The Who frontman Roger Daltrey has revealed he would like to form a supergroup with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. Daltrey is keen to start a blues-influenced side project and sees Page as an ideal prospective bandmate.
“I’d love to do something, I’d love to do an album with Jimmy Page,” he told the BBC. “He needs a singer to drive him. I’m a great blues singer.”
Daltrey also noted that he would go back to the blues roots he established before songwriting with Pete Townshend.
“I don’t sing the blues with The Who, but that’s what I used to be before Townshend started writing,” he said. “I used to be a great blues singer.”
The future of the Who remains uncertain following Townshend’s revelations that his recurring tinnitus problem may stop him from performing any further shows.
Stone Temple Pilots have officially announced that they will be releasing their comeback album on May 25. The 12 tracks from the self-titled album, which will be the band’s first in nine years, were unveiled at a private listening party in New York on Tuesday.
The entire band attended the event, with singer Scott Weiland looking “the best he’s looked in a long time,” according to a local station.
STP bassist Robert DeLeo noted, “Fans are going get to a great STP record . . . a really cohesive record with songs that are going to be lasting.”
The band also confirmed that they will be performing at SXSW in March and embarking on a subsequent spring and summer tour. Weiland even hinted that the band may be putting together its own festival.
The Chicago stop of that tour takes place on Saturday, March 27th, 2010 at the Riviera Theatre. Tickets go on-sale tomorrow morning at www.ticketmaster.com and will likely be an instant sell-out.
Stone Temple Pilots reunited in 2008 after a six-year hiatus.
It may only be February 26th, but that doesn’t stop us from thinking about St. Patrick’s Day weekend. Not that we need another reason to celebrate everything Irish or for drinking, thank you Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The reason everyone looks forward to these days is because of the green body paint, ridiculous hats and glasses, strange people in chicken suits and Irish Wolf Hounds the size of your girlfriend. That and getting to do things on the streets of Chicago that would normally land you a nifty little ticket.
104.3 JACK FM will part take in all the festivities (well most of them anyways) for the downtown Chicago St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday, March 13th. It all kicks off at 12 Noon from Columbus & Balbo. Although we already know some hard core fans will start lining the streets at 9am and without the South Side St. Patrick’s Day parade on Sunday everybody needs somewhere to go.
