In response to the leak of Them Crooked Vultures’ album, the band has made the unprecedented decision to stream the record in its entirety beginning with first track “No One Loves Me & Neither Do I” at YouTube. Check out the embed below.
Them Crooked Vultures’ self-titled debut album is due out November 17 in the United States and Canada on DGC/Interscope Records and can be pre-ordered here, http://themcrookedvultures.com/preorder. Its release has been preceded by first single “New Fang” currently streaming on MySpace and “Mind Eraser, No Chaser” now available as a free iTunes download.
Them Crooked Vultures recently announced its first ever shows in California and the Pacific Northwest: November 17 at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, November 19 at the Fox Theater in Oakland, November 21 at the Paramount Theater in Seattle, and November 22 at the Roseland Theater in Portland.The dates expand an itinerary that already includes a December tour of the UK and Europe and January dates in Australia and New Zealand.
For further information, updates, dates, etc., check back at www.themcrookedvultures.com.
In celebration of All Souls Day, Them Crooked Vultures a/k/a Dave Grohl, Joshua Homme and John Paul Jones are giving it away: As of midnight, “Mind Eraser, No Chaser” is available as a FREE download at iTunes. No obligation to buy anything. Not part of a pre-order. No strings attached. FREE. The band also took in the spirit of Halloween with a treat for fans in the form of two skeletons dancing to the tune of “Gunman,” another track off the forthcoming album.
Additionally, “New Fang,” the first single from Them Crooked Vultures’ self-titled debut album due out November 17 in the United States and Canada on DGC/Interscope Records, was recently premiered and is currently streaming at http://www.myspace.com/crookedvultures. The track is also being offered as an instant download for all fans who pre-order the album on iTunes.
While the band just announced their first shows in California and the Pacific Northwest, dates in Los Angeles and Portland both sold out in a number of hours. A few tickets are still available for November 19 at the Fox Theater in Oakland and November 21 at the Paramount in Seattle. For a full list of tour dates visit www.themcrookedvultures.com.
Possibly the coolest supergroup of all time. Check out the stream of first single “New Fang” below… its awesome.
Dave Grohl, Joshua Homme and John Paul Jones - aka Them Crooked Vultures - have confirmed November 17 as the release date of their eponymous debut album in the United States and Canada on DGC/Interscope Records. The self-produced 13-song record will feature first single “New Fang” as well as the debut of the studio versions of the material Them Crooked Vultures unveiled at their August 9 debut at Chicago’s Cabaret Metro and played on a first series of shows throughout a handful of UK and European cities and portions of the eastern U.S.
A string of teaser videos have also been released by the band in anticipation for the November 17 release. Through their YouTube channel, youtube.com/themcrookedvultures, fans have had the chance to preview “Scumbag Blues,” “No One Loves Me & Neither Do I” (studio / animated), “Elephants” as well as the full version of “New Fang.”
The band have also announced the first ever shows in California and the Pacific Northwest: November 17 at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, November 19 at the Fox Theater in Oakland, November 21 at the Paramount Theater in Seattle, and November 22 at the Roseland Theater in Portland.
For further information visit www.themcrookedvultures.com and be sure to sign up for the e-mail list to receive installments of “The Crooked Times” which include the latest updates, tour dates, merch and the occasional hidden gem. Pre-order the album now on Amazon.com, http://bit.ly/TCVpreorder.
The complete track listing of Them Crooked Vultures is as follows:
No One Loves Me & Neither Do I
Mind Eraser, No Chaser
New Fang
Dead End Friends
Elephants
Scumbag Blues
Bandoliers
Reptiles
Interlude With Ludes
Warsaw or The First Breath You Take After You Give Up
Caligulove
Gunman
Spinning In Daffodils
TOUR DATES:
11-17 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern - Tickets go on sale to the public Saturday, October 31st at 10am here: http://www.livenation.com/edp/eventId/414414
11-19 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theater - Tickets go on sale to the public Sunday, November 1st at 10am here: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C0043538EBD42C1?artistid=1360584&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=60
11-21 - Seattle - Paramount - Tickets go on sale to the public Saturday, October 31st at 10am here: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?pid=6631020
11-22 - Portland - Roseland Theater - Tickets go on sale to the public Saturday, October 31st at 10am here: http://ev12.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEventInfo?ticketCode=GS:TWS:PROS09:PROS1122:&linkID=twspok
12-6 Munich - Zenith / Tickets http://www.eventim.de
12-7 Berlin - Columbiahalle / Tickets http://www.eventim.de
12-6 Cologne - Palladium / Tickets http://www.eventim.de
12-10 Plymouth, England - Pavilions / Tickets http://gigsandtours.com
12-11 Portsmouth, England - Guildhall / Tickets http://gigsandtours.com
12-13 Blackpool, England - Empress Ballroom / Tickets http://gigsandtours.com
12-14 Birmingham, England - O2 Academy / Tickets http://gigsandtours.com
12-15 Edinburgh, Scotland - Corn Exchange / Tickets http://gigsandtours.com
12-17 London, England - HMV Hammersmith Apollo / Tickets http://gigsandtours.com
12-18 London, England - HMV Hammersmith Apollo / Tickets http://gigsandtours.com
01-19 Perth - Challenge Stadium / Tickets http://www.ticketmaster.com.au/
01-22 Melbourne - Festival Hall / Tickets http://www.ticketmaster.com.au/
01-25 Brisbane - Riverstage / Tickets http://www.ticketmaster.com.au/
01-26 Sydney - Hodern Pavilion / Tickets http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=CROOKEDV&searchId=619369aa-be72-48ea-a190-96cb64421e1e
01-29 Wellington - TSB Bank Arena / Tickets http://www.ticketmaster.co.nz/Them-Crooked-Vultures-tickets/artist/1360584
01-30 Auckland - Vector Arena / Tickets http://www.ticketek.co.nz
I cannot wait to hear the rest of this album. So far the only sounds have been audio snippets and youtube live videos from performances around the globe, but this clip is the first full studio version of a song by Them Crooked Vultures featuring Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and John Paul Jones:
The album is in stores on November 17th. Visit the site for more info:
This is awesome… Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones join the Foo Fighters for 2 songs, Rock and Roll, and Ramble On. Jimmy also hinted that the reunion tour would probably happen in 2009 when all the band members tie up other projects… sweet.
Damn I wish I was going to this concert… Let us all pray that Led Zep decides to do some sort of a tour in 2008. Here’s a quick primer for the reunion show in London tonight from Canoe.ca by way of Sun Media:
So, what can we expect from the band that redefined hard rock in the ’70s? Here are answers to the 10 burning questions surrounding the reunion:
1. When did they decide to play this concert?
On June 10, according to Rolling Stone. That was the day the three surviving Zep members and Jason Bonham gathered with instruments in a rehearsal space for the first time in 19 years.
“We had a very, very secret tryout in June — just to see if a) it was possible, and b) if anybody wanted to do it, to see if the will was there,” Jones told Sun Media. “And it was pretty exciting, I have to tell you. We made all the musical cues, and we were pretty hot. From that, we’re just taking it to a gig.
“We didn’t want to announce anything until we were sure … Also we knew that everyone would start speculating wildly about whatever may or may not happen.”
Bottom line: “We didn’t have to shake hands and say, well, at least we sort of know that it might not be a good idea,” Page told Sun Media. “It was quite the opposite. It was really exhilarating; it was really thrilling to be playing together again.”
2. Can Jason Bonham adequately fill in for Bonzo?
First off, John (Bonzo) Bonham is irreplaceable. Few now dispute he was rock’s greatest drummer. His drumming was so integral to the Zeppelin sound that the others instinctively knew the band could not continue without him.
His son, Jason, will fill in, just as he did at Zeppelin’s one-off reunion in 1988 for the Atlantic Records 40th anniversary bash, and again at Zeppelin’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 1995.
“(Our) music is in Jason’s veins. There’s no one else you’d really want to be on stage if Jason is around to do it,” Page said. “He has been playing Led Zeppelin songs in a live situation since he was very young.”
Says Jones, “It has been fantastic playing with Jason, the few times that we’ve done it so far. He’s just absolutely amazing. He’s a really fine musician with a lot of similarities with his dad. But he’s his own man, and he hits hard — and really knows his stuff.”
Bottom line: As Jones said, “He grew up with Zeppelin music in more ways than one, and he was taught drums by his dad. What could be better?”
3. Has Jimmy Page recovered from his broken finger?
Presumably. Still, there are concerns.
Anyone who has tried to play guitar coming off a broken finger can tell you how difficult and painful it can be to play. That must especially be so if you’re attempting Jimmy Page’s Led Zeppelin solos.
What’s more, the Riff King is 63 and hasn’t played an important live gig in eight years (when he toured with the Black Crowes); he played poorly at the previously Zep reunion gigs; and the U.K. Sun two weeks ago reported that he “is a bit rusty.”
Yet it’s hard to imagine Page would risk undermining his or Zeppelin’s legacy with an embarrassing performance. The whole point of this show, according to Plant, is to make up for the substandard reunion one-off performances of the past. And, grey hair and all, Page looks healthier now with a Les Paul slung over his shoulder than he has since 1975.
Bottom line: Expect Page to be on his game.
4. Can Robert Plant still hit the high notes?
Not all of them. Enough of them? We’ll see. This is as crucial to the Zeppelin sound as anything.
Any devout Zep fan who has heard bootleg recordings of Zep concerts through the ’70s can tell you that it was after the 1972 tour that Plant stopped singing most high-range songs from the first few albums. Plant once said he had throat surgery in 1973. Seems his vocal ceiling was forever lowered.
For what it’s worth, two weeks ago the U.K. Sun reported that “Robert has been struggling with the high notes. To avoid any embarrassing vocal wobbles with the world watching, they decided it would be best to transpose the songs in a lower key,” the report said.
Bottom line: They won’t be playing Communication Breakdown.
5. What songs will they play?
They’re not saying. Well, not really.
“We’re trying to make it a surprise,” Jones said. “We don’t want to give it all away. We played kind of the normal songs at the rehearsal, but we don’t want to say too much about that.”
Will there be some acoustic, or atypical songs attempted from the back corners of the Zeppelin catalogue?
“More than likely,” Page told Sun Media in October. “We’ve got a blueprint (of a setlist). Now it’s time to start constructing.”
Bottom line: Fans will instantly recognize most, if not all, of the songs Zep plays.
6. Will there be backing musicians?
“No, you’ve got to be joking,” Jones said. “We’ve never needed to do that.”
Ah, but Plant felt he needed to do that for his musical reunion with Page in the 1990s. Apparently, the only way he could stomach singing Zep songs again with Page for their Unledded and Walking into Clarksdale tours in the ’90s was if they dragged those songs to the precipice of unrecognizability, with the aid of literally dozens of eclectic musicians — one of whose names could not be John Paul Jones. Thus, no one could accuse Plant of reforming Led Zeppelin, or reliving the past, or rehashing old musical ground.
“The whole process of that Unledded thing was just, you know, involving other sorts of (musical) colours, if you like,” Page told Sun Media. “The hurdy gurdy player … the Egyptian musicians. (It) was a kaleidoscope. But this is getting right down to the nitty gritty. I never felt comfortable with people filling in.”
Oh, and whatever songs they do play, don’t expect any half-hour-long improv “stretch-outs” because, as Jones said, “we want to get in as many songs as we can.”
Bottom line: There will be three members of Led Zeppelin along with the fourth member’s son playing Zeppelin songs that “are going to be extremely recognizable,” Jones said.
7. Have they mended their fences?
Page, Plant and Jones have had their run-ins and tiffs over the years.
Time, though, is the great leveller.
“Everything’s cleared up, and we’re just concentrating on the music now,” Jones said in October. “There are lots of personalities in this band. We’ve been together for an awfully long time. Everything’s settled.”
Bottom line: It’s about time.
8. Will the concert be shown live on TV of the Internet?
No. And there are no plans in the works even to make a DVD of the event, Jones told Sun Media.
Speculation is, if the band has an off night, they won’t want the world to ever see it.
But, like life at Jurassic Park, Zep fans find a way. Any number of tech-savvy fans in the crowd likely will be holding up cell phones and streaming their video live to the web.
Bottom line: Best of luck trolling the Net tomorrow at about 4 p.m. EST, 3 p.m. CST or 2 p.m. MST.
9. Is this show a prelude to a new album, or a 2008 tour?
Who knows. There’s plenty of smoke on that front but no fire yet.
Regarding new material, Page told Sun Media he’d be surprised if they don’t come up “with all manner of things” at rehearsals. “I mean, that’s what it’s all about. But as far as it going any further, I don’t know.”
Regarding a tour, it was at a club show in Cincinnati last month that the frontman for The Cult, Ian Astbury, told fans his band would be back next year, opening for Zep.
And just this week, an Internet report claimed Zep will play its first U.S. show since 1977 at the eclectic Bonnaroo summer festival in Manchester, Tenn.
Officially, the band’s management says “no decision has been made” on a 2008 tour.
Bottom line: “Basically, we are concentrating on this show,” Jones told Sun Media. “That’s where all the energy is going. I mean, who knows, but one step at a time.”
10. Are they as arrogant as ever?
You betcha. Supreme confidence is what drove that band, as much as anything.
It was in 1975 that Plant famously crowed: “It’s not just that we think we are the best group in the world. We think we are so much better than whoever is number two.”
Fast-forward to last month, and Plant’s opinion hasn’t changed a drop. “We weren’t in competition with anybody,” he told Uncut. “We were Led Zeppelin. We were, at that time, the biggest band in the world. There wasn’t anyone else. There was no one near us. We were out there on our own.”
Bottom line: He’s right.
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