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6/27/2012
Aerosmith has pushed back the release date of its new album, Music From Another Dimension, to sometime in November from its original date of August 28th, according to Q1043.com. No reason has been given for the delay, but one possibility could be that singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry did not finish the mixing process before Aerosmith left on its current tour with Cheap Trick.All the recording has been completed for the disc, which will be Aerosmith's first set of all-new material since 2001's Just Push Play.Bassist Tom Hamilton told us why he felt it was important ...
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6/27/2012
Mick Taylor says that until he read Keith Richards' memoir, Life, he never knew how badly the guitarist wanted him to stay in the Rolling Stones. Taylor, who is rumored to be participating in the band's 50th anniversary celebrations, spoke to The Times about his departure in 1974, and explained, "(Keith) sent me a message saying, 'Dear Mick, thanks for all the turn-ons. It was great playing with you.' And that was that. Possibly because I had my own problems, I didn't realize how he was affected."Taylor says that despite Richards labeling him "morose" during his time in the ...
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6/27/2012
Yevgeny Bryun from Russia's Ministry of Health blamed the Beatles' endorsing drug use and alternative lifestyles in the 1960's for the country's drug trafficking and addiction problems today. The Telegraph reported that Bryun said at a Moscow press conference: "After the Beatles went to expand their consciousness in India ashrams, they introduced that idea -- the changing of one's psychic state of mind using drugs -- to the population. When business understood that you could trade on that -- on pleasure and goods associated with pleasure -- that's probably where it all began."Although in 1967 Paul McCartney was the ...
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6/27/2012
Crosby, Stills, & Nash have just revealed the tracklisting to the group's upcoming live album and DVD, called CSN 2012. The set, which is due out on July 13th, is the group's first live collection in over 20 years, and includes such classics as "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," "Our House," "Marrakesh Express," "Long Time Gone," "Teach Your Children," "Deja Vu," and "Wooden Ships."CSN also spotlights their solo careers with a take on Graham Nash's "Military Madness," Stephen Stills' "Love The One You're With," "Johnny's Garden" and his Buffalo Springfield classics "For What It's Worth" and "Bluebird." Also included are ...
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6/27/2012
Lindsey Buckingham has just announced a 30-date summer swing through the South, the Midwest, and Canada. Buckingham kicks the jaunt off on July 26th in Birmingham, Alabama and eventually winds things down on September 8th in Rama, Ontario. Along the way he'll be making stops in Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa.Although his solo career has often been interrupted, if not co-opted by Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham retains a strong sense of allegiance to the band -- which is set to begin rehearsals for their next tour just after New Year's: "There's also ...
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6/26/2012
The Who's 1989 25th anniversary reunion tour would've been a lot cooler if Joe Walsh hit the road with them as originally planned. Walsh, who's out on the road now behind his new Top 20 comeback album, Analog Man, shed some light on the offer by old friend Pete Townshend to supply lead guitar on the historic celebratory trek.We asked Walsh how close he came to actually joining the Who on tour: "They were real serious. It almost happened. I remember a phone call where Pete (Townshend), and (John) Entwistle, and Roger (Daltrey) were on that end -- and ...
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6/26/2012
Will former White Stripes frontman Jack White be the main contender to produce a new album from the Rolling Stones, if the legendary band decides to record one for its 50th anniversary? According to a Rolling Stone interview with Stones guitarist Keith Richards, it could happen. Richards, who's been friends with White for years, said, "That's always a possibility. The door is wide open."White has produced other iconic artists before, notably Loretta Lynn and Wanda Jackson, resulting in acclaimed releases for both.He first saw the Stones in 2002, when the White Stripes opened for them, leading him to ...
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6/26/2012
The archetypal west coast band of the ’70s, the Eagles reached a creative and commercial peak in 1976 with their Hotel California album.Looking back, Glenn Frey, according to the Daily Express, feels the magnitude of their success brought too much pressure on the group.He told BBC News: “If I had known what I know now, I would have just had the Eagles have a vacation for a while, we’re getting on each other’s nerves, that’s what the Stones used to do... It’s not really ego, it’s the pressure to follow ‘Hotel California.’ Trying to get better every time ...
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6/26/2012
A chance conversation over a Lamborghini led to the dissolution of David Bowie and the Spiders From Mars, according to drummer Woody Woodmansey.In an interview with the BBC for the Jarvis Cocker-narrated TV special David Bowie and the Story of Ziggy Stardust, Woodmansey says an offhand comment over a magazine advertisement for the sports car led to a discussion with Spiders keyboard player Mike Garson about wages, and uncovered a startling discrepancy between pay packets.“…Mike said, ‘Well, why don’t you buy one?’ I said, ‘I wish,’” Woodmansey recalled. The two then discussed their earnings: “I went, ‘What do ...
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6/26/2012
Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora's latest solo album, Aftermath Of The Lowdown, will be released on September 24th, according to Ultimate Classic Rock. The album, which is the follow-up to 1998's Undiscovered Soul, was produced by Luke Ebbin, who along with Sambora and Jon Bon Jovi, was behind the boards for Bon Jovi's Crush and Bounce collections from 2000 and 2002, respectively.Sambora talked about the album to Rolling Stone, saying, "I think they don't see me as a singer, and I was the lead singer in every band I was in before Bon Jovi. I hope I get to ...
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