PowerBlogs: Rumour Mills

The courts have taken away Courtney Love’s daughter.

A court filing in Los Angeles shows 17-year-old Frances Bean Cobain is in the care of Kurt Cobain’s mother, Wendy O’Connor, and his sister, Kimberly Dawn Cobain. The filings do not mention Love or give a reason for the temporary guardianship. The order does not give Kurt Cobain’s mother or sister control of the trust he established for his daughter. An attorney for Cobain’s mother and sister says it’s a private family matter. Love’s publicist has not responded to requests for comment.

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U-2 beats out Madonna as the top tour of 2009.

Billboard reports U-2’s tour grossed 311- (m) million dollars and sold more than three- (m) million tickets.

Madonna’s tour grossed 222- (m) million dollars and sold more than two- (m) million tickets.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band were third, followed by A-C/D-C, Pink and violinist Andre’ Rieu.

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Rumors about John Frusciante’s status with the Red Hot Chili Peppers have floated around for a couple of months, but they’ve taken on a new life with MusicRadar.com reporting that a source close to the band says the guitarist is out. The source also claims that the band has already tapped L-A session guitarist Josh Klinghoffer as a replacement. Frusciante quit the band back in 1992, spent a few years battling a heroin addiction, and then rejoined in 1999.

There’s been no official word from the Peppers camp on Frusciante, but it’ll be readily apparent on January 29th if he’s still in the band — the Peppers are playing the Neil Young Musicares Person of the Year concert that night in Los Angeles.

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Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters is contemplating taking The Wall on the road late next year. Speaking to David Frost on his Frost Over the World show last week, Waters said he’s “crunching all the numbers at the moment.” He’s also working on a stage version of the piece, as well as a film of his Dark Side of the Moon tour and a new website.

Pink Floyd recorded The Wall in 1979, did a limited number of shows behind it in 1980, and made a movie in 1982, and Waters re-created it at the Berlin Wall in 1990.

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Next summer will be a dream come true for soft rock fans, as the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac will hit the road together. We’ve confirmed that plans are under way for the two groups to do one-off shows in football and baseball stadiums, and multiple nights in arenas. If this happens, it will be the first time since July 1976 in Foxboro, Massachusetts that the two bands shared a stage. Stevie Nicks and Don Henley played a few shows together in 2005, the same year a tour between the two groups was first proposed.

If this tour comes together, Stevie Nicks will be sharing the stage with four ex-boyfriends — Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Don Henley and Joe Walsh.

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Green Day will follow in the footsteps of The Beatles by getting their own version of Rock Band. The game, due out next year, will feature the likenesses of Green Day members Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool, as well as select venues and art specific to the band’s history.

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Just days after a statement was issued about his run-in with photographers at Los Angeles International Airport, Axl Rose has put out another statement — and this one says he had nothing to do with the first one. The Guns n’ Roses frontman says, “I did not release any statement or authorize either any statement or anyone to release a statement regarding anything at any airport anywhere.’ He goes on blame “newer individuals in management” and says the first statement “may be some type of manufactured or publicity stunt.”

To make this twisted story even more confusing, both statements appear on the band’s MySpace page.

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KISS have postponed the last date of their Alive 35 North American tour, tonight in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, due to inclement weather. The problem was the roads they would have to travel on between Pittsburgh, where they played Sunday night, and Canada. KISS manager Doc McGhee says, “While our attitude is always ‘the show must go on,’ the safety of our crew and drivers has to be our first priority.” The show will be rescheduled as part of the band’s summer 2010 tour.

Gene Simmons will make an in-store appearance on Thursday at the Borders at Columbus Circle in New York. He’ll be signing copies of KISS Kompendium, a collection of previously out-of-print Stan Lee Marvel comic book KISS adventures.

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The 2010 edition of the Coachella festival will once again be a bit earlier than in previous years. Promoters have announced that the three-day festival will be held April 16th through the 18th at Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. Until last year, the festival was traditionally held on the last weekend of April. A pre-sale and layaway plan is under way now at Coachella.com.

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Singer Kelly Hansen, who replaced Lou Gramm in Foreigner, doesn’t believe Aerosmith should try to replace Steven Tyler. Hansen tells Classic Rock magazine, “Tyler is one of those people who have cemented their role as the absolute focus of a band. There’s Tyler, there’s Mick Jagger, there’s Robert Plant. There’s not many of them, but they’re all branded entities now… Without Tyler, Aerosmith will be a different group. Perhaps it’ll be better to call it a different name.”

Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones agrees, but says anything can happen. “I don’t think it would be too hard to find another Aerosmith singer, but it would be very difficult to replace Tyler’s charisma. Although having said that, we did it with the album I did with Van Halen.” Jones produced Van Halen’s 51-50, their first with Sammy Hagar.

The remaining members of Aerosmith will be getting together soon to discuss what their next move will be.