(Mercury, 1986) After sniffing rock radio success with singles off their first two albums, Bon Jovi positively exploded in 1986 with the release of their 'Slippery When Wet' album. They were at the forefront of the shift in popular music to all things hard and heavy, with many of their ...
Black Sabbath were just 18 months into their recording career and had notched three albums that are still regarded largely as untouchable over four decades later. Opening with perhaps the most famous cough in music, the band’s ode to marijuana, “Sweet Leaf,” kicks down the door with an a...
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While most early-'80s Sunset Strip bands were busy aping Eddie Van Halen's dive-bomb squeals and David Lee Roth’s wanton shrieks, Finland’s Hanoi Rocks were taking cues from the New York Dolls and Mott the Hoople on their raucous, glam-punk debut,Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi ...
Rick Beato: It’s always changing, I’d say, depending on who I’m listening to at the time. I love all the people I grew up listening to from Jimi Hendrix to Brian May to Jimmy Page to Peter Frampton. I’m a big Jeff Beck fan and Eddie Van Halen fan. I like Neal Schon fr...
Now, he is not your typical guitar hero rock star, the kind that spawned from the 1980s after Van Halen blew everyone’s heads off. Pretty much a reaction to it. Graham And Damon Since he began his music career in the late 1980s and the early 1990’s, Coxon is more in the vein ...
As far as EVH guitars go (which is Eddie Van Halen’s guitar brand), they’re largely associated with the decades-long virtuosic shred movement. While Jack White is most certainly a capable musician, he doesn’t fall into this particular category, and some guitar lovers found this choice of...