Post Tagged with: "Concerts"

by / on May 25, 2013 at 1:34 pm / in Concerts, Pop Music, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Deep Beatles: Paul McCartney, “Bluebird” (1976, Rockshow edition)

Sellout crowds. Onstage marriage proposals. Grasshopper infestations. Paul McCartney’s latest world tour has been eventful, finding him presiding over a successful marriage proposal and fending off insects pelting him as he performs “Hey Jude.”

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by / on May 25, 2013 at 8:39 am / in Concerts, Rhythm and Blues, Rock Music, Streams

Streams: Listen as Prince and 3rdEyeGirl cover “Even Flow” by Pearl Jam

Sporting a three-piece all-girl band, Prince recently asserted that he didn’t have time for collaborating with “old people.” Apparently, however, that doesn’t apply to his cover choices.

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by / on May 23, 2013 at 12:14 pm / in Metal, Movies, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Judas Priest – Epitaph (2013)

The final performance of Judas Priest’s “Epitaph World Tour” in May 2012 provided the perfect opportunity to offer a live video celebration of 40 years of metal.

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by / on May 23, 2013 at 10:01 am / in Concerts, Rock Music

‘They didn’t return my call’: Sammy Hagar tour won’t include Van Halen reunion, or much Chickenfoot

Former Montrose and Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar is providing a glimpse of what’s in store as he gears up for a series of retrospective summer dates. Warning: It won’t entail of lot of music from his current band, which also features Joe Satriani, Chad Smith and fellow Van Halen alum Michael Anthony.

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by / on May 23, 2013 at 9:28 am / in Pop Music, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Chicago’s Bill Champlin and Toto’s Joseph Williams – Live in Concert (2013)

Though neither has recently recorded with the groups that made them superstars, Joseph Williams and Bill Champlin remain inextricably linked to Toto and Chicago, respectively, both on tour and in our collective consciousness.

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by / on May 23, 2013 at 8:44 am / in Concerts, Pop Music, Rock Music

‘We needed to see if we could make it’: Paul McCartney remembers Wings’ triumphal 1976 tour of America

Paul McCartney is taking stock of the 1975-76 world tour that produced Wings Over America and the concert film Rockshow, just as each are seeing deluxe reissue.

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by / on May 18, 2013 at 2:35 pm / in Pop Music, Reissue, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Paul McCartney and Wings – Wings Over America (1976; 2013 reissue)

It’s much easier, nearly four decades later, to separate the music from the moment when it comes to Wings Over America. Back then, this multi-disc concert souvenir from Paul McCartney seemed like a triumphant musical summation.

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by / on May 18, 2013 at 10:40 am / in Concerts, Metal, Rock Music, Shows I'll Never Forget

Shows I’ll Never Forget: Tom Keifer, May 17, 2013

At Live Oaks Bar and Ballroom, Monroe, La.: I’ve seen Tom Keifer a few times over the years with Cinderella, mostly in arenas and ampitheaters, and always left happy.

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by / on May 11, 2013 at 8:20 am / in Concerts, Folk, Rock Music

‘If I had an axe, I’d cut the cable’: What really angered Pete Seeger about Bob Dylan’s Newport set

Pete Seeger bluntly refutes the oft-told notion that he tried to pull the plug on Bob Dylan’s first electric performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. In fact, Seeger says he was upset over the primitive sound system.

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by / on May 10, 2013 at 9:31 am / in Concerts, Metal, Rock Music

‘I’m excited to be alive’: King’s X drummer Jerry Gaskill roars back after last year’s health scare

As a new King’s X tour heads toward Texas, Jerry Gaskill continues to make a full recovery from last year’s horrifying health scare. He’s even readying a solo studio effort. “Very excited about that,” Gaskill says

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