PowerBlogs: Rumour Mills

Daughtry will play a halftime show on the U-S Thanksgiving as part of a good cause. The band will play during halftime at the Dallas Cowboys-Oakland Raiders game on Thursday.

Their performance is being sponsored by the Salvation Army to draw attention to its annual Red Kettle Christmas charity campaign.

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Colleagues of Haydain Neale are remembering the Jacksoul frontman as an “amazing individual” and a “joyful presence”.

Neale died at Toronto hospital Sunday after a seven-month battle with lung cancer.

He was 39.

Neale had also been recovering from serious injuries after being hit by a car while driving his motor scooter in Toronto in 2007.

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Three Days Grace want to see your football team in action.

The band wants fans to use their song “Break” to create pump-up videos or highlight reels for high school football teams.

They’re looking for video, stills or graphics that showcase a team’s best moments, memorable plays, behind-the-scenes footage or fans.

The winning team will receive autographed copies of Three Days Grace’s album, “Life Starts Now,” for everyone on the team, plus an autographed football.

Details can be found at www.threedaysgrace.com/thegamestartsnow. Deadline is December 2.

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Joe Perry tells us once he’s done with the 2009 leg of his tour next month, he’ll get together with the other three members of Aerosmith — minus Steven Tyler — to discuss auditioning new singers. He tells us, “There’s a lot of good guys out there. It’s just a matter of seeing how it works… We’ll try some different people out… We’ll know pretty quick once we find him.” Perry’s Have Guitar, Will Travel tour pulls into the House of Blues in West Hollywood, California tonight.

As for Tyler, who has yet to comment on the band’s desire to replace him, he performed at the Michael J. Fox Foundation benefit for Parkinson’s disease Saturday night in New York. Also on the bill were Roger Daltrey, Gregg Allman and Elvis Costello.

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Alter Bridge singer Myles Kennedy has been making good use of his downtime while his bandmates have been busy with the Creed reunion. Kennedy went onto his MySpace page to announce, “I have been locked away working on my [solo] record. There don’t seem to be enough hours in the day to get everything done. It’s been an amazing experience. I’m working with some great people. I’ll go into more detail at a later date.” Kennedy says he hopes to release the disc next year, but also promises that his group will be returning to action. He insists, “The day after I finish tracking my record, I will fly to Florida to finish Alter Bridge 3.”

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Bob Seger is back in stores today with Early Seger, Volume One, a collection of 10 songs, four of which were previously unreleased. The rest are taken from his early 1970s albums Smokin’ O-Ps, Back in ‘72 and Seven. It is available only at Meijer’s [pr: MY-yers], a Midwest retailer with 190 stores in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. It will go on sale at BobSeger.com on November 30th followed by a wider release early next year.

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Saving Abel were on tour during Thanksgiving week last year and are doing it again in 2009. Last year, the band had just played a gig near where most of the members are from, Corinth, Mississippi. Guitarist Scott Bartlett didn’t grow up in the town, so instead he and the Abel crew went to Tupelo, Mississippi, where his parents had built a new home — although his mom and dad were away visiting his brother and sister for the holiday. Bartlett and the crew arrived at the house at 3 a-m to find that there was no turkey in the freezer. With no chance of finding a bird at that time, he and the gang went to Wal-Mart, bought a deep fryer and proceeded to make a great meal out of various “exotic meats” his parents had in their ice box.

Saving Abel are spending this Thanksgiving in Boston, and Bartlett jokes that the group plans to enjoy a more traditional holiday… “We’ll watch football and apologize to our loved ones for everything we did in the past year.”

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band wrapped up their Working on a Dream tour Sunday night in Buffalo, New York with a 34-song, three-and-a-half hour affair that included no less than six tour premieres — “Mary Queen of Arkansas” and “The Angel,” from their first-ever performance of the entire Greetings From Asbury Park, New Jersey album; “Restless Nights” from Tracks for birthday boy, guitarist Steve Van Zandt; “Merry Christmas Baby”; “(I Don’t Want to) Hang Up My Rock and Roll Shoes)”; and “I’ll Work for Your Love.” Regarding it being the last show, Springsteen said, “It’s been just about the best time in our band’s work life. We want to thank you for supporting our old music, our new music, our tour… So we’re gonna say goodbye, but just for a little while…”

Springsteen dedicated Greetings to his first manager, Mike Appel, who was at the show. Hometown boy Willie Nile joined in for “Higher and Higher.”

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Another Bridge School Benefit album is available on I-Tunes today. The Bridge School Collection, Volume 4 features songs recorded mostly from 2005 to 2008 at Neil Young’s Bridge School Benefit concerts. The 22-song collection includes performances by John Mellencamp, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor, John Mayer, Norah Jones, Death Cab for Cutie and others.

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A live Dave Matthews Band box set is due out in January. Dave Matthews Band Europe 2009 includes three C-Ds with the group’s July 5th, 2009 show in Lucca, Italy and a D-V-D from the June 26th, 2009 show at O-2 Academy Brixton in London. The box comes with a photo book chronicling the band’s entire 2009 tour and includes room to place the Super Deluxe Edition of Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King. Europe 2009 is available as a pre-order now through the D-M-B store.

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Sunday night Slash gave fans a taste of the old Guns n’ Roses line-up at the Slash and Friends LAYN Rocks benefit in Hollywood. He was joined by his old G-N-R bandmates Duff McKagan on bass and Stephen Adler on drums for a take on “Paradise City” that featured Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington on vocals and Jane’s Addiction’s Dave Navarro on rhythm guitar.

The event featured a heavy dose of classic hard rock, as Ozzy Osbourne closed the night with a four-song set, including “Iron Man” and “Crazy Train.” Bennington also tackled Led Zeppelin’s “Good Times Bad Times” while Wolfmother frontman Andrew Stockdale sang lead on “Tangerine.” And Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello led the all-star band through a take on Thin Lizzy’s “Jailbreak,” with Morello, Navarro and Slash trading off solos during the song.

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Nickelback will be flogging their latest album, Dark Horse, one more time in North America. The tour starts April 6th in London, Canada and has Shinedown and Breaking Benjamin on board as opening acts.  No BC dates…wahhh…wanna see Shinedown again!!!

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U-2 have signed on to headline next summer’s Glastonbury Festival in England.

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Creedence Clearwater Revisited — featuring original C-C-R members Stu Cook and Doug Clifford — have contributed their version of “Run Rudolph Run” to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Hope for the Holidays charity C-D.

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Sting, a supporter of the rain forest, is speaking out against the Brazilian government’s plan to build a massive hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rain forest. Sting founded the Rainforest Foundation in 1989.