Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford says the band is considering replacing Steven Tyler after Tyler's erratic behavior in the past several months. Speaking to Classic Rock magazine, Whitford says the band plans to hold meetings "probably without Tyler" in the near future to discuss their future, and one direction being considered is to replace Tyler with a new singer. And it was just last week that Tyler told a reporter l that he was done with Aerosmith and was going to focus on solo projects. Whitford says he's not sure how good a new lead singer for Aerosmith would work out, it would largely depend on who they could get and who would want to do it adding, "That's big shoes to fill." This latest drama started in August, when Tyler fell offstage during a gig in South Dakota, causing the band to postpone a South American tour. In recent tours Tyler had also been given a separate dressing room to the rest of the band, Whitford revealed.Meanwhile, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry now says that band frontman Steven Tyler "wants to take a couple years off and do some of whatever he wants to do and the rest of the band wants to keep working." - New Musical Express...
Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has hinted the Stones may be preparing to tour in 2010. Wood recently told the BBC that the band, who have not toured together since finishing their Bigger Bang tour in 2007, are getting along well and that he recently met with Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts. "Let's hope so, yeah!" Wood told the BBC. In other Ron Wood news, he's expected to pay his ex-wife Jo a sum of 6.5 million pounds after the two were given a "quickie" divorce . A judge at London's High Court granted a decree after Wood admitted adultery by dating 21-year-old Ekaterina Ivanova shortly before separating with Jo, to whom he had been married for 24 years. Jo left Ronnie in 2008 when his relationship with the teenager became worldwide news. The pair have two children together and two by previous relationships. - The Independent/NME.... - NME.
The Who's Roger Daltrey says he's having "terrible trouble" finding a movie script about his late bandmate Keith Moon "that isn't just 'Carry on Keith'." "I won't let it be made until it's right," Daltrey says of the Moon project, which is titled See Me, Feel Me: Keith Moon Naked For Your Pleasure. "It's something I can do in a period of my life where perhaps singing has to take a back seat. So, I'm not worried about it. I just want it to be right. And I want whatever they do make of Keith Moon to be something of depth and quality that shows the complexity of the man." Moon died at age 32 in 1978 from a drug overdose. Also, The Who has been tapped to be the musical act during the high profile halftime show at the upcoming Super Bowl XLIV on Feb. 7 in Miami, Fla. This will be the Who's first performance in North America since 2008. - Billboard....
John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and his sons Sean and Julian Lennon are marking the 40th anniversary of John and Yoko's single "Give Peace a Chance" by releasing it exclusively at Apple's iTunes store. Net proceeds from all sales through Dec. 31 will benefit the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund. John and Yoko composed "Give Peace a Chance" during their March 1969 honeymoon bed-in protest against the Vietnam War. It was originally released by the Plastic Ono Band on July 4, 1969. Meanwhile, Ono has also teamed up with Hard Rock International for an "Imagine There's No Hunger" campaign. The campaign will raise money for non-profit anti-poverty group World Hunger Year. the album, called SERV4 includes Lennon's "Gimme Some Truth," costs $12, with the songs selling for $0.99 each. It is available through the Hard Rock cafes, hotels and website, with downloads also from iTunes and Amazon. - LiveDaily/Reuters..
Former Kinks frontman Ray Davies has released The Kinks Choral Collection, a reinterpretation of several Kinks classics. Davies says he's "been in the studio with a couple other members of the Kinks, specifically original drummer Mick Avory and later members bassist Jim Rodford and keyboardist Ian Gibbons and says he may record some new songs he's been writing with them. Davies says he isn't sure whether his brother and fellow founding Kinks member Dave Davies -- who suffered a stroke in 2004 but continues to make music -- will become part of the proceedings but he says they've talked about it. Davies is currently doing a U.S. tour on…. also in the works is a British tour of the Kinks-based musical "Come Dancing" with hopes of eventually opening it in London's West End. - Billboard
Former Bachman-Turner Overdrive members Randy Bachman and Fred Turner are being sued in Canadian court by Randy's own brother, former BTO member Robin Bachman and former BTO member Blair Thornton over name rights. Robin Bachman and Blair Thornton launched the lawsuit claiming Randy Bachman and Fred Turner signed away the rights to the Bachman-Turner Overdrive and BTO names in three separate contracts. The lawsuit states that Randy Bachman and Turner signed two further deals in 1984 and 2002, saying they wouldn't use the Bachman-Turner Overdrive name in connection to new recordings and live performances. Robin Bachman and Thornton are asking for a permanent injunction stopping Randy Bachman and Fred Turner from using the BTO and Bachman-Turner Overdrive names. The pair is also looking for financial damages for loss of market share, income and profit. - Canadian Press....
Paul McCartney's 2-CD/1-DVD release Good Evening New York City, a document of his July 2009 stand at New York's Shea Stadium-replacing Citi Field is now in stores. the new release is more than 2 and a half hours long including Beatles songs as well as songs from Paul's last Fireman lp. This is McCartney's sixth live album since 1990 and features a nearly identical version of "Hey Jude" and "Live and Let Die," plus a blazing version of "Day Tripper," which hadn't been touched since the 1960s. Best is "A Day in the Life," featuring Sir Paul singing both his and John Lennon's parts. Meanwhile, the ABC television network has announced that McCartney and Beyoncé will star in back-to-back one-hour specials on Thanksgiving night (Nov. 26). McCartney's special will air first at and include highlights from the July Citi Field concert, and both specials will offer interviews and personal glimpses of the stars. Also, Paul's son James McCartney has formed a band called The Light with two pals from McCartney's hometown of Liverpool. Entertainment Weekly/Rolling Stone/Music-News.com.
The Clash will release a "30th Anniversary Legacy Edition" of their acclaimed 1979 set London Calling on Dec. 14. Since a 25th anniversary music-only London Calling was released in 2004, it is expected the new release will be a CD/DVD package. - NME.
Bob Seger will release a 10-song album dubed Early Seger, Vol. 1 on Nov. 24 exclusively via Meijers stores in the Midwest, then on his official website three days later. Highlights of the collection are four unreleased tracks, three of which -- "Star Tonight," "Wildfire" and "Days When the Rain Would Come" -- were written during the early '80s. Early Seger will be the Michigan rocker's first album since Face the Promise in 2006. Seger is not planning any live appearances to promote the album but is said to be considering additional volumes of the collection. - Billboard...
Neil Young's first four solo albums have been remastered and reissued as part of his ongoing "Archives" campaign. The albums -- 1969's Neil Young and Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, 1970's After the Gold Rush, and 1972's Harvest, are available individually on both "24 karat gold" compact disc and 140-gram vinyl. The four albums are also available in limited-edition box sets exclusively online at Young's website and at BecauseSoundMatters.com. Young's next album, Dreamin' Man Live '92, is due Dec. 8. It's an acoustic concert from 1992 featuring the Harvest Moon album performed live. - LiveDaily......
Jimmy Buffett will release a new studio album, Buffett Hotel, on Dec. 8, the follow-up to his 2006 studio set Take the Weather With You. Buffett says he was inspired to write the music on the upcoming release during a recent trek to West Africa to attend the "Festival In The Desert," an annual music fest that takes place near Timbuktu, Mali. Buffett has already been performing several of the new album's songs on his tour, including "Summerzcool," which he describes as "the quintessential beach song," and "Surfing In A Hurricane," the first surf song Buffett has ever written. LiveDaily..
A new song by Paul McCartney titled "(I Want To) Come Home" will appear in the soundtrack for the upcoming Robert De Niro-starred film Everybody's Fine. Macca composed the song after being given an early screening of the film, which is about a widower named Frank (De Niro) who works out his connection to his family was only through his late wife and sets up a road trip to reunite with his grown up children. "I could definitely identify with Robert De Niro's character because I have grown-up kids who have their own families," Sir Paul said. Everybody's Fine will hit U.S. theaters in December. - Undercover..
Three new rock books have just been released. Bruce Springsteen's sax player Clarence Clemons opens up about his tales of life on the road in his new book Big Man: Real Life and Tall Tales. Clemons, who has been playing with Springsteen since 1971, also talks about the birth of the E Street Band, recent health problems, and his special relationship with Bruce...... Though it's packed with great photos and artifacts, a new Led Zeppelin biography dubbed Shadows Taller Than Our Souls also makes room for some scholarly analysis -- named the idea that Zep were as sophisticated as any high-toned artiste and a posthumously released book of essays by late music critic Robert Palmer titled Blues and Chaos: The Music Writing of Robert Palmer collects revealing interviews with Eric Clapton, John Lennon, Jerry Lee Lewis and William S. Burroughs.......
The Beatles Fab Four's company Apple Corps has completed a deal with Walt Disney Studios to remake the 1968 animated Beatles movie Yellow Submarine. The new state-of-the-art movie will be written and directed by Robert Zemeckis (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump) and feature the same soundtrack of songs as the original. "Yellow Submarine is one of the greatest fantasy films of all time, and making this new 3D performance capture movie is a dream come true for me," Zemeckis said in a statement. "With the latest advances in technology, we will be able to take moviegoers on a voyage unlike any other." Disney has penciled in a 2012 release date for the new Yellow Submarine. - Undercover.
Authorities in Great Britain say they will "review" the mysterious 1969 death of founding Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones after new evidence has emerged. Detectives in Sussex say they've acquired new documents relating to the death of the 27-year-old Jones, who was found dead in July 1969 at the bottom of a private swimming pool at Cotchford Farm in Hartfield, East Sussex. A verdict of death by misadventure was recorded at the time, although some fans have since claimed he was murdered. Although a review of the "new papers" has been announced, a spokesperson for the police said it was too early to say whether a new investigation will be launched. - The BBC/NME...
Kiss members Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons are reportedly in negotiations to create a Las Vegas show with a $50 million budget. The Vegas publication Las Vegas Review Journal says the show is expected to be called "Kiss: Carnival of Souls" and that Stanley and Simmons are working on the project with comic book publisher Radical Publishing and Singapore company Storm Lion. The show is expected to open in 2011. - Undercover...
