STEVIE HITS THE ROAD WITH HENLEY



FLEETWOOD MAC's STEVIE NICKS has joined forces with DON HENLEY of
THE EAGLES for a crowd-pulling American tour.

The two old friends will tour America this summer (05) in between
Nicks' stint in Las Vegas, Nevada and Henley's reunion with The
Eagles in August (05).

27/04/2005 02:50

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Here Comes Your Band
On tour: Lollapalooza; Loggins & Messina reunite -- Pixies and
Killers lead the 60-act bill on this year's edition of the alt-rock
fest, while Loggins & Messina reunite after 30 years, and Stevie
Nicks and Don Henley join forces by Gary Susman

On the road this summer, everything old is new again. Over the
weekend, there were announcements heralding the return of aging alt-
rock fest Lollapalooza, to be headlined by the recently reunited
Pixies and newcomers The Killers; a co-headlining tour featuring
classic-rockers Stevie Nicks and Don Henley, and a road trip for
Loggins & Messina, playing together for the first time in 30 years.

Lollapalooza showed its age last summer when the tour was scrapped
due to poor ticket sales. This year, the concert has reinvented
itself as a stationary weekend rock festival, à la Coachella or
Bonnaroo. This year's edition, set for July 23 and 24 in Chicago's
Grant Park, features some 60 new and old acts, including The Arcade
Fire, Billy Idol, The Bravery, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dandy
Warhols, Dashboard Confessional, Death Cab for Cutie, the newly
reunited Dinosaur Jr., Digable Planets, G. Love & Special Sauce,
Kaiser Chiefs, Liz Phair, Tegan and Sara, The Walkmen, Weezer, and
Widespread Panic. Ticket and lineup information are available at
lollapalooza.com.

Nicks and Henley, who had a duet hit with ''Leather and Lace'' in
1981, are both busy this summer — the Fleetwood Mac songstress has a
four-night stand at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas in May, and Henley
is joining his bandmates in The Eagles for a tour beginning in
August. In between, however, they plan to play at least five shows
together, starting June 3 in Philadelphia. Other arena and
amphitheater dates, according to Billboard, are June 4 in Holmdel,
N.J.; June 8 in Mansfield, Mass.; June 10 in Wantagh, N.Y.; and June
13 in Hershey, Pa.

Billboard also reports that Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina, who
haven't toured together since 1976, will play some 40 dates this
summer, starting June 24 in Boise, Idaho. The tour coincides with
the May 24 release of The Best: Loggins & Messina Sittin' in Again.
(Dubbing their trek ''Sittin' in Again,'' the duo will make a point
of encouraging famous friends to join them onstage if they cross
paths.) Loggins told Billboard the duo's tour was inspired by a
benefit concert they performed last year. ''I'd been playing a lot
of these songs, like 'Danny's Song' and 'House at Pooh Corner' alone
for years, and when Jimmy came in, I remembered who we were,'' he
said. ''Something magic happens when the two of us sing together.''

(Posted:04/25/05)

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Nicks/Henley July 4 concert canceled
By JACKIE LOOHAUIS
jloohauis@...
Posted: April 21, 2005

It was but a brief dream for Stevie Nicks and Don Henley fans here:
The Nicks and Henley July 4 Summerfest concert announced earlier
this week for Marcus Amphitheater has already been canceled.

The entire second leg of the rock duo's tour was scrapped due
to "scheduling conflicts," Summerfest Entertainment Director Bob
Babisch said today. Babisch said another act for that date would be
announced.

Tickets for the Henley/Nicks show were due to go on sale Saturday
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From Stevie-Nicks.info:


Rhino to release Stevie Nicks Best-Of CD & VH1 Storytellers

Rhino Entertainment is expected to release an updated Stevie Nicks
retrospective titled The Best of Stevie Nicks on Tuesday, June 7
(bumped from May 24), according to leading music retailers.

On the same day, Rhino has also scheduled to issue VH1 Storytellers:
Stevie Nicks (extended cut) on DVD, with previously unseen footage.

Nicks' recording label, Reprise Records, has not officially
confirmed
either release.
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Don Henley article (Stevie mention):

"After a two-show stop in Florida, Henley will embark on a two-month
tour with Stevie Nicks, the lead singer of Fleetwood Mac and
frequent
Henley collaborator, in June and July."


"Don Henley"

Musician, band mates have devil of a time squelching rumors about
being
Satanists

By MARK S. KRZOS
Published by news-press.com
April 18, 2005

IF YOU GO
• What: Don Henley in concert
• Where: Germain Arena, 11000 Everblades Parkway, Estero
• When: 8 p.m. Sunday, April 24
• Cost: $36.50-$69.50. One dollar of each ticket sold will go
directly
to The Walden Wood Project.
• Tickets can be purchased by calling Ticketmaster at 334-3309, at
ticketmaster.com or at the Germain Arena box office.
• For more information about The Walden Woods Project, go to
walden.org.


Don Henley plays Sunday at Germain Arena. Special to news-press.com


LAVEY Former leader of the Church of Satan

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Don Henley is many things — a drummer and singer for one of the most
successful rock bands in history, a solo artist, environmentalist
and
preservationist.

The one thing Henley and his mates in The Eagles are not is
Satanists.

For years, the lyrics of The Eagles smash hit, "Hotel California,"
have
been scrutinized by fans in the same way Beatles fans have pored
over
album covers and hidden messages about Paul McCartney's death in
1969.

Henley, who will perform as a solo act at Germain Arena on Sunday,
called the speculation just the overactive imagination of fans.

According to rock 'n' roll folklore, devil worshippers bought an old
church and rechristened it "The Hotel California."

Then there are the lyrics:

• "We haven't had that spirit here since 1969," which the
speculation
alleges is saying the spirit of Christ and the former Christian
church
had not been present since the Church of Satan took it over.

• "They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill
The
Beast," a reference to Satan's immortality.

• "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave,"
has
also been alleged to refer to hell.

There's also the album art, in which some rock fans claim to see
Anton
LaVey, the now-deceased leader of the Church of Satan. On the
inside,
it appears that LaVey is welcoming a new group of people into his
church.

Henley, who just finished a slate of concerts with The Eagles,
including a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden, said he's tried
to quash
this rumor for years and insists the song is about the greed of the
music
business and hedonism in 1970s Southern California.

"I think this whole thing started with some right-wing evangelical
group from Oklahoma," said Henley, who still finds it amusing that
anyone
would look for such things in a song. "We even joke about it in
concerts
now. 'You know, this next song was recorded during our satanic
phase.'
People have very active imaginations."

Henley is one to talk. His imagination remains very active. "I'm
always
working on new material," he said. "I'm going to try and get back in
the studio soon, but it's hard because I have so many other things
going
on."

Henley has four solo albums to his credit, dating back to 1982's "I
Can't Stand Still," which went gold thanks to the No. 3 hit "Dirty
Laundry."

The multiplatinum "Building the Perfect Beast" came out two years
later
and established Henley as a solo star. The hits "Boys of
Summer," "All
She Wants to Do Is Dance," "Sunset Grill" and "Not Enough Love in
the
World" kept the album on the charts for more than a year.

"The End of the Innocence," released in 1989, was Henley's most
successful — and most ambitious solo offering. The album, anchored
by the
title track and "Heart of the Matter," sold more than 6 million
copies and
stayed on the pop charts for three years.

His long-awaited follow-up, "Inside Job" came out in 2000 and, while
it
reached platinum status, it failed to yield any major hits.

After a two-show stop in Florida, Henley will embark on a two-month
tour with Stevie Nicks, the lead singer of Fleetwood Mac and
frequent
Henley collaborator, in June and July.

In August, The Eagles will then head back on the road for a three-
month
tour.

Henley said an album of new Eagles songs has been discussed.

"We may do it if we can ever get off tour," Henley said. "I'm not
sure
if we'll finish an album or not. It all depends on (guitarist) Glenn
(Frey)."

If a new album doesn't come to fruition, then that could be the end
of
The Eagles, Henley said.

The Eagles broke up in 1980 and spent the next 12 years fending off
reunion rumors — even saying that they would reunite when "hell
freezes
over."

In 1994, hell must have been a chilly place because the band
reunited
for the Hell Freezes Over tour and has been touring on and off ever
since.

Spending time away from the behemoth band, which has continued to
pack
houses since its reunion, could be good for Henley.

"We'll have a live album coming out in a month or two that we
recorded
in Sydney last year," Henley said. "If we don't head back into the
studio, then that could be it."

Henley owes Warner Brothers two records and already has a wealth of
material. He just hasn't decided if it will be part of an Eagles
package
or more solo stuff.

Whatever happens with the new material, Henley isn't concerned about
it
not getting to fans.

Radio isn't the be-all and end-all that it once was, said Henley,
referring to shrinking playlists and the lack of attention classic
and
modern rock stations pay to aging artists.

"It's not as frustrating as it was a few years ago," Henley said.
"Radio isn't as important as it once was. People are getting their
music in
other ways now. Technology with satellite and Internet radio is
changing the whole landscape."

Between the recording and touring, Henley, 57, remains active in a
variety of environmental causes, none more important to him than the
Walden
Woods Project.

In 1989, Henley came across a story about two Henry David Thoreau
scholars who were attempting to stop two development projects built
within
the birthplace of the American conservation movement.

How could this happen, Henley asked himself. He then found out only
the
Massachusetts pond and the woods surrounding it were protected. That
left more than 2,000 acres outside the protected area ripe for
development.

After holding benefit concerts and raising awareness, The Walden
Wood
Project has protected more than 140 acres of land surrounding Walden
Pond and about 65 percent of Walden Woods' 2,680 acres.

"This is our 15th year doing this and we're still raising money,"
Henley said. "In recent months, we purchased an old farm and another
piece
near the Thoreau Institute. A lot of people think this is just a New
England project, but it's become a lot more than that. We now have
Thoreau
societies in 30 countries that are dedicated to preserving wild
areas."

Now really, does that sound like a Satanist to you?


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MARTA SALIJ: Powerful thinking

A woman makes bad things happen just by wishing them so
April 17, 2005







BY MARTA SALIJ
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST



I'm going to float a supernatural theory, one that would fit right
into one of Alice Hoffman's magical fables.


'The Ice Queen'
THREE STARS out of stars


By Alice Hoffman


Little, Brown, 211 pages, $23.95


Alice Hoffman and Stephen King are the same person.


Or, at the least, they're turning into the same writer. They have a
distance to go before they meet -- Hoffman still has King whipped in
the style department -- but I'm beginning to think they're after the
same endgame.


Witness Hoffman's new one, "The Ice Queen," whose plot would fit
right into the King horror canon. A woman has the power to make
terrible things happen just by wishing them. Then she meets a
similarly damned man, and they make mischief together until the
authorities notice.


Insert creepy theme music here.


Of course, if King had actually written "The Ice Queen," there'd be
some kind of sidekick possessed of the devil -- a family pet, a
household appliance -- and the body parts would be piling up with
each chapter. Hoffman left that twist out, so she's got a few more
King lessons to go.


But Hoffman borrows enough of King's breathless cliffhangers and
ghoulish descriptions that I'm thinking she might have a bright
future as a horror novelist.


And this would be a good thing. Really. A little more brisk plotting
and no-nonsense mayhem, a la King, would help Hoffman's books
immensely.


Which is not to say that Hoffman's books are bad, but they are
drifting dangerously into becoming gorgeous nonsense, like, say,
Anne Rice's. Like Rice, Hoffman often writes about witches and
curses and supernatural events. Like Rice, she often writes about
the temptations and dangers of sex. Like Rice, she often writes the
way Stevie Nicks sings, as if intoning her heroine's thoughts and
obsessions over and over will make them alluring and even sensible.


The chanting doesn't always work, and Hoffman's stylistic tics tend
to bog the middle of "The Ice Queen" down. But I have hope that
Hoffman can reign in her excesses enough so that she can keep
exploring her view of women's lives -- that they are fraught with
darkness that only fairy tales and magic can explain.



It starts at 8
In "The Ice Queen," Hoffman creates a heroine whose dark deeds begin
at age 8. The girl -- we meet her as a woman, but we never learn her
name -- has a fight with her mother on a January night, just as the
mother is about to go out to dinner with her friends.


"When my mother said that Betsy and Amanda were waiting for her and
that she was already late, I made my wish. Right away, I could feel
it burning. I could taste the bitterness of it; still I went ahead.
I wished I would never see her again. I told her straight to her
face. I wished she would disappear right there, right then."


You know she gets her wish. The mother dies in an accident before
she even gets to the dinner. And the daughter shuts down, turns into
an ice queen.


The rest of the book is 30 years later, when the now-grown woman is
living a pathetic life as a librarian in a Florida college town. She
has no friends and almost no relatives, save her older brother, a
meteorologist in the same town. The brother studies lightning, which
is easy to do in Florida, and the woman decides that what she wishes
is to be struck dead by lightning, to put her out of her misery.


You know she gets her wish -- well, part of it. She is struck by
lightning, but she lives. And that is where the story really starts,
with her life post-strike.


Hoffman likes to play with symbols in her books, and one of her
tricks in this book is a very odd effect of the woman's lightning
strike: She loses the ability to see the color red. Red is very
important in fairy tales: Think blood, think poisoned apples
proffered by wicked stepmothers. Think fire.


The woman can't see flames, more or less literally, so she begins to
seek fire, figuratively. In a group therapy session for lightning-
strike survivors, she hears about a man 50 miles away who had been
struck by lightning and declared clinically dead for 40 minutes --
and who then rose up from the morgue table to leave the hospital.
The woman decides she has to meet this Lazarus Jones.


"I wanted a man like that," she thinks, "one it was impossible to
kill, who wouldn't flinch if you wished him dead, who'd already been
there and back."



Heating up
Yes, she meets him, yes, they have a torrid affair, yes, she becomes
ensnared in ways she couldn't have imagined. It's in this center
section that Hoffman the Rice wanna-be meets Hoffman the King wanna-
be, and the struggle is interesting to watch.


Hoffman as Rice, playing with the fantasy that the lightning strike
has made Lazarus' body temperature so high that he and the woman
must make love in ice-cold water:


"I slipped off my clothes, stepped into the tub, shuddered in the
cold water. He got in right after me, desperate, I think, wanting
me; it must have been that. I could feel the edges of the heat in
the water. I held on to the smooth sides of the bathtub. I thought
of fish in a bucket. Death standing at the foot of a bed. When he
pulled himself on top of me, I imagined I might drown. Maybe I was
supposed to. For all I knew, this was the other half of my death
wish -- half fire, half water."


Hoffman as King, marveling at the grotesque scars on another
lightning survivor:


"Renny took off his gloves. I could hear him doing it; he grunted
with the pain, the rub of the leather against his ruined skin. And
then I saw. Amazing. Bits of yellow and green glowed on his skin. It
was so strange, and in some way quite beautiful. You could see it
only in the dark, the gold in his skin had been woven into him, as
though he were a tapestry. The gold went beyond the area where his
watch and ring had branded him, as though the metal had been
splattered over his hands. But I understood why he feared love as
much as he wanted it: he didn't look quite human."It's heartening
that Hoffman is more elegant in both these passages than Rice or
King would have been, which is why I keep reading her books, and why
I can forgive her for vacillating between trying to turn her readers
on and trying to gross them out.


I have a little more trouble with the third impulse in Hoffman's
style -- let's call it the Anna Quindlen impulse -- that nearly
hijacks the end of "The Ice Queen." Hoffman decides she has to tie
up all of the woman's desires and demons happily, and I'm not sure
the brothers Grimm would approve.


I thought Hoffman had killed off her inner Quindlen a couple of
books ago, but oh, well. This new toughness to "The Ice Queen" bodes
well for more delicious darkness in Hoffman's books to come.


Contact MARTA SALIJ at 313-223-4530 or salij@....

Fleetwood backs 'quiet' concert

Fans listened to Eagles of Death Metal through miniature receivers
Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood was at the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio on Monday to attend an
experimental "quiet" rock concert.
Rock band Eagles of Death Metal played two songs without
amplification to an audience of around 100 people listening through
miniature radio receivers.

Fleetwood said he hoped it would alert people to the dangers of loud
music.

"I hope this makes the point that you can wear ear protection at
concerts and still enjoy the concert," he said.

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association measured the
unamplified sound at 62 decibels.

The band then played three amplified songs on speakers which were
measured at 124 decibels - the same level as a jet engine.

Fleetwood, 57, suffers from partial hearing loss.

But the veteran performer, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in 1998, questioned whether "quiet" concerts would
catch on.

"Who's to say? Could you see 18,000 people someday listening to Pink
Floyd on headphones? Maybe, with a weird magic wand."

Fleetwood said his band, who last released an album in 2003, were
likely to tour again in 2006.


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From The Northwest Herald

World's quietest concert promotes better hearing


After years of entertaining the baby boomer generation, rock
musician Mick Fleetwood is now drumming out an important message for
his fans' hearing health – how to keep rockin' responsibly.

The Fleetwood Mac singer and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee is
teaming up with Energizer EZ Change "It's Hip to Hear" program.
Fleetwood launched the program Monday at the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame and Museum.

"Having spent my career behind a drum set, I know how hazardous
noise – including music – can be to your hearing," said Fleetwood.

To turn up the volume on "responsible listening" and reach out to an
even broader audience, Energizer EZ Change produced the "world's
quietest concert."

Hosted by Fleetwood on Monday at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and
Museum in Cleveland, the event featured a special performance by an
up-and-coming rock band called the Eagles of Death Metal. The
concert audience heard the band's live vocals and music simulcast
through portable FM radio headsets, rather than speakers or
amplifiers used in traditional concerts.

Although hearing loss is an issue baby boomers are often quick to
dismiss, they have more reasons now than ever to acknowledge it.
After spending decades at rock concerts, listening to blaring car
stereos, and enjoying the newest home theater systems, boomers are
feeling the effects of hearing loss – which are often cumulative,
permanent and in most cases, irreversible.

"Instead of rocking out to standard 110-130 decibel levels, this
concert will be so quiet, the applause will be the loudest part of
what you're hearing," Fleetwood said. "Our point? You can enjoy the
music and the experience while being good to your ears at the same
time."

To get your hearing checked by an ASHA-certified audiologist in your
area, go to www.asha.org. To request a free Survival Guide, go to
www.energizer-ezchange.com.


KEEP YOUR HEARING

Get hearing tested once every year or two, after age 30.

Wear hearing protection, such as noise-canceling earphones or
headphones when listening to portable music players or mowing the
lawn.

Purchase quiet household equipment, such as noise-limiting
hairdryers.

Take action to regulate the volume of stereos and televisions, for
parents and children alike.

– Pam Mason, director of Audiology Professional Practices with the
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association


– Press release
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<no_reply@y...> wrote:
>
> A different tunic
> Latest bohemian fashions more hip than hippie
>
> By Lesley Kennedy, Rocky Mountain
> April 21, 2005
>
> Fashion designers are caught in a bohemian rhapsody this season.
>
> Long, airy tunics, sweeping, tiered skirts and chunky wooden
bangles
> are all the rage as boho chic makes its way back into women's
> wardrobes.
>
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>
>
> The overall trend is nothing new - heck, stars like Stevie Nicks
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> Kate Hudson have been working the look for years. But new
additions,
> including pretty bead work, bright colors and fitted, feminine
> silhouettes, make today's bohemian fashions less hippie and more
> hip.
>
> So tune in, turn on and pick yourself up a tunic.