The "Tonight, Tonight" singer's father was a blues guitarist, and Corgan formed his own band in high school. However, real success did not come until the late 1980s, when the front man formed the alternative rock group the Smashing Pumpkins. The Pumpkins went on to be one of the most...
Also ranks #8 on The Greatest Musicians Who Died Before 40 Also ranks #9 on The Greatest Male Pop Singers Of All Time Also ranks #10 on The (Male) Singer You Most Wish You Could Sound Like 5 Kurt Cobain 3,597 votes Frontman and guitarist for the band Nirvana, he played an instrument...
Tisdale played 12 seasons in the NBA and won a gold medal with Michael Jordan at the 1984 Olympics. A talented jazz guitarist, he signed to the Motown label in 1995 and released his first albumPower Forwardthe same year. Tisdale’s 2001 releaseFace to Facerose to No. 1 on the Billboard...
Pete Townshend is a British guitarist and singer-songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and principal songwriter for the British rock band the Who. Townshend’s evocative songwriting has earned him a reputation as an inventive and intellectual rock
If you’re an advanced guitaristand want to take things to the next level, you’ll really like the “Artist Studies” section of GuitarTricks. This is a major part of the site focused on looking at and mastering how the most famous guitarists played, and also the things they do to be...
This wasn’t an easy gig. Fans were overjoyed that Billy Corgan and original Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlain had put the band back together, but dismayed that Wretzky and guitarist James Iha weren’t a part of it. They were also playing sets heavy on their new LPZeitgeist, ...
and other 1970s superstar acts reformed soon afterwards. The Eagles kept touring throughout the late Nineties and early 2000s, parting ways with guitarist Don Felder in 2001. The remaining quartet of Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, and Timothy B. Schmit began work on an album that year...
There are some tough and easily debatable calls here. For example, the 1943 nod is given to Beatles guitarist George Harrison, which seems like a shoo-in... until you realize Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger was also born that year....
'Listening to You' catches The Who at their best, warts and all. The sound mix is typically bass-heavy: guitarist/songwriter Pete Townshend and bassist John Entwistle were perennially at odds over the latter's tendency to play too loud, and though Entwistle was perhaps the group's most inve...
Talk To You Later was a chart land success with its smooth production and Toto guitarist Steve Lukather adding some six-string polish. If plan A didn’t work the alphabet has 25 more letters! so stay cool. Format AudioPosted on February 4, 2021Categories MTW Music ShowsTags Atlanta Rhythm ...