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WIRE: FROM ALLEN WOODY TO DAVID BOWIE TO STYX |
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The News Wire that is rapidly running out of interesting opening lines... • The Allman Brothers, members of the Black Crowes, and the Grateful Deads Phil Lesh are all scheduled to perform at a concert at New Yorks
Proceeds from the show will go toward a trust fund to be set up for Woodys wife, Jenny, and daughter Savannah. Chris and Rich Robinson of the Black Crowes will perform, their joint tour with Jimmy Page having been postponed indefinitely due to the guitarists back trouble. Govt Mules Warren Haynes and Matt Abts will also play in tribute to their departed bandmate. General-admission tickets to the concert are $75 each and can be obtained via Ticketmaster. According to the Hittin the Web With the Allman Brothers site, which has also posted a graphic of the poster advertising the show, fans wont be able to line up outside the venue prior to 5:30 p.m. the day of the concert. • Paul McCartney admitted to a British tabloid that he asked his late wife, Linda McCartney, for advice from beyond the grave on his current romance with model Heather Mills. "Shes a great girl and I have to talk [to Linda] about that," he said. "You know, What am I doing, babe? How do you feel about this." The budding spiritualist said, not surprisingly, that Linda only wanted him to be happy. • "I dont think I have ever played in such a beautiful setting before," Elton John said about performing at Athens Herod Atticus amphitheater over the weekend. The 2,000-year-old theater probably saw the premiere of the Greek stage hit Oedipus at Colonus, but like Elton, its still standing. John didnt seem to think much of the rest of the Greek capital, however. He shuttled back and forth to the venue from his villa in Nice, France, 940 miles away. • David Bowie and his wife, Iman, have had the first baby snapshots of month-old Alexandria Zahra Jones, the couples first child, printed in Hello!, a British picture magazine. Bowie said, "It is amazing how a new child can refocus ones direction seconds after its birth. Everything falls into a feeling of rightness." You know you want to see photos of the laughing gnomes gnome, so visit the mags Web site by clicking here. • The Jayhawks and Sixpence None the Richer gave up their guitars for trowels on Monday, September 11, and put their backs into building houses for the nonprofit group Habitat for Humanity. Gary Louris of the Jayhawks was at a build in Harlem, in New York City, with former President Jimmy Carter, but admitted, "Im very unhandy. My wife is the one who fixes things around the house." • An off-duty police officer has been put on paid administrative leave following an accusation that he urinated on Pearl Jams soundboard during a concert in Mansfield, Mass., on August 29. The officer was ejected by security after the alleged incident, but police didnt arrest him because there was no probable cause. The Cape Cod Times says the cop could face a felony charge for destruction of property. • Kiss will not rest until they have squeezed every last dime from their fans pockets. Which might be why the band is throwing a pay-per-view event via Showtime Event Television on October 7. The concert is being billed as "one of the final performances of the legendary rock band Kiss," chillingly implying that we will never be rid of them. You have a month to apply your face paint. • Public Enemy and Ice-T saw the future and signed up to have their latest albums distributed online by the label Atomic Pop. Unfortunately, Atomic Pop didnt have a future, even if it was headed by former CBS Records and MCA Music head Al Teller. On September 8, the label laid off most of its staff. A statement said the Internet upstart "plans to continue operations with a significantly reduced overhead." • How much would it cost you to get into Britney Spears jeans? Only $7,020. Thats how much a bidder paid for a pair of the Louisiana Lolitas trousers in the Undress for MS-Yahoo! Celebrity Jeans Auction. The auction raised $114,000 for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and included leg-wear donated by Leonardo DiCaprio (which fetched $22,700) and Faith Hill (an un-Britney-like $1,510). • What the world needs now is a Styx live album. But what if that Styx live album also featured hits by REO Speedwagon? To commemorate their co-headlining tour this summer, the two AOR behemoths are releasing Arch Allies - Live at Riverport on September 26. The two-CD set will include both bands performing their hits like "Come Sail Away" and "Keep On Loving You." • Joan Osborne on art versus money: "I went into the studio with a bunch of different people, but it never turned out to be anything the record company wanted to release. I got a call last December from my manager; he said, Are you sitting down? You dont have a record deal anymore ... I felt like that was the only thing I could do was to keep working, and eventually something good will happen with that." • Steve Van Zandt believes the Emmys gave The Sopranos a pair of concrete boots: "One Emmy out of 18 nominations? And last year, four out of 16? Im convinced theyre prejudiced about gangsters. A) Were on cable, B) were in New York, and C) maybe they dont want to reward a show about gangsters." Paranoid gangsters, at that. |
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