DVR Alert: Aerosmith on '60 Minutes'

Lara Logan of CBS will air a profile of Aerosmith on 60 Minutes next Sunday, March 11 at 7 p.m. ET. Lara interviewed the band on their last tour and some of that footage will be included in the piece.

Aerosmith is actively recording and apparently the new stuff sounds just like Rocks-era Aerosmith. If this is true, I'll be over the moon. Rocks is my favorite album of all time and while I don't believe lighting strikes twice (yes, I just made an Aerosmith pun), I do believe the Bad Boys of Boston + producer Jack Douglas have what it takes (another pun!) to knock it out of the park record-wise once again.

Aerosmith is supposed to tour starting in June. I'm really hoping the 60 Minutes special will lead to the official tour announcement with dates. I want to plan a trip around an Aerosmith show so I'm hoping for some cool cities to choose from... and quite frankly, the sooner the better.

Alice Cooper Simply Does Not Age

This is insane. I was on YouTube watching some videos a certain Metalboy! emailed me about...and I ended up watching Alice Cooper clips. You know, as you do. And I was struck by something... Alice Cooper does not age. I mean, for sure he is older now than he was back in the day... but man. He still looks the same in the face and his stage mannerisms and moves are just as sharp. It's a little scary, which is apropos, right?

Compare 2011 Alice Cooper vs. 1971 Alice Cooper on "I'm Eighteen."

Farewell Davy Jones

I would be remiss if I didn't mention the passing of Davy Jones, lead singer of the MONKEES. Davy was 66 and died yesterday after a heart attack. Many of my friends happen to be huge MONKEES fans and the band is a part of rock n' roll history.

Davy was the star of what was probably the first-ever pop group created just for a television series. Davy was cute, he was British and he could sing. Basically that's a winning combination in any day and age but especially so in the 1960s.

I love the Brady Bunch episode that features Davy Jones. All Marcia Brady wanted was for Davy to perform at her high school prom! As president of the Fillmore Junior High Davy Jones Fan Club, Marcia really did have reason to brag, right? When Marcia couldn't get a hold of Davy (and really, it is hard to reach a famous musician just randomly on a Tuesday after school), she busts into a recording studio, pleads her case to Davy's manager... and gets no where. By the end of the episode, Davy has showed up on Marcia's doorstep to save the day and cemented the episode as just about the single most popular in the entire Brady Bunch series.

Davy Jones wasn't even old when he died yesterday. He didn't feel well, ended up having a heart attack and basically that was that. He had tour dates planned in the coming months and the MONKEES continued to tour off and on over the years. Relive the joy of "Girl," as performed by Davy Jones on the Brady Bunch.

Whereas Slash and Betty White Make Commercials Together And I Nearly Die

Pretty much my two favorite things just converged into a new commercial for the LAIR at the L.A. Zoo: Glam metal + Betty White. The duo made five spots in total.

In case you didn't know, The Golden Girls is my favorite television show of all time and of course Betty White was one of the stars of the ensemble cast for that award winning show. Now Betty stars in the TV Land original sitcom Hot in Cleveland, which I also love. (And in case you didn't know, Valerie Bertinelli is another star of Hot in Cleveland and there are tons of rock/Van Halen jokes on the show). Anyway, imagine my excitement when I first saw the Betty + Slash commercial. The duo teamed up to promote LAIR (Living Amphibians, Invertebrates, and Reptiles), a new attraction that will feature 60 species of rare and endangered amphibians, invertebrates and reptiles at the L.A. Zoo.

Betty White is a big time animal lover. She's always been involved with zoos and she even recently wrote a book about her life in the zoo. I'm sure you're already aware of Slash's love for reptiles... so really, the pairing makes sense all things considered, right?

Betty is a board member for the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association... and Slash earned recognition from zoo officials for contributions to the wildlife center. Check out a couple of the ads.

Iron Maiden Plan Classics Tour But Promise "Surprises"

Concert season is coming up again, and every dedicated Iron Maiden fan knows they did a new album and tour over the past few years, so now it's time in the cycle for a "classics" tour.

I admit to being a little mystified, because the Somewhere Back In Time tour, based around the DVD release of Live After Death, included songs from Somewhere Back In Time and Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son, rather than take in only songs from that DVD, but now they are touring on the DVD release of Maiden England, which was shot on the Seventh Son tour. The setlist from that DVD is as follows:

Moonchild
The Evil That Men Do
The Prisoner
Still Life
Die With Your Boots On
Infinite Dreams
Killers
Can I Play With Madness
Heaven Can Wait
Wasted Years
The Clairvoyant
Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
The Number Of The Beast
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Iron Maiden

As you can see, they did a lot of these songs last time. But Bruce Dickinson is saying they will do 2/3 of this setlist, with some surprises, so I can hope that may mean "Flight of Icarus" and "Children of the Damned." Either way, I am hitting the fan club pre-sale this week, and planning on seeing the final two shows of the tour in Texas this August.

Will you go and see Iron Maiden in 2012?

Charm City Devils Cover Bluegrass Classic, Make It Work

First things first folks... you need to know that your Glam mistress is a big fan of Bluegrass. In fact, I consider Alison Krauss + Union Station one of my favorite bands. I saw AK + US last summer (third row!) and it was by far one of the single best concerts I've ever attended.

Imagine my surprise when I hopped in the car to go to Lowes yesterday. The Charm City Devils come on... covering "Man of Constant Sorrow." The song was first published in a Richard Burnett songbook all the way back in 1913.

The song has been covered by many artists including Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart and the Soggy Bottom Boys. (That's the fictional band in the film O Brother Where Art Thou?) Anyway, "Man of Constant Sorrow" is a huge song in the folk/bluegrass canon and I couldn't believe that I was hearing a Glam band covering the tune. Even more surprising is that the Charm City Devils made the cover work. I love the risk this represents! You can buy the Charm City Devils cover on iTunes. The song will be on the upcoming Charm City Devils album SINS.

Fantasy vs. Fantasy

Steel Panther "Fantasy" vs. Aldo Nova "Fantasy." You decide. I pick Steel Panther's cover. The version is also used as the theme song to the MTV show Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory.