Despite the success of “Off the Wall,” Jones says, their working relationship was very much about creativity for creativity’s sake. “You don’t make records to say how many you’re going to sell,” he says. “You can’t control that. You make something that touc...
Despite the success of “Off the Wall,” Jones says, their working relationship was very much about creativity for creativity’s sake. “You don’t make records to say how many you’re going to sell,” he says. “You can’t control that. You make something that touches you...
Van Halen (1980):Dark elements begin to creep into Van Halen's sound, after a pair of well-received party-rock albums. That creative tension - somber Eddie, versus impish Dave - would spark the band for years, then (perhaps inevitably) tear it apart. Heaven and Hell Vertigo 'Heaven and...
Eddie Van Halen will always be known – and justifiably so – for his finger-popping pyrotechnics, but "Ain't Talking 'About Love" shows another side, as he experiments with an instrument you're unlikely to find in many hard-rock songs: The electric sitar. Free, All Right Now (1970) I...
The perspective of a comfortably aggressive, independent-minded woman colors many of the songs on “Garbage.”“You thought I was a mouse . . . but now I’m burning down your house,” Manson sings on the driving “Not My Idea.” On the darkly atmospheric “Vow,” she’s “like Joan...
“And I have a Steinway from 1894 that is very original. It’s a concert grand, it commands a whole room. So it takes up a lot of space, but the Bösendorfer has something very special about it. “I’ve played on so many pianos recently. Like some of the Piano Diaries recordings...
the course of rock music. Like the Beatles' revolution three decades earlier, 'Nevermind' drew a line between everything that came before and after it. Its achievements are many, from killing hair metal to resurrecting rock music. No other album of the past 25 years has been as influential...
Sure, this performance felt seven years too late. An appearance in support of 1998’s mammoth hit album ‘Follow the Leader’ would have caught Korn at their highest of highs. Still, a decade of MTV relevance and more than 30 million albums sold worldwide earned the nu-metal rockers their...
Lynch explained his take on the band's reunion chances in a 2023 interview with VintageRock Pod. " I think that ship has sailed, as I said in other interviews, because we tried so many times to put it together, and it's like Humpty Dumpty. Don's got his thing. He owns the [Dokke...
In many ways, Jackson Browne’s ‘Running on Empty’ is unique, even when placed among other live albums. For starters, all of the material was original, having never appeared on his previous releases. Then, there was the recording itself. While some performances took place at concerts – ...