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New Led Zeppelin Book Out This Week

October 9th, 2009  |  Filed under: Daily Post

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A new Led Zeppelin book, titled Led Zeppelin: Shadows Taller Than Our Souls and written by Charles R. Cross, hits shelves this week.

According to the Seattle Times, the biography features an interactive format. The nine chapters, named after Zeppelin albums, each contain removable reproductions of ticket stubs, set lists, posters, magazine covers, and backstage passes.

Other features include news releases from the 1969 Seattle Pop Festival and an audio CD that contains a rare early interview with guitarist Jimmy Page. The subtitle of the book, Shadows Taller Than Our Souls is a line from the band’s biggest hit, “Stairway to Heaven.”

Cross, who is an established writer and an occasional music critic for the Seattle Times, wrote a previous book on the band in 1991, titled Led Zeppelin: Heaven and Hell.

Shadows Taller Than Our Souls is being put out by It, a division of HarperCollins.

Clapton Plays Cricket For Charity

October 9th, 2009  |  Filed under: Daily Post

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Eric Clapton took to the cricket pitch this week for a charity match against England’s Bunbury Cricket Club. Clapton assembled a team called the Eric Clapton XI, which included Steve Crook, frontman for indie rock band Juliet The Sun.

According to Crook, who is also a pro cricketer, Clapton did quite well after some coaching.

“He got 15 runs after I gave him some tips on his forward defensive stroke,” Crook told U.K. publication The Sun. “I was really shy but mentioned my band and he wished us luck and put us in contact with his legendary former manager David English . . . Next summer if I play for his team again I might even ask if he’ll jam with us.”

The charity event comes amid a full schedule for Clapton. He recently appeared on the new Jay Leno Show alongside Bruce Hornsby, and is currently preparing for a pair of co-headlining dates with Jeff Beck at London’s O2 Arena in February.

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Chris Cornell joined Pearl Jam to perform a couple of songs with the band during one of their shows in Los Angeles this week. The jam marked the reunion of Temple of the Dog, a band that consisted of Cornell and the musicians that went on to make up Pearl Jam back in the early 1990’s.

Cornell performed “Hunger Strike” with the band and then provided a guitar solo for “Alive” to close out the show. After Temple of the Dog parted ways, Pearl Jam would go on to be one of the most successful grunge rock bands, while Cornell would find success as frontman for Soundgarden and Audioslave.


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