“We can’t play it on stage for laughing now, but when I first wrote it, it brought tears to my eyes. It’s meant to be extremely serious and plaintive; but words fail so miserably to represent emotions unless you skirt around the outside, and I didn’t do it enough there. You ...
murder in which Roy Radin, one of the film’s financiers, was shot in the head and then blown up with dynamite; testimony from one of the perpetrators later cleared him, but then again, as screenwriter Joe Eszterhas once wrote, “all lies ever told anywhere about Robert Evans are true....
Steppenwolf (1968): The 'Easy Rider' film solidified Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild" as a hard-rock anthem for the emerging counterculture, but there was more to this confident debut – from their searing take on "The Pusher" to crunchy nods to the influences of Chuck Berry and blues le...
ancient and infused with timeless classicism. Robbie Robertson wrote like he was reporting from the Civil War's front lines; the rest of the group played like they were coming from a funeral and on their way to a party.
Steppenwolf (1968):The 'Easy Rider' film solidified Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild" as a hard-rock anthem for the emerging counterculture, but there was more to this confident debut – from their searing take on "The Pusher" to crunchy nods to the influences of Chuck Berry and blues lege...
On the other side of the debate, Edward Teller, along with Ernest Lawrence, Luis Alvarez, and others, argued that the development of the Super was inevitable, and that if the United States did not develop it first, then the Soviet Union would. As Teller wrote to Fermi in 1945: ...
U.S. astronaut Karen Nyberg called Bean a kind, gracious and humble man and a true role model. "As a girl who grew up with passions for spaceflight and art, Alan Bean was my hero," she wrote. "I feel fortunate to have met him." ...
The Conversation: Pantera were a band of brothers and Machine Head’s Robb Flynn and the band were pretty close. This is the guy who wrote a ‘fuck you’ song (“Aesthetics of Hate”) to a dimwit outsider journalist (we shan’t even speak the poser’s name) who unabashedly insulted ...
The Conversation: Pantera were a band of brothers and Machine Head’s Robb Flynn and the band were pretty close. This is the guy who wrote a ‘fuck you’ song (“Aesthetics of Hate”) to a dimwit outsider journalist (we shan’t even speak the poser’s name) who unabashedly insulted ...
the Harlot, the Queer, the Pusher & Me, a mouthful of an album title with a collection of powerful stories behind it. At the center of Payne’s music is love, in all its forms -- most powerfully, the kind of friendships that have saved him at his worst moments, pulling him back ...