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I was hoping to see Scrap Metal this week – a sort-of supergroup featuring the Nelson bros, Eric Martin (Mr.Big), Mark Slaughter, and Kelly Keagy (Night Ranger) – but the show was canceled. Not sure if it was poor ticket sales, if it was Keagy’s involvement on the Night Ranger tour which kept him from playing this date, whatever, but I was a little bummed as I had been looking forward to hearing the greatest hits of each member’s respective bands with, undoubtedly, an all-star jam at the end. (Read the band’s official cancelation notice here).

Nelson did book a new show in Columbus on October 25 (with Eric Martin opening) at the Alrosa Villa which kind of makes up for the canceled Scrap Metal show. So as I was poking around on the Nelson site, I saw a link to something that said “Be a Personal Assistant”. Might be cool to hang with the brothers Nelson for the day, show them around town, take them out to dinner, whatever. Heck, maybe they’d even give you a couple of tickets to the show and a backstage pass or two for your trouble, right? Think again, chumps.

Please Note: This Package must be purchased, paid for and confirmed BEFORE the concert date you have chosen.

$1,000 for this chance to spend the day as Matthew & Gunnar Nelson’s Personal Assistant!

Only Credit Card or Money Orders will be excepted. NO Personal Checks.

All requests are subject to approval and only 2 Personal Assistants per show.

No refunds will be given.
Nelson is not responsible for dates cancelled due to rain or acts of God

THIS IS A NELSON EXCLUSIVE – YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PURCHASE THIS PACKAGE AT THE VENUE ON THE DAY OF THE SHOW

If you are interested please drop us a line at nelsons@thenelsonbrothers.com with the subject line “I want to be a Personal Assistant to The Nelsons!“

Only $1,000? And you get to pay to work? Awesome. If anybody actually does this, please let me know, I’d love to publish a first hand account of what $1,000 will buy you.

Every couple of years a story pops up about the kid who served as the cover model for Nirvana’s Nevermind album. NPR caught up with the now 17-year-old Spencer Elden to find out how his photo was chosen, the reaction his friends have when discovering it was him on the cover of Nevermind, and what he’s up to now.

This quote from the story is pretty funny:

“Quite a few people in the world have seen my penis,” he says from his home in Los Angeles. “So that’s kinda cool. I’m just a normal kid living it up and doing the best I can while I’m here.”

Sad news, Natasha Shneider of the band Eleven has passed away from cancer. I caught Eleven opening for Pearl Jam on the Ten tour and really dug their sound. Natasha and her bandmate/husband Alain Johannes would later go on to work with Chris Cornell and Queens of the Stone Age, among others (most recently they lent their talents to the Gutter Twins album, Saturnalia).

Me? I’m holding out for a Quicksand reunion which I’m pretty sure will never happen but I’ll take a Rival Schools reunion if it’s the best that I can get at this point in time. Walter Schreifels put elements of the band back together and just finished up a month’s worth of dates overseas. I think I read somewhere that Schreifels said a U.S. tour would happen this year and a new record was being worked on.

Here’s a clip of the band performing “Used for Glue” last week. And a cover of The Smiths “How Soon is Now” (which Schreifels used to cover with Quicksand back in the day).
Read some reviews of the reunion shows:

• Birmingham Live
• Rambles of Chris
• NME