Carlos Santana has had to push back his Las Vegas residency at The House Of Blues after breaking his finger in a fall at his home in Hawaii. The injury was serious enough to require a pin to be inserted into his finger … and although he is expected to make a full recovery, it makes him unable to play the guitar in time for his scheduled January 22nd opening. Doctors expect the recovery to take about six weeks. (kk)
Lots of talks this past week about the interview John Sykes, Chairman of The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, did with Vulture Magazine, peeling back the curtain as to the selection process of the nominating committee.
https://www.vulture.com/article/rock-hall-of-fame-ceremony-2024-john-sykes.html
It was a bit of a surprise (and a disappointment) to see the new Bob Dylan biopic "A Complete Unknown" shut out at the Golden Globe Awards Sunday Night.
Based on the seemingly unanimous positive reviews, the film seemed to be a shoe-in to clean up at this year's awards ceremonies ... but in fact did not win a single award.
It'll be interesting to see how it fares at The Oscars on March 2nd. (Dylan's music ... and character ... pales in comparison to Freddy Mercury's ... so I wasn't expecting a repeat of "Bohemian Rhapsody" success ... but I WAS expecting it to win SOMETHING!!!)
Here’s a little background story about just how involved Bob Dylan was with the making of the new biopic “A Complete Unknown”
https://rockcellarmagazine.com/bob-dylan-a-complete-unknown-producer-interview-approval-script/
In fact, on a related note, Bruce Springsteen sounds like he couldn’t be more pleased with the way award-winning actor Jeremy Allen White (from “The Bear”) is portraying him in HIS upcoming biopic …
Wayne Osmond of The Osmond Brothers passed away on New Year’s Day. It was he and his three brothers, Alan, Merrill and Jay, that started it all as a barbershop quartet back in 1958. When they were discovered performing at Disneyland a few years later, they were booked for an appearance on “The Andy Williams Show” and the rest, as they say, is history.
Their career took off like crazy in 1971 after little brother Donny joined the group and their version of a song turned down by The Jackson Five, “One Bad Apple,” kicked off a string of ten Top 40 hits.
Wayne has battled a variety of health issues over the past 27 years. In 1997, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor which, despite successful treatment, left him mostly deaf as a result. He retired from the Osmonds in 2007 and then a stroke in 2012 left him unable to play guitar. His final public performance with his family took place in 2018. He leaves behind a wife and five children. He was 73. (kk)
And then just a few days later we lost Brenton Wood, whose 1967 hit “Gimme Little Sign” still shows up EVERYWHERE in ad campaigns, tv shows and movies and is still all over oldies radio. While “Gimme Little Sign” was an across-the-boards Top Ten Hit, he was NOT a one-hit wonder … “The Oogum Boogum Song” reached #34 before it … and “Baby You Got It” reached #34 right after it! He died of natural causes at the age of 83 on January 3rd. According to published reports, his last words were “Catch you on the rebound” … which just also happened to be the name of the B-Side of that “Baby You Got It” single. All three of his Top 40 singles were released in 1967 … and although he would go on to chart five more times, none of those subsequent releases ever rose above #99. (kk)
Hey Kent -
Was sorry to hear about the passing of Brenton Wood 😢
They played a few songs of his on KNX, which is now an all news station in Los Angeles.
Here he is at B.B.King's club in Universal City.
Jim Roup
Tom Cuddy sent us this article about The Isley Brothers ...
Heard of The Isley Brothers? The Legendary Group is the Only Musical Act in History to Achieve This One Feat
https://www.theroot.com/heard-of-the-isley-brothers-the-legendary-group-is-the-1851732498?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=TheRoot/magazine/Entertainment
There’s a pretty well-known story that Stephen Stills once auditioned for The Monkees but didn’t get the part because he had bad teeth. Stills said, “Well, I have a roommate who looks just like me and his teeth are fine” … so he went home and sent down his buddy Peter Tork who, of course, got the gig.
I have often speculated that if Stills HAD gotten the role, that means that he would have written Buffalo Springfield’s biggest hit “For What It’s Worth” while he was under contract. It was making its way up the charts just as The Monkees’ #1 smash “I’m A Believer” was heading down …
And my running joke for all these years has been, “Yeah, but they probably would have given it to Micky to sing,” since he and Davy pretty much got to sing all of the lead vocals.
Well, now on Micky’s new “Live At The Troubadour” album, he does exactly that! (It’s a good, solid concert … and Dolenz spices things up between tunes with stories from back in the day.)
And I have to say that he sounds particularly good on this one …
You can order your copy thru Amazon or iTunes or any of the other services out there …
But if you buy it thru Micky Dolenz’s website, he’ll even autograph it for you. (kk)
And, speaking of Stephen Stills (who just celebrated a
birthday on January 3rd), here’s a photo that our resident
photographer Jim Roup snapped of him at Jack Nicholson's trendy Monkey Bar. (Hmm … TWO more Monkee references /
tie-ins!!! Now THAT'S pretty cool!!!) kk
