Dads Who Rock

In honor of Father's Day RollingStone.com has put together a few pictures of rock dads with their kids. As a daddy's girl I won't lie and say I didn't get a little misty. My Dad is the whole reason I love music. Had it not been for him and his making me guess the artist and song title for everything we heard on the rock radio stations in the 80's, I am sure I wouldn't even be sitting here typing this out at this moment. I like to joke that the first song I knew all the words to was Zeppelin's 'Black Dog' , but honestly, it probably isn't too far from the truth. Love you Daddy-o. Happy Father's Day!

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Pete doesn't like that he's known as a douchebag. Changing the hair may help.

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Top 7 most overrated singers of all time? I love Gwen but she definitely should have made the list. Oh yeah, fair warning about the hideous picture of Amy Winehouse when you click the link.

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Led Zeppelin to be no more.

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New Madina Lake track.

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Frank Iero designs shoe for charity.

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Katy Perry and Travis McCoy have called it quits. This is what happens when the girl gets more famous than the guy. Success is a bitch.

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Oh, the things record labels are capable of. I just don't think I have that kind of vision. I'm under the impression that you can't polish a turd. Apparently I am wrong.

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Led Zeppelin without Plant? I think not.

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Beatles to be featured in their own Rock Band-like game.

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Innerpartysystem stream new album on MySpace. I bought it a few weeks ago and it's pretty good. By the way Jared, I'm still waiting on that interview. ;)

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Black Sabbath for Converse.

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New album for Glassjaw.

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New Puscifer video.

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A pretty amusing video of Bret Michaels talking about Guitar Hero III

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New Atreyu video

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Will Zeppelin play Bonnaroo?

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Who would have thought someone would ever name a band "Circle Takes the Square?" Seriously? Have we gotten so low on decent band names that we have to start naming them after statements from game shows?

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If you didn't watch the premiere of Snoop Dogg's new reality show (yes, for real, it's on E!) then you didn't really miss much - other than him telling the yoga instructor he had "something that would open her hips up." Easy cowboy!

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Pete Wentz is upset they didn't get a grammy nod - whether or not he's trying to make it sound like he isn't. However, if Fergie got one and I didn't, I might be a little bitter too.

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Portishead to release new album.

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This is the gaggiest thing I have ever read. Who knew Pete and Ashley could be so damn cheezy. Hey, maybe it's true, right?

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Tarja live concert footage.

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Led Zeppelin met on June 10th earlier this year to begin rehearsing songs for their reunion show. I think it's a sign because June 10th is totally my birthday.

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36 Crazyfists album news.

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AFI work on new album.

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New Apocalyptica video.

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The Used post demo on their MySpace.

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What a f*ck*ing STUPID world record. Who thinks this shit up?

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Alanis Morissette inducted into Canadian Music Hall of Fame. I think this is funny. What took so long? I mean, how many canadian artists are there? Really? Like 10 total?

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Lily Allen plans an early retirement.

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RHCP bassist Flea loses home to California fires.

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His voice just ain't what it used to be - but that's what happens when you're performing at 200 years old. I <3>




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I normally wouldn't write about a band like Extreme however, it reminds me of a funny story. When I was in high school I was at a friends house and his little brother was in the shower and was singing "More Than Words" at the top of his lungs and didn't realize everyone in the house could hear him - hilarious.

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Coheed announce more tour dates with Linkin Park.

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I don't want to say "I told you so" because it's actually kind of sad. Lukas Rossi really should have known better...

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More drama for Marilyn Manson.

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I'm sure many of you know that Frank has "temporarily" left My Chemical Romance. A little bird told me that he might not have left for a family illness and that it might be something more to do with disagreements between members...

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Scott Weiland to write a memoir.

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YouTube clip about new documentary detailing the rise of punk in the 90's.

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Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven' makes its way into the UK Top 40 after making their back catalogue available to download.

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Cristina Scabbia talks about new Lacuna Coil album.

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Rolling Stone reviews Van Halen reunion show.

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Don Vito is on suicide watch after he was charged with 2 felony counts of sexual assault on a child.

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I love how Alanis picks wierd-ass projects to be a part of.

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Apparently Steve from Blue's Clues isn't dead but was/is apparently in a band. He kind of looks like AJ from the Backstreet Boys.

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Ozzy has released a statement that he didn't have anything to do with the sting operation carried out at a "concert pre-party" yesterday. I understand why he's mad but I'm kind of bummed to find out he wasn't trying to catch a bunch of court-date ditching losers.

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Almost Impossible is right. This quiz is so hard that I only got 23 right and was still considered a "whiz."

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Metallica talks new album.

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Jimmy Page has broken his finger thusly the Led Zep reunion tour has been postponed but fear not you lucky ticket holders out there. There will NOT be another lottery.

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Pink Floyd to release huge boxed set.

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Live footage from A7X's "Halloween" show in Hollywood, CA.

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This song is terrible. Not kind of terrible, truly awful. I mean, she uses the word "frickin'." Britney Spears: making the south look bad since 2001.

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Amy Winehouse vows to stay sober before and during shows on her current tour but was very clear that she had no intention of staying sober after them. I guess she gets points for being honest, right?

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Led Zeppelin to release digital boxed set in mid-November.

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Rock Sound, a day late and a dollar short reports on Ville getting knocked out by Jonna. Might I remind everyone again that this news is older than baseball. Ok, maybe not that old, but it's old.

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Seriously, Evan Rachel Wood getting a recording contract? Apparently they give them to anyone these days. She's a weirdo anyway. I'm sure it won't last long.

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Johnny Rotten likes to, as I say, "stir the pot", no?

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Part of me thinks this is sacreligious but the other part of me thinks that John Varvados is one of the only acceptable people to pull this off. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

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Lily Allen on Fashion Rocks tonight.

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Jimmy Page hints at new Zeppelin songs.

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Amy Winehouse working with Pete Doherty. I guess birds of a feather flock together, right?

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What kind of direction is this for VS to go? They're branding manager better have something up their sleeve or this will be as strange as when they were selling Bob Dylan albums.

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New Coheed in-studio video posted online.

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Smashing Pumpkins video interview and performances at AOL.

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Killswitch Engage video interview.

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Ted Nugent will guest on The Simpsons. 10 bucks says there will be guns or large game of some sort involved.

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Got a million dollars? Want to buy Marilyn Manson's house with it?

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Led Zeppelin to join the digital revolution.

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Rage Against the Machine has scheduled dates to tour Japan. Does this mean a U.S. or European tour could be in the works?

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Want to look like David Bowie but working with a Target income? Your day has come.

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Bret Michaels is proud to say that he was the first rockstar to hook up with Pam Anderson. Maybe he's the one who gave everyone hep. Kidding - don't sue me Bret, I love you and your piss-poor wig.

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Kirsten Dunst with star as Debbie Harry in new biopic. At least it isn't Lindsey Lohan. Gag.

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Zeppelin says they won't tour - I don't know if I believe that. I say in 6 months they'll be touring afterall. Everyone likes a money tree don't they?

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An interesting spin for the release and purchase of the new Radiohead album.

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LostProphets video from in the studio.

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Audio interview with Tarja.

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Tom Morello to support Serj Tankien on solo tour.

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Hard Rock Park to open in Myrtle Beach in May of 08.

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3-part interview with Ville Valo.

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Dave Grohl has earned some brownie points with me over his cute nerding out about wanting to play with Led Zeppelin.

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This is why I don't get in the pit. You people who do need to start being more concerned about your fellow man!

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As Sunshine would say, "Oh humans."

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Amy Winehouse to release live DVD. If I wanted to see a drugged out lush writhe around on camera I'd watch this. I keeed, I keeed. I'm totally buying this.

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HIM's, "Venus Doom" album released to 38,000 is sales in its first week. This put them at #15 on the Nielsen ratings. Remember when it was like, hundreds of thousands? The big music machine is slowly dying...

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These are the days of our lives....Courtney style.

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To everyone who says Led Zeppelin isn't the greatest rock band to ever live - the proof is in the pudding.

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Rock of Love broke records Sunday night - and not for the largest number of STD's per person in a room.

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Beastie Boys will have guest appearances from Lily Allen and M.I.A. for new album

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HIM or rather Ville on the cover of Rock Sound.

HIM are also doing a meet and greet in London on the 17th.

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Led Zeppelin to re-unite for one show in London.

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Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachael Wood might make a Christmas album together. Ick.

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New Avenged Sevenfold single, "Almost Easy", will be available next week on iTunes.

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Brent Hinds of Mastadon was hospitalized for a severe head injury.

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The White Stripes have cancelled their tour due to Meg White's anxiety.

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From the horses mouth

You know me and I love some juicy gossip - especially if it's true. MWAHAHA
Ok, so here's some true shit. Names have been omitted for their protection, and mine. ;)

#1 - "What "screamo" singer recently performed and made a very specific snide remark about the recent release of a former drinking buddy's album while performing in NY? He chose to NOT make the same remark in NJ."

#2 - "The guitarist for this up-and-coming punk/pop/rock band with a new release "shrouded in mystery" had to quickly change his clothes before a performance during their current tour because he laughed to hard he shat his pants. Yes, shat."

#3 - "Parting is such sweet sorrow. This lead singer and apparently soft-hearted frontman of a pop/punk band out of Cali. cut ties with his girlfriend this past week right before a performance and sobbed until reaching the stage."

Now for some gossip that probably isn't true:

Rolling Stone asked it's readers to name the most prolific gossip stories about musicians they would think of. This is what they came up with.

1. Paul McCartney is or has ever been dead.

2. Stevie Nicks' assistant had to blow coke up Stevie's ass due to Nicks' destroyed nasal passages.

3. Mama Cass died after choking on a ham sandwich.

4. Angie Bowie caught her husband in bed with Mick Jagger.

5. Mark David Chapman was an assassin programmed by the CIA.

6. Members of Led Zeppelin pleased a teenage groupie using a red snapper/shark as their sex toy of choice.

7. Jim Morrison was killed by members of the Nixon administration/faked his own death/died from a heart attack brought on by masturbating in a Parisian bathtub.

8. Deborah Harry was once abducted by serial killer Ted Bundy.

9. Keith Moon drove a car into a Holiday Inn pool on his 21st birthday, knocked out a couple of teeth and got the Who banned for life from all Holiday Inns.

10. Gene Simmons had a cow tongue grafted onto his own tongue after a car accident.

11. Rod Stewart/Lil' Kim/Jordan Knight had to get their respective stomachs pumped after ingesting a gallon of semen.

12. During a drug bust on Mick's place Marianne Faithfull was once found with a Mars bar between her legs.

13. Marilyn Manson had his lowest set of ribs removed so he could blow himself.

14. Alice Cooper and Frank Zappa attempted to gross each other out by shitting onstage, then eating it.

15. Bob Marley was assassinated/given cancer in his toe by the CIA.

16. Phil Collins' tune "In the Air Tonight" was written after Collins witnessed a gruesome incident in which one man let another man drown.

17. Keith Richards routinely has in the past/continues today to get full-body blood transfusions.18. Jack and Meg White are brother and sister.

19. "Hotel California" is about a Christian church that was abandoned then taken over by Satan worshipers, the Eagles are Satan worshipers and Satan him (or her) self appears in the window on the album jacket.

20. Bob Ezrin, who produced Lou Reed's Berlin, got the anguished children's cries you hear on "The Kids" by telling his own children their mother was dead and recording the sounds they made.

21. Pearl Jam was named after a peyote-infused jam Eddie Vedder's grandmother used to make.

22. Charles Manson auditioned for the Monkees.

23. Marilyn Manson played Kevin Arnold's friend Paul Pfeiffer on the Wonder Years.

24. Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his guitar-playing gifts.

25. Roy Orbison was an albino and wore dark glasses because he was blind.
Pretty funny, eh?

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Led Zeppelin really need to get over themselves. I love them, I do. However, this is pretty damn stupid and childish.

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Evanescence guitarist headbangs his way to a stroke.

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It just keeps getting worse.

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Hear the new Gwen Stefani song. It kind of sucks...

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Zeppelin nominated for Songwriters Hall of Fame

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MCR's "The Black Parade" still at the top of UK charts.

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NME has the skinny on the new album. (I know some of you have already heard it, but for those of you who haven't or who just can't wait until tomorrow, get your fix here.)

Radio station names Top 20 guitar solos

Rock 101 KUFO out of Portland was unsatisfied with a list of the greatest guitar solos ever done by a British radio station, so they did their own.I have to say, it looks pretty good. Good variety. If they had asked Blabbermouth.com readers, it would have been all black metal bands - 90% of their readers are morons.

01. The Star Spangled Banner – JIMI HENDRIX
02. Free Bird – LYNYRD SKYNYRD
03. Eruption – VAN HALEN
04. Stairway to Heaven – LED ZEPPELIN
05. One – METALLICA
06. Comfortably Numb – PINK FLOYD
07. War Pigs – BLACK SABBATH
08. All Along the Watchtower – JIMI HENDRIX
09. November Rain – GUNS N' ROSES
10. You Shook Me All Night Long – AC/DC
11. Master of Puppets – METALLICA
12. Alive – PEARL JAM13. Bohemian Rhapsody – QUEEN
14. Man in the Box – ALICE IN CHAINS
15. Sweet Child O Mine – GUNS N' ROSES
16. Cemetary Gates – PANTERA
17. Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2 – PINK FLOYD
18. Bulls on Parade – RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
19. Walk – PANTERA
20. Crazy Train – OZZY OSBOURNE

What do you guys think?