Mick Jagger on the status of The Rolling Stones new studio album.
"We recorded some at the same time we recorded 'Living in a Ghost Town' -- recorded a bunch of tracks. So actually I've been finishing off the vocals and some other instruments on them and do some mixes on them. So, I'm working on it. And we've got together and do a couple more sessions I think. We're not really gonna get together right now, you know. But, what we've already done sounds pretty good to me, you know."
The Rolling Stones have provided a preview of "Scarlet," the unreleased song that's part of the September 4th deluxe reissue of their 13th studio album in America, Goats Head Soup.
Keith Richards cut the song with Jimmy Page, Stones piano player Ian Stewart, Blind Faith bassist Ric Grech, and Joe Cocker and Fairport Convention drummer Bruce Rowland in October 1974 at Island Studios in London.
In 1975, Page told Rolling Stone magazine, "It was great, really good. We stayed up all night and went down to Island Studios where Keith put some reggae guitars over one section. I just put some solos on it, but it was eight in the morning of the next day before I did that. He took the tapes to Switzerland and someone found out about them. Keith told people that it was a track from my album."
While Keith was joking about a Page solo album, it was named after Page's daughter, Scarlet, who was born in 1971.
In addition to "Scarlet," the multi-format deluxe reissue of Goats Head Soup also includes two other previously unreleased tracks -- "Criss Cross" and "All the Rage."
Page is no stranger to working with the Stones, having laid down guitar on their demo of "Heart of Stone," as well as the solo on "One Hit (To the Body)."
And, the aforementioned Ian Stewart played piano on Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll" "Boogie With Stu," a tribute of sorts to the keyboardist.
Former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach definitely has too much time on his hands as he continues to go after Fozzy frontman Chris Jericho.
It all started when Bach said Jericho lip syncs in concert.
Jericho naturally disputed that claim saying, "I've never mimed anything ever! I will sing in your face anytime, anyplace dude. I've been a fan & a defender of u since day one... But don't u ever question my rock abilities!"
Bach couldn't keep his mouth shut and told the wrestler that, "Wrestling is not rock and roll. I will show you rock and roll."
Then, on Saturday during his Saturday Night Special YouTube show, Jericho sang the chorus to Skid Row's "Youth Gone Wild."
Bach followed up by badgering Jericho with nasty text messages, but Jericho didn't respond. Bach then posted a photo of his text messages, but has since taken it down.
Moody Blues bassist and singer John Lodge was born on July 20th, 1945. Their song "The Story in Your Eyes" was written on acoustic guitar and recorded on eight-track in an old London church. It was on the album Every Good Boy Deserves Favour which peaked at number-23 on the Billboard Hot 100. One of The Moody Blues' most fondly remembered songs. Here is Justin Hayward, who wrote and sings it saying how it came about.
“It was a kind of an angry song and it was started in a proper recording studio and finished up in Mike Pinder’s garage and mixed there. And this really came out of an A-minor guitar riff and frantic drums. The original version really swung and the end of it went on for ages and ages. It’s just a huge jam session, none of which appears on the record.”
Ozzy Osbourne is making yet another reality series with his family.
The Osbournes Want to Believe will feature son Jack trying to convince Ozzy and Sharon that various videos of paranormal activity are real. The series premieres August 2nd on the Travel Channel. It will be the first time since the original MTV series that Ozzy, Sharon and Jack have been on a show together. Kelly is not taking part in this series.
Jack tells Variety that being in lockdown freed up time so his parents could do the series, which is being shot mostly in their home. He says, "It’s actually going to be a lot of fun." Ozzy and Jack had their own reality show, Ozzy and Jack's World Detour, for three seasons from 2016 to 2018.
Ozzy Osbourne hasn't thrown his hat into the Presidential race like Kanye West says he's doing, but he has launched a line of "Ozzy For President" merchandise.
In a short clip promoting the line, quotes from Ozzy appear saying:
Among the items available are t-shirts, hoodies, lithographs, bumper stickers and buttons. They are available in Ozzy's online store.
The Osbournes are no stranger to President Trump as Sharon was a contestant on Trump's Celebrity Apprentice in 2010. But that doesn't mean they support him.
Last year they called him out for using Ozzy's music without permission.
And, Sharon has also criticized his Presidency.
"It's kind of fearful. I know a lot of my friends are fearful. We kind of wake up every day and go, 'What's gonna happen now?' You don't feel secure that everything will be smooth and people are in control of what they should be in control of. … For me, I wake up afraid of what on Earth is going to happen and who he's going to insult today."
Richard Starkey...Ringo Star turns 80 today. He wrote The Beatles' song "Octopus's Garden" on a trip to Sardinia, Italy after a chat with the captain of his boat about how octopuses build gardens. The popular album track was the second song Ringo wrote for The Beatles and the last song he sang for them.
”I went to Sardinia. And I knew Peter Sellers and he had a boat and somehow he knew I was going — ‘Use my boat,’ which we did. And I ended just hanging out with the captain talking, and we were talking about octopus and he actually was telling me that they build these gardens. Octopuses go around the sea bed finding shiny things — nice stones — and they put ‘em around. And I just thought, ‘Well, this is the happiest thing I’ve ever heard.’ And I had me guitar with me, I played three chords and that’s how it happened.”
THE BEATLES almost got back together in 1976 . . . six years after they broke up . . . but their reunion was prevented by a GREAT WHITE SHARK. According to RINGO STARR, a promoter offered them the equivalent of about $250 million in today's money, and the four of them talked about it.
"We called each other to see what we think. We decided not to do it because the opening act was a guy [fighting] a shark. So we thought no."
It sounds crazy, but there might be some truth to this. According to an old "People" magazine article from 1976, a promoter named Bill Sargent made the offer.
But after the Beatles turned him down, he decided to concentrate on his next project, in which an Australian diver named Wally Gibbins would, quote, "fight to the death with a 14-foot, 2,500-pound killer shark in a lagoon off Western Samoa."
Happy birthday to Roy Bittan, E Street Band keyboards. He's 71 today. Born to Run was the first Bruce Springsteen album to feature pianist Roy Bittan and drummer Max Weinberg as members of the E Street Band. Bittan recalls that even though it was his debut with the band, Bruce was open to his input when it came to arranging "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out."Bruce Springsteen: "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out"
"That was really fun, that song. It really had that R&B-type feel and I remember in rehearsal we were trying to figure out a great intro for it and I said, 'Why don't we take that "I'm on my own" section -- let's use that instrumentally up front, but let's built it up. There was this minor chord intro and all of a sudden there was a big drum shot and then, wham, we went into the rockin' part of it. And pumping the piano really seemed to just push it along. For me, it was a great thing. I really got to play like a really heavy rockin' piano part on that."
Ringo Starr says the reason the new Beatles documentary, Get Back, has been postponed from its opening in September until August of next year is because director Peter Jackson has been locked out of his studio due to the pandemic.
The film is based primarily on unreleased footage captured during the 1969 making of their Let it Be album. Ringo says he's impressed with what's already been done. The movie only shows that the Beatles are not getting along but that's not the whole story, that's just the way it was edited. Here is Ringo on the documentary.
"I'd only seen the on the roof stuff that Peter edited together and, you know, in the movie, it was, I'm guessing, 10 minutes long. It's now 36 minutes long and it is incredible. You know how it started. We found 56 hours of unused footage ... and I always believed that the one that came out (Let it Be) was a bit dull and it stuck to one second of what happened between the boys. And he when he comes into L.A. he'll bring up his iPad...we're all laughing or telling jokes. We're having fun we’re playing and there's a lot more joy."
