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2/1/2012
You can stream all 14 tracks on Paul McCartney's new album, Kisses on the Bottom, before it's released next Tuesday -- just head to Guardian.co.uk. The album, which consists of a dozen standards and two new originals, features contributions by Diana Krall, Stevie Wonder and Eric Clapton.
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2/1/2012
Ringo Starr says "the door is open" for him to share a stage with Paul McCartney at some point in the future, but that it won't be a "Beatles reunion" that involves any of the band's offspring. "That will never happen," he said in an interview on yesterday's CNN Showbiz Tonight.
He also described his relationship with Paul as having had its "ups and downs," but says "it is very up right now. I am so pleased for him and [his new wife] Nancy [Shevell]. We love Nancy."
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2/1/2012
Happy 62nd birthday to Kansas guitarist Rich Williams! Rich as been with Kansas since their 1974 self-titled debut album and co-wrote with the band "Can I Tell You", "Don't Open Your Eyes" and "No Room for a Stranger.". He lost his right eye in a childhood fireworks accident. He wore a prosthetic eye for many years, but now wears an eye patch instead.
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2/1/2012
Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart will release a new album called Mysterium Tremendum on April 10th. He'll support it with a tour he's calling Above the Clouds, starting April 10th in Louisville, Kentucky and running through April 28th in Austin, Texas. He also has a week of West Coast dates in early March.
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2/1/2012
More details, and a few changes, have been announced for the all-star tribute to the late blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin that will take place next month in New York. Headlined by Eric Clapton, the show at New York's Apollo Theater will now feature Keith Richards along with previously announced guests Derek Trucks and his wife Susan Tedeschi, James Cotton, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Keb Mo, Doyle Bramhall the Second, Dr. John, David Johansen, Buddy Guy, Robert Randolph and Jimmie Vaughan. Jeff Beck and Levon Helm are no longer on the bill. The house band will include Steve Jordan, Danny Kortchmar, Kim Wilson and Ivan Neville.
An American Express pre-sale starts tomorrow at 10 a.m. ET and ends Sunday at 10 p.m. ET. Seats go on sale through Ticketmaster on Monday at 10 a.m. ET.
Sumlin, known for his years backing blues legend Howlin' Wolf, died on December 4th at age 80. Richards and Mick Jagger paid for his funeral.
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2/1/2012
The Yardbirds start a seven-city east coast tour tonight in Buffalo, New York, but they will be without one of its founding members, guitarist Chris Dreja.
During their U.S. tour last September he suffered a series of strokes that affected the right side of his brain. Fortunately he is able to speak and his motor skills are okay, but he is still recuperating at home in London and hopes to be back with the band later this year. That leaves drummer Jim McCarty as the only original member on this tour.
The tour runs through February 9th in New Brunswick, New Jersey with Vanilla Fudge sharing the bill on all dates. Catch them on 2/4 at The Keswick Theatre.
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2/1/2012
Peter Frampton starts the 2012 leg of his 35th anniversary Frampton Comes Alive tour tonight in York, Pennsylvania.
Looking back on that 1976 album, he tells us it was a blessing and a curse. A blessing for all the success it brought him, but a curse for it "created opportunities and things that I really shouldn't have done." Among them was his role in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the movie based on The Beatles' 1967 album, which was a box-office bomb.
While Frampton was recently reunited with the black Gibson Les Paul he played on Frampton Comes Alive, he won't be playing it tonight as it is still being refurbished by Gibson. The 1954 guitar was found last year on the Caribbean island of Curacao after being believed to have been lost forever following a 1980 cargo plane crash while flying his equipment to a show in Panama. He hopes to have the guitar back in time for his New York City show on February 18th, which is being filmed.
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2/1/2012
Journey guitarist Neal Schon has turned off some fans by messing around with his girlfriend, Michaele [pr: mih-KALE-uh] Salahi, in the video for "Resonate." But he's not the first to feature a significant other in a video or two. The list includes:
Paul McCartney (Linda McCartney)
Billy Joel (Christie Brinkley)
David Coverdale (Tawny Kitaen)
John Lennon (Yoko Ono)
Lennon, like Schon, is seen rolling around with his significant other -- except they were naked.
The Journey video will premiere on Valentine's Day.
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2/1/2012
Bruce Springsteen popped down to Florida last Friday to attend a United States Equestrian Team Foundation benefit event at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center in Wellington. Dubbed An English Country Evening, it was hosted by Today show host Matt Lauer and his wife Annette, an avid equestrian, and featured award presentations and an auction, of which Springsteen was one of the highlights.
He offered up four VIP tickets to any of his U.S. concerts and as the bidding continued to rise, he increased the number of tickets to eight, then 10 and finally 20, and threw in signed Fender guitars and a personal backstage tour. It came down to two bidders who, in the end, each paid $275,000 for the package. The night raised more than a million dollars for the United States Equestrian Team Foundation. Springsteen's daughter, Jessica, is an equestrian. His Wrecking Ball tour starts on March 18th in Atlanta.
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1/31/2012
Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony told the U.K.'s Planet Rock that he has no plans to go after the band for songwriting royalties from its upcoming album, A Different Kind Of Truth. With at least seven of the songs on the new disc consisting of reworked material from the Seventies -- when Anthony was in the band and used to receive equal songwriting credits with the other three members -- a case could be made that Van Halen owes him money from the use of this vintage material.
But Anthony said, "I don't want to do anything. I just let it be. And, hey, it'll be nice to hear some of those old songs again that I haven't played in a long time." Anthony added that he's especially looking forward to one track -- "She's The Woman" -- which was written before he joined in 1974. Anthony was replaced in Van Halen by guitarist Eddie Van Halen's son Wolfgang in 2006.
Anthony told us not long ago that he's ambivalent about playing Van Halen songs live even though he still feels like he has "ownership" of the old songs: "Part ownership, anyway. I was part of it. You know, ...
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