Tuesday Rock Roundup 1031
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The nominees for the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Class of 2007 were announced yesterday, including Van Halen, R-E-M, Patti Smith, and The Stooges. The winners will be announced in a few weeks, and the induction ceremony will take place in New York in March. No word as to whether or not Blondie will show up and fight with each other again.
Alice Cooper winds up his 2006 touring schedule with his annual Halloween show, this time in Mashantucket, Connecticut at the Foxwoods casino. Cooper will now turn his attention to a new album, which he plans to start working on in January, followed by another tour in 2007. Cooper will be on the Late, Late Show on C-B-S tonight. And of course, on the air here tonight at ten after Toni.
Former Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh has prostate cancer. He writes at [PhilLesh.net], "Since we've caught it very early, and it's small and slow-growing, I fully expect to have a rapid and complete recovery. I am feeling energetic as always, and all my scheduled appearances will occur as planned." Phil also has new releases in stores today, which we'll get to shortly.
U-2's music is gaining a whole new audience thanks to the Episcopal church. Over 150 churches across 15 states are playing the band's songs during communion, calling it a U-2-Charist. It started in Maine, but when asked if they are worshiping Bono, Reverend Paige Blair told U-S-A Today, "Absolutely not."
Reports of a Yes and Asia tour next year are news to Yes singer Jon Anderson. Anderson, who's on tour in England with Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman, tells us he has "no idea about the Yes - Asia tour, not what I would be doing."
Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony sat in with the Atomic Punks, a Van Halen tribute band, last week at a party for Yahoo.
Michael's buddy Sammy Hagar is producing a new Cabo Wabo brand of tequila next spring. Cabo Uno will come in a crystal decanter packaged inside a wood and leather box, and will probably be just as far out of my price range as Hagar's first tequila, if not further..
New in stores today on CD:
Phil Lesh & Friends Live at the Warfield (2 CDs + DVD and a 2 DVD version)
Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell III
Queensryche Face to Face
And today, a 24-year wait is over for fans of The Who. The legendary band will release Endless Wire, its first studio album since 1982's It's Hard when there were still three members left in the band. There's a special edition with a concert DVD also.
New in stores today on DVD:
John Fogerty Long Road Home: In Concert
Mission Impossible III with that annoying guy.
Kissology which gives us a peek at the world of the band Kiss from 1974 to 1977.
The nominees for the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Class of 2007 were announced yesterday, including Van Halen, R-E-M, Patti Smith, and The Stooges. The winners will be announced in a few weeks, and the induction ceremony will take place in New York in March. No word as to whether or not Blondie will show up and fight with each other again.
Alice Cooper winds up his 2006 touring schedule with his annual Halloween show, this time in Mashantucket, Connecticut at the Foxwoods casino. Cooper will now turn his attention to a new album, which he plans to start working on in January, followed by another tour in 2007. Cooper will be on the Late, Late Show on C-B-S tonight. And of course, on the air here tonight at ten after Toni.
Former Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh has prostate cancer. He writes at [PhilLesh.net], "Since we've caught it very early, and it's small and slow-growing, I fully expect to have a rapid and complete recovery. I am feeling energetic as always, and all my scheduled appearances will occur as planned." Phil also has new releases in stores today, which we'll get to shortly.
U-2's music is gaining a whole new audience thanks to the Episcopal church. Over 150 churches across 15 states are playing the band's songs during communion, calling it a U-2-Charist. It started in Maine, but when asked if they are worshiping Bono, Reverend Paige Blair told U-S-A Today, "Absolutely not."
Reports of a Yes and Asia tour next year are news to Yes singer Jon Anderson. Anderson, who's on tour in England with Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman, tells us he has "no idea about the Yes - Asia tour, not what I would be doing."
Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony sat in with the Atomic Punks, a Van Halen tribute band, last week at a party for Yahoo.
Michael's buddy Sammy Hagar is producing a new Cabo Wabo brand of tequila next spring. Cabo Uno will come in a crystal decanter packaged inside a wood and leather box, and will probably be just as far out of my price range as Hagar's first tequila, if not further..
New in stores today on CD:
Phil Lesh & Friends Live at the Warfield (2 CDs + DVD and a 2 DVD version)
Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell III
Queensryche Face to Face
And today, a 24-year wait is over for fans of The Who. The legendary band will release Endless Wire, its first studio album since 1982's It's Hard when there were still three members left in the band. There's a special edition with a concert DVD also.
New in stores today on DVD:
John Fogerty Long Road Home: In Concert
Mission Impossible III with that annoying guy.
Kissology which gives us a peek at the world of the band Kiss from 1974 to 1977.
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