Tuesday Rock Roundup
While Velvet Revolver's camp remains tight-lipped about the "mystery illness" that recently forced the band to cancel an Australian tour, TMZ is reporting that Scott Weiland was arrested on November 21st for "driving under the influence of a drug." According to the police report, The former Stone Temple Pilots' frontman crashed his car on a Los Angeles highway, and while cops were investigating the crash, they saw that he was impaired. He refused to take a sobriety test and was booked. Weiland was released on bail and is scheduled to appear in court on December 13th.
It's less than a week now until Led Zeppelin reunites to play at the Ahmet Ertegun tribute concert at London's O-2 Arena. The show will be the second time the band has performed publicly with the late John Bonham's son Jason in the drum seat. (The first was at the Atlantic Records 40th anniversary concert in 1988.) While Led Zeppelin reportedly will not commit to doing any shows beyond Monday's reunion in London, reports continue to circulate that they will hit the road next year. The latest report has them playing the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tennessee in June.
Bono says U-2's next album might be twice as big as anything they've done. He tells the U-K's Independent, "We have enough material for two albums, but it has to be extraordinary. And I think we've got that... There's some very hardcore guitar coming out of The Edge. Real molten metal. It's not like anything we've ever done before, and we don't think it sounds like anything anyone else has done, either." U-2's last album was How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb in 2004.
Not only are Aerosmith working on a new studio album -- drummer Joey Kramer, in an online chat, says they will re-record their self-titled 1973 debut. "We're re-recording 'Mama Kin,' 'Make It,' 'Dream On' and 'Movin' Out' because our record company lost the masters. Can't wait for you to hear it -- old school returns." He says the new album should be out next fall. One of the songs will be called "Innocent Man." Aerosmith's last studio album of all original material was Just Push Play in 2001.
Bruce Springsteen continues to post live performances from his current tour with the E Street Band on his website. The latest three are "Darkness on the Edge of Town" from Albany, New York; "Reason to Believe" from Pittsburgh; and "Jackson Cage" from Washington, D-C. Springsteen and the E Streeters are in Oslo, Norway tonight. BruceSpringsteen.net
Quiet Riot singer Kevin DuBrow was laid to rest next to his father Sunday in Corona del Mar, California. DuBrow was found dead in his Las Vegas home on November 25th. Police are calling the death accidental and have ruled out foul play. The exact cause will be announced once the toxicology reports are in.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will be this year's halftime entertainment during Super Bowl 42 in Glendale, Arizona. The announcement was made during the FOX N-F-L pre-game show Sunday. Last year's Super Bowl halftime show featuring Prince is still being talked about, but not nearly as much as the Super Bowl 38 halftime show -- when the infamous "wardrobe malfunction" gave the world a peek at Janet Jackson's nipple.
Queen and Paul Rodgers have released their first studio work for free. The group recorded a new version of Roger Taylor's "Say It's Not True" for Nelson Mandela's 4-6-6-6-4 H-I-V and AIDS global campaign. Taylor wrote the song back in 2003 for the kickoff of Mandela's organization, and performed an acoustic version of it during the Queen and Paul Rodgers tour in 2005. The song was available as a download through both Queen and Paul Rodgers' websites on Saturday to mark World Aids Day. Queen website: Queen-Online-dot-com Paul Rodgers website: Paul-Rodgers-dot-com
John Mellencamp is apparently a member of the 2008 class being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Mellencamp told the crowd at his show in Erie, Pennsylvania Thursday night, "I got a phone call today. I found out I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame." His admission comes a month ahead of when the official announcement is usually delivered by the Hall of Fame Foundation. Neither the Hall of Fame nor Mellencamp's spokesperson have commented on the singer's declaration. Mellencamp had been nominated two times before this year. The induction ceremony will be March 10th at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. Hopefully Debbie Harry won't be there to insult him.
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne's auction of their personal items raked in more than 800-thousand dollars over Friday and Saturday in Los Angeles. Fans snapped up Ozzy's coat for 33-hundred dollars, his skull-adorned sneakers for 26-hundred and a pair of his wire-rimmed sunglasses for 52-hundred. The family's custom pool table went for just over 11-thousand dollars. Proceeds from the auction went to the Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Foundation.
Billy Joel has written a new holiday song -- but you won't hear him sing it. Joel gave "Christmas in Fallujah" to Cass Dillon, a 21-year-old singer-songwriter from Long Island, New York who's been working with Joel's longtime musical director Tommy Byrnes. Joel says, "I didn't feel I was the person to sing this song. I thought it should be somebody young, about a soldier's age. I wanted to help somebody else's career." Proceeds from "Christmas in Fallujah," which goes on sale at I-Tunes today, will be donated to Homes for Our Troops, which builds homes for service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with severe disabilities.
Classic rock T-shirts and an autographed copy of Jimi Hendrix's Axis: Bold as Love were popular with bidders at an auction at Christie's in New York Friday. Hendrix's Axis went for 20-thousand dollars, twice its pre-auction estimate. A limited edition, long-sleeved sweater designed to promote The Rolling Stones 1973 album Goat's Head Soup album sold for four-thousand-750 dollars. Only about a dozen of them were produced. And a maroon Led Zeppelin 1973 shirt fetched just over 16-hundred dollars.
NEW RELEASES TODAY FOR YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING:
The Nanny Diaries DVD w/Scarlett Johansson
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End DVD
Superbad DVD
24 - Season Six DVD
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit - The Fourth Year DVD
Live Earth - The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis DVD
Saturday Night Live - The Complete Second Season DVD
Will and Grace - Season Seven DVD
The Wire - The Complete Fourth Season DVD
Godsmack - Good Times, Bad Times - 10 Years of Godsmack CD
It's less than a week now until Led Zeppelin reunites to play at the Ahmet Ertegun tribute concert at London's O-2 Arena. The show will be the second time the band has performed publicly with the late John Bonham's son Jason in the drum seat. (The first was at the Atlantic Records 40th anniversary concert in 1988.) While Led Zeppelin reportedly will not commit to doing any shows beyond Monday's reunion in London, reports continue to circulate that they will hit the road next year. The latest report has them playing the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tennessee in June.
Bono says U-2's next album might be twice as big as anything they've done. He tells the U-K's Independent, "We have enough material for two albums, but it has to be extraordinary. And I think we've got that... There's some very hardcore guitar coming out of The Edge. Real molten metal. It's not like anything we've ever done before, and we don't think it sounds like anything anyone else has done, either." U-2's last album was How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb in 2004.
Not only are Aerosmith working on a new studio album -- drummer Joey Kramer, in an online chat, says they will re-record their self-titled 1973 debut. "We're re-recording 'Mama Kin,' 'Make It,' 'Dream On' and 'Movin' Out' because our record company lost the masters. Can't wait for you to hear it -- old school returns." He says the new album should be out next fall. One of the songs will be called "Innocent Man." Aerosmith's last studio album of all original material was Just Push Play in 2001.
Bruce Springsteen continues to post live performances from his current tour with the E Street Band on his website. The latest three are "Darkness on the Edge of Town" from Albany, New York; "Reason to Believe" from Pittsburgh; and "Jackson Cage" from Washington, D-C. Springsteen and the E Streeters are in Oslo, Norway tonight. BruceSpringsteen.net
Quiet Riot singer Kevin DuBrow was laid to rest next to his father Sunday in Corona del Mar, California. DuBrow was found dead in his Las Vegas home on November 25th. Police are calling the death accidental and have ruled out foul play. The exact cause will be announced once the toxicology reports are in.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will be this year's halftime entertainment during Super Bowl 42 in Glendale, Arizona. The announcement was made during the FOX N-F-L pre-game show Sunday. Last year's Super Bowl halftime show featuring Prince is still being talked about, but not nearly as much as the Super Bowl 38 halftime show -- when the infamous "wardrobe malfunction" gave the world a peek at Janet Jackson's nipple.
Queen and Paul Rodgers have released their first studio work for free. The group recorded a new version of Roger Taylor's "Say It's Not True" for Nelson Mandela's 4-6-6-6-4 H-I-V and AIDS global campaign. Taylor wrote the song back in 2003 for the kickoff of Mandela's organization, and performed an acoustic version of it during the Queen and Paul Rodgers tour in 2005. The song was available as a download through both Queen and Paul Rodgers' websites on Saturday to mark World Aids Day. Queen website: Queen-Online-dot-com Paul Rodgers website: Paul-Rodgers-dot-com
John Mellencamp is apparently a member of the 2008 class being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Mellencamp told the crowd at his show in Erie, Pennsylvania Thursday night, "I got a phone call today. I found out I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame." His admission comes a month ahead of when the official announcement is usually delivered by the Hall of Fame Foundation. Neither the Hall of Fame nor Mellencamp's spokesperson have commented on the singer's declaration. Mellencamp had been nominated two times before this year. The induction ceremony will be March 10th at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. Hopefully Debbie Harry won't be there to insult him.
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne's auction of their personal items raked in more than 800-thousand dollars over Friday and Saturday in Los Angeles. Fans snapped up Ozzy's coat for 33-hundred dollars, his skull-adorned sneakers for 26-hundred and a pair of his wire-rimmed sunglasses for 52-hundred. The family's custom pool table went for just over 11-thousand dollars. Proceeds from the auction went to the Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Foundation.
Billy Joel has written a new holiday song -- but you won't hear him sing it. Joel gave "Christmas in Fallujah" to Cass Dillon, a 21-year-old singer-songwriter from Long Island, New York who's been working with Joel's longtime musical director Tommy Byrnes. Joel says, "I didn't feel I was the person to sing this song. I thought it should be somebody young, about a soldier's age. I wanted to help somebody else's career." Proceeds from "Christmas in Fallujah," which goes on sale at I-Tunes today, will be donated to Homes for Our Troops, which builds homes for service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with severe disabilities.
Classic rock T-shirts and an autographed copy of Jimi Hendrix's Axis: Bold as Love were popular with bidders at an auction at Christie's in New York Friday. Hendrix's Axis went for 20-thousand dollars, twice its pre-auction estimate. A limited edition, long-sleeved sweater designed to promote The Rolling Stones 1973 album Goat's Head Soup album sold for four-thousand-750 dollars. Only about a dozen of them were produced. And a maroon Led Zeppelin 1973 shirt fetched just over 16-hundred dollars.
NEW RELEASES TODAY FOR YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING:
The Nanny Diaries DVD w/Scarlett Johansson
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End DVD
Superbad DVD
24 - Season Six DVD
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit - The Fourth Year DVD
Live Earth - The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis DVD
Saturday Night Live - The Complete Second Season DVD
Will and Grace - Season Seven DVD
The Wire - The Complete Fourth Season DVD
Godsmack - Good Times, Bad Times - 10 Years of Godsmack CD
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