03.16.2006 10:40 AM EST
Over the last few weeks, hundreds of undiscovered singers have been blindly auditioning for the second season of CBS' "Rock Star," not knowing which band they'd be asked to front should they follow in J.D. Fortune's footsteps and walk away from the reality television experiment victorious.
The producers behind "Rock Star" have now revealed that they've recruited three big names to form a rock supergroup, musicians who will leave it up to America to find the band's voice.
Mötley Crüe kitman Tommy Lee, former Metallica bassist and current Voivod member Jason Newsted, and onetime Guns N' Roses axeman Gilby Clarke will be banding together as Supernova, utilizing the Mark Burnett-produced "Rock Star" to secure a lead singer.
The show's first season featured the surviving members of INXS. Fortune was picked to replace the late Michael Hutchence, and the revived outfit released Switch in November (see "INXS Insist Finding J.D. Was An 'Organic' Process, Think 'Angels Got Together' "). To date, the album has sold close to 308,000 copies.
Burnett's team has enlisted songwriter Butch Walker to produce the inaugural Supernova offering, which will be released in 2007, in conjunction with a full U.S. tour. Walker has produced and written tunes for the likes of Avril Lavigne, Pink, Bowling for Soup, Sevendust and Lindsay Lohan. He also worked with Lee on his 2005 solo release, Tommyland: The Ride.
Dave Navarro and Brooke Burke are set to return as the show's hosts. Each week, "Rock Star" will feature guest appearances by notable musicians and other celebrities. "Friends of mine, like Slash, Macy Gray, Moby and Rob Zombie, will join us and throw in their two cents about who should stay and who should go," Navarro told Variety.
Lee remains an active Crüe member, and Newsted — who left Metallica five years ago — is preparing for the spring launch of Katorz, the first Voivod album in the band's 20-plus-year career recorded without founding guitarist Denis "Piggy" D'Amour, who succumbed to colon cancer back in late August (see "Voivod Guitarist Denis 'Piggy' D'Amour Dies Of Cancer At 45 "). Clarke's résumé includes his three-year tenure as the rhythm guitarist for GN'R, and a brief stint with L.A. Guns. He also played with the reformed MC5 on their 2005 European tour.
Alice in Chains drummer Sean Kinney told MTV News last month that the band had been approached by the producers of "Rock Star" for the second season, but that they turned the offer down (see "Remaining Alice In Chains Members Reuniting For Summer Gigs "). The surviving members of that group — Kinney, bassist Mike Inez, and guitarist Jerry Cantrell — have reunited, and are planning a brief run of U.S. clubs this May. Alice in Chains are in the process of auditioning singers who'll be asked to step into the late Layne Staley's shoes for the group's imminent touring and recording plans.
With Supernova in place for the talent contest, the "Rock Star" camp could end up running into some legal trouble down the line over the supergroup's name. Back in the early 1990s, a poppy punk trio called Supernova emerged from California's Orange County. The band, which released its first album on Atlantic Records in 1995, is perhaps best known for the track "Chewbacca," which appeared on the soundtrack to Kevin Smith's "Clerks."
This is going to be great.
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Thursday, 16 March 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 March 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)
― dr lulu (dr lulu), Thursday, 16 March 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 16 March 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)
There was also a Supernova who put out a record or two on AmRep in the earlier 90s.
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Thursday, 16 March 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)
Why, Voivod songs, of course!
― dougfacedhermans, Thursday, 16 March 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)
Same one.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 March 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)
― youth problem, Thursday, 16 March 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)
― Mitya (mitya), Thursday, 16 March 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)
― earl tidwell, Friday, 12 May 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Friday, 7 July 2006 02:10 (eighteen years ago)
Week two is on tonight at 8 central time...is anyone else watching this?
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.dickdestiny.com/blog/2006/07/learn-to-rock-be-rockstar-how-novel-if.html
― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago)
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 03:38 (eighteen years ago)
― Marmot 4-Tay: what those guyz make music 4. (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 03:56 (eighteen years ago)
― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago)
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:55 (eighteen years ago)
― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 16:09 (eighteen years ago)
But I'll still watch every second of this show I can manage.
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago)
Rock Star: PANTERA?I have visions of that old Weird Al guitarist audition skit where the guy keeps playing the first few notes of "Day Tripper": Bum, bum bum bum, bum, bum, BLAAARG "No, wait, I can do it!"
The song choices are indeed horrible. Nickelback! The Cranberries! Goo Goo Dolls! It's not the singers' fault though, right? Don't they all have to choose from a bunch of songs tacked to the wall of their house or something?
― Marmot 4-Tay: what those guyz make music 4. (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 16:54 (eighteen years ago)
classic moment last night: Tommy Lee's metaphor mixing: "you raised the bar, and I'm pulling up a barstool"
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:01 (eighteen years ago)
I totally agree, for a number of reasons, like here:
http://www.dickdestiny.com/blog/2006/07/wet-noodle-hack-rock-and-good-grimace.html
Skip if you hate negative nabobs as you have nailed it. I'm convinced someone has written Navarra and Lee a bunch of things to say, given on cue cards or a hidden prompter, that they can dish out depending on circumstances, which are quite broad.
― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:14 (eighteen years ago)
also, standard feedback: "I want you to BRING IT." "I want you to ROCK IT."
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:16 (eighteen years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:18 (eighteen years ago)
― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:21 (eighteen years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:24 (eighteen years ago)
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:42 (eighteen years ago)
Dude, they should just fucking cancel the show and get Gibby on vocals. That would make a much better better band than would be possible with any of these clowns, though I agree that Magni seems like the one who should win.
― Marmot 4-Tay: what those guyz make music 4. (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:50 (eighteen years ago)
― Marmot 4-Tay: what those guyz make music 4. (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:52 (eighteen years ago)
I also wonder if they ever asked Navarro if he wanted to be in the band or if they were like, umm, nope - we just want you to read the cue cards, dude.
― BrianB (BrianB), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 20:02 (eighteen years ago)
― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Thursday, 20 July 2006 02:45 (eighteen years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 20 July 2006 02:48 (eighteen years ago)
― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Thursday, 20 July 2006 03:01 (eighteen years ago)
"I don't wanna do my laundry! I don't wanna do my laundry! Why won't you do it for me?"
― js (honestengine), Thursday, 20 July 2006 03:25 (eighteen years ago)
― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Thursday, 20 July 2006 03:39 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.dickdestiny.com/blog/2006/07/choosing-between-barrel-scrapings.html
Someone should publish the ratings. Burke made the claim it was, by vote tally, twice as popular as last year.
― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Thursday, 20 July 2006 04:16 (eighteen years ago)
― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Wednesday, 2 August 2006 03:53 (eighteen years ago)
-- luna (lunace...), Today 9:27 PM. (luna.c) (later) (link)
Answers
One of the guys that regularly plays at our club is one of the contestants. He's being somehow edited/cast into the bad guy which is funny as he's a total sweetheart. I thought for sure they'd have kicked him off by now but apparently he's becoming a sub-plot!
-- Forksclovetofu (forksclovetof...), Today 9:34 PM. (Forksclovetofu) (later) (link)_________ Which one?
-- luna (lunace...), Today 9:45 PM. (luna.c) (later) (link)_________ Rock Star season 2: SUPERNOVA!!!
-- Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwolo...), Today 9:46 PM. (marmotwolof) (tracklink) (later) (link)_________ Oh sure. The one place I didn't look.
-- luna (lunace...), Today 9:49 PM. (luna.c) (later) (link)_________ ry@n * -- Forksclovetofu (forksclovetof...), Today 9:56 PM. (Forksclovetofu) (later) (link)_________ This is good gossip and I am pasting it on the ILM thread.
-- Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwolo...), Today 9:56 PM. (marmotwolof) (later) (link)
― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Wednesday, 2 August 2006 03:59 (eighteen years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 04:53 (eighteen years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 04:57 (eighteen years ago)
― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 04:59 (eighteen years ago)
― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Wednesday, 2 August 2006 05:07 (eighteen years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 05:10 (eighteen years ago)
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 05:41 (eighteen years ago)
― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Wednesday, 2 August 2006 05:48 (eighteen years ago)
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:46 (eighteen years ago)
― darin (darin), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago)
I like the Southern chick though.
― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:13 (eighteen years ago)
― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:42 (eighteen years ago)
― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 23:48 (eighteen years ago)
― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Thursday, 3 August 2006 00:03 (eighteen years ago)
― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Thursday, 3 August 2006 00:04 (eighteen years ago)
Words cannot convey how entertaining this show is.
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:26 (eighteen years ago)
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 03:40 (eighteen years ago)
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 04:02 (eighteen years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 17 August 2006 04:46 (eighteen years ago)
― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 17 August 2006 05:22 (eighteen years ago)
additionally, it really is dopey to sing a song that none of the panel are likely to have ever heard before.
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 17 August 2006 11:41 (eighteen years ago)
― ng-unit (ng-unit), Thursday, 17 August 2006 12:41 (eighteen years ago)
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 17 August 2006 12:48 (eighteen years ago)
He'd be a lock on Rockstar: Sugar Ray.
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:18 (eighteen years ago)
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Friday, 18 August 2006 02:25 (eighteen years ago)
― ng-unit (ng-unit), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:47 (eighteen years ago)
Ryan Star's original song this week was actually....good? Did I just say that? I hate that lucas guy now. Delana is a bitch. I love Storm's faux gutted looks everytime someone gets elminated.
Also, going by Supernova's two performances so far, they are complete rubbish.
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 24 August 2006 20:42 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.thestar.com/images/thestar/img/060718_lukas_rossi_300.jpg
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 14 September 2006 01:43 (eighteen years ago)
― pinder (pinder), Thursday, 14 September 2006 03:09 (eighteen years ago)
Do you think they'll move 70,000 copies?
― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Thursday, 14 September 2006 03:51 (eighteen years ago)
― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Thursday, 14 September 2006 03:54 (eighteen years ago)
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 14 September 2006 04:01 (eighteen years ago)
― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Thursday, 14 September 2006 04:12 (eighteen years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 14 September 2006 05:01 (eighteen years ago)
― Period period period (Period period period), Thursday, 14 September 2006 06:45 (eighteen years ago)
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 14 September 2006 06:57 (eighteen years ago)
That goes for Gilby and Tommy, too.
Toby was by far the most entertaining and would have actually made this a real band. Perhaps, they're not really interested in forming a real band (that's my guess) and just want to get through their obligations, get paid and go home to do other things ASAP. If that's the case, then Lukas was the perfect choice. The kid is a total fake and has a lot of growing up to do, also. He's painful to watch, actually.
Dilana would have been a good choice if they wanted to get paid, fulfill their obligations, go home ASAP and launch a bona fide star to boot. She's got the girlpower vote and I could definitely see her flailing her way through 2 or 3 albums before fizzling out.
But, Lukas? Hmm, let's see... He's a typically boring type of wannabe left over from the 90s horrid music scene. He is anything but genuine and the pseudo -"deep" vibe he "feels" is ridiculous. He's like a 9th grader. It is obvious he works at a chicken shack because he's emotionally stunted! He's got 2 stage moves: point to the sky like he's soaring on a jet plane (Bono) and shake like an epileptic with some sort of "rebellious" expression on his face (Scott Weiland).
Toby was just a straight up rocker and it was obvious he got the biggest reaction from the crowd from about 4 weeks ago to the finale, while everyone else got progressively worse. He could actually sing, too, which is kind of rare. They would've looked like a group of men who belong together instead of 3 washed up rock stars fronted by a kid who skips gym class.
Maybe they just wanted someone who wouldn't get all the groupies. Toby would've definitely taken all the poonanny for himself.
PS. Take off the Voivod shirt, man! You ruined 'em! No wonder Piggy died. You gave him cancer!
― Butt Dickus (Dick Butkus), Thursday, 14 September 2006 12:33 (eighteen years ago)
― Butt Dickus (Dick Butkus), Thursday, 14 September 2006 12:35 (eighteen years ago)
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 14 September 2006 12:49 (eighteen years ago)
― shorty (shorty), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:29 (eighteen years ago)
I like how Gilby Clarke offered to "produce" Dilana's CD..."That's not something I've offered to anybody...only you" like he's fuckin' Rick Rubin or something! THX DOOD! Top o' the charts!
― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 14 September 2006 14:01 (eighteen years ago)
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 14 September 2006 14:03 (eighteen years ago)
― shorty (shorty), Thursday, 14 September 2006 14:51 (eighteen years ago)
― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 14 September 2006 14:58 (eighteen years ago)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005T7I4.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― IPSISSIMUS (Uri Frendimein), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:07 (eighteen years ago)
Gilby is Magnum PI, Tommy is Sam Malone, Jason Newstead is that lesser known guy and Lukas is the baby, of course.
― IPSISSIMUS (Uri Frendimein), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:09 (eighteen years ago)
― IPSISSIMUS (Uri Frendimein), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago)
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:21 (eighteen years ago)
QUESTION-ASKER: "One more thing. How did the name Supernova come about?
NEWSTEAD: "I think it was just Tommy flipping through an encyclopedia. It's very literal -- stars that have been around for awhile and then come together."
And, you know, explode."
That Tommy. He's a genius.
― IPSISSIMUS (Uri Frendimein), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:53 (eighteen years ago)
... are you talking about the same nu-goth-grungonimo abortion of a song that I had to sit through? Some mad scientist just shot his TV in a fit of rage, because he got totally scooped on the "I wonder what would happen if I Frankensteined together all the worst bits of popular rock music since 1985" front.
I was kind of surprised at the reasoning they gave when they eliminated Magni -- I thought a talented singer who 'blends into' the band rather than 'leading' it (i.e. stealing the spotlight) was exactly what they wanted!
― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago)
― IPSISSIMUS (Uri Frendimein), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago)
link.
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:46 (eighteen years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:47 (eighteen years ago)
Gary Hecker, an attorney representing Mark Burnett Productions, told the Associated Press that the order "is not going to affect the band or the tour.""The case hasn't been decided on its merits," he said. "Mark Burnett Productions hasn't even begun the evidence collection process that it will be allowed to do."The next hearing on the matter is scheduled for Friday in San Diego.
"The case hasn't been decided on its merits," he said. "Mark Burnett Productions hasn't even begun the evidence collection process that it will be allowed to do."
The next hearing on the matter is scheduled for Friday in San Diego.
― mark 0 (mark 0), Monday, 18 September 2006 22:42 (eighteen years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 18 September 2006 22:46 (eighteen years ago)
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 02:29 (eighteen years ago)