Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler was among the guest vocalists Friday night at the Roxy in L.A., jamming songs with all-star band, Camp Freddy.

Vocalists Juliette Lewis, Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour), Slim Jim Phantom (Stray Cats) and Franky Perez (Carnival Of Dogs) were on hand for the jam, but it was up to Tyler to close out the evening.

Tyler joined CF for four tracks, kicking off by playing drums on the surf-rock classic, “Wipeout.” Mick Fleetwood popped behind the drum kit next as Tyler moved to center stage for the Fleetwood Mac track, “Rattlesnake Shake.” Then, Tyler and band jammed the Aerosmith classic, “Sweet Emotion,” before closing out the show with Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love.”

Check it out!

U2’s first show in Brisbane, on Wednesday, was full of tributes to the late John Lennon on the 30th anniversary of his passing.

The evening kicked off with “Beautiful Day,” which featured Bono singing a snippet of “In My Life.”

“Mysterious Ways” featured a snippet of “Rain” by The Beatles.

“I remember watching John Lennon sing that song for his son Julian,” recalled Bono after the band had slipped in a few bars of “Stand By Me” at the end of “Still Haven’t Found.” “Today seems like a perfect day to do that for John Lennon and his family.”

“This next song is about an idea the great John Lennon whispered in our ears as four teenagers on the North Side of Dublin,” Bono said, before performing “Pride” later in the main set. No video on it, yet.

The encore started with “One,” which was tagged with a snippet of The Beatles’ “Dear Prudence.” Video of this hasn’t surfaced yet, unfortunately. “Dear Prudence” led into “Streets,” which featured some of “All You Need Is Love,” and at the end of the night, Bono added: “Goodnight Brisbane, Goodnight John Lennon.”

John Lennon said he didn’t want to be a “dead hero” in his last print interview – recorded just three days before he was shot dead 30 years ago today.

The ex-Beatle spoke to Rolling Stone journalist Jonathan Cott on December 5, 1980, and although excerpts of the conversation have been released in the past, it’s the first time the entire interview has been published.

Lennon, who was 40 when he died, talked about stardom and being a father, while saying he had “plenty of time” to achieve his ambitions.

He told Cott: “Critics only like people when they’re on their way up – I can’t be on the way up again. What they want is dead heroes like Sid Vicious and James Dean.

“I have no interest in being a dead fucking hero – so forget them.”

Despite being seen as the icon of a generation, Lennon said he was just doing his job: “I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can. But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.”

Discussing other artists he said: “I’ve selected to work with only two people: Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono. That ain’t bad picking.”

Cott only discovered the original three-hour recording a few months ago. “It was a miracle the tape hadn’t degraded after 30 years,” he says. “All of a sudden this guy’s voice, totally alive, made me feel so inspired that I felt I should transcribe the whole thing.

“He felt like he was in the middle of his journey. It was like a mid-life meditation – I was struck by that.”

On the 30th anniversary of her husband’s death Ono says: “Please join me in remembering John with deep love and respect. The world was lucky to have known him. We still learn from him today. John, I love you.”

The full interview is in the current edition of Rolling Stone magazine.   Hear Lennon’s Final Interview EVER tonight at 10 pm on Bayou 95.7…get all the details, and a behind the scenes look at the interview here.

The Experience Hendrix tour crisscrossed the country for a string of sold-out concerts in October and November.

Featured artists performing music associated with the legacy of Jimi Hendrix include some of the best known and highly regarded names in contemporary rock and blues including Brad Whitford of Aerosmith, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Susan Tedeschi, Robert Randolph, Jonny Lang, Steve Vai, Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas, Eric Johnson, Ernie Isley, Living Colour, Chris Layton of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, and Billy Cox, of Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys and Jimi Hendrix Experience fame.

Last night (Tuesday, 12/06), Whitford, Lang, Cox, and Layton brought “Fire” to The Tonight Show:

Tomorrow (Wednesday, 12/08) marks the 30th Anniversary of John Lennon’s death. John will be all over radio, television, newspapers, magazines, and the ‘net, (insert a blatant plug for Bayou 95.7’s radio special “Lennon: The Final Interview”, Wednesday night a 10:00pm” here) as the world celebrates his life and music.

Ever wonder what his life and career would have been like if the incident of 12/08/1980 had never happened?

Here’s a link to a great article that asks that very question:

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/L/Lennon_John/2010/12/02/16407861.html

Before you get your panties in a wad…he didn’t join the band on a permanent basis.   Just for a couple of songs. I know, I for one, if I were in a cover band, would soil my shorts if Brian Johnson stepped up on stage to sing a couple of AC/DC tunes.  But, apparently, this isn’t the first time Johnson has played with the Greg Billings Band…he’s a friend of band leader Greg Billings, and actually guest starred on their “Do-overs” album a few years ago.

Here he is, onstage at the Irish Rover Pub in Sarasota, Florida:

For that certain someone on your list that has “everything”.   No they don’t.  Have everything, I mean.  And here’s proof:

1) Here’s a bedroom problem no little blue pill can ever solve: Just how do you get the bra off a woman anyway?

Magnetic Bra and Panties

Most men can’t seen to get it right even after years of experience. Trust me, I know.

So leave it to the French to come up with the ultimate solution: lingerie held together by magnets.

The $100 intimates from Lingerie Dement (lingerie-dement.com) look like any other fancy, frilly undergarment.

But they come apart with ease.  And in a pinch, you can hang Jr.’s Crayon scribblings on the fridge with your underwear!

If these ever catch on, I’m buying a giant magnet of my own and hiding it in my jacket pocket.

And I will bring it absolutely everywhere.

2) Until now, I’ve gotten my liquid bacon fix by pouring bacon grease into a cup and downing it. If the fat is still popping, it’s almost like it’s carbonated.

But now, there’s an easier way to drink your bacon. Jones Soda Company — the same beverage maker that’s given us ham, turkey and green pea sodas — is now offering a bacon-flavored soda.

Jones developed the soda with the “bacontrepreneurs” at J&D’s, makers of bacon salt, bacon “Mmmvelopes” Bacon Kevin Bacon and other weird bacon products.

“Bacon is like the eighth wonder of the world,” Jones Soda Marketing Director Mike Spear says in a press release. “We felt it was our duty as leaders in the premium soda category to carbonate bacon’s salty goodness.”

The drinks will be part of a gift pack featuring two bacon sodas and a trio of J&D’s products: Cheddar BaconPOP microwave popcorn, bacon gravy mix and a tube of bacon lip balm for $9.99 plus shipping and handling.

3)  Can you really get enough bacon.  No.  No, you can’t.

If you’ve ever popped a mint and thought, “This really needs some bacon,” then Archie McPhee’s mints are for you.

4)  OK.  No more bacon. I promise.  Well…after this, anyway…

No flavor here, sadly….but these bandages from Archie McPhee add a bacon look to all your boo-boos.

5) Forget the vase-shaped urn that sits forgotten on the mantle. The personal urn looks just like your own head, allowing you to stare out at your ancestors for generations.

Get one for yourself or someone you love (loved?) at Cremation Solutions.

6) Is your pooch lonely? A Brazilian company is introducing a sex toy for frustrated canines.

DoggieLoveDoll from www.PetSmiling.com

7) You might not feel like David Hasselhoff (and that might be a good thing) but the actor who gave life to his talking car on Knight Rider could soon be in yours.

Mio Technologies has introduced a $260 GPS based on the Hoff’s ’80s talking car TV show, with William Daniels, who provided the voice for K.I.T.T., the talking Trans Am, now guiding you.

Mio was wise to sidestep the lame Val Kilmer attempt recently to re-animate K.I.T.T. Indeed, this is the next best thing to having the Hoff eat hamburger off your kitchen floor. Unfortunately, he doesn’t make a cameo in this gizmo. But maybe we can hope for a sequel.  Pick one up at www.knightridergps.com

8 ) Condometric — a condom from Spain, with a measuring stick down the side — allows men (and their sex partners) to see how they measure up.

Okay. Maybe not such a good idea.

9) Tired of needing to take out a loan to buy drinks at a sports event? This ingenious product allows you to hide your suds inside a fake “beer belly.”

Find it online at Baron Bob, a site specializing in unique and oddball gifts… but it’s made by a firm called Cooler Fun. They’re equal-opportunity inventors… they also have a product called “The Wine Rack,” which allows women to sneak booze in an area more commonly associated with milk.

10)  Wheaties may be the “Breakfast of Champions,” but if you want to dine like the devout, you might want to switch to toast.

Vermont inventor Galen Dively III has created a toaster that will take your daily bread and — like turning water into wine — transform it into a blessed breakfast.

It’s called the Jesus Toaster, and it’s an obvious answer to some of the stranger Jesus sightings over the years — like the famous holy impression found in a grilled cheese sandwich.

Dively told AOL News that the $40 toaster is just the first step… that he also has plans for Virgin Mary and Star of David toasters.

11) Snuggy my a@@!!!  Remember when Han Solo slashed open a tauntaun on Hoth and let a wampa-beaten Luke Skywalker sleep warmly inside its fresh, stinky guts? Of course you do.

The tauntaun was used on Hoth as a pack animal and for transportation… but in a pinch, you can also sleep inside their warm guts.

Now, you can recreate that great “Empire Strikes Back” moment — without all the messy tauntaun guts. ThinkGeek has created the Tauntaun Sleeping Bag, featuring a lightsaber pull-zipper and a tauntaun-head pillow.

If it sounds like a joke, that’s because it was — the company initially put the product on its site as an April Fool’s prank, but the overwhelming response led to the real thing. Get one for the Star Wars Geek in your life – only $99.

12)  If you’re not ready for adult diapers, here’s one alternative — No-Wash Underwear

Rob Libfeld, a medical student at the University of Massachusetts, invented these durable boxers, after noting how embarrassed patients get during long hospital stays when their skivvies turn spunky.

Libfeld says, “The main problem is all-white underwear. Let’s face it, the stains really stand out.”

Libfeld’s solution is really quite elegant, if not low-tech. He’s designed two-toned undies that are yellow in front, brown in back, so if you have an accident, it won’t stand out, and you won’t feel as bad.

While this invention might not land this med student a plumb job at the Mayo Clinic, it’s one way for any doctor or hospital visitor to show some bedside humor. “Also,” he says, “It’s a great Father’s Day gift.”

And at $12.99, it’ll save you a ton of embarrassment.

13)  Dammit.  Leave it to the government to step in and pull the plug on a great Christmas Gift for the plush toy lover on your gift list.  I so wanted that plush uterus.

But, the  I Heart Guts company, the makers of all sorts of organ-shaped novelty items, is recalling its Plush Uterus due to the fact that the toy’s ovaries represent a choking hazard.

According to the company’s web site:

“In an effort to ensure our plush products exceed federal and international safety standards, we learned the 2008 Plush Uterus has failed a pull test. The ovaries may detach when pulled, becoming a potential small part choking hazard for young children. No one has been harmed. “Although our website and sewn-on label state that the uterus is not for children aged 0-3, we have instituted a voluntary safety recall for the uterus plush. We have filed a safety recall notice with the U.S. Consumer Product and Safety Commission (CPSC). If the plush uterus is being used by a young child, please remove it immediately. If you gave the uterus as a gift, please forward this email to the recipient(s).

And if you’re wondering if there’s a male counterpart to the stuffed uterus, I checked the website, and couldn’t find one. But nevertheless, let’s just assume it’s not child safe.

14)  The maker of the popular-but-kitschy Chia Pets has introduced the Chia Obama. The manufacturer calls it “Totally patriotic,” though some stores won’t carry it.  Maybe they’re racist?

15) And last…but, not least…

If you’re going to pay more than $11,000 for a watch, you’d probably want it to be made of gold and encrusted in precious gems… not poop.

But Swiss company Artya has unveiled an expensive new watch, and it’s literally made of dung.

Dinosaur dung.

The “polite” word for this stuff is coprolite, and these stone leftovers actually play an important role in paleontology.

Maybe, but I’m still not wearing it.

Happy shopping…and please, enjoy a safe and happy (insert the proper politically-correct non-denominational holiday of your choice)!

Check out a rare, soundboard quality recording of Led Zeppelin performing “Heartbreaker”. As of now, it’s reported to be the earliest known live recording of the song – taken from a show at the Olympia in Paris on October 10th, 1969.

Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for the rocker on your list? You can’t go wrong with the original artwork from one of their favorite album covers!

L.A. based design company Pacific Eye and Ear is opening up their vaults and offering up some of the most iconic images in rock history. Aerosmith’s “Toys In The Attic”? Alice Cooper’s “Billion Dollar Babies”? “Black Sabbath’s “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”? Just a few of the amazing cover-art masterpieces up for grabs…PE & E is rolling out over 250 original works of art – original paintings, drawings, and sketches – as well as a series of of limited edition fine art prints.

Find out how you can put a little rock in someone’s stocking here:

http://www.originalalbumcoverart.com/

Former Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant is on tour with his pre-Zep unit, Band of Joy. They’re in Europe now…they head back to the states in January.

You’ll find a couple of live performances in my previous blogs, but this time around I’ve got a recently aired BBC documentary “Robert Plant: By Myself”. The whole thing. Broken down in four (4) parts for easier digestion.