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If you’re a fool for Tool, the intellectual heavy metal band, you’re in luck. They’ve just released their first single in 13 years and it’s already at number 1. IN fact, “Fear Inoculum” is 10 minutes, 22 seconds. So crazy!
On top of that, Tool is now occupying a huge chunk of the iTunes albums and singles charts with old releases. They’ve got five singles in the top 10, and five albums in the top 20. They knocked Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” off the top spot, which means Lil Nas is going to make a remix with them! (Just kidding.)
The “Fear Inoculum” album is coming, too. And it has a wild cover that includes an HD screen and speakers. (I don’t know how that will work!)
It’s a little unclear if Tool is on a label. Their own label, Volcano, is part of Epic/Sony, so maybe that’s it. Their old albums are on Sony Legacy. If so, Sylvia Rhone is going to have a great August!
Hey, thanks to everyone who gave this column credit for breaking the “Abbey Road” 50th anniversary box set story yesterday. (LOL).
Anyway, now we can “Come Together” over “Something.” I’ll “Carry That Weight” by myself.
All remixed, and souped up for 2019. The only extra track we haven’t heard before (except for a friend of mine who has every single outtake ever) is a group cover of “Come and Get It,” which Paul McCartney gave to Badfinger, and was a massive hit. Another version was featured on the Beatles’ Anthology 3. (See below.)
The full track lists:
SUPER DELUXE [3CD+1Blu-ray set; digital audio collection]
CD ONE: 2019 Stereo Mix
1. Come Together
2. Something
3. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
4. Oh! Darling
5. Octopus’s Garden
6. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
7. Here Comes The Sun
8. Because
9. You Never Give Me Your Money
10. Sun King
11. Mean Mr Mustard
12. Polythene Pam
13. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
14. Golden Slumbers
15. Carry That Weight
16. The End
17. Her Majesty
CD TWO: Sessions
1. I Want You (She’s So Heavy) (Trident Recording Session & Reduction Mix)
2. Goodbye (Home Demo)
3. Something (Studio Demo)
4. The Ballad Of John And Yoko (Take 7)
5. Old Brown Shoe (Take 2)
6. Oh! Darling (Take 4)
7. Octopus’s Garden (Take 9)
8. You Never Give Me Your Money (Take 36)
9. Her Majesty (Takes 1–3)
10. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight (Takes 1–3 / Medley)
11. Here Comes The Sun (Take 9)
12. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer (Take 12)
CD THREE: Sessions
1. Come Together (Take 5)
2. The End (Take 3)
3. Come And Get It (Studio Demo)
4. Sun King (Take 20)
5. Mean Mr Mustard (Take 20)
6. Polythene Pam (Take 27)
7. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (Take 27)
8. Because (Take 1 – Instrumental)
9. The Long One (Trial Edit & Mix – 30 July 1969)
(Medley: You Never Give Me Your Money, Sun King, Mean Mr Mustard, Her Majesty, Polythene Pam, She Came In Through The Bathroom Window, Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight, The End)
UPDATE THURS 4:50PM FROM WILLIE:
Update: Willie is resting and feeling better. The tour will resume on September 6 in Gilford, NH. Thanks to all the fans for the continued
WEDS NIGHT:
Country music legend Willie Nelson, 86, has abruptly cancelled his summer-fall tour which was supposed to begin this weekend.
He wrote on Twitter: “To my fans,
I’m sorry to cancel my tour, but I have a breathing problem that I need to have my doctor check out.
I’ll be back
Love,
Willie”
Willie — whose tour started on August 1st– was supposed to play on Friday in Grand Rapids, Michigan and finish up with a bunch of dates in late October in Las Vegas with a family show. Allison Krauss is his opening act. The tour is still on sale on ticketmaster.com, so the decision to cancel must have been last minute. He had Farm Aid lined up as a star attraction, and OutlawFest.
This isn’t the first time that Willie has cancelled shows without warning. In January and February 2018 he pulled the plug on tours. In May 2018 he walked off stage citing breathing problems.
The last few weeks, Willie and daughter Paula Nelson have had a hit on iTunes with their duet of “Have You Ever Seen the Rain” from the HBO series “Big Little Lies.”
Willie has certainly smoked a lot of weed, but he’s a true Legend, a fine person and someone we can’t live without. Feel better, Willie! Take care of yourself, young man!
Meantime check out Willie’s son Lukas and his band Promise of the Real.
To my fans, I’m sorry to cancel my tour, but I have a breathing problem that I need to have my doctor check out. I’ll be back Love, Willie
UPDATE I told you yesterday the announcement was coming. And this morning, The Beatles made their announcement. Here’s the video.
WEDNESDAY: September 26th is just around the corner, and you know what that means. It’s the 50th anniversary of “Abbey Road.”
Even though there’s been no official word yet, I am told that the announcement of a box set is forthcoming. Ringo Starr as much confirmed it a few days ago in an interview wit Billboard. He told Gary Graff: “I’ve loved all the re-releases because of the remastering, and you can hear the drums, which got dialed down in the old days. I get a bit fed up, personally, with all those, like, Take 9 or Take 3, the odd takes that we didn’t put out, but that’s part of the box set and you have to do stuff like that.”
What we should be getting is “Abbey Road” remixed for the first time in its entirety by Giles Martin. This would replace the most recent remaster from the 2009 “black box” set. I’m sure we’ll get outtakes as well. Apple and Jeff Jones and Capitol Records have done a great job with all the 50th reissues. This should be no exception.
As for Ringo’s take on box sets, and his drums: the more you listen to Beatles music, the more you hear how exceptional Ringo’s work was. I love listening to “Ticket to Ride” or “A Day in the Life” just for him. His pinnacle may be on the side 2 medley of “Abbey Road.” The remix should be spectacular.
So hold on, kids, “Abbey Road” is coming. And then, next spring, “Let it Be.”
The Motion Picture Academy has its first casting director as president. David Rubin now steps in as head of the Oscars, and it’s about time. Casting directors are the heart of the movie business. Bravo! Rubin’s credits include “The English Patient,” “Men in Black,” “Hairspray,” “Lars and the Real Girl,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” “Get Shorty,” “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” “William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet” and “Fried Green Tomatoes.”
The other elected or re-elected board members are:
Lois Burwell, First Vice President (chair, Awards and Events Committee)
Sid Ganis, Vice President (chair, Museum Committee)
Larry Karaszewski, Vice President (chair, Preservation and History Committee)
Nancy Utley, Vice President (chair, Education and Outreach Committee)
Mark Johnson, Treasurer (chair, Finance Committee)
Bonnie Arnold, Secretary (chair, Membership and Governance Committee)
And so we get ready for another Oscar season, with some potential nominees already getting in place. Labor Day, here we come!
Nate Parker: in 2016, his “The Birth of a Nation” was going to be an Oscar contender. Then everything fell apart as it was revealed that Parker and two friends had been accused of a raping a young woman in college. On top of that, many year later the woman had committed suicide. Parker showed no remorse, and in a matter of days it was thought his career was destroyed. The movie fell into an abyss.
Now Spike Lee has produced a new Parker film and it’s going to the Venice Film Festival. “American Skin” will premiere in the Festival’s Sconfini section. Parker co-stars with Omari Hardwick (Miracle at St. Anna, Power), Theo Rossi (Sons of Anarchy) and Beau Knapp (Southpaw). The distributor is Eagle Pictures, a new name that seems to be a stalking horse for Gary Barber’s Spyglass Films.
One of the Spyglass partners is Lantern Entertainment, which bought the Weinstein Company assets out of bankruptcy. And that’s interesting because of one of the top financiers of the movie is Tarak Ben Ammar, a longtime friend of Harvey Weinstein and once the man who managed Michael Jackson’s finances when he worked for Prince Alaweed of Saudi Arabia. (You can’t make this up.)
“American Skin” was the name of a famous Bruce Springsteen song about Amadou Diallo, an unarmed man who was shot by New York police officers 41 times in 1999. (It’s unclear if Springsteen’s song is in the movie.)
In Parker’s movie, a Black Iraqi War Vet who seeks justice for his son after the boy is shot dead by a white police officer. The press release says it’s in the tradition of Sidney Lumet’s “Dog Day Afternoon” and “12 Angry Men,” which means there’s a stand off with the police, among other things. The main character takes a courtroom hostage, which is a combination of those two classic Lumet films.
“The Birth of a Nation” was a powerful film that would have won awards if Parker’s history had not come up and become a scandal. The question is will that incident haunt him, or be put aside now that it’s been dealt with thoroughly.
Mariah Carey really enjoyed meeting the Clintons backstage at the Barbra Streisand concert Saturday night.
But she also did something very sly for them on Twitter. She Tweeted to them:
@MariahCarey “An honor to meet President Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton!
😊 Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do for our country.
❤️ ”
I guess Mariah is blocking out who won the electoral vote and been terrorizing the world since the 2016 election. I don’t blame her. It’s a clever little dig.
An honor to meet President Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton! 😊 Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do for our country. ❤️🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/uPj1WXQjnm
Trail blazing writer Toni Morrison has died at age 88.
The award winning author of “Song of Solomon,” “Beloved,” “The Bluest Eye,” and other novels was a beacon for everyone, but especially black women. Her long list of awards includes the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature. In 2012, she received the real Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama.
When I went to work at Random House in the early 80s, Toni was a working editor at the company. Everyone in the building could feel the swell of pride that had carried over from her winning the National Book Critics Circle award for “Song of Solomon” in 1977. It was only the beginning of an extraordinary career and life.
Robert DeNiro, who hates Donald Trump and presumably Rupert Murdoch, has sold out to…Murdoch.
DeNiro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff have sold the Tribeca Film Festival to the Murdoch family’s Lupa Fund. James Murdoch runs the fund for investments since the Murdochs sold Fox Studios to Disney. Lupa means “she-wolf,” which I guess is just removed from the word Fox.
James Dolan’s Madison Square Garden company sold their stake so they can concentrate on their attractions in Las Vegas.
Lupa is a total Murdoch venture. Also involved in this is Attention Capital, co-founded by former Fox executive Joe Marchese. He’s the former president of advertising revenue for the Fox Networks Group, and a James Murdoch insider.
So yes, we all lose our naivete on this one. The good guys have sold out to the bad guys. James Murdoch is trying to legitimize his family’s horrible history, and their ongoing mayhem at Fox News. Now they’ve taken control of Tribeca. DeNiro et al went for the money. The ideology didn’t matter.
What a shame.
In a release, Jane Rosenthal said this without irony: “Our new partnership with James and Joe will bring valuable expertise as Bob and I look to scale and strategically grow Tribeca.”
This morning Donald Trump, who claims to be president of the United States, gave a speech about the terrible and tragic mass shootings that took place this weekend in Dayton, Ohio and in El Paso, Texas. But he urged prayers for Toledo, Ohio, not Dayton, as his sniffed his way through a dry mouthed delivery. He couldn’t read the TelePrompter, only this time– as opposed to July 4th– he couldn’t blame the rain.
If the reason for the speech weren’t so serious, it would be funny. But it’s not funny. Trump blamed social media, the internet, and video games for the violence that is now on an ongoing emergency in the United States. He called for capital punishment of potential attackers, even though most of them go into their killing sprees on suicide missions, and are so deranged that being sent to the electic chair is not a concern.
Trump did not mention gun control. He is completely out of touch with the country and the world. He can’t explain why every other country has the same video games, social media, and the internet, and that none of them– not one — has this problem. We are the only country with violent mass killings on a daily or weekly basis.
Today Rupert Murdoch’s NY Post, a conservative paper run by extreme conservatives, called for a ban on asaault weapons. We’ve gotten to that point. Will it matter? Will Murdoch’s Fox News carry that message? Probably not.
Two of the recent mass killings took place in Wal Marts. That’s Trump’s constituency. Wal Mart has said nothing. Their CEO has said nothing. Rifles are still on sale in all Wal Marts where states allow it. How long before those customers and those people realize Trump’s war on America is on them? The people who stand behind him at his idiotic rallies are the targets.
