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Massive update at Caramba: new Dear Friends deals with perils of diving alone (and under the influence, I might add), and a legal primer in dissenting opinions. Wordography is updated with Speed King (betcha you all wanted to know what it’s all about). And did we mention new issues of CarambaTV?
Thanks to Steve Campbell for the info.
There are several clips from the current tour posted on YouTube. Here’s one that most of us have never heard performed live. Loosen My Strings, PalaWhirlpool, Varese, Italy, November 12, 2007:
Glenn Hughes is working on a new studio album and has posted a studio report on his Myspace page.
Line up on the new album:
Chad Smith: drums
JJ Marsh/George Nastos/Luis Carlos Maldonado: guitars
Ed Roth/Anders Olinder: keys
Thanks to Daniel Bengtsson and GHPG.net for the info.
Despite the, ahem, dubious artistic merits of Ian Gillan’s drawing auctioned on eBay for the Dorset Wildlife Trust, it fetched a whopping £225. To put things in perspective, the Trust auctions in the past weeks offered a number of drawings by different celebrities from world class to “where are they now” to obscure. For most of them winning bids were in £5 to £50 range. Notable exceptions include Robin Cousins, 1980 figure skating Olympic champion, who’s drawing brought in a record £2,550, Gillan with £225, and Kim Wilde with £205.
Kudos to Big Ian and his fans. It’s all for a good cause. And our congratulations to Jutta Biene, the proud owner of a unique objet d’art.
Blackmore’s Night’s October 30, 2007 concert at The Strand Theater in Lakewood, New Jersey was filmed by Cablevision for broadcast later this month. The program was produced by William MacKanic and is set to air as part of Cablevision’s Local Programming, New Jersey Systems and IO Digital On Demand in the New York Metro Area beginning Monday, November 19. Each episode will be televised for two weeks at 7 p.m.
The program will air “On Demand” starting in January. Check IO Digital On Demand listings – Free On Demand for more details.
Thanks to Blabbermouth.net for the info.
Back on the road again, Steve Morse brings us an update. Different realities, $60 bottles of water, the reasons of smiling on stage and (drum roll)
We’re on our way to Austria in the plane right now. We’re supposed to be trying some of the tunes from Purpendicular, so I’m looking forward to that.
Perhaps they do listen to the fans? We are eager to hear what setlist changes (if any) are happening on this tour.
Thanks to Daniel Bengtsson for the info.
NASA has a long standing tradition of greeting every morning the astronauts in space with music:
Use of music to awaken astronauts on space missions dates back at least to the Apollo Program, when astronauts returning from the Moon were serenaded by their colleagues in mission control with lyrics from popular songs that seemed appropriate to the occasion. The Apollo 15 crew, whose spacecraft was named “America,” (sic) [This was actually the name of the Apollo 17 command module] was awakened one morning with a segment of “The City of New Orleans” beginning with the lyrics, “Good morning America, how are you?” Several crews have awakened on their final day in space to Dean Martin’s popular song “Going Back to Houston.”
The common element of all these selections is that they promote a sense of camaraderie and esprit de corps among the astronauts and ground support personnel. That, in fact, is the sole reason for having wake-up music; and it is the reason that NASA management has neither attempted to dictate its content nor allowed outside interests to influence the process.
On day 15 of the space shuttle Discovery’s STS-120 mission (that must have been November 6) Space Truckin’ was played for Expedition 15/16 Flight Engineer and STS-120 Mission Specialist Clay Anderson.
The astronauts were also greeted with Space Truckin’ on January 17, 2003, the second day of the fateful STS-107 mission. The song was played for Kalpana Chawla at her request.
We welcome the everynauts’ safe return home.
Thanks to Mary Kelley for the info.
Martin Popoff, the prolific writer of articles and guides about metal and hard rock, has just released the latest book in his new series, Ye Olde Metal: 1973 To 1975; this time, concentrating on recordings from (as you might imagine) 1973 through 1975. In a similar manner to the Classic Album video series, he has gone to the sources of the recordings themselves, using interviews with the musicians to uncover the background surrounding these albums, and try to explain why they’ve become classics of the genre.
The albums he explores in this volume include
Visit www.martinpopoff.com for more details about this book (or any of his many others), and to order.
Ian Gillan has donated a sketch drawing to the Dorset Wildlife Trust and it is now being auctioned on eBay to raise funds for the charity.
Thanks to Steve Campbell of Caramba, Brent of DP Hub and everyone else who sent this info.
Durham Concerto, which was performed on October 20, was recorded for the British radio station Classic FM and will be on the air tomorrow, November 4, between 5 and 7pm as a part of The Hall of Fame Concerts program. You can listen to Classic FM over the Internet here (Windows Media format).
Thanks to Kevin Dixon for the info.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing