- Say
it ain’t so, AC/DC. There was a time when learning that the screeching, booming
pipes of one Axl Rose would be filling in as the voice of the iconic rock band
would have been the best news ever, but that was one “Chinese Democracy” and
about 125 pounds ago for the man now more commonly known as Fatsel Rose.
According to the son of AC/DC guitarist Malcolm Young, the Guns N' Roses
frontman will fill in for Brian Johnson as the band's lead singer for the rest
of its U.S. tour. The Australian rockers recently rescheduled a handful of live
dates after Johnson was advised by doctors to stop touring immediately or risk
total hearing loss and rather than allow noise concerns to shut the whole tour
down, AC/DC went in search of a capable singer to fill in and after they couldn’t
find one of those, they settled on Rose. The group issued a statement on their
official website confirming that the remaining dates of their tour will be
"made up later in the year, likely with a guest vocalist, but the truth is
that Rose is so out of shape and has been so beaten down by his hard-living
ways that he can't hit anything close to the notes he used to hit with ease and
is more likely to be out of breath and gasping for air on stage than wailing in
key and hitting all of the right notes. Ross Young, the son of Malcolm Young -
who retired from AC/DC in 2014 due to dementia - confirmed rumors of Rose’s
addition to the tour. He posted a link to online reports on Facebook and in
comments wrote: "It's true," and "He can and he will."
Though he later deleted the posts, it’s fair to say that an AC/DC tour sans
Malcolm Young and Brian Johnson isn’t really an AC/DC tour at all………
- Riot
Watch! Riot Watch! Religious rage tends to be the realest of the real and
that’s typically true regardless of what faith you’re discussing or where in
the world the discord is taking place. Folks get mighty sensitive when the
faith upon which they base their entire life is threatened or challenged and nowhere
is that clearer right now than Bangladesh, where thousands
of Muslims have rallied in the capital city, Dhaka, to rise up and denounce a
court petition seeking to remove Islam as the country's official state
religion. Some 3,000 Muslims protested outside the national mosque in Dhaka
against the petition, which was filed by a group of prominent citizens and will
be taken up by the High Court on Sunday. Credit to these bold souls for being
willing to file what they had to know would be a wildly unpopular petition in a
country where more than 90 percent of the 160 million people are Muslim and
should this petition pass, it’s going to be interesting to see how life inside
Bangladesh is for these people and their families. Islam has been the state
religion since 1988, when it was used as a political pawn by dictator H.M.
Ershad, who declared Islam the state religion to win support during a campaign
by major political parties to oust him from power. Then in 2011, Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina brought back secularism as a pillar of the constitution, but
retained Islam as the state religion. Nothing says you value a religion quite
like using it for political currency, although that designation isn't likely to
sway the feelings of the thousands of maddened Muslims who made their voices
heard in Dhaka this week……….
- It’s
depressing how quickly Roger Federer is getting old - at least in terms of the
tennis world. The former No. 1 player in the world won't be serving up any aces
on the court in the near future and he can thank a 1-2 punch of old man status
and poor health for that. First, he withdrew from his opening match at the
Miami Open against Juan Martin del Potro with a stomach virus and the very next
day, the Swiss star suffered a knee injury preparing a bath for his twin
daughters. Yes, dude got injured giving his daughters a bath and while that’s a
cute dad moment, it also resulted in the first surgery of his career. "I
am very sorry that I have to pull out of the Miami Open with a stomach
virus," Federer said in a statement. "I feel bad for the tournament
and the fans as I have rarely ever had to withdraw at such short notice. I have
not felt great for a few days, and unfortunately it got worse in the last 24
hours. I was really excited to have my comeback in Miami but I am in no
condition to play. I tried to warm up this morning, but it was clear that I
could not compete." Now, Federer hasn’t played a match since falling to
Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open semifinals on Jan. 28 and his return to
the court is to be determined. Seeing once-great, classy stars age out of their
prime is always discouraging, but at least you want to see them tear, break or
strain something trying to return a 140 mph serve or racing to the net to reach
a well-placed drop shot and not witness their decline because they pivoted too
quickly on slick bathroom tile and wrecked their knee trying to reach the
bubble bath on the top shelf of the linen closet. Get well soon, Fed………
- To
everyone who believes that cops are testosterone-fueled, God-complex-having ass
hats who believe they are above the rest of us….yup. At least that’s true of Stephen
Green and Joseph Tyer, a pair of officers with the Atlanta Police Department who
are in varying stages of losing their jobs following a fight at a restaurant
over which officer would be faster in a foot race. Wow….two young, relatively
fit dudes in a profession where machismo is part of the job description allowed
their pride and arrogance to get the best of them and commit acts so over the
line that it could cost both of them their jobs? Shocker. Tyer has already
resigned, while Green is on administrative leave after an incident that
occurred around 5 a.m. at the R. Thomas Restaurant on the 1800 block of
Peachtree Street in Atlanta. The best part of all of this is that the reason
the men were together was for a meeting with the members of the High Intensity
Traffic Team so yes, they’re traffic cops and that makes it all the better, as
does the name of their traffic team and their willingness to go above and
beyond to live up to that name. When Green tried to assert his supposedly
superior speed, Tyer allegedly became upset and told Green that he was going
to "punch him in the face." In the sort of development that
usually leads to someone calling the police to a scene, the dispute carried
outside and a physical fight ensued. Other officers remembered what a cop
is supposed to do and broke up the fight, but not before Tyer pulled out a gun
but did not fire a shot. All in all, a thoroughly impressive night for the
police department and one that has to instill great confidence in the police
among residents. Then again, at least these fools were being unjustly violent
to one another instead of toward the public……..
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