Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Tom Waits: Concert Review 6/26/08
The stage at the Fox Theatre on Thursday night looked like some dusty, forgotten music room in an antiques store. Odd and old instruments stood and sat about, waiting for someone to throw them together into a performance.
Good thing Tom Waits showed up. Waits — one of pop music’s most unorthodox, indescribable and poignant singer-songwriters — played in St. Louis for the first time in about 30 years.
And he nailed it.
Playing more than 20 songs in two hours, the gravel-voiced Waits serenaded, assaulted, charmed and amused the crowd with selections covering the last 25 or so years of his 35-year career.
Defining Tom Waits, on almost any level, is far tougher than herding big cats.
His music could be called jazz-rock-folk-R&B-blues. But that leaves out the gospel, country, heavy-metal and classical influences. In fact, even "jazz" is vague, because his tunes can stir up hints of Dixieland, ragtime, big-band, bebop and improvisational avant-garde.
Saying he’s a musician leaves out a chunk of the puzzle. He has been in more than 20 films ("Down By Law," "Mystery Men," Francis Ford Coppola’s "Dracula").
And that voice? Local music critic Daniel Durchholz once wrote that Waits' voice sounds "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months and then taken outside and run over with a car."
Even though he has won two Grammys, Waits has never had a chart hit. A few of his tunes were popularized by far more, well, popular acts: "Downtown Train" by Rod Stewart; "Ol’ 55" by the Eagles; and "Jersey Girl" by Bruce Springsteen.
But all those things, mashed together like one of his songs featuring whistles, washboards, congas and a school bell is why Waits has developed such a dedicated following. (We’d say cult, but Waits, I imagine, would be highly agitated thinking that people viewed his works and anything near religious.)
Waits opened with "Lucinda" from his latest album "Orphans." But he seriously grabbed his audience with his second number, "Way Down in the Hole," which has gotten some well-deserved exposure as the theme song to HBO’s "The Wire" series.
With little pause between tunes, Waits stood alone at a microphone and growled out several more numbers until he strapped on an electric guitar and offered a blistering version of "Get Behind The Mule," which may have been the best song of the night.
But leave it to Waits to throw things into a completely unexpected gear. After kicking the audience into overdrive, he then sang "Day After Tomorrow," a slow, haunting ballad about a soldier waiting to come home.
"Day After Tomorrow" points out Waits’ strongest suit as a singer-songwriter — the searing personal side he infuses into his music. While this song is surely an anti-war ballad, what lingers in a listener’s mind is not the politics of the situation but the loneliness and fear of the young man at war.
Waits took the gear change to move behind the piano and play some slow-tempo selections, the best being a sweet rendition of the short (less than two minutes) song, "Johnsburg, Illinois."
During this portion, Waits spun a few yarns and drew the biggest laughs with his story about his "E-bay" addiction.
"I recently bought the last dying breath of Henry Ford," Waits said. "It’s in a Coke bottle with a cork in it. It’s sealed real tight."
"Think about it. How many of those are there?"
Just as the relaxed lounge-singer vibe had settled in, Waits returned to his electric guitar and pounded out a hard-rocking version of "Make It Rain," another highlight of the evening along with the menacing "16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six" several songs later.
Waits’ encore started with the charging "Goin’ Out West" but then slowly mellowed to the melancholy "Innocent When You Dream," in which Waits invited the audience to join in singing along the final refrain.
"It’s such a sad old feeling, the fields are soft and green / It’s memories that I’m stealing, but you’re innocent when you dream."
Sweet dreams, indeed.
Tom Waits Set List
1. "Lucinda" ("Orphans")
2. "Way Down in the Hole" ("Frank’s Wild Years)
3. "Falling Down" ("Big Time")
4. "Black Market Baby" ("Mule Variations")
5. "All The World Is Green" ("Blood Money")
6. "Heigh-Ho" (Orphans")
7. "Get Behind The Mule" ("Mule Variations")
8. "Day After Tomorrow" ("Real Gone")
9. "Cemetery Polka" ("Rain Dogs")
10. "Hang Down Your Head" (Rain Dogs")
11. "Lucky Day" ("Black Rider")
12. "Johnsburg, Illinois" (Swordfishtrombones")
13. "Lost In The Harbour ("Alice" soundtrack)
14. "Make It Rain ("Real Gone")
15. "Lie To Me" (Orphans)
16. "The Other Side Of The World" (Night On Earth" soundtrack)
17. "Singapore ("Rain Dogs")
18. "Dirt In The Ground" (Bone Machine")
19. "What’s He Building In There?" ("Mule Variations")
20. "16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six ("Swordfishtrombones")
21. "Rain Dog" ("Rain Dogs")
ENCORE
22. "Goin’ Out West" ("Bone Machine")
23. "Anywhere I Lay My Head" ("Rain Dogs")
24. "Innocent When You Dream" ("Frank’s Wild Years")
NINE INCH NAILS Introduces 'Unplugged' Set Into New Live Show
The Pulse of Radio reports that Trent Reznor has introduced an "unplugged" portion into the new NINE INCH NAILS live show, which premiered on Saturday (July 26) in Seattle. According to RollingStone.com, the band stepped to the front of the stage about an hour into the show with Reznor on vibraphone and bassist Justin Meldal-Johnsen playing an upright bass. The 20-minute jazzy, acoustic set was taken mostly from "Ghosts I - IV", the instrumental album that Reznor released online earlier this year. The stage show also featured mesh LED curtains that projected various visuals, ranging from falling rain to static to a ruined city, and made the band appear to be playing on what Jam! Music called "a stage that appeared to be constructed entirely out of lights."
The two-hour set featured NIN classics such as "Closer", "Terrible Lie", "Hurt", "March of the Pigs" and "Head Like A Hole", in addition to songs from the band's latest album, "The Slip".
"The Slip" was issued as a free download last month and arrived on July 22 in North America as an individually numbered limited edition. It was packaged with a bonus DVD of rehearsal performances. It has sold 29,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 13 on The Billboard 200 chart.
A vinyl edition of the record will be released on August 12, while the digital version will remain free for download indefinitely at NIN.com.
The previous NIN album, "Ghosts I - IV", was made available in March in a variety of digital and physical configurations.
NINE INCH NAILS next plays in Winnipeg, Canada on Thursday (July 31) and will headline the closing day of this weekend's Lollapalooza festival in Chicago on Sunday (August 3).
The two-hour set featured NIN classics such as "Closer", "Terrible Lie", "Hurt", "March of the Pigs" and "Head Like A Hole", in addition to songs from the band's latest album, "The Slip".
"The Slip" was issued as a free download last month and arrived on July 22 in North America as an individually numbered limited edition. It was packaged with a bonus DVD of rehearsal performances. It has sold 29,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 13 on The Billboard 200 chart.
A vinyl edition of the record will be released on August 12, while the digital version will remain free for download indefinitely at NIN.com.
The previous NIN album, "Ghosts I - IV", was made available in March in a variety of digital and physical configurations.
NINE INCH NAILS next plays in Winnipeg, Canada on Thursday (July 31) and will headline the closing day of this weekend's Lollapalooza festival in Chicago on Sunday (August 3).
Monday, July 28, 2008
Van Halen: Concert Review 4/26/08
Three decades after releasing a debut recording that literally rewrote the rule book on how to succeed in rock 'n' roll, Van Halen's original lineup — three-quarters of it, anyway — finally made it to its long-delayed concert at Scottrade Center Saturday night.
Brothers Eddie Van Halen on guitar and drummer Alex Van Halen were joined by long-exiled vocalist David Lee Roth and Wolfgang Van Halen (Eddie's 17-year-old son) on bass. Judging by the nonstop, two-hour barrage of rock energy generated by the quartet at Scottrade Center — and the unbridled enthusiasm of the close-to-capacity crowd for the music — Van Halen seems to be back at the top of the hard rock hierarchy among St. Louis rock fans.
How long the group might stay there is debatable, given its history, which reads like a rock 'n' roll soap opera since Roth was fired from the band in 1985. After Eddie Van Halen dumped Roth, vocalist Sammy Hagar kept the Van Halen juggernaut rolling with a string of hits that continued until 1996, when Hagar was dumped and the band began recording once again with Roth.
But Roth's vocals appeared on only two cuts of a greatest-hits release, and the band moved on without him, using Gary Cherone briefly instead. Hagar rejoined the band for a 2004 tour, but soon departed again — as did original bassist Michael Anthony, who also was fired unceremoniously after the tour.
Despite all these "can't tell the players without a scorecard" maneuvers, the current Van Halen lineup — described by Roth Saturday evening as "three-quarters original and one-quarter inevitable" — blasted through 23 classic Van Halen tunes from the 1978—84 era with energy, style and undeniable talent.
Opening with a no-holds-barred remake of the Kinks classic "You Really Got Me," the band immediately took the crowd back to its 1978 debut album and followed with two more tunes from that recording, "I'm The One" and "Runnin' with the Devil."
Roth bounced around the stage with a Cheshire cat-like grin, occasionally walking out into the audience on a semicircular ramp. Roth still has the same energy he had three decades ago, but his mane of hair has been shorn to a short two-tone surfer cut, and those signature leg kicks don't make it quite as high anymore. (Hey, he is 53.)
But Roth still looked buff after doffing his shirt, can still hit all the notes and can still twirl a microphone stand like a demented drum major, which he did to great effect throughout the show.
Alex Van Halen was a dynamo behind his massive drum kit, and his obligatory drum solo was actually concise and enjoyable. Wolfgang Van Halen proved to be an adequate replacement for Anthony on bass, although he wasn't required to do too much heavy lifting on his instrument.
Of course, the heart and soul of the band is Eddie Van Halen, and his guitar work throughout the evening once again underscored his amazing technique, tone and unerring ability to create sizzling rock riffs.
The band rolled out hit after hit — from "Dance the Night Away," "I'll Wait" and "Hot For Teacher" to "Panama," "Ain't Talkin' About Love" and the inevitable encore, "Jump."
Van Halen may have disappointed area fans with two previous cancellations on this current tour back in October as well as March, but Saturday night, all was forgiven. For at least the time being, Van Halen rocks on.
Vocalist Ryan Shaw opened the show with a short set that featured his soulful renditions of classic tunes by Janis Joplin, Otis Redding and the Beatles.
Stone Temple Pilots: Concert Review 6/8/08
Singer Scott Weiland is proving you can go home again.
The headline-grabbing rock singer recently rejoined his old comrades for a Stone Temple Pilots reunion tour, which came to Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on Sunday night. And it was almost as if they had never been apart.
None of it would have been possible if Weiland hadn't fallen out with Velvet Revolver, the supergroup he fronted with members of Guns N' Roses and Wasted Youth. No sooner than Weiland parted ways with Velvet Revolver, he was back with Stone Temple Pilots.
During its '90s commercial heyday, Stone Temple Pilots was routinely, and perhaps unfairly, criticized for being a second-rate grunge knockoff, never receiving the type of acclaim given to Nirvana and Pearl Jam.
But none of that mattered to the 8,000 or so fans who came out to Verizon Wireless to catch Weiland with guitarist Dean DeLeo, bassist Robert DeLeo and drummer Eric Kretz.
The band's early songs "Big Empty" and "Wicked Garden" got the party started, and immediately reminded us of what a showy front man Weiland is.
It was hard to take your eyes off him. The slinky singer opened the show with a nouveau country-western look, complete with jacket, hat, scarf, skinny jeans and big shiny belt. Weiland shed items of clothing as the night progressed, sang into a bullhorn on several songs, moved around like a lizard and growled like a jungle beast.
"Big Bang Baby," "Vaseline," "Plush," "Sex Type Thing" and "Interstate Love Song" were other key cuts the scrappy-sounding band placed in fans' open arms. The long day of rock also included heavy-hitting bands Saliva, Chevelle, Ashes Divide, Another Animal, Cavo and Copperview.
The headline-grabbing rock singer recently rejoined his old comrades for a Stone Temple Pilots reunion tour, which came to Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on Sunday night. And it was almost as if they had never been apart.
None of it would have been possible if Weiland hadn't fallen out with Velvet Revolver, the supergroup he fronted with members of Guns N' Roses and Wasted Youth. No sooner than Weiland parted ways with Velvet Revolver, he was back with Stone Temple Pilots.
During its '90s commercial heyday, Stone Temple Pilots was routinely, and perhaps unfairly, criticized for being a second-rate grunge knockoff, never receiving the type of acclaim given to Nirvana and Pearl Jam.
But none of that mattered to the 8,000 or so fans who came out to Verizon Wireless to catch Weiland with guitarist Dean DeLeo, bassist Robert DeLeo and drummer Eric Kretz.
The band's early songs "Big Empty" and "Wicked Garden" got the party started, and immediately reminded us of what a showy front man Weiland is.
It was hard to take your eyes off him. The slinky singer opened the show with a nouveau country-western look, complete with jacket, hat, scarf, skinny jeans and big shiny belt. Weiland shed items of clothing as the night progressed, sang into a bullhorn on several songs, moved around like a lizard and growled like a jungle beast.
"Big Bang Baby," "Vaseline," "Plush," "Sex Type Thing" and "Interstate Love Song" were other key cuts the scrappy-sounding band placed in fans' open arms. The long day of rock also included heavy-hitting bands Saliva, Chevelle, Ashes Divide, Another Animal, Cavo and Copperview.
Foo Fighters: Concert Review 7/20/08
Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl may not be rock’s best singer, and though he’s a guitarist today, he likely did his best instrumental work behind the drum kit with Nirvana. But nobody takes his fans’ fun more seriously.
"It’s my responsibility to make sure you guys get 110 percent every night," he told the crowd at Scottrade Center Sunday night. Just so, Grohl led his band through nearly two and a half hours of Foo favorites, all the while running up and down the catwalk in front of the stage, exhorting his fans to cheer and sing along and vowing not to stop until the audience, and not the band, had had enough.
The Foos tried out a handful of songs from their latest album, "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace," including "Let It Die," "The Pretender" and "Cheer Up Boys (Your Makeup Is Running)." They also mined their old catalog for songs such as "Learn to Fly," "Breakout," "Stacked Actors" and "Best of You," plus a cover, inspired by the Who’s version, of Mose Allison’s "Young Man Blues."
The band’s aggressive yet accessible hard rock sound tends to be a bit monolithic, even with Grohl whipping his long hair furiously and cutting loose with some throat-shredding screams. So they broke things up by performing a nominally acoustic set on a satellite stage at the opposite end of the arena floor.
Though several of the songs began softly, the intensity level didn’t drop for long as they offered "There Goes My Hero," "Everlong" and "But Honestly," which ended with Grohl rocking on top of sideman Rami Jaffee’s piano.
Early in the show, Grohl warned that if he started talking between songs, the show would "get longer and longer and longer." But one digression that was more than welcome came in the encore, when he warmly remembered a night in 1991 when a Nirvana concert at Mississippi Nights nearly turned into a riot after security got rough with some fans and the late Kurt Cobain invited the entire audience up onstage. Grohl called it "one of the most memorable nights" of his career.
Things weren’t nearly so dramatic on Sunday, or maybe everyone’s threshold for fun had merely dropped a notch or two since then. But Grohl kept his promise to satisfy even as he needled the audience about it getting late. "It’s a work day tomorrow," he said. "Sucks for you."
Hard rockers Year Long Disaster and long-lived Britpoppers Supergrass shared the bill. The latter band especially impressed with a swaggering set highlighted by new songs "Diamond Hoo Ha Man" and "Rebel in You."
"It’s my responsibility to make sure you guys get 110 percent every night," he told the crowd at Scottrade Center Sunday night. Just so, Grohl led his band through nearly two and a half hours of Foo favorites, all the while running up and down the catwalk in front of the stage, exhorting his fans to cheer and sing along and vowing not to stop until the audience, and not the band, had had enough.
The Foos tried out a handful of songs from their latest album, "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace," including "Let It Die," "The Pretender" and "Cheer Up Boys (Your Makeup Is Running)." They also mined their old catalog for songs such as "Learn to Fly," "Breakout," "Stacked Actors" and "Best of You," plus a cover, inspired by the Who’s version, of Mose Allison’s "Young Man Blues."
The band’s aggressive yet accessible hard rock sound tends to be a bit monolithic, even with Grohl whipping his long hair furiously and cutting loose with some throat-shredding screams. So they broke things up by performing a nominally acoustic set on a satellite stage at the opposite end of the arena floor.
Though several of the songs began softly, the intensity level didn’t drop for long as they offered "There Goes My Hero," "Everlong" and "But Honestly," which ended with Grohl rocking on top of sideman Rami Jaffee’s piano.
Early in the show, Grohl warned that if he started talking between songs, the show would "get longer and longer and longer." But one digression that was more than welcome came in the encore, when he warmly remembered a night in 1991 when a Nirvana concert at Mississippi Nights nearly turned into a riot after security got rough with some fans and the late Kurt Cobain invited the entire audience up onstage. Grohl called it "one of the most memorable nights" of his career.
Things weren’t nearly so dramatic on Sunday, or maybe everyone’s threshold for fun had merely dropped a notch or two since then. But Grohl kept his promise to satisfy even as he needled the audience about it getting late. "It’s a work day tomorrow," he said. "Sucks for you."
Hard rockers Year Long Disaster and long-lived Britpoppers Supergrass shared the bill. The latter band especially impressed with a swaggering set highlighted by new songs "Diamond Hoo Ha Man" and "Rebel in You."
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
METALLICA: New Rehearsal, Performance Footage Available
New METALLICA rehearsal and performance footage can be viewed below (courtesy of Metallica.com).
METALLICA has revealed the cover artwork for the band's upcoming ninth studio album, "Death Magnetic", at its official web site. The black and white etching features what appears to be an open grave, with lines emanating out from it and the band's logo and album title underneath. In an interview conducted in Norway on July 16 by VG TV, frontman James Hetfield explained the meaning of the record's title, saying, "It started out as kind of a tribute to people that have fallen in our business, like (ALICE IN CHAINS frontman) Layne Staley and a lot of the people that have died, basically — rock and roll martyrs of sorts. And then it kind of grew from there. Thinking about death...just like a magnet, some people are drawn towards it, (and) other people are afraid of it and push away."
Hetfield added, "The concept that we're all gonna die sometimes is over-talked about and then a lot of times never talked about — no one wants to bring it up; it's the big white elephant in the living room. But we all have to deal with it at some point."
"Death Magnetic" is due out in September, although an exact date has yet to be announced.
METALLICA recently announced that every song on the album will be available to download for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock on the same day the CD arrives in stores.
The band is offering the record for sale in numerous configurations, ranging from a digital-only release to a deluxe "coffin box" that will come with a bonus CD, a DVD, a T-shirt, guitar picks and other goodies.
METALLICA is currently on tour in Europe and is expected to begin a North American jaunt in October.
"Breadfan" (pre-show rehearsal) and "Leper Messiah" (live) on July 16, 2008 in Bergen, Norway:
"Memory Remains" rehearsal before the July 20, 2008 concert in Riga, Latvia:
METALLICA has revealed the cover artwork for the band's upcoming ninth studio album, "Death Magnetic", at its official web site. The black and white etching features what appears to be an open grave, with lines emanating out from it and the band's logo and album title underneath. In an interview conducted in Norway on July 16 by VG TV, frontman James Hetfield explained the meaning of the record's title, saying, "It started out as kind of a tribute to people that have fallen in our business, like (ALICE IN CHAINS frontman) Layne Staley and a lot of the people that have died, basically — rock and roll martyrs of sorts. And then it kind of grew from there. Thinking about death...just like a magnet, some people are drawn towards it, (and) other people are afraid of it and push away."
Hetfield added, "The concept that we're all gonna die sometimes is over-talked about and then a lot of times never talked about — no one wants to bring it up; it's the big white elephant in the living room. But we all have to deal with it at some point."
"Death Magnetic" is due out in September, although an exact date has yet to be announced.
METALLICA recently announced that every song on the album will be available to download for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock on the same day the CD arrives in stores.
The band is offering the record for sale in numerous configurations, ranging from a digital-only release to a deluxe "coffin box" that will come with a bonus CD, a DVD, a T-shirt, guitar picks and other goodies.
METALLICA is currently on tour in Europe and is expected to begin a North American jaunt in October.
"Breadfan" (pre-show rehearsal) and "Leper Messiah" (live) on July 16, 2008 in Bergen, Norway:
"Memory Remains" rehearsal before the July 20, 2008 concert in Riga, Latvia:
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN: Sheffield Video Footage Posted Online
Fan-filmed video footage of legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen performing the song "Dreaming (Tell Me)" on July 13, 2008 in Sheffield, England can be viewed below (clip uploaded by YouTube user "thefirstwizard").
According to HMV Japan, Yngwie Malmsteen will release his new studio album in Japan on August 27. The LP's limited edition will feature the high-fidelity SHM-CD format (fully compatible with standard CD players) plus a bonus DVD containing interviews with Yngwie Malmsteen discussing the songs on the album and more.
Yngwie Malmsteen recently told Guitar World magazine that his forthcoming solo album will feature his strongest lineup ever: Tim "Ripper" Owens (BEYOND FEAR, ex-JUDAS PRIEST, ICED EARTH) on vocals, Bjorn Englen on bass, Michael Troy on keyboards, and Patrik Johansson on drums. "It's going to come down like a fucking atom bomb!" Malmsteen said. "We've already recorded 39 songs. I went full out. I've got strings from Istanbul, and the drums are the heaviest I've fucking heard. Ripper conveys the lyrics I write like no one else. I'll write something like 'divide and conquer' and when Ripper sings it, it really comes out that way. It's like Sparta!"
Yngwie is inviting fans to join him at Fender University on August 21-24, 2008 at the home of Fender guitars in Corona, California. Yngwie will attend Fender University as a "visiting professor" where he'll spend time with students playing guitar, talking technique, and sharing stories from the incredible life of the guitar legend.
For more information on enrollment, visit www.fender.com/university.
According to HMV Japan, Yngwie Malmsteen will release his new studio album in Japan on August 27. The LP's limited edition will feature the high-fidelity SHM-CD format (fully compatible with standard CD players) plus a bonus DVD containing interviews with Yngwie Malmsteen discussing the songs on the album and more.
Yngwie Malmsteen recently told Guitar World magazine that his forthcoming solo album will feature his strongest lineup ever: Tim "Ripper" Owens (BEYOND FEAR, ex-JUDAS PRIEST, ICED EARTH) on vocals, Bjorn Englen on bass, Michael Troy on keyboards, and Patrik Johansson on drums. "It's going to come down like a fucking atom bomb!" Malmsteen said. "We've already recorded 39 songs. I went full out. I've got strings from Istanbul, and the drums are the heaviest I've fucking heard. Ripper conveys the lyrics I write like no one else. I'll write something like 'divide and conquer' and when Ripper sings it, it really comes out that way. It's like Sparta!"
Yngwie is inviting fans to join him at Fender University on August 21-24, 2008 at the home of Fender guitars in Corona, California. Yngwie will attend Fender University as a "visiting professor" where he'll spend time with students playing guitar, talking technique, and sharing stories from the incredible life of the guitar legend.
For more information on enrollment, visit www.fender.com/university.
Monday, July 21, 2008
CRADLE OF FILTH: New Album Title, Track Listing Revealed
British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH have set "Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder" as the title of their new album, due in October via Roadrunner Records. The follow-up to 2006's "Thornography" is a 72-minute concept record about a legendary serial killer from the 15th Century, Gilles De Rais, a French nobleman who fought alongside Joan of Arc and accumulated great wealth before becoming a satanist, sexual deviant and a murderer.
"Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder" track listing:
01. In Grandeur And Frankincense Devilment Stirs
02. Shat Out Of Hell
03. The Death Of Love
04. The 13th Caesar
05. Tiffauges
06. Tragic Kingdom
07. Sweetest Maleficia
08. Honey And Sulphur
09. Midnight Shadows Crawl To Darken Counsel With Life
10. Darkness Incarnate
11. Ten Leagues Beneath Contempt
12. Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder
13. Corpseflower
"Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder" track listing:
01. In Grandeur And Frankincense Devilment Stirs
02. Shat Out Of Hell
03. The Death Of Love
04. The 13th Caesar
05. Tiffauges
06. Tragic Kingdom
07. Sweetest Maleficia
08. Honey And Sulphur
09. Midnight Shadows Crawl To Darken Counsel With Life
10. Darkness Incarnate
11. Ten Leagues Beneath Contempt
12. Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder
13. Corpseflower
GEORGE LYNCH To Perform With DOKKEN At ROCK THE BAYOU Festival
In an interview conducted Monday (July 21) by the "Monsters In The Morning" radio show, DOKKEN vocalist Don Dokken confirmed that guitarist George Lynch will take the stage with the band for one song at the upcoming Rock The Bayou festival, set to take place August 29 – September 1 on the Rock The Bayou Grounds, located between Kirby Drive and Fannin Avenue, directly south of Loop 610 in Houston, Texas (where AstroWorld was a seasonally operated theme park).
To hear the interview excerpt in question, click below.
DOKKEN will take part in a personal appearance and CD signing on Tuesday, July 29 at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. The event will take place at the Spin Street Stage, located in the shops at Mohegan Concourse immediately following the band's show in the arena with POISON.
Due to the short timeframe of this event and the huge number of fans expected, the band will only be signing copies of its new album, "Lightning Strikes Again", which was released on May 13 via Rhino Records.
In addition to the regular European version of "Lightning Strikes Again", Frontiers Records released a special limited edition of the CD on April 11 in a glossy slipcase. The limited-edition version includes an exclusive bonus track for Europe, entitled "Sunset Superstar".
Fan-filmed video footage of LYNCH MOB performing the DOKKEN classic "Into the Fire" at the Rocklahoma festival on Saturday, July 12 in Pryor, Oklahoma can be viewed below (clip uploaded by YouTube user "johnnyspudgun1").
Sitting behind the drum kit for LYNCH MOB's performance at Rocklahoma was CINDERELLA's Fred Coury, who stepped in for Tommy Aldridge after Tommy answered the call for the drumming duties in THIN LIZZY. Joining him for the set were guitarist George Lynch (ex-DOKKEN), vocalist Oni Logan and bassist Marco Mendoza (WHITESNAKE, THIN LIZZY)
LYNCH MOB's U.S. tour with CINDERELLA, WARRANT and LYNAM was cancelled after CINDERELLA frontman Tom Keifer's left vocal cord hemorrhaged during rehearsal, thereby making it impossible for him to sing in the immediate future.
Don Dokken interview excerpt (July 21, 2008):
LYNCH MOB performing DOKKEN's "Into the Fire" at Rocklahoma:
To hear the interview excerpt in question, click below.
DOKKEN will take part in a personal appearance and CD signing on Tuesday, July 29 at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. The event will take place at the Spin Street Stage, located in the shops at Mohegan Concourse immediately following the band's show in the arena with POISON.
Due to the short timeframe of this event and the huge number of fans expected, the band will only be signing copies of its new album, "Lightning Strikes Again", which was released on May 13 via Rhino Records.
In addition to the regular European version of "Lightning Strikes Again", Frontiers Records released a special limited edition of the CD on April 11 in a glossy slipcase. The limited-edition version includes an exclusive bonus track for Europe, entitled "Sunset Superstar".
Fan-filmed video footage of LYNCH MOB performing the DOKKEN classic "Into the Fire" at the Rocklahoma festival on Saturday, July 12 in Pryor, Oklahoma can be viewed below (clip uploaded by YouTube user "johnnyspudgun1").
Sitting behind the drum kit for LYNCH MOB's performance at Rocklahoma was CINDERELLA's Fred Coury, who stepped in for Tommy Aldridge after Tommy answered the call for the drumming duties in THIN LIZZY. Joining him for the set were guitarist George Lynch (ex-DOKKEN), vocalist Oni Logan and bassist Marco Mendoza (WHITESNAKE, THIN LIZZY)
LYNCH MOB's U.S. tour with CINDERELLA, WARRANT and LYNAM was cancelled after CINDERELLA frontman Tom Keifer's left vocal cord hemorrhaged during rehearsal, thereby making it impossible for him to sing in the immediate future.
Don Dokken interview excerpt (July 21, 2008):
LYNCH MOB performing DOKKEN's "Into the Fire" at Rocklahoma:
SIXX: A.M. Looking Ahead To 'Tomorrow'
According to The Pulse of Radio, SIXX: A.M. has sent a new single called "Tomorrow" to radio stations almost a year after "Life is Beautiful", the first single from the group's debut disc, hit the airwaves last summer. The project led by MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx is currently on the Crüe Fest tour, with Sixx doing double duty in both bands each night, and he told The Pulse of Radio that putting SIXX: A.M. on the tour wasn't his idea at all. "You know, (concert promoter) Live Nation was like, 'Look, this band hasn't toured, and it's really in demand,'" he said. "People really wanted this band to tour, and we'd considered doing a very short run of club dates. And then MÖTLEY started happening, I had to put that on hold, so I figured SIXX: A.M. was just gonna go on the back burner until MÖTLEY CRÜE was over and everyone was like, 'No, dude.'"
SIXX: A.M.'s debut album served as a soundtrack of sorts to Sixx's 2007 memoir, "The Heroin Diaries".
The bassist recently said that the trio is already working on material for its second album.
MÖTLEY CRÜE issued its ninth studio album and first in eight years, "Saints of Los Angeles", last month.
In addition to the CRÜE and SIXX: A.M., other acts on the Crüe Fest bill include BUCKCHERRY, PAPA ROACH and TRAPT. The tour stops on Tuesday (July 22) in Houston.
SIXX: A.M. performing "Life is Beautiful" on July 12, 2008 in Camden, New Jersey:
SIXX: A.M.'s debut album served as a soundtrack of sorts to Sixx's 2007 memoir, "The Heroin Diaries".
The bassist recently said that the trio is already working on material for its second album.
MÖTLEY CRÜE issued its ninth studio album and first in eight years, "Saints of Los Angeles", last month.
In addition to the CRÜE and SIXX: A.M., other acts on the Crüe Fest bill include BUCKCHERRY, PAPA ROACH and TRAPT. The tour stops on Tuesday (July 22) in Houston.
SIXX: A.M. performing "Life is Beautiful" on July 12, 2008 in Camden, New Jersey:
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