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Monday, July 21, 2008
Alabama 3 on the radio
Click here and type A3 into the “search by keyword” box to hear an interview with Larry Love, with great live performances of “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” “Woke Up This Morning” and “Up Above My Head” on WFUV in New York.
This is the three-piece musical configuration of the band that plans an extended stay in Austin to write, play live, and possibly record. Wouldn’t it be cool if they augmented the guitarist and two singers with an Austin band to see what they could come up with. Earl Harvin on drums, with John Nelson on percussion. Mike Flanigin on B-3 organ. That would be cool,
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Natalie Maines: wedding singer
Howard Stern announced on his SIRIUS radio program Monday that Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines has agreed to sing a song at Stern’s upcoming wedding to model Beth Ostrovsky. The date of the nuptials remains a secret.
Stern and Ostrovsky have become close friends with Maines and actor hubby Adrian Pasdar, even vacationing together (by chance) at an undisclosed location last month.
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Review: Todd Rundgren at Antone’s
The faithful came hungry to hear whatever musician Todd Rundgren was dishing out Saturday at Antone’s, which as it turns out, was heavy on the hard rock.
Rundgren, 60, known for his ever-morphing musical styles, blazed through the night with guitar power, and the fans, who know and love the oldies - and who are mostly oldies themselves - held on, even though the bulk of the songs were new and far removed from his softer side.
His band kicked off with “Love in Action,” followed by a series of other familiar tunes of the amped-up kind. When a string broke during “Black Maria,” he quickly switched to a guitar he said he’d purchased hours earlier in town.
“We’d like to give you a palate cleanser before the entrée,” he said, concluding the oldies review with 1970s-era hit “I Saw the Light.”
Then he moved on to the main course, 13 guitar-laden songs, straight through, from his upcoming “Arena” release. The sweaty, jump-kicking Rundgren was jovial, joking about the heat, and as much as he played that electric guitar like a frenzied typist, he’s too much a melody-maker not to infuse lyricism into his songs, such as the money-back guaranteed “Courage.” He touted “Mountaintop” as a sports anthem, along the lines of “Bang the Drum All Day.”
It was a lot to digest, but the jam-packed crowd stayed with Rundgren, as he alternated between rock wailings and his richer vocals. Bandmates Jesse Gress, Prairie Prince, Matt Bolton and Rachel Haden were dead-on the whole night. Finishing with “Manup,” they marched off the stage — having expertly gotten the job done.
They returned shortly, offering “Couldn’t I Just Tell You” for dessert, followed by a soulful “Just One Victory,” where a smattering of the audience got into the requisite hands-over-head clapping. Not for lack of interest, but because after a two-hour repast, we were too full to move.
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