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| Virgildonati.com Archives 2002 |
| November 5th 2002 - Best Hard Rock/Metal drummer for 2002! Slagwerkkrant Drum Magazine has awarded Virgil "Best Hard Rock and Metal Drummer for 2002". You can check out their website here (mostly in Dutch). Here's a message from Virgil :
October 31st 2002 - 2 dates added... Happy Halloween to all! - 2 dates have been added : 5th of Nov. 2002 clinic at the Guitar Center in Atlanta, Georgia and 8th of Nov. at the Baked Potato in Hollywood with Tony MacAlpine and Phillip Bynoe. A BIG thank you to all the fans who have sent in comments about the string of shows for the Donati/MacAlpine/Bynoe Trio in Europe! It was a great tour indeed! Everything went absolutely great! The long awaited Planet X tour is coming up in November. Hold on to your hats! October 10th 2002 - Last Minute European Tour Changes... Just to avoid confusion on some of the dates regarding the European Tour with Tony MacAlpine and Philip Bynoe, there have been a couple of changes. On 2 of the dates (Italy and Holland), there will be a 'double feature' type gig. Virgil will be performing a clinic earlier in the afternoon later to be followed with the regular scheduled gig with MacAlpine/Bynoe. There has been some date changes as well. The England gig is cancelled and some other ones have been added. Click here to check out the tour dates.
September 9th 2002 - Planet X Chat with Derek and Virgil! Derek Sherinian and Virgil Donati - Planet X Live Q&A Chat on America Online. Thursday September 12, 2002 - 9:00pm ET. AOL Keyword: Rock Chat. Non AOL Subscribers may participate by downloading the free trial access software located at aol.com.
First things first, Planet X's "MoonBabies" has been released on August 13th courtesy of InsideOut records. There was quite a bit of confusion with the release dates in North America (original September release for MoonBabies) and Virgil was quite surprised to see fans lining up at the clinic with brand new copies of MoonBabies! A lot of fans have been talking on the Planet X messageboard. Click here for a free account to discuss "MoonBabies" with other fans. In other news, Virgil will be doing a couple of Pearl clinics in Europe in late September, early October. Check out the tour dates for more info. There will be a few clinics while Virgil will be touring with Tony MacAlpine and Philip Bynoe. More will be added when they are confirmed. For the time being, only the October 19th clinic date in Holland has been confirmed. Stay tuned for more! August 5th 2002 - Virgil to tour in Europe and more! A couple of new clinic dates have been posted in the tour dates. Click here to check it out. In other news, Virgil Donati and Tony MacAlpine will be touring Europe in October, playing a selection of their music, with Phillip Bynoe completing the trio. Check out the tour dates for information! Planet X "MoonBabies" has been released in Europe. It will be later released in Japan on August 21st and sometime in September for North America. Stay tuned for more on this! You can still check out soundclips from MoonBabies on the official Planet X website! Also check out the Planet X messageboard! The pre-orders for the Ultimate Drummers Weekend DVD from Australia is now open. Featuring Virgil Donati, The Dave Weckl Band, John Tempesta, Luis Conte, David Jones, Andrew Gander and more! Click here pre-order your copy today!
July 8th 2002 - News by the Ton! Well, it's done! As many of you might of noticed on the Official Planet X website, the upcoming "MoonBabies" album from Planet X is finished and is scheduled for release at the end of July. Stay tuned for more information on OFFICIAL release dates. However, if you still haven't listened to the latest sound clips from "MoonBabies", be sure to head on over to xplanetx.com to sample the newest tracks! Virgil is back from the Gambale, Fierrabracci, Donati tour in Australia. A lot of the fans that happened to catch the shows are reporting that there is a possibility of a DVD/Video release of the performances. There will also be a DVD release of the Ultimate Drummers Weekend in Australia featuring many drummers as well as Virgil! Though the release date is not very concrete, you can be sure to be informed from virgildonati.com on this upcoming release. Furthermore, Virgil is currently working hard in the studio for the long anticipated Freakhouse album. The band is working with producer Warren Croyle. Be sure to check out the official Freakhouse website for more info. Also, Virgil completed Joel Hoekstra's newest album and it's sounding totally amazing! Click here to visit Joel's official website. There will be a live release of Ring
of Fire's "Burning in Tokyo" performances. It will
be released both on CD and DVD simultaneously in Japan on August
21st. The DVD, according to Mugenkyo management, is to include a
bonus Ring Of Fire Members Interview, Multi Angle options and a
booklet with live photos. The CD contains bonus message from Mark
Boals, a new unreleased song, as well as performances of "Interlude",
"Extended Solos" and booklet with live photos. Finally, there are a few tour dates added namely the ones with Bunny Brunel, Tony MacAlpine, and Patrice Rushen.
June 1st 2002 - Gambale, Donati, Kennedy tour update... Tom Kennedy has been forced to pull out of the upcoming Australian tour due to illness. Ricc Fierrabracci will be stepping in to replace Tom during this tour. The tour dates remain the same. In other happenings, Virgil will be performing 4 clinics in the end of June in New Zealand at the Rockshop. You can check out their webpage here for information on tickets and venues. Virgil, Tony MacAlpine, Ricc Fierrabracci, T.Lavitz, Bunny Brunel and Patrice Rushen will be playing a few gigs at the Baked Potato in the month of June as well. Check out the tour dates for the proper lineups with the correspoding dates for more! Don't forget that the newly released live album from Planet X entitled "Live From Oz" is still available for purchase on their website! Click here for more!
May 22nd 2002 - Live From Oz Released! "Live From Oz" is available worldwide courtesy of InsideOut Records. It is now available for purchase on the Planet X website. Limited editions are also available. In addition, you can download the FULL track to Apocalypse 1470 B.C. Click here for more information! There is finally a sneek peek at the upcoming Planet X release called "MoonBabies". Two songs are featured from the album! Head over to xplanetx.com for more! Sign-up today on the Planet X messageboard, where you can discuss with other fans on news and information about the band!
April 23rd 2002 - New Clinic dates and Power Trio Tour! There will be a few clinics (along with Billy Sheehan on bass) going on during the month of May as well as a couple of shows with Tony MacAlpine and Freakhouse. Check out the Tour Dates page for information. Virgil will also be touring in Australia this coming June of 2002. It will consist of the Donati, Gambale and Kennedy Power Trio by Vorticity. Featuring Virgil Donati on drums, Frank Gambale on guitar and Tom Kennedy on bass. There are 8 scheduled dates in the tour dates section. For information by phone, click on the image thumbnail for corresponding date numbers.
April 5th 2002 - Live From Oz released in Europe! Planet X's "Live From Oz" has been released in Europe courtest of InsideOut Music. North American release will follow on May 21st and Japanese release is scheduled on the 22nd. Not only that, but the official Planet X website has also relaunched after a short pause for reconstruction! Go and check it out! 2 days till bidding closes on eBay for Virgil's Gen-X kit!
April 2nd 2002 - Virgil's Premier Gen-X kit on sale on eBay! You can now bid on Virgil's used Gen-X kit over at eBay. This is the same kit that was used on the Steve Vai G3 tour last year. This is really a TRUE collectors item. As a bonus, the winning bidder can get Virgil to autograph the component(s) of their choice. Hardcore fans should NOT pass an opportunity like this one! Click here to view the auction and Happy bidding! In other news, there are a couple of tour dates that
have been added. Steve Vai will
be performing in the upcoming May shows in Mexico City and Monterey.
Freakhouse
will be performing in the month of April. Click
here for more March 21st 2002 - Australian POWER TRIO tour in Melbourne and Planet X news! A couple of projects/possible dates to be mentioned
: Some of you (maybe all of you?) may have noticed the Planet X Website Pre-launch. The site is undergoing a complete overhaul of all links, music and information. It is still set to launch very soon in the month of March. There is some news about the long awaited "Live From Oz" CD that will be available in record stores worldwide around the 3rd week of April 2002 (20th-24th). It will be released under InsideOut Music for the U.S. and Europe, JVC/Victor in Japan, and Vorticity Records in Australia. There should be some confirmed dates in the first weeks of April. Stay tuned for that! Also, "Moon Babies", Planet X's second release, should be out sometime in June. The mixing process has been a tough one! It WILL be worth the wait! Planet X will be definately be back to rock your town! Finally, Pearl Drums has a small feature on their
website welcoming Virgil to the Pearl family. Click
here to check it out January 28th 2002 - Massive News! - Virgil signs endorsement deal with Pearl! After a long association with the Premier drum company,
Virgil recently parted ways with them and has signed a new endorsement
deal with Pearl.
As a lot of people may have been aware, Virgil has been endorsing
the Pearl Eliminator Pedals for the past two years, and now the
switch to Pearl drums, seems like a natural progression. It's expected
that the benefits of this deal will accrue to the ever-growing Virgil
Donati fans. In other news, Virgil will be featured along with legendary Simon Phillips in the upcoming Modern Drummer Issue of March 2002 talking about various projects that they have collaborated on. Excerpt from the article can be read on the Modern Drummer website. Click here to check it out. In Planet X news, the Live From Oz CD is coming close to finishing. The final mixes and very last touches are under way. The artwork for the CD is pretty much finished as well (as you may have noticed on the front page). Stay tuned for more details!
January 9th 2002 - Finally! A New Year! Happy New Year to all! - It's been a long time since an update and a lot of people have been busy! Virgil is back from the European Steve Vai tour which went absolutely amazing! Thank you to all the fans that emailed in with their comments about the show! 2001 was a pretty packed year, as well as a weird one since Sept. 11th, but all is past now and it's onward and upward! - There will be some updated pictures from the tour coming very soon. In other news Freakhouse will be performing their first show of 2002 at the Troubadour in West Hollywood on Monday the 14th. Also, Ring of Fire will be touring Japan and China. There will be possible European dates as well! Check out their newly redesigned website for updated information on the band and members.
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