One of the most popular and reductive theories in rock history is that grunge singlehandedly destroyed glam metal overnight after the release ofNirvana'sNevermind. While Nirvana's seminal major-label debutdidmark a zeitgeist shift when it came out on Sept. 24, 1991, the death blow to glam m...
Queens of the Stone Age and Sleep which he channelled throughout the project. He did the guitar parts for “Stare into the Sun”, which melted everyone’s faces in the studio for that session. To be fair, they just let me go mad in the studio and helped contribute to a good bit of...
1980, and the remaining trio called it quits later that year instead of hiring a lesser player. They did release a post-script leftovers anthology, 'Coda,' in 1982 — but the band's last true studio album is 'In Through the Out Door,' an...
“Our producer, Flood, and I looked at each other and I told Trent, ‘Well, you had the pop single for the record until you said ‘fuck’ in every line of the chorus.’ Trent started laughing and he said, ‘I know.’ He did it on purpose because he didn’t want, necessarily, t...
Bob Dylan and the Band, “When I Paint My Masterpiece,” January 1972 at the Academy Of Music, New York City:The Band & Bob Dylan, “I Ain’t Got No Home” at the Tribute to Woody Guthrie concert at Carnegie Hall, January 1968:...
I think we did it pretty quickly. Of course, we hadn’t [initially] toured as a band. We were born in the studio, really, but we all had some experience of being in bands anyway. Eric Stewart in particular, being in Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders and then the Mindbenders. So we...
I’ll do that!’ Even if I never do anything else,” he recalled. “I had a stupid confidence. I thought I was the best drummer in the world. I really did. A lot of people said I was great all the time. And those who didn’t, I thought they were just stupid. That was just...
By the summer of ‘93, Soundgarden had seen their Seattle contemporaries Nirvana and Pearl Jam rise to superstardom. While being happy for their friends, the Chris Cornell-led group also had a sense of “why not us?” The band hit the studio determined to evolve their sound. To that end...
One of the most popular and reductive theories in rock history is that grunge singlehandedly destroyed glam metal overnight after the release ofNirvana'sNevermind. While Nirvana's seminal major-label debutdidmark a zeitgeist shift when it came out on Sept. 24, 1991, the death blow to glam ...
”That album and the first single from itSmells Like Teen Spirit,finished what I believe Guns-N-Roses started, the demise of the hair band era. Guns-N-Roses pulled the knife and drew first blood, Nirvana took that knife from them and plunged it into the heart of the hair bands, ...