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- Travis Barker Remembers DJ AM Via Twitter
- DJ AM Remembered By Khaled, Premier, Other DJs
- DJ AM Autopsy Complete, Results Inconclusive
- Mandy Moore 'Heartbroken' By DJ AM's Death
- DJ AM Reportedly Was Distraught Over Breakup
- Pearl Jam, Incubus, Silversun Pickups Dominate First Day Of Outside Lands Festival
- DJ AM Fans Pay Tribute
- DJ AM Remembered By Palms In Las Vegas
| Travis Barker Remembers DJ AM Via Twitter Posted: 29 Aug 2009 05:30 AM PDT 'U were an amazing friend/DJ/human being,' Barker tweets on Saturday.
Just over 24 hours after DJ AM was found dead by police at his New York apartment, his friend and collaborator, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, commented on his death via Twitter. Barker, currently on tour with Blink, issued a series of tweets that read:
"Don't know how i am gonna play 2night but i am for AM. My brother is gone.i love u and miss u, i'll never forget all the good times we had. ... "I'll never forget everything we've been thru and every time i play the drums i'll think of you. U were an amazing friend/DJ/human being. ... "Rest In Peace my brother, this really f---s me up." The pair, of course, performed together as TRV$DJAM in an unusual but highly effective DJ/drummer format, and were the house band at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards, performing with Katy Perry, LL Cool J and Lupe Fiasco. Just weeks later, the two were the sole survivors of a fiery plane crash in South Carolina that killed four; Barker and AM (real name: Adam Goldstein) were returning to Los Angeles after a show. Both were seriously injured in the crash but recovered, and made their first post-accident performance at the Lot in Los Angeles this past New Year's Eve. In 2005, the pair told MTV News how they first got together. "Travis actually hit me up ... and was like, 'I dig what you do, I saw this drummer with a DJ [performing], and let's get down and try it out and try to make something funky;' " AM said. "It's crazy, I saw [that performance] in a jazz club, [it was] like, mellow playing hip-hop stuff with a DJ," Barker recalled. "And I said, 'I'm gonna find the best DJ and do this right.' " Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists |
| DJ AM Remembered By Khaled, Premier, Other DJs Posted: 29 Aug 2009 02:38 AM PDT 'Everyone has love for DJ AM. ... He made other DJs proud!' DJ Khaled told MTV News.
There's no sector in hip-hop that was hit harder by the death of Adam Goldstein, better known as and DJ AM, than his fellow turntable generals. The DJ community is heartbroken about the loss of one their most talented and popular comrades. Producer Jermaine Dupri was too grief-stricken to comment, while DJ Jazzy Jeff expressed his sorrow on Twitter. "Words cannot express the hurt I'm feeling right now," Jeff wrote about his fellow Philadelphia native. "I'm still waiting for this to be a terrible joke."
"I almost crashed my car when I heard that he was found dead," DJ Whoo Kid remembered on Saturday (August 29). "My homey was a legend!" "It's sad, we lost an amazing DJ," DJ Khaled told MTV News. "Everyone has love for DJ AM. ... He made other DJs proud! DJ AM we will miss you. R.I.P. Every DJ will keep your name alive!" "Adam lived life to the fullest," the DJ's good friend DJ Irie said. "Anything he set his mind to, he not only accomplished but conquered. His stamp on the music industry will endure through time. DJs across the world will make sure his legacy lives on." Clinton Sparks commented, "He was an original, an innovator and his influence will forever live on in our culture. Whether they know it or not, all DJs have been influenced by him. Thank you DJ AM." "We are extremely saddened about the loss of DJ AM," Play N Skillz said in a joint statement. "He was a great person who cared and loved for everyone around him and his spirit will live on through the many people he touched. We started out as DJs and DJ AM has always been an inspiration to us, his dynamic ear for music made him legendary in the industry and he will be greatly missed." Almost every DJ you ask about AM will not just remark on his success and kindness as a person but on his undeniable skill. He possessed a tremendous instinct for song selection, and no one can deny the skill he had on turntables. He and Travis Barker would have live shows where they would remix songs right there on the spot. "AM not only helped take DJing to a new frontier as the first true mainstream celebrity DJ, he opened the doors for me and many others by taking DJing as a culture, business, and lifestyle to the next level," DJ Skee said. "I send my deepest thoughts and condolences to his family."
"It's a sad day. DJ AM was a great person and a great turntablist. He took DJing to another level by playing outside the box," DJ Envy concurred. "He will always be missed and remembered." "This is crazy," ATL-based OG Greg Street told MTV News. "I was just asking for people on Twitter to have him hit me about three or four days ago. The real crazy part is he just survived a plane crash and now this. A lot of people don't understand the stress that others deal with day to day." DJ Premier said he'd known AM for over 14 years and spoke about their relationship on his radio show last night. "I met him when he was 14 years old at a Cypress Hill, House of Pain, Hooligans show. He was with Alchemist and Scott Caan, James Caan's son ... and we took pictures. The other day, he sent me the pictures, and I'm gonna make a T-shirt of that. "I already heard people are trying to hate like he wasn't important, like he wasn't a dope DJ," Primo added. "Let me tell you something: He is the f---in' sh--. This dude's a f---in' maniac on turntables, for real. You have to experience this dude's tactics on turntables — he's sick with it. And if I cosign it, f--- any DJ who disagrees. You either haven't seen him spin ... and this dude's history, his knowledge of music, was intense." DJ Stretch Armstrong, a longtime friend of AM's, told MTV News: "I was trying to think of an analogy in music to AM and the only group I could really think of is the Beatles. Everything the Beatles did, they knocked down a door. Every year there was something new, whether it was what they were recording or the technology and techniques they were employing. And it's kind of like that with AM. He knocked down and opened so many doors that had never even been knocked on by DJs. These doors might be open but there's no one that can walk in them right now, and who knows if there will be? He was a singular talent in that way." And DJ Drama told MTV News on Friday, "Knowing AM and watching him and seeing the heights that he's reached the last couple years has been great. One, because he's a DJ. And when the incident [plane crash] happened last year, every time I saw him afterward, he was just a real good dude. He accomplished a lot, man. The hip-hop world lost a good one. DJs, we really lost great one." Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists |
| DJ AM Autopsy Complete, Results Inconclusive Posted: 29 Aug 2009 01:15 AM PDT More tests are required, results are not expected for several weeks.
Less than 24 hours after police found DJ AM (real name: Adam Goldstein) dead in his New York apartment, the Medical Examiner's office announced that an autopsy on the DJ's body failed to determine a cause of death. "The cause of death was inconclusive because we need to do additional testing," New York City Medical Examiner spokesperson Ellen Borakove told People.com on Saturday (August 29). "The testing would include toxicology and tissue testing. We don't expect any results for several weeks."
Borakove declined to comment further on the case. "It's under investigation and when the investigation is complete we will have a cause of death and a manner of death," she said, adding that office is investigating the death in cooperation with the New York City Police Department. Reps for the office had not responded to MTV News' requests for comment at press time. Citing anonymous police and other sources, many media reports claim that Goldstein was found with prescription medication bottles and/ or drug-smoking paraphernalia near his body. AM had a history of drug abuse but recently said he had been clean for 11 years. Before his death, Goldstein had filmed a substance-abuse intervention show with MTV called "Gone Too Far" that aimed to warn young people about the perils of drug abuse. The show was scheduled to premiere in October.
Goldstein had openly discussed his former heavy drug and alcohol use in his last interview with MTV News a month ago. He was said to be distraught over a recent break-up with American Apparel model Hayley Wood. TMZ reported that a woman believe to be Wood was seen at AM's apartment on Friday night and appeared "visibly shaken" as she ran from the building to a waiting taxi. Goldstein's death came near a year after he and frequent musical partner Travis Barker of Blink-182 survived a fiery Learjet crash in South Carolina that killed the other four people on board. A hugely popular celebrity DJ, AM was honored on Friday night at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, where a moment of silence was observed at the Rain nightclub where he had a weekly gig, as well as on Twitter by a number of friends such as Katy Perry, Lindsay Lohan, Perez Hilton and Ryan Seacrest. MTV News' Sway Calloway also paid tribute to AM, calling the mixmaster someone who was "really respected, somebody who revolutionized music culture." Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists |
| Mandy Moore 'Heartbroken' By DJ AM's Death Posted: 29 Aug 2009 03:06 AM PDT Ex-girlfriend says her 'true friend' will be 'missed beyond words.'
One of DJ AM's former girlfriends, singer/actress Mandy Moore, expressed her grief on Saturday (August 29) about a man she said was a true friend. "I am absolutely heartbroken," Moore said in a statement about the DJ, born Adam Goldstein, who was found dead in his Soho apartment in New York on Friday at the age of 36. "For those of us lucky enough to have known him, Adam radiated a contagious exuberance for life and also personified the very definition of a true friend. To say that he will be missed beyond words is an understatement. My heart goes out to his loved ones."
Moore, who married singer/songwriter Ryan Adams in March, flew to AM's side last year when he was badly burned in a plane crash in South Carolina that took the lives of four others. Though the two dated for two months in 2007, they reportedly remained close and, according to Us Weekly, rekindled their romance for a brief period following the accident, in which AM's frequent musical partner, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, also suffered serious burns. AM also dated reality-TV star Nicole Richie for several years beginning in 2004, but the couple's on-again, off-again relationship ended a months after they announced their engagement in February 2005. Richie has not yet commented on AM's death, possibly because she is due to give birth to her second child with Joel Madden. A spokesperson for Richie could not be reached for comment at press time. Richie's onetime best friend, Paris Hilton, tweeted about AM's death, recalling their long friendship. "Adam and I were friends since I was 15," Hilton said. "He had a heart of gold and was one of the kindest, funniest and most talented men I have ever met. ... It's so hard to accept that I'm not going to be able to see him or talk to him again. There are no right words for this, I feel so sad." The New York City Medical Examiner's office announced on Saturday that autopsy results on AM were inconclusive and further toxicology tests will be needed. AM was reportedly found face-down on the mattress of his bad in just his sweatpants, with bottles of prescription pills and a glass pipe near his body, when police broke into his apartment on Friday evening at the behest of concerned friends. Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists |
| DJ AM Reportedly Was Distraught Over Breakup Posted: 29 Aug 2009 09:33 AM PDT Actress Hayley Wood broke up with AM a few days ago, sources say.
In the days before his death on Friday, DJ AM was "completely devastated" over his recent breakup with model Hayley Wood, according to anonymous sources quoted in TMZ and People.com. The sites reported that Wood called off the relationship several days ago.
"She ended it, and he didn't want it to end," a source reportedly told People. "The breakup hurt him. He hadn't been in a good place lately. For the past week, he wasn't really around, he was keeping to himself, and he was blowing people off." Meanwhile, TMZ reported that a woman believed to be Wood was at AM's New York apartment on Friday night. The woman was described as "visibly shaken" as she ran from the apartment to a taxi with a friend by her side.
TMZ quotes an unidentified source as saying that since he and Travis Barker survived a fiery plane crash that killed four last year, AM had been suffering from stress that was only made worse by his recent split from Wood. The source speculated that the stress could have led AM to start using drugs again after being sober for nearly a decade, although AM's cause of death has not yet been confirmed. "I can't believe the drug stories. AM didn't even touch alcohol. He wasn't a party guy. It's hard to believe," DJ Scotty Boy, who claimed to have known AM for a decade and said he worked with him in Las Vegas last week, told People.com. "The [2008] plane accident made AM very humble. He cared more about life and his friends. It was hard enough when we heard about the accident and now to hear this, it hasn't really hit yet. It's kind of unbelievable." Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists |
| Pearl Jam, Incubus, Silversun Pickups Dominate First Day Of Outside Lands Festival Posted: 29 Aug 2009 08:41 AM PDT And the next best set came from ... Tom Jones?
SAN FRANCISCO — Though the opening day of the second annual Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park was full of young bands trying to make their mark, the day's music was dominated by a handful of wily veterans lead by headliners and soon-to-be-considered-classic rockers Pearl Jam.
The seminal grunge outfit — about to release their ninth studio album, Backspacer — turned in a two-hour set full of hits, passion and none of the power outages that marred Radiohead's set at the same time and place last year. Eddie Vedder mentioned early on that the band's current tour, which wrapped with this show, had taken a toll on him and his voice, but his fans were more than happy to help out on favorites like "Black" and "Better Man." Mike McCready's no-look, over-the-head solo during "Even Flow" proved that these guys could play these songs in their sleep, but the band seemed genuinely excited to be out there (especially the pogoing McCready), and they reserved a special energy for new tracks like "The Fixer." Pearl Jam began to close their set with "Alive" before coming back with a Neil Young double-shot of "Throw Your Hatred Down" and "Rockin' in the Free World." Just in case anyone needed proof of Pearl Jam's influence on alternative rock, Incubus played right before them and showed off why it just put out a hits disc, getting the crowd riled up with songs like "Megalomaniac" and "Stellar." Like Vedder, Incubus singer Brandon Boyd attributed his vocal weakness to a combination of fatigue (they were also ending their tour at Outside Lands) and a cold, but his decision to take his friends' advice to drink wine seemed like a good one. Still, even Pearl Jam didn't get as many onstage shout-outs as Built to Spill. Vedder himself thanked the band by name and Silversun Pickups frontman Brian Aubert twice referred to them as "one of the best f---ing bands ever." Unfortunately, neither of those compliments made up for the fact that Doug Martsch and Company's set just wasn't loud enough. With three guitarists in tow — and Martsch being one of the noisier guitar heroes on the scene — one would have hoped that a festival setting would help make Built to Spill's songs larger than life. Instead, "Car," "You Were Right," and "Big Dipper" remained little more than nice pop songs. The volume didn't stay low for long, though. Perhaps the only indie-rock group with enough volume to open for Metallica (which it did at this year's South By Southwest festival), Silversun Pickups brought bucketfuls of sweet distortion to its mid-afternoon set. Singer Brian Aubert tends to know exactly when to let loose for added effect, while bassist Nikki Monninger — whose purple dress matched Christopher Guanlao's drums — does a good job of shooting the crowd coy smiles to remind everyone that even as they're laying out "Future Foe Scenarios," they're here to have a good time. Not surprisingly, the band ended its set with their big hit "Lazy Eye," but it was "There's No Secrets This Year" from this year's Swoon that perfectly displayed their delicate balancing act between anthemic pop and scuzzy shoegaze grooves. But the grooviest — and perhaps most surprising — tunes on Friday came from old-school sex-bomb Tom Jones, who turned in a unique hour of hits and shoulder shakes. The 69-year-old silver fox with matching goatee was assisted by a solid band that included a horn section and backup singers who helped Sir Tom make the most of hits like "What's New Pussycat," "She's A Lady," and of course "It's Not Unusual." But he saved the best for last: a show-closing cover of Prince's "Kiss," aided by Jones' decision to take the "think I better dance now" line quite literally. Jones' performance — as well as those of Pearl Jam, Incubus, Silversun Pickups and Built to Spill — captured the free-spiritedness of San Francisco that Ouside Lands tries so harness. So far, so good. Related Photos Related Artists |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2009 09:49 AM PDT 'He was so young and talented,' one commenter says.
Many of DJ AM's friends have paid tribute to him for the way he revolutionized and open doors in the DJing world. Friends like Samantha Ronson, Lindsay Lohan, Katy Perry and Paris Hilton all shared their sadness over AM's unexpected death. And his fans are taking to the Internet to express their sorrow.
Fan Jacqueline Mitchell wrote, "This has got to be the saddest year ever! So many celebrity deaths!! And the year is not done!! Rest In Peace DJ AM I hope you have found peace now." Symphony added, "When will we learn that money does not make us immortal ... R.I.P to Adam and everyone else that we have lost too soon ... May Peace Be With Them ... " Most fans were shocked by the news. Tebako said, "This is really sad news, but my condolences go out to his friends & family." Justin Burnell added, "He was a good DJ. We'll never forget. He will be missed. Gone but not forgotten. Rest In Peace."
Fan dprk7r79 expressed shock that the 36-year-old DJ, who worked with a number of music's superstars including Travis Barker and Jay-Z, had died. "It is so sad," he wrote. "He was so young and talented. RIP." Dizzy53 tried to put the whole tragedy in perspective, given the fact that AM had survived a plane crash with Barker last fall. "Very sad news ... He got to walk away from a plane crash that killed his friends, they didn't get a second chance to see their friends and family again, to be able to touch the ones they love, but he did. And then this happens, I feel extremely bad for his family & friends who have to go thru a disaster just one year after another disaster. He was a very talented man with a lot going for him, signing the new contract and everything ... thoughts and prayers go out to his family & friends ... Nicole Richie and Mandy Moore ... R.I.P. DJ AM." Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists |
| DJ AM Remembered By Palms In Las Vegas Posted: 29 Aug 2009 08:53 AM PDT Palms Hotel and Casino dim lights and hold a moment of silence in honor of their resident Friday-night DJ.
On Friday night, to pay tribute to the life of the late DJ AM, Rain nightclub at the Palms Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas went quiet. DJ AM, born Adam Goldstein, had a weekly gig at the club.
The Las Vegas Sun reports that despite the expensive and complicated sound and light system, the Vegas club turned it all down to observe a moment of silence for AM. It was a far cry from the way the club usually celebrated AM on Friday nights, when he would assume his spot at the turntables just after midnight. AM's friend and opening act, R.O.B, paid tribute to the DJ. "Today is a sad day in the nightlife community and an especially somber time for DJs across the world," R.O.B. said. "He was not only our resident DJ at Rain nightclub inside the Palms Casino Resort, he was also our brother in music. I considered him a close friend, and Palms Casino Resort, the N9NE Group, and myself would like to send our condolences to his family, friends and fans," he continued. "DJ AM, you will be dearly missed." For the moment of silence, clubgoers stood and faced the DJ booth for about a minute. The Las Vegas Sun notes that one patron shouted, "It's my birthday!" prompting others to shout back "Respect!" and "Respect our boy, AM!"
R.O.B. added that AM was a "talented DJ." "He has single-handedly brought nightlife and DJs from around the world to another level." Spinning Diddy's 1997 tribute to the Notorious B.I.G., "I'll Be Missing You," he then asked that the patrons to have a good time, as that's what AM would have wanted. The Palms also shut down the lights on each letter in their sign, except for the A and M. In a statement, Palms owner George Maloof said, "I am deeply saddened by the news of the passing of DJ AM. He was our resident DJ at Rain Nightclub at the Palms Casino Resort. We considered him a friend and a great artist. He will truly be missed." Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists |
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