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Overend Watts was and still is a great bass player. And Ian Hunter just released an album that may be his best ever. Mott The Hoople did a run of reunion gigs in 2009 at the Hammersmith Apollo that was sold out for five nights. They did another reunion tour in Nov of 2013. It was five gigs...

Ariel Bender is a guitarist. He replaced Mick Ralphs when he left Mott to for Bad Company. Ariel is really Luther Grosvenor, from Spooky Tooth fame. He was also in Steelers Wheel for a brief period before joining Mott.

A little late here, sorry. I have some close ups of it from the Mott The Hoople reunion gigs. I was fortunate to get to hang with Pete (Overend), and the rest of the band, for over a week during the reunion gigs. He's an extremely nice and unassuming guy. He was floored when the sold out five...

Kenny has been a mainstay in John Eddie's band for some time now. He also is in the latest touring version of The New York Dolls. He's a great player and a real nice guy. He loves talking music and bass in particular. A very approachable guy.

Thanks. It's a lot of fun to play too. Unfortunately, the crowd wasn't familiar with it. I don't think it went over well. Things picked up with Tull and Ziggy.

My band played a local open mic night last night. It was really cool and interesting. There was a house band and then a bunch of people came up and either sat in with the band or played with their own band, as we did. My band is fairly new and is down from a five piece to a three piece. All of...

I may be wrong, and I'm certainly not a huge fan of Kid Rock, but from what I have seen of him he seems to give the original artists their due. He is always paying tribute to the original country and southern rockers. I'm assuming he pays the royalties on those two songs for "his" hit, at least...

Tom, This is a very sad story. Unfortunately there are many musicians in the same position. Facebook "friend" request sent. With your permission, I'd like to post a link to your original post on the official Ian Hunter message board, and start spreading the word. Mark

Hey man, I stopped by to check you guys out Saturday night. Sounded great. Unfortunately I only stayed for one song. I had just finished playing a gig up in Wantagh (sp?). I would have said hello, but I was pretty tired, and the place was way packed. You guys definitely had them rocking. Mark

Although I'm very familiar with the incident, I've never read this before. A very tragic read. The thing I find most interesting is that the tour manager, Daniel Biechele, immediately owned up. He didn't try to hide his involvement, or shift blame. He took full responsibility. Meanwhile, the...

Glen Matlock did a little East coast tour in the past two weeks. I had the honor of helping out and attending almost all of the shows. He has a great band and did songs from all of his bands including recent solo stuff. It was interesting to watch the crowds. They seemed to enjoy all of his...

If you're around, he's playing in Philly tomorrow night. I'm going to try and make it. After that he's in Baltimore and that's it for a while. Although he isn't playing bass on his solo tour, he's been out playing bass in the UK with the reunited Faces. Mark

So, I did wind up going to the Brighton Bar with my friends bands. It was a fun night. Kenny Aaronson sat in with one of the openers, a band called Frankenstein 3000. They were a real good, fun band. Headliner Glen Matlock's band rocked. Great times. Mark

Well, they're playing a few shows in the north east. This is just the only NJ show.

I don't get down the shore very often, and I'm not playing, but I'll be heading down to the Brighton Bar next Saturday (Sept 10th) with some friends that are coming in from the UK and playing there. I don't think I've been there in over 20years. Should be a fun night out. Mark