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- … Lily Allen Franz Rock Bonnaroo – News Story | Music…
- Norman Hackerman former UT Rice president.
Queens f The Stone Age pace
NEWS.com.au – Jun 18, 2007
"Hell yeah I can make things more white than anyone I know" he laughs. "I had to put my feet down a little bit. I played some drums with Eagles f Death Metal and no one was expecting a new Queens record. It’s kinda like no one expects the Spanish Inquisition. So we went into the studio and for a couple of months no one knew we were there. We work well under the cover of night. " The core of QTSA circa Era Vulgaris is Homme former A Perfect Circle guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen and former Danzig drummer Joey Castillo… they have always been based around music. So yeah ultimately we’re total softies. "But I also think there is a way to have a foot in both camps. There’s still some rugged goin’ on. "And we don’t have to wrap the pill in candy for our fans.
… Lily Allen Franz Rock Bonnaroo – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Jun 18, 2007
But if you’re willing to look past all the peasant dresses and dreadlocks and if you’re not too shy to immerse yourself in it (as I did — catch even more about the bands and my hot rocking smelly weekend in. It’s also a well-oiled clean-burning machine (seriously: 80000 fans separating glass bottles and metal cans from their campsite trash!?!) that has over the past few years made a subtle but determined decision to become the best summer fest in the world. Last year ‘Roo organizers decided to shake up the fest’s jam-band connotations by bringing in a few ringers — namely Radiohead — plus a host of completely un-jammy acts like Beck Death Cab for Cutie and Bright Eyes (see. And this year they decided to pull out all the stops scoring the coup-de-grace of summer fest headliners (the Police) plus Maynard James Keenan’s murky and mysterious Tool the mighty White Stripes the critically adored Wilco and in the interest of keeping it real for the jam-band set Widespread Panic… But Thursday was still just a warm-up for the three days of serious action that lay ahead. Most got their heads on straight to watch Lily Allen bob and weave her way through a set of sharp-tongued pop or a bit of nerd-tronica courtesy of Hot Chip. Then as shadows grew long the tough choices loomed: spooky avant metal courtesy of Tool or the warm-and-fuzzy mandolin jams of the String Cheese Incident?I chose both admiring the sheer amount of glowsticks SCI fans lobbed skyward during a series of rapidly unspooled solos then trekking off into the darkness to catch Tool build throbbing basslines into dark proggy towers with Keenan cracking jokes about “the marijuana and the LSD” and probably reveling in the fact that he just seriously fried some minds (though we’ll probably never be sure since Tool did no press and allowed no one to film or photograph their set). Saturday was opressively hot (a recurring theme of the festival for sure) but that didn’t stop fans from bobbing to a spiky set from Franz Ferdinand or getting all goofy for Regina Spektor. And no one seemed to mind the soaring temperatures during the Hold Steady’s early evening performance which featured so much fist-pumping from the audience that even the band seemed surprised. And by the time the Steady wrapped things were really shifting into high gear with hyped-up kids (and presumably their parents) pressed hard against the main stage security barrier to catch the Police’s much-hyped set which started out so promising — with a blast of the gong from drummer Stewart Copeland and an incredibly proficient version of “Message in a Bottle” — but quickly devolved into roughly 100 minutes of jammed-out sorta ambient music with the occasional mega-hit sprinkled in for good measure. It’s not that the Police weren’t technically sound — they were — it’s just that they never really connected with the Bonnaroo crowd and it didn’t help when Sting surveyed them all and decided that they were “80000 Tennesseans.
Norman Hackerman former UT Rice president.
Free with registration – Houston Chronicle – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 18, 2007
18–Norman Hackerman a chemist who led both Rice University and the University of Texas during a four-decade career in higher education died Saturday at a hospital in Temple. A former chairman of the National Science Board who worked on the Manhattan Project Hackerman was Rice’s distinguished professor emeritus of chemistry and president emeritus at his death. Rice University officials credited Hackerman with restoring. CPYRIGHT 2007 Houston Chronicle.