Morning Music Notes – Ever Seen a GOOD Vanity License Plate?
Former Oasis Drummer to Sell Drum Kit, Possibly to Wayne Rooney
Quiz: Can you name the Oasis drummer on Definitely Maybe? Follow up: When you think of Oasis, who do you actually think of as their drummer? They had so many, no one jumps out as the immediate answer. Anyway, the drummer on Oasis’ first album, Definitely Maybe, is Tony McCarroll. He left after the band’s first album, later suing for lost profits. Now, he is selling off all of his Oasis memorabilia (via NME).
Said Tony McCarroll: “”I heard a rumour Wayne Rooney was interested in buying the drum kit and thought that might be better than leaving it in storage. It has been locked away for years with all my old discs, so it’s getting dusted down now. It was a great recording set — Premier kit. Back in the day we would hire cymbals but the bass drum, toms and Black Beauty snare were mine. It’s all up for auction. If this rolls out well I’ll be giving part of the proceeds to a music-related charity too.”
Of course selling a drum kit to a millionaire footballer (Lil’ Wayne Rooney) is more desirable than having it sit there. With business sense like this, how did Tony end up flat broke (my assumption, not a fact).
Oscar Music Nominations: Only 2 Songs
Disclaimer: I’m not a big award show guy. I know that they are used primarily are a tool to sell DVDs, drive people to theatres, or to increase album sales, but they are relatively useless. I also hate how movies and actors get “Oscar Buzz” – the media has made up in their minds who should be the nominees before the date draws near, and any missing people are “Oscar snubs”. Have you ever heard the media say an album has “Grammy buzz”? Is it because there are more critically acclaimed albums than movies? Or because there are WAY too many music awards that no one gives a shit about the Grammys?
So the Oscar nominations were announced yesterday, and strangely, only 2 songs made the final cut – Man or Muppet by Flight of the Conchords’ man, Bret McKenzie, and Real in Rio by Sergio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown, and Siedah Garrett (via MTV). Okay that’s enough Oscar talk for me.
Kim Dotcom from Mega Upload Denied Bail, Had LOTS of Cars
Mega Upload kingpin, Kim Dotcom, has been denied bail, due to his assumed flight risk, multiple passports, and huge amounts of cash (via Slash Gear). Kim Dotcom might have to sit in jail until the US extradition trail on Feb. 22. Valentine’s Day in jail?! Oh wait, have you SEEN Kim Dotcom? He’d likely be alone anyway.
But who cares about being alone when you have 18 luxury cars, including a Rolls Royce, a Maserati, and a Von Dutch Kustom motorcycle (via Slash Gear). And what kind of license plates did he have on these cars? Why, terribly lame vanity ones, such as EVIL, GOOD, GOD, STONED, MAFIA, CEO, HACKER, and GUILTY. Better hide some of those from the judge!
Everyone is on YouTube!
I was recently on YouTube for the first time yesterday, and man is that a clever site! It’s going to go places. Apparently it has – it has ONE TRILLION views in 2011 (via Dvice). Every second, one hour of videos is uploaded to YouTube. That’s a staggering amount of (mainly useless) content. YouTube has continued to build on it’s streaming content, featuring concerts from Coldplay this past year, as well as streams from Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits. YouTube are in talks to stream NBA games, and continue to explore ideas to get and keep people on their site. Now excuse me while I go watch a video of a monkey smelling its poo and falling out of a tree (brilliant!).
