You know, I’ve always been about tone, of course. But I wrote that lick on a little eight-track studio that I had in my condominium.Nikki [Sixx]came over for a second and heard it —“He’s the one they call Dr. Feelgood” — so we started playing around at rehearsal with it....
I always referenced ABBA for that exact same thing, ’cause like, they did that so well. You know, like ostensibly ABBA is just like some cheesy Euro pop, but actually the lyrics are, they’re so potent, and they’re so sad a lot of the time, but everyone just hands in the air ...
It’s been five years sinceLily Allen‘s last album, a period in which the U.K. pop diva got married and had kids. But fear not – she’s still the same firecracker who turned heads in the mid-’00s with eclectic, post-hip-hop tunesand bullshit-slaying lyrics. The brilliantly title...
"It was more or less complete, with maybe one or two lines of lyrics to fill in, and it also didn't have the long intro," Mair recalls. "That was created by the band. The basic format of the song was all there — the chords, verses and chorus — and, as with all of Peter's...
From the opening chords to the final encore, the energy in the hall was electric and the band took the audience on a journey through their incredible 5-decade career. Support came from Badly Drawn Boy who warmed the crowd up with a set of excellent songs. I was very glad that I ...
I will perform in between 2 films – presenting an eerie and fantastical piece by Eugene Ysaye – Ballade. Ysaye (1858-1931), one of the greatest violin virtuosos of his time, composed a piece that conveys a strong sense of anxiety and unsettlement. Whimsical runs of chords and double-sto...
Right beneath the basketball hoop—the place of honor for athletes and visiting dignitaries—wobbles a dingy looking trio. A few menacing power chords coming out of an amp that’s just slightly distorting. The song is always slower than I remember—and that’s part of its pleasure: the sing...
place tends to “exist” both subjectively and globally, beyond boundaries and nationalities. But it’s as much an uncanny feeling about a place as it is the place itself, a sensation of other lives having passed through a place but possibly still existing in it as trace element and shadow...
Makes me want to run. Run as fast and strong as a wolf through the forest and not look back until I find where I want to be. But where I want to be is here. I love here… I love the now and the place I have carved for myself in this little area of the world. I need to...
half dozen times so we sort of knew his songs. Mitchell and his brother David (our pianist) have perfect pitch and were telling me and our bassist what the chords were as we went along. The crowd seemed to dig it and we ended the show with a rocked out version of Spirit in the ...