Foghat Hits the Wine Business, Balin Releasing Live DVD, more

Foghat has released its own line of wines through Celebration Cellars. You can get Meritage and Chardonnay with plain paper labels ($25 to $30) or Cabernet or Chardonnay with fancy etched labels ($70 to $75).

According to Roger Earl, "Foghat's beverage of choice has always been wine. We've written songs about it...imbibed MORE than our fair share, and have now bottled some especially for you."

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Marty Balin has announced an upcoming live DVD, recorded last June 14 at the Hatch Shell in Boston. The concert features songs from both the Jefferson Starship and Jefferson Airplane days with help from Didi Stewart of Girls Night Out. Also included will be interviews with the Airplane's Signe Anderson, author Jeff Tamarkin (Got a Revolution), author Craig Fenton (Take Me to a Circus Tent) and Balin himself. No release date has been anounced.

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Ozzy Osbourne performed Crazy Train, Iron Man and Paranoid with Camp Freddie on Tuesday night at the Roxy. Camp Freddy, made up of Billy Morrison (Cult), Dave Navarro (Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers), Matt Sorum (Guns N Roses), Donovan Leitch and Chris Chaney (Jane's Addiction), have been playing a month long Tuesday night residency at the club.

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BMG Music Club, the last of the "12 Records for 1 cent" (plus exorbitant shipping and handling) clubs, has stopped taking new members. The once loaded field of RCA and Columbia Record Clubs and the old Record Club of America has become another of the many parts of the industry that has fallen with the advent of downloading.

Members, though, should keep sending those cards back as they will continue to offer their services to the current base.