Over in Journey, I found the remastered version of Steve Perry’s 1994 solo albumFor the Love of Strange Medicine. All these years, I’ve never played this album. I’m sure it’ll be mellow, even though he has members of Winger and Hardline in his band. In the liner notes, Perry i...
For many fans, Lynyrd Skynyrd ended the day of the 1977 plane crash that claimed the lives of three band members. A 1987 tour reunited the surviving members with new singer Johnny Van Zant and others, proving there was still plenty of sparks left in the southern rock icons. In 2018, the...
Aerosmith had become a virtual parody of itself. The band's story was one of rock & roll excess, complete with all the absurd trimmings: wives who incessantly bickered, band members who fell offstage with disturbing regularity, $100,000 room-service bills, contests to see how many things i...
For many fans, Lynyrd Skynyrd ended the day of the 1977 plane crash that claimed the lives of three band members. A 1987 tour reunited the surviving members with new singer Johnny Van Zant and others, proving there was still plenty of sparks left in the southern rock icons. In 2018, the...
so the band took a break while the members went to rehab. Their first post-rehab release was 1985'sDone With Mirrors —but 1987'sPermanent Vacationis typically considered their true comeback, as the former didn't live up to commercial expectations. The latter, however, was produced byBob ...
. Anyway, this record would have been much greater if the sound had been a bit more 'alive'. I guess the transformation from 'hey guys, you got two weeks', to 'hey guys you are really great, lets spend the time you need' took away some of Aerosmith's live capabilities (I once ...
Both Honkin' On Bobo and Music From Another Dimension have been hailed as Aerosmith's best in years, and "proof that Aerosmith can still rock”. For Douglas, the secret lay in getting the five band members to work and play together again, and in harking back sonically to the rawness of...
so the band took a break while the members went to rehab. Their first post-rehab release was 1985'sDone With Mirrors —but 1987'sPermanent Vacationis typically considered their true comeback, as the former didn't live up to commercial expectations. The latter, however, was produced byBob ...
‘In Rock’ is a treasure trove and deservedly puts the members faces on a redone Mount Rushmore on the cover. “Child in Time” was one of the first true hard rocking songs that saw wailing high notes enter the fold and establish the blueprint that would later become the heavy metal ...
In 1984, the original members of Aerosmith convened for a reunion tour after a few years of inactivity. The guys were reportedly all so high and drunk during rehearsal they had trouble remembering how to play their own songs. One night, the band was hanging out at a famous Boston DJ's ...