? The B-52's have the whole skinny-tie thing covered.

And if in case there's anything missing, parody master Weird Al Yankovic probably has an app, and a song, for that.
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Dennis Hopper Dies,a Counterculture Hero
Hopper was catapulted into the pantheon of countercultural celebrities that included John Lennon, Abbie Hoffman and Timothy Leary

Dennis Hopper, the maverick director and costar of the landmark 1969 Dennis Hopper in "Easy Rider"

counterculture film classic "Easy Rider" whose drug- and alcohol-fueled reputation as a Hollywood bad boy preceded his return to sobriety and a career resurgence in the films "Hoosiers" and "Blue Velvet,".

A frail-looking Hopper, whose battle with prostate cancer was revealed in October, was able to attend a ceremony for the unveiling of his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in late March.

In a more than five-decade acting career that was influenced early on by working with James Dean and studying at the Actors Studio, he made his film debut as one of the high school gang members who menace Dean in the 1955 classic "Rebel Without a Cause."

Hopper went on to appear in more than 115 films, including "Apocalypse Now," "Cool Hand Luke," "Giant," "Hang 'Em High," "Rivers Edge," "Rumble Fish," "Speed," "The American Friend," "True Grit" and "True Romance."

But it's his role as the long-haired, pot-smoking biker Billy opposite Peter Fonda's Wyatt (Captain America) in the hit movie "Easy Rider" that gave Hopper his most enduring claim to fame.

The low-budget tale of two bikers on an ultimately tragic cross-country odyssey after scoring a big cocaine sale, "Easy Rider" became a generational touchstone.

The movie, which boasted a star-making performance from a little-known Jack Nicholson as a boozy small-town lawyer who goes along for the ride and gets his first taste of marijuana, set old-guard Hollywood back on its heels.

"The impact of 'Easy Rider,' both on the filmmakers and the industry as a whole, was no less than seismic," Peter Biskind wrote in his 1998 book "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood."

Hopper died Saturday May 29, 2010. He was born May 17, 1936 Hopper died at his home in California Saturday morning after a long battle with cancer. His publicist said he was surrounded with family and friends at the time.

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Cindy Sheehan Talks About War, Peace, the Environment, and Oil Spills
Planet Green interviews Cindy

Planet Green: The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is, of course, Cindy Sheenhan

a horrific assault on the eco-system but it just may be a window through which the anti-war movement can better link up with the green movement. What connections do you see between these two movements?

Cindy Sheehan: We are waging two big wars for oil, and many smaller wars throughout the world (South America, Africa) and to me, it has always been a no-brainer that the U.S's addiction to war can be linked to our addiction to oil. Even in 1933, Major General Smedley Butler wrote in War is a Racket: "I made Mexico, especially Tampico safe for U.S. oil interests...In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested." Now President Obama has called out SWAT teams to the recent catastrophe in the Gulf—it seems like oil companies drive our foreign policy more than any real or perceived physical threat.

PG: You suggested we "boycott BP into bankruptcy" but the U.S. consumes about 21 million barrels of oil per day and10,000 gallons of gasoline are burned in the U.S. every second. How do we inspire Americans to kick the oil habit?

CS: Also, BP gave Obama 71,000 for his presidential campaign and Senator Mary Landrieu of Lousiana is the Queen of Big Oil—that's why we down here in our stratosphere need to be more responsible non-consumers of petroleum products. I hope the environmental movement and anti-war movement can work together to educate people about the insidiousness of this cancer that is destroying or severely compromising our existence on this planet. If one must use gas, I would suggest shopping at CITGO if possible, because Chavez does do some good with the money, but to me, that's even a bad solution. Just reduce personal oil consumption as much as possible.

PG: The U.S. Department of Defense is the largest polluter on the planet—producing more hazardous waste than the five largest U.S. chemical companies combined—and this country's military is also top gas guzzler in the world. With such a growing awareness of all things "green," how can we better spread the word that war (and the preparation for war) is a major assault on our eco-system?

CS: I think one of the best things that we can do is look into economic conversion of the defense industry into green industries working on sustainable and renewable forms of energy—and/or connect with indigenous people who are trying to reclaim their lands from the pollution of the military industrial complex. There's also a Superfund site in San Francisco called Bayview/Hunter's Point where the Navy gave toxic land to the city of San Francisco, which then sold it to Lennar Corp for a dollar. The best thing to do would be to start on a very local level to reclaim a planet healthy for life.

PG: In the time since your son's death, you have been on a journey that I'd guess you could've never seen coming. What has been the biggest surprise over the past six years?

CS: Democrats and Republicans are equally corrupt and are both working against our interests.

PG: Did you have any advice or inspiration you'd like to share with Planet Green readers seeking to create change?

CS: Don't think change has to be made in huge increments—start in your own life and home—then spread around peace and green as far and wide as you can!

Cindy's world changed forever when, on a mission on April 4, 2004 to help other troops in Sadr City, Spc. Casey Sheehan was tragically killed. She and other military families met with President George W. Bush in June of 2004. By October, Cindy decided her son's death would spur her into action. She wrote, "I was ashamed that I hadn't tried to stop the war before Casey died...Well, I now felt that if I couldn't make a difference, I would at least try." Her quest to end the war, bring soldiers home,

and hold politicians responsible for the decisions that sent the troops to Iraq initially, has been indefatigable.

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Dead heads and pot heads take note. While the straight economy goes up in smoke with double digit unemployment, job prospects for hippies are booming -- and not just for boomers.
At the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) they're looking to hire an official Grateful Dead archivist.
And in Denver, where Colorado's medical marijuana industry is legally flourishing, there are these two recent job postings:
The alternative newspaper Westword is advertising for a pot reviewer, asking for a short essay from applicants on "What Marijuana Means to Me".
Similarly, a new biotech company, Full Spectrum Laboratories, needs scientists to test the potency of cannabis samples and salesmen to market their quality-control
They don't call it the Mile High City for nothing.
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other pop stars:
''You may have problems with the way they dress or with other things they do, but I'll tell you, they work hard to learn those dumb choreography steps. That's hard work.''

We ended the Viet Nam war...with Uncle Walters help

Legendary CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite allegedly collaborated with anti-Vietnam War activists in the 1960s, going so far as to offer advice on how to raise the public profile of protests and even pledging CBS News resources to help pull off events, according to FBI documents obtained by Yahoo! News.

The documents, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, say that in November 1969, Cronkite encouraged students at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., to invite Maine Sen. Edmund Muskie to address a protest they were planning near Cape Kennedy (now known as Cape Canaveral). Cronkite told the group's leader that Muskie would be nearby for a fundraiser on the day of the protest, and said that "CBS would rent [a] helicopter to take Muskie to and from site of rally," according to the documents.

The claims are contained in an FBI memo recounting a confidential informant's report on a November 1969 meeting of a Rollins College protest group called Youth for New America. The group was planning rallies near Cape Kennedy on Nov. 13 and 14 — the latter being day of the Apollo 12 launch from Cape Kennedy, which President Nixon would be attending — as part of a nationwide Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam. That protest action culminated in a huge march on Washington on Nov. 15.

According to the informant, the group's leader (whose name is redacted in the documents) told the attendees that during a visit to a local CBS News station to drum up publicity for the protests, he ended up in a 45-minute phone conversation with Cronkite.

"[Redacted] told group he had been to CBS Channel Six in Orlando prior to meeting to speak to newsmen about Vietnam moratorium activities. [Redacted] related that while at TV station, Walter Cronkite, nationally known radio and television commentator, spoke to him by telephone for approximately forty five minutes and that Cronkite reportedly told [redacted] that CBS would have thirty six hours of coverage on Vietnam moratorium with 'open mike' to give demonstrators a chance to be heard. Cronkite noted, according to [redacted], that Senator Edmund Muskie would be in Orlando, Fla., November 13 instant for Democratic fund raising dinner. According to [redacted], Cronkite suggested that [redacted] attempt to Muskie to come [sic] to Cape Kennedy to speak at Kelly Park rally to be held November thirteen instant. Cronkite allegedly told [redacted] that CBS would rent helicopter to take Muskie to and from site of rally at Kelly Park."

Just nine months before, Cronkite had delivered his famous on-air judgment that the "bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate." Even so, such tight collaboration between a news organization and the anti-war movement — particularly the offer of CBS News resources to help ferry a sitting senator and future presidential candidate around in opposition to the war — was highly unusual and would presumably have been explosive if known widely at the time. It's unclear whether Muskie ever actually attended the event.

Chip Cronkite, Walter Cronkite's son, told Yahoo! News it's highly unlikely that his father would ever have made such an offer. "It doesn't have the ring of a reliable story to me," he said. "Particularly at a time when FBI informants often told the FBI what they wanted to hear. I think it would be outside of what we know about Walter Cronkite and CBS News' practices."

A CBS News spokesman declined to comment.

The memo is included in 72 pages of FBI files pertaining to Cronkite that were recently released by the bureau. The FBI claimed late last year, two months after Cronkite's death in July 2009, that all its records on the newsman had been destroyed in 2007 — which raised suspicions that the FBI may have deliberately shredded embarrassing files on its surveillance of journalists during the Cold War. The new records appear to be from files that didn't focus specifically on Cronkite's activities but that included mentions of the newsman. Among the other incidents in the newly released documents are a 1966 criminal investigation into CBS News for allegedly airing obscene language during coverage of civil-rights unrest in Mississippi; applications for Cronkite and others to travel to Cuba and China; and surveillance files on subjects who met with or were interviewed by Cronkite.

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Some of Mr. Kay's & associates pie assaults

Nixon Bagman, Tony Ulasewicz gets creamed

Jerry Rubin lands one on pro-nuker Edward Teller

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How Arron Kay became "The Pie Man"

I attended marches on behalf of the Chicano Moratorium and the Black Panther Party to protest the brutality which had been inflicted on them by the cops. Peoples Park, Venice, Ca., the 1966 Sunset Strip Riots,along with the struggles against racism and the Vietnam War were what shaped me into becoming the Pieman. Let 1,000 Pies Fly so as to paraphrase Chairman Mao.

One day in April, 1976, I got a phone call from a source in the underground press. The source told me that William F. Buckley was speaking at N.Y University. I conjured up a shaving creampie which landed on his head. Buckley would not press charges. Soon,I became known as the PIEMAN.
I partook in the National Marijuana Day smoke-ins at Washington Square Park and the protests surrounding the Democratic Convention in NYC and the Republican Convention in Kansas City. I also helped disseminate information about the conspiracy surrounding the AJ Weberman's book, Coup d'Etat in America: The CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy about the JFK Assassination and Watergate. Weberman has launched many new sites including Dylanology ,Garbology ,Acidtrip (alongwith a Java version of acidtrip and Bozoland .

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Kathi McDonald solidifies her legacy as rock 'n' roll survivor

Singer Kathi McDonald, set to make a rare appearance in Marin next

week, is a little-known but fascinating figure in rock 'n' roll history. After decades of denial, she's learned to accept that she will forever be inextricably linked to one of rock's most tragic characters - Janis Joplin.
The 60-year-old singer makes her home near Seattle now, but during the '70s and '80s, she was among the extraordinary collection of rock musicians who settled in Marin.
"I lived in every single town in Marin," she said in a husky, lived-in voice. "Mill Valley, San Rafael, San Anselmo, Lagunitas, Forest Knolls. You name it, I lived there."
The way she tells her story, San Francisco promoter Chet Helms invited her to audition for Big Brother and the
Holding Company at the same time in 1966 that he'd recruited Joplin. Joplin was in Austin, Texas, 18-year-old McDonald in Seattle.
"Chet Helms called me and I hitch-
hiked down, but I got there a little later than Janis did," McDonald told me the other day, speaking by cell phone from the Skagit Valley in Washington, where she was visiting a childhood friend. "She beat me to the punch."
When Joplin left Big Brother to form the Kosmic Blues Band, McDonald replaced her, recording three albums: "Can't Go Home Again," "How Hard It Is" and "Be a Brother." In 1974, she also released a solo album, "Insane Asylum."
"I used to hate it when people would say, 'You sound like Janis Joplin,'" she recalled. "I'd say, 'No, she sounds like me" ... READ MORE

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The Pie terrorist

Political protests take countless forms.
The hunger strike and the wildcat strike. The protest march and the protest song. The sit-in and the petition. They all have their place in history for combating the powerful.

But none match the splendidly photogenic, questionably effective, sometimes delicious and always ludicrous act of throwing a pie in the face of authority.

"It's the simplest form of political message," said Patrick Robert - also known as Pop Tarte - the founder of Montreal-based Les Entartistes, Canada's most active pie protest group.

Last Monday, in an attack that Robert said could reinvigorate the 40-year-old form of protest, an animal-rights activist pied Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea square in the face.

Liberal MP Gerry Byrne called the act "akin to terrorism," a comparison Robert said was, well, half-baked.

"If it is seen as a terrorist act, the terrorists have won," he said.

Then, on Friday, a seal-hunt protester in Newfoundland was pied in the face by someone who supports the hunt.

The flying pies have placed Shea and Friday's victim, in the company of the famous and infamous.

Canadian victims alone include some of the most powerful political luminaries of the past 20 years, with names such as Chretien, Charest, Dion, Klein, Pettigrew, Rock and Parizeau peppering the list.

While some targets, such as former health minister Allan Rock, laughed the incident off, others seemed less amused.

Former Liberal leader Stephane Dion pressed charges when he was pied in 1999 by Robert.

Shea's attacker has also been charged.

When former prime minister Jean Chretien got a face full of custard at an event in Charlottetown in 2000, some law-enforcement officials called it a sign of rising civil disobedience not seen since the anti-war protests of the 1960s.

Several political pie-throwing cabals exist around the world, including Les Entartistes and the Meringue Marauders from Canada, the Biotic Baking Brigade and Al Pieda from the United States and Internationales Patissiere from Belgium.

Many of the groups sprang to life after a 1998 attack on Microsoft chairman Bill Gates by more than 30 cream commandos.

Their attack, which left pie covering the computer magnate's glasses and shoulders, seemed to reheat the pie as a protest tool.

Since then, high-profile targets have included conservative political pundit Ann Coulter, Swedish King Carl Gustaf, former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and actor Sylvester Stallone.

Tracing the history of pie throwing, much is owed to cinema. The pie in the face is a slapstick gag dating back to silent films, and popularized by Laurel and Hardy and the Three Stooges. It has been comedic gold for nearly a century.

In 1969, Belgian artist Noel Godin, who led the 1998 Gates mission, used a protest pie for the first time against another artist. But in 1970, it became political. Thomas Forcade, the founder of the marijuana-promoting High Times magazine, pied Otto Larsen, the chairman of a U.S. federal commission on obscenity.

In 1973, the most celebrated North American pie protester, the "Pie Man" Aron Kay flung his first pastry.

In an interview with Canwest News Service, he described pieing as "a form of character assassination."

"Pies smash your demeanor, they take you down a notch," said the Winnipeg-born Kay.

"The only thing that gets hurt is your ego."

Kay has several high-profile hits, including political commentator William F. Buckley, former CIA director William Colby and artist Andy Warhol.

Of Kay's 40 or so strikes, his greatest, he said, was nailing G. Gordon Liddy, one of the central figures of the 1972 Watergate scandal.

On the day Liddy was paroled in 1977, Kay borrowed a jacket and tie, strolled nonchalantly into the luxurious Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., and hit Liddy with an apple pie.
"In honor of mother America," Kay said.
Some times a joint works as good as a pie

Some times a joint works as good as a pie

Some times a joint is as affective as a pie. Mayor Ed Koch of NYC gets pot smoke at a ritzy party in NYC in Feb. 1979

Kay, 60, retired from pieing since 1992, was introduced to a new generation when the Simpsons satirized him in 2004, enhancing his legend.

He remains a vehement supporter of the movement.

"I am issuing a fatwa against Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others of that ilk," he said, referring to two of the most controversial conservative commentators in the U.S.

"The pies must fly!"

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