dertamment 0 ‘, Tuniri rams: INEK1 ul USW cene • 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,"