The Doors Get To Pay Up

Bare Naked Ladies Plane Crash

Barenaked Ladies’ frontman  Ed Robertson survived a plane crash  north of Bancroft, Ontario. Sgt. Jeff Mackinnon of the Bancroft OPP told the Intelligencer, “At 12:30 PM a Cessna 206 was taking off from Baptiste Lake, lost airspeed and entered a wooded area west of the lake.”

The Doors Don’t Get Their Day In Court

Keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger are on the hook for more than $5 million after they were found by lower courts to have improperly invoked the Doors’ name and images during a 2003 concert tour. The California Supreme Court has refused to take up their case

John Oats Second Solo Album

John Oates, longtime member of Daryl Hall & John Oates, is awaiting the release of his second solo album, 1000 Miles of Life, featuring guest appearances by Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas and Sam Bush, among others. Oates recorded the basic tracks in Nashville with several A-list session musicians before adding guitar tracks and vocals at a studio in Aspen, Colo. “I wanted players who knew how to frame a song, who knew how to take a lyric and enhance it,” Oates said. Others appearing on the album are guitarist Steve Cropper, Blues Traveler’s John Popper, the Blind Boys of Alabama and Bonnie and Bekka Bramlett. The album will be released on Sept. 23

Justin Timberlake Bar Fight?

Justin Timberlake was reportedly caught up in a brawl inside a New York nightclub last Saturday. A female fan tried to take a picture of the singer on her mobile phone. “It was mayhem. Justin narrowly missed being punched in the face when a fan tried to take a photo of him on her camera, and his minder kicked off, screaming at the girl and snatching the camera off her to delete the pic,” a source told the Mirror newspaper.

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