Monday November 9, 2009
Creed
LIVE Electric Performance!
Talk about an apt title; “Full Circle” is the name of the new Creed album and if any band has ever come full circle it’s the Florida quartet. Been there, done that several times over for most anything anyone can toss at them. Stupendous success with thirty-five million copies of three albums sold, check. Internal strife with the departure of one member leaving? Check. A brouhaha at an airport resulting in international news coverage? Check. Sold out concerts worldwide for adoring fans? Check. A catalog of incredible songs any artist would be proud of? Check. A bar fight with another band? Yep, that’s a check too. A class action lawsuit by some irritated fans who felt shortchanged? Check. Ummmm, wait a minute, who else can lay claim to that one? Actually no one we’re aware of. At least that we can think of. A comeback tour and outstanding new reunion album? Check. And check it out if you haven’t already, because it will bring you full circle as well. The Creed story is a movie waiting to be filmed.
Feel free to visit the band at Creed.com or on their MySpace. And definitely tune in to our next show because it’s a visit you’ll want to make time for as the band plugs in and performs a live, electric set featuring new songs and some of their all-time favorites as well. We have one rule on the show now and that is that there are no rules. We learned the band was going to be in our area briefly to appear on the Tonight Show, but that it wasn’t on a date where we could do the show live with them. It was on a Monday, but it wasn’t a Monday when we had an opening. So, what we did was invite them into our studio on November 2, the same day we had Flyleaf join us. Creed came in early and we recorded a show exactly as if we were doing it live. The result is a rippin’, rockin’, full throttle concert of epic proportions. All you have to do for this show is turn up your radio and enjoy a powerful, creative band at the top of their game once again. The guys kick it in gear from the very first song (“Bullets”) and t gets better and better as they tear through a well chosen blend of early and new material. We had a brief chat with the guys to catch up and to learn how they’re getting along. We were pleased to learn they’re doing as well with one another as they are in playing their songs. In case you missed their summer tour, this is an easy way to catch up.
Superstar band regroups and sounds better than ever? Check. Whatever you do, check out Creed in concert exclusively on our next ROCKLINE. We’ll let them take you higher and it won’t cost a penny. That means no check at all and in today’s economy that’s priceless.
Wednesday November 11, 2009
The Doors - New CD:
Live in New York
What a package! No, not that kind. “The Doors: Live in New York” is a six disc, incredibly comprehensive chronicle featuring some of the most legendary concerts The Doors performed in their short but storied career. All four shows from the Felt Forum in January of 1970 are presented in their entirety in this beautiful package created by the folks who do these compilations the best, Rhino Records. If you’re not aware, The Doors were quite possibly the first jam band in Rock history. No two concerts were ever exactly the same as they switched song sequences, song lengths and the manner in which they performed their compositions. The result was, and the band will verify this, that some nights simply weren’t as good as others and some nights were the makings of legend. For the rare person who witnessed all four of these show they, for all intents and purposes, saw four distinctly different shows performed on two nights. That’s the way it was back then, artists frequently played two sets in one night and The Doors actually did as many as four shows in one night. Today one would have to take out a second mortgage on their home to afford four concerts in two days, but when these shows were performed a ticket cost $5.50. That’s not a typo…. $5.50 to see The Doors.
This remarkable series of shows were staged only a few weeks before the release of their “Morrison Hotel” album, which meant attendees were hearing brand new songs for the first time. In today’s age, if a band performs unreleased songs they become available worldwide on the Internet within minutes. What songs they were! “Roadhouse Blues” and “Ship of Fools” as well as “Peace Frog” and “Maggie M’Gill”, were tunes destined to become classics. In fact, a couple of those songs can still be heard on Rock radio stations today. Most of these songs from “Live in New York” have never been released prior to this, however, a couple of them surfaced in sundry releases over the years. One thing which will strike you is the stellar sonic quality of this set, the credit for that goes to Bruce Botnick, the bands longtime engineer. There’s ample detail to discuss concerning this historic release, so we’ve invited Robbie Krieger and Ray Manzarek to join us to take your calls, to separate fact from fabrication and to share some stories about what it was like to be part of this seminal band with one of the most innovative, outrageous, captivating, creative and compelling front men in the history of Rock. Mr. Mojo Risin’, Jim Morrison will always remain frozen in time, always twenty-seven years old, forever at the top of his game and eternally resonant with magic and mystique. Living his life like a comet streaking across the sky, Jim’s physical presence ended about eighteen months after these shows were performed, but his cosmic essence will live for centuries to come and these shows serve as a wonderful reminder of his, and the band’s, astonishing impact which was achieved by releasing a scant five albums. What a handful.
“Live in New York” comes alive again on our next ROCKLINE. “Ladies and gentlemen, from Los Angeles, California….The Doors!
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