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...
Again, I take my own advice and play through the mistakes. How did we get to this point? Let me tell you and it’s more than “just practice”… The Keys to Practice As I have written about before, Guitar Practice Makes Perfect, you must get the fundamentals down but there is much...
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...
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...
Intriguingly, the band did lay down recorded material, some of which showed up, in altered form, on various future Yes albums. Will the original tapes ever see the light of day? Inthis interview, Page, though positive about his time with the group, pretty much dashes any hopes in that ...
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...
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 ...
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...