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DAVE LEE ROTH: Back On The Road - Oct. 20, 2003

Former VAN HALEN frontman Dave Lee Roth has announced the following dates during the coming months:

Nov. 18 - Carling Apollo Hammersmith – London, UK
Nov. 20 - Carling Apollo Manchester – Manchester, UK
Nov. 21 - Clyde Auditorium (The Armadillo) – Glasgow, UK
Nov. 23 - Civic Hall – Wolverhampton, UK
Nov. 25 - Vicar Street – Dublin, IRE
Dec. 11 - Soaring Eagle Casino - Mount Pleasant, MI
Dec. 13 - Thunderbird Wild Wild West Casino - Norman, OK
Dec. 31 - House of Blues - West Hollywood, CA
Jan. 26 - Big Cat – Osaka, JAP
Jan. 28 - Club Diamond Hall – Nagoya, JAP
Jan. 30 - Shibuya Kokaido – Tokyo, JAP

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The Who will release a deluxe two-CD version of their classic 1969 rock opera Tommy, consisting of the original album and an additional disc of outtakes and rarities on October 28th. Who Guitarist Pete Townshend digitally remixed the album from the original master tapes, and the album was re-mastered in 5.1 Surround Sound by producer Jon Astley (Eric Clapton, Roger Daltrey), who has teamed with Townshend in re-mastering much of the Who's back catalog.
"In this case, 5.1 gives a different perspective," says Astley, "because Pete wanted these mixes to feature Keith and John, who were a little buried on the original. The extra space with 5.1 allowed him this without compromising the mix. You can still hear everything clearly but the bass and drums are more of a feature."

Rarities include previously unavailable outtakes such as "I Was," and "Ms. Simpson," as well as alternate versions of tracks like "We're Not Gonna Take It."

"'We're Not Gonna Take it' is very interesting as it is an early version before the "listening to you' refrain was added," says Astley. "Pete sings the 'See me, feel me' as he was going to be Tommy originally, but the track ends abruptly with a quick repeat of the intro."

Also included are unreleased demos of "It's a Boy," and "Do You Think It's Alright" with acoustic guitar, that give a window into Townshend's initial vision for the album.

"Like all of Pete's demos, the songs are very close to completion before the Who were allowed to contribute," Astley says. "Pete always wanted this record to be acoustically led, but he was overridden by Kit [Lambert], the producer. The demos will give you an insight to this."

COLIN DEVENISH
(October 17, 2003)

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JOURNEY'S GREATEST HITS ON DVD:
The track listing for the new Journey 'clips' DVD has been announced. It seems fan reaction is mixed. Here are the details: Journey's Greatest Hits 1978-1997 - Release Date 11/25/03, Running time 74 minutes.
Don't Stop Believin', recorded 1981 - Live, Escape tour . Wheel In The Sky, recorded 1978 . Faithfully, recorded 1983 . Any Way You Want It, recorded 1981, Live, Escape tour . Separate Ways, recorded 1983 . Lights, recorded 1978 . Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin', recorded 1979 . Be Good To Yourself, recorded 1986, Live, Raised on Radio Tour Mountain Aire Festival . When You Love A Woman, recorded 1996 . Who's Crying Now, recorded 1981, Live, Escape tour . Send Her My Love, recorded 1983 . Girl Can't Help It, recorded 1986, Live, Raised on Radio Tour Mountain Aire Festival . Open Arms, recorded 1981, Live, Escape tour . Just The Same Way, recorded 1980 . Stone In Love, recorded 1981, Live, Escape tour . Feeling That Way, recorded 1978 . After The Fall, recorded 1983 . I'll Be Alright Without You, recorded 1986, Live, Raised on Radio Tour, Atlanta GA

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JERRY CANTRELL To Guest On New FILTER Album? - Oct. 20, 2003

FILTER mainman Richard Patrick has posted the following message to the "Rich's Words" section of the group's official web site:

"Ladies and gentlemen the new FILTER record is unbelievable, it's coming along nicely and it's full of lots of variety. [Engineer] Rae Dileo and I are pounding out the songs and I've been talking to new producers to bring on board, there's some really talented folks out there. I recently had the honor and privilege of having [former ALICE IN CHAINS guitarist] Jerry Cantrell come into the studio and work on new material with me. He came and pumped out about 100 hundred riffs and it was awesome, I had a lot of fun and it's great to work with him. Ya know, I've been sober for more than a year now, and the first thing I did to mark the anniversary was to go out and get a tattoo of my sobriety date on my arm. It didn't hurt at all, it only cost me $60 and it'll be there forever. I've been seeing a lot of shows in LA recently including RADIOHEAD and MARILYN MANSON, they both rocked and its making me want to get back out on the road again. So yeah thanks for the support, expect a new FILTER record in the near future, love ya and I'll talk to you soon."

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KORN: 'Take A Look In The Mirror' Bonus Material Detailed - Oct. 22, 2003

KORN's forthcoming CD, "Take A Look In The Mirror" (view cover here), will come with an expanded CD booklet with archival photos and liner notes from the band. Also available will be a limited-edition digipak version, which will feature a bonus DVD containing 30 minutes of content including:

* Korn Kut Up (video mix of all KORN's videos)
* "Right Now (Mirror Mix)" video (directed by Nathan Cox, an underground video you won't see on MTV or anywhere else except on this DVD)
* Untouchables Tour 2002 (Behind the scenes on tour and "Here To Stay" live)

"Take a Look in the Mirror", due on November 25 through Epic Records, is the follow-up to the Grammy-winning 2002 album "Untouchables", which debuted at No. 2 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 1.4 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
KORN: New Album Cover Posted Online - Oct. 21, 2003

KORN have posted the cover artwork for their new album, "Take A Look In The Mirror", at this location.

The self-produced CD is the follow-up to the Grammy-winning 2002 album "Untouchables", which debuted at No. 2 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 1.4 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.

"Take a Look in the Mirror", due on November 25 through Epic Records, will contain the following track listing:

01. Right Now (3:10)
02. Break Some Off (2:35)
03. Counting On Me (4:49)
04. Here It Comes Again (3:34)
05. Deep Inside (2:46)
06. Did My Time (4:04)
07. Everything I've Known (3:35)
08. Play Me (3:26) (featuring rapper Nas)
09. Alive (4:30)
10. Let's Do This Now (3:20)
11. I'm Done (3:23)
12. Ya'll Want A Single (3:18)
13. When Will This End (3:39)

Total running time: 46:10

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NEWS - Rob Zombie Launches 'Spookshow' For Halloween
10/22/2003



(10/22/03, 7 a.m. ET) -- Horror rocker Rob Zombie may be taking a break from recording, but he's busy with tons of other projects. First out of the gate will be a new comic book series called Spookshow International. The first issue comes out on Halloween and will feature stories written by Rob and drawn by a variety of artists. He gave LAUNCH a sneak preview of what to expect.

"There's three different stories in each issue that continue, and they're kind of all over the place," Zombie said. "Some of them are really, my favorite one is this thing called 'El Superbeasto,' which is sort of like this Mexican wrestler hero guy, but it's sort of like adult but silly. He lives in this sort of world that's nothing but monsters and strippers, so it's sort of like an Austin Powers meets the Munsters type thing. So some of them are ridiculous like that, and some of them are a little more serious."

Zombie is also getting ready to direct the sequel to his popular and controversial filmmaking debut, House Of 1000 Corpses. He told LAUNCH what direction he plans to take the movie in. "It's a very different movie this time around," Zombie said. "It's much darker, more serious movie, so we wanna really take all the characters that starred in the first movie and, you know, really flesh 'em out. The first one is what it is, but to continue on in that direction in any way would just make it become kind of like a joke--too campy, too silly. So the next one's really, it's not very humorous at all."

Zombie says he completed the script for House Of 1000 Corpses 2 last week and hopes to start shooting right after Christmas. Expect a different title as well.


Zombie's new album is a greatest hits collection called Past, Present, And Future. The first single is a brand new tune called "Two Lane Blacktop."

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The Foo Fighters will release their first DVD, Everywhere But Home, in late November.
Everywhere But Home contains more than three hours of music, including footage from four shows on the band's One by One tour, ranging from an acoustic club performance to the Foos' August 23rd gig at Ireland's Slane Castle in front of 90,000 fans.

The DVD will also feature behind-the-scenes and backstage footage in addition to tour and studio photo galleries. Among the twenty-plus tracks on the DVD are "All My Life," "Everlong" (full-band and acoustic), "Times Like These," "Monkey Wrench," "Breakout," "Stacked Actors," "Aurora," "Hey Johnny Park!," "The One," "For All the Cows," "All My Life," "Learn to Fly," "My Hero" and "Low."

Also on the DVD is an audio-only recording of the Foo Fighters' first show in Reykjavik. The full set from the August 26th show in the Icelandic capital features six acoustic songs, among them Dave Grohl's solo version of "Everlong."

GIL KAUFMAN
(October 21, 2003)

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ROBERT PLANT On VH1 Classic - Oct. 22, 2003

VH1 Classic will air a one-hour "Robert Plant Special" on November 1 and 4 to coincide with the release of his solo career "best of" double album, "66 to Timbuktu". The show will feature an interview with Robert (during which he talks of his experiences at The Festival in the Desert 2003) and will include footage of Robert recorded at the festival. This footage is also part of a forthcoming "Festival in the Desert" DVD documentary, which is scheduled to be released in the U.S. by World Village in 2004. Plant's live-in-the-Sahara rendition of "Win My Train Fare Back Home (If I Ever Get Lucky)" is featured on the new CD, "Festival in the Desert" (World Village).

"66 to Timbuktu" is due on November 4 through Atlantic Records. The 35-track set includes not only Plant's own solo hits, but also pre-ZEPPELIN solo tracks from 1966-67 along with various collaborations he's done before and after ZEPPELIN.

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EDDIE VEDDER's LAYNE STALEY Tribute To Be Included On Collection On Rarities - Oct. 22, 2003

PEARL JAM frontman Eddie Vedder's tribute to late ALICE IN CHAINS singer Layne Staley, written on the day of Staley's death, will be included on "Lost Dogs", PEARL JAM's upcoming double-disc rarities collection, according to Billboard.com. The track, titled "4/20/02", is not listed on the album but can be found several minutes after "Bee Girl", the last song on the set's second disc.

"It was a real personal song [Vedder] wrote the night we all found out [Staley] died," PEARL JAM guitarist Stone Gossard told Billboard.com last year. "He stayed in there, didn't work on anything else, and worked this song up." Added guitarist Mike McCready, "he wrote it in the ukulele tuning, so it had this weird vibe to it, and it was sad."

In the song, Vedder lashes out at the singers of unnamed bands copying the style of Staley, who died after battling drug addiction for years. "So sing just like him, f***ers," Vedder sings. "It won't offend him / just me / because he's dead." The cut features only Vedder on vocals and guitar.

"Lost Dogs" will be released Nov. 11 by Epic, the same day as the concert DVD "Live at the Garden".

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NEWS - Green Day Frontman Refutes 'Mystery Band' Rumors
10/22/2003



(10/22/03, 5 p.m. ET) -- Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has added fuel to the fire regarding the Network, the mysterious band on Armstrong's Adeline Records label that some fans claim is actually Green Day itself in disguise. With rumors flying that the Network's debut album, Money Money 2020, is a new Green Day disc that was rejected by their record company, Armstrong left this message on Green Day's official website.

"All I gotta say is f--k the Network, those guys are totally spreading rumors," Armstrong said. "I tried to do those guys a favor by bringing them to this country, and putting out their record, and this is how I get repaid, by talking sh-t about my band. Anyways, unfortunately, there's a contract and I have to put out their record, so the only thing I can say is: f--k you, Network. Bring it on."

Despite Armstrong's denial, no one has seen the Network without masks on, and parts of their album sounds suspiciously like Green Day, particularly the vocals.


Two of the Network's members go under names associated with Green Day. The band's leader, Fink, says he is an Aquarius and funded the album out of his own money. Billie Joe Armstrong is an Aquarius and, since he owns Adeline Records, did in fact fund the Network's album. Green Day also wrote a song called "The Ballad Of Wilhelm Fink."


Another member of the Network is known as Captain Underpants. This is a name that drummer Tre Cool used in a pre-Green Day band called the Lookouts.


The members of Green Day, under their real names, make a guest appearance on Iggy Pop's new album, Skull Ring, due out November 4.


An official "new" Green Day disc is due out in early 2004.

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A sprawling five-disc Johnny Cash box set will arrive Nov. 25 from American Recordings/Lost Highway. Dubbed "Unearthed," the set features 79 songs, 64 of them previously unreleased and produced by Rick Rubin during the late country great's sessions for his four "American Recordings" albums released between 1994 and 2002.





Rubin first unveiled plans for the set exclusively to Billboard.com in August. Cash died Sept. 12 from complications related to diabetes at the age of 71.

The first three discs feature such finds as solo acoustic versions of "Long Black Veil" and "Flesh and Blood," and covers of Steve Earle's "Devil's Right Hand," Roy Orbison's "Down the Line" and the Neil Young songs "Heart of Gold" and "Pocahontas."

Discs two and three boast several duets, some with old friends and others with newer acquaintances. On the veteran side, Cash's former Sun Records labelmate Carl Perkins joins him for a run through the familiar "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man" while his bandmate in the Highwaymen, Willie Nelson, shows up on "Like a Soldier." Glen Campbell sings with Cash on "Gentle on My Mind."

Skewing away from his contemporaries, late Clash lead singer Joe Strummer joins Cash on a version of Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" and Tom Petty appears on "The Running Kind." Fiona Apple also sings "Father and Son" with him and Nick Cave joins in on "Cindy."

Of the Strummer duet, Rubin told Billboard.com, "When we were recording [Cash's 2002 album] 'The Man Comes Around,' Joe was coming every day, because he loved Johnny Cash, and he just happened to be in L.A. on vacation. He actually extended his trip a week longer just to come every day and be around Johnny."

A solo version of "Redemption Song" also appears on Strummer's new album, "Streetcore" (Hellcat/Epitaph). "Originally, the song was supposed to be a duet, and we recorded it as a duet. But, just in case, both Johnny and Joe sang the whole song several times," Rubin explained, noting that the track was nearly complete ("It wasn't mixed, but most of the overdubs were there") before Strummer died suddenly in December.

The fourth "Unearthed" disc is subtitled "My Mother's Hymn Book," and is comprised of 15 songs from a book of hymns Cash's mother read to him as a child. Via solo acoustic performances, the deeply spiritual artist revisits such secular songs as "I Shall Not Be Moved," "Do Lord," "If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven" and "In the Sweet By and By."

The final disc is a "best of" representation of the four albums Cash released with Rubin at the helm: 1994's "American Recordings," 1996's "Unchained," 2000's "American III: Solitary Man" and last year's "American IV: The Man Comes Around."

"Unearthed" will also include a 104-page clothbound book including a track-by-track discussion by Cash, Rubin and others. Also featured is one of Cash's final interviews, in which he and Rubin talk about the body of work they created.

As previously reported, Cash's life and career will be celebrated with a musical tribute Nov. 10 at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry. Nelson, John Mellencamp, Dwight Yoakam, George Jones, Rosanne Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Travis Tritt, Hank Williams Jr. and Sheryl Crow are among those confirmed to participate.

Here is the "Cash Unearthed" track list:

Disc I - Who's Gonna Cry
"Long Black Veil"
"Flesh and Blood"
"Just the Other Side of Nowhere"
"If I Give My Soul"
"Understand Your Man"
"Banks of the Ohio"
"Two Timin' Woman"
"The Caretaker"
"Old Chunk of Coal"
"I'm Going to Memphis"
"Breaking Bread"
"Waiting for a Train"
"Casey's Last Ride"
"No Earthly Good"
"The Fourth Man in the Fire"
"Dark as a Dungeon"
"Book Review"
"Down There by the Train"

Disc II - Trouble in Mind:
"Pocahontas"
"I'm a Drifter" (Version 1)
"Trouble In Mind"
"Down the Line"
"I'm Moving On"
"As Long as the Green Grass Shall Grow"
"Heart of Gold"
"The Running Kind" (w/Tom Petty)
"Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby"
"Brown-Eyed Handsome Man" (w/Carl Perkins)
"'T' for Texas"
"Devil's Right Hand"
"I'm a Drifter" (Version 2)
"Like a Soldier" (w/Willie Nelson)
""Drive On" (alternate lyrics)
"Bird on a Wire" (live w/orchestra)

Disc III - Redemption Songs
"A Singer of Songs"
"The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore"
"Redemption Song" (w/Joe Strummer)
"Father and Son" (w/Fiona Apple)
"Chattanooga Sugar Babe"
"He Stopped Loving Her Today"
"Hard Times"
"Wichita Lineman"
"Cindy" (w/Nick Cave)
"Big Iron"
"Salty Dog"
"Gentle on My Mind" (w/Glen Campbell)
"You Are My Sunshine"
"You'll Never Walk Alone"
"The Man Comes Around" (early take)

Disc IV - My Mother's Hymn Book
"Where We'll Never Grow Old"
"I Shall Not Be Moved"
"I Am a Pilgrim"
"Do Lord"
"When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder"
"If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven"
"I'll Fly Away"
"Where the Soul of a Man Never Dies"
"Let the Lower Lights Be Burning"
"When He Reached Down"
"In the Sweet By and By"
"I'm Bound for the Promised Land"
"In the Garden"
"Softly and Tenderly"
"Just As I Am"

Disc V - Best of Cash on American
"Delia's Gone"
"Bird on a Wire"
"Thirteen"
"Rowboat"
"The One Rose"
"Rusty Cage"
"Southern Accents"
"Mercy Seat"
"Solitary Man"
"Wayfaring Stranger"
"One"
"I Hung My Head"
"The Man Comes Around"
"We'll Meet Again"
"Hurt"


-- Barry A. Jeckell, N.Y.

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RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE: Posthumous CD/DVD Delayed, Track Listing Revised - Oct. 23, 2003

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE's posthumous live CD, "Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium", will now surface on November 25, while the DVD of the same name will follow on December 9.

According to Billboard.com, the CD's track list has been tweaked from its original order, with "People of the Sun", "Guerilla Radio" and "Testify" replacing covers of DEVO's "Beautiful World", CYPRESS HILL's "How Could I Just Kill a Man" and ERIC B & RAKIM's "Microphone Fiend".

The "Grand Olympic" DVD sports 17 tracks in a different order than the CD, and is augmented with a six-song set performed outside the 2000 Democratic National Convention at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Here are the "Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium" track lists:

CD:

01. Bulls on Parade
02. Bullet in the Head
03. Born of a Broken Man
04. Killing in the Name
05. Calm Like a Bomb
06. Testify
07. Bombtrack
08. War Within a Breath
09. I'm Housin'
10. Sleep Now in the Fire
11. People of the Sun
12. Guerrilla Radio
13. Kick Out the Jams
14. Know Your Enemy
15. No Shelter
16. Freedom

DVD:

01. Bulls on Parade
02. Bombtrack
03. Calm Like a Bomb
04. Bullet in the Head
05. Sleep Now in the Fire
06. War Within a Breath
07. I'm Housin'
08. Killing in the Name
09. Born of a Broken Man
10. No Shelter
11. Guerrilla Radio
12. How Could I Just Kill a Man
13. Kick Out the Jams
14. Testify
15. Freedom
16. People of the Sun
17. Know Your Enemy

DVD bonus material:

18. Bulls on Parade
19. Testify
20. Guerrilla Radio
21. Sleep Now in the Fire
22. Freedom
23. Killing in the Name

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Found this on Blabermouth this morning:

DREAM THEATER: New Song Posted Online - Oct. 23, 2003
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A low-quality, radio-broadcast version of the new DREAM THEATER track "As I Am" has been posted online. "As I Am" comes off DREAM THEATER's new album, "Train Of Thought", due on November 11 through Elektra Records. The follow-up to 2002's "Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence" was produced by guitarist John Petrucci and drummer Mike Portnoy, engineered by Doug Oberkircher, and was mixed by Kevin Shirley, who has previously worked with IRON MAIDEN, LED ZEPPELIN and JOURNEY, among others.


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