"Supergroup" - it's a term that gets thrown around often in today's music world, especially as more and more musicians have become open to collaboration outside of their own bands, maximizing the most of their downtime. But who was the first supergroup and where did the term come from?
None of it stopped "American Woman," which topped theBillboardcharts on May 9, 1970 and remained there for three weeks. That made the Guess Who thefirst-ever Canadian bandto reach No. 1. Ironically, the group was in the U.S. when they found out. "The day we first heard about 'A...
"I first met Jimi in 1964 at the California Club, where I was in the house band," Echols toldMojoin a recent interview. "At that time, he was just Jimmy James, playing with the Isley Brothers, and he'd come down to audition with the O'Jays. A little later,Billy Preston,Little Ri...
complete with incarceration for drugs and an apparent inability to walk the straight path. Crosby was also one of his generation’s best-known songwriters, finding wild success with The Byrds in the ’60s and variations of Crosby, Stills & Nash in the following decades, as well as success as...
Considering this timeline, one can see why Bachman might accuse the British rockers of encroaching on their territory. "When I was in the Guess Who, we found out about this English band called the Who and were determined to force them to change their name," Bachman recently toldClassic Rock...
As the legendary singer shares in the conversation below, the drummer's playing style -- not just his antics -- was one of the key components that helped make the group special from its earliest days. Decades later, Daltrey is out on a brief run of dates with his solo band this ...
involved The Who clowning around on set between numbers, performing "Batman" while wearing capes, sending up Cliff Richards' "Summer Holiday" in a mime sequence and smashing their instruments at the end. It was this final act which deeply upset British viewers on the show's airing on the ...
“I said no at that time because I haven't been playing guitar and I knew that those guys were players. My chops were bad, I haven't even touched a guitar in years, so I was just kind of, like, 'Nah, I'm just going to be a regular dildo, work and do all that.'" Luckily...
As the legendary singer shares in the conversation below, the drummer's playing style -- not just his antics -- was one of the key components that helped make the group special from its earliest days. Decades later, Daltrey is out on a brief run of dates with his solo band this month...
first electric 12-string guitars. Visually similar to the Rickenbacker 325 six-string Harrison’s bandmate John Lennon played, the guitar was made famous by George’s use of it on many Beatles recordings, introducing the distinctive new sound of this guitar on “I Call Your Name” in March ...