Episode 140: Traveling Wilburys
The Traveling Wilburys (sometimes shortened to the Wilburys) were an English–American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, accompanied by drummer Jim Keltner.
Met in 1988 in a recording studio. Harrison had a new album out called Cloud 9. Co-written and produced Jeff Lynn. Harrison needed a B-side song. At the time it was customary to bring in buzz to a single by doing a B side. As luck would have it, Dylan and Orbison stopped by. Dylan owned the studio. Petty joined because Harrison loved the sound of his guitar. Left to their own devices, they played off of each other. The song that was born: Handle with care. It would prove to be too catchy as a b-side song. The record company knew that they had something. They did not know it at the time, but the five men were about to become a part of something big: the supergroup.
Rock news
Valerie Bertinelli: has not heard the new Van Halen album. She tweeted: “Who do I have to give birth to to get a copy of the new Van Halen album?” Van Halen was supposed to play in Australia (five shows) but was cancelled due to low ticket sales.
Bret Michaels has filed a lawsuit against Shoreline Cruise. This is over a payment dispute. He signed a contract for two performances on the Cruise for $750,000.
Foreigner: Lou Gramm is hot blooded that his bandmates want Kelly Hansen. He is angry about the misleading line up. He wants the audience to know that it is not the original lead singer.
One of Australia’s wineries has released ACDC wine. “Dry red” “Back in black shiraz” “You shook me all night long moscato.” Have a drink on me!
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Handle with care proved to be too strong a song to be considered a b-side. The company wanted more of this strange combination. Over the space of ten days, they recorded an album’s worth of songs. Before they could release this odd mixture, they needed a name. George suggested Wilbury. He coined it while recorded ‘Cloud nine’. The quote name from a quote ‘another throwaway Wilbury’. The ‘theme’ of the group was that of half brothers. The album went triple platinum.
Classic rock news Part two
Jani Lane passed away in Woodland Hills, CA. Found in the comfort inn. The autopsy is inconclusive. Toxicology reports are expected in a few weeks. Famous for ‘Cherry Pie’, ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’, ‘Heaven’, ‘Down boys’. He appeared on Celebrity Fit Club.
Lynard Skynard: Johnny Van Zant hospitalized due to complications from an operation. The area was infected with cellulitis. Has a bad infection. Doctor’s orders to remain out of work.
Paul Stanley a dad for the fourth time. Baby girl named Emily Grace. Apparently, Emily Grace was the name that Abi and her husband wanted for their future baby girl. Abi mad! She has now put ‘Natalie’ on reserve.
American Idol will return with the same three judges Lopez, Jackson and Tyler. “Where is this Aerosmith album?” Is Joe Perry right?
The triple album was platinum-that meant high demand-that meant a second album called Wilburys Volume 3. Sadly, Roy Orbison died not long after. His vocals can be heard in the album in ‘End of the line’.
Post Orbison: things never came together. There was a feeling that a tour would spoil the joke. Jeff Lynne is a much in demand record producer. He joined Petty in 2003. Bob just celebrated his 70th.
Be a bone marrow donor!
Friday, August 19, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Damn Yankees special
Kay and Abi August 7 2011
Damn Yankees special
Abi learned that you should not walk around your house naked! :P
1989, Shaw split up from Young lead Styx because it was too theatrical, Jack Blades took break from Nightranger and Ted Nugent had something in common: The Damn Yankees. It came from a question someone asked Uncle Ted after rumors circulated that he was forming a side group with Tommy Shaw??? His reponse: “I don’t know, we will probably sound like a bunch of damn Yankees!”
Classic rock news
Paul McCartney believes that he was hacked by British media. He was promoting a documentary about 9/11 when he was asked how he was going. He said ‘I believe that I have been hacked….more people than we know know about it.”
Alice Cooper: Anticipating his release of Welcome to my nightmare 2. New album will be out September 13, 2011. Vocal performances include Ke$ha, Michael Bruce and Neal Smith. With Ke$ha he will perform the first single “I’ll bite your face off.” Desmond Child is back. Visit nightswithalicecooper.com. He will branch into the world of amusement parks. It is inconjunction with his new release. He will have a maze called…..wait for it…..Welcome to my Nightmare. Part of the Halloween Horror Nights event in California.
Queen: reboot and rerelease. Queen appeared in Wembley Stadium in 1986. Why not rerelease it on DVD? Out on 9/5/2011. It would have been Freddy’s 55th birthday. Two disc set. Interviews with Brian and Roger. A twenty five minute special is included.
More reissues: bands always do that. Why? Is this an artist or label thing? Henry Rollins says ‘usually is involved, it is a good thing. When it is not, it is about money.’ NIN Trent Reznor tweeted about the 1989 rerelease “we had nothing to do with it.”
Block 2
Damn Yankees: Tommy Shaw, Jack Blades, Ted Nugent and Michael Cardelone clicked. Tommy tired of the orchestrated sound of Styx jumped into the project. Their first album had ‘High enough’ and jumped to number one. With a hit on their hands, they had to hit the road.
News
Former Judas Priest guitarist KK Downing wanted to set up a marquee at his home in Shropshire, England. Wanted to build a tavern to perform weddings. Authorities are getting involved because it might disturb other people. Results are pending. Abi wants to get married BY KK Downing.
Sharon Osbourne getting ready to go onto a talk show. She got a call from Ozzy. The crown from his mouth fell out. I am sure he found a dentist.
Slash and Perla Hudson have decided to leave their Los Angeles Mansion. Put it up on market for 9.5 million. The kitchen has ‘two subzero fridges’.
Abi went to the same high school as Iggy Pop. Pop and the Stooges have a new DVD Raw Power Live coming out late September.
1990-1993 the Damn Yankees were a hot ticket. Stage shows were high energy and loud. Nugent liked to show off his love for bow hunting. He used Hussein as a target. It was a reference to the Gulf War. In mid 1991, Damn Yankees shared the bill with Styx. DeYoung replaced Tommy. Things had gotten heated. Tommy would play ‘Babe’ (a song by Dennis DeYoung). Ted would come and break the guitar.
Damn Yankees special
Abi learned that you should not walk around your house naked! :P
1989, Shaw split up from Young lead Styx because it was too theatrical, Jack Blades took break from Nightranger and Ted Nugent had something in common: The Damn Yankees. It came from a question someone asked Uncle Ted after rumors circulated that he was forming a side group with Tommy Shaw??? His reponse: “I don’t know, we will probably sound like a bunch of damn Yankees!”
Classic rock news
Paul McCartney believes that he was hacked by British media. He was promoting a documentary about 9/11 when he was asked how he was going. He said ‘I believe that I have been hacked….more people than we know know about it.”
Alice Cooper: Anticipating his release of Welcome to my nightmare 2. New album will be out September 13, 2011. Vocal performances include Ke$ha, Michael Bruce and Neal Smith. With Ke$ha he will perform the first single “I’ll bite your face off.” Desmond Child is back. Visit nightswithalicecooper.com. He will branch into the world of amusement parks. It is inconjunction with his new release. He will have a maze called…..wait for it…..Welcome to my Nightmare. Part of the Halloween Horror Nights event in California.
Queen: reboot and rerelease. Queen appeared in Wembley Stadium in 1986. Why not rerelease it on DVD? Out on 9/5/2011. It would have been Freddy’s 55th birthday. Two disc set. Interviews with Brian and Roger. A twenty five minute special is included.
More reissues: bands always do that. Why? Is this an artist or label thing? Henry Rollins says ‘usually is involved, it is a good thing. When it is not, it is about money.’ NIN Trent Reznor tweeted about the 1989 rerelease “we had nothing to do with it.”
Block 2
Damn Yankees: Tommy Shaw, Jack Blades, Ted Nugent and Michael Cardelone clicked. Tommy tired of the orchestrated sound of Styx jumped into the project. Their first album had ‘High enough’ and jumped to number one. With a hit on their hands, they had to hit the road.
News
Former Judas Priest guitarist KK Downing wanted to set up a marquee at his home in Shropshire, England. Wanted to build a tavern to perform weddings. Authorities are getting involved because it might disturb other people. Results are pending. Abi wants to get married BY KK Downing.
Sharon Osbourne getting ready to go onto a talk show. She got a call from Ozzy. The crown from his mouth fell out. I am sure he found a dentist.
Slash and Perla Hudson have decided to leave their Los Angeles Mansion. Put it up on market for 9.5 million. The kitchen has ‘two subzero fridges’.
Abi went to the same high school as Iggy Pop. Pop and the Stooges have a new DVD Raw Power Live coming out late September.
1990-1993 the Damn Yankees were a hot ticket. Stage shows were high energy and loud. Nugent liked to show off his love for bow hunting. He used Hussein as a target. It was a reference to the Gulf War. In mid 1991, Damn Yankees shared the bill with Styx. DeYoung replaced Tommy. Things had gotten heated. Tommy would play ‘Babe’ (a song by Dennis DeYoung). Ted would come and break the guitar.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
July 17th, 2011 - LIVE AID SPECIAL!
July 17th Live Aid 26th
Classic rock news
Spiderman and U2?
The Edge denies tax evasion
Is u2 gauging the taxman?
How to avoid the tax man? Record outside of the country.
Ireland is kind of broke and they are criticizing U2 millions of tax revenue.
A new documentary about the life of George Harrison. It will air on two parts on October 5th and October 6th. Produced by Martin Scorcese. It will include interviews with McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Phil Spector (before prison) will be included. Look for book: Living in the Material World the book in September and the documantery on HBO on October.
Chicken Foot Three out September 27th.Went with that title because ‘it is so good that we went past the second record’ (according to Hagar). Single BigFoot will be out August 2nd.
Out of MASS. A man with a stick up note robbed a liquor store. Michael Todd, a bass player with a band that was supposed to open up for Soundgarden. The employee gave Todd half a dozen bottles.
Motorhead lost Michael Burston has died. (61)
“Words cannot describe how we feel……we all shared many great times together….”
Bruce Dickinson will not be appearing on the UK version of The Voice. “That show sounds so crap and demeaning to everyone involved. I took great delight in turning the BBC down.”
Cat Stevens wrote a song for Live Aid. He even intended to perform it at Wembley but was told to stop because of his involvement in Islam. True or false?
False. Cat had miscommunication with Bob.
Birthdays that rock
July 17th-July 23rd
Spencer Davis-72
Wolfgang Fleur-64
Ron Ashton-63
David Hasselhoff-59
Screamin Jay Hawkins-82
Martha Reeves-70
Jack Irons-49
Lizzie Borden-151
Dave Evans-58
Billy Mays-53
Jim Martin-50
George Clinton-70
Estelle Bennet-70
Don Henley-64
Alex Trebeck-71
Slash-46
The note heard around the world-Simon Lebron from Duran Duran in a View to Kill, he ruined it with a falsetto note. True or false.
Painfully true. The ‘bum note heard around the world’.
Tom Petty flipped someone while performing American Girl. Was he upset because they were the first act to play. True!
Classic rock news
Spiderman and U2?
The Edge denies tax evasion
Is u2 gauging the taxman?
How to avoid the tax man? Record outside of the country.
Ireland is kind of broke and they are criticizing U2 millions of tax revenue.
A new documentary about the life of George Harrison. It will air on two parts on October 5th and October 6th. Produced by Martin Scorcese. It will include interviews with McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Phil Spector (before prison) will be included. Look for book: Living in the Material World the book in September and the documantery on HBO on October.
Chicken Foot Three out September 27th.Went with that title because ‘it is so good that we went past the second record’ (according to Hagar). Single BigFoot will be out August 2nd.
Out of MASS. A man with a stick up note robbed a liquor store. Michael Todd, a bass player with a band that was supposed to open up for Soundgarden. The employee gave Todd half a dozen bottles.
Motorhead lost Michael Burston has died. (61)
“Words cannot describe how we feel……we all shared many great times together….”
Bruce Dickinson will not be appearing on the UK version of The Voice. “That show sounds so crap and demeaning to everyone involved. I took great delight in turning the BBC down.”
Cat Stevens wrote a song for Live Aid. He even intended to perform it at Wembley but was told to stop because of his involvement in Islam. True or false?
False. Cat had miscommunication with Bob.
Birthdays that rock
July 17th-July 23rd
Spencer Davis-72
Wolfgang Fleur-64
Ron Ashton-63
David Hasselhoff-59
Screamin Jay Hawkins-82
Martha Reeves-70
Jack Irons-49
Lizzie Borden-151
Dave Evans-58
Billy Mays-53
Jim Martin-50
George Clinton-70
Estelle Bennet-70
Don Henley-64
Alex Trebeck-71
Slash-46
The note heard around the world-Simon Lebron from Duran Duran in a View to Kill, he ruined it with a falsetto note. True or false.
Painfully true. The ‘bum note heard around the world’.
Tom Petty flipped someone while performing American Girl. Was he upset because they were the first act to play. True!
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