" he said. "I did experience a lot of interaction with music people in studios as I was coming up where people just thought of the GRAMMYs as a night to get an award, whereas I was always encouraging them to see
Auto-Tune and other vocal treatments serve for Thug a role similar to the wah-wah effects that Miles Davis applied to his trumpet during his wild ’70s phase of fevered fusion. And Tumay is equivalent to Miles’ producer Teo Macero: the white co-pilot to the black explorer, creating the...
Sharp learned about the reunion when he made a visit to Cleveland to deliver a special hardcover edition of Marathon Man, the subsequent book he'd co-written about Carmen, to the singer himself. "One of the first things [the vocalist] said was, 'You know, the band is getting back toget...
'Hejira' suddenly found Joni Mitchell outside the Top 20 in her native Canada for the first time since the '60s. Reason: She was moving even further into fusion styles alongside jazz guitarist Larry Carlton and the extraordinary bassist Jaco Pastorius. Still, an album featuring some of her mo...
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Aerosmith's four-year slog between Get a Grip and Nine Lives was rife with personal and professional turmoil. These struggles were rewarded, however, when the band earned their second consecutive No. 1 album and fourth Grammy win thanks to "Pink," which was released as a single on Nov. ...
Though Jeff Beck possessed the talent to equal any of the other guitar gods that emerged from the '60s, he didn't have the attention span. That made for eye-popping left turns as Beck swerved from jazz and fusion to metal and pop rock. He found mainstream success with Rod Stewart early...
He was quick to credit Reno when it came to one of his most identifiable moments on record, the prominent bass line in their debut single, 1980’s “Turn Me Loose.”“Truth be told, Reno wrote the bass part, so he should get the credit for that bit of rock history.”...
Auto-Tune and other vocal treatments serve for Thug a role similar to the wah-wah effects that Miles Davis applied to his trumpet during his wild ’70s phase of fevered fusion. And Tumay is equivalent to Miles’ producer Teo Macero: the white co-pilot to the black explorer, creating the...