like yet another Brit band flipping through the familiar American R&B songbook. But what they did with a trio of Chuck Berry songs made their counterparts sound wafer thin, like put-ons. Then there was a scorching take on "House of the Rising Sun," as dark and full of portent then as...
If you’ve ever strung a Les Paul with a Bigsby [tremolo bar], the string has to come on, go over the bridge, under the bar, over the Bigsby bar, around the bar…..I’m trying to do it in the dark and bend the string and it’s taking me [forever] and everybody’s talking....
' Well, little did I know they had been passed on by everybody in the business. They went up and down the Strip, they played the Troubadour, they played the Roxy. Everybody passed on them. But Kevin said OK, so I made a deal with them." DuBrow and drummerFrankie Banalirecruited gui...
You had the screen up above so that you almost didn’t need a director, because one operator could see what the other one was shooting just by looking at the screen, so you knew where you were going to go next. No one had to even tell you, although we did have a director. I sen...
The best-known version of the Santana band was falling apart, largely because Carlos Santana was leading them toward fusion sounds. Soon, fans followed them out of the door. As the rock-meets-salsa influences melted away, so did the hit singles. But that wasn't what 'Caravanserai' was try...
The best-known version of the Santana band was falling apart, largely because Carlos Santana was leading them toward fusion sounds. Soon, fans followed them out of the door. As the rock-meets-salsa influences melted away, so did the hit singles. But that wasn't what 'Caravanserai' was try...
They loaned Stewart the money, and that's just what Eurythmics did. By early 1983,Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)would become the first in string of Top 10 U.K. smashes. The conquest of the U.S., via the chart-topping title-track single, came next. They'd finally put it all tog...
has been. The music comes first to us. So the songs we selected were songs we could Purple-ize. I think I wasn't looking at it that way, but the guys were, and I'm so glad they did. It was really a chance for the guys to stretch out a bit after all those months locked up...
Still, Badfinger became well-known as a power-pop group, selling an estimated 14 million records before their legacy was clouded with tragedy: Pete Ham committed suicide in 1975, as did Tom Evans in 1983. They have never been nominated for the Rock Hall. (Rapp) Beck Emma Mcintyre, Getty...
Metallica (1984):Metallic fearlessly left the pioneering style of their barely-a-year-old first album far behind with their sophomore effort. Happily, the dramatic advances in production values and songwriting complexity did absolutely nothing to diminish the band's primal fury. ...