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Peachy Keen: Willie Nelson and a Brief History of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream

Oh happy day! Ben & Jerry are presenting us with a whole new flavor to drool over. Yes folks, today marks the street date for Willie Nelson’s Country Peach Cobbler (peach ice cream with cinnamon sugar shortbread pieces). With the new creation, Willie joins the ranks of progressive pop culture icons Jerry Garcia, Dave Matthews Band, Phish, Wavy Gravy and, most recently, Stephen Colbert, all of whom have been awarded their very own tailor-made ice cream flavors. The question on hardcore

Published: 2007-03-19 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: General

Rewind: The Week in Rock Daily

Photo: HONDA/AFP/Getty Obamania culminated with Barack being elected the 44th President of the United States, thanks (maybe) to some last-minute stumping by Bruce Springsteen in clutch swing state Ohio. Pretty much everyone voted (except David Byrne), then the music world celebrated. Jack Bruce of Cream started a rock feud with Led Zeppelin about 35 years too late, calling the band “crap,” saying Jimmy Page “ain’t no Eric Clapton” and topping it all off by accusing Robert Plant of being “the wrong kind of fertilizer.” Pwned! Bruce Springsteen’s fansite revealed that New Jersey’s rock god is working on the follow-up to 2007’s Magic and that it should be released by January 2009. That’ll give Bruce some new material to play at the inevitable Obama inauguration all-star concert. We still had way too much time on our hands as we tested out the new Wii Music game, explored the 50 Best Rock & Roll Video Games of All Time and talked Guitar Hero: World Tour with the Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne. Our thumbs have never been more blistered.

Published: 2008-11-07 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Waylon Jennings’ Final Recordings To Get Released in October

The final recordings of “outlaw legend” Waylon Jennings will get a release on October 21st. Waylon Forever will feature eight songs all backed by his son Shooter Jennings and his band the 357’s. The recordings on this album were taped in an Arizona pool-house/studio and date back 12 years. After Waylon’s death in 2002, Shooter collected the tapes and provided backing tracks for the songs over the course of the following years. Waylon Forever features covers of artists like Neil Young (”Are You Ready for the Country”) and Cream (”White Room”), plus re-recordings of Waylon’s own songs and one new piece entitled “I Found the Body.”

Published: 2008-08-12 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Jack Bruce Wants More Cream Reunion Gigs

Cream bassist Jack Bruce says that he and Eric Clapton will meet up with drummer Ginger Baker on October 3rd when Baker is given Zildjian’s Drummers Achievement Award at the Royal Albert Hall in London. As for another possible reunion for the “Sunshine of Your Love” trio, Bruce says “‘Cause I’m only the bass player, I can’t say for sure. I know there’s a good chance we may play at that event … but I don’t want to overstate it and make it into something it isn’t.” The band last reformed in 2005 for a run of concerts in London and New York. “I think there might be a chance of some more,” Bruce tells Billboard.com. “I would like to do some more, ’cause I enjoyed it. It was very emotional. I would like another shot at it.” The main roadblock in another Cream reunion is location and timing, as Baker lives in South Africa and Clapton is always on the move, as evidenced by the recent Blind Faith get-together. As for the Zildjian show, the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Mitch Mitchell will also be honored, with Jason Bonham and the Killers‘ Ronnie Vannucci among those performing. [Photo: Getty]

Published: 2008-07-28 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Rock Quiz: Concert Poster Answers Revealed

You guys correctly identified every single error with this poster. Bob Dylan & The Hawks did play a show in Norfolk, Virginia, on February 13, 1966, but neither Led Zeppelin or Fleetwood Mac opened that night since they didn’t exist yet. Eric Clapton was just starting Cream at that time period and Jimi Hendrix was largely unknown. There’s also, as some of you noted, no venue or city listed on the poster. The Zeppelin poster — which suspiciously has the same background as the Dylan one — lists the band as playing the Fillmore about two months before their first American show. And the picture seems to have been taken about ten years after the show supposedly happened. Anachronistic rock posters aside, Dave’s makes one hell of a sub, but maybe the section of the shop’s Web site that says it represents a time of “love, truth and sharing” needs to be reworked.

Published: 2007-07-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Bob Dylan

Weezer’s Cuomo Released From Hospital, January Gigs in Question

Photo: Loccisano/GettyWeezer’s Rivers Cuomo was released from an Albany, New York, hospital on Friday (December 11th), six days after his tour bus crashed on its way to Boston, leaving the frontman with cracked ribs and internal injuries. Band pal Karl Koch reports that Cuomo and the rest of the group are taking a marathon two-day bus trip back to Los Angeles armed with “Mad Men DVDs, meditation, medication, naps, Amy’s Organic frozen entrees [and] ice cream sandwiches.” As RS previously reporte

Published: 2009-12-14 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Weezer

KEEPING THE FAITH

GUITAR ace Eric Clapton - who caught up with his past a couple of years ago by reforming his seminal blues rock band Cream - made deja vu all over again when he resurrected his other '60s supergroup, Blind Faith, with bandmate Steve Winwood...

Published: 2008-02-27 Provider: New York Post Keywords: Clapton, Winwood, show, song, Blind, Faith, ago, guitar, work, music

Jack Bruce: Cream to reunite

Jack Bruce says Cream is once again rising to the top. The bassist for the legendary rock group told The Associated Press on ...

Published: 2007-05-24 Provider: USA Today

Clapton Reminisces, Plots Another Crossroads Fest

He reunited with his Cream compatriots in 2005 and has been mining Derek and the Dominoes catalog on his current tour. Now Eric Clapton is getting ready to reopen yet another chapter of his classic-rock past — Blind Faith. During his second Crossroads Guitar Festival, July 28 at Toyota Park in Chicago, Clapton plans to reconnect with Steve Winwood for a mini-reunion of the famously short-lived band that put out one album and toured in 1969. “We’ve got unfinished business,”

Published: 2007-03-23 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: General

Clapton to tour in the U.S. this fall

Eric Clapton, who last landed stateside for a Cream reunion tour, will return to the U.S. with his own band for a fall tour. ...

Published: 2006-05-24 Provider: USA Today

Ben Harper Gets Heavy With Relentless7 on “White Lies for Dark Times”

Photo: Foley/FilmMagic Ben Harper has plugged his guitar back in and cranked up the amp for his new album White Lies For Dark Times, an 11-song set soaked with hard rock and the deep Delta blues. “It’s a sound I’ve been looking for and reaching for in my mind,” Harper tells Rolling Stone (a full in the studio report can be found in our current issue). “We’ve taken turns kicking each others’ asses in the most gracious fashion, pushing this into new places.” Which means the album is more Cream than Jack Johnson, more “Faded” than “Steal My Kisses.” Why the louder sound? Harper’s ninth studio album will be his first with his new backing band Relentless7, three Austin-based musicians who initially worked with Harper on 2006’s Both Sides of the Gun. It also marks the first time Harper has recorded an album without his Innocent Criminals since 2003’s Diamonds on the Inside. Even though he’s fully committed to Relentless7, and will bring the band along for his slot at Bonnaroo, Harper still plans to keep the Innocent Criminals together, much like how Neil Young and Crazy Horse often took different paths but somehow always found their way back together. Rolling Stone caught Harper and Relentless7 at Los Angeles’ Spaceland in December 2008, where the band played White Lies tracks like the tough, howling “Number With No Name” and the brooding 12-string acoustic ballad “Skin Thin,” plus a cover of the Queen/David Bowie collaboration “Under Pressure.” The Smoking Section also talked with Harper about the R7 in the days following the group’s slot on the Rock the Vote! Tour. Related Stories: • Ben Harper Introduces New Blues-Rock Band Relentless7 • Smoking Section Exclusive: Ben Harper’s New Band • Ben Harper Turns Guitar Troubles Into Triumph at All Points West

Published: 2009-02-12 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Cream’s Jack Bruce Starts Feud With Led Zeppelin 35 Years Too Late

Photo: Shugerman/Getty Jack Bruce of Cream recently unleashed some harsh words about Led Zeppelin, airing some grievances to the press at a recent award ceremony by saying “Fuck off, Zeppelin, you’re crap.” “Everybody talks about Led Zeppelin, and they played one fucking gig — one fucking lame gig — while Cream did weeks of gigs,” Bruce said in the unprovoked attack. “Fuck off, Zeppelin, you’re crap. You’ve always been crap and you’ll never be anything else. Cream is 10 times the band that Led Zeppelin is.” Bruce was apparently angry that Zeppelin and not Cream (as had been scheduled), became the headliner of the Ahmet Ertegun tribute concert at the O2 Arena in London in December 2007. Bruce later tried to back away from the comments, saying “I was just having some fun with the press gallery, really” but then added a post script to the apology by lambasting Zeppelin some more. “The thing about Zeppelin is that obviously it’s a little bit of jealousy on my part — or more than a little bit — because the audience was created by Cream and Jimi Hendrix…this sort of very large audience…Then Zeppelin came along and had a very easy ride in that way. We were the pioneers and pioneers don’t always get the recognition they deserve, maybe.” As for Led Zeppelin’s decision to tour with a replacement for Robert Plant, Bruce added “Well, I always thought Robert Plant used the wrong kind of fertilizer, anyway, so I think he might be an improvement…I’m just joking.” As for the battle of the guitar gods, “Let’s face it: Jimmy Page ain’t no Eric Clapton, no matter what anybody thinks,” Bruce said. Related Stories: • Fricke’s Picks: The Cream of Bruce • Jack Bruce Wants More Cream Reunion Gigs • John Paul Jones Hints At Led Zeppelin Tour Without Robert Plant • Led Zeppelin: Full Report From O2 Arena

Published: 2008-11-05 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News