David Sanborn trio Feat. Steve Gadd & Joey de Francesco @ New Morning, Paris July 20 2010

David Sanborn Trio
Featuring Steve Gadd on drums & Joey de Francesco on keys
@ New Morning, Paris july 20 2010

Jazz atmosphere tonight @ New Morning, weel you're right baby, it's a jazz club.
David Sanborn doesn't need any introduction this man has played on hundreds of albums including The Eagles, Rickie lee Jones, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, David Bowie,Bruce Springsteen, James Brown and many others...
Same shit with Steve Gadd who's also playing on hundreds of albums including touring with Eric Clapton or Simon & Garfunkel ( he's drumming on The famous Central Park concert in 1981)
Joey de Francesco has played on albums by Bette Midler, Didier Lockwood or Ray Charles.

The concert is divided over 2 sets, First one of only 30 min then a second one of 50 min.
Really cool jazz on sax with a tribute to Ray Charles.
I'm not really familiar with the repertoire but they have played Louis Jordan's " Let the good times roll" and a song Dave wrote when he became a grand Father " only everything".
No need to tell you that these cats know how to play and that we had some great instrumental songs ( but one sung by Joey)
Nice to relax to some jazz music before tomorrow night.

Tori Amos @ Olympia, Paris July 19 2010

Tori Amos @ Olympia July 19 2010

Well we didn't go to Tori Amos but we have found some GREAT videos recorded there and courtesy of our friend Oliver Peel we have the setlist:

Click on link for videos

01: Curtain Call
02: China
03: Siren
04: Bachelorette Impro >Suzanne
05: Mrs. Jesus
06: Space Dog
07: Leather
08: Impro >Twinkle
09: Black Dove
10: Winter
11: Boucing Off Clouds
12: Snow Cherries From France
13: Girl
14: Marianne
15: Beauty Of Speed
16: Gold Dust
17: Putting The Damage On
18: The Power of Orange Knickers
19: Another Girl's Paradise
20: precious Things

--: Taxi Ride* (on the setlist but not played)
21: Crucify / Body & soul
22: Personal Jesus

Pearl Jam poster for Main Square Festival in Arras July 3 2010, How it was made...

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Yeah , I know there's nothing happening in Paris right now, doing our best to keep ROCKERPARIS interesting , alive & kicking !!!

Pearl Jam in Arras @ Main Square Fest July 3rd (click for review , setlist , videos)

early drawing to...final Poster. (C) Jeff Soto

I've just found this website which is very interesting to know how Pearl Jam poster for the Main Square Festival in Arras was done by the artist.
Here is the link: Jeff Soto's Blog.

Monday evening walking in Paris

No , we didn't go to Tori Amos @ Olympia.

Tori Amos @ Olympia (far left) Posters for Guns'N Roses, Robert Plant & ZZ Top/Doobie Brothers in Sept, Oct 2010

Bastille with Opera (left) The 'New' Tour St Jacques (middle) Le Louvre (right)

Instead of taking pictures of monuments I should take pictures of beautiful girls, there were loads of 'em tonight.

Next Shows in Paris for mid-july 2010

Check before going to any of these shows first, please.Thank you.

• July 19:

Nada Surf @ Maroquinerie
Tori Amos @ Olympia
Mike Stern, Randy Brecker & Dave Weckl @ New Morning

• July 20:

Nada Surf @ Maro
John Parish @ Batofar
David Sanborn & Steve Gadd @ New Morning

• July 22:

Erikah Badu @ Olympia
Booker T Jones @ New morning (from Booker T & the MGs fame)

• July 26:

The Dandy Warhols @ Cigale -sold-out-
Fred Wesley @ New Morning
Mia Doi Todd @ International

& maybe Prince in a club as he's in Paris.

Keziah Jones @ L'International July 18 2010

Free show tonight
We might go

In fact, too lazy to go out tonight ! Sorry!

Iron Maiden's video for "The Final Frontier" director's cut revealed HERE

You can watch the 5min+ video of "The Final frontier"

HERE

Steven Tyler in Paris end of June

A friend of mine sent me this, the picture's so good It has to be on ROCKERPARIS

Denis & Steven Tyler wearing his girlfriend's knickers

Prince new album 20ten out in France on July 22 with Courrier International

Prince's new album "20ten" will be out in France with newspaper " Courrier International" on July 22.

The show @ Versailles won't happen, too tight scheduled even though there were serious discussions between Prince's management & Versailles.
Still no news for a possible residency in Paris.
Prince is in Paris going to different clubs everynight including L'Arc.

Robert Plant & Band of Joy, First shows @ Orpheum Theatre in Memphis, July 13 2010 & Little Rock, July 15

• Robert Plant & Band Of Joy ( Feat.Buddy Miller, Patty Griffin, Darrell Scott, Marco Giovino, and Byron House) played their first show on July 13 @ Orpheum Theatre in Memphis.

SETLIST:
01. Down To The Sea
02. Angel Dance (new song)
03. Please Read The Letter
04. House of Cards (new song)
05. Misty Mountain Hop
06. Monkey (new song)
07. Twelve Gates to the City / Wade in the Water / In My Time of Dying
08. Rich Woman
09. Gone, Gone, Gone Done Moved On
10. All The King's Horses
11. Nobody's Fault But Mine
12. Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down (new song)
13. Central Two-0-Nine (new song)
14. Houses Of The Holy
15. Tall Cool One
16. Harm's Swift Way (new song)
17. Gallows Pole
Encore:
18. Thank You
19. Rock & Roll

Here's a montage from the show:

Other video HERE

• Second show was @ Robinson Center Music Hall in Little Rock July 15, here's the setlist(TBC):
  Down To The Sea, Angel Dance, Please Read The Letter, House Of Cards, Misty Mountain Hop, Monkey, Oh What A Beautiful City/Wader In The Water/In My Time OF Dying Medley, Rich Woman. Gone Gone Gone, Trouble, Nobodys Fault But Mine, Satan Your Kingdom Must Go, Central Two O Nine, Houses Of The Holy, Tall Cool One, Harms Swift Way, Over The Hills And Far Away, Gallows Pole.Encore: Thank You, Rock And Roll.

"Houses of the Holy":

"Down by the sea" (click for video)
"Rock & Roll"

Joe Perry released from Hospital after a motorcycle accident

Joe FUCKIN' Perry @ Paris Bercy June 29 2010

Joe Perry, the lead guitarist for the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, was injured when his motorcycle was struck by a motor vehicle at 2 p.m. Thursday (July 15), authorities said.
Perry was struck at the intersection of routes 44 and 105 and was taken by ambulance to Morton Hospital and Medical Center in Taunton. A hospital spokeswoman said at about 4:30 p.m. that Perry had been treated and released.
From Patriot ledger

Arcade Fire 8 different covers for "The Suburbs" revealed

Arcade Fire wants your money.
8 different covers for "The Suburbs"

The official cover (left) & the 8 different covers (right)

The album will be out on August 2nd in multiple format:

1) Premium digital in 320 kbps MP3, FLAC or Apple Lossless. Delivered via email $7.99 PRE-ORDER >

2) CD + premium digital, $12.99 PRE-ORDER >

3) Double 12″ vinyl + premium digital (gatefold, 180 g) $24.99 PRE-ORDER >

4) 2 tracks for instant digital download – “The Suburbs” & “Month of May” (transferred from the acetate master) $1.99 ORDER >

5) CD + Premium digital + Limited Edition Screen Printed Poster (Designed by Wes Winship from Burlesque of North America) $32.99 PRE-ORDER >

6) Double 12” Vinyl + premium digital + Limited Edition Screen Printed Poster (Designed by Wes Winship from Burlesque of North America) $44.99 PRE-ORDER >

* All pre-orders receive an instant download of both songs Month of May and The Suburbs.

Money money money !!!

Check our links to videos & Pics from their club show in Paris @ Casino de Paris july 5.

AC/DC rehearsals videos, 1983 for "Flick of the switch"

Funny what you can find on internet.
I've never seen that before, many videos from AC/DC rehearsing in an L.A. studio for "Flick of the Switch" in Oct 1983:

AC/DC covering Rory gallagher's "Messing with the kids": (music starts around 3:50)


"Rising Power"
"Guns for Hire"
"Flick of the switch"

HUNDREDS of live/ rehearsals videos from AC/DC HERE

Probably my favorite AC/DC song " Touch too much" with Bon Scott, Radio Edit recorded for the BBC a few days before Bon's passing:

So long... Bon

Manic Street Preachers' "Postcards from a young man" out on September 27

Cover art for the new album featuring a young Tim Roth

New album "Postcards from a young man" by Manic Street Preachers will be out on September 27 2010.
There will be a standard version and a deluxe edition.
Duff McKagan from Velvet Revolver & currently Jane's Addiction plays bass on one song.
Don't know the tracklisting yet.

The Manics will be on Tour in the Uk starting in Glasgow on Sept 29 up until Nov 1 @ Corn Exchange in Cambridge.
Full UK Tour dates HERE.

Wanna buy Jimmy Page's former home or rent Ozzy Osbourne's pied-a-terre in Malibu?

Estate news from the rock stars :

Jimmy used to live here in the 70's

• Jimmy Page 's former Elizabethan home Plumpton Manor in Sussex is for sale for the bargain price of 8 Million pounds.

The Grade II* listed building comes with three lakes, two cottages and a three bedroom mill house with its own working water wheel.

Set over three floors the house has a sitting room 48ft long and a library that is 550 square feet.

The current owner, American venture capitalist Tom Perkins, has owned the building since the mid-eighties.

From The Argus

What about Holidays @ Ozzy's

• OZZY Osbourne & Sharon are renting their Malibu pied-a-terre:

OWNERS: Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne
LOCATION: Malibu, CA
PRICE: $40,000 per month
SIZE: 4,500 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms

More details HERE if you're interested

Roger Waters & David Gilmour together on stage for Palestinian Charity "Hoping Foundation" July 10 2010 @ Kiddington Hall, England

Afternoon rehearsals
(C) Polly Samson for more Pictures from the event

Roger Waters & David Gilmour performed a 4 song set to raise money for the Palestinian charity " Hoping Foundation".(more Pics in the Events gallery)

The performance, in front of 200 , very posh and rich guests, took place at the Kiddington Hall country estate in Oxfordshire, England.

Line up: David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Guy Pratt, Harry Waters, Andy Newmark, Chester Kamen, Jonjo Grisdale.

Setlist : (From HERE)
"To Know Him Is To Love Him"(a Phil Spector song), "Wish You Were Here," "Comfortably Numb" and "Another Brick in the Wall (Part Two)."

There were performances by Nick Cave, Tom Jones, Jamie Hince(The Kills) & Kate Moss
More Pictures from Getty Images

Evening show
(C) Polly Samson for more Pictures

Much more on all these links:

GraziaDaily Online

Daily Mail Online
The Evening Standard online

The Rolling Stone Magazine

Thaindian News

Spinner Music

Mog

Pink Floyd fan website

DailyMail online
Floydian Slip website

Getty Images

Blog

Fearne Cotton’s twitter
The Independent
Vogue

Pearl Jam to take a long break ?

Pearl Jam @ Main Square in Arras, France

Pearl Jam has announced on the stage of the Optimus Alive Festival in Portugal that it was their last show in a long time.

Crosby Stills & Nash @ Olympia July 12 2010 First show Part 1

Crosby Stills & Nash @ Olympia, Paris July 12 2010
1 st show

Part 1 ( Electric Set)

Part 2 ( Acoustic Set) click

We saw then just one year ago in July and the gig was one of the highlight of the year 2009 and believe me we, at ROCKERPARIS are going to more than 200 gigs a year.
Hard to believe how many great songs they have and the guys can play.

CS&N

Will it be the same in 2010 ?
They started nicely with " Woodstock" , "Military Madness" all electric.
In fact they started with the electric set ( last year it was the acoustic)

SN & C ( in that order on stage)

They're taking no risks as the setlist is a best of... CSN, Buffalo, Stills-Young...
The sound is perfect so are the harmony vocals & Stephen's guitar playing.
Even better than last year
Each one of them is singing lead on his song

The first set ended on a great rendition of " Wooden Ships".
Perfect hour set.
Then it's time for a 20 min break.

Setlist

Probably our last gigs for the summer, We'll be back at the end of August with the Rock En Seine festival in St Cloud even though the bill is not fantastic.
Don't forget HOLE @ Bataclan.