Archive for September, 2009

Steven Tyler of AEROSMITH, Robin Zander of CHEAP TRICK and Roger Daltrey of THE WHO will make guest appearances with the TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA this fall.

TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA, the rock orchestra that brought symphonic-rock to the mainstream audiences, will begin its holiday tour on November 1, 2009. The group, which derived its name from the Trans-Siberian Railway, was founded in 1996 by New York native Paul O’Neill who produced albums for hard rock groups including AEROSMITH, SAVATAGE and the SCORPIONS.

Since then, it has grown into a thirty-piece orchestra featuring two narrators, fourteen singers and fourteen musicians with expertise in genres ranging from R&B to Broadway and classic Rock.

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There’s still plenty of unreleased material yet to surface from Jimi Hendrix.

That’s according to his sister, Janie Hendrix, president and CEO of Experience Hendrix and Authentic Hendrix, the companies which administer the Hendrix catalogue and legacy.

“We probably have another decade of music, including video. Every 12 to 18 months we’ll continue to have new releases and Dagger [Experience Hendrix’s label for board and audience recordings] official bootlegs.

“Jimi was a workaholic. After Electric Lady Studios was built he was able to record constantly for as many hours as he wanted to. It’s almost as if he knew he had only four years to accomplish everything that he did.

“We have an amazing amount of original masters, including a lot of material that hasn’t been previously released.”

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British singer/songwriter last released a proper studio album in 2005. It was called Life in Slow Motion, and it was lovely. It was also a complete waste of that title, which could be far more accurately applied to his syrupy new LP Draw the Line.

Opening track “Fugitive” and the string-swept “Jackdaw” are plucky enough, but the nine other tracks mostly sink into a mire of hookless, humorless mid-tempo muck. The songs themselves aren’t all that bad (though Gray’s apparent unfamiliarity with the concept of slant rhyme is occasionally maddening—get the man some Emily Dickinson, stat!), they just sound like they were produc

This includes “Kathleen,” the could-be-stellar duet with Jolie Holland in which Gray’s broguish tenor completely overpowers her delicate warble. And big closer “Full Steam Ahead,” a walloping duet with  Annie Lennox, arrives a little too late to stoke the engines.

To read the complete review visit PASTE MAGAZINE

*Footage & Photos by Kenny Howell

JOE PERRY has not been shy about letting his feelings be known regarding how irritated that AEROSMITH has been sidelined due to STEVEN TYLER’s tour injury. Rather than sit idle, PERRY has been keeping busy promoting his forthcoming solo album, HAVE GUITAR, WILL TRAVEL.

The new incarnation of the JOE PERRY PROJECT debuted is new lineup and offered its first preview of new material on Sunday, September 20^th at Plymouth Memorial Hall in Plymouth, MA. The band includes German singer HAGEN, found completely by chance on YouTube by PERRY’s wife, bassist DAVID HULL who was with PERRY since the 80s’, drummer BEN TILESTON who plays with PERRY’s sons band TAB THE BAND, organist PAUL SANTO who has performed with Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton and Ozzy.

The black-leather glade rock and roll hall of famer hit the stage with the title track from the first JOE PERRY PROJECT album, “Let the Music Do the Talking” then pulling from the AEROSMITH catalog he offered up such classics as, “Combination,” “Dream On,” and “Walk This Way” along with few covers including Fleetwood Mac’s “Somebody’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight.”

The band had a light moment with a reggae version of “Dream On”; Perry provided the just-greasy-enough rift and some scorching slide work on Woody Guthrie’s “Vigilante Man,” from the solo Perry album and Malden’s own Charlie Farren infectious rocker “East Coast, West Coast.”

While AEROSMITH’s career seems to be in a state of disarray with frontman STEVEN TYLER, PERRY made no mention of any revived Aerosmith tour, and hinted at the JOE PERRY PROJECT getting ready to go on the road, he encored with a smoldering version of the Neil Young classic “Rockin in the Free World.”

Perry will rejoin AEROSMITH in November to play a series of rescheduled dates Hawaii, after which the future of the Toxic Twins seems unclear.

SET LIST:

• Let The Music Do The Talking
• Walkin The Dog
• Sombody’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight
• Long Way to Go
• No Surprise
• Slingshot
• Do you Wonder
• Dream On
• Scare the Cat
• Vigilante Man
• Rockin Train
• Train Kept A Rollin
• Combination
• Walk This Way
• Rockin in the Free World

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Megan Fox has proclaimed herself bisexual, called actors narcissistic douche bags, flat-out lied to the press about a lesbian teen affair and slipped some scathing words about her Transformers director Michael Bay into interviews. So what makes this sexy starlet tick? Rolling Stone’s Erik Hedegaard goes head to head with the star of Diablo Cody’s Jennifer’s Body in the new issue and learns the secret of her bewitching power: “a powerful, confident vagina.”

“Men are scared of vaginas,” she says, telling RS a woman is most powerful when she is “completely in charge of her sexuality.” So what makes this seemingly in-control 23-year-old star crave the security of her pillow cocoon in bed at night and let her temper flare so wildly she’s told off-again, on-again boyfriend Brian Austin Green, “I’m going to stab you with something”? Fox opens up about childhood panic attacks, the only two relationships she’s ever had, and her struggle to reconcile her public persona with her true self. “I don’t really want to share myself with the public,” she says. “I want to deflect attention from my reality.”

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