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David Cook added as special guest on ‘American Idol’ for Rolling Stones week
March 16, 4:34 PMTV Examiner
Jackie Kass
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FOX just announced that American Idol alum David Cook has been added as a special guest performer for Wednesday’s results show during Rolling Stones week. Cook defeated David Archuleta to become the winner of season seven of American Idol. Now the 25-year-old musician with midwestern charm continues his rise to fame. His first single, The Time of My Life debuted at #3 on the Hot 100. Cook’s self-titled debut album was released on November 18, 2008. On April 1, 2009, Cook was presented with a Platinum plaque on American Idol for selling 1,000,000 albums. He remains one of American Idol’s most popular stars.

Cook will join pop sensations Ke$ha and Orianthi who are also scheduled to perform during the one-hour results show. Ke$ha will sing her smash single Blah Blah Blah and Orianthi will perform According To You. At the end of the show, one of the twelve contestants will be eliminated during the first week of finals on American Idol.

A new American Idol stage will be revealed this week as the Top 12 take to it for the first time. The Rolling Stones is the theme of the first week, and each of the Top 12 contestants will perform the Stones song they think will best showcase their talent. Those set to perform are Didi Benami, Crystal Bowersox, Lacey Brown, Lee Dewyze, Andrew Garcia, Casey James, Aaron Kelly, Michael Lynche, Siobhan Magnus, Paige Miles, Katie Stevens and Tim Urban.

The Rolling Stones is a legendary rock band that was formed in 1962. The original members of the band were Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Ian Stewart, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts. After Stewart’s death, Ronnie Wood joined the band in 1975, and Darryl Jones replaced Wyman in 1992. The Rolling Stones hit the U.S. during the 1960’s “British Invasion.” The legendary band has released 24 albums in the United States, eight concert albums and numerous compilations. Their album sales are estimated at more than 200 million worldwide. The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989. In 2004, the band was ranked number four in Rolling Stone magazine’s 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

The American Idol Top 12 will have a vast song library from which to choose. The Rolling Stones have recorded legendary hits, like Satisfaction, You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Under My Thumb, and Just My Imagination. On the flip side, songs like Wild Horses and Far Away Eyes will give the contestants the choice of a serious ballad. As always, song choice will be key to reaching the next level on American Idol.

The Rolling Stones is a legendary rock band that was formed in 1962. The original members of the band were Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Ian Stewart, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts. After Stewart’s death, Ronnie Wood joined the band in 1975, and Darryl Jones replaced Wyman in 1992.

No mention of Mick Taylor, kind of screwed up, Ian Stu didn't die in '75, & Ronnie replaced Mick T. but what do you expect from these people.

First song ~ Michael Lynch ~ Miss You ~ no way
Second Song ~ Didi ~ Play With Fire ~ OK
Casey James ~ It's All Over Now ~ OK
Lacey Brown ~ Ruby Tuesday ~ bad
Andrew Garcia ~ Gimme Shelter ~ sucked
Katie Stevens ~ Wild Horses ~ OK
Tim Urban ~ Under My Thumb ~ TOTALLY SUCKED
Siobhon Magnus ~ Paint It Black ~ interesting but terrible
Lee Dewyze ~ Beast of Burden ~ not good
Paige Miles ~ Honky Tonk Women ~ not bad
Aaron Kelly ~ Angie ~ sweet!
Crystal Bowersox ~ YCAGWYW ~ good!

I am not impressed so far. :forfucksake

they may play a snippet of Plundered My Soul to commercial break.

you can't do gimme shelter without singing rape/murder...

I am suddenly craving a horn driven Satisfaction...Man these things are watered down. Unbelievable.

I didn't know that Robert Goulet did a reggae version of Under My Thumb. I can't stand it, they just need to stop! :forfucksake

Dear Christ...haven't you guys anything less painful and more pleasant you could be doing? Like having a boil lanced or being operated on for haemorrhoids?

I swear to God, if any of you twisted fuckers post a video if these sonic atrocities, you'll be kicked off for promoting blasphemy.

Oh come on...who is gonna do it??!!

Someone

I triple dog dare you!!!!! ;) ;D

left shoe shuffle wrote on Mar 16^th, 2010 at 8:23pm:

Had an Elvis watching Robert Goulet moment during 'Gimme Shelter' and shot my TV...

I'm shooting heroin and swigging Vodka from the bottle.

left shoe shuffle wrote on Mar 16^th, 2010 at 8:23pm:

Had an Elvis watching Robert Goulet moment during 'Gimme Shelter' and shot my TV...

LOL! Somewhere Dave Matthews breathes a sigh of relief, "Finally someone has pissed off Stones' fans more than I have!"

Riffy

Ive missed alot but Angie seems like a good one for Gazza.

Question: is it The Rolling Stones is a
or should it be The Rolling Stones are a.......

I watched AI after a few refreshments....IT SUCKED THE BIG ONE.

Nothing left to say.

Factory Girl wrote on Mar 16^th, 2010 at 9:35pm:

I watched AI after a few refreshments....IT SUCKED THE BIG ONE.

Nothing left to say.

Your avatar is absolutely revolting.

Riffhard wrote on Mar 16^th, 2010 at 8:40pm:

LOL! Somewhere Dave Matthews breathes a sigh of relief, "Finally someone has pissed off Stones' fans more than I have!"

Riffy

You are giving the Stones too much credit there. Replace Dave Matthews with Justin Timberlake (although he's just another American Idol wanker). At least Dave Matthews is a musician, however bad his music is. Honestly why do people watch this absolute pile of shite. I made sure the TV was not on at all tonight in case someone switched onto this crap by mistake. I still expect one of them, maybe Mick, to make a prostitute's appearance.

SemiahmooDude wrote on Mar 16^th, 2010 at 10:04pm:

Factory Girl wrote on Mar 16^th, 2010 at 9:35pm:

I watched AI after a few refreshments....IT SUCKED THE BIG ONE.

Nothing left to say.

Your avatar is absolutely revolting.

Thanks! I'm delighted to make your acquitance!

Kilroy wrote on Mar 16^th, 2010 at 8:56pm:

Question: is it The Rolling Stones is a
or should it be The Rolling Stones are a.......

It's "The Rolling Stones were the . . ."

Question: Is there any truth to the rumor that the Stones' songs will be refusing to share the stage with the idols during the final bows at tonight's vote-off?

It was like a train wreck....I didn't wanna, but I had to turn in for a bit of each song---and then turn as quickly back to another show. I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't understand why the judges liked the screaming Paint It, Black, girl....good grief!

I don't watch the show, although I've heard some of the singers {winners and losers} in the past. This seems like a strange crop of singers to me. I kinda liked the last girl, though {YCAGWYW}. She had a bit of a Joplin feel to her.

But, yeah..............leave the Stones catalog alone, please!!! :pukey

I heard Fox TV banned the Toronto SARS guy who was loaded with bottles of water ala Timberlake.......Thankfully I missed this as I raided my bar for some single malt.

To follow up on Bitch's post...here is a clip from people mag on line...if you want the whole article...uhm...you probably have it already ;D

I love simon's comments on the last song listed...

Crystal Bowersox, the one singer you might have expected to have a knockout  with this sort of blues-rock, didn’t quite connect with “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” She  just sort of strummed along, comfortably and even respectfully melodic, but the song  didn’t build to anything. “This is the first time where I think you were beaten by somebody,”  said Simon, “and that was Siobhan. … You’ve got to come on that stage, and you’ve got to kill.”

The disaster of the night? That would be Tim Urban. He sang a reggae “Under My Thumb,” perhaps  trying to sound like early Police. The sexual aggression of the original was gone, and that left  nothing. “I felt like I was at a resort and drinking a pina colada,” said Ellen.

Didi Benami cemented her comeback singing a slowed-down, sexed-up “Playing With Fire.” It  didn’t really convey the threat of the lyrics — she’s not a singer who carries a lot of matches.  But the judges were pleased. “Didi, you’re on fire tonight,” said Randy. Kara: “You got dark.” Ellen  liked her phrasing: “You made the word ‘fire’ two syllables, which I thought was gr-eat.”

Casey James had rollicking fun doing “It’s All Over Now” with his electric guitar. Ellen made a  cute little joke about not being about to appreciate him as a straight sex symbol — that his  appeal doesn’t work for “people like me … blonds” — but she thought he was “fantastic.” Simon  carped that it felt like an audition — Casey wasn’t pushing himself. “There’s got to be more.”

Lacey Brown sang “Ruby Tuesday” to a stupid string arrangement that made it sound like the  Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby.” Ellen thought it was “a tiny tiny bit sleepy.”

Andrew Garcia took “Gimme Shelter,” with its rumblings of danger, and turned it into something  like a lounge performance in the shadow of the apocalypse. The judges were split. Ellen called it his  “best performance yet.” When Kara complained that he had defanged the song’s imagery of war,  Simon countered: “Did you want him to come onstage with a tank?” Well, yes.

Lee Dewyze’s version of “Beast of Burden” particularly impressed Kara (“You are growing faster than  anybody… Tremendous growth”) and particularly frustrated Simon — he thinks Lee has yet to have  that big “moment” of onstage electricity, and should. He does have a way of just … standing there.

Paige Miles, who’s had a troubled run up to now, nonetheless happens to have a very good voice —  and despite laryngitis, and hardly any rehearsal, still pushed her way through “Honky Tonk Woman.”  The judges seemed to think she’d at least recovered some of the ground that had been  slipping away in recent weeks. ENOUGH ground, though?

Aaron Kelly, in a simple, understated performance, managed to capture the tender sadness of  “Angie.” The judges all ranked it as one of his best nights yet.

Michael Lynche was confidently smooth on “Miss You.” Kara, invoking Mick Jagger himself, praised  him for being “hot onstage.” Simon, though, cautioned that his moves were a bit corny and “a tiny bit desperate.”

I saw a little replay of it, not too bad. Great exposure for the bands catalogue. Expect a major bump in Emotional Rescue sales.

To parapharse Keith from a FORTUNE Magazine article..."Everytime I wake up, I am $50,000 richer"...it's because of crap like this

I can't believe you people watch that shite. :Youmakeagrownmancrylikejoey

I hate to say I told you so. But......

What's that,oh sure. Here ya go http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjsWagUgRbI

Sorry Gazza. I could'nt resist a triple dog dare. :pukey

Amen, Ade. Pretty desperate times for fans that their Stones-deprivation has reached the stage where they feel the need to watch manufactured wannabees crucifying great Stones songs on a show which is the absolute antithesis of rock n roll and which is the brainchild of the man who is almost singlehandedly sucking the entire life out of the music industry.

:Youmakeagrownmancrylikejoey

Gazza wrote on Mar 17^th, 2010 at 10:46am:

I don't think Simon was the brainchild of karioki (sp)

He is as far as the charts and airwaves being overrun with glorified karaoke singers is concerned.

:aimama

Sales of Rolling Stones Albums Go Through The Roof Thanks To American Idol
Written by Abel Rodriguez
Tags: American Idol, Rolling Stones
Thursday, 18 March 2010

LONDON - Rolling Stone lead singer Mick Jagger sat in the spacious living room of his mansion in St. John's Wood as happy as a midget in Beyonce's knickers.

The 66-year-old Rolling Stone said that his agent Watson Birnbeck, called him up and told him that due to American Idol showcasing their twelve singers all singing songs by the Rolling Stones, record sales had shot through the roof.

Birnbeck said that Stones' songs such as "Ruby Tuesday," "Paint It Black," "Beast Of Burden," and "Who Let The Dogs Out" were selling like hot dogs at a New York Yankees game, or fish and chips at a Manchester United game, or chicken wings at a New Orleans Hornets game.

Birnbeck added that one of the radio stations in Teddington had played "Play With Fire" a total of 15 times in a row. Another radio station in East Ham was giving away Rolling Stones CDs to callers who could correctly guess (in days) how old each of the band members are.

Stones guitarist Keith Richards was reportedly so happy that he has offered to pay at Simon Cowell and Kara DioGuardi's wedding. When Richards was told that Cowell and DioGuardi were not getting married, he smiled and replied, that it surprised him because the way he's noticed Kara rubbing her raging hormonal body all over Cowell he would have surely thought that he was putting it to her.

Richards then asked if it was true that Ellen DeGeneres is a c*rpet m*uncher. When told that she is, and that she is married to a woman, he grinned and said that he would like to peak into her bedroom just for 18 or 45 minutes.

In other related news. Randy Jackson has been asked by American Idol producer Simon Shindlebocker to stop booing Simon Cowell each time at the start of the show when the judges are introduced. AI director Simon Witleywine said that he personally has told Randy to act like the professional that he is and not like some chump who just arrived her on a boat from Lower Zamgola.

The old Air Force One Presidential Jet which Mick Jagger purchased and renamed Jumping Jack Flash.

Thanks Moy, I'm surprised that Keef watched AI, glad their record sales went up, I wonder how Keef thought when Simon Cowell said something to the extent "it's a boring song to begin with" for Under My Thumb, & he said something else for another song, I don't know if it was Ruby Tuesday or Play With Fire, that it was boring, I take he's not a Stones fan.
Who Let The Dogs Out is not a Stones song, whoever wrote that article knows dick all about the Stones, if he thinks that's one of their songs.

I get jokes. :nanker

I sat through 1/2 of of that idiot destroying beast of burden before I had to turn it off before I puked.

What did you guys expect? Of course it sucks.....the two just do not mix..
This is great article from Slate:

That Jagger SwaggerIdol vs. the Rolling Stones.
By Katherine MeizelPosted Thursday, March 18, 2010, at 12:09 PM ET

Here's the thing, and it shouldn't come as a surprise: Idol cannot handle cock rock. It just doesn't have the Stones. With all of Simon's predictions for a female winner, the choice of an archetypal male rock band was puzzling for the first theme. I worried that it might stump the girls and give the boys an unfair edge, but as it turned out, everyone was equally disadvantaged.

Asking the Top 12 to master the classics, the work of already-idolized artists like the Rolling Stones, implies that Idol can make legitimate heirs to music history. It's a strategy epitomized in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment during Tuesday's broadcast, when the Stones' lips-teeth-and-tongue icon appeared on the screen only to be, in a display of sheer audacity, suddenly replaced by the Idol logo. It was a bold statement but ultimately reminded me that Idol has no teeth, no mouth—in fact, no body at all—and that's the problem. Lately, the judges have been grumbling abstractly about contestants not connecting with their songs, relying on stagey posturing instead of "taking the stage." But I think the connection they're really looking for has to do with how pop stars use their bodies as expressive instruments and their voices as extensions of their bodies.

In men's rock, it's often a hair-tossing, mic-stand-hurling, chest-baring (it's where Simon's necklines come from) physicality that can fill up a stadium. That's a rare thing on the Idol stage, especially since rock repertoire has until recently also been scarce there, though some have nearly managed it—check out Bo Bice's hybrid Jagger/hair-band moves in the middle of "Whipping Post" during Season 4. It's also the kind of body work Kara was praising when she remarked on Mike Lynche's "swagger," but most of the other Idols were missing it on Tuesday. Then there's the body in the singing. Amid 11 other too-careful singers ("precise," Simon called it), we only got this in Siobhan's barely controlled, high-octave, high-octane scream. I'm not done yet being astonished at what she can do with her voice, the most versatile and dynamic one we've got this season—and out of the fascinating range of sounds she's made, the standout is that virtuosic shriek. It's a cry not only from the soul, and from soul, but also of the body, a symbol of sexuality and female virility. That's a scream that represents … well, a woman's scream. If you can't work out what a woman's scream might mean, I'm not going to explain it to you. My mom reads this blog.

The Stones, of course, have Mick Jagger's body, which is a whole different sexual ballgame. Not that I think of ballgames as sexual. Although, OK, Derek Jeter. Stop reading now, Mom! Anyway, Jagger's sexual persona, no matter how androgynous, is still sexual—"I dance," he said in 1966, "and all dancing is a replacement for sex." Just as there's no crying in baseball, there's not really any dancing in Idol. The awkward group numbers excluded, contestants are pretty much limited to smoldering gazes, pre-existing Internet photos and the occasional pleather ensemble for the expression of sexuality. But there's more to the ambiguous Jagger: "What really upsets people is that I'm a man and not a woman…What I do is very much the same as a girl's striptease dance." And even in absentia, even if no one really embodied him onstage this week, Jagger did to Idol what he's been doing since the '60s—simultaneously threatening everyone's sexual identity to the point of panic. Why else would Ryan suddenly man up to get confrontational with Simon? The same reason the swooning of female Casey fans compelled Ellen to reassert her own orientation, in her funniest and most genuinely Ellen-like moment so far ("But for people like me," she began, and then deadpanned, "blondes …"). It was the shadow of Jagger's body, and the Idols just didn't know how to make that their own.

We can't forget the music, delivered Tuesday in an array of string-laden melodramas and smooth, Jack Johnson-inflected arrangements. Katie's "Wild Horses," Lee's mellow "Beast of Burden" and Tim's reggae "Under My Thumb" were pretty, but no matter how great the songwriting is, you don't go to the Stones for pretty. There was also a lot less electric guitar than I expected; don't tell anyone, but I actually caught myself thinking "Thank god for Casey James." And while Paige struggled with laryngitis and didn't blow my mind (or my nose), Tina Turner's ballsy—Stones-y—take on "Honky Tonk Woman" was a strong choice for her. No one else really bombed, either, a good sign for the coming weeks.

Sometimes the energy did flag, though I guess I always notice that more when current Top 40 names drop by to show us how the pros do it (that is, when I'm not distracted by dancers with silly television heads or by possibly warrior-feminist but certainly culturally disrespectful headdresses). Valley-girl thugg Ke$ha did at least solve a mystery for me when I rewatched her "Blah Blah Blah" video and saw that it featured the same huge, bizarre feather earrings Lilly Scott favored (now in Crystal's hair, in sisterly homage). Prodigal Idol David Cook and This Is It guitarist Orianthi felt like more natural visitors for Rolling Stones week, especially the latter with her epic Guitar Hero skillz and her rock-goddess hair blowing around. That's what Crystal really needs, but I guess dreads don't play that game.

In the end we saw Lacey eliminated with no hope of the Judges' Save, which they are of course saving for later. But anyone could have called that one. Last year at this time I noted the dismissal of Alexis Grace as the latest of the pink-haired to go home early, and Lacey pretty much doomed herself long before Idol, the moment she reached for that box of Fuchsia Flash. This Wednesday, it did her no more good than "Ruby Tuesday."

So it was a big week for our Top 12, taking their first steps on the new stage, making their first Ford music video, and learning (I hope) that they are not disembodied voices. Yeah, they might have some swagger, but we'll kick 'em to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger.

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Just got my YouTube subscriptions update, this is what Coowouters uploaded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGAU0qAcupk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO4KhH5Sk2Y

:wtf3

I guess Gazza can't ban his partner in crime... ;D ;D :willya

"I swear to God, if any of you twisted fuckers post a video if these sonic atrocities, you'll be kicked off for promoting blasphemy."

Thats OK Voodoo, I did triple dog dare you!

PartyDoll MEG wrote on Mar 20^th, 2010 at 1:50pm:

I guess Gazza can't ban his partner in crime... ;D ;D :willya

Now I have the next header LOL

Of course I HATE this but after all it's Stones' stuff

:wtf3 :pukey :pukey :pukey

I am now officially leaving the board!

PartyDoll MEG wrote on Mar 20^th, 2010 at 1:50pm:

I can. Only problem is that he knows the password as well.

Heart Of Stone wrote on Mar 18^th, 2010 at 12:10pm:

:wtf3

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