Subject: allstar music news 8/25/97 From: allstarmag@aol.com (Allstarmag) Date: 1997/08/26 Message-ID: <19970826011901.VAA20825@ladder01.news.aol.com> Newsgroups: alt.music.goo-goo-dolls [More Headers] Article Segment 1 of 3 (Get All 3 Segments) allstar daily music news August 25,1997 http://www.allstarmag.com Edited by Carrie Borzillo TONIC AND MATCHBOX 20 ADDED TO FLEETWOOD MAC RUMOURS TRIBUTE Possibly Goo Goo Dolls And Meredith Brooks, Too Tonic, Matchbox 20, and possibly Goo Goo Dolls and Meredith Brooks are the latest bands to be added to the Fleetwood Mac Rumours tribute album being compiled by Mick Fleetwood. The album will be out on Fleetwood Music through Lava/ Atlantic Records. As previously reported in allstar, Jewel will cover "You Make Loving Fun," Elton John is tentatively scheduled for "Don't Stop," and the Cranberries will remake "Go Your Own Way." According to Carl Stubner of Deluxe Management, Fleetwood Mac's management company, the tribute album will also include Tonic covering "Second Hand News" and Matchbox 20 on "Never Going Back." They are also still trying to get No Doubt to possibly record "The Chain," as opposed to "Dreams" as was previously announced, and Meredith Brooks and Goo Goo Dolls are likely recording tracks for the album. The songs left are "Dreams," "Oh Daddy," "Songbird," "Gold Dust Woman," and "I Don't Want to Know." The latter song will likely be either Brooks or Goo Goo Dolls, according to Stubner. ___________________________________________________ OASIS' BE HERE NOW SETS NEW U.K. SALES RECORD Oasis seems to be living up to Noel Gallagher's famed grand statement of being bigger than the Beatles. The British bad boys of rock have broken the U.K. record for the fastest- selling album in British history with Be Here Now. The album, which was released Thursday (Aug. 21) in the U.K. and is due Tuesday (Aug. 26) in the U.S. on Epic, sold approximately 700,000 copies in its first three days and will have sold more than 1 million units in its first week. (Album sales for Monday weren't available, as Monday is a British banking holiday.) It also debuted at No. 1 in the U.K., and is expected to bow at the top spot next week on The Billboard 200 in the U.S. as well. In its first day, Be Here Now sold 356,000 copies, outselling Michael Jackson's 1987 release Bad, which sold 350,000 in its first day and became the fastest- selling in U.K. history at the time. As for the overall biggest- seller in U.K. history, that record was set by the Beatles' 1967 classic Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which has sold more than 4.5 million since it was released. Be Here Now is already primed to beat that record. ___________________________________________________ NEW ERIC MATTHEWS ALBUM KEY TO ORCHESTRAL POP MOVEMENT This week's release of Eric Matthews' new album, The Lateness of the Hour (on Sub Pop) seems crucial to the still- developing sub- genre of orchestral pop (or "ork pop," as its practitioners like to call it). It's been three years since the movement began with its defining point -- the release of Cardinal's one and only album -- and since then, Cardinal's two ex-members, Matthews and Richard Davies, have become known as the standard- bearers of the sound in their solo careers (much like the way Jay Farrar of Son Volt and Jeff Tweedy of Wilco have defined the course of alternative country after their Uncle Tupelo split). While Lateness does not so much further the sound as reiterate it -- Matthews, a classically- trained trumpeter, again painstakingly accentuates his elegant melodies with classical instrumentation, using real horns, string quartets and the like -- it's still an impressive achievement, especially in an age of synthesizer- dominated electronica. "Every time I come out of the studio after another three grueling months of recording, my wife counts another 20,000 gray hairs," Matthews jokes. "My biggest responsibility is the actual scoring of orchestrations. I do everything by hand, dot by dot. There was about 70 pages of music for this record, so that took a lot of hours and hand- cramping. "To balance his sound just so, Matthews also asked a few friends from the rock world to play on Lateness, including singer/ songwriter (and former Jellyfish member) Jason Falkner, who shows up on several tracks (although not on any of the potential singles, Matthews notes ironically). But he did not ask Davies -- in fact, the two haven't spoken in quite some time (again like Farrar and Tweedy). "There are a few things that go into why we're not talking today," says Matthews. "Going into the Cardinal record, we decided early on that it was going to be a one-shot deal, so that's part of it. But the fact that we don't have a day- to- day personal relationship is funny. We were very close, like brothers for awhile. The Cardinal record was a very intense working situation in which there was at times some conflict. It was peaceful yet at the same time stressful. We had pretty ambitious goals, and we had $7000 and two weeks to get everything done. For what that album is, it's one of the bigger achievements." And Matthews is aware of the influence of that record on other artists -- like Chicago's Yum Yum, for instance -- that have since fleshed out the ork pop movement. "There's 10 or 12 of us -- we've got a little club going, definitely," he says. "But to call it a movement, perhaps it has to be a bit bigger -- and a bit more recognized by a general population. It's gonna be really tough for this to expand and go any further, while people are distracted by electronic dance music. There's a lot of humanity in these recordings and compositions; [electronic] music is completely inhuman, it's mechanical, it's dehumanized -- it's the most dehumanized form of music ever. And to have something like that so immediately being embraced is disheartening. It makes a lot more sense to me that the next [big] thing might be what we're doing." -John Bitzer ___________________________________________________ JOHN LEE HOOKER GETS STAR ON WALK OF FAME, OPENS CLUB Blues musician John Lee Hooker will get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Sept. 11 at an unveiling ceremony to be held at 7080 Hollywood Blvd. The star will be given to Hooker by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Hooker turned 80 on Aug. 22. The Grammy Award- winning guitar great, whose career spans over five decades, is one of the last living Mississippi Delta blues musicians. Hooker's gritty style foreshadowed the birth of rock and roll, and he went on to become a big influence on countless rock artists, including the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Bonnie Raitt, and Carlos Santana. His most recent album, Don't Look Back, which was released on March 11 on Point Blank Records, features collaborations with Los Lobos, Van Morrison, and blues musician Charles Brown. Later this fall, he will be opening a nightclub in San Francisco, not far from his home, called John Lee Hooker's Boom Boom Room, named after one of his earliest hits, "Boom Boom." -Tina Johnson ___________________________________________________ ARKARNA REPORTS FROM THE ELECTRIC HIGHWAY TOUR IN ATLANTA allstar, in association with Rocktropolis and Spin Online, is publishing select tour diaries direct from this year's groundbreaking electronica caravan, the Electric Highway Tour. The diaries are written by several of the artists involved, straight from the road or venue. The Electric Highway Tour features The Crystal Method, Gus Gus, Uberzone, Arkarna, DJ Icey, Superstar DJ Keoki, Josh Wink, Doc Martin, and others on an ever- changing, 15-city journey across America . Here is today's installment, direct from Saturday's fifth stop in Atlanta (note: the segment of last Friday's edition attributed to Uberzone should have been attributed to Arkarna): Arkarna: Bid: Saturday: we played the gig in Houston which went really well, bit short but got the point across. Found most the women there to be dancers or strippers. Can't wait to go back! We then travelled to Jackson on the Mississippi, spent a day there and then on to Atlanta. James and Ollie had an interview with CNN at 07:00 in the morning. I stayed in bed. Lalo stayed on the bus. As far as I know it went OK, but they always say that... Will: Atlanta has a great skyline -- apparently most of it is owned by some geezer called Ted Turner... We walked around the neighbourhood looking for somewhere to eat but pretty much everything was shut at 8:00 p.m. Maybe Ted should buy a restaurant and bleedin' well sort it ahhht.. I'm told we just met the Bee Gees but I don't remember. Everyone 'round here seems really friendly -- I'd like to stay and check it out but we leave at 6:00 a.m. for Myrtle Beach. Blimey. Brian suggests we change the name of the band to Gas Snatch. Ahhh yeah!! ___________________________________________________ GOSSIP Tricky is in the studio with Wendy and Lisa of Prince fame... Looks like there's some discrepancy about whether Lollapalooza show stealers Tool (the above photo is from the Southern California Lollapalooza date) actually still have a record contract with Volcano, now called Freeworld, or not. Apparently someone at the label dropped the ball in picking up their option in their contract and the band claims they are now free agents. We smell litigation shortly... We've heard it all before -- Marilyn Manson is the Alice Cooper of the '90s, right? Well, here's what Cooper himself has to say about the scariest man in rock today: "Um, let me see. A guy with a girl's name and makeup and does theatrics. I wonder where I've heard that before? It's just shocking," he tells allstar correspondent Murray Engleheart. "I'm shocked! It's a great compliment to me, I guess. The only thing that's probably very, very much different from our approaches to music is the fact they're industrial and we're pretty hard rock, and at the same time they kind of dabble in this occult thing where we're much more just fantasy theatrics."... The word has come down: Derek, not Derrick, O'Brien of Extra Fancy, (who stole the show at the Sunset Junction bonanza in Los Angeles this past Sunday, Aug. 24), Punk Rock Karaoke, DI, etc., will not be touring with Ms. Stacey "Two of Hearts" Q next month... - Miss Truth ___________________________________________________ This week in allstar Interviews: Kelley Deal Ben Lee Featured this week in allstar reviews: Fleetwood Mac - The Dance Various Artists - The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute In today's daily allstar reviews: Smoking Popes - Destination Failure Olive - Extra Virgin ___________________________________________________ If you want to remove yourself from this mailing list, do not reply directly to this message. Send email to "majordomo@n2k.com" with the following command in the BODY (not the subject line) of your message: unsubscribe allstarmag The email address you specify must match the address of the account from which you send the request. In order to subscribe to allstar, simply send email to "majordomo@n2k.com" with following command in the body of your message: subscribe allstarmag The email account from which you sent the request will be subscribed to the list automatically. ___________________________________________________ all contents are the copyright © 1996, 1997 of N2K Inc. any derivative works of this content must hyperlink to and credit "allstar, the better online music magazine at http://www.allstarmag.com/" Send comments, inquiries, hot scoops and slow wet kisses to feedback@allstarmag.com. From: ptmcnee@aol.com (Ptmcnee) Date: 1997/08/27 Message-ID: <19970827235000.TAA25200@ladder02.news.aol.com> Newsgroups: alt.music.goo-goo-dolls [More Headers] >Ah this stinks!!! I gotta buy a bloody Fleetwood Mac Trib.!!! >And Rumors to boot!! YECHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! >AGHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! >We all know the good F.M. stuff was befor thos 2 godalful chicks >recked the band!!!! >Peter Green Lives! >MickeyMoto-"I Think So" Now be a sport! Remember, you are KOAG! Hey, you will probably find the cd at a discount, and WE will have to pay the full price!! But I gotta have it!! Theresa From: fabfay@aol.com (FABFAY) Date: 1997/08/28 Message-ID: <19970828193901.PAA22652@ladder01.news.aol.com> Newsgroups: alt.music.goo-goo-dolls [More Headers] LOL! You crack me up! And I know you'll be the first one in line when the CD hits the shelves. Gotta have it for the collection! :)) Fay