Monday, November 04, 2002
Clemons undergoes surgery, Springsteen date postponed
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band postponed Wednesday’s (11/6) show at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas, after sax player Clarence Clemons underwent surgery for a detached retina.
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band postponed Wednesday’s (11/6) show at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas, after sax player Clarence Clemons underwent surgery for a detached retina.
The Austin American-Statesman reports that Clemons underwent successful surgery following Monday’s (11/4) show in Houston.
According to a press release issued by the venue, the show has been moved to March 9. Tickets for the Nov. 6 date will be honored for the rescheduled show. Beginning Nov. 11 at 10 a.m., tickets may be returned for a refund at their point of purchase.
The status of the remaining dates on Springsteen’s tour wasn’t immediately announced.
Union workers threaten to block Rolling Stones concerts
San Francisco-area Teamsters formed a picket line outside of Pacific Bell Park on Monday (11/4) in an effort to discourage the promoter of this weekend’s two Rolling Stones concerts from using non-union workers.
San Francisco-area Teamsters formed a picket line outside of Pacific Bell Park on Monday (11/4) in an effort to discourage the promoter of this weekend’s two Rolling Stones concerts from using non-union workers.
Members of Teamsters Local 85 hope to convince Bill Graham Presents and parent company Clear Channel Communications to hire union workers to unload and load equipment for The Rolling Stones’ Friday (11/8) and Saturday (11/9) performances, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Tuesday (11/5).
“Our guys are trained and certified to do this,” Local 85 secretary-treasurer Van Bean told the newspaper. “We want them to recognize the Teamsters workers.”
Bean said that his union has been seeking negotiations with Bill Graham Presents for five years, and hopes that the picket line will result in an agreement. Union members are reportedly prepared to picket non-stop straight through the weekend concerts.
The picketing could ultimately cause the concerts to be canceled, Bean told the paper.
Sherry Wasserman, senior executive vice president of Bill Graham Presents, expressed surprise about the incident, the paper reported.
“Where have they been for the last 30 years?” she said. “Now to come in here and throw up a picket line and demnd that we use them? That’s just a strong-arm tactic. They want to come in here and tell us that we have to tell people who’ve worked for us for 30 years that they can’t have their jobs.”
The promoter has a long-standing contract with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 16, but that union’s members have reportedly said that they will not cross the Teamster’s picket line.
A meeting between Bill Graham Presents and Local 85 was set for Tuesday (11/5).
Sunday, November 03, 2002
Street Date Nov. 5: U2, Dave Matthews Band
Also: Justin Timberlake, The Wallflowers, Willie Nelson and more.
Also: Justin Timberlake, The Wallflowers, Willie Nelson and more.
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U2 - “The Best of 1990-2000” (Interscope)
U2 chronicles another decade of music with this two-disc set, which follows 1998’s “The Best of 1980-1990.” The new collection features numerous remixes, as well as two new tracks: “Electrical Storm” and “The Hands That Built America.” A limited-edition version of the release will be available for one week, according to the band’s official website, and will feature a bonus disc of B-sides and a bonus DVD.
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Dave Matthews Band - “Live at Folsom Field” (RCA)
Dave Matthews Band’s fifth official live release captures the group’s July 11, 2001 performance in Boulder Colo., and is joined by the simultaneous release of a live video of the concert in both DVD and VHS format. The collection features over two-and-a-half hours of music, according to a press release. The set comes less than four months after the group released its most-recent studio effort, “Busted Stuff.” The group will back the new release with a round of December concert dates.
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Justin Timberlake - “Justified” (Jive)
The ‘NSync member’s first solo album is available in a regular jewel box version and a limited edition digi-pack version; both include a fold-out poster featuring pictures of the singer. Timberlake’s interview with 20-20’s Barbara Walters airs on Monday (11/4) on ABC-TV, and he appears on MTV’s Total Request Live on Tuesday (11/5), on BET’s 106 and Park on Thursday (11/7) and on NBC’s Today show on Friday (11/8). Samples from the album are streaming at Jive Records’ Timberlake website.
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The Wallflowers - “Red Letter Days” (Interscope)
“Red Letter Days” follows 2000’s “Breach,” which failed to live up to the high sales expectations set by its predecessor, the four-million-plus-selling 1996 release “Bringing Down the House.” Frontman Jakob Dylan played most guitar parts on the new album, and Mike McCready of Pearl Jam contributed a few licks. Founding guitarist Tobi Miller, who left the Wallflowers in 1996, produced “Red Letter Days” with Bill Appleberry (Adema, 7th House).
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Willie Nelson & Friends - “Stars & Guitars” (Lost Highway)
The prolific and ever-touring Nelson’s latest is a live set that was recorded in April at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Guests featured on the album include Jon Bon Jovi, Keith Richards, Norah Jones, Dave Matthews and others, according to Lost Highway’s official “Stars & Guitars” website. The site features streaming samples of all of the album’s tracks, as well as information about a companion television special that CMT will air throughout November.
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Other new releases:
Dot Allison - “We Are Science” (Mantra/Beggars Group)
The Anomoanon - “Asleep Many Years in the Woods” (Temp. Residence)
Avail - “Front Porch Stories” (Fat Wreck Chords)
Badly Drawn Boy - “Have You Fed the Fish?” (ARTISTdirect)
Bella Morte - “The Quiet” (Metropolis)
Tony Bennett and k.d. lang - “A Wonderful World” (Columbia)
Bluebird - “Hot Blood” (Tiger Style)
Bluegrass Cardinals - “Essential Bluegrass Cardinals” (CMH)
Andrea Bocelli - “Sentimento: Andrea Bocelli with Lorin Maazel and the London Symphony Orchestra” (Universal)
Boston - “Corporate America” (Artemis)
The Bruces - “The War of the Bruces” (Misra)
Johnny Cash - “ The Man Comes Around” (American)
Cathedral - “VIIth Coming” (Spitfire)
The Church - “Parallel Universe” (Thirsty Ear)
Eric Clapton - “One More Car, One More Rider” (Reprise/Duck)
Clarence Clemons - “Live in Asbury Park” (Valley)
Clockwise - “Healthy Manipulation” (RCA)
Chris Coco - “Next Wave” (Distinctive)
Lee Coombs - “Perfecto Breaks” (Perfecto)
Deborah Cox - “The Morning After” (J)
David Cross - “Shut Up, You Fucking Baby!” (Sub Pop)
Damnation - “The Unholy Sound of Damnation “ (RAFR)
Darkwell - “Conflict of Interest” (Napalm)
Kimya Dawson - “I’m Sorry That Sometimes I’m Mean” (Sanctuary)
DJ Louie Devito - “NYC Underground Party, Vol. 5” (D.V.)
Dominion III - “Life Has Ended Here” (Napalm)
The Double U - “White Night, Floating Anchor” (Emperor Jones)
Dub Pistols - “Y4K/Next Level Breaks” (Distinctive)
The Early November - “For All of This (EP)” (Drive-Thru)
Enthroned - “Carnage in Worlds Beyond” (Napalm)
Dean Friedman - “The Treehouse Journals” (Real Life)
Roger Glover & the Guilty Party - “Snapshot” (Red Ink)
David Gray - “A New Day at Midnight” (RCA)
The Great Divide - “Remain” (Emergent/92E)
Neil Hamburger - “Laugh Out Lord” (Drag City)
Har Mar Superstar - “You Can Feel Me” (Warner Bros.)
Insane Clown Posse - “The Wraith: Shangri-La” (Riviera)
Alan Jackson - “Let It Be Christmas” (Arista Nashville)
Jaheim - “Still Ghetto” (Warner Bros.)
July for Kings - “Swim” (MCA)
Kennedy - “Kennedy” (Sea Level)
Kid Dakota - “So Pretty” (Chair Kickers)
KMFDM Featuring PIG - “Sturm & Drang Tour 2002” (Metropolis)
Alison Krauss & Union Station - “Live” (Rounder)
Tony Levin Band - “Double Espresso” (Narada)
Fred Lonberg Holm Trio - “A Valentine for Fred Katz” (Atavistic)
The Lyndsay Diaries - “The Tops of Trees Are on Fire” (Militia)
Monica Mancini - “Cinema Paradiso” (Concord)
Mat Maneri - “Sustain” (Thirsty Ear)
Roots Manuva - “Badmeaningood Vol. 1” (Ultimate Dilemma)
Hugh Masekela - “Time” (Columbia)
Ramsay Midwood - “Shootout at the OK Chinese Restaurant” (Vanguard)
Millions of Dead Cops - “Now More Than Ever” (Cleopatra)
Morgenstern - “Rausch” (Napalm)
Mountain Goats - “Tallahassee” (4AD/Beggars Banquet)
Ms. Jade - “Girl Interrupted” (Interscope)
Ray Munns - “A DJ’s Night Out” (Funk Wax)
Myriads - “Introspection” (Napalm)
Nagisa Ni Te - “On the Love Beach” (Jagjaguwar)
Napalm Death - “Order of the Leech” (Spitfire)
Nad Navillus - “Iron Night” (Jagjaguwar)
Donny Osmond - “Somewhere in Time” (Decca)
Ours - “Precious” (DreamWorks)
Laura Pausini - “From the Inside” (Atlantic)
Pip Proud and Tom Carter - “Catch a Cherub” (Emperor Jones)
Racebannon - “Satan’s Kickin’ Yr Dick In” (Secretly Canadian)
The Real McKenzies - “Pissed Tae th’ Gills” (Sudden Death)
Bic Runga - “Beautiful Collision” (Columbia)
The Sadies - “Stories Often Told” (Yep Roc)
Saltatio Mortis - “Das Zweite Gesicht” (Napalm)
Sectorseven - “Sectorseven” (Sonic Unyon)
Roni Size - “Touching Down” (Full Cycle)
Smog - “Accumulation: None” (Drag City)
Sun Ra and His Arkestra - “Music from Tomorrow’s World” (Atavistic/UMS)
Thuja - “Suns” (Emperor Jones)
Thundercrack - “The Crack” (Estrus)
Toto - “Through the Looking Glass” (CMC)
Trail of Tears - “A New Dimension of Might” (Napalm)
Trapt - “Trapt” (Warner Bros.)
Trick Pony - “On a Mission” (Warner Bros. Nashville)
Junior Vasquez - “Earth Music 2” (Tommy Boy)
Justin Vollmar - “Every Place Is Home” (BlueSanct)
Various artists - “American Hair Bands Vol. 1” (Versailles)
Various artists - “Antifolk Vol. 1” (Sanctuary)
Various artists - “Christmas Greetings from Studio One” (Rounder)
Various artists - “For the Kids” (Nettwerk)
Various artists - “Great Ballads of Bluegrass” (CMH)
Various artists - “In House We Trust 2: Mixed by Behrouz and MV” (Yoshitoshi)
Various artists - “Irv Gotti Presents: The Remixes” (Def Jam)
Various artists - “Maybe This Christmas” (Nettwerk)
Various artists - “Mondo Beat 2” (Narada)
Various artists - “The Nature of Narada” (Narada)
Various artists - “A Punk Tribute to Weezer” (Cleopatra)
Various artists - “Soft & Suave: Relax Session” (Lakeshore)
Various artists - “The Steel Guitar Tribute to ZZ Top” (CMH)
Various artists - “A Tribute to NOFX” (Cleopatra)
Soundtracks and scores:
“Ararat" (Milan)
“Far from Heaven” (Varèse)
“Lilo & Stitch: Island Favorites “ (Disney)
“Punch-Drunk Love” (Nonesuch)
“The Rising Place” (Lakeshore)
“Santa Clause 2” (Disney)
“Talk to Her” (Milan)
Springsteen makes New Jersey club appearance
For the third consecutive year, Bruce Springsteen made an unbilled appearance at a Sea Bright, N.J. benefit concert to raise money to fight Parkinson’s disease.
For the third consecutive year, Bruce Springsteen made an unbilled appearance at a Sea Bright, N.J. benefit concert to raise money to fight Parkinson’s disease.
According to reports from New Jersey, Springsteen joined Joe Grushecky and his band the Houserockers during their set at the Tradewinds Nightclub on Saturday night (11/2).
Springsteen--who was on stage for more than an hour--played guitar and sang harmony during several Grushecky originals and covers, including Otis Redding’s “Can’t Turn You Loose.” Springsteen also sang lead on his own songs “Fire” and “Light of Day,” and on a cover of John Lee Hooker’s “Boom Boom.”
Springsteen took the stage later in the night to perform “Jole Blon” and “Quarter to Three” with Gary U.S. Bonds.
The event reportedly raised more than $30,000 for the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation and Project ALS.
Springsteen opened the second leg of his latest U.S. tour on Sunday (11/3) in Dallas.
The Osbournes tapped to host American Music Awards
The Osbournes--Ozzy, Sharon and their offspring Jack and Kelly--have been tapped to host the 30th annual American Music Awards, which airs on ABC on Jan. 13.
The Osbournes--Ozzy, Sharon and their offspring Jack and Kelly--have been tapped to host the 30th annual American Music Awards, which airs on ABC on Jan. 13.
“We are going to give the American Music Awards 2003 a different slant as only the Osbournes can,” Sharon Osbourne said in a statement.
Said producer Dick Clark in a statement: “I can’t wait to see what Ozzy and the rest of the family have in store for us, and I know the ABC-TV censor is already having dreams, or should I say nightmares, about their live ad-libs.”
In other Osbournes news, Sharon Osbourne--who is suffering from colon cancer--told ABC’s Barbara Walters that the upcoming season of the hit MTV series “The Osbournes” will be the last.
“This series, people will see what the first series has done to our lives and it will take people to the next stage,” Osbourne reportedly said in an interview scheduled to air on Wednesday (11/6). “But after that, it’s over.”
The new, 10-episode season of “The Osbournes” begins on Nov. 26.