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  1. The first cat video? Real star quality here. Living her 9th life on Youtube.
  2. How many more times can Neil and The Horse come around? Probably not too many...
  3. https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/neil-young-crazy-horse-announce-first-national-tour-in-10-years-behind-new-retrospective-album-fu-in-up/ar-BB1ie5U8 Neil Young & Crazy Horse Announce First National Tour in 10 Years, Behind New Retrospective Album, ‘Fu##in' Up' The tour will come on the heels of the release of a new Neil Young & Crazy Horse album, "Fu##in' Up," which will get a limited release on vinyl for Record Store Day April 20 before getting an all-format release April 26. The album is said to consist of songs from the band's past, newly recorded in 2023. The month-long tour is too short to hit all the cities fans might hope for, missing major touring tentpoles like Los Angeles, for instance (although San Diego is not too far a drive, for those who can score tickets to the amphitheater shows there). Other urban areas included in the routing are Queens, Toronto, Boston, Detroit, Phoenix, Austin, Dallas, Nashville, Atlanta, Huntsville, Bristow, Camden and Bridgeport.
  4. Alex Van Halen will release a memoir titled Brothers in the fall, its publishers announced. Scheduled for Oct. 22, it’s to be available as a 384-page hardcover, a 720-minute audiobook and an ebook. No further details were revealed by HarperCollins, although the preview displayed the alternative titled The Brothers Van Halen. It’s likely the book will focus on drummer Alex’s relationship with younger brother and bandmate Eddie Van Halen. As kids they’d started out playing each other’s instrument before swapping permanently, and put their first band together in fourth grade. Read More: Alex Van Halen to Publish Memoir in 2024 | https://ultimateclassicrock.com/alex-van-halen-memoir/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
  5. Great to see Glenn Tipton. Sounds like classic Priest. Takes me back to '84 40 Years Ago: Judas Priest's Underrated 'Defenders of the Faith' 40 Years Ago: Judas Priest's Underrated 'Defenders of the Faith' (msn.com)
  6. Walters resident credited as last person to photograph Buddy Holly | Lifestyles | mankatofreepress.com 275: THE 1959 WINTER DANCE PARTY TOUR – A TRIBUTE TO BUDDY HOLLY, RITCHIE VALENS, AND THE BIG BOPPER – THROUGH THE EYES OF JEFFERSON
  7. Bumping into Buddy Holly in the bathroom at the Riverside Daugherty was a year out of high school when he and a buddy went to see the Winter Dance Party at the Riverside Ballroom. The ill-fated tour had played Duluth, Minnesota, the night before and somehow made it to Green Bay in brutal winter weather, but not without a bus breakdown, frostbite that sidelined Holly’s drummer Carl Bunch and travel woes that forced the cancellation of a show earlier in the day in Appleton. “Everybody loved Buddy Holly and his music. It was a pretty big deal,” said Daugherty, of Howard, about the Green Bay visit. The two waited in a long line to get inside the ballroom — so long that by the time they got to the doors it was after 8 p.m., which meant they had to pay the full $1.25 price. Admission was 90 cents before 8 p.m. Daugherty remembers being upset about having to shell out the extra 35 cents. “That was big money in those days,” he said. Once inside, they worked their way up to the front stage so they could look up at Holly, Valens, The Big Bopper, Dion & The Belmonts and Frankie Sardo. If there were screaming girls in the crowd, Daugherty doesn’t recall. “We didn’t pay much attention to that. We were too interested in the stars themselves.” Then came the part of the night when fate stepped in, at the urinals of all places. “My wife doesn’t like me to tell this story, but just shortly before one of the breaks, I had to go to the bathroom. I’m taking a whiz, and I look up and they had taken a break, and here’s Buddy Holly right next to me taking a whiz, so I got to talk to him in the bathroom.” Like every other teen at that time, Daugherty wanted to be a rock star, so he told the 22-year-old Holly how he had a guitar and was trying to learn to play. “He just encouraged me to keep it going. He said it’s a wide-open market, a lot of room for people,” Daugherty said. “Then I just told him I loved his music and he went back to playing again. That was kind of neat.” John Daugherty was a 19-year-old Buddy Holly fan working at a local service station on Monroe Avenue and Main Street in 1959 when a concert poster from the Winter Dance Party at the Riverside Ballroom landed in his hands. In the decades that followed, it hung in his bedroom in De Pere, survived a house fire in Howard, briefly went missing and eventually found its way to a collector in California. Now, 64 years later, it’s the only known surviving poster from an unforgettable night of music forever etched in Green Bay rock ‘n’ roll history — Holly & The Crickets, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson as The Big Bopper on the Riverside stage on a bone-chilling winter’s night on Feb. 1, 1959, for what would be the second-to-the-last show the young stars ever played. It’s only the third Winter Dance Party poster to ever come through Heritage Auctions in the 47-year history of the the world’s largest collectibles auctioneer. Last November, a poster from the Feb. 3, 1959, show at the Moorhead Armory, which went on despite the deaths of its three biggest stars, sold for a world record-setting $447,000. Its price was undoubtedly bolstered by the fact it carries the same date as "the day the music died." In 2020, Heritage offered what was then the first-known surviving poster advertising the Winter Dance Party, from the Jan. 25, 1959, show in Mankato, Minnesota. It sold for $125,000. The poster from the Green Bay stop is special, because it’s the last one from a show that Holly played, Howard said. The stop at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake the next night, on Feb. 2, was a late addition to the itinerary on what was originally scheduled to be a rest night. It was advertised only with a last-minute ad in the newspaper. No posters. “There’s only one Green Bay (poster) that has ever been discovered ... so it’s just as rare as you can get,” Howard said. “A standard rare concert poster means there might only be five or 10 or 12 and all the collectors sort of knock each other out for them. But this is just a hen’s tooth, much rarer than a needle in a haystack. It’s just an almost nonexistent artifact of rock ‘n’ roll’s first tragedy.” The only known surviving poster from 1959 Winter Dance Party at Riverside Ballroom is going up for auction. But first, its incredible story. (yahoo.com)
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