One correspondent told us of a posting on Deja News by a drummer, stating that high top chucks are the best shoes to wear for drummers! So drummers please take note of that tip!Mark Bryan, who was the guitarist for Hootie and the Blowfish likes to wear black high tops. He even ...
The guitarist is hoping the band’s long-awaited return to the Cincinnati area will help to heal old wounds. “Now we can have a conversation about it when we go back,” Townshend explained to theAssociated Press. “We will meet people and we’ll be there. That’s what’s important. ...
Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1985. When they signed to Geffen Records in 1986, the band comprised vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Steven Adler. Who was the best...
While this first recording doesn’t sound like the Misfits most people are familiar with, the ingredients were there. The band played their first shows – still sans guitarist – and when they finally landed one, it allowed them to embrace a more punk-rock sound. Luck came to the Jersey ...
Few rock n' roll feuds have been as gnarly as the one between Guns N' Roses front man Axl Rose and guitarist Slash. While the band was a chart-topping success for much of the ‘80s and ’90s, the diametrically opposed personalities between Rose and Slash created as much inner-band confl...
guitarist Bobby Parker's "Watch Your Step" for this song, a rare moment of honesty among pop-music appropriators. They'd earlier played the original onstage in the band's early years. Listen closely to Led Zeppelin's "Moby Dick," by the way, and you'll hear the same guitar signature...
Alexandar Zivojinovich, (born 27 August 1953), better known by his stage name Alex Lifeson, is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the guitarist of the progressive rock band Rush. In 1968, Lifeson co-founded the band that would become Rush, with...
"We had a sort of black-belt heavy metal guitarist take us through the solo, because that wasn’t going to happen! I couldn’t do that, but I could do the rest of it, which is lucky. It was an amazing experience." "For a lot of the crew, it was the first time that we all...
In the summer of 1987, guitarist Jerry Cantrell walked in a raucous Seattle party and saw a man at the center of it all, with bright pink hair pilled atop his head by means of fire poker. "He had a big smile on his face, and he was sitting with two gorgeous women," Cantrell recal...
Shakira performed in the closing ceremony four years ago in Brazil (the third successive time she had done so) alongside included singers Carlinhos Brown, Wyclef Jean, Alexandre Pires, Ivete Sangalo and guitarist Carlos Santana. The Colombian singer also performed at the closing ceremony...