The Judd & Jon Comedy & Music Hour(s) - A Benefit for 826LA

Hosted by Judd Apatow & Featuring Jon Brion, Peter Frampton & Special Guests

AN EVENING OF COMEDY AND MUSIC TO BENEFIT 826LA’S FREE WRITING AND TUTORING PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN

Thursday, June 14, 2012 Event: 8-10 PM

Location: Eli & Edythe Broad Stage, 1310 11th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401

On June 14, 2012, popular director, producer, and screenwriter Judd Apatow will host a unique evening of comedy and music at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. This event features comedians as well as Grammy-winner Peter Frampton and other musicians performing songs with musician, film composer, and producer Jon Brion. Before the performance, VIP ticket buyers will join Judd Apatow at an exclusive VIP reception. All proceeds from this event will support the non-profit writing and tutoring center 826LA and its free programs for children.

With Apatow, Frampton, Brion, 826 founder Dave Eggers, and many other celebrity guests, this event is sure to be an unforgettable, star-filled night. Past performers at 826LA events have included Lindsey Buckingham, John C. Reilly, Zooey Deschanel, Seth Rogen, Eric Idle, Ryan Adams with Mandy Moore, Spike Jonze, Ben Stiller, Dave Grohl, Aimee Mann, Will Ferrell, Randy Newman, and Miranda July. This year’s performers will be announced soon. This year’s sponsors include Amy Brooks, Chase Bank, Creative Artists Agency, Google, HBO, Katie McGrath & J.J. Abrams, Mosaic Media Group, United Talent Agency, Universal Studios, and Ziffren Brittenham, LLP.

General admission tickets are $250, or VIP tickets are $500. To purchase tickets or for more information visit: http://www.826la.org/juddandjonshow.

ABOUT JUDD APATOW Considered one of the most sought-after comedy minds in the business, Judd Apatow has produced many of the most successful films in recent years-including The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, which he also wrote and directed, as well as Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and Bridesmaids, which earned a Golden Globe nomination for “Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.” Most recently, Apatow wrapped production on his fourth directorial feature This is 40, starring Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann, which is due in theaters this December. Apatow also edited I Found This Funny, a collection of humor writing, whose sales benefited 826 National. He has previously hosted and produced several benefit events for 826LA, including “A Night of Best Intentions” and “I Found This Funny.” ABOUT JON BRION Jon Brion is a multi-instrumental musician, composer, and producer, who has produced albums by Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann, Elliott Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Brad Mehldau, Of Montreal, and Kanye West. Brion is also an accomplished film composer, earning Grammy nominations for his work on Magnolia and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. His other films include Boogie Nights, I  Huckabees, Punch-Drunk Love, and Step Brothers. Most recently, he is scoring Judd Apatow’s This is 40. Brion’s Friday nights at the Largo are an L.A. institution. These solo performances showcase his improvisation talents and feature innovative looping of drums, piano, guitar, bass, and vocals.

LIVE RECORDINGS UPDATE!



We would like to update you on where to get the live CD recordings of nearly all of the shows Peter did on the FCA35 TOUR of 2011/2012.' Abbey Road Live US' was the former name but now it is called 'DiscLive Network'. EU and US shows are available at http://www.disclivenetwork.com/.

On Friday, March 23, Rock the Vote will hold its second annual Democracy Day, bringing its Democracy Class to students nationwide and helping them to register to vote for the 2012 elections. Schools across the country are teaching Democracy Class starting Friday through the end of the spring semester in recognition of the 41st anniversary of the 26th Amendment, which gave 18 year-olds the right to vote. At a time when states are passing some of the most sweeping voting restrictions young voters have faced in decades, Rock the Vote’s Democracy Class helps ensure that young people learn their history, register to vote and have a voice in their future as soon as they are eligible.

Go to http://www.democracyday.com and http://www.democracyclass.com

Check out this great clip from CBS about the missing guitar!

http://youtu.be/fgNd7nwJkus

PETER FRAMPTON TO PLAY RESTORED GIBSON GUITAR FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 32 YEARS AT NYC’S BEACON THEATER!!

LOST GIBSON LES PAUL GUITAR FOUND ON CARIBBEAN ISLAND OF CURAÇAO

FRAMPTON CELEBRATES FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE! 35TH ANNIVERSARY WITH WORLD TOUR - On February 18 at the landmark Beacon Theater in New York City, Grammy winning guitarist Peter Frampton will play his restored 1954 Gibson Les Paul for the first time. His long-lost guitar was recently discovered on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao after its disappearance in a plane crash 32 years ago. Frampton was reunited with the guitar in an emotional meeting in Nashville this past December. Now, with the help of the Gibson Guitar’s Custom Shop, Frampton will debut the recovered guitar during his NYC stop on his world tour celebrating the 35th anniversary of multi-platinum selling live album Frampton Comes Alive!. See Frampton’s reaction to the restoration of his cherished guitar here: http://www.frampton.com/press/guitar.html.

In 1980, a cargo plane carrying Frampton’s equipment for an upcoming show in Panama crashed, supposedly destroying all of the instruments on board including Frampton’s beloved guitar. The Curaçao Tourist Board helped acquire the guitar from an individual after hearing news that they may indeed have a lead on the long lost and beloved guitar. Together in Nashville at the Gibson Custom Shop, with experts from Gibson Guitar and Peter Frampton, the team confirmed it was the original guitar long missing from Frampton’s collection. Frampton’s custom guitar was given to him in 1970 by a man named Marc Mariana when Humble Pie played at the Fillmore West. Frampton borrowed Mariana’s guitar for the show and afterward tried to buy it from him, “But to my surprise he said he couldn't sell it to me—he wanted to give it to me!” he notes.

Frampton played the guitar exclusively on Humble Pie’s Rock On and Rocking the Fillmore albums. The guitar also appeared on a number of sessions for other artists including George Harrison, Jerry Lewis, Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, and John Entwistle. Most notably, Frampton played the guitar on the electrifying Frampton Comes Alive!, one of the top-selling live records of all time.

Frampton is ecstatic to have the guitar back and to play it once again. “It was given to me, taken away from me via a fiery plane crash, then given back to me 31 years later. To think that I would ever play this guitar again is beyond belief. After some repairs have now been finished at Gibson in Nashville, I will be able to play it on stage at the Beacon Theater, NYC Saturday, 18th Feb. It will be one of those days I won’t forget as long as I live.”