11.18.05 (RockAndMetal.com) Just in time for the holidays come two live releases from musical genius TODD RUNDGREN, "The Best Of Todd Rundgren Live," a CD compilation that spans 25 years of touring, and "Liars Live," a concert DVD filmed during his critically acclaimed 2004 international tour. The CD has just been released this week, with the DVD following on November 29th, both available via Sanctuary Records. "The Best Of Todd Rundgren Live" CD is a collection of 13 of his favorite songs, performed during a variety of different tours over a 25 year period (1979-2004). Rundgren personally selected performances from concerts as far afield as Tokyo, and as a special bonus included two new songs recorded during the "Liars" tour in 2004: 'Soul Brother' (originally released on his 2004 album, "Liars"), and a haunting cover of THE BEATLES' 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps.' Both also appear on the "Liars Live" DVD. Other classic Rundgren songs on the Live album include 'I Saw The Light,' 'Can We Still Be Friends' and 'Hello It's Me.' Rundgren was intimately involved in the compilation and mastering of this special collection, even going so far as to add his own annotations to the extensive liner notes. "Liars Live," the new concert DVD, was shot in June of 2004 in Albany, New York, and is filled with over two hours' worth of material totaling eighteen songs; eight taken from the "Liars" album, another eight from his more recent history, plus his defining 'Hello It's Me' and 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps,' which Rundgren first performed on the George Harrison tribute album. The DVD includes special bonus features such as a tour scrapbook and a "Japan Video Diary," filmed during the band's Japanese leg of the tour. TODD RUNDGREN's "Liars" album was his first all new studio album in a decade. He recorded, produced and mixed the critically acclaimed record and played all instruments, wrote all the songs and performed all of the vocals himself. Shortly after its release in April of 2004, Rundgren formed a new band called THE LIARS, enlisting musicians John Ferenzik, Prairie Prince, Jesse Gress and long-time UTOPIA associate Kasim Sulton. The band toured the U.S., Europe and Japan extensively using an amplifier-free sound system that incorporated digital modeling to emulate the sounds of traditional amps. The tour was also the first in Rock history to illuminate the stage using only LED (Light Emitting Diode) lighting. Even the guitars, bass and keyboards were run off of innovative technology, plugged into notebook computers and run directly to the PA system. "The Tablet PCs that we took essentially replaced all the backline equipment. We ran two pieces of emulation software to recreate the sound of amplifiers. There are no amps, racks or floor monitors anywhere on stage," notes Rundgren. That also left the gas guzzling semi-trucks behind, and allowed the band to transport their entire stage set up in a simple trailer behind the bus.

11.18.05 (RockAndMetal.com) Following the huge success of their 2005 "Carnival Of Sins" tour, which included more than 100 arena dates in the U.S. alone, MOTLEY CRUE have announced the next leg of their North American "Carnival Of Sins" tour will get underway in Columbus, Georgia on February 10th, 2006. In addition, the group will play a special performance at the Palace Of Auburn Hills in Detroit, Michigan on New Year's Eve come January 31st. "Carnival Of Sins," one of Pollstar's Top Five-grossing tours of the year, drew record crowds around the world, with the group eventually playing before an estimated 1 million fans in the U.S. The reunited band also celebrated the Top 10 debut of their platinum-certified "Red, White And Crue" album and the recent release of a new version of 'Home Sweet Home,' featuring LINKIN PARK vocalist Chester Bennington and a Gospel choir and string section, with 100% of the proceeds going to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina through the American Red Cross and Mercycorps. The group also recently opened a pair of dates for THE ROLLING STONES in Seattle and Portland, and are about to tour Australia, Japan and Southeast Asia. The band's DVD of the tour, "Carnival Of Sins Live," issued by Clear Channel Entertainment Home Video, was released earlier this month, debuting at #2 on the Billboard Music Video chart. Pre-sale tickets are now available through select radio stations in tour markets this week, while tickets go on sale to the general public this Saturday, November 19th. Tour Dates: 02/10 Columbus, GA [Columbus Civic Center] • 02/11 Ft. Myers, FL [Germain Arena] • 02/12 Columbia, SC [Colonial Center] • 02/14 Wilkes-Barre, PA [Wachovia Arena] • 02/15 Baltimore, MD [1st Mariner Arena] • 02/17 Erie, PA [Erie Civic Center Complex] • 02/18 Reading, PA [Sovereign Center] • 02/19 Dayton, OH [Nutter Center] • 02/21 Ft. Wayne, IN [Memorial Coliseum] • 02/22 Evansville, IN [Roberts Stadium] • 02/24 Rockford, IL [MetroCentre] • 02/25 Kalamazoo, MI [Wings Stadium] • 02/26 LaCrosse, WI [LaCrosse Center] • 03/06 Lewiston, ME [Central Maine Civic Center] • 03/07 Springfield, MA [Mass Mutual Center] • 03/08 Providence, RI [Dunkin Donuts Center] • 03/11 Richmond, VA [Richmond Coliseum] • 03/12 Charleston, WV [Civic Center Coliseum] • 03/13 Roanoke, VA [Civic Center] • 03/15 Atlanta, GA [Philips Arena] • 03/24 Houston, TX [Toyota Center] • 03/25 Jackson, MS [Coliseum] • 03/26 Baton Rouge, LA [Bator Rouge River Center] • 03/28 Huntsville, AL [Von Braun Arena] • 03/30 Tulsa, OK [Convention Center] • 03/31 Lincoln, NE [Pershing Auditorium] • 04/01 Sioux Falls, SD [Sioux Falls Arena]
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11.17.05 (RockAndMetal.com) ALANIS MORISSETTE -- coming off a handful of dates as special guest of HE ROLLING STONES at their New York-area shows including Giants Stadium and Madison Square Garden -- highlights a decade of hit songs and other gems on a new "greatest hits" compilation entitled "The Collection," which has just been released by Maverick Records. The 18-track set was previewed by the seven-time Grammy award-winner's interpretation of Seal's 'Crazy' last month as the album's first single, with an accompanying video for the song directed by Meiert Avis. ALANIS MORISSETTE hand-picked the material on "The Collection," a work that covers the full spectrum of the acclaimed singer, songwriter and musician's artistry and vision. It includes material from her four previous Maverick studio albums ("Jagged Little Pill," "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie," "Under Rug Swept," "So-Called Chaos"), her "Feast On Scraps" DVD/EP, "MTV Unplugged" album, and her contributions to the soundtracks for the movies "Dogma," "City Of Angels" and "De-Lovely" (in which she also acted), plus a song she recorded for "The Prayer Cycle" album. "It was a torturous challenge to come up with the songs for this collection record," says Morissette. "Rather than seeing my songs as children, I view them as rooms in the big house that is my life...all of them are a snapshot of a period of time and a passage in my life. I consider this collection to be pieces of that ongoing expression. Some songs were released formally as singles, others which were personal favorites speak to the themes that were relevant during the times that I wrote them. Ultimately, I put this collection record together to have something to show my great-grandkids one day, and to reflect with objectivity on my own evolution as a writer and singer." Since emerging in 1995, ALANIS MORISSETTE has become one of the more influential singer/songwriters in contemporary music. Her deeply expressive songs and performances have earned vast critical praise and a dedicated fanbase that extends throughout the world, with album sales now exceeding 40 million units. "The Collection" Track Listing: 1. Thank You • 2. Head Over Feet • 3. 8 East Steps • 4. Everything • 5. Crazy • 6. Ironic • 7. Princess Familiar • 8. You Learn • 9. Simple Together • 10. You Oughta Know • 11. That I Would Be Good • 12. Sister Blister • 13. Hands Clean • 14. Mercy • 15. Still • 16. Uninvited • 17. Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) • 18. Hand In My Pocket Upcoming Tour Dates: 11/15 London, UK [Kings College] • 11/18 New York City, NY [Roseland] • 12/01 Los Angeles, CA [Avalon] • 12/02 San Diego, CA [Star 94.1 Jingle Ball 2005] • 12/07 San Francisco, CA [Alice 97.3 Alice In Winterland] • 12/08 Atlanta, GA Star [94 Jingle Jam] • 12/15 Baltimore, MD [Mix 106.5 Mistletoe Meltdown] • 12/16 Chicago, IL The Mix [101.9 Miracle On State Street]
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11.17.05 (RockAndMetal.com) DEICIDE frontman GLEN BENTON will feature in an hour-long BBC documentary called "Death Metal Murders" (part of the acclaimed "This World" series), which explores possible links between Heavy Metal music (specifically Death and Black Metal) and Satanism and murder. The show will air at 9pm (GMT) on Thursday, November 24th on BBC2. Of the young Heavy Metal fans in this picture, three are now dead; four are on trial charged with murder; one is serving 19 years; two more of their friends are serving long prison sentences. They were called the "Beasts Of Satan," and their story has gripped Italy for more than a year. With unique access to them and their families, as well as graphic police footage, "This World" asks: 'How much did their addiction to satanic Death Metal music influence their descent into torture, sacrifices and murder?' The film also travels around the world -- from Milan to Oslo to California -- investigating the bizarre underground scene that is modern Extreme Metal music. There are also interviews with extraordinary musicians on the special, from Benton (who has an upside down cross branded into his forehead) and Necrobutcher of Norwegian Black Metal band MAYHEM, to a Capuchin monk who struts the stage of a Metal festival in Northern Italy roaring out Heavy Metal songs, to self-confessed Swedish Satanists DISSECTION. "Bleeding on your knees/My satisfaction is what I need/The urge to take my fist/And violate every orifice/You're nothing/ ...Beaten into submission/Raping again and again." Those are some of the lyrics to the song 'Sex. Murder. Art.,' a 1995 track by American band SLAYER, who have sold millions of albums around the world. They and other Death Metal bands regularly sing about rape, torture, necrophilia, murder and Satanism. Over the years, this type of music has been blamed for driving teenage boys to murder and suicide. For example, the parents of Elyse Marie Pahler took SLAYER to a California court in a failed attempt to ban the sale of this kind of music to children, after their daughter was murdered by SLAYER fans obsessed with Satanism. "No one can contradict me when I say that Heavy Metal and Satanism are closely linked. They go hand in hand, they're inseparable. I say this without the shadow of a doubt," says Michele Tollis, father of Fabio Tollis, who was murdered in a Satanic ritual by the Beasts Of Satan sect in Italy. Tollis has become something of an expert in the genre, having attended more than 80 Heavy Metal concerts during a six-year search for his son, which culminated in the discovery of his body last year. Not surprisingly, Death Metal musicians deny that they have any responsibility for the actions of people who profess to be their fans. "I say don't blame people like me, and (Marilyn) Manson, because we never said, 'Hey, we're going to be role models for all your kids.' That ain't what this is about. It's about entertainment," says Benton of DEICIDE - who were reportedly a favorite band of the... [full story]
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11.16.05 (RockAndMetal.com) A new studio album from THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND is set for a February 7th release via Columbia Records. "Songlines," the first new recording by the band in nearly four years, and the first studio album to feature the full-throated, impassioned vocals of their newest member, Mike Mattison, "Songlines" signals THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND's arrival at a spiritual plateau after a decade-long journey of musical discovery, and cements Derek Trucks' reputation as one of the greatest guitarists of his generation. While "Songlines" embraces the group's big-eared love of Rock, Blues, Jazz, Latin and World Music, it is unquestionably their most cohesive album to date. "Songlines" features several originals written by THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND with collaborator Jay Joyce - from the Hammond B3 groove of 'I'll Find My Way' to Joyce's anthemic, fiery 'Revolution' and the shimmering Derek Trucks instrumental, 'Mahjoun.' Elsewhere, traditional Blues (a wickedly funky 'Crow Jane' rendered in with a cutting falsetto by Mattison) mingle with the band's stirring, tent revival take on Roland Kirk's classic 'Volunteered Slavery,' and their epic reading of the Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn composition, 'Sahib Teri Bandi/Maki Madni' - a song that swells from a delicate tone piece to a whirling dervish and back again. "Songlines" takes its name from an Aboriginal tradition which claims the culture's totemic elders traveled the Australian continent literally singing their world into existence.Ê In turn, the "songlines" they created became a map for finding one's way through life. Derek Trucks has followed his own songlines from a very early age. A professional, touring musician since the age of twelve, Trucks now spends over 300 days a year on the road with THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND and THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND. Now 26, Derek Trucks is the youngest guitarist to place on Rolling Stone's recent "100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time" list. THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND are currently on the road, and can be seen at some of their upcoming shows alongside MOFRO (11/16, 11/17, 11/19, 11/20) and the SUSAN TEDESCHI BAND (12/30, 12/31). Tour Dates: 11/16 Portland, NE [State Theatre] • 11/17 Poughkeepsie, NY [Bardavon Theatre] • 11/18 Uncasville, CT [Mohegan Sun Casino] • 11/19 Boston, MA [Avalon Ballroom] • 11/20 Lebanon, NH [Lebanon Opera House] • 11/22 New Brunswick, NJ [State Theatre Of New Jersey] • 11/23 Norfolk, VA [NorVa Theatre] • 11/25 Danbury, CT [Premier Music Hall] • 11/26 Huntington, NY [Inter-Media Arts Center] • 12/02 Louisville, KY [Headliners Music Hall] • 12/03 Pittsburgh, PA [Manchester Craftsman's Guild] • 12/28 Charlotte, NC [McGlohon Theatre Of Spirit Square] • 12/30 Atlanta, GA [Variety Playhouse] • 12/31 Atlanta, GA [Variety Playhouse] • 01/14 North Bethesda, MD [Music Center @ Strathmore] • 01/19 Cleveland, OH [Odeon Concert Club] • 01/20 Easton, MD [Historic Avalon Theatre] • 01/24 Johnson City, NY [Magic City Music Hall] • 01/25 Buffalo, NY [Center For The Arts] • 01/27 Cincinnati, OH [Bogart's] • 01/28 Chicago, IL [Park West] • 03/30 Savannah, GA [Trustees Theater]
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11.16.05 (RockAndMetal.com) After emerging as one of this year's Ozzfest breakthrough artists, ARCH ENEMY made their return to the U.S. last week to begin a headlining tour with ALL THAT REMAINS, MNEMIC and A PERFECT MURDER in the support slots. The trek is the group's first headlining run in support of their critically acclaimed new album, "Doomsday Machine," which debuted at #87 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and recently surpassed the 50,000-unit SoundScan plateau. ARCH ENEMY guitarist Mike Amott checks in the following report from the road: "Hello all Arch Enemy friends. We are in Boulder, CO today, and I had to switch out my camo shorts for camo pants - damn it's cold! I saw my first racoon today, right outside the coffee shop on the street...wow... I am from Sweden; I am not used this stuff. It was cool. A local was telling me that they get bears and mountain lions coming down to their town, too. That's really mind-blowing to me, but just a part of life here. We started this U.S leg of the 'Doomsday Machine' tour in Tempe, Arizona - a much warmer place! I got to visit the Krank factory - Krank is the company that builds my amps. Great guys and fantastic amps! They hooked me up with a Krankenstein amp that sounds really raging - a high-gain monster! This amplifier is the Dimebag Darrel (R.I.P) signature amp. I think the world needs a "Michael Amott amp" soon. The show in Tempe, AZ was nice, pretty raging for a first show. We had some bugs to work out, but all in all great crowd and a cool night. It's a lot of fun to be headlining shows again in the U.S. We've got a great set list, basically the same thing we've been doing in Europe, Japan and Australia recently - it pretty much covers most of the essentials from our recorded history (well, you could argue about that forever!) and also features a killer drum solo from Daniel and guitar solo spots from myself and new boy Fredrik. It's good fun and very metal. We are also playing the instrumental song 'Hybrids of Steel' from the Doomsday Machine album - that's a blast to play. A few nights ago, we played in Los Angeles at the House Of Blues on Sunset Blvd. It was another great show. The L.A crowd has always been good to us. Our first show with Angela was in L.A at The Troubadour - good memories for sure. L.A usually means lots of stress, promotional activities and also tons of guests. I had a great time, though, and spent most of the after show time talking to my new friend Doug Aldrich, talking about guitars, amps and effect pedals. That's a good evening for me, and on the subject of guitars, while in L.A., I visited the very good people at ESP guitars. I had a great meeting with them, discussed some very cool stuff for 2006. I am excited! Meanwhile, the show in San Francisco went well, a lot more people in the club as compared to the last time we played there back in 2002. I guess the word is spreading. So yeah, a cold evening here in Boulder, CO. After the show here, we'll be driving down to Texas for a couple of shows down there. Come out and see the show if you are in the area - it's a pure fucking metal extravaganza."
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11.15.05 (RockAndMetal.com) Singer/songwriter JON NICHOLSON unofficially represents the Rock & Soul branch of Nashville, Tennessee music collective The MuzikMafia, which he founded with friends Big Kenny, John Rich and Cory Gierman. His new album, "A Lil Sump'm Sump'm," contains an impressive mix of songs that cross genres well, and is now available via Warner Bros. Nashville Records. Born and raised in a state that reveres Polka music as if it were a contemporary art form, JON NICHOLSON is something of a musical revelation. The Wisconsin native grew up tuning his stereo to the middle-of-the-road Rock 'N' Roll and mainstream Country music that permeated the airwaves of the Midwest. But, given time, he eventually discovered the rhythmic Soul of Otis Redding, the R&B stylings of Al Green and Teddy Pendergrass, the Gospel feel of Donny Hathaway, and an amalgamation of others cut from the same ilk. "I think Wisconsin is a real soulful place," Nicholson says proudly. "A lot of great artists have come out of Madison or hung out there for a long time, and there are a lot of those old cats still up there." Clyde Stubblefield, James Brown's original drummer, is just one of the many old-school musicians who still finds the time to jam every Sunday night at a small club in Madison, where Nicholson used to hang out back when he was living just south of the state capitol in the small town of Verona. And, of course, the 31-year-old Nicholson would be remiss not to mention the fact that Otis Redding unfortunately perished on December 10, 1967, when the 26-year-old's charter plane crashed into a frozen Lake Monona Bay. More than a decade later Nicholson and his friends would spend many summer afternoons waterskiing on the same lake. "Maybe I kicked up some Otis spirits on a wakeboard or something," Nicholson ponders. In any case, music was an influence at the Nicholson household as far back as Jon can remember. At the urging of his mother, he started learning to play the piano when he was just 3 years old. "She felt like God put me on Earth to make music for other people," Nicholson says, "and to be a flyin', singin' preacher." A year later he became a multi-instrumentalist when he picked up the violin, and before long he was playing piano during Sunday morning church services and singing for the congregation. So it's no surprise that after only two years of college -- he was a pre-Med student at the University Of Wisconsin Eau Clair and also a member of the football team -- his family supported his decision to drop out and pursue music as a career. After all, as opposed to all night sessions with his study group or long hours of viewing game films with his teammates, Nicholson spent most of his time writing songs and jamming with his friends in the dorms. By this time he had also begun traveling to Nashville on a rather regular basis. Though it's often referred to as the Country Music Capital, it also had been home to most of Nicholson's favorite songwriters such as Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson, so inevitably Music City was a natural progression. "I think coming down here and figuring out who I was as a songwriter brought me back..." [full story]
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11.15.05 (RockAndMetal.com) ONE MAN ARMY AND THE UNDEAD QUARTET, the new Swedish band featuring vocalist Johan Lindstrand (formerly of THE CROWN), will begin a new European tour at the end of December in support of their upcoming debut album for b>Nuclear Blast Records, "21st Century Killing Machine." The band recorded the album in early Fall at Bohus Studios. ONE MAN ARMY AND THE UNDEAD QUARTET previously recorded a demo CD, entitled "When Hatred Comes To Life." Soon after the breakup of THE CROWN in 1994, Johan Lindstrand started to write some music, thinking of doing something on his own. As the music became more interesting, he decided to put some stuff down on tape. He then contacted bassist and old friend Valle Adzic of IMPIOUS to help out with a demo, which they begin recording with Adzic at the controls at his own Deadline Studios. ONE MAN ARMY AND THE UNDEAD QUARTET is a name that haunted Lindstrand since the beginning of the writing process, and as the demo sessions came to an end, promotion was begun on a brand new website for the band. During the recording process, the band put an ad on their website for a drummer and a rhythm guitarist, from which Lindstrand got a good response from musicians in the United States. However, the fact that the band was based in Sweden presented a problem. Eventually, guitarist Pekka Kiviaho was added as a member, as well as drummer Marek Dobrowolski from the band RECLUSION rounding out the five-man lineup for ONE MAN ARMY AND THE UNDEAD QUARTET, all of whom got together for the first time in February of this year. : 12/27 Koln, Germany [Live Music Hall] • 12/28 Tilburg, NL [013] • 12/29 Antwerp, Belgium [Hof Ter Loo] • 12/30 Leipzig, Germany [Haus Auensee] • 12/31 Pratteln, CH [Z7] • 01/02 Milan, Italy [Rolling Stone] • 01/03 Worgl, Austria [Komma] • 01/04 Ljubljana, Slovvenia [VPK Mediapark] • 01/05 Zagreb, Hungary [TBA] • 01/06 Wien, Austria [Planet Music] • 01/07 Linz, Austria [Posthof] • 01/08 Graz, Austria [Orpheum] • 01/09 Budapest, Hungary [Petofi Hall] • 01/11 Nurnberg, Germany [Lowensaal] • 01/12 Berlin, Germany [Columbia Fritz] • 01/13 Erfurt, Germany [Centrum] • 01/14 Kaufbeuren, Germany [All-Karthalle] • 01/15 Strasbourg, France [La Laiterie] • 01/16 Paris, France [Elysee Montmatre] • 01/17 Lyon, France [Transbordeur] • 01/19 Porto, Portugal [Hard Club] • 01/20 Madrid, Spain [Aqualung] • 01/21 Barcelona, Spain [Razzmatazz I] • 01/22 Bergara, Spain [Sala Jam] • 01/24 Lille, France [Splendid] • 01/25 Dudley, UK [JBS] • 01/26 London, UK [Astoria] • 01/27 Amsterdam, NL [Melkweg] • 01/28 Hardenberg, NL [Podium] • 01/29 Stuttgart, Germany [LKA] • 01/31 Langen, Germany [Stadthalle] • 02/01 Bochum, Germany [Zeche] • 02/02 Hamburg, Germany [Markthalle] • 02/03 Goteborg, Sweden [Tradgarn] • 02/04 Oslo, Norway [Rockefeller] • 02/05 Stockholm, Sweden [Arenan] • 02/07 Umea, Sweden [Sky Com Arenan] • 02/08 Oulu, Finland [Teatria] • 02/09 Tampere, Finland [Pakkahuone] • 02/10 Kuopio, Finland [Tyonkulma] • 02/11 Helsinki, Finland [Tavastia]
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11.14.05 (AP) In the Summer of 1975, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN was nobody's Boss. His nascent career was crumbling, just another over-hyped "new Dylan" about to get dumped by his label. Two of his band members had recently quit. The bearded bard of the boardwalk was wrestling with his third (and last?) album, obsessively rewriting the lyrics and rearranging the music, spending an outrageous six months on a single song. Yet Springsteen remained sustained by a lonely but ambitious vision, convinced he could recreate the little symphonies echoing through his head for an audience of millions around the world. He was right. "Born To Run" was released in August 1975, a Rock 'N' Roll masterpiece that assumed near mythic proportion. Thirty years later, as a special "30th Anniversary" edition of the album is being released worldwide tomorrow, Springsteen recalled how making the record consumed his young life. "Everything I knew and dreamed about was packed into those songs," Springsteen told The Associated Press. "I had the desire to be great, to do something passionate, to capture something about living that I was yearning for myself. I wanted the whole thing." He got it - from the opening notes of 'Thunder Road' to the album-closing epic 'Jungleland.' But little came easy as he chased an elusive sound that was part Roy Orbison, part Phil Spector, and all BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN. For Clarence Clemons, sax player for Springsteen's E Street Band, that meant 16 straight hours creating the magnificent solo that anchors 'Jungleland.' For 'Born To Run' -- the single that announced the album's arrival -- sessions stretched out over half a year. "I was 25 years old, with no place to go and nothing to do - that helped," Springsteen said of his slavish musical devotion. "We worked, and worked, and worked. It was very frustrating. But in the end, luckily, all of everything we did ended up in there." In a documentary DVD accompanying the remastered "Born To Run," band members offer their recollections of the often fruitless recording sessions. "Everyone remembers the experience quite truly," Springsteen said with a laugh. "And everyone was centered around this thing, that we suffered. No one forgot that. Everyone had that in common." They all shared another thought: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, child of the Jersey shore arcade, was going for the brass ring this time. Even if, in Springsteen's mind, that goal often remained unreachable - despite hundreds of hours in the studio. "My obsessive/compulsive nature, which crippled me through much of the rest of my life, does come in handy once in a while," said a chuckling Springsteen. "And it came in handy at that moment. I wanted something unique that you couldn't hear in the live show." After "Born To Run," Springsteen wound up in a protracted legal battle with his first manager; his follow-up album, "Darkness On The Edge Of Town," didn't appear until three years later. By then, the sprawl and bombast of "Born To Run" was in BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN's rear-view mirror - never to be duplicated on record again.
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11.14.05 (RockAndMetal.com) Roadrunner Records recording artists TRIVIUM have checked in from their current tour with AMON AMARTH in support of CHILDREN OF BODOM with the following message: "We will be out until the middle of December then we will take a bit of break for the holidays before we head into Audiohammer Studios with (producer) Jason (Suecof) to begin pre-production of 'The Crusade' that will take most of January, then we head back out in late January supporting our heros, the mighty In Flames for another North American run along with our Roadrunner labelmates -- the awesome Devildriver -- that takes us out until end February. We will be back to the UK in March for our 'The Crusade III - Ascend Above The Ashes Tour.' From what we understand tickets are selling very well, there is still time to pick up your tickets if you haven't had the chance, we will be joined on this tour with our friends from God Forbid, and look forward to meeting the guys from Bloodsimple - can't wait. We plan on setting aside most of April and all of May to record 'The Crusade' and then we will hit the road again for the summer tours and festivals. As always thanks to everyone for the support this year. It is hard to believe 'Ascendancy' came out only eight months ago and still doing well. Thanks to 'Ascendancy,' we have been able to tour and perform over 250 shows world-wide in the last 16 months. It's all pretty much a blur, but it has been a great experience and we're appreciative of the opportunity you've given us. Thanks to everyone who continues to believe in us and those willing to work with us for the long haul, it's great to be off the sidelines and in the game. Many people have been e-mailing asking us for things such as tabs, advice on starting a band, record label workings, opening for us, booking shows, where to get tickets and a number of other things. We do try to accomodate as many requests as we can, but it isn't always possible to answer all the questions, especially when we are being asked to do something for someone like tab out a song or explain the meaning of the songs or when we got together, what does Trivium mean, what gear is used, etc. The best place for getting the facts are right here on the website, or on the Official Trivium Message Board. We try to keep all our sites up to date and current so many of the initial questions that someone might have can be usually found here on our website, so just check out the links and you might find what it is you are looking for. We really appreciate the emails, posts, comments and pictures people send in, too. We are pretty good about posting what we can, and thank you for sending the pictures and fan art - we have some really talented friends and fans and enjoy checking out your work. Well, we will post a update in a few days, in the meantime we hope to see you at one of our upcoming shows."
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