Former Blind Melon guitarist Christopher Thorn recently stumbled across some lost gems while going through the Capitol Records vaults, and he’s planning another rarities set. “I got turned onto stuff that I just completely forgot about,” he says. “Shannon playing by himself — acoustic versions of ‘Galaxie’ and ‘Vernie’ — really cool songs that I’d never heard before acoustic.”
As well as unheard versions of previously released songs, Thorn found several previously unissued full-band songs, including “Frosting a Cake” and “Ever Had the Feeling.” “It’s a really dark song,” Thorn says of the latter. “It’s about killing yourself. It’s sung in — which only Shannon could do — this tongue-in-cheek voice. I think maybe it scared people. I don’t know, maybe it’s something that we still don’t release.”
While Thorn would like to get the other surviving Blind Melon members involved in the song-selection process and maybe even add a missing part or two if needed, he’s not looking to stray too far from the songs’ current state. “There’s just nothing like hearing songs stripped down,” he says. “You really get a sense of the band and the songs, and you really hear Shannon’s voice. It’s going to be raw. For me now, it’s kinda charming — I hear it and I can smell the room from hearing the recordings.”
Thorn would also like to assemble an accompanying live disc. “I was given a box of A-DATs,” he says. “For a while, we were recording every live show — right around the time that ‘No Rain’ hit, when we were playing bigger places. I’d like to have the stuff get out. I don’t feel good about it just being in a box somewhere.”
Source Rollingstone.com.
The Dave Matthews Band has announced an extensive summer tour following the Dave Matthews and Friends appearance at the Bonnaroo Music Festival June 11th-13th. The two-and-a-half month-long tour will kick of on June 17th at the UMB Bank Pavillion in Maryland Heights, MO. Complete dates are listed below:
Thu 6/17 UMB Bank Pavilion Maryland Heights, MO
Fri 6/18 Tweeter Center Chicago Tinley Park, IL
Sun 6/20 Verizon Wireless Music Center Noblesville, IN
Mon 6/21 Verizon Wireless Music Center Noblesville, IN
Wed 6/23 Germain Amphitheater Columbus, OH
Thu 6/24 Germain Amphitheater Columbus, OH
Sat 6/26 Post-Gazette Pavilion at Star Lake Burgettstown, PA
Sun 6/27 Post-Gazette Pavilion at Star Lake Burgettstown, PA
Tue 6/29 Blossom Music Center Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Wed 6/30 Ontario Place – Molson Amphitheatre Toronto, ON Canada
Tue 7/6 Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts Mansfield, MA
Wed 7/7 Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts Mansfield, MA
Sat 7/10 Hersheypark Stadium Hershey, PA
Sun 7/11 Nissan Pavilion at Stone Ridge Bristow, VA
Tue 7/13 Six Flags Darien Lake – Performing Arts Centre Darien Center, NY
Wed 7/14 Merriweather Post Pavilion Columbia, MD
Fri 7/16 ctnow.com Meadows Music Centre Hartford, CT
Sat 7/17 ctnow.com Meadows Music Centre Hartford, CT
Tue 7/20 Tweeter Center at the Waterfront Camden, NJ
Wed 7/21 Tweeter Center at the Waterfront Camden, NJ
Fri 7/23 Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater Virginia Beach, VA
Sat 7/24 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte, NC
Mon 7/26 Alltel Pavilion at Walnut Creek Raleigh, NC
Tue 7/27 HiFi Buys Amphitheatre Atlanta, GA
Thu 7/29 Tampa Bay Amphitheatre Tampa, FL
Sat 7/31 Sound Advice Amphitheatre West Palm Beach, FL
Sun 8/1 Sound Advice Amphitheatre West Palm Beach, FL
Wed 8/4 Starwood Amphitheatre Antioch, TN
Thu 8/5 Riverbend Music Center Cincinnati, OH
Sat 8/7 Alpine Valley Music Theatre East Troy, WI
Sun 8/8 Alpine Valley Music Theatre East Troy, WI
Mon 8/16 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Bonner Springs, KS
Wed 8/18 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Selma, TX
Fri 8/20 The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion The Woodlands, TX
Sat 8/21 The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion The Woodlands, TX
Mon 8/23 Journal Pavilion Albuquerque, NM
Tue 8/24 Cricket Pavilion Phoenix, AZ
Thu 8/26 Coors Amphitheatre Chula Vista, CA
Sat 8/28 Home Depot Center Carson, CA
Sun 8/29 Home Depot Center Carson, CA
Tue 8/31 Sleep Train Amphitheatre Marysville, CA
Sat 9/4 Gorge Amphitheatre George, WA
Sun 9/5 Gorge Amphitheatre George, WA
Blues Traveler will hit the road on March 6th for their first tour in six months. Additional dates are expected to be announced soon. Here are the confirmed dates so far:
3/6 Ventura CA. Ventura Theater
3/8 Los Angeles CA. House of Blues
3/9 Anaheim CA. House of Blue
3/12 Des Moines IA. Valair Ballroom
3/14 Grand Rapids MI. Van Andel Arena
4/1 Grandforks ND. Univ of North Dakota
4/3 Lake Tahoe. Caesars Circus Maximus
4/4 San Antonio TX. Sunset Station (free show)
4/7 Park City UT. Harry O’s
4/9 Steamboat Springs CO. Steamboat Grand
4/10 Vail CO. Check Point Charlie (free show)
4/11 Grand Junction, CO. The Avalon Theater
4/15 Cleveland MS. Delta State Univ
4/17 Robinsonville MS. Blue Horseshoe Casino
Source: BluesTraveler.com
Widespread Panic has announced that they will begin selling their performances from last December 30th and 31st at the Phillips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia through iTunes.com on Tuesday, February 24th.
This is the first time ever that iTunes is offering an entire live concert for sale. Fans can download one concert for $9.99, or two for $14.99. Individual tracks are available at the regular .99 cents per song. These 51 songs recorded during the band’s last two concerts will not be sold in stores.
Dave Matthews, Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys and Tom Petty are among the artists who will be on hand to induct the 2004 class into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. A longtime supporter of the Hall and 1999 inductee into the elite group of honored musicians, Springsteen will introduce Jackson Browne at this year’s event.
Dave Matthews will do the honors for Traffic, while Petty and Jeff Lynne will induct their Traveling Wilburys bandmate George Harrison. Keys will be joined by hip-hop duo OutKast to welcome Prince, while Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, himself a Hall of Famer since 1989, will be on hand to enshrine ZZ Top.
As previously reported, Steve Winwood has pledged that Traffic will perform at the event, as has inductee Bob Seger.
The ceremony will take place March 15 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, and will be taped for a VH1 special that will premiere March 21 on the music channel.
Source Billboard.com.
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Remastered and expanded editions of five Jerry Garcia albums will make up the bulk of a new Rhino box set. Due April 20, All Good Things: Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions collects all of the late Grateful Dead guitarist/singer’s solo studio albums, released by Arista from 1972 through the decade that followed. Rounding out the set will be a sixth disc, Outtakes, Jams & Alternates, featuring previously unreleased recordings.
The albums making up All Good Things are Garcia’s 1972 solo debut, Garcia, 1974’s Garcia (Compliments), 1976’s Reflections, 1978’s Cats Under the Stars and 1982’s Run for the Roses. Each adds a wealth of material, from alternate recordings of “Sugaree” and “Loser” on the first album to covers of Bob Dylan’s “Simple Twist of Fate” and “Tangled Up in Blue” and the Beatles’ “Dear Prudence” on the last.
Completing the set’s four hours-plus of previously unavailable music, Outtakes is comprised of 12 cuts. Highlights of the disc include an alternate version of the Rolling Stones’ “Let’s Spend the Night Together” (which appeared on Garcia (Compliments)) and a cover of Warren Zevon’s “Accidentally Like a Martyr.”
Boasting new artwork, rare photos and extensive liner notes, the set will carry a suggested retail price of $74.98.
Source Billboard.com.
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