Anyone who has paid the slightest bit of attention to the history of Van Halen knows that relations between the various band members have been, charitably speaking, fraught over the past many years.\u00a0 Or, to put it another way, it has been something of a tag-team match: Eddie Van Halen on Sammy Hagar, Eddie on Michael Anthony, Alex Van Halen on Sammy, everybody on David Lee Roth, etc.<\/p>\n
So it comes as a bit of a surprise to see that Roth and Alex Van Halen will be appearing on stage together this Thursday in North Dakota.\u00a0 Some sort of mid-summer rock fest?\u00a0 Not hardly.\u00a0 No, this historic reunion will be at TEDxFargo, a TED Talk event which will offer \u201cthought-provoking talks, live performances, and opportunities to connect with a community of changemakers.\u201d <\/p>\n
Now if you can\u2019t make it there for the event itself, rest easy.\u00a0 Organizers say that the Roth \u2013 Van Halen summit will be recorded and available on YouTube within a few weeks.\u00a0 But here\u2019s a question.\u00a0 With what we know about Roth\u2019s tendency toward verbosity, is there a limit in place regarding the maximum length \/ size of YouTube videos?\u00a0 Yes, mercifully, there is.\u00a0 Twelve hours or 256 GB, whichever comes first.\u00a0 That was a close one.<\/p>\n
Ticket Alert<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Bassist \/ producer \/ record company president Don Was has been creeping around the music industry since the late \u201870s, when he played in a series of bands in his native Detroit.\u00a0 By the \u201880s, Was had a hit record (\u201cWalk the Dinosaur\u201d) with his band Was (Not Was).\u00a0 Since then, he has produced a slew of artists (Bonnie Raitt, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Elton John), won a bunch of Grammy Awards, and served as president of the venerable Blue Note jazz label.\u00a0 Catch Was and his latest musical project, the Pan-Detroit Ensemble, on Thursday, October 1, at the Heights Theater<\/a>.<\/p>\n Seattle\u2019s Candlebox is one of those bands that had a huge hit with its first album (Candlebox, 1993) and has tried to match that level of success ever since.\u00a0 Having said that, Candlebox has experienced something of a career surge over the past several years, releasing five records since 2008.\u00a0 Tickets are on sale now for the band\u2019s concert at the White Oak Music Hall<\/a> on Thursday, October 8.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n JD Simo is one Swiss army knife of a guitar player.\u00a0 Though primarily thought of as a blues artist, Simo has also distinguished himself in the realms of country \u2013 as a member of the house band at Robert\u2019s Western World in Nashville \u2013 and psychedelia.\u00a0 Not only that, he played all of the guitar parts in Baz Luhrmann\u2019s 2022 film Elvis.\u00a0 Simo will perform on Wednesday, November 4, at the Heights Theater<\/a>, with Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears opening.\u00a0 Per the bio posted on the Heights Theater website, \u201cBlack Joe Lewis is the realest motherfucker there is.\u201d\u00a0 Color me intrigued!<\/p>\n Concerts This Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n You gotta give Bryan Adams credit.\u00a0 It\u2019s been several years since he had anything resembling a whopping hit record, but here he is at Toyota Center<\/a> tonight, part of his \u201cRoll with the Punches\u201d tour. \u00a0There are some tickets still available, but considering the point made above, the show is selling pretty well.\u00a0 One reason may be that Adams has enlisted Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo, who were also all over the charts during the \u201880s, as a solid opening act.\u00a0 It should also be noted that Adams is not getting too avaricious with the ticket prices, and that is laudable. As a mentor of mine in the radio business once told me, \u201cMy boy, never let greed overrule reason.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n When thinking about about The Fray\u2019s career (one which involved a switch from Christian rock to secular music), I can\u2019t help but recall a \u201cSimpsons\u201d episode in which a singer explains how to make such a transition: \u201cIt\u2019s easy \u2013 just change the words in the songs from \u2018Jesus \u2018to \u2018baby.\u2019\u201d \u00a0Catch The Fray, with fellow noughties hitmakers Dashboard Confessional opening, on Friday at the 713 Music Hall.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n On Saturday, it will be quite a night at the Mucky Duck for honky-tonk fans.\u00a0 Bill Kirchen<\/a>, the Titan of the Telecaster, will kick\u00a0things off with an early show at 6 p.m. If that name doesn\u2019t ring a bell, maybe this will help: Kirchen is the guy who played all that great lead guitar with Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen, most memorably on \u201cHot Rod Lincoln.\u201d\u00a0 Houston homeboy (and Lamar High School graduate) George Ducas<\/a> \u2013 whose songs have been recorded by George Jones, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood and The Chicks \u2013 will follow Kirchen with a late (relatively speaking) show beginning at 8:30 p.m. Throughout his career, Ducas has carefully tended the Bakersfield flame first kindled by Buck Owens and Merle Haggard.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n It will be an old-school celebration at the Smart Financial Centre<\/a> on Saturday when Houston\u2019s own Bun B commemorates the 30th anniversary of Ridin\u2019 Dirty, an album he created with his late partner Pimp C.\u00a0 As Bun B told Gladys Fuentes in a Houston Press interview<\/a> last week, the album\u2019s anniversary \u201cpopped up on him,\u201d but he felt compelled to honor the occasion and remember the mark that Ridin\u2019 Dirty made on southern rap.\u00a0 But here\u2019s my question: will Bun\u2019s fans be able to hold out during the ride from Sugar Land to Trill Burgers on Shepherd for a post-concert snack, or will they be tempted by a rogue Whataburger along the way?\u00a0 Stay strong, Houston!<\/p>\n \n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anyone who has paid the slightest bit of attention to the history of Van Halen knows that relations…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":966693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[388340,85461,207917,388341,24796,263795,388342,108391,388343,388344,5497,388345,388346,388347,87102,35466,16920,64963,388348,76322,12730,4345,388349,388350,975,43453,375318,358,219938,163432,29142,49663,3187,388351],"class_list":["post-966692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-alex-van-halen","tag-baz-luhrmann","tag-bill-kirchen","tag-black-joe-lewis","tag-bob-dylan","tag-bonnie-raitt","tag-bryan-adams","tag-bun-b","tag-candlebox","tag-commander-cody-and-the-lost-planet-airmen","tag-concerts","tag-dashboard-confessional","tag-david-lee-roth","tag-don-was","tag-eddie-van-halen","tag-elton-john","tag-elvis-presley","tag-garth-brooks","tag-george-ducas","tag-george-jones","tag-homepage","tag-houston","tag-jd-simo","tag-michael-anthony","tag-music","tag-rolling-stones","tag-sammy-hagar","tag-texas","tag-the-chicks","tag-the-fray","tag-the-simpsons","tag-trisha-yearwood","tag-tx","tag-was-not-was"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/966693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}