14 Jan
2011
2011
Cheap Trick performed “Dream Police” on Conan. Check it out and pick up the album Dream Police on iTunes, Amazon MP3
Posts Tagged ‘Cheap Trick’
02 Sep
2009
2009
26 Feb
2009
2009
In what will be one of the biggest nostalgic concert tours of the summer, Def Leppard will tour with Poison and Cheap Trick. Tickets go onsale Friday March 6th (http://www.livenation.com) unless you’re a Citi card member (you can buy tickets on March 4th then). There are several reasons to go to these shows. You can catch three cool classic bands at a decent price. Bret Michaels might make you his “Rock of Love” or you can go and catch more cougars than a zoo inspector!
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“I’m very pleased that we are coming back to North America,” said Def Leppard front man Joe Elliott. “We’re gonna be touring with some new friends and some old friends and can guarantee it will be the Rock Tour of the summer.”
“There is nothing better than an epic summer concert and this tour is a dream come true for rock ‘n’ roll fans. It will be a night of a thousand hits with three hard-charging rock bands on the road together,” said Poison front man and star of VH1′s top-rated “Rock of Love Bus” reality show Bret Michaels.
You can also buy some VIP tickets to the tour through I Love All Access at www.iloveallaccess.com.
DEF LEPPARD TOUR DATES
23-June Camden, NJ
25-June Cuyahoga Falls, OH
26-June Darien Center, NY
28-June Scranton, PA
30-June Mansfield, MA
01-July Holmdel, NJ
03-July Saratoga Springs, NY
04-July Toronto, CAN
07-July Hartford, CT
08-July Wantagh, NY
10-July Burgettstown, PA
11-July Virginia Beach, VA
12-July Bristow, VA
15-July Cincinnati, OH
17-July Tinley Park, IL
18-July Milwaukee, WI
20-July Maryland Heights, MO
21-July Kansas City, MO
23-July Noblesville, IN
24-July Clarkston, MI
07-August Raleigh, NC
08-August Charlotte, NC
10-August Nashville, TN
11-August Birmingham, AL
13-August West Palm Beach, FL
14-August Tampa, FL
15-August Atlanta, GA
18-August New Orleans, LA
19-August Houston, TX
21-August Dallas, TX
22-August Tulsa, OK
24-August Englewood, CO
25-August Salt Lake City, UT
28-August Albuquerque, NM
29-August Phoenix, AZ
30-August Irvine, CA
02-September Mountain View, CA
03-September Sacramento, CA
05-September Las Vegas, NV
06-September San Bernadino, CA
For more info, go to www.defleppard.com
24 Feb
2009
2009
Tinted Windows, the poppiest name for a supergroup ever, will have their new self-titled album out on April 21st (S-Curve). It’s made up of Taylor Hanson (Hanson-singer), Adam Schlesinger (Ivy and Fountains of Wayne-bass), Bun E. Carlos (Cheap Trick-drums) and James Iha (ex-Smashing Pumpkins-guitar). Apparently, Taylor and Adam have been friends for a long time and they pulled Iha into this collaboration a few years ago.
Adam says” “Even though it seems really sudden to everybody else, we’ve been working on making this happen for a while.”
re: The three of them writing before finding a drummer
“We kept trying to brainstorm who could play like Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick.”
“But then it just seemed obvious we should at least try Bun E. Carlos.”
After sending Carlos some demos, he hopped on. Carlos and Adam were already somewhat familiar with each other as their bands had played a few shows together.
Though it took a while to even get a month of the band recording together at the same time, they were able to crack out a fine album of power-pop.
“For me personally as a writer, this was much more straight-forward musically and lyrically. Lyrically, these aren’t meant to be not ironic, not trying to be clever. They’re just pop songs,” Schlesinger says. “When I write a song, I’m always thinking about who’s going to be singing it. We have Taylor with this incredible voice so I had the idea of doing something with a lot of energy. It’s a shame that when people think of Hanson, they think of Taylor as a teenage. But he’s a grown man, and he’s capable of doing so much.”
The band should be playing some club shows in the spring. They’re already confirmed to be playing SXSW and Bamboozle.
Enough talking, let’s listen to some of this here. Wow, that’s not bad at all.
For more, go to http://www.tintedwindowsmusic.com/.
