Cassandra, lay naked donning only her wedding ring, alongside the body of his previous manager, Phil Slipphiery. He too was wearing precious nothing but his solid gold Omega watch. Both corpses bore the gunpowder burns of a near-point-blank, instantly fatal, gunshot entry wound at the ...
Hanna used corrosive power chords and shredded vocals to tease out how a traditionally feminine activity like crocheting, which seems so calm, may actually have something more intense boiling below the surface—how a hobby like crocheting could actually distract women from interrogating the conditions ...
“Some of the songs, like ‘Mansion in the Slums,’ I will always think of as being L.A. songs,” he says. “But most of them are more personal, and they don’t have a sense of place, particularly, because I’ve been uprooted from my home country for so long. People will find...
Sharing my story in case it’s also yours. Folksy, rootsy, simple, honest. Gigs The Live Show Recipe – ☆ 2 PARTS SWEET FOLKSY-POP ☆ ♥︎ A DOSE OF ROOTSY-BLUES ♥︎ ☀︎ A SPRINKLING OF COUNTRY TWANGS ☀︎ ✿ CHATS OVER CHAI ✿ ...
With those deceptively simple blues chords, the song can sound perverse at first, amid the fluorescent darkness of Violator—until Dave Gahan sings like an animatronic Elvis, all sneer and no moue, with an echo like an afterimage. The coda is nearly wordless, just pistoning drums and the ...
During his twenty-five years of teaching guitar at Berklee College of Music, Steve developed his pick-and-finger style of playing, borrowing from jazz, rock, blues, and classical music. Listen to Steve and you'll hear the melody singing out over chords and bass lines, with a little percuss...
the writer singing: “Now some people said The Big Bill Blues ain’t bad/Lord, it must not have been them Big Bill Blues they had.” Repetitive chords back a strong vocal. Unfortunately, this was hardly more popular that his first efforts. Broonzy found himself in a traditional blues ...
I shall die within the hour,'" Elizabeth Rosenthal wrote inHis Song: The Musical Journey of Elton John. "He threw himself into the water, then struggled to come to the surface. [Guitarist] Caleb Quaye later remembered the arrival of an emergency medical team to pump the pianist's stomach...
Part of their vocal appeal, for this reviewer, is the fact that the lead singer, Drayton Justus, had a higher voice than most barbershop leads and the mix of voices has a sweet bell like quality when they hit those ringing chords. They used the finest arrangers of the day such as ...
The other members of Guns N’ Roses saw the potential in Slash’s riff and acted upon it, as he toldGuitar Edgein 2007, “I was playing the intro riff and they were playing chords behind it. And next thing you know, it was turning into something. I really just thought of it as a...