Last night Arcade Fire covered Stevie Wonder’s ’60s hit “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)” at The Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, MI.
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On March 9, 2014 at MoMa PS1, in memorial of her friend and one-time lover Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith read a letter she wrote to him a few days before he died in 1989, but that he never got to read. The letter is included in her book, “Just Kids.”
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“Repossession Blues” was recorded during the month and a half of rehearsals preceding Dylan’s 115 date world tour of 1978.
They were held at a small converted two story rehearsal space in downtown Santa Monica: the legendary Rundown Studio.
“Repossession Blues”:
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So what exactly is going on between chief Stooge Iggy Pop, and Stooges’ guitarist James Williamson?
First we learned that Williamson and the current version of the Stooges (bassist Mike Watt and drummer Toby Dammit and sax man Steve MacKay) are recording an album, Un-Licked, of officially unreleased Stooges’ songs with guest vocalists including Jello Biafra and Mark Lanegan.
OK, that sounded cool, and the partial version of “Open Up and Bleed” we heard sounds good.
And then, today, Rolling Stone runs an article in which Williamson says that for Iggy, “it’s a hard pill to swallow when someone is doing all your songs with your band and you’re not on it.”
And Iggy counters: “This statement about the ‘hard pill’ sounds kind of passive aggressive to me.:
Rolling Stone also reports: “Last week, a spokesperson for Iggy Pop told Rolling Stone that Iggy wasn’t given an opportunity to participate on the album and he only learned of it in December of 2013, after a Chicago label turned it down.”
Here’s Williamson’s full quote:” He [Iggy] gave me his blessing and wished me success. But it’s a hard pill to swallow when someone is doing all your songs with your band and you’re not on it. I think he’s cool with it so far. We’ll see how things progress…I hope he maintains his positive attitude.”
Here’s Iggy’s full quote: “I don’t have a problem with anything, I don’t oppose anything,” Iggy tells Rolling Stone in a written statement. “This statement about the ‘hard pill’ sounds kind of passive aggressive to me. The guys in the touring group have been phoning and emailing me and my rep before during and after the recordings, wondering how I felt about this. These guys are my friends and we’ve all worked together many years. I am glad someone is paying them; they are working musicians and they need to play. I want to thank all the wonderful singers on this record for covering my songs.”
Come on guys, no hard feelings, OK?
Iggy and The Stooges including James Williamson:
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This past weekend at the second annual Baltimore Popfest, the Pains Of Being Pure At Heart played new songs from their upcoming third album, Days Of Abandon, which will be released on April 22, 2014.
Check out the songs:
“Until the Sun Explodes”:
“Simple and Sure”:
“Masokissed”:
“Beautiful You”:
“Eurydice”
“Art Smock”:
Thanks Stereogum!
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Full performance by Bob Dylan and his band at Lehigh University, Stabler Arena, Bethlehem, PA on April 18, 2013.
Setlist:
1. Things Have Changed
2. Love Sick
3. High Water (For Charley Patton)
4. Soon After Midnight
5. Early Roman Kings
6. Tangled Up In Blue
7. Pay In Blood
8. Visions Of Johanna
9. Spirit On The Water
10. Beyond Here Lies Nothin’
11. Blind Willie McTell
12. What Good Am I?
13. Thunder On The Mountain
14. Scarlet Town
15. All Along The Watchtower
16. Ballad Of A Thin Man
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Arcade Fire performed Prince’s “Controversy” at the Target Center, Minneapolis, MN, last night.
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This is cool.
Bob Dylan at the The Edge, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on September 23, 1995 singing Little Feat leader Lowell George’s “Willin’.”
We miss you Lowell!
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Bob Weir and Ratdog did this awesome 11+ minute version of “Desolation Row” at Shea’s Performing Art Center, Buffalo, New York, on March 4, 2014.
This year’s Tribeca Film Festival will screen a new documentary, “The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir. The festival takes place from April 16 to 27 in NYC.
Here’s what’s on the Tribeca site:
The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir
Directed by Mike Fleiss
(USA) – World Premiere, Documentary
Drop out of school to ride with the Merry Pranksters. Form America’s most enduring jam band. Become a family man and father. Never stop chasing the muse. Bob Weir took his own path to and through superstardom as rhythm guitarist for The Grateful Dead. Mike Fleiss re-imagines the whole wild journey in this magnetic rock doc and concert film, with memorable input from bandmates, contemporaries, followers, family, and, of course, the inimitable Bob Weir himself.
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Two more songs from from Bob Dylan’s June 19, 2010 performance at the Messestadion in Dornbirn, Austria.
If you missed my previous posts on this show, they’re here.
“Like A Rolling Stone”:
“Forever Young”:
Band intro by Bob Dylan:
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