Tuesday Rock Roundup
Eric Clapton had such a good time playing with Steve Winwood last summer at Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival that the two former Blind Faith bandmates are teaming up for three shows next year. They have booked Madison Square Garden in New York on February 25th, 26th, and 28th. Clapton says, "Our set at the Crossroads Festival this summer was a real treat, so I expect these shows will be good fun for us and for the fans." Winwood adds, "I'm very excited about these upcoming shows with Eric. Blind Faith was a long time ago and we have both come a long way since then... I'm really looking forward to exploring some more music together." Blind Faith's first U-S show was on July 12th, 1969 at Madison Square Garden. There are no plans for additional shows.
Between 1993 and 2005, the Grateful Dead released 36 live discs under the Dicks Picks banner -- named after their late archivist Dick Latvala, who put the collections together. Now the Dead will start to roll out Road Trips, which will highlight different tours and series of shows that have been neglected through the years. Volume One, Number One is two-disc set, plus a special bonus disc for a limited time only -- taken from the Dead's fall 1979 East Coast tour with new keyboard player Brent Mydland. Among the songs on this release are "Dancing in the Street," "Franklin's Tower," "Playing in the Band," "Terrapin" and "Shakedown." It is on sale through the band's website Dead-dot-net.
The Who introduced a subscription service to their website yesterday. For 50 bucks, fans get an exclusive live album called View From a Backstage Pass that features Who performances from 1969 to 1976; access to every video and concert video the band has released; and the ability to listen to every song in the band's catalog before buying any of them.
If you thought 28 years between Eagles albums was a lot...Ringo Starr has set January 15th as the release date for his next album, Liverpool Eight. He will debut songs from it on January 12th with a concert in his hometown of Liverpool. That show will serve as a kickoff to the city's year-long celebration as Europe's Capital of Culture. Starr says the album's title track "refers to the section of Liverpool where I used to live." The 12 songs on the album are all originals co-written by Ringo and recorded in England and California. Liverpool Eight is his first album for Capitol/E-M-I since 1974's Goodnight Vienna.
Mick Jagger recently attended the Rajasthan International Folk Festival in India. Calling the experience of being in India "exhilarating," Jagger tells the Times of India that The Rolling Stones may mount a full tour of Asia sooner rather than later. "We have some very good offers... When we played in Bangalore and Mumbai, we didn't play in Delhi and Kolkata. We would love to do that now, as there's great demand. Hopefully, we will announce a big Asia tour soon, which might include Japan." The Stones wrapped up their two-year Bigger Bang tour in August. Their latest concert movie, the Martin Scorsese-directed Shine a Light, will hit theaters in April.
Jimmy Buffett was warmly introduced to a Tampa concert audience on Thursday by Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who said the "Margaritaville" star "has Florida in his heart and he loves her like I do." Earlier in the day, Florida's best known pop star discussed environmental issues in a meeting with the state's chief executive.
Nikki Sixx's other band, Sixx A-M, have picked "Accidents Can Happen" as the second single from The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack. The band starting filming a video for the track yesterday in Los Angeles. The band still has no plans to tour behind the album, but bassist Nikki says he has started work on a follow-up to the book that will also have a soundtrack to accompany it.
News broke last week that Heaven and Hell -- which is Black Sabbath with singer Ronnie James Dio in place of Ozzy Osbourne -- would follow up their 2007 tour with a studio album next year. Now Dio tells KomodoRock-dot-com, "When the time is right we will get together and start writing for the next album, but as far as the release date goes it will probably be later next year." Earlier this year, Dio told us that writing three new songs for the band's anthology collection whetted their appetites.
Jim Morrison is another of rock's heroes who died far too young. In his case, alcohol proved to be his undoing, not heroin or cocaine. Doors guitarist Robby Krieger says the Hall of Fame band tried to get Morrison to control his binges, but to no avail. He recalls them hiring someone to hang out with and keep a watchful eye on Morrison, and Krieger says "inevitably, Jim would get that guy drunk." Despite his excessive drinking, which led to a few notorious stage incidents and run-ins with police, Krieger says Morrison rarely, if ever, missed a show, since "that's what he lived for -- to be on stage."
Bon Jovi is the subject of a new A-&-E special, A-&-E Rocks: Bon Jovi, which will premiere November 10th. The band taped an intimate concert for fans at a Chicago soundstage. Among the songs they performed were "Who Says You Can't Go Home" and "Wanted Dead or Alive," plus "(You Want To) Make a Memory" and "We Got It Goin' On" from their new Lost Highway album. On November 13th, an expanded D-V-D version of the show, featuring exclusive concert footage, backstage interviews and rehearsal songs, will hit stores. But in case the big screen is more to your liking, the film will be shown in more than 100 theaters across the country tomorrow night. To find a theater near you, log onto TheBiggerPicture-dot-us.
A lock of John Lennon's hair goes up for grabs at a British auction on November 12th. The snippet was kept and preserved by Betty Glasgow, who worked as a hairdresser on the sets of The Beatles' movies A Hard Day's Night and Help. Expected to fetch at least four-thousand dollars, it will be accompanied by a note penned by Lennon that reads, "To Betty, lots of love and hair from John Lennon."
Meat Loaf postponed his show last night in Manchester, England as he continues to suffer from acute laryngitis. A statement said he has been "ordered by his doctor not to perform." The show has been rescheduled for November 27th. He also canceled his show Friday in Birmingham. Last Wednesday, he cut short his show in Newcastle, telling the audience it's "the last show I may ever do in my life." He is scheduled to play London's Wembley Arena tomorrow night.
The Woodstock Museum in Bethel, New York will go ahead as planned, despite the U-S Senate pulling the plug on one-million dollars in funding. It will open next spring on the site of the original festival.
NEW IN STORES TODAY:
Rick Springfield - Christmas With You
Jimmy Buffett - Live in Anguilla [2 CDs, 1 DVD]
Amazing Journey - The Story of The Who DVD
Help! (1965) DVD
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry DVD with Kevin James & Adam Sandler
Ratatouille DVD
Sicko DVD Michael Moore's film about the Health Care Industry
Seinfeld - Season Nine DVD
The X-Files - The Complete Collector's Edition DVD
The Best of The Colbert Report DVD
Doctor Who - The Complete Third Season DVD
Flight of the Conchords - The Complete First Season DVD
Between 1993 and 2005, the Grateful Dead released 36 live discs under the Dicks Picks banner -- named after their late archivist Dick Latvala, who put the collections together. Now the Dead will start to roll out Road Trips, which will highlight different tours and series of shows that have been neglected through the years. Volume One, Number One is two-disc set, plus a special bonus disc for a limited time only -- taken from the Dead's fall 1979 East Coast tour with new keyboard player Brent Mydland. Among the songs on this release are "Dancing in the Street," "Franklin's Tower," "Playing in the Band," "Terrapin" and "Shakedown." It is on sale through the band's website Dead-dot-net.
The Who introduced a subscription service to their website yesterday. For 50 bucks, fans get an exclusive live album called View From a Backstage Pass that features Who performances from 1969 to 1976; access to every video and concert video the band has released; and the ability to listen to every song in the band's catalog before buying any of them.
If you thought 28 years between Eagles albums was a lot...Ringo Starr has set January 15th as the release date for his next album, Liverpool Eight. He will debut songs from it on January 12th with a concert in his hometown of Liverpool. That show will serve as a kickoff to the city's year-long celebration as Europe's Capital of Culture. Starr says the album's title track "refers to the section of Liverpool where I used to live." The 12 songs on the album are all originals co-written by Ringo and recorded in England and California. Liverpool Eight is his first album for Capitol/E-M-I since 1974's Goodnight Vienna.
Mick Jagger recently attended the Rajasthan International Folk Festival in India. Calling the experience of being in India "exhilarating," Jagger tells the Times of India that The Rolling Stones may mount a full tour of Asia sooner rather than later. "We have some very good offers... When we played in Bangalore and Mumbai, we didn't play in Delhi and Kolkata. We would love to do that now, as there's great demand. Hopefully, we will announce a big Asia tour soon, which might include Japan." The Stones wrapped up their two-year Bigger Bang tour in August. Their latest concert movie, the Martin Scorsese-directed Shine a Light, will hit theaters in April.
Jimmy Buffett was warmly introduced to a Tampa concert audience on Thursday by Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who said the "Margaritaville" star "has Florida in his heart and he loves her like I do." Earlier in the day, Florida's best known pop star discussed environmental issues in a meeting with the state's chief executive.
Nikki Sixx's other band, Sixx A-M, have picked "Accidents Can Happen" as the second single from The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack. The band starting filming a video for the track yesterday in Los Angeles. The band still has no plans to tour behind the album, but bassist Nikki says he has started work on a follow-up to the book that will also have a soundtrack to accompany it.
News broke last week that Heaven and Hell -- which is Black Sabbath with singer Ronnie James Dio in place of Ozzy Osbourne -- would follow up their 2007 tour with a studio album next year. Now Dio tells KomodoRock-dot-com, "When the time is right we will get together and start writing for the next album, but as far as the release date goes it will probably be later next year." Earlier this year, Dio told us that writing three new songs for the band's anthology collection whetted their appetites.
Jim Morrison is another of rock's heroes who died far too young. In his case, alcohol proved to be his undoing, not heroin or cocaine. Doors guitarist Robby Krieger says the Hall of Fame band tried to get Morrison to control his binges, but to no avail. He recalls them hiring someone to hang out with and keep a watchful eye on Morrison, and Krieger says "inevitably, Jim would get that guy drunk." Despite his excessive drinking, which led to a few notorious stage incidents and run-ins with police, Krieger says Morrison rarely, if ever, missed a show, since "that's what he lived for -- to be on stage."
Bon Jovi is the subject of a new A-&-E special, A-&-E Rocks: Bon Jovi, which will premiere November 10th. The band taped an intimate concert for fans at a Chicago soundstage. Among the songs they performed were "Who Says You Can't Go Home" and "Wanted Dead or Alive," plus "(You Want To) Make a Memory" and "We Got It Goin' On" from their new Lost Highway album. On November 13th, an expanded D-V-D version of the show, featuring exclusive concert footage, backstage interviews and rehearsal songs, will hit stores. But in case the big screen is more to your liking, the film will be shown in more than 100 theaters across the country tomorrow night. To find a theater near you, log onto TheBiggerPicture-dot-us.
A lock of John Lennon's hair goes up for grabs at a British auction on November 12th. The snippet was kept and preserved by Betty Glasgow, who worked as a hairdresser on the sets of The Beatles' movies A Hard Day's Night and Help. Expected to fetch at least four-thousand dollars, it will be accompanied by a note penned by Lennon that reads, "To Betty, lots of love and hair from John Lennon."
Meat Loaf postponed his show last night in Manchester, England as he continues to suffer from acute laryngitis. A statement said he has been "ordered by his doctor not to perform." The show has been rescheduled for November 27th. He also canceled his show Friday in Birmingham. Last Wednesday, he cut short his show in Newcastle, telling the audience it's "the last show I may ever do in my life." He is scheduled to play London's Wembley Arena tomorrow night.
The Woodstock Museum in Bethel, New York will go ahead as planned, despite the U-S Senate pulling the plug on one-million dollars in funding. It will open next spring on the site of the original festival.
NEW IN STORES TODAY:
Rick Springfield - Christmas With You
Jimmy Buffett - Live in Anguilla [2 CDs, 1 DVD]
Amazing Journey - The Story of The Who DVD
Help! (1965) DVD
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry DVD with Kevin James & Adam Sandler
Ratatouille DVD
Sicko DVD Michael Moore's film about the Health Care Industry
Seinfeld - Season Nine DVD
The X-Files - The Complete Collector's Edition DVD
The Best of The Colbert Report DVD
Doctor Who - The Complete Third Season DVD
Flight of the Conchords - The Complete First Season DVD
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