Amidst the media frenzy surrounding the long overdue release of Hole’s album ‘Nobody’s Daughter’ brings with it an ongoing love/hate relationship that has defined Courtney Love and Billy Corgan for years.  It started after Corgan attacked Love in an interview with Rolling Stone, which was followed up by a public apology on Facebook last month from Courtney Love that read;

“Dearest Billy:

I love you, I love your strong and eternal heart, even love the f***ed up gnarly amazing magnificent bigger-than-god louder-than-love karma of the songs you write and allow me to fly with. We have again created beauty from the agony between us, all the buried and unburied anguish, all that is true, that is gold, that is meant to be is within this endless and somehow eternal cycle of Billy & Courtney. I hope you will take my sincerest apologies for all the thousand ways I sometimes offend you, because I know you are a king, a prince, and my beautiful noble boy. No one will ever force my hand, nothing will come between the truth of what we are:

Eternal lovers

Eternal fighters
Eternal warriors.

Let the forces and the shock and awe loose from its cages, all credit where it is due. I love and you and can never thank you enough.Your soul (and you know this).

Xxx CLC”

But it would seem that this public apology simply wasn’t enough for Corgan, because today he lashed out in a series of tweets clearly aimed at the frontwoman. Below is the thread as it appeared on Twitter.

What are your thoughts on this whole debacle and Corgan’s comeback to last month’s apology from Courtney Love? Do you think this will hurt or help the release of the new Hole album?

So if you haven’t heard yet, Stone Temple Pilots are back with a brand new single called Between the Lines.  Local radio station 106.7 KROQ started playing the song recently and after hearing it for the first time I found a distinct similarity between it and Nirvana’s “Stay Away”.

Any die hard Nirvana fans that have heard the song probably picked up on the similarities as quickly as I did.  When Between the Lines reaches the bridge it goes into a sequence that is very reminiscent of the verses to Nirvana’s “Stay Away”.  Below are clips from the new Stone Temple Pilots song Between the Lines and a clip from Nirvana’s “Stay Away”.  What do you think? Strong similarity or blatant ripoff?

Between the Lines Bridge

Stay Away Verse

Last August I wrote a couple of posts looking back at my short lived musical ventures with my band Another Alternative. At the time I shared the story of Another Alternative recording at Moonsong Studios with producer Bob Moon and shared a long lost live recording of one of our biggest songs, Chasing Dreams. At the time I promised I’d try and get the full recording with Bob Moon up on the site. I was holding out to hopefully get a new master back from a friend, but unfortunately that never happened. So rather than wait any longer I figured I would treat my readers to all 6 songs.

I was 17 years old when these songs were recorded, and all music tracks and vocals were recorded within the span of a day. An important thing to remember is that the versions of these songs you are hearing are a digital copy off of a cassette tape that was a copy of another cassette tape. Needless to say the audio quality isn’t perfect, but I think it gives a clear representation of my music at the time. For your convenience I have added a full album download below that has all of the songs zipped and ready for download, or if you’d rather just give individual tracks a listen you can click on the song title below and stream or download the MP3′s.

Another Alternative

1. Track 1
2. Needle In A Haystack
3. Embarrassment
4. Faces
5. Valentine To Seattle
6. I Do