From a guitar perspective, changing the key of the song gives you the ability to play the Someone Like You chords using shapes that you already find comfortable. If we put the Someone Like You chords into the key of G, the song becomes much easier to play without having to contend with ...
After their debut album flopped in the States, Dokken’s managers had to beg Elektra Records not to drop them. They parlayed that second chance into their explosive, aptly titled sophomore album,Tooth and Nail. Frontman Don Dokken and guitarist George Lynch might have hated each other too much...
It was an era that kicked off with Green Day kicking off the pop-punk revival and concluded in the mid-2000s with the emo bands of the day commanding the radio airwaves.The swooped hair, the overly sensitive lyrics, the signature fashion trends, you catch a little bit of it all in the...
Hootie and the Blowfish may have won the Grammy, but the next day, most people were talking about the return of KISS. A little over a month later, the members of KISS held a press conference aboard the USS Intrepid in New York City, announcing plans for a reunion tour. The band sold...
Can you guess the emo / pop-punk videos by a screenshot? We've put together a quiz with some of the most popular emo and pop-punk videos of the '90s and early 2000s when both genres were really thriving in the rock world. It was an era that kicked off with Green Day kicking ...
I won’t get to enjoy life as a media tycoon. Maybe I would have loved it at the top? Equally I didn’t burn out by my early 30s to do a PhD inHomes Under The Hammer. And I do think it’s possible too many years of rules, commutes, and office politics would have done that...
Hootie and the Blowfish may have won the Grammy, but the next day, most people were talking about the return of KISS. A little over a month later, the members of KISS held a press conference aboard the USS Intrepid in New York City, announcing plans for a reunion tour. The band sold...
Billy Joel Breaks Out With 'The Stranger' It took Billy Joel four years after "Piano Man" to have another hit, but after that he never had to struggle for airplay. Released Sept. 29, 1977, 'The Stranger' spotlighted Joel's knack for combining rock with Tin Pan Alley-style chords and...
It's got his best beats, his best lyrics and — most appropriately for the heart-on-his-sleeve artist — his best revelations (look no further than the album's opening line: "All my 'let's just be friends' are friends I don't have anymore"). It also has more hits where "One ...
We met two times for that record, which is normal for those guys at the top. February was the last time. “Ultralight [Beam]” was such an easy record to write. The chords were there. I wrote the hook right on the spot. I didn’t have to go anywhere or do anything. Chance was...