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More Talent Added to Rock Hall Benefit
The list gets more impressive for next week’s Hall of Fame concert in Cary! Pete Hopkins has been selected as the visitRaleigh.com National Band Search winner from among 792 entries nationwide and will open the show on September 19. In addition 16-year-old singer/songwriter Michelle Blanchard has been selected to perform two songs on September 20.
A few more veterans have been added to the bill, too:
- Tom Bowes - Tower of Power singer ( If I’m not mistaken, he’s the guy who can flat-out sing on this version of “So Very Hard To Go” )
- Tommy Williams - Concert for Bangladesh Revisited lead singer and lead guitarist
- Randy Hansen - Jimi Hendrix tribute vocalist and guitarist
- Eric Bazilian - from The Hooters (and wrote Joan Osborne’s “One of Us”, a ‘95 “Song of the Year” Grammy nominee)
- Alan White - Yes drummer. (also played on John Lennon’s Imagine album featuring “Instant Karma” and George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass album which featured “My Sweet Lord”)
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September 11th, 2008 at 2:09 am
I’m truly excited and honored to have been invited to be a part of this event and I really appreciate the accolades but I just had to come on and make a couple of corrections… I guess you’d have to say that I am “formerly” Tower of Power’s lead vocalist having left them in 1995. Also just to give credit where credit is due, THAT version of “So Very Hard to Go” on Rhapsody is not me but in fact is Brent Carter… an amazing vocalist in his own right who followed me after my departure from TOP… if you want to find me on Rhapsody then you should look for “Please Come Back to Stay” or “Soul With a Capital S”… Once again, I truly appreciate the compliment but, much as I’d like to, I can’t take the credit…