"We were playing backyard parties for free beer," he recalled. "That means you just hung out and you drank beer and maybe carried a guitar case in. I didn't tune the guitar, I didn't touch the guitar." Holt then shared that Hammett taught him how to play his first chords on the ...
"I knew all the drum parts because I was a huge fan – and the guitar solos, and the arrangements – really really well, because I loved Iron Maiden," Bayley also boasted, noting, "I felt I did okay at the audition, and then there was a second audition where they record your voice...
William Broad’s stage name was born in the punk era, when he was fronting Generation X. Everyone else was coming up with names like Johnny Rotten and Rat Scabies, but Billy decided to put the “pun” into “punk,” intending Idol to be a play on “idle” as well as being an ironi...
' but not only did they avoid the idea of a sophomore slump, they obliterated it. The group's 1997 effort 'Around the Fur' proved to be a breakthrough for the band as "My Own Summer (Shove It)" and "Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)" got solid MTV play, breaking the band...
Though "November Rain" was included on Guns N' Roses' 1991 album Use Your Illusion I, the track was actually written years before Appetite for Destruction even came out. According to Axl Rose, a fellow rocker actually inspired him to write it — Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee....
Record Plant, and there was a grand piano in the studio. I always like to just tinker on something, whether it's acoustic guitar or piano. I never took a piano lesson so I don't really know how to play the piano; I just know how to play the song that I can make out," Cronin...
” When I sat down to play along with it, it felt kind of country-ish. I’d never recorded in Nashville and I didn’t know anybody there. This was before I [worked with]Bonnie Raitt. The day after we mixed it, we did the video for “Walk the Dinosaur,” so we were nobodies ...
” When I sat down to play along with it, it felt kind of country-ish. I’d never recorded in Nashville and I didn’t know anybody there. This was before I [worked with]Bonnie Raitt. The day after we mixed it, we did the video for “Walk the Dinosaur,” so we were nobodies ...
4. Metallica At a festival where electronic music has gained a greater foothold over the years, it was refreshing to see the thrash metal veterans rock out as hard as they did for an appreciative audience. Opting for an aggressive setlist marked by fan favorites like “Master of Puppets,”...
“I said, ‘If you had me on your record label, what would you do that nobody else has done?’”Cash recalled asking Rubin. “And he said, ‘What I would do is sit you in front of a microphone and record any song you want. Just you and the guitar.’ [I said,] ‘You’re ...