Anvil Band, Anvil the story of Anvil
Anvil Band, Anvil the story of Anvil, Anvil is a Canadian heavy metal band, comprised of Steve “Lips” Kudlow (lead vocals, lead guitar), Robb Reiner (drums), and Glenn Five (bass, backing vocals). To date, the band have released thirteen studio albums, and have been cited as having influenced many notable heavy metal groups, including Slayer and Metallica.
The band, in particular Kudlow and Reiner, was the subject of the 2009 documentary film Anvil! The Story of Anvil, directed by the screenwriter and former Anvil roadie Sacha Gervasi. Upon its release, the film garnered critical acclaim from many major publications, and has since brought the band renewed recognition, including support slots with AC/DC and Saxon. Appearances at major heavy metal festivals, including Download, also followed the release of the film.
Anvil Band, Anvil the story of Anvil was first posted on October 4, 2009 at 11:16 am.
Derrion Albert Funeral
Derrion Albert Funeral, The funeral of a Chicago teen who was beaten to death on his way home from school drew civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan on Saturday, both calling for an end to youth violence.
Farrakhan said he came to the funeral because he was “deeply pained” by the death of 16-year-old honor roll student Derrion Albert. The boy was walking to a bus stop after school when a group of teens attacked him during a street fight late last month.
“Naturally, we wonder why such a beautiful life? Such a future we thought was waiting for this young man,” Farrakhan said. “This was a special young man of righteous bearing who God took from us so young.”
Cell phone video footage shows Albert being kicked and hit with splintered railroad ties. Four teens are charged in his death.
President Barack Obama is sending U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who once led Chicago Public Schools, to Chicago on Wednesday to meet with school officials, students and residents and talk about school violence.
“The eyes of the world are watching,” Pastor E.F. Ledbetter Jr. told mourners at the Greater Mount Hebron Baptist Church on the city’s South Side. “This has affected people all over the globe.”
Mayor Richard Daley, just off a plane Saturday from an International Olympic Committee meeting in Copenhagen where Chicago lost the 2016 Summer Games, said he would work with police, the community and school officials to break the “code of silence” that happens after street violence.
Police, ministers and community leaders have been asking people to come forward with information about Albert’s killing.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/03/derrion-albert-funeral-fa_n_308835.html
Derrion Albert Funeral was first posted on October 4, 2009 at 11:21 am.
