I don't know if any of you still have Cable/Satellite, but the channel that used to be Palladia and is now MTVLive has been running the Artist Spotlight for Foo Fighters. If you miss Taylor Hawkins like I do, the first of two tribute concerts is Saturday in London. It will be on MTVs YouTube specialty channel at 11am ET and an hour special aired on regular CBS at 10pm ET Saturday night. Lots of good artists scheduled to appear.
The full show is on the Archive: https://archive.org/details/the-taylor-hawkins-tribute-concert-live-from-wembley-stadium?fs=e&s=cl Slide to 1:17:00 if you want to see Dave Grohl, Wolfgang Van Halen, Justin Hawkins and Josh Freese doing ‘Hot For Teacher’. Here's the whole setlist for the 6 hour show: Liam Gallagher with Foo Fighters – ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Star’ Liam Gallagher with Foo Fighters – ‘Live Forever’ Josh Homme, Chris Chaney, Omar Hakim and Nile Rodgers – ‘Let’s Dance’ (David Bowie cover) Gaz Coombes, Chris Chaney, Omar Hakim and Nile Rodgers – ‘Modern Love’ (David Bowie cover) Chevy Metal and The Coattail Riders – ‘Psycho Killer’ (Talking Heads cover) Kesha, Chevy Metal and The Coattail Riders – ‘Children Of The Revolution’ (T-Rex cover) The Coattail Riders with Justin Hawkins – ‘Louise’ The Coattail Riders with Justin Hawkins – ‘Range Rover Bitch’ The Coattail Riders with Justin Hawkins – ‘It’s Over’ Dave Grohl, Wolfgang Van Halen, Justin Hawkins and Josh Freese – ‘On Fire’ (Van Halen cover) Dave Grohl, Wolfgang Van Halen, Justin Hawkins and Josh Freese – ‘Hot For Teacher’ (Van Halen cover) Violet Grohl, Greg Kurstin, Alain Johannes, Chris Chaney, Jason Falkner and Dave Grohl – ‘Last Goodbye’ (Jeff Buckley cover) Violet Grohl, Greg Kurstin, Alain Johannes, Chris Chaney, Jason Falkner and Dave Grohl – ‘Grace’ (Jeff Buckley cover) Supergrass – ‘Going Out’ Supergrass – ‘Alright’ Supergrass – ‘Caught By The Fuzz’ Them Crooked Vultures – ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ (Elton John cover) Them Crooked Vultures – ‘Gunman’ Them Crooked Vultures – ‘Long Slow Goodbye’ (Queens of the Stone Age cover) The Pretenders with Dave Grohl – ‘Precious’ The Pretenders with Dave Grohl – ‘Tattooed Love Boys’ The Pretenders with Dave Grohl – ‘Brass In Pocket’ James Gang – ‘Walk Away’ James Gang – ‘The Bomber: Closet Queen / Bolero / Cast Your Fate To The Wind’ James Gang with Dave Grohl – ‘Funk #49’ Violet Grohl, Mark Ronson, Chris Chaney and Jason Falkner – ‘Valerie’ (Amy Winehouse cover) Brian Johnson, Lars Ulrich and Foo Fighters – ‘Back In Black’ (AC/DC cover) Brian Johnson, Lars Ulrich and Foo Fighters – ‘Let There Be Rock’ (AC/DC cover) Stewart Copeland with Foo Fighters – ‘Next To You’ (The Police cover) Stewart Copeland, Gaz Coombes, and Foo Fighters – ‘Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic’ (The Police cover) Rush and Dave Grohl – ‘2112 Part I: Overture’ Rush and Dave Grohl – ‘Working Man’ Rush and Omar Hakim – ‘YYZ’ Queen, Foo Fighters, Rufus Taylor and Luke Spiller – ‘We Will Rock You’ Queen, Foo Fighters, and Rufus Taylor – ‘I’m In Love With My Car’ Queen, Foo Fighters, Sam Ryder, and Rufus Taylor – ‘Somebody To Love’ Brian May – ‘Love Of My Life’ Foo Fighters with Josh Freese – ‘Times Like These’ Foo Fighters with Josh Freese – ‘All My Life’ Foo Fighters with Travis Barker – ‘The Pretender’ Foo Fighters with Travis Barker – ‘Monkey Wrench’ Foo Fighters with Nandi Bushell – ‘Learn To Fly’ Foo Fighters with Rufus Taylor – ‘These Days’ Foo Fighters with Rufus Taylor – ‘Best Of You’ Paul McCartney, Chrissie Hynde, Foo Fighters and Omar Hakim – ‘Oh! Darling’ (The Beatles cover) Paul McCartney, Foo Fighters and Omar Hakim – ‘Helter Skelter’ (The Beatles cover) Foo Fighters with Omar Hakim – ‘Aurora’ Foo Fighters with Shane Hawkins – ‘My Hero’ Dave Grohl – ‘Everlong’
For anyone that wants to watch the London version, it is available on PlutoTV*, here: https://pluto.tv/en/on-demand/serie...presents-taylor-hawkins-tribute-ntsc-2022-1-1 And, the LA version that starts tonight at 10pm ET, I think, is supposed to air live on PlutoTV, MTVs YouTube channel, and on Paramount+. I'm assuming it will be available on Demand afterwards. *PlutoTV? Where have I been? I thought most of the "free, but ad-supported" streaming services were all crap. But, this is a fairly vast collection, totally free.
Geddy & Alex played the same three songs as they did in London: 2112, Working Man and YYZ. Their introduction was from Jack Black, with Dave Grohl playing on 2112, RHCP's Chad Smith playing on Working Man, and Tool's Danny Carey played on YYZ. One funny thing was as the outro part to 2112 played, Smith switched places with Grohl and kept the cymbal ride going, then flung the sticks behind him as he sat down. I look forward to seeing the polished final broadcast version with some closeups on Smith and Carey. Both of them were friends with Neil Peart.
I had so much fun scrolling through all the replies to see all these amazing album covers, I thought I'd share. https://twitter.com/matthewbwake/status/1576000226506067968?t=ULSafdZCswScpPRd2MvylA&s=19 It's kind of a dead area for artistic expression these days. CD covers made the potential canvas so much smaller, and now streaming has really taken away the value of the effort.
Some of the fun of record collecting is seeing the album art that you haven’t seen for years. Even finding new shit to listen to based only on the art. There’s a lot of times I’m flipping through stacks at the store and see some weird little-known album, but it’s obviously a Roger Dean cover.
Rush is putting out some new content which is basically a bit of a rehash of their old stuff. Here's a new "visualizer" video for one of my favourite tunes off of Signals, one of my favourite albums of theirs:
Hard to believe it's been that long. I remember buying the TAPE of this album back in high school. Wore it out in my Walkman.
One of my top three favorite Rush songs, new Visualizer video and poignant tribute to Neil Peart, featuring nods to books he authored, his motorcycle and "bar & grill."
The only thing it was missing was a bottle of The Macallan 12 somewhere. That was a religious part of his travelling and writing.
This is a song I didn't know I needed today: Scary Pockets doing a funk cover of Back in Black featuring Joe Bonamassa
I was coming here to post that! This series is going to be fantastic. I loved this episode, obviously, but not just for the solo. When Alex actually strums out the chords, I just about cried. It's not 40 years ago, it's now, and that's just amazing.
I think Alex was the best first guest he could have for the channel... the stories, the enthusiasm, the insight... it was like yet another glimpse behind the scenes of my favourite band. Never mind the solo itself... it was interesting watching him play it so effortlessly, and so efficiently compared to other attempts I've seen people make. Looking forward to see what's next.