Star Anna - Live Round

Star Anna: This is gonna be good stuff! Go to it! MARCH 12th!

Setlist: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mexico City

Setlist:
01. Monarchy of Roses
02. Can’t Stop
03. Scar Tissue
04. Dani California
05. Factory of Faith
06. Blood Sugar Sex Magik
07. Snow ((Hey Oh))
08. Throw Away Your Television
09. The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie
10. I Like Dirt
11. Under The Bridge
12. Look Around
13. Pea
14. Suck My Kiss
15. Californication
16. By The Way

Encore:
17. Sir Psycho Sexy & They’re Red Hot
18. Soul To Squeeze
19. Give It Away

Walking Papers - European Tour 2013

Walking Papers have announced the following upcoming European tour dates:

European Tour Dates:

April 27th – Tilburg, Netherlands @ 013
April 28th – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ The Winston
April 29th – Hamburg, Germany @ Logo
May 1st – Cologne, Germany @ The Underground
May 2nd – Saarbrucken, Germany @ The Garage
May 3rd – Paris, France @ La Fleche d’Or
May 4th – London, England @ The Garage London
June 11th – Dublin, Ireland @ The Pint
June 12th – Belfast, Northern Ireland @ Voodoo
June 13th – Glasgow, Scotland @ Stereo
June 14th – England @ Download Festival (acoustic set)
June 15th – England @ Download Festival (regular set)
June 16th – Tallinn, Estonia @ Rock Summer Festival

Mike McCready discusses about Layne Staley and John Baker Saunders

Here are a couple of excerpts from PremierGuitar.com‘s new interview with former Mad Season guitarist Mike McCready:

On the difficulty he felt when listening back to the Mad Season album featuring his fallen bandmates Layne Staley and John Baker Saunders: “Tons. I hadn’t listened to that record for 10 or 12 years. I’d listen to it if it was on the radio and I’d feel happy but sad, I don’t know if that makes sense. I’d feel like, I’m proud of this song but I’m also very sad that my friends are not around anymore. So getting over that and listening to the record again and listening to some of the live stuff, is kind of bittersweet. It makes me sad that Layne and Baker are not around to experience life now as an older guy. My values now are different than what they were when I was 26 and I think about what those guys would have been like if they were still around. It’s hard.”

On Mad Season’s formation: “When we got together in 1994 the initial idea of it from my point of view…I was in rehab for booze and I met this guy Baker [John Baker Saunders] in there who played bass and I liked a lot. He was just this funny, crusty old blues player who had some pretty cool stories and was cranking Bob Dylan in his room; I just immediately liked him. So I said, ‘Do you wanna play some blues sometime or come back to Seattle and jam?’ My thought process back then was to help people who were suffering from addictions or alcohol to maybe do a project. That was where my heart was at the time, however naïve it was. That’s kind of where the initial idea for Mad Season came from.”

Scott Weiland interviewed by SPIN says he feels like moboby IS rooting for him

SPIN have a fantastic new interview up with possible Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland. This is the best interview I’ve seen Weiland give in awhile, we are rooting for you Scott!

On the Grunge movement: “Rocketing to success overnight was what you dreamed of, but there’s no way to prepare yourself for it. I don’t think there’ll ever be a time like that again: My band, Nirvana, and Pearl Jam and Soundgarden and Smashing Pumpkins going from indie bands or big local bands and regional bands to being rock stars overnight. It was a pretty magical time. At that point, people were buying CDs and even cassettes. We were selling multi-platinum albums. I think people who are younger look back at that as the last huge organic movement, and people like me or those who are sort of left, there’s a rock’n'roll story that goes along with it — the resurgence of drugs within that culture. It was a perfect storm for a lot of people. There are a lot of people that were casualties though, and that’s what was really unfortunate about it.”

On his past drug addiction: “People would come up to me and say, “Scott, people really root for you.” I haven’t heard that in a long time, and I don’t know why. It was a very special thing that people would say, and I would hear it all the time. But the interesting thing is that it’s been almost 11 years since I used drugs, and I don’t really hear it [anymore] except from my friends. There’s another side of it that I take personally. For example, we had to cross into Canada last night to make it to the show in Niagara Falls, and we went to the border crossing. There was this really cool [customs official], and he took our passports and he asked us if we had anything to declare. We told him we had a little bit of food, a little bit of beverages, and on days off, some of the guys in the band would play some paintball. So we thought everything was cool. He says, “Just pull over on the side for the routine inspection.” So we pull over to the side, and as luck would have it, this Mr. Mountie Friendly read us the inquisition about past transgressions decades long-gone. That’s a life I barely recognize anymore, and the point is, I’ve been on tour throughout Canada over the last couple decades many, many times. I’ve never been treated that way before. It was kind of shocking, and it was actually kind of humiliating.”

Mike McCready Says He'll try his damndest to get new Pearl Jam album out this year, talks new songs

Here are a couple of excerpts from PremierGuitar.com‘s new interview with Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready:

On Pearl Jam’s new album: “Well, we’re gearing up to finish the second part of the record that we started about two years ago. We all decided to pull back a little bit after we had done about seven songs, which I think are going to be on the next record. I’m not really sure. It all depends upon how this next session goes. I have a feeling that we’ll have something out this year. We are all very prolific in bringing in ideas and we’re all in conversation and are starting to rehearse in about a month. I feel like we’ll have something by this year. I don’t know that everyone in the band feels that way, but I’m going to do my damndest to move it along if I can have any kind of say in it. I would really like to get it out this year because we would really like to do some touring and things like that.”

On Pearl Jam’s songwriting process: “It’s all of those things. Specifically for myself, I will demo ideas in my studio and try to make them as good as possible and if Matt [Cameron] isn’t around I will use a local drummer friend of mine to help me get an idea down. So I’ll bring fully realized demos to the equation and then it all kind of changes from there because everybody kind of goes, ‘Well why don’t you take out this part or put this in here or move this over here or do half of that?’ Stone [Gossard] and Jeff [Ament] are great editors so once you have your demo you bring it in and people scrutinize it and they either like it or they don’t. If they do then I just go, ‘Dude, if you have any ideas, just go for it.’ I also want to be able to add to people’s songs in the way that I do and I think I’m kind of the coloring on top of a lot of ideas and melodies at times. I feel like if Ed [Vedder] brings in a song, I want to be able to do a solo that’s cool for it. He may not have any ideas for what that is yet until I do it right there on the spot. Sometimes Jeff will bring in a couple of riffs and we’ll just jam on that. Matt will bring in parts of stuff. That being said, everyone brings in fully realized demos, too. It’s like everything; we have a lot of stuff. We don’t have any outside songwriters. [Laughs.]”

Setlist: Dave Grohl & The Sound City Players on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Setlist:

John Fogerty:
1. Travelin’ Band Creedence Clearwater Revival cover)
2. Centerfield (John Fogerty cover)
3. Keep on Chooglin’ (Creedence Clearwater Revival cover)
4. Proud Mary (Creedence Clearwater Revival cover)
5. Fortunate Son (Creedence Clearwater Revival cover)

Rick Springfield:
6. The Man That Never Was
7. Love Is Alright Tonight (Rick Springfield cover)
8. I’ve Done Everything for You (Sammy Hagar cover)
9. The Man That Never Was (Was played a second time for TV broadcast)
10. Jessie’s Girl (Rick Springfield cover)

Lee Ving. Alain Johannes:
11. Your Wife Is Calling
12. I Love Livin’ in the City (Fear cover)
13. I Don’t Care About You (Fear cover)
14. Foreign Policy (Fear cover)

Rick Nielsen, Krist Novoselic: 
15. Hello There (Cheap Trick cover)
16. Stiff Competition (Cheap Trick cover)
17. I Want You to Want Me (Cheap Trick cover)
18. Surrender (Cheap Trick cover)

Note: Special taping for Jimmy Kimmel Live. Hollywood Blvd. in Los Angeles was closed down for this concert. Estimated attendance was 5,000.