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Appreciation: Clarence Clemons
http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7994-appreciation-clarence-clemons/
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Leslie West’s Leg Amputated
A life-threatening medical ailment resulted in doctors amputating the Mountain guitarist’s leg.
Leslie West was in Biloxi, Miss., Saturday to perform with Mountain at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino when his leg began swelling, a serious condition for anyone but especially perilous for West because he is diabetic. After being rushed to the emergency room, doctors decided the leg had to go in order to save West’s life and amputated the swollen limb up to the knee.
Although West is expected to make a full recovery, he does face extensive rehabilitation before he can get back to the business of being one of rock’s legendary guitarists. In the meantime his family has asked fans as well as the media to respect his privacy.
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Leslie's live call-in on the Howard Stern Show 6/22/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zi7cxxOSwU
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Mississippi Queen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZEcNpcTwUM
Theme For An Imaginary Western
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVG7eQ1TcNo
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Wild Man Fischer, Outsider Musician, Dies at 66
By MARGALIT FOX
Wild Man Fischer, right, with Frank Zappa around 1968.
Wild Man Fischer, a mentally ill street musician who became a darling of the pop music industry in the 1960s and as a result enjoyed four decades of strange, intermittent and often ill-fitting celebrity, died recently in Los Angeles. He was 66.
The cause was heart failure, said Josh Rubin, a filmmaker whose documentary portrait of Mr. Fischer, “dErailRoaDed,” was released in 2005. (The film’s title, taken from one of Mr. Fischer’s songs, is a word he coined to describe the radical dislocation he often felt.)
Mr. Fischer, whose first name was Larry, had lived with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder since he was a teenager. Since 2004 he had resided in an assisted-living facility for mental patients in Van Nuys, Calif.
A singer-songwriter, Mr. Fischer was sometimes called the grandfather of Outsider music, but he was an outsider even by Outsider standards.
His voice was raspy and very loud. There was little tune to his melodies, and his lyrics had the repetitiveness and seeming simplicity of nursery rhymes. His singing, typically a cappella, was punctuated by vocal effects like hooting, wailing and shouting.
Whether Mr. Fischer was a naïve genius whose work embodied primal truths, or simply a madman who practiced a musicalized form of ranting, is the subject of continuing debate.
But he attracted — and retains — a cult following, which over time has included well-known figures in the music business. Among them were Frank Zappa, who produced Mr. Fischer’s first album; the child actor-turned-musician Bill Mumy; the radio host Dr. Demento; and the singer Rosemary Clooney, with whom Mr. Fischer recorded a duet.
Mr. Fischer made several albums, toured sporadically and performed occasionally on television, including, in 1968, on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.”
His best-known song was almost certainly “Merry-Go- Round.” The tune has a faint Caribbean lilt. (In the recording studio, Mr. Fischer was often provided with instrumental accompaniment.) The lyrics, on first hearing, can strike the listener as a joke:
Come on, let’s merry-go, MERRY-go, merry-go-round.
Boop-boop-boop. [This is Mr. Fischer making a calliope-like noise.]
Merry-go, MERRY-go, merry-go-round.
Boop-boop-boop. ...
In the end, though, the joke — postmodern and self-referential — is on the listener: Once heard, the song circles unremittingly around in the head like a carousel that can never be stilled.
Lawrence Wayne Fischer was born in Los Angeles on Nov. 6, 1944. From his youth on, whenever he was in a manic upswing — a state of intense creative energy he would call the “pep” — songs cascaded out of him.
At 16, after he threatened his mother with a knife, she had him committed to a mental institution. He was committed again a few years later.
After being released for the second time in his late teens, he lived mainly on the streets. Dreaming of becoming a famous singer, he performed in local talent shows.
He gained a small following and by the mid-1960s was opening for the soul singer Solomon Burke. He later opened for Alice Cooper, the Byrds and others.
Most of the time, though, Mr. Fischer stood on the Sunset Strip, where for a dime, or even a nickel, he would sing for passers-by. Mr. Zappa discovered him there and in 1968 released “An Evening With Wild Man Fischer” on his label Bizarre Records.
Mr. Fischer eventually fell out with Mr. Zappa, as he did with nearly everyone in his orbit. He languished until the mid-1970s, when he was almost single-handedly responsible for the birth of Rhino Records.
Rhino had been a record store in Los Angeles; Mr. Fischer, a habitué, recorded a promotional single, “Go to Rhino Records,” in 1975. Demand for it proved so great that it catapulted the store’s owners into the record-producing business.
For Rhino, Mr. Fischer recorded three albums: “Wildmania,” “Pronounced Normal” and “Nothing Scary.” The last two were produced by the comedy rock duo Barnes & Barnes, in real life Robert Haimer and Mr. Mumy.
Mr. Fischer’s other songs include “My Name Is Larry,” “I’m Selling Peanuts for the Dodgers” and “I Wish I Was a Comic Book.” (That aspiration, at least, was realized: he was featured in several comic books over the years.)
With Ms. Clooney, he recorded the single “It’s a Hard Business.”
Mr. Fischer is survived by a brother, David, of Agoura Hills, Calif., and a sister, Joyce Sherman, of West Hills, Calif.
In 2004, after a severe episode of paranoia, Mr. Fischer was placed in the assisted-living facility and put on medication. Mr. Rubin, the filmmaker, whom Mr. Fischer had telephoned, often in high excitement, 20 or 30 times a day for several years, visited him there many times.
“After he went to the facility, the phone calls just stopped,” Mr. Rubin said in an interview on Friday. “The ‘pep’ was gone.”
Daniel E. Slotnik contributed reporting.
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Glen Campbell Diagnosed With Alzheimer’s
Country chart-topper Glen Campbell has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
Associated Press reports that Campbell’s representative Bobbie Gale announced that the country star has been diagnosed as being in the early stages of the degenerative brain disease.
He is releasing a new album in August titled Ghost On The Canvas and is preparing for a final tour towards the end of the year called ‘The Glen Campbell Goodbye Tour’.
Campbell and his wife Kim spoke to People magazine about the condition.
"I still love making music," says Campbell. "And I still love performing for my fans. I'd like to thank them for sticking with me through thick and thin."
Kim said she wanted fans to be aware of his condition before the shows, “Glen is still an awesome guitar player and singer. But if he flubs a lyric or gets confused on stage, I wouldn’t want people to think, 'What's the matter with him? Is he drunk?’”
Campbell has released over 70 albums that have sold more than 45 million copies and was inducted into the Country Hall Of Fame in 2005.
He is best known for a string of hits in the ‘60s and ‘70s, including ‘Wichita Lineman’, ‘Southern Nights’, ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ and ‘By The Time I Get To Phoenix’.
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Brian Wilson Denies Beach Boys Reunion
Brian Wilson has put an end to rumours of a Beach Boys reunion. He says he didn't even know it was happening.
In the world of on-again-off-again relationships, there may be none greater than Brian Wilson and the rest of the Beach Boys who have been pondering, at a minimum, a reunion concert to celebrate their 50th anniversary.
Thumbs up on the concept has come from Al Jardine and Mike Love while Brian Wilson has flip-flopped between maybe and "what?"
In a new interview with the Village Voice, Wilson is back to the latter, saying he isn't aware of any plans. "I don't know anything about that. I don't really [have a relationship with the other members] right now, and I'm not really interested in them."
The full interview will be published in the June 8 issue of the Voice where Wilson will also delve into ending his touring days, his George Gershwin album and the upcoming release of the Beach Boys' album Smile.
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Roger Taylor Plays With Ronnie Wood, Jeff Beck and Lulu
By Paul Cashmere
Queen drummer Roger Taylor played at the Wintershall Estate in Bramley, Surrey and rolled out a few classics with some good mates like Ronnie Wood, Jeff Beck and Lulu.
Taylor performed ‘Radio Gaga’, ‘Fat Bottomed Girls’ and ‘A Kind Of Magic’.
As a treat, The Stones’ Ronnie Wood joined him for the Hendrix song ‘Voodoo Chile’. Jeff Beck got up and though in another Hendrix song ‘Manic Depression’ then Roger joined Lulu later in the show for ‘Shout’.
According to www.queenonline.com Roger Taylor played on:
Roger Taylor
- Radio Gaga
- Heroes
- Fat Bottomed Girls
- Voodoo Chile (with Ronnie Wood)
- A Kind Of Magic
Roger Taylor with Jeff Beck
- Say It’s Not True
- Manic Depression
- People Get Ready
- Nessun Dorma
Roger then played drums with the Band du Lac on the following tracks:
Uptight
Shout - with Lulu
Cocaine
http://www.queenonline.com/en/news-archive/roger-wintershall-set-list/
As for the future of Queen, Paul Rodgers recently stated that he may tour with Queen again. Rodgers, formerly of Free and Bad Company, was the Queen singer between 2005 and 2009.
If Paul Rodgers is serious about performing with Queen ever again, based on the 2008 album ‘The Cosmos Rocks’ they released together, one word of advice … ‘Don’t”.
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Andrew Gold - RIP
Andrew Gold Dies From Heart Attack At 59
By Paul Cashmere
Singer / songwriter Andrew Gold has died at the age of 59 from a heart attack.
Gold was best known for his 1977 hit ‘Lonely Boy’ and 1978’s ‘Thank You For Being A Friend’, the later became the theme for the hit TV series The Golden Girls that ran from 1985-1992.
Gold continued in TV writing the theme song for ‘Mad About You’ known as ‘Final Frontier’.
Andrew Gold was born in Burbank. His mother Marni Nixon was the singing voice for many Hollywood actresses. She was the real singer for Natalie Wood in ‘West Side Story’, Deborah Kerr in ‘The King And I’ and Audrey Hepburn in ‘My Fair Lady’. His father Ernest Gold was an Academy Award winning composer. He wrote the music for ‘Exodus’.
Gold’s first band Bryndle featured Kenny Edwards, Wendy Waldman and Karla Bonoff. He worked closely with Linda Ronstadt as multi-instrumentalist on five of her albums from 1974’s ‘Heart Like A Wheel’ and onwards.
His big hit ‘Lonely Boy’ was featured in the movies ‘Boogie Nights’ and ‘The Waterboy’.
Andrew Gold worked with Art Garfunkel on the ‘Breakaway’ album. He played every instrument on Art’s solo hit ‘I Only Have Eyes For You’. He also played guitar and drums on Eric Carmen’s ‘She Did It’.
Andrew has sung on records or played live with three of the four Beatles, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Ringo Starr and has toured with the Eagles and Jackson Browne.
A big 10CC fan, after the band broke up in the 80’s Gold formed Wax with Graham Goldman. They were together for 5 years and delivered the hits ‘Right Between Your Eyes’ and ‘Bridge To Your Heart’.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Gold
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DAVID “FRANKIE” TOLER, FORMER ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND DRUMMER, PASSES AWAY AT AGE 59
BRADENTON, FL - David “Frankie” Toler, former Allman Brothers Band drummer, passed away Saturday, June 4, 2011, at 2:00 PM in hospice care in Bradenton, Florida, after a prolonged illness at the age of 59. Frankie is survived by his wife, Marsha, their daughter, Aja Kayle, and his older brother, Dan Toler. Frankie Toler’s health had been in decline for several years and it prevented him from recording and going on tour, but after receiving a liver transplant two years ago he had been able to play at some band rehearsals.
Frankie Toler had an extensive and stellar career as a world-class professional drummer, and played on the world stage with legendary bands and musicians, many whom are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Frankie came to national attention in the 1970s when he appeared on Dickey Betts & Great Southern’s album, Atlanta's Burning Down, and he toured extensively with the band. Later, Frankie was asked to be the drummer for The Allman Brothers Band and he appeared on their album, Brothers of the Road. When Gregg Allman began planning his solo album at the time, he only had one drummer in mind for his new band: Frankie Toler. Frankie recorded two albums with Gregg and touring extensively as the drummer with The Gregg Allman Band.
Frankie also played and toured with The Marshall Tucker Band from 1992-1994 and he played on their album, Walk Outside The Line. Frankie, along with his brother Dan, recorded two albums as The Toler Brothers Band and together they toured extensively throughout the country in the early 90s. In 2005, Frankie recorded an album with a legendary ensemble of Southern Rock all-stars as the Renegades of Southern Rock; and in 2009 Frankie played drums on the Toler/Townsend Band’s self-titled first album.
Frankie Toler’s brother, Dan Toler, who was the lead guitarist for The Allman Brothers Band, the Gregg Allman Band and Dickey Betts Great Southern Band, said of his younger brother, “Frankie was absolutely the best drummer I have ever played with in my entire life. He was a part of my life for the past 60 years and to lose him now is just devastating. But I did have the opportunity to grow up with one of the best rock and roll drummers in the world and it was truly a gift from God. I was blessed to have known him.”
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Bruce Springsteen singing on new Pete Seeger album
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – Bruce Springsteen has recorded a new Pete Seeger song for a Seeger album that is penciled in for release this holiday season.
Springsteen sings two verses and a chorus on "God is Counting on Us," a song Seeger wrote in response to the oil spill in the Gulf Coast. Appleseed Recordings will release the Seeger album.
The song will be the sixth exclusive Springsteen song that Appleseed has released in conjunction with its various Seeger projects, label owner Jim Musselman told Billboard.com. The Boss has had tracks on 1998's "Where Have all the Flowers Gone," 2007's Sowing the Seeds" and 2007's "Give Us Your Poor" among others.
"Tomorrow's Children," the latest Seeger recording from Appleseed, won the Grammy this year for musical album for children. Seeger, 92, has been honored with Grammys, a Kennedy Center Award, the Presidential Medal of the Arts and a Lifetime Legends medal from the Library of Congress.
Springsteen paid tribute to Seeger in 2006 with his album "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions" and a subsequent live album featuring performances of the recordings.
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From the desk of Louie...
http://www.louielouie.net/blog/
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Thanks to Dave Basner for these news stories....
SPRINGSTEEN SPEAKS AT MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR CLEMONS
A memorial service was held for E Street Band saxophone great Clarence Clemons in Palm Beach, Florida on Tuesday. According to The Palm Beach Daily News, Bruce Springsteen delivered an emotional eulogy at the gathering after performing a “softened” solo version of “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out,” moving many to tears. The Boss even reportedly broke down at one point when he spoke about meeting Clarence 40 years ago. Jackson Browne and fellow E Street Band members Max Weinberg and Garry Tallent were also in attendance.
• TIDBIT: Bruce said Clarence was “a man not only big in stature, but in heart and spirit.”
• TIDBIT: Clemons’ fifth wife and widow, Victoria, revealed that he asked her to scatter his ashes at a cherished spot in Hawaii with “all of the special women in his life,” including his previous wives – three of whom were at the ceremony.
NEW JERSEY TO PAY RESPECTS TO CLARENCE CLEMONS
Flags in New Jersey are flying at half-staff today (6/23) in honor of late E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons. New Jersey governor Chris Christie said that Clarence’s partnership with Bruce Springsteen and the rest of the band “brought great pride to our state and joy to every fan of this music around the world.” Clemons passed away last Saturday at the age of 69 following a stroke he suffered earlier in the month.
• TIDBIT: Governor Christie also said, “On a personal note, when I heard about the Big Man’s passing on Saturday night, I was struck with an overwhelming feeling that the days of my youth were now finally over.”
JEFF BECK ANNOUNCES FALL TOUR DATES
Jeff Beck has announced a fall tour which includes dates on the West Coast and in Canada. He kicks it off on October 12th in Halifax, Nova Scotia and treks through the Great White North before coming to Seattle on October 28th and winding down in Napa on November 1st. Tickets go on sale tomorrow (6/24), which happens to be Jeff’s birthday. You can get all of the guitarist’s dates at JeffBeck.com.
• TIDBIT: Jeff won three GRAMMY Awards this year.
WILL BILLY PLAY WITH PAUL AGAIN?
In 2008, when Billy Joel performed the final concerts ever at New York’s now-demolished Shea Stadium, Paul McCartney joined him on stage. So in September, when the Beatle great comes to the Big Apple to perform at Yankee Stadium, will the Piano Man be joining him? Here’s what he said.
(Cut #3) “Well I’m gonna go see him. I mean, if he invites me to come up, yeah, hell yeah! I mean you don’t say no to McCartney.”
McCartney plays New York on July 15th and 16th. Meanwhile, you can see his onstage duet with Billy from 2008 in the documentary film Last Play at Shea.
• TIDBIT: In 2009, when Paul performed at Citi Field, the stadium that replaced Shea, Billy joined him onstage.
NICK MASON TALKS PINK FLOYD REISSUES
Pink Floyd and EMI Music plan to put out both previously released and unreleased music from the band during a campaign called Why Pink Floyd. Over the next nine months, “Experience Editions” of the group’s records will come out featuring the original album and a second disc of related content from that effort. Drummer Nick Mason told us about his favorite bonus features.
(Cut #4) “The alternate takes, the alternate versions of things were probably for me more interesting than the various different qualities and the various different formats that is one of the elements of these collections of discs.”
The legendary rocker went on to explain why he likes listening to the alternate versions.
(Cut #5) “It’s that thing of revisiting things that you did and thinking, ‘Oh yeah, I can see how that led to that.’ And in my case, on one or two rare occasions, making that judgment… listening to something and going, ‘Oh yeah, well we improved on that,’ and then finding out that it was done afterwards so it’s a complete sort of reversal in my mind of what I thought.”
The music will also be available as “Immersion Box Sets” that boast CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays and memorabilia. The first re-release is Dark Side of the Moon, which comes out in various packages on September 26th. Learn more at PinkFloyd.com.
• TIDBIT: Pink Floyd have sold over 200-million albums worldwide.
STEVIE NICKS ANNOUNCES TOUR
Stevie Nicks has announced a summer tour. It kicks off on August 9th in Denver and runs for a month, winding down on September 4th in Wantagh, New York. The 15-city trek is in support of the singer’s latest solo record, In Your Dreams, which debuted last month at number six on the Billboard 200 chart. Get all the dates atRockALittle.com.
• TIDBIT: Stevie recently toured with Rod Stewart.
AMERICA TO GET STAR ON HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME
It’s a good day for America – the band that is. That’s because the iconic GRAMMY-winning group have been selected to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The group, Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell, will get their star next year, which marks the 40th anniversary of their Best New Artist GRAMMY win. You can see the band live now as they’re on the road on their 40th Anniversary Tour. Get the dates at VenturaHighway.com.
• TIDBIT: On July 26th, the band will release Back Pages, a collection of covers of songs by the likes of Bob Dylan, Buffalo Springfield, Simon & Garfunkel, the Beach Boys and many others.
ROBERT PLANT TO BE HONORED IN MONTREAL
Robert Plant will be honored at the Montreal International Jazz Festival this week. During the Led Zeppelin singer’s concert with his Band of Joy tomorrow (6/24), he will be recognized with the event’s Spirit Award, which acknowledges an artist’s “extraordinary contribution to the music world.”
• TIDBIT: Previous Spirit Award winners include Paul Simon, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen.
CASH MEMORABILIA AUCTIONED OFF FOR CHARITY
Johnny Cash’s daughter, Cindy Cash, cleaned out her closet for a charity auction held this past weekend in California. Items like her dad’s Air Force shirt and his black knee-length leather jacket were sold with proceeds going toward the Coalition to End Family Violence and the Ventura County FOOD Share. The auction was held during the 3rd Annual Johnny Cash Music Festival at the Ventura County Fairgrounds, which included a performance by Kris Kristofferson among others.
DELUXE EDITION OF NEVERMIND TO MARK 20TH ANNIVERSARY
A super deluxe edition of Nirvana’s Nevermind album will come out this fall to mark 20 years since the album’s release. On September 20th, fans will be able to pick up the special edition package, which comes with four CDs, one DVD, unreleased tracks, rarities, B-sides, alternative mixes, rare live recordings and more.
OUT THIS WEEK
Tuesday, June 21st
Night Ranger – Somewhere in California
CROSBY, STILLS AND NASH STILL DOING A COVERS ALBUM
Crosby, Stills and Nash have spent a long time working on an album of cover songs. Most recently, they were partnered with producer Rick Rubin and Columbia Records but in January, the trio parted ways with Rick and the label. So will the record ever see the light of day? David Crosby filled us in.
(Cut #1) “Yeah, we’re not going to waste all that rehearsal time, man! The chemistry with the producer guy just didn’t work. We worked with him for two years, got nothing, we went into the studio by ourselves and got four things in five days. Even I can do the math on that. I think we will unquestionably finish that and put it out at some point in the near future.”
No word on when in the near future that will be.
• TIDBIT: In 2009, David said the group was working on versions of James Taylor’s “You Can Close Your Eyes,” The Grateful Dead’s “Uncle John’s Band” and Bob Dylan’s “Lady of the North Country.”
JACK WHITE IN TALKS TO RECORD MUSIC FOR KINKS MOVIE
According to the BBC, Kinks frontman Ray Davies says Jack White is in talks to record music for a film adaptation of the Kinks’ 1975 album Schoolboys in Disgrace. It’s yet another interesting project for the former White Stripes singer, who told us he’s able to work on many different artistic endeavors (See Related Cut #9). Comedian and director Bob Goldthwait has written a script and the film may begin production this year or in early 2012.
• TIDBIT: Jack White is balancing two bands at the moment: The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather.
BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD TO TOUR
Buffalo Springfield are heading out on tour. According to Billboard, the legendary group will be hitting the road come September, and member Richie Furay said that they have a “bunch of cities for the fall,” and now they’re just trying to put it all together “logically.” The band will be performing at Bonnaroo this weekend.
• TIDBIT: The current incarnation of Buffalo Springfield includes Furay, Stephen Stills and Neil Young.
THE ZOMBIES RELEASE NEW ALBUM; PREP TOUR
The Zombies, best known for their 60’s hits like “She’s Not There” and “Time of the Season” have released their new album titled Breathe Out Breathe In. The group featuring founding members Rod Argent and singer Colin Blunstone, will kick off their 50th Anniversary Tour in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on September 15th. .
• STATEMENT: Rod Argent released the following statement: “We didn’t want to recreate the past, but we wanted to capture The Zombies’ essence and meaning. Our energy and enthusiasm for making music is the same as it was when we first started and the magic and mystery of the whole music making process, we are still thrilled by it all.”
DON’T ASK OZZY ABOUT THE BAT
In 1982, Ozzy Osbourne famously bit the head off of a bat while performing. Since then, he’s been asked about the incident countless times, and he’s tired of having to answer to that question, as he explains.
(Cut #1) “One of the things that really amazes me though, even now, people go, ‘So Ozzy, did you really bite the head off a bat?’ I mean, if you don’t know that, you must’ve been living in a cave. I like people to ask me questions that are not really ancient. Can you imagine how many times people have asked me that question, it’s ridiculous. I mean, on my epitaph it’ll read, ‘Ozzy Osbourne, born so and so, died so and so, the man who bit the head off of a bat.’”
Learn more about Ozzy by checking out the documentary about him, God Bless Ozzy Osbourne. You can find out about that flick at Facebook.com/GodBlessOzzyOsbourne.
• TIDBIT: Ozzy is currently touring in Europe and you can see his upcoming dates at Ozzy.com.
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Tommy Lee Says Recording Albums Is Pointless Now
By Andrew Tijs
Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee says that that there’s no point recording albums anymore.
In an interview with Noisecreep, the drummer said that he’s probably made his last album and thinks it’s better to stick to singles or EPs.
He said, “As far as new music goes, and people say it all the time, ‘When are you guys gonna make a new record, dude?’ It's like, ‘Really, why?’ No one buys them anyway anymore. And I'm not sure what the reason is. To tell you the truth, I think the days of making a record, for me personally, are over.
“After this last Methods record I did I'll never make another full record I think. It's a waste of time cause people can only ingest a song at a time, so why not make bitching songs at a time and release them. If you want to call them singles, great, whatever; or at its maximum, an EP, four songs, done, boom. I just really feel like the days of the entire record are long gone.”
He confirms that it would be a group decision if Motley Crue were to record again, but “I think it's just a waste of time, it really is. I don't listen to anybody's full record anymore and when I did, I don't think I listened to the whole record”.
He suggests it might just be his “child-like short attention span”, saying “I'm not a fan of that long, drawn-out f*ing album anymore. I don't think most people are; if you look at sales most people are buying songs at a time and they're just not really buying records.”
Motley Crue are currently out on tour at the moment, having recently done shows where they played the entire Dr. Feelgood album front-to-back.
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A fighter and a lover (and a superhero too) . . .
CANDYE KANE’S ‘SISTER VAGABOND’ ALBUM, DUE AUGUST 16 ON DELTA GROOVE, RINGS TRIUMPHANT IN A CHALLENGING YEAR
Winning first battle over cancer, Kane celebrates 11th long-player, a set co-produced by guitarist Laura Chavez. Its predecessor, Superhero, was nominated for Blues Music Award.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Candye Kane has been called a survivor, a superhero and the toughest girl alive. (All are also titles of her self-penned songs.) Her eleventh CD release, Sister Vagabond, will hit the streets on August 16, 2011 on Delta Groove Records. Produced by Kane and her noted guitarist Laura Chavez, Sister Vagabond is a worthy successor to their 2010 collaboration, Superhero, which was nominated for Best Contemporary Blues CD in the Blues Foundation’s Blues Music Awards.
The jump-blues singer, songwriter and mother of two from East Los Angeles is a five-time nominee for Blues Music Awards, has nabbed ten San Diego Music Awards and starred in a sold-out stage play about her life. She’s beat pancreatic cancer in the last two years. She has performed worldwide for presidents and movie stars.
But her path to success was not always glamorous or easy. Raised in what she calls a dysfunctional blue-collar family, Candye became a mother, a pinup cover girl and a punk-rock, hillbilly blues-belter by the time she was just 21 years old. Ten CDs, six record labels, millions of international road miles and countless awards later, Miss Kane has proven to be a true survivor as she scrambled her way to the top of the roots-music heap, creating a world renowned reputation that has spanned two decades.
A colorful mixture of the traditional and the eclectic, Kane cut her musical teeth in the early ’80s onstage with Hollywood musicians and friends Social Distortion, Dwight Yoakam, Dave Alvin, Los Lobos, The Blasters, X, Fear and the Circle Jerks, to name just a few. While raising two sons, this role model for the disenfranchised championed large-sized women, fought for the equal rights of the GLBT community and inspired music lovers everywhere. Her fans are a mixture of true outsiders: bikers, blues fans, punk rockers, drag queens, fat girls, queers, burlesque dancers, rockabilly and swing dancers, gray-haired hippies, feminists and everyday folk of all ages.
In 1986, then married to Thomas Yearsley of the Paladins, she was touched by the music of Big Maybelle, Big Mama Thornton, Ruth Brown and more. Her self-released 1991 Burlesque Swing caught the ear of Texas impresario Clifford Antone, who signed her to a deal with Antone’s Records. Los Lobos’ Cesar Rosas and Paladin/Hacienda Brother/Stone River Boy Dave Gonzalez co-produced the first album of the deal, Home Cookin’. Picked up by Discovery (later Sire) Records, the Dave Alvin/Derek O’Brien-produced Diva La Grande was followed by Swango in the height of the swing craze.
Rounder/Bullseye Records signed her in 1995, releasing The Toughest Girl Alive, produced by Scott Billington. Four albums followed on the German RUF label, including the Bob Margolin-produced Guitar’dand Feathered. She then pacted with her current label, Delta Groove, releasing Superhero in 2010 and now Sister Vagabond in 2011.
Her full-time, 250-days-a-year touring schedule started in 1992. And today, Kane’s live shows are the stuff of legend. She honors the bold blues women of the past with both feet firmly planted in the present. She belts, growls, shouts, croons and moans from a lifetime of suffering and overcoming obstacles. She uses music as therapy and often writes and chooses material with positive affirmations that leave the audience feeling healed and exhilarated. In a show that is part humor, part revival meeting and party sexuality celebration, she'll deliver a barrelhouse-tongue-in-cheek blues tune or a gospel ballad, encouraging audiences to leave behind religious intolerance. She’ll slay the crowd with her balls out rendition of “Whole Lotta Love” or glorify the virtues of zaftig women with “200 Pounds of Fun.” She often says she is a ”fat black drag queen trapped in a white woman's body” and she dresses the part.
Kane has been included in countless blues and jazz CD anthologies including Rolling Stone Jazz and Blues Album Guide and Musichound: Blues, The Essential Album Guide and Dan Aykroyd’s 30 Essential Women of the Blues. She appeared on the influential call-to-arms of Southern California roots music, A Town South of Bakersfield on Enigma Records, alongside Lucinda Williams and Dwight Yoakam.
In addition to her musical achievements, Kane has become an activist and philanthropist in recent years. In August 2009, she appeared in Dublin, Ireland for the World Congress for Downs Syndrome with her United by Music charity http://www.unitedbymusic.eu The project provides performance opportunities, blues history lessons and songwriting instruction to young people with disabilities, encouraging them to write their own blues songs to help them overcome their daily challenges.
A fighter par excellence, Candye has an authenticity, determination and optimism that keep her shows passionate, honest and irresistible.
“I take things one day at a time and today I am feeling great and very optimistic about my new CD,” Kane says. It’s been awesome to write and co-produce again with my guitarist Laura Chavez. I am grateful for every chance I get to make music live, or in the studio. Most people are given only three months to live after a pancreatic cancer diagnosis and three years later, I am still here. So any opportunity I have to create music makes me humbled and grateful.
“People ask me why I want to work so hard and so much, since I tour 250 days a year. Everyone says I should stay home and relax after my health struggle. But music is my life and neuroendocrine cancer is a mostly manageable disease. I will continue to work as much as I can because I know life is fragile anyway. I would be fine if I died onstage doing what I love like Country Dick Montana or Johnny Guitar Watson. I’m not planning on going anytime soon, but when I do exit this plane, I hope it’s making someone else feel inspired by the powerful words in my songs.”
What the media has said about Candye Kane:
“A Blues Diva of the 20th century who can liven up any party without shedding a stitch.”
– People Magazine
“A true celebrity diva.”
— The New Yorker
“This tough cookie wails with a rousing confidence, affirmation of identity, the courage of her convictions and wisdom beyond her years.”
— Downbeat
“A serious and seriously powerful singer who lays it all on the line.”
— The Philadelphia Inquirer
“A voice that is a natural wonder – like the Grand Canyon.”
— The Washington Post
“Candye Kane has that big, brassy voice that has authority and sass; the kind of thing men like because its seductive and women like because it’s powerful.”
— B.B. King to the San Diego Reader
“(Candye Kane’s guitarist) Laura Chavez is not just a rising star. She’s already arrived.”
— Vintage Guitar
“Bawdy, brassy and gloriously omnisexual, the plus sized singer belts out the blues like nobody’s business.”
– Dallas Voice
“The most powerful and entertaining female blues singer of her generation.”
— Bluesbytes.com
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Thanks to Bob Merlis
AMERICAN ASTRONAUT PREVIEWS NEW ZZ TOP TRACK ON THE WAY TO SPACE
NASA Astronaut Michael Fossum, on his way to the International Space Station aboard the Russian Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhastan is treating his fellow astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the mission to a very appropriate sneak preview of a track that is slated to be in part of ZZ Top’s, as yet untitled, forthcoming album.
Fossum has maintained friendships with Billy F Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard, the members of ZZ Top, for some time, dating back to even before the missions he flew aboard the US Space Shuttle in 2006 and 2008. He caught wind that one of the tracks on the new album, the band’s first studio recording since 2005, is entitled “Flyin’ High.” A excerpt from the song’s lyrics includes the following couplet:
“Flyin’ high, I’m gonna touch the sky”
The reference obviously resonates with Astronaut Fossum regarding Soyuz trajectory and docking at the International Space Station. At 120 beats-per-minute, the song should keep the crew energized during the flight.
The astronaut, who grew up in McAllen, TX and holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University might also find home state resonance in a line that chronicles a comely woman who wears “high heeled cowboy boots.” The Texas A&M connection is underscored by the fact that Charlene “Chuck” Hill, Dusty’s wife, is also “Texas Aggie.”
During the course of his mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, Fossum played the band’s hit “Got Me Under Pressure,” a reference to the raising of cabin pressures during the course of that 2008 flight.
Astronaut Fossum is joined on the latest Soyuz-ISS mission by Russian cosmonaut Segei Volkov and Satoshi Furukawa of Japan’s JAXA space agency.
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AIN’T THAT GOOD NEWS!
LEGENDARY RECORDING ARTIST AND CHICAGO NATIVE SAM COOKE TO BE HONORED IN
STREET NAMING CEREMONY:
SAM COOKE WAY
Chicago, IL - The life and legacy of Sam Cooke will be celebrated with the naming of 36th Street at Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, Illinois as Sam Cooke Way on Saturday, June 18 at 2:00 P.M. The ceremony and celebration of the late Cooke, who grew up in Chicago, is being headed by Gregg Parker, CEO, historian and founder of the Chicago Blues Museum and Record Row Foundation.
The location of Sam Cooke Way is in the midst of Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, birthplace to some of Chicago’s most talented artists in music and the associated arts. It is where the Cooke family settled after migrating from Clarksdale, Mississippi in the early 1930’s, initially residing at 3527 Cottage Grove Avenue and later moving to 724 E. 36th Street. Young Sam Cooke attended the neighborhood's Doolittle Elementary School and, in 1948, was a graduate of Phillips High School.
The unveiling of the new Sam Cooke Way street sign is taking place with the participation of the office of 4th Ward Alderman Will Burns who is expected to be on hand. Other notables taking part are 3rd Ward Alderman Pat Dowell, legendary radio personality and "Mayor of Bronzeville" Herb Kent, Sam Cooke's younger brothers L.C. and David Cooke as well as other Cooke family members, radio personality Mike Julius and the legendary soul group The Notations (whose members will sing one of Sam’s classic hits), and of course Chicago Blues Museum CEO Gregg Parker, as well as legions of Sam Cooke fans and fellow musicians.
Sam Cooke began his professional career as a teenager, singing in local churches as a member of the Highway QCs. After being recruited by the veteran Soul Stirrers at the end of 1950, his lead vocals on "Jesus Gave Me Water" in 1951 gave the already-successful group their biggest hit ever. Twenty-year old Sam Cooke became a gospel legend virtually overnight.
Throughout his gospel career, Sam wrote, recorded and covered many timeless non-secular standards including "Touch the Hem of His Garment," "That’s Heaven to Me, "Be With Me Jesus," and "Jesus, Wash Away My Troubles.” The Soul Stirrers renditions of "Peace in the Valley," "The Last Mile of the Way," "He's So Wonderful" and "Farther Along," featuring Cooke as lead singer, are still considered gospel classics to this day.
Sam Cooke made the switch to secular music in 1956, releasing his million-selling single “You Send Me” the following year. The song rose to #1 on both the R&B and Pop charts and its innovative blending of gospel, rhythm and blues and pop earned Cooke the title The Man Who Invented Soul. Cooke would eventually chart an amazing 34 Top 40 R&B hits over his eight year pop career, writing and recording such classics as "Chain Gang," "Only Sixteen," "Cupid," "(What A) Wonderful World," "Twistin’ the Night Away," "Having a Party" and the evocative "A Change Is Gonna Come." Sam Cooke, along with Elvis Presley, was among the original inductees into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.
Chicago Blues Museum CEO Parker noted, "Sam Cooke has long been considered one of the pioneers of, if not the creative force behind, what has come to be known as soul music. Cooke was among the first modern black performers and composers who was a proponent of economic self-determination insofar as he actually came to own his own master recordings and publishing contracts and started his own record company. Additionally, he was an advocate and activist on behalf of civil rights, a fact that is mirrored in his epochal song, ‘A Change Is Gonna Come,’ the lyrics of which were paraphrased by President Barack Obama on the night he won the election”
The Chicago Blues Museum, the city's most active and visible premier music organization, is dedicated to the preservation of the legacy and the rich living tradition of the blues, jazz, soul and gospel. It chronicles the contribution of these genres' pioneers and the places from which the music emerged. Its mission focuses on education and public involvement.
The museum's state-of-the-art exhibits, music and film presentations and outreach programs have been a cultural force throughout the city for over 17 years at such sites as the Museum of Science and Industry, Navy Pier, Chicago Symphony Center, Roosevelt University, the South Shore Cultural Center, Chicago Housing Authority, Union Station and others. The Chicago Blues Museum documents and seeks to ensure the continuance of the vibrant art forms that are rooted in the blues. The Chicago Blues Museum promotes the blues as one of Chicago's greatest gifts to the world. It is a uniquely compelling tourist attraction and destination in a city whose rich musical legacy resonates throughout numerous forms including gospel, blues, R&B, soul and roots. Gregg Parker recalled, "I grew up next door to Sam Cooke and his legacy inspired me not only in my career in the music industry, but also as an entrepreneur and human being."
Cook Country Commissioner Jerry Butler, himself a soul music legend, will proclaim June 18, 2011 as Sam Cooke Day in conjunction with the street naming ceremony.
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EXPERIENCE HENDRIX LLC & LEGACY RECORDINGS
LAUNCHES FOURTH WAVE OF RELEASES IN
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED JIMI HENDRIX CATALOG PROJECT
Quartet of Releases Includes
4-Disc Winterland Box Set;
Hendrix In The West Expanded;
Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live At The Isle Of Wight DVD
& Every Hendrix Appearance/Performance on The Dick Cavett Show
Available Everywhere Tuesday, September 13
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Experience Hendrix LLC and Legacy Recordings proudly announce four new titles representing the fourth wave of releases in the monumental Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project, available everywhere Tuesday, September 13.
The fourth round of titles from the artist Rolling Stone magazine called "the greatest guitarist of all time" focuses on Hendrix the concert performer with four outstanding releases underscoring the artist's electrifying on-stage prowess: Winterland (a 4 Disc Deluxe Box Set), Hendrix In The West (Expanded), Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live At The Isle Of Wight on DVD, and Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show (every Hendrix appearance on the celebrated talk show on DVD).
Jimi Hendrix Experience- Winterland (versions available: 4 Disc Deluxe Box Set or 8 12" 180 gram Vinyl Audiophile LP Deluxe Box Set or 1 CD Winterland "Highlights")
Winterland is drawn from six stellar shows recorded over three days (October 10, 11 and 12, 1968) at San Francisco's historic Winterland Ballroom. These special performances celebrated the two year anniversary of the Jimi Hendrix Experience and came just as the groundbreaking album Electric Ladyland was released.
Winterland presents some of Hendrix’s most spectacular guitar work and the four CD set (also available as eight 12" vinyl LPs) is filled with rare live versions of classic songs such as "Manic Depression," "Are You Experienced?," "Tax Free," and "Little Wing" that are not part of any other Sony Legacy release. Fans will also enjoy Hendrix’s dramatic interpretations of Cream’s "Sunshine Of Your Love" and Howlin’ Wolf’s "Killing Floor" [with the Experience joined by Jefferson Airplane bassist Jack Casady] as well his rendition of Bob Dylan’s "Like A Rolling Stone," which has been selected as the lead track for this special release.
This special deluxe box set features never before released music from each of the six unforgettable Winterland performances. The new standard and deluxe editions of Winterland are markedly different from a single disc compilation, long out of print, that was briefly issued by Rykodisc in 1987 and 1988.
The deluxe edition also presents a rare interview with Hendrix recorded backstage at the Boston Garden a few weeks after the Winterland performances. This previously unreleased bonus provides fans with a unique window into Hendrix’s views about his background, his approach to the guitar and songwriting and future direction of his music.
The deluxe edition also features a 36 page booked filled with previously unpublished images by acclaimed photographers Robert Knight, Allen Tannenbaum and Jim Marshall as well as an essay by noted Rolling Stone journalist David Fricke.
The featured track, "Like A Rolling Stone," will precede the album's release as a CD and 7" vinyl single coming out Tuesday, August 23 in the states (international release date: August 22). The single will also feature a previously unreleased live version of “Purple Haze” from the Winterland concerts that will not be featured on the box set.
Amazon will offer an exclusive bonus CD to be bundled with all orders of the four CD and 8 LP Winterland box sets sold through Amazon during 2011 consisting of recordings from Jimi's February 4, 1968 Winterland performance: "Killing Floor," "Red House," "Dear Mr. Fantasy (Part One)" and "Dear Mr. Fantasy (Part Two)." These tracks have been previously available only as part of the rare Dagger Records official bootleg Paris '67/San Francisco '68 and have never been available for retail sale.
Tracklisting Jimi Hendrix Experience- Winterland (4 Disc Deluxe Box Set)
Disc One
10/10/68 Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco
Tax Free
Lover Man
Sunshine of Your Love
Hear My Train A Comin’
Killing Floor
Foxey Lady
Hey Joe
Star Spangled Banner
Purple Haze
Disc Two
10/11/68 Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco
Tax Free
Like a Rolling Stone
Lover Man
Hey Joe
Fire
Foxey Lady
Are You Experienced
Red House
Purple Haze
Disc Three
10/12/68 Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco
Fire
Lover Man
Like a Rolling Stone
Manic Depression
Sunshine of Your Love
Little Wing
Spanish Castle Magic
Red House
Hey Joe
Purple Haze
Wild Thing
Disc Four
Bonus disc Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco
Foxy Lady
Are You Experienced
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
Red House
Star Spangled Banner
Purple Haze
Jimi Hendrix: Boston Garden Backstage Interview
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Jimi Hendrix - Hendrix In The West - available as single CD or 2-Disc 12" 180 gram Vinyl Audiophile LP Vinyl version
Consisting of live material recorded at venues ranging from the Berkeley Community Theatre and the San Diego Sports Arena to the Isle of Wight Festival, Hendrix In The West captures the guitarist exploring new directions in sound during 1969-70. Robert Christgau, the Dean of American Rock Critics, called Hendrix's versions of "Red House" and, "Johnny B. Goode" on this album "definitive." Out of print in the US since 1974 and for more than two decades internationally, Hendrix In TheWest, has remained one of the most requested albums by fans to return to the commercial marketplace.
Hendrix In The West will be reissued as an expanded single disc featuring five additional, previously unavailable performances. The album's iconic cover features a classic Jim Marshall photograph of the guitarist and the twenty-four page book is filled with rare and previously unseen images captured by Marshall’s distinctive lens. This expanded edition of Hendrix In The West will also be available on 12" vinyl as a 2 LP set.
Tracklisting Hendrix In The West
The Queen
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Little Wing
Fire
I Don’t Live Today
Spanish Castle Magic
Red House
Johnny B. Goode
Lover Man
Blue Suede Shoes
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
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Jimi Hendrix - Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix At The Isle Of Wight - DVD
Experience Hendrix has also expanded this definitive presentation of Jimi’s historic performance before 600,000 at the Isle of Wight Festival in August 1970.
Exquisitely directed by Academy Award-winning American documentary/experimental filmmaker Murray Lerner, this special reissue now runs more than 180 minutes and features a newly created special features section that allows viewers to view individual camera angles of selected performances. Hendrix fans can now select individual camera angles to focus on the guitarist’s incomparable fretwork and technique during such signature songs as "All Along The Watchtower," "Spanish Castle Magic," "Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band," "Foxey Lady," and more.
This new definitive DVD edition also features newly discovered footage of Hendrix’s Isle Of Wight performance of "Hey Joe," the single that launched his meteoric career in England in 1966.
Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live At The Isle Of Wight features both stereo and 5.1 surround soundtracks mixed by Eddie Kramer, Hendrix’s original recording engineer.
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Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show - DVD
The complete collection of Jimi Hendrix's celebrated appearances on The Dick Cavett Show is now available on Legacy Recordings. The Dick Cavett Show marked Jimi's US network television debut and this special documentary, directed by multiple Grammy Award winner Bob Smeaton [Beatles Anthology, Band Of Gypsys], features complete live performances of "Izabella", "Machine Gun", and "Hear My Train A Comin'" as well as new interviews with Cavett, Experience band members Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox, and others. Jimi's own insightful interviews with Cavett touched upon a variety of personal and professional issues ranging from his stint as a US Army paratrooper to his celebrated rendition of the "Star Spangled Banner" at the Woodstock Festival. These conversations with Cavett helped reveal the humor, passion, and intelligence of the man behind such rock classics as Are You Experienced and Electric Ladyland.
This deluxe edition also includes a new, behind the scenes documentary. The Dick Cavett Show DVD runs 90 minutes total.
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This year's edition of the Experience Hendrix concert tour, presented by Fender Musical Instruments, recently completed a limited run of select dates in May with an all-star lineup of musical greats paying homage to the abiding genius of Jimi Hendrix. This year's tour included performances by Billy Cox, Steve Vai, Robert Randolph, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, David Hidalgo & Cesar Rosas [Los Lobos], Keb' Mo', Eric Johnson, North Mississippi All Stars, Brad Whitford [Aerosmith], Living Colour, Ernie Isley, Chris Layton [Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble], Mato [Indigenous] with other special guests. The Orange County Register, in its review of Experience Hendrix at the 2011 Doheny Blues Festival, called it "...overwhelmingly strong, even inspired, an Electric Church encounter that one likes to think would have made Jimi proud."
Massively popular with fans and critics alike, the 2010 Experience Hendrix tour inspired Larry Rodgers of the Arizona Republic to rave, "It was encouraging to see fans of all ages, from teens to baby boomers who witnessed Hendrix's career launch firsthand, in the Mesa crowd. The show and that crowd made it clear that Hendrix's magical music will never die."
Dan Durchholz, covering the tour for the St. Louis Post Dispatch marveled at how "...the Experience Hendrix tour showed just how pervasive (Hendrix's) influence continues to be. The three-hour show featured an all-star lineup from a variety of musical traditions, united by a collective debt to the iconic artist's songs, showmanship and trailblazing technique. Despite its creator's demise decades ago, Hendrix's music is still alive and well."
Experience Hendrix bassist Billy Cox -- who first befriended Hendrix in the 101st Airborne Division of U.S. Army, played in both the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys and performed with Hendrix at such landmark festivals as Woodstock and the Isle of Wight -- is delighted to play a part in the current tour saying, "It's a thrill for me to play Jimi's music for audiences now as it was in the 1960s."
For more information, visit www.jimihendrix.com
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Legacy's first round of Jimi Hendrix releases opened with the release of Valleys of Neptune, a long-awaited album of previously unavailable Jimi Hendrix studio recordings, which debuted on the Billboard 200 best-selling albums chart at #4 while four additional Hendrix catalog titles -- Are You Experienced (#44), Electric Ladyland (#60), First Rays of the New Rising Sun (#63), and Axis: Bold As Love (#67) -- rocketed back into the Billboard 200 four decades after their original release dates. A testimony to the enduring vitality and importance of the trailblazing artist-guitarist-performer, Jimi Hendrix had five albums in America's Top 100 in March 2010.
The second wave of 2010 Jimi Hendrix titles culminated in the long awaited release of West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology, a definitive career-spanning four CD box set tracking Hendrix’s remarkable journey from R&B sideman to international stardom. The deluxe set is filled with previously unreleased Jimi Hendrix Experience recordings plus demos, alternate takes and more. The newly curated and assembled Jimi Hendrix anthology includes a new Hendrix documentary directed by the Grammy award winning Bob Smeaton (Beatles Anthology, Festival Express, Beatles: The Studio Recordings).
The third wave of Legacy Hendrix reissues, released in April 2011, offered the definitive edition of the career-spanning posthumous album South Saturn Delta; a deluxe DVD edition of Jimi Hendrix: Band of Gypsys (Live at Fillmore East), winner of the 1999 Best Long Form Music Video Grammy; and "Fire" coupled with "Touch You" a limited edition single available on 7" vinyl and CD (with a third unreleased track "Cat Talking To Me"), struck in celebration of nationwide Record Store Day on Saturday, April 16.
More than 1,000,000 Jimi Hendrix albums were sold in 2010 alone.
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Thanks to Cary Baker....
TEA LEAF GREEN,
WITH CURRENT ALBUM RADIO TRAGEDY BREWING,
ANNOUNCES SUMMER TOUR 2011
Band pays Tribute to Clarence Clemons at historic Stone Pony in Asbury Park.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — This past Sunday, Father’s Day, Tea Leaf Green performed at the fabled Stone Pony bar and frequent home of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in what became a tribute concert for legendary saxophonist Clarence Clemons. Springsteen and Clemons met at the Asbury Park bar in 1971, a story both men have told onstage for the past 40 years. Clemons, 69, the “Big Man” in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, died Saturday night.
Fans who came to pay respects were given free admission to evening headliners Tea Leaf Green who showed love and admiration for Clemons. “It was an honor to pay tribute to ‘The Big Man’ at our last show on this leg of the tour,” said guitarist/vocalist Josh Clark. “We saw firsthand how much Asbury Park and the Stone Pony loved him. We listened to him play all day in the van on our way down there.”
Fellow band member Trevor Garrod added, “When we found out Clarence had died we where still a few hours from Asbury Park. It was a beautiful day; the sun was setting into a riot of crimson clouds; flowers and chalk drawings lined the sidewalk outside of the club. The Atlantic Ocean's waves rolled calmly in across the street. Though we where only coming through coincidentally, we nonetheless felt honored to be part of the celebration of this great musician's life. We couldn't help but feel that somehow the universe was encouraging us to keep up this tradition of rock 'n roll. After we played our set, I jumped into the moonlit sea with some kids who had come to watch the show. I couldn't help but wonder if, back in the day, Clarence had ever done the same. He will be missed.”
San Francisco Bay Area troubadours Tea Leaf Green are newfangled Lost Boys, a traveling gang dedicated to seeking wisdom and experience in places both glorious and seedy. The band’s summer tour kicks off on July 2 in Colorado on the heels of its seventh studio album, Radio Tragedy!, freshly released through Thirty Tigers.
In many ways, this quintet is the essence of rock’s adventurous, playfully outlaw spirit, all of which ultimately fuels songs that resonate with classic vibrations, open-ended possibilities and radio-ready charm. With Radio Tragedy!,Tea Leaf Green have made a record that’s both timely and timeless - a strange, beautiful space that they inhabit naturally and gracefully.
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THOMAS DOLBY DEBUTS THE FLOATING CITY TRANSMEDIA GAME
Iconic synth pioneer dreams up revolutionary way to access new music
LONDON, England — Best known as the singer/synthesist behind the Top 5 smash hit “She Blinded Me With Science” and as the co-inventor of the Beatnik polyphonic ringtone engine, Thomas Dolby today announced his latest creation: The Floating City is a rich transmedia game with a living world that changes and reacts to player contributions. It uses web browsers, social networks, and even smart phones and iPads as a way for fans to access his latest musical endeavors.
The Floating City is open for registration from today at <http://www.floatingcity.com>. Gameplay commences on June 22nd at 5 p.m. GMT (1 p.m. ET in the U.S.). Players from around the world will form tribes and collaborate to earn free music downloads, merchandise and concert tickets. The leading tribe will even win the right to stage a private concert at which Thomas Dolby and his band will perform his forthcoming album in its entirety.
Completely free to the public, The Floating City is a casual game that hooks you into building a whole story world with your tribe — as deep as you want to go. It runs on a standard web browser, smartphone or iPad without additional software installation. It is targeted at players of all ages, regardless of whether they are familiar with Thomas Dolby’s catalog. But diehard fans of the five-time Grammy™-nominated songwriter will be delighted to find that The Floating City integrates characters, places, and objects named in every one of his albums going back to the beginning of his career . . . and before.
“The Floating City is set against a dystopian vision of the 1940s that might have existed had WWII turned out a lot differently,” says Dolby. A global energy experiment went haywire, the Earth’s magnetic fields have been reversed, and the planetary climate system violated. Science has betrayed us: now what must the species do to survive?
Survivors explore a fictional Google map, forming tribes and trading relics amidst a bizarre sea-going barter society. As they struggle to unravel the enigma that is The Floating City, players can haggle over merchandise and music downloads — including brand new songs from the much anticipated CD A Map of the Floating City, Dolby’s first album in 20 years, which will be released following the climax of the game.
“This is a brilliant concept,’ said writer/economist Steven Levitt. “It’s a cross between Freakonomics and Burning Man, with a back-story that would have made J.G. Ballard proud.”
About Thomas Dolby
Thomas Dolby became a huge star in the ’80s when his songs “She Blinded Me With Science” and “Hyperactive” topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart and were on constant rotation at MTV. His unique keyboard playing led to guest performances with the likes of David Bowie (Live Aid), Stevie Wonder (Grammy™ awards) and Roger Waters (The Wall) and he became a top producer, garnering five Grammy™ nominations.
Dolby abandoned the music business in the 1990s to found Beatnik Inc., a Silicon Valley tech company that built the ringtone synthesizer embedded in over 3 billion mobile phones worldwide. Now retired from Beatnik, he has returned to music and has been completing his first studio album in more than 20 years.
The Floating City game consolidates Dolby’s reputation as one of the foremost pioneers of electronic alt-culture. On hearing of the game, counter-cabaret diva Amanda Palmer commented: “Thomas Dolby is to Steampunk what Iggy Pop was to Punk!”
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Thanks to Steve Hellerman
Eric Isralow (aka Dr. Rock) passed away on Thurs, 6/2, of a stroke. In 1970 Isralow was the first person to ever teach a course on the History of Rock and Roll at an accredited American university (SUNY Buffalo), for college credit. He later wrote for the San Francisco Examiner, and had radio shows in both San Francisco and Willits. Isralow served as the inspiration for the character of Dr. Rock played by Jim Belushi in the Oliver Stone film "Salvador" (for which Isralow contributed to the screenplay, though he was not credited). Originally from Brooklyn and Long Island, Isralow had lived most of the last 30 years in San Francisco, appearing sometimes on the radio, and giving talks on rock and roll history. He was 68.
He sued Stone but settled out of court.
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Thanks to Dale Ockerman
The White Album Ensemble announces a free concert in the park- Plaza Cesar Chavez- Thursday, June 23rd in Downtown San Jose, 6#0 PM. The WAE will perform songs from the Beatles albums "Rubber Soul", "Revolver", "Sgt. Peppers", "Magical Mystery Tour", "The White Album", "Let it Be", and "Abbey Road". The WAE will feature special guests - vocalist Omar Spence. Omar has performed with Moby Grape, the seminal SF group that his father, Alexander"Skip"Spence co- founded),
Tammi Brown and Alysha Antonino will grace the stage for a few of the "Across the Universe" film versions of Beatles songs.
"The Mind Over Matter Horns" will also be on hand. This was the same group who performed at the largest concert in Santa Cruz history last month- "James Durbin Day", a White Album Ensemble/ James Durbin show for30,000 people at the beach. Before his American Idol success, James frequently performed with the WAE and attended Dale Ockerman's Musicscool.
Opening will be "Not So Young" a Neil Young tribute group, at 5:30. The WAE hits at 6:30 and plays two fabulous sets, till 8:45.
Plaza Cesar Chavez is located between 1st and Market streets, downtown, north of West San Carlos, directly in front of the Fairmont Hotel .
TheWhite Album Ensemble-
Richard Bryant- vocals, keys
Ken Kraft- guitars, vocals
Stephen Krilanovich- Guitars, vocals, keys
Tiran Porter - bass, vocals
Dale Ockerman- keyboards, guitars, trumpet
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Trey Sabatelli- drums
Will Mcdougall- keys
Alysha Antonino- vocals
Tammi Brown- vocals
The MindOverMatterHorns-
Roger Eddy- saxophone
Briuan Stock- trumpet
Nick Bianchini- trumpet
Steve Wilson- trombone
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hi great wire !!!!
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I only get 1/2 of them or less...
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I dont think it is my settings but it could be..
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The trivia question from the last MusicWire was:
He briefly played piano for a crooner in the late 50s under another name......
also known as.....
Tedham Porterhouse
Robert Milkwood Thomas
Who is he?
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ANSWER: ROBERT ZIMMERMAN aka BOB DYLAN
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the champions are... (in order of appearance)
Todd Everett
Bob Putignano
Martin Van Nostrand
Kenny Weissberg
Nancy Wasen
Rich Hughes
Kevin Halpin
Pete Cartwright
Stephen Shub
Stu Ganz
Tim Bernett
Peter Stone Brown
Bernie Horowitz
Rog (in Scotland)
Judy Shapiro
Larry Weinberg
Benjamin Reed Hunter
Terry Hansen
Jeff Gay
Jeff Tamarkin
Don Mennie
Paul "Lobster" Wells
Bill Stewart
Derek Harries
Paul Constantine
Derk Richardson
J.C. Flyer
Mark Cohen
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Bobby Vee's a "crooner"?
Bob Dylan
Todd Everett
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Hi David: AKA: Robert Zimmerman, Bob Dylan!
Bob Putignano
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I believe the answer you're looking for is the guy born Robert Zimmerman, once referred to himself as Blind Boy Grunt, but we know and love him as Bob Dylan!!
-Martin Van Nostrand, Montclair, NJ USA
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Lucky Wilbury . . . . er, um . . . Bob Dylan
--Kenny Weissberg
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Mr. Thomas would be the one and only Bob Dylan
Nancy Wasen
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Sir Pun,
Sounds like the great Robert Zimmerman?
Rich Hughes-
San Francisco
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That would be "Uncle Bobby Dylan" ...
Kevin Halpin
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Sounds like Blind Boy Grunt aka Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan, et al.
Outta here, Pete Cartwright
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How about Bob Dylan..
Stephen Shub
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Bobby Dylan
Stu Ganz
Sunnyvale, California
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Dear Punmaestro.
Tedham Porterhouse and Robert Milkwood Thomas both did sideman sessions on other people's records.
And Elston Gunn played piano on some Bobby Vee shows.
And all 3 of them looked a lot like Bob Dylan.
My vote goes to Sir Bob!
-Tim Bernett
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Bob Dylan of course.
(and you left out Blind Boy Grunt and Bob Landy among other aliases).
http://www.peterstonebrown.com
I'm still surprised you never used this link which happens to be the only accurate reporting on the recording of Blood on the Tracks
http://shrinky.net/2011/music/bob-dylan/bob-dylans-blood-on-the-tracks-the-untold-story
Peter Stone Brown
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Dave,
That would be two of the alias's used by Bob Dylan
Bernie Horowitz
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Given that Dylan Thomas wrote "Under Milk Wood" I reckon
this must be Bob Dylan.
Rog (in Scotland)
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David: Trivia Answer: Bob Dylan. Take good care, Judy Shapiro
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That would be Bob Dylan. The RMT was with Steve Goodman.
Larry Weinberg
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Zimmy!
Benjamin Reed Hunter
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David, He briefly played piano with Bobby Vee before becoming Bob Dylan - Terry Hansen
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Ha, David, an easy one. These are two of the pseudonyms our poet laureate wrote or performed under, the spokesman of my generation, Bob Dylan. Here are some more:
Alias
Justin Case
Jack Frost
Roosevelt Gook
Blind Boy Grunt
Elston Gunnn
Elmer Johnson
Bob Landy
Judge Magney
Jim Nasium
Sergei Petrov
Tedham Porterhouse
Renaldo
Robert Mikwood Thomas
Lucky Wilbury
Robert Allen Zimmerman
Zimmy
Always yours,
Jeff Gay
Joshua Tree
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Trivia answer is Blind Boy Grunt, I mean Robert Zimmerman. Oh, you know who I mean! And the crooner was Bobby Vee.
Jeff Tamarkin
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ANSWER: Bob Dylan [billed as 'Robert Milkwood Thomas' (referring to Thomas' Under Milk Wood) on Steve Goodman's "Somebody Else's Troubles" where he plays piano and harmonises on the title track].
Don Mennie
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The Bard would also be one of the names for Bob Dylan, who used the alias
Elston Gunnn when he got a gig with Bobby Vee's Band. Robert Zimmerman's
akas include Renaldo and Lucky Wilbury.
Paul "Lobster" Wells
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Bob Dylan
Thank you,
Bill Stewart
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Hey Dave.....Thats an easy one..Its Bob Dylan
Derek Harries
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That would be Mrs. Zimmermans little boy, Robert
Paul Constantine
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Now 70 years old--Elston Gunnn aka Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan. And the crooner--Bobby Vee.
Derk Richardson
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Howdy Punnyman,
The answer is Bob Dylan.
While still going by his birth name Robert Zimmerman, Zimmy went on tour with crooner and hearthob Bobby Vee playing piano in Vee's band.
We just shared a birthday too.
Still tangled up and feelin' blue.
Your Pal,
J.C. Flyer
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Trivia Answer:
AKA The Right Reverend Bobby Zimmerman
Peace!
Mark Cohen
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THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY - JUNE 23rd
In 1966…The Beatles flew to Germany where they began their final world tour.
In 1972…Smokey Robinson performed his last show with The Miracles.
In 1975…Alice Cooper got a little too enthusiastic while performing in Vancouver on his Welcome to My Nightmare tour, and fell from the stage and broke six ribs.
In 1977…Keith Moon joined Led Zeppelin onstage in Los Angeles.
In 1979…The Knack released “My Sharona.”
In 1979…The Charlie Daniels Band released the single “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.”
In 1986…The Smiths released their The Queen is Dead album.
In 1987…Madonna became the first celebrity to appear on the cover of Cosmopolitan since Elizabeth Taylor in 1969.
In 1990…Gary Busey bought one of Buddy Holly’s guitars in auction for over 242-thousand dollars. Busey played the Texas rocker in The Buddy Holly Story.
In 1995…Michael Jackson released HIStory, a compilation of old and new songs.
In 2000…Neil Young was honored with a star on the Canada Walk of Fame.
In 2002…The British Army removed two Oasis songs, including their big hit “Wonderwall,” from a training video after the band’s lawyers disputed the use.
In 2004…A statement which appeared on Dave Navarro’s website claimed Jane’s Addiction had split for good. Navarro wrote: “The deal is that it simply didn't work out. In all honesty, we have broken up and rejoined roughly four times over the years. Perhaps that should shed some light as to where we are now.”
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VIDEO CLIPS OF THE WEEK
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Thanks to Mike Hart...
San Francisco Bay Blues - Paul McCartney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN9vdliZymQ
Tiny Tim - They're Comin To Take Me Away'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQvoH2QKzgE&feature=share
Recorded in NYC 1981....Produced by Genya Ravan never released...
The Chantay's - Pipeline (Lawrence Welk Show 5/18/63)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j09C8clJaXo
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John Hiatt - Big Legged Woman (The Same Thing)
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=7R9CE_NfoXA&feature=related
Hiatt sings Muddy Waters tune "The Same Thing"
Charlie Musselwhite at 2:05
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Thanks to Tangerine Man
Blue Sway | Paul McCartney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFRHgk6niIc
VIDEO: Paul McCartney Unreleased Blue Sway
Blue Sway was an unused track from Paul McCartney's 1981 McCartney II album.
During the sessions for the album McCartney II, Paul McCartney recorded the song Blue Sway. While it didn't make the cut onto the 1981 album, it will be included on the bonus disc for the upcoming expanded version of the album.
Award winning surf filmmaker Jack McCoy originally put together a surf video using music from Paul McCartney's side group, The Fireman, and had a copy presented to the singer. Paul was so impressed that he went back to McCoy to suggest he do a similar film using the unreleased track Blue Sway from the McCartney II sessions.
McCoy put together the new video over a six week period while simultaneously working on a full-length surf documentary called A Deeper Shade of Blue. Upon seeing the completed video, McCartney said "I was blown away."
The video went on to win Best Music Video at NYC BE FILM Short Festival this past May, and the video will be featured as part of Surfrider Foundation's summer PSA campaign. It is also included on the DVD in the Deluxe Edition of McCartney II.
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