One thing we heard:Here's what general manager Les Snead said: "Our DNA is to attack, hit the gas, [but] we're going to hit the brakes a little bit. That does not change how we're going to approach the season, how we're going to approach the day-to-day, but it will d...
As King says: “It’s easy to stand back and say we can stop the deluge of bogus claims by defending these to trial, but then you get down to the individual artists who ask, ‘do I want to be the one who spends half a million, a million or $2 million and days of my ...
It’s the main reason I began to write about music in the first place, but, aside from the occasional diamond, this kind of thing now seems to be a dying art. How does my writing process work? Like everyone else without independent wealth, I have been working for the past decade in ...
-Scott P.S.If you’re into guitars (and who isn’t, right?), I’m the guest tonight onEVHgearTV(a live show based around Eddie Van Halen’s line of guitars and amps). Best as I can tell, we’ll be talking about guitars and music and more guitars, and Van Halen and guitars, ...
Just hold still and listen to me for a moment now… I came to America and I got a record in the mail. But hold on, because it wasn’t the one you can see pictured. This was in Alabama in July of 1997, when another record came from my buddy Alex who was living in Tennessee at...
How Does Joe Satriani Know When He’s Screwed Up a Solo? Hagar did agree that his experience with Chickenfoot gave him confidence in Satriani's abilities. “Joe’s the professor,” he said. “He’s a scholar. … Every time I've ever worked with Joe … I knew he knows what he’s ...
Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony met Sue Hendry when both attended Arcadia High School in California (Class of '74) and they dated for several years before marrying. There are reports that she proposed to him in a McDonalds drive-thru, and he said yes. They have two daughters: Elis...
Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligerent, trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now, blasting Van Halen in his jacked-up economy car, the irrepressibly optimistic Joe hits ...
Hagar said that Eddie Van Halen wrote great guitar parts,but not songs. When you look back on the first two eras of the group it does seem plausible that Roth or Hagar had a big hand in how the songs are arranged. Whoever took control of that aspect of the process forVan Halen III-...
Alex Kluft, Loudwire John 5 John 5 is one of the coolest guitarists out there, hands down. Plus, he paints on some type of mummy-zombie looking face when he plays. And how does he keep his blonde locks so icy? Mick Mars Kevin Winter, Getty Images ...