From The Washington Post: Country singer David Allan Coe famously did time in jail -- he says he spent 20 of his first 34 years locked up -- and a check of recent police blotters indicates he seems to have put his lawbreaking ways behind him. Except for stealing his fans' money. Sunday night at the State Theatre, Coe took the stage at 8:10 and departed at 8:52 after playing an uninterrupted stretch of song snippets accompanied by two guitar-slinging accomplices and a drummer. To its credit, the State Theatre's management reminded Coe backstage of his contractual obligation for a 90-minute show, but the getaway car was already gone. At $24 a ticket and no opening act, Coe escaped with thousands of his fans' dollars. It was pretty dry going anyway. Coe, wearing a waist-length blond wig and strands of beaded beard that dangled to his considerable belly, played a flying V-style guitar as he sang into a microphone attached at his throat, thereby immobilizing his head. With the considerable help of his young band, Coe sang the equivalent of the contents of a roadhouse jukebox -- hits by Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson and others -- and he did it as an aural montage, never finishing a song before blurring into the next. If he played one of his best-known compositions, "Take This Job and Shove It," a No. 1 hit by Johnny Paycheck, we somehow missed it. All in all, it was an outrageous show, but for the wrong reasons. -- Buzz McClain

Metallica isn't playing Bonnaroo. Neither is Led Zeppelin and where in the report did it ever say anybody was opening for anybody? Not to mention the fact that it's a festival. Even if the rumor did turn out to be true (which it's not) they could have played different nights.

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/inde...on-the-internet Journey Finds New Singer the Old-Fashioned Way: On the Internet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HjcCzgCCX0 Here’s a YouTube tale with a happy ending: Filipino singer Arnel Pineda (pronounced “pin-eh-da”) posted footage of himself performing Journey covers with his band the Zoo and was discovered half a world away by Journey guitarist Neal Schon, who was trolling the site for new blood. Schon got in touch with Pineda (and convinced the vocalist he wasn’t pulling a prank on him) and voila: Pineda has been named the band’s latest frontman, replacing Steve Augeri, who left last year. “It’s so exciting to sing with one of the best bands in the world,” Pineda said in a statement. “It’ll be a lot of hard work on my part and I’m actually looking forward to the scrutiny I’ll get from the hardcore Journey fans. I know they’ll expect me to sound exactly like ‘the voice’ (Steve Perry), but that will never happen. I know there’s only one Steve Perry in this world.” True enough, but Pineda sounds spookily similar to his idol: check out the clip of “Faithfully” above for proof. Rolling Stone

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/inde...nion-mudcrutch/ Jimmy Page has said that strangers often stop him on the street and beg him to reunite Led Zeppelin. It’s possible not a single person alive has ever asked Tom Petty to reunite his pre-Heartbreakers band Mudcrutch, but he’s doing it anyway. The group — which included future Heartbreakers Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell, along with drummer Randall Marsh and guitarist Tom Leadon — broke up in the mid-Seventies and hadn’t played together until earlier this year when Petty called them all to his Malibu house to cut a new album. He’s even mulling a tour next year. Keep reading for a Q&A where Petty explains why he got the old crew together again. Rolling Stone: You re-formed Mudcrutch recently, right? Tom Petty: Yes, I did. RS: What inspired that? TP: It was weird. It was one of those lighting bolts to the brain. A few years ago I just started thinking about how I missed those guys, Tom Leadon and Randall Marsh. We’ve stayed in contact over the years and we’ve all stayed good friends. I brought it up to Mike and everybody was up for it. We had a ball doing it. We made the album in two weeks flat. We played everything live — vocals, no overdubs. I was just mixing it yesterday. It’s really good. I think people will enjoy it. I moved over to bass, like I used to be. Everybody sings at least one song on it, though I did the majority of the singing. It has kind of a country/rock feel, but not as you think of it today. Maybe a little edgier country kind of feel. It’s pretty cool. RS: Are these all new songs or any older songs you recut? TP: They’re all new songs. RS: Are you guys doing any gigs? TP: I think we may play some gigs. This is another spoke in the wheel — are the Heartbreakers going to go on tour and how does that preclude Mudcrutch doing the same thing and do we have time to do both? RS: Mudcrutch could open up for Tom Petty & The Hearbreakers. TP: [Laughs] I doubt that will happen. RS: How did it feel to play with those guys after all these years? TP: It was the most fun I’ve had in years. I had to calm myself down at night I was having so much fun. Most of the band came here and lived at my house in Malibu when we were doing it. We’d go to the Heartbreakers’ recording studio every day. We played live there with only four monitors, no headphones or anything. A lot of the songs were written down there or after we got home at night we’d write another one. I had too much fun doing it. It was just such a good time and I hope people enjoy it as much as I do. RS: When you first called the guys about this, were they shocked? TP: Yeah. They were like, “Really, are you serious? We’re going to do that?” I go, “Yeah, I’m serious.” I didn’t know. I had to call around and try to explain it to them. Once they started talking to each other and they really believed me, they got gung-ho. RS: What sparked this? It’s pretty unusual for someone who’s been as successful as you to go back to their band that was significantly less successful. TP: They weren’t successful at all. We were together for quite awhile. I learned to play with these guys. Tom and I had a really good harmony since we sang together so much. We have a really good blend. I’m still trying to figure out what inspired me. I had been in the midst of promoting Highway Companion and I was doing lots of interviews. One of them touched on Mudcrutch and I was sitting between interviews and thinking, “That might be an interesting thing to get them down and play with them.” The first day they came down we cut four tracks. It was like we never left. We’re actually a lot better than we were then. RS: What kind of venues do you think you guys will playing, if you do tour? TP: I think it would be small. I wouldn’t try and go into big arenas with Mudcrutch. What I would like to see them do is play festivals, that’s what they were always good at — those big outdoor summertime shows.

I'll be headed up there Friday for The Backsliders show at the Pour House. Only thing is, there's several other shows going on the same evening (Needham's Neighbor at Sadlack's, Chris & Marc Smith from Patty Hurst Shifter at Slim's Downtown & Elizabeth Cook w/Tim Carrol at Hideaway BBQ) that I'd also like to see. With the exception of the Elizabeth Cook show I'll somehow manage to catch a little bit of each one of them especially since a couple of them start early. That I'm not sure of. I do know it's at the end of The Circle where Big Surf/Chevy's/Mikey's once was but on the road side, as opposed to the beach side. Our Place is basically just a small pool hall. Speaking of AB, I just found this great overhead shot on Google: Other than a couple of tunes (the opening track and My Sweet Annette) that album isn't too twangy at all. In fact, it flat out rocks on many tracks: Sinkhole, Marry Me, Careless, etc.

Just some favorite songs at random. I could never choose my favorites of all time as they are constantly changing. Whiskeytown "Inn Town" Peter Tosh "Steppin' Razor" Drive-By Truckers "The Company I Keep" Alice Cooper "Long Way To Go" 10,000 Maniacs "Candy Everybody Wants" Bob Dylan "Highlands" R.E.M. "Laughing" Gram Parsons/Emmylou Harris "Return of the Grievous Angel" Nada Surf "Your Legs Grow" Del Fuegos "I Still Want You" Patsy Cline "Walking After Midnight" Guadalcanal Diary "Trail of Tears" Counting Crows "Perfect Blue Buildings" Neil Young "Thrasher" Leon Russell "Down On the Base"

I'm there quite frequently. This list may be a little too twang-centric for your tastes but it also includes indie, garage and several other genres but I use it regularly to keep up with what's going on up there: http://www.guitartown.org I can't say I remember Castle but I believe the club you're thinking of is Lisa's. One year WSFL put on a concert there on the beach that included some local bands as well as Marshall Tucker and Nantucket (who headlined). One spot we used to always hit on The Circle is Our Place Saloon. Out of all the clubs that were bulldozed (or closed), I believe it's the only one still standing. Before I was old enough to get into the clubs you could see the bands playing at Big Surf (later Chevy's and then Mikey's) from out back. Thanks. As I recall, it shouldn't be too hard to find either there or at Circuit Shitty or Best Buy. If you like it, you'll soon find yourself snatching up all of their other records.

They're not. There never was any truth to the story.

There's never any telling with U2 (particularly Bono) but I think there was defintely elements of trance/ambient running through some of their work on Pop and I'd say tunes like Mysterious Ways have a very distinct Moroccan influence so it's not totally out of the question.

I think some of those bands are more steeped in the sound of traditional rock such as Soundgarden, Alice In Chains and Pearl Jam but got labeled "grunge" because it was the in phrase that was so freely being tossed around back then. Not to mention their respective cities of origin. I think they all have punk rock/alternative influences but they aren't as easily recognizable in their sound as they were with bands like Nirvana, Mudhoney, etc.

I can't say I think of them as a "worshiper" band as they took those influences and made them their own. Something that can't be said of a lot of bands that amounted to nothing more than just "Led Clones".

I'm not sure what else Pearl Jam would be classified as but they most definitely sound like "hard rock" to me. Now, The Doors, David Bowie, the Beatles, John Lennon and the Rolling Stones, I'm not so sure of. Some may have elements of that in their music but "hard rock" most certainly isn't the first thing to come to mind when I think of any of those artists.

I sure hope to fuck not. Then again I don't watch any of those shows.

I'm pretty sure it was at my local record store back in the 70s. The song was Sheena Is A Punk Rocker. I'd heard of them prior to that via Creem and other music magazines but I'm almost certain that's the first time I ever heard their music. I also saw Rock n' Roll High School on a triple bill with Cheech & Chong's Next Movie and Ron Howard's Eat My Dust at the local drive-in way back when. All that said, I've never really been a fan of the Ramones or punk rock in general but I certainly appreciate their contributions to the rock n' roll landscape. I may not have realized it at the time but rock n' roll was in dire need of a swift kick to the nads in the mid to late 70s and punk rock provided it.

To my knowledge ZZ Top have never released an album by that name. Perhaps you're thinking of Tres Hombres?

http://www.therockradio.com/2007/12/u2-new...influences.html U2 fans might be in for a surprise when the rockers release their next album, the follow-up to 2004's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. Frontman Bono says people will "feel the difference," revealing that the songs will have trance, metal and Moroccan influences. Bono told The Independent, "Normally when you play a U2 tune, it clears the dance floor. And that may not be true of this. There's some trance influences." Bono also said there's some "very hardcore guitar" and "real molten metal coming from guitarist The Edge. He added, "It's not like anything we've ever done before, and we don't think it sounds like anything anyone else has done either." U2 started the album in Morocco last year and are now working through the demos. Bono said, "We have enough material for two albums but it has to be extraordinary. And I think we've got that." The band members said they were influenced by a music festival they went to in Fez, Morocco. Bono said, "It was a real humbling thing for a punk rock shouter, listening to these people who just close their eyes for 40 minutes and sing the most sophisticated melodies." There's no exact release date yet.

* The article below is full of hyper-links, to access them all click on the link below http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/inde...-by-album-guide Zeppelin: The Complete Album-By-Album Guide Packing your bags for next Monday’s rescheduled Led Zeppelin reunion gig at London’s O2 Arena (or just getting increasingly jealous of those who are)? Enjoying the current issue of Rolling Stone, which is chock full of Zep? Here’s a few more goodies: First, check out our complete Led Zep album guide, which provides an expert rundown on every studio album, live disc and reissue from the first album to this year’s Mothership — perfect fodder to continue the debate over the band’s ultimate set list. Then read two more vintage Zep stories from the magazine: Stephen Davis’ profile “The Rise and Fall of Led Zeppelin: Power, Mystery and the Hammer of the Gods” from the July 4th, 1985 issue and Steven Pond’s “Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same,” which examines the band’s lasting impact, from March 24, 1988. And don’t forget to Check out Cameron Crowe’s 1975 Zep profile here. Rolling Stone

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/articl...t_id=1003680943 Bonnaroo Promoters Quash Lineup Rumors Led Zeppelin Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. After a rumor that Led Zeppelin and Metallica would headline the 2008 Bonnaroo festival caused an Internet frenzy in the past 48 hours, the event's promoters have spoken out to quash the reports. "The rumors that are out there about the Bonnaroo 2008 headliners are inaccurate," Superfly Presents and A.C. Entertainment said in a statement released to Billboard.com. "We're very excited about the lineup that we're putting together for this year's festival. We'll be announcing the confirmed lineup toward the end of January/beginning of February. The source of the Zeppelin/Metallica rumor was an anonymous email included last week in industry commentator Bob Lefsetz's newsletter. Led Zeppelin will play its only planned show Dec. 10 in London as part of a tribute to late Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun.

That is bullshit from a ticket broker just looking to cash in. I made the mistake of signing up to gotickets.com when I saw a "Led Zeppelin 2008 Tour" announcement on an unofficial Plant site several weeks ago. In addition, Bonnaroo has made an official announcement denying Zeppelin's appearance at their festival next year. Once the actual London concert is over, then I expect we will hear some official word as to whether Zeppelin will be playing any more dates or not.

Zeppelin are just commercially visible in 2007 as they have always been.

I didn't run "screaming" when CDs were released on the market but I did hold off on buying them for as long as I could. We had several local record stores but the one I bought from most frequently was Camelot Music (a chain). When CDs were initially introduced on the market many of them were merely copies of the albums themselves literally. So, what we got was a vastly inferior product to vinyl but like I said, great strides have been made in this area in recent years to improve the sound. That's why the market is flooded with "new, improved" versions of records some of us have purchased several times by now. In some cases they are the result of actual remastering while others have only upped the volume to make it appear they have been "remastered". I am fortunate that I live fairly close to some college towns where local music is still important and thusly, so are local record stores. Believe it or not, there are still artists that release their material on vinyl singles and full length records. As long as this is going on, record stores as we know them will continue to exist, at least in some capacity. As for digital music, not all of it is of MP3 quality. The artists that truly care about their music make sure their music is made available in the best quality format available.

[Photo: Getty] Caryn Ganz The album Kim Deal has been working on since 2002 is nearly ready for release: The Breeders’ fourth full-length, titled Mountain Battles, will hit stores April 8th, 2008 on 4AD, the label she started out on as a member of Pixies. In an exclusive interview with Rock Daily, Deal revealed the band — which now consists of herself, twin sister Kelley, drummer Jose Medeles and bassist Mando Lopez — has been recording on and off for the past five years with Steve Albini in Chicago as well as Erika Sharkey and Manny Nieto in Los Angeles and her Dayton, Ohio, hometown (Lopez’s Fear bandmate, guitarist Richard Presley, has left the band to “sell Porches in L.A. — he loves his job, by the way”). You can read the rest of the article here: http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/inde...es-due-april-08

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/articl...t_id=1003680868 Bauhaus Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. The good news for Bauhaus fans: the group is eyeing a March 4 release for "Going Away White," its first studio album since 1983. The bad news: there will be no further activity from the legendary goth band, who reunited in 2005 for the Coachella festival and later toured the world. "We were getting along really well, but there was an incident that occurred," drummer Kevin Haskins tells Billboard.com, declining to elaborate further. "Some of us just felt that we didn't want to carry on as a working unit." As such, "Going Away White," which the band is releasing digitally via iTunes and on CD via its own Bauhaus Music imprint through Redeye Distribution, will close the book on Bauhaus. Haskins, guitarist Daniel Ash, bassist David J and vocalist Peter Murphy recorded the album last year after entering the studio "with nothing prepared," according to Haskins. "I was concerned because history most of the time has proved that when groups reform and record, it doesn't work out," he says. "We all decided, let's just give it a go and see if it's working. What emerged were songs Haskins says stay true to the original Bauhaus spirit, including "Adrenaline" and "Endless Summer of the Damned," which were performed during a summer 2006 tour with Nine Inch Nails. "Now, there's a little bit of an empty feeling because we can't tour with it," Haskins admits. "All the same, it's something we're very proud of, and we feel a lot of people will be interested to hear it."

Zeppelin entered into the "commercial" realm the moment they signed a contract with Atlantic Records. Their presence may seem more high profile now but this is a vastly different world media-wise than the one they existed during the 60s and 70s. Believe it or not their records were well stocked back then and highly visible in record stores. This is also not the first time they've appeared on a plethora of music magazines. Yes, they never issued official singles or gave into every interview requested of them but they didn't reach the status they did by remaining entirely invisible and totally inaccessible.

Digital medium or not, Led Zeppelin would not be forgotten. Before recorded music tunes were passed along on paper and orally from generation to generation. The same has held true since the advent of recorded music, only the means of doing so has changed. Any music that matters will endure, no matter the changing times, Zeppelin is no different.