and then he relocated to Texas in 1944 or 1945. When I turned 12, I started pestering my folks. I said, 'A set of drums or an electric guitar.' That was a request that went on for 365 days," recounted
Steve Winwood joined the Spencer Davis Group at the ripe age of 15, his voice modeled — with expert precision — after the yearning style of Ray Charles. But that band’s early hits ("Gimme Some Lovin’," "Keep on Running") only hinted at the singer’s multitiered talents, which flou...
16-month world tour — the burnt-out members of Bon Jovi went on an unceremonious hiatus to focus on solo projects. Their 1992 comeback album,Keep the Faith,contained much of the chest-beating arena rock of its immediate predecessors, but it augmented the band’...
It’s that thing that once made the group so huge, with MTV megahits like “Legs,”“Sharp Dressed Man,” and “Gimme All Your Lovin’.” But that was a long time ago. ZZ Top hasn’t had a platinum album since 1994 or a song in the Billboard Hot 100 since 1991. The group’s...
” It was a frickin’ major-scale song, which I can’t stand. I never know what to play. I learned how to play guitar fromMolly Hatchet. I started playing all of my happyLynyrd Skynyrd[riffs]. That’s the only thing I could think of to play over it, because it was in this ...
They experimented with a drum machine but then decided to take two bars from the drum track that was already recorded for "Night Fever" and turn them into a loop. (The drums were eventually credited to "Bernard Lupe," a play on the name of famous session drummer Bernard Purdie.)...
PUCHI He had it all...and he had me. She laughs...we hear the laughter. Yes...through that laugh we can see there was a time when she had that walk and strut and she OWNED LIFE HERSELF...and nothing was going to knock her out of the ring. INT. FANIA RECORDS. STUDIO -- DAY...
more detailed and far more musically ambitious. They'd started out trying to show that Southern rock could work in a power-trio format; now they were ready to race further out – much further out. It all comes together on "Thorazine Shuffle," a band showcase in the truest sense of the...