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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Nobody should be surprised at a co-headlining tour and all these package deals. It’s the same as in the 1980s and onward when we saw package deals of Motown bands and 1950/60s groups – some featured ZERO original or pivotal members. This is a natural part of the aging and impending death of a musical genre for all intents and purposes. Our generation thought we were so much better or more special than the be-boppers, big-band generation and fans of do-wop and 50s music. It’s exactly the same. Their music has died down to a “remnant level” and ours will too. The great stuff will live on – Beatles, Zep, Pink Floyd and a few others, just like people today still are aware of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Elvis, Frank Sinatra et. al.
The last part of your Blog is all too true…we’ve seen Manson/Zombie, KISS/Crue, and Crue w/ Alice, and now KISS/Def Lep, among others…this has been a trend for some time, however. Yes, it does give the concert-goer “bang for bux”, but those ticket prices are completely out of control. And, if we factor in parking, a t-shirt (or other merch), and food/beverages, an average person can easily drop $300-500 for just one show, not including “VIP experience”, which can run hundreds or even thousands more… That’s out of control.
Not if you have a real job and can afford it.
Did you hear that Zakk Wylde’s trademark guitar and vest went missing in Chicago?
I’m sure there will be a band open up the KISS OF DEF tour. My pic would be Vintage Trouble or Red Dragon Cartel.
No KISS without ACE and PETER. NO WAY I PAY TO SEE COVER BAND
I really don’t think they care if you attend the show, or not.