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To: 10K a day who wrote (20896)	6/5/2000 1:33:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 49843

VH1's 'The List' Goes Live With Legendary Mock-Rockers Spinal Tap in Special One-Hour Edition Premiering Thursday, June 22 at 10:00 P.M. (ET/PT) Heavy Metal Gods Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls Are Joined by Drummer Mick Fleetwood In Special Live Episode of Hit VH1 Series, Hosted by Fran Drescher as Bobbi Flekman MGM In Association With STUDIOCANAL to Re-release 'This Is Spinal Tap' In Theaters and on Special Edition DVD/VHS NEW YORK, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The loudest rock band of all time, Spinal Tap is coming together for their long-awaited reunion to debate a topic (yet to be revealed) on a special edition of VH1's hit series "The List." The live, one-hour show premieres Thursday, June 22 at 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT). The group will perform one of their own songs at the end of the show. Spinal Tap guitarist Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), singer David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) and bassist Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) will be joined on "The List" by drummer and rock legend Mick Fleetwood, the latest in a long line of Tap percussionists to face certain doom. "The List" will be hosted by Fran Drescher, who played PR agent Bobbi Flekman in the classic rock mockumentary "This Is Spinal Tap." Spinal Tap's relationship with Mick Fleetwood began several years ago with one of rock's more bizarre episodes: Spinal Tap placed an ad which read, "Drummer Died, Need New One," in The New York Times. Among the five-hundred hopefuls who showed up for auditions at the L.A. Coliseum was none other than Mick Fleetwood, who used an alias and wore a flame-retardant silver outfit to mask his identity until the audition was over. As "List" panelists, the members of Spinal Tap each will reveal his own top three picks for the topic, then go head-to-head over their choices, with Drescher serving as referee. The live studio audience and VH1.com online voters across America will also weigh in with their own opinions, and help to whittle the list down to one. Drescher will also field live telephone call-ins and read live e-mail comments during the course of the show. Director Rob Reiner's hit debut film, "This Is Spinal Tap" has been a cultural phenomenon since its release in 1984. A riotous ersatz documentary about aging British heavy-metal rockers on a calamitous tour of America, "This Is Spinal Tap" spawned its own reality when the band "reunited" in 1992 to release the album "Break Like the Wind," embark on real concert tour, and return to the screen in "The Return of Spinal Tap." A full-on revival of all things Spinal Tap is beginning this summer. "This is Spinal Tap," the classic rockumentary Newsweek calls, "The funniest movie ever made about rock and roll," is being re-released in theaters and on special edition DVD/VHS by MGM Home Entertainment, in association with European film studio, STUDIOCANAL. Other activities include the debut of a much anticipated, newly recorded single; Listen.com promotion, college screenings, as well as a star-studded Hollywood fanfest at the famed House of Blues. Arriving on September 12, the videocassette of "This Is Spinal Tap" will be available for $14.95 with the DVD priced at $29.98. Prior to the film's availability in stores, the film "This Is Spinal Tap" will be re-released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, through a special arrangement with STUDIOCANAL, in select theaters across the nation. In addition to hitting the road for an upcoming concert at the House of Blues in Hollywood, Spinal Tap will be the subject of an episode of VH1's "Where Are They Now?" series, airing later this summer. "The List" is a production of VH1. Executive producers, Jane Lipsitz, Lauren Zalaznick and Ken Baron; supervising producer, Michael A. Rosen. VH1 produces and programs a wide variety of music-based series, specials, live events and acquisition-based programming that keep viewers in touch with the music they love. VH1 is a registered trademark of MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom Inc. MTV Networks owns and operates the cable television programming services MTV: Music Television, MTV 2: Music Television, Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite, TV Land and VH1 as well as The Suite from MTV Networks, a package of ten digital services, all of which are trademarks of MTV Networks. MTV Networks also has joint ventures, licensing agreements and syndication deals whereby its programming can be seen worldwide. SOURCE VH1 -0- 06/05/2000 /CONTACT: Stacey Sanner, 212-846-7837, or Rachel Lizerbram, 212-846-7833, both of VH1; or Ariana Urbont of MTVN, 310-752-8079/ (VIA VIA.B) CO: VH1 ST: New York IN: ENT SU: * end of story *

To: 10K a day who wrote (20896)	6/5/2000 9:58:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49843

Dead Parts Ways Over Concert Archive Monday June 05 08:47 PM EDT dailynews.yahoo.com The good news for Deadheads is that in a few weeks, they're going to see a massive opening of the Grateful Dead's vault of 2,000 live shows recorded over three decades of touring. The bad news is, from the sound of things, that the release has created a schism in the band that might be irreparable. Last year, bassist Phil Lesh broke ranks with drummer Mickey Hart, guitarist Bob Weir, and others when he objected to the plan they had for digitally preserving the band's massive archive. Word got out that the band was selling out to a large corporation. "All those rumors are just hysterical. That's all they are; there is no fact in it," Hart says. But as a result of the split, Lesh won't join the band on this year's Furthur Festival; instead, he's out on the road with Bob Dylan and then doing some solo shows. Hart, currently touring with the Mickey Hart Band, has harsh words for his former bandmate. "Nobody's at war with Phil. He's just out of the loop. He just hasn't paid attention for years. He's just in the Phil zone, God save him. Nobody pays much attention to him. He's sort of on the outside. He's of no consequence really." Over Lesh's objections, the band has transferred the catalog to a digital system. "We're going ahead, Bob and I and [drummer] Billy [Kreutzmann], to preserve the catalog. This is the thing we've been doing all along," Hart says. "The thing about Phil is if you don't go along with Phil, he gets hysterical. And he spreads these wild rumors, these massively incorrect tales about selling out to Microsoft. That's ridiculous. We never ever were or will do that." The rest of the band found the reaction of Lesh, who underwent a liver transplant last year, "bewildering," says Hart. "Who wouldn't want the vault [to be] digitized and allow for access to it? Every Deadhead would, including myself." The band has already put out dozens of discs of concert material via live albums, a massive box set, and 17 installments of the Dick's Picks series, but the pace is going to soar. "If we kept going at the rate we're going, it would take 20 lifetimes" to get the material out, Hart says. "We have almost 2,000 shows." Hart won't reveal exactly what the band's plans are, but he says they would include traditional releases as well as music sales and downloading via the Internet, in much the same way that The Who, Jimmy Page, and Brian Wilson have recently released live albums. "Within a month or two we'll have some very surprising news for all," Hart hints. "It's going to be to everyone's delight, I assure you." With the possible exception of Lesh. "The Grateful Dead has always worked as a democracy. Phil's the odd man out. So he took his marbles and split, like a little boy would. That's his prerogative; God bless him, I wish him well. But believe me, we don't miss him. We're having a great time without him. It couldn't be better," Hart says. "If someone doesn't want to play with you, you don't play with them. We have no fight with him; he's sort of at odds with himself. I think that liver transplant didn't go so well. He might have gotten the liver of a jerk."