Graham Nash doesn’t think he’ll play with Neil Young and Stephen Stills again

October 23, 2024 by Classic Rock 93.9

We will never be able to see Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young again now that David Crosby has passed, but Graham Nash says it’s doubtful he’ll ever play with his other bandmates, Stephen Stills and Neil Young, again either.

While talking to Rolling Stone about the new CSNY live album, Live At The Fillmore East, 1969, Graham noted that they dedicated the record to Crosby because “he really was the heartbeat of this band, and his passing brought a halt to us all making music together.”

“I don’t think that me and Stephen and Neil will ever play together again,” he added.

As for why he doesn’t think it’ll happen, Nash explains, “There’s no heart there. David was the center of it all, as crazy as he was. And my God, he was crazy. But he was the heart of this band,” adding, “And that’s why I think that if Stephen and Neil and I ever played together, people would be missing Crosby. We would be missing Crosby. It just would be a much colder scene.”

“I really miss him. I miss him more every day because life is choices, and I only choose to remember the good times that David and I had, the good music that we made together,” Nash says. “When I try and think about the bad things that happened, I don’t want to do that. I made the choice to only remember the good stuff.”

David Crosby died Jan. 18, 2023.

Live At The Fillmore East, 1969 is due out Friday. It’s available for preorder now.

On This Day, Oct. 23, 2010: Members of Buffalo Springfield reunited at Neil Young’s annual Bridge School Benefit

October 23, 2024 by Classic Rock 93.9

On This Day, Oct. 23, 2010 …

Members of Buffalo Springfield — Stephen Stills, Neil Young and Richie Furay — reunited for Young’s annual Bridge School Benefit in Mountain View, California. It was the band’s first performance together in more than 18 years.

The band’s set included such classics as “For What It’s Worth,” “Bluebird” and “Mr. Soul.”

The Bridge School Benefit was two days of mostly acoustic concerts raising money for the Bridge School, which assists children with severe physical impairments and complex communication needs.

Other artists on the bill included Pearl Jam, Elvis Costello, Kris Kristofferson, Billy Idol, Jackson Browne, T-Bone Burnett’s Speaking Clock Revue featuring Elton John, Leon Russell and Costello, and others.

Iron Maiden honors Paul Di’Anno during Minnesota show

October 23, 2024 by Classic Rock 93.9

Iron Maiden took a moment during their show in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Tuesday to honor their former singer Paul Di’Anno, whose death was announced on Monday.

Di’Anno, who was 66, sang on the first two Maiden records, 1980’s self-titled debut and 1981’s Killers. He was then replaced by current Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson.

Speaking to the crowd during Tuesday’s concert, Dickinson called Di’Anno’s contribution to Maiden “instrumental” and “groundbreaking.”

“An amazing voice, devoted to rock ‘n’ roll right up till the last minute of his life,” Dickinson said in fan-shot footage.

Indeed, Di’Anno’s label Conquest Music wrote, “Despite being troubled by severe health issues in recent years that restricted him to performing in a wheelchair, Paul continued to entertain his fans around the world, racking up well over 100 shows since 2023.”

Dickinson also asked Maiden fans for a moment of silence before delivering a signature “scream for me” in honor of Di’Anno.

Elton John lyricist Bernie Taupin to be honored by Hollywood Music In Media Awards

October 23, 2024 by Classic Rock 93.9

About a year ago, Elton John‘s collaborator Bernie Taupin was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. And in November he’ll be receiving another prestigious award.

At the 15th annual Hollywood Music In Media Awards on Nov. 20, Bernie will be presented with the Outstanding Career Achievement Award. The awards honor composers and songwriters for their contributions to film, TV, video games and more.

Of course, the Elton songs that Bernie co-wrote have been featured in many movies over the years. Elton and Bernie also won the Best Original Song Oscar and Golden Globe for writing “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” for Elton’s Rocketman biopic, for example. Bernie also won a Golden Globe without Elton, for co-writing a song for the movie Brokeback Mountain.

Bernie and Elton just wrote a new song for Elton’s upcoming Disney+ documentary, Elton John: Never Too Late. The song, also called “Never Too Late,” was co-written with Elton’s close pal Brandi Carlile and Andrew Watt, who produced most of Elton’s album The Lockdown Sessions. The song is performed by Elton and Brandi.

Elton announced last year that he and Bernie had completed an entire album. In May, Bernie said it was coming out “soon,” but so far there’s been no information. A documentary about Bernie is also in the works.

Past winners of the HMMA Outstanding Career Achievement Award include Kenny Loggins, Diane Warren and Earth Wind & Fire.

The David Bowie Center to open in May at Victoria & Albert Museum’s new V&A Storehouse

October 23, 2024 by Classic Rock 93.9

The Victoria & Albert Museum in London is set to open the David Bowie Center next year, which will be the new home of the David Bowie Archive.

The center, which was first announced in February, will open Sept. 13 at the new V&A Storehouse at East Bank, in the new cultural quarter in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The Storehouse is opening May 31.

The Bowie opening will mark the first time fans will have access to the over 90,000 items in the Bowie Archive, with the items tracing the rocker’s “creative processes as a musical innovator, cultural icon, and advocate for self-expression and reinvention.”

It will include costumes from the Ziggy Stardust era, lyrics to songs like “Fame” and “Heroes,” and a whole lot more. The center will be split into three different zones, with curated displays and audio visual installations, as well as areas where visitors can explore the archives on their own.

But the Bowie Center is only one part of the new V&A Storehouse. It will also include over 500,000 creative works, including the Glastonbury Festival Archives and Elton John’s costumes.

Bruce Springsteen’s manager on Jeremy Allen White as The Boss: “He’s just perfect”

October 22, 2024 by Classic Rock 93.9

Bruce Springsteen’s manager Jon Landau sounds excited about the casting of Jeremy Allen White to play The Boss in the upcoming movie Deliver Me From Nowhere.

“Oh my god, he’s just perfect. The casting is great,” Landau tells The Hollywood Reporter, noting that director Scott Cooper told him, “We get the right cast, and we’ll tell this story right.” Landau added that “he got the right cast.”

As for how he feels about Succession star Jeremy Strong playing him on the big screen, Landau says, “I died and went to heaven.”

Landau calls Strong “a great guy,” sharing, “We’ve had the chance to know each other, and I’m just dying to see what he does and what I learn from it.”

As for the whole project, Landau says he and Springsteen aren’t directly involved, but adds that they’re “very pleased at the way they’re going about it, it’s going to be beautiful.”

Deliver Me From Nowhere follows Springsteen’s efforts to make his 1982 solo album Nebraska. The film is based on Warren Zanes‘ book Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska.

Foreigner adds more dates to Farewell tour; original members to play select dates

October 22, 2024 by Classic Rock 93.9

Fresh off the celebration of the band’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, Foreigner has announced more dates for their Farewell tour, which originally launched in 2023.

The latest additions kick off March 13 in Hollywood, Florida, and wrap Oct. 10 and Oct. 11 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

And Foreigner is planning to have some special guests with them for upcoming shows.

The band just announced that original members Rick Wills and Al Greenwood, who were inducted into the Hall of Fame with Lou Gramm and Mick Jones on Saturday, will join Foreigner for their upcoming eight-show residency at The Venetian in Las Vegas, which kicks off Friday.

In addition, original lead singer Gramm is in talks to take part in 2026 shows, which will mark the 50th anniversary of the band.

A complete list of Foreigner dates and ticket information can be found at ForeignerOnline.com.

Recording console used on The Beatles’ ‘Abbey Road’ going up for sale

October 22, 2024 by Classic Rock 93.9

The recording console used to track The Beatles’ final album, 1969’s Abbey Road, is going up for sale in October.

The fully restored EMI TG12345 console will be sold through the Reverb shop of London’s recording studio experts, MJQ Ltd, on Oct. 29.

“Abbey Road is one of the best albums that’s ever been made, and it sounds so good because of this recording console,” said Dave Harries, who worked with the console during numerous Beatles recording sessions. “Because of the way that Abbey Road was recorded, the album has a distinctive sound that hallmarked the future of pop recording.”

The console had been sitting unused for more than five decades, and it took five years for it to be fully restored, using 70% of its original parts.

In addition to Abbey Road, the console, custom built in 1968 by EMI Studios, was used for several other Beatles solo projects, including John Lennon’s “Instant Karma!,” Paul McCartney’s solo album McCartney, George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass and Ringo Starr’s Sentimental Journey, all of which were released in 1970.

More info on the sale can be found at reverb.com.

Bowl for Ronnie announces 2024 lineup of celebrity bowlers

October 22, 2024 by Classic Rock 93.9

Bowl for Ronnie, the annual bowling tournament celebrating the life of the late Ronnie James Dio, has announced the lineup of celebrity players for its 2024 event.

Among those taking part include Rage Against the Machine‘s Tom Morello, original Dio drummer Vinny Appice, Ozzy Osbourne bassist Rob “Blasko” Nicholson, Eagles of Death Metal‘s Jesse Hughes and Megadeth‘s Dirk Verbeuren.

The 2024 Bowl for Ronnie takes place Nov. 14 at PINZ Bowling Center in Studio City, California. As always, it raises money for the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund.

Dio passed away of stomach cancer in 2010 at age 67.

Alex Van Halen explains brown M&M rider request in new memoir ‘Brothers’

October 22, 2024 by Classic Rock 93.9

Alex Van Halen’s new memoir, Brothers, is out now, and in it he sets the record straight about the reports that Van Halen’s rider would demand M&M’s in their dressing rooms, minus the brown ones.

“I know. We sound like jerks,” he writes in the book, according to People. “Like rock star prima donnas looking to make some poor kid sit around picking through candies till he goes blind. But it wasn’t about a power trip, and it wasn’t about some strange aversion to the color brown.”

While Alex writes that over the years the band “played it up for yuks,” when asked why they put that in their rider, he now says there was a very good reason for doing so.

“If we see brown M&M’s, we know: we are not in the hands of professionals,” he writes, because it meant that they didn’t read the rider carefully. “If they didn’t bother with this, what else didn’t they bother with, what other corners are being cut?”

Brothers, described as Alex’s love letter to his late brother, Eddie Van Halen, was released Tuesday. Alex is currently on a book tour supporting the release and will be in Northvale, New Jersey, on Tuesday, and Culver City, California, on Thursday.

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