like the extra guitars and the fucking… I just took 'em away. I didn't add anything; I just left the space. The new sound is me singing all the songs and there's one less guitarist.
“I got to hold his Strat. I even got to play the Esquire and his 1930 National Triolian Resonator. I’d been looking for that guitar for about 25 years. Since I was a kid I’d been addicted to the songs he played on it. I wanted to see...
before 'Abbey Road,' but it sat on the shelf for more than a year because nobody wanted to touch the tapes from the disastrous sessions. Phil Spector waded through the mess, stitching together a swan song that's sweet, infuriating and poignant. ...
I wanted to give you some classic covers with that island feel. Mind you, majority of the songs are rock songs. It’s another spin on the coined phrase “Island Rock with an Edge.” I wanted to take it a step further and include a few traditional Hawaiian favorites. Pua Hone, Noho ...
He recalled: “We… played mostly original music and all the clubs wanted tribute bands, so we bullshitted… and said we played all the current hard rock band stuff. But of course, we didn’t. We did do a lot ofTed Nugentthough.” ...
When Schroeder announced his departure from the Smashing Pumpkins, he explained that it was because he wanted to "explore a slightly different path." He had joined the band in 2007 after Corgan andJimmy Chamberlinreunited to recordZeitgeist. ...
“Radio Free Europe” was a complete impromptu thing. It was like being 17 in a band again. We huddled at the side of the stage and went, “What the fuck are we going to play?” We had played everything. It was either Mills or me that floated it out. Somebody wanted to do ...
Walker was known for his aggressive guitar playing style, though in a2013 interview withMetal Assault, he admitted that he started to "play with a little less violence on the right hand. Which has helped me a lot in definition, if you know what I mean, and not breaking as many strings...
Do you remember the top album from the year you graduated high school?StackeranalyzedBillboarddata to determine just that, looking at the best-selling album from every year going all the way back to 1956. Sales data is included only from 1992 onward when Nielsen's SoundScan began gathering co...
wanted to do more with the track and the chance to work with Bjorn Strid from Soilwork presented itself. I had told him the story of the song and it resonated with him the same way it had with me so I sent it to him and about three days later it came back perfect. Bjorn gave a...