Joe Walsh to play May 17 at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa
TULSA – Joe Walsh has been a member of the James Gang, an Eagle and successfully maintained popularity as a solo performer. On May 17, he will perform decades-spanning rock hits at The Joint inside Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa.
Tickets start at $55 and go on sale April 5.
Walsh’s career took off in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s as a member of the James Gang, where he showed off his creative guitar riffs in hits like “Funk #49,” “Walk Away” and “Midnight Man.”
Following his 1974 solo debut, Walsh joined the Eagles a year later and became a critical component of the band’s massive hit album, “Hotel California.” On the release, Walsh contributed as a co-writer on “Life in the Fast Lane” and co-wrote and sang lead vocals on “Pretty Maids All in a Row.” His other major credited contribution before the band’s 1980 breakup was “In The City,” which was originally a solo effort featured on “The Warriors” soundtrack before the band rerecorded it on “The Long Run.”
The Wichita, Kan., native has left his mark on rock music with his signature “attack” sound on the guitar and his humorous outlook on life, including a 1980 mock presidential campaign. As a solo artist, he has recorded the hit singles “Rocky Mountain Way,” “Life’s Been Good,” “A Life of Illusion” and “The Confessor.”
Fourteen years after separating, the Eagles reunited in 1994 and released the live performance “Hell Freezes Over,” and launched one of the most successful tours in music history. In 1998, the Eagles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
On Feb. 9, Walsh was featured as a guitarist on Paul McCartney’s “iTunes Live from Capitol Studios” and three days later joined McCartney, Bruce Springsteen and Dave Grohl on stage to close out the Grammys, performing “The End” from the Abbey Road medley.
Walsh is slated in May to release his 10th solo studio album, “Analog Man.”
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa is located off of Interstate 44 at exit 240. Ticket prices and information on upcoming shows are available online in The Joint section of www.hardrockcasinotulsa.com. The Joint box office is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. All guests must be 21 years of age or older.
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New releases for March 6, 2012: Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton co-produce Neal McCoy’s new CD “XII”; “Footloose” remake dances onto DVD
From left, Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert and Neal McCoy
Country music power couple Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert, who live in Tishomingo, asked Neal McCoy to perform at their wedding. He responded with his own invitation, asking the couple to co-produce with Brent Rowan his first album of new material since 2005. The result, “XII,” is out today on Blaster Records; look for my review in the coming days.
Shelton also leaves his mark on the new movies out this week, covering the title theme for the remake of the 1980s dance drama “Footloose.”
Here is a list of new CDs, DVDs and books out this week, from Amazon.com and VideoETA.com:
CDs
Neal McCoy, “XII.”
Bruce Springsteen, “Wrecking Ball.”
Idina Menzel, “Live Barefoot at the Symphony.”
Todd Snider, “Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables.”
Fleetwood Mac, “Go Your Own Way: Live 1977.”
Andrew Bird, “Break It Yourself.”
Fireflight, “Now.”
The Magnetic Fields, “Love at the Bottom of the Sea.”
Kaiser Chiefs, “Start the Revolution Without Me.”
DVDs
Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2
Columbus Circle
Footloose
Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season
Jack and Jill
The Lie
Like Crazy
My Future Boyfriend
New York Giants: Super Bowl XLVI Champions
Senna
Tennessee Tuxedo & His Tales: Complete Collection
Tooth Fairy 2
Wyatt Earp’s Revenge
Books
Don’t Put Me In, Coach: My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench by Mark Titus
Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James
The Magic (The Secret) by Rhonda Byrne
Doing More with Less: The New Way to Wealth by Bruce Piasecki
Mass Effect 3 Collector’s Edition: Prima Official Game Guide by Fernando Bueno, Alex Musa
The Digital Photography Book, Part 4 by Scott Kelby
Free Will by Sam Harris
The Thief (An Isaac Bell Adventure) by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott
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Video Spotlight: RIP Davy Jones of The Monkees
Davy Jones, the boyishly handsome heartthrob who rocketed to the top of the 1960s music charts as part of the TV band The Monkees, died Wednesday. He was 66.
His publicist, Helen Kensick, confirmed that Jones died of a heart attack near his home in Indiantown, Fla., where he lived, according to NewsOK.
Jones last performed in Oklahoma on Feb. 19 at WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, a frequent stop on his concert tours.
Born in England, Jones earned a Tony nomination at age 16 for playing “The Artful Dodger,” in the Broadway production of “Oliver.” It also led to his role on the musical TV show “The Monkees.”
The show also starred Mike Nesmith, Peter Tork and Mickey Dolenz.
The group’s first single, “Last Train to Clarksville,” became a No. 1 hit. In memory of Jones, check out these other video highlights from the singer and the other Monkees:
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Jackson Browne added to Tulsa Woody Guthrie centennial concert
Jackson Browne (AP file)
The Los Angeles-based Grammy Museum, in conjunction with Woody Guthrie Publications Inc. and the Woody Guthrie Archives, has announced the addition of Jackson Browne as a special guest to the “This Land Is Your Land – The Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration Concert” lineup in Tulsa.
Taking place at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 10 at The Brady Theater, the concert serves as the pinnacle of the Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration in Tulsa, and it is the first installment of the series.
Jackson Browne joins the previously announced lineup of John Mellencamp, Arlo Guthrie, Rosanne Cash, Del McCoury Band, The Flaming Lips, Old Crow Medicine Show, Hanson, Tim O’Brien and Jimmy LaFave, who will be performing various Guthrie classics. Author Michael Wallis and poet Joy Harjo also will be participating as narrators for the show using various Woody Guthrie texts.
Our sources here at BAM’s Blog indicate that Browne may be collaborating with the Lips during the concert.
“The goal of The Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration Concert is not just to pay tribute to Guthrie’s obvious contributions to American music, but to also broaden the national understanding of his cultural impact,” said Grammy Museum Executive Director Bob Santelli in the announcement. “The lineup scheduled for the Brady Theater show in Tulsa speaks volumes about Guthrie’s influence. It’s truly an honor to be producing this all-star event.”
Woody Guthrie’s sister, Mary Jo Edgmon, also will be attending the celebration and will be receiving a Grammy Museum American Music History plaque on behalf of Woody’s birthplace, Okemah, to honor their annual Woody Guthrie Festival.
Designed to celebrate Guthrie’s extraordinary body of work and impact on American music, Tulsa’s Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration, will take place Monday-March 11. In addition to the concert, the celebration will include a George Kaiser Family Foundation-sponsored exhibition titled “Woody at One Hundred: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration 1912-2012″ at Gilcrease Museum, various educational programming, and a conference at the University of Tulsa titled “Different Shades of Red.”
The George Kaiser Family Foundation, a Tulsa-based charitable organization, purchased the Woody Guthrie Archives in 2011 from Woody Guthrie Publications in New York and will create a permanent home for the Archives and make Guthrie’s collection available for research and education in downtown Tulsa.
The Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration is one of the largest and most comprehensive centennial celebrations ever staged for an American music icon. For the most up-to-date information and a complete schedule of events for the entire Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration, visit www.woody100.com.
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New releases for Feb. 28, 2012: School of Seven Bells, “Hugo,” Anthony Shadid’s memoir “House of Stone”
Anthony Shadid (AP file)
Brooklyn, N.Y.-based band School of Seven Bells, which includes Lawton-born guitarist/producer Benjamin Curtis and vocalist Alejandra Deheza, has released its third album, “Ghostory.”
It’s the first album for SVIIB to release as a duo; Deheza’s sister Claudia left the group in 2010. “Ghostory” is billed as boasting the influences of ’80s pop, shoegaze and ambient electronic sounds. It also comes with a story in mind: the tale of a young girl named Lafaye and the ghosts that surround her life.
For film fans, Martin Scorsese’s beautiful fantasy “Hugo,” which won five Oscars Sunday, dropped on DVD and Blu-ray today. The movie version of Brian Selznick’s book “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” won for art direction, cinematography, visual effects, sound mixing and sound editing. It tied with “The Artist” for the most Academy Award wins this year.
New to the bookshelf, the final book from Pulitzer Prize-winning Oklahoma native Anthony Shadid has been released. Before he died Feb. 16 at age 43 while covering the civil war in Syria for The New York Times, Shadid wrote “House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family and a Lost Middle East,” a memoir about his efforts to renovate an abandoned and looted house built by his great-grandfather in a Lebanese village. Shadid spoke passionately about the book when he visited The Oklahoman and spoke to those of us in the News and Information Center last year, and I can’t wait to read it.
Shadid was a reporter for 25 years, 15 of them as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, starting with the Associated Press and The Boston Globe. He died of an apparent asthma attack.
Here is a list of new CDs, DVDs and books out this week, from Amazon.com and VideoETA.com:
CDs
School of Seven Bells, “Ghostory.”
Lyle Lovett, “Release Me.”
Celtic Thunder, “Voyage.”
Loreena McKennitt, “Troubadours On The Rhine.”
Il Volo, “Il Volo Takes Flight Live From the Detroit Opera House.”
Pink Floyd, “The Wall – Immersion Box Set.”
The Cranberries, “Roses.”
Carolina Chocolate Drops, “Leaving Eden.”
Estelle, “All of Me.”
DVDs
Answers to Nothing
Beneath the Darkness
The Hangover Part II
Here’s Lucy: Season 5
Hugo
I Melt With You
Johnny English Reborn
Law & Order: The Tenth Year
Mission: Impossible – The ’89 TV Season
The Myth of the American Sleepover
Top Gear: The Complete Season 17
Books
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Avis Lang
Lone Wolf: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
Joy the Baker Cookbook: 100 Simple and Comforting Recipes by Joy Wilson
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Shine – A Pink Floyd Tribute lighting up Oklahoma City Friday night
From Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman.
Shine – A Pink Floyd Tribute lighting up Oklahoma City Friday night
The Norman-based tribute band is bringing faithful rendition of the influential prog-rockers hit, augmented with a light and laser show.
A group of Norman musicians are going to “The Dark Side of the Moon” and beyond to pay homage to one of the most influential bands in rock ‘n’ roll history.
Shine – A Pink Floyd Tribute will launch the progressive space rock hits — along with a psychedelic light and laser show, naturally — Friday night at Kamps Lounge (also known as XIII X Lounge), 1310 NW 25.
It will be the biggest date yet for the tribute group, which started a couple of years ago when members of the late jam band Galapagos wanted to get together for a big reunion show.
“I said, well, fine, the only way I’d be interested is if we did something really cool, like say covering ‘Dark Side of the Moon,’ and everyone was like, yeah, fine, we’ll do that. So we gave it a go. It was a lot of hard work, but we basically slammed it together in about two weeks,” said guitarist/vocalist Mack Burke, a member of Galapagos and founder of Shine.
“We had so much fun doing it and it got me thinking maybe we could just put this together regularly but just as its own group … and we had a really good crew and then we started putting other things together and adding lasers.”
The tribute band consists of seasoned musicians who play in other local bands. Burke is involved with a reinvented Galapagos lineup called GalapaGhost. Original guitarist Alan Orebaugh got so busy touring with Stoney LaRue that Blake Lennon, who plays with The Damn Quails, stepped into Shine’s lead guitarist role. Drummer Tom Young performs with The Damn Quails and the Pidgin Band. Saxophonist Eric Walschap plays with the Pidgin Band, singer/bassist Scott Strandberg is involved with Saucy Gentlemen’s Club, and keyboardist Ryan Bailey performs with SquadLive
“We’re all over the place, but we take this very seriously. It’s not something that’s just like, hey, wouldn’t that be fun to do,” Burke said.
“The material is so iconic but beyond that, it probably had a deeper impact on all of us at some point.”
Shine has only played a few concerts, and Friday’s show will bring their spectacle to the biggest venue to date. But the tribute band has already developed something of a following. They packed the house for their last show, Nov. 5 at The Deli in Norman, and Lennon said the band was so into playing Floyd they didn’t even notice the shaking from the record-breaking 5.6-magnitude earthquake.
“You could see the craziest moment would be playing Shine during the largest quake in state history … I certainly didn’t feel it, but obviously we heard all about it after the show. It was a wild night,” Lennon said. “We just want to play music that’s meant so much to us, and we want to do it justice.”
Along with “The Dark Side of the Moon,” the band performs songs from the Pink Floyd albums “The Wall,” “Wish You Were Here,” “Meddle” and “Animals.” In the tribute band tradition, the group covers the classic tracks as faithfully as possible.
“We kind of limit it so that it remains a production. It’s not a regular show,” Burke said. “And if we went out and played ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ every night at every club … it would completely ruin it. For the fans and for us and just for the whole experience, I guess there’s a little more reverence surrounding it.
“There are a ton of great tribute bands out there, and in a weird way they do a service to everybody by keeping an experience alive that won’t be there forever,” he added. “So my hope is that we will be able to play bigger and bigger places.”
In his case, Burke knows that Pink Floyd has been part of his consciousness practically sense birth. His dad made sure that the Pink Floyd album “Animals” was the first record his son ever heard.
“He told me, ‘When I got you home from the hospital, I put headphones on your little head and played Pink Floyd ‘Animals,’” Burke said with a laugh. “So in a weird way perhaps I was destined to somehow recreate this stuff.”
IN CONCERT
Shine – A Pink Floyd Tribute
When: 10:30 p.m. Friday.
Where: Kamp’s Lounge (also known as XIII X Lounge), 1310 NW 25.
Information: 819-6004 or www.kampsok.com.
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Best Bets for Feb. 24-26, 2012: Reduxion Theatre’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” Monster Jam and Friends of the Metro Library’s Booksale
Reduxion Theatre Company's "Much Ado About Nothing"
Here are my Best Bets for the top events happening around Oklahoma City this weekend, as listed in Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman. For more events, go to www.wimgo.com:
1. Catch the final performances of Reduxion Theatre Company’s production of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” set in the swinging 1960s in Sicily, Italy, at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at its Broadway Theater, 1613 N Broadway Ave. Information: 651-3191 or www.reduxiontheatre.com.
2. Watch Grave Digger, Mutt Rottweiler and several other monster trucks in action when the Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam rolls at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Chesapeake Energy Arena, 100 W Reno. All ticketholders will have the chance to meet the drivers and see the trucks up close during the “Pit Party” and autograph sessions from noon to 1 p.m. Sunday. Information: www.chesapeakearena.com.
3. CONCHO — Hear legendary guitarist B.B. King at 8 p.m. Friday at Lucky Star Casino, 7777 N U.S. 81. Doors open at 7 p.m. Information: 262-7612 or www.luckystarcasino.org.
4. Shop for bargains at the 33rd annual Friends of the Metropolitan Library System Booksale from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Oklahoma Expo Hall at State Fair Park, NW 10 and May. Information: 606-3763 or www.mlsfriends.org.
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What to do in Oklahoma on Feb. 24, 2012: Hear B.B. King at Lucky Star Casino in Concho
Today’s featured event:
CONCHO — Hear legendary guitarist B.B. King at 8 p.m. Friday at Lucky Star Casino, 7777 N U.S. 81. Doors open at 7 p.m. Information: 262-7612 or www.luckystarcasino.org.
For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.
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What to do in Oklahoma on Feb. 17, 2012: Get into an ABBA groove at “Mamma Mia!” at the Civic Center
Today’s featured event:
Become a “Dancing Queen” while watching the national touring production of the ABBA-inspired musical “Mamma Mia!” at 8 p.m. today and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday at the Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N Walker. Information: (800) 869-1451 or www.celebrityattractions.com.
Read The Oklahoman Fine Arts Editor Rick Rogers’ preview of the show by clicking here.
For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.
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Watch: Carrie Underwood and Steven Tyler perform together on their special “CMT Crossroads”
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler and Checotah native Carrie Underwood pose before their "CMT Crossroads" performance. (CMT photo)
If you missed Checotah native Carrie Underwood and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler performing together on a special “CMT Crossroads” the day before the Super Bowl, CMT.com is allowing fans to watch the show in its entirety by clicking here.
Underwood, the 2005 “American Idol” winner, and Tyler, a current “Idol” judge, sang “Sweet Emotion/Love in an Elevator,” “Before He Cheats,” “Cryin’” and “Just a Dream/Dream On” during the show.
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