OTTAWA — Musician and producer Daniel Lanois suffered multiple injuries in Los Angeles last weekend, forcing him to call off a summer tour with his new group, Black Dub. His July 2 concert at the Montreal International Jazz Festival is among the concert cancellations.
Tickets for the July 2 show will be refunded at point of purchase only, a jazz festival spokesperson said.
Although the extent of Lanois’s injuries remains unknown, he remains in the intensive-care unit of a Los Angeles hospital. A spokesman for his label, Jive Records, said Lanois expects to be released soon but will spend the next two months recovering. His recent projects also include producing Neil Young’s upcoming album.
Lanois, who's 58, had recently signed with Jive to release the first album by Black Dub, a new group that also includes superstar drummer Brian Blade and 22-year-old vocalist Trixie Whitley.
Lanois is also scheduled to release an autobiographical book titled Soul Mining this year, and is producing the new Neil Young album.
Born in Hull, Lanois grew up in Hamilton, opened a studio with his brother and went on to an illustrious career working as a producer with artists such as U2, Robbie Robertson, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel and Bob Dylan.
An avid motorcyclist who earned his motorcycle license on a Harley-Davidson Sportster when he was 16, Lanois said in an 2008 interview with The Citizen that he does not own a car, but has several motorcycles, including a high-performance BMW sport bike and an old Harley.
“We of the iron horse, we don’t mix up too many things together,” Lanois told The Citizen. “We concentrate on what we’re doing. We also exercise that part of our brain that embraces telepathy so we anticipate what people are thinking around us, which is what I do for a living, with my music."
When he’s riding a motorcycle, Lanois said he is able to focus. “I’m not on the phone. I’m not multi-tasking. I’m not trying to do too much. I’m concentrating on one thing at a time, which is part of what makes music beautiful, and what makes life beautiful.”
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