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Singer in Paris Attacks Suggests Inside SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 2016 Please forgive me? Egypt customs deface Adams’ guitar run-in with customs at Cairo airport has left Grammy Award winning rock musician Bryan Adams annoyed, after a border Aagent scrawled a number on the Canadian’s prize guitar in paint marker. Adams, who was in Cairo for a concert at the Giza Pyramids on March 8, posted a picture of the vintage Martin acoustic guitar on his Instagram account. A number and an illegible word in Arabic had been scrawled in green ink on the guitar’s mahogany side. “Airport customs graffiti on my 1957 Martin D-18 from Egypt. Back to the luthier #bryanadamsgetup,” Adam’s wrote on Instagram, refer- ring to his latest album Get Up!. Adams, best known for his hits “18 Bryan This file photo shows the Bataclan cafe near the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris. —AFP Adams A screen grab taken on March 11, 2016 shows a page of the official Singer in Paris attacks suggests inside job Instagram account of Grammy Award winning he frontman of the band whose con- statements of Mr Jesse Hughes are the rock musician Bryan Adams cert turned into a terrorist bloodbath result of the enormous trauma,” the on which he published a Tin Paris has suggested the attack was Bataclan said in a statement. picture that he took in the Till I Die,” “(Everything I Do) I Do it an inside job, saying he was suspicious of “All witness accounts from the day Egyptian capital Cairo of For You,” and “Please Forgive Me”, the club’s security guards. show the professionalism and courage of his vintage Martin acoustic said his problems with customs had The historic Bataclan angrily rejected the security personnel,” it said, adding guitar. —AFP begun on his arrival at Cairo airport. the “senseless” claim and said that Jesse “their intervention likely saved hundreds “We almost didn’t get the equip- Hughes’ allegations were because he was of people.” “A judicial process is under ment into the country, and when we did it was all marked like this,” traumatized. Hughes, the singer and gui- way,” it said. “We would like justice to he told AFP in a Facebook message on Friday. “There were tarist of Eagles of Death Metal, said he complete its work calmly.” Hughes previ- absolutely no apologies.” A customs official at the airport told AFP immediately felt uneasy when setting up ously made similar allegations in an inter- that instruments are marked with serial numbers, although usually for the November 13 show as a guard in view with Vanity Fair magazine, saying he with stickers. Regarding the ink, he suggested: “Maybe it wasn’t charge of the backstage area at the wished he had “followed my instinct” as us?”, although the script was Arabic. Egyptian wits took to Twitter Bataclan club did not make eye contact. the soundman had spotted two people to mock the incident. “Doesn’t Adams know that we glued togeth- “I didn’t like him at all. And so I immedi- inside the club before the show whose er Tutankhamun with super glue? ately went to the promoter and said, attire and behavior were at striking odds It’s normal that we write something on a 60 year old guitar,” one ‘Who’s that guy? I want to put another with the typical rock audience. wrote, referring to a botched repair of the priceless Tutankhamun dude on,’” Hughes said in an interview This file photo shows Jesse Hughes Hughes, in contrast to many rockers, funerary mask in Cairo’s museum. The Oscar-nominated musician of the band Eagles of Death Metal said he would still return to Egypt to perform. “I have no grudges,” broadcast late Wednesday with Fox was known even before the attacks for his Business. “He goes, ‘Well, some of the oth- performing during a concert in right-leaning views and support for the he told AFP. “Rest assured, apart from this incident, I love Egypt and Bogota. — AFP look forward to returning again one day.” “But without the green er guards aren’t here yet.’ And eventually I right to own guns in the United States. In paint markers please.” It is not the first time that someone has found out that six or so wouldn’t show up coordinated attacks around Paris claimed the interview with Fox Business, Hughes scrawled numbers on one of Adams’ guitars. In 2015, he com- at all,” Hughes said. “Out of respect for the by the Islamic State group that left a total said he was not necessarily advocating plained on Twitter that Air Canada had taken a marker to his guitar, police still investigating, I won’t make a of 130 dead and 350 injured, many seri- gun ownership but wished that fans had scrawling a serial number in black ink. — AFP definite statement, but I’ll say it seems ously. Hughes said that one of the ways to defend themselves. “I don’t want rather obvious that they had a reason not assailants allowed three fans to leave the to shoot anybody-I would hate to do that,” to show up.” venue, in what he saw as further proof he said, breaking down with emotion. “But As the California rockers were playing, that the culprits had previous knowledge I, more than that, do not want to let the ‘Batman v Superman’ assailants opened fire and threw grenades of the Bataclan, a famed Paris venue for bad guys take any of my people, and I production designer on to kill 90 people, the deadliest in a series of mid-sized rock shows. “The senseless don’t want to go out like a punk.”— AFP revamping the Batmobile Bassist becomes second atman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” production designer Patrick Tatopoulos takes us behind the head of storied Newport Jazz ‘Bscenes of creating a new Batmobile in an exclusive clip from “DC All Access.” Tatopoulos explains his process for hristian McBride, one of the most with the 43-year-old McBride taking redesigning Batman’s iconic ride. “In the aesthetic of the film I prominent contemporary double charge next year. “When I first met and thought that everything should be hanging or look like bats, Cbassists, was named yesterday as heard a teenage Christian McBride in but subliminally,” Tatopoulos said. “The car, when the cockpit only the second director of the celebrat- 1989, I knew that he was someone spe- opens, it looks like bat wings. Everything should have a slight ed Newport Jazz Festival. The festival in cial. Little did I know that nearly 30 years undertone of the subliminal idea of a bat.” the tony Rhode Island coastal town, one later, he would become the special Ramping up to the film’s release date later this month, of the biggest dates on the jazz calen- someone to continue my legacy,” Wein “Batman v Superman” marketing has been inescapable. dar, was created in 1954 and has been said in a statement. McBride said he was Following the Oscars, stars Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck and Jessie organized ever since by George Wein. “deeply humbled” by the appointment, Bassist Christian McBride performs at Eisenberg played their roles as Superman, Batman and Lex Now 90 years old, Wein has become a calling Newport “the most storied and the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Luthor in a skit for “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in which Kimmel outs legend in the jazz world for bringing top legendary jazz festival in history.” Rhode Island, on July 31, 2015. — AFP their alter egos. The dark superhero film is expected to have a talent to Newport and figuring out how The Newport Jazz Festival has been around the world, most notably in monstrous opening. Despite a lengthy run time of two hours to keep the event afloat financially, the site of some of the most famous Montreal, New Orleans and Montreux, and 31 minutes, the Zack Snyder-directed film is projected to including by actively seeking out corpo- recordings in jazz history from greats Switzerland. The Philadelphia-born pull in around $140 million in its debut. The production, which rate sponsorships. including John Coltrane, Miles Davis, McBride is considered a master of jazz cost $250 million, is estimated to bring in $200 million over- The festival announced that Wein Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie bass and has frequently recorded with seas, topping $300 million in global grosses. “Batman v would retire with the upcoming festival, Holiday. However, a number of other leading artists, including Paul McCartney Superman: Dawn of Justice” premieres March 25. —Reuters which takes place from July 29 to 31, major jazz festivals have since emerged and Sting in crossovers to pop. —AFP.
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