The Best of Roger Waters Compilation CD & DVD/Tour Dates The Wall

Roger Waters Best Of On The Way

Columbia Records has announced the May 30 release of The Roger Waters Collection, a compilation of three solo records, his opera and a rare live performance.



The set will contain seven CDs and one DVD in a special box with original album artwork. Included is:

The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
Radio K.A.O.S.
Amused to Death
Ca Ira (Waters' opera)
In the Flesh: Live (2 CDs/DVD)

The live portion of the set was recorded and filmed during Waters' three-year In the Flesh Tour.

Columbia will also release May 30 the rare Flickering Flame, a compilation originally released in 2002. Flame will be available for a one-year period.

The following are the upcoming dates for Waters' The Wall Tour:

04/27 - Apr 28 - Helsinki, FI - Hartwall Arena
04/28 - Helsinki, FI - Hartwall Arena
04/30 - Oslo, NO - Telenor Arena
05/01 - Oslo, NO - Telenor Arena
05/04 - Stockholm, SE - Ericsson Globe
05/05 - Stockholm, SE - Ericsson Globe
05/07 - Copenhagen, DK - Parken
05/11 - London, UK - O2 Arena
05/12 - London, UK - O2 Arena
05/14 - London, UK - O2 Arena
05/15 - London, UK - O2 Arena
05/17 - London, UK - O2 Arena
05/18 - London, UK - O2 Arena
05/20 - Manchester, UK - Manchester Evening News Arena
05/21 - Manchester, UK - Manchester Evening News Arena
05/23 - Dublin, IE - O2 Arena
05/24 - Dublin, IE - O2 Arena
05/27 - Antwerp, BE - Sportspaleis
05/28 - Antwerp, BE - Sportspaleis
05/30 - Paris, FR - Bercy
05/31 - Paris, FR - Bercy
06/03 - Mannheim, DE - SAP Arena
06/04 - Mannheim, DE - SAP Arena
06/06 - Zurich, CH - Hallenstadion
06/07 - Zurich, CH - Hallenstadion
06/10 - Hamburg, DE - O2 World
06/11 - Hamburg, DE - O2 World
06/13 - Herning, DK - MCH Multiarena
06/15 - Berlin, DE - O2 World
06/16 - Berlin, DE - O2 World
06/18 - Dusseldorf, DE - Esprit Arena
06/20 - Munich, DE - Olympiahalle
06/22 - Budapest, HU - Papp Laszlo Budapest Sportarena
06/24 - Zurich, CH - Hallenstadion
06/25 - Zurich, CH - Hallenstadion
06/27 - Birmingham, UK - National Indoor Arena
06/28 - Manchester, UK - Manchester Evening News Arena
06/29 - Manchester, UK - Manchester Evening News Arena
06/30 - Paris, FR - Bercy
07/01 - Paris, FR - Bercy
07/03 - Milan, IT - Mediolanum Forum
07/04 - Milan, IT - Mediolanum Forum

Steven Tyler To Release Solo Record & Autobiography

Steven Tyler To Release Solo Record And Autobiography

By Paul Cashmere


Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler will release his very first solo song next month.

Tyler’s first non-Aerosmith tune is a song titled ‘Feels So Good’. It is described by Rolling Stone as “a poppy tune”.

It sounds like the single will be a one-off. Tyler has also revealed that Aerosmith are working on a new record with Jack Douglas, who produced their classic 70’s ‘Toys In The Attic” album.

Tyler is also expected to reveal all in his autobiography ‘Does The Noise In My Head Bother You’. Tyler says it is “All the unexpurgated, brain-jangling tales of debauchery, sex & drugs. and transcendence you will ever want to hear.”

"I've been mythicized, Mick-icized, eulogized and fooligized, I've been Cole-Portered and farmer's-daughtered, I've been Led Zepped and 12-stepped. I'm a rhyming fool and so cool that me, Fritz the Cat, and Mohair Sam are the baddest cats that am. I have so many outrageous stories, too many, and I'm gonna tell 'em all. All the unexpurgated, brain-jangling tales of debauchery, sex & drugs, transcendence & chemical dependence you will ever want to hear.

The book will be released by Harper Collins in May.

(Steven will reveal ALL...sounds like a tease, hope it has lots of nice pics of him. Possibly a good summer read.)

The Doors Break on Through

I like this version of The Doors Break on Through

Robert Plant Brings Joy to Riverside

Ex-Led Zep frontman brings joy to Riverside

By Jon M. Gilbertson, Special to the Journal Sentinel


The opening minutes of Robert Plant's concert at the Riverside Theater Monday night would have been inauspicious if not for the breadth of what followed.

The former Led Zeppelin lead singer came out in clothing that lowered expectations: shabby blue jeans and a gray T-shirt that failed to conceal a body grown doughy with age.

He and his Band of Joy then presented Zep's "Black Dog" in a way that confoundingly removed the bombastic heart of the original.

But then Plant spent the rest of the night demonstrating the aptness of his band's name.

It was the band he worked with on last year's "Band of Joy" album, the sessions for which evidently resulted in a blissful connection among the musicians.

They also just as evidently intensified Plant's ability to interpret the songs of others, an ability given a serious workout on "Raising Sand," his 2007 Grammy-winning album with Alison Krauss.

Monday night, he captured the whispering menace of Low's "Monkey," kept faith with the traditional "Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down" and bit into the vengefulness of Richard Thompson's "House of Cards" - without losing his own identity.

Read full review here

(I wish these journalist would stop saying how Robert looks fat or real old or whatever negative thing they can pick on. Yes he was a golden beauty in his prime, but we all age! Life goes on and they shouldn't be constantly telling us that he's fat & not fit etc. Be happy that the man still goes out there and performs.)