1/7: AC/DC, TMS, CARMINE APPICE & JOE LYNN TURNER, MUCH MORE
Hope everyone is having a good first week of 2015. I’ve been head and shoulders into all kinds of stuff including both radio shows, my podcast and lining up guests for the new season of TMS. As usual that is a tricky balancing act between who’s available when we tape (everyone lives on the W coast, we are back in NYC, so many on tour, etc), who I want, who the network wants, who wants to do the show, etc. But some cool stuff cooking and it should really start to take shape in the next couple weeks. We tape for 12 weeks in NYC starting 2/17 with the season debut 2/21 on VH1C. The network tells me I should have audience ticket info to post in a week or so. I have no doubt when all is said and done we will have a great mix of new, classic, first time and returning rock, hard rock and metal guests. It’s been almost a year lay off and I’m psyched we are finally back! Thanks for all your amazing support and patience. If it was up to me I’d do the show every day! More news here when I can share.
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Very weird to see AC/DC’s first announced US show at Coachella which is far from a hard rock event. But AC/DC are so huge they transcend all music formats these days. Still would have been cool to see them maybe do a big hard rock oriented event. It always strikes me as strange when huge bands do major events outside of their world and that most of their fan base doesn’t care about. Reminds me of when Kiss did their first reunion show for the KROQ Wienie Roast in LA. An alternative radio station that would never play Kiss. But for older bands many get off on seeing younger hip bands show their affection. It makes them feel more contemporary. I’m not saying that’s why AC/DC decided to play this, but I have seen that as the catalyst for decisions like this first hand before. No doubt more AC/DC dates to come for those that aren’t as musical diverse as Coachella.
I’ll be at MVPs in Cincinnati 1/16 and Dockside Tavern in Oshkosh WI 1/17. Tickets on sale now for both. Links on my home page. Come on out and hang! All appearances including a just announced date in DE (3/21 World Cafe Live At The Queen) with Don and Jim on the home page.
I’ve always liked JLT’s work with Rainbow. I hope Blackmore decides at some point to fire up the electric with Rainbow one more time.
Speaking of AC/DC not in the “hard rock” world nowadays, Cliff Williams’s daughter Erin Lucas has managed Marina and the Diamonds, a singer from the U.K. who’s under the “indie” and “dance” genre.
eddie, you forgot to wish jann wenner a happy 69th birthday. come on man!
thank you.
Speaking of “C’mom man,” sympathies for the passing of ESPN’s Stuart Scott. You will be missed.
Dana from ET.com
nice touch, d.
I say this with a sad voice, thanks Elliot. 🙁
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Hi Eddie, looking forward to the new season of TMS. Really confused about AC/DC, why would a band like AC/DC, hard rock legends, participate in a event like that filled with Crappers and Crockers? Doesn’t make any sense to me. Just bring their protégé Airbourne over here to the states and let’s have a wild & crazy ROCK ‘N’ ROLL party! Why waste time on a “festival” like Coachella? ROCK OR BUST, Coachella is a bust! Let’s get back on the “Rock ‘N’ Roll Train” and stay on! No more derailments! 😉
AC\DC will show all the hipsters how it should be done !
It’s called reaching out to a new fan base.
Then all they have to do is bring a younger, hungry, kick-ass band like Airbourne over here to the states with them, and not waste time at a event filled with rappers and other non-musical, no talented idiots. AC/DC is too good, too real and too big to participate in an event like Coachella. Have a nice day Medved.
HELL YES, AIRBOURNE!!!!
I’m not sure, bug didn’t Metallica play Coachella once? As long as AC/DC doesn’t do Lalapolooza (is that even around any more?).
Can’t wait for new TMS episodes. It’s great the show is almost here again!
You and me both James! Can’t believe it’s been almost a year since the last new TMS episode! And hopefully after this season, we won’t have to wait almost a year again for another one! I know if Eddie had his way it’d be every week, and that’d be our way as well. Cheers! 🙂
I’m thinking about getting my buds over to my house the night of the premier episode of the new TMS season and making up drinking games to go along with the show, like: Every time someone says “Rock And Roll Hall Of Shame” we all do a shot of whiskey and every time during Stump The Trunk when Eddie says “Are you kidding me?!” when someone asks him some ridiculous question, we’ll all have to shotgun a can of beer. And when Jim says “Eddie, I don’t know how this one got in here” we’ll all slam a Blacktooth (Shot of Crown Royal, splash if Coke, R.I.P. Dime). And every time Jennifer makes an appearance we’ll all drink a Jagerbomb. Thank God I don’t work on Sundays!
James, you’re my kind of party animal! Mas Tequila! CHEERS BUD! 🙂