Simon and Garfunkel has confirmed a world tour reunion, but first they will start their tour in New Zealand and Australia. The duo does have plans to play everywhere else in the world, but you’ll have to wait for the tour dates to be announced.
If they come to Albany or Saratoga Springs at SPAC this year, this is another concert that will be worth going to. I’m a huge fan of Paul Simon’s solo work and his work with Art. Good to see them back together again.
Chris Cornell said he was totally surprised by the Soundgarden reunion with Tad Doyle as frontman at the Crocodile Cafe in Seattle, Washington. Chris says he wished he was there and wished he was the frontman instead. When asked about rejoining Soundgarden, he said, “You never know”.
Sounds like he is definitely interested in re-joining Soundgarden again and I hope it happens.
I watched the entire “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame” on TV last night and I was very surprised. The show was one of the best ” Rock Hall of Fame” shows in a very long time. The “Hall of Fame” has been crap the last couple of years, but this year was surprisingly good. I enjoyed all the inductees this year and the speeches and performances were great.
Wanda Jackson was incredible.
Eminem gave an amazing speech on Run-DMC, his speech about the legendary rap group was very heart warming.
The Jimmy Page speech was very brief and short, he didn’t talk long on stage at all, but Jeff Beck’s speech was good though. Jeff was honest that even he admits that he’s not big enough to be in the Hall of Fame, and admits that he doesn’t deserve to be inducted. Jeff Beck’s live performance was fucking amazing and mind blowing though.
Flea gave a hilarious and great speech about Metallica. Metallica’s acceptance speech was amazing too. Cliff Burton’s father was on stage and Cliff’s mother was out in the audience watching the band get inducted. You had to feel sorry for Cliff’s mother ’cause she was crying the whole time wishing her son was alive and on stage to experience the amazing moment. It was great to see Jason Newsted again. I loved seeing Jason and Rob jamming together. I was surprised they picked “Master of Puppets”, then of course they played, “Enter Sandman” after. Metallica an incredible performance at the Hall of Fame, now I really can’t wait to see them live in Albany in Nov.
Music fans out there really need to stop hating and bashing the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame” so much. The reason the “Hall of Fame” is here in Cleveland is to honor these legendary musicians of the music they gave us here in the music industry. They deserve the celebration and the honor. If you disrespect legendary musicians and bands, then you have no idea what music is all about what so ever, and you have no right to be a music fan in the first place.
The Hall of Fame is a really special thing. If you hate the “Hall of Fame” so much, that’s just a clear sign that you wish you were a “Hall of Famer” musician and that you will never be there. Every musician that got inducted last night gave advice to other musicians that if you want to be a “Hall of Famer”, you have to believe in your music and stay focus on your dreams, ’cause yes, dreams coming true can be possible.
You have to love and care for your music no matter what happens to you in your life. Your family and friends may think you’re crazy, and delusional that you want to be famous for your music, but if you don’t listen to what anybody else thinks and do what makes you happy, you could be a famous musician down the road.
That’s how all these musicians and bands made the Hall of Fame. They believed in themselves and their music. They came a long road to get here. I loved last night’s “Hall of Fame” show, it was great all the way through.
A few videos from last night. The Metallica performances. Enjoy.
Today, I just went through all the songs in the “Easy” mode in the “Quickplay” section, and I’m just speechless. This game fuckin’ blows my mind. I think this is indeed the best music video game out there. If you’re a huge fan of heavy metal like myself, you would love this. What I’m most impressed by this game is that Metallica has mostly their songs with Cliff Burton’s bass playing in them. This game has more of Burton’s bass playing than Rob and Jason’s. Which makes it kind of dissapointing that this game doesn’t have Cliff Burton as a character.
This game is a must have for all metal heads. It’s the most fun Guitar Hero game I ever played. Great job James and Lars!
Tonight’s performances for the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame” ceremony are being rehearsed right now as you read this, and the surprise, super star jams are already being planned out.
Billboard reports that Flea and Jimmy Page will jam along to “The Train Kept a Rolling” and “Jailhouse Rock” which will close the show for the night. Special guest performers for those songs will be…Wanda Jackson, Ron Wood, Jeff Beck, Bobby Womack, Lil Anthony and the Imperials, and Paul Shaffer (famed keyboardist from the David Letterman show).
Just ordered my tickets to Metallica at the Times Union Center for their Nov. 12th show in Albany, so I’m definitely going. I actually found a friend to go with who is also a Metallica fan. Yep, as expected most of the tickets are gone already, the only seats I could find available was the first lower level.
Yep, it’s no surprise to me that this show could be a possible quick sell out as soon as it hit the 10:00 a.m. hour, and it’ll probably sell out in the next few minutes. Glad I got my tickets in time. Awesome. Getting psyched to see Metallica for the first time ever.
Songs I’m expecting the band to play at the Times Union gig…they’ll probably play several songs from their new album, “Death Magnetic” and of course, all their classics to help plug in their Guitar Hero game.
So I’m going to two concerts this year, Metallica at the Times Union and Phish at SPAC, getting psyched for both of them.
In other Metallica news, be sure to catch the band get inducted into the Hall of Fame tonight on Fuse TV. Those who don’t have FUSE TV channel on your cable box, you can watch the Hall of Fame on their website.
I’ll definitely be watching the Hall of Fame online tonight. I’m in a Metallica mood, so I’ll be playing their Guitar Hero game most of the afternoon probably.
Megadeth’s main man, Dave Mustaine, reveals the real reason why he turned down the Rock Hall of Fame invitation. While the major Megadeth tour is part of the reason why he turned it down, he drops the bombshell that the main reason why he declined ’cause he also wanted to be inducted since he used to be a member of Metallica. I think Dave is making a lot of sense. I agree with him.
I love Metallica and all but the dudes leaving Mustaine out of the induction is pretty lame. He never played on a Metallica record but Dave was one of the first guitarists of the band. That’s a good enough reason that Dave deserves to be inducted with the band too, but I guess that’s what happens when James and Lars’s egos gets in the way.
Run-DMC announced they will not perform at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tomorrow night. The reason? One of their members, DJ Jam Master Jay, was murdered in a shooting back in 2002. The other two surviving members, Run Simmons and DMC McDaniels made a vow they will never perform without DJ Jam. They still stick to that rule. However, Run and DMC will both participate in person to be inducted by Eminem.
That’s kind of too bad they won’t be performing, I was hoping they would but it’s understandable if they don’t want to do it under their friend’s death.
Eminem to perform on stage and cover a Run-DMC song? It’s possible…
Woah!!!! Madonna finally loses and doesn’t get away with something! Great news! A Malawi court rejected Madonna’s bid to adopt another child from there.
I applaud them! Madonna has taken enough kids from their families, she doesn’t need to do it anymore. She should be banned from adopting kids all over the world. Stupid bitch.
Neil Young is letting the public hear his new studio album, “Fork In the Road” in it’s entirety before release date April 7th in his myspace page.
I just listened to the whole thing this morning, I think it’s absolutely fucking amazing!!!! It’s Neil Young’s best since “Living With War”. There’s not one mellow and slow song on this album. It’s very much very tight and energetic electric guitar driven rock throughout the entire album. The vocal melodies are very impressive. Great job Neil.
I’m definitely picking up this album…hear it here:
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