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Former GREAT WHITE Tour Manager To Be Sentenced In Fatal Fire

The Associated Press is reporting that a judge is expected to decide Wednesday (May 10) whether former GREAT WHITE tour manager Daniel Biechele — who started the 2003 nightclub fire that killed 100 people — should go to prison. [Watch today's sentencing hearing, going on now, courtesy of WPRI.com at...

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GREAT WHITE: Portraits Emerge Of Lives Lost In Second Day Of Nightclub Hearing

The Associated Press has issued the following report: Robert Reisner, the school bus driver who lived with his mother and was known as "Mr. Rob" to the students on his route, went to the concert. So did Scott Griffith, a California-born man and self-taught musician who headed out with a group of off...

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Former GREAT WHITE Tour Manager Faces Victims of Rhode Island Fire

Eric Tucker of The Associated Press has issued the following report: Watching her severely burned daughter go through 35 operations over two months before doctors took the young woman off life support was "a journey of hell," Anna Gruttaduaria told the court Monday as a sentencing hearing began for...

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GREAT WHITE: Three-Day Sentencing Hearing Set In Nightclub Fire Case

The Associated Press has issued the following report: In the three years since The Station nightclub disaster, the relatives of the 100 people killed have clustered together for memorials at the roadside fire site and mourned alone in cemeteries. But they have never had a chance to share their pain...

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Former FUEL Frontman Is CIRCUS DIABLO's New Bassist

Former FUEL frontman Brett Scallions has joined CIRCUS DIABLO as the group's new bassist. "Friends with both Billy Duffy [guitar; also in THE CULT] and Billy Morrison [vocals; ex-THE CULT touring bassist and current CAMP FREDDY guitarist] for a few years now, Brett heard the [already completed CIRCU...

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Former GREAT WHITE Tour Manager Seeks Community Service

The Associated Press has issued the following report: A former rock band tour manager being sentenced next week for his role in a nightclub fire that killed 100 people asked a judge to show mercy Thursday by imposing community service rather than sending him to prison. Daniel Biechele, 29, the forme...

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GREAT WHITE: Families Of Fire Victims To Speak At Tour Manager's Sentencing

The Associated Press has issued the following report: James Gahan III still does not know what he plans to say at the sentencing of Daniel Biechele, the man whose pyrotechnics sparked a nightclub fire that killed Gahan's 21-year-old son, Jimmy, and 99 other people. He wants his words to be lasting a...

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SCORPIONS Tap DESMOND CHILD For New Studio Album

German hard rock veterans SCORPIONS have tapped songwriter/producer Desmond Child — who has worked with such high-profile pop/rock artists as AEROSMITH, BON JOVI, ALICE COOPER, KISS, RICKY MARTIN, CHER, MICHAEL BOLTON and BONNIE TYLER — to produce their next studio album, which they expect to begin...

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NIGHTMARE: 'A Taste Of Armageddon' Video Posted Online

NIGHTMARE's video for the song "A Taste of Armageddon" — which was shot last August with director Johann Porcher (KAIZEN) — has been posted online at the band's MySpace page at this location. The song comes off the French power metallers' latest album, "The Dominion Gate", which came out last Novemb...

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CIRCUS OF POWER To Play Reunion Show In Texas

CIRCUS OF POWER — Ricky Beck Mahler (guitar),Alex Mitchell (vocals),Ryan Maher (drums) and Marc Frappier (bass) — have confirmed that they will be playing a gig June 3 at The Elysium in Austin, Texas. They will be mainly performing material from their classic self-titled debut, which came out in 1...

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Former GREAT WHITE Tour Manager Apologizes To Victims' Families

The Associated Press has issued the following report: The former rock band tour manager who ignited pyrotechnics that started a deadly nightclub fire in 2003 has written personalized letters of apology to relatives of all 100 people who were killed. The handwritten letters from Daniel Biechele, who...

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ALICE IN CHAINS Touring Singer DUVALL To Release New COMES WITH THE FALL EP In July

COMES WITH THE FALL vocalist/guitarist William DuVall — who will be touring with the reunited ALICE IN CHAINS this summer as the band's lead singer — has posted the following message on the CWTF web site: "A lot of people have been asking about when CWTF's fourth album, 'Beyond The Last Light', will...

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MEGADETH Bassist 'Chompin' At The Bit' To Begin Laying Down Album Tracks

New MEGADETH bassist James Lomenzo has posted the following message in the "Forums" section of the band's official web site: "I just returned from the Frankfurt MusikMesse trade show (the Euro version of the NAMM event held in the States every year). This was a prior engagement to joining with MEGAD...

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Grammy-Winning Pianist/Arranger To Cover GUNS N' ROSES, DEF LEPPARD, MÖTLEY CRÜE

Versailles Records has announced that Grammy-winning pianist/arranger Randy Cantor will contribute piano tracks to forthcoming tribute albums to GUNS N' ROSES ("Don't Cry"),DEF LEPPARD ("Love Bites"),SAMMY HAGAR ("Dreams"),and MÖTLEY CRÜE ("Afraid"). Cantor's resume includes multiple Grammy nomin...

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ENUFF Z'NUFF: New Music Posted Online

TalkingMetal.com has posted episode 52 of their "Talking Metal" podcast. The episode features a world premiere of a portion of "Outer Space" by ENUFF Z'NUFF, a track slated for release on the upcoming Ricky Parent benefit CD, as well as a new interview with Keavin Wiggins of antiMusic.com. Hosts Mar...