Ok, so Friday I start my vacation and I have to tell ya…This has been the longest week in the history of the world.

Other than the week before the last vacation, and the one before that, and the one before that, and so on.

Why is it that the week before vacation ALWAYS takes so damn long.

That’s all I have for today.

One week from right now I will be in Northern Minnesota drinking a beer and catching fish!
Till next time!
M

After a couple of weeks hiatus, I am back and on the air! What a vacation it was! Had a great time traveling with the crew of “Into the Drink” as they filmed an episode of the tv show to showcase Greece and many of the sites it has to offer. In fact, they got enough material that they’re probably going to make 2 episodes out of it. I posted a travel blog while I was gone that you can access at my fan page on Facebook. If you haven’t seen it already, it’s really easy to use. Just click on “Travel Map” underneath the profile pic to get to it. Once there, just click on any of the destination points for blogs and pics from that day’s activites.

Had an awesome time but it’s good to be back and get back on the air!!
R

What a weekend!
Zombie came in for a Low-Dough with us and I have to say that was one of the best shows I have seen him do in a long time.

It was crazy hot out there but thank you to all who made it out and hung through the heat!
And even more thanks to you for making sure everyone was taken care of when they did get too hot.

Saw a lot of people fade out during the show but you grabbed them and sent them over the rail to get taken care of.

Thank you for that!
Damn that was a good show!
M

With the Foo Fighters coming into KC in September I felt it only appropriate to launch a blog of all the reasons Dave Grohl is awesome. I’ll start it off but, please, feel free to add your comments.

#1. He’s Dave “Mother Fuckin” Grohl.
#2. He plays a wicked guitar.
#3. He plays a wicked set of drums.
#4. He’s not afraid to throw punk-ass-mother-fuckers out of his show. (Note Video below)

Like I said, feel free to add to this list.

So almost everyday I get the question about the future of Slipknot.

Here is the latest:

SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor says that he is still “on the fence” about recording a new album with the band.

The Iowa-based act has just completed a three-week European tour — its first since the death last year of bassist Paul Gray

During a July 11 online reading and webchat to promote his new book, “Seven Deadly Sins”, Taylor was asked how he felt about making a new SLIPKNOT album. “I feel better about it, but I’m still kind of on the fence,” he replied. “We’re taking baby steps and we’re going to take our time.”

The frontman added that he really enjoyed SLIPKNOT’s headlining set at the U.K. edition of the Sonisphere festival on Sunday, July 10 and thanked everyone who participated in the two minute silence for Gray. He said, “I did enjoy the show. The whole tour has been great. Thank you to everyone who came and everyone who participated in the two minutes of silence for Paulie; he would have been so proud.”

In a May 2011 interview with a Grand Rapids, Michigan radio station, Taylor stated about the public comments of other SLIPKNOT members like Shawn Crahan and Joey Jordison, who have insisted that they want to make a new album, “The only thing we’ve really sat down together as a band and talked about was the tour, and what we’re gonna do and whatnot. But I’m not the guy who’s gonna sugarcoat anything, I’m not the one who’s gonna spoonfeed false hope to the fans, especially about something like this. If this tour doesn’t work, this band might be over — straight up. And I’m not gonna lie; I’m not the guy that’s going to lie to the fans.”

Taylor did say that even if this is SLIPKNOT’s last tour, he’d like to see the band play the U.S. one last time. “It really depends on what happens in Europe,” he said. “If it’s meant to go on, it’ll be very obvious to us within the first show. But even if it was our last tour, it would be good to, you know, at least do a U.S. run and just kind of let the audience say goodbye.”

SLIPKNOT drummer Joey Jordison said in an April 2011 interview that the band will carry on “with or without Taylor.”

So when I first heard about this I was on the fence.

But after reading this I think I may be cool with it?!

And it is a bad ass commercial!

Hell…I might start doing laundry now!

Rob Zombie has established himself since 2003 as one of horror’s most brutal filmmakers, but his latest project may be his most horrifying yet: The rocker-turned-director recently got behind the camera for a commercial for laundry detergent Woolite. Zombie completed the spot, called “The Torturer”, in mid-April and talked about accusations from the some critics that he has “sold out,” “I hadn’t even thought about [a fan backlash], it hadn’t crossed my mind.

“Whenever anyone talks about selling out it’s the most absurd statement anyone could make. I’ve never done anything I didn’t want to do, to me selling out is changing your music, your image, everything based on some sort of corporate manipulation to become rich and famous. I’ve never done that.

“When someone says I’ve sold out I say, ‘What do you do for a living?’ and maybe they’ll say, ‘Oh, I work at Walmart.’ So they’re corporate whores for the largest corporation in the world but have the nerve to [call me a] ’sell-out?”‘

He added, “I like doing different things, I did an episode of ‘CSI: Miami’ because I wanted to see what it was like to do a TV show and now a commercial; you want to get these things under your belt.

“The funny thing is a lot of people are like, ‘Oh it’s so weird that you’re doing this’ but every single director does it, it’s just that they don’t usually mention it. I could’ve easily done that commercial and never said a word and no one would ever know but I thought it was funny so I told people about it.”