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Headlines for Wednesday, June 19, 2013
RAY MANZAREK: Last Recordings Out Today
Less than a month after his death comes a new album from Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek. Twisted Tales is Manzarek's third album with slide guitar player Roy Rogers came out yesterday
These were Manzarek's last recordings and Rogers says, "Before Ray left for Germany [where he passed away], we had both signed off on the artwork and agreed to release it sooner than later. Obviously we thought that Ray was coming back from his travels, and so I’m proceeding with the release. That is what we wanted to do, and that’s what both Ray and I agreed to do... I dedicated it to Ray’s memory. We were both really proud of this recording. It’s going to be very interesting to see how people react to this. Now that Ray is gone, it’s a little weird for me to release something. But I figured that this was the best way to honor Ray. I hope people enjoy it."
Manzarek died of cancer on May 20th. He was 74.
BLACK SABBATH: Special Honor
Black Sabbath was honored Monday night in London at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods awards. They took home the trophies for Best Album for their new release, 13, and Best U.K. Band. Motorhead received the Golden God award; Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham won the Riff Lord award; Alice in Chains were named Icons of the Year; and Stone Sour nailed down the award for Best International Band.VAN HALEN: Have Risen in the Land of the Rising Sun
Van Halen have started their Japanese tour.They kicked off a run of four shows on Tuesday in Nagoya. They added five songs to their set list for a total of 25, which likely made the show their longest ever at two hours and 20 minutes. The additions were “Atomic Punk," “Jamie’s Cryin'," “Mean Street,” “Hear About It Later” and “The Trouble With Never.” They also added David Lee Roth's recent short Japanese film, Tokyo Story, which was the lead-in to “Ice Cream Man."
Roth has an apartment in Tokyo, which is where they'll play on Friday, followed by Osaka on June 24th and 26th. Van Halen then have two U.S. dates next month -- Oshkosh, Wisconsin on July 20th and Paso Robles, California on the 24th.
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND: Strong Weekend in Boston
While they prepare for their first trip to South Africa later this year -- Dave Matthews Band have been having a grand old time on tour in the U.S., including some standout shows outside Boston last weekend. Among the highlights of their concerts at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts Friday and Saturday were:- Fiddle-player Boyd Tinsley wearing a Boston Strong T-shirt and singing lead on his song "True Reflections" for the first time with the band since the summer of 2003.
- DMB covering the country classic "Long Black Veil" for the first time in three years and performing Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' "Running Down a Dream" on the night that band was headlining the Bonnaroo festival.
- A guest shot from bassist Victor Wooten -- DMB saxophonist Jeff Coffin's old bandmate in Bela Fleck & the Flecktones -- on the song "Number 41" on Saturday.
DMB return to the road on Friday at Klipsch Music Center in Noblesville, Indiana.
Source: Jambands.com
CHILI PEPPERS, PHOENIX: Heading to Midtown
Red Hot Chili Peppers and Phoenix are headlining this year's edition of Music Midtown in Atlanta's Piedmont Park.It takes place September 20th and 21st, and this year's festival adds a third stage for the first time. The rest of the lineup includes Cake, Jane’s Addiction, Journey, The Mowgli’s, Capital Cities, Imagine Dragons, Queens of the Stone Age, The Neighbourhood and Weezer. Tickets go on sale Saturday.
MUMFORD & SONS, SOUNDGARDEN: Den Dates Set
The full schedule for Live From the Artist's Den has been announced. The PBS concert series will start its new season on July 4th with Mumford and Sons filmed at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles.The rest of the schedule is:
- Soundgarden July 11th
- The Killers July 18th
- Ed Sheeran on July 25th
- Imagine Dragons on August 8th
THE OFFSPRING: Headline Epicenter
The Offspring will headline the fifth annual Epicenter Festival.
This year's fest will take place September 21st in Irvine, California. Other acts on the bill include A Day to Remember, Bad Religion and Falling in Reverse. Tickets go on sale Friday.
Headlines for Tuesday, June 18, 2013
SLIPKNOT, STONE SOUR: Corey Sets Book Dates
Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor has announced a few in store appearances for his second book.A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven (Or, How I Made Peace With the Paranormal and Stigmatized Zealots and Cynics in the Process) will be published on July 16th, and Taylor will do a signing that night at Bookends in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Taylor will appear at Book Revue in Huntington, New York on the 17th and then fly west for appearances at Book Soup in Hollywood July 19th and Camp Pendleton in San Diego on the 20th, where he'll also sign copies of the House of Gold and Bones comic book series as well.
ICK JAGGER: 50-Year-Old Hair For Sale
A clump of Mick Jagger's hair from the early '60s is going on the auction block.The locks belong to the grandmother of Chrissie Shrimpton, a girlfriend of Jagger's before he hit fame with The Rolling Stones. Grandma apparently gathered the hair out of the drain after Jagger took a shower at her home. The auction house, Bonhams, says, "Apparently, on her grandmother's death, the hair passed to Chrissie's aunt, and when she died, the hair was returned to Chrissie by a cousin taking care of personal effects."
The hair will go on the block on July 3rd in London, with proceeds going to the charity Changing Faces. It is estimated to sell for between $2000 and $4000.
A couple of clips of Keith Richards' hair recently sold at auction for $1400.
Source: Fox News
METALLICA, MEGADETH: Two Ex-Members to Jam
The Gigantour might see a couple of ex-Metallica members play one of the group's classics.Newsted, led by ex-Metallica bassist Jason Newsted, will be on the tour with headliners Megadeth, led by ex-Metallica guitarist Dave Mustaine. Mustaine tweeted a question to fans over the weekend -- "If I play a song I wrote in Metallica with Jason, which should it be?" Mustaine then offered up five songs -- "Ride the Lightning," "The Call of Ktulu," "Metal Militia," "Phantom Lord," "Jump in the Fire" and "The Four Horsemen."
Doing the songs won't be a problem for Newsted -- his band already features a couple of Metallica songs in its set.
The Gigantour starts July 3rd in Gilford, New Hampshire.
ROB ZOMBIE: The Nightmare Begins in the Fall
Rob Zombie is launching a new haunted house and music experience this fall.The Great American Nightmare will be open every Thursday through Sunday from October 10th through November 2nd at the Fairplex in Pomona, California. It will feature three attractions based Zombie's own films -- Lords of Salem Total Black Out, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto 3D, and Haunt of 1,000 Corpses.
The haunted house will also feature music each night -- including performances by Andrew WK, Goldfinger, Kottonmouth Kings, Reel Big Fish, The Used and many more.
BON JOVI: Sorry Cleveland
Bon Jovi have canceled their NFL-related concert in Cleveland.The band was set to perform on July 14th at First Energy Stadium after a Cleveland Browns fan fest. The team announced the cancellation of the concert Monday morning without any explanation.
Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer
IRON MAIDEN: Gov't Invests in Bruce's Company
Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson has scored a big infusion of cash to expand his aircraft company.Close to $8 million is being invested into Dickinson's aircraft maintenance business, Cardiff Aviation Limited. About one third of the money is being contributed by Finance Wales, an investment company owned by the Welsh government. Dickinson hopes to expand the business and eventually launch his own airline.
Source: Wales Online
BLACK SABBATH: Set U.K. Chart Record
Black Sabbath have set a U.K. chart record for the longest gap between number-one albums.13 bowed at number-one, 42 years and eight months after their second album Paranoid hit the top. That breaks Bob Dylan's record of 38 years between New Morning in 1970 and Together Through Life in 2009. Sabbath's last Top 10 U.K. album was 1983's Born Again.
Sabbath are expected to score their first number-one album in the U.S. when the sales figures from last week are released on Wednesday.
Source: Billboard
Headlines for Monday, June 17, 2013
ROBERT PLANT: Will He Accept the Olive Branch?
David Coverdale wants to apologize to Robert Plant for negative things he said 20 years ago.In 1993, Jimmy Page teamed up with the Whitesnake frontman for an album and tour as Coverdale-Page. That led to a war of words between Coverdale and Robert Plant, with the Led Zeppelin singer calling him “David Cover-version." And Coverdale did not bite his tongue, saying, “There's certainly no love lost between myself and Robert… I wouldn't send him cat food if he was starving."
Two decades later, Coverdale regrets those remarks. He says he recently saw Page and said, “When you speak to Robert, offer my sincere regrets for any negative things I've ever said, which were mostly defensive. I hold him in the highest esteem as a human being, and as an artist, and I really would like to, you know, sit down, buy him a drink, shake hands and say, 'I'm really sorry,’ you know, ‘Can we be friends again?'”
JIMMY PAGE: Helping the Kids
Jimmy Page is auctioning off a guitar to help the children of Brazil.
Page is putting up for bids a Martin guitar he acquired in 2006, with the proceeds going to the Action for Brazilian Children Trust. The charity, for Brazil's poor and abandoned children, was founded in 1998 by his wife, Jimena Gomez-Paratcha. Page played the acoustic guitar at Roy Harper’s 70th birthday concert in London’s Royal Albert Hall on November 5th, 2011. The fingerboard is inlaid with Led Zeppelin and Zodiac symbols and Page’s name. It will come with a signed letter from Page and a color photo of him playing it.
Experts believe the guitar will sell for between $16,000 and $23,000 at the July 3rd auction in London.
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH: Singer Really Looking Ahead
Five Finger Death Punch singer Ivan Moody really likes planning ahead.The first volume of the band's The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell won't be out for another month -- and they haven't even announced a release date for the second volume -- but Moody is already looking beyond the touring cycle for both. He tells the Swedish metal site MetalShrine, "I'm actually going to do a side project after this next album cycle. I've already got a few guys on the line that I'm really proud to say I'm gonna work alongside with. I talked to the guys [in FFDP], and after doing five records like this, it's time to take a little bit of space from each other, and that way, when we come back to do the next album, it'll be fresh to us again."
The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell Volume One is due out July 30th.
FILTER: Help Us Tour Everwhere
Some bands have used Kickstarter and similar site to fund their albums -- but Filter want fans to help them tour.The group -- which is on the road this summer as part of the '90s-themed Summerland tour -- has launched an Indie Go Go campaign to help finance shows outside the U.S. Their goal is $40,000, and they've raised $4800 so far.
The band says on the site, "We want to bring you the very best of Filter. Therefore, every dollar that is raised through this campaign will be going directly towards the tour, allowing us to rock farther and harder than ever before. Also know that we are set up for "Flex Funding," which means even if we don't reach our goal, we still get the money that is raised through the campaign."
The band is offering up such perks as signed albums, signed lyric sheets and coffee with frontman Richard Patrick.
TOM PETTY: Residencies Could Change Arena Shows
Tom Petty says the reception The Heartbreakers have gotten for deeper cuts at their residencies in New York and Los Angeles could open up their set lists in the future.Petty tells Rolling Stone, "I think that this could influence things quite a lot. It's just kind of a verification that the audience not only goes along with it, they like it... When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know... You're obligated to play some of that stuff that people know, but I don't think that's all you have to do. I think there's a way to fill everyone's needs. So who knows? This may have a tremendous effect on us from here out."
SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME: Class of 2013 Inducted Thursday Night
The Songwriters Hall of Fame inducted their class of 2013 Thursday night at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. Leading the way was Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, along with Foreigner’s Lou Gramm and Mick Jones, as well as J.D Souther, Tony Hatch and Holly Knight.
The four-hour ceremony featured some stellar performances as well as some memorable speeches, including Tyler's. He asked the audience, “How many of you got laid last night? See, that’s why we’re songwriters. It all came from that.” Nickleback’s Chad Kroeger and Ryan Peake inducted Tyler and Perry after doing a so-so version of “Sweet Emotion.” After their speech, Tyler and Perry did “Walk This Way.”
Billy Joel was on hand to induct Mick Jones and Lou Gramm, and had fun singing snippets of some of their songs. Just before accepting the award, Jones told us, “It's like we're kind of legit now. If my parents were alive, I'd love them to have experience this with me. It's wonderful...a wonderful gift. It just makes me feel like a lot of my life was worthwhile." And Gramm added, “To me, it’s as equally as important as a Grammy… Mick and I have always prided ourselves on our songwriting and I think our songs, album for album, stand the test of time.” They then took the stage together for the first time in 10 years to do “Juke Box Hero” and “I Want to Know What Love Is,” backed by a choir, which brought the house down.
Sting opened the show with Elton John’s “Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" and then presented the Johnny Mercer Award to Elton and Bernie Taupin. Taupin explained how without Elton he would just be a story writer, and Elton said Bernie was the second real relationship in his life, after his grandmother. Elton also joked that songs are like a child “until some moron changes them.”
British songwriter Tony Hatch did a medley of his hits, including “My Love," "Call Me," "Forget Him," "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love," "Don't Sleep in the Subway” and "I Know a Place" before Petula Clark came out to sing her and his biggest song, “Downtown.” In speaking about “Downtown,” Hatch said he wrote it while walking through Times Square and that the word is “quintessentially American.”
