ALMATY, Sept 30 (THE GLOBE)
Thomas Lee Bass born in Athens Greece, and is later to be known as �Tommy Lee�. First child for his ex Miss Greece 1957 mother, Vassilikki Papadimitriou (aka Boula) and ex Army father, David. The couple married after their first date, which came about after David proposed to her the first time he saw her when he was on Service in Greece. They live in Thailand for a while, before returning to Athens, communicating by drawing pictures, as they didn�t speak a word of each other�s language. Boula has five miscarriages before giving birth to their first child that died shortly after birth. Boula then stayed in bed for the nine months of her next pregnancy before giving birth to Tommy. The family moves to California later in the year. A sister, Athena, is born when Tommy is 2. His begins banging on things as soon as he is old enough to reach into the cutlery drawer. For Christmas when he was 4, Tommy was given his first drum kit - a paper kit with a blinking light on the bass drum, a miniature cowbell and a cymbal. He sticks with keyboard lessons until the age of 10, when he finally quits because it was too hard, and he preferred drums anyway. He also had a Davinchi electronic accordion, that he used to plug into a guitar amp and distortion box and crank Deep Purple�s �Smoke on the Water�. His biggest influence at the time is Kiss. At age 10, he tried his hand at tap ballet classes but quit when the boys at school teased him. Tommy then wanted a proper drum kit, but his father would only buy him a snare. He subsequently works after school and weekends to buy his own kit. At school, music, co-ed volleyball and graphic arts (where he makes Budweiser and rock t-shirts) are his favourite subjects. Tommy is often grounded by his strict and protective father. Electing not to take drum lessons, he keeps his playing in check by joining his high school marching band, and a local drums corp. He taught others how to twirl sticks and led his troop to many competition victories. His first band was a blues cover band, that used to play in his garage. He then moved on to join �US 101�, with some guys that later resurface in �Autograph�. His first gig under lights was an outdoor concert in an Upland High School football stadium that 500 or so people enjoyed. After a year or so, he grows tired of the cover songs and joins �Suite 19�. In Grade 10, Tommy is expelled from school after he sets a teacher�s grade book on fire. He then goes to a continuation school, before dropping our in his senior year, to work as a painter with his Uncle.
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15/9/99 Nikki says the first single from his �1958� album will be called �Piece of Candy�. The album, titled �Diet For A New America�, is now mastered and Sixx is deciding on the best release date for it, which may be sometime in January 2000. The single �Burnem Up� from his Americoma Records band �Flash Bastard� has recently been mixed by Dave Ogilvie and Foo, and is expected to be realsed in the near future. The other band on his label, �Laidlaw� are set for their album to be released on Octber 26th. Their first single is going to radio now and features Steve Perry from �Journey� and the background singers from �Lynard Skynard.� Eddie Van Halen recently told a band member that lead guitarist Buzzy James is one of the best players he�s ever seen on slide.
Meanwhile newspaper reports say a carefully worded news release signed by District Attorney Stewart Bell and Sheriff Jerry Keller admitted that arresting officers erred by misinterpreting Sixx�s reminders of violence during a 1997 concert as an attempt to urge new violence, which led to his recent post concert arrest in Las Vegas. Although the criminal charges were dropped, Sixx�s court days in Nevada may not be over because he could still file a civil lawsuit, as Nikki�s lawyer says the arrest cost Sixx a contract with a video game company and he had to pay legal costs to fight the criminal charges.
25/9/99 Nikki Sixx says the forthcoming Japanese tour sold out on the first day, as the promoters really under estimated the band this year. In preparation for the tour, Nikki has his hair dyed bright red all over. November�s live album �Entertainment or Death� will include 21 songs, and Sixx says the CD contains minimal �fix ups�, unlike a lot of other artists� live albums. The band has decided to play VH1�s �Hard Rock Live� and Jay Leno�s �Tonight Show� on Thanksgiving Day to promote the live album. Their barrage of press is also likely to include VH1�s �Rock Show� and Conan O�Brien�s TV show. The band has also decided to delay release of their DVD and VHS video �This Shit Ain�t Brain Surgery� until next year, as they have too much footage to go through in production preparation prior to the live album. Also pushed back until next year is the autobiographical book �The Dirt� which is now scheduled for release on 1st August 2000. As soon as Tommy Lee finishes his part of the book, it will be ready for release.
A photo shoot is set to take place early next week for �1958� as all band members are finalised. Joining Nikki Sixx and guitarist Dave Darling are Bucket on drums and Steven Gibb on guitar. The album cover and a video will be shot when Sixx returns from Motley Crue�s tour of Japan. The song �Kill Your TV� is no longer on the album�s track listing.
Nikki says the most important thing right now though is the new Motley Crue album. He says the new tunes are very �Shout At The Devil� era, blended with �Primal Scream� and some of the 1994 self titled album. Motley will be the first band to record at �Americoma Studios� set up on Sixx�s 40 acre Californian ranch.
ALMATY, Sept 28
Again THE GLOBE is on the way of the war. This time, though we were more successful than before (THE GLOBE, #67). Yes, we say you honestly, that we again played paintball!
Yes, again we played in the Central Park!
Yes, again we played at the polygon of the Paintball Sport Club �TOP GUN�!
Note for people who do not know:
Paintball is a new game, which is very popular in the West. The essence of the game is an imitation of a small war, but instead of instruments of a murder you have rifles loaded with harmless cartridges of paint.
Last time, as you remember we lost the battle against the team of one of the TV channels. This time our team struggled against the team of NURSAT company.
It occurred that representatives of new technologies were absolutely unable to learn the science of tactics. (Though, we have to admit, that their team, unlike ours, included three women. Besides, of course, the experience of THE GLOBE gained in the previous battle played its role.)
The result was accurately the same as in the song by �CHAIF� ensemble. Turn on the radio, and you will remember at once: �Argentina � Jamaica 5:0.� The role of Jamaica team at the Football World�s Championship held in France was played by �HURSAT� team.
Of course, �NURSAT� fought as lions, but even tree managers and journalists of THE GLOBE who later played for their team, did not help them.
The team of THE GLOBE was less, but remembering �we are few, but we are in sailors� stripped vests�, representatives of our newspaper demonstrated the high-class game.
By the end of the game, the NURSAT team improved its game and their attacks were getting better, but, alas� it was impossible to stop our team headed by the manager Nurlan Azeshev.
That is why when the result was 5:0, it was decided to stop and to bury tomahawks, i.e. to give back the weapon.
P.S. Everything written above is THE GLOBE�s point of view. The verdict of the independent commission of judges was as following:
FRIENDSHIP WON!!!
October 1, 1979 - After seventy years of disputed U.S. control, the Canal Zone, a ten-mile-wide and forty-mile long strip of land and water across the Isthmus of Panama, is formally handed over to Panama. The Panama Canal, one of the greatest construction projects of all time, was completed and officially opened in 1914. To establish a waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, U.S. engineers moved over 200 million cubic yards of earth, at a cost of nearly $400 million.
October 2, 1958 - After rejecting the new French Constitution, Guinea, previously a part of French West Africa, becomes the independent Republic of Guinea with Sekou Toure as the first president. In the early 1960s, the popular Toure transforms his country into the first truly Marxist state in Africa, and France suspends diplomatic relations in 1965. The Soviet Union replaces the former colonial power as Guinea�s chief economic and political partner, and Toure rules the nation until his death in 1984.
October 3, 1922 - Rebecca L. Felton, a Democrat, becomes the first female senator in U.S. history when she is appointed to the U.S. Senate by Governor Thomas W. Hardwick of Georgia to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas E. Watson. In 1932, Hattie Ophelia Caraway becomes the first female senator to be freely elected, a year after she was appointed to fill the vacancy left by the death of her husband, Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway, a Democrat from Georgia.
October 3, 1952 - Britain successfully tests it first atomic bomb off Trimouille Island, near Monte Bello Island off of the northwest coast of Australia. The British nuclear development program began immediately following World War II, with British physicist William G. Penney as the program head. Penney had contributed to the U.S. development of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, New Mexico, during the war. The twenty-five kiloton plutonium implosion bomb, detonated in the hull of the HMS Plym, makes Britain the world�s third nuclear power after the United States and the Soviet Union.
October 3, 1990 - Eleven months after East Germany opens its borders to the West and dismantles the infamous Berlin Wall, East and West Germany become a united and sovereign state for the first time since Germany�s defeat in World War II, burying forty-five years of Cold War division. Nearly a million people gather at the Reichstag in Berlin, and at midnight a replica of the Liberty Bell, a gift from the United States, is rung, officially proclaiming reunification.
October 4, 1993 - Ten hours into a tank assault on the Russian White House parliament building, rebel parliamentarians led by Vice-President Alexander Rutskoi and Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov surrender to Russian president Boris Yeltsin. Twelve days earlier, Yeltsin, who had barely survived an impeachment bid by parliament earlier in the year, dissolved the legislative body and called for general elections. Rutskoi, Khusbulatov, and other parliamentary members in opposition to Yeltsin responded by barricading themselves inside the White House building, beginning a tense siege that ended with Yeltsin�s tank assault and the rebels� subsequent surrender and arrest.
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