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Cool Album I produced in the nineties…

January 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Cool album I produced in the nineties for Sticks and Stones which are Norm Aquilo, Mike Meadows (currently part of Taylor Swift’s band), Ron Alabanza, and Howard Arnn. It’s been remastered and has 3 new bonus tracks. Check it out and buy it at itunes. You can listen to the songs here, but if you like them please buy them

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Changes Coming…

October 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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I am going to retool and redo this site soon. Gone will be all the crap about celebrities including the history. It will be replaced by just a blog about my life and the changes I’m going through. My life has taken a new direction and as such so will this site.

Update: I’ve taken down a bunch of stuff. Another time I will continue the revamp but for now, it is what it is.

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My friend Chuck Adams

August 29, 2009 · 1 Comment

This is a story on my friend Chuck Adams. Very interesting read…

http://www.pw.org/content/agents_amp_editors_qampa_chuck_adams

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Michael Jackson Memorial Service

July 7, 2009 · 1 Comment

It was wonderful. Just wonderful.

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Lady Gaga Natural

June 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Still Hot.

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Michael Jackson Dies – Rest Peacefully, My Friend

June 26, 2009 · 4 Comments

Michael Jackson’s death has been a painfully hard pill to swallow. Even as I watched the news reports and glanced at the 117 text messages I got in 20 minutes all telling me the same thing, I just didn’t believe it was true. I expected at any second for it all to have just been another false scare. But, in the end, it came to pass that Michael Jackson was dead.

For me, even as I write this, It is very much like having lost a lifelong friend. Obviously, it sounds silly to see an entertainer you’ve never met as a friend, but Michael Jackson has been a part of my life since I was a child. Michael’s death has had me thinking a lot about my own mortality. I’ve thought about why Michael’s death is so real to me and it’s because Michael’s music is the soundtrack to my life.

I remember the time in third or fourth grade and the class in a circle playing outside with a big parachute where we would all take turns running under it while we moved it up and down. The entire class sang along to a record playing. It was Michael Jackson’s “Rockin’ Robin”.

I remember the times watching The Jackson 5 cartoon on Saturday mornings and loving little michael.

I remember the time as a 14/15 year old when my father wouldn’t get me tickets to see Michael Jackson and The Jacksons play during the Victory Tour. All of my father’s pothead friends mocked me when I tried to win tickets on the radio.

I remember the time we were walking down the strand at the beach and stopped to watch The Thriller video when it first came out as it played in a store and getting picked on for liking him. I don’t remember anything else about that beach trip.

I remember the time as a teen riding with my mother and her friends on vacation and listening to We are the World endlessly rewinding the parts where Michael sang.

I remember the time in 9th grade when my friend Todd Lancaster’s father was driving us from junior high school to the high school so we could be on the varsity wrestling team. His father, Vince, was probably 35 at the time and was singing along to the radio. “I always feel like somebody’s watching me” he sang. “That’s Michael Jackson, you know,” he told us.

I remember the time as an 18 year old rushing home one morning after an overnight shift at my first full-time job just to hear the radio debut of Michael’s I just can’t stop loving you.

I remember the times checking the BAD CD out of the Danville Community College llibrary and listening to it on one of their cd players because I didn’t have a CD player and the CD had a bonus track on it (Speed Demon).

I remember the times I was at Longwood College talking to my girlfriend who was in High School while I was listening to Remember the Time cause we were separated and all we had were memories.

I remember the time I was engaged to be married and in my early 20s when the first Michael Jackson scandal broke. She and her family laughed at me as I sat and watched the press statement Michael made from Neverland Valley Ranch.

I remember the time inthe late 90s when I was separated from someone very close to me and I kept playing “You are not alone” over and over again.

I remember times like these scattered throughout my entire life. But, none so much as we Charlie Fulp and I went to New York to see Michael Jackson’s 30 Anniversary Show at Madison Square Garden. It was September 10, 2001 and we had a plane to catch the next day going home. The next day was 9/11 and Charlie and I never caught that plane, but, Michael Jackson is even forever linked in my memories to that tragic day.

I have been mocked for being a Michael Jackson fan by more people than I could ever count. I have endured countless Michael Jackson jokes. And even as he acted in bizzare ways and physically changed over the years, he was always still just Michael Jackson. The man that one day I might meet. The man that if we ever met would like me and we would become real friends. But, that day will never come.

Because his music and art and influence on pop culture has been part of my life for my entire life, I am going to really miss him even though he never knew I or really any of us fans even existed. Michael Jackson  has been like a baby blanket from my childhood that I’ve carried with me til today. I’m laying it down now. I love Michael Jackson. I love Michael Jackson’s music which will never die. But, I am not going to tune in while the world begins to destroy his legacy with the impending battles over his life, death, estate, and so on.

Michael Jackson is my friend. My friend has passed away. I love you, Michael Jackson.

“I love you, too,” Michael says in my head, just like he would say when he was alive to the fans who screamed “I love you” all over the world.

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I’ve been asked…

June 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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so you wanted to see me performing, here’s your preview. for more shots go to www.showcaseshowoff.com and click on the may 21st show pictures.

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Things Aren’t Always What They Appear To Be

April 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Just because things look a certain way doesn’t automatically mean that the worst interpretation is the accurate one. I’ve seen countless examples of people looking at a situation and assuming the worst. The worst interpretation is about as likely as the best interpretation. The truth often falls somewhere in the middle.

The one thing you can’t see is someone’s intentions. The best of intentions can sometimes be seen as evil, meddlesome, and just plain wrong even when the intentions are at their core good.

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Mea Culpa

January 5, 2009 · 4 Comments

 

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I’ve let down a very important person in my life. In fact, I’ve let down several important people recently. I didn’t do it by doing anything particularly wrong. I did it by not doing anything at all. I didn’t return phone calls in a timely fashion. I didn’t answer emails even over the smallest of questions. And most importantly, I just wasn’t myself. I didn’t keep my promises when I said I would even when I still had every intention of keeping them at some point in the near future.

 

I excused my failures by believing that time moves differently for me. Like somehow a week to me is like a day to others. I realize that seeing the world like that is totally and unforgivably unfair and disrespectful. I can only ask for their understanding and for an opportunity to show my sincere appreciation for all that they have done to make my life better.

 

I am sorry.

 

Not just sorry, but ashamed for putting forth the image of a man in total control of everything around him even when a tornado of responsibilities are spinning me in countless directions simultaneously. And for the psychoanalysts who see that sentence as me making an excuse for my actions, I would like to reiterate that there is no excuse for treating people with less respect than you expect from them. I have made my career by promising less than I deliver and in the recent past I haven’t been able to always hold up that mantra.

 

So to countless people whom I’ve made commitments to only to allow eons to pass before following through on the commitments, I am deeply and humbly sorry for all the unnecessary and unreasonable stress I’ve caused you. I hope that you know me well enough to at least know that my intentions are good even when I don’t complete things quickly enough.

 

I will make sure that this is a learning experience for me and has helped me to learn that I many new things to learn and improve on. I hope that you allow me the opportunity to prove to you that I do keep my word.

 

Scott Brooks

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Four New Underground Prince Songs

December 19, 2008 · Leave a Comment

UPDATE: For the tracks individually Click HERE

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Los Angeles’ rock radio station Indie 103 was “summoned” to go up to Prince’s home this past week to preview his new album. According to the station’s “Mr. Shovel,” Prince doesn’t have a record label and “wants nothing to do with record labels, so he’s meeting with people to figure out how to operate at his level without a record label.” Following a long conversation with the Purple Rain star, the radio reps were played the new album in Prince’s home entertainment theatre. “It’s heavy, rockin’, and our enthusiasm was immediate,” Mr. Shovel said. Prince then said the station could preview a few of the new songs on Indie 103, so that’s where we were today at 3 p.m.

The album kicks off with an explosive, four-minute instrumental before launching into the first song that was played on the radio… Prince covering Tommy James & the Shondells’ “Crimson & Clover,” with the Purple One altering the lyrics as he’s been known to do during his cover performances. Keeping with the original, the vocals sound like Prince is submerged under water. Things deviate at the chorus, however, as Prince belts out the “ooh baby, I think I love you” part of Jimi Hendrix’s “Foxy Lady.”

“Colonized Mind” was the second song played. Another laid-back guitar joint, it seems like Prince’s intention on this album is to make people stop dancing and just chill. More aquatic layering on Prince’s voice as he sings politicized lyrics with lyrics along the lines of “Did you know your record deal was another way for ‘The Man’ to steal.” Yeah, we don’t think Prince wants anything to do with record labels. The guitar solo is killer, out-guitaring the entirety of Planet Earth’s “Guitar,” before the chorus returns.

“Wall of Berlin” was the third song played. Again, more guitar virtuosity by Prince. If he’s aiming to make an album similar to Side C of Electric Ladyland, he’s off to a good start. The songs also sound more intimate, like the Artist recorded these songs without any Revolution and New Power Generation behind him. “4ever” is the ballad, with Prince busting out the piano before being joined by backup singers. It’s not “Free,” “Ballad of Dorothy Parker” or “Sometimes It Snows In April,” but it’s still a solid, latter-day Prince slow dance as he ruminates about marriage and being with someone, well, 4ever.

And that’s all we get. For now, at least. Again, according to the DJs, Prince’s new album is finished and he’s just looking for a non-record label vessel in which to release it. We’ll keep you posted in what promises to be a busy year for Prince.

Daniel Kreps

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Give it a try. LifeLock 10% Off!

December 16, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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Saturday Night Live – Digital Short: Jizz in My Pants – Hilarious

December 9, 2008 · 1 Comment

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GoDaddy Discount – GoDaddy is where I register my domain names

December 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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First Look – Tim Hilliard’s Gonna Serve Music Video

November 23, 2008 · 6 Comments

Tim Hilliard - Gonna Serve

Tim Hilliard - Gonna Serve

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Check out the video and vote for what you think of the song a few posts down. I worked with Tim Hilliard on this song. What do you think? Leave some comments!

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Ashley Simpson names her baby Mowgli after Jungle Book character

November 21, 2008 · 2 Comments

Bronx Mowgli Wentz is the full name.

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