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This guy deserves a mention ( and I've met him too ): Bruce Campbell - from Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, and the forthcoming Spiderman movie ( to name a few )- also, his best-selling autobiography is a hoot. Highly recommended.

From Pete Townshend's Diary on his website:

George

Goodbye sweet man. ATMP.

Hendrix

My favourite Beatle is gone but will never be forgotten. Cancer is a terrible disease. My dad was 58 too when he died of cancer, although unlike George, he was never a smoker. As a kid of 5 in 1973, my dad bought me my first record: Meet The Beatles. I still own and love listening to it. I think that George is/was one of the more underrated pop/rock guitarists of the last 35 years. I've always loved his singing voice too - he sings with a touch of vulnerability. Although not a prolific songwriter, George's songs have a lot of staying power for me. I'll never tire of Here Comes The Sun, Taxman; Something; If I Needed Someone etc... R.I.P. George. You are missed.

I definitely have had premonitions regarding music events and releases. For example, I've had a certain premontion that The Tea Party's new cd, The Interstellar Mantras, will suck - never heard it, but the image that this cd sucks just won't go away. I've had similar negative premontions regarding recent/future releases from: Creed; Our Lady Peace (came true); Alanis; Depeche Mode (came true); Edwin (true); Bush (true); Nelly Furtado(annoyingly true); Matchbox 20; and The Giggles Experience. I'll keep you informed Davey Boy about new premonitions, although I did predict that Mick Jagger would sell 954 cds on it's first day of sale in England.

At long last Who/Kinks producer, the infamous Shel Talmy, has decided to re-master and re-release The Who's great 1964 first album, My Generation. This is the last Who album to be re-mastered. I've waited a long time for this. I do own the album, but I've held off on buying the crappy sounding AAD version for the past 15 years.

No doubt Shel cashed-in big time on this deal. Buy this cd. It's as violent and glorious sounding as music gets - plus there's lots of un-released songs. Un-released Keith Moon is a great thing. Here's what Shel himself had to say about this event ( check out the bottom for song listings ):

FORMAL RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT

It's with great pleasure that I can announce that an agreement has been reached with MCA and The Who to acquire my original 3-track tapes for re-mixing into stereo. It is also part of the agreement that I will be doing the re-mixing and supervise the mastering.

"The Who Sings My Generation", will be a multiple CD package to include "My Generation", "Anyhow Anyway Anywhere", and "I Can't Explain" among the 24 songs on the 3-track tapes and in addition many of the outtakes and talkback chat will be included in the package. The release is scheduled for next spring, 2002.

There are many people who worked hard to make this happen, and I want to give special thanks to Bill Waddell and Andy Mckaie of MCA and especially to Pete Townshend, without whom I don't think this would have been possible.

It's been a long and arduous trip to get here and I'm glad to finally arrive. Thanks to all of you who have waited patiently, and sometimes "not so patiently"!

Cheers!

Shel

Back in the early 1960s some historic recording sessions took place! Such legendary hits as "My Generation" and "I Can't Explain" were recorded in England!

These songs have

NEVER BEEN RELEASED IN STEREO!

1. Anyhow, Anyway, Anywhere

2. Anytime You Want Me

3. Bald Headed Woman

4. Circles

5. Daddy Rolling Stone

6. Heat Wave

7. I Can't Explain

8. I Don't Mind

9. I'm a Man

10. Instant Party Mixture

11. It's Not True

12. Leaving Here

13. Legal Matters

14. Lies

15. Lubie

16. Motor-vating

17. Much Too Much

18. My Generation

19. Please Please

20. Shout and Shimmy

21. The Good's Gone

22. The Kids Are Alright

23. The Ox

24. You're Going To Know Me

I'm heading to the Zone next Wednesday ( and this Wednesday too ! ), but before I show up, I'm checking out Grossman's Open Blues night and the Silver Dollar's bluegrass jam - it's always a good time.

Here's a few that come to mind: Maggot Brain from Funkadelic; My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama - Frank Zappa; Cortez The Killer - Neil Young; Wharf Rat by the Dead ( of course ); and any song lyric by Our Lady Peace and/or The Tea Party... just kidding. I hate those bands passionately.

I hope ya' all enjoy(ed) the show. I'm working on Electric Circus right now and I ain't having any fun. There is no justice.

I had to work Wednesday night so I missed Jimmy. I did however catch them the last time they played the Comfort Zone. I'm sure the show kicked Wednesday night. I think they are one of the best Canjam bands that I've seen, and I've seen a lot of good Canadian bands. What I like is that they take fresh/interesting approaches to improvising. Anyone on this site should make a point of catching these guys.

I'll get you a copy Frenchman. That's why I taped The Who in the first place - oh yeah, they killed. I rather liked the short and sweet "Oz " last night.

I can't get you a Buddy Guy Live At Bravo because some asshole stole my Beta SP copy. It was 90 minutes of blues glory. The version that'll be airing on Bravo soon, will be a measly 60 minutes.

I'm dubbing it at work direct from satellite on Beta SP, right after The Who's ( complete ) performance at the NYC fundraising concert from last month. I'll make you a pristine copy if you'd like Davey Boy?

Worst show: Chris Hood Band At The Fillmore.

Best show: The Giggles Experience Live At Mamma Mia Pizza

Jimmy Swift is a great touring band. Catch them at the Comfort Zone next Wednesday if you want proof? How 'bout just showing up.

Hey Mike, I talked to Dave last night. I'll meet up with you at around 1:00 Wednesday. The pub we should go to is the same one I mentioned weeks ago: The Imperial Library Pub ( upstairs ) - on Dundas, just east of Yonge ( one block away from Massey Hall ). We should eat at around 3ish - rush hour is no fun in Toronto. I'll talk to Davey Boy tonight. Call him in Kingston or check back here with me.

True Oyster cult

OYSTERHEAD

With the Cancer Conspiracy. Wednesday, Nov. 7. Massey Hall, 178 Victoria. $45.50 from Ticketmaster, Roy Thomson Hall box office (872-4255).

BY MIKE DOHERTY

Oh, to be in 1983 again, when everyone was talking about the new Michael Jackson album, and a certain power trio driven by Stewart Copeland's drums was all the rage....

Eighteen years on, Copeland's still dismissive of Jacko, he's still disagreeing with his bandmates and he's still playing to thousands of people -- but as one-third of Oysterhead, rather than the Police. Copeland's new venture with Primus bassist Les Claypool and Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio has the drummer more stoked than he's been in years.

Copeland has been involved in a few bands since the Police acrimoniously dissolved in the mid-'80s, but his main passion has been composing for films. "I forgot all about playing drums," he admits on the phone from Berkeley, Calif., before the fourth concert on Oysterhead's debut tour. "If I ever needed drums for any of my film-composing work, I'd go ahead and hire somebody. It's only just in the past year that Les Claypool called me up to produce a Primus record, and along the way -- since they're all Police fans -- I had a jam with them. I kind of enjoyed it, but their young whipper-snapper of a drummer kicked my ass.

"That pissed me off, so I went home and tried to figure out my drums, then the guy from Tama drums sent over this fantastic new drum set, and that completely got me fired up again. I've been polishing and shining and detailing and tweaking and calibrating, and it's like a new hot rod. You should see the drum set I've got now, man -- very cool! And oh, by the way, I'm now going to smoke that little son of a bitch. Tonight."

Indeed, the drumming on Oysterhead's debut, The Grand Pecking Order (Elektra/Warner), is vintage Copeland, featuring crisp, driving and unpredictable rhythms. While Oysterhead's first concert, a one-off deal in New Orleans in May 2000, was by their own admission rather self-indulgent, the album finds the band distilling its darkly cartoonish sensibility into ominously funky tunes.

Asked if it would be fair to call Oysterhead's music "prog-pop," Copeland pauses for a moment, then lets out a cautious, "S-s-sure. I'll go with that. I don't know if Les would like that very much, but I'm cool with it. Les Claypool is the art Nazi of the group. We run everything past Les to see if it's cool or not, and we have a lot of arguments about the validity of pop music versus serious music and everything. As far as I'm concerned, it's all pop music, or else it ain't worth shit."

Surely they haven't come to blows yet, as Copeland famously did with Sting in that other band? Copeland snickers, then does some damage control. "No, no, no. We don't argue about it -- we have earnest discussions about it. I'm loosening him up, and he's wisening me up. The thing is, these guys are so much more fun to hang around with! We have a lot of laughs."

It's good that things are still friendly in the Oysterhead camp, especially since the rangy drummer must yet again contend with a frontman who's worshipped by the masses. "Trey onstage is the living God," he admits. In fact, Copeland claims to be able to pick the Phish phans out of the audience (they're "the ones who are twirling"). He professes to like them, but sometimes he craves variety: "In a lot of the gigs that we did in the States, the Phish fans got there first, 'cause they're so wildly cultish. So they're the prime audience that's in front of us when we walk out onstage. In Toronto, the tickets went a little slower, so some normal people -- maybe Primus fans, or even some Police fans -- might have bought a few tickets."

After the tour ends in mid-November, Copeland will resume scoring movies; in fact, he just finished providing music for the *NSync vehicle On the Line. ("That's a great one for Les," he quips.) Perhaps you can't really take the populism out of an ex-Policeman: after all, Sting has been writing for Disney. But while Gord Sumner is unlikely ever to find himself in a power trio again, his former bandmate still hears the call of the wild: "I like my job as a film composer, but Oysterhead is comin' to get me!"

Hey h, The Concert for NYC also had Clapton, Mellencamp, Elton with Billy Joel and Paul McCartney. The Who killed. I loved Won't Get Fooled Again, but the real emotional highlight of the entire NYC concert was Behind Blue Eyes. Like with Fire and Rain, people were in tears. I saw the entire concert and the worst act was Melissa Etheridge. I felt sorry for her - her mic didn't work on her first song. That killed any momentum she could have built... for the few that were actually there to see her perform. Hey, and why was Eric Clapton singing most of the verses of blues standards like Hoochie Coochie Man during his set, and not Buddy Guy, who was playing right next to him? When it comes down to singing the blues, Eric should have let Buddy take over, especially because of the Mississippi-laced lyrical content of Hoochie Coochie Man.

Can't we all just get along? This ain't the Northernheads vs Phishsanctuary.