JASON NEWSTED Wants SUPERNOVA Singer To 'Surprise' Him

July 5, 2006

Launch Radio Networks reports: Former METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted, ex-GUNS N'ROSES guitarist Gilby Clarke and MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee bring their new band SUPERNOVA to TV tonight (Wednesday, July 5) in the season premiere of the CBS reality series "Rock Star". The trio has been working on music as auditions have continued to find the band's lead singer. As for what kind of frontman the group would like to find, Newsted told Launch they don't have any preconceptions. "We love Steven Tyler, we love Robert Plant, we love — you know, there's different cats that we would like to take elements of, but that's not the way it is," he said. "I would rather have somebody come in and surprise me. Show me some stuff that I couldn't expect. Bring something to the party that we don't have. Do something that none of the other people in the band can do. That's what would be the greatest."

Newsted says the contest is narrowed down to 15 vocalists, but the winner won't be decided until September.

SUPERNOVA will go on a full North American tour once the frontman is chosen and the band records its debut album.

Meanwhile, MTV.com reported last week that a California punk band called SUPERNOVA has hired lawyers to possibly take legal action against "Rock Star" for using the name. Bassist Art Mitchell says his group has legally owned the name for nearly 20 years and doesn't want it associated with a "bunch of washed-up metalheads."

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