May 23,
2008 3:45 pm EST Huge
upcoming shows
On July 11th Living Colour will be playing the popular Rocklahoma show in Pryor, Oklahoma. They will join
Extreme, Queensryche, and Telsa to name a few. Sure to be a legendary show august 1
when LC share the stage with Extreme and King's X at the Brookhaven Amphitheater in Long
Island, NY.
August
13, 2007 2:47 pm EST South
American Tour Dates
Wed 08/22/07 - Mar De Plata, Argentina @ Abbey
Road
Thu 08/23/07 - Montevideo, URUGUAY @ Plaza Theatre
Fri 08/24/07 - Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA @ The Roxy
Sat 08/25/07 - Comodoro Rivadavia, ARGENTINA @ Teatro Espagnol
Sun 08/26/07 - Rosario, ARGENTINA @ Willie Dixon - Ticketek.com
Thu 08/30/07 - Sao Paulo, BRAZIL @ Via
Funchal
Fri 08/31/07 - Rio De Janeiro, BRAZIL @ Circo
Voador
As always, please make sure to check with the local venues to confirm show dates and
details.
July 18,
2007 6:45 pm EST Montreux
Jazz Fest video clip
A short but sweet video clip of Sacred Ground from last weeks Montreux Jazz Festival:
Click here for video
July 17,
2007 7:20 pm EST Site
Updates
- Audio/video updated with new videos.
- Videography updated.
July 11,
2007 5:05 pm EST Tour
footage on Youtube
During my daily scour on youtube I found footage from the 7/8 Budapest show:
Funny Vibe:
Sacred Ground:
Glamour Boys:
Keep them coming folks!
July 6,
2007 4:24 pm EST Summer
tour kicks off!
The first show
of the tour is today in Solvenia. The guys will be playing at the Lent Festival.
July 3,
2007 1:35 am EST Myspace
Deletes Living Colour
Last Friday
marked the fourth time in less than a year that Living Colour's official MySpace profile
has been deleted with no explanation given from MySpace.com. Once a band reaches
large enough numbers on it's friends list, Myspace becomes an extremely effective
promoational tool. Well established bands with fan bases comparable to Living Colour
usually reach 10,000 friends within a few months. When Living Colour's friends list starts
to snowball and reach high numbers, the deletion takes place. By our estimates, Living
Colour should have well over 50,000 friends by now. Since media giant Rupert Murdoch's
NewsCorp (which owns FoxNews)
purchased the networking community 2 years ago, The cases of profiles being deleted have
been well documented:
* In January 2007, MySpace refused to run a Common Cause ad about a political issue –
urging people to send letters to the FCC opposing media consolidation. In that ad, Rupert
Murdoch was pictured as the symbol of big media. Murdoch’s NewsCorp owns MySpace.
(Source: Common Cause)
* On April 13, 2007, MySpace deleted the most popular Rupert Murdoch parody profile on the
site – with no explanation. It had nearly 5000 friends, and lived here:
http://www.myspace.com/murdoch_rupert (someone else has since claimed the URL). A cached
copy is here: http://foxattacks.com/rupertmyspace/
* In 2007, MySpace deleted the profile of an openly homosexual band, Kids On TV, with no
explanation other than violation of MySpace’s Terms of Service. The band set up the
MySpace Censorship Profile to see if others had similar experiences. “Out of the
woodwork came a number of queer artists and organizations who had also fallen victim to
deletion for reasons as vapid and unspecific as possible photo captions.” (Source:
BlogTo) Rupert Murdoch has openly opposed homosexuality, “I’m considered
homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned.”
* In 2005 and 2006, MySpace reportedly turned off a MySpace blog forum where MySpace users
were discussing the censorship issues. (Source: CensorSpace.com)
* In December, 2005, MySpace disabled links to YouTube Source: YouTube’s official
blog.) After public criticism, MySpace eventually re-enabled YouTube (Source: NY Times).
* In 2007, the chief revenue officer for Fox Interactive Media lamented: “We probably
should have stopped YouTube…YouTube wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for
MySpace.” (Source: NY Times)
* In 2006, MySpace disabled links to video site VideoConeZone – which had the 3rd
highest share of the MySpace video market behind MySpace Video and YouTube. MSN,
Friendster, Xanga, Piczo, Tagged, and Bebo all kept linking to the site. “Only
MySpace is blocking VideoCodeZone” reported Mashable .
* Additionally, MySpace is blocking links to video sharing sites that don’t have the
clout of YouTube…like Revvver, Stickam, and Vidilife. Revver supports the little guy
– paying independent artists for their content by having an ad frame at the end of
videos, but MySpace wants these artists to upload their work to MySpace Video for free.
Ask-A-Ninja, a popular online personality, has blogged about this issue. (Source: Ask a
Ninja , a MySpace blog, CensorSpace.com)
* In January 2007, MySpace temporarily disabled all Flash embeds – including YouTube
videos. “Some people speculated that they were testing the waters, seeing what kind
of backlash they would see from user complaints. Industry insiders have said…MySpace
is preparing to block all widget providers over time and will let only those who pay a
‘toll’ back in.” (Source: Techcrunch.com)
* In March 2007, MySpace demanded that Tila Tequilla – a popular musician with over
1.7 million MySpace friends – take down “a new music player and music store,
called the Hoooka, created by Indie911, a Los Angeles-based start-up company.”
(Source: NY Times) The musician wrote on her blog that MySpace is “cutting down our
freedom and taking away our rights slowly…MySpace will now only allow you to use
‘MySpace’ things.”
* On April 10, 2007, MySpace began blocking Photobucket, the world’s top
photo-sharing site, saying that a popular Photobucket slideshow included an ad frame
– violating MySpace’s terms. (Source: PC World) Techcrunch reported MySpace was
trying to send a signal to widget companies to “think thrice before trying to slip
any ads into their products down the road.” Recently, Reuters reported MySpace is
purchasing Photobucket – possibly revealing a new MySpace model of blocking
innovators, devaluing them, then purchasing them.
In
addition, we know of many anti-astablishment profiles that have also been deleted without
reason and the list goes on and on. Until MySpace comes clean and lets us know why they
keep deleting Living Colour, we can only assume one or more people who work for Myspace
are trying to stifle they're growth and keep them from going super nova.
Arpil
10, 2007 5:35 am EST DVD
Release Date!
On May 8, 2007
World Cafe Live will release Living
Colour: On Stage At World Cafe Live at Amazon.com. As we reported, the
performance was recorded December 16, 2005 @ World Cafe Live - Philadelphia, PA on Mark
Cuban's HDnet, a channel for HDTV subscribers only. The show was one of the first rock
concerts to air live on HDTV and in 5.1 Surround Sound. Pre-Order
at Amazon.com!
July 26,
2006 1:24 pm EST Doug
Wimbish Clinic on Google Video!
I just posted
the highly sought after 2001 Doug Wimbish Clinic to Google Video! Click
here to watch it! For the past year I've been getting emails almost everyday asking
for this video...I was not able to send it out to everyone due to time and money
restraints. My apologies to everyone. Now thanks to Google everybody can watch it now.
Enjoy!
July 23,
2006 5:31 pm EST Message
From Vernon Reid
Vernon Reid
sent the following to The Living Colour
Blog:
1) This is ONLY the result of a dual career scheduling conflict...call it dueling
contracts... And Jesus Christ Superstar won! 2) Corey is THE lead singer of LC 3) Dug's
coming through is an example of the kind of unity that used to exist between bands before
we all became egotistical insurgent militias....He's gonna be great. 4) There will be a
new record next year..."
You heard
it folks!!!! New Living Colour album next year!!!!!!!
July 23,
2006 4:45 pm EST LC
featuring Doug Pinnick
Sorry I'm late
posting this but the great Doug Pinnick of the legendary King's
X will be filling in for Corey Glover on the upcomming August tour. Corey has joined
the cast of Jesus Christ Superstar for an extinsive tour playing Judas. Both Vernon and
Corey having posted messages assuring fans Doug Pinnick on vocals is only temporary.
The
following is a message from Corey Glover (corey-glover.com):
As many of
you may have heard, I am joining the stage cast of Jesus Christ Superstar, starring Ted
Neeley. The tour starts in September but I begin rehearsals in August. Unfortunately, this
conflicts with some Living Colour dates in Europe. As the saying goes, the show must go
on. The band has been fortunate to have the amazing and talented Dug Pinnick from Kings X
agree to replace me at the mic. I believe this has the making for some incredible
performances. I would love to be there myself to witness the magic. Let me assure you,
this in no way signifies the verge of a break up or permanent change in line-up for Living
Colour. Stay tuned. See you out here.
July
1, 2006 2:15 pm EST July/August
Tour Dates
July 8 Weert (NL) - BOSPOP Festival
August 12 AMSTERDAM(NL) - Paradiso Ticketmaster.nl
August 13 ZOETERMEER(NL) - Boerderij Ticketmaster.nl
August 15 BUDAPEST(HUN) - Sziget Festival
August 16 POTSDAM(D) - Lindenpark
August 17 WINTERTHUR(CH) - Salzhaus Tickets
August 18 HODOKVAS(SVK) - Rock Festival
August 19 TRUTNOV(CZ) - Rock Festival
August 20 TBA
May 7,
2006 2:15 pm EST New
Australian date added
Accorng
to Will Calhoun's site, LC will be in Sydney, Australia 5/20/06. Check out the tours page for more info.
April
23, 2006 1:22 pm EST Planing
for 2006
LC is
currently booking dates for 2006. Among the first to be announced are 3 dates in
Australia. Check out the tours section for more info.
April
15, 2006 10:15 am EST Livng
Colour Opening for Guns N' Roses!
According
to Mojo.nl, Living Colour along with Alice In
Chains, Stone Sour, and Bloodsimple are opening for Guns N' Roses July 2.
April
11, 2006 11:05 am EST Livng
Colour live on HDTV
Always
on the cutting edge of technology, Living Colour's pioneering use of effects in studio and
on stage have paved the way for the next generation of bands. Their latest album
Collideoscope was released in 5.1 Souround Sound. It is only fitting that Living Colour
make history by being the first big rock band to record a live concert in Hi Definition
and in 5.1 Surround Sound. HDTV subscribers will be able to experience the mighty
Living Colour up close and live with out leaving their home!
Show Info:
Show: On Stage at World Cafe Live
Episode: Living Colour
Network: (HDNet) HDNet
Date: Sunday - April 16, 2006
Time: 10:30/9:30c PM
Duration: 0:30
Premiere!
Sun., Apr. 16th
10:30 PM ET
Living Colour - Living Colour packs the World Cafe with fans from every stage of this
hard-rocking band's long and always exciting career. Reid, Glover, Calhoun and Wimbish
perform politically fiery material from their latest critically acclaimed record
CollideOscope, as well as their hit "Cult Of Personality" and other crowd
favorites from their 1988 Grammy award winning multi-platinum album Vivid.
April 5, 2006 12:21 am EST Pre-Order
VR and Masque new album!
On
April 16th Vernon Reid will release his third solo album and second featuring the backing
of virtuosos called Masque.
On Other True Self, Vernon Reid
exposes a vivid personal landscape. Each track illuminates one or another side of Vernon
Reid: his African lineage in "Prof. Bebey," the Latin flavor of the melodies he
casts over Hank Schroy's bass pulse and Don McKenzie's crisp reggae rhythm bed in
"Flatbush and Church Revisited," the exhilaration of his unison sprint with
keyboardist Leon Gruenbaum on "Game is Rigged," the swirling Middle Eastern
energies in "Mind of My Mind."
Other True Self, then, is a sonic kaleidoscope, a tumble of colors and a whirl of
astonishing visions. Yet as far as Reid is concerned, it's just one step forward on a
possibly endless - and endlessly rewarding - mission.
Tracks:
1. Game Is Rigged
2. National Anthem
3. Flatbush and Church Revisited
4. Afrerika
5. Enjoy The Silence
6. White Face
7. Oxossi
8. G
9. Wild Life
10. Overcoming
11. Kizzy
12. Mind Of My Mind
13. Prof. Bebey
January 16, 2006 12:24 am EST Best
of CD out Tuesday!
Sony is
releasing yet another best of LC cd titled Everything Is Possible: The Very Best Of Living
Colour. This time the track listing looks to be more in line with a real best of album and
includes a wider range of songs from LC's albums. Check out track
listing and pre-order at CD Universe.
December
3, 2005 11:45 pm EST LC on tour now!
Check out tour dates here.
Photography, video taping, and recording is allowed. Yes, the band is cool with it on a
few conditions: You don't sell anything. Make sure your flash on camera is off or set on
low.
November
3, 2005 1:31 am EST DVD Teaser Video
Check out the teaser video for LC's long awaited live DVD here. You need Quicktime 7 to view it.
October
14, 2005 2:05 am EST December Flyers
Join us in a grass roots effort to promote LC's last tour of 2005.
Download and print flyers out here.
September
13, 2005 11:15 pm EST Hollywood pics
Our newest member of the LC board sent us hi resolution pics of the 9/9 knitting Factory show in
Hollywood, CA. Check them out here. Thanks DJD!
September
8, 2005 4:15 am EST Live Reviews
Already some great reviews coming in! You can read them at Sacred Ground or on our new
message board here. Share your
LC experience with us if you like. The band loves to read them as well.
September
4 , 2005 1:55 am EST West Coast Tour Dates
Tue 09/06/05 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
Wed 09/07/05 - Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues
Thur 09/08/05 - San Luis Obispo, CA @ SloBrew Brewpub
Fri 09/09/05 - Hollywood, CA @ Knitting Factory
Sun 09/11/05 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Grille
Mon 09/12/05 - Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
Tue 09/13/05 - Eugene, OR @ W.O.W. Hall
Wed 09/14/05 - San Francisco, CA @ Independent
August
20, 2005 8:35 pm EST Site back up..CBGB's show reviews
My apologies for the 24 hour plus downtime. I had to move on to a
new web hosting company due to insane traffic overage fees on my other sites. Anyway, The
site is now on my very own dedicated server and should be a bit faster too. Still being
worked on transferring is the message board. Turns out It's a bit more complicated to
transfer message boards from one server to another with out lossing archives of messages.
Bare with me. The CBGB's show was brilliant last night! I was there virtually thanks to
CBGB's video webcast. Tickets were $35 and LC sold the place out. It was a very special
and magical night for LC and family! I say family cause fans is short for fanatic and
doesn't do the love we have for LC justice. Anyway, enough of my rambling. Go check out
some reviews at Sacred Ground!
August
10, 2005 1:22 am EST September US Dates
Tue 09/06/05 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
Wed 09/07/05 - Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues
Thu 09/08/05 - Las Vegas, NV (Private Function)
Mon 09/12/05 - Seattle, WA @ Graceland
Tue 09/13/05 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theatre
Wed 09/14/05 - San Francisco, CA @ Independent
Fri 09/16/05 - Los Angeles, CA @ House of Blues
August
4, 2005 4:22 am EST Tour updates
Another date added to west coast tour: Sept 8, 2005 Independent, San
Francisco, CA. Plus, tickets are now on sale for August 19th CBGB's show at Ticketweb.
July
29, 2005 7:22 pm EST New LC date!
Living Colour @ House of Blues, Anaheim, CA
Tickets on sale tomorrow 10:00 AM PDT
July
14, 2005 6:15 am EST Summerfest Reviews
Check out all the reviews on the new message board.
July
6, 2005 3:05 am EST LC to play at Summerfest
Living Colour is scheduled to play at the nations largest music
festival Summerfest, Sunday, July 10th, 2005, 10pm on the Mountain Dew Rock stage. Check
out summerfest.com for more info.
July
3, 2005 4:10 am EST Living Colour saving CBGB's
Legendary New York City club CBGBs Announces Month Long Drive to
Secure Lease. Dead Boys, Govt Mule, Gorilla Biscuits, Living Colour and many others to play
benefit shows in August.
Aso check
out and sign the petition to save CBGB's @ SaveCBGB.org
April
5, 2005 7:00 am EST The Neville Brothers & Living Colour From The Living Colour Blog:
The Neville Brothers & Living Colour
Apollo Theater, New York, NY
Fri, Jun 10, 2005 08:00 PM
tickets are $39 and $49. Tickets
available at TicketMaster.com
January
28, 2005 6:00 pm EST Live Online 2004
Missed the 2003/2004 Collidescope tour? No worries! We have 2 full
length concerts from 2004 you can watch now! First, check out the mind blowing Montreux, Switzerland
show here. When you need your next LC fix go to Fabchannel.com
and watch the already legendary concert in Paradiso, Amsterdam. Hopefully these
will tide you over until the Live DVD to be released mid 2005.
January
9, 2005 6:00 pm EST Site compatible with FireFox!
I finally made this site compatible with Mozzila's FireFox Those running
FireFox or some Versions of Netscape may have noticed the site looking like shit. There
was a line of html code that had to be deleted.
