Tonight in the Big Bad City, Springsteen is playing the famed Apollo Theater, The Allman Brothers Band open their two-week run at The Beacon and The Big East Tournament semis are being played at MSG.

Somebody get me a Doctor! Or get me in a cloning machine!

I’ll see Bruce next month at MSG after the Final Four, and will catch the Allmans and Further at the Beacon soon.

Guns N’ Roses is back.

OK, so it’s not the original lineup, but Axl Rose will still be leading the charge when the Gunners play three concerts at small clubs in New York City next month.

Original members Duff McKagan, Izzy Stradlin, Slash, Dizzy Reed and Matt Sorum are no longer in the band which will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April. (more…)

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band announced tour dates for the “Wrecking Ball” Tour, which kicks off March 18 in Atlanta and wraps up May 2 in Newark.

Tickets go on sale Friday.

For those of us here in the New York area, The Boss will play two dates at the Izod Center (April 3 & 4) and two more at Madison Square Garden (April 6 & 9) before returning for the Newark show. (more…)

Diamond Dave played with Van Halen Thursday night at the 250-seat Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village.

David Lee Roth’s 92-year-old uncle, Manny, founded the club. Jimmy Fallon and John McEnroe were among those in the crowd.

Judging by these videos, they sounded rough but ready to rumble. The band will tour in 2012 and has a new album out next month.

Here’s an excerpt from a piece by Andy Greene of Rolling Stone, who was in the house.

I stood a good five feet in front of Eddie Van Halen (dressed in ripped jeans and a black t-shirt) and the man played absolutely flawlessly. It was a beautiful sight.  Before the start of a Van Halen tour you never know what Ed you’re getting. The 2004 Van Hagar Ed was a drunken, shirtless mess. The 2007/08 reunion Ed was cleaned up and together, and that clearly is the case today. While Roth ordered drinks from the stage and took some shots, Ed restricted himself to bottled water and a couple of Red Bulls.  (more…)

I spent New Year’s Eve at the cozy Bowery Ballroom with my wife and friends watching this Patti Smith show in which she and Michael Stipe did the Glen Campbell song ‘Wichita Lineman.’

Sounded great.

Patti Smith and Her Band play this venue every year for three shows around New Year’s and it looks like 2011 was her last time at the Bowery.

In fact, she sang “The Last Time” by The Stones near the end of the set, which features the words:

Well this could be the last time

This could be the last time

Maybe the last time

I don’t know.

The good news is that Lenny Kaye, Patti’s guitarist who was kind enough to play my 40th birthday party at Shades of Green Pub, told the New York Times the band will simply move to another location in New York.

“It’s just time to move on,” he said.

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Springtime will be full of jam bands at the Beacon Theater.

The Allman Brothers Band announced their annual run with 10 shows going from March 9-25.

Furthur, featuring Bobby Weir and Phil Lesh, will play eight shows from April 9-18.

For more info, visit the Beacon Theater website here.

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Add Van Halen to the list of bands who will tour next year to celebrate an anniversary.

David Lee Roth will join guitarist Eddie Van Halen, drummer Alex Van Halen and  bassist Wolfgang Van Halento celebrate the band’s 40th anniversary.

I saw these guys from the front rows of Madison Square Garden in 2007, when they last toured, and they sounded great.

That was their first appearance with Diamond Dave since the ill-fated (and very short) 1996 reunion. (more…)