Eagles keep flapping their wings
ByFeb 26, 2003 11:00 PM
Classic rockers the Eagles--whom drummer Don Henley once said would reunite and tour when hell froze over--are going out on their second U.S. run in as many years, Billboard.com reports. The tour announcement is accompanied by the launch of the group’s official fan club, which entitles members--who pay a $60 annual fee to join--access to ticket pre-sales for the upcoming tour. The first batch of pre-sale tickets hit the box office today (2/27), and prices top out at a $175, according to Ticketmaster.
Classic rockers the Eagles--whom drummer Don Henley once said would reunite and tour when hell froze over--are going out on their second U.S. run in as many years, Billboard.com reports. The tour announcement is accompanied by the launch of the group’s official fan club, which entitles members--who pay a $60 annual fee to join--access to ticket pre-sales for the upcoming tour. The first batch of pre-sale tickets hit the box office today (2/27), and prices top out at a $175, according to Ticketmaster.
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Irv Gotti presents ... a self-inflicted gunshot wound?
New York City police aren’t buying the story that rap producer Chris Gotti (real name Chris Lorenzo), brother of Murder Inc. record-label head Irv Gotti, gave them after he was shot in the left leg on Monday evening, the New York Daily News reports. Lorenzo said that the shot was fired from about 50 feet away and that he didn’t see the shooter, but a police source told the Daily News that the shooting had to have occurred “upclose and personal. If he didn’t shoot himself, he had to know who did.”
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Ozzy looks to recruit former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted
Ozzy Osbourne, who on Monday (2/24) officially lost longtime bassist Robert Trujillo to Metallica, is apparently hoping to fill the vacancy with former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted, who left the band more than two years ago, according to a VH1.com report. The report, which cites an unnamed source close to Newsted, claims that Newsted is expected to travel to Los Angeles next week in order to jam with Ozzy and his remaining band members, guitarist Zakk Wylde and drummer Mike Bordin.
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Give peace a chance. . .
Jay-Z, Nas, Natalie Merchant, Sheryl Crow, Wilco, Dave Matthews, George Clinton, R.E.M., and Lou Reed are among the names listed under the headline “War On Iraq Is Wrong And We Know It” in an advertisement that ran in Wednesday’s edition (2/26) of the New York Times, Billboard.com reports. The ad is credited to Musicians United to Win Without War, an organization reportedly founded by by former Talking Head David Byrne and rap impresario Russell Simmons.
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. . . But don’t record a song about it
Former manufactured pop star George Michael told the BBC that a group of young British pop stars who are planning to record a new Band Aid-style charity song should abandon their plan.
“I’m begging, I’m hoping that there will not be Band Aid 2 because the reality is that very, very few people in the industry now that you’re hearing on the radio make their money from their own hearts and minds,” Michael reportedly said. “They make their money from singing the words of others, and so therefore the weight of something called Band Aid 2 would be incredibly slight.”