Pink Floyd (1994):Populated by long keyboard moments -- with echoing, sustained guitar chords and segmented song-cycles effortlessly flowing into one another -- ‘The Division Bell’ plays like a long, slow exhale after the Roger Waters-era novelization of Floyd on albums like ‘The Wall’ an...
Pink Floyd (1994):Populated by long keyboard moments -- with echoing, sustained guitar chords and segmented song-cycles effortlessly flowing into one another -- ‘The Division Bell’ plays like a long, slow exhale after the Roger Waters-era novelization of Floyd on albums like ‘The Wall’ an...
I actually do not think he uses the wah pedal. Jason is the one with the wah. Billie usually just plays the backing chords now. Even when he was playing solos he never used a wah pedal. The wah was used by Jason on "Restless Heart Syndrome" on 21st Century Breakdown and "Bouleva...
With its opening piano chords, bombastic drum pattern and the soulful harmonizing of Bocelli and guest vocalist Giorgia, "Vivo Per Lei" sums up the rousing melodrama of vintage Italian pop. The other big smash off theBocellialbum, it was written by Gatto Panceri and Valerio Zelli, and found ...
Perhaps more crucially, Armstrong’s no-frills power chords gave many youngsters the confidence to pick up their first guitar, have a crack atBasket Case’s galloping power-chords. What better mark of a hero is there than that? Mike Dirnt of Green Day. Image: Patti Ouderkirk / WireImage ...
as I’m fueled by that deceptive and steady rhythm just below the surface and lyrics that touch basic human chords: the futility of trying, even if you can’t give up; desires noted but not acted on; “don’t be me, cause I ain’t shit,” and whatever other rage within that needs...
“American Idiot” was the first single and first song shared in the new album cycle and on its own, it didn’t exactly scream “rock opera.” But among the familiar power chords, Billie Joe’s lyrics aren’t at allDookie. His not-so-subtle jabs at conservatism i...
isolation (beginning with Tré Cool’s drum intro) all the players deserve a nod for selling their parts so distinctively. It’s when Armstrong’s driving power chords kick in the chorus that the song reaches the stratosphere of adolescent RAWK catchiness, making the buildup all the mo...
Green Day, Weezer and Fall Out Boy launched their long awaited Hella Mega tour with a performance in Dallas on Saturday (July 24). “Take a look around you,” Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong proclaimed just two songs into their set. “This is human contact. We cannot be locked ...
Did you know that Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong initially wrote love song lyrics for what would eventually become "Basket Case"? Luckily for him and us he eventually decided to keep the music but go a different direction with the song....