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 […]
There are a lot of aspects about rock ‘n’ roll music that are up for interpretation. Lyrics — as in the actual words a songwriter put to page and copyrighted — are not one of them. Even if a songwriter sings something different in concert, it’s the recorded version — the one that gets played on radio stations […]
David Lee Roth‘s brief, contentious and unproductive 1996 reunion with Van Halen left the singer wondering if the band had ever really shared the same vision. The following year, in his book Crazy From the Heat, Roth told his side of the original Van Halen lineup’s short-lived second and final era. He says that it […]
Beset by drug and alcohol problems for years, Ron Wood says he’s found a new of getting high. He’s out on the road again now that the Rolling Stones have kicked off their latest tour, following over a month of rehearsals in Los Angeles. They’ll play more than 20 shows across the U.S. through July […]