October 7, 2004

Bob Dylan’s Nobel Nomination Sparks Debate

How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a … Nobel Prize-winning songwriter? It’s a question being asked increasingly in literary circles, as the annual debate over who should win the Nobel Prize in literature

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Exhausted Bob Weir Cancels Ratdog Tour

Bob Weir has canceled a fall tour by his band Ratdog due to exhaustion. The Dead singer/guitarist’s side project was expected to kick off the run tomorrow (Oct. 7) in Ridgefield, Conn., and run through a Nov. 26-27 stand in Camden, N.J.

According to a statement, Weir has “reached a point of complete physical exhaustion” following months of touring with the Dead and Ratdog, other appearances and promotional work related to the March release of the career retrospective “Weir Here” (Hybrid).

Weir hopes to return to performing in the spring. It is unknown if this tour will be rescheduled at that point or later in the year.

The Dead staged a two-leg summer tour that played to more than 400,000 fans across 34 shows that grossed $18.5 million, as reported to Billboard Boxscore. It was the band’s first run with Allman Bros./Gov’t Mule singer/guitarist Warren Haynes in the lineup.

Source billboard.com.

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Jay-Z All Star Concert Headed To Big Screen

Jay-Z is headed to the big screen in the Paramount Classics documentary film “Fade to Black,” which opens Nov. 5 in U.S. theaters. The rapper is the star, narrator and an executive producer of the film, which centers on his all-star concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Nov. 25, 2003.

Other artists who appear in the concert footage include Beyonc

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Classic Pink Floyd Lineup, Rumoured To Reunite

British music magazine Q said in its October issue that there’s another band that’s ready to follow The Pixies’ return to the stage: the classic lineup of Pink Floyd. So far though, a rumor is all there is to the story.

Q is the only print source that’s even hinting at something in the air. According to the magazine, Floyd, with bassist/lyricist Roger Waters, will play a “series of lucrative shows next year.”

To do so, the members would have to set aside 20 years of differences. That includes acrimony left over following Waters’ 1986 legal action against his former bandmates. He sued guitarist David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason to keep them from using the band’s name without him. Waters lost.
A reunion tour of any significance could generate more than $100 million in gross revenues.
This isn’t the first time Pollstar has heard rumblings of Floyd’s return but in the past, the rumors all went south. During the last go-around, one reliable source told Pollstar it was false, adding one that Gilmour “didn’t need any more houses.” This time, the same source laughed out loud before putting the kibosh on the report.

One major promoter who would likely have involvement with a potential tour told Pollstar there was no information. Barbara Skydel of William Morris Agency, who has had longtime ties to Waters, responded to our inquiry by saying it was the first she had heard of the rumor.

Still, she contacted Waters’ manager for verification, then passed along to Pollstar that there was no truth to the rumor “at this time.”

According to fan Web site www.rogerwatersonline.com, Q recently published a special edition magazine devoted to Pink Floyd that included interviews with Waters and Mason. The Web site speculated the magazine may have used at least one of the two musicians as a source.

Source pollstar.com.

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