The Gauntlet: Megadeth Metal News
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- Arizona is 14 times the size of Wales with a population of five…
- Teens’ slayings bring attention to remote High Desert party spot
The Gauntlet: Megadeth Metal News
The Gauntlet – Jan 14, 2008
The third installment of Gigantour – the acclaimed traveling heavy music festival launched in 2005 by Mustaine–will kick off April 12 in Denver C with headliner Megadeth Scandinavian death metal band IN FLAMES Finland’s CHILDREN F BDM Arizona’s modern extreme JB FR A CWBY and akland CA heavy power trio HIGH N FIRE all confirmed. The 29-date trek will criss-cross North America and wraps May 22 in Phoenix AZ. Mustaine sums up the philosophy behind v hailed by Revolver magazine as “the mother of all shred-fests” : “If the bands and the fans are treated well then the entertained and the entertainers go home happy – it’s a win-win situation. ” Since its inception in 2005 Gigantour has galvanized bands that emphasize true musicianship and virtuosity offering them a new opportunity to showcase their talents. “I think that in a small way we are cleaning up the environment of crappy bands” he says laughing… The third installment of Gigantour – the acclaimed traveling heavy music festival launched in 2005 by Mustaine–will kick off April 12 in Denver C with headliner Megadeth Scandinavian death metal band IN FLAMES Finland’s CHILDREN F BDM Arizona’s modern extreme JB FR A CWBY and akland CA heavy power trio HIGH N FIRE all confirmed. The 29-date trek will criss-cross North America and wraps May 22 in Phoenix AZ. Mustaine sums up the philosophy behind v hailed by Revolver magazine as “the mother of all shred-fests” : “If the bands and the fans are treated well then the entertained and the entertainers go home happy – it’s a win-win situation. ” Since its inception in 2005 Gigantour has galvanized bands that emphasize true musicianship and virtuosity offering them a new opportunity to showcase their talents. “I think that in a small way we are cleaning up the environment of crappy bands” he says laughing.
Arizona is 14 times the size of Wales with a population of five…
Belfast Telegraph – Jan 15, 2008
You take a deep breath kick your heels and race off yelling fit to bust remembering to hold both reins in one hand and grip the front pommel for purchase in the approved American style. Two steers accustomed to your waving arms obediently trot off pen-wards but the third lowers its horns and regards you coldly. It is frankly sick to death of being badgered by an over-fed Limey tourist in a comical hat. If this steer could talk it would say "Fill your hands you son of a bitch" like John Wayne in True Grit. But as you guide the reins this way and that as though turning a rope steering-wheel the little blighter gets the message turns and trots off like a grudging teenager to its tryst with the wooden gate. It takes you 90 seconds to get all three animals locked up. The other riders holler… " Nobody with a scintilla of romance in them could miss the ld Tucson Studios a film-studio mock-up of a Western town circa 1880 and the setting for a thousand movies. You mosey up the dirt-track main street noting Rose’s Cantina Wily’s Medicine Wagon McLintock’s Mercantile store (where they filmed the John Wayne movie McLintock) and the Grand Hotel with its elk- and moose-heads. Spanish film music the kind that starts with guitars and ends with trumpets issues from loudspeakers. Actors prowl the boardwalk to add to the atmosphere: snake-oil mountebanks harangue you bumptious teen gunslingers square up to each other (there’s a public shootout daily at 1. 45pm) and three young women show off their can-can dancing skill in the saloon. Peter Mangelsdorf the general manager admitted that the studios’ natural audience was nostalgic baby-boomer males but added that the recent release of the films 3. 10 to Yuma and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford had invigorated the market.
Teens’ slayings bring attention to remote High Desert party spot
Press-Enterprise – Jan 14, 2008
Remnants of a military radio communication tower sit atop a 30-foot mound of earth at what once was Hawes Auxiliary Airfield at the end of a coarse winding road well off Highway 58. But it is what lies below — the blockhouse of cold pitch-black passageways and graffiti-splashed concrete rooms — that attracted partiers like the young couple found shot to death there on Jan. 5 and people such as J. Smith who are interested in abandoned sites. Story continues below… Five days after the slayings the site was littered with beer cans broken bottles mounds of scrap metal discarded clothing and shotgun shells. The scent of ash lingered from all the bonfires that had burned there. "It’s definitely pretty eerie" said San Bernardino County sheriff’s Sgt. Frank Montanez whose team of homicide detectives visited the bunker several times during their investigation. Montanez said late last week that detectives had interviewed most of the 40-plus teens who had partied with Thompson and Sherzer-Potter until 4 a.