By Jerry Shriver, USA TODAY
Dig out those ratty tour T-shirts and dust off your scrapbooks: They're getting the band back together.
By Eric Risberg, AP
Buffalo Springfield's Stephen Stills, left, Richie Furay and Neil Young are going on tour for the first time in 43 years.
By Eric Risberg, AP
Buffalo Springfield's Stephen Stills, left, Richie Furay and Neil Young are going on tour for the first time in 43 years.
Reunion fever is reverberating throughout the pop and rock worlds as nearly a dozen disbanded or dormant acts from the past five decades are giving it another go, either on record, on tour, at festivals or all of the above.
The retro-retooling spans seminal '60s rockers Buffalo Springfield, '70s New Wave hitmakers The Cars, '80s post-punks Big Audio Dynamite, '90s alt-country stars The Jayhawks and pop-punks Blink-182, who toured last year but last recorded in 2003.
Some get-togethers sound temporary, while others appear fully energized:
?The four surviving members of The Cars (co-founder Benjamin Orr died in 2000) shun the "reunion" label but have recorded Move Like This (out May 10), their first album since 1987, and have announced a 10-date tour starting May 10 in Seattle.
?Buffalo Springfield founders Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay (Dewey Martin and Bruce Palmer are deceased) will tour for the first time in 43 years ? a six-date, early-June California jaunt plus a set June 11 at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tenn. There are no plans to record, but Furay's website hints at more tour dates.
?Newly inducted Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Dr. John and his fellow New Orleans funkmeisters The Meters (who are now billed as the Original Meters) recorded just one album together, 1974's Desitively Bonnaroo. They'll play it in its entirety ? one time only ? at the June 9-12 Bonnaroo (exact date isn't set) in honor of the 10th anniversary of the festival that was named after their work.
?Ex-Clash guitarist/singer Mick Jones, 55, whose original version of Big Audio Dynamite spanned from 1984 to 1990, calls his association with the four other original members "a re-formation." They are touring (including April 16 at the Coachella festival in Indio, Calif.), will probably record and have long-term plans.
"We've all been quite busy, but it seemed like the right thing to do," Jones says. "I brought something new to it. It's called age. The songs have a new life, I play and sing better, I understand the music better, and that has given us a context to proceed from."
Jonathan Mayers, head of the company that produces Bonnaroo, says this year's two "big gets" of Buffalo Springfield and Dr. John/Meters are in keeping with the festival's tradition of hosting reunions (The Police in 2007) and unique pairings of disparate artists.
Fans want to see "something different that they may never get a chance to see again," Mayers says. Groups reunite for many reasons, he adds, with decisions "driven by whether (members) want to play together and whether audiences want to see them. I assume money also comes into play in some cases."
His dream reunions: Talking Heads and Led Zeppelin.
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