…for the first time in 12 years. The pair reunited to perform in support of Petrucci’s latest solo release, Terminal Velocity. Bassist Dave LaRue completes the trio. Portnoy and LaRue also recorded the album.
Holy damn, I cannot believe it has been twelve years (years!) since Portnoy left Dream Theater. We mere mortals are all old and even legit geriatric now, but Portnoy and Petrucci seem to defy time, at least as evidenced by the performance footage a fan posted from the gig in Rhode Island. The fan-captured audio kind of blows (as cell-phone audio is wont to do), but it’s obvious the dudes are still totally inspiring shred monsters. Check ’em out.
Even if you watched the Buddy Rich Memorial Concert on the Drum Channel, you still need to check out these cool pics from Michael Lowe, owner of the equally cool website Neil Peart Drumsticks. Our favorite is the shot below of Neil and his cymbal-spankin’ face.
Meinl has given the drummingverse a major treat by posting this new vid of the superbly grooving Benny Greb. The performance was captured at this year’s Meinl drum festival, and it features a tune from Greb’s upcoming CD. Two more videos will be released over the next few days. We’ll of course embed them all here at DC for your viewing pleasure.
Steve Smith’s Jazz Legacy is hitting the road, and we got the lowdown on their October tour schedule.
Thursday, October 2 Steve Smith’s Jazz Legacy Featuring Jim Snidero, Mark Soskin, Baron Browne and Walt Weiskopf Sonoma State University Warren Auditorium 1801 E. Cotati Ave. Rohnert Park, CA 94928 2:00 p.m. workshop, 7:30 p.m. concert For ticket info: 707.664.2324
Friday, October 3 Steve Smith’s Jazz Legacy Featuring Jim Snidero, Mark Soskin, Baron Browne and Walt Weiskopf The Jazz School 2087 Addison Street Berkeley, CA 94704 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. concert/master class www.jazzschool.com
Saturday, October 4 Steve Smith’s Jazz Legacy Featuring Jim Snidero, Mark Soskin, Baron Browne and Walt Weiskopf Special Guests: The Wally Schnalle Quintet Live @ the Burro 6651 Brisa Street Livermore, CA 925.550.1955 Doors 7PM * Show 8PM www.myspace.com/burninburro www.myspace.com/sectionentertainment
Sunday, October 5 Steve Smith’s Jazz Legacy Featuring Jim Snidero, Mark Soskin, Baron Browne and Walt Weiskopf Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society Douglas Beach House Miramar Beach Half Moon Bay, CA 4:30pm 650.726.4143 www.bachddsoc.org
Monday, October 6 Steve Smith’s Jazz Legacy Featuring Jim Snidero, Mark Soskin, Baron Browne and Walt Weiskopf Pioneer Place on Fifth 22 5th Ave South St. Cloud, MN 56301 320.203.1233 www.ppfive.com
Tuesday, October 7 Steve Smith’s Jazz Legacy Featuring Jim Snidero, Mark Soskin, Baron Browne and Walt Weiskopf Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant 1010 Nicollet Mall Minneapolis, MN 55403 612.332.1010 www.dakotacooks.com
Wednesday, October 8 Steve Smith’s Jazz Legacy Featuring Jim Snidero, Mark Soskin, Baron Browne and Walt Weiskopf The Algoma Club 107 Algoma Blvd. Oshkosh, WI For info call The Water City Grill 920.232.3004 www.watercitygrill.net
Thursday, October 9 Steve Smith’s Jazz Legacy Featuring Jim Snidero, Mark Soskin, Baron Browne and Walt Weiskopf Martyr’s 3855 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago, IL 60613 773.404.9869 www.martyrslive.com
Saturday, October 11 Steve Smith’s Jazz Legacy Featuring Andy Fusco, Mark Soskin, Baron Browne and Walt Weiskopf The Jazz Kitchen 5377 N. College Ave Indianapolis, IN 46220 317.253.4900 www.thejazzkitchen.com
Sunday, October 12 Steve Smith’s Jazz Legacy Featuring Andy Fusco, Mark Soskin, Baron Browne and Walt Weiskopf Gilly’s 132 S. Jefferson St. Dayton, OH 45402 937.228.8414 http://hometown.aol.com/gillyjazz/myhomepage/business.html
Monday and Tuesday, October 13 and 14 Steve Smith’s Jazz Legacy Featuring Andy Fusco, Mark Soskin, Baron Browne and Walt Weiskopf Nighttown 12387 Cedar Road (top of Cedar Hill) Cleveland Heights, OH 44106 216.759.0550 www.nighttowncleveland.com
Wednesday, October 15 Steve Smith’s Jazz Legacy Featuring Andy Fusco, Mark Soskin, Baron Browne and Walt Weiskopf Lebanon Catholic School 1400 Chestnut St. Lebanon, PA 17042 717.273.3731
Thursday, October 16 Steve Smith’s Jazz Legacy Featuring Andy Fusco, Mark Soskin, Baron Browne and Walt Weiskopf Sheraton Reading Hotel Gerald Veasleys Jazz Base 1741 Paper Mill Road Wyomissing, PA 19610 610.655.6374 www.geraldveasleysjazzbase.com
Friday, October 17 Steve Smith’s Jazz Legacy Featuring Andy Fusco, Mark Soskin, Baron Browne and Walt Weiskopf Cecil’s Jazz Club & Restaurant 364 Valley Road West Orange, NJ 07052 973.736.4800 www.cecilsjazzclub.com
Saturday, October 18 Steve Smith’s Jazz Legacy Featuring Andy Fusco, Mark Soskin, Baron Browne and Walt Weiskopf Cecil’s Jazz Club & Restaurant 364 Valley Road West Orange, NJ 07052 973.736.4800 www.cecilsjazzclub.com
Sunday, October 19 Steve Smith’s Jazz Legacy Featuring Andy Fusco, Mark Soskin, Baron Browne and Walt Weiskopf Cheney Hall 177 Hartford Road Manchester, CT 06040 box office: 860.647.9824 www.cheneyhall.org Concert sponsored by Dynamic Percussion 575 Main St. Manchester, CT 06040 860.647.8887 dynadrum@aol.com
Monday, October 20 Steve Smith’s Jazz Legacy Featuring Andy Fusco, Mark Soskin, Baron Browne and Walt Weiskopf The Devereux 37 Devereux St. Utica, NY 13501 315.735.8628 7:00pm all ages show For info and tickets contact: Kelly Yacco: 315.272.3865 kellyyacco@gmail.com
Tuesday, October 21 Steve Smith Master Class Utica Radison 200 Genesee St # 1 Utica, NY 13502 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, October 22 Steve Smith’s Jazz Legacy Featuring Andy Fusco, Mark Soskin, Baron Browne and Walt Weiskopf Scullers Jazz Club 400 Soldiers Field Road Boston, MA 02134 617.562.4111 www.scullersjazz.com
The new concert DVD from Neil Peart and the fellows won’t be released until November 25, but a sneak peak of the song “Far Cry” was shown on VH1 last night. Try not to slobber on your monitor.
Well, dammit. Another MD Fest has come and gone, and we still haven’t managed to swindle and scheme our way into one (next year we are totally getting all Mission Impossible about it). Thankfully, Hudson Music set up a preview site of the event and posted some frighteningly good teaser vids of each drummer’s performance. The complete DVD is scheduled to hit shelves sometime in 2009 (which is only around 10 million seconds from now).
Good news for all Neil Peart groupies (…yes, we do enthusiastically include ourselves in that category): a new Rush DVD, Snakes & Arrows Live, will be released on November 25. The three-disc set was filmed with 21 high-def cameras in a wide-screen format (!), and it clocks in at 221 minutes (!!).
Here’s the awesome amount of content listed by disc:
Disc 1 “Limelight” “Digital Man” “Entre Nous” “Mission” “Freewill” “The Main Monkey Business” “The Larger Bowl” “Secret Touch” “Circumstances” “Between The Wheels” “Dreamline”
Disc 1 Extras What’s That Smell 2007 tour outtakes What’s That Smell outtakes “Far Cry” (alternate cut featuring rear screen footage) “The Way The Wind Blows” (alternate cut featuring rear screen footage) “Red Sector A” from the R30 Tour
Disc 2 “Far Cry” “Workin’ Them Angels” “Armor And Sword” “Spindrift” “The Way The Wind Blows” “Subdivisions” “Natural Science” “Witch Hunt” “Malignant Narcissism — De Slagwerker” “Hope” “Distant Early Warning” “The Spirit Of Radio” “Tom Sawyer” “One Little Victory” “A Passage To Bangkok” “YYZ”
Disc 3 Oh, Atlanta – The Authorized Bootlegs “Ghost Of A Chance” “Red Barchetta” “The Trees” “2112/The Temples Of Syrinx”
Sucks big stinky ass, doesn’t it? Unfortunately we can’t go either, but Hudson Music is hooking all of us up with updates starting September 19. Hudson’s MD Fest site promises “photos, blog reports, and…video” straight from the show. In case you’ve been living under your guitarist’s rock for the last few months, the lineup includes these dudes you might have heard before:
Thomas Pridgen (The Mars Volta) Billy Ward (Joan Osborne/Ace Frehley/B. B. King) Will Calhoun (Living Color) Ndugu Chancler (Michael Jackson/Santana/Weather Report) Simon Phillips & Protocol (Toto/The Who/Jeff Beck) Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree/King Crimson) Todd Sucherman (Styx/Brian Wilson) Dafnis Prieto (Michel Camilo) Derek Roddy (Serpents Rise/Traumedy)
Couldn’t make it to Germany for the Meinl Drum Festival that starts tomorrow? No, we couldn’t either, but thankfully the fine folks at Meinl have set up four webcams that snap a live picture every minute (no vid stream, alas). The drummer lineup includes Benny Greb (yes!) and Johnny Rabb.
Here are 25 opportunities to see Joey Jordison and Brann Dailor live. What you waitin’ for, maggots?
7/16 San Diego, CA (Coors Amphitheatre) 7/18 Phoenix, AZ (Cricket Wireless Pavilion) 7/19 Albuquerque, NM (Journal Pavilion) 7/20 Denver, CO (Coors Amphitheatre at Fiddler’s Green) 7/22 Kansas City, MO (Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre) 7/23 St. Louis, MO (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater) 7/25 Dallas, TX (Smirnoff Music Centre) 7/26 San Antonio, TX (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater) 7/27 Houston, TX (Sam Houston Race Park) 7/29 Tampa, FL (Ford Amphitheatre) 7/30 West Palm Beach, FL (Cruzan Amphitheater) 8/1 Virginia Beach, VA (Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater) 8/2 Pittsburgh, PA (Post-Gazette Pavilion) 8/3 Scranton, PA (Toyota Pavilion) 8/5 Boston, MA (Tweeter Center for Performing Arts) 8/6 Uniondale, NY (Nassau Coliseum) 8/8 Toronto, ON (Downsview Park) 8/9 Detroit, MI (DTE Energy Music Theatre) 8/10 Chicacgo, IL (First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre) 8/12 Atlanta, GA (Lakewood Amphitheatre) 8/13 Indianapolis, IN (Verizon Wireless Music Center Indianapolis) 8/15 Camden, NJ (Tweeter Center At The Waterfront) 8/16 Hartford, CT (New England Dodge Music Center) 8/17 Washington, DC (Nissan Pavilion) 8/19 Buffalo, NY (Darien Lake Performing Arts Center)
The Black Crowes’ new album might be pretty mediocre (or at least the four songs that Maxim heard were), but the band has always been a great live act. Long-time drummer Steve Gorman will be throning up again for the tour that starts this Sunday.
