Todays Music News

[Moondog Wily]

I am glad the my news feed finally seems to be learning what I like. I have been getting a lot more articles about music related stuff. Here are the ones I clicked through today and found interesting:

ZZ Top "Texas" Tour:

"They couldn't transport the snakes in the cattle trailer because it upset the Longhorn and the buffalo": How ZZ Top took Texas on the road in the most sanity-defying tour ever staged

ZZ Top's Worldwide Texas Tour featured a plexiglass pyramid filled with rattlesnakes, trained buzzards, a fake wolf, and a night in Pittsburgh one doctor called "the most horrible thing I have seen since World War II"

www.yahoo.com

Some great stories/details about the tour with a stage shaped like Texas, rattlesnakes in a plexiglass pyramid and more! I am sure a few of the members here were able to see that tour, would love to hear about it!

Andy Summers jams with Hendrix

“Jimi turned round and said, 'Hey man, mind if I play the guitar for a while?' We played for about half an hour. That was probably the last time I saw him”: Andy Summers recalls his “outrageous” jams with Jimi Hendrix

In a new interview with Rick Beato, The Police guitarist also discussed his abandoned duet with Robert Fripp, and what he learned from a guitar lesson with “the world’s greatest guitar player” Lenny Breau

www.yahoo.com

I had no idea Andy was even old enough to have been jamming with Hendrix! It would be great to hear what they did in those 40 minutes!!

 

[Moondog Wily]

Good article on Frank Zappa! Check it out if you dig that genius!!

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/incapable-saying-anything-fond-anyone-140000703.html

 

[Greywolf]

the Zappa article was a good read, he was a genius .. only got to see him once .. when Vai was with him ... wowzer .. he really was a conductor on stage ... They had a intermittent ground issue ( rotating stage) and he would GRILL the sound guys EVERY lap about it while not missing a beat ... until finally they fixed it .. brutal.. the chorus would come around and he'd be shouting .. F#*%N ground is Still there Weasel Farts !