Chris Daughtry

How many of these Chris Daughtry trivia questions can you answer? Get all 5 right and you’re a rock star yourself!

1. When he was a teenager, what did Chris want to be when he grew up?
2. What King’s daughter called Chris on the telephone the night he was eliminated from American Idol to offer her support?
3. Before Chris formed the band Daughtry, what already-famous band asked him to be their new lead singer?
4. In high school, what role in what stage play prompted Chris to grow a James Hetfield-style beard with the hair on the chin shaved off?
5. When, at 16 years old, Chris Daughtry made his first public performance as a singer, where was it, and what song did he sing?

And now for the answers…
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As promised, I give you the first in a 5-part series of profiles of the members of Chris Daughtry’s eponymous band, leading up to the final spotlight on the famed frontman himself. Enjoy!

Prior to joining Daughtry, bassist Josh Paul (aka “JP”) was perhaps best known for his four-stringed wizardry with seminal punks Suicidal Tendencies. JP was with the band for that surreal handful of years straddling Y2K, during which he appeared on no less than 6 Suicidal Tendencies albums, including Free Your Soul and Save My Mind, Freedumb, and Friends & Family Vols.1 and 2. He also appears alongside ST bandmate, frontman Mike Muir, on the Infectious Grooves album Mas Borracho.

In addition, Josh Paul has also brought his bass bravado to:

• Dead See (Through the Veil, 2007)
• Ashley Parker Angel
• Cyco Miki
• Everlast
• Kelly Osbourne (Changes, 2003)
• The Veronicas
• Samantha Ronson (Roc-a-fella)
• Poltrana (Maverick)
• Jordan McCoy (Bad Boy)
• Hot Potty…

…among others.

He’s also made notable onstage appearances with:

• Tower Of Power
• T.M. Stevens
• Chuck Treece
• Ryan Cabrerra
• Michael Anthony
• Steven Perkins
• and members of the godfathers of funk – P-Funk

JP’s impressive musical resume has led to his being endorsed by a number of leading musical gear companies including:

• Dean Markley
• Ampeg
• Modulus Guitars
• Alvarez
• Ibanez
• and Cort, which has gone so far as to release a special edition Josh Paul signature model bass.

  When he isn’t touring the world with Daughtry, 30-year-old Josh Paul lives in Los Angeles. His official website is www.joshpaulbass.com

  incidentally, Josh Paul shares his name (first and last) with the Major League Baseball catcher for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

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As promised, I give you the inaugural edition of YouTube Tuesday (and the second YouTube-themed posting on the Chris Daughtry Fan Blog), this one featuring homemade Japanese Anime montages set to Daughtry music. I picked 4, each set to a different song, specifically:

• Crashed;
• It’s Not Over;
• Home;
• and All These Lives.

Enjoy.

from Gundam Seed Destiny

Crashed

from Full Metal Alchemist

It’s Not Over

from Naruto Shippuuden

Home

and from FullMetal Alchemist and Death Note

All These Lives

And if you liked these, there’s plenty more on You Tube, just waiting for you to find them.

COMING UP NEXT ON YOUTUBE TUESDAY
As I searched YouTube for the Japanese Anime vids I recalled coming across on my last Daughtry search, I discovered something that may interest you even more than these colorful images. I discovered numerous audience-captured vids of Daughtry live in concert, many of songs that aren’t even on the Daughtry album. And so, I’ve scheduled the next TWO YouTube Tuesdays as follows:

1. September 4 - Live Daughtry performances of songs on the debut album
2. September 11 - Live Daughtry performances of songs NOT on the debut album

I am so looking forward to it. How ’bout you? Let me hear from you.

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This just in, direct from Sony Music (and - ahem - yet to be posted on the official Daughtry site):

Chris Daughtry and band have just confirmed that they’ve added 2 stops in Australia to their acclaimed international tour.

• Monday, September 24 at the Hi-Fi Bar in Melbourne;
• and Tuesday, September 25 at the Gaelic Club in Sydney;

Opening band (to be profiled in a future posting): Small Mercies

You can purchase tickets now at

• ModernMusic.com.au
• TheHiFi.com.au
• and MoshTix.com.au

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In an effort to continually improve this blog and what it has to offer you, the reader, and in light of the favorable reaction I received for the first eBay Sunday feature, I’ve decided to introduce a couple of other regular features into the mix here at the Chris Daughtry fan blog.

Hopefully you will find each of them as interesting and fun to read as they are for me to put together. Love ‘em or hate em, though, you know I’m always eager to hear your comments on anything and everything you see in these pages.

So let’s get started.

A couple of weeks ago I posted a You Tube segment highlighting movie previews people have re-edited using Daughtry songs in the backgroud. Inspired by that posting, this Tuesday (tomorrow) will be the first in a weekly series called You Tube Tuesdays in which I’ll feature a selection of commonly-themed, Daughtry-related and -inspired You Tube videos. In tomorrow’s edition I will highlight Japanese Anime all set, of course, to Daughtry’s music.

The second new regular feature starting here will be Trivia Fridays, delivering, as you might expect, Daughtry-related trivia questions (and answers too).

I hope you are as excited about both of these new entries into the Chris Daughtry Fan Blog mix as I am, and I hope you start to look forward to them each week as I know I will.

Now, to be clear, this is all not to say that these will be the only new postings here each Sunday, Tuesday, and Friday (though that may sometimes be the case) but just one of the items you can count on seeing here on each of those days.

In closing, I would also like to offer you a sneak peek at some of the upcuming articles you can expect to see here over the next few weeks:

• Chris Daughtry’s Musical Influences
• Spotlight on Chris Daughtry’s Home Life
• Profiles on Each of the Other Daughtry Band Members
• Profiles On Each Of The Bands That Have Opened OR Will Be Opening For Daughtry in Concert (12 Stones, Reliant K, etc.)

That’s all for now for this preview of just some of the upcoming excitement here at the Chris Daughtry fan blog at 451 press. I hope I have suitably piqued your interest. And I hope to see you back here often.

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Three Things Round for this ROund of eBay Sunday!

First this:
rare American Idol: Season 5 DVD.
This collector’s item was the official DVD Fox TV sent to the members Television Academy for Emmy Awards voting. Includes a poster with signed photos of the entire top 12, including you-know-who.

Then there’s this:
Absent Element: Uprooted CD. This is the CD Chris Daughtry released prior to his career-making stint on American Idol.

And finally, this:
Drumhead signed by Chris Daughtry. This is no Memorabilia store knockoff. A fan actually approached Chris and asked him to sign it personally. And now, for some bizarre reason, he’s letting one of us buy it. That’s no real Daughtry fan, if you ask me. I say whoever gets this item deserves it more than its original owner by a longshot.

Good luck bidding, gang. And come back tomorrow for some more great Chris Daughtry news and information.

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Is that the face of a tyrant? I think not!

And yet, I found this harsh critique of his backstage “demands” on the web the other day.

What gives, Lor?

In her scathing tirade against Chris Daughtry and other rock stars playing this year’s Midland County Fair, she comments that, since Daughtry was on the bill with 2 other acts that night, the band was out of line requesting their own space to prepare for the show.

“On the bill”?! He was the headliner! How much did Daughtry rake in for your county anyway? I hear that he was “the draw of choice for the crowd of some 5,000.”

As for their request for large trash cans - yes, I agree with you Lori - they have been places. And many of them were probably dirty and disgusting places. County fairs, in fact, with their ever-spreading swamps of litter, seem to be just those kinds of places, actually.

Further on, she complains of his list of requested items (Coke, a banana, microwavable chicken breast - none of it outlandish). Does she have any idea what life on the road is like? I don’t, but I imagine it’s grueling.

He has a wife and two children at home and he has to go from town to town and put on his best show for hundreds or thousands of us each night. The man deserves a little slack, don’t you think? Certainly some chicken without spicy coatings that can harm his voice.

His voice is his instrument. So is a clear and focused mind and a relaxed and energized body. Without those things, he can’t do his job. His job is to entertain. The job of the fair organizers is to see to it that he can do it well.

If they don’t like it, they can find different jobs. This Tom Valliere, fair manager, seems to have a gripe with his job, not Daughtry. Don’t misdirect your displeasure with your job, Tom. Just quit your job. Find one that doesn’t involve keeping the people who bring your town money happy, maybe.

I call upon all county fair, conference hall, and performance arena workers to write in and share your backstage experiences with Chris. Was he as incorrigible as Ms. Qualls’ article paints him out to be or as courteous and unassuming as we’ve always seen him to be?

You report. We’ll decide.

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Remember that Daughtry show I was telling you about? The one at the Red Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada in Las Vegas yesterday that AOL Music plans to webcast on August 31?

Well here’s a sneak preview of the event to whet your appetite. It looks like quite a blast. I can’t wait to see the webcast.

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The Colorado State Fair begins tomorrow, August 24, and amongst the attractions slated to drive an estimated 450,000 people to the Colorado State Fairgrounds is none other than our Daughtry.

The carnival portion of the fair offers the eager and impatient a sneak peek of the festivities today. Then tomorrow the event goes into full swing for almost 2 solid weeks of food, games, rides, a truck and tractor pull, a demolition derby, professional bull riders, a rodeo and musical entertainment from the likes of Los Lonely Boys, the Doobie Brothers, Ted Nugent, Peter Frampton, Weird Al Yankovic, and the All-American Rejects, ending on Labor Day.

But the real fun takes place the night of August 29 (that’s a Wednesday), when Daughtry takes to the stage. Already over 1,100 tickets to Daughtry’s show that night have been sold. Get yours HERE before they sell out.

And as always, if you go see the show, please comment below and let us all know how it went.

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No, you haven’t clicked over to the wrong blog. This is the Chris Daughtry fan blog and that is Bon Jovi pictured above. What gives? I’ll tell ya.

Bon Jovi will be the premiere act at the brand new Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, performing 10 shows there from October 25 to November 10. Joining them onstage are a number of incredible acts, each scheduled to open for Jon and Co. on a different night (or pair of nights, really), one such act being, of course, our own Daughtry.

Chris Daughtry and band will open for Bon Jovi at the new Pru on November 4 and 7. If you remember, Chris Daughtry sang Bon Jovi’s Wanted Dead or Alive when he was a contestant on American Idol: Season 5.

Other acts on the docket, and the nights they’ll be there, are:

• My Chemical Romance, Oct 25 and 26
• Big & Rich, Oct 28 and 30
• Gretchen Wilson, Nov 1 and 3
• All-American Rejects, Nov 9 and 10

So I have an interesting question to ask; which act, besides Daughtry of course, would you be most excited to see? Comment below and we’ll all get to find out which of the other acts scheduled to christen the Newark Prudential Center Daughtry fans like best.

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This just in!

DaughtryOfficial.com has announced that on Friday, August 31 AOL Music will be broadcasting over the internet tomorrow night’s Daughtry’s concert at the Red Rock Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

This is a killer opportunity for those of us who missed out on seeing Daughtry when they breezed through our area or couldn’t get a hold of tickets to an upcoming show near them. I know I’ll be there watching every moment from start to finish. This kind of thing could actually make me like AOL. Who woulda thunk it?

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Chris Daughtry has posted another video blog update at his site. Check it out!

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Did you like last week’s inaugural installment of eBay Sunday? I hope you did, because it’s already time for round 2. I had as much fun compiling these little gems as I did those of 7 days ago, starting with this Chris Daughtry charm bracelet. Wear the 32 faces of Chris, all on your sleeve.

Then there’s this Daughtry poker chip, a memento from their performance of August 4, 2007 at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Biloxi Mississippi.

Or the Daughtry Rocks! license plate. Let everyone on the road know who’s playing on your stereo.

And if Daughtry has a special place in your heart, then you’ll love this Daughtry heart decal.

Well, that wraps it up for another week of Chris Daughtry memorabilia available for you and I to collect on eBay. Tomorrow I continue to provide you with the juiciest tidbits I can find about the man and his band. ’til then, Daughtry fans…

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Americans have been enjoying Chris Daughtry’s self-titled debut album for months now (nearly 9 to be nearly exact). But our overseas neighbors in the UK have been anxiously awaiting the time that they can find the bestselling album of the year (even though it came out last year) on the racks at their local CD stores.

Well, wait no longer European friends!

This Monday, August 20, Daughtry, gets its UK release. Time to break more records, guys.

There’s even rumor circulating the web (via the official Daughtry site, that is, which makes it more than a rumor in my eyes at least) that the band will be making an appearance over U.K.-way in October. Stay tuned for updates.

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The streets of Mobile, Alabama are expecting to see 200,000 people dancing and cavorting to many great acts scheduled for the 13th annual BayFest Music Festival, not the least of which is our fave - Daughtry.

Chris and the gang will take to the stage Saturday night, October 6 at 10:30, headlining on the Pepsi Stage.

In the past, BayFest has featured the likes of B.B King, Collective Soul, Hootie & the Blowfish, Gretchen Wilson, Grand Funk Railroad, Alan Jackson, The O’Jays, Keith Urban, Patty LaBelle, Uncle Kracker, Stone Temple Pilots, Widespread Panic and The Beach Boys, to name a few.

The other artists on this year’s lineup are:

• Alice in Chains
• Boyz II Men
• Brian McKnight
• Dennis Nelson, f/ saxaphonist Kelly O’Neal
• Highly Kind
• Johnny Barbato and the Lucky Doggs
• LeAnn Rimes
• Ludacris
• StereoHype
• Top of the Orange
• Velvet Revolver
• Willie Clayton

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