The News Review:
- Nick Hornby: Foreword for Bill Grundy’s interview with Sex…
- … McLaren: Afterword on Bill Grundy’s interview with the…
- Jimmy Page: Master of excess
- MUSICAL THEATER FEST PACKS A MIX OF SONGS & STYLES
- Universal considering music subscription model
- … release live shows on snocap MyStores.(ONLINE MUSIC SERVICES…
Nick Hornby: Foreword for Bill Grundy’s interview with Sex…
Guardian Unlimited – Sep 15, 2007
Our memories of mid-70s TV are not to be trusted but my feeling is that presenters rarely introduced guests with the cheery acknowledgment “They’re as drunk as I am”. These three minutes altered the course of British popular music – maybe not by much but it certainly arrived at where it was heading a lot quicker than it might have done. Until December 1 1976 very few people had taken much notice of punk. There wasn’t much music you could buy: the Pistols’ single Anarchy in the UK had been released the week before and the Damned’s New Rose a month or so before that but it was perfectly possible to own every English punk record ever made without spending more than a couple of quid. The very next morning however it became a national phenomenon and the cause of a hilarious moral panic. Bill Grundy was suspended. Town councillors nationwide fell over each other to ban the group from appearing in civic halls and leisure centres.
… McLaren: Afterword on Bill Grundy’s interview with the…
Guardian Unlimited – Sep 15, 2007
“Nothing is what is seems” she would always say. My parents grandparents and great-grandparents were all involved in the fashion business and my life ran in tandem with the birth of rock’n'roll. I soon became obsessed with the look of that music and the sound of that fashion. By the dawn of the 70s I had arrived on the King’s Road in Chelsea dressed in a blue lamé suit. I had left home been thrown out of art school lost my virginity become an unwilling parent with zero prospects. I was searching for a way to break the rules change life – and I was looking to turn art into action. I opened my first store Let It Rock with the sole purpose of smashing the English culture of deception… It was live TV and the Sex Pistols were front page. The media needed a name to describe this attitude. They labelled it “Punk”. It stuck like glue. Then the tour dates started to fall out. I couldn’t have been more pleased. We boarded our tour bus and drove up north.
Jimmy Page: Master of excess
The Independent – Independent – Sep 15, 2007
For Page an art-college drop-out from Epsom in Surrey who worked his passage as a session player before the glory years of Led Zep the discovery of the instrument was he said in 2006 “almost a calling”. But then Led Zep were like that. In no way formally religious their music none the less dealt in myth and deeper powers and sacred relics and strange symbolism and it stirred the souls of adolescent males like nothing before or since. The concept of the “stadium” rock band really began with Led Zeppelin. With their albums selling by the multi-million they bestrode the world’s biggest concert venues with music that overwhelmed the listener. And because it was guitars-and-drums massively amplified and the riffs seemed to travel via Valhalla it got labelled heavy metal when as any Led Zep fan will tell you there was far more to it than that. And the dark heart of Led Zep was Jimmy Page a man who acquired notoriety through his fascination with the occult (he was a follower of Aleister Crowley and even bought the house that the early 20th-century mystic once lived in) and who in the band’s heyday found that strong drugs were an indispensable part of the creative process… But they might have to settle for a cut-down version. The band have agreed to just a 30-minute set but also to perform “all their hits”. Said to be the most requested song on American radio “Stairway to Heaven” for many people came to symbolise the worst excesses of mid-1970s “pomp” rock – overblown pretentious nonsense – and therefore deserving of the obliteration that the arrival of punk rock almost instantly conferred upon it. Certainly by the late 1970s groups like Led Zeppelin had gone cripplingly out of fashion but 30 years later nothing in music is beyond reappraisal and the last few days show that the band’s hold over people’s imaginations is still very powerful. But beyond that? “The only significance” says Mark Ellen “is that it’s their first step towards doing what everyone else is doing: capitalising on the fact that – like The Police like anyone with any world profile – if you split up in the 1980s and reform in the 21st century you discover your audience is 10 times as big as it was. “Page has remained active in music throughout the years since Led Zep broke up. Twice the surviving members briefly got together – for the Live Aid concert in 1985 and for an Atlantic Records show in 1988 – and Plant and Page formed a successful duo in the 1990s.
MUSICAL THEATER FEST PACKS A MIX OF SONGS & STYLES
New York Post – Sep 15, 2007
It runs through Oct. As eclectic as the source material are the musical styles of the various productions – including emo rock zydeco gospel jazz punk and even classical. It leads off with “The Angle of the has definitely grown in stature. Several of its previous presentations have gone on to commercial runs including the long-running hit “Altar Boyz” and such critically acclaimed works as “[title of show]” “The Big Voice: God or Merman” and “Gutenberg! The Musical. ” “We’re hoping now after four years that we’re going to be here a long time” said executive director Kris Stewart at a recent preview of excerpts from some of the 2007 lineup. The theatrical community has come out in full force to embrace and support the festival; many well-known performers will be appearing in the lineup… orgVoila! – Some of the most more promising offerings in this year’s NYMTF:”Gemini: The Musical”: Albert Innaurato has written the book for this adaptation of his own long-running hit comedy about a family in South Philly. “Sympathy Jones”: Kate Shindle plays the title role in this tale about a receptionist who dreams of being a master spy. “Love Kills”: Obie-winning playwright Kyle Jarrow (“Children’s Scientology Project”) wrote the book music and lyrics for this musical about the true-life killings that inspired the film “Badlands” and “Natural Born Killers. “”Roller Derby”: Five-time Tony nominee Donald McKayle (“Raisin”) directs this show featuring a score co-written by famed orchestrator and composer Harold Wheeler. “Such Good Friends”: Brad Oscar and Liz Larsen star in this musical comedy about the early days of television. “Look What a Wonder Jesus Has Done”: A gospel musical featuring a large cast about an ex-slave trying to procure his family’s freedom.
Universal considering music subscription model
Afterdawn.com – Sep 15, 2007
A little searching and decision will be needed on who will be the replacement. The older I have gotten the less music I listen to. Well this is the way things may be going weather you listen to music or not! Frankly I don’t see how people bitch and moan about this when they also pay public taxes on things they never see any benefit from. YET they have to pay the public taxes anyway… i think they should charge less for their stuff so people can actaully buy their stuff. I like rock punk so theere are like 50 bands i like so i have to spend at leas t 500 dollars (if they are on special :O ) not gonna happen. Start selling cd’s chepaer dvd’s cheaper and you’ll do fine at the end of the day you are losing more money cuz of piracy. 50% of internet bandwith worlwide is used on p2p wich means moneyloss.
… release live shows on snocap MyStores.(ONLINE MUSIC SERVICES…
Free with registration – Online Reporter – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 15, 2007
(15-SEP-07) The Online Reporter. This time live tracks from punk bands Circle Jerks and Agent Orange’s performances from the final show of the 2007 Vans Warped Tour are available on the bands’ resp.