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Post by kds on Jun 24, 2024 13:48:01 GMT
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jun 30, 2024 13:10:18 GMT
Michael J. Fox joins Coldplay on stage at Glastonbury:
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 1, 2024 22:54:21 GMT
You might have noticed a lot of bands canceling shows and tours. (We've had a few that were due to come here. The Black Keys was one, and I know there were others, though I'm forgetting names.) How about an entire swath of headliners at a festival!? The Moondance Festival, a festival in northern Minnesota, is canceling all of the national acts they've advertised for their July 18-20 festival. Creed, Foghat, BOC, Kansas, Switchfood, and the Sweet are all out, and the festival is carrying on with only local bands (several of which are cover bands). The kicker: as of now, no refunds of the $200 tickets! (Bad P.R. is sure to reverse that, though.)
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 9, 2024 12:47:12 GMT
More music business news than music news, but the enormous music catalog ownership company Hipgnosis, which has obtained the rights to Neil Young, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Shakira, and Justin Bieber, among others, is selling to massive capital investment firm Blackstone for $1.6b. On its face, that doesn't seem like a lot considering the hundreds of millions Hipgnosis has spent to obtain various catalogs. But it's trickier than that: - Hipgnosis had already split itself into two companies, one of which is an "investment trust" that owns the rights to the songs themselves. Blackstone had previously spent $1b for a majority stake in that firm. - This $1.6b acquisition is for Hipgnosis Song Management, which is an advisory firm related to the management/usage/placement of those songs. (This is the company Hipgnosis' founder, Merck Mercuriadis, has been managing.) I'd say it's ironic because Mercuriadis has always made a big deal about how big corporations don't know what they're doing with music, how he had been a manager (Elton John, Beyonce) and so he understood how to make these deals and manage these catalogs, and now he's taking some share of his $1.6b and will exit the company, leaving it to corporate giant Blackstone. But it's really just more the way the world works. "Artistic integrity" or whatever is quickly out the window when you hit the right numbers.
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Post by kds on Jul 18, 2024 14:19:31 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 18, 2024 14:46:42 GMT
I was a little surprised to see that they are canceling their tour and any future plans indefinitely over it. I mean, it was a shitty thing to say, but as you said, they're a comedy band. Many people have said similarly shitty things in the past. I'm not sure it has to result in the implosion of the act. (Then again, I never really cared for Tenacious D in the first place, so it doesn't impact me in the slightest.) It was actually reminiscent of an old routine by the late Bill Hicks (who is often mentioned as some kind of comedy god, largely because of his political humor). The gist of it, "did you ever notice that we live in a world where the good are murdered and mediocre hacks thrive? ... Jesus, murdered; Gandhi, murdered; MLK, murdered; Malcolm X, murdered; Reagan ... wounded." Goes on to make jokes about how it would be better to kill Reagan. I am no fan of Reagan, myself. But come on, that's not exactly a hilarious line of jokes. Of course, Hicks was already dead before the internet came along to make these kinds of jokes become common knowledge.
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 28, 2024 11:32:01 GMT
I mean, does this go into the soft rock thread or the hard rock thread? Billy Joel's final show at his MSG residency included a handful of songs with guest vocalist Axl Rose of GnR...
Axl sang "Live and Let Die" and "Highway to Hell," as well as Joel's "You May Be Right." Here's some of that lattermost tune.
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Post by kds on Aug 1, 2024 18:00:45 GMT
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Aug 3, 2024 0:32:29 GMT
Sadly, Steven Tyler was unable to recover from his recent setback and Aerosmith retired from touring:
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Post by kds on Aug 3, 2024 0:35:01 GMT
I was actually just about to post this. Not unexpected, but kinda sad. Aerosmith were my first concert back in 1998.
I'll admit I don't listen to them nearly as much as I used to, but they're an all time great hard rock band.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Aug 3, 2024 0:41:15 GMT
I was actually just about to post this. Not unexpected, but kinda sad. Aerosmith were my first concert back in 1998. I'll admit I don't listen to them nearly as much as I used to, but they're an all time great hard rock band. Yes, they are an all-time great band, and while they were certainly popular critically and commercially - sometimes overwhelmingly so - I still don't think they got/get the credit they deserve. That run they had in the 1970s and 1980s? Whew!
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Post by kds on Aug 3, 2024 0:46:36 GMT
I was actually just about to post this. Not unexpected, but kinda sad. Aerosmith were my first concert back in 1998. I'll admit I don't listen to them nearly as much as I used to, but they're an all time great hard rock band. Yes, they are an all-time great band, and while they were certainly popular critically and commercially - sometimes overwhelmingly so - I still don't think they got/get the credit they deserve. That run they had in the 1970s and 1980s? Whew!
I think there was a bit of backlash when Aerosmith had their 2nd wave in the late 80s, 90s, and into the 00s. They were everywhere. Smash hit songs. Hugely popular music video. Appearances in movies, TV shows, and commercials. For nearly a 15 year period, you couldn't escape them. They also took some flak for using "song doctors" like Desmond Child during those Geffen Years. Unfairly so, if you ask me. I feel like, as the years go by, and they fade in the rear view, history will be very kind to them.
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 3, 2024 0:56:20 GMT
I'd say they were without question one of the most--and maybe the question is, were they the most--successful bands in terms of reinventing themselves across the changing eras. Because while Sheriff John Stone mentions "that run they had in the 1970s and 1980s," the truth is that was two entirely separate runs. They'd bottomed out, broken up, reformed, and reinvented themselves for the mid-late '80s after their '70s success. Does their mid/late '90s run of those power ballads and such count as a third era, or a continuation of the '80s run? That, I'm not sure. But they nailed it at least twice.
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Post by kds on Aug 3, 2024 1:42:56 GMT
I'd say they were without question one of the most--and maybe the question is, were they the most--successful bands in terms of reinventing themselves across the changing eras. Because while Sheriff John Stone mentions "that run they had in the 1970s and 1980s," the truth is that was two entirely separate runs. They'd bottomed out, broken up, reformed, and reinvented themselves for the mid-late '80s after their '70s success. Does their mid/late '90s run of those power ballads and such count as a third era, or a continuation of the '80s run? That, I'm not sure. But they nailed it at least twice. I typically think if their 90s run as a continuation of their late 80s revival. They had some big power ballads in the late 80s too with Angel and What It Takes. But, I think you're right. I can't really think of a band that so successful had a second life. And, despite what some naysayers might say, I think they did it without losing the essence of Aerosmith. They really didn't revamp their image much. They still remained pretty true to their sound. You could go to an Aerosmith show and Janie's Got a Gun and Cryin fit nicely on a setlist with Back in the Saddle and Dream On.
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Post by kds on Aug 7, 2024 16:20:47 GMT
The headline of this article made me do a double take. The Who Reunion? Don't you have to break up for something like that? The Who have been pretty steadily active since around 1996 or so. ultimateclassicrock.com/who-reunion-pete-townshend/I'm guessing the title of the article is a little click baity, but it basically says Pete Townshend would like to do more work as The Who while he and Roger are still capable, but Roger may be reluctant.
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