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April 1, 2000
----------------THIS JUST IN FROM TPTB-------------------
LESH AND FURTHUR SUMMER LINEUPS REVEALED
da Power Flunk - April 1, 2000
powerflunk@pauserecord.com
Pauserecord has learned that the lineups for this summer's Phil & Friends and Furthur Tours have been finalized,
though official announcements are not due for several weeks.
Responding to complaints about the quality of Lesh's voice, he has apparently asked Michael J. Bolton to sing lead for
the summer tour, which will visit amphitheaters across the country.
On saxophone, Kenny G. will appear, Billy Joel will play keyboards (and also sing), while a
background vocal section of the Backstreet Boys has also been set. No word on the rhythm section has been set, but
apparently Lesh is negotiations with the team from Englebert Humperdinck's hugely
successful Las Vegas groups. Limp Bizkit and Marilyn Manson will open.
Meanwhile, the Furthur Tour lineup has also taken shape. Joining Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bruce Hornsby will be the
members of Hanson, and 'N Sync. This tour will also perform at
amphitheaters nationwide. "We just figured that ticket sales in years without Lesh
weren't that strong, so looked around to see who is selling really well right now.
Clearly that is 'N Sync -- and they're selling a lot better than the Backstreet Boys, I might add." "Sure it won't be our
traditional audience," Hart added, "but at least it will be an audience."
SFX Entertainment will produce both tours. "We frankly don't care who we put on," a company spokesman said, "or how the crowd
likes it. We don't care because we don't have to."
Tickets for both tours will begin at $750.00 for lawn seats. Service charges start at a mere $105.99.
__________powerflunkflails__________
So much for my summer.....I'll now have to take my daughter on both tours what with 'n Sync and Backstreet Boys on both
tours....now if they'd just get Britney Spears.....she'd be in
heaven.
Lotsa Luv,
Val
3/19/2000 - From Eric Anderson On The Road
Report From The Hustings
I'm happy to report I'm glad to be out there playing shows in support of my new album "You Can't Relive the Past." It brings back home again that imagination is as wide and as long as the road itself.
Most of the shows on this spring run are in the Northeast,
Midwest, and Rockies. About 25 shows, and so far most have been sold out. The new album is receiving a lot of
college and triple A airplay which surprised me because most of the cuts are over 5 minutes long. Also noticing a
lot of younger people at the shows.
4 of the songs on the new album I co-wrote with the late, great Townes Van Zandt. We sadly lost Townes 2 years
ago. I consider Towne's to be the greatest Southern song poet since Hank Williams.
Last week we did a benefit show at the beautiful Ryman Theater in Nashville on behalf of the children's music
school and in memory of Townes. The Ryman, you might remember was the original home of the Grand
Ol' Opry. Kris Kristofferson sang "Me and Bobby McGee" and Willy Nelson did a set that included Townes' song
"Pancho and Lefty."
I sang 3 songs including the "Meadowlark," one of the tunes Townes and I wrote together and "You Can't
Relive the Past," the title tune I co-wrote with Lou Reed. It might be safe to say it was probably the first time a
Lou Reed song has ever been heard at the Grand Ol' Opry. Bill Joe Shaver was on the bill and others. The
audience was enraptured. People had a ball.
I'm traveling with Rick Danko's step-son, Justin. He's handling the roadwork for me and the days go by as
smooth as silk. We hooked up in Woodstock where I did a show. That evening Garth Hudson sat in on tenor sax
and accordion. It was musically one of the best nights of the tour.
Yesterday in Philly, I spotted some yellow forsythia blazing yellow on the branches, some white pear and
purple magnolia tree blossoms waving in the breeze, and yellow jonquils and white lilies flowering out of the cold
ground. The green roots are stirring and uniting for another spring! I hope to see you and everybody down
the road sometime soon.
Eric Andersen
February 27, 2000
The following review of Eric Andersen's new CD, You Can't Relive The
Past, is written by Dan DeLuca and appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday 2/20/2000. I was going to write a review of this, yet again,
amazing piece of work by Eric Andersen, but this one says it
all.........
If you don't have this CD yet......pick it up.......I've played it over and over and over again....
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Eric Andersen
You Can't Relive The Past
(Appleseed ***1/2 )
With two good friends dead and gone - Texas Troubadour Townes Van Zandt and former New York Times music critic Robert Palmer - '60s folk veteran
Eric Andersen communes with ghosts on You Can't Relive the Past. He reinvigorates his own music in the process: Recording for the Appleseed
label out of West Chester, the 57-year-old, poetically inclined
singer-songwriter reclaims his voice by immersing himself in collaborative efforts.
You Can't Relive The Past is commendably daring, if not quite cohesive. The album includes four folkie, highway-haunted songs written with Van
Zandt in 1986 and sung in Andersen's still-resonant baritone, and four vibrant electric blues cut in Palmer's old Mississippi Delta stomping
grounds with Fat Possum recording artists James "Super Chikan" Johnson, Sam Carr and Kenny Brown. "Memory runs right by your eyes, so real and
so fast," Andersen sings on the title track, cowritten with Lou Reed. But on You Can't Relive The Past, he resists nostalgia, and instead uses
loss as inspiration to move ahead with wisdom and grace. (Andersen is scheduled to play the Point in
Bryn Mawr on March 16.)
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I had the opportunity to catch Eric at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley
last year and was blown away. His upcoming tour will be darting the
east coast and some midwest.....catch him if you can.....he will take
you THERE.....
Check out his website at: http://www.ericandersen.com
Lotsa Luv,
Val
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