This is the Week That Was (according to my inbox of band promo PR, personal hijinks and leftwing radical plays): - You like the music of Gorillaz ? Well, it's totally trippier and cooler when heard live, especially from the far flung place of Damascus (where IS that?). NPR has got the full concert right here . - Have you heard the one-off Black Lips track called " Best Napkin I Ever Had "? It's crazy, rockin' and wild, like Grant Hart at his LSD peak fronting Devo or something. You [...]
You Can Tune a Piano but You Can't Tuna Fish was REO Speedwagon's seventh studio album and came out in 1978. It was their first album to be produced entirely by lead singer Kevin Cronin and lead guitarist Gary Richrath. The album was REO's first to make the Top 40, peaking at #29. The album sold over 2 million copies in the U.S. which led it to go 2x Platinum. It's a great album that shows that REO can rock their asses off when they put their minds to it. When I was in high school these guys were [...]
Rolling past a junior high school on the morning commute, I noticed that the final day of class was plastic lettered onto the marquee out front. This week. 11:15. Class dismissed. I still had one more year of junior high when school broke for the summer in '81, but it was the first summer for which I was legally and officially a teenager. I got started quickly, sleeping in 'til ten. In previous summers, I'd be up several hours earlier, my schedule hardly altering from [...]
For the second year in a row the underrated San Francisco-based roots-rock band The Mother Hips will play host to an extremely intimate weekend festival at the Fernwood Resort in Big Sur, CA that they've dubbed the Family Hipnic. The two-day fest, which will only have 300 tickets for sale, will feature sets from the likes of Dawes, Jackie Greene, Parson Red Heads, Farmer Dave and will be headlined on both nights by The Hips . Tickets are currently on-sale now with a variety of lodging options available by calling the Fernwood Resort at 831 [...]
Huge, huge day for on sales ( Thom Yorke, Rufus Wainwright, Florence and The Machine ) and presales ( Broken Social Scene, Mumford and Sons, Massive Attack, Sting, PiL, OK Go, Corinne Bailey Rae and many others). All links listed below. Thom Yorke at All Points West 2008 Photo : Abbey Braden/Punkphoto Today's On Sales: Wednesday, March 3 Apr [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Pat Benatar and REO Speedwagon , together again? If it seems like an odd marriage, learn your history: the two paired up in 1995 for a cross-country co-headlining tour that was, by all accounts, a hit. In their quest to prove that lightning may indeed strike twice, the two acts have partnered up again for 'Love on the Run,' an extended summer tour that will take them to arenas, amphitheaters and, yes, [...]
OK, so it's Friday afternoon in the great Pacific Northwest and I'm at work. If it weren't for the fact I'm supposed to hear back from a couple of clients about new contracts, I'd split this joint in a heartbeat. I. don't wanna work. I wanna bang on the drum all day.... So, I'm cleaning up some of my drafts...here's a radio mix from over a year ago. Who knows if it's any good. This week's radio mix: Santana - Hold On Isaac Hayes - Don't Let Go REO [...]
Twenty-seven years ago today, Sony introduced the CDP-101 to market: The $2,200 piece of electronics (pictured at left) was the first compact-disc player, and the company went on to sell 20,000 units over the three months following its debut. In addition to the hardware, Sony issued 50 of its titles on CD at a price that would equal between $33 and $45 in 2009 dollars ; the "first" entry in the compact-disc catalog was Billy Joel's 52nd Street , and a bunch of other albums from Sony's corporate rock, Japanese pop, and classical units fell in [...]
The title of this post says it all, and I don't think there is any need to elaborate. But I will. Yes, I experienced a shitty test yesterday. When I say "shitty," I mean it was the kind that explodes out of your ass and splashes water back at you, making you wonder if you have bits and pieces of shit sticking to your ass. I'm talking about the kind of shit that just keeps unwinding out of you and icebergs out of the water. I'm talking about the kind of shit that plugs up [...]
It had seemed like an ideal situation: reasonable rent, near the campus, well-furnished. It had only a few drawbacks, including a relative lack of privacy, since it was just a room in some lady's house, and the fact that the lady seemed a bit odd. She was in her late fifties, he thought, and there wasn't anything he could put his finger on, but her whole attitude seemed just a little off-kilter, as though she was concerned about things most people quietly ignored. Near the end of his first visit, for example, she had asked, out of the blue and [...]
I think I'm one of three adults in the world who actually admits to liking parts (only parts, okay!) of the High School Musical series. I think it's only because it is a musical. I've been a fan of the musical for a while, but musicals always tend to be either awash in an overdose of saccharine - like HSM - or play a giant (sometimes gothic) drama - like Phantom of the Opera and Rent. I yearned for a musical with a sense of humor about itself. And I sure got one with the brilliant musical episode [...]
Turning from childhood delusions to linguistic analysis, there doesn't seem to be one clear meaning conveyed by the phrase "The Hall and Oates of X." They're just a familiar twosome used to convey duo-ness, like Batman and Robin, bacon and eggs, or holidays and alcohol.
Motivé par l'excellent Hypertension , le deuxième volet se devait d'être vu dès sa sortie sur les réseaux. Malheureusement, très certainement par manque de concentration due à une monumentale dérouillée alcoolique la veille, le film ne me parut pas une bombe électrisante comme ça aurait du l'être. Seules la prestation toujours aussi parfaite d' Amy Smart et les images brûlantes de la fin accompagnée par la chanson Keep On Loving You de REO Speedwagon me laissent un sourire impérissable devant tant de barbecue à [...]
CNN reports on how they've come up with a way to make creaky old bands reuniting even worse: you stick a couple on a package tour , and then make them record a new song. Together: It started with classic rockers REO Speedwagon and Styx, with their "Can't Stop Rockin' " tour and single of the same name. Now Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire are getting on the bandwagon. Yes, Chicago, Earth, Wind And Fire are going to mark their combined tour with a combined single. It is, though, [...]
In our never ending quest to keep you up to date on all the festival announcements that bombard our in-boxes each day comes artist line up for the sixth annual McDowell Mountain Festival . The fest, which will takes place at the Westworld Polo Grounds in Scottsdale, AZ on April 24 and 25, will feature sets from The Flaming Lips, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Matisyahu, Hot Tuna, Railroad Earth, NRPS, Assembly Of Dust and a slew of other acts. Tickets are currently on-sale now for both day and weekend passes, and are limited to 10,000 for each [...]
Domo arigato, Mr. Obama.Fear not, classic rock obsessives: the global economic crisis will not waylay this year's round of washed-up, amusement-park-haunting ghosts of '70s arena rock. In fact, a coup... Continue reading "REO Speedwagon, Styx and friends promise cheap tickets on next tour" >
Yesterday, I mentioned REO Speedwagon in a post I wrote about those rock one-hitters I discovered while working my first AOR radio gig. This morning, Jeff over at The Midnight Tracker gave me an inside tip on a little "midwest madness" he'll be serving up on his site in the days to come. (Sorry, can't spill the beans...). This afternoon, my kids were recounting their trip to see the Ice Capades, wherein one of the skaters did a routine to Roll With The Changes . Coincidence? I [...]
It was a big weekend at Saint Louis University's Chaifetz Arena. On Saturday night, the long-suffering Billikens basketball team beat George Washington 63-59 in a to-the-wire game (which almost erased... Continue reading "Show Review: Tony La Russa's Stars to the Rescue with Huey Lewis & the News, Vince Gill & Amy Grant, REO Speedwagon and more, Chaifetz Arena, Sunday, January 19" >
Quick and dirty, a half-hour of short (really short) and sweet little ditties. Santana - Hold On Isaac Hayes - Don't Let Go REO Speedwagon - Keep The Fire Burning Hall And Oates - Wait For Me Lyn Collins - Think About It Raydio - You Can't Change That Toni Basil - Mickey Crazy Elephant - Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' Alan Parsons Project - Damned If I Do The Beatles - Nowhere Man K-Tel-A-Delic V
Artist: REO Speedwagon Album: Nine Lives From: Vintage Vinyl's 99 cent bin. Year: 1979 Label: Epic Records What it sounds like: Chugging a tallboy of Busch while speeding down a dirt road in a red, t-top Camaro. The bastard spawn of Led Zeppelin. Butt Rock. [...]
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