Excerpted from a press release…I wonder if Dylan even knows who Bryan Ferry is. I’ve always been a big fan of the above cover.
BRYAN FERRY SINGS CLASSICS FROM THE BOB DYLAN SONGBOOK ON ‘DYLANESQUE’
Capitol Music Plans June 19, 2007 U.S. ReleaseNEW YORK – Fulfilling a long-held dream, BRYAN FERRY will release a full album of classic songs written by Bob Dylan in early spring. The album, titled DYLANESQUE, is scheduled for release on Capitol Music Group on June 19, 2007.
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Former Paul McCartney sideman and Average White Band leader Hamish Stuart ended years of silence following his dismissal from McCartney’s band, leveling charges of musical and emotional abuse and threatening to petition for full custody of the Hofner “Beatle” bass they shared during the Flowers in the Dirt tour.
The charges were contained in an addendum to a 13-page court document filed previously by Mr. Stuart, said London’s Daily Mail. A copy of the original document was faxed to news organizations by an anonymous source Monday night. Details of the addendum were leaked to the Daily Mail yesterday.
In the original 13-page document Mr. Stuart claimed that Mr. McCartney had forced him to cancel a crucial hair salon appointment because the appointment would have interfered with Mr. McCartney’s planned rehearsal of “Live and Let Die” with pyrotechnics. Mr. Stuart also charged that Mr. McCartney had refused to let him keep a spittoon by the side of the stage.
“I don’t want that stinking thing up here because it makes the stage smell like a f*ck*ng old man’s home,” Mr. McCartney is alleged to have said when Mr. Stuart pleaded with him to let him use the spittoon.
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Crowded House has settled on Matt Sherrod, drummer for Beck’s band, to fill the seat left by Paul Hester. Read what Neil Finn has to say here.
The Arcade Fire, the Canadian band that shouts from the same mountaintop as U2 yet shuns the spotlight, played Saturday Night Live the other night and treated audience members to a few more songs after the show went off the air. Not that they care to get the word of this act of generosity out to the public!
Perv Alert! A new Avril Lavigne video has hit. Begin justifying how Lavigne’s music is “really not bad compared with all the other manufactured kiddie pop out there.”
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Heather Mills, estranged wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney, has joined the next group of celebrities who will strut their stuff on the ABC television hit “Dancing with the Stars,” the network said on Wednesday.
Kudos to the new agency that reported this for dropping the “Sir” and avoiding use of that horrible British nickname “Macca.”
From The New York Times:
Even if the deal does not face resistance from the F.C.C., it is likely to encounter opposition elsewhere. The National Association of Broadcasters, a trade association for television and radio stations, is already speaking out against a merger.
“In coming weeks, policymakers will have to weigh whether an industry that makes Howard Stern its poster child should be rewarded with a monopoly platform for offensive programming,” the group said. “We’re hopeful that this anticonsumer proposal will be rejected.”
Where does a music fan who’s befuddled by the would-be phenomenon of satellite radio find a reason to care about the proposed merger of XM and Sirius? Is this merger not inevitable? Does it not reflect all that’s wrong with satellite radio in the first place: the tightly preselected formats and playlists, the final eradication of regional tastes, the take-it-or-leave-it stance of multimedia conglomerates…
And what’s with this article’s ultimate focus on Howard Stern and issues of morality? The New York Times piece begins with the lovely cheesecake shot we’ve copied here and ends with concerns about “a monopoly platform for offensive programming.” Is that the only monopoly the National Association for Broadcasters should be concerned about?
I’ve long had only one opinion about this whole matter: Enable me to have an Internet hookup in my car so that I can tune into the thousands of free college and indie stations that broadcast over the Web. I don’t need Howard Stern or Bob Dylan as my host. I don’t need some safe, segmented programming with an LCD display of the song and artist playing. I want to hear music with personality, including the personality of sometimes stumbling college DJs. Satellite radio can continue to kiss my grits!
“Paul is always welcome to join us for the reunion, but until then, we’ve got a tour and a new album to do!”
Weller’s best career move ever! Keep running, Buckler!
A beat-up guitar that Mr. Summers is playing isn’t the one that toured the world with him in the early 1980s; it’s an exact replica made by Fender, copying every nick, chip and scrape as well as the pickups (made by Fender’s rival, Gibson) and custom electronics inside. It’s part of a limited edition of 250 that sold out at $15,000 each…
