Steven Seagal Readies New Album

[Jahfin]

From Billboard.com:
http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/artic ... 1000980251



Steven Seagal, action icon and star of such films as "Hard to Kill," "Under Siege" and "The Glimmer Man," is planning an early 2006 U.S. release date for his debut album, "Songs From the Crystal Cave."

The set, which features guest appearances by Stevie Wonder, Lt. Stitchie, and Lady Saw, is already available in France and will be sold in Asia come September. The martial-arts master culls from a wide swath of musical influences on "Cave," including blues, rock, pop, Jamaican dancehall and traditional Indian music.

Tomorrow (July 16), Seagal will host the "Full Circle" ceremony near San Francisco's Pier 39, a memorial dedicated to the victims of the Hiroshima nuclear bombing. A Japanese ship will deliver "the atomic flame," a fire kindled from burning embers left over from the 1945 blast that has been protected over the decades by a group of Zen monks. The monks will then embark upon a 1,600-mile journey from California to the Trinity test site in Almorgado, N.M., where they plan to extinguish the flame.

For his part, Seagal has pledged $100,000 in order to diffuse a "high risk" Russian nuclear weapon.

-- Jordan Heller Weissman, N.Y.

[sonofabeach]

I'm on pins and needles

[Jahfin]

I'm on pins and needles

Likewise. Thanks to a former co-worker I was introduced to the music of dancehall artist Lieutenant Stitchie a few years back. Speaking of the Lieutenant and pins and needles, that's exactly what he sounds like when he sings; as if someone was poking his testiculars with them.

[Goodman]

If he threatened to break my arms and legs I suppose I'd be prepared to give a listen.

[bravedave]

I'm just glad I saved a space next to my Leonard Nimoy album.
:|

[phjrsaunt]

I'll be sure to get that, just as SOON as I've purchased my new William Hung cd!

[BigRedParrothead]

He'll break your arm with bad acting if you don't buy his CD!!!!

[Blonde Stranger]

This one's going in someone's Christmas stocking for sure (in place of the coal).

[Goodman]

Actually, all killing aside, Steve was in the Fire Down Below (played a chef in a Mexican restaurant) along with the great drummer/vocalist Levon Helm of The Band. That raises Steve's stock some IMHO.

[Jahfin]

From Billboard.com:
http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/artic ... 1000991883



Although most are familiar with his role as the eccentric catalog retailer J Peterman on "Seinfeld" or his turns on the hit ABC summer series "Dancing With the Stars," John O'Hurley is also a composer, pianist and classically trained vocalist. To that end, he has teamed up with cellist Marston Smith (Stevie Wonder, Brandy) to release his debut album, "Peace of Our Minds," a two-disc collection of his compositions.

Among the 20 selections included on the instrumental album is the Ireland-inspired "Suite for Skibereen" and "For Lisa," a piece he wrote for his wife for their wedding last year. Each song on the set can be sampled on O'Hurley's official Web site. It can also be purchased through CDBaby.com.

-- Barry A. Jeckell, N.Y.

[DeactiveCarib]

From Billboard.com:
http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/artic ... 1000991883



Although most are familiar with his role as the eccentric catalog retailer J Peterman on "Seinfeld" or his turns on the hit ABC summer series "Dancing With the Stars," John O'Hurley is also a composer, pianist and classically trained vocalist. To that end, he has teamed up with cellist Marston Smith (Stevie Wonder, Brandy) to release his debut album, "Peace of Our Minds," a two-disc collection of his compositions.

Among the 20 selections included on the instrumental album is the Ireland-inspired "Suite for Skibereen" and "For Lisa," a piece he wrote for his wife for their wedding last year. Each song on the set can be sampled on O'Hurley's official Web site. It can also be purchased through CDBaby.com.

-- Barry A. Jeckell, N.Y.

and what does this have to do with Steven Seagal. . .

interesting though, i always wondered what happened to Peterman