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05.04.2011 11:16
Snoop Dogg and Charlie Sheen duo to be released "in three or four days"
Snoop Dogg revealed that the track he has recorded together with Charlie Sheen is set to be released "in three or four days". "We're making some real classic material", added rapper.

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American band Filter is known for its soundtracks for movies and videogames as much as fot its original albums. It was formed in 1993 in Cleveland, Ohio by Richard Patrick (professional musician) and Brian Liesegang (musician, also a programmer with a degree in philosophy). They got acquainted through working with Nine Inch Nails – Patrick worked as a touring guitarist for Nine Inch Nails and Liesegang was an assistant engineer on their Broken and The Downward Spiral albums. Filter disk, Short Bus, became both commercially successful and controversial, mainly because of the hit single Hey Man, Nice Shot. It was seen as capitalizing on the public suicide of Budd Dwyer – an American politician who committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth with a revolver during a televised press conference. Kurt Cobain's suicide was widely rumored to have inspired the song.

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