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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Eddie-
Do you know who will close the shows on this KISS/Def Leppard Tour?
–Andy
I would suspect Kiss, but do not know for sure
Eddie I love you, but you could not possibly sit through that garbage? Come on.
What garbage do you speak of? I don’t go see Kiss anymore but I still report the news for those that do..
You could pay for my ticket and I wouldn’t ever go see Kiss again. The magic is long gone. Long gone. Would love to see Def Lep on their own sometime. Would love to see them perform the High N Dry & Pyromania albums in their entirety. Open the show with Let It Go & close with Billy’s Got A Gun! That’s what I’m talking about!
Hello Eddie, did any band ever take an unknown band and break them as support? I can’t think of one over the last 30 years. Most bands like Ozzy, Kiss, Motley Crue and Iron Maiden took bands that were already platinum on the road with them.
TONS of bands took unknown acts as support for decades, hard to do now at the prices being charged and the competition.
Like you said, haven’t heard of a whole lot over the past 30 years, but in the 1960s/70s and early 80s it happened all the time. In many cases, the support would crush the headliner!
A few legendary ones:
Iron Butterfly with Led Zeppelin opening. Black Sabbath with Ted Nugent/(1976) Black Sabbath with Van Halen (1978.) Heart blew off a lot of headliners around ’76/’77 then got outdone by John Cougar in 1982. I know UFO gave a lot of headliners a run for their money in the late 70s/early 80s. Billy Squire opened for Foreigner and many fans liked him better. Van Halen opened for the Stones in New Orleans in 1978 – they made a lot of fans then. The list is endless.
Remember seeing Queensryche (Mindcrime) open for Def Leppard on Hysteria tour …Odd pairing but great show all the way around and Def Leppard fans actually responded pretty favorably to Queenryche. Was cool seeing Queenryche in the round.
Eddie you ever guna have dave grohl on tms. Huge huge fan of show but are a certain few i would like to see n hear what they hav to hear
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When is ace and Pete coming on?
Peter is on next week, do not know about Ace yet. He is not on the E coast