Bruce Springsteen‘s live archival release for July is from September 25th, 1999 at the First Union Center in Philadelphia during his reunion tour with The E Street Band. It was one of the shorter set lists of the tour — 22 songs — but they were long ones, starting with the 11-minute show opener, “Incident on 57th Street.” Sixteen…… Read more »
The Empty Hearts, featuring Elliot Easton of The Cars and Clem Burke of Blondie, will release The Second Album on August 28th. It features a guest appearance by Ringo Starr playing drums on “Remember Days Like These.”… Read more »
Happy Birthday to Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice born on June 29th, 1948. Deep Purple: “Woman From Tokyo” The Hook: Recorded during a month-long stay at a villa outside Rome, in which they completed just two songs. Album: Who Do We Think We Are Year: 1973 Writers: Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice Stats: Peaked at number-60 on the Billboard Hot 100. Background: Deep…… Read more »
The long in the works reissue of Tom Petty‘s Wildflowers is one step closer to reality. The Petty family released a home demo of “You Don’t Know How It Feels” and said that they are in “a joyful process of discovering the Wildflowers sessions and demos and wanted to share a tiny bit of that with the fans.” The track…… Read more »
AC/DC will be getting into the puzzle game this fall. They struck a deal with Zee Productions to have four of their album covers — High Voltage, For Those About To Rock, Blow Up Your Video and Ballbreaker — be reproduced as 500-piece jigsaw puzzles. Zee’s been turning classic album covers into jigsaw puzzles for about a year. Their previous collaborations include Alice Cooper, David Bowie, Def Leppard, Guns n’ Roses, Iron Maiden, KISS and Metallica.…… Read more »
The deluxe limited-edition of Jimmy Page’s new book, The Anthology, had numerous publication delays, and so has the mass-market edition. Originally scheduled for release on September 8th, it will now be published on October 8th. It’s 400 pages long and will sell for $60, a far cry from the $600 price tag for the deluxe edition. The…… Read more »
Billy F. Gibbons of ZZ Top took part in a virtual book signing and fan Q-&-A in conjunction with the release on June 2nd of the expanded and updated edition of his book, Rock + Roll Gearhead. The first question of the session — which was cut short due to technical difficulties, but is posted on YouTube — produced a possible bit…… Read more »
John Fogerty celebrates a milestone birthday as he turns 75. Achieving success first as a member of Creedence Clearwater Revival and then on his own, he is an Army veteran and a member of both the Rock and Roll Hall and Songwriters Hall of Fame, and his “Centerfield” baseball bat guitar is in the National…… Read more »
Sammy Hagar and The Circle have put together their sixth recording in their Lockdown Sessions. This time it’s a cover of the Buffalo Springfield’s “For What it’s Worth.” This recording follows an original song, “Funky Feng Shui,” The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” Van Halen’s “Good Enough,” Bob Marley & The Wailers’ “Three Little Birds”…… Read more »
A very cool piece of rock memorabilia is on the auction block — the original artwork of the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1969 self-titled debut album. George Hardie‘s design, based on the historic 1937 photograph of the Hindenburg disaster taken by Sam Shere, is estimated to sell for between $20- and $30,000 when it goes up…… Read more »