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Soundtracks That Time Forgot: RAD

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(Nicholas Dye/Staff Writer)

Picture this: it’s 1986 and it’s the decade of badass training montage movie music. We’ve had Rocky 1-4, The Karate Kid, Rambo, Commando, Conan the Barbarian, and the list goes on. Suddenly, this movie about a small town BMX prodigy hits. Skeptical? So were many movie goers but then that opening sequence hits and the song “Break the Ice” by some dude named John Farnham hits and you’re suddenly ready to grab your GT Dyno and hit a bus driver or a sick nac-nac… Next thing you know there’s a playful game of tag with a motorcycle cop in a lumber mill to the tune of Get Strange by Hubert Kah, a BMX dance showcase (yep you read that right) to Send Me An Angel by Real Life and a love ballad called With You , again by John Farnham. But it’s Farnham hitting the badass hat-trick with the absolute banger, Thunder In Your Heart that will leave you believing you too can walk Helltrack and send Bart Taylor (the Mongoose bad guy poster boy) into a dirt filled endo. Seriously folks, the RAD soundtrack was a sleeper hit you should check out. It was released July 1st, 1986 on Curb Records and can be found on CD, cassette, and most currently, vinyl.

Rocker Scott Weiland dies at 48.

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(Nicholas Dye/Staff Writer)

Legendary rock star Scott Weiland passed away late Thursday night in his sleep in Bloomington, Minnesota. An official Instagram account confirmed Weiland’s death by saying; “Scott Weiland, best known as the lead singer for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, passed away in his sleep while on a tour stop in Bloomington, Minnesota, with his band The Wildabouts. At this time, we ask the privacy of Scott’s family be respected.” 

Weiland stormed onto the grunge-metal scene in 1992 with Stone Temple Pilots and their first albums, Core and Purple following in 1994. In 2001-02, Weiland became part of the supergroup Velvet Revolver along with Guns n Roses alumni Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum. They went on to win Best Rock Performance at the 2005 Grammy Awards. With Weiland’s very public battles with addiction, many will speculate as to the cause of his death. For myself, I think I will put on my favorite Stone Temple Pilots song, have a beer, and remember the music of Scott Weiland and how it was a huge part of the soundtrack of my youth. Rest well Scott and thanks.