‘Tree’ tour timely 30 yrs later
Woods honor southern rock tradition
UBy Sandy Cohen
2 still has as much to say about America as when they made “The Joshua Tree” 30 years ago.
On “The Joshua Tree” tour, they’re delivering the message sonically and visually, backed by a stadium-wide high-resolution video screen.
Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. wrapped the first week of their North American and European tour Sunday with a two-hour show at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. They played their Grammy-winning album in its entirety in front of a packed house that included Maria Shriver, Josh Brolin and Quincy Jones.
Bono sang a few bars from the “La La Land” song “City of Stars,” gave a shout-out to his wife and daughters, and dedicated a song to the late Chris Cornell.
U2 knows how to put on an arena spectacular, and “The Joshua Tree” delivers — with a heavy dose of politics. “The Joshua Tree” was already political, inspired by the band’s fascination with American ideals and ironies. At Sunday’s show, they bookended the
the artistry went out of the music.” (RTRS)
LOS ANGELES:
Litigation is piling up like bonfire kindling against organizers of the Fyre Festival that flamed out in a fiasco.
Angry participants had lashed out on social media with the hashtag #fyrefraud as the music festival fell apart on an island in the Bahamas
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album with socially conscious songs such as “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” “Pride (In the Name of Love)” and 2012’s “Miss Syria (Sarajevo),” during which images of war-raved Syria filled the massive screen.
An animated, anti-Donald Trump video also played.
“Straw in the Wind” (Woods Music/Thirty Tigers)
Fame Studios producer Rick Hall maintains that southern rock was born the day Duane Allman goaded Wilson Pickett into covering the Beatles’ “Hey Jude.” Allman proceeded to tear down Hall’s Muscle Shoals, Alabama studio with a series of guitar fills that spawned a half-century of imitators.
Over time that sound made its way from the Allman Brothers and other pioneers to Nashville’s country scene, where its sway remains obvious today.
Into this landscape come the Steel Woods, a Nashville band that bills itself as a hybrid of styles, from Americana to bluegrass to rhythm and blues. (AP)
in April and fraud is the first claim in a $100 million class-action suit.
The suit amended earlier this month in federal court on behalf of a Los Angeles man said the events planned over two weekends were “nothing more than a getrich-quick scam.” (AP)
ALBUQUERQUE, NM:
A private jet once owned by Elvis Presley and featured on the National Geographic Channel is set to be auctioned after sitting on a runway in New Mexico for 30 years.
The red 1962 Lockheed Jetstar, one of many owned by the King of rock ‘n’ roll, has no engines and needs a restoration of its cockpit. But Elvis designed the interior that has red velvet seats and red shag carpet. The plane had been a source of mystery in Roswell, New Mexico where it has sat largely untouched and tucked away at a small airport’s tarmac. (AP)