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A 1971, 200-watt amplifier once owned and used by Jimmy Page sold for 30-thousand dollars last week on E-Bay.

The Creedence Clearwater Revival catalog re-issue project continues today with the release of a newly re-mastered version The Concert, their 1970 live album, and a new compilation called Creedence Covers the Classics. The latter includes songs from most of the band’s studio albums, as well as versions of Dale Hawkins‘ “Susie Q,” Little Richard‘s “Good Golly Miss Molly,” Marvin Gaye‘s “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” Ricky Nelson‘s “Hello Mary Lou” and Ray Charles‘ “The Night Time Is the Right Time.”

…don’t forget John Fogerty is here Monday night at the MTS Center. 

Are Brian May and Roger Taylor already looking for someone to replace singer Paul Rodgers in Queen? May and Queen performed last week with singer Adam Lambert on American Idol, and in an interview with Rolling Stone, May says, “Roger and I are definitely hoping to have a meaningful conversation with him at some point. It’s not like we, as Queen, would rush into coalescing with another singer just like that. It isn’t that easy. But I’d certainly like to work with Adam. That is one amazing instrument he has there.” After four years, a few tours, a studio album and live releases, Rodgers decided to leave Queen to concentrate on his solo career and a brief Bad Company reunion tour this summer.

On March 31st in Chicago, Z-Z Top filmed an episode of the V-H-1 series Storytellers. It will premiere on V-H-1 on June 27th and on V-H-1 Classic and the Palladia channel on July 4th. In addition to telling stories about some of their classic songs, including “La Grange” and “Sharp Dressed Man,” they also answer questions from the audience, and singer Billy Gibbons, who is also a reverend, renews a couple’s wedding vows.

Z-Z starts a European tour tonight in Prague with dates through June 14th in England. They’ll hook up with Aerosmith on June 21st in Virginia for North American dates through September.

After 30 years of performing perennial classics such as “You Are the Light”, “Innocence” and “Sweet Things in Life” to name just a few, singer George Belanger is elated that the band is finally releasing a live disc!  “A sore point for me was always the fact that some of the people making decisions on our music had never ever seen the band perform live!”  On Tuesday June 2, 2009 Harlequin releases “On/Q”…a collection of 14 Harlequin performances captured live with the current version of the band (Nik Rivers: bass, vocals; Derrick Gottfried: guitar, vocals; AJ Chabidon: drums; Darren Moore: keys, guitar, vocals). 

Join 92 CITI FM for a special one-hour WORLD ALBUM PREMIERE on Monday June 1, 2009 beginning @7pm.  Howard Mandshein will be speaking with GB who defies the notion that “what happens on the road – stays on the road!” 

Woodstock was the ultimate peak of the hippie ideal.  As Neil Young once stated; “….we jammed a freeway!  Woodstock let us know just how many of us there actually were!”  Joni Mitchell declined an invitation to play at the behest of her manager who convinced her an appearance on the Dick Cavet show was a priority.  She did however get a great song out of watching the highlights on the 6 oclock news!  Believe me, Crosby Stills Nash & Young were certainly happy she did!

2009 marks the 40th anniversary for this historic event.  New footage has since been discovered, restored, and remastered to be included in an extended version of the original film.  92 CITI FM is presently working with our good friends Shawn Sommers and John Jones from Warner Music Winnipeg to showcase a special “one-night only” feature presentation of the new film version to celebrate its release to dvd and blue ray!  Stay tuned…

There’s a great little vid uploaded to the homepage for your approval.  You gotta love these guys if just because they’re all regular guys!  Have a look…take a listen!