TimmyB

please TimmyB dont be joking...I really want to see these guys (well mostly Neil but CSN will be alright as well I guess...can they still sing tho?)

umm how far away is Wantaugh, NY?

I wasn't kidding CSNY will be coming to Toronto.

Tim

as long as they're not playing the ACC again I'm game!

It will be at the ACC.

Tim

Don't worry there will be a Toronto date, though I'm not at liberty to say when that date will be at this moment and time.

Tim

From www.billboard.com

Young's 'War' Marching Online First

April 21, 2006, 11:00 PM ET

Neil Young's newly recorded protest album "Living With War," including a song calling for the impeachment of President Bush, will be posted for free Internet streaming next week. Starting April 28, fans can log onto Young's Web site and listen to the 10-track set, according to Reprise spokesperson Bill Bentley.

The album will first become commercially available as a digital download beginning May 2, "and we plan to get it into retail stores as soon after that as we can get them manufactured," Bentley said.

He said the label anticipates getting the album into retail outlets between May 5 and May 15. "Neil wants this album out there as soon as possible," Bentley added.

The Canadian-born Young, 60, who has tackled social and political themes through four decades as a singer/songwriter, wrote and recorded his latest studio offering over a two-week period this month, backed by a 100-member choir, according to his longtime manager, Elliot Roberts.

Much of the album conveys a sense of outrage, vowing repeatedly in the title track "to never kill again," mocking Bush's conduct of the Iraq war in "Shock and Awe" and calling for his removal from office in a provocative song titled "Let's Impeach the President."

The album also strikes a chord of empathy with soldiers separated from their families, and features lyrics ridiculing America's consumer culture, political corruption and religious fundamentalism.

Juxtaposed to "Let's Impeach the President" is one of the album's more hopeful selections, "Lookin' for a Leader," with such lyrics as: "Someone walks among us ... and I hope he hears the call. And maybe it's a woman, or a black man after all." The album closes with an a cappella version of "America the Beautiful."

"You're always going to rub someone the wrong way when you sing, 'Let's impeach the president,'" Young told the Los Angeles Times. "But that's what this country's all about -- being able to express your views."

And I will definitely be at the Manchester gig on June 16.

Tim

If you don't want to see the Allman Brothers Band at the Fallsview Casino you can see them perform with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on August 15 at Darien Lake PAC.

Tim

I'll likely be at Darien Lake PAC on August 15.

Tim

From www.billboard.com

Petty Reveals More Summer Tour Dates

April 20, 2006, 2:25 PM ET

Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will kick off a summer North American tour June 9 in Charlotte, N.C. Former Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio will open the first eight shows, which, as previously reported, will be followed by six double-bills with Pearl Jam through July 2-3 in Denver.

A second leg in July and August will feature the Allman Brothers Band; at deadline, only four of those shows have been confirmed and will also feature the Derek Trucks Band. A third leg with opening acts to be announced will get underway in September and encompass a Sept. 17 headlining appearance at the Austin City Limits Festival.

In related news, the new Petty songs "Saving Grace" and "Big Weekend" will premiere as part of the NBA playoffs telecasts, beginning Saturday (April 22) on ABC and ESPN. The tracks will be found on Petty's upcoming solo album, "Highway Companion," due this summer.

Other familiar Petty tunes such as "Learning to Fly," "I Won't Back Down" and "Runnin' Down a Dream" will be heard in the opening segments of the broadcasts. Newly shot live footage will also be packaged with game highlights for broadcast in NBA arenas.

Here are Tom Petty's tour dates:

June 9: Charlotte, N.C. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre; w/ Trey Anastasio)

June 10: Bristow, Va. (Nissan Pavilion; w/ Trey Anastasio)

June 12: Portsmouth, Va. (Harbor Center; w/ Trey Anastasio)

June 14: Columbus, Ohio (Polaris Amphitheatre; w/ Trey Anastasio)

June 16: Manchester, Tenn. (Bonnaroo)

June 17: Maryland Heights, Mo. (UMB Bank Pavilion; w/ Trey Anastasio)

June 20: New York (Madison Square Garden; w/ Trey Anastasio)

June 21: Mansfield, Mass. (Tweeter Center; w/ Trey Anastasio)

June 23: Noblesville, Ind. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre; w/ Trey Anastasio)

June 26-27: St. Paul, Minn. (Xcel Center; w/ Pearl Jam)

June 29-30: Milwaukee (Marcus Amphitheatre; w/ Pearl Jam)

July 2-3: Denver (Pepsi Center; w/ Pearl Jam)

Aug. 12: Hartford, Conn. (Dodge Music Center; w/ Allman Brothers Band)

Aug. 13: Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (SPAC; w/ Allman Brothers Band)

Aug. 15: Darien Lake, N.Y. (Darien Lake PAC; w/ Allman Brothers Band)

Aug. 16: Burgettstown, Pa. (Post-Gazette Pavilion; w/ Allman Brothers Band)

Just a reminder for all of those fans of this fantastic band they call Calexico, that formed out of the rhythm section of Giant Sand in Tucson, Arizona.

Tim

almost the exact same show both nights...did you see both?

Yes I did see both shows.

Tim

Hey Everybody,

I only have time at the moment to post the setlists of the past two DAVID GILMOUR concerts at Massey Hall. When I have some time I'll write a review.

NIGHT 1:

DAVID GILMOUR

MASSEY HALL

SUN APR 9, 2006

Start time Set I: 8PM

1. Castellorizon

2. On An Island

3. The Blue

4. Red Sky at Night

5. This Heaven

6. Then I Close My Eyes

7. Take a Breath

8. Smile

9. A Pocketful of Stones

10. Where We Start

End time Set I: 9:02PM (Total time of set 1 hour and 2 minutes)

Start time Set II: 9:25PM

11. Shine On You Crazy Diamond

12. Wot's...uh the Deal

13. Wearing the Inside Out

14. Fat Old Sun

15. Breathe in the Air

16. Time

17. Breath Reprise

18. High Hopes

19. Echoes

Encore: (minute plus gap)

20. Wish You Were Here

21. Comfortably Numb

End Set II: 10:56PM (Total time of set 1 hour and 31 minutes)

NIGHT 2

DAVID GILMOUR

MASSEY HALL

MON APR 10, 2006

Start time Set I: 8:01PM

1. Castellorizon

2. On An Island

3. The Blue

4. Red Sky at Night

5. This Heaven

6. Then I Close My Eyes

7. Take a Breath

8. Smile

9. A Pocketful of Stones

10. Where We Start

End time Set I: 9:04PM (Total time of set 1 hour and 3 mimutes)

Start time Set II: 9:24PM

11. Shine On You Crazy Diamond

12. Wearing the Inside Out

13. Coming Back to Life

14. Dominoes

15. Breath in the Air

16. Time

17. Breath Reprise

18. High Hopes

19. Echoes

Encore:

20. Wish You Were Here

21. Comfortably Numb

End Set II: 10:56PM (Total time of set 1 hour and 31 minuts)

I do love that Loose Fur album, but still give the nod to the Flaming Lips.

Tim

The Flaming Lips 'At War with the Mystics'

I would love to go to this gig, but alas I'll be in Manchester, Tennesse for bonnaroo so I really can't complain too much.

Tim

In the article above, Petty himself says that he will still perform just not a big summer tour.

But if Petty doesn't come to Toronto this time around, all the fans of the Heartbreakers in Southern Ontario better make sure they check a gig out in New York or Michigian or Ohio or wherever? As if that's it for big tours Petty will likely not play anywhere closer than Chicago or New York City after this year.

Tim

Two more wake ups until David Gilmour at Massey Hall!

I don't want to be greedy but... I hope that David Crosby and Graham Nash decide to make the trip form New York City with Gilmour to perform at the Toronto gigs as they did in the Big Apple.

Tim

I hope this will not be the last tour for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

If so I'll have to see a few more Heartbreakers gig than I expected this summer. First up will be bonnaroo and then hopefully at least a Toronto gig, if Petty decides to play here for the first time in seven plus years, but I might have to go to a few more as well?

Tim

From www.rollingstone.com

Tom Petty's Summer Tour His Last?

The Heartbreakers turn thirty with a blowout tour, movie In 1976, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released their debut album, and this summer Petty plans to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary in grand style. He and the Heartbreakers will hit the road in June on a tour that Petty says might be the band's last major summer outing; there's an ambitious documentary in the works; and Petty is finishing Highway Companion, a solo album tentatively due on Rick Rubin's American Recordings label this summer.

"It's a quieter album than I've done before," Petty says, sitting behind the sound desk in his home studio in Malibu. "I don't think I wasted any lines on this album. I think the songs are all there."

Petty exudes genuine pride as he debuts for Rolling Stone nine of the songs slated for Highway Companion, including "Square One" and "Turn This Car Around." He began recording the album last year with Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell and fellow Traveling Wilbury Jeff Lynne. Each contributes guitar parts, Lynne plays keys and a Hofner bass, Campbell plays a hefty amount of slide guitar ("He's never been better," says Petty) and, for the first time on record, Petty plays drums. Though they all but finished recording in February, Petty says, "The only thing keeping me from wrapping things up is just going, 'Well, I wonder if there's one more in me?'"

Petty plans to incorporate some of these songs into the Heartbreakers tour this summer, which will kick off in June with openers including Pearl Jam, John Mayer, Trey Anastasio and, Petty hopes, the Strokes and the Allman Brothers Band. "I think we should do this tour and then put an end to doing national tours, and just play now and then where we want to play," he says. "The idea of doing sheds or arenas . . . you turn into an animal by the time it's done."

Also, filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show, Mask) has begun shooting a documentary about the Heartbreakers' history. "We've given him access that we've never given anybody," says Petty. Bogdanovich will interview Petty at length and hopes to talk with Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks and members of Petty's family.

"We're trying to give a sense of what happened to this group of kids that came from Gainesville, Florida -- how they made the big time," says Bogdanovich. "How did that change them, and how did they change the world?

"I'm not an expert on Tom Petty, I'm just a fan," adds Bogdanovich. "But what appeals to me is that he's a real American artist -- an impressionist -- very much of the American grain."

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers tour dates thus far:

6/16: Manchester, TN (Bonnaroo Music Festival)

With Pearl Jam:

6/26: Saint Paul, MN, Xcel Energy Center

6/27: Saint Paul, MN, Xcel Energy Center

7/2: Denver, Pepsi Center

7/3: Denver, Pepsi Center

AUSTIN SCAGGS

was talking to Brian Griffith about Willie playing (Brian played a tour with Willie) and he mentioned Willie hooked him and his girlfriend up with passes for the Hamilton show

sure be nice if Bri got invited up to do a tune or few in front of the home-town crowd

Hey Payce-ley,

That would be great news if Brian Griffiths got on stage for the Willie Nelson show in Hamilton.

Especially if Willie decided to peform material from his brilliant and overlooked 1998 effort 'Teatro,' in which Griffiths was involved due to production of Daniel Lanois.

Tim

From www.billboard.com

Hornsby's 'Intersections' Boxed With DVD

April 06, 2006, 3:55 PM ET

Katie Hasty, N.Y.

[blurb]Bruce Hornsby's career to date will be represented with the four-disc, 53-track boxed set "Intersections," which is due July 25 via RCA/Legacy. A fifth disc comprises a 22-track DVD that rounds up live performances and music videos.

The CDs are quartered off into different discs: "Top 90 Time," "Solo Piano, Tribute Records, Country-Bluegrass, Movie Songs," "By Request" (favorites and best songs) and "By Request Part 2."[/blurb]

All the pianist/songwriter's biggest hits, including "The Way It Is," "Mandolin Rain" and "The Valley Road" are included in the collection. Several tracks that were either inspired by or recorded during his stint as keyboardist for the Grateful Dead also made the cut, like "Across the River" (with Jerry Garcia on bass) and a cover of the Dead's "Jack Straw," which appeared on the tribute release "Deadicated."

Three videos ("Swing Street," "Talk of the Town" and "Love Me Still") from director Spike Lee appear on the DVD, as does Hornsby's performance of "Another Day" at Farm Aid 1993. "The Way It Is," Hornsby's first video and breakthrough hit, kicks off the disc, though, as the artist writes in the liner notes, it was "made before I learned how to say "'no.'"

Here is the track list for the "Intersections 1985-2005" boxed set:

Disc one:

"The Way It Is"

"Mandolin Rain"

"The Valley Road"

"Jacob's Ladder"

"Nobody There But Me"

"The End Of The Innocence"

"Look Out Any Window"

"Across The River"

"Lost Soul"

"Fields Of Gray/That's Where It's At"

"Walk In The Sun"

"Gonna Be Some Changes Made"

"Dreamland"

Disc two:

"Song A"

"Song B"

"Song C"

"Song D"

"Variations On Swan Song & Song D"

"Song F"

"Song H"

"Barcelona Mona"

"Backhand"

"Jack Straw"

"Madman Across The Water"

"Darlin' Cory"

"The Valley Road"

"Crown Of Jewels"

"Big Stick"

"The Valley Road"

"Hop, Skip And Jump"

"Love Me Still"

"Shadowland"

Disc three:

"The Show Goes On"

"Barren Ground"

"A Night On The Town"

"Talk Of The Town"

"Rainbow's Cadillac"

"Pastures Of Plenty"

"Spider Fingers/Tempus Fugit"

"White Wheeled Limousine/Long Black Veil"

"King Of The Hill/Twelve Tone Tune/Mystery Train"

Disc four:

"Resting Place"

"Preacher In The Ring, Part I"

"Preacher In The Ring, Part II"

"Fortunate Son/Comfortably Numb"

"Sneaking Up On Boo Radley"

"Shadowhand"

"Sticks & Stones

"The Chill"

"The Good Life"

"What The Hell Happened"

"Hooray For Tom"

"Candy Mountain Run"

DVD:

"The Way It Is"

"The Valley Road"

"Look Out Any Window"

"Defenders of the Flag"

"Across The River"

"Talk Of The Town"

"Fields Of Gray"

"Walk In The Sun"

"Swing Street"

"Go Back To Your Woods"

"The Valley Road"

"Barcelona Mona"

"Love Me Still"

"Comfortably Numb"

"They Love Each Other"

"Imagine"

"The Mighty Quinn"

"Another Day"

"The Tide Will Rise"

"Talk Of The Town"

"Star-Spangled Banner"

"Gonna Be Some Changes Made"

I'll be going to the Hamilton gig, it will be my 10th time seeing Willie Nelson, but first in Canada.

Tim

I just picked up my tickets for this gig, it will be my first time seeing BSS and the gig is the day before my birthday so it looks to be a nice weekend.

Tim

Is it true that the Lips are now a three-piece? The Star alluded to that in yesterday's paper.

The Flaming Lips are a three piece in the studio with Wayne Coyne, Michael Ivins and Steven Drozd.

Though while on stage Drozd can not drum while also performing guitar and keyboards at the same time so in 2002 when the Flaming Lips became the backing band for Beck they got a Flaming Lip roadie Kliph Surlock to take over on drums. Kliph has been their drummer ever since, though Drozd still does the drum parts in the studio.

And the gig was one hour and twenty-three minutes long, short to us hippies, but definitely sweet.

If given the option would take three minutes of the Flaming Lips over three hours of most bands currently touring the globe.

Tim

I'm so tired as I now realize that I will only be getting less than three hours of sleep before work tomorrow, but it was so worth it.

Anyways I can at least write out the setlist from last nights Flaming Lips gig at the Phoenix...and here it is...

1. Ta! Da!

2. Race for the Prize

3. Bohemian Rhapsody

4. Free Radicals

5. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots pt. 1

6. Cow Jam

7. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots pt. 2

8. The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song

9. The W.A.N.D.

10. She Don't Use Jelly

11. Do You Realize??

Encore: 12. Love Yer Brain

13. War Pigs

Glad to read you guys had a great time.

Did the Sadies or any members of the Sadies come out and play with Neko Case at the gig?

Tim

TimmyB I think this will be the most sought after show this year. So may people wanted to get tickets and so many were left out. I'll be the dude (among the several hundred others) hanging outside asking anyone who walks by if they have an extra.

Well deranger I hope you find that extra. And I hope all others on here that are looking for a ticket for this gig find one tomorrow.

Though I believe the most sought after show(s) this year is the David Gilmour tour and that will be happening this upcoming weekend at Massey Hall. So you should likely find a ticket for the Flaming Lips at a far more reasonable price than Gilmour a few days later.

But if you and others don't get in don't fret, I'm sure with the Flaming Lips releasing their first full length album since 2002 tomorrow, so there will be many more opportunities to see them in the months and possibly years to come.

Tim

Hello Everybody,

Who else will be coming with me to see the most fun band on the entire planet at this moment in time?

By that I mean who is also going to see the Flaming Lips at the Phoenix Concert Theatre on Tuesday April 4, 2006?

BTW it is the same day their new album 'At War with the Mystics' comes out.

I hope to see you all there.

Tim