So shocking seeing the images of the damage caused by the earthquake in Chile. Thoughts and prayers to the people there. Geez. Mother Nature, she is not happy!….Yesterday we had a fine time with our friends Beware of Darkness. Unfortunately they got a huge ticket from the NYPD when they entered NYC as their new van does not yet have a license or registration (and their tech guy wasn’t wearing a seatbelt!) Yikes! Anyhow, they did a three song acoustic set, including a new song they haven’t recorded yet, along with “Howl” and “All Who Remain.” And last night, they dedicated “All Who Remain” to me in their set at Webster Hall. Very sweet. They are hitting a bunch of hardDrive affiliate towns, so please get to out to see them! They are dying to meet you!….Today, Like A Storm is stopping in for another acoustic performance and interview….Yesterday I was also on the hotLine with Head from Korn. Like bandmate Ray Luzier, Shaun Morgan of Seether and Lzzy and Joe of Halestorm, he is making his new home in Nashville. Everyone is moving there! Head also told me he is getting around to writing a new book, this one based on what he calls his “wilderness years,” the times when he was away from Korn to his reformation with the band. I think it’s funny he refers to them as his “wilderness” years. “I call ’em like ‘the wilderness years,’ when I was gone in a way, raising my daughter and doing all that stuff for all those years (2005-2013). And then, you know, getting together with the Korn guys again and — you know like my first book, like I told about my whole childhood and all the details and everything? I’m gonna do the same with this during like the mysterious ‘wilderness years,’ I like to call ’em.” From personal experience, he was a little “in the wilderness” for a moment when he was first finding his spirituality (speaking in tongues, for example.) But he’s back to his funny, goofy self. Love Head. He is also got a documentary being filmed on his life between and back with Korn. Oddly enough, the crew interviewed me and some former label folks from Epic Records. Wonder if I will be in that once it’s all edited?….Well my partner in crime, Lou Brutus, will be headed to Rockfest in Cadott, Wi in July! Listeners of WECL 92-9 The X can get out to see him during his meet and greets and over at the station’s broadcast booth with Coop! Good times!…. Pulse of Radio reports the 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductors have been revealed. Rolling Stone announced on April 10th at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe — a close friend of Kurt Cobain — will do the honors for Nirvana while Rage Against The Machine‘s Tom Morello will induct Kiss and Coldplay‘s Chris Martin will induct Peter Gabriel. It is not clear whether the surviving members of Nirvana will perform, while Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons have already confirmed that Kiss will not. Kiss is not performing because Stanley and Simmons are upset that only the founding members and not later ones are being inducted. Current Kiss guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer will sit at the band’s table, along with former guitarist Bruce Kulick, who was in the band from 1984 to 1996. Founding membersAce Frehley and Peter Criss also will be in attendance. Other inductors include Bruce Springsteen, who will induct the E Street Band into the Hall. Questlove of the Roots will salute Hall & Oates, while Peter Asher of Peter & Gordon will do the honors for late Beatles manager Brian Epstein and early Rolling Stones manager and producer Andrew Loog Oldham. The inductor for
Cat Stevens has yet to be announced. Glenn Frey — who got his major break as apart of Linda Ronstadt’s backing band — will salute her at the ceremony. Ronstadt will not be attending the event, but “a unique tribute will be staged to the singer featuring Stevie Nicks, Carrie Underwood, Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow, and Bonnie Raitt.” An edited version of the 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will air on Saturday, May 31st at 9:00 p.m. on HBO. Set your DVR!….Another Nashville native, Jack White, will release his second solo album, titled Lazaretto, on June 10th. The disc follows up his 2012 solo debut, Blunderbuss, which was the first record White made on his own after recording extensively with the White Stripes, the Raconteurs and the Dead Weather. The title track will arrive as a single later this month, but in the meantime White has posted a video for the new instrumental track “High Ball Stepper.” I think it’s very cool. They took various organic items and put them in speakers and filmed the movement of the elements (appears to be salt or sugar, and paint and some other gelatinous goos. Very clever, whoever directed that!….Have to say, listened to the Ronnie James Dio tribute CD, This Is Your Life, and it’s really really great! Congrats to Wendy Dio and all the bands and artists who contributed to this great collection of Dio classic tunes! Four stars!…..This is pretty cool. Chevelle posted a song by song commentary for their newly released 7th album, La Gargola, online. Pete Loeffler talks about each tune. Check it out.