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GARY GRAFF SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
will David Bowie (Sept. 21-22 at the State
Theatre); Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Sept.
18 at the Palace); and former Creedence
Clearwater Revival frontman John Foger-
ty (Sept. 13 at the Fox Theatre).
Elton John will also tour this fall, but
he's planning to play mostly small and
medium-sized markets, saving big city sta-
diums
chums for his 1998 jaunt with Billy Joel.
Steve Winwood is planning to play theaters.
The other arena offerings are slight.
R&B stalwarts Luther Van-
dross and Vanessa Williams
play Sept. 27 at the Palace,
while perennial favorites
Phish are due there on Nov. 6.
Headbangers Pantera have a
Sept. 19 date set at the Palace,
while Motley Crue and Van
Halen are eyeballing some
fall-early winter dates in big
halls.
Sarah McLachlan is plan-
ning to follow her triumphant
Lilith Tour with her own con-
cert dates, while Sheryl Crow
is contemplating some late fall
performances.
Oasis is expected to sched-
ule some dates, but no details
are set yet. Mariah Carey,
meanwhile, has scotched her
plans for a fall tour.
That means much of the
music will be at theaters and
clubs. The summer's assorted
package tours will spin off a
bunch of acts, including the
Mighty Mighty Bosstones,
Primus, Ben Folds Five, Tonic,
former Grateful Dead gui-
Genesis, with new singer Ray Wilson, left,
tarist Bob Weir's Ratdog, Sugar Ray.
replacing Phil Collins, will hit the road this fall.
Others hitting the road are Foo Fight-
Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks round out the
ers, the Prodigy, Matchbox 20, Everclear,
group.
former Cars frontman Ric Ocasek, the
the big tours of the fall will be the Rolling Chemical Brothers, Megadeth, the Re-
Stones (Dec. 2 at the Silverdome) and the freshments, Dinosaur Jr., the Misfits, Ton-
reunited Fleetwood Mac (a post-Rosh ic, the Why Store (Oct. 24 at Clutch Cargo's,
Pontiac), Love Spit Love, Does Eye View
Hashanah Oct. 4 at the Palace).
Genesis, with new singer Ray Wilson re- (Sept. 18 at the 7th House), Lucinda
placing Phil Collins, will hit the road, as Williams (Sept. 19 at the 7th House), Taj
Mahal (Sept. 19 at the Majestic), Blur,
Southern Culture on the Skids, Dancehall
Gary Graff is an award-winning music jour-
Crashers, Jars of Clay (Nov. 9 at the Roy-
nalist based in Oakland County and is
al Oak Music Theatre).
the editor of MusicHouncl Rock: The Es-
Also, Faith No More (Sept. 24 at St. An-
sential Album Guide (Visible Ink Press,
drews Hall), Son Volt (Sept. 26 at the Ma-
$24.95) and co-editor of MusicHound
estic), new teeny-bop sensation Backstreet
Country (Visible Ink Press, $24.95). His Boys (Sept. 28 at the Royal Oak Music The-
"Rock 'n' Roll Insider" report airs at 8:40 atre), the Jim Rose Sideshow Circus (Oct.
a.m. Thursdays on WRIF-FM (101.1).
18 at St. Andrews), Nanci Griffith (Oct. 8
T
he picnic baskets and blankets are
being stashed after another sum-
mer of concerts at the amphithe-
aters, which always begs a
question — what's coming in the fall?
Quite a bit, actually — particularly if
your tastes run toward the Jurassic. Along
with U2's continuing trek through the sta-
diums (Oct. 31 at the Pontiac Silverdome),
Fleetwood Mac appears post-Rosh Hashanah on Oct. 4 at the Palace.
at Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor), Julio Igle-
sias (Oct. 1 at the Fox Theatre) and Paul
Weller (Oct. 1 at the Royal Oak Music The-
atre).
The hot modern rock show of the season,
however, also looks to be a blast from the
past. Jane's Addiction has reformed — with
Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro and Stephen
Perkins joined by Red Hot Chili Peppers
bassist Flea — and there are plans for an
album (with several new songs) as well as
a short tour during October and Novem-
ber.
More than just headbangers will be in-
terested in a chapter titled "The Engine
Room" from former Van Halen singer
David Lee Roth's autobiography, Crazy
From the Heat, due out from Hyperion in
October.
The chapter deals with Roth's thoughts
and experiences on his Jewishness, and in
it he lashes out at anti-Semitism. 'The best
you can hope for as a Jew is to be tolerat-
ed. You'll never be just one of the gang,"
Roth writes, echoing the theme of his bar
mitzvah speech, which he describes as
"fourteen pages of Tm not proud to be Jew-
ish. Everybody hates me.' "
But it's clear from the book that Roth
does take pride in his Judaism and takes
a particularly aggressive stance in com-
batting anti-Semitism. He recounts expe-
riences with interviewers, including one
from Germany's Stern magazine, which
opened up with the question, "So, you are
a Jew?"
Roth writes that at the end of the inter-
view he called the man a "racist piece of hu-
man f ' garbage" and had him thrown
out of the room.
"If you approach me with anti-Semitic
preconceptions," he writes, "I'm not here to
re-educate you. If you don't get it on the
first try, f— you ... Every step I took on
that stage was smashing some Jew-hating,
lousy punk ever deeper into the deck."
Ifs not quite the Papal Concert to Com-
memorate the Holocaust, but there's still
something significant about Bob Dylan
singing for Pope John Paul II at a Sept. 27
youth rally in Bologna, Italy. Dylan is slat-
ed to play a full concert, which will follow
a papal address to the rally, which is part
of the Catholic Eucharistic Congress.
Vatican City sources say that the pope
will hang around to hear at least some of
Dylan's set. Dylan, of course, has re-em-
braced Judaism after spending some time
with Christian theology during the late '70s
and early '80s.
The Verve Pipe is about to pull the cur-
tains on Villains in order to start working
on a new album. But some think the move
might be premature.
The quintet from East Lansing, Mich.,
has decided to scotch the planned October
release of a new single, "Penny is Poison,"