Filed under: News , R.I.P. Geoff Workman , the producer and engineer responsible for such classic rock albums as Queen 's 'Jazz,' the Cars ' 'Candy-O' and Motley Crue 's 1983 breakthrough 'Shout at the Devil,' has died, according to Classic Rock . Workman, who manned the boards on a long run of multi-platinum-selling rock albums, passed at home, although little else is known about his illness or death. Michael Riesenbeck, a session guitarist and friend of Workman's reportedly broke the news via Facebook [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , Holy Hell Richie Hayward, the founding drummer of Little Feat, was recently diagnosed with liver cancer, forcing him to temporarily leave the band. Gabe Ford, Little Feat's drum tech, is stepping in for Hayward as the band is currently on tour. "My intent is to come back to the band, as soon as I am physically able," Hayward, 63, said in a statement on the band's official Website . "Your love and support will mean a lot [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Greg Ladanyi , a Grammy-winning producer who worked with Jackson Browne , Don Henley , Fleetwood Mac , Toto and more, died Tuesday after sustaining severe head trauma in an onstage accident last week in Cyprus. Ladanyi, 57, was on tour in with Anna Vissi, an artist signed to his label, Maple Jam Music Group. Officials said Ladanyi fractured his skull after falling 13 feet during Vissi's performance at Nicosia's GSP stadium. He also suffered multiple fractures to the ribs [...]
An exciting day for Cover Me today, as we unveil our spiffy new logo (which you saw above). All the contest entries were great, but that cover-tastic design above comes from winner Gabriella C. She describes her approach:I knew what I wanted to do pretty much as soon as I saw the contest announcement. I'm not very versed in popular music, so I emailed to ask for some well-known covers in order
The break-up of Toto after 31 years received mixed reactions from the fans. On April 5, 2008, Toto played what would be their last show ever, in Seoul, Korea, as a part of their Falling In Between Live tour. This left many fans without a real farewell tour, which was something that the band had said they would do.In their 31 years of existence, Toto sold over 30 million records, scored a
Want to make a multinational club hit? Want to make a song so catchy, that years after it's release, people will still be singing it under their breath as they walk to work in the morning? Then follow the Eric Prydz Signature Secret Formula. STEP ONE: Find any old 80's, or early 90's song. Maybe Toto, Steve Winwood, Eurythmics, or Howard Jones. STEP TWO: Locate the chorus of the song you selected, and grab a line of the vocal or two. Example: "Call on meeeee! Call me!" "It's gonna take [...]
Perpetuum Jazzile performing the only Toto song I ever liked growing up, "Africa"... pretty bad ass, eh? But, you have to follow it up with the original right? Right. Nice... Thanks Mike for the linkage! Cheers, Tsuru Tsuru And The Bride | Etsy | Society | Facebook | Twitter
I'm a sucker for 80s remixes. Perhaps it's a result of subconscious yearning to be closer to my two older sisters who fostered my deep interest in music at an early age. I loved hanging out with them in their room in the basement while they had friends over, although I know they didn't feel the same way. When they were gone I used to listen to their records and read the sleeves. They were both much older than I was so this was the best way for me to bond with them, you know, when they weren't pinning me [...]
just watch. at least the first two minutes, it's pretty cool. wow. you saw them recreate that rain sound with the european stomp?! perpetuum jazzile is a world renowned slovenian choir that can perform pretty much anything. the original is below. DOWNLOAD: Toto - Africa a lot of people have sampled this joint in the hip hop ( xzibit , ja rule , etc.), but the most famous is probably nas' "new world". check [...]
Last week, I gave you the tell-all Joey Linello story. If you missed it (and I think many of you did), you should go here and read it. (Not that it's a prerequisite for this column.) But I do want to give you a very brief background on Joey, because I think it will help you know where I happened upon the idea for this week's column. Joey Linello was a character I created who was a bad musician, but who desperately wanted to be successful. He idolized bands like Nickelback, Creed, Three Doors Down, etc. [...]
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I should really be writing this while wearing acid wash jeans, a boss looking jean jacket and huge neon green sunglasses. I have none of those. Ah well. Maybe that needs to change. Simple Minds - Don't You [Forget About Me] Toto- Africa Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf Run [...]
Why on earth does Hypem hate me so bad? It seems that whenever the hosting goes down and its time to revert back to the horrible YouSendIt, for some reason only half the tracks that I put on YSI hypem picks up. One of the main people to suffer from this horrible failure is my favorite person Benson, he always remixes the most amazing tracks that will blow most people away but once again YSI fails us all, so basically this post is a dedication to get Benson on hypem. Everytime I have dropped these tracks in a club kids [...]
_uacct = "UA-3941004-1";urchinTracker() ;It's hot today. It was hot yesterday. And the forecast calls for this heat wave to persist for the next week.Though Paloma and I have central air in our tree house suite, a glimpse at the unit's guts when it was being repaired last summer leads me to believe that it has been built from surplus bi-plane parts manufactured in the '30s.The fact that I am
toto - dune theme (dune OST, 1984) major lazer has been making a tremendous amount of waves recently. and rightfully so, a project by Diplo and Switch holds epic promise and appeal for a doomed generation. the album, 'guns dont kill people... lazers do' is due out june 16th !!! and a blurb about major lazer: "The world is likely not ready for the arrival of Diplo & Switch's musical machination Major Lazer; a renegade commando with a lazer arm and [...]
Taking a quick break from raving about new bands, I want to tell you about a new service a friend's set up recently. We all know that many bands get the majority of their income these days from both gigging and merchandise, but for many bands just starting out, they can't afford to carry around a stock of all different T-shirts in different sizes and other products, making it a bit of a catch-22.... they can't buy bucketloads of merch as they don't have any money, and they don't have any money because they don't have any [...]
Today I have on offer a few little bootlegs and remixes coming straight out of Sydney, Central Coast and Queensland, continuing with my loyalty towards the East Coast of Australia and the quality music they are making. Benson bloody Benson, he always seems to find those old school tracks that you loved when your younger or your folks loved, and he makes them sounds more new and contemporary. A simple search of Benson on this blog will see the amount of times I have blogged his bootlegs and remixes, I honestly think over the past 6 [...]
A volte il rinnovamento passa dalla continuità. E allora vogliamo parlare, deviando per una volta dalla linea "giovanile" di questo blog, parlando di uno dei lavori più belli e sottovalutati usciti nell'ultimo periodo. Il riferimento è a "Lungo la strada ", il primo album live, dopo oltre trent'anni di carriera, di Alice . Un album bellissimo, registrato alla chiesa di San Marco di Milano, che non ha assolutamente avuto il riscontro che merita. Il tutto sei anni dopo " Viaggio in Italia" (a parte le varie raccolte uscite). Un live insolito, perchè non è un [...]
Joe Satriani's plagiarism lawsuit against Coldplay , which pits his song "If I Could Fly" against their 2008 hit "Viva La Vida," could theoretically use YouTube comments in its arguments, according to lawyers at the firm Kilpatrick Stockton . Writing in the trade journal Entertainment Law & Finance , Joseph M. Beck, Christopher P. Bussert, and James A. Trigg argue that the free-for-all that erupted on Google's video-sharing site in the wake of Satriani's accusations could help either side of the case: What makes the Internet commentary regarding the two songs [...]
When the dust had settled had the 1983 Grammy Awards, it was the band Toto that had pulled off one of the biggest coups in the award's history (to the dismay of critics). The group snagged six of the statues including ones for Record Of The Year (for the song Rosanna ) and for Album Of The Year (for Toto IV ). Toto's haul at the awards ceremony came almost a year following the spring '82 release of the album Toto IV and it gave a boost to the record's fourth single, I [...]
Somehow we've missed out on posting this until now! Total classic 80's tuneage. Enjoy Tota - Africa
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