"I rarely use real instruments in my compositions," the group's producer, Ayase, reveals in the latest episode ofIt Goes to 11. "With this program, I am able to reproduce and manipulate the sound of the guitar, piano, and drums without doing any actual recording." The convenient thing ...
(Five of the thirteen songs on the soundtrack to The Matrix, for example, aren’t used in the film itself, while more than half of the thirteen tracks on 1998’s Godzilla: The Album aren’t in the movie.) Levy acknowledged it can be a challenge to find songs that work both within ...
Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, Eric Bloom and Allen Lanier helped shape their sound, which ran to brain-melting jams, heavy riffs and fantasy/sci-fi lyrics on favorites like "(Don't Fear) The Reaper," "Godzilla" and "Burnin' for You." Lanier left in 2007 and died in 2013. 94: Traffi...
Summers then added a guitar solo to the tune, which at first upset Copeland. “We were coming out of a sort of religious punk scene, and guitar solos at that time were supposed to be a mark of the old guard," the guitarist explained. "Stewart was vehement about that, but I was a ...
Andy Summerssaid most guitarists were unable to play thePoliceclassic “Message in a Bottle” because there was more to it than they realized. The track appeared on their second album,Reggatta de Blanc, in 1979. In a new interview withGuitar Player, Summers explained how he assembled his con...
Though seen as a commercial disappointment following 'Agents of Fortune,' 'Spectres' still managed to sell more than half a million copies while giving the world the classic ode to giant monster "Godzilla." The band became a bit more polished on 'Spectres' but without shunning their identity....
Though seen as a commercial disappointment following 'Agents of Fortune,' 'Spectres' still managed to sell more than half a million copies while giving the world the classic ode to giant monster "Godzilla." The band became a bit more polished on 'Spectres' but without shunning their identity....
Though seen as a commercial disappointment following 'Agents of Fortune,' 'Spectres' still managed to sell more than half a million copies while giving the world the classic ode to giant monster "Godzilla." The band became a bit more polished on 'Spectres' but without shunning their identity....
Andy Summerssaid most guitarists were unable to play thePoliceclassic “Message in a Bottle” because there was more to it than they realized. The track appeared on their second album,Reggatta de Blanc, in 1979. In a new interview withGuitar Player, Summers explained how he assembled his con...
“We have to confirm what we already believe in our hearts, which we don’t want to believe,” the band’s manager Lou Blair said in a statement. “We’re looking for anything we can hang our hearts on."In a 2007 interview, vocalist Mike Reno recalled the “worst phone call of my...