PLEASE give a link and line of credit if you use our News stories.. that's all we ask! Check News Archive at the bottom of this page for previous updates. Got a scoop? E-mail news@intersandman.com and fill us in! SEPTEMBER 2000 NEWS Join Inter Sandman's mailing list by entering your email address & click the button: TMC UPDATE 09.29.00 Lars' record label, The Music Company, announced its most recent label signing today: BRAND NEW IMMORTALS. Says the label, "Brand New Immortals are Johnny Colt (formerly of The Black Crowes), David Ryan Harris (formerly of Follow for Now) and KC Threshold. They are based in Atlanta, Georgia and have been together for about a year. They were brought to The Music Co by Brendan O'Brien who produced their demos." In other label news, SYSTEMATIC is hard at work in a Nashville studio with Peter Collins and Paul Northfield making their first record for TMC and they say, "Label Boss Lars Ulrich and A&R President Dan McCarroll recently paid a visit to the boys in Tennessee. They reported that things are going great and the guys are making an amazing record." Finally, GOUDIE is touring around their home state of Texas. Check out The Music Company website for more. REMEMBERING CLIFF 09.26.00 Today marks the 14th anniversary of Cliff Burton's passing. "He loved music. He was really intellectual but very to the point. He taught me a lot about attitude." - James "Cliff really exposed me and James to a whole new musical horizon." - Lars From the official Metallica website. NEWS BYTES 09.26.00 NBC played a portion of "I Disappear" when airing a segment about the USA's Blaine Wilson of the gymnastics team during their Olympic coverage. - from Craig and rakesh@metallica.com "From Jagermeister to Napster" - Longtime Metallica associate Lonn Friend "remembers Metallica" at KNAC.com, read it here! - from Daniel Menestres. MY VH1 AWARDS 09.22.00 VH1 is in the process of selecting the official list of nominees for their first annual My VH1 Awards. Metallica received many general nominations (plus, you can write in your own) in such fan made categories as "Gods of Thunder" and "Pushing the Envelope Video." However, we at IS feel that the most important nomination Metallica received as under the "Givin' It Back" category, in which Jason was honored for his dedication and tireless effort in ALWAYS showing up to meet people and doing whatever is in his power to make the fans happy. You can vote by going here and registering to vote. Let Jason know how much you appreciate his efforts! IMPORTANT MEMBERS ONLY INFO 09.21.00 We've updated our Member's Area with info on Inter Sandman's Chapterhead Dan Walpole taking a "leave of absence" and Zach Smith becoming a new Chapterhead. Thanks to Dan for his hard work and commitment to Inter Sandman... fear not, Dan will still be around when his schedule and itnernet connection permits; in the meantime Zach has some plans that will keep all our members happy and proud to have him aboard full time! E-mail Zach if you'd like to help make IS even better! Click here for the story, click here for Dan's letter about this and here for Zach's letter. #1 REQUESTED ON THE 'NET 09.21.00 Metallica was named "Most Performed Artist" for receiving the most number of plays on the TouchTunes Digital Jukebox between September 1999 and August 2000. Metallica's record company Elektra, as well as BMI, a performing rights society, received awards. TouchTunes President and CEO Tony Mastronardi presented the awards. MORE COLLEGES ASKED TO CURB ACCESS 09.11.00 MTV.com reports: Metallica and Dr. Dre are once again appealing to colleges and universities to block student access to Napster. Last week, attorneys for Metallica sent letters to 11 schools, including Harvard University, Columbia University, and the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, asking them to restrict students' use of Napster via their respective servers. Howard E. King, a lawyer representing both Metallica and rapper Dr. Dre in legal actions against the MP3-swapping site, mailed out the first batch of letters last Wednesday and Thursday. In a copy of the letter obtained by MTV News, King asks the school administrators to "promptly ban access by [their] community to Napster" and suggests that each of the schools has "a moral, ethical, and legal obligation to take appropriate steps to assure that it is not a willing participant in and an enabler of the theft of intellectual property through Napster." The letter requests that the colleges indicate their "position... with respect to access to Napster" by September 22. Other schools receiving the letters last week included Stanford University, Boston University, Princeton University, the University Of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University Of California at Berkeley, the University Of California at Los Angeles, the University Of Virginia, and the Georgia Institute Of Technology. On Monday, King told MTV News that letters were on the way to 16 other schools: Colgate, University Of Colorado at Boulder, Cornell University, University Of Florida, Duke University, University Of Idaho, Florida State University, University Of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Michigan State, University Of Oregon, Penn State, University Of Pennsylvania, Texas A&M, University Of Wisconsin at Madison, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Washington State University. The letters do not expressly threaten any legal action against schools if they do not choose to restrict Napster, but mention that Metallica had listed Yale University, the University Of Southern California, and Indiana University as co-defendants in the band's lawsuit against Napster filed in April. All three schools were eventually dropped from the legal action after they voluntarily chose to block access to Napster. Metallica and Dre's latest Napster-related move comes less than two weeks after a report issued by the Gartner Group concluded that more schools were choosing to block access to Napster via their campus servers. King told MTV News that the letters were sent to schools that had been listed in the Gartner report as not having restricted access to Napster. JUSTICE DEPT, MPAA JOIN NAPSTER BATTLE 09.11.00 From Sonicnet: "The U.S. Justice Department, the U.S. Copyright Office and the Motion Picture Association of America lent their support to the music industry's copyright infringement lawsuit against Napster on Friday, filing briefs that argue that the file-trading service should be shut down. The groups filed "friend of the court" briefs with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is weighing whether to uphold U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel's injunction against Napster. The company has said the injunction would force it to shut down its service. "It is wrong to build a business that relies on the theft of copyrighted materials, and we oppose Napster's business model for doing just that,'' Jack Valenti, president and chief executive officer of the Motion Picture Association of America, said in a written statement. The MPAA's brief was co-signed by 19 other groups, including the Songwriters Guild of America and the American Federation of Musicians. "We call on the court to recognize that America's creative communities must be able to protect their artistic works against theft," Valenti added. Read the whole article by clicking here. ANOTHER COVER 09.10.00 Look for the Ataris to cover Metallica's Harvester of Sorrow on Punk Goes Metal from Fearless Records. Thanks to Matt. VMA UPDATE - SHUT OUT! 09.07.00 Metallica's nominated for 5 awards... Updates as they happen... UPDATE 1: Napster creator Shawn Fanning appeared this years MTV Video Music Awards to introduce Britney Spears. The catch? Shawn was wearing a Metallica t-shirt. UPDATE 2: Metallica lost Best Video From A Film to Aaliyah's 'Try Again.' UPDATE 3: "Sharing's only fun when it's not your stuff!" - Lars appeared in a skit with Marlon Wayans. Wayans appeared as a college student, using Napster. Lars makes an appearance in his dorm room, Wayans does the "ohmygosh it's Lars" bit. Lars explains Napster is "stealing", Wayans says it's "sharing." Lars proceeds to make his point by slapping Napster stickers on various items, and "sharing" them for himself... including Marlon's girlfriend (and ten years worth of groupies). UPDATE 4: Metallica lost Best Rock Video to Limp Bizkit's 'Break Stuff.' UPDATE 5: Lars strutted out to wrap up the show to announce the closing performance by Blink 182. Although there were organized attempts to have Lars greeted by a chorus of booing, the crowd was generally positive. UPDATE 6: Metallica lost in all 5 categories they were nominated for. Best Cinematography In A Video when to Macy Gray, Best Editing In A Video went to Aimee Mann and Best Special Effects In A Video went to Bjork. 100 GREATEST ARTISTS OF HARD ROCK 09.05.00 VH1 is working on a 5 hour show about the 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. The show will be broken down into five one hour shows that will air from Monday, November 13 through Friday November 17. The artists were voted on by other hard rock musicians, critics and others "in the know" about hard rock music. Be sure to watch to see where Metallica ends up (#1 we hope)! 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