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Bonnaroo has confirmed a handful of new acts, including Cat Power, Zappa Plays Zappa, The Disco Biscuits, MSTRKRFT and Chromeo. Cat Power performed at Bonnaroo in 2006, while the Disco Biscuits played the festival in both 2002 and 2006. This year the group is expected to offer one of the festival’s marquee late night sets. Bonnaroo has also confirmed that both Phil Lesh & Friends and My Morning Jacket will play special late night shows on the festival’s outdoor Which Stage. The festival’s second largest performance space has only hosted a handful of late night shows over the years, including Primus, Trey Anastasio, String Cheese Incident and The Flaming Lips.
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Influential Band of Gypsys drummer George “Buddy” Miles died last night at his Austin home. According to his official homepage, at the time of his death Miles was surrounded by his family. The forwarding thinking drummer, and author of the oft-covered song “Them Changes,” first made his name playing bass with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Parker and later drums alongside Mike Bloomfield. While the Experience were on hiatus, Hendrix recruited Miles for his short lived Band of Gypsys, whose Fillmore East performances are memorialized on the final album Hendrix authorized before his untimely death. Miles also appeared on The Experience’s Electric Laydland and hired the guitar-legend to produce his solo effort, Electric Church.
Though Hendrix’s manager broke up the Band of Gypsys before they truly peaked, Miles had a successful career as a sideman, performing with the likes of Carlos Santana, David Bowie and George Clinton. Miles later voiced the California Raisins in a series of popular 1980s commercials and has been active on the Hendrix-tribute circuit. He also appeared at the 30 Year Tribute to Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison at the 2001 Gathering of the Vibes and sat in with Medeski, Martin & Wood. Before his passing, Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton nodded to Miles by covering “Them Changes” at Madison Square Garden earlier this week. A memorial concert is currently being planned by the drummer’s family.
War Is SO 20th Century
When Bush Comes To Shove
War Is A Dick Thing, Peace Is A Heart Thing
George Dubya: Weapon Of Mass Distraction
Drop Bush, Not Bombs
If War Is The Answer We’re Asking The Wrong Question
Killing Innocent People Is The Problem, Not The Solution
Save America, Spare Iraq, Make Texas Take Him Back
Real Patriots Drive Hybrids
Drop Names, Not Bombs
Who Would Jesus Bomb?
Stop Mad Cowboy Disease
There Is No Path To Peace – Peace IS The Path
Justice Or Just Us?
Tame The Tyrant In The Mirror, Then The One In Iraq
Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld: Axis Of Weasel
Go Solar, Not Ballistic
Nonviolence, Not Nonexistence
A Village In Texas Has Lost Its Idiot
How Many Lives Per Gallon?
How Did Our Oil Get Under Their Soil?
Regime Change Begins At Home
No Hitting (held by young girl)
No Oilgarchy (Oilgarchy in circle with slash across it)
God Does Not Bless Only America
Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Blood
Has Anyone Seen Our Constitution Lately?
What If God Blesses Iraq?
Born To Kill, Born To Drill
Let’s Try Preemptive Peace
Our Grief Is Not A Cry For War
If You Are Not Outraged You Are Not Paying Attention
Make Soup Not War
Smart Bombs Don’t Justify Dumb Leaders
We Have Guided Missiles And Misguided Men
Who’s The Unelected Tyrant With The Bomb?
Peaceful Solution Not Daddy’s Retribution
Make Tea Not War
All Humanity Is Downwind
My President Is A Psychopath
Relax, George
Fight Plaque not Iraq!” (and the guy was carrying a toothbrush)
Signs spotted at DC Peace Rally …
These colors don’t run the world.
One nation under surveillance.
How did our oil get under their sand?
Start Drafting SUV Drivers Now.
Don’t blame me, I voted with the majority.
Buck Fush!
It’s NUCLEAR, not NUCULAR, you idiot!
Patriots are idiots – Matriarchy Now!
Resistance is Fertile.
(Pictures of sheep carrying flags) Stop Mad Sheep Disease Now.
(UFW sign) Pick Fruit, not Fights.
(On a five year old) More Candy Less War.
Say can you see my democracy?
(With pictures of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld) Asses of Evil.
It’s the oil, stupid.
War is expensive, Peace is priceless.
Read between the Pipelines
No More Bu.Sh.
Smart weapons, Dumb president.
The only thing we have to fear is Bush himself.
How many Lives per Gallon?
Peace Takes Brains
Anything War can do, Peace can do better.
Negotiation Not Annihilation.
Make touchdowns, not war – Go Raiders!
Another patriot for peace.
Oh Say can You Cease?
Star Spangled Bummer
Don’t Arm a Son of a Bush
Don’t do it, George, Dad will still love you.
Power to the Peaceful
The last time we listened to a Bush, we wandered in the desert for 40 years.
Drunk Frat Boy Drives Nation into Ditch.
Starts War to Cover up.
And from San Francisco
Another transsexual lesbian vegan epidemiologist against the war
Yet another sadistic Chinese-Jewish computer geek for peace.
Another voting queer rancher for peace.
Another usual suspect for peace.
Another Marine Corps Lt. Colonel and her sisters for peace.
Another queer Jewish family for peace.
Another WWII RAF pilot against war.
Do not invade Iraq–Another recovering Republican.
Also . . .
Blame Florida.
Veterans for Common Sense. (Lots of Vietnam vets.)
Furthermore, Iraq sank the Maine in the Gulf of Tonkin.
A bird in the hand: Give it to Bush.
Bush gives vegetation a bad name.
“Never hit first”–Mom.
Waitresses for Peace–the kitchen won’t take any new world orders.
Fight truth decay.
It’s OK, Mr. Ashcroft, we weren’t using our civil rights anyway.
“Iraq” is Arabic for “Vietnam.”
Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh…Uh oh, here we go again.
Vive la France…Vive la Veto.
Return the Presidio to the Muwekema Ohlone Nation.
A village in Texas has lost its idiot . . . and a village in England has found one!
If terrorism is an act of war, and war brings terror to the enemy, then what exactly is a war against terrorism?
War is for people with limited language skills.
from the SF peace marches against the Viet Nam war:
Another Jewish diabetic for peace
Others Seen at Rallies in San Jose (Saturday) and in San Francisco (Sunday):
A thousand points of light and we got the dim one.
Anything war can do, peace can do better.
Bomb a child, create a terrorist.
You can bomb the world into pieces but you can’t bomb it into peace.
My democracy is demoralizing me.
War: terrorism with a big budget.
Preemptive impeachment.
Collateral damage means brothers and sisters.
Will killing their children keep ours safe?
Bush’s policies: endangering America, enraging the world.
When will thinking replace killing?
Preempt peace
An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
The axis of evil: racism, poverty, war.
Smart kids or smart bombs–put your $ where our future is.
Pray for Bush to have a spiritual awakening.
Mend your fuelish ways.
War is not a family value.
The music publisher that controls the Beatles’ John Lennon-Paul McCartney composed hits has given Idol the go-ahead to let its contestants have their way with the likes of “Yesterday,” “Let It Be” and, should someone be so brave, “I Am the Walrus.”
http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=c7f42858-3746-4676-9f6b-d389634be820
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/index.aspx?PageNum=2
When she released ‘Blackout’ back on October 30th, 2007 we were all excited about the prospect of seeing Britney Spears live. And now it sounds like we may get a chance to do just that.
CLEARWATER – Shawn Lonsdale, who became one of the most bedeviling local critics of the Church of Scientology, died of an apparent suicide at his Clearwater home this past weekend. He was 39.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/feb/20/me-scientology-critic-found-dead-at-clearwater-hom/
Internet addiction: the seedy underbelly of the information superhighway.
BISHKEK (Reuters) – Kyrgyz rights activists will offer a prize of up to $1,000 in a contest for the ‘best song’ to protest against the presence of U.S. troops in the Central Asian republic, the event’s organizer said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSKUA75211720080227
Statistics released on Tuesday showed that more than 233,000 properties in the United States were foreclosed in January alone, so the addition of just one more person this year would hardly be cause for news coverage. Except, of course, that the person is Michael Jackson, and the property is his Neverland ranch.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/auction-set-for-michael-jacksons-neverland/?hp
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — A 16-foot python stalked a family dog for days before swallowing the pet whole in front of horrified children in the Australian tropics, animal experts said Wednesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/27/australia.snake.ap/index.html
LONDON (Reuters) – Protesters scaled the roof of Britain’s parliament in a major security breach on Wednesday and threatened further direct action against government plans to expand London’s Heathrow airport
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL2728712620080227
