Off to NYC for a live radio show tonight. Originally the show was going to be pre recorded but since the H&H Festival in Mexico was cancelled I’m headed in to do it live. Join me 11P-2A ET tonight on Q104.3 NYC, free stream at www.q1043.com or use the free Iheartradio app. Mark Slaughter will call in to debut a new solo song for charity, Glenn Hughes will call in to debut new music from his new band California Breed as well. SO much new stuff out there or coming that is SO good. Was just sent new music from Joe Holmes new band that is killer! Will play a bunch tonight. This is truly one of the best periods for new music and bands I like in a long time. Truly hope some of it breaks through but it seems harder and harder these days to get it across.
NEW TMS tomorrow with Dee Snider, Glenn Hughes on Skype and Chris Caffery on guitar. 11p ET on VH1C.
Don’t forget I’ll be in Largo FL 3/28 to host Jake E Lee. I’ll also be doing a pre show meet and greet and selling and signing both books. Hope to see you at Cultural Events Center. Then the MOR Cruise!
Kiss & Def Leppard will announce a tour together this Summer on Monday. Look no further for how competitive the touring circuit has become for your dollars when you see bands that once were headliners on their own teaming up like this. Good for fans to get the double bill but the good seats won’t be cheap and any “VIP” stuff very pricey. But the entire music business now revolves around the road and touring, so everything is for sale and all will work to make their package more attractive than others. Plenty of choices this Summer it’s looking like with many more announcements to come. Seems in the rock world there are very few bands left that can truly headline anymore and take out unknown acts to break them as support. Which kind of sucks for new developing artists who once found new fans from these tours. But bands just can’t risk the lack of ticket sales with a lesser known support act and not more of a co headline more and more it seems.
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AC/DC can fill any arena in the world…and they will again in 2014. Hope you can get Brian on…obviously he likes what you do so keep calling, texting, trying. He’ll do it for you.
Mexico is a shithole. Have been there on road trips and cruises, and I’m not going back. Blowflies must consider it a vacation destination. Be happy that it was cancelled.
Looking forward to TMS tomorrow, and also MOR Cruise. See you on the boat!
Rush, Metallica, Van Halen, Bon Jovi, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, Iron Maiden, Guns ‘n Roses and maybe a couple other still touring hard rock bands can still play arenas without having a proven special guest in the opening slot. It’s certainly an elite group of bands. Fans definitely want more for their concert dollars so multiple bands on the bill is the model that seems to work. I like hitting two or three birds with one stone.
Like Tool I saw the other night, they are not on Itunes they are not on the radio they don’t do interviews and they don’t promote themselves and they sell out every where and they can play like mad men
On the KISS/Motley tour, they had The Treatment opening for them. Great new band and they won me over. So the opportunities are still there. 🙂
If you get in at 6PM, which most people don’t
Eddie, I agree but the times have changed. Those new bands are now getting plenty of exposure through social media and outlets like you. Back then in the era of corded phones we saw those bands on tour with the big guys. Now we only have to search the net for “new rock bands” and we get a list to choose to listen to. And as far as spreading the word, if we went to a show back then and saw a new band how many friends could we tell? Now one person can spread the word for a new band to thousands of people. It’s the apathy and complacent of people that have hurt the rock scene.
Agree to a point but there is no substitute for seeing a band live and that experience
Def Leppard & Kiss are calling their tour “The Heroes Tour” to greatly help Our Troops and their Families. Kudos to Elliott, Savage, Allen, Collen, Campbell, Simmons,Stanley, Thayer and Singer.
Money grab tour 2014 for suckers only, waste of anyone’s money, maybe there like and ugly girl drink until they sound good