Barring any major musical news...

This blog is on hiatus - enjoy your New Year!

Final Post of the Year

 

Once again continued from last years last post, which was continued from the previous years last post. HAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR!!!

• I think I can count the number of shows the Stone Roses have actually performed since their "reunion" on one hand.
• Meg and Jack when will you come back.....not that Jack isn't busy.
• We can only hope he retires - but it is just a stunt.
• I made both Starplex and Nokia this year.
• Flogging Molly and Dropkick Murphys are once again making their annual Marchish era trek through again - a little less than 30 days apart.
• That final date for George Strait tour is commanding a high price right now - it will be interesting to see what happens as it gets closer.
• With that being said a lot of major tours skipped the DFW area this year. I think we have a supply demand issue in this area. With the supply being more than the demand.
• And once again just a few, but not all, we have lost in the last year - some very recently. But their music lives on.....

Final December Era Post

December era continued...

• Dec. 17 1982 - Karen Carpenter makes her last live performance. She would eventually pass in February of the next year from heart illnesss related to her eating disorder.
• Dec. 20 1973 - Bobby Darin dies.
• Dec. 22 1987 - Nikki Sixx dies - for two minutes. Pronounced DOA upon arrival at a hospital he was obviously eventually revived with two adrenaline shots to the chest. Pulp Fiction anyone?
• Dec. 22 2002 - Joe Strummer, from the only band that matters, dies. 
• Dec. 23 1964 - Brian Wilson suffers a nervous breakdown during a flight while on tour with the Beach Boys. He does not tour with the band and becomes a near recluse for decades...
• Dec. 23 1985 - Raymond Belknap and James Vance shoot themselves. This led to an infamous lawsuit against Judas Priest alleging the song Better by You, Better Than Me influenced their suicide via subliminal messaging. The frivolous lawsuit was eventually dismissed.
• Dec. 25 1995 - Dean Martin dies.
• Dec. 25 2006 - James Brown dies.
• AND ON THIS CHRISTMAS DAY IN 1968 - Led Zeppelin arrived in the US for the first time ever in preparation for their debut tour. They would go on to conquer all...... 
• Dec. 28 1983 - Dennis Wilson dies from drowning.
• Dec. 31 1982 - Max's Kansas City closes down.
• Dec. 31 1984 - Rick Allen crashes his car and loses his left arm. Despite this he still continues to play for Def Leppard to this day.....
• Dec. 31 1985 - Ricky Nelson's chartered plane flight crashes in Texas killing him and six others. The rumor is freebasing cocaine caused an on board explosion.

Ray Price Dead

Country legend Ray Price passes away. After being release to hospice last week he spent the last days with his family at his home in Mount Pleasant, TX. Mr. Price was responsible for more than 100 hits on the country Billboard charts including 7 number ones.

 

Updates out the Wazoo...

• Unfortunately Ray Price has been moved to hospice after being discharged from the hospital for treatment of pancreatic cancer. We got to see him once in the Live Music Capital of the World at the original location of Willie Nelson's Backyard.
• In a turn of events The Beastie Boys have proceeded with their lawsuit against GoldieBlox despite GoldieBlox dropping the "Girls" parody and issuing an apology. I mistakenly listed it as "resolved" however I don't think GoldieBlox ever dropped their preemptive suit.
• The Cheap Trick lawsuit involving now former member Bun E. Carlos has been dismissed by the Delaware federal court stating that it should be decided by an Illinois federal court.

Dueling Band List

• Beastie Boys vs. GoldieBlox
• Hawkwind vs. Nik Turner's Hawkwind (Resolved)
• Black Flag vs. Flag
• Oren Kaplan vs. Eugene Hutz (Gogol Bordello)
• The Turtles vs. SiriusXM
• Bun E. Carlos & David Frey vs. Cheap Trick
• Pandora/Spotify etc.  vs. Musicians
• Scott Weiland vs. STP
• Current version of Beach Boys vs. any former Beach Boy who is not in the current version
• Former Vandenburg members vs. Adrian Vandenberg
• J. Geils Band vs. John Geils/Francesa Records
• Live vs. Ed Kowalcyzk
• Queensryche & Geoff Tate
• T&N and Dokken
• Kyuss & Kyuss Lives!
• Creedence Clearwater Revisited and John Fogerty
• War and The Lowrider Band
• Blood, Sweat and Tears and David Clayton Thomas (kind of)
• Steppenwolf & John Kay's Steppenwolf 

• Check out The New Wave Superfriends and the Punk Rock X-Men. 
• #1 has departed from Slipknot. Founding member Joey Jordinson is no longer with the band. They haven't let Paul Gray's replacement take the stage with them during live performances, he plays back/side stage, but they are going to have a harder time doing this with a drummer.
• And in an ongoing series exclusively on this blog!! The December era continues:

• Dec. 11 1964 - Sam Cooke shot dead by the manager of the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles. The shooting was ruled a justifiable homicide after the manager claimed she acted in self defense. 
• Dec. 11 1969 - The Rolling Stones began filming their infamous Rock & Roll circus - which did not see light of day until finally released in 1996.
• Dec. 12 1957 - Jerry Lee Lewis secretly wed his cousin. The move would eventually ruin his "rock" career but......
• Dec. 12 1985 - Ian Stewart died of a heart attack - in the waiting room of his doctors office. 
• Dec. 12 1970 - The Doors played their last live show with Jim Morrison. What many may not know is The Doors continued releasing music and playing live after Jim's death. It was an abysmal disaster. 
• Dec. 12 2007 - Ike Turner dies.
• Dec. 15 1956 - Elvis Presley plays his last show at the Louisiana Hayride. The legendary phrase "Elvis has left the building" was coined here by Horace Logan. If you don't know the history of  the Louisiana Hayride, Elvis and how it could have been what Nashville became you owe yourself a little research.
• Dec. 15 2006 - Ahmet Ertegun, co-founder of Atlantic records, died form injuries suffered from a head injury sustained earlier while falling at a Rolling Stones concert. His death eventually led to the O2 Tribute Show mentioned previously in the December era.