(thanks to Stonecoldbush.com for the news!)

Eastern Rim is a 2-DVD set that includes performance footage, insightful drum clinic material, touring diaries and interviews with Chad.

Documentary/Drum Clinics/Performances/Interviews/Bonus Material

Drum Clinics: Chad demonstrates his power and skill in clinics filmed in Australia and Japan. These clinics offer multi-camera angles (including overhead and foot-cam!) and shows Chad playing with original recordings from Stadium Arcadium as well as classic rock songs like Rock ‘n’ Roll and Moby Dick, made famous by Led Zeppelin. Performances: in addition to behind stage views of a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert, a 30-minute explosive improv is captured from Federation Square in Melbourne. Chad, and his bandmates, surprise the crowd by turning an expected drum clinic, into a full fledge jam.

Interviews: Exclusive to this DVD, Chad discusses his influences and inspirations. He offers a unique insight into a rock drummer’s life, sharing anecdotes from life on the road.

Early Works/Bonus Material: pulled from Chad’s personal archives are videos and audio snippets of performances before he joined the Peppers as well as recent side projects showing you his versatility and adventure.

Also appearing: Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple, and Flea, John, Anthony, Josh, and the Red Hot Chili Pepper family.

Executive Producers: Chad Smith and Drew Thompson

Drum Clinic director: Luciano Scaglio

This is an update to the yesterday’s news. The Wu-Tang Clan song is actually called The Heart Gently Weeps and, know what’s the best thing? You can hear it live, exclusively on loud.com

Just go to loud.com, register yourself an account and then click here to hear the full-length song.

And, if you’re interested in the whole controversy regarding the song, there’s a great article on that subject on the MTV website.

If you follow this link, you can listen to a megamix of the tracks that will be featured on the NASA album. The last track in that megamix is the song John plays on, titled Way Down, also featuring RZA and Barbie Hatch.

I was getting news on this before, but I didn’t know if I should put it online or not, as it seemed to be bogus, but…looks like it’s true. John will perform at a MusicaRes event tomorrow, at the Henry Fonda Theatre.

On this page you will find a video clip where he’s rehearsing with Victor Indrizzo, Vincent Jones, Martyn LeNoble, Josh Klinghoffer and Dave Gahan. The “band” is apparently Gahan’s All Star Band. You will need QuickTime player to watch it.

Here’s a sneak preview:

Obviously, the actual event, although not listed on the MusicaRes site, is taking place later today.

This was out while the site was down, so I thought I’d give you a heads up anyway. The new RHCP single, Snow (Hey Oh) is available for purchase.

Here’s a link to part 1, featuring an awesome instrumental Permutation (yes, you guessed, it’s one of those amazing Californication intros) as the bonus track:
click here.
Here’s a link to part 2, with the bonus tracks I’ll Be Your Domino (a very funky Mother’s Milk-style song) and Funny Face (a surprising raggae-style song with a very cool guitar solo at the end):
click here

Here’s a bit of the review from Ultimate Guitar:

One of the album’s catchiest tracks,” touted Billboard, “‘Snow’ is a bittersweet pop tune driven by a seductively serpentine melody, which curls and coils like a snake under the influence. Here Anthony Kiedis gives one of his best vocal performances to date, offering a relaxed, Zen-like look inside his lifelong struggle with addiction while delivering delicate pop hooks.”

“Snow” was sent to radio last week, supported by a live video filmed at concerts at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, NJ on Oct. 17 and 18. The video, featuring the band’s extended community, also offers footage illustrating why the Orange County Register called their show “…an arena spectacle.” And the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: “The veteran Los Angeles funk-punk fusionists simmered so hot they nearly scorched the eyebrows off fans in the front of the stage.”

You can read the whole review here and you can watch the video on the official site. Selected screencaps from this and previous video will be available here on Invisible Movement as soon as the horrible gallery problem is solved: it doesn’t work neither with a database or a flatfile backend, for those who understand what that means.

And I will set up a temporary page for recent photos tonight, as many people can’t wait to see them and I’m aware of that.

Texas prog-rockers the Mars Volta will embark on a North American tour opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers this Friday in Portland, Oregon. But the bill isn’t the only thing the two bands are sharing. On the Mars Volta’s latest disc, Amputechture (due September 19th), guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez solicited his friend (and RHCP guitarist) John Frusciante to step in for him. “I’ve never thought of myself as a guitar player,” explains Rodriguez-Lopez. “I don’t like the guitar. I always felt like I got shafted and stuck with the instrument.” This might come as a shock to fans, considering the band is perhaps best known for its moody, meandering guitar soundscapes. But with the exception of a few killer solos, Rodriguez-Lopez has stepped back from the lead-guitar position altogether, opting instead to play composer and musical director. “This is the role I’ve enjoyed the most — shaping the drums, having a certain sound,” he says. “I work individually with each and every band member. Once they get the notes and rhythm down, we talk about feel: ‘Exactly like that, but it should sound a little more like it’s underwater.’”

You can read the rest of the article here.
You can pre-order the CD here.

The album is out in August…but you can already preorder it from Amazon.com. Just click here.

Why should you do this? Because John is playing rhythm guitar on all the songs and he also contributed some backing vocals. So, what are you waiting for?:mrgreen: