{"id":481187,"date":"2019-01-22T09:43:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T16:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=782276"},"modified":"2019-01-22T09:43:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T16:43:11","slug":"mott-the-hoople-touring-america-for-first-time-in-45-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/mott-the-hoople-touring-america-for-first-time-in-45-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Mott The Hoople Touring America for First Time in 45 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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British glam rockers Mott The Hoople<\/a> are coming to America for the first time since their tour in support of 1974\u2019s The Hoople.<\/em> They\u2019re using the moniker Mott The Hoople \u201974 to mark the return of guitarist Ariel Bender, who hasn\u2019t played with the band since 1974. Also returning for the tour is keyboardist Morgan Fisher, who wasn\u2019t a part of Mott The Hoople\u2019s other reunion tours this past decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth toured extensively with Mott and both were featured heavily of The Hoople album after Mick Ralphs and Verden Allen left the band,\u201d Mott The Hoople frontman Ian Hunter said in a statement last year. \u201cI know many people were disappointed when neither appeared on the 2009 and 2013 get-togethers. Hope this makes up for it!\u201d The eight-city tour begins April 1st at the Miller High Life Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and wraps up on April 10th at the Beacon Theater in New York.<\/p>\n

Mott The Hoople are best known in America for their 1972 cover of David Bowie\u2019s \u201cAll The Young Dudes,\u201d but they were far more successful in their native England where they scored hits with \u201cHonaloochie Boogie,\u201d \u201cAll The Way From Memphis\u201d and \u201cThe Golden Age of Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll.\u201d Ian Hunter left the group in 1975 and they briefly limped on as Mott before calling it quits in 1980.<\/p>\n

The group reunited in 2009 with much of the \u201cAll The Young Dudes\u201d lineup still intact, though drummer Dale Griffin was suffering from early-onset Alzheimer\u2019s disease and was only able to play during the encores. They toured again in 2013, but since then they\u2019ve been faced with a series of tragedies including the death of Griffin in 2016 and the death of bassist Pete Overend Watts in 2017. Guitarist Mick Ralphs is still alive, but in 2016 he suffered a stroke and has been out of commission ever since.<\/p>\n

These devastating losses forced Ian Hunter to recruit Ariel Bender and Morgan Fisher when he decided to reform Mott The Hoople last year. They\u2019ll be joined for the American tour by James Mastro (guitar, saxophone, mandolin), Steve Holley (drums, backing vocals), Mark Bosch (guitar), Paul Page (bass) and Dennis Dibrizzi (keyboards, backing vocals). If the 2018 shows are any indication, expect to hear all the classics in addition to numerous songs from The Hoople like \u201cAlice\u201d and \u201cMarionette.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mott The Hoople Tour Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 1st \u2013 Milwaukee, WI @ Miller High Life Theatre
April 2nd \u2013 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
<\/span>April 3rd \u2013Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre
<\/span>April 5th \u2013 Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore
<\/span>April 6th \u2013 Cleveland, OH @ Masonic
<\/span>April 8th \u2013 Glenside, PA @ Keswick Theatre
<\/span>April 9th \u2013 Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre
<\/span>April 10th \u2013 New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre<\/span><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

British glam rockers Mott The Hoople are coming to America for the first time since their tour in support of 1974\u2019s The Hoople. They\u2019re using the moniker Mott The Hoople \u201974 to mark the return of guitarist Ariel Bender, who hasn\u2019t played with the band since 1974. Also returning for the tour is keyboardist Morgan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 21:50:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}