NO OTHER THAN DEAD
After Gerry Garcia’s death, the rest of GRATEFUL DEAD – guitarist Bob Weir, bassist Phil Lesh and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann – keen to continue playing, decided Garcia-less band could bear such a name no more and humbly chose to be called THE OTHER ONES. Now, there’s another decision’s made, in the wake of the audience’s warm response to the ensemble’s performances, and from here on they will be known as THE DEAD.
SHARP EARS ARE TUNED IN
In the beginning, JETHRO TULL had a piece called “Cristmas Song”, later they came up with “Another Christmas Song”, and this November should see a release of a Christmas album that still has no title, yet said to feature three altogether new songs, three traditional carols, four acoustic classical tunes, jazz-upped and blues-downed, and remakes of four Christmas-related Tull songs, two of which are mentioned.
Meanwhile, Ian Anderson doesn’t waste no time and is recording another solo album, his fourth, to be out in September.
WALKIN’ THIN
February 18th is the day when Yoko Ono turns 70. (Our sincere congratulations!) Possibly, to get tuned in for the anniversary, Ms Ono asked PET SHOP BOYS, Neil Tenant and Chris Lowe, to help her produce a dance version of “Walking On Thin Ice”, the very same song she and John Lennon worked on before return home on tragic night of December 9th, 1980. The original version can be found on the “Double Fantasy” remastered edition.
THREE OF US
The nearer the date of “The Beatles Anthology” DVD, out on April 1st, the more details are revealed. One of the bonus material features must be very exciting, namely THE THREETLES jam session recorded when, while working on “new” songs, “Free As A Bird” and “Real Love”, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr got to play together for the first time since THE BEATLES broke up. The tracks taped at George Harrison’s Oxfordshire home in 1994 are “Ain’t She Sweet”, “Blue Moon Of Kentucky”, “Raunchy”, “Thinking Of Linking” and “Baby What You Want Me To Do”, all the early stuff played before the Fabs shoot to fame.
THE WORLD TONIGHT
There’s a strange outing to be released soon by Sir Paul McCartney. Entitled “Back In The World” and following closely after “Back In The U.S.”, it seems to feature songs recorded not on American dates of the artist’s Driving Rain Tour. Traklisting differs from that of the USA album.
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1. Hello Goodbye |
CD 2:
19. Calico Skies |
SURELY NOT HERE
Many people tend to not know what band Rick Wakeman played with outside YES, but such a band there is, THE ENGLISH ROCK ENSEMBLE, a new version of which the keyboard wiz assembled lately to record another fine album, “Out There”. Judging on performers – side by side with Rick are his faithful drummer Tony Fernandez, guitarists Fraser Thorneycroft-Smith and Ant Glynne, bassist Lee Pomeroy and Damian Wilson on vocals, plus English Chamber Choir – and snippets on Wakeman’s site, the album sounds deliciously.
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1. Out There 2. The Mission 3. To Be With You 4. Universe Of Sound 5. Music Of Love 6. Cathedral Of The Sky |
