Tuesday Rock Roundup

Longtime friends Eric Clapton and Robbie Robertson started recording their first album together last month in London, and according to a source close to Robertson, it is "going well." Robertson will continue to work on the album, which will be all original material, and then get together with Clapton at the end of the summer. But be patient...word is that they will take their time, and there is no release date or title. Slowhand has released collaborations with BB King and JJ Cale in the last 8 years. He also appears on Dirty City, the first single from Steve Winwood's new album...out today. We'll get to that in a sec.

Mudcrutch, the band Tom Petty fronted before forming the Heartbreakers, will release its debut album today. Recorded last August, the album, according to the liner notes, was done "live -- vocals, harmony, everything. Arrangements [were] done on [the] studio floor. Made in 10 days, [and] no headphones [were used]."

According to London's Mirror, Paul McCartney is writing a book about his first wife, the late Linda McCartney. A source tells the paper that Macca recently met with publishers and that he will "share lots of intimate moments" in the coffee-table book. It will contain hundreds of photos taken by Linda, who died 10 years ago this month from breast cancer. The UK press is ripe with stories about McCartney wife number-two, Heather Mills. She's reportedly making demands about his tour plans for later this year. One report has her drawing up rules regarding their daughter Beatrice...such as no one being allowed to curse in front of her...and her request for a private jet so she and Beatrice can follow him around.

Organizers of this past weekend's Coachella Music and Arts Festival are offering a 10-thousand-dollar reward and four lifetime event passes to whoever locates the giant graffiti-covered inflatable pig that was sent aloft at the end of Roger Waters' first set Sunday night. As of Monday afternoon, the whereabouts of the famous pig, which is about the size of a two-story house, are unknown. It was last seen floating skyward high above the Indio, California festival grounds during the intermission between Waters' first set and his performance of Dark Side of the Moon.

Scott Weiland says he'd love for his former Velvet Revolver bandmates to make up with Axl Rose and have a Guns n' Roses reunion. Weiland tells the British magazine Classic Rock: "I think that would be the greatest thing that they could do. I think the world would be very happy -- if they could stop talking trash about Axl in the press. It almost happened. The pens were ready to sign. I would love to see that happen, as a Guns n' Roses fan. I'd pay to see it." Bassist Duff McKagen says that he, Slash and drummer Matt Sorum were "never even close to reuniting with Axl."

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