Eight months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters hosted a star-studded concert version of the band’s classic album The Wall at the site of its former location.
The concert featured a host of A-list musicians, including Bryan Adams, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Scorpions, Sinead O’Connor, Cyndi Lauper and more. It did not include Waters’ former Pink Floyd bandmates David Gilmour, Nick Mason or Rick Wright, prompting controversy over whether they were ever asked to join.
A month after the concert, Waters released the live album and video, The Wall — Live in Berlin.
Roger Waters has finally stopped teasing fans about his reimagined The Dark Side of the Moon.
The rocker just announced that the album, The Dark Side of the Moon Redux, will be released October 6 and shared the first track from it, his reimagined take on “Money.”
“He’s gone and done it. He’s reimagined it,” Waters is heard saying in a video post on Instagram, adding, “He must be mad.”
Waters first revealed he was rerecording the 1973 album back in February ahead of the album’s 50th anniversary. He shared a tease of his new take on “Us and Them” back in March, explaining his rerecorded album was “a way for me to honor a recording that Nick [Mason] and Rick [Wright] and Dave [Gilmour] and I have every right to be very proud of.”
E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren is ready to share his latest solo project, Mountains, which was recorded during the pandemic.
Lofgren tells ABC Audio that while he loved being home with his wife, Amy, and their dogs, “it was the first time in my life that I didn’t do anything kind of professionally,” and he knew he needed to change that.
“So I just really hunkered down and I was kind of excited to write a record, just write what I was feeling,” he shares. “And it really was kind of a great adventure when I got into it.”
Lofgren says the title of the album is reflective of the hard times the world was going through with the pandemic and the divisive political climate.
“Mountains was obvious to me because I felt all of us climbing new mountains, new challenges. Everybody had surprising stuff going on that was very challenging,” he says.
The album features special guests like Neil Young, Ringo Starr, Ron Carter and the late David Crosby, who Lofgren says had wanted to work with him for a while.
“David Crosby, God rest his soul, friend of 55 years, had told me at the end of the last record, Blue with Lou, ‘Let me sing on your record,’” Nils says. Unfortunately, he had already finished that record, which was released in 2019. But then a new opportunity came with the Mountains track “I Remember Her Name.”
Nils says, “I called and said, ‘Look, I got an idea for a song, give me a little bit, I’ll send it to you,’” and Crosby simply replied, “Great. Count me in.”
Meddle Reimagined – A Tribute To Pink Floyd, a new album celebrating Pink Floyd‘s sixth studio release, is on the way, and the latest star-studded collaboration from it has just been released.
The latest is a reimagining of the Meddle track “One of These Days,” featuring Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens, Parliament-Funkadelic’s Bootsy Collins, Vanilla Fudge drummer Carmine Appice and Yes keyboardist Geoff Downes. Jyrki 69, of the Finnish goth metal band The 69 Eyes, provides the one spoken line of the song, said by Nick Mason in the original.
This is the second song released from Meddle Reimagined – A Tribute To Pink Floyd, following “San Tropez,” which featured Yes’ Rick Wakeman, Blue Öyster Cult’s Joe Bouchard, ex-Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland, former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo and Rainbow vocalist Graham Bonnet.
Meddle Reimagined – A Tribute To Pink Floyd will be released digitally and on CD September 1, with the vinyl dropping September 22. It is available for preorder now.
Now that we’re a month into summer, former President Barack Obama is letting us know what he’s listening to this year.
Obama just released his 2023 Summer Playlist. It features a diverse group of songs, including Bob Dylan’s “Everything Is Broken,” The Rolling Stones’ “Soul Survivor,” Pearl Jam’s “Just Breathe” and JacksonBrowne’s “Doctor My Eyes.”
“Like I do every year, here are some songs I’ve been listening to this summer — a mix of old and new,” Obama shares. “Look forward to hearing what I’ve missed.”
Other songs making his playlist this year include: The Pretenders’ “I’ll Stand By You,” boygenius’ “Not Strong Enough,” Aretha Franklin’s “Dr. Feelgood (Love is a Serious Business),” Leonard Cohen’s “Dance Me To The End of Love (Live)” and The Bangles’ “Walk Like An Egyptian.”
The recent documentary What The Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears? is getting a very special online premiere.
Veeps is set to host the first global premiere of the film on August 20. There will actually be two airings of the movie, at 12 p.m. ET and 8 p.m. ET. Prior to both there will be a special live Q&A with Blood, Sweat & Tears drummer and co-founder Bobby Colomby and the film’s director, John Scheinfeld.
The doc, which was made with the full cooperation of band members, explores their 1970 State Department-sponsored tour of Iron Curtain countries Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland. It features interviews and archival footage from the controversial tour, which resulted in the band suffering backlash from fans.
Tickets for screenings are on sale now, and fans can also purchase a bundle that includes the screening and a copy of the soundtrack.
It looks like a lot of fans made sure they saw Dead & Company on what was billed as their Final Tour.
The Grateful Dead offshoot has been touring for eight years, and as Billboard reports, this trek, which wrapped July 14-16 at San Francisco’s Oracle Park, saw them bring in their best grosses and attendance numbers. The tour grossed more than $115 million and sold over 840,000 tickets.
Since the band’s inception in 2015, they’ve gone on 10 tours, made up of 235 shows, which were seen by over four million fans.
The band also set some new records with this tour, including the most shows played at Chicago’s Wrigley Field, (10) the most shows played at New York’s Citi Field (11) and an all-time attendance record for a single show at Boston’s Fenway Park, beating out Boston natives Aerosmith.
One of the Moonman trophies Pearl Jam‘s “Jeremy” won at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards is up for sale.
The controversial video, which portrayed a bullied student shooting himself in front of his classmates, won a total of four VMAs, including one for Video of the Year. The Moonman going on sale corresponds with Pearl Jam’s win for Best Metal/Hard Rock Video and was presented to their longtime former manger, Kelly Curtis.
“MTV ‘Moonmen’ are incredibly rare,” says Wayne Johnson of Rockaway Records, which acquired and is selling the trophy. “They are made in tiny quantities, and we have only had a handful since they were first handed out in 1984. The statue for Pearl Jam’s ‘Jeremy’ is one of the coolest and rarest Pearl Jam items we have ever offered for sale.”
The “Jeremy” Moonman can be yours for the cool price of just $20,000. For more info, visit Rockaway.com.
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Slash fans can look forward to another solo album from the rocker.
In an interview with Yahoo! Music, the Guns N’ Roses guitarist reveals he’s been working on a second solo record, which he describes as “sort of similar to my first solo record,” noting it will feature “a bunch of different singers.” His first solo record, 2010’s Slash, featured guests like Chris Cornell, Lemmy Kilmister, Iggy Pop and more.
Slash says the new record will be “more blues-oriented” than the first one and would only reveal one guest on the album: Demi Lovato. He shared that he recorded his contribution to her rock remake of “Sorry Not Sorry” after she recorded her feature on his record.
The only other detail he shared about the album is that it’s “definitely coming out next year.”
In the same interview, Slash discussed why fans shouldn’t expect to see a biopic on Guns N’ Roses “anytime in the foreseeable future.”
“I’ve just never been able to envision how you’re gonna get it [right],” he says. “It’s always some fabricated, over exaggerated, f***** bulls***; it’s very rare that you see a [rock biopic] movie that actually feels genuine. And so I don’t even wanna be a part of all that. I just don’t think that it would be done real justice.”
He adds, “I’ve seen a lot of bad [biopics] and they freak me out.”
In the meantime, Slash is currently busy on Guns N’ Roses world tour, which hits Athens, Greece, on Sunday, July 22. It returns to North America in August, with the first U.S. date happening August 11 in Hershey Park, Pennsylvania. A complete list of dates can be found at gunsnroses.com.
Roger Waters appears to be teasing his remake of Pink Floyd’s classic album The Dark Side of the Moon.
Waters revealed he was rerecording the 1973 album back in February, and now, he’s shared a snippet of some music on Instagram alongside a video that reads “DSOTM” and “REDUX.” The short song clip appears to be the buildup to the album’s final song, “Eclipse.”
This isn’t the first time Waters has shared a tease of the rerecording. Back in March, he posted a clip of “Us and Them” on Facebook and explained his reasoning for rerecording the album.
“It’s turned out really great and I’m excited for everyone to hear it,” he wrote. “It’s not a replacement for the original which, obviously, is irreplaceable. But it is a way for the seventy nine year old man to look back across the intervening fifty years into the eyes of the twenty nine year old and say, to quote a poem of mine about my Father, ‘We did our best, we kept his trust, our Dad would have been proud of us’.”
He added, “[I]t is a way for me to honor a recording that Nick [Mason] and Rick [Wright]and Dave [Gilmour] and I have every right to be very proud of.”
