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Dave Edmunds is reportedly hanging up his guitar and retiring, according to a Facebook post from his longtime friend, and fellow rocker, Brian Setzer,

“It’s with bittersweet announcement that my good friend and guitar legend Dave Edmunds is retiring after tomorrow night’s show,” Setzer wrote. “Dave produced the early Stray Cats albums that spawned ‘Runaway Boys,’ ‘Stray Cat Strut,’ ‘Rock This Town,’ ‘(Sexy) & 17′ and ‘I Won’t Stand in Your Way.’ He flew in to Finland to play his final two shows with me. I wish him all the love in the world in his retirement!”

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When he had the chance to work with a couple of buddies, the Beach Boys’ Mike Love had no hesitation about re-recording the group’s 1968 hit “Do It Again.”

The new version of the nostalgic, harmony-heavy song features Love singing with Sugar Ray’s Mark McGrath, while longtime Beach Boys pal and adjunct member John Stamos, who directed the video, premiering below, plays drums. The recording was released in conjunction with the Beach Boys’ performance on PBS’ A Capitol Fourth on July 4 in Washington, D.C., while the video was filmed during the afternoon in the group’s hotel.

“The whole song’s about getting together with old friends and sharing good times and talking about the old times,” says Love, who co-wrote “Do It Again” with Brian Wilson, his cousin. “That fact that here we are decades later, recreating it with old friends, having a great time — it doesn’t get much more organic and perfect and fantastic than that.” Love, in fact, considers the new “Do It Again” “a reincaration” of the song. “It’s been born again,” he tells Billboard. “I couldn’t be happier. We just had the greatest time and neatest time together doing this whole thing.”

Source : Billboard

At Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium on Saturday for the first night of the ambitious Classic West concert, the Eagles started their show as they had so many times before: standing shoulder-to-shoulder at the front of the stage to beautifully blend their voices a cappella on the bluegrassy 1980 arrangement of “Seven Bridges Road.” But there were some new faces in the mix.

One was longtime Eagles friend and country superstar Vince Gill. The other could have been mistaken for a ’70s-era hologram of band co-founder Glenn Frey, who died last year at age 67, but instead was the late Eagle’s 24-year-old son Deacon, admirably filling his dad’s massive shoes for the group’s first concert since his death.

“We are the Eagles from Los Angeles,” Joe Walsh said by way of (unnecessary) introduction following that opening number. “We’re back, and we’re back for our family, and you are part of our family. This one’s for you, Glenn. You’re in our hearts, and the music goes on. Let’s give a warm Eagles family welcome to Deacon Frey.”

Source : Billboard