ASH ARE BURNING BRIGHTLY
Last year saw the 30th anniversary of WISHBONE ASH, and on April 22nd, 2000 the band played the special concert at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire, which is released on DVD and VHS now. They covered material both old and new plus presented acoustic renditions of favorites, 
and the attendants witnessed the guest appearances by ASH’s former guitarist Laurie Wisefield and Claire Hamill on vocals.
The set list on the release is as following:
Real Guitars Have Wings, The King Will Come, F.U.B.B., Ballad Of The Beacon, Errors Of My Way, No Joke, Strange Affair, Living Proof, Blowin’ Free/Bad Weather Blues, Phoenix, Come In From The Rain/Vas Dis, Hard Times.
Also there’s a bonus feature: Wonderful Stash video and photo album.
As of remixed “Argus” release mentioned before, the date is set and it’s March 2nd, 2002.
PAICE VISUAL
DEEP PURPLE’s Ian Paice immersed himself in a various DVD projects. Not to mention Paul McCartney’s “Live At The Cavern” to be out soon, there’s a work going on on a DVD documenting Paice’s appearance on August 4th at the Abbey Road Studio 3, where the drummer jammed with his old friends Miller Anderson and Colin Hodgkinson and recorded two tracks with working titles “Paicesetter” and “Dustbins”. With emphasis on the drumming aspect, there will be never before footage material presented of Paice in his PURPLE and WHITESNAKE days.
And there will be more of Paice, as the PAICE, ASHTON, LORD DVD release confirmed. It contains two-hour live performance and the “Lifespan” documentary.
VROOM, ANYONE?
KING CRIMSON fans have the opportunity now to get hold of a double CD compilation from concerts in Mexico City and New York recorded in 1996. The Mexico show was previously available only for download, while the Broadway concert could be purchased by the Crimso Collectors’ Club members only. Robert Fripp called it “an opportunity for the wider world to get lucky and Crim-out. Revisiting this difficult band I find it interests me more today than it did at the time, and at the time I found it very interesting. And exasperating. And irritating. And impossible. And quintessentially Crimson. It was a messy conglomerate of exceptional, exuberant, experienced and energetic talent… and those are only words beginning with “E” this time.” And here it is:
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CD One:
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CD Two:
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