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Legends no more
The Rock Legends package tour featuring Joe Lynn Turner, among other people, and scheduled for a string of dates in November 2026 in Germany and Austria, has been cancelled:
Unfortunately, the complete tour of “Rock Legends” has to be cancelled without replacement despite the 2025 postponement. Tickets already purchased can be refunded at the respective ticket office or via eventim.de. We very much regret the inconvenience caused and ask for your understanding!
The tour was originally scheduled for October 2025, at which point it was postponed for a year later, with some dates dropped, and some others rebooked into smaller venues.
In other JLT news, in late April he has completed a short 3-gig tour of Scandinavia, where he performed his first solo album Rescue You in its entirety.
His backing musicians on this tour were:
Nikolo Kotzev on guitar
Ken Sandin on bass
Will Oaks on keyboards
Darby Todd on drums
Thanks to Marc for the Rock Legends heads-up, to Adrian er Kul for the video clips, and to Blabbermouth for bringing them to your attention.
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Yeah, I already got my refund, PayPal tells me. I was unsurprised that they were calling it off, tickets apparently sold like lead and the whole tour organisation seemed a bit fishy. Too bad, I would have liked to both have seen Joe again and Ms Robin Beck.
May 4th, 2026 at 06:53Last time I saw Nikolo, he was also touring with an artist (of Australian heritage, would you believe) whose hair was repeatedly questioned under authenticity aspects (not Angry Anderson!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf2QC5YV5Gw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0V-XXF19IU
There seems to be some kind of consistency with him there, just sayin‘.
Call me a sucker, but I miss the Bee Gees. I really liked them, the 60s balladeers, the Disco Bros and as songwriters for other artists:
https://youtu.be/LB-C7hrebHc
https://youtu.be/3H63WPmLGdc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xHQsMYosao
https://youtu.be/q1S64DvC7HM
As for Joe, he gets a lot of flak here and I question the wisdom of doing Highway Star, but he’s live convincing with his own material.
May 4th, 2026 at 15:40I enjoyed watching Spotlight Kid and Death Alley Drive. A rather good band there with Turner. Cheers.
May 4th, 2026 at 23:10As AOR albums go, that first JoLT solo album is a darn cult classic, courtesy of Al Greenwood’s co-songwriting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVJtRLm0Cvo&list=RDPVJtRLm0Cvo&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X69hzU5AGGA&list=RDX69hzU5AGGA&start_radio=1
May 5th, 2026 at 01:42No idea whether this has been up here before, but it is a gem, Joe opening unplugged on an acoustic (with some keyboard accompaniment) for the late Leslie West in 2012: Street of Dreams, Unchained Melody (Righteous Brothers), Stone Cold, Blackbird (yes, the Beatles/Macca number, his rendition @17:30 is beautiful), Moondance (Van Morrison) and Hush.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nPL5KyLTGg
He returns at the end of Leslie West’s set for somewhat dishevelled versions (not Joe’s fault, he actually pulls things together) of Going Down and SOTW, but it is his short yet sweet unplugged opening set that makes watching this worthwhile.
And the Leslie West part of the performance is well worth a watch too. You begin to understand why Michael Schenker worships him.
May 5th, 2026 at 20:51the vocal quality that Jolene still has is incredible.
among other things he has always been a good acoustic guitar player too.
Rescue You had nothing to envy of Steve Perry’s solo albums!
#5 Uwe:
May 8th, 2026 at 23:02Seeing “the mountain” Leslie West is always exciting
Danke für den Link, Uwe.
Never heard of this before and I really enjoyed it. JLT does really well here covering those songs in an unplugged setting. He’s always been a bit of a crooner… not only the voice we might add… maybe he would have gotten off better in a different genre instead of touring Rainbow and DP songs endlessly but who knows. I always thought it a bit tragic that he and Graham Bonnet spent their carreers in the shadow of the rainbow… great singers both of them. And I guess both of them were never really into hard rock – let alone metal (Blackthorne anyone?) but felt they had to deliver just that.
May 9th, 2026 at 18:39#7 Max:
You’re right, Joe and Graham had to exploit their glorious past to stay on stage, but Glenn is probably the one who has cleverly exploited his past the most in the last 30 years.
I think in their place I would have done exactly the same!
May 9th, 2026 at 23:27Bonnet and Turner actually came from similar musical backgrounds, soulish white pop, Fandango also had West Coast/Yacht Rock, AOR and Southern Rock elements, the pure Hard Rock ingredients were pretty small though their four albums went consecutively more AOR Hard Rock over time.
But then if you look at it, RJD didn’t really play Hard or Heavy Rock with Elf either, their music was in many ways similar to a Fandango, but less AOR. Elf was closer in sound to The Faces than to DP, LZ or Black Sabbath.
And going back further: Neither Rod Evans nor Ian Gillan nor David Coverdale came from Hard Rock (not even in the sense like The Who or The Yardbirds were hard) much less Heavy Rock bands. Isn’t it ironic that of all DP singers only Glenn Hughes came from a band with a noticeable Hard Rock component – Trapeze – even if they paired it with funk and soul?
May 10th, 2026 at 14:32True, Uwe. And we can go even further on … Jon, Paicey, Roger…come to think about it none of the band came from a hard rock outfit. And yes, they kinda helped invent the genre but indeed there had bern bands like The Who that played with a lot more hard rock attitude than any of the bands the come to be DP musicians evet did…
May 11th, 2026 at 07:12RESCUE YOU is 1 of my favourite albums with JLT
I think having a FOREIGNER writer on board helped.
I loved the Brazan Abbot albums and got very frustrated he seemed to ve vanished.
Also because he and JLT appearantly had a fall out.
But just found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPY3XnXVlc0&list=RDJPY3XnXVlc0&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7xaQ6E96Nw&list=RDo7xaQ6E96Nw&start_radio=1
There seems to be loads of yt clips posted centuries ago and which I never saw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZnWvtJOw80&list=PL7Pp9Uv-hwpsM341w9cHsCFcUNIZlJbTe&index=12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR97i5fy30s&list=PL7Pp9Uv-hwpsM341w9cHsCFcUNIZlJbTe&index=23
May 11th, 2026 at 14:46