Keep some Bad Company again on broadcast special, summer tour

It's good to keep Bad Company again. When they were good, they were very good, but when they were Bad, they were the best!" Billboard magazine

After almost two decades apart, the original members of the the seventies supergroup Bad Company--Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, Simon Kirke and Boz Burrell, have reunited. The Gibson USA-sponsored rock and roll fantasy begins Friday night, May 21, during a special pay-per-view performance from the Hard Rock Live! in Orlando, Florida.

Bad Co. will be recreating tunes from their newly released box set, The Original Bad Company Anthology (Elektra). The double CD contains 27 of the band's greatest hits, two previously unreleased tracks and four new songs including the current hit single "Hey, Hey." Soulful singer Paul Rodgers will wail on the memorable classics "Fell Like Makin' Love," "Good Lovin' Gone Bad," "Can't Get Enough" and "Rock and Roll Fantasy."

Gibson USA and local retailers in each concert market will have Limited Edition Ebony Les Paul Classics with a cream pickguard autographed by Mick Ralphs, and an ebony Bad Co. Les Paul Studio. Radio stations will be giving away free tickets. Go to the Bad Co. official website here for a complete tour itinerary. Stay tuned to gibson.com for more details of local promotions and giveaways throughout the summer.

Few groups entered the rock arena in the mid-'70s with as much initial success, both critically and commercially, as Bad Company. Fewer still have been able to weather a period of rapidly shifting musical tastes and trends, much less maintain the popular base, as Bad Company has. Twenty Six years after the band formed in 1973 - with Paul Rodgers emerging from Free and Mick Ralphs leaving Mott the Hoople at its peak, to be joined by bassist Boz Burrell and drummer Simon Kirke. The way Mick Ralphs explains it: 'People needed a band like ours. At the time there wasn't anybody doing what we were. Everybody was too much into theatrics. It was getting a bit sour, so we came in as a complete opposite to that'.

Bad Company has enjoyed, a streak of gold and platinum records, from the debut "Bad Co.," through "Straight Shooter," "Run With The Pack," "Burnin' Sky", "Desolation Angels", "Rough Diamonds" and the hugely successful Best of "10 from 6" recordings.