Rick Rubin on Meditation

"We're happy to be here," Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines said last night, "honoring the man who never allows himself to be honored." That man was legendary producer Rick Rubin, who consented to receive the "2014 Lifetime of Harmony Award" from the David Lynch Foundation only because Lynch convinced him that it would be good for the cause of transcendental meditation (the Foundation's primary mission is teaching TM and teaching yoga to at-risk populations). Rubin didn't even get onstage to accept the award: Lynch had to bring it to Rubin's table in the audience, where he was sitting with guests that included a green-haired Flea.


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Below are my Favorite Rick Rubin Productions



Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill 1st Recrd

Tons of Chili Peppers

SLAYER

Tom Petty Wildflowers

Metallica - The Day That Never Comes

RUN DMC - Mary Mary

LL Cool J - I'm Bad

Happy Birthday George Harrison

The "Quiet Beatle" would have been 71 today!
1997 Performance of "All Things Must Pass"

George on the Dick Cavett show

KISS Cancels Rock and Roll HOF Performance

from RollingStone.com
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kiss-cancel-rock-hall-of-fame-performance-after-lineup-dispute-20140223

By Miriam Coleman

February 23, 2014 2:22 PM ET

Kiss announced today that the band won't be performing at their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in April because disputes over the lineup churned up ill will among the members.

"This is understandably an emotional situation where there is no way to please everyone," Kiss said today in a statement on the band's website. "To bring this to a quick end, we have decided not to play in any line-up and we will focus our attention on celebrating our induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame."

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See Ace below playing Stones' Classic "2000 Man" from KISS Unplugged/reunion 1995

Smashing Pumpkins Drummer Guests With Umphrey's

On Saturday night Umphrey's McGee concluded a three-night stand at The Riviera Theater in Chicago with a power-packed finale that included a guest spot from a fellow Chicago musician as original Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlain sat in on a "Cherub Rock" encore.

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Take a look at the Smashing Pumpkins playing Cherub Rock on SNL back in the days of GRUNGE.

Classic DEVO from second time on Fridays in 1980 (Freedom of Choice tour) Playing Uncontrollable Urge from the Are We Not Men record

Posted in memory of Bob II who passed away yesterday

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