Happy Saturday from the Cleve! First of all, I was thrilled that my review of the new Smithereens live album wound up front and center on lead singer Pat Dinizio’s website. Thanks Pat!
You can talk to Lou Reed about a lot of different things – just don’t ask him any stock questions.
Billy Joel’s The Stranger turns 30 with an awesome reissue that includes a bonus CD and DVD to boot. Call this one a box set – Sean Daly has the basic details on the set that you’ll want to know.
My blogging brother in arms TJ @ Viva La Mainstream is a fan of the new Coldplay album, and ya know what? I’m digging it too!
TJ also reviews the new Disturbed album Indestructible, which is surprisingly very solid, in my opinion!
Tech buddy TDavid offers up the counterpoint to my Journey review, giving Revelation a passing grade, but not by much!
Bad Religion mainman Brett Gurewitz spills the details to Rolling Stone about the reissue of last year’s New Maps of Hell. Gurewitz also says that the music industry is about to enter “a golden age.”
Michigan’s Van Andel Arena becomes “Van Halen” Arena in honor of the VH show. That makes me remember when the I-X Center here in Cleveland became the “INXS Center” in honor of the Welcome To Wherever You Are tour stop from the band.
Wayne and Garth reunited for the first time in 14 years. I want to tell you that it was great, but it wasn’t THAT great. Good to see ’em though!
Vinyl notes:
Vinyl makes a comeback in the MP3 age according to Rolling Stone.
The vinyl issue of the Harold and Maude soundtrack (available for the first time in any format as a vinyl pressing that sold out quickly) has become an instant collector’s item.
Newbury Comics is selling $100,000 a month worth of new vinyl.
Highlights this week here at Addicted to Vinyl:
Summertime reading never felt as heavy as it does right now with this book on Slayer’s Reign in Blood album.
Chris Akin gets the goods from former Anthrax singer, and current Armored Saint frontman John Bush.
Having worked with many radio cheeseballs, I dug The Morning Guy video, a lot!
Next week: Iron Maiden hits Cleveland for a show at Blossom Music Center! Up the irons!
When I heard that Dana Carvey and Mike Myers played Wayne and Garth on the MTV Movie Awards I thought, “Wait a second, doesn’t Carvey still hate Myers for stealing his Lorne Michaels impression when he played Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers movies? And didn’t Carvey say that his relationship with Myers on the ‘Wayne’s World’ movies was completely different than it was on the show, i.e. Myers’s first draft of the ‘Wayne’s World 1’ script only included Garth in a few scenes? Oh well, maybe they’ve buried the hatchet.” Then I saw that Carvey’s new HBO stand-up special is airing next Saturday. My guess is that Carvey still doesn’t have a clean slate with Myers, but he’s no dummy when opportunity knocks. (See what I did there? Dana, I’m available to do all your PR. Call me!)
That’s interesting – I don’t think I was aware of that whole storyline….and if I was, it’s been fourteen years, so I had kind of forgotten about it, since I had largely tuned Wayne and Garth out of my daily thoughts.
I did pick up the Waynes World (both movies on one) DVD a couple of years ago. That, and the Bill & Teds box set (even though I haven’t watched the bonus disc) are two of the more necessary purchases in my DVD library.
It covers me in moments like last week, when I saw the above linked Wayne’s World MTV appearance, and thought to myself “self, I need to watch those movies again!”