JOHN FOGERTY: Traffic Jam
John Fogerty will hit the road later this year with special guest Steve Winwood opening. The
Legacy Tour will start on September 3rd in the Chicago suburb of Tinley Park, Illinois with 13 shows, through September 20th in Hollywood, Florida. Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 13th, at 10am local time at JohnFogerty.com. Fogerty returns to the road this Saturday and Sunday in Mexico City followed by three dates at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on March 18th, 20th and 21st.
John Fogerty Legacy Tour:
· 9/3 - Tinley Park, IL - Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre
· 9/5 - Canandaigua, NY - Constellation Brands – Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center
· 9/6 - Lenox, MA - Tanglewood Music Center
· 9/8 - Boston, MA - Leader Bank Pavilion
· 9/9 - Bridgeport, CT - Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater
· 9/11 - Atlantic City, NJ - Ocean Casino Resort
· 9/12 - Wantagh, NY - Jones Beach Theater
· 9/13 - Bethel, NY - Bethel Woods Event Gallery
· 9/15 - Vienna, VA - Wolf Trap
· 9/16 - Charlotte, NC - Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre
· 9/18 - St. Augustine, FL - Saint Augustine Amphitheatre
· 9/19 - Clearwater, FL - Coachman Park
· 9/20 - Hollywood, FL - Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
· 10/2 – Thackerville, OK – Lucas Oil Live at WinStar World Casino and Resort
BOSTON: Singer Dies on Anniversary of Original Singer's Death Boston is mourning the loss of their singer, Tommy DeCarlo. He passed Monday morning (yesterday) from brain cancer at 60. Ironically, his death came 19 years to the day (in 2007) of the suicide of original Boston singer Brad Delp. DeCarlo, a Delp fan and sound-a-like was working in a Charlotte, North Carolina Home Depot when he honored Delp by writing and recording an original song and posted it on MySpace along with a few Boston covers. He sent the MySpace link to Boston's management who passed it along to the band's founder and guitarist Tom Scholz who hired him.
DeCarlo toured with the band on every tour since then, and sings three songs on their last studio album, 2013's Life, Love & Hope. And in between he fronted his own band, DeCarlo.
In 2021, he released the audiobook, Unlikely Rockstar -- The Tommy DeCarlo Story. This past December, DeCarlo's children started a GoFundMe to help defer his medical costs. He is survived by his wife, two children, and at least one grandchild. DeCarlo is the third member of Boston to die following Delp in 2007 and drummer Sib Hashian in 2017.
PAUL McCARTNEY: Proud Papa
Stella McCartney, the second of Paul and Linda’s three children, was honored as a Knight of the Legion of Honor last Thursday at the Élysée Palace in Paris by French President Emanuel Macron. Her dad was on hand to celebrate, along with her sister Mary, brother James and stepmother Nancy. In receiving the honor, the fashion designer said France has "shaped so much of my life and career. This city has always welcomed and supported me, but also challenged and inspired me. This recognition is not just for me, but for my family, my team, the innovators and the partners who have worked tirelessly and passionately to prove that fashion can be both desirable and responsible." She also recognized her dad, who received the same honor in 2017. “I looked over to dad, and I suddenly realized that my husband and children have seen me get my other honors in England, but my father never managed to. It was also incredible to have it in a private room and have [the president] make a lengthy speech."
Stella, who founded her fashion house in 2001, was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2022. She received her OBE (Order of the British Empire) from Queen Elizabeth in 2013.
R.E.M.: Stipe Releases First Solo Track in 3 Years Michael Stipe has upped his profile over the past couple days. First he sang a couple of R.E.M.
songs in Brooklyn, New York on Saturday. And on Sunday night he released his first solo track in three years. "I Played the Fool" is the theme to Steve Carell's new HBO series Rooster. It was co-written by Stipe and producer Andrew Watt, who has a successful track record with such veteran acts as The Rolling Stones, Pearl Jam, Elton John and the late Ozzy Osbourne. The track features Stipe backed up by Watt, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer. Check it out on YouTube.
NEIL YOUNG: Back in the Studio Neil Young is in the studio recording a new album with the Chrome Hearts. Writing on his Neil Young Archives website he says, "I love the songs and the feelings of life and love... So far we have eight new songs. They make me feel.” Young started his post with his disdain for politics, saying, "I am so hurt for this country. Politics today is sad and depressing for me. I can’t do it anymore.” “I can go out and demonstrate my feelings about it. We have the worst president in the history of our country. Every day a bad TV show produced by DJT (Donald J. Trump) is what we get." If and when he completes the album, it will be Young's 50th and second with the Chrome Hearts following Talkin to the Trees last June. He was supposed to tour this summer with the band, but canceled it, saying he "decided to take a break."
JACK WHITE: I Don't Want to Write About Myself
Jack White says that when he tries to avoid including any autobiographical details when he writes a new song. White tells The Guardian, “Now it’s become very popular in the Taylor Swift
way of pop singers writing about all of their publicly aired break-ups, which I don’t find interesting at all. I think it’s a little bit boring for me to write about myself.” He adds, "If it’s something really painful, I’m not going to put this important, painful thing that I went through out there for some idiot on the internet to stomp all over. “So, I put a percentage of that into what I do and then morph it into somebody else’s character. I can’t really learn about myself until I put it into somebody else’s shoes.”
Jack White To Debut Art At London Gallery
Jack White is putting his visual art on display for the first time. The musician's debut gallery exhibit, called "These Thoughts May Disappear" will be open at the Newport Street Gallery in London from May 29th to September 13th. According to a post on Instagram, the "exhibition marks the first opportunity for the public to encounter Jack White's visual art in a dedicated gallery context." White’s pieces include sculptures, interactive works, installation, and furniture design.
Netflix Share Trailer For New Red Hot Chili Peppers Documentary About Hillel Slovak
Netflix is sharing the first trailer for "The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel.' The documentary is billed as an in-depth look at the band's formative years and the "singular vision of original guitarist Hillel Slovak." The trailer features old footage, photos and snippets of interviews with Flea, Anthony Kiedis, John Frusciante and more. "The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel" will arrive on Netflix on March 20th.
REO Speedwagon and Kevin Cronin Surprise Fans With Reunion Concert
REO Speedwagon and Kevin Cronin reunited with former bandmates last Saturday evening for a surprise performance in Peoria, Illinois, to honor late guitarist Gary Richrath. Cronin was joined by drummer Alan Gratzer, bassist Bruce Hall, and keyboardist Neal Doughty for a short set that featured fan favorites like "Ridin' the Storm Out," "Take It on the Run," "Roll With the Changes" and a cover of Van Morrison's "Gloria," with former vocalist Mike Murphy and Richrath's son, Eric, also joining in. The event was part of a private gala at the Peoria Riverfront Museum to celebrate the opening of an exhibit dedicated to Richrath. The reunion marked a special moment for the band, hinting at possible future collaborations and mending of relationships. The exhibit showcases Richrath's impact on the "Midwestern Rock" sound and his influential role in REO Speedwagon's success.
TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND, ALLMANS: A Beacon Return
Tedeschi Trucks Band kick off their annual residency at the Beacon Theatre in New York City Tuesday (tomorrow) night. The 10 shows that wrap up March 28th will mean that Tedeschi Trucks Band will have played 75 dates at the venue, and Derek Trucks will have played over 240 shows with his own bands and of course the Allman Brothers. Trucks says he likes coming back each year, not only because its an iconic venue, but it's a good place to check in on the state of the band. "It's New York and it's been an incredible audience for my solo band, for
Sue, for this band, for the Allman Brothers going back. You know there's a lot of history there. There's something about that place where you feel like you want to go and check in every year and see the health of the band and see if we feel like you've made any musical headway from the year before. And if the thing still feels fresh and alive there then the rest of the year you feel like you can go hammer it." Trucks adds that the annual run tests him and his bandmates. "It's humbling -- you get in for 10 nights and it's a heavy lift. We really try to change up the setlist and we dig deep." "You get out of there and you feel rung out, but in a good way. It's a challenge for us every year, which is one of the reasons we go back." The new Tedeschi Trucks Band album, Future Soul, will be out in the middle of the Beacon run on March 20th.
ALICE COOPER: Another Book of His Tales Alice Cooper is telling his story one more time. Having written 2007's Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict, and co-written Me, Alice: The Autobiography of Alice Cooper with Steve Gaines in 1976, he's now bringing everything up to date in a new memoir titled Devil on My Shoulder. He says, “I’ve written this book to track Alice’s ‘evilution’, and how I’ve tamed him at last. Just as he and I became almost fatally intertwined, the story of Alice Cooper after over thirty records and sixty-plus years has become a tangle of embellishments, elaborations and outright fabrications, and I think it’s time to sort reality from myth.” The book will also contains stories about the many artists he’s encountered in his life, including John Lennon, Groucho Marx, Vincent Price, Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, and many others, his use of stage props, including the guillotine, “Cold Ethyl,” dead babies, and the snake, and God. "Don’t worry, I’m not gonna bang you on the head with a Bible," he says. "I just want to describe how it is that I found Him dwelling in me. Alice, that inveterate liar, was a voice in my ear for so long, whispering lies and sweet nothings, pretending to be my better conscience and my inspiration, pretending to be me, that I think it’s only right to present both sides of the story: the angel on one shoulder, the devil on the other.” Set for publication on October 6th, he will support it with an eight-city UK Q&A tour from October 11th in Cardiff, Wales through the 20th in Wolverhampton with Cambridge, London, Brighton, Manchester, Stockton and Glasgow in between.
Alice famously uses the phrase "devil on my shoulder" in one of the famous stories he loves to tell -- the time that "devil" told him to shoot Elvis Presley while visiting "The King" in 1971 in his suite at the Las Vegas Hilton. "He says, 'Come on in here, I want to show you something.' So we go in the kitchen and he opens the drawer, takes out a loaded .38 Smith & Wesson Snubnosed, puts it my hand and he says, 'I'm gonna show you how to take a gun out of somebody's hand.' Little devil on my shoulder says, 'Kill him!' and for a second I went, 'Wow, that would be something. That would be the biggest rock news of all-time.' And then the little angel goes, 'Wound him. Don't kill him, just wound him.' By the time I could decide the gun was over here, I was on the floor, his boot's in my throat -- 'It's good Elvis. Can I get up now?'"
KEITH EMERSON: 10-Year Fanfare For the Uncommon Keyboardist
Today (Tuesday), March 10th, marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Emerson, Lake & Palmer co-founder and keyboardist Keith Emerson. Suffering from a nerve disease in one hand and depressed about his decreasing ability to play music, he was 71 when he killed himself with a single gunshot on that day in 2016 at home in Santa Monica, California. Best known for his work with Carl Palmer and Greg Lake in ELP, he first made his mark in the '60s with The Nice before forming ELP in 1970.
Born on November 2nd, 1944 in Todmorden, Lancashire, England, Emerson was a well-known piano player in the area by the time he was 14. He left his hometown of Worthing in his late teens to move to London, where he played in The V.I.P.'s and Gary Farr and the T-Bones.
Emerson's eclectic playing style came from such influences as Fats Waller, Oscar Peterson,
Dave Brubeck, Jack McDuff and Big John Patton. He was well versed with classical music, favoring Bach and Aaron Copland. While the Hammond B-3 organ was his instrument of choice in The Nice, he purchased one of the first Moog [pr: MOWG] synthesizers and became the first artist to tour with it internationally with the help of its inventor, Dr. Robert Moog.
ELP were one of the first supergroups, achieving instant fame with their debut at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. They released six platinum albums between 1970 and '77, crafting such numbers as "Lucky Man," "Karn Evil 9" ("Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends") and "Fanfare for the Common Man." The trio headlined the 1974 California Jam festival in front of more than 500,000 people. They were also one of the first bands to tour with an orchestra before splitting up for the first time in 1979. Between 1985 and 1990, Emerson rejoined Lake and Palmer twice; the trio released a 1992 album called Black Moon. Their last performance was a one-off 40th anniversary show in London in 2010. Emerson released six solo studio albums, three live collections and eight soundtracks, including the music for the cartoon action TV series Iron Man in 1994. In 2003, he published an autobiography, Pictures of an Exhibitionist. Emerson was divorced from the mother of his two sons, Aaron Ole Emerson
and Damon Keith Emerson. He also leaves behind a few grandkids. Nine months after his death, Greg Lake succumbed to cancer at 69.
IN OTHER NEWS David Gilmour, after celebrating his 80th birthday Friday by releasing “On an Island” from his April 2006 appearance on Sessions @ AOL (also known as AOL Sessions), has now released “This Heaven,” also off the On an Island album. You can find it on YouTube.
Jon Anderson, the founding voice of Yes, has announced a second leg of U.S. dates with The Band Geeks. The 12 shows start on June 23rd at the Celebrity Theater in Phoenix through July 22nd at the Palladium Times Square in New York City. The spring leg has him doing 10 shows from April 17th in Ridgefield, Connecticut through May 7th in Royal Oak, Michigan. He’ll tour the UK and Sweden in Septembe
The NHL's Nashville Predators will hold a Jerry Garcia Night on March 24th. Besides featuring his music during the game, there's a special ticket package that comes with a Garcia-inspired hockey jersey. A portion of each ticket sale will be donated to the Rex Foundation.
Last year The Stray Cats canceled their fall tour due to frontman Brian Setzer having an auto-immune disease that left him unable to play guitar. Well, he's doing better and the band will be back out on the road this summer. The tour starts July 24th in Las Vegas and wraps up August 16th in Morristown, New Jersey. Tickets go on sale Friday.
The Cure's Reeves Gabrels, who also played guitar in David Bowie's Tin Machine, will perform with the Boston Ballet from March 19th through the 29th, playing live guitar for a world premiere ballet called "The Leisurely Installation of a New Window."
Queen guitarist Brian May paid tribute to his wife, British actress Anita Dobson, on Sunday, International Women’s Day. He said, “I don't claim to understand the semantic distinctions brought in by the new generation, but this unique person is a Woman, and a Lady, and an awesome Gal, still caring, still creating, still bringing joy to millions on and off camera. And I'm proud to say that ... amazingly ... She is MY gal. Anita Dobson, Lady May, OBE. Happy Woman's Day, folks, from both of us!”
On This Day
· In 1956 - Elvis Presley was proclaimed "the new singing rage" by RCA Victor Records in a half-page spread in Billboard magazine. · in 1997, the first PalmPilot was released.
· In 2000 - Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde was arrested for leading an animal rights protest against The Gap, which was accused of using leather from cows "slaughtered illegally and cruelly." The protest took place in a store in Manhattan.
· In 2009 - Tickets for a one-off gig by Paul McCartney in Las Vegas sold out seven seconds after going on sale. The former Beatle was booked to perform at the opening of the
New Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on April 19 for 4,000 fans. Tickets were $750 each.
· In 2010 - Pink Floyd won a court battle with EMI that prevented the record company from selling single downloads and ringtones on the Internet from the group's albums. Pink Floyd's back catalogue was second only in sales to The Beatles.