12/21/05 - The
Beat Goes On Christmas Show at BB King's, NYC.
11/1/05 - Recording
in Switzerland the first week of November. Solo acoustic appearance
at The Foundry in London, November 9th.
10/14/05 - Alan
Merrill is recording a new EP in New York.
9/18/05 - After
returning from recording the Ron Wood tribute album in Switzerland,
our Aleecat has been hard at work on a new solo EP for release
before the end of the year. Also Reverend Run has released the
Alan Merrill co-write "Mind On The Road" on August
29th, and the video is currently getting lots of play on MTV.
7/15/05 -
Alan Merrill performs in New York City, at the South Street
Seaport (avi film file below) as a part of the Beat Goes On
"Tribute to New York" show. He had just returned from
performing at the Blue Note Tokyo, doing 12 shows there, July
4th-10th. Click here to view the avi file.
6/20/05 - Newly
released! A bi-lingual Alan Merrill single, versions both in
English and Japanese, of his 70's hits "Sands Of Time"
and "Automatic Pilot." It will be on the MEC Record
label's Flashback series.
6/13/05/ - Legendary
godfather of rap Reverend Run (Run/DMC) records his first ever
solo single, using the chords and riff from Alan Merrill's Arrows
hit "I love rock' n roll," and it's called "Mind
On The Road." The single is from his album titled "Distortion"
which will be out this September. Look out for Reverend Run's
MTV reality show "Run's Place" which will air in October
2005, and will feature the song "Mind On The Road."
"5/15/05 - Singer
Salome Clausen makes the Swiss charts with the song "I love
rock 'n roll." Her album is also number one.
4/20/05 - Vodka
Collins' "Tokyo New York" album will be reissued in
Japan on April 20th, 2005. Alan will be travelling to Japan to
promote the CD.
3/10/05 - Alan Merrill's
first solo show in NYC in many years took place at The Cutting
Room. It was a great success.
2/1/05 - Mixing
the song "Automatic Pilot" for a TV commercial at Planet2Planet
studio in New York City with Kirk Yano engineering.
1/17/05 - A surprise
appearance at B.B. King's club on 42nd street in New York City
by Alan Merrill with the Jon Paris Group.