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@alexvanhalenofficial names famous singer he has in mind to perform unreleased Van Halen music

Alex Van Halen has revealed the singer he hopes might sing on unreleased and unfinished Van Halen music, saying: “Ideally, it’d be Robert Plant.”

In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Alex Van Halen revealed that there is a large amount of unreleased music in the Van Halen vaults, but very little of it is finished.

“They’re all little pieces,” said the drummer. “A bunch of licks don’t make a song.”

Van Halen went on to say that he’s approached OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, to see if they could analyze “the patterns of how Edward would have played something” in order to generate new guitar solos.

Van Halen said he hopes to recruit former Led Zeppelin frontman Plant to sing on any new music, despite the fact the pair haven’t spoken since 1993. “Ideally, it’d be Robert Plant,” he said. “You’re gonna think I’m out of my f***ing mind, but when conditions are right, things will manifest.”

Van Halen also said he wants to produce a biopic about his band’s rise to fame, although fans shouldn’t expect to see it in cinemas too soon. “It’s just a long-term plan,” he said. “I mean, to put things in perspective, the Queen movie took 30 years to make.”

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Why @jimmypage Had To Lie to His Record Label When Producing This Divisive @ledzeppelin Album

When John Bonham tragically died at 32 years old in 1980, the English rock band decided they could no longer continue as if nothing had happened. But there was one problem: Led Zeppelin was contractually obligated to produce one more record for their label, Atlantic Records.

Piecemealing “Coda” together was a challenge from both an emotional and production standpoint. Fortunately, Page’s time cutting his teeth as a session player in the 1960s paid off, and he was able to use overdubs, past live performances, and other outtakes to compile what would become the band’s 1982 release.

Without John Bonham, Jimmy Page had to compile a Led Zeppelin record out of scrap material. Throughout the musical hodge-podge, Page used “Bonzo’s Montreaux” as “Coda’s” backbone. Page told Radio.com the track “was recorded between “Presence” and “In Through the Out Door.” I’d worked on it with John.

Even with a backbone off which Page could build the rest of the record, he ran into yet another issue. Atlantic wanted a studio album, not a live compilation. So, Page decided to tell a little white lie to the label. “The earliest pressings of “Coda” included the information that “We’re Gonna Groove” was recorded at London’s Morgan Studios on June 25, 1969.”

“In reality, as was noted on subsequent releases of the album, the song was culled from a January 9, 1979, live performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Jimmy Page didn’t make a mistake,” the notes continued. “This was his sleight of hand. The contract with Atlantic called for a studio album. Lacking enough material for one, the guitarist cleverly doctored the live performance to make it sound like it was done at Morgan.”

Many fans place “Coda” at the bottom of their list of favorite Led Zeppelin albums. This makes sense, all things considered.

However, that small lie Jimmy Page told the record label helped him and his surviving bandmates fulfill their contract without disrespecting the memory of John Bonham.

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Fleetwood Mac Fans Are Speculating A Reunion Is Coming Following Big Hint

Is Fleetwood Mac reuniting? Fans sure think so.

Over the summer, Stevie Nicks said, in an interview with Mojo, that Fleetwood Mac would not continue on following the death of Christine McVie in 2022. “Without Christine, no can do,” she said. Nicks added, “There is no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together in any way. Without her, it just couldn’t work.”

But, it seems that idea may be short-lived, because fans noticed that a new Instagram and TikTok account for the band that is driving speculation that something may be happening.

On TikTok, one fan shared screenshots of all of the accounts, and even one shot showing that the band’s Lindsey Buckingham follows this new accounts.

Although many fans were hopeful of a reunion, a few fans had commented in disbelief, saying “which could be nothing,” while another explained, “Unless it’s a couple of reunion gigs in memory of Christine, I can’t see it happening. John is winding down, we don’t know what state Lindsey’s voice is in either. Not to mention him and Stevie can’t work together.”

Meanwhile, Fleetwood Mac’s X account is up and active — however, as noted by the fan who shared the band’s new social media accounts on TikTok, their official website is down, aside from their merch store.

While some new social media accounts don’t necessarily mean the band is reuniting, it also doesn’t mean that they’re not. Incidentally, Stevie Nicks performed on “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend, for the first time in four decades.

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Fleetwood Mac Fans Are Speculating A Reunion Is Coming Following Big Hint

Is Fleetwood Mac reuniting? Fans sure think so.

Over the summer, Stevie Nicks said, in an interview with Mojo, that Fleetwood Mac would not continue on following the death of Christine McVie in 2022. “Without Christine, no can do,” she said. Nicks added, “There is no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together in any way. Without her, it just couldn’t work.”

But, it seems that idea may be short-lived, because fans noticed that a new Instagram and TikTok account for the band that is driving speculation that something may be happening.

On TikTok, one fan shared screenshots of all of the accounts, and even one shot showing that the band’s Lindsey Buckingham follows this new accounts.

Although many fans were hopeful of a reunion, a few fans had commented in disbelief, saying “which could be nothing,” while another explained, “Unless it’s a couple of reunion gigs in memory of Christine, I can’t see it happening. John is winding down, we don’t know what state Lindsey’s voice is in either. Not to mention him and Stevie can’t work together.”

Meanwhile, Fleetwood Mac’s X account is up and active — however, as noted by the fan who shared the band’s new social media accounts on TikTok, their official website is down, aside from their merch store.

While some new social media accounts don’t necessarily mean the band is reuniting, it also doesn’t mean that they’re not. Incidentally, Stevie Nicks performed on “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend, for the first time in four decades.

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On this day October 15, 1967 the first annual Sacramento Pop Festival was held at Hughes Stadium featuring Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Hamilton Streetcar, The Hour Glass, Jefferson Airplane, New Breed, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Spirit, Strawberry Alarm Clock and The Sunshine Company.

Headliners Jefferson Airplane were at their creative highpoint riding the wave of their recently released album “Surrealistic Pillow.” The band Hour Glass featured future Allman Brother’s founding members Duane & Gregg Allman.

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@thedavidcrosby Wrote This CSNY Classic in Prison, Called It Best Song He Wrote Sober

In the early 1980s, folk rock icon David Crosby found the silver lining of his five-month prison stay in the form of a new life and one of the best songs he’s ever written. His sentence came after years of constant drug use, culminating in a Dallas arrest in 1982.

The song he wrote from his prison cell would later find its way onto Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s 1988 record “American Dream.”

When considering the best song he wrote while sober, he quickly settled on the track from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s 1988 release “American Dream,” titled “Compass.”

“I wrote it in prison about waking up from drugs,” Crosby explained. “It was when I realized that I was going to come back, I was going to get sober, I was going to be able to handle it. And then, I was going to write again—which was crucial. I was sober for the first time when it was released. It was a whole other ball of wax and a completely new world for me.”

Within the context of Crosby’s story, the lyrics to “Compass” cut that much deeper. I have wasted ten years in a blindfold, he begins, seemingly lamenting his decade of near-constant drug use. Ten-fold more than I’ve invested now in sight. I have traveled beveled mirrors in a fly crawl, losing the reflection of a fight.

Crosby’s drug use had been spiraling since the death of his girlfriend, Christine Hinton, in 1969. Shortly after his 1982 arrest, an anonymous friend close to the musician told People, “David [freebases] pretty much from when he gets up to when he collapses. I think you can safely say that David has smoked up everything he owns—all the cars, everything.”

Following Crosby’s arrest, he attempted to make a plea bargain by agreeing to go to a New Jersey rehabilitation facility. But after learning the facility wouldn’t allow instruments, he walked out, leading to his second arrest and imprisonment in the Texas State Prison in Huntsville.

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Beyond Fleetwood Mac: Christine McVie’s Solo Work You’ve Probably Never Heard

@christinemcvieofficial was one of the most underrated members of Fleetwood Mac. Not only was she a talented musician, but she was also an experienced singer/songwriter with some significant solo work under her belt.

If you’re a Fleetwood Mac fan but haven’t dipped into the individual members’ works outside of the band, you might not know about these stunning Christine McVie solo and non-Mac songs.

“When The Train Comes Back”

McVie was amazing at crafting pop-friendly songs for Fleetwood Mac throughout the 1970s, but her work as part of Chicken Shack was also pretty stellar in the late 1960s. “When The Train Comes Back” is one incredible cover she did with the blues rock band.

Despite being so young, McVie’s vocals have a gritty, smoky sound to them that is just addicting to hear. It’s kind of surprising that her pre-Fleetwood Mac band didn’t get very popular.

“Got A Hold On Me”

This Christine McVie solo work comes from her second solo album and was released in 1984. It’s one of McVie’s most successful works outside of Fleetwood Mac. “Got A Hold On Me” is a sweet, happy little love song that technically features part of Fleetwood Mac. Lindsey Buckingham contributed a guitar track to the recorded version.

“Feel About You”

“Feel About You” came about in 2017 a few years after McVie decided to come out of retirement and get back together with Fleetwood Mac.

This song is technically not a Fleetwood Mac song; it was a collaborative effort between McVie and Buckingham. In fact, the pair recorded an entire album together, and it’s quite an impressive late-career feat.

These two aren’t talked about much in the context of one another; both of them had their respective love affairs with other Fleetwood Mac members. Because of this, their chemistry with one another was often overlooked.

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Members of R.E.M., Black Crowes, and Screaming Trees Form Supergroup Silverlites, Unveil Debut Single

The group features R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson, Screaming Trees’ Barrett Martin, and singer Joseph Arthur.

The band’s first single “Don’t Go, Don’t Stay” is out now ahead of the November 15th release of its self-titled debut album.

The project features Arthur on lead vocals alongside R.E.M.’s Peter Buck on acoustic guitars, The Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson on acoustic and electric guitars, and Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees, Mad Season) on drums, upright bass, vibraphone, and backing vocals.

“Don’t Go, Don’t Stay” introduces the Silverlites’ roots-rock sound, as Arthur sings over organic instrumentation from Buck, Robinson, and Martin — the latter of whom recorded the initial acoustic guitar tracks in a Nashville hotel room in 2019.

We hope you like the songs, as we spent the pandemic years doing various recording and mixing sessions,” wrote Martin on Instagram, “and we used a classic songwriting form, which is often forgotten in this day and age. That is, acoustic guitars (with a little electric guitar in there), with superb lead vocals, catchy backing vocals, and a soulful backbeat in the rhythm section. It’s old school songwriting, just like us.”

Check out Silverlites’ new single “Don’t Go, Don’t Stay” below:

https://bit.ly/405CzLf

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Martin Scorsese announces new @thebeatles documentary about how the Fab Four broke America

Film includes newly recorded interviews with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.

Martin Scorsese’s documentary about The Beatles’ first visit to America will be released next month, it has been announced.

The Scorsese-produced Disney+ film Beatles ‘64 was directed by David Tedeschi and will stream exclusively from the online platform November 29, 2024.

It follows the moment the Fab Four touched down at Kennedy Airport in New York City on 7 February 1964, which led to Beatlemania sweeping the city and the rest of the US.

Footage will show their debut performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, watched by a TV audience of more than 73 million, along with never-before-seen clips of the band and their legions of young fans.

Live performances from The Beatles’ first US concert at the Washington, DC Coliseum along with their Ed Sullivan appearances, have been “demixed” (where AI is used to separate the vocal and instrument stems in a recording) by Peter Jackson’s Wingnut Films studio.

They were then remixed by Giles Martin, producer and son of “the Fifth Beatle”, the late producer, composer and arranger George Martin.

Surviving members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, who serve as co-producers, also appear in new filmed interviews to discuss their recollections of that historic time.

Other listed co-producers include John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s son, Sean Ono Lennon, and George Harrison’s wife, Olivia Harrison.

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Neil Young’s most beautiful love song was about @jonimitchell and @officialgrahamnash’s broken heart

Since Joni Mitchell made her name in the 1960s, there have been over 50 songs written about the singer-songwriter. Most of them, it has to be said, were written by her ex-lovers.

But there was one other song written about Joni Mitchell, though not specifically written for her. No, this one was written for her ex-boyfriend Graham Nash, in a bid to mend his broken heart.

The former Hollies frontman Graham Nash came to know Mitchell through David Crosby and, after a brief romance with The Byrds singer, began dating the Blue singer.

The two shared a fast and furious relationship and considered one another soul mates for a period of time. In fact, Nash had a hand in writing 13 songs about Mitchell during his career. It’s clear he was devoted to Mitchell and completely in love, meaning when their relationship did finally end, Nash was left broken-hearted.

As a sure-fire way to help lift his friend and sometime bandmate out of the depths of heartbreak, Young decided to pen Nash a song of his own, about his long-lost love, the truly astounding ‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart.’ Though many have suggested that the song was written about Stephen Stills, Young later admitted to the track being about Mitchell in his biography Shakey. However, he has never seen fit to elaborate on the stories at hand.

Recalling when Young wrote the song, Nash told Uncut: “That song means a lot to me because Neil wrote it about me and Joni. It’s such a beautiful song. I knew it was about me the day Neil played it for me at Stephen’s house in Laurel Canyon.”

He continued: “It’s a beautiful song and it was incredibly important for me to hear what Neil had said because he was dead right, it is only love that can break your heart.

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On this day October 13, 1995 @vanhalen played Sacramento’s Cal Expo Amphitheater.

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‘Ramblin’ Man’: Allman Brothers Sing For All Their Brothers And Sisters

One of America’s quintessential album rock bands were suddenly on the verge of a No.1 single on October 13, 1973.

The Allman Brothers Band had been climbing the Billboard Hot 100 for weeks with guitarist Dickey Betts’ “Ramblin’ Man.” The group had flirted with the chart four times before, firstly in 1971 when “Revival (Love Is Everywhere)” edged to No.92.

Three 1972 singles, “Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More,” “Melissa” and their version of Elmore James’ “One Way Out,” peaked at Nos.77, 86 and 86 again, respectively.

But even the Top 40 was new territory for them until “Ramblin’ Man” came along.

On the chart of October 13, 1973, the track made a sudden surge from No.7 all the way to No.2, behind Cher’s “Half Breed.” The group’s “Brothers and Sisters” album was becoming the biggest of their career, and that same week, spent what turned out to be the last of five weeks in a row at No.1 on Billboard’s 200-place album chart.

When Dickey Betts reminisced with the Wall Street Journal about “Ramblin’ Man,” he said: “When I was a kid, my dad was in construction and used to move the family back and forth between central Florida’s east and west coasts. I’d go to one school for a year and then the other the next. I had two sets of friends and spent a lot of time in the back of a Greyhound bus. Ramblin’ was in my blood.

“But the song, as I originally wrote it, had a country flavour and needed to be Allmanized – given that rock-blues feeling. I thought of Eric Clapton’s “Layla” – which had come out a year earlier – with its long jam at the end. I figured something like that might work. When we went into Capricorn Sound Studios in Macon in October ’72, ‘Ramblin’ Man’ was the first song we recorded – and it would be [bassist] Berry Oakley’s last song before he died in a motorcycle crash a month later.”

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Not Fade Away: @officialthewho Unleash ‘My Generation’

A truly groundbreaking song in British rock history was born on October 13, 1965, when The Who were in Studio A at IBC Studios in Portland Place, London, recording “My Generation.” 

To understand just what a powerful statement Pete Townshend’s new song made, it’s worth considering what the fellow heavy-hitters on the British rock scene were up to at the time. The Beatles were just coming off “Help” and were soon to move on to “Day Tripper“ and “We Can Work It Out.“

The Stones were just unleashing “Get Off Of My Cloud,” the Kinks had just been in the Top 10 with “See My Friend” and the Animals’ new single was “It’s My Life.” All extremely powerful singles, but for sheer, visceral energy and anger, “My Generation” was the definitive statement of the era.

Townshend worked on the song, originally as a slow blues, all through the summer of 1965, as The Who toured Scandinavia and Holland. The first incarnation was inspired by Mose Allison’s “Young Man Blues,“ a song the band would later perform.

As Pete recalled in his Who I Am autobiography, he produced several sets of lyrics for the song and “three very different” demos.

He fashioned it into the style we know with the help of The Who’s co-manager Chris Stamp, who picked up on a stutter in Townshend’s vocal in the second demo.

After studying John Lee Hooker’s “Stuttering Blues” and encouraging Roger Daltrey to exaggerate the effect in his vocal performance, the song was perfected, now also with space for John Entwistle’s great bass feature.

Daltrey, speaking to New Musical Express as the single scaled the charts, said: “The song just tells about a young kid who’s tryin’ to express himself, y’know?” He may have been stretching credibility when he added amusingly: “Apart from that, it was freezing in the studios when we recorded it. That’s why I stutter on the lyrics!”

“My Generation” only reached No.74 on the Billboard charts but went on to win its rightful places in both the Grammy and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame.

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On this day October 12, 1991 @metallica,
@queensrycheofficial, @faithnomore, and @soundgarden played the final Day On The Green held prior to Bill Graham’s death.

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@joeperryofficial on why the age of the guitar hero might be over – even though the instrument still has a bright future

Perry is confident there’s more to explore on the fretboard and players will continue to push the boundaries of guitar music – but the individual feats of guitarists might not be viewed in quite the same way.

Over the decades, the development of electric guitar music has been spearheaded by a crop of innovative players who have sought to push the boundaries of what is capable from a fretboard. At the same time, their music largely had a profound cultural and social impact that has fiercely shaped the current musical landscape.

As a result of their work, they have long been known as ‘guitar heroes.’ Players such as Eddie Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Jeff Beck and others can all comfortably fit into this category.

However, according to the @aerosmith guitarist, the rise of a similar class of ‘guitar heroes’ – or individuals who will influence the direction of guitar and completely change the way it’s viewed in popular music – might not take place again.

Perry voiced his doubts over whether we’d ever see a similar cohort of players emerge again, even though there are still players who are working to take guitar playing to new heights.

I think there’s a lot that’s still going to happen,” Perry responded when asked for his opinions on the modern guitar scene. “I kind of doubt that there’s going to be another Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page or Eddie Van Halen; that was a time and an era.

“Those were standout guys who turned the world upside down and changed the way people heard guitar in our little world. But it’s not going to be like that any more.”

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On this day October 11, 1993 @robertplantofficial, @stpband and @b.h.t.m played Sacramento’s Cal Expo.

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