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Northwestblonde
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09-01-2005

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As long as Marty or Mig wins it, I'll continue to listen to INXS...if JD takes it I doubt I'll be another CD of theirs ever again. I get the creepy crawlies everytime I look at JD...yeeeeshh.

Serenity
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06-28-2005

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I get the creepy crawlies watching Marty at times. He seems a little possessed when singing some songs.

GO JD !!!

The_beav
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08-07-2005

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Was there no Sunday night show this week. I don't get it, but enjoy all the feedback.

Landi
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07-29-2002

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the sunday show was great! it's on VH1 now. they do repeat it, so you should check it out. and i agree, marty gives me the creeps too.

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Monday, September 19, 2005 - 6:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
Beav, I was going to try to recap it for you, but I know I would miss a lot of it, so I'm posting the msn recap link for you: Rockstar.msn.com/recaps

Not in the msn recap:
At the end of the show, it showed the guys moving out of the mansion. They stopped at the pool and reflected upon their whole experience. We had seen JD earlier, practicing You Can't Always Get What You Want with his guitar. During the final scene and fadeout, JD's practice was being played in the background for us. I had to wonder if this was a big clue for us as to the final outcome. They threw a bunch of chairs in the pool, and Mig commented that it wouldn't have been a real rock star party if they hadn't trashed something.

I thought it was funny when the three guys were sizing up the competition that Mig and Marty consider each other their major threat, while JD thinks the other two are going in with the wrong strategy. They were all very excited to be able to pick from all the songs performed in the series!

Kc103
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07-13-2004

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Can't say as though I like JD like many of you do, but I do think INXS will pick him. Mak1, I wondered the same thing about JD kind of closing the last Sunday night ep with his singing. Perhaps summing it up with OB's final pick.

I'll be thinking good thoughts for Marty...even though my full attention will be on Bono and the boys tomorrow night! Just set my vcr before bed now, so it's all ready to go. I don't want to miss the finales of BB and RockStar!

P.S. One more time....GO MARTY!!!

Mauigirl
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07-08-2005

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I just gotta say "I love JD!!!!" He is soooo addictive to watch and listen to! I really think (and hope) he is gonna win. He definently has the IT factor and is an amazing talent. I just don't understand why everyone else doesn't see it. Maybe it has to do with the manipulative editing of reality tv? Guess we will find out if he is "roit for our band: INXS" tomorrow. Regardless, I will be following him no matter what!


The_beav
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08-07-2005

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Thanks Mak. I am always more interested on how people perceive the show then what the offical recaps. It is the suble things and how you interpret editing that works for me so I enjoyed your feedback. I don't get VH1 or CH so can never see the mansion show.

Jan
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08-01-2000

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This is a very long article but, since the site is Subscription to read, I am going to copy it in it's entirety. If it is too long, just let me know and I will cut it back.

it's from Toronto Star

INXS race at the wire
Nova Scotian one of three bidding to join Aussie band
He's been missing our beer, smokes — and Tim's coffee

MALENE ARPE
TORONTO STAR

LOS ANGELES—Tonight is the night for Rock Star: INXS, the reality show's grand windup when we learn which of the three singers left standing will get the precious nomination as the Australian band's new vocalist.

For Marty, MiG and J.D., the ticking clock to the denouement began a whole new phase last Friday, when the survivors packed up and prepared to leave the mansion. Next stop was to be a hotel, for sequestering from each other and the world at large until the run-up to tonight's telecast.

Three months ago, they and 12 other contestants had moved into the mansion and began a long process of auditions and self-revelations in individual bids to persuade the existing members of INXS that they had the right stuff to front the band.

It's mid-afternoon on Friday and J.D. — the sole Canadian in the running after Suzie was let go — is giving me the grand tour of the mansion before everyone departs. He's so damned pretty it's hard to know whether to look at the INXS gold records and the elaborate draperies or at him.

"Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, they were all here," the native Nova Scotian says and makes a sweeping gesture around the grand hall. Then he pours a couple of beers from the tap. "It's Foster's this week, I think. They've served us Busch Light," he says and makes a face. "Just give me a couple of cases of Keith's and I'd be happy."

He would also like a Tim Hortons coffee ("like you wouldn't believe") and whooped when I gave him a Player's Light. This boy who wants to be at the mic for INXS is a bit homesick and, for a couple more hours, stuck in a haunted house.

The 16,000-square-foot mansion in L.A.'s Silver Lake district sits on two hectares of gorgeousness with a breathtaking view that includes the Hollywood sign far off in the distance. Completed in 1923 by oil heiress Daisy Canfield, who'd left her husband for movie star Antonio Moreno, it was a mover-and-shaker kinda joint until all was lost in the Depression and it became a school for girls, then an orphanage and finally a nunnery. In 1998 the estate was saved from the bulldozer by the current owner, the designer Dana Hollister, who spends the rental fee from Rock Star on the upkeep.

J.D. thinks he may have encountered a dead nun last night.

"Three consecutive nights I had the same dream, and then last night at 4 in the morning I was walking down the hallway and I heard this voice `Jaaason ...' Like right in my ear. I'm not kidding. I had to get out of the house and go outside for about 15 or 20 minutes.

"It could be some of the nuns or the old stars who used to party here. It definitely feels like they have a sense of humour. But maybe some of the nuns don't approve of what's been going on here for the past months."

MiG joins us in the "gold room" and says when the crew came in to doll up the house for Rock Star purposes, the doorknob to the room was ice cold and when they got it open, the room was, too. No mean feat in all this relentless sunshine.

Next we meet Marty, who says he has loved staying at the house, even if it is full of nooks and crannies and strange winding stairs. ("Let me hold your hand while we go down these," says J.D. and I feel a swoon coming on.)

"It's been the greatest summer of my life," Marty says. "This is like getting your own private resort with all the fixings. The best thing is, you're surrounded by creative arts for three months. We talk of music 24/7, we write songs, we play with the phenomenal house band. It's all music ... It will be weird to go out in the real world."

The mansion contestants have been kept away from cellphones, newspapers, television and Internet access, gilded-cage style. Says J.D.: "It's weird. It reminds me of being in the military a little bit. We're on a need-to-know basis here, and most of the time they don't think we need to know."

As a result, the trio has no real sense of what the outside world thinks of the show. For their blogs on the official website, they had to submit postings in longhand. Without all that outside reality, they've had time to think about Plan B, should someone else win tonight.

"The whole world has changed as far as the recording industry goes," MiG says. "You can't just walk into a record company office with a demo tape. But if you have a bit of a profile, maybe they'll listen to you. This has made a creative profile for all of us ... I will go back to London. It's where my wife is, it's where my band is, but I will stick around in L.A. for a bit, just to see what doors might open."

The show's production team has been set up in the old stable, watching the more-than 30 static cameras and the six moveable ones. A sign on the door warns that the site is off-limits to the rockers, and signs inside remind the crew that there's no seventh day pay without prior approval and to stay "the F out" of the monitor room unless you're a producer.

One of them, David Goffin, has been working on the show for 15 months. Now that it's coming down to the wire, he seems calm enough.

"I was just talking to Marty about how whoever wins, the press is going to have questions about their legitimacy. But what this show is, it's a really difficult audition, more difficult than any singer in any band has probably ever been through. So don't say, `These guys didn't pay their dues,' because they just did."

Goffin is considering taking the show on the road, having the house band tour with all or some of the candidate singers. He asks me if there's an 8,000- or 9,000-seat venue in Toronto that would be suitable.

Turns out Canadian viewers weren't the only ones sad to see Suzie eliminated.

"Suzie was one of the hardest to see go," Marty says, "because she was such a phenomenal female presence ... It's hard to act like a rock star when there are no women in the house. She's such a big personality that 75 per cent of the fun left the house when she left."

As the crew starts crating up to move out, Marty tries to put into words what tonight will mean.

"Everything I've learned about music in the past 15 years will have to be delivered through one song. If you want an epic moment in the history of my life, this is the pinnacle. This performance will influence the rest of my life. So it's pretty heavy."

J.D. has his clothes folded on his bed, ready for the transfer to the hotel. He's taking a last look around the mansion that's been an odd kinda home for the past 12 weeks. And what does the guy from New Glasgow think about the possibility of winning?

"I will be going to Australia if I win, but I will be taking the Canadian flag with me."

NXS race at the wire
Nova Scotian one of three bidding to join Aussie band
He's been missing our beer, smokes — and Tim's coffee

MALENE ARPE
TORONTO STAR

LOS ANGELES—Tonight is the night for Rock Star: INXS, the reality show's grand windup when we learn which of the three singers left standing will get the precious nomination as the Australian band's new vocalist.

For Marty, MiG and J.D., the ticking clock to the denouement began a whole new phase last Friday, when the survivors packed up and prepared to leave the mansion. Next stop was to be a hotel, for sequestering from each other and the world at large until the run-up to tonight's telecast.

Three months ago, they and 12 other contestants had moved into the mansion and began a long process of auditions and self-revelations in individual bids to persuade the existing members of INXS that they had the right stuff to front the band.

It's mid-afternoon on Friday and J.D. — the sole Canadian in the running after Suzie was let go — is giving me the grand tour of the mansion before everyone departs. He's so damned pretty it's hard to know whether to look at the INXS gold records and the elaborate draperies or at him.

"Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, they were all here," the native Nova Scotian says and makes a sweeping gesture around the grand hall. Then he pours a couple of beers from the tap. "It's Foster's this week, I think. They've served us Busch Light," he says and makes a face. "Just give me a couple of cases of Keith's and I'd be happy."

He would also like a Tim Hortons coffee ("like you wouldn't believe") and whooped when I gave him a Player's Light. This boy who wants to be at the mic for INXS is a bit homesick and, for a couple more hours, stuck in a haunted house.

The 16,000-square-foot mansion in L.A.'s Silver Lake district sits on two hectares of gorgeousness with a breathtaking view that includes the Hollywood sign far off in the distance. Completed in 1923 by oil heiress Daisy Canfield, who'd left her husband for movie star Antonio Moreno, it was a mover-and-shaker kinda joint until all was lost in the Depression and it became a school for girls, then an orphanage and finally a nunnery. In 1998 the estate was saved from the bulldozer by the current owner, the designer Dana Hollister, who spends the rental fee from Rock Star on the upkeep.

J.D. thinks he may have encountered a dead nun last night.

"Three consecutive nights I had the same dream, and then last night at 4 in the morning I was walking down the hallway and I heard this voice `Jaaason ...' Like right in my ear. I'm not kidding. I had to get out of the house and go outside for about 15 or 20 minutes.

"It could be some of the nuns or the old stars who used to party here. It definitely feels like they have a sense of humour. But maybe some of the nuns don't approve of what's been going on here for the past months."

MiG joins us in the "gold room" and says when the crew came in to doll up the house for Rock Star purposes, the doorknob to the room was ice cold and when they got it open, the room was, too. No mean feat in all this relentless sunshine.

Next we meet Marty, who says he has loved staying at the house, even if it is full of nooks and crannies and strange winding stairs. ("Let me hold your hand while we go down these," says J.D. and I feel a swoon coming on.)

"It's been the greatest summer of my life," Marty says. "This is like getting your own private resort with all the fixings. The best thing is, you're surrounded by creative arts for three months. We talk of music 24/7, we write songs, we play with the phenomenal house band. It's all music ... It will be weird to go out in the real world."

The mansion contestants have been kept away from cellphones, newspapers, television and Internet access, gilded-cage style. Says J.D.: "It's weird. It reminds me of being in the military a little bit. We're on a need-to-know basis here, and most of the time they don't think we need to know."

As a result, the trio has no real sense of what the outside world thinks of the show. For their blogs on the official website, they had to submit postings in longhand. Without all that outside reality, they've had time to think about Plan B, should someone else win tonight.

"The whole world has changed as far as the recording industry goes," MiG says. "You can't just walk into a record company office with a demo tape. But if you have a bit of a profile, maybe they'll listen to you. This has made a creative profile for all of us ... I will go back to London. It's where my wife is, it's where my band is, but I will stick around in L.A. for a bit, just to see what doors might open."

The show's production team has been set up in the old stable, watching the more-than 30 static cameras and the six moveable ones. A sign on the door warns that the site is off-limits to the rockers, and signs inside remind the crew that there's no seventh day pay without prior approval and to stay "the F out" of the monitor room unless you're a producer.

One of them, David Goffin, has been working on the show for 15 months. Now that it's coming down to the wire, he seems calm enough.

"I was just talking to Marty about how whoever wins, the press is going to have questions about their legitimacy. But what this show is, it's a really difficult audition, more difficult than any singer in any band has probably ever been through. So don't say, `These guys didn't pay their dues,' because they just did."

Goffin is considering taking the show on the road, having the house band tour with all or some of the candidate singers. He asks me if there's an 8,000- or 9,000-seat venue in Toronto that would be suitable.

Turns out Canadian viewers weren't the only ones sad to see Suzie eliminated.

"Suzie was one of the hardest to see go," Marty says, "because she was such a phenomenal female presence ... It's hard to act like a rock star when there are no women in the house. She's such a big personality that 75 per cent of the fun left the house when she left."

As the crew starts crating up to move out, Marty tries to put into words what tonight will mean.

"Everything I've learned about music in the past 15 years will have to be delivered through one song. If you want an epic moment in the history of my life, this is the pinnacle. This performance will influence the rest of my life. So it's pretty heavy."

J.D. has his clothes folded on his bed, ready for the transfer to the hotel. He's taking a last look around the mansion that's been an odd kinda home for the past 12 weeks. And what does the guy from New Glasgow think about the possibility of winning?

"I will be going to Australia if I win, but I will be taking the Canadian flag with me."

Jasper
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09-14-2000

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 6:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jasper a private message Print Post    
jmo but I do think Andrew's opinion will be the dealmaker for who goes on to be the new singer of OB as that person will have such a close working relationship with him. He has never seemed overly fond of JD but I'm hoping last nights clinic may have opened his eyes up to his potential. I would be really surpirsed if mIg made it and think his song choice is a bad one (Marty just smiled and nodded saying it's your choice, probably thinking it's your funeral in is head) I thought it was surprising that both Maarty and Mig seem to discount JD and are more worried about each other.

Go JD! I hope he wins.

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 6:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
You're welcome, Beav. It's too bad the mansion shows were moved to a station you don't get. I always like to hear what the TVCH viewers are thinking about the editing too.

It was a very good show this week. Especially interesting to me was watching each of the guys working with Andrew Farriss.

You know, Kc, thinking of the title of the song JD was singing, it could be telling us that JD isn't going to get what he wants. hmmmm....I used to think MiG had it locked up but now feel certain it's between JD and Marty. Oh well, we'll know soon!

Jan
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08-01-2000

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 8:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
Beav, are you on cable in Ontario?? I know, thanks to Tweety's posts, that I actually do get the show ( I didn't think I did either) and in fact, I get it on four different channels. I am on Persona cable and I know Rogers has it. What cable, if any, are you on?

Ch (Hamilton) carries it Monday night at 9:30

NTV carries it at 6Pm today (Tuesday) (east coast feed from Newfoundland)

Prime East coast carries it the following Sunday at 5PM (the full two and a half hours is shown)

West Coast Prime carries the full 2.5 hours as well starting at 8PM.

Do you get any of these channels?

Marty_fan
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09-20-2005

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 9:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marty_fan a private message Print Post    
Attention Marty fans- TVGUIDE.com has an important poll today re: who INXS should choose! JD has been ahead sometimes by a small percentage some times (like at the moment by a lot). Let's not let Marty down and keep voting for him!!!! JD fans may want to think about his attitude. Do people really change that quickly or at all?

Rabbit
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08-12-2001

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 10:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rabbit a private message Print Post    
Welcome Marty_Fan.

I won't vote because I like both Marty and JD, but I think with your last two sentences you may have motivated the JD fans on the board to vote more than you did the Marty fans.


Landi
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07-29-2002

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 10:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
thank you bunnyboy! this JD fan went and voted!

Marty_fan
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09-20-2005

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 11:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marty_fan a private message Print Post    
I mean no offense to any JD fans it is everyone's right to choose who they want. Just bringing up the question. In the end as we all know it is the band's decision as it should be. Personal opinion- I think Marty is right for INXS. I think the TVGUIDE poll is interesting in its' fluctuation. In the last hour Mig has picked up more than anyone.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 11:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Voted for Marty. They are evenly neck and neck now.

Kc103
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07-13-2004

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 2:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kc103 a private message Print Post    
Jan, thanks for posting the article. Marty_fan, thanks for the link to vote. Voted for Marty! Off to see U2 now. :-) Uno, dos, tres...catorce...

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 6:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beachcomber a private message Print Post    
Miggy had a hair cut and is doing a great job with Bohemian Rhapsody.

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 6:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beachcomber a private message Print Post    
I think that is Mig's best performance of the season.

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 6:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beachcomber a private message Print Post    
JD did a good job with You Can't Always Get What You Want. He is a performer.

Marty's performance on Wish You Here is about the same as last time, nothing new.

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 6:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beachcomber a private message Print Post    
OB INXS is deliberating and one will be eliminated after the commercial then the final 2 will sing songs with INXS.

Anybody out there? Should I spoil?

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 6:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beachcomber a private message Print Post    
Elimination
.
.
.
.

Mig is not right for Our Band INXS.

Sammyod
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08-18-2005

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 6:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sammyod a private message Print Post    
I think JD is definitely going to win now. I hope I don't offend anyone but Mig was just not masculine enough

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

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Mig gave a very gracious speech and is a beautiful kind person. His voice was a little thin compared to Marty and JD, but I am sure he is awesome in the theater based on his Bohemian Rhapsody performance - he had exactly the right pitch and tone for the song.