Tom Johnston will not tour with the Doobie Brothers on the upcoming leg of their 50th-anniversary tour due to a back injury. According to a press release, Johnston is scheduled to undergo surgery and, as advised by doctors, “should not be performing at this time.” The tour will proceed with Pat Simmons, Michael McDonald and John […]
Rush‘s first side-long epic was 1975’s “The Fountain of Lamneth,” a 20-minute fantasy-adventure piece with a rambling narrative, choppy musical structure and randomly inserted drum solo. It was undoubtedly a bold move at the time — before Caress of Steel, Canada’s prog kings had largely trafficked in virtuoso hard rock. But in retrospect, it was […]
“Sober” marked the Tool’s breakthrough to mainstream audiences, but its origin could be traced back several years earlier. In the late ‘80s Maynard James Keenan was fronting a band called Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty, an industrial-rock group from Grand Rapids, Mich. The band built a small local following and self-released two cassette EPs, but […]
Garth Brooks recently revealed that he once shared a shower with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler. Speaking on The Kelly Clarkson Show, the country singer-songwriter recalled the time he and Tyler both played the very last concert at Shea Stadium in New York City in 2008, spearheaded by Billy Joel. (Other guests included John Mayer, Roger Daltrey, John […]
In the second act of the Cheers finale, “One for the Road,” Sam Malone lashes out. Addressing the ever-present gaggle of barflies, employees and collected denizens of the former Red Sox pitcher’s sports bar landing pad, Sam, defiant in the face of his friends’ understandable skepticism of his six-year-later reunion with former on-and-off love interest […]
Sometimes it seems nearly impossible to keep a band together. Like any relationship that puts people in close proximity for extended amounts of time, members of rock bands must deal with egos, stubbornness and the occasional general incompetence. It’s no surprise that drama within bands like Kiss and Motley Crue has provided a steady stream of headlines for years now. […]
There’s no question Journey fans still love the band. Just look at attendances for shows this past year as proof that they still connect a quarter century after parting ways with Steve Perry. It’s the songs, not the singer, that make the music move along in this case. But there are a lot of Journey songs that have […]
Peter Gabriel returned to the stage with a performance at the Tauron Arena in Kraków, Poland. The show marked Gabriel’s first headlining gig since 2014. More recently, he embarked on the Rock Paper Scissors collaborative tour with Sting in 2016. The Poland concert was the first in Gabriel’s highly anticipated world tour, and the legendary […]
Kansas members Rich Williams and Phil Ehart admitted they still can’t understand what pop impresario Don Kirshner saw in them. In a recent interview with Billboard, the two remaining founders said Kirshner, who signed them in 1974, was the only person who showed an interest in their prog-edged music, even though he was better known […]
Metallica continued mixing up their set lists during a performance in Paris, giving “Blackened” and “I Disappear” their tour debuts. “I Disappear” was the first debut of the evening, arriving as the fourth song of Metallica’s set, wedged between “Holier Than Thou” (from 1991’s the Black Album) and “Lux Æterna” (from the recently released 72 […]