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Bruce Springsteen Playing Warm-Up Dates, Sammy Hagar Speaks on Michael Anthony-Free Van Halen, Keane Channel Dr. Dre

Before their new album Magic comes out on October 2nd, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will play two benefit rehearsal shows at Asbury Park’s Convention Hall next Monday and Tuesday. Tickets for the event are $100, and will support an as-of-yet unannounced beneficiary. Springsteen and the band will embark on a tour, starting in Hartford, the same day Magic is released. Keane are bringing an unusual influence into the recording sessions of their third album. Drummer Richard Hughes explains that the band is listening to a ridiculous amount of Dr. Dre’s 2001, and hope to capture that album’s sparse sound on their next release. Sammy Hagar has finally spoken out about his former band’s semi-reunion. We say “semi-reunion” because Hagar feels it’s not the real thing without ousted bassist Michael Anthony. On a previous tour, when Hagar was still in the band, Eddie Van Halen attempted to exile Anthony, but Hagar insisted he wouldn’t tour without Anthony on bass. Hagar had no explanation for why Eddie wanted Anthony out, but it probably has something to do with Eddie’s desire to “play with his son (Wolfgang, who took over bass duties).” Yung Joc will emulate Snoop Dogg in Old School (or George Clinton in PCU, whichever you prefer) when he performs at the 100th anniversary celebration of Cornell University’s Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. The frat came under fire in 2004 for throwing a racially insensitive “Ghetto Fab” party at which revelers were told to dress like rappers. Friends of family of George Grantham (of POCO) are collecting items to auction off to help pay his medical bills (Grantham suffered a stroke and has no health insurance to defray the cost). Don Henley and Graham Nash have donated so far, and more information is available here.

Published: 2007-09-21
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup