With Metallica opening their run at the Sphere tonight I couldn’t help but think how does a band go from where they started to a place like this? Pretty wild

Big question from The Crossroads Guitar Festival this weekend? Clapton is in his 80s, Billy Gibbons in his 70s, Buddy Guy is in his 90s. Who’s gonna carry this thing forward? Somebody has to!! It’s just too damn good and it has become an amazing tradition. My pic is the Tedeschi Trucks Band.

What was the biggest story in rock ‘n’ roll this week? -The release of the new Neil Peart documentary  -U2 releasing new material and playing their high school again 50 years later -Eric Clapton‘s Crossroads guitar festival  - Farm Aid Did I miss anything?

3 additions I would have made to the Crossroads Guitar Festival lineup- Billy Strings Sturgill Simpson Samantha Fish

I like how today’s Crossroads Guitar Festival exact minute-by-minute order of the artists remains a surprise to keep the collaborations spontaneous.

If you need proof Neil Peart is the greatest drummer in rock n roll watch the new “Neil Peart: No One’s Disciple” documentary.

U2 is definitely bringing the attitude on the new single Silencio. So ready for the next chapter of this band!

I’ve seen a lot of posts about U2 today, but I haven’t seen anybody mention how cool it is that Larry is back!!!

Who are you most looking forward to seeing play at the Crossroads Festival this weekend? Trey Anastasio Eric Clapton Marcus King Tedeschi Trucks Gary Clark Jr., John Mayer Billy Gibbons Joe Bonamassa Julian Lage Sonny Landreth Taj Mahal Buddy Guy John McLaughlin Tommy Emmanuel

The greatest rock n roll clubhouse where they actually live and hangout? After watching the new doc “If These Walls Could Rock” I’m going the Sunset Marquis.

Sirius XM is launching a Talking Heads station. All four members are going to be there to do a live studio Q&A in New York City on September 28th. Just play 5 or 6 songs. Put an end to all these years of people begging them to play again!

How did Metallica get 17 million people to buy what was essentially a doom metal album? Interesting question from this Metallica book, Metallica: Album by Album, where author Martin Popoff asks industry insiders to discuss Metallica albums. I never really thought about the Black Album that way.

Springsteen's new concert film, Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour (Philadelphia Freedom Cut), begins streaming on YouTube this Wednesday 9-6 Too political, or are you going to watch?

John Meyer recently said “the bus kinda dropped me off” when speaking about the future of playing Grateful Dead music. Would you like to see him continue on with a different version of Dead & Company?

Frank Beard wasn’t one of rock ’n’ roll’s most amazing drummers. But here’s something he does have on almost everyone, he ranks among the longest tenured drummers with a single band, and he sat behind the kit for the longest running unchanged lineup in rock ’n’ roll history🤘

Everything sounds great about this new Rush documentary. The focus is on Neil, Geddy and Alex contributed and they’re bring in 3 drummers Stewart Copeland, Chad Smith and Danny Careyto jam and discuss Neil. One challenge is- it’s running Sept 23 on the Canadian Broadcast Corporation channel only.

If you could see one rock ‘n’ roll tour this summer, which one would it be? -Black Crowes - AC/DC -Jack White - Rush -Tedeschi Trucks Band - Bob Dylan - John Mellencamp

Rush is negotiating playing The Sphere. How do you think it will present compared to other runs at that venue by: U2 Dead and Co. Phish The Eagles No Doubt

An Oasis doc is coming this year including something we haven’t seen in more than 25 years: Liam and Noel being interviewed together. Those oint interviews might be worth the price of admission alone.

Breakfast with Roland and the Tears for Fears story. On sale 8-4

Keith says he doesn’t know about any more tours for the Stones, instead he’s might be interested in residencies. Ok, let’s help Keith out- here’s my top three places for residency. - The Sphere - Beacon Theatre - LA Forum

3 takeaways from Kim Thayil's new memoir "A Screaming Life: Into the Superunknown with Soundgarden and Beyond" from @harpercollins 1. Grunge didn’t just start in Seattle 2. Thayil carried the weight of Soundgarden’s identity 3. Soundgarden opened the door for everyone else

A lot of great rock vaults are still untapped, so it’s nice to see the Dead live archive getting done right with the new Play Dead app from Nugs.net I highly recommend any head checking this out. It launched with 422 dates and 20 unreleased shows, and they have been dropping new shows every Tues.

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Jerry Garcia‘s famous tiger guitar sold for 11.5 million last week. If you had 11.5 million to spend on a legendary rock n roll guitar, which one would you buy?

More than any other band that I post about, the Red Hot Chili Peppers get the most hate. I’ve been reviewing rock ‘n’ roll books and docs for 4 years and it’s not even close. They just put out a new doc and people just flame this band when I talk about them. I’m not the biggest fan, but why?

Is anyone watching the new doc “The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel” that premiered today on Netflix?

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Put this on the must read list! Alice Cooper has just announced the release date for his new memoir entitled “Devil on my Shoulder” We have to wait a little bit for this one - coming October 6.

Watched the McCartney doc “ Man on The Run” over the weekend- good stuff. Made me go and pull out a bunch of his solo records. So, what it’s you favorite Paul solo work? I’m going Band On The Run tied with his self titled first release.

Very cool to read about a new Greg Allman documentary called “ The Music of My Soul” is set for a summer release. No firm date yet, but it’s nice to see it’s finally coming.