
Thursday, February 28, 2013
This Smoke On The Water Is Still On Fire. Deep Purple Is Back

Could A Book Lead To A Doors Tour?

Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Lou Graham And Mick Jones Mend Their Foreigner Fence

Is David Bowie Headed To X Factor

Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Not Enough Makeup For Ace To Hide Behind

Monday, February 25, 2013
Aerosmith Wins ASCAP Song Writer's Award

After 40 Years Carlos Santana and Neal Schon Nearing New Project

Friday, February 22, 2013
The Original Heart Will Rock The Hall Of Fame

Thursday, February 21, 2013
The Return Of The Electric Light Orchestra

Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Robert Plant Claims It's Not Him Holding Up A Zeppelin Tour

Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Arroe Interview With Don Jamieson From VH1 Classic's That Metal Show

Arroe Interview with Jim Florentine from VH1 Classic's That Metal Show

How Can There Be New Eagles Music If You Can't Let Go Of Their Past?

Monday, February 18, 2013
Def Leppard Rock n Roll Fantasy Camp

Friday, February 15, 2013
Alice Cooper Praises New Book And Classic Rock Guitarist Riff Into Public History


Metallica Wins Again

Thursday, February 14, 2013
Rock Talks: Bon Jovi Says Grammy Awards On Target
How many days has it been since the Grammy Awards? People are still talking about it! Not just because Justin Bieber wasn't invited to the nominations. CBS pulled off a power play and ordered all musicians and producers to dress like they were going to church.
The music industry, as much as we've accepted it as a business; still has what it takes to pull from its system hard working, deeply dedicated, overly passionate soul selling writers and singers that have sacrificed their entire life to the art of musical expression.
Pop Artists are always gonna get a little spit fiery while the Diva's constantly forget the long road to stardom is always slippery when wet.
Mumford and Sons freaked me out with their British accents! There must be a written rule that clearly states all or anything resembling Blue Grass must look like they're from Tennessee.
Take Carrie Underwood. Blonde, gorgeous dress...totally without a doubt Lorretta Lynn or from the 1970's Lynn Anderson. Looking the part is part of the art.
But it goes way deeper than that for those that live the Rock road. According to Classic Rock Magazine, if you ask Jon Bon Jovi, the Grammys have gotten it right in recent years. The singer listed Adele and Mumford & Sons as bands with real talent, while adding that he worries about kids today and a perceived waning interest in good music.
“The young boy band thing has its place,” Bon Jovi told British tabloid Star. “But you can’t compare One Direction to the likes of Adele or Mumford & Sons. Their talent is invigorating. I’m glad to see talent continuing because I worry this generation isn’t paying that much attention to music.”
Last week Bon Jovi began the Because We Can Tour, named after the band’s upcoming album, which features the lead single ‘Because We Can.’ It’s been over 30 years on the road and in studio for the ‘Livin’ On a Prayer’ hitmaker. He says he couldn’t have begun his career on a reality television show like ‘The Voice’ or ‘American Idol.’
“It’s hard because they’re thrust into a huge spotlight and they’re expected to have a record on a par with the greats six weeks later,” he says. Earlier he revealed he was asked to be a part of many of those shows, but wouldn’t do it.
“You see them there and they can hit the high note and then a year later they’re a trivia question,” he told the British Sun (quote via Star). It’s a big ask of these kids.”
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
David Lee Roth: I Want Michael Back
Not even twenty four hours after fans of Van Halen celebrated the 35th anniversary of their debut release David Lee Roth was making noise.
Openly he calling out to Eddie and Alex for a reunion with original bassist Michael Anthony.
Roth wants to make more music with Van Halen. Eddie fan or not...the world of Classic Rock knows he's lazy on the idea. The Rollingstone magazine interview with Sammy Hagar our only proof.
I love David's spunk! The blonde Rocker's got a lot more junk in his trunk and he knows every corner of the world is waiting for their true return.
According to Classic Rock Magazine David Le’s “not sure what’s in (guitarist) Ed (Van Halen)’s mind at this point.”
(In fairness, it should be remembered that Eddie Van Halen underwent emergency surgery for diverticulitis at an unspecified point last year, a procedure that carries an estimated four to six month recovery period.)
Roth also goes on to explain that he and Eddie “haven’t written a new song in 20 years,” and suggests that the group’s 2012 album ‘A Different Kind of Truth‘ was comprised of even more reworked material than most originally suspected: “Almost all of the music that you hear on our most recent album was written and demoed before the first album.”
In the most eyebrow-raising part of the interview, “Diamond Dave” also calls it “a disappointment” that the group hasn’t reunited with Anthony, who wasn’t invited back — and in fact, was replaced by Eddie’s son Wolfgang — when the group reconfigured with Roth for a tour in 2007.
“What we have at our fingertips is arguably one of the greatest high tenor voices ever — that was in Michael Anthony,” Roth explains. “In our tiny little corner of the universe, that voice is as identifiable as the high voice in Earth, Wind & Fire, as identifiable as the high voice in the Beach Boys… so I would always look forward to that reunion.”
Anthony is currently a member of Chickenfoot alongside Van Halen’s second singer, Sammy Hagar. Wolfgang’s mother, actress Valerie Bertinelli, told Detroit’s WRIF back in March that the lure of playing with his son is what brought Eddie Van Halen out of his long break from touring and recording.
Why is Roth rocking a boat that has proven to be so easily capsized in the past? A sense that time is not exactly in his favor anymore seems to be his primary motive: “For me, 60 is the new 80. You oughta see my X-rays. So get going, start heading north. And whether we accomplish anything or not becomes beside the point. The goal is to get with somebody and get with a group or team or a squad and get going on something that everybody’s contributing to.”

New KISS Book Told By The Men And Women Of Rock
Going totally against my parents vocal commands and religious wishes...I became a proud member of the KISS Army during the Summer of 1977. That's all the permission I needed to pump up the 8-track tape volume and poster every corner of my bedroom walls with painted faces while sporting the coolest, shiniest belt buckle known to man.
I grew up in a pair of Montana boots. The land of Rodeo Buckles the size of Canada. Walking into a bowling alley with KISS said one thing, "Oh crap. One of them Rock lovin freaks is here."
I really got into KISS merchandising! To this very moment; 36 years deep and this collecting disease has yet to cease.
Before Paul and Gene authorized the sale of KISS concerts on VHS tapes I was buying bootlegs. I favored import albums over Americanized releases. Just because the tracks were set up differently.
I'm a big whacked out KISS Hoarder. It's my fantasy to take every trunk of KISS junk and dump it on the front steps of Pawn Stars in Vegas and say, "It's got to be worth 10 cents maybe a quarter."
When you think Simmons and company have completed their Rock pollution; out pops something even more unique to add to the library.
Simmons and Paul Stanley are writing yet another book.
The new title ‘Nothin’ to Lose: The Making of Kiss (1972-75),’ is due out on August 20, and will find the duo working with co-author Ken Sharp to compile an oral history of the band’s early years. According to the press release announcing the book, “the 544-page hardcover draws on more than 200 interviews, offering a captivating and intimate fly-on-the-wall account of their launch, charting the struggles and ultimate victories that led them to the threshold of superstardom.”
The release, which goes on to promise “an indelible and irresistible portrait of a band on the rise and the music scene they changed forever,” also includes an undeniably impressive list of interviewees such as Ted Nugent, Alice Cooper, Bob Seger, and members of Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, and Rush.
It all adds up to an awful lot of literary activity — particularly for Stanley, who recently announced that he’s working on an autobiography of his own. As he put it in an equally funny and cocky statement, “with the three other guys from the original lineup having written books, it’s kind of like, ‘OK, have you all said your piece? OK? Now let me tell you what happened.’”
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
New Government Bill Has Steven Tyler's Name Written All Over It
Playing Rock Star for a day is the ultimate fantasy. Being a Rock Star every day quickly fades the first time you hit your funny bone and someone catches it on film. Then sells it to TMZ, People or Inside Edition.
Pop Music's Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift aren't the only ones being pummeled by the minute by out of control paparazzi. Freedom of speech, press and whatever else they can tuck under their free rights has served as a longtime backstage pass.
Have name? They will follow... You'd think after Princess Di someone of great power would step up and make the would of fame a better place. Then again, would half of today's actors and musicians have anything to hold if it wasn't for camera pigs snapping shots then putting them to print? Isn't the old saying, "Any press is good press just don't spell my name wrong?"
Those days could almost be over.
Classic Rock Magazine reports Aerosmith's front man Steven Tyler is throwing the weight of his celebrity behind a bill that would help protect celebrities against invasion of privacy in the state of Hawaii.
Bill SB465, now officially known as the “Steven Tyler Act,” was drafted at Tyler’s request by his attorney and manager, Dina LaPolt, and would provide enhanced legal remedies for celebrities photographed while engaged in “personal or familial activity” deserving of a reasonable expectation of privacy.
In other words, the new law would go beyond traditional invasion of privacy laws requiring a physical trespass, and impose legal liability upon paparazzi that use long-range lenses or audio equipment to capture images or audio of unsuspecting public figures in their homes (or making love in personal elevators), which they can currently then sell for personal profit.’
Said Tyler, “The paradise of Hawaii is a magnet for celebrities who just want a peaceful vacation. As a person in the public eye, I know the paparazzi are there and we have to accept that. But when they intrude into our private space, disregard our safety and the safety of others, that crosses a serious line that shouldn’t be ignored.”
The measure is based on similar legislation adopted by the state of California in 1998, and sources say it is being endorsed by two-thirds of the Hawaii Senate, and — unofficially — all current ‘American Idol’ judges and at least three-fifths of Aerosmith.
In all seriousness, Tyler is set to appear personally at the Hawaii State Capitol today, Friday Feb. 8, for the Senate hearing, alongside fellow celebrity, bill proponent, and Hawaii resident Mick Fleetwood — plus, one can only deduce, countless paparazzi angling for a few, final candid photographs they can make a quick buck on.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Van Halen Turns 35
I wholeheartedly blame this one on the way Radio brought me up. Jocks disconnecting from the reality of sound slipping between the sheets of thin paper that make car speakers thump so badly the rearview mirror vibrates like a California earthquake.
Once you perform in a completely hollowed out totally trashed by multitudes of dreams vowing to come true Radio station studio; you won't ever listen to music the same.
My final goodbye to "Real" people music was the very year some hot shot brand new band with a screaming guitar and lead vocalist with perfectly ratted Rock layers of hair hit the airwaves with a sound unlike what FM or candy coated AM's were spinning every two hours.
It wasn't KISS, Foreigner, Zeppelin, Boston, AC/DC, Aerosmith or STYX. California, the home of the Beach Boys, Grateful Dead and FM radio in the basement of a San Francisco Presbyterian Church was giving birth to an entire evolution of change. Thank God I wasn't in Radio yet because as a listener I got the full impact of Van Halen.
Van Halen made my teenage keggers the best party in town.
Classic Rock Magazine reminds us that Hard Rock hadn’t really hatched a band like Van Halen before 1978. There were groups with guitar heroes. There were metal bands that covered ‘60s classics with new-style flash. And there were corny frontmen with overeager libidos. But they were never tossed together into one simmering pot made up of part dinosaur stomp, part lightning-fast guitar acrobatics and part Hollywood arrogance before Van Halen’s self-titled debut album was unleashed.
‘Van Halen,’ which celebrates its 35 anniversary today, ushered in a new wave of hard rock. The elements that classified the music throughout the ‘70s were still there: wafer-thin lyrical content, a preoccupation with sex and a standing philosophy that steamrolling over everything will get you out of any tough spot. Van Halen just delivered more of it. From Eddie Van Halen’s mind-warping guitar skills to David Lee Roth’s dirty-old-uncle act, rock music needed Van Halen. It just didn’t know how much at the time.
Between punk and disco, rock was barely holding on in 1978. Then came ‘Runnin’ With the Devil,’ ‘Van Halen’’s opening track, which sounded like what Tokyo probably heard right before Godzilla attacked for the first time. Its impact wasn’t immediately apparent, but now the song takes on changing-of-the-guard significance. From there, side one marches from one side of the city to the other, annihilating everything in its path: the Hendrixian ‘Eruption,’ the blustery cover of the Kinks’ ‘You Really Got Me’ and ‘Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love,’ which set the template for every great Van Halen song.
‘Van Halen’ isn’t perfect. Side two sags in the middle, especially Roth’s innuendo-laden take of an old blues cut, ‘Ice Cream Man,’ the first of many groan-worthy moments by the campy singer. But the album inspired a generation of longhaired kids to pick up guitars and helped define ‘80s metal. The album peaked at No. 19, their only record to not reach the Top 10. (It eventually went diamond by selling ten million copies, as did ‘1984.’) But it remains their best album and their most focused. After this, it would prove somewhat difficult to control the guitar heroics, the showboating and the corny frontman with the overeager libido.
Guns And Roses Guitarist Wants No More Albums
There's not a four wheeler big enough to dig out a Rock band gone stuck in a recording studio. Modern day technology might auto tune the artist back into shape but having control of so much perfection has turned the industry into a cast of perfectionists addicted to the idea of being bigger and better than great.
The process has lost out to the project.
This is no longer an age of need. Drop the ego at the door and stop expecting others to fall to your demands of producing entire projects.
I'm not such a freak on this idea. Look at the world of Pop. They're selling songs. Millions of them.
Hats off to Guns N’ Roses guitarist Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ whose not shy to shout, "The band should forget about recording a new album and simply release one song at a time."
In a wide-ranging interview with Classic Rock’s Australian correspondent Steve Mascord, Thal also blames the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame for singer Axl Rose’s non-appearance at GN’R's induction, and explains what happened at the end of the Gunners’ final Indian show in December, when bassist Tommy Stinson was reported to have thrown a tantrum.
Guns N’Roses members have spoken about working this year on a follow-up for 2008’s Chinese Democracy.
“There’s been talk all the time within us about the next album and what we’re going to do and when we’re going to do it,” Thal says. “But you know, life always gets in the way. Things get in the way.
“It’s hard to have the momentum and the focus and everything that you need. It’s hard to put everything aside and do a whole album.
“Personally, I don’t want to do an album. I would like to just do a song. Let’s just bite off a song and get a song out there and then bite off another song and get that out there.
“When there’s so much touring and so much other stuff going on, don’t try and take on 14 songs. Do a song, then another song, then another song and then figure it out from there.”
On Rose’s refusal to attend Guns’ Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction on April 14, 2012, Bumblefoot says:
“Honestly, we tried to work it out with the Hall Of Fame to come up with something but they had it in their mind that it was their way or no way. So they wouldn’t budge and they were just trying to force a situation that wasn’t good for everybody. We wanted it to be good for everybody. So…
“A lot of people should be in there that aren’t. Deep Purple isn’t in there. That’s a travesty…”
Bumblefoot said reports in India that Stinson had lost his temper on stage during an encore performance of Rose Tattoo’s Nice Boys (Don’t Play Rock’n’Roll) in Gurgaon on December 12 were the result of misinformation.
“It wasn’t that,” Thal says. “What happened was, we did our bow and we were walking off stage and we said: ‘Let’s do some more.’ They were already packing up the gear and shutting everything down.
“So they first had to fire up everything all over again and half the shit was away so we started playing with half our gear and finally it was just like: ‘You know what? F it.’ Some **** wouldn’t go on, we’re re-connecting cables, so the crew was going crazy trying to get it all done and it was just another moment in the history of the band.”
Saturday, February 9, 2013
It's A No Go For Billy Joel's Rock n Roll
Although he pummeled the Adult Contemporary and Top 40 Pop Music sides of radio from the late 70's to mid-90's... Billy Joel has had a fair share of Classic Rock late night at the bar sing-a-long songs.
Nearly every man in America freaked out when Joel landed a marriage gig with Christie Brinkley. Ugly guys teaming up with unstoppable chicks is a different blog and time.
Ok, so Billy's had a few spin outs over the past ten years. Life isn't a scene from Behind The Music! You can slip a Rock star into reality but you can't rip the memories their music helped to generate from our fantasies.
So what if Elton John publically released some dirt about Billy's drinking. Give the Piano Man back his stage! You may be right. I may be crazy! But it's still Rock n Roll to me! Billy Joel didn't start the fire. He loves us just the way we are. Joel isn't moving out. Nor is he gonna tour.
According to Classic Rock Magazine...Despite a killer performance at the recent 12-12-12 concert at Madison Square Garden and an upcoming headlining slot at JazzFest, Billy Joel will not be mounting a tour any time soon. In a new interview, he disclosed that recent health issues have stopped him from a return to the stage.
“I had to get hip replacements in both hips,” he says in the new issue of Rolling Stone. “And now slowly but surely I’m kinda getting back to normal. I’d say I’m 85 percent. I can walk OK. I can’t run like I used to.”
The 63-year old Joel also acknowledges — quite refreshingly for a rocker of his generation — that the natural changes that come with middle age mean that he can no longer perform in the manner to which he and his many fans are accustomed. “Honestly, I’m not as good as I used to be,” he continues. “I’m not as athletic as I used to be. I don’t jump off the piano anymmore – that didn’t help my hips, either. My voice has changed. It’s lowered.”
Although Joel hasn’t released a rock album since 1993′s ‘River of Dreams,’ the classically trained pianist still regularly composes instrumental music for his own enjoyment, without any desire to record it. And even with famous friends like Bruce Springsteen and Pete Townshend wanting him to get back to songwriting, Joel hasn’t felt the necessary motivation to go back to putting so much of his life into his work.
“I like to say I broke up with me,” he adds. “The singer broke up with the songwriter and the performer didn’t want to work with the piano player anymore.”
Friday, February 8, 2013
Wanted: Jimmy Page Seeks New Lead Vocalist
If for a day. Better yet a week. If but for a moment I could be the owner of one Super Power; my chosen ability would be a fly on the wall.
I'd be the nearly invisible minding his own business buzz killer that slips between cracks snagging unheard of amounts of human contact without the makers of sound truly knowing it.
My Top 3 Wish I Was A Fly On A Wall Moments:
1. When Bill Clinton told those closest to him he had to come clean about Monica
2. When Lee Iacocca fell into the idea of creating the world's first Mustang
3. Like Billy Graham who has sat with nearly every President; I believe an honorary fly on the wall should hold the same honor. I'd be the fly brought into every final meeting before a well publicized band breaks up.
Until I get those Super Powers...we've got to rely on the old fashioned internet. And here's what I found lurking in the moodiness of chapters waiting to be told.
Classic Rock Magazine writes: We already knew that Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones put some thought into getting back together without Robert Plant after Led Zeppelin‘s triumphant one-off reunion show in 2007, but in a recent interview, the pair delved into just how close they came to starting a new band.
Although their efforts were spun as an attempt to continue Zeppelin without Plant, Page and Jones were actually serious about creating something new — in fact, they’d written a substantial amount of material before bringing in any singers. “It seemed the right thing to go in and start playing new material,” Page told Classic Rock Magazine (via Blabbermouth). “I thought we really should play to our strengths here, which was the music. But there were a lot of movements to bring in singers and do this, that and the other. And that would’ve changed the character too early from what we were doing. I won’t say there was pressure, but there was a lot of hinting about this singer and that singer. For me it was more a question of, let’s see what we can really do. And I don’t think we got a chance to do that.”
Calling the ‘Zeppelin with a new singer’ rumors “a total misunderstanding,” Jones recalled, “I said, ‘Of course, if we go out (on the road), we’re going to have to do some Zeppelin numbers.’ And there’s nothing wrong with that. In fact, we rehearsed ‘Carouselambra,’ which we’ve never done live before, and we had a bunch of new material done. But Jimmy and I couldn’t agree on singers.”
Of the vocalists they worked with, Jones said, “I quite liked Myles Kennedy. He’s got the range, but his voice is completely different than Robert’s. Which was fine by me, because it was going to be a completely different band. But it didn’t work out and we all moved on.”
Thursday, February 7, 2013
You Know Its Gonna Be A Great Summer When Sammy Hagar Wants To Rock
How many times have you been caught in a conversation about how the rich keep getting richer?
What happens if they're a Rocker? Can the magicians of writing and strings be allowed too much space to race through Rock's everyday chapters?
Look at Dave Grohl! Cranking up the volume at the Democratic Convention with Foo Fighters, jamming with Paul McCartney and his ex-Nirvana bass guitarist while sliding out the frames of a new Hollywood movie.
He ain't the only business maker in the music biz. Sammy Hager has always kept himself busy in the afterlife of a solo career turned Van Halen whipped into whatever his heart desires.
He’s got his membership in Chickenfoot and a burgeoning booze empire to keep him busy, but that doesn’t mean Sammy Hagar has forgotten about his solo career.
According to Classic Rock Magazine Hagar hasn’t released an album on his own since ‘Cosmic Universal Fashion’ in 2008, and according to comments he made during a recent interview with Las Vegas Magazine, it seems like he’s starting to get the itch again. Celebrating the three-year anniversary of his rather awkwardly named Cabo Wabo Cantina in Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort, he talked about looking forward to “a big rum and tequila party” while reminding us that, hard-partying image aside, he’s still one of the more consistently prolific rock artists of his generation.
“I’m in the studio right now with my band, The Wabos, and we’re rehearsing and writing songs,” Hagar revealed when asked about his plans for 2013. “We’re putting something out this year and we’ll probably go out and do 25-30 shows.”
Of course, Hagar being Hagar, music isn’t all he’s up to — aside from launching his new Sammy’s Beach Bar Rum, he’d also like to expand his cantina empire (“We’re opening another Cabo Wabo in Los Angeles at Hollywood and Vine”) as well as follow up his recent memoir with “a lifestyle cookbook with some of my chef friends.”
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Social Networking Assumption Versus Motley Crue Truth
Social Networking makes it too simple to assume.
In a really weird, completely in a 100% six degrees of
separation Kevin Bacon way I'm hooked up to Nikki Sixx: Twitter, Face Book, his daily radio promos and a total fan of Sixx Sense on WRFX.com and I Heart Radio.
Smart enough to know the difference between hype and actuality; generated in the depths of my Rock n Roll soul was an off the wall vision that Nikki and company were attaching themselves to a new collection of songs.
I've seen photographs of Nikki's new bass. Studied his excitement of writing new material. Through Social Networking a billion fans are at fault for thinking one plus one equals two.
Classic Rock Magazine rips down the curtain. There won’t be new Motley Crue music coming in 2013, and there may never be another full-length album from the hard-rockers. Vince Neil says there may be an EP in the band’s future, but 2014 is as early as that would surface.
“What I’m hearing is that maybe two or three or four more songs might come out to go with that song (‘Sex’) we released this year,” he tells Music News Nashville, “but it will be something like an EP, not an album. Our schedule seems to have a lot of touring.”
The last Motley Crue album came in 2008 with the release of ‘Saints of Los Angeles.’ The title track became a Top 5 rock hit and a mainstay of their live set. The group continues to be among the most coveted tickets in rock. In March they’ll be in Australia with Kiss as a continuation of their joint tour, which visited the United States last summer.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
There Could Be Christine McVie On Fleetwood Mac Tour
Rock Stars running rampant on world tours will forever appear in the mirrored image as being the single most coolest job on earth.
Try telling that to Agnita Foltscog of ABBA and Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac. For that matter professional sports announcer John Madden.
Once you've been convinced that keeping your feet on the ground while reaching for the stars can be achieved: I ain't leavin on a jet plane.
How do you turn sound around? Mick Fleetwood is working hard to locate the answer.
Mick recently told Classic Rock Magazine that he's doing his best to lure McVie back into the fold for their upcoming tour.
“I’m seeing Chris here in London before I leave,” he told the English tabloid the Sun. “And even though she loathes flying and she’s never been back to the United States since the day she left, she is getting on a plane and flying to Hawaii with me. I’m going to hold her hand all the way, even if I have to handcuff it.”
This contradicts McVie’s own words from last month, where the keyboardist/singer said she was content to be out of the spotlight. And both Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, independently of each other, admitted that her return was unlikely, but Fleetwood is hoping that being around her old bandmates will rekindle the desire to get back on stage with them.
“She’s going to come and stay for three weeks in Maui,” he continued. “I’m getting goosebumps just thinking about it. John’s going to come over from Honolulu to see her and then she’s going to L.A. to see Stevie, who misses her terribly and is really excited to see her. But it’ll be her decision. But we’d make her very welcome if she wanted to creep on that stage again.”
Even if McVie decides against a return to the road, she will have the opportunity to see them. The band announced five shows today (Feb. 4) in the U.K. and Ireland in September and October, with tickets going on sale Saturday (Feb. 8).
Monday, February 4, 2013
Don Henley? Did You Forget?
Here we go again. Except this time fans of music might get it right.
I was doing small town radio mid-1980's when Don Henley broke out his first collection of solo projects. Pumping out the Rock over an AM not FM broadcast and still pulling in ratings...shows how different the times were.
Like it was yesterday, I remember popping that microphone open, "South central Montana's first AM Stereo station is the first to play the debut release from The Eagles drummer Don Henley."
Before I could slip those 400 pound Koss earphones off my head the studio telephone lines were blinking like a Christmas party, "Hello it's the Arroe Show!"
"Dude! Who are the Eagles?"
Wait! I had to play this same game with Donald Fagen from Steely Dan and Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers. When your Radio shoes are laced up and decorated with lettering that reads 7-Midnight Jock...you're always going to bump into someone that has no clue that Paul McCartney was once a Beatle.
After Hell froze over and the Eagles returned one hopes music fans will easily identify with whom I'm speaking of when its announce Eagles drummer Don Henley a new solo album and autobiography.
There are also plans in the works for an upcoming Eagles tour. According to Henley, the show will focus on the 40-year history of the band, which will bring one former member back into the fold. While he would not disclose the name of the member, he admitted that it would not be Don Felder, who had a public and acrimonious split with the band in 2001.
Henley also acknowledged that he is writing his memoirs. “I’m actually working on it now,” he said. “But it will be a few years before we get to that…I don’t want to write a trashy tell-all…I think you can tell the truth and not get too salacious or prurient or tacky.”
However, in front of Henley right now is the two-part documentary, ‘The History of the Eagles,’ that will debut on Showtime later this month. Henley admits that it was difficult to see his life reflected back at him on the big screen.
“We were always a pretty private band,” he continued. We didn’t allow a lot of access to our little entourage there. Partly, of course, because of our behavior.” However, they did have their own film cameras capturing the backstage actions, some of which made it into the documentary, causing Henley to sardonically add, “I’ve got a lot of explaining to do to my kids.”
Nominations For The Golden Gods Of Rock Are Announced
Once Christmas is tossed in a bright red bag and taken back up the bricked chimney the Entertainment World grips the bottom of their hotel chairs with high metal backs and no cushion for the pushin.
It's time for the awards! Big ones! Little one! Nominations for greatness! Industry nods to help you keep pumpin. Movies, football teams, the best commercials to mightiest in music.
The American Music Awards were created by Dick Clark. He wanted a show for the fans not the business. The Grammy's have been around forever but they end up going to unknowns seeking better sales. MTV, People's Choice, Best Original Score for an Oscar. What would be on TV during primetime if there weren't so many awards?
Here's a set of trophies you might not know about.
Motorhead, Rush and Aerosmith are amongst the nominees in 11 just-announced categories for the fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards Show, but the highest honors will go to Metallica and Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, in addition to Rob Zombie. Metallica will also play at the show’s live concert on May 2 at Club Nokia in Los Angeles.
Classic Rock Magazine reports Zombie will receive the Golden God Award, while Metallica will receive the Ronnie James Dio Lifetime Achievement Award. Iommi will be honored with the Riff Lord Award, according to a press release at the Revolver website. Pro wrestler Chris Jericho will host the show once again. Sebastian Bach and Dee Snider of Twisted Sister will host the Black Carpet pre-show.
Voting for all categories is open at GoldenGodsAwards.com. Fans have until April 15 to place votes in 11 categories (listed below) like Best Guitarist and Song of the Year. The three achievement awards were decided previously. Metallica’s Lars Ulrich sounds pretty pumped to be placed in the same category of previous winners like Rush and Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead.
“I was hanging out and presenting at the shenanigans two years ago and the energy in the room and the vibe backstage was beyond f—ing cool, so Metallica is chomping at the bit to partake in this year’s event,” the irrepressible drummer enthuses.
Other bands that will take part in the live concert are Five Finger Death Punch, Anthrax, Stone Sour, Dillinger Escape Plan and Halestorm. Stone Sour and In This Moment will kick off the first-ever Revolver Road to the Golden Gods tour in March. The show will broadcast on AXS-TV in the U.S., and in many cities worldwide through Xbox Live and Facebook.
Friday, February 1, 2013
Creedence Clearwater With Seger, Kid Rock And The Foo Fighters
The late 60's straight into the 1970's were flooded by Storytellers: Crosby Stills and Nash, Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Jackson Brown, The Eagles, John Denver's Rocky Mountain High and some new punk kid from Jersey Bruce Springsteen.
Even Jocks on the Radio got into the art of engagement; Paul Harvey was brilliant with the daily news while Casey Kasum and Dick Clark masterfully kept us glued to the giant metal sticks stuck in the mud somewhere in the fields of way the hell out there.
One of my favorite Casey breaks came while sharing the story of Creedence Clearwater Revival's challenge to generate enough love from music fans dominate Billboard Magazine's number one position. It's not that CCR wasn't capable, there was "always" a chunk of Pop Culture above their brand of sound.
Wait! Get your hands off that computer mouse! No tapping out!
John Fogerty has confirmed that his upcoming album will be centered around classic Creedence Clearwater Revival songs, but the album’s engineer says the result is completely new songs. Kid Rock, Bob Seger, Jennifer Hudson and the Foo Fighters are among the confirmed musicians who contributed to ‘Wrote a Song for Everyone.’
“It’s no nostalgia fest,” Bob Clearmountain tells Rolling Stone. Fogerty says he waited to record with each of his chosen partners until they could meet in studio and do it live. “I didn’t want to just mail people tracks because then everyone would just do ‘Proud Mary’ like the old record,” he says in the same interview.
He’s been working on the album since 2010, and originally scheduled it for release in October 2012. A press release about the delay suggested there would be original material on the album, something that is not addressed in the Rolling Stone article. The focus is on the old CCR songs, however. Fogerty has finally regained publishing rights to the songs after a lengthy legal battle.
“I wrote all these songs,” he said. ” They’re back home with Daddy, like they should be.”
Confirmed songs on ‘Wrote a Song for Everyone’ include ‘Fortunate Son,’ ‘Born on the Bayou’ and ‘Long As I Can See the Light.’
AC/DC Is Ready To Rock Super Sunday
In the Radio biz copyright laws forbid teams of jocks and other talker's from calling it the Super ****. Do what I do and bust open a can of buzz and call this Sunday the Monster Mash after Christmas. It's the single biggest party celebration after New Years Eve but nowhere near as festive as Christmas.
It's not the Super **** My parties are a feast of beer, the best whiskeys, tastiest vodkas and everything else that'll make you extremely thirsty after the game. We wash down our alcohol with food and I mean tons of it.
Therefore this football game should be officially dubbed The Supper Bowl. After the game I don't have room for any more food cuz I spent the entire damn day eating like it was supper.
Oh! To help you work the ribs, beans, pizza and everything else the neighbors have dumped on the dining room table...we get laugh, holler and complain about the commercials.
This year someone new is coming to the flat screen party. Classic Rock Magazine reports that we're gonna get a little AC/DC. It makes you want to pump your fist, stomp your feet, and…get behind the wheel of a sensible four-cylinder economy car that gets great gas mileage?
Well, maybe not. But Hyundai is still reportedly interested in using the Australian rock legends to help add an extra splash to their Super Bowl ads — and even if it doesn’t seem like the most natural fit, as Bravewords points out, the automaker could use all the extra dazzle it can get: The 150 seconds of ad time they’ve purchased during the game will cost them something like $9.5 million. (To put things in perspective, that’s enough to buy 565 Hyundai Elantras at MSRP.)
Their few seconds as car shills should give the guys in AC/DC a nice added cash infusion — not that they really need it these days, what with the impressive sales figures generated by their recent decision to put their catalog up for digital download on the iTunes store. Either way, rock fans should savor this glimpse of the band; according to guitarist Malcolm Young, their next album is still “a year or two away.”
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