This is pretty cool. At their show in New Jersey this past weekend, The Red Hot Chili Peppers paid tribute to the late Adam Yauch (aka MCA) of the Beastie Boys with a live version of the Beastie’s “So What’cha Want” during an instrumental jam…

Olympic organizers recently contacted the Who’s management office asking if Keith Moon would be interested in participating in the upcoming ceremonies. Only one thing – he’s been dead since 1978.

Levon Helm, drummer and singer with The Band, passed away last week. Friday night out at the Coachella music festival, Creedence Clearwater Revival founder John Fogerty joined the Black Keys to play The Band’s classic song The Weight in his memory. Enjoy…and, if you know the words, feel free to sing along!

Bruce Springsteen goes into the crowd in Philadelphia last night and steals some guy’s seat and chugs his beer…

It is official! Kiss and Motley Crue will be hitting the road together this summer for a 2 month long co-headlining tour. Look for it to hit So Cal on Tuesday, August 14th at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine. Click Read More for links and details and the press conference video…

Jimbo was afraid he wouldn’t be able to get into the Guns N Roses show, because his ticket said Friday, March 2nd, but technically the show didn’t start until Saturday, March 3rd at 12:22 am!

A dog playing a piano and singing.

Last Saturday, the band Heart headlined the annual Cal State Fullerton “Front & Center” benefit at The Honda Center in Anaheim. I have mentioned Heart before, and have seen them live many times. I still think Ann Wilson has _the_ single greatest female rock voice of all time, and top ten when the “female” qualifier is removed.

Saturday was like any Heart show before… great. The set list reads like the greatest hits of a generation, and when Heart does Zep… wow. Based on the new single they played, look for some great new Heart coming soon.

Here are a few pics:

Ever since Guns N’ Roses were chosen to be inducted in this year’s class at the Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame, the rumors have been bouncing around about whether we may see a reunion of the real G N’ R at the event. Considering the open hostility between Axl Rose and Slash over the years, it was pretty hard to be optimistic. Now, however, it has been confirmed that all of the original members of the band, Axl, Slash, Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagan, and Steven Adler will all be at the induction ceremony coming up on April 13.

Ok, I’ve gotta say, that was incredibly fun! I wasn’t sure just what to expect when I was invited to drive out to Los Angeles after my show ended at 6 o’clock on Wednesday night to attend a Van Halen event, but man am I glad I went! Here are some of the video highlights I took with my phone in the little soundstage at the Jim Henson Studios (yeah, the Muppets guy) of the hour long set the band put on for the 250 or so of us that were there…more details after the jump