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“There are actual segments of this show where you cannot feel any oxygen because it is all in people’s lungs.  There are periods when we are on stage where if feels like a hairdryer, people are screaming and giving you the energy back so much.  There are times in this show where I look around and there is hardly anybody in a seat, they are on the floor laughing.” – Jim Rose, on the audience’s reaction so far to the When Legends Collide Tour.

The legendary Jim Rose has done it once again, this time taking his freak show to the stage and incorporating the legendary and understated, yet controversial Jake “The Snake” Roberts into his theater.  Traveling across the globe with high profile wrestlers, attractive females, and an unusually talented ensemble, Jim Rose continues to make audiences cringe with his latest, When Legends Collide Tour.  According to Jim, this is the best tour yet.  “We’ve got pretty girls, wrestling, amazing circus stunts, and a fistfight.  I mean, who can ask for more? If that isn’t testosterone fueled, I don’t know what is.”

ChinaShop caught up with Jim Rose on a much-needed day off in between shows, as he filled us in on what people can expect from his latest project.  In addition, Jim was accommodating enough to wake Jake “The Snake” Roberts abruptly from his sleep to break us off a little piece of his troubled past and to explain why he really considers this tour to be the launch of his mighty comeback in the eyes of the media.

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Not often does a band with almost 20 years of history and a well established presence take such a long break in between recordings, but that was very much the story for Chicago based Tortoise.  Although they have toured here and there, the band just recently release their first album in five years this past June 23.  Beacons of Ancestorship is the band’s sixth official full-length album and has been long awaited by fans and music industry affiliates.

Tortoise, formed in 1990, has thoroughly confused the world with their almost impossible to categorize and exceptionally unique sound.  According to member, Dan Bitney, it can be hard for the band to even classify themselves.  Attempts at stamping a genre on their music aside, it is pretty unanimous that Tortoise is one of today’s more innovative and musically revolutionalizing projects.  With the launch of a new album and the power of the press on their side, the band is out on the road, performing songs off the new disc across the United States and overseas.

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You might as well get used to the odd name, because you’re going to be hearing a lot about Portugal. The Man very soon.  They’ve played more than 1000 gigs, some of them at high-profile festivals, over the past four years. The press loves them. And their new album, The Satanic Satanist, their fourth in as many years, may well be a defining sound of summer 2009.

When not in the studio, the band spends most of their time crammed up in a van, moving from town to town. But while the road has broken many bands, John Baldwin Gourley, who plays guitar and sings (winning Alternative Press’s Best Vocalist award in 2009), ain’t complaining. “Once you get used to the restrictions of space and of having less around you, living in a van is “not so far out there “

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But the van is not home. Nor20is Portland, where he lives when not on tour. For Gourley, home was, is and always will be Alaska, where his parents fled to from the east in the 1970s in search of a better life and where he grew up.

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