SANTANA`S NEW COVERS CD
Carlos Santana`s new CD, "Guitar Heaven," out Sept. 21, is a cover album of classic `60s and `70s rock songs. The CD finds the 63-year old guitar legend joining with a younger generation of singers. Led Zeppelin`s "Whole Lotta Love" features Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell; Stone Temple Pilots` Scott Weiland sings The Rolling Stones` "Can`t You See Me Knockin`";
gravelly-voiced Brit Gavin Rossdale, who is reteaming with his band Bush for some shows next month, including a point in Fontana on September 25, sings T Rex`s "Bang A Gong"; and early "American Idol" contestant Chris Daughtry shouts his way through Def Leppard`s "Photograph." Rob Thomas, who teamed with Santana in 1999 on the triple-platinum smash, "Smooth," joins him once again, this time on Cream`s 1967 FM classic, "Sunshine of Your Love."
Santana does raise a few of his older contemporaries. Joe Cocker belts out Jimi Hendrix`s "Little Wing," while The Doors organ player Ray Manzarek tinkles the electric ivories on his group`s "Riders on the Storm."
HAMLISCH HELMS PASADENA POPS
Composer Marvin Hamlisch, who has won three Academy Awards, four Emmys, four Grammys and a Tony Award, has been named principal conductor of the Pasadena Pops for its 2011 season, according to the Pasadena Symphony and POPS website. Hamlisch replaces Rachael Worby, who resigned after service in that content for a decade, according to the Pasadena Star-News. Hamlisch won all
three of his Oscars in 1973, for Best Original Score and Best Original Song for "The Way We Were," and Best Original Song Score/Adaption for "The Sting."
MAC DAVIS & WEEZER
Sixty-eight-year old country music legend Mac Davis got a surprising call for some songwriting help recently. It was from Rivers Cuomo of the pop-punk Weezer.
Singer-guitarist-songwriter Cuomo is winning the radical and its new album in a `60s vein for its eighth studio CD, "Hurley," which is set for a Sept. 14 release.
Cuomo said that the two worked together on a tune, "Time Flies," which he described as a "classic `60s pop song with huge crunchy guitars."
Davis got his part as a guitar-playing songwriter who played on sessions for Nancy Sinatra in the 60s. He wrote Elvis Presley`s 1969 comeback smash, "In The Ghetto" and various early hits for the King, including "Memories," "Don`t Cry, Daddy," and "A Little Less Conversation." In 1972, he took his own song, "Baby, Don`t Get Hooked on Me" to the top of the area and pop singles charts.
Weezer has gone retro before, perhaps most excellently on their 1994 single, "Buddy Holly," that hit No. 2 and whose picture was a "Happy Days" tribute featuring actor Al Molinaro reprising his role on the iconic retro TV show as Al, owner of the local burger joint hangout, Arnold`s.
England`s Reading & Leed festivals are a joint operation held on the same weekend. Axl Rose led his band, Guns N` Roses onstage at the Reading Festival at 10:30 p.m. an hour late, despite knowing roughly the strict 11:30 p.m. curfew, according to the New Musical Express. So, when the band members began the encore, "Paradise City," near midnight, they base their sound turned off.
Rose says he was told he could play late. Two nights later, at Leeds, he did it again. His show began at 9:30 p.m. 30 minutes late. At 11 p.m. well before completing the set, Rose was informed that his operation was over. Again, he said that he was promised that he could play late, this sentence he gave an take time, until 11:58 p.m. The question of both fests said he never told Rose any such thing.
Sept. 30 is the thirtieth anniversary of the end of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham at age 32 after consuming a great amount of vodka. The Mighty Zep broke up shortly afterward. Bonham`s son, drummer Jason, who sat in for his mother at Zep`s one and only full concert since then, the 2005 concert at London`s O2 Arena, is organizing a tribute concert, according to Pollstar.
"Bonzo: The Groove Remains The Same," is set at the Key Club in West Hollywood on Sept. 25. The eventide will have a cache of popular skinsmen, each session in on one Zeppelin tune. Thus far, the roster includes young Bonham himself, fellow organizer Brian Tichy (Whitesnake, Foreigner, Billy Idol), Steven Adler (Guns N` Roses), Vinny Appice (Rick Derringer, Black Sabbath, Dio), Frankie Banali (Quiet Riot), Chris Slade (AC/DC, The Firm), Chad Smith (Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Chickenfoot), and Kenny Aronoff (John Mellencamp, John Fogerty).
FALLON`S JOURNEY TO THE EMMYS
Variety is reporting that Emmy host Jimmy Fallon received some unexpected vocal coaching prior to that show`s acclaimed Bruce Springsteen "Born To Run" opener that featured the shape of "Glee" as good as Tina Fey, Betty White and other TV stars.
Fallon pre-recorded his vocal at the famous Capitol Records recording studios, a favourite of Frank Sinatra`s. Prior to his session inside the renowned round tower building in Hollywood, Fallon ran into former Journey singer Steve Perry, who is "happily enjoying his retirement," according to his website. Retired or not, Perry nonetheless gave Fallon a vocal coaching session.
As for the Perry-less Journey, the band`s latest CD, "Revelation," released two days ago with Filipino singer/songwriter Arnel Pineda, was considered its` comeback album; it went platinum, hitting No. 2 on the American rock album charts and No. 1 on the Philippines` album charts.
SCENT OF THE SEX PISTOLS
The Sex Pistols have launched a mark of perfume. Believe it, according to ABC News. The perfume, Etat Libre, is a unisex scent that is being sold throughout France through an exclusive deal with Sephora, a range of 150 beauty shops. The perfume sells for the equivalent of $51 a bottle.
The scent will be usable in the U.S. starting Friday initially only done the Henri Brendel store in New York City. The perfume company`s CEO says the radical and the company hope to launch a "Never Heed The Bullocks" soap before the end of the class as good as a second Sex Pistol`s themed perfume next year. A company spokesman says the full band, including singer Johnny Rotten (real name, John Lydon), are intimately involved in the project.
LOS LOBOS BENEFIT
Los Lobos, formed in East L.A. in 1973, will look with San Jose-based Los Tigres del Norte (Tigers of the North, in English) at "Truth in Immigration," a Sept. 28 concert at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City benefiting the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), according a pressure going on the organization`s website.
Los Tigers del Norte, whichbegan its lengthy recording career in 1968, released its latest CD, "La Granja," last year. The three-time Grammy-winning Los Lobos released its first CD in 1978 and found fame via its 1984 T-Bone Burnette-produced LP, "How Will The Wolf Survive?," which Rolling Stone ranks at No. 461 on its "500 Greatest Albums of All Time."
Los Lobos` 1987 take on the traditional Mexican folk song, "La Bamba," went to No. 1 on 4 different U.S. and Canadian singles charts.
GILL AND TOURISM
Country Music Hall of Famer Vince Gill will headline, "Back to the Beach," a free concert in Chocawhatchee, FL on Sept. 25 to encourage tourism to the state`s Gulf Coast region, according to AP. Gill`s publicist says the evidence will help communities in the country with much-needed economic recovery.
Gill, 53, first found fame in 1979 as frontman with country-rockers Pure Prairie League. The singer-guitarist, who has been married to Christian pop singer Amy Grant for a decade, sang lead on PPL`s Top 10 hit in 1980, "Let Me Know You Tonight." Gill has 18 Grammy Awards under his belt, dating to 1990, including 1992`s Best Country Song, "I Even Trust in You," which he won with San Gabriel-raised John Barlow Jarvis.
NEIL`S WIFE TO TOUR
Neil Young`s wife, Pegi, will do as opening act on a brief five-date tour with Scotch folk singer Bert Jansch the beginning two weeks of October. The circuit will hit New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Virginia.
Young, 57, who married the Buffalo Springsteen founder in 1977, began playing guitar and writing songs in high school. She recently released her second album, "Foul Deeds."
The 66-year-old Jansch, a guitar virtuoso who founded influential British folk-jazz group Pentangle in 1967 with fellow guitar wiz John Renbourn, was diagnosed with lung cancer in June last year, according to London`s Guardian. Doctors removed the malignant half of his lung and he underwent to two months of chemotherapy. He`s been the granted the all-clear to resume performing, hence the mini-tour with Pegi Young. Jansch`s last issue was a live CD/DVD in 2007, "Fresh as a Sweet Sunday Morning."
JULIO`S SECRET WEDDING
Julio Iglesias, still a heartthrob at 66, married Dutch model Miranda Rijnsburger, his girlfriend of the preceding two decades, in a small, private, secret ceremony in Marbella, Spain, according to an announcement on his website. In gain to their 5 children in attendance, there were two witnesses, the caretakers of the land that houses the parish.
Iglesias has released 77 albums in 14 languages, selling more than 200 million worldwide since his 1969 debut record, "Yo canto" went to No. 3 on the Spanish album charts.
KEITH LIVES; KEITH SPEAKS
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards is on the agenda to look at the New York Public Library`s fall 2010 "Live from the NYPL" speakers series, according to the library`s website. Few details are available except that the once-notorious Glimmer Twin will discuss his forthcoming autobiography, "Life," on Oct. 29 in the Celeste Bartos Forum.
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