Category Archives: Classic Rock

Everybody loves power ballads, whether or not they admit it. There’s just something about a rock band slowing things down and cranking up the emotion. For generations, the force of power ballads has been on full display. These songs have launched careers and inspired fans across the globe to raise their lighters (and later, cell […]

Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil took a serious looking fall during the band’s performance in Atlantic City on Friday night (May 3). The group was only a few songs into its tour-launching show when they began rocking through their 1987 tune “Wild Side.” As Motley Crue tore through the song’s famous opening riffs, Neil began skipping […]

Pearl Jam kicked off their 2024 global tour on Saturday night in Vancouver, British Columbia. The evening’s set list included classics like “Daughter,” “Alive” and “Yellow Ledbetter,” plus selections from the band’s recently released album, Dark Matter. There was also a jarring moment in which guitarist Mike McCready fell off the stage during his solo […]

Joe Satriani and Steve Vai‘s current Satch / Vai Tour is technically a pairing of teacher and student — but during their Friday performance at Austin’s ACL Live, both guitarists displayed such a jaw-dropping mastery of their instrument that the distinction felt irrelevant. You can see UCR’s exclusive photos from the performance below. Vai noted during his opening performance […]

Heart scored a bevy of hits in the ‘80s, yet Nancy Wilson believes one of their biggest successes “never felt like a Heart song.” During the ‘80s, Heart was routinely working with outside writers. The process yielded strong results, but it was also tedious. “We gave a lot of songs a good try,” Wilson noted […]

Valerie Bertinelli has opened up about her relationship with Eddie Van Halen, admitting the Van Halen guitar god was “not a soulmate.” In a video shared via her Instagram account (which you can see below), the actress explained that she recently watched her son Wolfgang Van Halen’s episode of Behind the Music. “It was not […]

Bon Jovi‘s “Livin’ on a Prayer” was a multi-platinum international Top 5 smash that topped the American charts for an entire month in 1987. This no doubt came as a surprise to the group’s frontman, who really didn’t like the song when it was first written. “It wasn’t that I didn’t want to record it, […]

David Gilmour is already discussing a tour in support of his long-awaited new solo album. As for the set list, however, he now has an “unwillingness to revisit the Pink Floyd of the ’70s.” That would be the era when his long-departed bandmate Roger Waters held creative sway. Gilmour and Waters exited the decade amid […]

Foo Fighters returned to the road with the launch of their 2024 Everything or Nothing at All tour on May 1 in Dallas. The sold-out show took place at the Dos Equis Pavilion, with an estimated 20,000 fans in attendance. Dave Grohl and his bandmates have a well-earned reputation for delivering long shows, and they […]

Vince Neil doesn’t expect Motley Crue to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame any time soon. Despite being eligible since 2007, the hugely popular band has never even received a nomination. That hasn’t stopped the Crue’s fans from championing their cause – or the musicians themselves from pondering the possibility. “I think it’d be […]