Thursday Updates

• King Diamond is launching a rare full production tour ending with his appearance at the Fun, Fun, Fun Festival in Austin - and the next to last stop is HOB Dallas.
• Cool article on Richard Cole, Zep's road manager.
• Interesting gallery of bands with only one original member - there is a few that might surprise you - including Deep Purple and Dropkick Murphy's - Flogging Molly, however, still features all original members.
• Lynyrd Skynyrd is in the above gallery as well. There is an agreement that they must maintain two pre-plane crash members in order to call themselves such. The basically have exploited this by having Rickey Medlocke on the roster, who briefly played with them as a second drummer. I am going to be nice here and hold my comments.......cough, cough (bullshit), cough.
•  Interesting tidbit from This Day in Music. On this day in 1977 Elvis played his last live show, dying two months later (allegedly) - Colonel Tom Parker was born on this day in 1910.