Random Notes: Kanye West, U2, Snoop Dogg, Van Halen, John Mayer and the Week in Rock

Earlier in the week, Kanye West and Evel Knievel resolved their disagreement over West's "Touch the Sky" video (in which West played a stuntman named Kanyievel). "We settled the lawsuit amicably," Knievel told the press, adding that West was "a wonderful guy and quite a gentlment." Sadly, Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel died just days later at age sixty-nine from unknown causes.