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Alanis Morissette, Barenaked Ladies
Team For Tour Canadian acts Alanis Morissette and Barenaked Ladies will team up for a co-headlining U.S. summer tour. The 22-date tour kicks off July 13 in Cleveland. The artists will be alternating nightly as the opening act. Here are the Au Naturale tour dates: July 13: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (Blossom Music Center) July 14: Columbus, Ohio (Germain Amphitheatre) July 16: Wantagh, N.Y. (Tommy Hilfiger at Jones Beach Amphitheatre) July 17: Holmdel, N.J. (PNC Bank Arts Center July 18: Burgettstown, Pa. (Post Gazette Pavilion) July 20: Noblesville, Ind. (Verizon Wireless Music Center) July 21: Tinley Park, Ill. (Tweeter Center) July 22: Milwaukee (Marcus Amphitheatre) July 25: Auburn, Wash. (White River) July 26: Ridgefield, Ore. (Amphitheatre at Clark County) July 28: Mountainview, Calif. (Shoreline Amphitheatre) July 29-30: Los Angeles (Greek Theatre) Aug. 1: Albuquerque, N.M. (Journal Pavilion) Aug. 2: Morrison, Colo. (Red Rocks Amphitheatre) Aug. 4: Maryland Heights, Mo. (UMB Bank Pavilion) Aug. 5: Atlanta (Hi Fi Buys Amphitheatre) Aug. 6: Raleigh, N.C. (Alltel Pavilion at Walnut Creek) Aug. 8: Philadelphia (Mann Center) Aug. 9: Mansfield, Mass. (Tweeter Center) Aug. 10: Columbia, Md. (Merriweather Post Pavilion) Aug. 12-13: Clarkston, Mich. (DTE Energy Music Theatre) Aug. 14: Cincinnati (Riverbend Music Center)
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| BIRTHDAYS |
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April 27th Sheena Easton (1959) Ace Frehley (Kiss) (1951) Kate Pierson (The B-52's) (1948) Casey Kasem (1932) April 28th Daisy Berkowitz (Marilyn Manson) (1968) Too Short (1966) Kim Gordan (Sonic Youth) (1952) John Wolters (Dr. Hook) (1945) April 29th Mike Hogan (The Cranberries) (1973) Master P (1970) Carnie Wilson (Wilson Phillips) (1968) Tommy James (1947) Duane Allen (Oak Ridge Boys) (1943) April 30th Jeff Timmons (98 Degrees) (1973) J.R. Richards (Dishwalla) (1972) Chris "Choc" Dalyrimple (Soul For Real) (1971) Turbo B (Snap) (1967) Willie Nelson (1933) May 1st D'Arcy Wretsky-Brown (Smashing Pumpkins) (1968) Tim McGraw (1967) Johnny Colt (The Black Crowes) (1966) Ray Parker, Jr. (1954) Rita Coolidge (1945) Judy Collins (1939) May 2nd Jo Callis (Human League) (1955) Prescott Niles (The Knack) (1954) Lou Gramm (Foreigner) (1950) Larry Gatlin (1948) Lesley Gore (1946) May 3rd Steve Jones (1945) Christopher Cross (1951) Frankie Valli (1937) Engelbert Humperdink (1936) James Brown (1933) |
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Keith Urban
Keith says he learned to play guitar as a six-year-old in Australia, when a young woman wanted to place an ad in his dad's shop window offering guitar lessons. His parents made a deal with her that they would advertise in return for lessons for their young son. He had a natural ability and young Keith was winning talent shows by the time he was 8. He also was involved in a youth acting company which required him to sing, dance and memorize lines, all of which led to an ease on stage that would serve him well in his music career. With a father who was deeply interested in American culture and country music, it was natural that Keith would gravitate towards country music early on, when he was influenced by the singing of Glen Campbell, Dolly Parton and Don Williams, and the songwriting of Jimmy Webb (Galveston). As a teenager already playing club gigs with a band, he became interested in the guitar playing of rock stars like Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler and Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham, and after in-depth study of their techniques and endless practice, Keith brought those influences to his own music. The resulting unique style of blending country music with rock-style guitar (which he sometimes refers to as "funktry") brought him success in Australia, where he charted three #1 singles and had a successful solo album. All along Keith knew that to be a real success in country music he would have to go to America. He made several trips to Nashville in the late '80s where he collaborated with such songwriters as Billboard "Songwriter of the Year" Gary Burr, multiple CMA-winner Trey Bruce, and Hall of Fame member Dave Loggins (Please Come to Boston, Pieces of April). Soon he realized that the move to America would have to be permanent and headed to Nashville for good. Once there, with his Australian bandmate Peter Clarke, a drummer, he formed the three-piece band The Ranch. Their original bass player soon returned to Australia, but West Virginian Jerry Flowers quickly fit in as their new bass player. Their live shows featuring Keith's hot lead guitar playing led to a record deal with Capitol Nashville and a management contract with I.R.S. Records founder/The Police manager Miles Copeland, and their debut album, The Ranch, was released to critical acclaim in 1997. By 1999, Keith released his self-titled solo album. His tour in support of that album included opening for such major acts as Dwight Yoakam, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, as well as headlining his own shows. His stunning solo performances as an opening act won him numerous fans in the Yoakam/Hill/McGraw audiences, and his talent, hard work, countless interviews and openness and friendliness to his fans paid off with a Top 15 hit in It's a Love Thing and a Top 10 single with Your Everything. "Somebody Like You" in 2002 continued the success, by which time Urban was a major star in the current wave of new country males. Although raised in Australia, Keith was born in New Zealand, on October 26, 1967. Keith's first musical instrument was a ukulele, bought for him when he was 4 by his dad, a drummer. Keith used to strum along on it in time to the radio. Keith joined a "mouseketeers"-style theater group at the age of 7. Keith has won five Golden Guitars from the Country Music Awards of Australia (CMAAs), including 1991's New Talent of the Year for I Never Work on a Sunday, 1992's Male Vocalist of the Year for The River and Instrumental of the Year for Clutterbilly, 1998's Instrumental of the Year, again for Clutterbilly, and 2001's Instrumental of the Year, for Rollercoaster. Keith's band, The Ranch, broke up when Keith developed a severe throat infection and he had to rest his hemorrhaged vocal cords for months. He's a popular guitarist in Nashville, and has appeared on albums by such superstars as Garth Brooks and the Dixie Chicks. He can be spotted in Alan Jackson's Mercury Blues video. Keith says the the inspiration for 90% of his songs come to him in the shower. Regarding this muse who visits him in the shower, he says "It has a sense of humor and it likes giving me ideas in the most inopportune times and places. I see my muse looking down and it's laughing its head off at me." His favorite charities? Ronald McDonald House, and, in Australia, The Foundation for the Deaf. Keith’s latest release “Golden Road” is currently topping the charts.
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| MUSIC HISTORY |
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36 years ago Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" is released. (1968) 35 years ago Joe Cocker makes his American debut on the "Ed Sullivan Show" before embarking on a tour. (1969) 30 years ago A four-hour long battle with police goes on after the Cherry Blossom Music Festival in Richmond, Virginia. The concert, held outdoors in Richmond's City Stadium and billed as "a day or two of fun and music," featurs Boz Scaggs, Stories, the Steve Miller Band and others. However, rioting starts when police start busting people for possession. 76 people are arrested and lots more are rushed to the first aid tents. (1974) 29 years ago As of this last show in a five-night engagement at the Los Angeles Sports Arena by Pink Floyd, 511 fans have been arrested for various offenses, mostly marijuana possession. During the third night of the event, L.A. Police Chief Ed Davis is quoted during a Rotary Club speech as saying, "Tonight at the Sports Arena, they have a dope festival. It's called a rock concert or something." (1975) 28 years ago David Bowie was delayed for several hours on the border between Russia and Poland while customs officials confiscate Nazi memorabilia. The material was for research on a film about Nazi official Joseph Goebbels. (1976) 27 years ago New York's legendary disco Studio 54 opens its doors. (1977) 25 years ago Stevie Wonder makes a surprise appearance at a Duke Ellington tribute concert at UCLA's Royce Hall. He performs "Sir Duke and Ellington's "C-Jam Blues." (1979) 24 years ago Three years and a day after opening its doors, New York's legendary disco, Studio 54 shuts down due to numerous questionable activities. (1980) 23 years ago Ringo Starr marries actress Barbara Bach, his costar in the movie "Caveman." Both Paul McCartney and George Harrison are present. Though the New York Post reports the trio "sounded as if they'd never been apart," the three ex-Beatles did not play together. (1981) 22 years ago Rod Stewart is mugged in Los Angeles in broad daylight and is robbed of his $50,000 Porsche. He was not hurt. (1982) On his way to the Clash's West London rehearsal studio, lead singer Joe Strummer gets on a train for the English coast and then takes a ferry across the channel to France. His disapearances forces the band to cancel their tour of the U.K. and puts their June tour of the U.S. in trouble. He shows up in London on May 18 and says exhaustion and doubts about his career drove him to Paris. Two days after he's back, the Clash surprises the audience at an outdoor festival in Holland with an unscheduled concert. (1982) 18 years ago 5150, the first Van Halen album to feature Sammy Hagar, tops the charts for the first of four weeks. The album is named after the New York police code for the criminally insane and Eddie Van Halen's recording studio. (1986) 14 years ago David Bowie began the American leg of his "Sound and Vision" world tour. He said the tour would mark the last time he would perform his old hits like "Golden Years" and "Fame." (1990) Singer Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses married Erin Everly, Don Everly's daughter. The marriage lasted 27 days. (1990) 12 years ago Former Go-Go Belinda Carlisle and husband Morgan Mason have a son, James Duke. The child is named after his grandfather, actor James Mason. (1992) 10 years ago John Mellencamp's wife, Elaine, gives birth to a son. It is the couple's first child and Mellencamp's first son. (1994) The historic Fillmore club reopens in San Francisco. (1994) Grace Slick pleads guilty to pointing a shotgun at police in her Tiburon, California home on March 5, 1994. She claims she was under stress because her Mill Valley home had burned down the previous fall, and she lost most of her possessions. On June 7, she is sentenced to 200 hours of community service and four Alcoholics Anonymous meetings a week for three months. (1994) 9 years ago Courtney Love of Hole reportedly turns down Playboy magazine's $1 million offer for her to pose nude. (1995) 7 years ago ABC's telecast of "U2: A Year in POP" becomes the lowest-rated prime-time program in the history of major network television. (1997) 1 year ago In this years Sunday Times Rich List, Paul McCartney was confirmed as the world’s richest musician with a fortune worth over $760m. Madonna was 4th in the list with $227m, Mick Jagger 6th with $175m and Elton John 7th with $170m. Ozzy Osbourne became the 24th Richest musician after earning an estimated $42m from his TV show ‘The Osbournes.’ And Simon Fuller was said to have earned over $50m from sales of the ‘Pop Idol’ TV show. (2003) |
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