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Turns out, it’s the brands you suspected: 1. BMW, 2. Tesla, 3. Ram.

Researchers used a year’s worth of insurance inquiries and identified driving incidents tied to each brand: crashes, drunk driving charges, speeding tickets, and other violations. They then standardized it as incidents per 1,000 drivers so a niche brand and a high-volume brand could be compared on equal footing

https://www.autoblog.com/features/these-3-car-brands-have-the-worst-drivers-is-yours-on-the-list

Marked the 49th year tonight watching the 2001 re-release of “That’s the Way It Is.” It’s quite like EPIC, but with fewer Beatles songs.

From Music Radar: “I know we’re making twice as much money as Metallica, but can you please put ’em on after us, because they’re killing us?”: Don Dokken.

How a hair metal band’s dream gig turned into a nightmare

Monsters Of Rock was a travelling festival playing 30 dates in stadiums across the US. Van Halen headlined. Below them, in descending order, were Scorpions, Dokken, Metallica and Kingdom Come.

At the end of 1987, Dokken had released their most successful album to date, Back For The Attack, which hit No.13 in the US. They’d also had an MTV hit with the song Dream Warriors, which was on the soundtrack to horror film A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 (the video features its star Robert ‘Freddy Krueger‘ Englund).

But on the Monsters Of Rock tour Dokken had a problem. They had to follow Metallica.

Dokken were a melodic hard rock band with some punchy songs and a genuine guitar hero in George Lynch. But in 1988 Metallica were the fast-rising kings of thrash metal with a fanatical following.

As singer Don Dokken recalled to Classic Rock: “After Metallica went out and played Master Of Puppets, we sounded like the f**king Partridge Family!”

As the tour progressed, Don asked Cliff Burnstein, co-manager of both Dokken and Metallica, if the two bands could swap places on the bill.

Don said: “I told Cliff: ‘I know we’re making twice the money as Metallica, but can you please put ’em on after us, because they’re killing us?”

Burnstein said no, and Dokken’s humiliation was complete following a show at Giants Stadium in New Jersey.

“There was this huge review in the New York Times,” Don recalls. “It said that Van Halen kicked ass, the Scorpions were super-amazing, Metallica are the new upstarts just breaking out in America, Kingdom Come was good… and there was just one line about us. It said: ‘During Dokken’s set a record number of hotdogs were sold.’ It was horrible.”

Crowd surfing is a playground stunt with nothing to do with music. You’re a spoiled brat! Why not insist everyone around you build a human pyramid so you can stand on top? Same entitlement. I’m there for music, not so an a-hole surfer can kick me in the head with muddy, disease-ridden boots. It’s dangerous, unhygienic, and turns unwilling fans into props for your amusement.

From mansionglobal.com:

A midcentury residence in Beverly Hills that was home to Elvis Presley in the 1960s and ’70s is available to rent for $35,000 a month.

Presley bought the home—in the high-end enclave of Trousdale Estates—in 1967 for $400,000, and lived there (at least part of the year) with his wife, Priscilla, and daughter, Lisa Marie, for six years.

The 5,300-square-foot house, which has a distinct Hollywood Regency-style entryway and modern interiors, takes in the Los Angeles skyline and the Pacific Ocean from its position atop a promontory. It was designed in 1958 by architect Rex Lotery, who is on the list of Master Architects of Beverly Hills, a roster of those whose work helped shape the city’s architectural identity that also includes Frank Gehry and Wallace Neff.

The house has four bedrooms, five bathrooms and original details, like skylights and coffered ceilings, alongside modern updates. Several of the bedrooms have sliding glass doors that lead to the backyard, Mansion Global previously reported.

https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/you-can-now-rent-elvis-presleys-former-beverly-hills-home-for-35k-a-month-a4b47870?mod=homePage\_topStories

Could someone please help with Artist Presale for Greensboro’s Tanger Center (Sept. 9)? My wife loves her!

It’s weird Elvis was never on a late night talk show in the 60s or 70s. He lived in LA and had his own planes. He had movies and new albums to promote. Why did he never sit with Carson? I blame Steve Allen for the humiliating Hound Dog thing.