Seriously? OMG! WTF?

The band that headlined the Butte-Silver Bow Fair last weekend is accused of masquerading as the rock group Redbone, which released albums in the 1970s and is perhaps best known for the song "Come and Get Your Love."The band at the fair performed under the name Redbone, but the real Redbone was playing in Wisconsin, said Ron Kurtz, Redbone’s manager."I’ve been in the business for 40 years, and I’ve never ran into anything this blatant," Kurtz said Thursday from his office in Burbank, Calif. He said the fair board was conned.Fair officials dealt with a man who identified himself as Denny Freeman and said he was a co-founding member of Redbone.Pat Vegas, who founded Redbone with his brother, Lolly, in 1968, said he had not heard of Freeman.The fair board is investigating and will consult the county attorney, Chairman Dave Palmer said."The whole thing was fishy from the start," Palmer told The Montana Standard. Only two performers showed up at the fair, he said, and they claimed other band members were missing because they were sick with mumps. Local musicians filled in.Palmer and the manager of Redbone said they had been unable to contact Freeman."He’s on dangerous waters, because he’s messing with my name," Vegas said.

AP

I am not sure what is scarier that the fake Redbone fooled everyone or the real Redbone had a gig somewhere else? 

The members of Orange County, California, punk trio Supernova filed for a preliminary injunction Friday (August 11) in San Diego’s U.S. District Court against CBS Broadcasting, Mark Burnett Productions and Tommy Lee, Jason Newsted and Gilby Clarke— the three future members of the band searching for a lead singer on the show "Rock Star: Supernova" — which seeks to halt the act from performing or recording under the name "Supernova" if they fail to change or add any words to the moniker.The filing follows a suit the original Supernova — bassist Art Mitchell, drummer Dave Collins and guitarist Jodey Lawrence — filed against the show’s producers in late June, which alleged trademark infringement. That suit seeks a jury trial, as well as the destruction of all "labels, signs, prints, packages, wrappers, containers, advertisements, electronic media and other materials bearing the Supernova mark."The original Supernova, who first formed in 1989 and have released four studio albums, claim that the suit’s defendants intend to illegally use the Supernova name (which they say is taken) and trademark it. The group contacted the show’s producers upon learning of the proposed name for the reality-television series, and the two sides have been in negotiations since before the June lawsuit’s filing. With those negotiations at a standstill, the band decided to take additional legal action to protect its moniker."Our client has taken legal action in order to preserve its rights to the name the band has worked so long and hard to establish," said Supernova’s attorney, John Mizhir Jr. "We tried to settle the matter quickly and fairly, but after lengthy negotiations with CBS, Mark Burnett Productions and others, they left us with no options but to seek the preliminary injunction."A hearing on the matter should be scheduled within the next 28 days; "Rock Star: Supernova" is scheduled to air through September 27. If a judge rules in the band’s favor, the producers may have to come up with a different name for the show’s in-the-making rock outfit.

MTV

I still say they should go by the name Rock Star: Supernogo because that is their future! 

The author of an "unauthorized tribute" to Clay Aiken is suing the "American Idol" singer, claiming he defamed her and conspired to stifle sales of her book. Jeannie Holleman, 50, says she is a lifelong friend and neighbor of a Raleigh family that was friends with Aiken’s mother, Faye Parker, and took her in when Parker and her young son left her abusive husband.Holleman’s 2005 book, "Out of the Blue — ‘Clay’ it Forward," incorporates interviews from the McGhee family and her own recollections with stories from Aiken’s fans.In the lawsuit, filed Friday in Wake County Superior Court, Holleman claims Aiken, his mother and others conspired to defame her and depress sales of her book by denying they knew her, branding her stories as lies and demeaning the book on Aiken fans’ Web sites.The lawsuit also claims a bodyguard for Aiken manhandled Holleman at a fundraiser in Hawaii.A telephone message left Sunday at Parker’s home was not immediately returned. Messages left with Aiken’s management company were not immediately returned.The lawsuit seeks at least $260,000 in damages and asks the court to order Aiken to retract the critical comments or endorse the book on his official Web site, to write a positive introduction for the book and to sell the book at his concerts for at least five years

AP 

What a psycho? I mean you write an unautorized book about someone and when they will not endorse you, you sue them. WTF? And what about following him to Hawaii. She needs a restraining order and not an edorsement.  

The widow of a photographer killed in a helicopter crash while filming "The Final Season" is suing actor Sean Astin, the movie’s producers and the pilot, among others.Kathryn Schlotzhauer alleges that the crash on June 30 in eastern Iowa could have been avoided if the crew scouted the scene and noted the power lines that brought the helicopter down.Her husband is 50-year-old Roland Schlotzhauer from of Lenexa, Kansas. He was filming a parade scene in the final days of the shoot when the helicopter crashed into a cornfield near Walford, killing the photographer and seriously injuring pilot Richard Green of Hudson and producer Tony Wilson of Dallas Center.Both survivors are named among 19 defendants in a wrongful death lawsuit filed in Polk County. The lawsuit also names Wilson’s special-effects business, and the power company that owns the power lines.Kathryn Schlotzhauer is seeking unspecified compensation for her husband’s death, as well as 50 thousand dollars in punitive damages.Astin’s spokesman David Lust says Astin is only being sued because he is the lead actor in the film. Lust says Astin had nothing to do with the accident.

WHO TV  

An experienced pilot should know to survey the area before shooting the scene. I am not cheaping her loss, but it is not their fault if the pilot did not check out the area.

Veteran rocker Meat Loaf has resolved a dispute with songwriter Jim Steinman over trademark rights to "Bat Out of Hell," dropping a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over the title of the best-selling 1977 album. "It resolved itself very quickly because neither one of us wanted to argue," Meat Loaf told Reuters in an interview on Monday at an event to promote "Bat out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose," set for release on October 31."There’s a mutual love and respect there," he said."We’re not going to have a knock-down brawl. We just have too much history," Meat Loaf said, speaking fondly of the man who produced the original album that shot the portly Texan to stardom after his breakout appearance in the cult film "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."

Reuters 

Now if only they would work togther again, I would be a happy camper. Jim Steinman is my favorite lyricist and Meat is a rock g-d! 

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