Page/Crowes To Tour U.S. With The Who:

Billboard Online has exclusive details on what is shaping up to be one of the summer's hottest concert tickets. According to a source, SFX Entertainment will produce a "rock'n'roll caravan"-style show featuring the supergroup of Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes and, on some or all dates, the Who. Details are still being finalized, but the tour is expected to play 25-35 dates beginning in July, at mostly outdoor venues. Although the acts will rotate from city to city, a handful of double bills featuring both acts are in the works, several of which are planned for the conclusion of the tour. Both acts recently inked deals with online retailer Musicmaker.com to offer downloadable live albums. "Jimmy Page And The Black Crowes Live At The Greek" -- drawn from the final two shows of the group's brief fall 1999 U.S. tour -- will be sold exclusively online beginning today (Feb. 29). A live Who album recorded last winter at shows in Chicago and London will be made available later this spring exclusively through Musicmaker. The tour will be the Who's first since 1997, when the act's surviving members -- guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, and bassist John Entwistle -- regrouped to perform the Who's 1973 rock opera, "Quadrophenia." Last fall, the band reformed again for a handful of charity concerts in the U.S. and U.K. At these shows, the core group was backed by drummer Zak Starkey (the son of Ringo Starr) and longtime Townshend keyboardist John "Rabbit" Bundrick. --Ray Waddell, Nashville; Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

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