Category Archives: Classic Rock

Sammy Hagar Adds Fifth Band Member to 2024 Van Halen Focused Tour

Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony had already assembled one hell of a band for this summer’s Best of All Worlds tour, which will celebrate their decade-long run together in Van Halen. In addition to their Circle partner Jason Bonham on drums, the duo recruited guitar wizard Joe Satriani – another former bandmate, this time from […]

REO Speedwagon and Train Kick Off Summer Tour: Set Lists, Videos

REO Speedwagon delivered on their vow to push out of their comfort zone by touring with Train when the bands played the first show of their Summer Road Trip Monday night. Kevin Cronin’s band delivered a 12-song set of classics at the Somerset Amphitheater, WI, before Train took to the stage and performed 17 numbers, […]

How Studio Executives ‘Destroyed’ the Blues Brothers Sequel

Making a sequel to the beloved 1980 movie The Blues Brothers after costar John Belushi‘s death was already going to be a difficult challenge. Director John Landis says movie executives made it impossible by interfering with the script for 1998’s Blues Brothers 2000. “I was very pissed off by what Universal did to me on […]

Def Leppard and Journey Launch 2024 Tour: Set Lists and Video

Def Leppard and Journey kicked off their co-headlining North American tour on Saturday at St. Louis’ Busch Stadium, with support from Cheap Trick. You can see all three set lists and video from the show below. The lion’s share of Def Leppard’s set came from their two biggest albums, Pyromania and Hysteria, which accounted for a combined […]

Meet 20 Other Cast Members From the Beatles’ ‘A Hard Day’s Night’

July 6 holds an extra special place in Beatles history. For starters, it was on that date in 1957 that a 16-year-old John Lennon met a 15-year-old Paul McCartney in a church auditorium in Liverpool, where Lennon was performing as a member of his school skiffle band, the Quarrymen. Had the two never crossed paths on […]

Steve Perry Imposter Steals $122,000 From 75-Year-Old Journey Fan

A 75-year-old Journey fan in Cleveland, Ohio was reportedly scammed out of $122,000 by an online imposter posing as Steve Perry. According to WKYC, in January the woman responded to a Facebook message from someone claiming to be the band’s former lead singer. According to Westlake police, “The fake Mr. Perry had a business opportunity […]