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 | He says that he was absolutely awed by the massive halftime stage:
["It's extreme, (laughs) to say the least. It's the
biggest stage I've ever seen in my life, it's amazing. And the
quickest . . . and it is truly amazing how you do this. I mean, I'm
completely stunned by the amount of organization to put a show on in
the middle of a football pitch, and you've got 20 minutes to do it,
get off and get the match started. It's ridiculous, and they're
doing it -- and it works."] SOUNDCUE (:21 OC: . . and it
works)
| Townshend admits that the songs chosen for the set were actually
decided by committee: ["Roger actually put the medley -- or
the selection of tracks -- together, but I think we got a message
from various people in, y'know, the NFL and music they'd like to
hear and that's what we reflected. There was some pressure from CBS
that we only play songs that were associated with CSI (laughter)
and I of course was going, 'Yeah -- let's do that!"] SOUNDCUE
(:19 OC: . . . let's do that)
| Townshend was asked if it was going to be tough to get to full-on
performance mode within such a short amount of time: ["When
I'm playing live and kind of. . . I don't know what happens to me.
I'm a mild mannered man and what actually happens when I get onstage
with a guitar is that something happens, something triggers, like,
an adrenaline rush, and I can pretty much rely on it. It's like
turning on a switch."] SOUNDCUE (:16 OC: . . . on a switch) | |
SIDE NOTES
| A previously recorded studio recording of the
Who's halftime performance is available now in the Rock Band Music
Store. The download is available for Xbox 360 video game and
entertainment system from Microsoft and Wii console from Nintendo,
and is coming soon to PlayStation3.
| The new Townshend-sanctioned Will.i.am-produced
remix of "My Generation" is available now at thewho.com
for $1.29. All proceeds from the sale of track will benefit the
Haiti Earthquake Response Fund.
| On Friday night (February 5th) Townshend and
Daltrey, along with Simon Townshend, "Rabbit" Bundrick,
and Daltrey's solo bassist John Button, performed an
abbreviated acoustic set for CBS staffers in Miami.
| Vintage Vinyl News reported that a
recent Nielson study revealed that Super Bowl halftime show
performers see their albums sales jump an astounding
555 percent in the week following the artists' Super Bowl
performance which reaches an estimated 100 million viewers.
| The Who has two new releases on the market --
the straight-ahead compilation The Who: Greatest Hits and the
iTunes-only career-spanning rarities set The Who: Greatest Hits
Live.
| The Who will perform Quadrophenia in
it's entirety on March 30th at London's Royal Albert Hall. The show
-- which is their only other 2010 show announced so far -- will
serve as the finale of 10-night run of shows in support of the 10th
anniversary of Daltrey's patron charity the Teenage Cancer Trust.
| The show will mark the first time that the Who
has performed the 1973 concept album in it's entirety since 1997 --
and the first time Daltrey and Townshend have tackled the piece
without the late John Entwistle.
| |
Roger Daltrey On Super Bowl Setup
Roger Daltrey On Super Bowl Stage Pete
Townshend On Pre-Show Adrenaline Pete
Townshend On Super Bowl Setlist
RINGO STARR TO BE HONORED ON HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME TONIGHT
Ringo
Starr will be presented with the 2,401st star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame tonight (February 8th) at 7 pm PST in front of the legendary U.S. home
of the Beatles -- the Capitol Records tower in Los Angeles. The
ceremony will feature a performance by members of the Los Angeles Unified
School District's All District High School Honor Marching Band.
Ringo says that as much as he enjoys his leisure time, he still gets a buzz from working: ["Well yeah, we're out on the road again. 'Got a record out, and do that now through the winter here, and through the summer, we'll be playing through America again. It's great for me to play live. Y'know, I have such a good time and y'know, so far the bands have all been supportive and y'know, we've had fun."] SOUNDCUE (:18 OC: . . . we've had fun)
| Ringo is the first living Beatle to receive a star on the Walk of Fame. Both John Lennon and George Harrison have received posthumous honors. Paul McCartney is the one Beatle yet to be immortalized on Hollywood Boulevard. |
SIDE NOTES
| Out now is Ringo's 16th solo studio
album Y Not which features appearances by Paul McCartney,
Joe Walsh, Benmont Tench, Billy Squier, Joss
Stone, Van Dyke Parks, Edgar Winter, Gary
Wright, Richard Marx, Dave Stewart, and Ben
Harper.
| Ringo Starr and his All Star Band will
kick off their 11th summer tour on June 24th and 25th in Niagara
Falls, Ontario at the Fallsview Casino.
| The latest All Starr Band lineup features
returning All Starr's Edgar Winter on sax and keyboards and Gary
Wright, also on keyboards.
| Newcomers to the 2010 tour include Rick
Derringer on guitar, Mr. Mister's Richard Page on
bass, and the Romantics' Wally Palmer on guitar and
harmonica. Session player Gregg Bissonette will double with
Ringo on the drums.
| |
Ringo
Starr On 2010 Plans
JOE PERRY SAYS THAT STEVEN TYLER DEFINITELY STILL IN AEROSMITH
In
the latest twist in the Aerosmith/Steven Tyler saga, Joe
Perry says that Tyler has neither quit the band or been fired by
Aerosmith. Perry told Classic Rock magazine, "Steven hasn't quit
the band, nor have we sacked him. We're taking the attitude that he's going
on a vacation from Aerosmith. While he's away working on other projects, the
rest of us want to carry on playing live. So we will be bring another singer
to make this happen."
He went on to say that any replacement would be hired for live dates until Tyler returns: "We're not daft enough to think we can replace Steven, and that's not our plan. But after 40 years of working together we just don't wanna stop. How long with Steven be away? He says it'll be two years, but I believe he'll be back a lot sooner. It may end up that we only do 10 shows with the new person!"
| Perry says that he and the band realize that age is a tremendous factor in the professional decisions they make: ["You realize you're not an immortal, and you don't have this 22-year-old feeling of 'this thing can go on forever,' and you know, 'I can do whatever I want, I can go for three nights without sleep and everything will be fine.' You start to realize that it's a very delicate thing, life is a delicate thing, and being able to perform at the top of your game is a delicate thing. And it's one of those changes, you know, that comes over. I'm still amazed that we can put on the kind of show that we put on. Every night could be out last."] SOUNDCUE (:25 OC: . . be our last) |
Joe
Perry On Aerosmith Touring In Their Fifties
STEVE MILLER BAND ANNOUNCES TOUR DATES
The
Steve Miller Band has announced a string of North American dates,
kicking off on February 20th at Anaheim, California's Honda Center and
wrapping up with a double bill with Dave Matthews on July 25th at
Louisville, Kentucky's Hullabalou Music Festival.
Although Miller has never let too much time pass between tours, fans have eagerly been awaiting his first new album since 1993's Wide River. Back in 2007, Miller said that he was readying a followup called Loose Teather -- but so far, the album hasn't been released. We asked Miller about the long holdup between projects: ["I think my audience wants to hear a rock 'n' roll record. They want to hear a bunch of guitar work, a bunch of harmony and stuff like that. That's the majority of what my audience would like to hear. You know, I haven't done a lot of that, so I haven't released it."] SOUNDCUE (:14 OC: . . haven't released it)
| Steve Miller Band tour dates (subject to change): February 20 - Anaheim, CA - Honda Center May 21 - Las Vegas, NV - M Resort May 22 - Palm Springs, CA - Morongo Casino May 28 - Robinsonville, MS - Grand Casino Tunica May 29 - Bossier City, LA - Harrah's Louisiana Downs May 30 - Little Rock, AR - "Riverfest" Downtown Little Rock June 4 - Summerside, PE - Credit Union Place June 5 - Halifax, NS - Halifax Metro Centre June 7 - Corner Brook, NL - Pepsi Centre June 8 - St. John's, NL - Mile One Centre June 12 - Atlantic City, NJ - Hilton Hotel June 13 - Mashantucket, CT - MGM Grand July 24 - Pittsburgh, PA PNC - Park At North Shore July 25 - Louisville, KY - Hullabalou Music Festival at Churchill Downs (with Dave Matthews) |
SIDE NOTES
| Last month Miller headlined The Celebration Of A Life Concerts at Oakland's Fox Theatre in tribute of his longtime harmonica player Norton Buffalo, who died of lung and brain cancer in November. Among the other artists paying tribute to Buffalo were the Doobie Brothers, Bonnie Raitt, Huey Lewis, George Thorogood, Elvin Bishop, Charlie Musselwhite, and others. |
Steve
Miller Says His Audience Wants To Hear Rock Records
FLASHBACK: THE WHO PERFORM FINAL GIG WITH KENNEY JONES
It was 22 years ago on tonight (February 8th, 1988) that the Who performed for the last time with drummer Kenney Jones. The band -- Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle, and Jones -- reunited for a three-song set at London's Royal Albert Hall during the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) awards, after receiving the prestigious lifetime achievement award. The group, who hadn't performed live since 1985's Live Aid concert, tore through their hits "Who Are You," "My Generation," and "Substitute," but were hardly at the top of their game. Talks had already begun about the band reuniting for some type of major project in time for their 25th anniversary in 1989.
Townshend told the band he didn't want to tour, preferring instead to record. He tossed around the idea of having outside writers such as Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen contribute material for the album, but nothing came to pass. Townshend has gone on record saying that the band couldn't raise the proper funds to record a new album, and Daltrey was adamant that he wouldn't carry on as the Who with Jones as a member.
| Jones was a longtime friend of the group, and co-founded both the Small
Faces and the Faces before playing on Who-related
projects like the Tommy and Quadrophenia film
soundtracks. He was made a full member of the band in late 1978
after drummer Keith Moon died. Jones also drummed on
Townshend's first mainstream solo album, Empty Glass, and was
featured on the album's standout track, "Rough Boys."
| Daltrey was vehemently opposed to naming anyone Moon's replacement,
preferring to change drummers on a project-to-project basis. After
being out-voted by Townshend and Entwistle, he reluctantly approved
Jones joining the band, yet openly criticized his drumming as being
wrong for the Who.
| With the prospect of a major tour looming, Daltrey gave the band an
ultimatum: it was either him or Jones. Townshend, who was always
Jones' biggest supporter, eventually sided with Daltrey.
| Townshend told author Richard Barnes why he eventually
relented: "Although I did promise Kenney that I wouldn't work
without him, in the last conversation I had with him I started to
get very irritated. He kept saying, 'The It's Hard album is
not a great album. I've got a right to make a great album with the
Who.' And I thought, 'This isn't true. You were brought in at the
end. I've got a right to make a great album with the Who, or
Roger, or John has, but you haven't."
| Daltrey says that despite never being happy with Jones as the Who's
drummer, the two were actually quite close: ["I actually got
on very well with Kenney, I just didn't feel ever that he was the
right drummer. . . And people didn't ever seem to listen to
what I was saying. They'd say 'Well Kenny's a great drummer!'
And I'd say 'Yes, I know Kenney's a great drummer, but he's not the right
drummer!' (Laughs) He's a great drummer! Could you
imagine putting Keith Moon in the Faces -- would he have been the
right drummer for the Faces? Of course he wouldn't."] SOUNDCUE
(:18 OC: . . . course he wouldn't)
| Looking back, Daltrey says that he, Townshend, Entwistle made
a rash decision in naming anybody a permanent replacement for
Moon: ["I think we should have kept the door open and we
should have been much more experimental. If you imagine, you're
sitting in a room and it's 10 foot, by 10 foot, by 10 foot. You've
got four walls. One of the walls falls out, now you've got a room
that's infinite. And we should have kept it like that for a while
until we found the right pieces to put back in. Now the room's even
bigger 'cause there's just two of us."] SOUNDCUE (:18 OC: .
. . two of us)
| Although the financial settlement between Jones and the Who has
never been discussed, he eventually relinquished all rights in the
band's partnership. In 1989, the Who, with drummer Simon Phillips
and a host of additional musicians, undertook the 50-date 25th
anniversary The Kids Are Alright tour, hitting North America
and then Britain.
| Townshend, Daltrey and Jones were all on hand for John Entwistle's
funeral in 2002.
| Daltrey says that he was glad that Jones chose to participate in the
Who's recent retrospective, Amazing Journey: The Story Of The
Who, to shed light on the band's career: ["It took a lot
of courage for Kenney to do that, and indeed for people like (former
manager) Chris Stamp. You know, it's a painful part of their past.
I'm sure it's still painful for him to have to revisit. The great
thing is we're still all friends out of all this and we respect each
other and we love each other."] SOUNDCUE (:14 OC: ...love
each other)
| Ringo Starr's son Zak Starkey has been the Who's
unofficial full-time drummer since 1996. Although Townshend and
Daltrey have offered him a permanent spot as the Who's third
official drummer, he has declined, preferring to remain a free
agent.
| In recent years, Jones has formed a new rock trio, the Jones
Gang, with ex-Foreigner bassist Rick Wills and
one-time Bad Company frontman Robert Hart. | |
Roger
Daltrey On Kenney Jones And Chris Stamp Appearing In 'Amazing Journey' Roger
Daltrey On Kenney Jones Being The Wrong Drummer For The Who Roger
Daltrey On The Who Rushing To Replace Keith Moon
COLIN HAY ISSUES STATEMENT ON MEN AT WORK LAWSUIT
Men
At Work's Colin Hay has issued a long statement commenting on
last week's court ruling in Australia which found that he and the group's
guitarist Rod Strykert's 1982 hit "Down Under"
plagiarized the 1935 children's song "Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum
Tree," which was written about the Australian native bird.
Hay's statement reads in part: "For Those Interested -- The copyright of 'Kookaburra' is owned and controlled by Larrikin Music Publishing, more specifically by a man named Norm Lurie. Larrikin Music Publishing is owned by a multi-national corporation called Music Sales. I only mention this as Mr. Lurie is always banging on about how he's the underdog, the little guy. Yet, he is part of a multi-national corporation. . . It's all about money, make no mistake. . . He alleged that we appropriated a 'substantial' part of 'Kookaburra,' and in so doing, infringed upon that copyright, and incorporated it into the flute line of Men At Work's recording of 'Down Under.' It is indeed true, that Greg Ham, (not a writer of the song) unconsciously referenced two bars of 'Kookaburra' on the flute, during live shows after he joined the band in 1979, and it did end up in the Men At Work recording."
| Hay took exception at the fact that representatives for Larrikan
intimated that they may be seeking up to 60 percent of the song's
copyright: "What's interesting to me, is that Mr. Lurie is
making a claim to share in the copyright of 'Down Under,' which was
created and existed for at least a year before Men At Work recorded
it. I stand by my claim that the two appropriated bars of
'Kookaburra' were always part of the Men At Work 'arrangement,' of
the already existing work and not the 'composition.'"
| He went on to point out the obvious -- which is that until the
similarities were pointed out on a UK game show, no one in 28 years,
including the song's writer thought to litigate Men At Work for
copyright infringement: "It is no surprise that in over 20
years, no one noticed the reference to 'Kookaburra.' There are
reasons for this. It was inadvertent, naive, unconscious, and by the
time Men At Work recorded the song, it had become unrecognizable. It
is also unrecognizable for many reasons. 'Kookaburra' is written as
a round in a major key, and the Men At Work version of 'Down Under'
is played with a reggae influenced "feel" in a minor key.
This difference alone creates a completely different listening
experience. The two bars in question had become part of a four bar
flute part, thereby unconsciously creating a new musical
"sentence" harmonically, and in so doing, completely
changed the musical context of the line in question, and became part
of the instrumentation of Men At Work's arrangement of 'Down
Under.'"
| Hay added: "Mr. Lurie claims to care only about protecting the
copyright of Marion Sinclair, who sadly has passed away. I don't
believe him. It may well be noted, that Marion Sinclair herself
never made any claim that we had appropriated any part of her song
'Kookaburra,' and she wrote it, and was most definitely alive, when
Men At Work's version of 'Down Under' was a big hit. Apparently she
didn't notice either."
| Hay closed by saying: "I believe what has won today is
opportunistic greed, and what has suffered, is creative musical
endeavor. This outcome will have no real impact upon the
relationship that I have with our song 'Down Under,' for we are
connected forever. When I co-wrote 'Down Under' back in 1978, I
appropriated nothing from anyone else's song. There was no Men At
Work, there was no flute, yet the song existed. That's the truth of
it, because I was there, Norm Lurie was not, and neither was Justice
Jacobson. 'Down Under' lives in my heart, and may perhaps live in
yours. I claim it, and will continue to play it, for as long as you
want to hear it. Sincerely, Colin Hay." | |
SIDE NOTES
| Norm Lurie responded to Hay's statement by telling The Brisbane Times: "Of course it would be disingenuous for me to say that there wasn't a financial aspect involved, (but) you could just as easily say what has won out today is the importance of checking before using other people's copyrights. In the same way, I'd hope that Colin and the other writers of Men At Work don't have a problem with people using some of their material for financial gain." |
SHERYL CROW LANDS ROLE ON 'COUGAR TOWN'
Sheryl
Crow has landed a recurring guest starring role on the ABC comedy, Cougar
Town. The 47-year-old singer will play the love interest of Courteney
Cox's character's recently divorced neighbor, Grayson, who's played by Josh
Hopkins. EW.com reports that Crow will appear in multiple episodes.
| Crow recently appeared on 30 Rock and has had roles in the Cole Porter biopic De-Lovely and in 1999's The Minus Man, featuring Owen Wilson. |
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INTERNET COMMENTS: DO YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE?
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