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....
Of course, the Rolling Stones remained a specter in his life. Controversy brewed in 2005 when Wyman'simage was removedfrom archival photos on the sleeve for theRaritiesretrospective. (He told theTelegraphit was "disappointing and petty, but I don't know whose decision that was. I don't bri...
Jimmy Page was a member of The Yardbirds as it began to fall apart in 1968. He and bassist Chris Dreja were given permission by the departing members to recruit new members and continue using the band name for a set of upcoming Scandinavian shows that they committed to. Robert Plant and J...
Mike Pinera, the singer and guitarist who wrote the 1970 hit “Ride Captain Ride” for his band Blues Image, died in November at the age of 76. Blues Image opened for a variety of rock acts, including Cream, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin,...
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...
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...
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. ...
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. ...