Iron Maiden kicked off their Run for Your Lives tour in Budapest, Hungary Tuesday night with a show that featured six songs they haven’t played live in a decade, and another three they haven’t played in at least five years. The tour commemorates the legendary heavy metal band’s 50th anniversary, and featured a set list […]
Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett once found a parallel with famous filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock that lined up well with his own work. “I sympathize with Hitchcock’s need to remake a classic film,” he said. More than a decade later, it’s a philosophy that continues to develop and spread as he revisits moments and at times, full […]
Being a rock star is a dangerous job. Besides the cliches that we all think of – including excessive partying and adrenaline rush risk taking – musicians are known to go to extremes onstage. This can lead to scary mishaps, like misfired pyrotechnics or dangerous prop malfunctions. Alice Cooper knows a thing or two about […]
Honestly, there has been no rhyme or reason to Paul McCartney‘s choice of album opening songs. In some cases, like 1973’s Band on the Run, 1975’s Venus and Mars and 1984’s Give My Regards to Broadstreet, McCartney led with big hit singles. Other times, as on his ’70s band Wings‘ debut Wild Life and the […]
Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens dazzles fans every night with a nylon-string guitar solo that ever-so-slightly teases bits of Led Zeppelin‘s “Stairway to Heaven” and Van Halen‘s “Eruption.” It’s a fitting homage, considering Eddie Van Halen inspired Stevens to perform a classical solo in the first place. “Oddly enough, the way that I ended up doing a nylon […]
Vince Gill has detailed the unique challenge of performing with the Eagles at the Sphere. Gill, who joined the band’s lineup in 2017 following the death of Glenn Frey, recently appeared on Shred With Shifty, the podcast hosted by Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett. During their conversation, Shiflett asked Gill how he handles the Sphere’s […]
Genesis were in the midst of trying to figure out a path forward as vocalist Peter Gabriel was planning to leave. It was Jon Anderson of Yes who gave them an important assist. The signs of a potential fracture first appeared as the band were working on songs for 1974’s The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. […]
Stone Temple Pilots rode many a chaotic wave with vocalist Scott Weiland throughout their initial existence and parted ways with the singer for the final time in the early part of 2013. Bassist Robert DeLeo and guitarist Dean DeLeo had worked outside of the band’s normal setting a couple of times, first with 1997’s Talk […]
Were the ’80s really the greatest decade ever in music? We posit that question on the back cover of our new book, 501 Essential Albums of the 80s (Motorbooks/Quarto Group), and certainly that case could be made – though other 10-year spans can make their own claims to that distinction. With portable hardware such as […]
Bob Dylan does not often perform with guests, but he made an exception Thursday night when guitarist Billy Strings joined him for “All Along the Watchtower.” The collaboration took place in Spokane, Washington. Both Dylan and Strings are currently touring on the same bill as part of Willie Nelson‘s annual Outlaw Festival. You can watch […]