Hey these are the DMusical Notes... So take your Ritilin, have a seat and check out some of the good ol' newsin' in the world. I'm not gonna BS today either let's get to work.

Oh it's a small news day today BTW.

Lead Singer of Drowning Pool is Dead
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Dave Williams, lead singer of Drowning Pool, was found dead on the band's tour bus Wednesday afternoon, according to a spokesperson for the group. He was 30 years old.

A cause of death has yet to be determined.

The Dallas quartet was on tour with Ozzfest when Williams' body was discovered. Ozzfest had played the Verizon Wireless Music Center in Noblesville, Indiana, on Tuesday.

Wednesday (August 14) was an off day for the tour. Thursday's Ozzfest at the Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, Virginia, will go on as scheduled, according to a manager for the outing. Bolstered by the hit single "Bodies," Drowning Pool's debut album, Sinner, has sold more than 1.2 million copies since its release last June, according to SoundScan.

Drowning Pool were the breakout band of last year's Ozzfest, beginning the tour with an a.m. set on the third stage and eventually getting bumped up to a more respectable second stage slot by the middle of the trek. Near the end of the tour, as "Bodies" was omnipresent on hard rock radio and video outlets, Drowning Pool had played select dates on the main stage.

For this year's Ozzfest, they were promoted to the main stage for the entire tour.

Taking their name from the 1975 Paul Newman film of the same name, Williams, guitarist C.J. Pierce, bassist Stevie Benton and drummer Mike Luce formed Drowning Pool in the late 1990s. Williams, who was nicknamed "Stage" by Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell for his incredible stage presence, was the last to join the group.

The band's career started its ascension after Drowning Pool's demo tape wound up in the hands of Atlanta quintet Sevendust, who tapped them to open their tour. Tours with Kittie and (hed) p.e. followed, and the band signed with Wind-Up Records, which released Sinner.

In between Ozzfests, the band hit the road with Disturbed, Adema and Stereomud on the Music as a Weapon Tour.

"He was the sweetest man you'll ever come across in your life," Disturbed singer David Draiman said Wednesday. "[He] didn't have a bad bone in his body, just very kind-hearted, very good-natured, very genuine, always trying to make everyone around him smile. [He was] always trying to bring some life to the party with his own little dramatic flair.

"Everyone loved him," Draiman continued. "I don't know a single person that has ever met Dave Williams and not just instantly fallen in love with him. He could charm anyone to death. He was a very special guy. It's shocking."

In March, Drowning Pool, along with Saliva, performed live on pay-per-view from the Toronto SkyDome as part of World Wrestling Entertainment's "Wrestlemania X8."

The band had planned to hit the studio after Ozzfest to begin recording songs for their second album. Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx, one of the band's heros, had signed on to work on the project.

Drowning Pool's latest recorded offering was a cover of Metallica's "Creeping Death," set to appear on an upcoming live album documenting Ozzfest 2002.

Wow... their first released record JUST came out last year. Looks like the the party has ended with some bodies hitting the floor eh? Meh... bad joke. Well it looks like Drowning Pool is just about done I'd say. I doubt they'll replace Dave, in my opinion it's always hardest to replace the lead singer. They may though. I mean Van Halen and ACDC did it. But it's highly doubtful, not to speculate but only going on the track record of all rockstars... y'think his death is drug related?

Osbournes Adopt a new member to their demented Family
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Sharon and O zzy Osbourne are informally adding another to their brood. Robert Marcato, a long-time friend of the Osbourne's daughters Kelly and Aimee, recently lost his mother to colon cancer, a disease that Sharon Osbourne is also battling. Because Marcato has no one else to turn to, and because they have done well financially, the Osbournes are taking Marcato under their wings, they told the New York Post.

The family will not only provide for Marcato, but will also feature the aspiring actor as a regular character on their hit reality series, The Osbournes. "He wants to go to drama school, and we're sending him to the best drama school we can find," Mrs. Osbourne told The Post.

Sharon Osbourne took care of Marcato's mom Regan in the last days of her life, which ended last week at 36. "She had no medical care at home and she was beyond saving," Mrs. Osbourne told the paper. "They won't let you stay in the hospital and die, so you go to a hospice or go home. I had private nurses for her 24 hours a day for the last nine days of her life...When I look at somebody like Regan, who didn't have the resources I had, what the f--- have I got to complain about?" Sharon said.

Sharon Osbourne is currently undergoing chemotherapy for her own cancer, but the feisty mom and businesswoman tells the paper she's doing fine: "I can kick anyone's ass right now!" she maintains.

Wow that's awfully cool of the Osbourne family... of course this dude will probably become completely beloved and famous now just because his mother died. Not that I'm knocking him or anything but if my mother died I'm pretty sure I wouldn't become famous. It sucks that his mother died but he's lucked out in a different way.

Linkin Park's Chester Bennington going back to old Band
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Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington will relive some of his glory "daze" with his old band in September.

Bennington is set to join his former band Grey Daze September 7 for a one-off show at the Dodge Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona, according to a Warner Bros. spokesperson. The gig is a benefit for his friend and former bandmate Bobby Benish, who is having difficulty paying his medical bills after being diagnosed with a brain tumor.

The Phunk Junkeez, Pokerface and Gift are also on the bill.

Bennington, a Phoenix native, joined Grey Daze in 1993. The group garnered a decent regional following and recorded two albums with him, 1994's Wake Me and 1997's No Sun Today.

In 1999, Bennington left Grey Daze to hook up with Linkin Park, who, at the time, called themselves Hybrid Theory.

I didn't know the band's name used to be Hybrid Theory. That's a cool little tidbit. Chester is they dude the guy that actually sings in the group I think. He's pretty good. I wouldn't mind checking some of his old Grey Daze material.

Elvis is STILL the KING!
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The "king of rock 'n' roll" was silenced a quarter century ago, but Elvis Presley can still make the cash registers sing.

Practically anything plastered with Elvis's image or related to the things he loved -- teddy bears, leopard-skin patterned clothes, and pink Cadillacs -- will sell.

Amid strains of hits like "Love Me Tender," the "oohs" of singing fans could be heard as they escaped the steaming Tennessee summer heat to scour the souvenir shops clustered around his Graceland mansion estate on Wednesday, two days ahead of the 25th anniversary of his death.

"They can take handsome out of the dictionary: His eyes, his lips, his nose, his cheekbones -- there's nobody like Elvis," gushed a Michigan devotee who gave her name as Rhoda and her age as nearly 61.

"My motto is you can never have enough Elvis stuff," said Robyn, 32, who admitted to having a basement full of memorabilia and was seeking just the right $19.95 T-shirt.

About 70,000 fans are expected to make the pilgrimage to Presley's adopted home town on Friday's anniversary, and many of them will likely walk away with souvenirs as well as memories.

Elvis topped Forbes magazine's list of the most lucrative dead celebrities with yearly earnings of $37 million, beating out "Peanuts" cartoonist Charles Schulz who pulled in $28 million and Beatle John Lennon who made $20 million.

And that does not count the earnings raked in by Elvis impersonators like Kenny King of Baraboo, Wisconsin, who said he made good money singing like Elvis for 20 years.

"The first words I ever learned were 'don't be cruel'," the somewhat pudgy 45-year-old King said, sporting a silk blue shirt and black bell-bottoms held up by a jeweled belt. "Don't tell my parents."

Impersonators of all shapes, sizes, and accents -- including one with an odd nasal British voice -- happily posed for photographs and compared notes in a strip mall parking lot that was being used to host an Elvis trivia contest.

At Graceland's "Shake, Split and Dip" ice cream shop, banana splits were a favorite, echoing Elvis' love of banana and peanut butter sandwiches.

The Wednesday food section of the daily newspaper Memphis Commercial Appeal was devoted to local chefs' dressed-up versions of Elvis' down-home favorites, including a meat loaf, corn bread and greens, and cheeseburgers.

For souvenir hunters on a budget, candles in a shot glass bearing the inscriptions "Burning Love" could be had for $4.99, Elvis refrigerator magnets sold for $2, and a pink Cadillac Christmas ornament carried a price tag of $10.

For children, there were teddy bears wearing zippered pink jackets for $9.95, a leopard print jacket for $65 and copies of Elvis' distinctive thick-rimmed sun-glasses for $19.95.

A framed version of "Jailhouse Rock," one of Elvis' 80 gold records, sold for $99, and an authenticated Gibson acoustic guitar carried a price tag of $4,000.

But many fans were there to leave behind tributes to Elvis, not acquire them.

His grave site alongside the white-columned Graceland mansion was festooned with real and plastic flowers, mostly red roses with some yellow and pink. Rain-soaked teddy bears carried messages of love and remembrance.

"Memories pressed between the pages of our minds," wrote Gene and June Kline of Ohio in their flower-framed tribute.

"I still cry, just talking about it," said one middle-aged woman, wiping away tears after a walk through his burial site, called "Meditation Garden."

Damn... There's a reason why Elvis is so popular and it's because he was just so damn unique. His songs were damn good as well. Nothing to really say about it, he's good!

Well it's time once again for the ever popular OTHER NEWS!
Let's get on with it.

Tall people get laid more often
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Height matters when it comes to having children, according to a study showing that tall men are likely to have more kids than their shorter contemporaries.

But the reverse is true for women, according to details of the study published in the Independent newspaper Wednesday.

The survey of 10,000 people born in 1958 found that height plays an important role in finding a partner and having children by the age of 42.

British men of average height -- 5ft 10in -- had significantly fewer children by middle age than a 6ft 1in tall man, the newspaper reported.

For women, however, those most likely to be married with children by the same age were between 4ft 11in and 5ft 2in, below the average female height of 5ft 4in.

The study's author, Daniel Nettle of the Open University, said the findings showed the difference in height between the sexes continued to play a role in the likelihood of someone finding a partner and having children with them.

"It is known from psychological tests that women find tall men attractive but that men don't particularly find tall women attractive," Nettle was quoted as saying.

"These results show that this does play out in real life," he said. The study was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, a publication of the UK scientific academy.

Frisbee inventor dies
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"Steady" Ed Headrick, the California inventor who figured out a way to make the Frisbee fly fast and straight, has died at the age of 78. His family said his ashes will be made into Frisbees.



Headrick died in his sleep early Monday at his home in La Selva Beach, California, his son Ken told the Santa Cruz Sentinel on Tuesday.

While no services are now planned, Headrick's ashes will be molded into a limited number of "memorial flying discs" which will be distributed to family and friends, and sold to help fund a future Frisbee/disc golf history and memorabilia museum, his son, Ken Headrick, said.

The elder Headrick, who had high blood pressure, had suffered two strokes while attending the Professional Disc Golf Association Amateur World Championships in Miami last month and returned home to California after doctors determined that his condition was likely to deteriorate.

Hailed as the father of the modern Frisbee, Headrick helped to perfect the popular flying disc beloved by generations of college students while working at Emeryville, California-based toymaker Wham-O Inc. in 1964.

The Frisbee -- said to be named after the Frisbie Pie Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut, whose round metal tins were used as toys by students at Yale University in the late 19th Century -- took on new life with the advent of industrial plastics.

After World War II, an inventor named Walter Morrison worked on perfecting a plastic version of the toy and came up with the "Pluto Platter" prototype, a plastic mini-flying saucer.

But the platter still proved to be a wobbly throw. Headrick, who was then working on research and development at Wham-O, took a look at the design and added aerodynamic ridges on the top of the disc, making it more flight-worthy.

Awarded the patent for the first "professional" model Frisbee in 1966, Headrick went on to popularize a wide variety of Frisbee-related sports, founding the International Frisbee Association and later the Professional Disc Golf Association, which involves throwing a Frisbee at a metal cage.

"We all wished for a miracle that would have had him up and out of bed throwing discs and joking around once again. That miracle that was Ed will have to live on in our hearts and souls now," the Disc Golf Association said in a release on Tuesday.

Headrick is survived by his wife as well several children and grandchildren.

In an interview with the Santa Cruz Sentinel last year, Headrick acknowledged the special power of the Frisbee -- one of the simplest and most successful toys ever devised.

"I felt the Frisbee had some kind of a spirit involved. It's not just like playing catch with a ball. It's the beautiful flight," Headrick said.

"We used to say that Frisbee is really a religion -- 'Frisbyterians,' we'd call ourselves," he said. "When we die, we don't go to purgatory. We just land up on the roof and lay there."

X-MEN2 News
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Brian Cox has signed on to play the villain William Stryker in X-MEN 2 for director Bryan Singer and 20th Century Fox. Production is under way on the project with Ralph Winter, Lauren Shuler Donner and Avi Arad producing. Cox joins returning characters Professor X (Patrick Stewart), Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), Storm (Halle Berry), Magneto (Ian McKellen), Rogue (Anna Paquin), Cyclops (James Marsden), Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) and Mystique (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos). New additions to the sequel roster include Kelly Hu, who is playing the villainous Anne; Aaron Stanford as Pyro, a young mutant/student; and Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler. (As reported by VARIETY)

F*ck me... I'm only 5'7. Well actually they won't... dammit. :cry:

I never liked that damn Frisbee... good riddence... ok I'm joking. But I still don't like the Frisbee.

Kelly Hu is that HOT HOT HOT half naked chick in the Scorpion King! Whoo-Hoo!!! But who the hell is Anne? I though Pyro was in the first movie? Eh. They better not F-this movie up or I'll be PISSED!

Ok that's it I'm done. Let's go home kids.

Joe

kinda sucks that Dave Williams died, and just as they hit it big, too. Would be interesting to see what happens to the rest of the band, if they do get a new lead singer, and maybe call themselves something different.. who knows at this point.

I'm just an inch shy of 6ft, I don't call that tall either, but I'm getting some..nanananananana.. hehe

damnit helps to NOT click the post button before I'm done typing.. well anyways, that was the first post above ^^^ heh

"British men of average height -- 5ft 10in -- had significantly fewer children by middle age than a 6ft 1in tall man, the newspaper reported"

Ah, now my predicament becomes clear. Thanks, Joe (I'm 5'10", I wish I was a inch taller like Ryan so I could get some too )

X-MEN 2! YAY!!!

And why is it that some rock stars snuff it when they're getting somewhere? Phil Lynott, John Bonham, Jimi Hendrix, Bon Scott, Janis Joplin... the list is endless. Did you notice any similarities between these stars' deaths?

Dammit where was this information when I was still single? Funny, even at 6'6, I don't remember women beating down my door.... well, there WAS that one crazy redhead but.....

I think when artists are "getting somewhere" they tend to overdo the rock-n-roll lifestyle. The easy line is "yep, definitely drugs" and it's MORE than likely. He coulda been like that Darryl Kile guy though. Professional athlete and dead of heart trouble at 33. If I had to bet though.... he didn't like the drugs, and the drugs really didn't care too much for him. A shame.

was anybody else listening to Howard thursday morning? he was talking about the drowning pool singer and how sad it was, and some fuck was trying to tell him that we shouldn't feel bad, he was such a fucking idiot and Howard let him know it, I'll miss that radio show up here.

I'm 6'3, so I like that article.

Frisbee fucking rocks.

that first xmen movie sucked ass.