TimmyB

January 25, 2007

Here is what I posted on:

01/15/07 01:28 PM - Post#402236

I'm very much looking forward to hearing what these upcoming Robert Plant projects will sound like.

Tim

From www.billboard.com

Album A No, But Plant's Honeydrippers To Play Show

January 12, 2007, 3:10 PM ET

Gary Graff, Detroit

The death of Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun in December put the kabosh on a new Honeydrippers album Robert Plant planned to record this year.

Plant tells Billboard.com that he and Ertegun began talking about the project -- a follow-up to the platinum 1984 EP "Volume One," which featured Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and Nile Rodgers, among others -- after Plant was part of a tribute to Ertegun last June at the 40th Annual Montreux Jazz Festival.

"We agreed to carry on and create a Honeydrippers thing a little bit later on in 2007," says Plant. "He was suggesting material and stuff like that. I knew he was thrilled with the idea of it, and so was I."

But Plant decided there was no reason to continue the project without Ertegun's involvement. "I would only do it because I wanted the whole rapport with him and his history," Plant says. "I had an idea of doing 'Stay Alive' by the Clovers, which is on the flip of 'Love Potion No. 9,' and then he could tell me some more stories about Bobby Darrin. That's what would have made it worthwhile."

However, Plant is resurrecting the original lineup of the Honeydrippers -- which included guitarist Robbie Blunt, who played on Plant's first three solo albums -- for a "one-off" Valentine's Day charity gig in Dudley, England, to raise money to pay for brain cancer treatments for a mutual friend, Jackie Jennings.

Beyond that, the former Led Zeppelin frontman's plate is full with a couple of recording projects. He recently did some writing in Wales with his band, Strange Sensation, but he's also been spending time in the U.S. recording an album with Alison Krauss and T-Bone Burnett.

"It's amazing. It's otherworldly," Plant says of the latter, which also includes guitarist Marc Ribot. "I don't really know how to describe it. I don't think I've heard anything like it before. It's just very unique and very strong and very emotive. You'll be incredibly surprised when you hear it."

Plant would not predict when either project will be released but did say that "it obviously is not gonna be very long. It won't be too far away at all."

January 25, 2007

i know, just teasing
he looks pretty rough for 54 for sure.

Robert Plant is 58 years old, not 54.

Plant was born on August 20, 1948 West Bromwich, West Midlands.

I believe this article lacks all credibility. I posted a topic here a couple of weeks ago that talked about Robert Plant recording material with the Strange Sensation and he is also working on a project with T Bone Burnett and Alison Krauss.

There will be no Led Zeppelin reunion in 2007 or likely ever.

Tim

January 25, 2007

That looks like something I will try to attend this year. Though only if Bruce Cockburn is closing the festival on the Sunday, as I have a wedding the day before.

Tim

January 25, 2007

I got the email yesterday, and I don't exactly remember but I believe the announcement is usually around the same time each year.

Tim

January 25, 2007

I have always wanted to see Diamond Dave in Van Halen, even if it will not be the original lineup with Michael Anthony not in the band anymore.

Tim

From www.billboard.com

Exclusive: Van Halen Reuniting With Roth For Tour

January 24, 2007, 4:20 PM ET

Ray Waddell, Nashville

Sources tell Billboard.com a contract could be signed as soon as today for Live Nation to produce a 40-date amphitheatre tour by Van Halen this summer, with original frontman David Lee Roth back in the fold for the first time in more than 20 years.

As previously reported, guitarist Eddie Van Halen's 15-year-old son Wolfgang has stepped in for original bassist Michael Anthony in the new incarnation of the group, which also features drummer Alex Van Halen.

Van Halen last toured in 2004 with vocalist Sammy Hagar, grossing nearly $40 million, according to Billboard Boxscore. Hagar refused to collaborate further with Eddie and Alex Van Halen after the tour's completion ("I don't get along with Eddie anymore, and that's all there is to it," he told Billboard.com in August 2005), although he has consistently played live with Anthony in recent years. The warring factions may wind up meeting in public in March when Van Halen is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

"I see it absolutely as an inevitability," Roth told Billboard.com last May of a potential reunion with his ex-bandmates. "To me, it's not rocket surgery. It's very simple to put together. And as far as hurt feelings and water under the dam, like what's-her-name says to what's-her-name at the end of the movie 'Chicago' -- 'So what? It's showbiz!' So I definitely see it happening."

Hagar recently told Billboard.com he was concerned Eddie Van Halen was asking too much of his son to have him join the band and promptly perform in front of thousands of people every night.

"That's a lot of pressure for Wolfie. Just 'cause he's Eddie's son doesn't mean he can go out and play in arenas and perform and entertain an audience for two hours," he said. "I would love to see Eddie and Alex get behind Wolfie, with a kid of his age singing, and produce the record for him and help him launch a career. I'd rather see it go that way than come out and say 'Wolfie's the bass player in Van Halen and maybe singing, too.' Van Halen's got way too much history to have that put on him."

January 24, 2007

The eighty upcoming tour dates by the Police in my humble opinion "rocks out" way more than a performance at the Grammy's. Though the Police performing at the Grammy Awards will definitely get me to watch.

Bring on the Night and the Police (and Genesis as well)!

Tim

From www.rollingstone.com

Reports say that the Police will be playing the Grammyâ€™s, which would obviously rock. These reports also claim that the band is about to announce 80 post-Grammy tour dates, which rocks less. Nothing deflates excitement about getting into that ONE special reunion show like the idea that there will be 79 more. Should they play 80 dates? Totally. Should they tell us thatâ€™s the plan? No way. (And whenâ€™s that Genesis get-together scheduled?)

-- Elizabeth Goodman

January 24, 2007

Now I want to watch the new Superman film.

Tim

From www.rollingstone.com

1/23/07, 3:43 pm EST

File Under: Multi-Media Time Suckage

Weâ€™ve all puffed doobs and watched The Wizard of Oz synched up with Pink Floydâ€™s Dark Side of the Moon. And as rad as it was the first dozen times we did it, weâ€™d have to say the novelty has worn off. Like, seven hundred years ago. Which is why we were excited to learn that some stoner genius discovered a new way to while away the hours using a DVD player and some sweet-ass tunes. It seems that the last chapter of Superman Returns links up astoundingly well with the Flaming Lipsâ€™ 1999 album The Soft Bulletin. Weâ€™ve yet to try this out, but we have a nice fat spliff waiting for us at home and a couple of brain cells to spare. In other words, itâ€™s imminent. That said, weâ€™re trying to be pragmatic. We know that in time, weâ€™ll tire of this party trick as well. So weâ€™re asking you, dear readers, to suggest other marvels of music-film synchronicity. Consider it a public service.

-- Lauren Gitlin

January 23, 2007

I guess one of the other questions will be how will the radio airplay game fair for him. Without the major label lobby junket to get the songs on the air' date=' will it get the proper push from the stations.[/quote']
Did his last album?
Good point.
I enjoy 'Up.' I feel that "Sky Blue," "More Than This" and "Signal to Noise" are fantastic songs found in the Peter Gabriel catalogue.
Tim

January 23, 2007

Have you guys read the Crosby interview in the latest Relix? It includes his feelings on wanting to relive the Byrds, this thoughts on George Bush (he calls him a hood ornament) and his hope to tour with Young again for the 2008 election. Very very interesting.
I think Relix is getting better and better.

Thanks for the heads up, as I have not read that David Crosby interview as of yet.

Unfortunately everything I have read when it comes to the Byrds reuniting is that Roger McGuinn does not want to do it. It is unfortunate as it would be great to hear McGuinn, Crosby and Chris Hillman sing together again, especially since all three still have amazing voices.

Tim

January 23, 2007

From www.billboard.com

CSNY Prepping Film, CD From Controversial '06 Tour

January 22, 2007, 3:00 PM ET

Gary Graff, Detroit

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young are moving forward with a documentary film and live album from the quartet's Freedom of Speech '06 North American tour, both of which are expected to be released this year.

David Crosby tells Billboard.com that Neil Young is currently working on the film amidst his other well-chronicled archival projects that are due out this year, while all four are listening to show tapes for the CD. The documentary, he says, will be more ambitious than merely a concert film. "It's a movie that we'd take to the festivals and try to win with," Crosby notes.

"You've got to understand this was a pretty controversial tour," he adds, noting that the material from Young's politically strident "Living With War" album tended to have a polarizing effect on the crowds. "We had a lot of people who felt very strongly that we were speaking for them; when we would say the war (in Iraq) was a bad idea, they really, really loved it. There was also a very small minority of very vocal people who would say, 'You can't say that about George!' and get very upset and stomp out."

CSNY's film crew interviewed people from both camps, according to Crosby, as well as soldiers who had been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. "We brought them to the shows and asked them what they thought about (the war) and also got them to write songs," he reports. "We just talked to a lot of people all over the place about where America is right now, about what the significance is of this polarization that's taken place in this country, what's at stake and how they think it might play out.

"It's pretty critical stuff. We feel like the Constitution is pretty much on the line here, and so the movie, I think, will concern itself with all of those things."

There's no title or release date yet for the film or the live album, which Crosby says will be drawn from the 2006 shows and not incorporate any of the recordings CSNY made of its 2000 and 2002 tours. "We feel that this (tour) made a gel better than any of the others," he explains. "We finally got the right bass player and drummer and had some new material that was really special."

Crosby is preparing to tour Australia and New Zealand with Stephen stills and Graham Nash in February and early March, while he and Nash will play U.S. dates in the spring. A CSN tour is expected this summer, but Crosby says reports of another CSNY tour later this year are "news to me ... although nothing would make me happier."

January 21, 2007

From www.pollstar.com

Crosby & Stills & Nash

Updated 00:00 PST Thu, Jan 18 2007

Long-time pals and bandmates David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, who spent last summer on the Freedom of Speech Tour with the fourth letter in their famous acronym, Neil Young, are heading out on the road again this spring in a couple of different configurations.

All three will hit the road down under for nine performances of what's being billed on the trio's web site as "an intimate evening with Crosby, Stills & Nash." The tour launches February 17 in Perth, Australia and finishes up March 4 in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Then it's back to the states where Crosby & Nash will tour in support of last summer's release, Highlights, which is a pared down version of the duo's 2004 album, Crosby Nash.

An Evening With David Crosby and Graham Nash kicks off March 19 at the Firelake Casino in Shawnee, Okla., and hops around the country hitting 17 cities along the way before wrapping up April 14 in Schenectady, N.Y.

January 19, 2007

Sweet.

www.billboard.com

Wilco Soars Into 'Blue Sky' In May

January 18, 2007, 4:45 PM ET

Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

Wilco's new album, "Sky Blue Sky," will arrive May 15 via Nonesuch, frontman Jeff Tweedy said on stage last night (Jan. 17) during a solo show in Nashville. Among the new songs Tweedy has been playing are the title track and "We Can Make It Better."

As a full band, Wilco has also previewed the tracks "Is That the Thanks I Get," "Lullaby for Rafters and Dreams," "On and On and On" and "Walken" in the past year.

"I think people may have an idea in their head about what it will sound like, but it's going to be different than that," Wilco bassist John Stirratt told Billboard.com in November. "Jeff had a lot of creative fire. And also, the way we recorded was so cool because a lot of the arrangements just grew right there with everybody sitting around. I'm over the moon about it. I think it will be a really beautiful record. It's a great time to be in Wilco."

"Sky Blue Sky" is the follow-up to 2004's "A Ghost Is Born," which has sold 346,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Tweedy's solo run continues through Jan. 31 in Charlottesville, Va. The lone Wilco live dates on tap at present are three mid-April shows in Australia: April 16 in Brisbane, April 18 in Melbourne and April 21 in Sydney.

January 19, 2007

ok they don't need to rock out hard.
looking alive might help though

i do love crosby but nash's voice has become irritating to me in my old age.

Poor Graham Nash to many the least significant letter in CSNY and I am apart of that many. That said I still love Nash and most of his body of work.

Personally if I never hear "Teach Your Children" or "Our House" again live I would not be disappointed as those songs have been performed to death.

But in recent years at CSN and CSNY shows I have thoroughly enjoyed performances of such Nash songs as "Miliatary Madness," "I Used to Be a King," "Southbound Train," "Immigration Man," "Wind On the Water," "Cathedral," "Wasted On the Way," "Heartland," and "Half Your Angels."

Tim

January 19, 2007

the last tour stephen and neil were rocking out hard, while graham and david just stood there like dolls. i think i'll skip this one.

That is what David Crosby and Graham Nash have always done and that's not going to change now that they are in their sixties.

You go and see Crosby and Nash for their beautiful harmony vocals and passionate songwriting not to see them rocking out hard.

Tim

January 18, 2007

Hey, thanks Mammoth! I only learned it was discontinued last weekend in Ottawa, when I walked into a major record store (for the first time since I can remember) to use a gift-card I was given for Chanuka.
I think I'm going to order this, though. Love that Pevar!

That's unfortunate, it seems on even David Crosby's official site you can only order the live CPR double album 'Live at the Wiltern.'

CPR's self-titled debut album that came out in 1998 is an underrated and solid effort and their sophomore album 'Just Like Gravity' released in 2001 which is also good seem to be not available.

Tim

January 18, 2007

I have been a fan of all things Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young as long as I have loved music. I have seen CSNY eleven times, CSN three more times, Crosby solo once and Neil Young thirty-eight times total (including the eleven CSNY gigs).

It was very disappointing when David Crosby and Grahan Nash only toured Europe in 2005 after their stellar 2004 Sanctuary Records 'Crosby and Nash' which was their first album of original material in nearly thirty years. Before the 2005 tour Crosby and Nash had only done a handful of gigs over the past couple of decades, usually on the west coast.

Now finally these best friends that sing together like few others on the planet can are going to be doing a tour in North America as a duo again in 2007. Performing material that many will have heard on their recently successful CSNY 'Freedom of Speech Tour '06' Tour, yet also performing some of the gems that have been hidden from the stage from this side of the Atlantic (the Ocean, not their former record label) for far too long.

Crosby and Nash songs like "Soutbound Train," "Immigration Man," "Carry Me," "Cowboy of Dreams," "Homeward Through the Haze," "To the Last Whale...A. Critical Mass B. Wind on the Water," "Taken At All," "Out of the Darkness," "Lay Me Down," "Half Your Angels," "They Want it All," and "Milky Way Tonight" just to name a few.

Also the Byrds being my all-time favorite American band this Crosby and Nash show that I will be attending starts a great run for me where I end up seeing all three living members of the Byrds in less than three weeks. Crosby at the Allen Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio on March 25, Roger McGuinn at Rockwell Hall in Buffalo, New York on March 30 and Chris Hillman at Hugh's Room in Toronto, Ontario on April 11-12.

I will likely never see these legendary artists perform on stage together, so to see all three play gigs so close to each other around the Great Lakes will have to do.

I know I will be getting the Byrds from McGuinn and Hillman at their shows, I just hope that Crosby might perform something from the Byrds catalogue on that Sunday night in Cleveland, "Triad" perhaps?

I have been lucky enough to hear Crosby play "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season)" with CSN back in 1996 and "Eight Miles High" with CSNY back in 2000 and 2002. Actually "Turn! Turn! Turn!" is the only Byrds song that I have seen all three living original members of the Byrds play.

I'm sure I will make an effort to arrive in Cleveland early on March 25 and go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and see some memorabilia from these hall of famers before I see them live on stage for the first time as Crosby and Nash.

Peace,

Tim

www.crosbynash.com

An Evening with Crosby and Nash 2007 Dates

03.19.2007 Firelake Grand Casino Shawnee, OK

03.21.2007 Carson Four Rivers Center Paducah, KY

03.22.2007 Ryman Auditorium Nashville, TN

03.24.2007 Belterra Resort & Casino Florence, IN

03.25.2007 Allen Theatre Cleveland, OH

03.27.2007 The Bushnell-Mortensen Hall Hartford, CT

03.28.2007 Kirby Center for Performing Arts Wilkes Barre, PA

03.30.2007 Broadway Theatre Kingston, NY

03.31.2007 The Borgata Music Box Atlantic City, NJ

04.02.2007 American Music Theatre Lancaster, PA

04.03.2007 Mechanics Hall Worcester, PA

04.05.2007 North Fork Theatre Westbury, NY

04.06.2007 Community Theatre Morristown, NJ

04.08.2007 Merrill Auditorium Portland, ME

04.09.2007 Music Hall Portsmouth, NH

04.11.2007 Count Basie Theatre Redbank, NJ

04.12.2007 Grand Opera House Wilmington, DE

04.14.2007 Proctor's Theatre Schenectady, NY

January 15, 2007

Happy Belated 46th Birthday Wayne,

May you have many, many more in health and happiness.

Tim

January 15, 2007